Clues about last night
Thankfully Dean was only mentally tired from overexerting his powers as he had his sword ready for any surprises.
Kat was on Dean's shoulder again watching his back while swinging her holographic legs seemingly in a better mood than moments earlier.
The air felt a little stale but the smell of blood was still heavy maybe even heavier as dozens of fresh corpses were made earlier.
"Hey Kat?"
[Yeah?]
"Let's call those hand things crawlers unless you have a better name."
[Nothing, but I still call dibs on its scientific name.]
They both bantered a bit since they weren't in any immediate danger and Dean felt that he wiped out the entire floor of enemies....aside from the crawlers.
But so far he hasn't faced any crawlers in combat even though they seem to possess combat abilities given their claws and the mysterious pointy red crystals inside of them.
Arriving at the lounge, Dean asked Kat to look away but she insisted saying there'll be more scenes like this. He didn't bother to argue as she was right on that matter but deep down something is telling Dean that there'll be scenes even more disturbing than this.
In the middle of the lounge the young woman was still sitting idly hugging her knees but it doesn't seem to have strength anymore.
The recently skinned corpse wasn't there as it was one of the husks killed earlier in Veronica's apartment.
Regardless, Dean got on one knee and made eye contact with her, his watch light shone brightly in front of her but still no reaction.
Thankfully, Dean knew his color scheme better than the average man as he recognize the young woman's hair color to be magenta with sky blue eyes which combined gave her an alluring cute face. Dean, however, wasn't interested because of the current situation and she wasn't as beautiful as a certain someone.
"No red on the eyes except around the edges indicating she was crying so she's still human...physically that is"
[Maybe the crawlers' red crystal only work on dead bodies? Hmm...need more data to confirm but so far its a start to a theory], Kat busily muttered as she check the young woman all over.
"Kat can you ID her?", Dean asked since he only knew the top 100 given that there were 8000 students in his grade.
[The young woman is Mary Taylor, her Esper power is producing a cable out of pure electricity but the power level is D. She mostly excels at electrical engineering which places her rank at 4391, and....oh uh she has...I mean had a twin brother who was ranked 96.]
"Oh"
It was the only thing that came out of Dean's mouth as things started connecting for him. But to get some confirmation and finally some information he asked, "Kat can you check the logs on her smartwatch?"
So far, only Mary's watch was intact as the rest of them on the fiends and husks were either destroyed or missing. Her watch might give them some insight to what happened and maybe even what caused this mess.
[I can, but I think we should move to a safer place before reviewing them]
"Agreed", Dean replied then he lifted Mary with no resistance from her and carried her like a potato sack.
He walked down the hallway past all of the apartments and reached the door leading to the stairways.
The stairway strangely enough were safe zones or at least they had the fewest vents for husks to do a surprise attack.
As the door slid shut behind him, Dean gently placed Mary down near a wall with no vents and had her lean comfortably in position.
He silently sat on the staircase next her to finally rest from that exhausting battle, this prompted Kat to hop into Mary's watch and check her logs.
[Hmmm....I can't get much visually since the cameras were only from her watch but all of the audio files are intact.]
Though Mary only had a camera on her watch as she wasn't a streamer of any sort, Dean was still glad the audio files were intact as it might provide some clue to what happened.
"Play all of the files from last night leading up to before I arrived"
[Okay I guess we'll play a little detective huh.]
The pink onesie wearing girl commented as she started playing the audio files:
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-Do I really have to go to this party?
-I need you to chaperone me in case I get really drunk
-heh says the lightweight
-HEY, I can hold my liquor trust me
-Bullshit, I'm your twin sister and your high rank ass can't even down one shot before you start slurring
-Fine fine, I needed something to get my mind off of Becky so can you please come with me
-Serves you right for not listening to me and going off dating that skank, but yeah I'll chaperone you hehehe. Lemme finish this little project here
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-hey Jacob I think that's enough
-but...buutttt....I wanna do that drinking game wiittthhh the pretty giirrrlllss over there
-Jacob Taylor you are drunk out of your ass so I forbid you from drinking with those girls there....HUH....Kacy Anderson the Class Angel is locking lips with Ha-eun Cheong the Steelwall and also one of Mark's fiancés
-oh that's hot
-shut up you idiot. And I guess it's okay for Ha-eun to do that since it's only a drinking game.
-waaaahhhh...why you hit your own brother
-ugh, let's go back to your room and crash for the night
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-Mary wake up
-5 more minutes
-MARY
-huh I'm up...I'm up what's going on?
-something bad is happening outside and I can't connect online. Can you work your magic to reach the professors or send out a distress signal?
-uhhhh....you're not playing a prank on me right?
-Mary Taylor, I am serious. I swear by our family that this is real
-okay lemme see what I can do
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-the clock is moving very slow and something is interrupting the signal
-Meaning?
-well I can only hypothesize that an unknown gravitation pull is affecting time and space around us and even disrupting the signal, but of course this is all a theory that hasn't been proven by our physicists yet
-English Mary
-something is possibly slowing down time around us making minutes feel like hours and the distress signal is being jammed by either this or something else
-shit we're trapped here
-by the way what's the danger outside?
-ummm...some of our classmates seem to have gone insane and there's freaking zomb-
-hehehe see I told you guys, I remembered the passcode to this apartment
-Becky?...Becky you skank barging into Jacob's place with that weird voice modulator, I'm gonna tea-
-MARY DON'T, THAT'S NOT BECKY ANYMORE
-hohoho we got twins in here, LET'S GRAB THEM
-Mary get behind me
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-(sob) please let us go...I'm sorry for calling you a skank Becky
-OKAY....after I carve your face hehehehe
-NO DON'T TOUCH HER
-awww such a good brother we have here
-you can have me but just let Mary go please I'm begging you
-Jacob...
-hmmm.....deal I'll let her go
-thank-
-after I take away your skin like the rest of the fellas there hehehehe
-...
-no...no...
-hold him down and make sure she watches EVERYTHING
-NOOOO...JACOB LET HIM GO YOU CAN HAVE ME INSTEAD PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU
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"That's enough"
Kat immediately ended the recording as it started getting gruesome.
The surroundings was awfully quiet as the duo glanced at Mary with pity and remorse over what she had gone through.
And there were finally some clues to their predicament.
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A/N: Fyi mystery isn't that deep but it's fun to write about.