The Unspoken Truth

While on the road leaving Sunshine Valley, Scott turned on his phone connecting it to a phone holder turning on his artificial intelligence.

"Siri, locate me at the nearest hospital." Scott spoke to his phone.

"The nearest hospital is thirty miles. Follow this road to get to the nearest one." Siri put on the map and directions to the hospital.

"It's going to be a long road, but I'm not going to give up on you Laura." Scott started his journey out of Sunshine Valley.

Back in Sunshine valley, agent Dan approaches John's mansion finding out more about John and the cause of the SWAT team's deaths.

"A couple of months ago, I first came here to find out more about our team members' death and now it's time to find out the answers to it." agent Dan climbed on the fence of the mansion avoiding the spikes.

Climbing down, he reached the other side running through the green garden passing by Troy's giant grave the shape of his body. 

"For some kid, he's very rich." agent Dan looked at his surroundings.

Approaching the door, Dan tends to open the door, but as usual it was locked.

"How the hell do I get in?" Dan looked around his surroundings.

Suddenly, Dan on his right sees a shed already opened.

Having an idea, he heads into the shed to see what tools he can use to force open the door. He was considering picking up an axe to cut down the door knob, but was out of luck seeing that it was missing from the shed.

However, he found a crowbar instead, seeing that he could force the window open instead.

Heading to the nearest window, Dan uses the wedge of the crowbar beneath the window forcing it open. As the windows are now opened, Dan headed into the mansion entering its living room.

Coming in, it seemed to be very neat seeing all the couches were made out of rich leather, a fireplace, a coffee table with swiss chocolates, chandelier lights on the ceiling and red walls with Italian maple floors.

"How can this kid afford such a luxury?" Dan takes chocolate from the coffee table.

However, when unwrapping and eating the chocolate, Dan immediately spat it out not realizing how bad it tasted. Curious, Dan looked at the wrapper and couldn't believe his eyes.

"Expires on December 23 1990? That's like thirty years ago. Why the hell would he be keeping expired chocolates?" Dan kept exploring the building.

He would later approach Troy's room, which seems to be empty as he die0d with the room just being filled with dust and cobwebs. Going into the room, Dan would investigate to find any suspicions on John, but didn't find anything but Troy's picture of him with the football team. However, he would look closely at the picture.

"Wait a minute, the photo seems to be really old. The color of the picture looks like it was dried out on the sides." Dan closely examined the photo.

Taking out the picture from its frame, he would look on both sides of the photo seeing the backside filled with yellow stains. But the one thing that would shock Dan would be something written on the back side.

"Class of 1993? How is that possible? Back in High school I was in the class of 2010."

Dan took Troy's photo as evidence as he walked out of his room. Exploring the other parts of the room, Dan would pass by Laura's room.

Going into the room, he would notice that the room was trashed with posters, blankets, and even the wallpaper ripped apart as well as the closet door and bedroom door being busted. Dan couldn't believe his eyes seeing how much a single cheerleader can make such a mess and make this much damage to her bedroom.

Not much to investigate, Dan left Laura's room slowly closing the broken door.

After investigating most of the room, Dan would then approach John's room. However, the door seems to be locked. Using his crowbar from earlier, Dan was able to open the door by force. Coming in, the room seems to be a room much better than both Troy's and Laura's all together. John had a king size bed with a blue wall, a ton of baseball trophies, a desk made out of mahogany wood, and an Italian sword on the side of his bed. However, even though the room was big, there wasn't much evidence to collect.

Suddenly, Dan looked on his right to see that he didn't investigate the locker yet. He would open the locker seeing John's clothes being only the same black pants and varsity jacket that he would usually wear.

"Damn, nothing here." Dan slowly closes the closet.

However, after Dan closed the closet door, Something fell from the shelf. Dan opens the closet and sees that a scrapbook has fallen to the floor.

"A scrapbook?" Dan picked up the scrapbook.

Looking inside there seems to be a ton of pictures.

[But those pictures were most of a family of thirteen]

Dan would first see a family picture of a mother, a father and eleven kids at what seems to be at Disneyland. However, out of the eleven kids, none of them resemble John seeing that all the kids in the photo have brown hair and hazel colored eyes. 

"Wait, what happened to that kid back there?" Dan examined the edge of the picture.

Looking at the edge of the photo, it seems that the youngest child, with some sort of facial deformity, was almost left out in the picture and not wearing any Disney merchandise.

"Where's John? Why does he seem to have a photo of some family member in an amusement park?" Dan took the scrapbook.

Leaving John's room, agent Dan thought he searched the whole house without any cases feeling bummed out.

"Damn it. John must've known somebody would raid his house so he tried to hide some secrets. What should I do?" Dan walking downstairs 

However, before leaving John's mansion, he saw a white door with a heavy lock on it across the stairway.

Wanting to obtain more answers from the investigation, Dan ran towards the locked door and used his crowbar to open the door. However, the crowbar had no effect seeing that the door was still locked.

Suddenly, Dan had an idea. He would run back to the shed and find a bolt cutter laying on the floor. Returning back to the house, Dan would cut the heavy lock by cutting the chains as well as the lock as big as a bike lock.

The bolt cutters have successfully cut through them now letting the white door open. As the door opened, a huge amount of stairs made a path downward that seemed to be very deep. Looking down, Dan didn't hesitate to walk down the stairs pulling out his handgun not knowing what would be down there. Reaching the basement, he would expect some sort of threat awaiting him, but instead awaited him in what seems to be a room full of file cabinets, a desk, and a large metal chest box. 

"Okay, this is getting interesting." Dan started looking inside the file cabinets.

What he did see was something very unique.

"Why would he have files of different students? Teachers? And 'residents?'" Dan looked at each of the different files.

He then would approach the chest box opening it. Dan expected to be some old board games and baseball cards, but it seems that they were stuff that belonged to other people. The one thing that really surprised Dan was finding a state ID inside of a wallet that matches the same profile picture of one of the residents in the files.

"Gary Robinson? Gary Robinson?" Dan looked at both the state ID and the file.

Wanting to know more, Dan would then look into the files of the students, which he would later see some students that he knows.

"Natalie Simpson? That's one of Scott's friends." Dan collected Natalie's file.

Looking into another file, it had a profile picture of Jim before being turned into a "nerd."

Another one consists of Isabelle's profile.

However, the only file Dan couldn't find is Dwayne even looking through the file of all the students.

But the one file that he sees before closing the file cabinet was Laura's files. Although there was a person that looked like Laura in the profile picture, it isn't actually Laura at all.

[Instead, the name that has the same profile picture of Laura is actually Vanessa Bell]

"Vanessa Bell? Isn't that the same girl that Scott was talking about?" Dan then collected his last file about what seems to be a person name "Vanessa"

"No matter. These people will do." Dan is ready to leave the basement.

However, Dan forgot to search in another cabinet which was named the "Archived."

"Archived?" Dan opened up the file cabinet. However, the file wasn't filled with files, but instead old VHS tapes that were labeled.

"Who still uses VHS tapes. I haven't used these since I was a kid." Dan looked at the different labeled VHS tapes.

However, one tape gave Dan the attention and it seemed to be different from the other VHS tapes. The tape was covered with oxidized blood as well as a disturbing label which was labeled:

[1989; THE CLEANSING]

Feeling a bit disturbed, Dan found a VHS TV on the desk and put the VHS tape in it. The TV turned on with what seemed to be footage from a security camera.

[However, it started to get more disturbing]

Dan would see children running away as they screamed for their lives. In the background, there were gunshots that started to get louder and louder. But one thing that frightened Dan was when he noticed some of the students running were shot down by the shooter in the video. A girl, that seemed to look like a cheerleader, would be seen with her leg shot by the shooter. With the shooter now being on film, Dan couldn't believe his eyes, but it was John who was holding a light machine gun moving down the students in the footage. When John approached the woman, she begged John to spare her life. However, it didn't seem to work given that John was in full rage mode as what he did will now terrify Dan more than ever.

[John would split the woman's head in two as he gouged her eyes out and tearing her head into two pieces]

"My God." Dan couldn't believe his eyes.

John would then look into the camera once again and then shoot out the camera ending the film.

The tape would then eject itself causing the tape to fall on the floor.

Dan had no choice but to collect the VHS tape as evidence even if hands were shaking from that film.

"Holy shit. I can't believe John started a mass shooting. I need to give this to the FBI and….." Dan was then interrupted as he heard streaming from somewhere. The scream scared him that he accidentally knocked all the books down from the shelf.

For this, the secret door would open with Dan turning his whole body around noticing it. 

Before leaving, Dan would once again pull out his handgun as he walked down the stairs.

Reaching downstairs and opening another door, Dan would then find something even more horrifying than the footage.

[There were people trapped in a caged sewer where people were screaming for help as their malnourished bodies tried to maintain itself with people in the background eating themselves and relying on the sewage water]

"Holy shit." Dan couldn't believe his eyes.

"W-Who are you people?" Dan tries to investigate the trapped people.

"A-Are you the one who will free us?" A person in the cage said.

"I don't know. I'm agent F5, I'm part of the FBI. So how did you people manage to be in this…... .sewer?"

"I-I-It was John. He's been trapping us down here and taking our kids. We were residents of Sunshine Valley. This town was a wonderful town. But not until that kid decided to entrap us so we could play with his damn fantasy."

"He entrapped you?" 

"Y-Yes. Since then, he has starved us and forced us to eat one another for our own survival. Please sir, call the police, call the ambulances, just call anyone who can get out of this damn prison. We can't stand being in this damn cage. Some of them died and killed each other so please! Free us!" A resident begged.

"This is fucked up. Don't worry, I'll try to find some help. You guys just stay there and hold out!" agent Dan pulled out his phone and took a picture of the malnourished residents in the cage to find more evidence of John's atrocity.

Dan left John's mansion and headed towards his car to warn Scott more about the situation.

Meanwhile, in a police station at an unknown town, John was in his cell for the past 24 hours laying on his steel bed. However, compared to yesterday, he seems to be in a calm state and using his time to think of a way to get out of his cell.

John would then head to the steel door in the hatched to call out someone.

"Excuse me officer, when will my court date happen?" John spoke in a polite manner.

"Around June kid. You committed third degree assault on somebody and since you claim to be eighteen, then I suggest you will be charged as an adult with an assault on an alleged minor."

"June? But that's when the school year will be over."

"Well too bad, decided to do the crime and now you're doing the time. You better make better choices next time." Officer walked back to his desk

"I understand. Also, do you mind if I can get a bottle of water? I've been in my cell for at least a day and didn't get anything to drink before getting arrested. So would you mind bringing me some water?" John asked.

"Sure kid. Just be grateful that you are getting something to drink. Most people in their cells don't have the privilege to do so." The officer took a water bottle from the refrigerator.

Heading towards John's cell, the officer was opening the hatch from his prison door.

[However, he would later regret what he just did]

While opening the hatch, John's arms aimed directly at the officer's neck being strangled by John's hand.

"H-Huh." The officer slowly suffocated.

"Oh I'm grateful alright. I'm grateful for how stupid you are. You think that I can't come back to school until June? Like that'll ever happen. My school is my paradise, my haven, my oasis and decided to take that away from me? No. I was going to play nice and go to court like the good boy you want me to be. But now, you tell me that I have to wait until June?"

"L-Let go of me."

"No. I'm going to choke you until that head of yours turns goddamn purple." John strangled the officer until he died of lack of air with his head fully purple."

As the officer died, John gave a smirk of the officer that he just killed.

"You people don't understand who I am. I am the King of High School and I don't deserve to be treated like shit!" John used his kicks to knock down the steel door like it was nothing with the door tumbling down on the dead officer.

The door made a loud bang that alerted the other officers in the building.

The officers would head to where the sound came from and realize that John was out of his cell with the steel door knocked down.

"Get on the ground now!" The officers pulled out their guns pointed at John.

"No. I'm going home and returning to my High School. So you people better back the fuck up and let me leave this place."

"You take one step and my officers will turn you into swiss cheese so get on the fucking ground now!"

"Oh you people gave me no choice." John then ran towards one of the officers.

Having no choice, the officers fired their guns at John being shot with bullets from everywhere.

As the officers ran out of bullets from their magazines, John was left on the ground bleeding with his whole body looking like swiss cheese.

"Shots fired. Let's get this guy to the ER. Maybe he still has a chance of surviving the impact." An officer walked towards John's body.

She walked towards his body picking him up with his gloves.

[But not until John woke up as he grabbed the officer's left arm giving a hysterical smile at her.

"What the hell? Get your hands off of me!"

"I told you. But you decided not to listen, you petty adults." John then used his right hand to grab the officer's heart, ripping it out of her body.

Without a heart, the female officer died on the spot without having a heart in her body.

"Now lets see how your heart tastes." John took a bite out of the officer's heart.

"Delicious." John then looked at the other officers.

"So who wants to die first?" John then started a killing spree leaving all the police officers dead on the scene.

Now all dead, John left the police station covered in blood as he took a police officer's hand as well as his other belongings that he had in his pockets during his arrest. As he tried to walk back to Sunshine Valley, he would look in the sky to see how dark it was. 

"Jimmy Wilson, Scott Smith, Natalie Simpson, and that gay friend of theirs. I'm going to fucking rip your spine out for what you did to me." John then started his journey back to Sunshine Valley.

On the road, Scott was halfway to the hospital with Laura still being unconscious in the front seat.

Suddenly, Scott's phone starts to ring.

"Dan?" Scott accepted Dan's call.

"Yo what's the situation?" Scott talking on his phone while driving.

"Scott, when I get to the hospital, I got to talk to you and 'Laura.' I found a lot of things in John's mansion and it will disturb you so you better be prepared when I get there."

"Sure. I'll see you there." Scott ended the call putting his phone back on the phone holder.

He then would look at Laura seeing how much blood was on her face.

"Laura, I can see the hospital ahead of us. You'll be better soon." Scott continued driving.

Suddenly, Laura was back conscious again, now going crazy as her speech didn't make sense and started to act crazy in the car.

"What the hell?!" Scott sees Laura getting out of control.

Using his right arm, Scott tries to restrain her. It barely stopped her from moving around the car like crazy, but made some distance between them.

"The drugs are still in her." Scott looked at Laura's psychotic behavior.

"Laura! Control yourself! This isn't you!" Scott uses all the muscles on his right arm to distance each other.

As the made it to the parking lot, Scott would incorrectly park the car pulling Laura out of the car trying to get her into the hospital as she tried to bite him.

Scott then would tackle Laura to the ground screaming for help from the hospital lobby room. 

"Somebody! Help!" Scott holding Laura to the ground.

Suddenly, the nurse in the lobby noticed two teenagers outside of their building and ran towards the pharmacy room to bring a syringe full of heavy anesthetics.

Rushing outside of their entrance, the nurse would inject Laura with the syringe with Laura slowly losing consciousness once again. Now fully conscious Laura collapsed on Scott's body with Scott panting heavily.

"Thank you so much ma'am. Can you please bring out a stretcher for her, she has recently been induced with illegal drugs in her system."

"Of course." The nurse ran back to the hospital finding a stretcher for Laura. The nurse and Laura would put her on the stretcher pushing her into the hospital. As they reached the hospital, the nurse would ask Scott a favor.

"Do you mind waiting in the lobby room sir? We'll help your friend as much as we can. I'll be taking her to the professionals and see what they can do to your friend."

"Okay thank you." Scott sees the nurse take Laura to other doctors for professional help.

Since then Scott sat in the lobby room as other patients started to leave the hospital leaving Scott by himself in the lobby.

A couple of hours had passed by and it was now midnight. Scott was worried of what would happen to Laura.

Suddenly, Agent Dan went inside the hospital to see Scott waiting in the lobby room.

"Scott!" Agent Dan called his name.

"Dan? What the hell took you so long? I was waiting for you."

"Sorry, it took me a long time to find the address and I finally found it. I guess I have really bad memories when remembering addresses."

"Whatever, I'm worried about Laura. I'm afraid those drugs will kill her or something."

"I don't think you should be calling her 'Laura' Scott."

"Why's that?"

A nurse from earlier then called out to Scott. "Excuse me sir, your friend is now in stable conditions. Would you like to see her?"

"Yes!" Scott and Dan followed the nurse.

Reaching the room, Laura was seen on the bed with a VI injected on her arm while still unconscious while wearing a hospital gown.

"Laura." Scott looked at her on the bed.

"Will she be alright?" Scott asked the nurse.

"Of course. We managed to get the effects of the drugs out of her system. However, she's going to need some physical and mental therapy after seeing the results of her body as well as how she behaved earlier today." 

"Thank you." Scott thanked the nurse as she then left them alone with Laura.

Laura's eyes would then slowly open as she started to gain a bit of consciousness.

She would look on her right to see Scott crying for her safety.

"S-Scott. Is that you?" Laura talked a bit slowly.

"Yes. It's me." Scott hugged Laura.

"D-Do you mind handing me that glass o-of water?" Laura pointed at the glass of water.

"Sure." Scott gave Laura the glass of water feeding her as her body was so weak and frail.

"T-Thank you." Laura spoke in a quiet voice.

"No. Thank you. I was worried sick about you for the past couple of weeks. So Laura, if you have the energy to talk, can you ask me what happened?"

"Well I….." Laura was then interrupted by Agent Dan.

"Actually, I want to ask you something first." Agent Dan gave Laura the file he took from John's mansion.

"Can you explain this Vanessa Bell?"

"Vanessa Bell?" Scott was confused at the situation.

"It says here that you aren't American and instead are from Canada. You were born in December of 2002. Also, it says that you were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as have a fragile body. Is this true?" Agent Dan investigated Laura.

"I-Is that true?" Scott also asked Laura.

"I-I." Laura then realizes her old self from her old profile picture.

"I remember. My name isn't Laura and I'm not from here. My name is Vanessa Bell and I am from Canada!" Laura had a sudden realization in her eyes.