Chapter 6

Ferb drove the APC, loaded with marines to the atmosphere processing station, where Apone led the team inside the building. In the APC, Phineas, Gorman, Burke and Ferb watched the monitor screens from the marines perspective. They walked through the building, to the location of the PDT's of the colonists. They walked down a long flight of stairs, and instantly saw a problem. There was a strange, sticky, fleshy substance on the walls.

Gorman: What is that stuff?

Hudson: You tell me, man, I only work here.

Burke: Ever seen that stuff before?

Phineas: No. I've never seen this substance before.

The team was looking at the dead bodies all over the floor.

Hicks: Jesus. What happened to these people? They've been either decapitated or dismembered.

Phineas: Gorman, what do those Pulse Rifles fire? Mine were motorized plasma rounds.

Gorman: Mine are 10 mm explosive caseless rounds on an electronic cycle. Why?

Phineas: Burke, these schematics would make that location most likely the primary heat exchanger right?

Burke: Of course. What I think Phineas is getting at is that those rounds might blow apart one of the cooling towers, and this whole place would detonate with the force of a thermonuclear explosion. Then, adios muchachos.

Gorman: Oh great. Great. Perfect! Uh, look we can't have any firing in their. Apone I want you to collect all pulse rifle rounds and smart gun clips.

Hicks: What are we supposed to use? Foul language?

Gorman: Flame units only. And no grenades.

Hudson: Is he fucking crazy?!

Apone: Come on you heard the man.

Apone collected all the Pulse rifle mags and grenades. He also took the clips from Vasquez and Drake's smart guns, but they secretly clipped new ones in. Hicks kept back his flame unit and brought out a shotgun.

Hicks: I keep this handy for close encounters.

They walked through the halls, ever alert of what could come at them. They saw a dead body in the distance, when a massive, manta ray-like creature flew over the body, injecting a proboscis into the body's head. After a few seconds, it retracted and the creature flew away. The body began to convulse and shake as long, bladed arms began to grow from its back and it's body began to rearrange. It stood upwards and slowly walked towards the group, barely keeping its balance. Then it charged forward. The marines wasted no time lighting the creature on fire all at once, soon bringing it down. Then, the motion tracker began to go off.

Hudson: Oh shit. Movement. Multiple signals!

Apone: Infra-red on!

Everyone put on thermal goggles, but it didn't work, because everything was still giving off body heat.

Dietrich: This isn't going to work. Everything's got heat.

A head behind her slowly came to life, and a large tentacle came out, swiping away to decapitate her. Her head fell off and she accidentally squeezed the trigger to her flame unit, lighting frost on fire, as he fell down a chute. The fire lit the bag of magazines, causing a massive explosion that killed Wierzbowski and Crowe. A large swarm of necromorphs began to attack them. Slashers, Pukers, Leapers, Stalkers, and Pregnants. Gorman could only see the cameras swirling all over the place.

Gorman: Jesus Christ, Apone what is going on?!

Apone: We're under attack!

Vasquez: Let's rock!

Vasquez began to fire her Smartgun at the coming necromorphs.

Gorman: What's that?! I ordered no fire with guns.

Phineas: Now might be a good time to get them out of there, Gorman.

Gorman: I'll handle this. Apone I want you to lay down suppressive fire with the incinerators.

Apone: Come again? I can't read you.

Gorman: I want you to lay down suppressive fire with the incinerators.

A Leaper jumped from the ceiling and killed Apone.

Gorman: Apone? Apone!

Hudson: Sergeant's dead! Let's get the fuck out of here!

Phineas: Get them out of there! Do it now!

Gotman: Sorry kid, but I've got adult problems to handle right now.

Phineas: Ok. That's it.

Phineas ran to the driver's seat and sat in Ferb's place after strapping Newt in.

Gorman: Phineas, what the hell are you doing?!

Gorman ran up to the front and tried to get Phineas off the wheel, but Ferb stopped him.

Ferb: Sit down, Gorman, you had your chance.

Phineas drove into the base, while inside the marines were still getting attacked by the necromorphs. Phineas drove the APC through the wall, behind the marines.

Hicks: MARINES! WE ARE LEAVING!

Everyone ran aboard the APC with Drake in the rear, firing at the necrmorphs to no avail. From the door, Vasquez fired on a Pregnant next to Drake, and the frog creatures began to swarm his body.

Vasquez: NO!

They tried to shut the door, but it was forces open by a Stalker. Hicks grabbed his shotgun and shove it down its throat.

Hicks: Eat this!

He blew it back with the shotgun and closed the door.

Hudson: Get us out of here!

Phineas drove the APC out of the base with the Necromorphs close behind. One of them jumped through the windshield and tried to attack Phineas. He stopped the APC, throwing off the creature, and then ran it over. He continued to drive forward, and after a while Hicks came in.

Hicks: Kid. Ease down! We're ok. Ease down. Ease down.

Phineas slowly screeched the APC to a halt.