"Entry two-von-zero-TWO-ONE! I have returned to the facility, with my unconvential allies. I still do not trust them, although they have proven quite useful to me…" (Static) "Who knew the MDT was capable of time travel? I wonder what other capabilities it is capable of." (Short interference) "… I have proposed the idea of cross-dimensional rifts and teleportation into another world, but the idea seems highly implausible. Maybe there is another world, like ours, that is undergoing the same crisis as we are, but I digress. I mean, how many of me could there possibly be? Ah ha (static), the world couldn't handle that. Anyway, how many stations does group 935 have? Where did that little girl disappear too? Only time will tell in this…THEATER OF THE DAMNED!"
He struggled to grip onto the crudely crafted ladder leading to the surface. Once, he slipped off and fell back down onto the cold ground, often rubbing the skit marks of dirt off his bottom.
Maxis had managed to climb out of the tunnel, emerging himself in the yard close to the communications tower. He was very close to his office, deciding he would need to get those weapons Edward made.
He planted his leather booted feet onto the cool grass and began to run towards his office on the right side. Steadily pacing himself to get there, he made no distraction by interacting with anything else.
Soon he made it into the large building area, where all the main office work of Geisteskranken was done. He ran up the stairs to his office door, relieved that he had left his door unlocked, stupid but to his current status, he didn't care.
Maxis immediately rammed through the door, running over to his desk and looking underneath it for what he wanted. To his glee, he found the worn down box lying there as he pulled it out from under and undid the lock.
It clipped open as he peered at the contents of the box. However, he was astonished to find only one of the weapons that Edward had created. "Damn! Jun must have only grabbed the box, assuming all of them were in it." He half muttered to himself, reminiscing on his deceased friend.
He placed his gloved hands onto the only weapon in the box and lifted it up. The lightweight of the gun made it easy for him to carry, also having the somewhat sinister look to it. The metal prongs snapped into place as Maxis pulled the lever on the side, releasing the blue liquid into the chamber in the middle. The gun blared up as electricity flowed through the batteries on the side into the liquid in the center. It made a devilish buzzing noise as energy seemed to bounce off the tip of the prongs, evaporating into the air as it remained somewhat stable in the gun.
As he examined the curious weapon, he noticed the doll that was lying in the box underneath where the gun had been. The same doll that was supposed to be their supplement for Five looked beadily up at Maxis, only staring in a blank void at the doctor.
"This thing? What is it doing here?" Maxis said as he reached for the tattered doll, but as he did, the two tailed toy flew up and slammed against the door, banging on it as he tried to run out. It crashed it's lazily stitched arms against the door, hardly even getting close to making a dent as it looked back at the doctor.
Unbeknownst, the zombies had broken out on the left side of the facility, turning their heads to the right as they heard a small cry, taunting and intriguing them to follow the sound. Groaning as they stiffly walked towards the tiny shriek, lusting for flesh along the way.
They walked, in a stiff motion as some of the others shook their heads violently, changing into an all-out sprint as they closed into the Mainframe. Few personal were present at the circuitry powering the door leading out of the cell area, barely noticing the zombies as they closed in from afar. Two guards were present as they shot a barrage at the few incoming zombies, but as the few of them fell, more crept out of the shadows to replace them. They held their ground as the engineers ran off to get more help, being stopped as blue sparks of electricity appeared in front of them. The electricity made a whispering noise as it exploded, leaving an undead dog that sneered at the employees as it bit one down on the leg, quickly pulling the man to the ground.
The guards became distracted by the scream of the man, turning back to see the man being torn apart. As they raised their gun up to meet the dog, one of them was bashed on the head by the fist of a zombie as it dropped onto the ground to meet his unconscious body and feed. The other only turned as he was grabbed by one that slowly clawed at his chest as the man struggled to push it away. After a few seconds he pushed the zombie off him, seeing the gashing cuts on his chest as more ran forward, his vision going red as they got closer, the screams sounding more pleasing than horrifying now.
The doll had looked worried as Maxis closed in on it. It screamed in a high pitch as Maxis picked it up by the fake tail, tangling it in front of his face. "What are you, Doll? Some sort of monstrosity? I already have enough of those."
It only quivered as he spoke to it. Clearly it was scared of him, reasoning with it seemed the only option to understand its nature. It had been intriguing Maxis ever since it started moving. "Can you tell me about yourself little doll? I won't hurt you, I promise." He talked sweetly to it as he set it back down.
Suddenly, the black eyes of the doll turned blue as it tilted its head towards Maxis. "Really? You mean it?" It asked him, to which Maxis nodded in reply.
It jumped up in joy, dancing around him as it started talking to him. "Okay, I'll tell you some stuff, but first, you got to promise me that you'll never take me near that crazy guy again." It asked of him.
"I promise you that, Doll. But, my patience grows thin; I want you to tell me why you are… how you move and how it is possible for a plush doll to do so things." Maxis questioned the stuffed animatronic.
"That's easy. I'm a robotic engineered machine designed in the physical appearance of a doll that happens to take the appearance of Miles Prower. More certain, I was created by Doctor Robotnik, or more crudely referred to nowadays, Eggman. I wasn't programmed with knowledge of my own system schematics and functions, only made for remote controlled designation." The Tails doll explained.
"If you are remote controlled, then who is controlling you now?" Maxis was eager to understand the mechanical doll, slightly deprived from the situation of the moment.
"My source of life, the source of power that runs me, is the crystal attached to my forehead. It contains all my memories, or what you could consider them, and as you take it away, I'm deprived of my ability to function. I only remember so little, and that is because of your strange replacement for my crystal, it is very… disturbing, the images that it brings into my vision."
"The 115 crystal, I see. But, why didn't you work with the zombies, you should have the ability to control them!" Maxis exclaimed.
"Temporary. I have determined I have minor influence over the minds of undead. It's just that the element you have is different from any other source I've known, my circuitry is strained to conduct it properly." Tails doll explained.
"What was that noise?" Maxis suddenly looked out the window. He saw a lone zombie walking by itself up to the office, screeching as it made its way to the doctor's office.
"Maxis, I don't really know who you are, but you seem to know a lot about what's happening. I would like to assist you by anyway necessary." The doll offered its help.
"If you want to help, than get back in the box. If you can't control undead, then you can't help me." He refused its offer.
The doll didn't answer him as the one zombie had reached the door, stepping in as Maxis cursed and backed away from it as he prepared the gun. Before Maxis pulled the lever and shot, the doll leaped onto the zombies head, blinding its vision as it growled trying to knock the doll off.
The zombie struggled with the small doll as it focused its blank eyes on the zombie. The red crystal on the dolls head glowed a bright red as the zombie stopped in place, reaching for its head as it suddenly exploded. The zombies head blew apart as the body lifelessly fell to the ground.
"I can't do that very often, but I'm going to try it more." Tails doll spoke silently, trying to grin to no avail as it didn't have a mouth.
"Shit, I need to warn the facility that's there's an outbreak!" Maxis finally realized. He ran over to his desk, pressing the button for the speaker phones to the facility, but only getting static as he couldn't get through.
"What the hell is this!" He cursed as he tossed the speaker onto the cold floor. The moans got louder as he turned and walked back to the door.
Outside, a horde of zombies had gathered, their eyes feasting on the sight of Doctor Maxis, drooling from their mouths if they still carried that function in their decomposed bodies. The glowing yellow eyes burned brightly, glistening like the sun as they stumbled forward, hissing along the way.
"I'm out of time, it's already done here." Maxis cursed as he kicked the door back open. "Time to see how this thing works…"
Steadily aiming the 115 powered weapon, Maxis put one of the zombies within the aluminum sights of the gun and shot. The gun had shot out a blazing blue bolt of electricity, taking on the image of lightning as it struck the zombie that wandered into its path.
The other twenty zombies crowded in awe as the electricity jumped from one zombie to another, shocking and burning each one as it began to kill each of them. Soon the weapon had left smoldering corpses, or even more smoldered than before as some of which exploded from the electric current while others fell to the ground in a burning heap of flames.
"Holy shit." He uttered, looking at the mess of former living dead, now permently laid to rest. Quickly, he ran back inside the office, looking around his desk for more of the batteries that powered the gun. After pulling out three more batteries and stuffing them in his pocket, he quickly stammered down the stairs, calling for the doll to follow him.
"You fought for salvation, see my atrocities shine…"
Hundreds of zombies flooded the labs, breaking in through the windows and appearing in combustion of light. The scientists started running out of the rooms and heading for the exit, being surrounded by zombies as they ran right into their trap. The screams that were heard were hard to distinguish from those of the zombies, or those who were being maimed and eaten alive.
"All my atrocities, come by way of reciprocity,"
Five walked down the hallway of massacre, laughing at the sight of blood covering the walls, stopping to write words on them as a message to them. His fur coat was still stricken with crimson red as he licked his mouth, smacking his lips as he smiled at the crawling guard who stumbled upon him.
"I'm chewing the bones of my own reprieve."
The mobian guard begged him for mercy, laying on the ground in such a pitiful way. The mobian fox's image looked like a delicacy to Five, lowering himself down as he stabbed his clawed hand into the foxes head, biting down on the soft spot of flesh that held the neck together. Chewy, as he let the dangling piece of flesh fall from his mouth. A moment he looked at the horrified eyes of the mobian now dead, feeling sympathy for a moment as he then stabbed out the eyes, wretchedly back to laughing as he let the blood spew onto his fur coat, practically soaking his fur until it stayed that way.
"Death be my dignity,
Execute hemlock philosophy,"
Horrified, Elena screamed as the zombies closed in on them, saved by Ryan as he shot one in the chest before it grabbed her. Shouting something incoherent, the three of them ran towards the theater and didn't look back. Sophia shot back some pistol rounds while Ryan held his shotgun firmly.
"Poison fills the cup of the carpenter."
Running towards the mainframe followed closely behind by the tails doll, Maxis ran past many of the zombies blocking his path, barely getting scratched as the doll confused them for a few moments. Coming into a blockade of undead, he aimed the gun towards the group and pulled down the trigger, shooting the bolt of electricity as it shocked all of the zombies in its path.
"NO!
Love lost on me,
MORE!
Life so costly."
Rising above all, Five stood at the center of the horde, commanding all the zombies as they charged down the human and mobians to the ground. Bullets flew into the crowd, killing those few it touched save for Five and the rest of his undead army. He felt the cold chill of his minions thirst and called upon them. The burning eyes of the dogs, he now named them Hellhounds had fell onto those unfortunate souls as they died slowly.
"No reason, for grieving."
Elena grabbed onto the metal bar holding onto the MDT within the theater. Soon she, Sophia, and Ryan would be overwhelmed had it not been for the other guards who managed to rally up and keep the zombies at bay. As more and more of the undead fell, there was a sudden whispering noise, then a blue light appeared on the stage, getting brighter and brighter until it exploded into a bolt of lightning as a dog reappeared from the energy amass.
"No.
LOVE LOST ON ME!
More.
LIFE SO COSTLY!"
Maxis had pulled the switch that moved the small fence aside as he walked into the mainframe, stopping for the doll to catch up as a few zombies followed closely behind, being ripped to shreds as Maxis activated the automatic turret installed on the wall watching the pathway leading into here. Startled, Maxis began to hear a whistling sound, turning around as a bolt of lightning dispersed onto the ground, releasing an undead dog that had the same yellow eyes of the others.
"Bring me down,
With SEVEN-SIX POINT TWO HIGH VELOCITY!"
The dogs had lit themselves on fire, charging at the armed guards and ripping at their throats as they pulled them to the ground. Seeing no other choice, the three of Maxis's assistants escaped the pursuing horde of zombies by using the MDT teleporter, shocking them as they teleported to another location within the facility. The blue light engulfed them as they felt lightweight, going through a tunnel of colors and faces that shouted at them. The numbers and letters kept appearing until they reached a bright light, blinding their vision as they reappeared.
"I can see them everywhere,
They're all around me they're waiting for me."
Maxis saw himself surrounded by zombies, their numbers exceeding his expectations. Raising the wonder gun up to his eye level, he aimed and shot another bolt of electricity at the horde, zapping them all as their limp bodies fell into a smoldering heap.
Slowly, he backed up towards the teleporter as the zombies got closer, not sure if the gun would kill him too if he was too close. More and more zombies came, jumping over the fences and smashing through the windows leading into the Mainframe.
"Descending, Unrelenting,
Beauty of Annihilation!"
"Don't fuck with group nine- three –five, baby!" Sophia shouted out as they reappeared at the containment cells. Although, immediately she and the rest of them fell to the ground, clutching their chests as they gagged heavily. She couldn't shake the urge to vomit, as she spilled the contents of her stomach onto the concrete floor she crawled on.
A few seconds later, she stood up as the pain subsided, wobbling as her legs felt weak. For a brief moment, she looked into the eyes of both Elena and Ryan, seeing the yellow eyes that haunted them constantly.
"Your curiosity,
Feeding off my animosity."
Soon, they had become overwhelmed. Even as the armed soldiers were fighting to keep Geisteskranken contained, the dogs kept reappearing behind them, clawing and biting them down. One man shot a few times into the main horde, turning his head just to see Five before he was digging into his flesh.
His wavering tails spurred as he wagged them happily, the onslaught of bloodshed filling his heart with joy. He stopped to listen as a whispering voice talked to him, the sound tickling his earlobe as he sensed Maxis in the Mainframe.
"And the reason,
Is treason."
Deciding that it was time to go for the kill, Five ran forward, going in between the zombies as they continued to kill all the employees. Up to the teleporter, he laid his blood soaked hand onto it. Feeling the pulses of electricity, he didn't even go inside as he surrounded himself in a circle of electricity, disappearing as he laughed aloud.
"DOWN WITH ALL THAT'S GOOD AND CLEAN,
YOU CAN'T FUCKING ANNIHILATE ME!"
Sweating hard, Maxis released the pressure holding the batteries in the side of the gun, shooting themselves out as he released the held containers. Out of his pocket, he pulled out three more batteries and stuck them into the slots that fitted with them as he stood before the MDT-R with the doll by his side. More of the whistling was being sound in his ear, explosions of powerful exertion from unstable 115 energy. More of the burning Hellhounds reappeared, few with burning bodies that showed off the scars and lashes of death.
"Bring you down,
With SEVEN POINT NINE-TWO AND NO IMPUNITY!"
Running scarcely for their lives, the three of them found themselves locked within the containment section, the doors leading to the mainframe being locked as waves of zombies began pouring in from the windows and open shaft ways of the facility. Elena screamed as a window they stood beside shattered as a crinkled zombie jumped through. Soon they were being surrounded by zombies, assured of their apparent demise as the claws of the undead closed in on them.
"I can see them everywhere,
They're all around me, their waiting for me."
Growling loudly, the tails doll lured all the zombies towards it, standing on the ground as all the zombies stood above it. With a powerful blow, the zombies heads all exploded, leaving a large circle of blood as the doll floated back towards Maxis, who now stood on the platform with the Teleporter.
"Descending, Unrelenting,
Beauty of Annihilation!"
The devious fox teleported right into the middle of the mainframe, standing there as circuits of electricity surrounded him. His liquid red eyes stared towards Maxis, who in return smiled back as he shot the wonder gun at the insane fox. The bolt of electricity shot forward, dancing and flickering in the air as it traveled in a dazzling speed towards him.
The bolt missed as Five stepped to the side, smirking as he looked at Maxis. Licking his lips, he jolted forward and pulled Maxis to the ground, struggling with the Hedgehog as he grasped his hands to avoid their sharp claws, with the gun dropping to the side as the fox tried suffocating Maxis.
They fought each other in front of the anxious zombies, the dogs appearing everywhere as he was entangled with Five. The door to the containment section opened up, revealing some familiar faces as bullets flew into the horde.
"Death so beautiful,
Looks so beautiful,
Death so beautiful,
Looks so beautiful to me."
Looking back at them, Five snarled in dismay. Unexpected, the doll had flung itself onto Five's face, blocking his vision as he clawed at the distraught toy. The three survivors shot through the zombies, still in trance by the tails dolls hypnotic gem.
Five stood off Maxis, trying to grab the doll as it tried concentrating the crystal onto Five's head. In the moment of utter madness, Maxis reached out for the gun. Picking it up by the handle, he brought it up to his chest as he stood up. Five who had stammered around with the doll cutting at his face, moved around the platform clumsily. In the perfect moment, the moment that the disastrous fox had stood still as he grabbed the toy fox by the tails and pulled it off his face; he aimed the weapon at him once more. Sophia, Ryan and Elena were walking up the platform as he pressed the trigger down hard.
"I can see them everywhere (EVERYWHERE!),
I can see them everywhere I go,
I can see them everywhere,
They're all around me, they're waiting for me.
I can see them everywhere I go,
(Death so beautiful…)
I can see them everywhere I go!
I can see them everywhere,
They're all around me, they're waiting for me."
In perfect unity, the lightning struck out from the gun again, shimmering brightly as the discharge of electrical power surged past the empty space to make its impact with the two tailed menace. No other thing was to be expected then his utter annihilation, but the fox had one more trick up his sleeve.
"Doctor Maxis, we're here to get you out!" Elena shouted over the yells of undead corpses. Running up, she noticed the intense moment as Maxis shot the wonder gun at Five, shrieking in horror as the shock wave came right towards her and the fox.
He caught it within his palm, as the electricity shot through his hand and shocked him immensely. The power shot off of him and onto Elena as it also jumped off her and onto the rest.
The electricity punctured into Ryan's chest, clutching it as he fell onto the ground in pain. The power shocked Sophia too, until it finally came back for Maxis. It only hit his arm, sending the current throughout his body, shaking uncontrollably as the electricity burned him incredibly.
Five had the energy circling him, as the electricity whispered and shocked him as he teleported with it, taking the doll with him and Elena too, who had stood too close to the fox. They disappeared as the remaining few fell onto the ground, more zombies pouring into the room quickly.
"Descending, Unrelenting,"
The balls of electricity reappeared, bringing back the Hellhounds with them.
"Beauty of Annihilation,"
The dogs charged, baring their teeth as the first one sunk it's fangs into the soft flesh of Ryan, yelling out curses as he slumped down onto the steel grating as his death was assumable. Sophia lied on the ground there, watching it unemotionally. She barely moved when a zombie ignored her and ran up to Maxis, by which the others completely ignored her slowly dying there.
"Sophia!" Maxis shouted in anguish. He held Edward's weapon in hand, constricting his grip as he stared with burning angry in his vision. They were everywhere, deciding there was no choice, he shot the last bolt of electricity from the gun, the power circulating throughout every zombie and including himself again, with Sophia and Ryan getting caught in it as well.
"Looks like your prophet was mistaken,"
Five felt pitiful at the pathetic doctor, how the mighty have fallen. He would have expected more of a challenge from the prize game of Doctor Ludvig Maxis, but he was disappointed with the outcome of his demise.
Teleporting back into the Mainframe, he watched as Maxis looked so weak, his body now burned as the power had been too much for him.
The hedgehog only watched, his entire body searing with pain. He looked past the bloody feat of Five and saw the other zombies walking past them, screaming as they stalked the entire facility. He tried lifting his arm, only stopping as the pain urged him to do so. He tried lifting his other arm, feeling the weight as he burned his glove onto the guns handle.
The Fox stared at him, peering into his eyes as they no longer contained that brown iris. They began to glow a faint yellow, as Maxis groaned slight while staring back at Five.
Perhaps he really felt pitiful for the doctor. Unlike the rest, why was killing Maxis so hard to Five? Do it, he's already dead, just finish it…
Groaning slightly, Maxis looked beadily around him. His hand was still holding onto the gun, feeling the urge to close his eyes and disappear.
"Is life really gone or just been wasted?"
Five pulled down the switch to the teleporter, and then ripped it off as sparks of electricity jittered off. He picked up the doctor by his chest and threw him into the teleporter, his head hitting the back of the machine as he fell unconscious.
The humming and buzzing of the machine shook the entire facility. The door that shut the entrance of the machine blew off in a shower of sparks, the currents throughout the teleporter rapidly striking out at everything in sight.
Even unconscious, Maxis saw the light. He went down the strange tunnel of blue light and voices. The numbers kept appearing, 115, 115, 115, until they stopped when he neared a white light. The pain he was feeling stopped. He opened his eyes to see nothing around, until there was another flash, and then there was nothing.
"DEATH SO CLOSE THAT I CAN TASTE IT!"
After the machine had quieted down, Five looked up at the MDT. Somehow, the outcome hadn't been as satisfying as he'd thought. The death of his hated creator promised him freedom… freedom to rule the world.
Whispering voices, they spoke to him. He held his head, shaking it as he tried to ring their hollow voices away from his mind, but they kept coming back. The entire place was so quiet now, there voices… so quiet.
"The plan…" He whispered to himself. The plan he'd made over his time spent here, now it was ready. He laughed manically again, his voice ringing out like a child. The zombies moaned as they started there long walk, while Five begun making more of them with the element as he commanded them from Geisteskranken. The outbreak was confirmed, the zombies were free, there leader was maniacal. It seemed to be the end of the world when people were to encounter these creatures.
But it was far from over.
The Rising had begun.
More will be explained; soon everything will come to make PERFECT sense. There will be no shortage of zombies, I know you understand…