(Ch. 12) "Nerosectia #2"

Finally, I was playing as X. I was in a dark hall, with red emergency lights fading on and off. It almost looked like Blast Hornet's stage from Mega Man X3. Even the theme was playing, but more slowed down and deep.


I was just running straight ahead, wall jumping over grey crates stacked on top of each other and blocking my way. I began to have a feeling that something was coming after me. That's when I started dashing ahead. Quickly going over stacked crates that I wasn't able to destroy for some reason. Then I saw it... I was being chased by this large, grey and green lizard with skin falling off making its bones visible, especially its skull with some left over skin. It was almost like if it were having an avulsion. It's sharp teeth weren't straight but crooked. It's jaws opened as wide as the height of the dark hall.


It's crawling caused the screen to have a rumbling effect, like if the floor was shaking from an earthquake. It would chomp its way through the crates. I kept dashing and jumping ahead as fast as I could, away from the aggressive reptile. I ended up in a large pit with spikes, no edge seen on the right side of the screen. I then said in a stern voice "How the fuck am I supposed to keep going!?". Then this zip line platform hanging on the ceiling caught my attention. Mega Man X4-6 were the only games that I've played that included a zip line platform in their stages. But I've never seen one in the SNES series.


I quickly dashed and jumped while holding up along with right. I saw X holding onto the zip line. I was impressed with the sprite. I pressed and held onto right, making X slide diagonally down right into a small tunnel with spikes under the ceiling and on the floor.


I noticed the lizard sliding down the spiked tunnel on its belly. The spikes on the floor snapped and popped off as the lizard sled through them. It slowly opened its large mouth. Then it chomped hard, but it didn't catch me onto its sharp, crooked teeth.


As soon as I hit the end of the zip line, I dashed off, and kept dashing and jumping ahead. I realized there were no crates or other platforms for me to get through, but the lizard was crawling faster. The thing that I noticed was different was that I saw windows in the background. I saw the view of the large city in the dome. I reached a dead end. I ended up on a large outdoor porch. I saw the entire lit up city. I thought jumping off was the only option for outrunning this beast. As soon as I saw its nose pop out quickly into the right side of the screen, I dashed off the porch, the lizard quickly crawls out, reaches out its head and chomps very hard. It was too late, I avoided vulnerability of getting caught by this monster. Out of anger, it roared out in the open. The music stops, and the screen cuts to black. A text pops up saying "Nerosectia #3".

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