So once again our rag-tag team has fallen to the zombies. Well, this still isn't the end. It's the end of the Die Rise arc, but not the story itself.
None of the main characters are actually permanently dead. There will be characters that are perma-dead later.
Once again, the characters are about to be transferred somewhere else by Richtofen.
Chapter 10: Men on the Moon
Austin's POV
The wind was in our faces as Misty and I fell to our deaths for like the fifth time. I never know if there will be a time when we will die forever, or when that will be, but I really don't think this is the end.
I assured Misty that this was the right way to go, a noble way to accept defeat without being consumed by the flesh monsters. She was crying, due to her lack of memory from the previous time we died. I didn't have the time to tell her that we all would be fine, even Marlton.
I closed my eyes and awaited my death with dignity, we were only a few floors from the ground now, and I knew that there was no way out.
A harsh pain that I can't really describe hit me for a second, but before I could cry out in pain, I lost all feeling. But I'll say it again, it was not the end. I felt the teleportation of my body, we weren't out of this apocalypse yet.
Richtofen's POV
I glanced down at the five human corpses from my position in the Aether, laughing at their pain. Oh boy, this demon stuff is wunderbar! Maybe now is a good time for them to meet my friends though, I can see they are losing hope, and I guess meeting the other four would raise their spirits. Now I must move their bodies there, their livers and spleens. I admit, for an older man, Russman had really nice bone structure.
Marlton's POV
Just when you think world couldn't get any more fucked up, you die, but you don't. What the hell was bringing us back to life every single time we die. It's scientifically impossible for this to be happening, but a lot of things happening lately have been scientifically impossible, so why should I even worry about it?
When I finally regained total consciousness, I looked at our surroundings. We were in some kind of desert facility, alarms sounding, lights flashing, the whole nine yards as they say. We were trapped in a cage with a machine called "Pack a Punch".
"This is getting fucking old!" I heard Austin cry in frustration "Why can't we just die for good?!" I assume he was talking to the demon, which may or may not be a figment of his imagination.
I took one more look at the facility from the cage. It hit me, we were at Area 51. I was a CIA Agent, I had been sent here for top secret briefings before. Austin may have known this place too, after the outbreaks at the Pentagon that killed Kennedy, Castro, McNamera, and Richard Nixon, the CDC began researching a cure to the disease.
While I continued to think, the cages opened. Once again, we were greeted by the angry moans of the undead that began to rise from various shallow puddles nearby. We were basically in a large arena with a staircase leading to a weird machine.
We cut down the weak round 1 zombies without a problem just like usual. One weird thing I noticed was that they didn't seem to be coming in rounds now, just constant attacks. What would happen if they got stronger?
An alarm answered that question for me, and they began to sprint. My now nickel-plated M1911 took a full clip and still would not kill them. We fell back to the stairs and eventually the platform of the machine.
We were surrounded completely. They continued to approach, and it seemed we were about to die once again. Suddenly, though, we were whisked away by an unknown force.
Unknown Date
Griffin Station, Luna
Two groups are about to combine into one.
We were someplace else all of a sudden. The room we were in was some weird facility with several large windows. The windows, or rather what I saw outside of them, caught me off guard. I saw the Earth, and I mean the whole planet when I say that. I looked at the soil outside. It was moon soil, we were on the moon!
I glanced around, someone had built an entire moon base behind the world's back. The doors were actually open for once, that was good. I walked up to one, and the doors opened by themselves. I was in some kind of airlock room. Inside was a experimental Pressurized External Suit, or PES, as we had worked with those in America. However, the German writing on the computers stated this was a Nazi compound. I should know, I'm fluent in ten languages!
I grabbed the suit and put it on, helmet and all, and jumped outside. The low gravity caused me to soar. It was actually good! Was this what fun felt like? I've been missing out on this whole 'emotion' thing. I should have spent more time outside as a child instead of reading about science, but the past is the past.
The other four soon came out in suits, except for Stuhlinger, who quickly learned his lesson and went back inside to put one on. Once he came back out, we moved into a building with a large 6 imprinted next to it.
There was gravity here, prompting us to take off our suits and breathe the facility's air. There was a large purple tunnel that we walked down, it was dark, and Austin found a flashlight to help us navigate the maze.
We found the way out and put our helmets on. There was no gravity and oxygen in the next room. It was some sort of power room, with a large electric switch already in the on position. Behind that was a temple with. . . A girl's body floating outside of it?!
We approached the structure with a gut feeling, as if we were drawn to it by some magical force. Something was up with this girl, as if in her was the darkest evil ever known by the world. We were just about to touch it, but were stopped.
"HEY! WHO ARE YOU FIVE?!" An extremely gruff voice rang through my comm system. We turned around to see four other astronauts with much larger guns pointing at us.
"WELL?! I'M NOT GONNA ASK AGAIN!" He pumped his shotgun. "TELL US!"