Kitty and her group went West and and found what appeared to be a control panel for a generator. It required a key, there was a note on the ground that mentioned a sink. Kitty began looking in one of the sinks in the room outside when suddenly a putrid white liquid oozed out from the faucet. She leapt backwards and Pinky fired her Lightning Cannon at it. The liquid creature shrieked and recoiled down the drain, leaving a key behind. Kitty grabbed it and used it on the control panel, it fit. They welded the sink's drain and faucet shut then proceeded to meet up with CIDI to the East.
CIDI came to a room full of beds, there was a door leading North and a door leading further East. CIDI split into two, The twins and J, who had accompanied them, went North, Smithson and Dixon went East. The latter two walked down a hall with some mirrors and flowers, Smithson thought she saw something in one of the mirrors.
"You see anything, Dixon?"
"Negative."
They continued down and found a control panel that required a key, they turned around to the sight of a large bird-like creature at the end of the hallway. It was so tall that it had to hunch and crawl down the hall towards them. Smithson threw a M14 incendiary grenade at it causing it to shriek and curl around itself in a snake-like fashion upon being ignited. The two quickly ran past the burning creature and barricaded the door behind them with some of the beds. A key fell onto floor out of one the beds and Dixon picked it up.
"I hope that's not for the panel we just came from." Smithson grunted.
The twins walked into a room with several fans in the wall blowing intensely. They found a switch but decided against flipping it. Returning, they found Smithson and Dixon staring angrily at a barricade they had constructed over the door to the East. Kitty and her group appeared and inquired as to if they found anymore generators. Upon learning about the creature in the East hallway, she sent the three soldiers to dispatch the creature. The creature was incapacitated in the corner, covered, still on fire. The three soldiers fired on it with their 1.2-inch autocannons, causing it to splatter and fall apart with every hit. The creature had turned to liquid and was in several pieces at the end of the hall. Dixon walked to back to the control panel and tried the key, it didn't fit. They proceeded back to the North and walked Eastward down the hall. CIDI came to a door and entered the room. At the end was a bathtub and in the bathtub, behind the curtains was a long, tall, inhuman figure that was shaking back and forth in a demented manner. Smithson pulled out her Mk 153 SMAW and fired it at the creature, revealing nothing but a now-demolished bathtub and another key that was sitting in front of the rubble.
"Better safe than sorry." She said.
Kitty and her group walked past a large animal skull-like machine, as she walked to the terminal to try and find any information on the machine, she was blocked by a hideous, deformed creature. The three soldiers immediately fired on it with both their autocannons and rotary guns, the creature splattered and leaped at the soldiers, only for one of them to catch it and throw it down the hole the machine sat in. Kitty hacked the terminal and sent it's information to Kommando. After that debacle Kitty opted to inspect a room to the North instead of searching further Westward. In the room she found a TV with a VHS player and a large collection of VHS tapes, they were nothing but cartoons and family videos. Next to one of the shelves was another control panel, the key from the room with the beds fit into it and activated it. She then entered the next room, which was filled with a fog. She walked through it, investigating each of the freezers in the room. After she checked the last one, it turned white and began changing shape.
"Aww… HELL NO!!!" Kitty yelled. She grabbed one of the huge freezers and flung it at the creature as if it weighed nothing. The creature was caught in the freezer's open doors and got trapped inside it. CIDI entered the room and put the key they found into the Control Panel. Kitty found another key on the floor where the creature was standing. She grabbed it and went back to the control panel in the mirror hallway and inserted it into the panel. With all the generators powering the door activated they returned to the second elevator. The door was open but the elevator itself did not have power. Kitty, Pinky and Dusty went through a door in the side of the elevator into what appeared to be a utility corridor of some sort. Inside the found another generator that appeared to be connected to the elevator, Kitty turned it on and as the lights flickered on four more of the strange liquid creatures appeared and attacked them. Pinky drove one off with her Lightning Cannon and Kitty and Dusty slowed two others down with their Carbine and Rotary Gun respectively. The three soldiers had followed them into the room and smashed the fourth one with their fists, causing it to splash all over the room and attempt to reform. Kitty, Pinky and Dusty ran out of the room amid the panic. The twin with the grenade launcher attached to her M16A2 splattered one of the creatures that had followed them out with a 40MM grenade. Once the three soldier barrelled their way through the creatures and once they were on the elevator, they ascended back to the lab.
"We can't just let stuff like that run around down there. We need to demolish this facility immediately." Kommando ordered.
Kitty sent the three soldiers back down to plant Nuclear-Fusion Demolition Charges in critical areas of the Lab to demolish it and either utterly annihilate or at the very least, trap the creatures down there. The trio fought their way through the now enraged and swarming Amalgamates, blasting and punching a path through them to the elevator generator room, where they planted the first charge. They then marched down the decrepit and dank halls in their armor, it being sufficient to protect them from the great and unnatural strength the creatures evidently possessed. They planted another charge in the fan room and another in the freezer room. Once those hand been planted, they began the arduous task of returning to the elevator while fighting the swarm of liquid filth that was shambling and slithering down every dark hall of the lab. Once they had returned they immediately evacuated the lab and sheltered in place as the explosion collapsed all three layers of the Hotlands. The Northeast corner was the only area that escaped destruction. The collapse had created a piled of rubble all the way to the third level out of what remained of the terrain some structures.
"Excellent! Now we can move forward!" Kommando announced. The armored vehicles ascended the mountain of debris and approached a blue building with a sign out over the entrance that read: "MTT"
Shirley sat next to Kommando inside the Bradley
"What was that blast just now? We're not getting into another huge battle are we?" Shirley asked.
"No, Shirley. We're just demolishing an obstacle in our way." Kommando replied.
"Why are we down here anyways, Kommando?" Shirley continued.
"Oh… I just… slipped and fell…" Kommando began as he started explaining the first couple of pages of this thread to Shirley.
