The tunnels are pitch black, only Prophet using night vision and Sanya who's eyes are used to the dark are able to see. The rest of the witches stumble along constantly tripping over the tracks and walking into each other. Walking at the front a few steps ahead of the girls hearing every trip and collision Prophet can only imagine the comedy happening right behind him. He knew the tunnels were dark and the girls would be blind but not once did he envision how bad they would be navigating in the darkness. Because of this its taking a lot longer then he anticipated and their progress is as slow and only getting slower.
He looks back to see most of the girls walking around with ever their hands held in front of them or the holding the hands of the girl stood next to them. They all look totally lost in the dark apart from Sakamoto who's walking with her eyes shut trusting her other senses and Sanya who looks at home in the dark. The complete opposite of the young girl Lucchini who looks terrified and is snapping her head from side to side whilst keeping a tight grip on the bottom of Shirley's coat. Shirley seem to notice how afraid the young girl is as her arm wraps around the girls shoulder hugging her tightly.
He turns back to face down the track and almost as soon as he does several figures are stood in front of the group. Prophet can tell their not Ceph as they are too small, they can be C.E.L.L as they aren't equipped with any sort of fire arm. They must be survivors, they are armed not with guns. One of them has a fire axe, two have meatal poles and five are holding a large rock in each hand. Something doesn't seem right with these people, they aren't walking around like normal people do, and they are walking around like they are drunk. They aren't' talking and more alarming as Prophet zooms in his Visor on the group they aren't even breathing. The temperature down here alone should mean that he can see clouds of breath coming from their mouths but nothing, not even a single puff of a cloud emerges from their lips. Looking at them he stops in his tracks and puts his arms out to stop Minna and Sakamoto from walking past him.
"What is it?" Minna asks as she bumps into his out stretched arm.
"There's a group of people up ahead" He tells her not taking his eyes off the group. "There's something wrong about them"
"Are they a threat?" Sakamoto asks him.
"I don't know" Prophet replies and as he does all of the group ahead seems to notice their presence and turn towards them. "They are armed and know we are here"
"Trude, Shirley get up here Eila take Sanya and watch our rear" Minna orders looking over her shoulder as she does.
"What's going on?" Gertrud asks as she and Shirley with Lucchini still attached to her step up behind Minna.
"Prophet sees people up ahead" Minna answers looking back out in front of her. "They are armed and it's unclear whether or not they are a threat"
"How close are they are can't see a thing" Shirley asks straining her eyes to try a see ahead of her.
"Five hundred meters" Prophet replies grabbing a flare from his belt. "I have one flare left we could us but it's my last one so we'll be fighting in the dark if we run into another threat down her"
"Use it" Minna tells him after thinking it over for a few seconds.
Prophet pulls the string on the bottom of the fare causing a red glowing light to rapidly brighten and light up the tunnel. He then throws it down the tunnel towards the group of people, when it reaches and lights them up he's in for a surprise. All of the people have silver an almost metal like substance covering their mouths, eyes, ears and noises. Their eyes are dark red clearly seen against the silver surrounding them. They stare with their red eyes a Prophet and the girls for a few seconds before with on loud ear busting scream they charge sprinting full speed towards the girls and Prophet. They charge with their weapons raised screaming like a berserker straight towards them, Prophet raises his pistol aiming for the leading man's chest. He pulls the trigger twice in quick succession planting two bullets in the man's chest right where his heart is. The man doesn't stop though, he leans backwards as the force of the bullets hit him but he quickly rights himself and continues the charge with his axe raised high. Prophet quickly fires again and this time his bullet rips straight through his head, this time the man falls to the ground and doesn't get back up.
The witches open fire as soon as the man's body hit the ground, they fire in short burst bringing down the next person who turns out to be a women whose hair is stained silver and wielding a large stone in each hand. But like the man before her she gets right back up to her feet and charges once again despite the bullet holes dominating her chest. But she doesn't make it far as Prophet shoots her between the eyes, he looks around and sees the remaining six still charging and four more silver stained people have joined them jumping down onto the track from a station up ahead.
"What the fuck are they?" Shirley shouts as the women fall to the ground.
"I don't know but aim for their heads it's the only way that seems to sop them" Prophet replies as he brings down an elderly gentleman whose charging him with a large metal pole.
"Sanya says we got about thirty more just over a thousand meters away heading straight for us!" Eila shouts from the rear.
"Great we're being sandwiched" Shirley says to herself.
"We can't stay in these tunnels everyone push through the ones up front and to the station" Minna orders as she takes a few steps forward. "Trude, Erica, Sakamoto take point. Prophet can you go with them"
"Sure" Prophet replies before blowing the brains out of a little kid whose ran straight at him holding a knife high above his head.
"Lynne go to the rear and help Sanya and Eila, follow Sanya's instructions as she knows where they are" Minna orders and Lynne runs back to the rear followed closely behind by Yoshika. "Everyone else follow a few meters behind the lead group and be ready to support them"
The witches and Prophet quickly move into formation and advance guns blazing towards the station, another two of those things that were once people are killed instantly with a third seconds later. The remaining hostels continue to charge but are quickly brought down one by one. In less than a minute the lead group reaches the edge of the station and he last of those silver stained people are dead. Gertrud is the first to step foot on the platform and she nearly vomits at the sight she sees. Five of those silver stained people are ripping apart a young red haired girl that looks fie at the most, they are ripping her limbs from her body and devouring her flesh.
In a very rare moment Gertrud losses her cool and runs at the group of cannibals summoning her familiar as she runs. She fires a burst of led into the closet one's head getting the attention of the others, she would have fired more bullets but her gun clicks empty after her first burst. Instead of reloading she flips her gun round so that she's gripping the barrel and turns it into a club. She smashes the skull of a teenager about her own age causing her neck to snap and her head to twist round one hundred and eighty degrees. She quickly moves on slams her rifle into the side of a police man's head smashing is skull and sending blood splattering everywhere, as her rifle smashes his skull and gets coated in his blood it snaps in half. But even this doesn't stop her attack she kicks a young lady so hard she fly's across the room before she stabs the ramming man with the barrel of her gun, driving it straight through the top of his head so deeply that it sticks out of his chin. She goes to the dead police officers belt and draws his pistol determined to finish off the lady she sent flying but she doesn't get a chance as a bullet from Prophets supressed pistol ends her life.
"Trude what the hell are you thinking?" Sakamoto angrily asks as she storms over to the now blood soaked witch.
"Um I think I know" Erica says getting between Sakamoto and her friend nodding towards the dead girl.
"Oh I see" Sakamoto comments before walking over to Minna as she and the middle group set foot on the platform.
Once everyone is safely on the platform Minna takes charge once again. "Sanya how far are the ones behind us?"
"About five hundred meters" Sanya quietly answers. "But twelve more have joined their group and eight hundred meters in the other direction there are sixty three charging towards us"
"One hundred and five in total" Sakamoto says shaking her head. "I don't think we have enough ammo to fight a group that size"
"We don't we need to group back up to the surface and barricade them down here somehow" Minna concludes before turning to Prophet. "How far are we to the lab?"
"About two more stops away" Prophet answers. "If you want to trap them down here than there's a metal gate we can close at the stations entrance. We'll have to find a way to lock it but it should hold against them"
"Ok let's do it" Minna says. "Same formation as last time"
Prophet walks ahead of the others on the lookout for any sign of danger. He leads the way up until he reaches the metal gate where he waits till the last girl leaves joined by Minna. Once everyone is through he closes the gate, looking around he can only see one thing to use to lock the gate, the metal railing for the stairs.
"Maximum strength" The metallic voice in his suit says.
After his strength has been increased he grips the railing and snaps it off. He then takes the railing and bends it around the gate tying it in a way that the gate won't open up easily. As soon as the gates secure the first silver stained persons crashes against the gate quickly followed by a second than a third, fourth fifth. They keep coming until the gate is bending by the sheer weight of the bodies pressed against it, the sound of their screams are deafening and more concerning the sounds of the metal gate bending are alarming.
"The gate won't hold them for long" Prophet says as the first bolt snaps off the gate.
"Which way to the lab?" Minna asks as she and Prophet step onto the street.
"This way" Prophet answers as he points up the streets and the sound of the second bolt snapping can be heard.
Note
That's the final stag of the Manhattan Virus zombies. I was watching the first Resident Evil film before writing this and the idea of zombies is stuck in my head. Let me know what you think about them.