CHAPTER 4
"Jake! C'mon!" cried Anna, firing wildly at the horde of zombies. They were outnumbered. He knew it. He pulled a grenade out. "Jake, no!" Anna shouted. Jake pulled the pin out. "No!" He backflipped into the mass of zombies. "No!"
Suddenly Jake woke up. His head was bleeding. So was nearly every part of his body. It hurt. He heard a noise. It was an engine revving up. He ran to the window. He looked out. It was the others. He hit the window. "Hey!" he yelled at them. "Hey!" The van drove away. "Shit!"
He turned around and picked up his berretta. He suddenly noticed Michelle lying on the ground. He ran over to her. "Michelle! Michelle! Can you here me?"
Michelle coughed. She rolled over and opened her eyes. "I'm OK. What happened?" She looked up. "Oh."
"The others have left. They must think we're dead. If we don't catch up with them, we will be." Jake told her. He took out the empty clip and slapped in a new one. they walked over to the door and Jake twisted the handle. He let it open before stepping into the dark room. He fumbled to find the light switch. He hit a button and the room lit up. It was empty.
They made it down to the third floor when they heard something at the far end of the corridor. A group of three zombies staggered towards him. Instead of wasting his bullets, Jake opened the door to the stairs. Ten were approaching him. "Oh, Shit!" he said and closed the door. He looked at the three at the opposite end of the hallway. They were halfway to their target. Blam! Blam! Blam! Each zombie was downed with a head shot. Jake looked at Michelle, the end of her gun smoking. She looked back at him. "They looked at me funny." Jake smiled, then moved a desk in front of the door.
"Get through that, suckers!" he shouted at the zombies through the door. Suddenly an arm smashed through the glass in the door and tried to get Jake. The suddenness made him jump back. "Jesus Christ!"
"Don't tease the dead. They'll only get mad." Michelle said calmly.
They walked down the corridor and entered the room at the end. As they walked through it they stopped. At the far end was a large bomb. The counter told them that they only had 5 minutes and 45 seconds to get out of there. "Shit!" Michelle said and walked backwards through the door. Jake did the same.
Jake looked behind him. A large window was in the wall. Behind it was a large tree. A thick branch stuck out near the window. Jake knew it was there only chance. "Follow me." he said, and he shot the glass and ran at it. He launched himself through the sharp shards, cutting his exposed skin. Michelle stood still.
"I must be crazy..." She ran down the corridor and jumped through the window. As she did, the barricade gave way and the zombies lunged at her legs. They missed and hit the wall.
As Michelle flew through the window, she suddenly realised that they were high above the ground. She was waiting to fall to her death when suddenly she felt a hand grab her arm. She looked up and saw Jake hanging from a tree branch. He must have only just caught the branch. He hung on to it and her and looked down. It was a large drop.
"Damn." he murmured. A lone zombie staggered round the corner. Michelle aimed her submachine gun at it, and shot at the zombie. It slumped backwards, blood oozing from the hole in it's skull. Suddenly she heard a cracking noise. The branch fell slightly. "Oh dear." she heard Jake say.
"What do you mean, 'Oh dear'?" she asked angrily. The branch snapped of and the pair plummeted to the ground.
The branch below them stopped them hitting the ground, but the impact broke it off. They crashed through four other branches before hitting the ground. Jake limply picked himself up with one arm. He had cut the other badly. Michelle stood up, not as badly injured as Jake.
They ran out of the car park, away from the building. They got to a road when... Boom! the buildings second, third and fourth floors emitted large clouds of flame, and the building seemed to fall into the ground. They sheltered behind a nearby car until the dust settled, then Jake smashed its window with the butt of his gun.
He unlocked the car and opened the door. He sat in the drivers seat and went for the ignition. No keys. "Shit." Jake murmured. Michelle sat in the seat next to him. Jake opened the sun-guard, and the shiny car keys fell onto his lap. He placed them in the ignition and turned them. "C'mon, c'mon!" Jake said impatiently. The car roared to life. "Bitchin'." said Jake, and burned rubber down the street.
Edwards, Dave and Kylie left the house. The zombies from last night had gone, and the street was deserted. They walked over to a nearby car, and Edwards smashed the window with his gun. He unlocked the door and got in. He unlocked the other doors, allowing Dave and Kylie to enter. As they did, Edwards reached under the car. "What are you doing?" Kylie asked.
"Hot-wiring this thing." Edwards answered. Dave looked out of the back window. About 15 zombies were coming towards them.
"Hurry up!" he said.
"Why?" Edwards asked.
"There's a lot of zombies heading this way." Dave answered.
"Damn." Edwards murmured, hurrying up. The zombies stumbled closer.
"Hurry up!" Kylie shouted.
"Alright!" Edwards shouted back. The car suddenly roared to life, and Edwards sat up straight. He hit the accelerator just as the first zombie lunged for the car. It fell to the ground as the car sped down the road. "There." Edwards said, smiling. "Where to now?"
"There should be an airport near here." Dave told him. "We should be able to get a plane or something from there."
"Sounds good. Let's do it." Edwards replied. "Just tell me the directions.
It had been about 15 minutes since they left the building. Frank was looking at the map and was giving directions to the port to Mike. Other Marines were reloading their guns, others were asleep. Anna was still looking out of the back of the van. She was thinking of Jake. She loved him. Couldn't get him out of her head. She couldn't forget him falling, crashing, not moving. She knew she'd never see him again. She may as well let herself be taken by the monsters. There was nothing worth living for. She could end it now. One shot in the head, all her problems would be gone.
Her eyes filled up with tears again. Suddenly the van stopped. Anna looked around. "What the hell?" she asked.
"We're stuck. Someone help push the van out." Mike said. Stuart and Dan opened the back of the van and stepped out.
"On three." Stuart called. "One, two..." Mike hit the pedal, spraying mud over the two pushers. They shielded there eyes from the spray, then Stuart walked to the drivers seat door. Mike looked at him. "I said on three! Not two!" he said, annoyed by the fact he was drenched.
"Sorry, I misheard." Mike explained.
"How can you mistake three with two? One comes a full second behind the other! Now, we'll try again. On three." Stuart told him, emphasising the three, and also holding up three fingers. Mike nodded.
"Three." Stuart nodded back and walked back around. "On three, right?" Mike called.
"Yes. Three." replied Stuart. He positioned himself again, as did Dan. "OK. One. Two. Th..." Mud sprayed up them again. When it stopped, Stuart walked up to the driver's side again. He looked at Mike.
"Sorry..." Mike said.
"On one. OK? One. Right before two. The first number. One. Un. Ok?" Stuart said, and repositioned himself. "Right then. One!" He and Dan pushed the van, and Mike pushed on the pedal. More mud splattered them, but the van soon became unstuck.
Anna looked out of the back of the van, now not as deeply sad because of the events that just happened. Then something caught her eye. Something large and fast. It seemed alive, and was gaining on them. Anna wiped the window. Now she could see the monster more clearly. It appeared to be a cockroach, only larger. A lot larger. Nearly the same size as the van they were in. Anna spoke without taking her eyes of the monster. Only Mike, Frank, Dan and Stuart didn't notice it because they were either at the front of the van, or trying to get back on it. "Mike..." Anna called.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Look behind us." she said, seemingly calm.
"Why?..." he asked as he looked at his wing mirror. He saw the huge bug. "Holy fucking Christ... Stuart, Dan, get your slow asses back in here now!" he shouted to the two men still running behind the van as he slammed down on the pedal. They started pulling away, and Dan and Stuart jumped in the van. They turned around and saw it.
"What the shit is that?" Dan asked, knowing nobody else knew the answer. Suddenly the creature's back split open and a pair of huge wings emerged. The creature took off suddenly and flew above the van.
"Where did it go? Where is it?" Stuart asked quietly. His question was answered as a large brown claw smashed through the roof and sliced through his helmet, missing his skull by a few fractions of an inch. Everyone in the back fired at the claw and roof repeatedly, but the shock of the claw rocking the van knocked Dan off his feet. He smashed through the doors in the back, but grabbed onto the handle.
"Ah, shit!" Suddenly the creature's claw grabbed him and pulled him onto the roof. The others could hear him screaming, then the creature ripping him apart. Blood spewed through the holes in the roof, splattering the Marines. Mike carried on driving at high speed and Frank tried to hide under the dashboard.
Jake didn't know a great deal about cars, but he knew that the car he was in had to be faster than the van he had seen the others leave in. He used the wheel tracks as a rough guide, and also tried to remember what the map looked like as he knew where they were heading.
He watched the road, but started talking to Michelle. "Alright, Michelle. There's something you're not telling me, isn't there." he said. Michelle looked at him.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because someone doesn't go out of there way to detonate an entire building while something like this is going on, without a purpose. That purpose was to kill one of us. Now, I'm just a Marine, and I only know two things that are going on. Jack and Shit. So you must know something. And I want to know what it is." Jake explained.
"You know as much as I know." Michelle told him.
"Is that the truth?"
"Yes." Michelle looked at the road ahead. Suddenly she remembered something. "Wait a second,"
"What?" Jake asked.
"Pete gave me a disc just before he was killed. He said it was important, but I didn't think it would get me killed..."
"Do you still have it?" Jake interrupted. Michelle took something from her pocket.
"Yeah." she said, making sure it wasn't damaged. She opened the plastic case and checked it. It looked fine.
"Have you used it yet?" Jake asked. Michelle shook her head.
"No. I never got the chance to." she said. Jake took it.
"I'll look after it for now. Maybe it'll come in useful. It probably explains what the hell is going on."
A little while later he heard what sounded like very faint gunfire. He swerved round the corner and spotted the van the others were in, but this time it had what appeared to be a giant insect on top of it. "What the hell?..."
Anna was to busy firing at the creature on top of the van along with everyone else to notice the car following them. She stood near the back two doors and kept firing into the roof. Suddenly the large claw swung and slammed into her. She crashed into the doors, one of which broke off. Anna fell through the gaping hole and hit the tarmac hard. The wind was knocked out of her and she rolled along the ground. She heard the screeching of tires from behind her. She rolled over to see what was happening and saw two black wheels close to her face. She heard the door open and someone step out.
"Come on. I got an idea." came a voice. Anna thought she recognised it.
"Jake?" she said, still winded from her fall. The person picked her up and quickly helped her into the car. The man got in the driver's side and drove after the vehicle. Anna got her vision back completely and looked at the driver. "Thank God you're not dead. I thought I lost you back there." she said to him.
"You don't get rid of me easily." Jake replied.
"Where's Michelle?" Anna asked.
"I'm here." came a voice from the back seat. Anna turned around to see the girl sitting behind her.
"What the hell is that thing?" asked Jake.
"I don't know, but it killed the fed, whatever it is." she said. "We gotta help them."
"I know." he said. He took his gun out with one hand to check it was loaded.
"That thing has armour. You can't shoot it." Anna explained.
"Can you drive?" Jake asked her.
"Yeah, why?"
"You're driving." Jake told her.
"Shit." she said as Jake punched the sunroof out. Michelle looked out of the rear window and saw it clatter on the road behind them. When she turned around again, Jake was halfway through the gaping hole in the roof of the car. Anna shuffled into the driving seat
"Jake, what the hell are you doing?" Michelle called to him. He didn't answer, instead he fired at the creature on top of the van. The bullets smacked into the shell of it, but the massive bug seemed unaffected. Jake climbed through the gap, and stuck his head back in the car.
"Get me in front of them." he shouted. Anna swerved round the side of the van and slowly overtook it. Jake clambered onto the boot of the car and knelt down.
As the car overtook the van, Mike noticed Jake on the car. He looked puzzled as to what Jake was going to do next. Jake could see and hear the other Marines firing at the creature. The car drove in front of the van and Jake jumped onto the front of it. He drew his gun and thrust it at the large bug as it raised it's head. The barrel of the gun slid into the monster's mouth and it gripped down on it. Jake tried to pull the gun out but the monster wouldn't let go. The creature made a hissing sound at Jake. Jake looked into the black, shiny eyes.
"Same to you, shit-face." Jake pulled the trigger and white, gooey liquid sprayed out of the back of it's neck. The monster collapsed and rolled off the van, its claw ripping off as it got caught in the hole it made in the roof. The gun stayed clenched in it's jaws and Jake let go of it.
Before he could do anything else, The van stopped and Jake rolled forward off the bonnet. Mike jumped out of the van and ran up to Jake, who was now lying on the floor. "Are you all right?" he asked. Jake picked himself up.
"No, I'm not all right. You nearly ran me over." he said.
"We thought you were dead, man." Rob said, jogging up to them. The other Marines followed him, as did Frank.
"Not yet." Anna and Michelle ran up behind Jake. Jake looked at the van. It was a mess. "Does it still work?"
"Should do. It'll get us to the port, at least." Mike explained. Jake nodded.
"Let's go then." As the Marines separated into two groups and entered either the car or the wreck of a van, the shadow of a man fell onto some nearby bushes, then disappeared.
Neil walked into yet another room in the lab building. Smith should have the samples and have got away by now, but Neil had to make sure. He checked all the cupboards, desks, everything. He walked into another room and saw Willow pointing a gun at him. "Hi, asshole." Willow said.
"You should be dead." Neil told him, not even panicking.
"Well, I'm not. Surprised?"
"Yeah. No matter." Neil said, then grabbed Willow's arm and threw him onto a piece of machinery against the wall. "I'll make a better job of it this time." Willow pressed a button, and part of the wall next to them slid down. Neil looked at it, then walked over to Willow. He was about to grab him, when he rolled out of his way, grabbed the gun and spun round. Neil turned to see Willow fire three shot's into his chest.
"Die, you son of a bitch!" Willow shouted as he shot another four times. The bullets knocked Neil backwards, sending him through the new hole in the wall, down into a pen. Neil hit the floor, and everything went black.
The Marines arrived at the port an hour later. It was still light. A few zombies roamed about the entrance, but the Marines took them out with ease from their transports. They stopped outside a huge, dull coloured building. The Marines got out of the vehicles and met in the middle.
"Is this the lab?" Jake asked.
"According to the map it is." Frank replied. Jake looked around at the port. No boats whatsoever.
"Well, we ain't exactly going nowhere, we may as well check out this place. There may be a radio so we can call for help, there is probably even a cure for this disease." Rob said. Jake nodded. So did most of the others.
"Stuart, Michelle, you two check that boat over there. Make sure it's safe. We'll check the lab." Jake said to the two youngest members.
"No problem." Stuart replied. Jake turned to the others.
"Let's go." he said, and they entered the lab.
Edwards, Dave and Kylie drove down the road. As they turned the corner, they saw what they'd been looking for. The airport. "It's smaller than I thought." Edwards said.
"It'll do, though." Dave told him. Edwards turned into the small road leading towards one of the hangars. He parked the car, and the three got out. "There should be something in here." he said.
"Let's find out." Edwards said, checking the ammo in his pistol. They walked through the door, into the hangar. There was two helicopters. There was also a lone zombie near them, chewing on the remains of someone. Edwards aimed his gun at it and fired, hitting it in the head. It dropped down before it realised what was happening.
"Good shot." Kylie said. They walked over to the helicopters. Neither had any fuel.
"Shit." Edwards said. "We'll need to refuel these things."
"No probs." Dave said. "How?"
"Don't worry. I know how." Edwards said. Suddenly the door burst open, and someone ran into the hangar. Edwards raised his gun at the person. "Freeze!" he yelled. The other man swung round, aiming a pistol back. He was wearing a Marine's uniform, but he wasn't in Edward's team.
"Don't move!" the man shouted back. Then he noticed Edward's uniform. "Who are you?" he asked.
"Captain Edwards. US Marines. Who the hell are you?" Edwards answered, not moving his gun away from the man.
"Adam Smith. I'm a Marine, too. I was in the first team. We were attacked by those zombies. I think I'm the only one left." answered the man, also not altering his aim. "Where's your team?"
"They're probably already off the island. It's a long story." Edwards told him. He finally lowered his berreta, as did Adam. "We've gotta refuel these. If you help, we'll be done faster." Edwards said. Adam walked over to them.
"No problem."
Inside the building, everything seemed neat and tidy, as if nothing had happened. They walked through the building, staying alert for anything hostile. Nothing. Not even any bodies.
Eventually they got to a large hall. Wires were strewn everywhere. It was the first messed up room they had come across. And what they saw at the back of the room stopped them dead in their tracks. Fear took over their bodies more than at any other time on the island. Nobody moved or spoke, nobody even dared to breathe.
At the opposite end of the room was a huge container. Inside the container was what looked like what they had been taught a dinosaur looked like. Not just any dinosaur at that. It was a massive T-Rex. It seemed asleep, but wires poked into it and it was floating in a strange liquid.
Finally, Anna broke the deadly silence. "What the hell...?" she whispered. As she spoke, the monster's tiny eye snapped open. It observed the group as they stood unable to run. It watched them for a moment then smashed its head against the glass surrounding it. The group were startled by the sudden movement, but then relief came over them. The monster could not get them because it couldn't break the surrounding material.
Jake walked slowly up to the cage and looked at the monster. "Careful..." Rob said quietly. Jake turned around.
"Hey, man. Don't worry. This thing is solid as a rock." Suddenly the monster's skull smashed through it's surroundings and swung at Jake. He rolled out of the way just in time. The pinkish liquid poured onto the floor.
"Shoot it! Shoot it now!" Mike ordered, and everyone fired at the monster. It seemed unaffected by the bullets, and smashed out of the casing. The bullets bounced of the monster's skin as it lumbered toward the group.
"Watch out!" Jake yelled as the monster moved closer. Everyone dived to their side just as the monster lunged for them. The monster opened its mouth...
And caught Tim's boot. The massive jaws slammed shut, tearing his foot off. "Ah! Shit!" Tim screamed. He swung his gun at the monster and fired into it's head. The monster didn't react to the gunfire and swallowed Tim whole.
The other Marines heard Tim yell out as the monster started to feed on him and knew they couldn't do anything to help him. Jake turned and headed for the exit. "This way!" he shouted. The others followed him. They ran down numerous corridors until they could no longer hear the massive creature. They slowed down.
"What the hell was that?" Frank asked.
"I wish I knew." Jake answered. They were getting their breath back when suddenly a smaller version of the monster they encountered leapt from the corner and latched onto Gary's back, tearing at him.
"Shit!" Anna shrieked and they ran off again. Jake spotted an air vent on the wall and instantly shot the metal barring the hole out.
"In there!" he ordered and ran full pelt towards it and dived forward. He breathed in, making himself as thin as possible. He slid into the vent and started crawling. Anna was directly behind him, then Rob, then Frank.
Mike got halfway in when lizard-like claws grabbed his legs. "Shit!" he shouted as he was dragged back. The sound of his screams and his flesh being torn echoed through the vent.
Rob slammed his fist onto the cold metal surroundings of the vent. "Damn!" he said.
Jake recognised the sound of Mike's death. It was like the killing from the tape recorder they heard before the mission. That meant there definitely was a radio in the building somewhere.
The rapidly decreasing group crawled through the air vents, trying to make as minimal sound as possible. "Do you know where we are going?" asked Anna.
"No." replied Jake. "But at least we're safe in here." As he finished, the metal below him gave way. Jake fell through the hole, but Anna grabbed his leg. Jake looked up at here. "Cheers." he whispered. Anna started to pull him up, but didn't have the strength. The vents were so narrow as well, so neither Rob nor Frank could help.
"I can't hold on much longer!" Anna warned. Jake looked around. Suddenly in the corner he spotted something. It was a communications desk. A feeling of relief swept over Jake. Soon they could escape. He looked up again.
"When I say, drop me." he said.
"Why?"
"So I can get to that radio and we can get the hell outta Dodge." Jake replied. "Ready..." suddenly one of the smaller monsters smashed through the door and squealed. It happened so quickly and unexpectedly that Anna accidentally let go of Jake's leg.
Jake landed on a desk and the monster jumped at him. Jake rolled towards it, and fell off the table as the claws came inches to his back. Jake stood up and aimed his gun at the monster. It looked at him and squealed again. "Take a bite of this, you bitch." he said and pulled the trigger. Dead click. Jake looked at his gun in disbelief. "Shit." he said. The monster launched itself at him.
Jake heard about five gunshots, then the monster knocked him off his feet. He knew he was going to die. But the monster didn't attack him. Instead it laid next to him, it's body containing five fresh bullet wounds. One was in the place where the creature's eye once was. Jake stood up and looked up at Anna. "Why d'ya let me go?" he asked. Anna looked at him, embarrassed.
"Oops." she said. She put her gun away and clambered out of the hole, landing on the desk.
"Oops?" Jake asked. She rolled off, then Rob landed on it feet first. He stepped off, then Frank landed on his front with a thud.
"Ouch." Rob observed. Frank picked himself up. Rob laughed at him.
"That wasn't funny." Frank stated. Jake reloaded his gun and walked over to the radio. He turned it on and flicked a switch.
"Hello? Can anybody hear me? Over. Do you copy? Over. Anyone?" Jake looks at the others. "I'll keep tryin'. Don't leave this room. Block all the entrances." he said. Then he turned to the radio again and kept trying to get a signal.
As Anna and Rob moved desks and chairs in front of the door, Frank looked around, feeling like a fifth wheeler. He looked over to a computer and decided to use it. He walked over to it and sat down in front of it. "Let's see if this thing still works." he said to himself. He flicked the computer on, and it hummed into life. "Bingo." he said. Rob and Anna looked over to him.
"What ya got?" Rob called.
"I'm gonna check this thing out. See what's on it." Frank replied, not taking his eyes off the screen. A screen appeared asking for a pass code. "A pass code? This better be good." he said.
"Can you get in?" Rob asked, walking towards him. Anna followed.
"I haven't found a system yet which I can't get into." Frank said. He tapped the keys quickly. The words 'Access Denied' popped up frequently. "OK, OK. Stop reminding me." he told the screen. Suddenly the screen flashed and changed appearance. "Piece of piss." Frank stated.
"Well done." Rob said. Frank watched the screen. It was just like a normal computer.
"Damn." Frank said.
"We can listen to music, play a game on this thing. Anyone got a CD?" Rob joked. Jake turned around and ran over to them. He took the black plastic case out of his pocket and handed the CD to Frank.
"Check this out. Michelle had it. It must be what that scientist was looking for." said Jake. Frank took it and placed it in the computer. Jake ran back to the radio and kept trying to get someone to hear him. Frank watched as a menu screen came up. He clicked on an icon. Lines and lines of words appeared. Frank read them.
"Holy shit. This explains what the hell is going on at this island. Says the "Anomalies" were formed by a new kind of virus. The virus is not man-made, it's natural only to this island. Only now has it been infecting people and animals because there was an outbreak in the labs. Wait... The outbreak occurred because the highest ranking scientist, a doctor Alfred Willow, let it loose. God knows why.
"If we become infected, we have three hours until we are totally affected. The virus is transmitted by blood. So don't get into any contact with it. It totally screws around with your nervous system. All emotions lost, including fear, pain and love. It affects all living things. Not just humans."
"Well, what the hell are those things in the building?" Anna asked.
"It says here that the original experiment occurring was... to bring back prehistoric creatures long extinct. That basically means dinosaurs. These guys watched Jurassic Park a bit too much, I think. The virus must have affected them, to."
"Dinosaurs?" Rob asked. "What a bunch of bullshit. Everybody knows they can't bring dinosaurs back."
"Well, maybe these guys did bring them back. Explains what them monsters are. Besides, why would this lie? It's not like anyone would actually enter this lab, use this computer, break the pass code, then use this CD." Frank said. Anna walked over to Jake.
"Got anything?" she asked.
"I'm not sure," he answered. "I haven't got a reply, but someone might have heard the message."
"Keep trying." she told him. She walked over to the barricaded door and looked through the tiny window. She stared through it, making sure nothing was out there, when suddenly one of the monsters heads appeared in front of her face. Anna jumped back as the monster called out. She watched as seven other monsters came round the corner.
"What's going on?" Rob asked. Anna looked through the window again, and the monsters started ramming into the door.
"Get back in the vent! Now!" she ordered. Frank ejected the CD and put it in his pocket. They could use it to prove what happened.
Rob jumped onto the table and jumped up to the gap in the vent. He climbed up, followed by Frank. Anna clambered onto the desk and into the air vent, then squeezed her body round to look through the hole. Jake jumped up and grabbed the vent as the door shattered and the monsters entered the room. The first one spotted Jake's leg and leapt at it, but Jake lifted it through the hole and the monster's claw missed his foot by less than an inch.
They'd finally finished refuelling the two helicopters when the radio system suddenly crackled. Edwards looked at it as Jake's voice came out of the speakers. "I'm gonna go get them." he said when the transmission finished. "Adam, can you fly?"
"Yeah." he answered.
"Good. You take Dave and Kylie, and get outta here. I'm gonna go rescue my team."
"But, sir..." Adam started.
"Do it." Edwards told him. Adams nodded.
"Alright." he answered. The three humans got on the first helicopter and Edwards stepped away. Adam started it up, and flew the helicopter out of the hangar. Edwards watched it disappear into the sky, then got into the second helicopter. He started it up and took off, heading towards the co-ordinates given by Jake.
Rob, Frank, Anna and Jake crawled through the vents again until it ended. They crawled out of the ventilation hole into a silent corridor. "Looks like this floor's deserted," Jake said. Suddenly a single gunshot sounded, missing Jake by inches. Jake, Anna and Frank quickly aimed down the corridor to see a man disappear through a door. Jake recognised him as the man that had tried to kill them in the hotel. He fired at the door in hope of the shot hitting the bastard in the back. No such luck.
"I'll get him." Rob said, and ran down the corridor.
"Rob, wait!" Anna shouted, but Rob vanished around the corner.
"Let's go!" Jake said, and ran down the corridor as well. Anna and Frank followed him.
At the end of one corridor, Jake saw the elevator door starting to close. He could tell it wasn't Rob because of the white lab coat. They fired at it, but all the shots ricocheted around the scientist. The metal doors slammed just as Jake reached them. He looked to his side to see a fire axe on the wall. He took it and prised the doors apart. He leant into the elevator shaft and fired rapidly at the bottom of the slow moving elevator. After six shots, Jake's gun was empty. He stepped back and faced the other two.
"Did you get him?" Anna asked.
"Maybe." he answered. Frank looked at the stairs.
"Why don't we use them? We still have a chance of getting him." he said. Jake nodded, then ran at them. The other two did the same.
As soon as Jake pushed open the door, he stopped dead in his tracks. Anna and Frank nearly ran straight into him. They all saw the explosive on the staircase. It wasn't a powerful one, but if they stayed where they were any longer, they'd be fried. "Run!" Anna screamed, and all three twirled on the spot and ran down the corridor.
They got halfway before the staircase and it's surroundings exploded in a loud eruption of flame and smoke. The blast knocked the three over, hurling them forward.
The explosion rocked the stairs, but Rob was at a safe distance. The explosive was so puny, It would only destroy the stairs. He walked up the stairs, until he reached the top floor. He walked across the hallway, to another set of stairs leading to the roof. He walked up them, and opened the door.
On the roof was a gunship. It had a minigun on it, and Rob saw the scientist guy standing next to it. "Hello, Doctor Willow." Rob said to him.
"Are they gone?" asked Willow. Rob shrugged.
"I doubt it. That bomb was a piece of shit. I wanna take out the floor they're on before they gets away."
"May as well."
"Where's my money, Willow?" Rob asked him sternly.
"When we get to safety, you'll get your money. Anyway, let's go. You'll have to fly. I can't." Rob walked over to the gunship and got in the pilot's side. Willow got in next to him, and Rob started it up.
"Jake! C'mon!" cried Anna, firing wildly at the horde of zombies. They were outnumbered. He knew it. He pulled a grenade out. "Jake, no!" Anna shouted. Jake pulled the pin out. "No!" He backflipped into the mass of zombies. "No!"
Suddenly Jake woke up. His head was bleeding. So was nearly every part of his body. It hurt. He heard a noise. It was an engine revving up. He ran to the window. He looked out. It was the others. He hit the window. "Hey!" he yelled at them. "Hey!" The van drove away. "Shit!"
He turned around and picked up his berretta. He suddenly noticed Michelle lying on the ground. He ran over to her. "Michelle! Michelle! Can you here me?"
Michelle coughed. She rolled over and opened her eyes. "I'm OK. What happened?" She looked up. "Oh."
"The others have left. They must think we're dead. If we don't catch up with them, we will be." Jake told her. He took out the empty clip and slapped in a new one. they walked over to the door and Jake twisted the handle. He let it open before stepping into the dark room. He fumbled to find the light switch. He hit a button and the room lit up. It was empty.
They made it down to the third floor when they heard something at the far end of the corridor. A group of three zombies staggered towards him. Instead of wasting his bullets, Jake opened the door to the stairs. Ten were approaching him. "Oh, Shit!" he said and closed the door. He looked at the three at the opposite end of the hallway. They were halfway to their target. Blam! Blam! Blam! Each zombie was downed with a head shot. Jake looked at Michelle, the end of her gun smoking. She looked back at him. "They looked at me funny." Jake smiled, then moved a desk in front of the door.
"Get through that, suckers!" he shouted at the zombies through the door. Suddenly an arm smashed through the glass in the door and tried to get Jake. The suddenness made him jump back. "Jesus Christ!"
"Don't tease the dead. They'll only get mad." Michelle said calmly.
They walked down the corridor and entered the room at the end. As they walked through it they stopped. At the far end was a large bomb. The counter told them that they only had 5 minutes and 45 seconds to get out of there. "Shit!" Michelle said and walked backwards through the door. Jake did the same.
Jake looked behind him. A large window was in the wall. Behind it was a large tree. A thick branch stuck out near the window. Jake knew it was there only chance. "Follow me." he said, and he shot the glass and ran at it. He launched himself through the sharp shards, cutting his exposed skin. Michelle stood still.
"I must be crazy..." She ran down the corridor and jumped through the window. As she did, the barricade gave way and the zombies lunged at her legs. They missed and hit the wall.
As Michelle flew through the window, she suddenly realised that they were high above the ground. She was waiting to fall to her death when suddenly she felt a hand grab her arm. She looked up and saw Jake hanging from a tree branch. He must have only just caught the branch. He hung on to it and her and looked down. It was a large drop.
"Damn." he murmured. A lone zombie staggered round the corner. Michelle aimed her submachine gun at it, and shot at the zombie. It slumped backwards, blood oozing from the hole in it's skull. Suddenly she heard a cracking noise. The branch fell slightly. "Oh dear." she heard Jake say.
"What do you mean, 'Oh dear'?" she asked angrily. The branch snapped of and the pair plummeted to the ground.
The branch below them stopped them hitting the ground, but the impact broke it off. They crashed through four other branches before hitting the ground. Jake limply picked himself up with one arm. He had cut the other badly. Michelle stood up, not as badly injured as Jake.
They ran out of the car park, away from the building. They got to a road when... Boom! the buildings second, third and fourth floors emitted large clouds of flame, and the building seemed to fall into the ground. They sheltered behind a nearby car until the dust settled, then Jake smashed its window with the butt of his gun.
He unlocked the car and opened the door. He sat in the drivers seat and went for the ignition. No keys. "Shit." Jake murmured. Michelle sat in the seat next to him. Jake opened the sun-guard, and the shiny car keys fell onto his lap. He placed them in the ignition and turned them. "C'mon, c'mon!" Jake said impatiently. The car roared to life. "Bitchin'." said Jake, and burned rubber down the street.
Edwards, Dave and Kylie left the house. The zombies from last night had gone, and the street was deserted. They walked over to a nearby car, and Edwards smashed the window with his gun. He unlocked the door and got in. He unlocked the other doors, allowing Dave and Kylie to enter. As they did, Edwards reached under the car. "What are you doing?" Kylie asked.
"Hot-wiring this thing." Edwards answered. Dave looked out of the back window. About 15 zombies were coming towards them.
"Hurry up!" he said.
"Why?" Edwards asked.
"There's a lot of zombies heading this way." Dave answered.
"Damn." Edwards murmured, hurrying up. The zombies stumbled closer.
"Hurry up!" Kylie shouted.
"Alright!" Edwards shouted back. The car suddenly roared to life, and Edwards sat up straight. He hit the accelerator just as the first zombie lunged for the car. It fell to the ground as the car sped down the road. "There." Edwards said, smiling. "Where to now?"
"There should be an airport near here." Dave told him. "We should be able to get a plane or something from there."
"Sounds good. Let's do it." Edwards replied. "Just tell me the directions.
It had been about 15 minutes since they left the building. Frank was looking at the map and was giving directions to the port to Mike. Other Marines were reloading their guns, others were asleep. Anna was still looking out of the back of the van. She was thinking of Jake. She loved him. Couldn't get him out of her head. She couldn't forget him falling, crashing, not moving. She knew she'd never see him again. She may as well let herself be taken by the monsters. There was nothing worth living for. She could end it now. One shot in the head, all her problems would be gone.
Her eyes filled up with tears again. Suddenly the van stopped. Anna looked around. "What the hell?" she asked.
"We're stuck. Someone help push the van out." Mike said. Stuart and Dan opened the back of the van and stepped out.
"On three." Stuart called. "One, two..." Mike hit the pedal, spraying mud over the two pushers. They shielded there eyes from the spray, then Stuart walked to the drivers seat door. Mike looked at him. "I said on three! Not two!" he said, annoyed by the fact he was drenched.
"Sorry, I misheard." Mike explained.
"How can you mistake three with two? One comes a full second behind the other! Now, we'll try again. On three." Stuart told him, emphasising the three, and also holding up three fingers. Mike nodded.
"Three." Stuart nodded back and walked back around. "On three, right?" Mike called.
"Yes. Three." replied Stuart. He positioned himself again, as did Dan. "OK. One. Two. Th..." Mud sprayed up them again. When it stopped, Stuart walked up to the driver's side again. He looked at Mike.
"Sorry..." Mike said.
"On one. OK? One. Right before two. The first number. One. Un. Ok?" Stuart said, and repositioned himself. "Right then. One!" He and Dan pushed the van, and Mike pushed on the pedal. More mud splattered them, but the van soon became unstuck.
Anna looked out of the back of the van, now not as deeply sad because of the events that just happened. Then something caught her eye. Something large and fast. It seemed alive, and was gaining on them. Anna wiped the window. Now she could see the monster more clearly. It appeared to be a cockroach, only larger. A lot larger. Nearly the same size as the van they were in. Anna spoke without taking her eyes of the monster. Only Mike, Frank, Dan and Stuart didn't notice it because they were either at the front of the van, or trying to get back on it. "Mike..." Anna called.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Look behind us." she said, seemingly calm.
"Why?..." he asked as he looked at his wing mirror. He saw the huge bug. "Holy fucking Christ... Stuart, Dan, get your slow asses back in here now!" he shouted to the two men still running behind the van as he slammed down on the pedal. They started pulling away, and Dan and Stuart jumped in the van. They turned around and saw it.
"What the shit is that?" Dan asked, knowing nobody else knew the answer. Suddenly the creature's back split open and a pair of huge wings emerged. The creature took off suddenly and flew above the van.
"Where did it go? Where is it?" Stuart asked quietly. His question was answered as a large brown claw smashed through the roof and sliced through his helmet, missing his skull by a few fractions of an inch. Everyone in the back fired at the claw and roof repeatedly, but the shock of the claw rocking the van knocked Dan off his feet. He smashed through the doors in the back, but grabbed onto the handle.
"Ah, shit!" Suddenly the creature's claw grabbed him and pulled him onto the roof. The others could hear him screaming, then the creature ripping him apart. Blood spewed through the holes in the roof, splattering the Marines. Mike carried on driving at high speed and Frank tried to hide under the dashboard.
Jake didn't know a great deal about cars, but he knew that the car he was in had to be faster than the van he had seen the others leave in. He used the wheel tracks as a rough guide, and also tried to remember what the map looked like as he knew where they were heading.
He watched the road, but started talking to Michelle. "Alright, Michelle. There's something you're not telling me, isn't there." he said. Michelle looked at him.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because someone doesn't go out of there way to detonate an entire building while something like this is going on, without a purpose. That purpose was to kill one of us. Now, I'm just a Marine, and I only know two things that are going on. Jack and Shit. So you must know something. And I want to know what it is." Jake explained.
"You know as much as I know." Michelle told him.
"Is that the truth?"
"Yes." Michelle looked at the road ahead. Suddenly she remembered something. "Wait a second,"
"What?" Jake asked.
"Pete gave me a disc just before he was killed. He said it was important, but I didn't think it would get me killed..."
"Do you still have it?" Jake interrupted. Michelle took something from her pocket.
"Yeah." she said, making sure it wasn't damaged. She opened the plastic case and checked it. It looked fine.
"Have you used it yet?" Jake asked. Michelle shook her head.
"No. I never got the chance to." she said. Jake took it.
"I'll look after it for now. Maybe it'll come in useful. It probably explains what the hell is going on."
A little while later he heard what sounded like very faint gunfire. He swerved round the corner and spotted the van the others were in, but this time it had what appeared to be a giant insect on top of it. "What the hell?..."
Anna was to busy firing at the creature on top of the van along with everyone else to notice the car following them. She stood near the back two doors and kept firing into the roof. Suddenly the large claw swung and slammed into her. She crashed into the doors, one of which broke off. Anna fell through the gaping hole and hit the tarmac hard. The wind was knocked out of her and she rolled along the ground. She heard the screeching of tires from behind her. She rolled over to see what was happening and saw two black wheels close to her face. She heard the door open and someone step out.
"Come on. I got an idea." came a voice. Anna thought she recognised it.
"Jake?" she said, still winded from her fall. The person picked her up and quickly helped her into the car. The man got in the driver's side and drove after the vehicle. Anna got her vision back completely and looked at the driver. "Thank God you're not dead. I thought I lost you back there." she said to him.
"You don't get rid of me easily." Jake replied.
"Where's Michelle?" Anna asked.
"I'm here." came a voice from the back seat. Anna turned around to see the girl sitting behind her.
"What the hell is that thing?" asked Jake.
"I don't know, but it killed the fed, whatever it is." she said. "We gotta help them."
"I know." he said. He took his gun out with one hand to check it was loaded.
"That thing has armour. You can't shoot it." Anna explained.
"Can you drive?" Jake asked her.
"Yeah, why?"
"You're driving." Jake told her.
"Shit." she said as Jake punched the sunroof out. Michelle looked out of the rear window and saw it clatter on the road behind them. When she turned around again, Jake was halfway through the gaping hole in the roof of the car. Anna shuffled into the driving seat
"Jake, what the hell are you doing?" Michelle called to him. He didn't answer, instead he fired at the creature on top of the van. The bullets smacked into the shell of it, but the massive bug seemed unaffected. Jake climbed through the gap, and stuck his head back in the car.
"Get me in front of them." he shouted. Anna swerved round the side of the van and slowly overtook it. Jake clambered onto the boot of the car and knelt down.
As the car overtook the van, Mike noticed Jake on the car. He looked puzzled as to what Jake was going to do next. Jake could see and hear the other Marines firing at the creature. The car drove in front of the van and Jake jumped onto the front of it. He drew his gun and thrust it at the large bug as it raised it's head. The barrel of the gun slid into the monster's mouth and it gripped down on it. Jake tried to pull the gun out but the monster wouldn't let go. The creature made a hissing sound at Jake. Jake looked into the black, shiny eyes.
"Same to you, shit-face." Jake pulled the trigger and white, gooey liquid sprayed out of the back of it's neck. The monster collapsed and rolled off the van, its claw ripping off as it got caught in the hole it made in the roof. The gun stayed clenched in it's jaws and Jake let go of it.
Before he could do anything else, The van stopped and Jake rolled forward off the bonnet. Mike jumped out of the van and ran up to Jake, who was now lying on the floor. "Are you all right?" he asked. Jake picked himself up.
"No, I'm not all right. You nearly ran me over." he said.
"We thought you were dead, man." Rob said, jogging up to them. The other Marines followed him, as did Frank.
"Not yet." Anna and Michelle ran up behind Jake. Jake looked at the van. It was a mess. "Does it still work?"
"Should do. It'll get us to the port, at least." Mike explained. Jake nodded.
"Let's go then." As the Marines separated into two groups and entered either the car or the wreck of a van, the shadow of a man fell onto some nearby bushes, then disappeared.
Neil walked into yet another room in the lab building. Smith should have the samples and have got away by now, but Neil had to make sure. He checked all the cupboards, desks, everything. He walked into another room and saw Willow pointing a gun at him. "Hi, asshole." Willow said.
"You should be dead." Neil told him, not even panicking.
"Well, I'm not. Surprised?"
"Yeah. No matter." Neil said, then grabbed Willow's arm and threw him onto a piece of machinery against the wall. "I'll make a better job of it this time." Willow pressed a button, and part of the wall next to them slid down. Neil looked at it, then walked over to Willow. He was about to grab him, when he rolled out of his way, grabbed the gun and spun round. Neil turned to see Willow fire three shot's into his chest.
"Die, you son of a bitch!" Willow shouted as he shot another four times. The bullets knocked Neil backwards, sending him through the new hole in the wall, down into a pen. Neil hit the floor, and everything went black.
The Marines arrived at the port an hour later. It was still light. A few zombies roamed about the entrance, but the Marines took them out with ease from their transports. They stopped outside a huge, dull coloured building. The Marines got out of the vehicles and met in the middle.
"Is this the lab?" Jake asked.
"According to the map it is." Frank replied. Jake looked around at the port. No boats whatsoever.
"Well, we ain't exactly going nowhere, we may as well check out this place. There may be a radio so we can call for help, there is probably even a cure for this disease." Rob said. Jake nodded. So did most of the others.
"Stuart, Michelle, you two check that boat over there. Make sure it's safe. We'll check the lab." Jake said to the two youngest members.
"No problem." Stuart replied. Jake turned to the others.
"Let's go." he said, and they entered the lab.
Edwards, Dave and Kylie drove down the road. As they turned the corner, they saw what they'd been looking for. The airport. "It's smaller than I thought." Edwards said.
"It'll do, though." Dave told him. Edwards turned into the small road leading towards one of the hangars. He parked the car, and the three got out. "There should be something in here." he said.
"Let's find out." Edwards said, checking the ammo in his pistol. They walked through the door, into the hangar. There was two helicopters. There was also a lone zombie near them, chewing on the remains of someone. Edwards aimed his gun at it and fired, hitting it in the head. It dropped down before it realised what was happening.
"Good shot." Kylie said. They walked over to the helicopters. Neither had any fuel.
"Shit." Edwards said. "We'll need to refuel these things."
"No probs." Dave said. "How?"
"Don't worry. I know how." Edwards said. Suddenly the door burst open, and someone ran into the hangar. Edwards raised his gun at the person. "Freeze!" he yelled. The other man swung round, aiming a pistol back. He was wearing a Marine's uniform, but he wasn't in Edward's team.
"Don't move!" the man shouted back. Then he noticed Edward's uniform. "Who are you?" he asked.
"Captain Edwards. US Marines. Who the hell are you?" Edwards answered, not moving his gun away from the man.
"Adam Smith. I'm a Marine, too. I was in the first team. We were attacked by those zombies. I think I'm the only one left." answered the man, also not altering his aim. "Where's your team?"
"They're probably already off the island. It's a long story." Edwards told him. He finally lowered his berreta, as did Adam. "We've gotta refuel these. If you help, we'll be done faster." Edwards said. Adam walked over to them.
"No problem."
Inside the building, everything seemed neat and tidy, as if nothing had happened. They walked through the building, staying alert for anything hostile. Nothing. Not even any bodies.
Eventually they got to a large hall. Wires were strewn everywhere. It was the first messed up room they had come across. And what they saw at the back of the room stopped them dead in their tracks. Fear took over their bodies more than at any other time on the island. Nobody moved or spoke, nobody even dared to breathe.
At the opposite end of the room was a huge container. Inside the container was what looked like what they had been taught a dinosaur looked like. Not just any dinosaur at that. It was a massive T-Rex. It seemed asleep, but wires poked into it and it was floating in a strange liquid.
Finally, Anna broke the deadly silence. "What the hell...?" she whispered. As she spoke, the monster's tiny eye snapped open. It observed the group as they stood unable to run. It watched them for a moment then smashed its head against the glass surrounding it. The group were startled by the sudden movement, but then relief came over them. The monster could not get them because it couldn't break the surrounding material.
Jake walked slowly up to the cage and looked at the monster. "Careful..." Rob said quietly. Jake turned around.
"Hey, man. Don't worry. This thing is solid as a rock." Suddenly the monster's skull smashed through it's surroundings and swung at Jake. He rolled out of the way just in time. The pinkish liquid poured onto the floor.
"Shoot it! Shoot it now!" Mike ordered, and everyone fired at the monster. It seemed unaffected by the bullets, and smashed out of the casing. The bullets bounced of the monster's skin as it lumbered toward the group.
"Watch out!" Jake yelled as the monster moved closer. Everyone dived to their side just as the monster lunged for them. The monster opened its mouth...
And caught Tim's boot. The massive jaws slammed shut, tearing his foot off. "Ah! Shit!" Tim screamed. He swung his gun at the monster and fired into it's head. The monster didn't react to the gunfire and swallowed Tim whole.
The other Marines heard Tim yell out as the monster started to feed on him and knew they couldn't do anything to help him. Jake turned and headed for the exit. "This way!" he shouted. The others followed him. They ran down numerous corridors until they could no longer hear the massive creature. They slowed down.
"What the hell was that?" Frank asked.
"I wish I knew." Jake answered. They were getting their breath back when suddenly a smaller version of the monster they encountered leapt from the corner and latched onto Gary's back, tearing at him.
"Shit!" Anna shrieked and they ran off again. Jake spotted an air vent on the wall and instantly shot the metal barring the hole out.
"In there!" he ordered and ran full pelt towards it and dived forward. He breathed in, making himself as thin as possible. He slid into the vent and started crawling. Anna was directly behind him, then Rob, then Frank.
Mike got halfway in when lizard-like claws grabbed his legs. "Shit!" he shouted as he was dragged back. The sound of his screams and his flesh being torn echoed through the vent.
Rob slammed his fist onto the cold metal surroundings of the vent. "Damn!" he said.
Jake recognised the sound of Mike's death. It was like the killing from the tape recorder they heard before the mission. That meant there definitely was a radio in the building somewhere.
The rapidly decreasing group crawled through the air vents, trying to make as minimal sound as possible. "Do you know where we are going?" asked Anna.
"No." replied Jake. "But at least we're safe in here." As he finished, the metal below him gave way. Jake fell through the hole, but Anna grabbed his leg. Jake looked up at here. "Cheers." he whispered. Anna started to pull him up, but didn't have the strength. The vents were so narrow as well, so neither Rob nor Frank could help.
"I can't hold on much longer!" Anna warned. Jake looked around. Suddenly in the corner he spotted something. It was a communications desk. A feeling of relief swept over Jake. Soon they could escape. He looked up again.
"When I say, drop me." he said.
"Why?"
"So I can get to that radio and we can get the hell outta Dodge." Jake replied. "Ready..." suddenly one of the smaller monsters smashed through the door and squealed. It happened so quickly and unexpectedly that Anna accidentally let go of Jake's leg.
Jake landed on a desk and the monster jumped at him. Jake rolled towards it, and fell off the table as the claws came inches to his back. Jake stood up and aimed his gun at the monster. It looked at him and squealed again. "Take a bite of this, you bitch." he said and pulled the trigger. Dead click. Jake looked at his gun in disbelief. "Shit." he said. The monster launched itself at him.
Jake heard about five gunshots, then the monster knocked him off his feet. He knew he was going to die. But the monster didn't attack him. Instead it laid next to him, it's body containing five fresh bullet wounds. One was in the place where the creature's eye once was. Jake stood up and looked up at Anna. "Why d'ya let me go?" he asked. Anna looked at him, embarrassed.
"Oops." she said. She put her gun away and clambered out of the hole, landing on the desk.
"Oops?" Jake asked. She rolled off, then Rob landed on it feet first. He stepped off, then Frank landed on his front with a thud.
"Ouch." Rob observed. Frank picked himself up. Rob laughed at him.
"That wasn't funny." Frank stated. Jake reloaded his gun and walked over to the radio. He turned it on and flicked a switch.
"Hello? Can anybody hear me? Over. Do you copy? Over. Anyone?" Jake looks at the others. "I'll keep tryin'. Don't leave this room. Block all the entrances." he said. Then he turned to the radio again and kept trying to get a signal.
As Anna and Rob moved desks and chairs in front of the door, Frank looked around, feeling like a fifth wheeler. He looked over to a computer and decided to use it. He walked over to it and sat down in front of it. "Let's see if this thing still works." he said to himself. He flicked the computer on, and it hummed into life. "Bingo." he said. Rob and Anna looked over to him.
"What ya got?" Rob called.
"I'm gonna check this thing out. See what's on it." Frank replied, not taking his eyes off the screen. A screen appeared asking for a pass code. "A pass code? This better be good." he said.
"Can you get in?" Rob asked, walking towards him. Anna followed.
"I haven't found a system yet which I can't get into." Frank said. He tapped the keys quickly. The words 'Access Denied' popped up frequently. "OK, OK. Stop reminding me." he told the screen. Suddenly the screen flashed and changed appearance. "Piece of piss." Frank stated.
"Well done." Rob said. Frank watched the screen. It was just like a normal computer.
"Damn." Frank said.
"We can listen to music, play a game on this thing. Anyone got a CD?" Rob joked. Jake turned around and ran over to them. He took the black plastic case out of his pocket and handed the CD to Frank.
"Check this out. Michelle had it. It must be what that scientist was looking for." said Jake. Frank took it and placed it in the computer. Jake ran back to the radio and kept trying to get someone to hear him. Frank watched as a menu screen came up. He clicked on an icon. Lines and lines of words appeared. Frank read them.
"Holy shit. This explains what the hell is going on at this island. Says the "Anomalies" were formed by a new kind of virus. The virus is not man-made, it's natural only to this island. Only now has it been infecting people and animals because there was an outbreak in the labs. Wait... The outbreak occurred because the highest ranking scientist, a doctor Alfred Willow, let it loose. God knows why.
"If we become infected, we have three hours until we are totally affected. The virus is transmitted by blood. So don't get into any contact with it. It totally screws around with your nervous system. All emotions lost, including fear, pain and love. It affects all living things. Not just humans."
"Well, what the hell are those things in the building?" Anna asked.
"It says here that the original experiment occurring was... to bring back prehistoric creatures long extinct. That basically means dinosaurs. These guys watched Jurassic Park a bit too much, I think. The virus must have affected them, to."
"Dinosaurs?" Rob asked. "What a bunch of bullshit. Everybody knows they can't bring dinosaurs back."
"Well, maybe these guys did bring them back. Explains what them monsters are. Besides, why would this lie? It's not like anyone would actually enter this lab, use this computer, break the pass code, then use this CD." Frank said. Anna walked over to Jake.
"Got anything?" she asked.
"I'm not sure," he answered. "I haven't got a reply, but someone might have heard the message."
"Keep trying." she told him. She walked over to the barricaded door and looked through the tiny window. She stared through it, making sure nothing was out there, when suddenly one of the monsters heads appeared in front of her face. Anna jumped back as the monster called out. She watched as seven other monsters came round the corner.
"What's going on?" Rob asked. Anna looked through the window again, and the monsters started ramming into the door.
"Get back in the vent! Now!" she ordered. Frank ejected the CD and put it in his pocket. They could use it to prove what happened.
Rob jumped onto the table and jumped up to the gap in the vent. He climbed up, followed by Frank. Anna clambered onto the desk and into the air vent, then squeezed her body round to look through the hole. Jake jumped up and grabbed the vent as the door shattered and the monsters entered the room. The first one spotted Jake's leg and leapt at it, but Jake lifted it through the hole and the monster's claw missed his foot by less than an inch.
They'd finally finished refuelling the two helicopters when the radio system suddenly crackled. Edwards looked at it as Jake's voice came out of the speakers. "I'm gonna go get them." he said when the transmission finished. "Adam, can you fly?"
"Yeah." he answered.
"Good. You take Dave and Kylie, and get outta here. I'm gonna go rescue my team."
"But, sir..." Adam started.
"Do it." Edwards told him. Adams nodded.
"Alright." he answered. The three humans got on the first helicopter and Edwards stepped away. Adam started it up, and flew the helicopter out of the hangar. Edwards watched it disappear into the sky, then got into the second helicopter. He started it up and took off, heading towards the co-ordinates given by Jake.
Rob, Frank, Anna and Jake crawled through the vents again until it ended. They crawled out of the ventilation hole into a silent corridor. "Looks like this floor's deserted," Jake said. Suddenly a single gunshot sounded, missing Jake by inches. Jake, Anna and Frank quickly aimed down the corridor to see a man disappear through a door. Jake recognised him as the man that had tried to kill them in the hotel. He fired at the door in hope of the shot hitting the bastard in the back. No such luck.
"I'll get him." Rob said, and ran down the corridor.
"Rob, wait!" Anna shouted, but Rob vanished around the corner.
"Let's go!" Jake said, and ran down the corridor as well. Anna and Frank followed him.
At the end of one corridor, Jake saw the elevator door starting to close. He could tell it wasn't Rob because of the white lab coat. They fired at it, but all the shots ricocheted around the scientist. The metal doors slammed just as Jake reached them. He looked to his side to see a fire axe on the wall. He took it and prised the doors apart. He leant into the elevator shaft and fired rapidly at the bottom of the slow moving elevator. After six shots, Jake's gun was empty. He stepped back and faced the other two.
"Did you get him?" Anna asked.
"Maybe." he answered. Frank looked at the stairs.
"Why don't we use them? We still have a chance of getting him." he said. Jake nodded, then ran at them. The other two did the same.
As soon as Jake pushed open the door, he stopped dead in his tracks. Anna and Frank nearly ran straight into him. They all saw the explosive on the staircase. It wasn't a powerful one, but if they stayed where they were any longer, they'd be fried. "Run!" Anna screamed, and all three twirled on the spot and ran down the corridor.
They got halfway before the staircase and it's surroundings exploded in a loud eruption of flame and smoke. The blast knocked the three over, hurling them forward.
The explosion rocked the stairs, but Rob was at a safe distance. The explosive was so puny, It would only destroy the stairs. He walked up the stairs, until he reached the top floor. He walked across the hallway, to another set of stairs leading to the roof. He walked up them, and opened the door.
On the roof was a gunship. It had a minigun on it, and Rob saw the scientist guy standing next to it. "Hello, Doctor Willow." Rob said to him.
"Are they gone?" asked Willow. Rob shrugged.
"I doubt it. That bomb was a piece of shit. I wanna take out the floor they're on before they gets away."
"May as well."
"Where's my money, Willow?" Rob asked him sternly.
"When we get to safety, you'll get your money. Anyway, let's go. You'll have to fly. I can't." Rob walked over to the gunship and got in the pilot's side. Willow got in next to him, and Rob started it up.