They called it Haven.
A name chosen to inspire trust, to mask the truth of what the facility was built for.
Buried deep beneath the earth, Haven was not a shelter, but a cage. It had been designed decades ago under the guise of national security—an underground research station where scientists and military contractors worked hand in hand. They promised breakthroughs in medicine, bioengineering, and human survival. They whispered of cures, of enhanced abilities, of creating something stronger than human.
But progress came at a cost.
The deeper they experimented, the more the lines blurred between science and monstrosity. Subjects went missing. Records were erased. Families were told their loved ones had been relocated or "recruited." No one questioned too much—because Haven was built on silence.
Then came the breach.
No one on the surface knew exactly what happened. The final reports—classified, fragmented, censored—spoke only in broken details:
Containment failure.
Mass casualties.
Protocol Black enacted.
The upper levels of Haven were evacuated. Steel doors slammed shut. Power was cut, sealing everything below in eternal darkness. Officials assured the public that the facility had been shut down for good. They claimed nothing survived.
But Haven never truly died.
The machines still hummed on backup power. Lights flickered without purpose. And in the bowels of the facility, the creations they abandoned continued to roam—starved, restless, evolving.
Years passed. Dust settled. The world above forgot.
Until new arrivals were delivered.
They came not as soldiers, not as scientists, but as ordinary people—promised safety, promised shelter, promised escape from a danger they barely understood. They were told Haven would protect them.
But Haven does not protect.
Haven consumes.
And in the choking dark, where the walls echo with the memories of screams long silenced, the survivors will learn the same truth the scientists did:
What was made here should never have existed.
What was caged here should never have been freed.
And once you awaken in Haven, there is no way back.