Author's Note: Sorry for the wait, work is just demanding more of my time. enjoy.

There was nothing but silence after what Jake said. It shocked them to know that the creator was right in front of them. Jake kept aiming at him, "he started this…that's why he has to go."

Nobody spoke after this, so Jake turned his sights back to the leopard ready to pull the trigger. "Stop!" Fox yelled. Surprisingly Jake did and turned to him. "Even if he started this he might be able to fix this."

The leopard nodded, "I know I can, just give me a chance and put the gun down."

Jake spoke, "you had your chance, and you're not getting another." He finger started to pull the trigger but stopped when he heard loud banging sounds.

Everyone heard and shined their lights at the source of the sounds. Just then the roof collapsed and something hit the ground in a cloud of dust. Once it cleared the lights reveled a one of the Skulls. Jake noticed this, "Skull! Kill It!"

The Skull thrust his tentacles, which made everyone jump out of the way. Fox rolled to his feet and fired his blaster at him, but the Skull jumped and wrapped his tentacles around the pipes above. It started moving fast. Jake responded by loading his gun-mounted grenade launcher with a frag. He aimed and fired but missed when the creature moved. The explosion caused a couple of pipes to break and caused water to flow out. Everyone fired but missed as it moved fast on the ceiling. It broke one of the pipes of and threw it at them; they all dodged but were unprepared when it spat some green substance at them. Everyone noticed and dodged in time, but Eric was quick enough as it hit him. Eric fell back in one of the holes that had water in it and stopped moving. "Eric!" Fox yelled.

"Fox look out!" Wolf yelled.

Fox looked and saw the creature on the ground and had thrust his tentacles at him. Fox moved but they ended up slashing his arm, cutting it in the process. Fox moved back as he held his arm, he looked at it and saw a bit of blood coming out.

Jake then took the chance and fired multiple shots at the head. The shots hit successfully and the Skull started stumbling back. Just then the leopard came from behind and stabbed it with something and then ran. A couple of seconds later something exploded on the Skull and it fell to the ground motionless. Everyone was surprised at what happened. Nobody but Wolf walked closer and check the creature. He sighed in relief as he holstered his weapon. He walked backed to the others, "It's dead."

Everyone was at ease after hearing that. The leopard the walked up to the group, "you guys alright?"

Everyone but Jake answered. "I'm good but it slashed Fox's arm," Wolf said.

Fox spoke, "there's some blood but nothing that bad."

"What did you do to that thing?" Wolf asked.

"Small bomb I made. Wait what happened to that other guy?" the leopard asked.

Fox then remembered, "Eric!" He turned and ran over to where he was. He found him on the ground, in a hole with water, and he was shaking and breathing unsteadily. Fox kneeled down at him, "Eric what's wrong?"

Eric had trouble speaking, "P…pain…to…much…pain."

Just then Wolf and the leopard came over. The leopard saw this; "Get him out of the water!" They looked at him confused, "Get him out of there!" after that Fox and Wolf then dragged Eric out of the water. The leopard went to his side and checked Eric. "The infection has already grew half way."

Fox spoke, "how do you know uhh…"

"Greg, my name's Greg. We need to get him to a treatment pod, there's one nearby if we can get to it then we can save him." just then he looked over at Jake, "are you going to let me live for at least that long?"

Jake didn't say anything but grunted. With that Fox and Wolf lifted Eric and followed Greg.

Jason moaned as he started to open his eyes. He was surprised he saw the train wreckage in front of him. "You're awake!" he heard a voice say.

He turned his head and saw where the voice came from, "Sarah?"

Sarah crouched in front of him, "are you ok?"

Jason then tried to stand but felt a little weak in his legs, so he sat back down, "legs feel a little weak."

Just then Alex came over, "is he ok?"

Jason turned to him, "Alex?"

He also crouched next to him and looked him over; "well there seems to be no injuries, so that's good."
"The others?" he asked.

Alex spoke, "They're fine just…" he was interrupted when he heard groaning coming from the others. They turned and saw them all starting to wake up.

Nick shook his head and looked around, "man what happened?"

Amy then spoke, "you all must have been knocked out by the explosion of the train."

Jason looked at her, "who are you?"

Alex answered, "That's Amy, she's one of the scientist here."

Jason didn't say anything as started to stand up again, since he had some more strength in his legs. Nate then spoke, "how long were we out?"

"Not that long," Sarah answered.

Jason then remembered and looked around, "where's Fox?"

Alex spoke, "well the train wreckage separated you guys, and the rest of them went further on."

"How do you know?" Mike asked.

Alex waved his PDA at them and they understood. "What should we do now?" Jason asked.

"It's best we try to regroup with Fox and the others."

"Ok but where…" he was interrupted when they heard sounds of skittering. "What's that!"

Only Amy knew what it was and started backing up, "leeches…" They all looked at her confused. She explained, "Those small leech things that attacked you guys earlier."

Everyone remembered and grabbed their weapons.

"Where to?" Nick asked.

"Follow me," Sarah said as she walked back to the opening as everyone followed.

Greg opened a door to a storage room and walked in with the others following. Wolf turned on the light, illuminating the room. There was nothing but shelves, boxes, couple of benches and a machine that looked like a pod with a computer next to it. Greg went to the computer, "Put him inside there." Referring to the pod. They did, they opened the glass cover and placed Eric in it. Greg then turned to them, "do one of you guys have one of the vials?"

They were silent for a second but then Fox remembered and reached into his pocket, "This?" he held out the purple glowing vial.

"Yes," Greg said taking it and putting it into a small opening on the machine. He looked back at Eric for a sec. He was now struggling for air, shaking violently, and twitching. He then hit one last button and the machine turned on. "There this'll help him."

"What does this do?" Wolf asked.

"This injects the substance in that vial into his body, killing any trace of the virus." They all looked back at Eric and saw he stopped twitching, shaking and started to breath normally. "This should take about another minute." He then looked back at Fox's arm and saw it was still bleeding. He took out a roll of bandage from his pocket and tossed it to him, "here, you should get that wrapped."

Fox caught it and started wrapping his arm, "thanks."

Greg then relished something, "I'm not really sure, but I think you should use the pod after your friend."

"Why?"

"I'm not really sure but I think when your arm was slashed some trace of the virus might have entered your bloodstream. I'm not really sure, but better be safe then sorry."

Fox understood and nodded, "alright but I don't have another vial."

Greg then looked over at Jake, who was leaning against a nearby wall, "do you have anymore?" Jake didn't speak as he glared at Greg. "Come on do you?" he still didn't say anything as he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out another vial and tossed it to him. Greg caught it as he heard a beep coming from the machine.

Wolf opened the glass cover as it stopped. Eric slowly climbed out but had trouble standing. Fox helped him and walked him over to one of the nearby benches and sat him down. "How are you feeling?"

"A bit weak in my legs but I'm fine...all the pain is gone." Eric then turned to Greg, "thanks, but why do my legs feel weak?"

"Small side effect from the treatment but don't worry it'll pass in a couple of minutes." He then turned to Fox, "your turn."

Fox nodded as he approached the machine and climbed in. he laid down as the cover closed. He watched as Greg pressed some buttons and then heard a hissing sound. Fox then felt small, but painless, stings in his torso, arms, and legs. He then felt something being injected into the areas. He was surprised to feel what pain in his arm disappear. After a minute it was done and the machine stopped. A couple a seconds after the cover was opened he climbed out but his body felt a little weak from it. Wolf then helped him over to the bench where Eric is sitting. He sat down and looked up when Greg spoke, "There you two will be fine now. What are your names again?"

Wolf spoke, "I'm Wolf that's Fox, Eric, and…"

Greg stopped him when he pointed to Jake, "I know who he is." He was a bit scared to look back at him.

"Now that we're safe you can answer some of are questions," Fox said.

"I'll try to answer what ever I can."

"How could you create the virus, what were you thinking?"

Greg sighed, "It wasn't suppose to do this, it was intestinally meant to be a cure for a disease."

"What happened?" Wolf asked.

He stayed silent for a bit, "I…I mixed a chemical and a virus which was made to reconstruct DNA molecules, thus getting rid of the disease that was pledging the host…But…something went wrong. I tested it out on a leech and recorded its DNA structure. It changed abnormally and mutated it, making it grow in size and making it deadly. I then knew that this mutation was dangerous and I had to stop. But the test subject escaped and started infecting others. Slowly everyone started to get infected and it created the situation that's happening now."

They were silent after hearing that but then Fox spoke, "then how was a cure made?"

"Before the outbreak I was able to study the mutation and figure out a way kill the virus. So I was able to synthesis a cure, but unfortunately I was only able to make it to when it kills the virus before it completely took over the host's DNA cells. I didn't have a enough time to make one for a fully mutated host."

Wolf then asked, "What have you been doing most of this time?"

"I've been trying to complete the main cure, the one that'll cure a fully mutated host. But things have been going slow."

Eric then spoke, "how fast does it take for the virus to take over the host?"

"It varies on how badly you're infected at first. But if your body is exposed to Hydrogen Oxide the process goes faster."

"Hydrogen Oxide?"

"Water. The virus can't grow unless it's in the presents of water, it doesn't help that the body is mainly composed of water. With out it the virus is harmless. So Eric that's why you were in so much pain, because when you were in the pool of water it accelerated the growth."

"Is there anyway we can prevent this from spreading any further?"

he nodded, "There might, if I can create the main cure I can filter it through the vents so that once it makes contact it'll enter the mutants and destroys the virus."

Everyone understood, Wolf then looked over at Jake, "if he could do all this they why try to kill him?"

Jake stayed silent for a bit, "because I believe his plans won't work and it'll get everyone kill, including me. So he's useless to me."

"They why are you letting me live right now?" Greg asked.

Jake looked at him, "would you like it if I kill you now?"

He just backed up and looked back to the others, "I'm going to need help with it if…"

Suddenly the lights went off in the room. Everyone then turned on their flashlights and looked around, wondering what's going on. "What's happening!" Eric asked.

Wolf went to the nearby door and looked out, "the lights are off outside too!"

Jake then thought of something, "oh no…they got into the main generator…the electricity is out!"

A/N: Hope you like, i tried hard trying to explain things. hope none of you got confused. Next one will be out soon.