Verloc Down

Verloc Down is a 7th DLC of We Happy Few 2. Playing as Dr. Anton Verloc it focuses on Dr. Smilez's lair. It was released on ???, And it also part of the We Happy Few 2 Season Pass.

Dr. Anton Verloc is the playable protagonist of Verloc Down, The teasers show how Dr. Smilez betrayed Dr. Verloc and escape from his glass cells, and will feature characters such as Sally Boyle, Gwen Boyle, and Johnny Bolton. Anton's weapons are syringe gun and dart gun so he can shoot at the enemies.

Gameplay
It takes place after the escape from both destroyed Haworth Labs and Dr. Smilez's glass cells.

Plot
After the Haworth Labs has been destroyed by Victoria Byng, Dr. Smilez notices the paper of ingredients for Joy is the only one who survived the explosion. Suddenly, Dr. Smilez's henchmen saw Anton running from the now-destroyed Haworth Labs. Dr. Smilez orders his henchmen to capture Anton and lock him up at the glass cells. They obey his order then begin to chase in hot pursuit through the streets. Anton saw them running as he still continues escapes from Dr. Smilez's henchmen until he's ambushed by them and sent to the glass cells.

Anton got himself in anger breakdown while Dr. Smilez tried to calm him down and push the red button and the Joy gas consumed Dr. Verloc to unconsciousness, Dr. Smilez smiles at him as he falls asleep and leaving him behind and took all of his notes with his henchmen.

Sometimes later Anton was having a dream of his doppelganger of himself and reveals that he is him and the grass appeared and saw the beautiful place he has the doppelganger. The Doppelganger Anton walkthrough Sally Boyle and He tried to stop him but it transforms to be his own daughter, Gwen Boyle on her toddler form, Sally and Gwen walk together with holding hands and until he wakes up from his nightmares.

He gets up and holding a table behind him and break himself in the glass cells, escape, gasping for air and fall into unconscious again, later Johnny Bolton appears and found him unconscious that Johnny was wrong about him that became redeemed and spared his life and giving him some oxygen and allow him to live, Johnny leaving him behind and with healing balm until Anton wakes up and found his dead mother named Ariel Verloc and his father named Timothy Verloc.

Anton becomes remorseful towards his parents and finds the syringe gun as he searches for the exit. After that, find Dr. Smilez's henchmen were still here and find through the exit.

As Anton was about to leave, the blood is bleeding from his nose because he starts to hallucinate. His father appears while talking to him which scares Anton. He tells him about what happened to the workers of Haworth Labs.

Anton felt guilty due to a bad batch of Joy and people become downers after they heard Uncle Jack's last tape. Suddenly, he heard the footsteps that coming from the hallway. It turned out to be Dr. Smilez's henchmen who found him earlier.

After escaping from Dr. Smilez's henchmen and using the Underground tracks to get the Barrow Holm, he founds himself inside of the hatch filled with plague wastrels. Anton saw the torch that it is on the floor, he then picks it up and turns on the light. And he found the other headboys are brutally killed by a plague torn their organs apart, it makes Anton sick and found a power switch turn it on the plague are run away due to afraid to light.

His mother appeared again to talk to him to find a way out to Wellington Wells, He goes up to the hatch and found the Garden District was fallen apart, other wastrels are happy because the Haworth Lab was destroyed and Anton found Mr. Smilez's boat. He sneaks Through the boat and escapes from Wellington Wells.

Until Anton goes back to Great Britain and found General Byng was still alive who got a bandage himself in the left eye, talks about Sally slices him with a broken glass earlier. Anton gets inside of Mr. Smilez's lair and found the dead employee workers of him, are dead while found a cassette player and ten cassettes, He goes to General Byng. Mr. Smilez planning to send all the children away to Germany as they did from Wellington Wells. Anton record it with the cassette player and write it.

He sneaks away through to Mr. Smilez and records it with the cassette player, Mr. Smilez plan to use children who didn't send away to experiment them using their blood to make his happy pills perfect. Anton was shocked that he would do that to the children, His father appears again and tells him to stop it.

Anton thinks happy pills were actually made of someone's blood because people want to take happy pills. His mother notices there's something on his head. It turns out that Victoria Byng was right about this situation that they need to stop taking Joy before Mr. Smilez will turn the whole of Britain into "The Childless Dystopia".

Anton found a dead brute holding a dart gun and took it and run off to find the General's services office. He sneaks to Robert Byng's Office and took the evidence and also his notes and leave before he gets caught. Anton reads the evidence that he would send all the children in Germany as he did before. Anton read his notes that Sally has a baby, then his flashback came to his mind that he hurting and locking her in the rain the end of the flashback, Anton felt sorry about himself to Sally that he knew what he had done.

His mother appeared again that he would do that to Sally, Anton really hates himself because he was abusive towards her. Ariel told to him that he was grieving but it is the only way to forgiveness, Anton search for the underground to find a way through the upper floor of the lair, Anton found the caged plague wastrels, find the key card and open the cage.

Suddenly, the caged plague wastrels got out of the cages after Anton opens it. He will be ready to fight the plague wastrels. After defeated the caged plague wastrels, Anton finally reaches the main office.

Suddenly, Anton was bitten by an incoming plague wastrel, get in the main office and find an antiseptic bandage in the washroom, then he bandaged himself to recovered and his father appeared again to he would stop General Byng. He goes to the main office and found Sally with a baby, Anton apologizes to her, but he heard a baby noise it turns out to be her daughter. Anton was shocked that they had a child, Gwen look at Anton and holding his finger and giggles and Anton cried that he abused both of them but Sally forgives him and hugs him gently.

Anton tells her about his story where he and his uncle goes to Wellington Wells after the war begins. But, as he telling his story, Johnny appears again and accidentally interrupted Anton. Johnny Bolton seems they're just like a "family" seeing the first child in Wellington Wells later he reveals that the General will capture Sally and Mr. Smilez experimented with Gwen extract her blood for his happy pills.

Anton wanted to protect his "family" from them. Anton thanks Johnny for the message and gives him the special hallucinogen that makes people hallucinate immediately Johnny leaves them alone. He told Sally to hide with their daughter, Sally hugs Anton and Gwen gives him some energy Anton leaves and finds the way to the Joy pill factory room and he cough with blood because he started to get infected by a plague but he fights it.

There where he finds the Joy Factory the flashbacks occurred on his mind again, his flashbacks about that his uncle abused him when he was 14 and the end of the flashbacks, He goes to the factory while reloads his syringe gun with the special hallucinogen and tried to shoot Robert Byng with his dart gun but instead, he shot one of Robert Byng's soldiers to protect him.

Anton got shot back by the General on the right side of his body and bleeding. General Byng fight Anton, after his boss fight, Anton got stabbed by a bayonet and the General told him it's over but not yet, Annie Hastings destroyed the factory after Mr. Smilez's defeat.

Anton told to him Now it's over and injected him with the Hallucinogen left side of his neck and kicked him in the face and falls from the ground, he laid down and dying, later Sally found Anton who was dying.

Anton told Sally to leaves with their daughter but he told her that he was bitten by a plague earlier and reveals his bit mark until his doppelganger returned to him that he would accept his fate. Anton chooses to sacrifice himself to Sally and Gwen, but his parents appeared again and telling him when his time comes he will,they'reveal holding his arm and Anton closed his eyes and back on reality holding Sally's face and Gwen was upset looking at her father.

Anton accepts his fate and goes unconscious while Sally and Gwen escape from the lair successfully. Meanwhile, he was found by Annie to remove the bayonet, injected him with Phenocycline Jab to cure his plague, and got in a coma for 2 weeks. Annie was crying as she sat down on the chair and put her head along with her hands. She thinks Anton will die from a plague.

The doppelganger himself reappeared again sitting in the chair smile at him, he tells him that why would he do it,Anton telling his doppelganger that why his parents let him live more than he die until his parents reappear again but they told him that wasn't true because he was the only family left but Anton cried for all his regret he had made but later the doppelganger Anton transformed to Gwen was now in toddler form who had white hair and blue eyes, holding his chest and telling him to its alright and started to cry. Anton hugged her and kiss her in the forehead.

She wipes her tears from her eyes after the doppelganger Anton tells her to take care of his current version. Annie stands up and walks to the real Anton.

The doppelganger Anton walks with Gwen holding hands and realize it was just his dream, the grass scape appears again, trees growing so fast and a sea with sunset on it, Anton seeing the sunset and his parents holdings his hands then disappeared when he looked to them.

The next day, Anton woke up from a coma and he realizes that he was alive. Annie surprised as Anton finally freed from illness. She runs to him and hugs as tells that he was okay now. He blushes as noticing one of the buttons from Annie's blouse were unbuttoned.

Anton tells her if she feels hot in this room because she forgot to turn the fan on as Anton giggles.

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Trivia

 * In Forgiving cutscene, Sally reveals to Anton that they're were having a child named Gwen. But she forgives him for locking her in the rain, also framing her to Julia Channey's murder.


 * It takes place during Annie's story.


 * Anton was experimented by Dr. Smilez's tested Joy gas, later began to hallucinate his dead parents.


 * In Released The Infection cutscene, Anton got bit by incoming plague wastrel in the left arm, goes to the washroom, and finds the antiseptic bandage.


 * It shows about Anton's flashbacks/backstory that he inherited his uncle's house and goes to Wellington Wells.