Chapter 4
Cody collected him self, turning and limping as he broke into a full sprint. He knew the Nemesis was to broad for the lift's shaft, and that they couldn't leave with out him because he had the fuse, but he didn't want to be here anymore. He wanted this nightmare to be over and this would be the only way. Cody was pleased with himself, even though he'd kill for a few pain killers right now. Cody had just had a to close, encounter with the Nemesis.
"Why did it attack me? I am not S.T.A.R.S. Why would it want anything to do with me? Damn this just keeps getting better and better" Cody said to himself, Cody slowed down once he made it to the shopping district. But as he closed the door behind him he heard walking. But it was to light to be human,
"Oh God. . . . Not another creature . . . . God Please no!" Cody's mind screamed,
Cody slowly walked forward when-
"HOLY SHIT!" Cody yelled, he practically jumped out of his skin as a dog walked around the corner. But this was no normal dog, it's ribs were exposed and just like the zombies, patches of skin were missing.
"Good dog. . ." Cody said, his voice trembling, Cody took a step back and the dog took a step forward. "all the doggies in the house go - woof- woof- " Cody said, and immediately wondered why he had.
"It's insanity setting in" Cody's mind said, Cody pointed the magnum forward. The dog barked then ran at him, Cody fired once, the entire side of the dog's head exploded sending fragments of it's skull across the hallway. The dog's body spilled forward, tumbling over itself as Cody heard many more dogs coming. Cody kept the magnum trained forward, another dog tore around the corner and Cody fired again, the bullet entered through the dog's eye and blew the entire back of it's head open as it too, tumbled to the ground. Cody needed to reload again, Cody swung the barrel out as another dog tore around the corner. Quickly fumbling a bullet in Cody had no time to fully load it, Cody pulled the trigger,
-click-
The dog was almost there, he pulled the trigger again,
-click-
Cody was now more frightened then ever, the dog jumped into the air at him, Cody pointed the gun at it's neck and fired. This time, the gun flashed and the dog's throat exploded, Cody dropped to the floor as the dog collided with the door behind him, Cody heard the sickening sound of bones crushing as it slammed into it. The dog's body fell limply behind him, and with one last whimper, it died in a pool of blood. Cody waited for a moment then began to walk forward again, it was like now that he had a way out everything was trying to kill him.
"Yeah. . . . Just my luck" Cody whispered to himself as he turned the corner, walking forward again and heading up a small set of cement stairs. Cody paused for a moment as he placed his hand on the bar like door knob that was attached to the glass platted door. Cody closed his eyes slightly and pushed it open, the door rang as the cold September air rushed in. Cody stepped forward and began to make his way across the street and back toward the City Hall entrance.
CRASH!
Cody nearly had a heart attack as the glass display case behind him exploded,
CAW!
The loud cry of several birds cut into the air and Cody felt a new surge of adrenaline pump through his veins. Cody heard the fluttering of wings pushing against wind as he turned and saw a flock of over sized birds fly for him. Cody pointed his gun forward and fired, the shot hit one bird direct on and it exploded under the fire of the bullet. That's when Cody felt something slash him, just behind his ear, Cody threw his hands into the air and smacked a few away as he fired wildly into the air. He heard his bullets collide with a few birds.
* * *
Jill mixed the two oils together inside the parking garage, she had everything they needed so far, except that damned fuse, she couldn't find it anywhere, Jill sighed slightly, she had a plan. She'd take the oil to the Trolley and add put it in the tank, hopefully, by then Carlos would have returned with a fuse for them to use. If not, well she didn't want to think much about the if not. But, in the background, Jill could hear faint gunfire. It couldn't be Carlos because he had an automatic, not Mikhail because he was to hurt to get off his feet. And it sure wasn't Nicholai because he was dead, it sounded more like a magnum. Could it be Cody!? She never really witnessed him die, and he was the only one she knew that was carrying around a magnum, it was a slim chance, but a possible one, Jill decided not to waste anymore time, because if it was Cody, he was going to need her help. Jill finished mixing the oil and headed out. As she came out into the bigger part of the garage, she hid behind a crate and disposed of the few zombies that were walking around. Jill broke into a full run across the garage when, the ground began to quake. Jill's legs felt like they were rubber as she was knocked about, and then, she heard a crumbling noise and the ground dropped beneath her. She grabbed a hold of the side of the hole and hung there, in front of a large van. That's when something in the van began to full forward.
"Oh shit!" Jill cried out as she let go, falling into the darkness, Jill landed in dirty, mud like water as she lunged forward and the crater smacked down behind her.
* * *
Once the final bird dropped Cody ran a finger down the back of his ear, there was a gash there, he pulled his finger back and looked at the blood on his finger tips. He sighed deeply, this time he'd been lucky, but next time he might not be so lucky.
"This damn city just keeps getting better and better, huge frakenstien monsters, ugly mutations, zombies, zombie dogs, and now zombie birds. What next? Godzilla? Maybe Dracula?" Cody mumbled to himself, nothing, and he ment nothing could possibly surprise him now.
"Sttarrsss"
Except for that! Cody was stunned and shocked at the fact that after out loading six bullets, straight into the Nemesis's forehead, that it was still alive.
"What am I going to need to kill that thing!? A nuclear bomb!?" Cody yelled to himself and he spun around. Taking yet another deep breath he pulled the doors to the park open and closed them behind him. Cody paused for a moment, the Nemesis was behind him somewhere, but he servayed the area for anything that could harm him. Nothing, Cody smiled and ran forward,
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
Three, boarded up windows exploded as zombies lunged through them, Cody this time nearly had a heart attack. Cody raised his gun as the zombies slowly stumbled to their feet. Cody pulled the trigger and hit one directly in the temple. It's head practically exploded off it's shoulders as it tumbled over. Cody fired two more times, the first shot hitting a zombie directly in the face and caving it in. The last one lunged for him, Cody dropped back and pulled the trigger three more times. Each bullet tore into the zombie's decaying chest, ripping it open and spewing blood out onto the ground. Cody stayed there for a moment, because for some reason, all kinds of creatures were after him-
"Sttarrsss"
Cody heard the Nemesis's cry as a door in front of him opened, Cody could hear it's mammoth foot steps as it made it's way toward him. When it spotted Cody it threw it's misshapen head back and it growl-screamed. Cody took a step back, the Nemesis was one him before he knew what to do. It had him by the front of his shirt, holding him high into the air. Growling, it tossed him into a wall, Cody smacked into the wall and fell forward, his magnum spilling out in front of him and sliding across the ground. Cody lunged for it but he was intercepted half way by the Nemesis, it picked him back up and heaved him into a row of wooden boards. The wood splintered around him as he crashed to the ground, his body was in more pain then his brain could recognize. The Nemesis was playing around with him, but he knew that even if the Nemesis didn't do it intentionally, a few more throws like that and he'd be dead. But why was the Nemesis after him? It was after S.T.A.R.S right? Cody was looking face down at the cement when he felt his body being yanked back into the air. Cody was thrown a good eight or nine feet before his body came crashing down. Cody screamed in pure pain, but what he saw in front of him soothed the pain for the time being. Cody jerked up his magnum, the Nemesis was heading back for him. As Cody felt himself being pulled into the air he leveled his magnum with the Nemesis's head. But this time the Nemesis wasn't going to throw him, he was forming some sort of bio-hazardous sphere. Cody aimed and fired again, and even after he emptied the gun into the Nemesis's head and it dropped him. Cody reloaded and fired off another six shots. This time a pool of purple blood began to form around the Nemesis. Had he killed it? Now just wasn't the time to stay and find out the answer to that question, the Nemesis had been hit pretty heavily before and still managed to get back to it's feet and resume the presuit.
Cody tried to run, he tried his hardest but his body hurt to much to even walk fast. The Nemesis had really torn him up. Cody clutched his side and limped slowly toward the next door. Cody opened it and limped through the alley, out another door, and he knew he was coming close to finally getting the hell out of this hell city. That's when Cody felt the Earth shaking under him, Cody fell down and the ground around him began to crack, Cody's eyes widened as he lunged for the part of the side walk that wasn't cracked but didn't make it before the sidewalk caved in. Cody fell into the dark hole, as he hit the bottom he could feel cold water splashing over him. He slowly got to his feet and looked around. He was in some type of sewer system, Cody smiled at the sight of an emergency ladder. Now all he had to do was lower it, Cody passed a small opening in the wall which looked like a small tunnel that lead to no where when-
Something lashed at him, Cody got a small glance at it, it looked like a large worm with huge teeth! Cody hid behind a wall, crouched down and gun held against his chest,
"OH GREAT! ZOMBIES, CREATURES, THE NEMESIS, ZOMBIE BIRDS! ZOMBIE DOGS!! AND NOW THE CREATURE FROM THE TREMORS MOVIE!" Cody yelled out, Cody tore back around the corner as it lunged for him and started firing. The creature let out a high pitched cry as he blasted it with his magnum. Cody jumped to smack the switch on the side and the worm slammed into him. Throwing him against a wall, Cody hit it and fell forward. Somehow, he got back to his feet rushing over to the other end, he flipped the last switch and heard the ladder coming down as the worm slammed into him again. Cody slammed against the wall and fell forward, before he hit the ground he grabbed the ladder and began to slowly pull himself up it. When he reached the top he was out in an alley, just ahead was a burning inferno, and a bunch of wood stacked up. Cody tumbled slowly toward it, when he got to the wood he pulled himself onto it. Just ahead was the Trolley, "Must get the fuse to Jill" Cody mumbled weakly, Cody made his way to the Trolley and opened the door. As he stumbled in he found Carlos working on the engine. And another mercenary laying on the bench, Carlos turned around and saw Cody, his eyes lighting up.
"CODY! Your alive!" Carlos shouted, Cody pulled the fuse out of his pocket and went to hand it to Carlos, as he was enveloped in darkness as his wounds set in.
* * *
"Where am I?" Cody's voice echoed in the darkness, Cody looked around and saw nothing but pure darkness. But he could hear footsteps coming to him, and finally Wesley took one step forward and it pulled him out of the shadows. "Wesley!" Cody shouted,
"Don't talk to me like I am your friend" Wesley hissed,
"But.." Cody started,
"But nothing! I listen to you all the time, it's always lets do this and lets do that, and I always did it. You always knew everything huh!? Always, you always knew what was best, you were wrong this time! And because of you I am dead, do you know how it feels to have your chest ripped open while you are still alive?" Wesley yelled out, taking a step toward him, "Huh, do you!?"
"No Wesley, I am sorry"
"Sorry won't help now will it!? Sorry isn't going to bring me back to life, and its your fault, all your fault! Your nothing but a screw up, you always have been, you'll never amount to anything and that's why your mom abandoned you when you were a baby!"
Wesley grabbed a hold of him, digging his bony fingers into his shoulder, causing blood to run freely down his back. Wesley's face began to turn pasty white, puss oozing down his face, now when he talked, his voice was deep and it echoed. "Your going to die here Cody! You aren't going to make it out alive! And I'll be watching you, laughing as your flesh gets ripped from your body and consumed by the zombies"
Wesley's skin began to fall off of him in great hunks, fresh, crimson blood running down from his many wounds. And in a blink of an eye, Wesley became the Nemesis, it wrapped it's hand around his neck and shoved him backwards. Cody landed on the dark ground with a loud thud, that's when he felt hands, grabbing onto his arms and legs, holding him down.
"HELP ME!! SOMEBODY!"
"Your going to die!"
"No Jill please help!"
Cody could feel himself being pulled into the zombies dark abyss, that's when a light swung back, luminating the side of a zombies rotting face. Cody's eyes widened as maggots began to work their way up him.
"Now you see how it feels!"
The maggots covered every inch of his body, digging into his skin, and crawling beneath his skin. Cody glanced down at his left arm, and his wrist exploded, maggots flying out as blood oozed out. Cody could feel more eruptions all over his body as the maggots broke free, that's when the Nemesis brought it's large hand down on his face, crushing his skull and silencing him forever.
Cody collected him self, turning and limping as he broke into a full sprint. He knew the Nemesis was to broad for the lift's shaft, and that they couldn't leave with out him because he had the fuse, but he didn't want to be here anymore. He wanted this nightmare to be over and this would be the only way. Cody was pleased with himself, even though he'd kill for a few pain killers right now. Cody had just had a to close, encounter with the Nemesis.
"Why did it attack me? I am not S.T.A.R.S. Why would it want anything to do with me? Damn this just keeps getting better and better" Cody said to himself, Cody slowed down once he made it to the shopping district. But as he closed the door behind him he heard walking. But it was to light to be human,
"Oh God. . . . Not another creature . . . . God Please no!" Cody's mind screamed,
Cody slowly walked forward when-
"HOLY SHIT!" Cody yelled, he practically jumped out of his skin as a dog walked around the corner. But this was no normal dog, it's ribs were exposed and just like the zombies, patches of skin were missing.
"Good dog. . ." Cody said, his voice trembling, Cody took a step back and the dog took a step forward. "all the doggies in the house go - woof- woof- " Cody said, and immediately wondered why he had.
"It's insanity setting in" Cody's mind said, Cody pointed the magnum forward. The dog barked then ran at him, Cody fired once, the entire side of the dog's head exploded sending fragments of it's skull across the hallway. The dog's body spilled forward, tumbling over itself as Cody heard many more dogs coming. Cody kept the magnum trained forward, another dog tore around the corner and Cody fired again, the bullet entered through the dog's eye and blew the entire back of it's head open as it too, tumbled to the ground. Cody needed to reload again, Cody swung the barrel out as another dog tore around the corner. Quickly fumbling a bullet in Cody had no time to fully load it, Cody pulled the trigger,
-click-
The dog was almost there, he pulled the trigger again,
-click-
Cody was now more frightened then ever, the dog jumped into the air at him, Cody pointed the gun at it's neck and fired. This time, the gun flashed and the dog's throat exploded, Cody dropped to the floor as the dog collided with the door behind him, Cody heard the sickening sound of bones crushing as it slammed into it. The dog's body fell limply behind him, and with one last whimper, it died in a pool of blood. Cody waited for a moment then began to walk forward again, it was like now that he had a way out everything was trying to kill him.
"Yeah. . . . Just my luck" Cody whispered to himself as he turned the corner, walking forward again and heading up a small set of cement stairs. Cody paused for a moment as he placed his hand on the bar like door knob that was attached to the glass platted door. Cody closed his eyes slightly and pushed it open, the door rang as the cold September air rushed in. Cody stepped forward and began to make his way across the street and back toward the City Hall entrance.
CRASH!
Cody nearly had a heart attack as the glass display case behind him exploded,
CAW!
The loud cry of several birds cut into the air and Cody felt a new surge of adrenaline pump through his veins. Cody heard the fluttering of wings pushing against wind as he turned and saw a flock of over sized birds fly for him. Cody pointed his gun forward and fired, the shot hit one bird direct on and it exploded under the fire of the bullet. That's when Cody felt something slash him, just behind his ear, Cody threw his hands into the air and smacked a few away as he fired wildly into the air. He heard his bullets collide with a few birds.
* * *
Jill mixed the two oils together inside the parking garage, she had everything they needed so far, except that damned fuse, she couldn't find it anywhere, Jill sighed slightly, she had a plan. She'd take the oil to the Trolley and add put it in the tank, hopefully, by then Carlos would have returned with a fuse for them to use. If not, well she didn't want to think much about the if not. But, in the background, Jill could hear faint gunfire. It couldn't be Carlos because he had an automatic, not Mikhail because he was to hurt to get off his feet. And it sure wasn't Nicholai because he was dead, it sounded more like a magnum. Could it be Cody!? She never really witnessed him die, and he was the only one she knew that was carrying around a magnum, it was a slim chance, but a possible one, Jill decided not to waste anymore time, because if it was Cody, he was going to need her help. Jill finished mixing the oil and headed out. As she came out into the bigger part of the garage, she hid behind a crate and disposed of the few zombies that were walking around. Jill broke into a full run across the garage when, the ground began to quake. Jill's legs felt like they were rubber as she was knocked about, and then, she heard a crumbling noise and the ground dropped beneath her. She grabbed a hold of the side of the hole and hung there, in front of a large van. That's when something in the van began to full forward.
"Oh shit!" Jill cried out as she let go, falling into the darkness, Jill landed in dirty, mud like water as she lunged forward and the crater smacked down behind her.
* * *
Once the final bird dropped Cody ran a finger down the back of his ear, there was a gash there, he pulled his finger back and looked at the blood on his finger tips. He sighed deeply, this time he'd been lucky, but next time he might not be so lucky.
"This damn city just keeps getting better and better, huge frakenstien monsters, ugly mutations, zombies, zombie dogs, and now zombie birds. What next? Godzilla? Maybe Dracula?" Cody mumbled to himself, nothing, and he ment nothing could possibly surprise him now.
"Sttarrsss"
Except for that! Cody was stunned and shocked at the fact that after out loading six bullets, straight into the Nemesis's forehead, that it was still alive.
"What am I going to need to kill that thing!? A nuclear bomb!?" Cody yelled to himself and he spun around. Taking yet another deep breath he pulled the doors to the park open and closed them behind him. Cody paused for a moment, the Nemesis was behind him somewhere, but he servayed the area for anything that could harm him. Nothing, Cody smiled and ran forward,
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
Three, boarded up windows exploded as zombies lunged through them, Cody this time nearly had a heart attack. Cody raised his gun as the zombies slowly stumbled to their feet. Cody pulled the trigger and hit one directly in the temple. It's head practically exploded off it's shoulders as it tumbled over. Cody fired two more times, the first shot hitting a zombie directly in the face and caving it in. The last one lunged for him, Cody dropped back and pulled the trigger three more times. Each bullet tore into the zombie's decaying chest, ripping it open and spewing blood out onto the ground. Cody stayed there for a moment, because for some reason, all kinds of creatures were after him-
"Sttarrsss"
Cody heard the Nemesis's cry as a door in front of him opened, Cody could hear it's mammoth foot steps as it made it's way toward him. When it spotted Cody it threw it's misshapen head back and it growl-screamed. Cody took a step back, the Nemesis was one him before he knew what to do. It had him by the front of his shirt, holding him high into the air. Growling, it tossed him into a wall, Cody smacked into the wall and fell forward, his magnum spilling out in front of him and sliding across the ground. Cody lunged for it but he was intercepted half way by the Nemesis, it picked him back up and heaved him into a row of wooden boards. The wood splintered around him as he crashed to the ground, his body was in more pain then his brain could recognize. The Nemesis was playing around with him, but he knew that even if the Nemesis didn't do it intentionally, a few more throws like that and he'd be dead. But why was the Nemesis after him? It was after S.T.A.R.S right? Cody was looking face down at the cement when he felt his body being yanked back into the air. Cody was thrown a good eight or nine feet before his body came crashing down. Cody screamed in pure pain, but what he saw in front of him soothed the pain for the time being. Cody jerked up his magnum, the Nemesis was heading back for him. As Cody felt himself being pulled into the air he leveled his magnum with the Nemesis's head. But this time the Nemesis wasn't going to throw him, he was forming some sort of bio-hazardous sphere. Cody aimed and fired again, and even after he emptied the gun into the Nemesis's head and it dropped him. Cody reloaded and fired off another six shots. This time a pool of purple blood began to form around the Nemesis. Had he killed it? Now just wasn't the time to stay and find out the answer to that question, the Nemesis had been hit pretty heavily before and still managed to get back to it's feet and resume the presuit.
Cody tried to run, he tried his hardest but his body hurt to much to even walk fast. The Nemesis had really torn him up. Cody clutched his side and limped slowly toward the next door. Cody opened it and limped through the alley, out another door, and he knew he was coming close to finally getting the hell out of this hell city. That's when Cody felt the Earth shaking under him, Cody fell down and the ground around him began to crack, Cody's eyes widened as he lunged for the part of the side walk that wasn't cracked but didn't make it before the sidewalk caved in. Cody fell into the dark hole, as he hit the bottom he could feel cold water splashing over him. He slowly got to his feet and looked around. He was in some type of sewer system, Cody smiled at the sight of an emergency ladder. Now all he had to do was lower it, Cody passed a small opening in the wall which looked like a small tunnel that lead to no where when-
Something lashed at him, Cody got a small glance at it, it looked like a large worm with huge teeth! Cody hid behind a wall, crouched down and gun held against his chest,
"OH GREAT! ZOMBIES, CREATURES, THE NEMESIS, ZOMBIE BIRDS! ZOMBIE DOGS!! AND NOW THE CREATURE FROM THE TREMORS MOVIE!" Cody yelled out, Cody tore back around the corner as it lunged for him and started firing. The creature let out a high pitched cry as he blasted it with his magnum. Cody jumped to smack the switch on the side and the worm slammed into him. Throwing him against a wall, Cody hit it and fell forward. Somehow, he got back to his feet rushing over to the other end, he flipped the last switch and heard the ladder coming down as the worm slammed into him again. Cody slammed against the wall and fell forward, before he hit the ground he grabbed the ladder and began to slowly pull himself up it. When he reached the top he was out in an alley, just ahead was a burning inferno, and a bunch of wood stacked up. Cody tumbled slowly toward it, when he got to the wood he pulled himself onto it. Just ahead was the Trolley, "Must get the fuse to Jill" Cody mumbled weakly, Cody made his way to the Trolley and opened the door. As he stumbled in he found Carlos working on the engine. And another mercenary laying on the bench, Carlos turned around and saw Cody, his eyes lighting up.
"CODY! Your alive!" Carlos shouted, Cody pulled the fuse out of his pocket and went to hand it to Carlos, as he was enveloped in darkness as his wounds set in.
* * *
"Where am I?" Cody's voice echoed in the darkness, Cody looked around and saw nothing but pure darkness. But he could hear footsteps coming to him, and finally Wesley took one step forward and it pulled him out of the shadows. "Wesley!" Cody shouted,
"Don't talk to me like I am your friend" Wesley hissed,
"But.." Cody started,
"But nothing! I listen to you all the time, it's always lets do this and lets do that, and I always did it. You always knew everything huh!? Always, you always knew what was best, you were wrong this time! And because of you I am dead, do you know how it feels to have your chest ripped open while you are still alive?" Wesley yelled out, taking a step toward him, "Huh, do you!?"
"No Wesley, I am sorry"
"Sorry won't help now will it!? Sorry isn't going to bring me back to life, and its your fault, all your fault! Your nothing but a screw up, you always have been, you'll never amount to anything and that's why your mom abandoned you when you were a baby!"
Wesley grabbed a hold of him, digging his bony fingers into his shoulder, causing blood to run freely down his back. Wesley's face began to turn pasty white, puss oozing down his face, now when he talked, his voice was deep and it echoed. "Your going to die here Cody! You aren't going to make it out alive! And I'll be watching you, laughing as your flesh gets ripped from your body and consumed by the zombies"
Wesley's skin began to fall off of him in great hunks, fresh, crimson blood running down from his many wounds. And in a blink of an eye, Wesley became the Nemesis, it wrapped it's hand around his neck and shoved him backwards. Cody landed on the dark ground with a loud thud, that's when he felt hands, grabbing onto his arms and legs, holding him down.
"HELP ME!! SOMEBODY!"
"Your going to die!"
"No Jill please help!"
Cody could feel himself being pulled into the zombies dark abyss, that's when a light swung back, luminating the side of a zombies rotting face. Cody's eyes widened as maggots began to work their way up him.
"Now you see how it feels!"
The maggots covered every inch of his body, digging into his skin, and crawling beneath his skin. Cody glanced down at his left arm, and his wrist exploded, maggots flying out as blood oozed out. Cody could feel more eruptions all over his body as the maggots broke free, that's when the Nemesis brought it's large hand down on his face, crushing his skull and silencing him forever.
