Headaches & Hazbins: Book 1: New Kind of Life, New Kind of Hell

Chapter 4: Clang Clang Clang

Sometime Later...

*Clang*

[Asher rolls onto his back and slowly opens his eyes. He lets out a loud groan.]

Asher: *Loud Groan* Ughhh... What the hell?

*Clang*

[Asher pushes himself up and rubs his head, it feels like someone hit him in the head with a metal bat. He opens his eyes a bit more to attempt to look at his surroundings but can't see too far, his vision is blurry.]

Asher: Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, (Quickly) What the fuck happened?

*Clang*

[Asher moves his hands to his eyes and rubs them. He pulls them away and blinks rapidly to gain his bearings. His vision clears up and he's able to finally see where he is. He can't see anything. Wherever he is, it is completely dark. He reaches around next to him looking for something to light up the room, his hand hits against something next to him. He feels a small metal string attached to whatever he hits, he grabs it and pulls on it.]

*Click*

[A lamp clicks on lighting up a decent amount of the room. He's lying in some sort of bedroom but everything seems a bit... Off... The bed he's lying in seems a bit bigger than normal along with a large mirror, closet, and doorway. The room also has some other items in it like a nightstand, a chair and desk, a clothing chest, lamp, and some unmarked wooden crates, all of which are normal size.]

*Clang*

Asher: Am I smaller, drunk, or high?

[He looks towards the nightstand next to him, his gas mask resting on it under the lamp he turned on. He grabs it and straps it around his neck.]

Asher: It's all three isn't it?

*Clang*

[Asher moves to the side and stands up off the bed, he lets out a grunt of pain and grabs his chest. He walks over to the large mirror and looks at himself. He doesn't have his hoodie on but his shirt is still on him, his pants and boots are still on as well. There are bandages wrapped around his stab wound from earlier and around some other cuts & bruises he sustained. The bandages he put on himself seem to have been changed by someone.]

Asher: What the- Did someone patch me up? They even replaced the patch over my eye... Huh

*Clang*

Asher: O K. Time to address that clanking noise that's pissing me off.

[Asher walks over to the large door and grabs the handle, he pulls on the door and opens it. He looks out and sees some sort of hallway with some doors on both sides, lit by some lights on the ceiling. To the left of the hallway is a large metal door that seems locked from this side as well as barred shut. To the right on the other end is another large metal door that is slightly cracked open. It doesn't seem as locked up as the other one, from this side at least. Asher walks into the hallway and closes the door behind him, he looks at the slightly opened door and begins to walk towards it. He approaches the slightly opened door and moves it aside to look through it.]

*Clang*

[He pokes his head through the doorway so he can see what's on the other side. The room is huge, it's some sort of large workshop filled with unopened wooden crates, tools and toolboxes, and elevated workbenches. There's a giant forge on one side of the room that has various pipes going in and out of it. The front of it seems to have fake metallic teeth on it. It's impressive just to look at.]