Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-28741271-20160330124849/@comment-5645428-20160402121559

Floor 49

The elevator does not open at Floor 49, and the door from the stairs is locked. Timmy wondered how he could get to Floor 49 because he was a daring fellow always looking for adventure. He decided to ask the secretary on the ground level about it. She informed him that there was no such floor as Floor 49, and that the building only spanned 48 floors. Timmy told her that the elevator had many more buttons to many more floors way beyond 48, but the secretary told him to check the elevator again and that he would find only 48 buttons. Timmy went back into the elevator, and to his surprise, there were only 48 buttons. Almost. On a separate panel that he did not notice before, Timmy found the button to Floor 49. He pressed it, and in a few moments the elevator started upwards. As it ascended, Timmy noticed the room become increasingly dimmer and the background music become increasingly fainter. Suddenly, the lights switched off and the music became static. Timmy was startled, beginning to sweat as panic developed. He pressed the backlit button to return to the ground floor, but it fell off as he pressed it. He then started pressing other buttons, all falling off the panel as he pressed them. He was nearing Floor 49, and he began mashing every button, to no result but a pile of plastic discs accumulating on the floor. He had almost cleared the panel when he noticed he would have no light left other than the poorly illuminated floor counter if he pressed anymore buttons. Timmy resorted to pressing the button to Floor 49 again, abruptly stopping the elevator as he continued to breathe rapidly and felt his heart thump almost painfully in his chest. He was at Floor 46. He could still hear the static from the now completely distorted background music. He cried out, hoping someone might hear him from inside the elevator. Frighteningly, the static ended as his voice did. Timmy clenched a handrail, but it broke from the wall and landed with a clang that almost made him leap through the roof in fear. The handrail hitting the floor shook the rest of the buttons from the panel, all except for 49. Beckoning him, Timmy pressed the button. Something shrieked so loud that nearly stopped his heart for a full two seconds. The horrific noise stopped only when the elevator reached Floor 49. Timmy crawled up on the floor with has hands over his ears, trembling. Then the elevator dinged, but so terribly did the ding turn back into the shriek that he could not keep the noise from striking him in sheer agony. Then the elevator door opened, and it was as if the elevator had begun tilting so that Timmy would be forced from its dreadful clutches. He toppled out of the elevator into blackness, the floor falling from under him.