XIII awoke with a groan. His head was pounding and he was laying on something cold and hard.<span style="font-style: italic"> Did I fall asleep outside?</span>he thought as he pushed himself off the ground. He looked at his surroundings and became confused. Wherever he was, it certainly wasn't the Benefactor's mansion.<br/><br/>He seemed to be in a partially collapsed dome which was at the corner of a pyramid-looking structure, and there were bodies everywhere. He couldn't see much more in the partial light of the moon and stars. After he looked around for a few moments, he quickly found a tree that had clearly been dead for a while. He ripped off a large branch and turned it into a makeshift torch.<br/><br/>As the room lit up, XIII's confusion grew. Some of the bodies he saw weren't human, but they weren't animals either. They littered the area. XIII looked at the center structure. It might have a clue as to how he got there. After taking one final look around, he made his way towards the center of the pyramid, checking any body he found for a pulse.<br/><br/>XIII was starting to feel disheartened by the time he made it near the top. None of the bodies he had checked had a pulse. Maybe he was the only one there. With a growing feeling of apprehension, he ascended the last few stairs and found himself at the top of the pyramid. There was a figure standing at the center. XIII sighed. He wasn't the only one there. There were others.