Chapter 4: Welcome to the Black, Well Red, Parade
~A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all.
So paint it black and take it back
Let's shout it loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call~
Bang!
Everyone jumped as soon as they heard the bang coming from the door. And it went repeatedly.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"W-what is that banging noise?" Dr. Schaller asked, very scared and visibly shaking.
"Shit! I think they are trying to get in through the door. And soon enough they will see that they can use the vent system. Does either of you 2 know how to shut down the vent system?"
"Yes."
Isaac turned his full attention on Justin now.
"How?"
"I'll have to do it from the Control panels above where the centrifuge is located."
"And that is where?"
"On… the other side of the station. Right by where our small group of Unitologist are located if I remember correctly."
"We have to get over there." BANG! "And now!"
"Indeed."
"Dr. Schaller. Do you know if there is anything that we can use to get our suits on?"
Dr. Schaller walked over to a curtain and pulled it back, revealing a shop they could use to change into them, and fast too.
"Justin do you have a suit in the system to put on?"
"Yes. Everyone's suits are in each shop."
Isaac nodded, that was a good sign. "Go ahead and change 1st Justin. Ok? I still have to grab mine over here," he said pointing to the heap in the floor, hoping it would fix it like new in the shop, "And what weapons are you any good with?"
"Ok and I'm good with any weapon really, but the Plasma Cutter, Ripper and Pulse Riffle seem to be my best. My suit comes with my Plasma Cutter attached to the side." Justin answered as he made his way over to the shop and selecting the necessary buttons to activate the shop so he could get his suit on.
Once the shop was ready to equip the suit, it widened more and Justin stepped into it. Once in there he readied himself, closing his eyes from the bright light and bracing his body as it closed the doors around Justin. Seconds later he emerged in his Riot Security Suit, his Plasma Cutter, much like he said, was hooked onto his right side of his suit.
"Ready Isaac? Time to get in."
Isaac took his suit that he had in his hands and went over to the shop. Justin selected the option for re-equip of an already out suit and repairs. Isaac stepped in and readied himself like Justin, laying the suit in the floor. Isaac took slightly longer than Justin in there but it was still no more than a minute and when he was finally done and walked out, he was in his Riot Swat Suit.
"Dr. Schaller don't you have a suit?"
"No I've never been one to leave the Medical ward. But I could use Dr. Pershall's. his wife would know where it is."
"Then let's get going," Isaac said as he grabbed his Plasma Cutter and his helmet came up and Justin followed suit right after, his helmet coming up.
"Wait!"
"Justin what is it?"
Isaac was ready to open the door to leave as Dr. Schaller was standing n the middle of them.
"The banging."
"What about it?"
"It's stopped! When did it stop?"
"No idea…hmmm…Be careful. We don't know what happened to them."
Justin and Dr. Schaller nodded, but as they made their way toward they door, they heard a sound the resounded in the room. Everyone looked around the room to see where it had come from, but they didn't wait long. Within a minute, a ceiling panel fell down and the tentacles from a lurker shot out, grabbing Dr. Schaller and bringing him up into the vents. His screams could be heard up in the vent until this unusual noise was heard, one that Isaac could only know of and describe as flesh ripping apart. Blood then poured/splattered down from the vent Dr. Schaller went up, and both guys knew that he had been killed.
"Let's get out of here now!"
Isaac and Justin rushed out the door, killing any necromorphs that tried to attack them, heading toward the hanger and cafeteria, praying to run into Ellie or Nicole.
Nicole had just escaped the hanger through the emergency hatch door to the room where they build and fix the escape pods for the ships. Luckily no necromorphs had gotten into this room, yet, through vents or the other couple doors. She was shaking like crazy and out a small bit of relief from the nightmare, she sank down the wall she was leaning against. She grabbed her head with her hands, cradling it, eyes shut tight, as she mumbled, "No, no…" over and over.
'No. no here. Hell no! Not the Ishimura again. No…no…no…please. B-but I have to go find Justin, Isaac, and Ellie.'
Nicole stood up, feeling weak in the knees and still shaking, as she scanned the room for any kind of weapon or anything she could use as a weapon. To her luck, she found a Line Gun, fully charged, and some extra ammo next to it.
'My lucky day huh? Oh the irony…like hell it is. The nightmare part 2.'
Nicole noticed that there wasn't a shop in the room or any med-packs lying around in the room. She was gonna have to be very careful while trying to find others.
'I'll have to be extra cautious in the halls with the necromorphs without any med-packs to heal me if I get hurt right now.'
Nicole went out the door that lead out into the back hallway of the hanger and led to the other ship repair rooms. She proceeded down the hall to her left, hoping to get to the elevator an take it up to the cafeteria then proceed to the Medical Ward.
Ellie wondered around the halls, having only a knife from the cafeteria and a pipe along as well for weapons. So far she had only encountered a few Slashers and a handful of Swarmers. The walls weren't covered in blood as bad as the Sprawl was but it was still a lot. The once white or gray walls were now the deep red color of blood and the smell was just as bad. It reeked of metals/blood and the dead bodies.
'This outbreak seemed to start without a warning and fast. I wonder why. And I wonder how many people got out before being killed…'
Ellie finally turned down a hall and noticed that she was in a residential hallway that was covered in blood and bodies. Some of the bodies all the way in the middle of the hallway, others on their stomachs in the middle of their doorway, seeming to crawl away and escape.
'Oh…my…god. These poor people. I hope some got out, but I highly doubt that when you think about how no one did on Titan, even with a slight warning.'
After looking in a few rooms for a weapon she could use instead of the pipe and knife, you never wanna be up close fighting with a necromorph, too much of an easy kill, she found a door that was open to a residential room and she entered it. But there was something different about this room in a weird way, especially with everything going on. It was…clean. Somehow it wasn't covered in blood, no bodies, just plain and simply clean, simply spotless.
As she walked over to the dresser in the room, she saw numerous pictures. Pictures of a couple. Pictures of…of Nicole and Justin! 2 of just Nicole when she was receiving her pilot and engineering license and one of just Justin getting his license as well. And one picture, from when they were little, had them standing with a blonde little girl with them. She looked to be about the same age as the 2 and was wearing a unitology bracelet.
"Oh my…This is Justin and Nicole's room."
Ellie decided to call Isaac and Justin to tell them where she was at.
"Isaac, Justin, can you hear me?"
"Yes," came Isaac's broken voice from static, "Where are you?"
"I…I am in Justin and Nicole's room."
Justin's voice popped up through the audio transmission asking, "What!?" a bit to loudly.
"Justin quiet down or more necromorphs will come to attack."
"Fuck. Sorry, but Ellie you're in our room? Really?"
"Yes and it is spotless. No blood, bodies or anything else. It seems like no necromorphs have even been in the room. Nothing has been destroyed or even really disturbed. Guess you're lucky."
"Yeah…sure. Its luck. It's not like we can go back there and keep living on a normal life during this outbreak. What is luck is that neither of us were in the room when it all started or we would have been dead. Have you seen anyone alive over there? How do things look?"
"Yeah. But no one is alive and if they are, its because they have turned into necromorphs. The walls, ceiling and floors are covered in blood. The hallway has bodies lying in it, a few coming out of the doorways or still in the beds and rooms. It's brutal."
"Oh wow. We knew everyone in the rooms near us. Some even had…kids."
Ellie gasped, covering her mouth, "No…"
"Ellie!" She heard the shot from a Plasma Cutter go off, "Can you get over here to the Medical ward?!"
"I'm not sure."
"Ellie listen. When you leave our room you have a hall to your right, left and in front of you but slightly to the right, right?"
"Yes. I came from the right."
"Go to the left. That is a direct route to the Medical Ward." More shots resounded through the audio transmission.
"Ellie, can you use your locator to locate where we are at and make your way to us easier than wondering around?" Isaac was the one talking now.
"Yes but I have like no weapons. Well real good ones. I mean, all I have is a knife and a pipe from the cafeteria and that's it."
"Ellie do you see a big square dresser, well night table, to the left of the bed?"
Ellie looked over and saw it; she still cautiously made her way around the room to the big night table. "Yes. I'm right in front of it now."
"Ok. Inside of there is all of the weapons Nicole and I use. Take any that you need so you can use them."
"Ok. Got it."
Ellie grabbed a Plasma Cutter, her weapon of choice much like Isaac, the Line Gun and one new to here, the Flamethrower.
"Ok I got them and I'm heading out to fine you 2. And you should keep moving. I'll find you guys sooner or later. You 2 will be sitting ducks if you stayed there, just keeping your asses in 1 spot."
"Ok. And Ellie? Please be careful."
Ellie softly smiled as she headed out of the room and to her left.
"Same goes to you, you bastard. I don't want to be the one owing you and eye this time."
She heard a chuckle from Isaac and Justin asking "What?" before the audio transmission ended.
After a while of going down the hallway, she came to a part of the hall where the ceiling had collapsed in and had blocked the path to the Medical Ward.
"Isaac?" she spoke into the audio transmission again/
"Yeah?" Static filled the line when he spoke.
"I came to a blocked area in the hall. I am going to have to go around this. I'll keep you posted."
"Ok…*static* Stay safe."
Ellie walked back down the hall a few feet until she reached a hall that extended out to her left. She raised her Plasma Cutter to the ready as she proceeded down the new hallway.
Nicole ran from the door until it was for sure closed and locked without her going near it and re opening.
She had just managed to flee from the cafeteria that was now over run with necromorphs, Slashers, Pukers, Spitters, Lurkers, Leapers and even 1 Brute and Tripod. Only it was the Infectors that gave her the problem, there were so many bodies that were in there that the necromorphs just kept coming at her.
She leaned against the door, glad she was able to escape with her life, even if she had picked up a Plasma Cutter amidst all the war zone fighting. During the fight she had ran out of both Line Gun and Plasma Cutter ammo and her health bar was now flashing red from it. Nicole had been to scared for her life to try to pick up any ammo from the bodies or the bodies of the dead necromorphs she had killed.
'Damn…they are so hard to kill for some reason. There has to be a better way… I know! I'll try to contact Justin and Isaac again.'
Nicole typed in Justin's number, trying to open up a video or audio transmission but it didn't work.
"Fuck," she noticed teeth and slash marks all on her transmitter, "They must have damaged it to where I can use it during the fight. I guess I just have to keep going even slower now."
She proceeded down the hallway and checked in a few rooms for ammo or med-packs but nothing but ammo for anything but ammo for her Line Gun and Plasma Cutter and still no med-packs.
"Great…" she rolled he eyes and turned to the left, considering she had no choice to, and found more rooms. She didn't have a clue as to what these rooms were used for cause she was never over here, but close to the residential because flickering lights near the end or middle of the hall showed a sign reading 'Residential Sector Level 2'.
She then heard, after a few minutes of walking, music coming from a room up the hall and on the right side. There was also a flashing light coming from the room. The music alone creped her out, from her time on the Ishimura, but the lights, they just added to it. As she slowly approached it and looked it she saw that it had been a children's daycare or something the resembled it. The light came from a revolving, yellowish light coved by a lamp shade thing with cut out animals around it. And the music was coming from a small music player.
'Fuck it. This is seriously freaking me out. And why the hell did I find ammo to the Plasma Cutter in the crib?! I better get out of here before…I don't know. Before a baby necromorph pops out.'
Nicole left the room, finally with some ammo and luckily finding one med-pack just on down the hall.
After about 20 minutes of waking she came upon the small open mall that was near residential. She was almost to the door when a bunch of Leapers and a few Slashers came after her. A few randomly ran in the direction she had come in, not that Nicole cared or noticed.
Once Nicole had finished off the necromorphs who were attacking her she grabbed the ammo and med-packs she needed and headed to hack into the doors control panel to manually unlock it.
'Thank god I know how to hack the overrides or else id be dead. Well maybe not dead but out of luck.'
Suddenly as she moved to stand up a shot rang out and narrowly missed her head.
"Ahhh!" Nicole spun around and aimed at whoever or whatever shot at her. "Ellie?!"
Ellie's faced showed that she finally recognized Nicole and slightly lowered her weapon as did Nicole.
"Nicole?"
"Yeah. Oh my god. It is so good to see you Ellie."
Ellie walked over to where Nicole was at. "Yeah. I have been so lost here. It's like one big fucking maze?"
"You mean one bloody ass, body coved and necromorph invaded maze?"
Ellie just chuckled at her half ass attempt to make a joke. "Yeah something like that. Have you talked to Justin or Isaac at all?"
"No. Not since I ran from the hanger. In the cafeteria a few, well a lot, of necromorphs attacked me and severely damaged my transmitter."
"Yeah. We should contact them now."
"Wait. Let's go through the door 1st. In there is a bunch of room that should have been empty and should be safe if and when we kill any necromorphs in there."
"Good plan. I hate being out in the open like this and ready to be attacked at anytime."
Nicole nodded and opened the door so they both could go in and contact the boys.
(A.N. damn that took a while and ps if u get alert that ch 3 is posted I just change the title nothing else from party of the dead to dancing dead. And I hope I could get a few more than just 1 review from Painted7. But check out her story life's short. I love that story and I follow it on da to lol. And everyone elses story who rocks! Lie itanianostephn (sry if I said ur name wrong) and his story (and if ur a girl by chance lol) Dead space: outcast. I LOVE ALL OF YOU GUYS! YOUR AWSOME GIVE ME FEEDBACK LOOL CAPS ATTACK. Im bored so chp 5 up soon ^^ you learn more about Nicole's past)
(A.N. UPDATE tada 4 chapters have been fixed more to come and then chapter 14 in maybe a week or so? ^^ love you guys so much)
