Chapter 10 Into the Depths:
Old bunker 9:50 A.M.:
Balto was now in the old bunker complex and it seemed extremely spooky there was not much light. The only light sources there were old red emergency light and floodlights powered by some generators. How those things were still running Balto didn't knew and he didn't care either he only cared about finding the antidote and getting out of here.
First everything seemed normal. Balto found a sign saying B labs on level -2 "Great now I need to go even deeper in this place. Balto said. At first sights everything looked normal, but then Balto saw it. It was hard to see when standing where he stood, but he had seen it.
A red glow when he looked closer he saw that it wasn't an emergency light, but that it was a red colored cloud smoke where you could see through.
'This needs to be that virus Jack and Tyrant had it about,' Balto thought in himself. 'Jack this virus you injected in me better works,' Balto thought in himself before walking in the smoke To his relief he didn't feel a burning pain as he had felt the night before. He didn't even seem to have breathing trouble. 'It seems to work for now in any case,' Balto thought in himself.
He continued his walk through level -1 to search for a way into level -2. He was happy he had the virus in him now because it seemed that this level was full of this red colored smoke which he thought to be escaped N-virus. Balto was walking through the hallways when suddenly he heard something it came from the way he had come from and it sounded like something big.
'Perhaps it is that creature they spoke about,' Balto thought in himself as he searched for a place to hide from it. He had luck and he found an air vent with a broken grid. He crawled himself into the vent until he was sure that even if he was discovered the creature wouldn't be able to reach him.
He head the footsteps come closer and then he saw two giant fore and hind legs passing by, but these things unlike any other dog/wolf claws that he guessed the creature was seeing the creature body build these claws were massive. These claws reminded him off the claws he had seen on a velociraptor in a documentary over dinosaurs rather than any wolf/ dog claws he had ever seen.
Balto knew one thing and that was that those claws would rip through meat like a butcher knife. 'God help me if that thing has such claws and it also seems to be extremely muscular and god knows how his teeth look like,' Balto thought in himself.
He decided that it would perhaps be smarter to crawl through the vents for a little bit longer. The vents were full with dust and cobwebs, but he rather fought a few spiders then whatever that thing outside was. When Balto saw an opening on the other end he wanted to crawl towards it, but suddenly he heard a loud cracking sound. He looked down and saw the iron underneath him was bowing
'Oh shit,' Balto thought in himself before he fell together with a part of the vent down. Balto scanned his surroundings to make sure that that creature wasn't in the area when he suddenly spotted a sign with -2 on it. 'Well, I guess that takes care off one thing,' Balto thought by himself before standing back up.
He slowly walked to the end of the hallway and looked left there he saw that there was a huge crack in the floor. "Guess, that leads to level -3 so not the way I need to go. Then he looked to the right and saw that it was a dark hallway that gave him the creeps.
'Before I go there I first wan to check the other optiooons,' Balto thought in himself while turning around there he saw that the creature was sniffing at the vent he fell through. 'Oh shit, Dark creepy hallway here I come,' Balto thought before taking off in the hallway.
"I can't see anything in this stupid hallway," Balto silently cursed. When suddenly he didn't feel any floor anymore underneath him and he fell into the dark depth underneath him.
Meanwhile in the Delta cave:
Delta's two, three and four arrived again in the prisoners room. All the looks where suddenly turned on them and then Jenna asked. "Is he alright?"
"We don't know. He is in the Depths now and there situations can change very fast," Delta four answered.
"Where is Jack," Aleu asked.
"He stayed behind to make sure that they don't try and kill your father when he comes back up," Delta four responded.
"What now," Dakota asked.
"Now we wait and hope that your father gets out alive," Delta three said. It was a while quiet in the cave until the three Delta's tried to make some more contact with some girls. Delta four laid himself next to Kiona and Delta three did the same thing with Saba while Delta two laid himself next to Emerald.
Dakota and Alexandria were already laying next to each other together with Kodi and Dusty.
"So where do you actually come from," Delta two asked to emerald.
"I am from a pack that my people and other wolf called the two lake pack because our territory was between two lakes," Emerald said sadly.
"I am sorry about your people, but please believe me when I say we Delta's and Charlie's had nothing to do with that we didn't even knew of their plan," Delta two said. "Don't be you guy are not the ones who caused this. Those Alpha's did," Emerald said.
"You know it has been a long time ago that I ever talked about things like this. Normally seen when the Alpha's or Beta's or both do things like this I don't even care anymore," Delta two said.
"Why," Emerald asked.
"Guess, I am getting used to them doing stuff like that," Delta two said. "I don't think about it a lot because I can't do anything to stop them," Delta two said.
"Did you ever try," Emerald asked curiously.
"No, I did not I always was too scared of their punishments. Their punishments are to say the least extremely cruel sometimes you need to be happy that you can still walk after some of their punishments," Delta two said with a hint of fear in his voice.
"Did anyone ever stand up against that Tyrant guy," Emerald suddenly asked. All three Delta's lowered their head in shame and all three said in unison.
"No, pure breed Delta ever did," Emerald was just about to lower her head again, but then Delta two said. "But Delta one did. On multiple occasions even."
"I thought you said no pure breed Delta ever did," Aleu said.
"Indeed, but my brother isn't a pure breed Delta," Alexandria said. "I am an Alpha and he is an super Alpha," Alexandria continued.
"Yeah, He mentioned that in that quarrel he had with Tyrant over you but I assumed that super alpha was just the rank of a leader over a dog class," Dingo said. You are an Alpha, but you are so nice and careful while those other Alpha's are," Dakota said.
"Jerks," Alexandria finished.
"Yeah you said it," Dakota said.
"It just lies in my nature to be kind and the humans did different tests on me than on them," Alexandria said.
"That's why Alexandria is so sweet and nice and those others are jerks," Delta three said.
"Yes, but anyway a super Alpha is a dog who was in a special program called the super Alpha program. There were three different super Alpha's and they all had three different abilities," Delta two said.
"one is Tyrant his ability is that he is incredibly strong," Delta four said.
"The second one is Charlie one also called Radulf his ability is that he can get way older than any normal dog or wolf," Delta three said.
"And the last one is Delta one his name is Jack like you guys probably know by now. His ability is that he is way smarter than any normal dog or wolf he even equals some scientists their IQ." Delta two said. These three are the super Alpha's and were meant to rule our pack together, but that didn't work out," Delta two said sadly.
"Why not," Dusty asked.
"Because Jack was born as an albino and the Alpha's and Beta's did not want to accept an albino as an leader. And Radulf is too old to fight Tyrant alone, but the Alpha's and Beta's will never accept a loss by the hands of an albino or with the help of an albino," Delta four explained.
"And that is why things are like they are today," Alexandria said more as an statement then as a an question.
"Yes," Delta two said sadly.
"We should get you guys some food," Delta three said as he stood up together with the other two Delta's.
When they were out of the cave Jenna said. "You know perhaps these guys aren't as bad as we thought they were."
"Yeah, the way I see it they are getting oppressed by those Alpha's and Beta's too," Bryan said.
"I agree. These guys are forced into doing what they do," Lana said earning some approving nods from the others. A couple of minutes later the three Delta's came back with some other Delta's carrying full food and water bowls.
"Here it's not great food, but it is food," Delta two said.
"the water is delicious," Delta three added before they set it down before the prisoners and the other Delta's left. Everyone took a few small bites and found the food distasteful and they frowned when they needed to swallow it.
Then they saw that the three Delta's were eating like their lives depended on it. "Wow, you guys were hungry if you managed to eat this," Saba said awestruck.
"You get used to it if this is all you eat besides a few exceptions," Delta three said. Everyone starred with open mouths to the three Delta's.
"Is this everything you guys eat," Kiona asked.
"well, we do have the choice between this or the other bag, but it's just as tasteless as this," Delta four said.
"I know that sometimes Jack got us some caribou, but then he became focused on his plans and well we just followed him and forgot about getting some other food," Delta three said.
"What are his plans actually," Aleu asked.
"We honestly don't know. No one does. He just explains every time what we need to do and we do it," Delta two said.
"What are you guys real names anyway," Aleu asked curiously.
"My real name is Sam," Delta two said.
"My real name is Max," Delta three said.
"My real name is Vincent," Delta four said. The three seemed very nervous revealing their real names.
"Why are you guys so nervous revealing your names to us," Lana asked.
"This is the first time we ever told someone our real names we normally go just by our rank name," Delta four said. Everyone was awestruck by this.
"So you guys never told anyone your real names," Kodi asked.
"Only Delta one and Alexandria ever knew our real name besides our parents," Delta four said.
"And they only mentioned them once to me," Alexandria added.
"Is it ok if we call you guys by you true names," Bryan asked.
"We don't know if you guys do then other people might hear them too," Delta two said nervously.
"Why is that bad," Emerald asked.
"Delta one says if people know your name they know a part of you and when they know a part of you they can break you mentally," Delta four said.
"Is that why he calls himself the White Disease or Delta one every time he introduces himself to someone," Bryan asked.
"Yes, It is. Balto is the first one he voluntarily has given his real name in a long time," Delta two said.
"I did not know that my brother was so distrustful these days," Alexandria said sadly.
"He is distrustful for nearly his entire live Alexandria. He only hid it very well from you," Delta two said.
"Why? Why would he need to hide it from me if I had know than I had not been so pissed off at him when he was a walking zombie every time I tried to introduce him to people every time I tried to get him get to get liked by Alpha's and Beta's. Alexandria said.
"Because he was afraid you would see him as a coward. He never felt worthy to be your brother. He always felt like he failed you. Every time he was sick he never was annoyed by the fact he was sick the only thing that annoyed him was that he was a burden for you again." Delta two said.
"What every time he was sick I nursed him back to health not because I needed to, but because I wanted to do that. He was never a burden for me why because he was my brother and I saw that he needed me. Everyone else saw in him a monster that was unworthy to live and they always asked me Why do you help that thing? And I always said that is not a thing that is my brother and he needs me. So I helped him every time those bullies had beaten him up causing him to get sick again.
He had a weak immune system. Alexandria explained. He always had a look in his eyes that made you think he was not present that it was just his body and not his spirit that was in front of you. Then one day I got sick badly and we had gotten into a big fight earlier today and I was sure of it that he would not help me, but then when he saw me I never saw him care so much about me in his entire life.
He stayed up all night and only rested a few moments in the day and I needed to puke a lot, but every time I needed him to get me up and support me to get to the place I could do that he got me up and that day every bully that tried to stop him from doing that got beat up badly by him.
I almost thought that that wasn't my brother I had never seen so much hatred in his eyes then that day. That was the day they started calling him the White Disease it was a fitting nickname seeing that people tested a virus called White Disease on him too, but that day it looked like I saw a side of my brother that I didn't knew a side that was dark and only existed because of all the pure rage inside my brother," Alexandria finished.
"Wow, that's is a tough story." Dakota said.
"I never thought Jack was ever bullied that hard." Aleu said sadly.
"It was one of the easiest days. He had days that were tougher to go through," Delta two said.
Old bunkers unknown hour:
Balto was slowly opening his eyes again. He had a huge headache and everything was dark around him except for a small light that came out of a hallway not far away from him. He looked above him and saw that he fell almost five meters down and that he had landed on a pile of sand.
"Damnit why did I need to be so stupid moving so fast in the dark oh yeah I remember I wanted to get away from that thing," Balto said quietly before standing up. His body hurted a bit, but he didn't care he needed to get moving so he slowly made his way towards the light and when he jumped in the hallway he saw that he could only go one way and that was left the hallway on the right had collapsed.
"Okay, slowly, but surely I will get there!" Balto said while taking easy steps. Then he heard a loud howl and said. "a little bit of speed probably doesn't hurt," He said before starting to walk faster.
"Okay, I need to find my way back to level -2 so where are the stairs." Balto asked himself. Then he saw a sign a bit further that said stairs. He looked at the door where the arrow pointed at and saw the door was shut.
"Great what now?" Balto asked himself. Then he saw that the door was not so strong anymore and that a few hard hits should do the job of opening it, but it would make a lot of noise when that door would fall on the ground so I need to move fast all I know is that that thing is most likely still on level -2. So I need to get out of here before it shows up.
Then he backed up a bit and started charging at the door He hit the door with full force and could hear the door open a bit. He repeated this for four more times when suddenly the door fell on the floor and made a big noise. Balto ran as fast as he could to level -2 and saw the door was open. He hurried himself to some signs and saw B-labs take left hallway which he took and after a few minutes he came to a big double door with a sign above it that said "B-labs only authorized personnel allowed!"
'Yeah, well send me a ticket if you want, but I am going in anyway,' Balto thought in himself before opening the doors. He came in an hallway with red colored smoke again and searched for a lab with green tubes after a while he found it. The door was open and there they stood a box with a couple of tubes with a green substance in them on the tubes stood A.N.
'Found them,' Balto thought before searching something to put them in after a while he found a small blanket which he used to transport the two tubes with. Balto started making his way back to the sign to search for C-exit when he arrived he saw that C-exit was not that far away, but then he heard a sound he had hoped to not hear. Breathing and not his breathing.
He looked back and saw something he had not even dreamed of in his worst nightmares. He guessed that the thing he saw once had been a German shepherd. Now the creature was a big blob of muscles that had giant raptor like claws and his teeth looked more on icicles that was how they looked like or on giant nails. His eyes were red even giving off a small red glow with pure rage in them. Had this been any other situation balto would have tried to negotiate, but one look to this thing made him realize that whoever this dog had been before he was infected that guy was long gone.
What remained was a body driven by hate and the virus. 'This is what Jack meant with a fate worse than death,' Balto thought to himself before running off with the creature closely following him. He ran faster than ever even when he brought the serum to Nome he hadn't ran this fast, but now with death on his heels he ran and stayed running all the pain was gone replaced by fear. Fear of whatever that thing was that was now running behind him.
'I can't keep on running like this I need to ditch him somewhere,' Balto thought and then he saw his way to freedom exit c, but there was one problem. He would never get enough time to crawl through the little hole beside the door with that thing on his heels it was too slow to catch him, but too fast to crawl through the hole before it got his legs in his mouth and those teeth did look like they could pierce through flesh without even setting force on them.
Then Balto saw it a small hole big enough for him to go through without slowing down, but too small for the creature to go through. He ran through it and saw there was a window above it.
'The window is too high for that thing to jump through,' Balto thought in himself when suddenly the creature jumped through it (AN Like the velociraptor in the first jurrasic park movie jumped in the control room.) "Okay perhaps it isn't," Balto said.
The creature lunged at him, but Balto dodged it causing the creature to hit a book shelve and causing it to fall on top of him. Balto quickly got back out through the hole and started crawling through the hole next to the exit when suddenly he saw the creature jumped back out the office and running his way. Balto crawled a bit further and could feel the hot breath of the creature on his hind legs.
Then he finally was outside again waiting on him were Oscar, Tyrant, Jack and a couple of Alpha's. "Well, it seems you made it out alive. What a shame," Tyrant said before walking away together with Oscar.
"You okay Balto," Jack asked. "Besides being scared and a few bruises. Yes, I am okay thanks for asking," Balto said.
"I see you got the antidote. That's good I will give it to you in the cave I first need to add a few ingredients to it to make it active again after so long just sitting in a flacon (That's the name of such tubes)," Jack said.
"Oh, okay," Balto said before handing them to Jack.
"Now let's go to your friends shall we," Jack asked.
"That sounds good," Balto said.
Delta cave 3:15 P.M.:
"You know the way to your friends. I am going to prepare the antidote in the meantime," Jack said.
"Ok, see you when you are ready then," Balto said before running towards the prisoners room when he arrived. All his friends and family started hugging him.
"You did it," Jenna said nearly crying.
"I am so proud on you papa," Aleu said.
"Yeah awesome," Kirby and Ralph said.
"You are the best dad," Kodi, Dingo, Dakota, Kiona, Saba said.
"It's good to see you again," Both Alexandria and Emerald said.
"We can't believe you are still alive. You are indeed one tough guy," The three Delta's said.
"Yeah, I can't believe I am still alive either that creature what was it," Balto asked.
"It once was a German Shepherd, but like you know there is not much left of it to see that it once was," A voice said. Everyone looked and saw Jack standing there with a tube and a pup in his mouth. "Here drink this! I needed to compress the two antidotes into one that is strong enough to defeat the virus in your body that's why I needed you to bring two of those tubes," Jack said while rolling the tube over to Balto.
"Thanks," Balto said before opening it and drinking the substance.
"I always keep my promises and you helped me get back what I begged for all those months. My little sister! And for that I can't thank you enough," Jack said.
"Well, My son over there was the one who saved her," Balto said while pointing at Dakota. Then Jack went over to Dakota and bowed before him and said
"I thank you for bringing her back. You have no idea what for agony I went through these past months not knowing what happened to her. And you ended that agony for that I thank you!"
"You are giving me too much credit and please stand back up the bowing is making me feel awkward," Dakota said and Jack immediately stood back up.
"Anyway uhm is there something I can do for you two for bringing back my sister and winning her freedom," Jack said.
"Well, You could release my wife, children and that other girl you have won," Balto said.
"That sounds fair," Jack said when he looked at his sister he saw that she and Dakota were looking at each other with love in their eyes.
'Oh, well he is a lot better than the other guys that hit on her,' Jack thought in himself.
"Hey, uhm I was just thinking a little bit and you know this place is not really the type of home that I want Alexandria to have so if you want Alexandria you are you know free to go with them or go your own separate path," Jack said.
"Well, she is always allowed to come with us," Balto said while the others nodded in agreement.
"And what about you brother," Alexandria asked.
"oh uhm me I will make it on my own for a while the same offer goes for you three," he said while looking at Sam, Max and Vincent.
"uhm what are you going to do then Boss? I mean I heard most of the Delta's and Charlie's speak about moving away from the Alpha's and Beta's," Delta two said.
"Well, If everything collapses here I will be the one locking the door I guess and then I am out of here too I guess," Delta one said.
"Are you sure about that. You are more than welcome to join us," Jenna said.
"No, me and Radulf have stuff to do and we aren't leaving before that stuff has been done, but now I need to go Radulf is waiting on me to execute the next fase of our plan and I don't want to keep him waiting, but I will see you guys again," Jack said before running off.
Authors Note:
Hello everybody i bring you another chapter of the story and I will say that now some pieces will start to fall into place. I want to ask you guys to please review the chapter and to add the story to your favorites and or follow the stories. It really helps keeping me motivated into continuing and it only takes like a minute from your time. That's quite reasonable I personally think. Anyway I hope you guys have a nice day wherever you live and until next time. This chapter has been updated to make it easier to read and to fix some grammar mistakes I made!