I do not own anything from this story. Only Siren and Griff are mine. Unfortunately.
Chapter Nine
Go to Hell
Siren's words rung through Reaper's head as his eyes widened. She loved him. She always had. Reaper thought that he was dreaming, but that couldn't be. He searched her eyes to see if this was just one of her jokes; to find if she truly meant it before he smiled.
He smiled.
Without saying a word, Reaper grabbed Siren's face and pulled her lips to his. He felt his head swarm with the smell and taste of the woman he had adored for so long. To finally kiss her…taste her…hold her like he had wanted too, it was the most breathtaking crime ever. Her lips tasted of cherries mixed with sweat. He loved it and never wanted to pull away.
When Reaper's lips touched hers, Siren froze in surprise. But for only a moment. She attacked him. Hungrily. To be truthful, she had never kissed a man before. Never. She had never even been on a date. And she was in her twenties. Was that strange? It didn't matter to her now.
"What the hell?"
Siren and Reaper both jumped and broke apart as Griff's enraged voice splattered through their ears. They then looked at each other in embarrassment. They forgot that they had their earphones in.
"Griff, shush!" Samantha's voice then sounded. "Let it roll out!"
"What do you mean 'Let it roll out'? That's my sister he's-wait. How did you get a headphone?"
"Portman." Her simple answer came.
"Ahh." Griff cleared his throat. "Reaper, you know where to keep your hands. Out."
Siren shook her head and stood up. Reaper followed her. "There goes that whole moment," She laughed. "C'mon, let's go back before anything else happens."
"Are you going to be okay?" Reaper asked, still concerned.
She smiled at him and held his hand as they walked down the hall. "I'll be fine now."
Reaper and Siren had just reached Sarge and Samantha again when Kid's voice came to them.
"Sarge? We got a problem. One dead scientist is missing."
"Great," Siren sighed. "On another troll hunt." She turned and followed Sarge out the door as Reaper turned to his sister.
"Pinky, are you there? Pinky." Sarge called. Siren heard the sawing sounds when the man responded.
"Sarge? Something is cutting through the ark door."
The trio headed down the dark hall, trying as fast as they could to get to the Ark door without being attacked. Siren knew her brother and the two with him were doing the same thing.
"You have a visual?" Sarge asked.
"Oh, I got a visual all right."
"Don't let it get to the Ark!"
The female computer voice began the countdown.
"Five."
"Pinky, use the grenade you idiot!" Siren shouted as the three of them ran down the hall.
"Four."
"Use the goddamn grenade!" Sarge shouted after her.
"Three."
"Throw it!"
"Two."
They were joined by Duke, Kid, and Griff in the Atrium before they all took down the set of stairs towards the Ark.
"One."
The Ark door held a large shape, like a Pentagon, cu into the middle of it.
"Damnit." Siren cursed. The monster got through. All those people on the other side would be dead now. What were they going to do.
"Pinky's gone. That fucker ran." Sarge cursed.
"Shit," Griff commented as Duke said - "The thing got through."
That was when the lights flickered again and everyone of them pointed their guns at the ceiling.
"What the hell is that?" Duke cried as they all whipped around.
"System reboot," The computer announced. "Time required to begin renewed operation: 5 minutes." The lights came back on.
"Quarantine Cordon is breached." Sarge spoke. This mission id no longer containment. Get all the weapons and ammo you can. We're going through. Move!"
Siren and Griff gathered weapons; Siren taking Goat's and Griff taking Mac's.
Siren watched after Reaper as he went to go get his sister. Their little transmission on the hall made her smile as it replayed through her head, and she was disappointed in herself that she hadn't admitted to Reaper that she loved him sooner.
As she stood up, Sarge motioned them all towards him. "We uphold quarantine." Sarge ordered them. Nothing gets to the elevator back on earth. We can't let them get to the surface. If it breathes, kill it."
"Five." The computer began to count down again.
"Kill it? What if they're still normal?" Siren asked. "We just can't kill them."
"Four."
"You have your orders." Sarge told her.
"Three."
"I can't just-"
"Two."
"YOU HAVE YOUR ORDERS!" Sarge yelled.
"One."
The man was covered in that gooey substance again and disappeared like they had hours before.
"Fuck you!" Siren yelled after him before following.
There were bodies all over the place, followed by gallons of blood. The Ark travel didn't make her sick again, but this sure did; and so did the voice that traveled through the Facility.
"This is Corporal Dean Portman with RRTS 6 Special Ops on Olduvai, 0310 hours. We have encountered hostile activity. Require immediate RRTS reinforcements."
"Yeah, no shit." Both Kid and Griff voiced then gave each other a smirk.
"We got 58 minutes before the auto lockdown is lifted." Duke announced as he played with the computer.
"Reset it for another six hours." Sarge ordered.
"I can't. It's been disabled. Same as the topside commlink."
"They're disabling computers now?" Kid asked.
"Yeah, they're rocket scientists, remember?" Duke replied.
Siren gave her brother a glance but he was busy looking interested with his shoes. She shrugged. If her brother wasn't going to announce that he could hack into the computer and reset it himself, then she surely wasn't going to.
Sarge lifted his gun and started shooting the strewn out people on the floor in the head. The others followed suit in the halls until they split up. Duke and Siren went one way, Sarge, Griff, and Kid went the other.
Siren didn't want to shoot the safe and okay humans and was thankful that she and Duke had not run into any. Yet.
Griff felt his mouth drop open at the sight on the multiple beings that used to be humans and they chowed down on some other poor man's body. When their attention turned to the three men staring at this they growled and charged just to be fired upon.
"Sarge, what's your position?" Reaper's voice rang in Griff's ear. Sarge dropped Destroyers weapon and grabbed his own. "Sarge, Sarge, come in. Do you copy?"
Sarge shot another being in the head. "Loud and clear." He responded as if he were walking through a park.
"Look, do not kill everybody. I repeat, do not kill everybody." Griff watched as a man, shaking and scared, rose up and reached towards Sarge as he begged for help. "They're not all infected. Do you copy?"
"Help me," The man begged.
"Copy that." Sarge replied before shooting the man in the head. Griff and Kid both swallowed as Sarge turned to face them. "Clear the rest of this sector and meet back at the Ark chamber." He ordered them before walking away.
Griff waited a moment before giving Kid a pat on he back and carrying out their orders.
Duke and Siren came to another large group of corpses.
"These poor people." She whispered, hanging her head as they began to fire.
"Jesus Christ, what the hell are-" Some one cried out.
"Who the hell's in there?" Duke yelled.
Pinky's head popped out of the pile of dead bodies, squinting against the flashlights. "Well, don't just stand there, you dumb son of a bitch. Help me up."
Siren shook her head. "I got a better idea." She lifted her gun up again.
"Don't shoot me!" Pinky should have been pissing himself by now. Too bad he couldn't. Siren was sure that it would have been funny to watch.
"Why not?" She growled. "It's your fault that the damn creature got through and killed all those people!"
"No it's not! I-"
"If you had just used the grenade like we had told you too, none of this would have happened!" Duke decided to join in.
"But then I would have died!"
Siren rolled her eyes. "Better just one person than over 500." She told him. She shouldered her gun and turned her back on him. "Help him, Duke. Or drag him behind us, whichever you see best. We'll let Sarge handle him." She then stalked off, leading the way back to the Ark Chamber.
"-By any means…necessary." Siren heard Sarge tell Reaper. She smiled, glad that he and his sister were okay as Duke and Pinky followed her into the room.
"Guess who we found hiding in a pile of dead bodies." Siren announced their arrival.
"This little chickenshit." Duke said.
"Am I glad to see you guys," The man spoke. "that thing cut right through the door." Samantha walked towards him and began checking his neck for wounds. "I tried to use the grenade but it came at me too fast. It followed me through the Ark and started to kill everybody. It was horrible."
"So, it came at you too fast to use a grenade, but slaw enough for you to set up the Ark again and wait five seconds to get through? Am I the only one seeing a problem here?" Siren demanded. Pinky glared at her as Sam moved away from him.
"there's no wound on his neck. He's clean." Sam declared.
Sarge glared at her. "I say who's clean," He cocked his gun. "And who's not."
"I mean, it wasn't my fault," Pinky would, without a doubt, be pissing his pants right now if he could. "Hey, I'm not a soldier. You shouldn't have left me there."
Sarge pulled his gun up an aimed at Pinky. Siren narrowed her eyes and placed herself in front of the wheel-chaired man. "I don't think so Sarge," She stated.
"Move, Siren." The man ordered her, anger clear on his voice even more now.
"I can't just let you shoot someone who doesn't need to be. This is taking it a little bit extreme Sarge. Don't you think that enough people have died already today?"
"I said move out of my way, Soldier!"
"No."
BANG!
Everyone's eyes widened in surprise; even Sarge. Siren glanced down at her stomach where she felt Sarge's bullet penetrate before she fell to the floor, a hand over it. She was breathing in shock. Her Sergeant had just shot her. Shot her. Because she refused to let him kill another human person.
"Oh my god!" Duke cried out, kneeling next to her.
"Lyra! Are you all right?" Reaper was instantly on her other side.
"Y-yeah," She managed to say, shock still clear across her face. "I think so."
Reaper pulled her hand away, looking for the wound, but he couldn't find one. He found a little blood and a bullet hole in her shirt, but no wound was there.
He looked up at his sister, and she nodded.
Siren had been bitten and injected with C-24. She was now just like Lucy.
"You shot me," Siren looked up at Sarge who, again, held a look of anger. She looked like she wanted to say something else, but she turned to her own angry face. "You unimaginable bastard!" She tried to jump at Sarge but Reaper held her back as Duke stood, ready to help if she got to her feet. "You'd better hope that one of those monsters kill you before I get you alone!"
Sarge went o reply but-
"Sarge," Kid's voice brought everyone's attention from the healed wound in Siren's stomach. Siren's glare was still stuck on Sarge though, as was Reaper's. Griff wondered why his sister was on the floor but would ask later. "There's a storeroom to the South," Kid was breathless. "It's got, like, 20 people holed up inside of it. We gotta do something."
Sarge stared at them in slight surprise. "Your orders were to clear that sector. Its it cleared?"
"No, we told them to stay put." Kid told him.
"There's nothing wrong with them," Griff continued.
"Yeah. They're just scared shitless."
"We kill them all." Sarge told them. Everyone looked at the man in disbelief. "Let God sort them out."
Kid shook his head. "This is wrong. I think-"
"Son, you don't' think!" Sarge told him. "That's an order. We're in the field, Soldier."
"Sarge, if nothing's found them-" Reaper began as he helped Siren to his feet.
"You will obey the direct order of your commanding officer."
Kid shook his head again. "No."
Sarge began to grind his teeth. "Now."
"Go to hell." Kid said his final words. Sarge lifted his gun again and fired, blowing a hole through Kid's throat.