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Chapter 41 - The Lion's Den

After Michelle got out of the room, she looked at the hole in the wall before approaching it. After Michelle went through the hole, she heard clanging in the distance, which made her look at the gap on the right. "Something must be preventing a shutter or something from closing," she said before approaching it.

When Michelle entered the hallway, she saw a jump pad, which made her grab the right arm cannon's handle before twisting the knob. The red hand switched to the purple hand before Michelle approached the jump pad.

When Michelle stood on the jump pad, she aimed the right arm cannon at it and pulled the trigger, launching herself into the air.

After Michelle landed on the ground, she saw a crate preventing a shutter from closing, which made her hum. "That explains it..." she said in a low voice before approaching it.

After Michelle went under the moving shutter, she stood up properly and spotted a note on the shelf before approaching it.

After Michelle grabbed the note, she looked at it. "This is... a prisoner profile," she said in a low voice. "To a Bigger Bodies version of Yarnaby... seems like the Doctor wanted to keep this one all to himself..."

Michelle crumpled the note. "If he was as sadistic back then as he is now... I feel bad for Yarnaby," she continued as she tossed it to the ground before looking at the gap on the left side and approaching it.

Michelle crouched and crawled through the opening before standing up properly; she looked at the gap on the left before approaching it.

After Michelle turned a few corners, she spotted a jump pad before standing over it; she aimed the right arm cannon at it before pulling the trigger, launching herself into the air.

After Michelle landed on the ground, the room started shaking, which shocked her and made her look around. "I don't like that..." she said in a low voice.

Michelle looked at the vent opening before approaching it; when she was close to it, she crouched before crawling inside it.

When Michelle reached the end of the vent, she saw a small room with a blue hand scanner. "If there's one hand scanner, then another one is around here somewhere," she said before getting out of it and landing on the ground.

After Michelle stood up properly, she looked at the shutter on the other side with a slight hum and grabbed the left arm cannon's handle. "This seems too simple," she continued before aiming it at the blue hand scanner and pulling the trigger, launching the blue hand.

When the blue hand touched the scanner, the shutter on the other side closed. "I figured as much," Michelle said as she pulled the trigger, which made it retract back to her and the shutter on the other side open, before letting go of the left arm cannon's handle.

Michelle grabbed the right arm cannon's handle and twisted the knob, switching from the purple hand to the red hand. "I'm gonna need something big to prevent both sides from closing," she continued before grabbing the left arm cannon's handle and stepping out of the small room.

Michelle turned her head to the right and saw a large crate before aiming the arm cannons at it and pulling the triggers. Both hands shot forward and grabbed the crate before they started pulling toward Michelle.

Soon after, Michelle aligned the crate under the shutter close to her before the GrabPack's hands retracted back to her. "That takes care of this one..." she said in a low voice before looking at the crate on the other side and approaching it.

When Michelle was close to the crate, she aimed the arm cannons at it and pulled the triggers, launching both hands and grabbing it before she approached the shutter.

Soon after, Michelle aligned the crate under the other shutter. "Now I don't have to worry about both sides closing on me," she said as the GrabPack's hands retracted back to her.

As Michelle entered the room, she spotted a red hand scanner before aiming the right arm cannon at it and pulling the trigger, launching the red hand.

When the red hand touched the scanner, the shutter on the other side was stopped by the crate, which made Michelle smile. "Perfect, she said before approaching the partially open shutter.

When Michelle was near the partially opened shutter, she crouched and went through it before aiming the left arm cannon at the blue hand scanner and pulling the trigger, launching the blue hand and touching it, activating it.

After Michelle went through the opening, she stood up properly and looked at the large shutter. When the scanners finished, the GrabPack's hands retracted back to Michelle before the large shutter created an opening, revealing a large hallway.

Michelle stared at the hallway before taking a deep breath and exhaling. "Let's see what you have in store for me, you sadistic bastard..." she said before walking forward.

When Michelle was halfway through the hallway, the shutter behind her closed; she looked at it, shocked, before looking around, concerned.

Liquid started spraying from the roof's sprinkler, which made Michelle look up. "Is this... some kind of decontamination zone?" she asked herself.

When the liquid stopped spraying, the shutter in front of Michelle started opening, which made her look at it before walking forward. Soon after, Michelle saw a large room with different numbers above them. "What... is this place?" she asked herself.

Michelle looked at the room with the number '7' above it before approaching it; when she entered the room, she saw a cell. "Is this... how they contain certain toys?" she asked herself. "What a horrible place..."

After Michelle left the room, she looked at the room with a number '6' above it before approaching it. When Michelle entered the room, she saw a broken window near the cell before approaching it.

When Michelle was close to the broken window, she examined it before spotting a note inside the cell on the ground, which made her climb onto the desk and go through it.

After Michelle landed on the ground, she approached the note and let go of the arm cannons' handles before picking it up. "This one is another prisoner profile..." she said. "Based on the context clues... this is about a Bigger Bodies version of Pianosaurus."

Michelle looked down with a frown. "And it seems like those that start with 116 lost their humanity altogether," she continued. "These poor children..."

Michelle crumpled the paper and tossed it to the ground. "Once I find him... he'll have hell to pay..." she said as she looked at the chairs that made a ramp before approaching it and climbing it.

After Michelle got out of the cell, she got out of the room; as she looked around, she saw a room with the number '3' above it before approaching it.

When Michelle entered the room, the intercom went off, which shocked her. "You know... I never thought I'd see another like you, a human," the Doctor said.

Michelle scoffed. "Yeah? Well, I wish I'd never met a human like you," she said.

The Doctor chuckled. "Flattery won't get you anywhere, little germ," he said.

Michelle gritted her teeth. "But... something about you makes you different than all the other humans. I can tell you that much," the Doctor continued. "Though I can't say what exactly that something is... not yet..."

Michelle glared at the intercom. "The others you faced and changed through your sickly... sentiment... 1170, 1188, 1222..." the Doctor said. "Let's try our hand at something that isn't so easily swayed. Oh, Yarnaby..."

The cell door in the containment room started opening, which made Michelle look at it, concerned, before backing away.

Soon after, a larger version of Yarnaby slammed himself against the glass, which startled Michelle. As Yarnaby scratched the glass, he circled before slamming his head against the glass, which caused it to crack a bit.

Soon after, Yarnaby's face split in half, revealing crimson flesh, swollen gums lined with a ring of sharp, jagged teeth, and a smaller maw before his throat.

Michelle stared at Yarnaby, mortified, as he roared and stood on two feet before clawing at the glass.

Soon after, Yarnaby's face closed before entering the hole on the side. "Please, do keep making this enjoyable for me; I'll be taking notes," the Doctor said before the intercom ended.

Michelle stared at the containment room, horrified, before crossing her arms and looking down, trembling. "I've never seen anything like that before... it terrified me..." she said in a low voice.

Michelle flinched before uncrossing her arms and slapping her hands against her cheeks hard. "Get it together, Misha; this is what that bastard wants," she continued.

Michelle menacingly glared at the intercom. "And I'm not giving him what he wants," she said.

Michelle turned her head to the left and saw a partially opened metal door before approaching it and placing her hand against it. When Michelle opened the metal door, she saw four battery sockets with different colored wires.

When Michelle turned her head to the back, she saw a deactivated blue hand scanner with a blue wire next to it and a door. "I need to plug the battery into the socket with the blue wire," she said as she grabbed the arm cannons' handles before aiming the left arm cannon at the battery's handle and pulling the trigger.

The blue hand shot forward and grabbed the battery's handle; after it retracted back to Michelle, she aimed the left arm cannon at the top left corner battery socket before pulling the trigger.

The blue hand shot forward and placed the battery inside the socket, which activated the blue hand scanner. Michelle faced the scanner and aimed the left arm cannon at it. "I hope luck is on my side because I'm about to enter a lion's den," she said before pulling the trigger.

The blue hand shot forward and touched the scanner, which activated it. After the scanner finished, the blue hand retracted back to Michelle before the door opened. "Hang on, you guys... I'm coming to find you..." she said in a low voice.

Unbeknownst to Michelle, black sunken eyes with slimy pink four-digit hands holding a broken piece of metal from the roof stared at her before she went through the opening; they tilted their head before climbing up and going through a hole in the roof.

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