Chapter 14: The Sewer
They dropped down two platforms into sewer water.
"Ugh what the hell?" Ivan calls out.
"Now I'm gonna smell like shit- literally." Claire makes a joke.
Leon just stood in it, quiet, a look of pure disgust on his face.
"Are you okay Leon?" Ivan questions, beginning to giggle at the look of him.
"This is disgusting." Leon adds.
"We've established that, now come on, let's go." Ivan taking charge.
They follow the passage way through the sewer, leading to an area to be jumped on. All three get up and head through the door. They go up stairs and all three climb up the ladder, grouping up at the top. They enter the room and are immediately greeted with growling made by three zombies. They came from different corners of the room and Leon, Claire, and Ivan huddle next to eachother, back to back facing their own zombie. They all pump bullets into their head, eventually dropping the three.
"Great to know they're down here." Ivan said.
They check the room for anything around, then decide to move on. They jump down two platforms into another room, looking around. Ivan and Claire head towards the VHS while Leon looks over.
"Ada!" Leon yells out. Ivan and Claire rush over to where Leon was and looked through the window. There, the woman with the trenchcoat layed there, unconscious.
"What happened to her?" Claire asks.
"I don't know, but we have to help her." Leon adds.
"What about Sherry?" Ivan adds.
"Damnit. Let's split up. We have to cover this area as best as we can." Leon calls out.
"I'll look for Sherry! Leon and Ivan, go find a way to open that door. Meet here if anything." Claire makes a plan and Ivan and Leon nod their head to that and with that, Claire heads off. Ivan heads to the right of the room and checks the door. The examined the situation for a good 10 minutes before coming to a solution.
"It's a puzzle. We solve it, the door opens." Ivan thinks out loud.
"How we get the pieces, I don't know." Ivan says while walking around.
"The pieces might be scattered through this place." Leon adds in.
They begin to head the way Claire went through. Leon sneaks up from behind and wraps his arms around Ivan.
"I'm glad she assigned us together. Let's find these pieces quickly." Leon winks.
"Yeah, I want to leave here with as many lives as I can save." Ivan said seriously.
"I know, I know. I'm glad to be here with you." Leon goes on.
Ivan turns around and grabs Leon's collar, kissing him passionately. Leon suprised at first, closes his eyes soon after, getting into it. Ivan pulls away and looks at him.
"Now, you got what you wanted. Can we save these people?" Ivan asks.
"Yeah, lets go." Leon said surprised at his actions. They head across the bridge Claire must've activated and turned to the left.
"It's a rail bus? That's our way out of here. After we find everyone, we leave through that." Leon calls out.
Ivan examines it closely.
"We need an ID chip." Ivan says.
Ivan notices a note Claire left on the table.
"Dear Ivan and Leon,
Watch out, this place is littered with zombies. Also keep an eye out, there's something swimming in the sewage. I'll meet at the room when I find Sherry. Get Ada so we can get out of here. Good luck and stay alive please."
Leon read it over the shoulder of Ivan and he put it down. They walk back over near the bridge to the door. The enter it and descend down the staircase, slowing down near the final steps.
"There's some around the corner." Leon calls out.
"They're waiting for us. Let's make some noise to attract them." Ivan said while pulling out his SMG.
Leon begins banging on the walls and yelling out "hey, over here!" The zombies come around the corner, growling at us. Three of them start making their way up. Ivan began firing at their head, knocking them away. Leon puts the finishing blow in all of them.
"Kill stealer." Ivan says jokingly.
"Gotta get the K/D up some way." They both chuckle at the situation and head down the stairs, aiming around the corner.
"We're good." They look in both directions to see what's available.
"The door over there is locked still. I think Claire has the tool for it." Ivan calls out.
"Back into the sewer waters we go." Leon said in a disgusted manor.
"Come on, it ain't that bad." Ivan jumps in, almost barfing.
"This would be one of those times I wouldn't mind getting carried." Ivan says in a flirting manor.
Leon takes a moment and looks at Ivan.
"I've carried you enough. It's my turn."
"Funny." Ivan claps back.
They walk through the sewer, going back to where they started to see if Claire opened that door. Ivan was in the lead and he was having difficulty moving quickly through the waters. He was about to pass a pipe when a giant pink creature comes crawling out, slumping in the water, not responding.
Ivan backs up into Leon, both aiming their gun. The monster begins to shake and starts groaning. It reveals its head that separates into multiple tenticle like objects in its mouth. He begins eating the sewage and Ivan and Leon look in disgust. The monster notices the two and cries out, readying to attack. It spits out something that begins swimming through the water, screeching out. Ivan shoots the water as those things were ready to attack too.
"What the hell is it spitting out?" Ivan yells out.
Ivan begins shooting the monster around the body, barely flinching. Leon pulls out his magnum, putting a bullet on the side of its neck, exposing another eye.
"The eye, shoot the eye!" Ivan calls out. Leon puts 2 magnum shots in the eye, bursting it and making the monster seize. It drops into the water, lifeless. Ivan and Leon look at it, making sure no movement comes from it.
"It's dead." Leon calls out. They move past the monster on to the platform, going through the open door. They walk through the room and step on the elevator. Leon puts his head on Ivan's shoulder on the way up. Ivan runs his hand under his chin, calming him.
"The sewer is as fucked up as the surface... but we're almost done here." Ivan reassures him.
The elevator reaches the top and they notice a body on the floor.
Leon walks over to it and handles it while Ivan looks around. Gunshots are fired, ending the obviously playing dead zombie. They walk through the door and look around, looking left and right. All the bodies here laid lifeless, someone obviously putting them down.
"Claire has a great shot." Ivan compliments her.
They go down a red painted staircase, noticing dead soldiers.
"Are those soldiers? They have the Umbrella symbol on their suits... what happened?" Ivan wonders. Leon stares closely and takes the lead, continuing on. He notices a caset tape next another dead soldier on the floor and picks it up, pocketing it.
"One of them had a tape." Leon calls out.
"I think the room has a Caset Player, we can watch it when we get back."
They continue down, on to more waste. They start rushing through, heading right on the fork way. Another one of the pink monsters laid in the water, lifeless. At the end of the fork was a door opened leading to a long staircase. They start heading down when they heard swearing and screaming.
"Claire?!" They both said rushing down the stairs. They look over the railing and see Claire running in the sewage, away from groups of those things.
"Claire! Keep running, we'll cover you!" Ivan calls out and Claire looks up, still running. She was no where near the ladder but was hauling ass to it. Ivan and Claire begin firing into the monsters, stunning them. Claire runs past them, jumping on a mountain of a flesh like substance. She's almost to the ladder.
"Come on Claire!" Ivan calls out, waiting at the ladder. Suddenly, one of those things emerge from the water, grabbing Claire. Ivan acts fast and jumps down onto the monster's back, grabbing his shotgun. He remembers the spot Leon shot to reveal an eye and pumps non stop bullets into it. Claire is punching the monster, trying to make it let go. The monster sounds like it's stomaching something that's coming through it's throat, it begins to start gagging. Ivan reaches the eye of the monster and Leon and Ivan shoot at it at the same time, bursting the eye. The monster falls over, making a huge splash in the water, letting Claire go. Claire begins to catch her breath as Ivan grabs her hand, leading her up the ladder. The monsters were right behind them as zombies nearby has reanimated too. They grab for the legs and miss, leaving them empty handed. Claire and Ivan reach the top, breathing heavily.
"Are you two okay?" Leon calls out, checking on them.
Claire, still calming herself, looks up. She catches Ivan's stare and they begin to laugh. Their laugh together echo's through the sewer.
"Holy shit we did it!" Ivan screams out.
"Woo!" Claire screams out.
Their laughter dies down and they begin to get serious.
"Are you okay though?" Ivan asks.
"Yes, thank you so much. I would've been dead there if it wasn't for you." Claire adds.
"Look, I found three chess pieces and a fancy gun." Claire shows the pair. Ivan takes the puzzle pieces.
"It looks like the pieces for the door." Ivan examines the pieces. Groaning could be heard from under them.
"Let's get out of here." Leon calls out. They make their way back to the way they started, regrouping. Leon puts in the VHS tape and Ivan watches it with him. Claire is off trying to solve the puzzle to the door. The video starts off with soldiers claiming something about a G-Virus. Two soldiers drop on the floor in front for the unexpexting man. The man, now distressed, is holding a suit case, saying he won't hand it over, calling it his life's work. The soldiers keep asking him to hand it over, when suddenly one opens fire, shooting the man. One soldier calls out to hold their fire. The soldier yells at the soldier who fired shots, repeating some orders they were given by someone. They make a call to their leading officer, claiming they had to take out the target. Lying, the soldier confirms it. With that, they grab the suitcase, running out the room. The video ends there.
"G-Virus? What did that man have to do with it? And why did the soldiers need it so bad?" Leon questions. Ivan couldn't comprehend the situation, trying to think of many situations and answers.
"I don't know, but whatever it is was important." Ivan says.
"Guys! I got the door open!" Claire calls out from the side of the room.
They run over to her and notice the open door. She runs down the staircase and Ivan and Leon looked confused.
"Come on, Sherry is this way!" With that, they head off.
"Ada should be in here." Leon states.
"It won't open." Ivan says trying to open the gate.
"It needs power." Ivan calls out. Claire stayed behind and Leon and Ivan walk ahead into the power room. After minutes of swapping around switches, they get the power running. Leon makes his way towards the door and tries to open it. He's knocked down on the floor, blood dripping from his arm. A loud scream pierces their ears above them.
"Leon!" Ivan begins dragging Leon away from the attack site when the hand comes down again, aiming for Ivan. This continues for about 3 to 4 more times before the attacker goes quiet.
"Leon! Leon!" Ivan shakes him getting a response.
"Leon get up! Please!" Ivan begins to pick him up, putting him on his shoulders, his weight proving difficult.
The door begins to rattle as something is beginning to break it open. Claire was screaming but it was inaudible, Ivan had to get Leon and start running. The door is crushed and pulled away by a giant monster, screaming out. Ivan grabs his SMG, not able to aim but just spraying. Majority of the bullets hit the monster, dropping it to its knees. With that, Ivan takes Leon and begins running with him.
"Come on Leon! Stay with me!" He calls out, desperate as he runs around the corner. Something screams out from behind them and deep, heavy footsteps could be heard from behind them. Ivan made his way towards a platform with a giant crane.
"Think Ivan, think!" The situation is stressful and Ivan had to act quick. Leon groans in pain and he lays him on the barrel, ready to fight. He takes notice of the machine powering the crane and hits the switch, bringing the giant metal box back, turning a button with an arrow pointing right green.
"That's it!" Ivan calls out. When the box left the platform, the monster jumps down, roaring into the air, looking at Ivan.
Ivan begins firing into the monster, making it mad. It charges towards him with its claw. Ivan jumps out the way and the monster strikes the floor. The monster, unrelenting, walks towards Ivan. Ivan takes out his Shotgun, noticing the low ammo count.
"Shit, have to make every bullet count." Ivan calls to himself.
He pumps two shots into the monster, dropping it to its knees. Ivan runs back to the machine and presses the button. The giant metal box begins it way back. The monster starts regaining control and Ivan looks at it. He pumps more shells into it and the monster gets knocked back, roaring. The monster lets out a roar as if its ready for a final attack. It begins to charge, scraping the claw against the floor.
"Enjoy you piece of shi-" the box comes soaring in, knocking the beast back, sending it flying off the platform. The roar could be heard falling until it goes quiet.
"And a fuck you too." Ivan blurts over the edge.