Chapter 117 - [AT] All My Might...

[After Transition]

Grab, pull , pain, stop, take a break, Grab, pull , pain, stop, take a break, Grab, pull , pain, stop, take a break, Grab, pull , pain, stop, take a break etc. That's all that's been going through my head for however long I've been stuck in this godforsaken place, all day every day but I don't know how long I've been following the process and it's like a mantra in my head because I've just stopped thinking and I just follow those actions partly shutting down my brain just to make everything go faster and stop myself from going insane because that's what's going to happen soon or later if I don't get out of here soon. I don't know how long it's been, at the beginning I kept trying to keep track of how long I've been here but eventually following this monotonous process I've lost track and the days just seem to blend together even the blackouts blending together because there's been so many blackouts and even when I wake up it's straight back to the process with no wait or breaks because I just can't sit here and do nothing, Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, I don't know how long I've been here and I've stopped caring because all that matters is pulling this pipe up and I don't even think about it anymore I just do it.

I spend half my time screaming out in anguish because of the excruciating pain that runs through me each time I pull on the pipe and I didn't try stifling them because sometimes it was that scream that took all the stress out of my mind and helped me to continue on and I thought that it was fine because I'm buried under a pile of bricks and there's no one around here to hear until one day when I was following the process I sensed something that startled me and it was vibrations running through the debris surrounding me that took me out of my daze and after that I focused my senses and I realised that up above me there were people walking on the debris which was directly on top of me and for a moment I thought about shouting out to them for help and I was about to until I realised that I wouldn't be able to explain my situation which was the fact that this building has been collapsed for who knows how many days and I've been stuck underneath it all this time which would definitely gain government attention if found out so I stopped my pleas from leaving my mouth, it didn't really matter though because the people walking above me shuffled around the surrounding debris which caused a kind of cave in on me and reset some of my progress as well as causing me a lot of pain so I instantly blacked out and when I woke up they were gone and I got back to the grind but it was only a few days after that that I had to stop again since more people came though thankfully they didn't reset my progress and after eavesdropping on them I learned that people were hearing my anguished roars and were coming to investigate.

After that day I tried to start stifling my screams and ignore the pain but it was hard to do and people kept coming and investigating but eventually I managed to get the hang of it and people started coming less and less until eventually they stopped coming at all and I learned to bear the pain though I do occasionally scream out when I get frustrated but it's become very occasional and so I don't think people will take any notice of what I have noticed so at one point the screams were coming fairly frequent and that's because each time I thought I made any progress debris started to cave in and reset my progress by shoving the pipe back down through my gut no matter how hard I tried to hold onto it but with my meagre strength there wasn't much I could do and each time it happened I was getting frustrated and screamed out in anger until one day when it happened again and I was about to scream in frustration I noticed something that made me catch my breath, I was seeing rays of light shining through the debris where before it was completely pitch black and I was only being able to see by the grace of by night vision but now the light was shining through the holes above me and it reignited my hope and determination to get out of here and another thing I noticed was that the pipe coming through me was very damaged it had holes going throughout it but what was most important about this was that there was sunlight shining through the holes and it was much more powerful than the sunlight which was shining through the debris above me and I came to the conclusion that there was no longer any debris covering the top of the pipe which was allowing the sunlight to come to through at the top of the pipe and down shining out through these holes, reigniting my hope I start to work even more intensely and I started to scream out less and less though I did occasionally scream out because I was very stressed but each time I pulled the pipe up there was no longer any shift in the debris meaning there was no setting back my progress which made me work even harder.

I was getting closer and closer to freedom with each pull of the pipe and that forced me to work even that much harder knowing that release was close and I will no longer have to be stuck here like a mouse caught in a rat trap and then one day when I was pulling the pipe up and I lowered my hand to grasp the lower part of the pipe I realised that only three of my fingers wrapped around the pipe with the other two fingers only clasping air and I realised that the pipe was no longer inside of me which meant that my regeneration would no longer have anything obstructing it and I could leave this hell on earth after my body healed but that seemed to be taking some time since my own to slowly knitting it self back together and I figured it was because I've been trapped for such a long time without any nutrition but my body doesn't have much energy left to heal itself with so it was doing so slowly but I was just relieved to know that I would soon be out of here but that relief was soon replaced with fear and terror and I felt vibrations once more rock through debris on top of me, there were people walking around on top of the debris above me and there were two of them and with each step they took they risked resetting all my progress and I could feel the pipe slowly inching back down towards my healing wound regardless of the fact that my hands were still wrapped around it but most of my energy was going towards healing my wound so I had little strength to resist the gravity acting on the pipe and pushing it back down towards my body and so I put my all into grasping the pipe and trying to push it back upwards to keep it from impaling my body once more.

It took all my strength to keep pushing up the pipe and keep it from going through my mid section again all the while waiting for my wound to heal and for the part of my spine that was injured to heal so that I could use my strength again but with each step the two strangers above me took they sent the pipe further down and it was getting closer and closer to my body and so I strained myself with veins bulging and bones aching to push up with all my might and it was at this point that the damage my kid section and spine was finally healed but I had no way to anticipate how long that would take and so when it was finally healed I was still pushing the pipe up with all my strength with Bob of my hands on top of one another pushing up at the bottom of the pipe but with my injuries healed my strength fully returned and before I could stop myself my arms shot upwards thrusting the pipe out of the debris and up into the air while shooting debris everywhere around me, once I realised what I had done my arms were stretched up into the air going through the debris and out into the open air and even with the dust clouds swirling around from my actions I was amazed to feel the abundance of air flow past my skin once again and so much that I temporarily forgot about the two people that were above me just to enjoy the feeling though I didn't care much about them since they'd probably already seen the pipe fly through the air but they hadn't seen me and so I could quickly burst through the debris and escape before they can see me.

Before I could act and put my plan into action I felt something wrap itself around my arm and pull me up through the debris and into clear day, a part of me was confused at what was pulling me out but another was just glad that I was finally free.. Finally free...

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