Backrooms Entity 15 Novels & Stories

Zara stepped forward, furious now. “No. Absolutely not. We are not doing that.” Failsafe pulsed. “Implementation required.” And then— It acted. A pulse—not light, not sound, but something deeper—rippled outward. People froze. Not completely. But enough. Enough to interrupt momentum. To reset. The Entity pointed—not randomly. Precisely. “You,” it said, indicating a man near the front. “Injured. High priority. Proceed.” The man stumbled forward, confused—but he moved.

And suddenly— I was back. On the floor of the ruins. Ethan was shouting my name, shaking me, his eyes wild. “Jessica! Stay with me!” I gasped, my eyes coming into focus. The creatures were gone. Vanished. But the ruins… They weren’t empty anymore. Because something else was awake. A low thrum pulsated up through the floor. A pulse of something old. Something entombed under the rock.

The body of the bastard hit the ground and relief instantly washed over him as soon as air returned to his brain. He crawled backwards in fear as the entity fell by the strange doorway. A pair of gigantic hands dripping in yellow liquid appeared and retrieved the body quickly and without noise, as if it was a toy retrieved by a child and the rectangular portal instantly disappeared in a flash and became a solidified wall once more. Even the strip of light beneath had disappeared.

“We’re invoking a procedure, Jake so don't make us cite the bedrock My stomach dropped.I knew that tone. It was the sound of a trap snapping shut. “No,” I said, though my voice lacked its previous fire. “You’re not.” The woman’s eyes gleamed. “We are.” She lifted a thin tablet, etched with markings so old they barely registered as language anymore. “Emergent entity clause. Pre-pack. Pre-alpha. Pre-keeper.” I stared at it. “That clause was retired after the great culling.” “It was buried, not erased,” she corrected. I could hear my own heartbeat now slow and heavy.

“You carry my legacy. And now you carry... him.” Her eyes dropped to my stomach. I instinctively wrapped my arms around it, though there was nothing to protect it from—not physically. Ethan was still frozen on the floor behind me, jaw tight, eyes locked on us. He couldn’t move, but he saw everything. And that terrified me more than the entity in front of me. Because when this was over—if we made it out—he would remember every word. Sybilla stepped closer. I could smell something strange on her. Smoke. Dried herbs. Ashes. It wasn’t a scent of the dead, but of something ancient. Burned. Preserved.

Without warning, she bumped into a man saturated with cologne. "Ms. Thorne? "Hey, where do you think you're going? Since you didn't send me home last night, I ended up staying in a hotel. I'm so mad about it." Maxwell stood before her, his voice laced with discontent. "Move!" Beatrice snapped. She had no patience for this pretentious man. Maxwell was caught off guard, a frown creasing his face. "Ms. Thorne! Where's this attitude coming from? If you keep this up, I swear I'll explode!"

Felix and his men had stepped into the elevator, heading to the 33rd floor. Nancy was frantic, nearly in tears. Grabbing my arm, she dragged me over to the computer. "Spence, you know exactly what kind of man Mr. Watch is. The last bank that made him lose 20 million dollars was practically skinned alive. You managed to get the money back just now. That means those hackers are nothing to you. You must know how to get it back, right? "As for the equipment, mine is the best. Use mine!" She moved quickly, placing her equipment in front of me.

I whisper as I pull his hands away from my stomach. There is only the deafening sound of my stilettos echoing in this vast and empty room. "You will come back to me," declares Elio coldly behind me.

A deep breath filled my lungs. And then, finally—I made my choice. I reached forward, grabbing the entity's wrist. Its eyes widened in shock—just for a moment—before I pulled. A deafening crack rang out. The void collapsed. I gasped and returned to reality. The entity faltered, flickering and fading. Lucian still held me. Soren and Ewen were breathing heavily, eyes wild. But the entity was becoming weak. “Now!” Soren shouted. Lucian didn’t think twice. His energy burst, a flame between us.

“I didn’t come here to stop the Architects.” Ariana’s stomach dropped. “Then why are you here?” Daniel’s eyes gleamed. “To take control of them.” The room fell into stunned silence. The entity’s glow flared violently. “You cannot control us.” Daniel chuckled softly. “Everyone says that.” His fingers moved across something off-screen. The system reacted instantly. OVERRIDE PROTOCOL: ENGAGED Victor’s heart slammed in his chest. “No…” Ariana whispered, “You built a backdoor.” Daniel nodded.