Codename Nightmare
Chapter Ten
Newbay, the once beautiful town with its own lake making the townspeople live happily and peacefully within their fishing community. The large pharmacy company Biotech came in and created a large factory using the lake's water to power it using an experimental hydro powering system.
With this new factory the town expanded and introduced a whole new type of business to Newbay, this included some mysterious people in suits disappearing into the factory and never seen again for months at a time.
Only about five hours ago a fire broke out from an unknown source, and while the townspeople fought against the fire something happened to cause chaos to break out within an hour.
Monsters appeared and wrecked havoc throughout the town, polluting the air and water spreading the infection through the townspeople until a small group of survivors made out a distress call calling the Thunderbirds.
The young men didn't know what they were flying into or what was now happening to them as they battled against the viral monsters to get back to their machines along with the survivors; they were battling against time now that the virus had found them.
The virus isn't the only thing the survivors have to worry; Biotech wanted to clean up their mess and wants it done by dawn.
This town, once beautiful, had become a world of survival horror where anything could eat anything or anyone...
Jill sighed as she woke up and glanced at her watch before looking up to seeing Gordon asleep with his back leaning against the couch where John had settled down into a more peaceful sleep.
She crawled over and put the blanket she had been using onto the young man before retrieving the fallen cloth and went over to the janitor's closet to rinse it out, Jill gave herself a chance to wash the sleep out of her own eyes and wondered how long she had been out.
Once back in the office room, Jill laid the cloth on John's forehead softly before checking on her younger charge that was awake and playing with the pendant that hung around his neck. "Hey, nice to see you awake." She said softly seeing that the boy was looking at a photo inside the pendant.
"Is that your family?" Jill asked softly pointing at the photo.
The boy nodded and looked over at the sleeping young men, "W-will t-they be ok?" He croaked softly closing the pendant and put it back under his jacket.
"They'll be fine, once Graham comes back with their brothers then we can get out of here. Are you thirsty?" Jill asked happy that the boy had started talking again.
The boy nodded, "T-thank you for taking care of me, after seeing my m-mom..." He started fading off at the memory and looked down at the slightly scruffy blankets.
"It's ok, come on let's see if we can find something for you to..." Jill's voice faded away feeling someone watching her, turning to find the older young man looking at her with faded blue eyes "Nice to see you awake" She said with a small smile.
"T-thanks, sorry if I worried everyone... but this is just hard to fight." John replied moving to sit up a little. "T-this couch i-is so lumpy" He croaked tightening his hands into fists tightly while fighting the pounding in his ears.
"It will be ok, your brothers have gone with Graham to go and find the antidote... your other brother Gordon is it? He's asleep at the moment." Jill explained and dug around the pack handing some wrapt up food to the boy before offering some to John.
"N-no thanks, d-don't want to risk it... still feeling queasy from earlier..." John croaked and coughed slightly trying not to curl up on himself.
Jill nodded, "You did give everyone a fright" She said softly seeing that the young man had gone nearly white while red flushes were on his cheeks with the green hints becoming clearer.
John nodded slightly as he turned to get comfortable before falling back to sleep to help his body fight the infection.
Scott winced and moved away from the door rotating his shoulder, "Ok I don't think that one is going to move and look," He said shinning his torch at the sides of the door, more green moss was covering the edges of the door.
Virgil moved back and looked around shinning his torch at the walls and ceiling, "There! It's a vent, but I won't be able to get through it." He pointed out look up at the vent, he could make out that it was too big for him because of all the training he had in the past from being an engineer left him with broad shoulders.
"I can try; hopefully we can get through and unseal this door somehow." Graham said handing his shotgun to Virgil before looking up at the vent. "Are you sure the laboratories are on the other side of this?" He asked wondering how clear the vent would be.
"Those look like laboratory doors to you?" Virgil asked with a grin shinning the double doors with the torch.
"Have to say yes, ok someone give me a hand up." Graham replied and reached for the vent.
"Scott, keep a watch out ok? Hopefully we'll find the antidote soon enough, you're going to be the first one we treat!" Virgil said sounding concerned for his older brother as he shrugged his pack off and handed him the shotgun before standing below the vent for Graham to climb up him.
"O-ok Virg and it'll be John who we'll treat first! He's worse than I am," Scott replied shaking the tiredness and sweat away from his arms before keeping a watch around the sharp corners of the underground labyrinth.
The two members of International Rescue and a survivor of Newbay had not come across any more infected monsters ever since hearing the heavy footsteps roughly ten minutes ago, now they had found the room they had been searching for. Only that the doors were sealed shut with red lights flashing above it, green moss hung around the ceiling and along the doors before continuing on down along two of the three corridors near them.
"Well we'll just see when we're inside," Virgil simply said before grunting lifting Graham up as the vent's cover fell off with a slight clank, before the man wiggled off into the fairly large vent.
Gordon moaned and slowly woke up to seeing Jill just tidying up one of the rescue kits, folding up unused blankets before slipping them gently under John's sleeping form earning a painful moan from the young man.
"How long have I been out?" He asked before stifling a yawn, reaching for the bottle of water that he had put near the charging laptop and took a sip to wet his throat a little.
"Not long, John was awake a while ago but he's gone back to sleep." Jill informed the young man with a soft smile, as Gordon got up and stretched feeling his body ache from the position he had slept in.
"What's with the blankets?" Gordon asked wondering why Jill was folding them up and putting them under his brother, he also wondered what went on while he had been asleep.
"John mentioned that he was uncomfortable, so I'm using the spare blankets to make him more comfortable. At least until your brothers and Graham come back with the antidote." Jill replied as she finished her miniature job before going through the pack checking on supplies.
"Hope that they're ok, just that we're running out of time and supplies." Gordon said as he went through the other rucksack, it was hard to imagine but they had started off with four rucksacks full of supplies and rescue equipment but now the contents were all shifted around with one of the bags full of homemade bombs with another containing ammo and spare supplies they had picked up from a shop they had stopped at earlier that evening.
"Well it will be enough, I tried to get your brother to eat but he turned down the food I offered," Jill said softly keeping her voice low as she could without disturbing the young man sleeping on the couch or the young boy, who was playing with the pendant around his neck.
Gordon looked around slightly at the sleeping John inwardly flinching at the colouring of his brother, "I know but we got to get him to eat something." He replied with a soft sigh digging around in the pack of food for something light for his brother to eat.
"We can try and make something that would be light for him to eat; those energy bars are too heavy for someone with nausea to keep down." Jill spoke softly as she moved around to give Gordon a hand.
Movement outside of their room made them stop their task; they listened closely with Gordon reaching to his side for the gun Scott had given him. He glanced back at Jill who nodded and moved back further into the office like room protecting the young boy while the IR member crawled closer to the door.
As Gordon got closer to the door the sounds he could hear reminded him of the rustling of leaves he heard hundreds of times in the jungles of the tropical island they called home. He frowned in hearing this and tried to remember looking around the foyer as they came into this room, there wasn't any sign of plant life asides from a shrivelled up plant on the desk.
A small moan made him jump and glanced back, seeing that John had woken up again with a chesty cough. "Gord, what's going on?" John asked moving to sit up but his head was pounding him causing another moan while his muscles felt like he was on fire.
"Easy John, we're not sure…I think that something is out there but I can't tell what it is." Gordon said as he crawled back over to his older brother's side helping him to sit up on the couch. "How are you feeling? Haven't seen you this bad since Brains gave us his experimental cooking" He added with a small laugh.
John groaned as he tried not to lean against his younger brother, "No bad jokes please Gordon, feel bad as it is but I can tell that its something bad out there… and its spreading" He said looking over at the door ignoring Gordon's winces at seeing the once bright blue eyes were now a dull grey. "We have to get out of here" John added closing his eyes as another dizzy spell made the room spin.
Gordon looked up at his brother and down at the other survivors, "But how John? I'm not that strong like Scott and Virgil, and they told us to stay here." He said holding his brother upright before glancing down at Jill.
"Gordon's right John, we've got to stay here as we're the safest in here away from whatever is out there." Jill said softly and winced in hearing a low growl noise coming from outside.
John opened his eyes looking at the source of the noise, "I don't like the sound of that." He muttered getting up onto his feet, grasping the edge of the couch while Gordon jumped up and helped his brother stand up.
"John anyone told you that you're as stubborn as Dad?" Gordon muttered as he helped his brother across the room towards the door to get a better look at the new threat on their lives.
"Graham Hurry up!" Virgil called through the air vent as they tried to hold off their latest attack, but this was different from any zombie as it took several blows to the head but still kept coming.
"This lock is stuck! I need ten more minutes!" Graham's voice echoed along the vent.
"You've only got one, what ever this thing is he keeps coming back for more" Scott yelled before coughing a little and ducked down under the enemy's arm before shooting at the monster's armpit.
"It's the coat! It's absorbing the bullet's damage" Virgil said as he reloaded his shotgun sliding down onto the ground before kicking himself back up.
"What is thing made of?" Scott replied cursing slightly as he received a bone smashing blow to his shoulder but yet didn't feel any pain from it, causing him some alarm before shooting his gun at the monster's head.
"I have no idea! Graham, hurry up!" Virgil called as he unloaded his shotgun rounds into the monster's head stunning it slightly.
"Got it, get in!" Graham called as the door they were protecting shot open, the young men dived in and locked the door behind them.
They watched as fist impressions tried to get through the thick metal doors before silence, leaving them breathless and half of their ammunition gone.