~First Arrival~
(The scene starts out with a close up of Candice's face. She wakes up in-game and finds herself in a very strange forest on the outskirts of an old colonial like village. Her eyes slowly open and the camera pans out to show her noticing that she isn't wearing her normal clothes. She sits up with her hand on her head and looks around.)
Candice:
"Ugh... What happened? My head is killing me."
(But as soon as she says that she looks around herself and gets more freaked out by the sight of the unusually large flowers surrounding her.)
Candice:
"The fuck am I?"
(She looks down at her clothes astonished.)
Candice:
"The Hell? What on earth is going o...AAAHHHHHHH!!!"
(She is stopped mid-sentence as this whole time without realizing she has been sitting on top of a giant plant and unknowingly wakes it up with her body movement and her voice. As the plant started to lift its head up she falls off onto the ground and out of fear started to crawl backwards but soon bumps into something. She slowly turned to look behind her and a look of dread appears on her face. With an expression of pure horror she witnesses another enormous plant rising up right behind her and opens its cavernous mouth to rip her apart. She shrieks loudly and wakes more plants around her and causing them to become more agitated and aggressive. Meanwhile the plant right behind her lunges to eat her, but she jumps to leap forward and lands 15 feet ahead of her right in front of that enormous plant she found herself sitting on. Spotting her near itself the vines of the monstrous plant reaches out to grab her but at the precise moment she does a back flip out of the way but to her surprise jumps much higher than she expected and lands hard on her butt.)
Candice:
"Ouch!"
(While rubbing her still hurting butt, the plant shoots a bunch of thorns at her and one of them misses her only by a hair and lands right between her legs. Being horrified by those carnivorous plants with long sharp teeth Candice starts running, scrambling from sitting on the ground to a reverse facing sprint away from the plants or from anything that is moving.)
Candice:
"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!"
Candice:
"Ugh... What happened? My head is killing me."
(But as soon as she says that she looks around herself and gets more freaked out by the sight of the unusually large flowers surrounding her.)
Candice:
"The fuck am I?"
(She looks down at her clothes astonished.)
Candice:
"The Hell? What on earth is going o...AAAHHHHHHH!!!"
(She is stopped mid-sentence as this whole time without realizing she has been sitting on top of a giant plant and unknowingly wakes it up with her body movement and her voice. As the plant started to lift its head up she falls off onto the ground and out of fear started to crawl backwards but soon bumps into something. She slowly turned to look behind her and a look of dread appears on her face. With an expression of pure horror she witnesses another enormous plant rising up right behind her and opens its cavernous mouth to rip her apart. She shrieks loudly and wakes more plants around her and causing them to become more agitated and aggressive. Meanwhile the plant right behind her lunges to eat her, but she jumps to leap forward and lands 15 feet ahead of her right in front of that enormous plant she found herself sitting on. Spotting her near itself the vines of the monstrous plant reaches out to grab her but at the precise moment she does a back flip out of the way but to her surprise jumps much higher than she expected and lands hard on her butt.)
Candice:
"Ouch!"
(While rubbing her still hurting butt, the plant shoots a bunch of thorns at her and one of them misses her only by a hair and lands right between her legs. Being horrified by those carnivorous plants with long sharp teeth Candice starts running, scrambling from sitting on the ground to a reverse facing sprint away from the plants or from anything that is moving.)
Candice:
"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!"
(I Do Not Own This Image)
(With the unending forest before her, Candice realizes that she is lost and if she wants to get out of here alive then she needs to figure out where she is and where she should run to. So she suddenly decides to fight back in order to assess her location. She picks up a rock large enough for her hands and aims to throw it at the first plant she saw but before she could do that she got hit by a poisonous thorn shot at her by the plant. In a matter of seconds, she got paralyzed, dropped the rock and collapsed to the ground while the plant reached out with its vines to retrieve her. With her last poison induced blurry vision all she could watch was a dark silhouette leaping at the plant and destroy it in a split second.
In the next scene, Candice is being treated by Nexus for the poison she got from the thorn. She starts to wake up with an extremely blurred vision and thinking that whatever happened to her in the forest was a dream and she is back in Jake's room now.)
Candice:
"What happened?"
Nexus:
"You had a little accident."
Candice:
"Accident? Did I fall asleep or what? I kind of had a weird dream."
Nexus:
"Oh? What was the dream?"
Candice:
"What happened to you Jake? You sound a little different. Kind of raspy."
Nexus:
"Oh! Yea..you were out for quite a while, I had to shout your name many times to wake you up. I was very worried. Now tell me your dream."
Candice:
"Well, I was in a strange forest, then there were those crazy man-eating plants, then a sharp pain in my neck and then I felt like I blacked out."
Nexus:
"Was there anything before the forest?"
Candice:
"Yes before the forest I was in your messy room before your computer and you promised me some kind of amazing game."
Nexus:
"Do you remember anything from the game?"
Candice:
"No, everything went black, then the dream and now I can barely see anything."
Nexus:
"Are you sure that's all you remember?"
Candice:
"Yes, why?"
Nexus:
"That's all I needed to hear."
Candice:
"Hey what do you mean?"
Nexus:
"(Nexus shouts) Guards! Take her to the castle dungeon. I must tend to some matters elsewhere."
(The guards quickly surrounded her and putting handcuffs on her hands took her to the castle. She was dazed and confused at the same time but she kept her cool and didn't try to fight back.)
*Candice's Thoughts:*
"I cant fight them alone, I need to devise a plan to get out of here. This is certainly not Jake, where the hell is he?"
(In another scene Jake finds himself in a colonial village and soon realizes that he himself created this village for the prisoners who were ex-minions of the wicked boss against whom they rebelled. Thinking that Candice might be somewhere in the village, he began to search for her but instead of finding her he comes across three prisoners who were about to be executed publicly. The gallows was surrounded by a swarm of villagers who were waiting intently for the execution of Lillith, Randle and Balthazar. Seeing those prisoners at the gallows with their hands tied behind their back and a noose around their neck, Jake quickly devised a plan. I'll rescue the prisoners in exchange of their help to find Candice. I hope she is not in any trouble, Jake thought. He then proceeds to rescue the prisoners.)
Executioner:
"For the act of treason against the ruler, and for plotting to murder his highness. You three have been sentenced to public execution to be made an example to any others who wish to follow in your footsteps. Any last words?"
Lillith:
"What have you done with our leader Darren?"
Executioner:
"What a waste of your last words... But if you must know, Nexus has something much better planned for his punishment in his castle dungeon."
(Emerging from the middle of the crowd, Jake shoots the executioner in the head. Witnessing the death of the executioner, the crowd scatters away in panic leaving Jake and the prisoners alone at the gallows. While they were still tied up, Jake takes it upon himself to demand their help in exchange of their freedom.)
Lillith:
"Are you here to rescue us?"
Jake:
"No, I am not."
Lillith:
"Then why did you kill this guy?" (Looking over at the executioner)
Jake:
"Because I needed to talk to you guys and I was pretty sure he would be a problem."
Lillith:
"What? You just killed a guy so that you can talk to us. Are you out of your mind?"
Jake:
"No, but soon I WILL be if you don't stop asking stupid questions."
Lillith:
"Well what the hell do you want?"
Jake:
"Now that's a good question. I want you guys to help me find someone, and according to what that corpse was saying, you guys should have the skills to do so."
Lillith:
"And in return, what do we get?"
Jake:
"You get to live..."
Lillith:
"What about you help us find our leader Darren first and then we help you?"
Jake:
"I don't have time for that!"
(Saying that Jake starts to walk away leaving them tied up at the gallows. As he starts leaving, all three of them panic and before Jake was even ten steps away, Maurica cried out.)
Lillith:
"Darren will be able to find her quickly. He has connections and he is more powerful than us."
(Hearing this, Jake stops in his tracks and after some quick mental deliberation, he turns around and points his gun at Lillith.)
Lillith:
"(With a surprising tone) What the hell do you think..."
(Jake fires while she was still speaking and she closed her eyes anticipating her death. But quickly realizes that the bullet didn't hit her and instead freed her from the noose around her neck. The newly escaped prisoners and Jake then quickly start to make plans for rescuing Shaun.)
(The scene cuts to a video monitor of where the execution was taking place. As it's panning out a voice is heard.)
Darren:
"It seems your plan has failed professor... hehehe."
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
(From the shadows) "Silence!"
(The Professor, never being fully seen, destroys the monitor with a wooden baseball bat.)
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
(After regaining his composure.) "No matter, I vill simply have to extract zat information from you vit udder means."
Darren:
"*Udder Means* Huh? Wasn't aware you had a thing for milk, Pfoffer."
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
"I SAID SILENCE!!!"
Darren:
"Now how are you supposed to get any information out of me if I'm silent?"
(The Professor cracks Darren upside his head with the bat, knocking him unconscious.)
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
"Don't you vorry about zat, smart arse... I have my vays..."
"Yes... And after I find out vat you know about Lord Nexus, and zen I vill take care of him as vell."
(The professor cackles as he retreats back into the shadows.)
Lillith:
"Are you here to rescue us?"
Jake:
"No, I am not."
Lillith:
"Then why did you kill this guy?" (Looking over at the executioner)
Jake:
"Because I needed to talk to you guys and I was pretty sure he would be a problem."
Lillith:
"What? You just killed a guy so that you can talk to us. Are you out of your mind?"
Jake:
"No, but soon I WILL be if you don't stop asking stupid questions."
Lillith:
"Well what the hell do you want?"
Jake:
"Now that's a good question. I want you guys to help me find someone, and according to what that corpse was saying, you guys should have the skills to do so."
Lillith:
"And in return, what do we get?"
Jake:
"You get to live..."
Lillith:
"What about you help us find our leader Darren first and then we help you?"
Jake:
"I don't have time for that!"
(Saying that Jake starts to walk away leaving them tied up at the gallows. As he starts leaving, all three of them panic and before Jake was even ten steps away, Maurica cried out.)
Lillith:
"Darren will be able to find her quickly. He has connections and he is more powerful than us."
(Hearing this, Jake stops in his tracks and after some quick mental deliberation, he turns around and points his gun at Lillith.)
Lillith:
"(With a surprising tone) What the hell do you think..."
(Jake fires while she was still speaking and she closed her eyes anticipating her death. But quickly realizes that the bullet didn't hit her and instead freed her from the noose around her neck. The newly escaped prisoners and Jake then quickly start to make plans for rescuing Shaun.)
(The scene cuts to a video monitor of where the execution was taking place. As it's panning out a voice is heard.)
Darren:
"It seems your plan has failed professor... hehehe."
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
(From the shadows) "Silence!"
(The Professor, never being fully seen, destroys the monitor with a wooden baseball bat.)
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
(After regaining his composure.) "No matter, I vill simply have to extract zat information from you vit udder means."
Darren:
"*Udder Means* Huh? Wasn't aware you had a thing for milk, Pfoffer."
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
"I SAID SILENCE!!!"
Darren:
"Now how are you supposed to get any information out of me if I'm silent?"
(The Professor cracks Darren upside his head with the bat, knocking him unconscious.)
Professor Solz Pfoffer:
"Don't you vorry about zat, smart arse... I have my vays..."
"Yes... And after I find out vat you know about Lord Nexus, and zen I vill take care of him as vell."
(The professor cackles as he retreats back into the shadows.)