As Steven begins to wake up, he looks around the place, it's dry yet moist, dark yet illuminated by this grey atmosphere.
"What the...-?" he says, grunting from the pain.
"Where am I? what is this place?"
Steven as confused as he could be, start walking towards one of the tunnels, from his starting point, there were 2 connecting the small, enclosed area. It was all rocky, stone and whatnot, it seemed like he was walking in an underground cavern.
"Is this the limbo…? Hah… did I die?"
Every second that passes, he starts losing his sanity, tick by tick. Even to the point of running endlessly without a thought. That is until he finds a rather weird item for the situation that he is in.
"Is this… a sword? What is it doing here?"
The metallic object is quite rusty and dented but keeps its sharp quality.
As Steven grabs it, he notices an opening of the place he was stuck in.
"That must be the exit… I must get there, come on legs!". Steven hesitantly keeps running until his legs give up, as he falls to the ground.
"FUCK!... WHY? I JUST. WANTED TO GO BACK HOME, WHY AM I IN ANOTHER ONE OF THESE MINDFUCKS?!"
"I just want all of this to end…"
After a few moments, he gathers his will up, and start walking again, now barely at the edge of the exit, he is able to see the titanic size of this place, there is no sky, just a stone roof, but the place itself goes miles and miles of pure ruins, rocks and stalagmites.
As Steven walks around the place, he notices a rock hut, it is quite decorated and seems to have some contraptions installed.
"For what? There's nothing here… who even lives there?"
He asks, as he slowly start walking towards the rock hut, on its wooden door entrance, ropes with some booby traps are seen. The closer he gets, the more details he can grab from it, until…
*Croak, croak* A sound is heard from the left, as Steven turns his whole head to look at the direction of the sound, he sees a black torn figure, it seems demonized, and its face is as contorted as can be.
It starts sprinting at a fast pace, without ceasing to do so, Steven is paralized, he can't even move an inch… until…
*KABOOSH*
One of the traps gets set off, releasing a big blast of energy towards the demonic creature, sending it flying through the skies.
Steven is perplexed, yet awed at the reaction, he has never seen something like this. But then a creak from the hut is heard, as Steven sees another person.
"AH… H-HELLO! UHM."
For what he can see, the person is in his teens, green short hair that seems to go everywhere, glasses, a white jacket with some pants, and a satchel in his side
"Hello there! Name's Tommy, nice to meet you!"
Steven, awed to ever remotely hear someone's voice here, nods and asks.
"H... hello Tommy, I'm Steven…"
With a hesitant voice, Steven continues.
"I don't know what this place is… and what the hell was that supposed to be??"
As Tommy hears his voice, he slowly gives of a warm smile
"You can ask me whatever, but let's go inside first, I need to explain some things first!"