Meh Sorry I did not post sooner I was out all yesterday and most of today. Seeing that it is late, I will cut my author notes short, so without further ado chapter 7 Follow/review.

(Zero)

I threw open the doors of the brig to a dim corridor. It was infested with about twenty or so zombies.

"There are too many for us to kill all of them, follow close behind me shoot the ones that are a little too close for comfort." I instructed Ai. We ran down the hall, smashing in the heads of any zombies in front of me with a cricket bat. Ai shot a few to either side of us.

We reach the end of the corridor, it forks left and right. the zombies we passed approach slowly with additional ones from the right.

"My buster is getting low on power," Ai chimes in. "Shit," I exclaim. Technically it shouldn't be running at all but managed to improvise repair it by some miracle.

"What would we need to keep it powered?" I ask, keeping an eye on the steadily approaching zombies.

"I will need some spare parts from one of their arm busters, and additional energy crystals," she answered.

"Ok, no use hanging out here then," I said motioning at the wall of reanimated reploids heading our way. Without word I grabbed Ai's hand and we bolted down the corridor to the left.

We were unopposed there being no zombies down that one. I looked frantically left and right for any place to duck into to hide as I raced down the ghostly lit hall.

"There!" Ai pointed urgently to a door.

I turned the knob and fortunately it was not locked.

"How old is this place?" I ask myself as we duck into the room. We close the door behind us. The room in front of us is an office.

"I guess we wont find any spare parts here," I sigh to myself.

"At least we wont get ripped limb from limb," Ai says.

"That's true, keep an ear out for footsteps, once they pass we cant leave," I reply.

"Eeeeeeeeenergyyyyyyyyyy," I hear a voice groan.

"Crap," Ai exclaims. Shambles towards us is a damaged pantheon, it was a resistance pantheon that was part of the recon team. I could tell by the band around it's arm with the resistance symbol on it. It outstretched it's arms to grab either one of us. Ai stepped forward and aimed her buster.

She froze.

"Shoot him!" I demand.

The mangled pantheon lunged forward and grabbed her.

She screamed.

"Dumbass!" I shout swinging my cricket bat, cleanly hitting the zombie off of her without harming her.

"Z-zero," stuttered Ai.

The zombie was not dead yet. I hit it once more as it tried to get up, then proceeded to hit it repeatedly in the head with the bat until I heard a crack and it's reaching arm fell limp. It's head split in half, revealing the smashed cpu, spilling clear coolant all over the floor.

I look at the sight with minor disgust. It isn't so different from the many others I have killed, but it is a strange unpleasantness in my gut knowing that this pile of mangled metal and synth-flesh was once my ally.

I hear sobbing.

I look over to see Ai sitting in the corner crying with her head in my hands shivering.

"H-he w-was one of us, why would he turn on us?" She sobbed.

"Ai," I started.

"This is so wrong!" Ai exclaimed. Ai looks up with a renewed fire in her eyes.

"We need to make this monster pay!" she exclaimed. I put a firm hand on her shoulder and look into her crimson eyes, there was almost a glow to them.

"Show me your parts," I demand in a serious tone.

Her face suddenly matched matched the color of her eyes.

"Ehhhh! Z-zero! This isn't t-the time for that!" she stuttered.

"U-unless, he believes we are doomed to die and wants only to spend his last moments as a lover rather than a fighter with the woman he loves. In the case...OMG! He really IS in love with me! How romantic way to go out! *Sigh* My body is ready..." Ai babbles to herself as she faints.

"0_o I-I meant your buster parts..." I stutter.

"Umm...yea...I-I was just kidding..."she sheepishly tries to divert the awkwardness.

"You already proposed to me once, you already looked awkward in the rear view mirror, no need to be embarrassed," I reassure her as I open up the casing of her buster.

"T-thanks," she weakly mutters.

My reassurance still didn't kill the awkwardness for either of us, she knew it, I was just trying to make her feel better about being a dirty pervert.

I take the power coupling from the slain reploid and put is in her buster.

"This should help you keep your buster from wasting all your energy. All we need left is energy crystals to power you," I explain.

"Than-" "Shh!" I interrupt her. We hear footsteps, which shamble past for five minutes. We wait five minutes further to avoid being in their sight.

I peak out of the door to check if the coast is clear. It is, and I signal for Ai to follow and we rush down the hall back the way we came. We go down the path that was originally blocked by zombies.

After a bit of walking we find an elevator. I check to see it is working it is. It opens and three undead burst forward. I kill two quickly with my bat, but the third gets me from behind.

Ai shot it.

"That took a bit out of me," she pants.

"Just a little further c'mon," I say. We get in the elevator.

"What's the plan?" Ai asks.

"Dash for the truck and get the hell out of here," I respond. The elevator opens up to a short set of double doors. We pass through both and are suddenly blinded by the light of day.

My eyes adjust.

"You managed to escape, I guess I will just have you corpse to show the guardians. Not that I am too disappointed by the prospect," a familiar voice growls. It was none other than Anubis floating before us.

"Ai keep back," I growl. I step forward.

(Player)

It was tough fighting with just a cricket bat, facing this boss would be no cake walk. There was no sand in the hangar, so all he did was throw is scepter and summon zombies.

It was tough and sometimes it took more than one hit to drop a zombie. The bat did little to damage Anubis. Zero's health was draining much faster than his.

(Zero)

"Damn! He is tough," I swear aloud. I kill a zombie behind me when a sharp pain struck me from behind. Everything starts fading to black.

"Zeroooooooooooooo," I hear. The last thing I see before losing consciousness was a bright flash of light.

(To be continued)

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