(Scene: BK Two's group)
"Keep running, damn it!" yelled Hansell.
"What do you think I'm doing?" replied Dave.
"Falling behind!" responded Kanade.
The BK Two survivors were fleeing through the woods, attempting to find out the fate of the BK One team. They were still being pursued by both the Specters and Slythers. Kyon was still unconscious and being carried by Dave. Hansell is beginning to feel the side effects of being bitten by the Slyther and the groups' ammunition is running low. Yuki is leading the group to where she believes the signal from the Recon One team is being transmitted.
"How much farther do we got?" asked Meiko. She turned behind her and fired at one of the Slythers that had swooped to close too her. It fell from the sky and tripped up some of the pursuing Specters.
Yuki was silent for a moment. "Something's wrong."
At that moment the forest light up with an unnatural light. A lighting bolt had struck the ground not too far from them. The woods began to burn with a black flame. They were surrounded by fire. The Specters were on the outside with the Slythers. Their gunfire could still be heard. The group was trapped.
The group stopped cold in their tracks and formed a circle out looking into the flames. Dave had layed Kyon in the center of the group to protect them and so he wouldn't be encumbered.
"Now what?" asked Kanade.
"Something approaches," replied Yuki hefting her rifle and staring down the sights. As she said that lighting flashed within the group and they all jumped back. Smoked filled the air. When it cleared a burning decayed beast stared at the group.
"What the fu-" said Hansell before he was cut off by multiple flashes of lighting. More of the beasts appeared.
"Hellhounds," said Dave. He calmly pulled out his broadsword and took up a fighting stance.
Yuki didn't say anything. Her response was to begin firing on the Hellhounds. On the other side of the flames it was apparent that the Specters were also in trouble. The sounds of their screams echoed in the woods.
"Fire!" yelled Kanade.
The group opened fire on the Hellhounds. Since the flames surrounded them, they didn't have much room to maneuver. The group all backed up to each others back. They concentrated their fire and began taking out the Hellhounds but no matter how many they took out more appeared.
"This is hopeless," panted Hansell. He was growing weary. He could feel his wounded arm decaying, yet he pressed on. He had ran out of ammo, so he tossed a grenade. "Frag out!" he yelled.
The grenade rolled out and one of the Hellhounds devoured it. It exploded, yet it appeared to have no effect.
"Impressive," noted Dave as he thrusted his broadsword into one Hellhound and shot at another one with his sub-machine gun.
"You can study them AFTER we get out of here," yelled Meiko as she engaged her own Hellhound with her katanas. She weaved a deadly dance with her blades trying to block the Hellhound, but every time she repulsed it, it hopped back for more.
The Hellhounds relentlessly pursue the survivors through the woods.
Somebody screamed out. It was Hansell. The Hellhound that he was fighting with his knife had penetrated his defenses and had bitten his bad arm.
"Damn it!" he yelled. Sensing his weakness the other Hellhounds disengaged and began to swarm around him. A loud clang rang out.
"Whoo! I'm back in the game!" yelled Kyon. He had finally awoken and had already bashed in the head of one of the Hellhounds with his frying pan. His sniper rifle was destroyed when the chopper crashed so all he had was his frying pan and his sawed off shotgun to fight. "So what's going on, guys?" he asked as he bashed in the head of another Hellhound.
"Just look around!" yelled Kanade as she shot at the Hellhounds approaching Hansell.
Kyon did as such. "Oh."
"We have to go now. The others are in trouble." said Yuki. She held a Hellhound up in the air by it's throat. With a squeeze of her hand, she crushed its throat and tossed it aside, knocking another Hellhound over with it.
"And just how are we going to do that?" asked Dave. Yuki nodded over to Hansell who had caught her eye.
"Hell... Freaking typical," sighed Hansell. "You guys go ahead, I got this." he replied as he tried to fight off the swarming Hellhounds. He ran off through the flames and the Hellhounds followed. The clothing that he wore was fire retardant so he was not effected by the flames.
"Hansell!" yelled Meiko attempting to run after him, but she was tackled to the ground by Kyon.
"He knew what he had to do, Meiko." said Kyon picking her up off the ground.
Once again Meiko slapped his hand away. She stormed over to Yuki. "How could you let him sacrifice himself like that? Haven't we lost enough people already?" Tears began to form in her eyes by she forced them down.
"He was turning," replied Yuki emotionlessly. "When the Slyther bit him, it was already over for him. It is better for him to die as he lived rather than running away from the inevitable.
Meiko turned away. She couldn't look at Yuki in the eye.
"This is all good and dandy, but there is still the issue of us being surrounded by these searing flames. It's a nice view, but I believe there are other pressing issues at the moment." said Dave looking around him.
Yuki began to say something very quiet and rapidly to herself. Nobody else could catch what she was saying. A few moments later it began to rain and the flames began to die down.
The group looked at Yuki. She looked back.
"What a coincidence, right Yuki?" asked Dave
Yuki didn't respond to his question. "We must continue." she said instead.
"She's right, let's go." said Kanade, and with that the group gathered themselves up and continued to press forward into the woods.
Meanwhile Hansell was fighting to hang on to the little life that he had left. He was running through the woods followed closely by the Hellhounds when suddenly he stopped. "Hasn't something like this happened before?" he thought to himself as he struggled to recall movies. He finally remembered the one. "Yep, that one." "You want my blood? Come take it!" he roared. He pulled out all the pins on the grenades he had on him and charged head first into the Hellhounds. He jumped into the air and the Hellhounds leaped up to meet him. Moments later a huge fire ball engulfed the area. Hansell and rest of the Hellhounds around him were gone.
Soon the BK Two crew came upon a large structure in the woods. There was only one door, but it was sealed shut.
"Yuki, is this the place?" asked Meiko.
"Not exactly, but it should take us to where we need to go." she replied.
"How are we going to get in there?" asked Kyon looking around for another entrance.
Dave had wandered off to look around. He found a vent on one of the walls. He walked back to group and told them to follow him. When they reached the vent they looked at it quizzically.
"A tight fit."
"In there? Isn't that kinda of a tight fit?" asked Kanade.
"Do you see any other entrances?" asked Dave.
"We don't have time for this, the others are probably in danger, we need to go now." said Kyon. With his pistol he shot off the bolts holding the vent in place and climbed in. He crawled in.
"Well?" he asked.
Kanade sighed. "Let's go."
And with that the group climbed into the vent and began to make their way into the facility.
Back at BK One's position, things were beginning to look grim.
"Just how many of these things are there?" asked Storm as she fired round after round into the zombies following them down the hallway.
"Considering the size of this place, I'd say a few hundred. Nothing we can't handle of course," said Dugger as he German Suplexed one zombie on its head and immediately roundhouse kicked two more off their feet. He caught back up with the group.
Recon One's remains
"This place is huge." remarked Sven. He sighted down his rifle and fired. Since they were going down a large corridor, there really was no need to aim, his round took out several zombies in a straight row.
The group had penetrated the facility and were searching the place room by room, looking for the IFF tag from the Recon One solider. The place was filled with undead scientists, guards, and other experiments that went amok when the power systems failed. Their ammunition was also running low, but with the goal in sight, the group remained postive about the situation.
"Hey, what's that ahead?" asked Khalid. His pike was dripping wet with blood.
"Looks like an elevator. Think it works?" asked Shawn.
"Only one way to find out." replied Dugger.
He went over to press the button and it lit up. The numbers flashed by, but at that moment a loud roar filled the air.
"What is this, Left 4 Dead?" thought Dugger to himself.
"Brace for an assault! The horde is coming! We have to hold out until the elevator reaches our floor. Take up defensive positions. Sven, you stand in the back as over watch. Khalid you got the front. Storm, Shawn, and I will defend the flanks. Hold fire until I say so," ordered Dugger. The group took up positions as the roar from the horde grew louder. Soon the first of the horde began to come into sight. It was being lead by a large mutated creature. It was not a regular zombie.
"What the hell is that?" asked Storm.
"A freaking Tyrant," replied Sven. "They just let everything out didn't they?"
Tyrant
"I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't start getting Lickers and Boomers around here..." replied Dugger. "Everybody else hold your positions. Me and Khalid will take this thing on. Open fire!"
As the survivors opened fire on the regular zombies, Dugger and Khalid ran forward to take the Tyrant out. Dugger knew that regular gunfire wouldn't affect the Tyrant and explosions were too dangerous to use in such an enclosed location.
Dugger jumped through the air and Khalid slid low. They both already drawn their weapons and brought them down on the Tyrant as gunfire from the other survivors rained down on the regular zombies.
The Tyrant turned his huge clawed hand and swiped at Dugger. Dugger ducked low and slashed at it's arm. He cut it deeply, but the wound regenerated. Meanwhile Khalid had gotten behind the Tyrant and began to engage the zombies around him to buy Dugger some space. He swung mightily and created a gap of redead corpses. He simply jumped on top of their bodies began to engage the others. At the same time Dugger continued to duel with the Tyrant. Dugger slashed and hacked at the Tyrant while avoiding it's mighty attacks, but none of the blows that Dugger managed to land seem to have any effect since they just kept regenerating.
"That's how you want to do it, huh?" said Dugger stabbing his knife into the Tyrant's head. The Tyrant reached up and grabbed Dugger around the waist with one clawed hand. Dugger flexed and tried mightily to break free, but the Tyrant's grasp was too strong, when suddenly the entire arm came off and fell to the ground with Dugger still in it's grasp. Sven had seen that Dugger was in trouble, so with some extremely well place shots, shot off the Tyrants arm. Dugger pulled the claws apart and saw the Tyrant in it's weakened state. The Tyrant was attempting to regenerate it's arm, but due to the extent of the damage inflicted, it would take some time. So Dugger pulled out one of his grenades and shoved it in the open wound of the Tyrant.
"Get down!" yelled Dugger. Khalid heard the shout but had no time to react, so with his pike he impaled one zombie and turned it around facing the Tyrant. It would be a meat shield. The grenade exploded, creating a pink mist that covered everybody. When all the bloody particles cleared up, the remainder of the other zombies had also went down with the explosion. Dugger went to go check on the others.
"A bloody mess."
"Whoo! What a blast!" said Sven admiring the dirty work.
"Ew." said Storm attempting to brush some of the gore off of her.
"That was awesome!" said Shawn, sheathing his bloody katana.
"Um... Where's Khalid?" asked Dugger looking around at the bloody mess.
Something started to move under a pile of zombie parts.
"Looks like one's still alive, I got it." said Shawn aiming at the movement.
"No!" yelled Dugger.
From beneath the gore rose a shape. It shook itself off. It was Khalid. "That was probably the most disturbing thing that I've ever experienced." He shuddered and with that shudder shook off some of the gore that plastered his body. "I'm going to need a long shower after this," he said. At that moment the doors to the elevator ding opened.
"What do you know." replied Dugger.
Sven laughed. "I know, right."
"Ladies first," said Khalid gesturing towards the door.
"How sweet," replied Storm sarcastically. She stepped into the elevator when the top of it burst down and a body fell on her. She screamed. The others ran to her.
Dugger checked the body. It was one of the Recon One soldiers. Not much remained to identify the body, but from the remains of it's neck Dugger saw that he still had his dog tags on.
Private Jenkins it read.
"Well, at least we know we are going to right way," replied Dugger placing the tags in his pocket. "Going down." He pressed the button and they descended into the depths.
The elevator finally reached the bottom of it's journey after what seemed like hours. The doors dinged open. They were in a huge carnivorous storage bay. The walls were lined with capsules filled with green liquid. Within them floated huge mutated creatures. Tyrants. At the very end of the storage there was a dark red light. It appeared to be a gate way of sorts. The group looked around. On the wall to the right there was a computer mainframe set up.
"That appears to be the portal!" exclaimed Storm.
The Portal
"Khalid, work your magic!" said Dugger.
"I'm on it." he replied and went over to the computer. He pressed a few keys when suddenly he felt something behind him.
"And just what do you think you're doing?" said a unnaturally voice.
"Yo-" Khalid was thrown across the room before he could even finish his statement.
"You've finally reached me. It took you long enough, although I wish you all would just die already." said Nightbane.
"This ends here, Nightbane!" yelled Dugger and Sven simultaneously.
"I think not." Nightbane gestured with his clawed hand and before him hundreds of zombies and creatures began to pour through the portal. "Prepare yourselves."
Dugger grinned, "Let's do this!"
The group dashed forward to engage with Nightbane and his minions. Dugger engaged with Nightbane directly and Shawn, Sven, and Storm began to fight with the creatures that he had summoned.
The elevator doors dinged open and gunfire erupted from it. Black Knight Two had joined the fight.
Yuki ignored the others and rushed over to the computer.
Kyon dashed forward and began swinging his frying pan like no tomorrow. "Together again!" he yelled.
Dugger who was busy fighting with Nightbane could not respond, he was focused solely on Nightbane.
Meiko leaped through the air and joined in the fray. She immediately assisted Dugger in his fight.
Kanade and Storm went back to back and started to pour fire into the zombies.
Sven and Shawn had pulled out their swords and were cutting large swaths through the zombies.
Dave once again went over to Yuki's side to cover her back.
"Is that all you've got?" said Nightbane easily parrying both Dugger's and Meiko's attacks with his broadsword. They didn't even reply, they just intensified their attack. They slashes and stabbed and cut and swung, but none of their attacks had any effect. They could not penetrate his defenses. Despite that, they fought on. Because they knew if they failed, the others would not be able to fight him off.
Over by the computer, Yuki was typing up a storm, trying to breach the system security systems. Dave was busy holding off the zombies that were trying to drag Yuki off the computer.
"How's it coming over there?" asked Dave. He slashed the head off of one zombie and kicked another through the chest.
"Not good." she replied. She continued to search through the system. She found something and began typing in a password. Rejected. She tried again. Rejected. She tried once more. Accepted. Security systems removed. Portal unstable. Restraints unleashed. Security off line.
Alarms began to blare. All of the Tyrants in the capsules lining the wall began to stir. They burst out of their containment chambers.
"Yuki!" yelled Dave. "What did you do?"
"This." replied Yuki. She entered in a long stream of characters. A symbol flashed on the computer. It flashed a few more times and then it shut down. The room went dark and all of the fighting died down. The computer spoke.
Black Onyx - Code Red Biological 2010_ Weapon Disposal Order 495... Unlocked.
The portal flashed and something passed through it. Nightbane roared.
"What have you done? You'll kill us all!"
A sinister laugh could be heard. It echoed though the room. It sent chills down every living spine in the room. Through the darkness strange multi-colored lights could be seen flying around...
"I've got a bad feeling about this," remarked Dave.
