"Well, this is it."
Leon had led Ashley and I back to a waste disposal area. It was about a forty foot drop, and at the bottom was layers and layers of… filth.
"Y-you can't be serious." I said, backing away from the edge of the hole.
"As serious as I'm gonna be."
"'It stinks!" Ashley complained, grabbing her nose.
"Sure does," he said before looking over to me. "You think you can do this?"
I nodded nervously. "Y-yeah, I'm fine."
He then held out his gloved hand. Smiling, I took it gratefully and we all jumped down.
We landed on a large pile of trash and Leon was the first to stand up.
"Are you out of your mind?" Ashley asked, clearly unhappy with what had just happened.
"I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your butt."
He helped me up first and asked if I was okay, which I simply nodded to. As he helped Ashley up, I turned around when I heard her ask, "What is this thing?"
She had landed on what looked like a deformed body that was covered in spikes, and it had long, sharp teeth that didn't fit in its mouth. And apparently it was slimy because there were juices sliding all down her arm.
"Come on." Leon said as he pulled her up.
There were bars blocking our way to the other side of the room, and as soon as we pulled the lever to lift them up, we heard rustling behind us and heavy, shaky breathing.
"What is that thing?!" Ashley hollered.
"Hurry, come on!" Leon had quickly run through a doorway and was standing by another lever, which I guessed dropped the bars again.
Ashley and I ran and stood by his side, and as soon as he hit the lever, the bars dropped and the thing was trapped on the other side.
We were in a giant room that had lava traveling through the middle of it. There was another doorway in front of us, and a dumpster to the left. Past the doorway was where the lava was, and half of a bridge passing over it. There was also a large, metal, rust-colored box beside it.
We ran over to the box and pushed it to fill the gap in the bridge when we heard the bars rise again.
"Did he just pull the lever?!" I asked, beginning to panic.
"Just come on!"
But we couldn't run far, there was another thing right around the corner. Good thing they walked slowly.
"Girls, hide in there!" He pointed to another small dumpster.
"Leon, I'm pretty sure if they can pull levers, they can open dumpsters."
"Just do it!"
We quickly hopped into the dumpster and shut the lid. There were a few gunshots, and then we heard an explosion. We waited a few seconds and then we heard Leon say "Okay, it's safe!"
After stepping out, I walked up to Leon and said, "Are you going to tell us what the hell those things were?!"
He sighed. "I would, but I don't even really know myself."
"Well what was that explosion?" Ashley asked.
"I bought another Rocket Launcher."
We and walked across a metal bridge, and over to a side room where another big metal box was blocking a door. We quickly pushed it aside and stepped through. The rest of the area looked really run-down. Every hallway we walked through had rocks everywhere, and holes in the walls. Eventually we came up to a ledge you had to jump from to reach another room. There was a hole in the floor filled with lava, a giant wrecking ball hovering over it, and an operating room in the far right corner. As soon as we jumped down, Ashley pointed to the left at a large pile of rubble, saying "Look, there's a gate here.
Turned out, she was right. Under all of that debris there was a giant rusted door.
"Well how do we get through it?" I asked.
"I'm guessing with this." said Leon, looking up at the giant wrecking ball.
Just then, a door opened in the back of the room and out poured about a dozen Ganados, followed by a massive freak, covered in metal armor and wielding a giant mallet.
"You girls go pull that lever, while I fight off these guys!"
Ashley and I both ran into the operating room and pulled the lever that operated the wrecking ball. It immediately swung forward, barely doing any damage to the pile of rocks blocking the door.
"Hit it again!" Leon yelled from outside, shot-gunning away at all the new people that showed up.
I nodded and pulled the switch down. Once again the ball swung forward, but it only did a little more damage than last time.
"One more time!"
BANG! Finally, the rocks were crushed, and we could open the door. Ashley and I ran out of the operating room and up to Leon.
"Come on!" He yelled, and we ran through the gate with the freaks still chasing us.
As soon as we were on the other side of the gate, we heard very heavy and shaky breathing. Ashley and I cowered in fear behind Leon, and he kept giving nervous glances at the shutter in front of us.
"Stay right here." He said, as he began slowly walking forward. He pulled the lever and when the door rose up, it wasn't like the last one. This deformed guy didn't have spikes all in him; he was just a dusty gray color. The thing was dead in about a whole magazine of TMP bullets.
Sighing in relief, the agent turned back to us. "Those guys aren't as bad. All they do is regenerate their limbs and such. Thus, giving them the name Regenerator."
My eyes grew wide. "R-regenerate their limbs?! How the hell is that even possible?!"
"How the hell is any of this possible?"
He had a point there, and I knew better than to say anything about it. He had this look in his eyes that warned me not to cross a certain boundary, even though I had no idea what it was.
There was another Regenerator down the hall, and once Leon killed him we found that the next shutter we had to pass through wouldn't open. After back-tracking, we found a room that had a power switch in it, and when we pressed it, the shutter opened, but only about halfway. I carefully crawled under it and pulled a lever on the other side, opening the door.
"Nice job." Leon said and I, obviously, turned very red.
Around the corner there was a door with a 'high-security lock' on it. All we had to do was pull two levers at the same time when it gave us the signal… Yes, very high-security, Saddler.
This room was filled with boxes, and there was a large pickup-truck/bulldozer in front of us.
"I'll drive!" Ashley called out as she climbed into the seat by the steering wheel.
Leon and I hopped up onto the bed of the truck and jerked forward when the truck started up. Ashley tore down the door blocking our path and when she began driving forward, Leon and I gaped at each other.
"How on earth do you know how to work one of these things?" I asked.
"I don't know!" She replied with enthusiasm. "I'm just pressing buttons!"
Leon's face blanched, along with mine, and he turned to Ashley. "Uh… maybe I should drive Ash…"
"What? No! I can do this, rea—"
And then we heard shouts coming from behind us.