The story of an unnamed hero named Sam

The man entered the Library of Congress and walked to the east wall. He walked along the wall towards the back of the Library while tapping on the wall with his fist. When he discovered the hollow space, he pushed against it and it collapsed. He entered the dusty hallway and descended the spiral staircase. He came up to a large wooden door. He could not open it, no matter how hard he pushed, but he didn’t pause. He reached up to the ceiling and pushed the false panel aside, then pulled down the rope ladder. He climbed it and turned left, crawling through the low tunnel while tapping on the ceiling until he found the hollow part. He pushed it aside and climbed into a huge dark room. The man lit a match and lit a torch on the wall, then lifted the torch and walked towards the middle of the room. He threw the torch into a pile of firewood over at the east wall and a bonfire broke out. It revealed that the room was huge and had a giant lake in the middle. The man dove underwater and swam rapidly to the bottom. He blindly pushed against the wall and it shifted. He continued to push until the wall slid aside and revealed a panel. The man swam down the tunnel and surfaced in a dark room. He lit another torch and saw that he was in a tiny room with a small control panel. He opened the case it was contained in and typed in the thirty-digit password. A door opened and revealed a huge panel. (Begin non-stop action sequence #1). Huge anacondas came towards the man as soon as he entered the room. He pulled out his .44 Magnum and shot a few of them, but decided that it wasn’t big enough. He took out a huge machine gun and blasted them away, then opened a control panel and pressed the large blinking red button. A ceiling panel moved aside and a huge boulder fell into the room. The man ran forward, but the boulder began to roll and it was only about twenty feet away from him. Then he ran to the left, but the boulder hit a crack and moved left as well. Then the man ran right, but the boulder went over a jump and moved right as well. By now it was only fifteen feet away. The man dove forward, kicked off a small rock and landed on the ground just behind the boulder. Then he heard the second one. It landed right behind him, only ten feet away. The man began to run, but the boulder closed in. The man saw a small niche in the floor just a few feet ahead, but the boulder was only five feet away. Four. Three. The man dove towards the niche and landed in it right as the boulder went over him. (End non-stop action sequence #1). He got up and walked towards the door, pausing to pick up the key from the remains of one of the boulders. He unlocked the door and pushed it open. The next room was well-lit, and the man could see the door completely unguarded. He walked towards it very slowly, and suddenly dove backwards, but he could not get away from the section of the floor that was falling with him on top of it. It hit the ground and shattered. Fortunately, he had jumped just before it hit and thus landed unharmed. He looked around and saw no signs of danger. Then he saw the spikes on the ceiling. He glanced around quickly and saw no way to escape. The ceiling began to descend. There was only one thing he could do. He took out his rocket launcher and blew a huge hole in the ceiling. The rest of it collapsed around him. He walked up to the door and blew a hole in that, too, but in doing so used up his last rocket. All that was in the next room was the door he came in and a brick wall. He pushed against each of the bricks in turn until he found the loose one. He pushed it out and the whole wall fell down. However, upon opening the rest of the room, he also freed the wolves that had been on the other side of the wall. They leapt at him all at once. Fortunately for him, he just happened to have his SMG out, and shot them all. Unfortunately, then the walls started to close in. He rushed for the door and pushed against it, but he couldn’t open it. He looked all around, at the ceiling and at the floor. He saw nothing. Then everything came back to him. He remembered all the events of three years ago. His hand had been cut when he shot Senator Preston through the window and the glass hit his hand. The man had divulged the location of the key because the Mafia had threatened him. And then he knew what he must do. He reached deep into his secret jacket pocket and took out the small silver key, then used it to unlock the door. He entered the next room right as the walls came together. He looked around. The room was seemingly empty. The man began to walk to the opposite door. Then he heard the tell-tale beeping, growing steadily faster. He had been trained in this area. A time bomb would go off in roughly twenty seconds. He ran to the door and tried to open it. Nothing happened. He pushed, in desperation, at the wall. Nothing happened. He looked for panels in the floor. There! There was a control panel! He opened it and typed in the twelve digit password only three seconds before the bomb was set to blow. He let out a sigh of relief. He got up and walked through the door that had opened. He turned left and saw that a door had opened. He also saw, above the door, that he had five seconds to run the one hundred feet and get through the door. He started an Olympic sprint. Four. He ran faster than he ever had. Three. He leaned forward. Almost there! Two. He dove towards the door, and made it a fraction of a second before it slammed shut. He pushed himself up. He was in a medium-sized room that seemed to be empty. There was a door on the other side of it. What would he have to do to open this one? The man walked across the room and tried the handle of the door. It turned. The man pushed the door open and walked through. In the next room there was an underwater passage that went on for forty or so feet, then turned upwards. The man dove into the water and began to swim. Ten feet in, he saw something that scared him. It was a water snake, and its colors gave away that it was obviously deadly. Then another appeared. Then another. Soon, ten of the snakes had surrounded him. Only one thing to do! The man revealed his jetpack and flipped the switch. It began to pump gas out of its rockets, blasting him forward and out the tunnel. He hovered outside the other end of the passage for a few seconds, then flipped the switch and proceeded into another room. Here he saw what he had been looking for. It was a small black box on a mahogany table. The man ran towards it, but one of his feet hit a secret panel which caused a floorboard to slide away. The table fell and the box went through the hole in the floor, sliding down a steep passage towards a small passage. The man leapt into the hole behind it. The box landed on a flat surface, then fell through a smaller hole in the ground. The man looked down. There was no way he could fit, and he had no weapons strong enough to blow up the floor. He turned and ran through the nearby door. There was a very interesting puzzle nearby. There were three switches as well as a plaque which said 'You must flip two switches to open the door, but if you flip the wrong one the ceiling will fall on you and you will die. Good luck.' The man flipped two switches. The door opened. The man walked through it and fell through a broken floorboard. He landed in a small, steeply sloped tunnel. He slid down it dangerously quickly, heading at 100 MPH towards a cement wall. But he had a plan. He pulled out his most powerful gun, an AK-47, and blasted a small hole in the wall. Then he pulled out his grappling cannon and shot it through the hole. It broke a section of the wall off, but hooked and pulled him through the now larger hole. He hit the ground hard. He stood up and looked around. He was in a huge room with several doors. Each had a plaque. He went up to one of them. It said 'Each of these doors will lead you to a different obstacle. All of them are equally deadly. Each of the rooms has a door leading to the next room, and each of them has a key. You must collect the key from every room.' There were seven doors. The man entered the one to his left. It was silent. He walked towards the gold key. He reached down towards it. That's when he saw that it was supercharged with electricity. There was only one way to get out of this. The man leapt up to the ceiling and grabbed the rope ladder. He climbed to a secret passageway in the roof and took the rubber gloves that lay there. The man pulled on the gloves and picked up the key, placing it in a thin rubber bag and tied the top. He exited the room through the other door. He found himself in a large room. Opposite the door he had come through was another door with seven keyholes. Behind him was the door he had came through as well as six other doors, each of which contained a key he needed. He went into the one right next to the one he just left. It was very small and circular, but there wasn't a key in sight. He looked up and saw it hanging from a string. Then he saw a switch on the wall. There was a plaque: 'When you flip this switch, the ceiling will descend and the doors will lock. You will, however, be able to get the key. Take your pick.' He placed his feet against one wall and his back against the wall opposite it, then began to slowly make his way up towards the key. He grabbed it and dropped back to the floor. Unfortunately, he had accidentally hit the switch. He heard the doors lock, and the ceiling began to fall. He looked around. Nothing. He tried the doors. Nothing. He pulled out his secret weapon. He hadn't wanted to use this yet, but he had no other choice. He aimed and fired. The mine flew from the edge of the weapon and stuck to the ceiling. In three seconds it would explode. However, that would leave the man nearly weaponless - He had brought only one mine. It exploded, throwing the man to the floor. The ceiling stopped descending, only ten feet above the ground. There was a large hole in it. The man reached up and pulled himself on to the top of the ceiling. He pressed a loose brick and it fell out, as well as a small section of the wall, revealing a secret passageway. He pulled himself into it and began to crawl along it. Then, suddenly, dead end! The man felt the walls start to close in on him. The passage was three feet wide. Two feet. The man pressed against the floor in desperation. A secret panel slid aside and he fell onto the floor in a heap. He was in the room leading to the seven doors, and he now had another key. He tried one of the doors, but it was locked. 'What?' he said to himself. He went through the first room he'd ever explored and tried the locked room from the other side. The door opened. He went into it. He saw the key at the other end of the room... And he saw the motion-sensor laser cannons on the wall. They would begin firing in three... two... one... The man pulled out a hydro grenade and threw it straight up. Artificial rain began to fall. Wherever it hit the lasers, they would break into pieces. He pulled out another, then a third, and threw them as well. He now had safe passage to the key. Then he realized he only had one water grenade left and he had to get back to the other side of the room. He tossed the water grenade, then shot at some of the laser cannons. They shut off. Yes! The man picked up the key and ran through the room to the other side. He heard an alarm go off. Shit. He tried every door in the room, but none would open. He tried putting the keys into the seven-lock door. It wouldn't open. He kicked it. It opened. He walked through it and took a left. He was facing a brick wall. There was only one way to get past this. He turned to the right and pulled out the loose brick. A safe was exposed. He spun the lock, waiting for the click. It clicked. The man pulled open the safe door and took out the grenade. He pulled out the pin, counted to three and threw the grenade at the wall. It exploded, taking the wall down with it. The man walked through the newly exposed doorway and came into a gigantic room filled with staircases. He looked to the right. About four hundred feet away there was another door. Unfortunately, it was too far down to get to, and the only staircase nearby was going up. He climbed it, then took the first staircase down. Dead end. He was two hundred feet above the ground. He climbed back up to the landing and took a staircase up, then took two down. He was now only about one hundred feet above and two hundred feet away from his destination. He went down another staircase, then up two more. Dead end. He went back down, then climbed down to the next landing. There was a little control panel. He flipped the switch on it and he saw a staircase about three hundred feet away lower so that there was a way he could get to the door he needed to go through. He also saw a timer turn on. He had two minutes. He dashed up the staircase, turned right, ran up another one, then down one. Dead end! He ran back up to the next landing, then up again, then down. He was now one hundred feet above the staircase. He ran left, then down a staircase, then right, then up another staircase. He ran down two more, then up one, then along a landing towards his destination. Then he saw the staircase that led to it rising up again, and he saw the control panel explode. The man was now exactly one hundred feet above the door he needed to get through. There was no way to get to it. He ran down a staircase, then down another one, then up one, then down again. Dead end. He ran up two more, then down one. He finally came to his best position yet: 75 feet above the door. He pulled off his heavy black coat and leapt off the edge, using the coat as a parachute. He plummeted at first, then the coat caught air and slowed him down. At about ten feet, he let go of one side of his makeshift parachute and landed on the ground. He pulled his coat back on and ran to the doorway. He opened the door and went through. He was at one end of a twenty-foot hallway. A clock slid down from the ceiling. It read '30'. Then it began to tick down. '29. 28. 27. 26.'1

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Thanks Willay. I owe you. You freakin' owe me too.

To anyone who doesn't know this, the story will continue to grow.

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  • October 20, 2005
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    Amazingly beautiful.

    A very strong impression. I started accidentally quoting it at work today.

  • CedricDempNQ2
    October 18, 2005
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    Yes, certainly affects the feelings. Makes a strong impression.


  • October 18, 2005
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    Truly excellent

    It wrenched emotion from my calloused heart. Continue. Oh, please, continue!