Disclaimer: The show Victorious, its characters and the movie "Night of the Comet" are property of someone else and not me.

Night of the comet

Chapter 12 – The dogs of war

In one or two cases I used dialogue from the movie, it will be intalics.

NO One's POV

Up on the surface, Jade and Tori carefully propped up the now dead gate guard on a chair in the little guard booth and in the Weekend at Bernie's style, put sunglasses on him.

Once done with that, they ran back to the Humvee. There Tori pulled out a flack vest, helmet and quickly donned them. Once done she clipped a few frag grenades to her vest, slung a duffle bag around her back and picked up and Hecker & Koch, HK416 Assault rifle.

"Don't I look just fashionable?" Tori Joked, as she struck a pose.

Jade grinned and picked up a pair of M4A1'S, holding like Rambo. "How's this look."

"Real cool and sort of sexy, but as a girl who's grown up around guns like that, I can tell you that if you try and fire two machine guns at once, you'll miss everything and everyone you're shooting at and will probably just end up shooting yourself. It's just not a good idea. Just stick with one and remember short, controlled bursts. But hopefully it won't come to that."

Jade nodded, as she donned a helmet and grabbed a different duffle bag. "You know what to do Vega?"

"Yes, I've studied Dr. Hill's notes and maps of the complex she made. I know exactly where to go and what to do? And you?"

Jade patted her bag and smirked, "I got it."

For a moment the pair looked at each other and held hands.

"I love you Jade, stay safe."

"I love you too Vega."

Then all of a sudden, Jade's expression turned serious and as she eyed the compound ahead of her, she recited a line from Shakespeare's, Julius Caesar. "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war."

"Just keep your helmet on and don't waste your ammo. You'll be fine Jade." Responded Tori, trying to be reassuring.

Then the girls separated, with Tori making a beeline for the building with the elevator and Jade quietly making her way to the side where several vehicles were parked.

Making it to the building with the elevator, Tori slipped inside and made her way to the elevator and pressed call button.

Seconds later it arrived and once inside, Tori took a deep breath, exhaled and pressed a button marked.

Generators/utility/storage


Downstairs, Trina was looking around for a way out of this hellish dull gray place, but with all the corridors and labs, it was bit like a maze.

As she made her way down one of the corridors, she heard noises both in front and behind her so. Needing a place to hide, she quickly ditched into one of the nearby rooms. While the barely lit room appeared unoccupied, Trina made out what appeared to be two sets of some sort of medical equipment; one on each side of the room. However only one small light was in the room, making it nearly impossible to see what else was there.

It was then she could hear the voice of Dr. Rosen over the loudspeaker.

"Attention, Miss Vega has escaped, apprehend her immediately, she's quite hostile so take precautions."

Quickly berating herself for not snapping the creep's neck when she could, Trina ditched behind one set of medical equipment. She did so just in time, as the door opened and for a moment a head popped in the doorway.

"Anything?" Said a voice in the hallway.

"Nothing here." Said the voice of the man whose head was in the doorway as he walked off, closing the door behind him.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Trina moved her had only to touch someone else's arm.

"What?" Said Trina a she jumped back in fright.

But there was no response, only the hum of the equipment around her. Not sure what was going on and a bit afraid, she looked around and saw the outline of a flashlight on a nearby table.

Trina grabbed it and flipped it on, to reveal there were two people in the room. Both of them were males and looked to be somewhere between 30 and 40. They were lying on what appeared to be hospital beads with all kinds of tubes running out of them. Those same tubes ran to the medical equipment that was in the room.

Not sure what all this was about, Trina muttered. "What the hell?"

On a nearby table was a medical chart, so being curious, Trina picked it up and began to read. While the teen was no medical expert and half the words flew over her head, she managed to figure out, who these people were and what they were doing her.

They were both survivors like her; only the think tank creeps, purposely induced brain death and hooked them up to life support machines. That way, the two poor bastard's blood, could be harvested in an attempt to find some cure for the condition all of them had been afflicted with. They had been affected by the comet like the freaks from the department store, concluded Trina. They may have been more intelligent, but were just as dangerous, if not more.

Trina suddenly felt quite ill, not merely by the sight of the two poor men, but by the chilling realization that she was going to be the next one, subjected to this, "treatment"

Never before had Trina felt so disgusted in her entire life, this wasn't just inhumane, it was pure evil. "Oh my god."

Wanting to get out of this place even more, Trina exited the room and as she turned around, ran straight into two of the guards.


Downstairs in the on the generator level, Tori worked quietly in the space that was full of pipes machinery and electrical panels. She was alone, save for the corpse of the technician who had been assigned to monitor that level. He had been asleep on the job, leaning back in a chair, which made it easy for Tori to pull a silenced pistol out of her bag and shoot him in the head.

Since then she placed a number of blocks of C4, plastic explosives in and around the generating equipment, then hooked them up to a single line of transparent fishing line that ran right in front of a panel marked.

Main power shut off.

Tori and Jade on their way there, had decided not to merely rescue Trina and the children, but to shut these assholes down for good and this was just part of the plan.


In the room with the two nurses and the two kids, the nurses had two beds ready and two tanks of nitrous oxide, ready to go.

"What's that for, said the girl?" pointing to the breathing mask that was hooked to the tank of Nitrous oxide.

Nurse LePage smiled. "It will help you sleep, and when you wake up, you'll be at the North Pole with Santa. You'll stay with him forever."

The boy scoffed. "No such thing."

Dr. Stone who happened to be standing in the doorway said, sounding somewhat disappointed. "What you don't believe in Santa?"

Nurse Brownback then held the mask towards the boy, "Now when I put this over your face, breath deep."

It was at that moment that Tori, downstairs, pulled the main power cut off switch. That done she carefully stepped over the tripwire, grabbed her gear and ran for the stairway that would take her to the lab level.

Up on the lab level and everywhere else, all the lights went out and all the electrical equipment shut down, as an alarm sounded. After about 2 seconds of darkness, a series of red emergency lights came on, providing dim light, but nothing else.

Dr. Stone, looking quite worried, looked to the two nurses "Just hold them here for now. Don't do anything else. I have to see to the two we have on life support."

Just then, Dr. Rosen and the two guards with Trina in tow came around the corridor.

"We caught her Dr. Stone." Said a pissed off looking Dr. Rosen.

Dr. Stone, glared at Trina, slapped her in the face and turned to one of the two guards. "You, go down and turn the power back on."

As that guard ran off into the darkness, Dr. Stone looked to the other guard, "You stay here with the girl."

Dr. Stone, then looked to Dr. Rosen. "You come with me, now!"

As the two doctors ran off, Trina looked to the single guard who was holding up a pistol.

"Oh my god! It's one of those freaks!" Shrieked Trina suddenly, as she pointed down the hallway.

Just as the guard looked down the hallway, Trina hit him with a hard side thrust kick into his midsection.

Then as the guard doubled over in pain, she hit him with a single leg takedown and punched him until he no longer moved.

Not wanting to make the same mistake twice, Trina picked up the pistol and aimed it at the guards head. "This is for those two poor bastards you used as human blood bags, you demented assholes."

After killing the guard, Trina moved down the hallway she happened to spot the two children and nurses through a window and burst into the exam room.

"Hands up!"

Instantly the nurses and the children raised their hands, causing the girls stuffed rabbit and the boys' football to fall to the floor.

"You kids, who are you?"

"I'm Brian." Said the 11 year old boy as he scooped up his football and handed the girl her rabbit.

Then the girl spoke. "I'm Sara, those nice nurses said if we breathed the gas, we'd get to live with Santa."

Knowing what was really going to happen, Trina's face twisted into an expression of revulsion. "That's so sick."

Suddenly hearing someone come up behind her, Trina turned and fired.

At Tori, who with a scream ducked out of the way just in time.

"Tori!"

"Trina!"

Shocked to see her sister alive, Trina's mouth half fell open. "I was told you were dead."

Tori smiled and gave her sister a hug. "Alive and kicking, me and Jade are rescuing you, but you seem to be doing ok?"

"Thanks sis. You kill the power?"

"Yep."

"You know they'll just turn it back on."

Just then a low rumble briefly rattled the floor, as a muffled explosion could be heard. "Not any more. I rigged a tripwire right in front of the main power switch. Whoever they sent to turn it back on just got a nasty surprise. Their main power generators are history."

Seeing the one of the nurses going for a scalpel, Trina aimed her gun back. "Hold it."

"Who is that?" Asked Brian, pointing to Tori.

"I'm Auntie Tori and this is Auntie Trina. You're both coming with us."

Looking slightly confused, Sara pointed to the nurses. "What about them?"

"Let me put it this way, their vampires and they want to suck your blood. Any questions?"

Both Sara and Brian shook their heads.

Trina then pointed her gun at the nurses, "What about these two, shall I waste em?"

Seeing something that caused an idea to form in her head, Tori said. "No I have a better idea."


Meanwhile Drs. Stone and Rosen reached the room where they had the two survivors on life support. But with the power shutdown, the machines keeping them alive had shut down as well.

"Both dead?" Asked Dr. Rosen.

"Yes." Hissed Dr. Stone, " We still have the girl and the children."

Rushing back to the room with the children, they found something rather unexpected. Nurses LePage and Brownback each strapped tightly down on a gurney. Also each had a mask that ran to a nitrous oxide tank, taped to their face and were laughing hysterically.

Taped to a monitor between them was a note.

"Going to see Santa!"

"THEY'RE HEADED TO THE SURFACE, GET THEM! NOW!" Raged Dr. Stone.

"What about the nurses?" Asked Dr. Rosen.

"Fuck them. Everyone else to the surface!"


A short distance away, Tori, Trina and the children were making their way down the corridor towards the elevator.

"Hey sis, you got anything in that bag for me?" Asked Trina.

Pausing for a moment, Tori pulled out a Heckler and Koch MP5 and handed it to Trina with a couple of clips. "How's that?"

Trina smiled "It'll do."

Both girls, carefully and quickly made their way and finally got to the corridor that lead to the main elevator.

"That's it." Shouted Tori, let's go.

Running they had just about reached the elevator, when shots rang out behind them, forcing them into a doorway.

"Almost home, dammit" Cursed Trina, knowing that from where the gunman was positioned down the hallway, he could shoot anyone trying to enter the elevator.

"Cover me sis" Tori said as she pulled a grenade off her flack vest.

With a nod, Trina began to fire down the hallway, forcing the single guard to withdraw into a doorway farther down. With the guard no longer firing, Tori pulled the pin and threw the grenade.

Both sisters ducked back into their doorway as an explosion further down the hallway, nearly deafened them.

Elsewhere, Dr. Stone upon hearing nearby the gun battle, shouted into a 2 way radio. "Don't kill them, we need them alive. Just pin them down and I want everyone to the surface. THAT'S AN ORDER!"

With the guard down the corridor dead, Tori and Trina ushered the kids into the elevator and hit the button for surface. As the door was closing yet another muffled explosion could be heard.

Trina looked to her sister. "What was that?"

"Their mainframe blowing up, I tossed a bomb on a timer, in their computer room."

The little girl, Sara, then clung to Tori's arm. "I'm scared."

"Don't worry; we're getting you guys out of here. Just keep cool."

After a few tense seconds, the elevator reached the surface and the doors opened to the sound of yet another gun battle just outside the building. Rushing outside, they found the Humvee parked right in front of the building, with Jade, standing behind it, firing an M4A1 assault rifle towards the front gate."

"Bout time you showed up, Vega." Cursed Jade loudly. "You always were a slowpoke."

Ducking the children down behind the Humvee, Tori moved by Jade. "What's the story?"

"Everything up here is set, but a couple of assholes circled around to the front gate and shut it. Now they have me pinned down. I can't see em." Jade shouted, as several rounds of incoming fire, bounced off the Humvee.

Tori looked to her sister, "Those jerks will be coming up the elevator behind us in a minute, watch the door of the building. Time for the big guns."

Then the younger Latina opened the door and quickly rummaged around the pile of weapons they had stored in the vehicle. Finding what she needed, she smiled and pulled out what appeared to be a large shotgun with a huge round barrel underneath it.

"What's that?" asked Brian.

"An M32, six shot grenade launcher. Cover your ears kids."

Quickly taking aim, Tori then squeezed the trigger, not once but six separate times. With each squeeze of the rigger there was an accompany thuuut sound coming from the weapon.

"Down!" Screamed Tori.

An instant later, the first of 6 grenades landed by the front gate, obliterating the guard shack. That was followed by 5 other very loud explosions all in the same vicinity.

Looking up after the last explosion had subsided, Jade could see that the whole front gate was demolished and who ever had been firing at her, had stopped.

Seeing the coast was clear, Jade shouted. "Everyone in the Humvee, lets' move!"

After quickly making sure everyone was in, Jade jumped in the driver's seat, started the car and floored it. "Kid's keep your head down."

Kicking up a cloud of stones and dust, the Humvee raced across the compound and out into the night.

"Woo hoo" shouted Trina.

However about a hundred yards down the road, Jade suddenly stopped and then stepped outside, along with Tori.

"Tori, Jade what the heck are you doing? The whole concept is that we keep going. That's why they call it escape." Yelled a annoyed sounding Trina.

Tori looked to Jade as she held up some binoculars and watched the compound.

"Vega, their all pouring out of the building and into the vehicles."

"Good, are you ready?"

Jade tossed the binoculars into car, pulled out what looked like a small remote and then raised her middle finger in the direction of the very angry think tank guys.

"Hey think tank guys. Try and figure out what this means."

In the compound, Dr. Stone, whose eyes had suddenly turned grey and now had begun to sink in, jumped into the nearest vehicle. "GET THEM!"

Jade looked to the kids, "You like fireworks?"

Both nodded.

"Just wait then." Jade said as she paused to watch as all four of the think tank's vehicles started up and began to move out the front gate. In the distance she could hear someone starting the helicopter as well.

Dr. Stone in the lead vehicle with Dr. Rosen and 3 guards, screamed. "They've stopped, keep going!"

Waiting until the first vehicle got to the front gate, Jade pressed a button on her remote.

A microsecond later, the truck that Dr. Stone and three others were in, abruptly exploded. The three vehicles behind it, all filled with guards and think tank scientists, exploded as well.

With a grim look, Jade started to push the rest of the buttons on the remote in rapid succession. For a moment the sky was lit up as the helicopter which had just taken off exploded in midair. A second later, the two gas pumps, located in the rear of the compound for the vehicles and helicopters exploded as well. The last charge exploded at the base of the think tanks, tall radio tower, causing it to collapse onto the main building.

The kids and even Trina watched in awe, as the fire from one of the gas pumps set a nearby storage building on fire. Within seconds, the whole compound looked like it was burning.

"Cool" Said Brian.

Suddenly Jade could hear Sara scream and looking over, could see one of the think tank guys, his eyes grey and deeply sunken was at the door of the Humvee. With a low growl he was trying to pull her out.

"Shit"

Running quickly, Jade and Tori grabbed the freak, pulled him off of Sara and pushed him back, where then Trina who had grabbed her MP5, shot him dead.

"Is it over now!" Said Sara who looked to be on the verge of tears.

Looking back to the burning compound, Jade nodded. "Yes. It's over."

"Can they come after us?"

Tori then looked to the girl and gave her a reassuring smile "We killed a boatload of them, we blew up all their vehicle's, their gas pumps, their main power generator, their computer mainframe, their radio tower, it's a 20 mile walk through the desert to the nearest town and in less than 2 days, any survivors will turn to dust. It's over. We won."

After pausing to note the distant rumble of thunder, Jade reflected that while she thought she'd be all hyped up and excited after the combat and the dramatic rescue. Instead, she felt tired, her ears were ringing and simply wanted to sleep, pressed up next to her lover. That in mind, she wearily said. "Let's go home."