Chapter 25: Back at Base
"Anyways," she said with a grin, "Shouldn't we get our table now?" The boy nodded and she smiled.
After checking with the waiter, they were taken to their seats and handed some menus. After the waiter walked away, Domino said with a smile, "So, it was Michelle again wasn't it? That would be the 4th scratch that girl gave you."
"It isn't important," the boy replied and the boy then thought, "What's important that I manage to get spend time with Domino."
"I have a question for you," she said to him, "It might kind of offend you, but is it a possibility that… she may like you?" The boy spat out his water he was drinking.
"WHAT?!" he said, "There is no possibility that she could possibly…"
"Let me ask you this," Domino said inching closer to him by moving her chair closer, "Why did that girl give you that newest scratch?"
The boy hesitated, but sighed and said, "Because I referred to her friend, Michael, as her boyfriend."
The girl nodded and said, "Maybe... it is a probable idea, but maybe she is in love with you?" The boy blankly looked at her.
"Just follow me on this," Domino continued to explained, "Maybe she is in love with you and does not like it when you consider her with someone else, other than yourself?" The words echoed and the world around them disappeared.
Back at the base, Jupiter is constantly trying to reach the groups through the radio at their base within the laboratory. "Lovrina?" she said calling into it while trying other wave lengths, "Robert? Dr. Carl? Where are you guys?"
There was no reply. "This stinks," Jupiter said getting annoyed and getting to her feet, "Nothing! Nothing since last night!"
She walked towards the window in the lab's room to look out it. Maybe they had already arrived? Maybe not… this would be the tenth time within 30 minutes. As soon as she reached it, Liza popped out of it quickly and said, "Hi! Any news?"
"Whoa!" Jupiter said jumping back a little bit, "Don't surprise me like that again!"
"Sorry," Liza said with a small smile, "I just decided to see if you were in here."
"No," Jupiter said shaking her head, "Nothing since last night. I can't get a signal on the radio or any reply from anyone. Maybe the radio tower is out?"
"Possibly," Liza said, "That thing was made back in the 60s to pick up radio signals from enemy planes during the Cold War that posed a threat to the continent. That old tower is way past its prime."
"Yeah…" Jupiter sighed and then giving her assistant a worried look, "But I'm just a bit worried about them and all. Lovrina was one of my favorite students back at the academy. I would hate to think the worst at this point."
"Don't worry," Liza said with a smile, "I'll just borrow your car and go out there and look for them. I'll find them, no problem!"
"Thank you," Jupiter sighed with a smile.
"Yeah... it's no…" Liza said with a smile, and then with a frozen look on her face. She grabbed Jupiter's lab coat with her right hand and gripped the windowsill with her left hand before screaming.
"What's wrong," Jupiter asked horrified. Liza just screamed as she began to be dragged out of view. Jupiter gripped her friend's shoulder and looked out the window as she tried to pull her friend in. She saw one of the ugliest looking creature in her life eating Liza's foot off.
"Shit!" Jupiter screamed trying to pull her friend in harder while fighting the strength of the beast pulling Liza out. It was incredibly hard; Jupiter would be soon pulled out as well. She took one last look at the creature and now saw it almost ate off Liza's whole right leg down to her hip.
Jupiter lost her grip and fell back into the room. She watched as her assistant and friend was completely pulled out of the window. She heard her horrific screams as the monster continued to eat her friend alive. Jupiter grabbed one of the tools off the desk in the room and cuddle into the corner of the room crying.
"Hell!" someone familiar shouted from outside of the building, "Another of these bastards!" A shot rang out and another scream called out. This time it sounded more like the monster itself.
Four people then burst into the room and saw her huddling in the corner. It was Ronjad, Lovrina, Sakura, and a horrified looking Michelle who was shaking her in boots. "Oh thank God it's you guys!" Jupiter cried running over and hugging Lovrina, "That monster killed Liza!"
"It'll be alright," Lovrina cried hugging her friend and mentor, "You'll be fine now…"
"What about Dr. Carl?" Jupiter said, "And Greg too? Didn't those two go out there to help you guys out?!"
"No," Ronjad said with a low voice, "Those things got them too…" Jupiter cried some more.
"We're all getting out of here right now!" Sakura said, "You'll becoming with us back to town and we'll call in some backup! Where's that chef guy that was here earlier?"
"He left an hour ago to eat some more food supplies," Jupiter said, "He should be back for a couple of hours considering how long it takes to get there and back."
"Ok," Ronjad said pumping the gun he used and readjusting the backpack on his shoulder, "Let's just get out of here now!" Everyone nodded and they all headed back outside.
They all halted in surprise and saw another one of the creatures on the top of the car the three used to get here. It had eaten through the metal on the hood and had ripped apart the engine. "Crap!" Ronjad said taking aim, "Get back in everyone!"
Everyone pushed and shoved themselves back into the building. The creature then turned and looked at Ronjad just as he shot off a round that killed and knocked the creature off the hood of the vehicle. Ronjad then quickly ran back into the building and slammed the door behind him. "So…" he said, "Anyone up for walking now?"
All four girls were shaking and had the most freaked expression on their faces. "Oh come on!" he said to them, "We all have to be tough now! We all had to be strong! What are ya? Wimps? Girls? …ok… maybe scratch that last statement…"
"Whatever the reason now!" Jupiter said trying to speak, "How many of those things are there?"
"Well only four of those things could of fit in one of those big worms," Sakura said, "But we don't know how many of those things were still all out there."
"There were at least 8 of them left!" Jupiter said nervously, "How many of those things have you killed so far?"
"Let's see here," Ronjad said reloading and then pointing out the weapon out the window to watch the area, "There was that one at the radio tower, the one on the car hood, and that other one we killed here. So… 3 at least unless these things eat each other."
"That's it?!" Michelle yelled at him, "ONLY 3 OF THEM?! THERE'S STILL 29 OF THEM LEFT! WHAT KIND OF HUNTERS ARE YOU GUYS?"
"First of all," Ronjad said with a frown, "I am not a hunter and I could only kill what I could see in front of me!"
"How could you not be a hunter?" Michelle yelled, "If you are not a hunter then, why did you take this job?!"
"You want to know why bitch?!" he said growing angry, "Because I was blackmailed into this! These f-ing Cipher people experiment on me so many years ago and I never have gotten over it! These people still are interested on further testing me! The only reason why I am here is because someone in this company figured out my location and forced me to help otherwise I would be another stupid test subject for you people all over again! That's why I am here and why I don't give a shit if you die or not at this point you stupid Cipher slut!"
Michelle looked outraged by that last insult, but the room fell silent. Sakura looked sadly at her friend, finally knowing the truth behind some of the pain in his life. Lovrina only looked down at the ground still recounting that moment when she had destroyed her boyfriend's life and forcing him into hiding. Jupiter only looked to the side sadly. She had known about the human test subjects in Cipher, but she never met one before and never felt their pain until just now.
Suddenly, they all heard a low sound. They all glanced around while Ronjad looked out the window. "Looks like Robert's ok!" he said, "Here he comes!"
Ronjad headed out the door with the rest of the girls in tow. They saw Robert's large truck pull up next to them, but it looked in pretty bad shape. The trap that surrounded the back end was torn to shreds, the front of the truck was cover in orange blood and plenty of skin in between the rims, and the windows were broken as well. The door open and Robert with Aipom stepped out onto the ground. They did not look happy.
"Freakin' size monsters everywhere," Robert mumbled as he glanced at the remaining survivors, "There was a lack of need to know information."
"Well sorry sir," Sakura said nervously, "Those things destroyed the radio tower so we couldn't contact you at all."
"There was a LACK OF NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION!" Robert shouted angrily and he threw down his baseball cap to the ground while Aipom mimicked him, "I manage to kill about the first 10 that were stuck in front of my truck by running them down. Next I killed a few with some of the revolvers I had while Aipom slashed a few down to size with his fury swipes attack. The rest I picked up with a few well placed hand to hand combat and with my hunting knife..."
He picked up the two handguns in his vest pocket and said, "So… I am completely out of ammo… that has never happened to me before in my life…"
"Well good job!" Michelle said happily, "It sounded like you got them all! Can we go home now?"
"Hold on a minute there!" Robert said walking towards the backend of the truck and grabbing his hat off the ground, "I have something to show you guys. After all the chaos was over, I notice one of them was stunned so I basically caught one."
He walked over the back end and tore off a sheet on the monster he had caught. He had managed to completely tie it all up with rope, making it impossible to escape. The creature screamed out loud, but Robert hit it with his hat. "Ah shut up!" he said.
"Well," Lovrina said, "I guess we can take it back with us when we leave here so we can study it better."
"No way!" Michelle said, "We already have it here! We can study it here before we leave!" No one seemed up for the idea, but they decided to anyways. They might lose the beast to other scientists when they reached civilization.
They brought the truck into the garage to park it. Once inside, Ronjad and Lovrina dropped their backpacks with their Pokeballs in them in the back end of the truck. They helped hoist the beast off the truck and into the lab to study it better.
Unknown to them, once they had all lift the room, something from underneath the truck fell off it and hit the ground. It was still breathing. Its long sticky tongue began to feel around the room looking for something. Then it grabbed one of Robert's MREs that fell out of the truck. The thing then pulled it towards him.
Author Note: Whew! Sorry about the long wait. I got hooked on playing Ratchet and Clank and tried to beat both of them. Plus, I did some volunteering hours and I been very lazy. So, hope for my last story to update very soon. It's probably the one you all been waiting for!
One more big thing! School starts for me this Thursday! Why they don't start after Labor Day like every other school, you got me! Also, I got my driver license as well. But I am sure not street legal with my skills so far!
Now its time for the Top 5 Stories of the Month! The winners for the month of July are:
1. Emerald: The Legend of Hoenn II By: Katie Legends
2. Kingdom Hearts III: Trials of the Keyblade By: Darius Almighty
3. Protection By: Alexz Recoro
4. Just Say You Love Me By: Star High Above (She's Back after 2 years!)
5. Linked By Friendship By: KH-Akyra
Everybody begins to perform tests on the creature to learn more about it, but they learn something that'll lead them into trouble. Something that'll make them run for their lives…
Next to Come: Chapter 26: Shriekers
Date: 8/27/07
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