Did I Just Gain XP?

Prometheus and Moroccos managed to sneak out the hotel with little effort. Thanks to the efforts of Moroccos' hacking and Clementine distracting hotel security. Their hotel was just a few blocks away from the government building. So it didn't take them long to get their by walking. Once they were by the building, Moroccos used a laptop that he had brought with him. Prometheus presumed that he was doing hacker stuff, Moroccos had a speedy typing and extreme focus that he had never seen before.

'No one in class really got to know each, unless you were dating everyone was practically total strangers. I didn't even know he could hack this good,' Prometheus thought as Moroccos finished up his hacking. He closed his laptop, "I know this is a pretty cliche line from hacker movies, but I'm in," Moroccos says getting up and walking closer to the government building.

Prometheus followed him, "How did you get in so fast, I thought you said you never hacked into a government building before."

"Idiot, you think I was just admiring the building during the tour, I was finding out how I could hack in here. Now be careful, all the cameras are disabled, but there still could be guards around."

*Rustle*

Prometheus and Moroccos both dive into a nearby bush, they looked around themselves, scared shitless that someone might have been stalking them or even worse discovered them. After looking around for a bit, Prometheus spotted a familiar feminine body. He rose from the bush, "Clementine?" The feminine body turned around and ran towards Prometheus, jumping on him and hugging him.

"Thank god you're still safe," Clementine says giving kisses to Prometheus.

"Why are you even here Clem? You should have stayed at the hotel, it's dangerous."

"No!"

"Shhhh," Moroccos says becoming more wary of their surroundings.

"Because it's dangerous I had to come," Clementine says.

Prometheus stared into Clementine's eyes and smiled, "That made no sense to me, but I love you for it."

"When you two love birds are done, come on," Moroccos walked out of the bush and toward the front of the building, Prometheus and Clementine followed. Clementine clung to Prometheus, scared of what the authorities could do to them if they get caught. She was physically shaking, Prometheus felt the shaking and reassured her, "Calm down, there will barely be any security."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah," Moroccos interjected, "I thought it was strange at first, but I remembered that no one has ever attempted to sneak into a government building. It's like buying an expensive rifle to protect your home when you're living in a crime free neighborhood. What's the point?"

Clementine calmed down, "Yeah, that makes sense, but can your hacker skill actually get us inside?"

"Of course. As soon as I graduate I'm probably going to be hired by the government themselves. So if I can hack them now, I can probably get a higher position in the future."

The group made it to the front entrance, Moroccos took out his laptop and with the same swift motion and intense focus, he hacked his way in to unlock the door. He opened it quietly and walked in signaling Prometheus and Clementine to come in.

Quietly, they moved through the halls of the building. There were at most one or two security guards on the first floor at one time. The group was agile enough to get passed the first one with no problems. Like a stealth game, they waited for him to turn his back to them. Then when they were sure that he wouldn't see them, they dashed to the museum.

Once they were in the museum each of them hid behind a display. Prometheus behind the holy cross display, Moroccos behind an IPhone 12 S, and Clementine behind a comic that was slightly burnt at the top with the only readable words being, 'Part 9'.

A tired guard, guarding the way to the second floor, yawned as he began to walk around the museum. The group moved according to him, they moved around him, switching from display to display. They were all extremely nervous, Prometheus in particular who bumped into a display, causing the guard to turn around. Moroccos and Clementine was already in the doorway that lead to the stairs. They hid behind the walls of the doorway waiting for Prometheus to get to them.

"Who's there!" The guard whipped out a pistol, and aimed it at the display that Prometheus bumped into.

'Dumbass,' Moroccos thinks, 'We can't leave him here, this whole trip would be pointless.'

'Careful Pro,' Clementine thinks.

Prometheus gulps, the guard walked closer to the display, he was forced to stay behind it or he would have gotten caught faster. The guard walked around the display and spotted Prometheus. "The hell are you doing in here? How did you get in here?"

Prometheus got up, his hands up and knees shaking. He stayed silent. "Speak!"

The guard raised the gun to Prometheus' head, Prometheus closed his eyes scared that the guard would shoot.

"Augh."

*THUD*

Prometheus opened his eyes, he saw Moroccos with a slight twisted smile he held his laptop that looked damage with blood dripping from the corner. He then saw the guard who looked lifeless. Prometheus rushed to the guard, checking his pulse. "He's still alive."

"Of course he would be, if he wasn't then he shouldn't be a guard here," Moroccos says wiping blood on his laptop with his shirt. "Come on, we gatta hurry. What if that other guard finds him?" Prometheus became more disgusted with Moroccos than he was before. Despite that he left the body of the unconscious guard, and followed Moroccos.

Clementine watched in horror, seeing the twisted smile that Moroccos had. "Pro, that wasn't normal," she whispered to Prometheus as they climbed the stairs.

"I know. After all this, we can just ignore him for the rest of the trip. We'll go hit the beach and I can finally see you in all your beach glory," Prometheus whispers back.

It wasn't long til they got to the cat walk, they walked to around the same place where Prometheus dropped his phone. They looked around for it and saw it in the same spot, on top of the bush. Then they walked back to the start of the catwalk, where a hatch was laid next to the glass. Without a crowd being there, they could see the hatch. They opened it with little difficulty revealing a ladder. It led into the inside of the experimental zone.

One by one, they climbed down the ladder. As expected they weren't affected by the radiation that was in the experiment zone.

"Bullshit honestly, they could have sent someone down here when we asked about it, instead of telling us off," Moroccos says.

They all moved as one to the bush where Prometheus' phone laid. The group stopped before the bush, Prometheus walked up to the bush and grabbed his phone. However it shocked him making him drop it again.

"Dumbass, why the hell are you dropping it," Moroccos says.

"It shocked me, shut up."

Prometheus bent over to go pick it up, as he does Clementine kept a look out for any scientist that may be starting their experiment. However instead of a scientist like she was expecting to see, she started to see a yellowish gas that loomed into the zone.

"Honestly, why the hell are you even dating him," Moroccos says to Clementine who started running to Prometheus. "Guys there's a gas. I don't know what it is, but."

Prometheus picked up his phone and quickly turned around, he was confused at what the gas could be, but he felt like it was dangerous. "It's covering our route back to the hatch. We're going to have to go through it," he said holding onto Clementine.

"Calm down, they said that this was an experimental place to cure the radiation. This is probably just the cure, we should be fine walking through it. Come on follow me," Moroccos says putting his hand in the gas.

"See. It does...." Moroccos coughs. His face quickly became red, as the gas started to engulf him. Prometheus pushed Clementine off of him and dragged Moroccos out of the gas. Prometheus placed him near the bush. His eyes quickly became bloodshot, with a sudden rash over him.

"Help me," he said with tears in his eyes. The tears however became blood. "I'm going to die," Moroccos says as he hears his system screeching inside his ears.

[CRITICAL MODE - LIFE IS CURRENTLY IN DANGER - CRITICAL MODE]

Clementine and Prometheus watch in horror as Moroccos kept coughing up blood. "16! Help me, fucking help me!" Prometheus said nothing, he could only do nothing. "Prometheus!"

Prometheus heart dropped as Moroccos' heart stopped. Prometheus had leaned in to hear for a beat, but there was none. He felt like crying, he should have been crying, Clementine was bawling her eyes out, but he wasn't.

'Why,' he thought as the gas around them disappeared. 'Why was that poisonous to us, wasn't it meant to be a cure? What the hell is the government doing?'

The two froze as they stared at Moroccos' bloodied body. The only thing that unfroze them was an unfamiliar voice.

"Did I just gain XP?"