Crossover Escape: Gotta be more than Lucky to survive

1.22 Black Pyramid

When they were led out onto a suspended walkway into a vast cavern that still had the mountain rock look to the walls and came face to face with the pyramid, Luca became less concerned about making a distraction.

[Rӓv: Never mind about the distraction if I can’t find a blind spot in here, I should just go home.] Luca had to agree it was impossible to see the other side of the pyramid from where they stood and the base below them seemed miles away. Luca could barely make out the ceiling above, so apart from the metal walkways and scaffolding ladders, there was nothing but empty space around the pyramid. There was in all honestly practically nowhere to mount a camera and plenty of places to hide from one.

Luca nodded absently. He moved with the crowd, but his attention was focused on the pyramid. Unlike in the clip where it had been pure black, the actual thing had blue and red veins sneaking up the sides. Luca couldn’t describe the lines any other way. They had no clear pattern, just tangled streams going from tip to base of the pyramid. It was quite frankly creepy to look at the appearance just off putting for a reason Luca couldn’t put his finger on.

Mr Important Suit led them to the towing staircase that led between the levels of walkways around the pyramid and clapped his hands. “Alright, this is the contest sight. You may examine it as you like but are not allowed to enter the pyramid and it is recommended not to attempt to climb the exterior. You have five hours, then we will return to the main compound.” Once he finished speaking, Mr Important Suit and his entourage disappeared down the walkway and out another door.

Luca looked at the finer scaffolding that ran right beside the pyramid and then considered what looked like a smooth metal surface on the pyramid with the eerie glowing veins and agreed that he wouldn’t be climbing on the damn thing, but he did want a much closer look.

The rest of the group had already y started to spread out different teams moving to approach form different angles. Luca flicked a look around then moved casually down to the second, from the bottom level right next to the pyramid. Luca hadn’t really thought about the temperature in the mountain until they reached the side of the pyramid. However, once they were next to it, he realised that the rest of the in-mountain base had been cool, boardering on cold while right next to the pyramid was warm, not quite hot but like a large animal was right next to you, like snuggling with a large dog.

Though the thought of a structure giving off body heat was particularly concerning. Not to mention, Luca could not figure out what the things were made from wasn’t metal, cement or rock nor any other building material that readily came to mind. Still this whole things were off in so many ways and he’d come this far to get out. He was backing up just because of some warm… Not rock.

Without particular instructions the group settled on duties, Holly using his mapper to map as much of the area as he could. He muttered several times at the start when the mapper only showed thirty metres or so into the pyramid but covered the full distance around the rest of the space.

[Holly: I don’t know what this thing is made of, but I don’t like it. It’s muffling the range of the mapper.] Holly had moved around to try and map as much as possible with Tails shadowing him while pretending to examine the many doors that stretched into pitch-black tunnels. So he was nowhere near where Luca stood beside Ghost and Rӓv. Rӓv had been working away at getting the videos Luca had asked for as well as whatever else she could get her hands on while Ghost and Luca steered her around as they investigated what they could. Luca had been taking particular note of the glyphs that ran around each door. They looked like no language, or Luca knew of, they did, however, match or bear a striking resemblance to the glyphs on the relics Luca had found in the hive.

[Holly: Ah… I don’t think this is a pyramid.]

[Lucky: What do you mean? It doesn’t resemble the traditional ones?]

[Holly: Well, that too, but I meant in a more literal sense, I’m scanning the ground floor level and while the packed dirt underneath is limiting, it reads differently than the other stuff.]

[Lucky: Right and?]

[Holly: I’m getting readings of the same interference underground along different lines, so rather than a pyramid I think the black thing is actually a cube and we're only seeing half of it.]

[Lucky: If that’s the case, we can practically rule out the slim possibility that this thing was made by WIC, since there would have been too many traces in the ground if they’d built a cube and then buried it. Besides, the damn thing is to smooth from basically any conventional building method I can think of.]

[Tails: Which leaves us where?]

[Lucky: Right where we started with a tone of questions and a challenge ahead. Anyone see a door that looked nicer than the others?]

[Ghost: Doors nice now?]

[Lucky: Any door that doesn’t seem like it will take my head off as soon as look at me if automatically only the almost friendly list.]

[Holly: Well I don’t know about nice doors or paths but there are some I’d definitely classify as hostile even with my limited view.]

[Lucky: Ah, that’s something at least we’ll have Rӓv plot them on the map when we get back since she’s still doing stuff.]

Luca continued to look the pyramid over, but a strange, muffled whisper kept distracting him. At first, he’d thought it was just the sound of others talking carrying in the room. It wasn’t till he ended up looking across a corner of the scaffolding to Holly and saw him speaking, heard him on the coms but not with his ears that he realised there was more of an issue. If he could see Holly and knew he was speaking but couldn’t hear any sound carrying to him that was a problem with the area.