It has been about 2 weeks after the encounter with the abysmal creature that left Steven and Tommy shocked to their cores, although partially healed, they still need recovery to fully move around. So for now, they hide and control a small section of Access point 1 as a base.
Tommy, still scarred by the being, asks Steven some important questions regarding his encounter with basically any "human" in his coma world.
- "So, what did you really see when you were talking to them?"
Steven tries his best to remember, but gets to notice how slowly, this world corrupts his memories, nothing major, but he can notice it.
- "Basically not much, there were around 10 users that ever posted in those sites, and, as I told you before, only one managed to make active contact with me, that Being Tobby Vienas.
- "That guy sounds very important, are you sure he wasn't some kind of… mutated abomination or alike?
Steven laughs at Tommy's comment.
- "Hahaha! Not at all, he was actually pretty normal looking, skinny, blonde hair, and he was so caring too! Young dude if you ask me.
- "Maybe he did it to confuse you! Oh oh! Maybe he thought you were gay or something like that!
Steven eyes at Tommy with confusion
- "Did the absolutes that you eat earlier make you mad or what?
Both laughed at each other; they truly had no idea what to think. Any theory here could apply just to not make them crazy a second longer.
Tommy genuinely asks with seriousness
- So you said he was from the UK originally, right? Then…. Where do you live?
Steven responds apologetically
- "Ah, I guess I've never told you before… Im actually from Spain, my parents birthed me in the capital of the country.
- "So, Madrid… interesting. Amigo is not joking around.
Steven shakes his head mockingly, he knew Tommy would make some kind of remark from where he lived, after all, he doesn't sound or speak Spanish at all.
- "You do know how to communicate with Spaniards right?"
- "Of course I can, Tommy, are you high?"
- "Sometimes, yeah."
Time gets spent just throwing questions at each other, without much avail to the matter at hand, but a great way to just know who you're walking with.
- "Hey, Tommy. You're the smart guy, what do you think 'Access Point 1' meant? Did we just begin our journey?
- "Well, I don't think so, matter fact, I believe we already went through an entire Access Point, that being 0. Also, it resembles something close to a man made structure type.
Think about it! We go through kilometers of land, kill monsters, and when we reached the gate, we killed this huge thing! That sounds like a boss to me.
Steven nods at his explanation.
- "I guess that makes sense, so there are Absolutes much more powerful that the ones we have been fighting for days now. How about we call these the "Absolute Majors"! You know, absolutes, but they are big!
Tommy, for once, actually approves of Steven's idea.
As they both fall into silence, Steven gets enough of it
*scoff* Man… when will we leave.
Tommy pats Steven's back, he knows this is stressful enough, but no matter how, they have to pull through it.
- Look, I know you didn't deserve to be put through this hell. But the faster we go forward, the faster we will be able to go back home!
Steven acknowledges Tommy's attempts on cheering him up, but decides to be realistic.
- "Tommy, is there even a 'Back home'? Will there even be an ending?"
- "Well, as I said earlier, this place feels like a man made structure, so there must have been an emergency exit in mind! Come on, trust me Steven, I know there is a way out of here, we just.. have to keep doing what we did!
- "What if there are stronger things? Monsters don't stay weak you know.
Tommy knows the fights could get worse and worse, but it is the beginning of everything, nothing can be expected.
- "What if they are not stronger than others? I mean, look at the absolutes, we found many variations of them, but when we fought them, WE found out they weren't stronger than each other, just with different abilities right?"
Steven perks up at Tommy, he does make sense of it.
- "So, by that, then the next Absolute Major would just have different ways of dealing with us, without changing any strength?"
Tommy nods happily, as he playfully elbows Steven
- Yup! That's what I mean. Maybe, instead of being the fastest, he is the tankiest, or maybe the lightest of them all.
Steven looks down
- "*sigh* Maybe you are right, but that means we have to prepare for it, and the question is… how dude?
- "We will find a way Steven. We will.
Both go back into silence, as the rumbles and echoes reverberate through the place.
- "Tommy, I don't know why, but since I fell down here, I felt weird as hell."
- "As in?"
- "I don't know, I feel much lighter, stronger even, I can't grasp why that is, but it's also as if I had someone else in me."
- "Well…"
Tommy couldn't come up with anything at the moment, but as he tried thinking something out, a loud thud is heard.
*CRASH*
The sound, paired with both teens gasping, makes their heart tremble, but as if that weren't the worst of it all, a faint, yet strong voice is heard in the distance.
- "GET AWAY FROM ME YOU ANIMAL! IM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
Steven and Tommy look at each other, practically thinking the exact same thought.
- "Was... was that a person!?!"
- "I believe so! Steven, quick, lets go, we HAVE to move.
Both sprint out of the makeshift base, as they head onto the origin of the sound, it was indeed far, but they had to act fast.