Untoten Kreuzung
Chapter 36
The nuke special was very welcomed, but it did start another round and they once again had to fight off zombies. Rune opened the door to the next room and it yielded huge fuse boxes that connected to the outside. Wherever the power room was they had to be getting close to it. Inside, the Double Tap Root Beer perk was settled in a corner next to a set of switches that did something or another.
There was no time to sightsee though as zombies were soon coming into the windows of this room as well as the room before. Their heavy steps on the metal stairs and shrieks of unholy manner were a prelude to a swarm of at six from the downstairs room. Takeo was the first one on killing off the swarm; he managed two before having to fall back after getting hit. A well placed headshot and a barrage to another from Richtofen left only two for Rune to finish off.
"This room is too small to fight effectively in. We need to open the door to the next room." Takeo warned.
"All right then take the door Takeo, you've got the most points." Rune replied. He nodded and hurried over to the door leading to the next room.
Once opened the sounds of a separate gunfight filled the room. It was another series of catwalks in a very large room almost like an amphitheater. The three hurried onto the catwalk and they saw on the other side of the room on another series of catwalks were Dempsey and Nikolai fighting off zombies from their side of the building. Dempsey caught their figures running across the catwalks.
"It's about time you joined us! What took ya so long?!" He chided from across the room.
"We must have taken the long way around!" Rune replied trying to keep focused on killing off the zombies that were coming through the barricades.
"The power switch is on you're side! Flip it and we can get on the ground floor below us!" Dempsey informed.
Takeo looked to his right and Dempsey's observation was correct; he took the liberty of turning on the power. The building came to life filling rooms with the hum of machinery and electrical charges.
"Great, but we still have to find the mystery box." Rune mentioned.
"No need to, it's on ze ground floor." Richtofen replied.
Woe and behold there it was sitting on top of a pile of smaller boxes, and the teleporter was there as well. The only way down to the ground was elevator carts at the end of the catwalks. Dempsey and Nikolai took off for them and made their way down. The other three were occupied with the remaining zombies of the round.
The last few rounds of their weapons finished the job, but left them in the position of low ammo. Down to the box was the only chance of getting a better weapon before the next round started. On their way down they saw Dempsey and Nikolai trying the box for weapons. The marine was rewarded with the automatic version of the AR15. Nikolai, however, got stuck with an L9A1 on his first go.
"Fucking box, you always fuck me over." He cursed. Richtofen, Takeo, and Rune got down to the ground and they hurried to try their luck even though the zombies had started to break into the windows again. Dempsey and Nikolai ran to take care of the encroaching horde. Takeo took the first turn and was gifted with an Uzi once more.
"Go on ahead, Ed." Rune offered. Richtofen took his turn at the box and received a Famas.
"Vhat, zhat's it, no Wunderwaffe for me?" he questioned as he left to go fight the horde off. Rune's turn seemed to take the longest, but that seemed to be a good thing. Before her eyes was a fine piece of weaponry and technology.
The four men took on zombie after zombie, forcing them back to the windows and letting them repair them for the next wave.
"Damn, those fuckers are tough." Dempsey exhaled, leaning against the wall next to his window.
"I need max ammo or something, I'm not going to use a fucking sniper rifle on round seven." Nikolai complained.
"Too bad there are no weapons in this room." Takeo seemed to mock.
The music for the next round sounded and thus the zombies began to swarm, but unlike the other zombies these ones were different. Their rotting skin was laced with specs of the glowing element 115. The four unleashed round after round of bullets, but they only fell after a full clip was through or to a headshot.
"These bastards are gonna be a handful." Dempsey forewarned trying to keep two of them at bay after they'd broken through his window.
"Get avay you mutated schweinhund!" Richtofen shouted firing a clip into one of the 115 zombies that had just hit him. It was soon obvious that they would get overrun if a miracle didn't happen soon. Dempsey was hit by a 115 zombie that had come from the upstairs and happened to jump down to him. Takeo and Nikolai were pushed into each other by the encroaching mob of the new foes.
It was only a matter of time before the four would be overtaken. In their minds they prayed for the miracle of a nuke special or some divine intervention. Their prayers were answered, but not by divinity or chance, but by one stroke of luck that seemed to grace them.
"Get ready for the shock of your undead lifetimes!" Rune howled.
The four looked behind them and the glow and whimsy of the DG-2 graced their eyes. The buzz of immense electrical power and the pull of the trigger unleashed it's fury upon the restless dead. The electricity found its targets and hit them with an unholy hunger, arcing from one zombie to the next. They shrieked in pain and were seared by the sheer heat of the electricity.
"My creation; how on earth vould ze box let you have it?" Richtofen questioned in disbelief. Rune hefted the heavy lightning rifle to a better holding position.
"Guess I was lucky. Oh, by the way the round isn't over yet." She replied. The four looked back at the windows and saw more of the 115 enhanced zombies coming towards them.
"Headshots only guys, we've gotta conserve ammo." Dempsey warned. The four took aim and waited for the right moments to shot the zombies down. Unfortunately, as they killed one another came to take its place almost as quickly as the last one had fallen. Nikolai was impatient and desperate to get the zombies killed and over with so he threw a grenade into the mob of undead.
The grenade killed two and blew a few appendages off of them, but no crawlers were left in the explosion's wake. Dempsey decided to toss a grenade in as well after dropping one of the armless zombies. With his grenade three fell and it left one crawler, the rest were still, more or less able-bodied. A few more headshots reduced their numbers down to a bearable amount as the end of the round neared.
The crawler that Dempsey had made trailed behind the remaining zombies.
"Leave the crawler guys; we need a little time to re-strategize." Rune called. The last few walking zombies were dealt with leaving the lone crawler to try and bite at their shins. Takeo, again, took crawler duty and led it around so it wouldn't disturb everyone.
"All right, so there it is." Dempsey pointed to the teleporter.
"Yes, but it doesn't look like its working." Nikolai observed.
"Und you're right, Nikolai, it isn't vorking." Richtofen backed looking at the machine.
"Well, you know how to work the thing so go and fix it." Dempsey ordered.
"Zhat's vhat I vas going to do, Dempsey." Richtofen replied annoyed.
"So….in the meantime what do we do?" Rune asked.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to drink my vodka now." Nikolai opted, pulling out a bottle from his pack. Dempsey looked over at Rune and inspected the DG-2 she held.
"Do you have another weapon?" he asked.
Rune shook her head and put the large rifle to her side.
"I'll go and get another one." She replied heading over to the mystery box. The little jingle played and hanging in midair was an FN-FAL which she took without complaint. She took a glance at the teleporter and saw Richtofen tinkering with the circuits to the control panel.
It was only a matter of time now until the four could go home and she could start anew.
"Vell, zhat's not good." Richtofen muttered.
"What?" Rune asked worriedly.
"First of all, zhere's a part missing, und second, ze time circuitry has gone bad." He answered.
This grabbed everyone's attention and even Takeo looked up from the crawler to see what was going on.
"So we can't use the thing?" Dempsey questioned.
"Ve can use it; it's not zhat ze missing part is zhat hard to find. I just need an extra copper wire und it's good to go. As for the circuits….." he paused.
"We can't travel through time now?" Rune suggested.
"Zhat's not true either. Ve can travel through time, but I can't guarantee zhat ve'll end up vhere ve vant to." He answered. The other four hung their heads in doubt, until the sound of the crawler dying caught their attention and the shriek of a replacement coming along.