Cavern Crasher Httyd Novels & Stories

“Cybersecurity Division—move aside.” The first guard hesitated, then raised his hand. “Authorization?” Adrian threw a flash suppression grenade…no fire, just sonics and white light. In the second of chaos, they ran. Down the stairwell…two, three, four levels—until the tiled tunnel widened into the core chamber. Hundreds of mirrored servers lined the arc; in the centre stood a cylindrical terminal humming with light like a mechanical heart. Across it shimmered a projected seal: CRANE INDUSTRIES RECLAMATION EVENT – PUBLIC DEMO.

Now they moved under the power of flashlights. It took longer than Alrick expected, but they were still within time. At the entrance to the cavern coming up, looking into the cavern, he soon understood why Herald expressed such surprise by this discovery. The cavern looked out of place. With its high ceilings, old miners called these spaces cathedral caverns. The space was opposite to anything anyone would expect. It took him several minutes to locate the crystalline structure that held the portal. Once he’d found it, he couldn’t unsee the portal. The portal was there, trapped within the crystalline structure like a beetle trapped within amber.

“Go, Gina! I’ll catch up with you guys!” I pulled out the camping LED and turned it on to its max. It shone white and bright in the shadows under the trees, and it helped me spot a window on the first floor with its wire mesh screen ripped off the frame and curling out, almost at the other end. I ran to that window. The perks of being petite: if I left my backpack outside, I didn’t need to pull the screen further off the frame, because the gap was just enough for me to sneak in. I ran down the ruined hallway, littered with big chunks of debris from walls and ceiling. I remembered Hugo’s crate in my backpack, but I had no time to perform the whole ritual to seal the building.