A Replaced Face
[Pest]
They stared at the others, who all looked rather shocked at what he had said. Guest 1337 couldn’t possibly be his brother right, he was still in highschool when he was put in this cursed world, has it really been that long? “And there is no way that is my brother, unless he can name my number as well.”
The Guest person paused for a moment, before pulling him into a tight hug. “Hey what are you-”
“1314… is that really you?”
Pest looked sort of surprised for a moment, before wrapping his arms around Guest. He didn’t say anything but he could tell Guest missed him a lot. “Sorry about suddenly disappearing, このクソ野郎は 変な奴を選んだんだ.”(this asshole who keeps us on the floors is weird with who he picks.) (Not an exact translation, not much I can do about it)
“When did you learn Japanese?”
“Started learnin’ after I got trapped here, had some time to kill,” Sitting on the railing, Pest looked out at the others. “So you all just got trapped here?”
“Indeed we have been trapped here, but the Spectre may realize we are gone I fear.” The pumpkin headed person, who was introduced as Dusekkar said.
“By Telamon your speech is almost as irritating as that stupid chicken’s…” Pest growled, crossing his arms.
“Oh does my bit annoy you bug boy? Good.”
Pest glared at Dusekkar, but a ding rang out through the elevator, signaling their first stop. Pushing himself off the wall, he watched as the door opened to a black void. “Shit… well get ready one of us is about to be dressed up.”
“What's that supposed to mean?” Guest looked at his brother, only to be interrupted by the pinkish figure Jeremy appearing and reaching into the elevator, “Hey wait no put me down-”
Jeremy flies off with Guest to the other side of the floor. “Alright watch your step, even if you fall you’ll spawn back at your last checkpoint just with a bit less health… Wait, where did that pizza guy go?”
Before anyone could stop him, Elliot was already parkouring to go and save Guest. “Shit Elliot slow down!” The one with the SFOTH shirt, which he found out was called Shedletsky yelled, before rushing after the pizza boy, and the others all started to follow.
[Elliot]
Elliot barely even registered what his legs were doing before he was off the starting platform and dodging flames and moving walls. “I’ll save you, Guest!” Activating their rush hour ability, they easily made it across the very narrow line they had to walk.
“Shit.. how do I get over there… Why are there so many Banana peels?”
That Pest guy, who was apparently his lover’s brother, managed to reach him with Shedletsky, the others struggling to make it past the flames, or being knocked into the lava by the moving walls, not to mention the fact that no one had jumped in a long time. “That’s because Jeremy knows if we touch them we’ll ragdoll and fly off the platform.” Pest ran up to the button, being careful of the banana peels and hit it, letting the platform rise. “Just be careful on the conveyor belts.”
Running with Shedletsky and Pest, Elliot jumped over the conveyors one by one until he was waiting with Pest for the platform to come out from the wall. Shedletsky on the other hand flew himself over to the button and stood on it. “Seems like we need 3 people here.”
“Since when did you have wings?” Elliot asked Shedletsky, as he and Pest jumped to the moving platform and over to the other side.
“Always had 'em, just hid' em under my shirt cuz they were a distraction during the rounds, I’m just glad they work here.”
Stepping on the button, Jeremy screams, disappearing as the top of the cage opened. “Guesty are you alright!” Elliot ran over and stopped dead in his tracks after seeing the sight before them. Guest was sitting on the floor of the cage, staring off into space. He was dressed in a princess skirt and one of those party hats little girls use to feel like princesses. “Guest… are you ok?”
“No”
They all get teleported back into the elevator, Guest still dressed in the ridiculous outfit. “I hate everything.”
“Eh you aren’t the worst person I have seen wearing it.” Pest said, leaning against a wall. Elliot was unsure how this bug was related to Guest in any way, but if he is family with Guest, he should probably respect it. Watching Guest sit down, he sat down by him.
“Hey it's alright Guesty, I think you look great.” They said, resting his head against him. The others snickered for a few seconds, before going to their own conversations. Pest sat down on the other side of Guest, wrapping an arm around him.
“So, you’re gay?”
“Bisexual, I do have an ex wife and a daughter.”
“Well at least our parents got one grandkid.” Guest put his head on Pest’s shoulder, which Elliot felt annoyed by, but understood why. Guest hasn’t seen his brother in years, so they should bond with each other. Looking around more, Shedletsky was using his wings to stay off the ground, while Builderman was sitting up on the railing like a little gremlin. Dusekkar was floating just slightly off the ground, while Taph was messing with a subspace tripmine core, which wasn’t inside of the reactive chamber they usually throw.
Two Time was staring at the photos on the wall, 007n7 was messing with his dumbass c00lgui, Noob was stress eating, and Chance was flipping his coin while talking to them. “Hey Pest, was it? I have a question.”
“Sure what's up Pizza Boy?”
“Why do you look at Noob with such… distaste?”
“They look a lot like a fellow Floor Hopper, their name is Party Noob, or Poob as we all call them… they were one of the few sent in after they had grown up, they've seen some shit, they talk like a baby, gods they are so annoying…” Pest grumbled out his words, the obvious distaste for this Poob person evident. Elliot nods to him, while not understanding exactly why he would hate someone like himself, he does understand why he would be so annoyed with their friend in that case.
The elevator dinged once again, signaling a new floor has arrived. The door opened and some music started to play. Words appeared at the top of their visions, “OBJECTIVE: STEAL A SNACK, but not while Cashier is looking.” Elliot felt his heart stop a bit as he looked out the door, to see Cashier, with their head on the counter.
“Holy shit… That’s Cash…”
“Who?” Guest asks, looking over the shelves with the others as they step out of the Elevator.
“Cashier… my best friend…”
Chance looks at Elliot with a hurt expression, “I thought I was your best friend Lliot, so mean.”
“You were my best customer, and friend after Cash disappeared.” Elliot started walking over to the counter, when the lights turned red suddenly, before turning normal as soon as Cashier saw him.
“Elliot..?”
“Heya Cash, long time no see huh,” Elliot leaned against the counter, head resting on his hands, “How have you been, I haven't seen you in forever.”
“I got stuck here… A lot of floor staff are, but how have you been? You look like you need a good buzz, you want some?”
“Eh, I’m fine, I haven’t done weed in so long I barely remember what it feels like.”
“YOU SMOKED WEED!?” Chance and Guest ran over to him, grabbing onto his shoulders. They started to shake Elliot before being pushed slightly by him.
“Yeah? I thought you guys knew this, especially you Chance.”
“No I didn’t, since when did you smoke weed?”
“I started when I got pissed off at some Karens one day, Cash hooked me up with some and we became stoner buddies before they vanished.”
“My Elliot, smoking the devil’s lettuce, never thought I would see the day.”
Cash and Elli laughed, “Though I will take up your offer if you have the resources for me and my friends to have some.”
“I got you, it's on the house, I got an infinite amount,” Cashier pulled out a giant bag, handing Elliot it. “There ya go, there should be a pipe and a lighter in there too”
“Sweet, thanks Cash.” Elliot grabbed the bag, and then it disappeared. “Huh? Where did it go?”
“It's in your inventory, all floor hoppers have one that they store a ton of stuff in.” Pest says, walking into the elevator and leaning against a wall, and the rest of them get teleported in as the doors close.
[Builderman]
This elevator gives Builderman the creeps, he can’t exactly put his finger on why though. The music was some form of jazz, which he never really cared for, and the lights had that fluorescent buzz that was very uncomfortable to say the least. Sitting in one of the corners with Shedletsky, he was grooming his wings for him.
“Your wings are such a mess you know? I can’t believe you let them get like this.”
Shedletsky smiled at him, “Aw come on Builder, you know there was no use in showin’ them if I couldn’t use ‘em.” His wings fluffed up more as Builderman brushed through them, but he couldn’t doubt that Shed was right about this. Sighing he continued to work on the wings, listening to the conversations the other survivors were having. Two Time was trying to preach Spawn to that Pest guy which obviously was not working, Noob was sitting with Taph trying to learn how to sign themselves with the help of 007n7 translating it, and Dusekkar was floating by Chance, who was flipping his coin out of habit.
Everyone seemed to be doing alright, though Builderman was skeptical about what would happen to them, they’re at least glad they’re out of that game. Finishing up grooming Shedletsky’s wings, they hear a ding, and they all get teleported out into a living room of an apartment. “Oh? Where are we now?”
“This is Infected’s Apartment.. Ugh I always hate turning those stupid valves..”
“Who's Infected?” Shedletsky asked, his wings folding behind him as he sat on the couch, pulling out a chicken leg. They hear a sneeze from the hallway, and they see the floor change to a missing texture. “Huh?”
“Ew Infected! What did Doc say about covering your mouth when you sneeze!”
“s0rRy brUh, 1 JuSt c4n’T d0 1t 1n t1M3.” A person stepped into the living room, and the sight made Builderman’s blood run cold.
“Kasper…?”
“wH4t 1s w1th p30pl3 c4lL1ng m3 th4t? My n4m3 1s 1nf3ct3d BrUh!” Infected wiped some of the missing texture from his nose before sitting down on the couch. “y0u 100k k1nD4 f4m1l14r bUt c4n’t pUt mY f1nG3r 0n wHy.”
“Hey wait a second weren’t you one of the Robloxians I totally pwned in SFOTH? You were one of the real challenging ones.”
Builderman grabbed Shedletsky by the ear, leaning in “You did what to my son.”
“Your son!? Since when did you have a son?”
“mY d4ds Bu1ld3Rm4n Dud3, 1 d0n’t tH1nk h3's th1S sh0Rt.”
Looking out the door into the hallway, it seems as though the missing texture was spreading. Pest had already run off somewhere, and Builderman assumed it was to fix those valves he was talking about. “Noob, Chance, Elliot, you 3 go help Pest with the valves.”
“Alright, meet back up with you guys when we finish.” Chance winked at him before grabbing Noob and Elliot by the arms and running off.
Builderman’s mind was racing, he didn’t even know that his son was still alive, let alone with some sort of disease and apparent memory loss. He grabbed onto Infected, and looked into his eyes. “What happened to you Kas…”
“1 4Lr34dY t0ld y0u bRuh, mY n4m3 1sn’t wh4t3V3r s1lLy g4m3R t4g tH4t 1s.”
“Builderman, I don’t think he remembers his name,” Shedletsky put a hand on his shoulder, glancing over at Infected slightly. His eyes were sunken and tired, his hair was a mess with raccoon tailed dye on part of it, missing textures seem to cover parts of his skin and clothes. “Dude imma be honest with you, you don’t look very well.”
“Wh4t, n4H 1’m f1n3 bRuh,” Infected replied before sneezing on Builderman, “wH00pS, mY b4d bR0.”
“ACK IT’S ON ME EW EW EW EW!” Builderman pushed Infected off of him, screaming about this gross missing texture stuff being on him. The floor ends up being complete and they all teleport into the elevator with Infected included this time.
“Oh Telamon damn it Infected! At least try to not sneeze on people.” Pest sighed, pulling out a towel from a compartment in the elevator’s sides which seemingly appeared out of nowhere, handing it to Builderman. Builderman took it and started to wipe the stuff off of himself.
“Thank you kindly Pest,” He muttered, before the towel and the rest of the missing texture on his body disappeared. “I do hope that wasn’t too much trouble.”
“Nah it’s fine, I’ve had to do that myself plenty of times.”
Noob walked over to Infected, who was standing in a corner playing on what seemed to be a Gameboy or something. “So you like scene fashion?”
“Y34h brUh! 1tz 4w3S0m3!”
“I used to dress kind of like that before my sibling disappeared, I have always found the style so cool!”
“Although I do not particularly like changing my fashion, I do agree with Noob on this one, your style is very cool.” Two Time had walked over to them also, and the three started talking about stuff. Builderman tried to listen in to try and figure out what exactly Kasper liked nowadays, but with the sounds of others talking and the almost bad Xbox mic quality of his voice it was impossible to tell what they were talking about.
Watching Infected, he tried to understand what exactly could have happened to his son, and what kind of Virus this thing is. It seemed somewhat similar to the corruption John Doe had faced, which is what turned him into the monster that hunts them down. He does wonder how the Killers are doing, since it has definitely been a few hours since they escaped their purgatory. Leaning against Shedletsky he sighed, putting his face into his wings. “Easy there Buildy, you'd probably get lost in them.” Shed joked, patting Builder’s hardhat.
“Shut up Telamon, my son doesn’t even remember who I am…”
“Fair enough, I won’t push your buttons for a bit,” Shedletsky leaned back against the wall, wrapping his wings around Builderman. “You got any ideas as to what happened to that boy?”
“No… I assume it’s a virus, just like the one that infected John…” He rests his head against Shed’s side, his breath slightly shaky, “I just really hope he doesn’t go crazy and start trying to kill us…”
“Hey chin up Builder, I am sure he’ll be alright, we’ll find a way to heal him up.”
“What if it’s too late just like it was with John, what if we can’t save him, what if he dies Shedletsky.” Builderman breathing started to pick up, he was scared that he would lose his one and only son.
“h3y bRuH? Y0u 4lr1gHt 0v3r h33r?” Infected walked over, having a mask over his nose and mouth, “Y0u s33m k1nd4 0ff y0uR g4m3.”
“Uh… Yeah… yeah I’m alright kid… where did you get that mask?”
“0h! Th4t w3r1d0 pUmpk1n guy g4v3 m3 1t, s41d 1t w4s s0 1 g0t n0 0n3 3lse s1ck, 3v3n 1f 1 41n’t s1ck.” He pointed over at Dusekkar, who just smiled and gave a thumbs up.
“Well that was nice of him, at least you aren’t sneezing on anyone anymore.” Builderman reached up and gave Infected a pat on the shoulder. “Are you sure you aren’t sick, that freaky missing texture stuff should not be comin out of your nose, or be on your body to begin with.”
“0h y34H 1’m ch1Ll dUd3, n0th1n t0 w0rRy 4b0ut, jUst s0m3 4ll3rg13s!” Infected smiled under his mask, Builder could tell by the way his face moved. He wiped some of the missing texture off of his arm with his sleeve, sticking to the fabric more than it did his son’s skin.
“If you say so kid, I just hope this next floor is going to be easy…” Almost like Builderman summoned it, the elevator dinged, opening its doors to a small ice cream shop.
“Hello Floor Hoppers, glad for you to come into my shop.” The being at the counter, who seemed to be made of ice cream said, tilting its head to the side with a smile.
“0h h3y4 Cr3m!” Infected ran out of the elevator into the shop, grabbing and paying for one of the strawberry ice creams. “Th4nkz brUh!” He sat down at the tables pulling his mask off to eat.
Pest walks up to the counter and begrudgingly buys one for everyone. Most of them all sat down while Builderman looked around the place. A bottle of missing texture on a bar counter caught his eye, walking over he picked it up, money seemingly being withdrawn from his pockets. “What is this stuff…” Reading the text on the bottle seems impossible, it's too small and almost blends into the sticker. Pocketing the bottle he went over and sat across from Infected, who had put his mask back up after finishing his ice cream.
“S0, y0u cl41m t0 b3 my f4th3r? H0w c4n 1 TruSt y0u?”
Builderman thought for a second, before holding his hand out and trying to summon his banhammer. “I haven’t tested if I can summon my hammer in a long time, might as well try now.” Taking a deep breath, they summoned their Banhammer, causing Infected to fall out of their chair.
“W41t y0u 4r3 4ctu4lly Bu1ld3rm4n!?” Builderman looked at Infected with a smile, hoisting the hammer that is twice his size up on his shoulder.
“Yep I sure am.” Reaching down he helped up his son, the others staring in shock at the small man holding the giant hammer like it weighs nothing. The floor ends, and everyone is teleported back into the elevator, leaning the Banhammer against the wall. “Why are you all staring at me like that, this is just the size of this thing.”
“You know, you and Mach would probably get along, she has a Banhammer as well, albeit it looks like a red crystal instead of an actual hammer.” Pest inspected the hammer as he spoke, but not daring to get close enough to it.
The rest of the ride to the next floor is uneventful, Noob continued to learn sign language from Taph and 007n7, Shedletsky was talking to Infected about SFOTH, and Two Time started to play Uno with Dusekkar, Elliot, Chance, and Guest. It takes quite a while for the next floor to come, enough time where the Uno game was neck and neck between Two and Chance both on one card. But the ding of the elevator made them quickly pack up their game, with it being called a draw.
[1x1x1x1]
The Spectre had fucked up, it accidentally let the survivors escape their world, so now they were going to go find them. “Do we really have to go find those losers?” 1x crossed their arms over their chest, the rift in front of them swirling with a ton of bright colors, c00lkidd was looking into it excitedly but Jason was holding him back from jumping in right then and there.
“Yes yes please go and find them, they're getting comfortable there, I need to get them out before that thing finds them.” Spectre hissed, using its claymore to open the rift more. “Go get them, I’ll hold it open for as long as possible.”
“Fine, but you owe us for this.” 1x walked through the rift with Azure, John Doe, Jason, and c00lkidd, leaving Mafioso and Bluudud behind so that Spectre wouldn’t go completely insane. As they stepped through the rift, Azure looked around, hopping up on what seemed to be a generator of some kind in this completely sealed off room.
“Where in the fresh fuck are we… We seem to be completely locked in here, just our luck.”
1x looked around, hopping up to see what Azure was looking at through the glass. “Are those UFOs? Why would there be UFOs in here?”
A loud speaker started to play what seemed to be a recording of a voice, Jason and c00lkidd covered their ears at the loud sound of it. "Attention all personnel inside elevator - be advised - all devices have gone offline and require manual reactivation - Avoid any and all biological lifeforms and stay safe - The future depends on you." The sounds of footsteps and doors opening could be heard through the thick metal door that stood between them and the rest of the map. Hopping off the generator, 1x went over to the door and tried to listen to what the people were saying on the other side.
“I can’t understand what the fuck any of those voices are saying… but I feel a rage in me that only Shedletsky causes so they must be out there.” They growled, going and leaning up against a crate next to the generator. Something that looked like a cat was laying up on top of it, it was green and had big black eyes. “Well what do you know, we're stuck with a cat as well, if you could even call this vermin a cat.”
“A cat! I want t0 see it! Please please please let me see Papa!” c00lkidd ran over to 1x, reaching up at him so he could get picked up. 1x sighed and put c00lkidd up on the box. The cat looked at him and meowed, before plopping itself in the child’s lap and began purring loudly. c00lkidd smiled, petting the cat while kicking his legs off the side of the crate.
John Doe walked over and put his head on 1x’s shoulder, leaning against them as they sat down on the floor. “This is stupid… I don’t understand what the Spectre wants us to do here, especially since we are stuck in this stupid ass room!” Taking Doe’s crown off of him, 1x rested their head against his.
“Well it could be worse, we could be completely trapped here, we still have the rift after all!” Doe smiled, looking over at where the rift used to be as his face fell. The rift has disappeared.
“OH YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!” 1x yelled, punching the generator next to him. “SPECTRE YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE!!”
He was pissed, but there wasn’t much that they could do anymore. John tried to calm 1x down, “Hey hey it’ll be fine X, Spectre will open another rift for us soon I promise.”
“How can you be so sure of that thing’s intentions, what if they threw us here on purpose!”
Azure hopped down from the generator, “Aw come on 1, you know Spectre loves us, they wouldn’t just throw us somewhere random.” Five dings all play out at the same time, the 5 generators outside of the room being turned on all at once. The heavy metal door opened and Shedletsky, Taph, 007n7, Two Time and Elliot were all standing there.
Shedletsky’s eyes widen seeing the killers all there, “Oh you have got to be shitting me.”