Going Rogue, Warning: CONTAINS SANDMEN

"Welcome to the Haufman Center, we'll be here for you every step of the way."

The girl curled her lip up and made a grunt of acknowledgement, the nurse gave her a glance as if she wanted to say something, but then left. Everyone had said she was fine.

She knew better.

She had to get away from her home, away from anything that could distract her, to focus herself in preparation for this. She palmed a small chikorita figure absentmindedly when she found she had stopped walking.

This was her door.

She bit her lip and walked in. The room was plain, with off-white walls that seemed quite new, and a bed with a small desk. If it weren't for the cameras on the walls it might have seemed like a hotel room. She sighed as she thought of what had brought her to this place.

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"...it's you again."

"Did they bother you?"

That sickening grin. So smug.

"Where's Arc?"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Fuck you."

"Do you think you're safe?"

"As long as I'm awake...I won't let anything take me."

His grin grew larger.

"But you're asleep."

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She startled awake in bed. How long had she been asleep? The room was already dark. She sensed something from across the room. Her eyes widened as she tried to make out it's shape in the darkness.

Leaning against the wall was a pale man in robes. Arc!

"You scared the crap out of me."

"Heh, couldn't let the rogues get you before you've completed your purpose. Of course...I might have just watched."

She sighed and got out of the bed. "Like last time."

"Hey, I'm just here to tell you something. You've been talking about us, haven't you?"

She felt her throat run dry.

"Look...most people won't believe you, they don't have the kind of chaotic, creative mind you do. But that's not the problem. The problem is there are *things* out there that will believe you. This place you're in? It's not safe anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'd suggest you get out of here."

"I don't know if there's anyone at the checkout, I-"

"Get out!"

With that the man faded into the blackness, as if the shadows had swallowed him up. The door to her room creaked open.

She took a deep breath, and stepped out.

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She began walking through the hallway, it wasn't far to the exit. She turned the corner, and then stopped.

There was a door here, there wasn't supposed to be a door here...it was a hallway leading to the elevator. She nervously opened it, and instantly regretted the decision.

The room looked like a place one would have meetings, with a large table surrounded by chairs. At the head of the table there was a figure sitting, but not in the chair, instead perched atop it. A rainbow colored owl.

"You thought you could get away from me?"

She grimaced and took a step back, but she found the door was already gone, she was trapped.

"I'll show you what comes of that."

She felt another aura in the room. As she turned, she saw the disjointed shumbling of a sandman coming towards her. It's blank eyes hungry for the opportunity to possess her. She stumbled around the table to get more distance from it. It bumped into a chair, then lurched forward, again grabbing for her. As she backed away from it she noticed a glow in her pocket. She reached in and pulled out a glowing chikorita. Yes! She could feel her aura strengthening with the warm glow. She stretched out her palm and unleashed an ethereal attack. With a flash of light the creature cried out and disappeared into the blackness.

The owl scowled at her.

"It won't end here."

She ran to the other side of the room and opened what she prayed was an exit, and found herself in a new corridor. At the end it split two ways, and from across that path she saw a boy run by.

Rex?

She felt the owl's scornful gaze.

"You can't replace me with him, he'll only betray you."

Not paying it any mind, she ran off after the figure.


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Not meant for any purposes other than the joy of those who experienced this in reading it when put in Survival Horror Format. May update later.

Oh my god, this is soooo terrifying, I gripped things in fear
Continue to weave this horror, I need to know how it ends

nooooooooOOOOoooooooOOooooooo

This is genuis ebe, the title alone is comdey gold.

Star Wars Fanfiction? Iraq war allegory?

No, but seriously. Very gripping. I want to know who these people are and what spooky stuff is going on in the background. Keep it up.

It's satire of a bitchy former forum member's dreams.

That's some pretty obscure referential humor...even for us.

Indeed.

*puffs pipe*

love me

As she rounded the hallway she found another door. She quickly opened it, hoping Rex was still in site.

The room was massive.

A staircase led down, there were two levels on this room, and three doors, another on the second level and one below. The room was mostly dark and sparsely decorated with potted plants and chairs. She cautiously moved to the top door across from her and tried the handle. Locked.

She groaned and began moving down the staircase, then gasped as she saw a shadow shuffling in the darkness. Another rogue sandman! She leapt the last two steps and rushed to a far corner of the room. She held out her chikorita to stop it. "Go away!"

Nothing.

The chikorita had lost it's glow, and simply stood in her hand. What was going on?? Was it unloaded or some crap? The sickly looking sandman started closing in on her.

"There's something here that will help you..."

She turned to face the voice. "Arc! What are you talking about?"

Arc rolled his eyes. "Look around, it's like that song, "One of these things is not like the other."

She hurriedly rushed away from the staggering rogue again and began looking wildly about the room. Chair, chair, coffee table, plant, hypno, huh? A hypno statue? She ran over to it. "Arc is this what you're talking about?!"

"Use your chikorita."

She held out her chikorita figure. As it neared the hypno, the soft glow returned to it. "Alright! Eat this!" with a flash of light, the rogue sandman made a gibbering shout and disappeared.

She caught her breath for a moment. Arc was already gone, so she recharged her chikorita again and moved to open the door.

Inside was an office, with a few computer monitors seemingly tossed together on a desk. It was a dead end, but she was more interested in the two sandmen there. Neither seemed aggressive.

"Hey guys."

"You're here! Morpheus has been looking for you, he didn't believe us when we said we didn't know where you were."

"Yeah I ran into him earlier."

"He's forcing us to keep tabs on you. ...be careful, there's something *else* here. We can't tell what it is, and Morpheus won't tell us, but it isn't good..."

The other sandman piped up. "Ah, here's a key to the door upstairs, you've got to get out of here ok?"

She nodded "Thanks! Good luck to you guys too!"

She ran out of the room, but halfway up the stairs she heard an awful screaming noise from the other side of the door. She went back down slowly, not sure if she should look. Carefully she opened the door, silence. No one was there anymore. But all the computer monitors were on. They all displayed the same sickening message, as if it were some kind of deranged screen saver.

"I'M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE"

She shuddered, and left the room as quickly as possible.

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Mini-update to introduce some of the "game" mechanics and add some suspense.

Fucking vore fetishists

Banshee rushed up the stairs and went to the door, fumbling with the key until it slid into the door. With a piercing click the door swung open, revealing an elevator. She nervously stepped in and pressed the button for the ground floor. She felt the elevator descending and waited for it to stop, but it kept going.

Soon she heard the sound of breathing, but it was huge and vibrating throughout the entire airspace. It was as if something massive around her was snoring lightly. She crouched down in a corner of the elevator as the breathing increased in volume, and then suddenly stopped. There was a passing moment of silence followed by a thundering roar of outrage that caused the entire elevator box to shake. She screamed and covered her ears as the roar hit a falsetto screech, and then died away. She stayed crouched, sobbing to herself until the elevator suddenly stopped, and the doors opened.

She looked about to make sure there was nothing horrible, and gasped as she saw Rex's back shutting a door behind it.

"Rex wait!"

She rushed to the door and pried it open.

"AGFOOOOFGHOOOOOOFGHOOOOGUH!"

Her body was blown back as the door pushed open and the head of a huge frog poked out. It's eyes flashed rapidly between red and blue, like two crazed police lights. She was blinded by the light and tried to curl up in a fetal position, but as soon as it had happened the door slammed shut again.

What the fuck had that been? What had just happened? She carefully got up, no way was she going to open that door again. She carefully walked to the door on the far left and opened it gingerly...

Nothing, great.

She walked in and found herself in a ticking room filled with clocks. The sound of their hands moving in unison causing her mind to unconsciously fear a countdown. A friendly looking sandman was looking around the room. It had a calm aura, so she wasn't afraid.

"Hey!"

The sandman looked up at her. "Ah, you worried me there! Listen...Morpheus is keeping us here, but there's something else here..."

She cut it off. "I know! Some kind of weird frog thing right? What is it?

The sandman shook it's head "It's not one thing. There are several of them. Their minds are anathema to us, they know it, they are seeking us out. I'm, I'm scared, but Morpheus won't let us leave!" it was beginning to get hysterical, the aura was getting dangerously close to rogue.

"Hey calm down! Morpheus is making you watch me right? So we can get out of here together!" The sandman looked at her, weighing her words, as it was about to say something, a screen flashed on, a dreadful message displayed in the darkness:

"YOU'RE NOTHING YOU'RE NOTHING YOU'RE NOTHING"

The girl shook her head slightly. "Man this place is creeping me out..." but wait...

The screen was moving?

By the time they noticed, it was already too late; the lurching figure whose head displayed the ominous message had grabbed the sandman and begun to choke it. The girl panicked.

"ETHEREAL ATTACK!" The Chikorita flashed for a moment...nothing!

The sandman's screams were now a whisper, it wouldn't be long now.

Feeling guilt in the pit of her stomach, the girl rushed out of the room and ran down a long hallway, kept running, she knew what would happen, but she couldn't let herself watch it.