How To Totally Rock!
AN: Dunanana! I'm back! That's right boys and girls, I have returned from the proverbial grave known as "combined laziness and writers block". I meant to write an outline for this chapter but I forgot and since I'm on the computer I thought to myself, "I am writing this next frigging chapter even if it kills me." So this will be, the what, twenty-first chapter? Yeah that sounds right. Anyway, this month is bitchin' so far. Saw Spiderman 3 already, and 28 Weeks Later. Going to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie when it comes out, and I'm planning on getting the new Linkin Park album. Hopefully I'll be able to go to the Projekt Revolution tour this year and see Linkin Park, Mindless Self Indulgence, and My Chemical Romance. Well anyway, here's a chapter!
Last Chapter Name: Balzac song name
No Character clothes due to this being a continuation of the events from the last chapter.
Chapter 21: Army of Zombies
Ever wonder what'd be like to be blind, to not be able to see anything at all? It's a morbid thought sure, but you have to wonder what it'd be like to be able to see everything clearly one minute, and the next, it's all black. That's exactly what was happening with the group in the elevator. The elevator was moving at an extremely slow pace down the shaft. The light in the elevator had flickered out completely shortly after their descent leaving them in complete darkness.
And this wasn't the darkness your eyes could get adjusted too. You literally couldn't tell if you had your hand in front of your face or not. That's how dark it was. "Is this God forsaken thing ever going to reach the bottom?" Pepito said irritably in the back of the crammed elevator car. "I'm seriously beginning to wonder that myself." Dib said somewhere in the front.
"How long has it been?" Pepito asked Dib. "Let me see, oh wait I can't, because it's too damn dark!" Dib yelled at the other boy. "I meant an estimation smart ass." "In my opinion, a little over an hour." A groan was heard from one of the people crammed into the tiny car. "Does anyone have a light we could use?" Gaz said. "Yeah I do." Zim said as he produced a small light, which just barely lit up the small space.
"Christ! How much longer is this thing gonna take to get to the bottom?" Tak asked. "I wish it would just speed up already." "You gotta be careful what you wish for Tak," Zim began. "You just might get it." At that exact moment, the car came to a bone-jarring stop. "What the fuck was that?!" Squee exclaimed. "Did we reach the bottom?" Johnny asked. "I don't know." Gaz responded.
Suddenly, the car made a jarring movement moving the group around a bit. "Okay, what the hell?" Pepito said. Another one followed along with a groaning sound. A thought suddenly hit Zim. "Oh God, the cable's snapping!" he yelled. His point was hammered home when a snapping noise was heard and the group felt the elevator car rushing to the ground. "Everyone hang on!" Zim shouted as he pulled a device out.
He activated it causing a protective force field to envelope them. The car hit the bottom as an ear piercing sound of steel being crushed and twisted rung out. When the dust settled, Zim deactivated the force field. "That was a close one." Squee said. Zim's force field punched a hole in the steel when the elevator collapsed around them.
He noticed the cable though, lying next to them. He took a look at it and his eyes widened in shock. The cable apparently had been chewed through. By what he hadn't the faintest clue. Dib had already made his way up to the door. He stuck a piece of debris into the crack and pried it open.
What greeted those in the group was a dingy, dimly lit hallway. It appeared damp and a strange mold seemed to be growing on the walls in certain places. The only light was the single light bulb hanging from the ceiling right outside the elevator. "Zim give me your light." Dib said. The green boy handed it to Dib and he turned it on allowing them to see the rest of the way down the hallway.
All they could see was that the hallway continued for a while and then split into two halves. One going right, and the other going left. "So what do we do?" Johnny asked. "We go forward." Dib said as he stepped out of the door. He began to walk down the hall for a while when he realized no one was behind him. He turned to the others, "Are you guys coming or what?" he questioned.
The others then began leaving the smashed elevator, and began following Dib to the end of the hallway. When they all got to the end, Dib checked out the left and right paths to see which way they should go. Both ways looked identical. They were both fairly short hallways that had an electronically encoded locked door. The only way to get in would be to do a handprint scan, a retina scan, and to know a number sequence.
"Well, which way guys?" Dib asked. "We should go left." Gaz said. "Anyone disagree?" Dib asked to no response. "Then we'll go left." They made their way to the door at the end of the hallway when Dib noticed something. "Shit. Somebody smashed the keypad. There's no way to get in here." "I guess it's the other door then." Zim said. This one luckily didn't have anything broken. However, something was weird about the door. It was already opened slightly. Which considering it was an automated sliding door made of six inch thick reinforced steel plating, was odd.
"Something's not right about this place." Dib said. "I'll say. When was the last time they washed these walls? They have this weird fungus growing on them." Pepito said. "Yeah, I noticed that too." Tak said. Zim walked over to the wall and decided to scrape some of the fungus off for testing later. The group then ventured into the door which apparently brought them to a sort of lobby styled area.
There were four doors in this one, two in front of them and one on each side of the room. Zim checked the doors on the wall they were directly facing. "They're locked," he stated. Gaz went over to the door on the left side of the room and Johnny went to the other one on the right side. They were both unlocked and there didn't appear to be any threat coming from either one.
"So which one should we go through?" Squee asked. No one knew, it was unknown, which one of the doors, lead them closer to where they needed to be. Or if they actually lead them farther from where they needed to go. They knew they couldn't split up, that was out of the question. They couldn't ask Mimi for help since something was blocking the satellite from locating the underground area. The best course would be to explore a little of each corridor and then determine from what they had seen up to a point would be enough incentive to continue, or to use the other one.
"Okay, we'll just explore a little of both corridors as a group and then take it from there." Dib said to the group. The others didn't seem to object. They explored both of the corridors and when they went back to the lobby, they had to decide. The corridor on the left went past a large window that looked into a big room with tables, medical instruments, and shelves of chemicals. The other corridor went past a bunch of laboratories.
Gaz could of sworn she saw something move through the window on a door in that corridor, but the others said it was probably just a rat considering the state of condition the place was in. "Alright guys." Gaz said to the others. "We have to vote for which one we take. Since there are seven of us, we can't have a tie. So…" Gaz then walked over to a desk against the wall and took some paper and a pen off of it. "We write our names and which one we want to take on a piece of paper."
Gaz then handed everyone a piece of paper and they passed the pen around till everyone had written an answer. When that was done, they all gave the votes to Gaz who unfolded each paper and read the contents. "Okay, in a score of four to three, we take the left corridor." Gaz said. "You heard her guys, left corridor it is." Zim said. The group then began walking into the left corridor, with Gaz being the last one through the door.
She stopped short. Did she just here something? Nah couldn't be. 'I'm probably just freaked because this looks like The Hive from the first Resident Evil movie,' she thought. She then ran down the corridor to catch up with the others, who due to being out of earshot, didn't hear the scratching and moaning coming from the locked doors.
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"What kind of place is this?" Dib asked to no one in particular. They were currently in a lab of some sort, looking around the area. They stumbled upon the particular lab when Squee said he thought he heard a noise from inside the room. They didn't find anything so far in the room except some bizarre chemicals and a large amount of blood spattered all over the room. There were bloody handprints on certain areas and a trail of blood lead into another room connected to the current one.
This was actually discovered by Zim. "Guys, there's a trail of blood leading to another door," he told them. He walked over to the door and put his head to it. He could hear footsteps on the other side. "Guys!" he whispered loudly enough for them to hear. "There's a person on the other side!" Everyone got his or her weapons ready in case of a hostile attack.
Zim pulled out a sub-machine gun and prepared himself. He hit the switch to open the door, and looked inside. All that seemed to be in the room was a lone scientist. His back was turned but he appeared to be just wandering around. Not wanting to take any chances, Zim raised his weapon.
"Sir!" he called. "Put your hands in the air!" The man's head then rose a little at this and he began to turn around. "Sir, I said to raise your…" Zim stopped short when the man turned around fully and showed his face. Or rather, what was left of his face? The whole area around his mouth had the skin torn off leaving bloody muscle. One of his ears was missing apparently, looking to have been ripped off. His jaw hung slack jawed, and his left eye was hanging out of his head.
Zim pulled the trigger on his gun to try and put the man out of his misery. The gun fired a volley of bullets at its target, ripping through its skin like paper. Blood came out in little squibs as the shots hit their mark. Only one problem seemed to rear its ugly head, the man still stood. He then let out an inhuman snarl and lunged at Zim.
Zim, taken by surprise, fell over when the attacker jumped him. The two began wrestling as the scientist began trying to bite Zim. Gaz over come by realization of what was attacking Zim, ran over and swung her shotgun into the things head, hard enough to knock it off of Zim. It then snarled at Gaz before it's head was violently eviscerated by a shotgun blast delivered by Gaz.
Zim got up from the floor, "Thanks Gaz I'm glad you…" He was cut short by Gaz pointing her shotgun at him, which surprised everyone, especially Zim. "Gaz, what are you doing?" he asked her. "Did it bite you?" was her reply. "What?" Zim questioned. "I said did it bite you?" she asked again. "No, it didn't bite me." Zim said with an irritated tone to his voice. Gaz checked him over before deciding he was telling the truth.
"Gaz, what the hell was that for?" Dib asked his sister. She spun around to face the others, "Are you blind?" she said. She pointed to the freshly decapitated corpse, "Isn't it obvious what is going on? The mangled but still moving body, the snarl, the attempt to bite, aren't they all clear signs as to what we are up against?" The others were beginning to get what she was hinting at, but let her continue to see if their theory was confirmed. "Zombies guys. Just plain and simple," she said.
Everyone gulped of course. They had seen zombie movies, and they knew the rules. Get bit, and become one of them, that the only way to kill one is to damage or completely destroy the brain, that zombie blood was very infectious, and that zombies were normally slow moving. Of course, considering what they had seen, they realized that the zombies they'd be facing would most definitely not be the slow moving type.
"Judging from the state of filth accumulated and the dried blood, this might have begun a couple of weeks ago. But this is just an estimation." Gaz said to the others. "And if that's the case, than there are going to be more of these fuckers around." The others, excluding Gaz, Johnny, and Pepito, were visibly shaken by this news. "There's no getting around this guys. We can't just leave this place, if any of these things get up top and into the city, game over." Gaz continued.
"Gaz's right." Zim said. "We can't abandon the mission. If this isn't completed, the consequences would be disastrous." The others seemed to realize this and silently agreed to continue on. Gaz and Zim pushed through the group back into the hallways. While in the hallway, Gaz turned to Zim, "Thank you." "For what?" Zim asked feigning obliviousness. "You know what, for agreeing with me despite your fear." Gaz said to him. Zim tried to act tough though and denied vehemently that he was afraid.
Gaz knew Zim better than that though, and knew he was just trying to act tough. "Zim you should know me well enough by now that, that sort of thing won't fool me." Zim sighed before turning to look away from Gaz and instead look at the wall. "I know, I am scared, I just find it extremely hard still to show it." He then turned back to Gaz, "I'm especially scared because, I'm afraid I'll die before I get to tell you something."
This of course caught Gaz's attention as she cocked her brow and asked, "What?" Zim was, of course, afraid that she would ask that. "Well, it's something pretty personal. It's hard for me to explain," he explained. Gaz folded her arms, "Try me," she said to the alien boy. Zim scratched the back of his head, "Well, ever since I came to this dirt ball planet, I thought all humans were just pathetic, moronic, ignorant meatbags. Actually, I still do think that about a lot of people. But that's not the topic, I always thought that then about all humans except one. You."
Gaz was surprised a bit by this. Before she could say anything though, Zim continued. "You always struck me as different because of your being a loner back then. You didn't have many friends besides Squee who I only just found out about recently, and I found that odd due to my studies saying humans sought companionship. What amazed me more was your absolute abhorrence for the human race. I had never before seen a being hate its own race and that fascinated me. It made me take an interest in finding out more about you, but I got forgot all about that when I was told my whole mission was a lie. It wasn't until I got to befriend you that I got to know you better."
At this point it was impossible for Gaz to hide her blush, but Zim continued as if he didn't notice it. "I then realized over the past few years that as I got to know you better, that my feelings for you, which started out as being interested into something more. It's very hard for me to say this, but all in all what I'm trying to say is, well…I love you Gaz Membrane." Gaz's mouth hit the floor. She couldn't think or speak for a few seconds; her brain had just completely shut down. Zim noticed and began to get worried. "Gaz are you okay?" he asked. "FINALLY!" the girl in front of him screamed before grabbing him and pulling him in for a lip-crushing kiss.
When they parted after a few seconds, (which disappointed Zim), she looked him in the eyes and said, "Do you know how fucking long I've waited for you to tell me that? I thought I'd have to pull you aside and just begin violently making out with you for you to finally get a freaking hint. But that doesn't matter now." She then pulled him in for another long passionate kiss. After what seemed like hours, the two separated from their kiss to look at one another. "Looks like your cute green ass is mine now." Gaz said to Zim.
The Irken boy grinned, and said in a seductive whisper to Gaz, "Likewise". He then gave her butt a little squeeze, which made Gaz blush and then grin. "Rawr, you are feisty! It's a good thing for both of us that I like 'em that way." Zim chuckled, "Well when we finish I could show you just how feisty I can be," he said. "I'd like that." Gaz said. They then began to kiss again when a voice said, "Ahem!" behind them. The two spun around to see the others standing behind them. "Get a room you two!" Tak said jokingly. Pepito had a perverted grin on his face, "Hey if you guys are gonna get freaky, at least let me tape it to sell," he said which earned him an elbow in the gut again from Squee. The new couple just grinned at each other, "Sorry guys. Now let's get going." Zim said.
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A sort of presence seemed to emanate from the subterranean halls of the laboratory. It was one that could inspire feelings of dread in even the bravest of beings. It was something rarely emitted in large quantities. The only person known to be able to emit an aura of this magnitude was Gaz Membrane. And that was only when angered or annoyed. Considering she was neither at the moment, it was a frightening thought to think that there was someone else in the labyrinthine corridors that held that sort of insanely incredible power. There was, however and his name could be summed up in just two simple letters: J.C.
The Jesus doppelganger, sans the holiness, had made his way into the underground catacombs right after the group had. He had followed them around the hallways above ground and was currently following after them still. However, despite his powers he had still managed to get himself lost in the long twisting halls. It would be almost impossible for him to catch up with them now. Unless…no! It was against his beliefs to do something like that let alone think it. But, he needed to find the sinners desperately and it was the only way to get them quickly.
That was all the reason he needed. He then closed his eyes and cleared his mind. Images began to flash through his mind at incredible speeds appearing as multi-colored blurs. Finally, he found what he was looking for. He saw an image of the group in a large computer lab, several hallways away. He grinned, as long as no more of those "abominations of the Dark Lord Satan" aka the zombies tried to attack him, he'd be there rather quickly. He cackled to himself as he made his way towards the group of heroes.
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The group had just entered a large computer lab after having just dispatched a few more zombies and decided to hide there for awhile as more zombies were coming and the heavy steel door would keep the monsters out for quite awhile. The group decided to take a rest for little bit and try and formulate a plan. The group then split apart to wander around the large room. Zim had wandered over to a computer because he wanted to see if he could find out just what the hell the scientists were doing that caused zombies to begin popping up.
He sat down behind one of the computers and moved the mouse to see if it was on. The screen went back on out of its sleep mode showing that the computer hadn't logged the user out. Gaz came over and sat down next to him, "What're you doing?" she asked. "Trying to figure all this zombie shit out." Zim replied. He was looking through the various files on the computer trying to figure out what was causing all this. When he got to the last file on the computer he found that it was encrypted and would not open.
"Damn, I need a password to get into this thing," he said. "It's going to take me awhile to hack the server." "Actually, let me." Gaz offered as she took the keyboard and began rapidly typing in a seemingly random combination of numbers and letters. Surprisingly enough, when she hit the enter button, an "access accepted" message appeared on the screen. Zim looked over at Gaz with a look of disbelief on his face. "How did you manage to do that?" he asked amazed. Gaz just shrugged, I've hacked into computers like this before, and codes usually involve a supposedly random combination of letters and numbers. The numbers in a sequence like this are usually all primes, and the letters are usually associated with an even number. I then calculated the probability of the numbers and letters in a sequence hence I got the code figured out. And the guy who used this computer left a sticky note with it on the side of the monitor."
Zim craned his head to look around at the side of the computer. Sure enough, it had the sticky note in question on it. 'How did I miss that?' Zim thought. Well no matter, he had a job to do and he didn't need senseless distractions to deviate him from his mission. He then opened the files contents and began reading them. His eyes began to widen at what he was reading. "What?" Gaz asked.
"It says here that the group in this lab were trying to find out the effects of Deep Black on various bacteria and viruses. Most of them yielded the same effect: the destruction of the bacteria or virus. However, some viruses did have different results. The most outstanding results were held when the chemical was introduced to a cell taken from a cancerous tumor. The chemical mutated the cancer and actually caused the cell to regenerate." Zim scrolled down some more to show pictures and more text.
"The scientists thought that they could apply this newly mutated virus to some of Marshall's men as a way of healing them or to give them regenerative abilities. Unfortunately, they never expected what would happen next. They gave the virus to an injured crony of Marshall's and would see what would happen to him. The virus apparently traveled straight to his brain and began to take a hold of it, apparently growing an extra lobe on it. The man still died and the perplexed scientists were about to shut down the project as a failure when their subject apparently began to move again. The scientists were amazed as the EKG's still said he was showing no pulse and was clinically dead. But their amazement turned to horror, when the subject got ran over to and bit into one of the scientist's jugular. The man ripped his head back tearing a chunk of flesh from the man's throat. The subject was shot repeatedly, but the bullets failed to subdue him until a round hit him in the head. The guards investigated the dead mans carcass, completely forgetting about the scientist who rose and bit one of the guards."
"The Virus continued to spread as scientists and guards tried to escape. The doors were locked down though and the scientists and guards were doomed to being either devoured, or infected by the zombies." But Zim's eyes widened at something else he saw. "They also were able to mutate E. Coli and administered it to animals. They apparently mutated them, but not much else is known about them." The two were astounded and disturbed by what they had just discovered.
They had no idea all this had happened in the underground lab and were freaked. They were about to tell the others when Dib said, "Hey guys…listen." The group listened and didn't seem to hear anything. "I don't hear anything." Johnny said. "Exactly, I wonder what happened to the zom…" Dib was cut off by the sound of a hole being blown in the wall. When the dust settled, J.C. stood in the rubble with a sadistic grin on his face. "I've found you!" he exclaimed.
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AN: Okay well here is a new chapter. I was going to have the fight against J.C. and some more in depth zombie carnage already, but I decided to just give you guys a new chapter and to stop being a cock tease. Oh and I finally had Zim and Gaz admit their feelings so there'll be more ZAGR in upcoming chapters. Well, till next time guys and girls!