Chapter 8
Jill's eyes fluttered open at the sound of gun shots, she saw Carlos looking down at her, and a syringe and empty vial at her side.
"What's going on? Where is Cody?" Jill asked,
"Fighting the Nemesis" Carlos replied,
"WHAT!?" Jill screamed, grabbing her grenade launcher from her side and breaking into a run for the door.
* * *
"That can't . . . . . Be all you got" Cody said weakly, The Nemesis was really getting tired of him. The Nemesis raised his hand to deliver the final blow when-
The entire side of the Nemesis lit up in flames as it was flung into a wall. Jill was standing a few feet away with her grenade launcher pointed forward. Carlos was loading a new clip into his assault rifle. "What's with fire and me today?" Cody mumbled to himself as he raised to his feet. Jill fired again and blew the Nemesis a few more feet back which had proved to be totally useless because the Nemesis hadn't stirred.
"Cody, stop always acting like a hero and fighting the Nemesis alone! It's going to get you killed" Jill shouted angrily,
"Sorry" Cody said a bit sheepishly,
"Sorry isn't going to prevent that thing from killing you next time, when the Nemesis shows up you run your ass off, your not invincible it can kill you" Jill said,
"Don't you think your being a bit hard on him?" Carlos asked,
"No, he's going to get himself killed trying to play hero" Jill replied,
"She's sort of right you know, I mean, that thing can kill you and it's already busted you up bad, so how about you ease up on being the hero and let me give it a crack" Carlos said,
"Whatever, can we just go?" Cody snapped,
"Come on guys, look at us, we are fighting, we are letting the pressure, and all we've lost and seen get to us, we have to stick together if we want to live" Carlos said,
"Yeah, I guess your right, lets get out of here" Jill said,
"Yeah, the sooner the better" Cody commented,
"Hey, you guys, I am going to check a few things, mind if I meet you guys there?" Carlos asked,
"Yeah OK sure, but hurry" Jill said, Carlos waved and ran off leaving Cody and Jill once again, by their selves.
"Lets go" Cody said,
"All right" Jill replied, and the two walked off
* * *
The rain had turned to drizzle as Jill pushed the door open to the Park. There were two paths to choose from, left or right,
"Which way?" Jill asked,
"Uhh..... Right?" Cody replied, Jill looked at him with a bit of uncertainty on her face and they took the right path.
* * *
"Oh great you led us to a water fountain" Jill groaned,
"No, there is something about it, there is a trap door in the water, I wonder where it leads" Cody said, standing up from his crouching possession next to the water's edge. Cody walked past Jill and to a stand, in it were gears. Cody moved the black gear up, and a white gear down, pausing for a moment he moved another black gear up and another white gear down. He then moved two black gears right, as he did, the water in the fountain began to drain,
"Man I am Good" Cody whispered, Jill smiled and jumped down into it. Cody followed soon after, Cody and Jill both traveled down the hatch and into a sewer system.
"Ugh. . . . This place stinks" Jill complained, indeed it did, the walls all around were covered in some type of fungus, and the water was so dirty it felt like oil. That's when Cody heard a sloshing noise, he looked around and saw, large worms heading in their direction. Cody's eyes widened and he opened fire, sending hunks of angry led into the worm's bodies, making them trash about before dying in a stream of purple blood. Yet there seemed to be endless numbers of them, Jill and Cody fired at any one of them that got close until they got to the next ladder. When they got to the top they were close to some kind of cabin, Cody was covered in dried blood, dirt, sweat and now grungy water. Jill wasn't in much better shape, Cody stopped for a moment,
"Tired?" Jill queried,
"Just a bit, my body. . . . It hurts so bad" Cody replied,
"Every muscle in your body feels like it's been hit by a Mack truck right?"
"Yeah"
"Umbrella accidents seem to have that effect on people" Jill said,
"I never really thought about this till now, but what are we going to do, I mean after we escape this?" Cody asked,
"Well, I am going to Europe to help fight against Umbrella, I guess your just going to another orphanage" Jill replied,
"Oh. . ." Cody said,
"I'm kidding! Your staying with me, I don't know about the whole you fighting with us against Umbrella but for sure your staying with me until your old enough to get out into the world on your own" Jill said,
Cody smiled ear to ear,
"No one has ever been as nice to me as you" Cody said,
"Hey kid, I am attached to you, like a son, me and you are going to survive this together and we are going to survive the aftermath the same way" Jill said to him, she could see the gleam in Cody's eyes that told her that he was ready to get on with this.
"Let's get this over with" Cody said, Jill patted him on the back and the two made their way to the cabin. The inside of the cabin wasn't the most luxurious place but it was kind of nice. Cody sat down as Jill searched the place for anything useful,
"Man, talk about a workout, you know, those Night Of The Living Dead movies make this kind of survival seem so easy" Cody said,
"Yeah" Jill laughed,
"You know, I can see it now 'City Of The Living Dead' we could make a script about this, I mean Nemesis and all, we could make millions" Cody laughed,
"Not exactly the movie I'd like to go see, after surviving it in real life" Jill said,
"Yeah I see what you mean" Cody laughed,
"You know what would be good right now?" Jill called out,
"The US Army? A couple of Uzis?" Cody said,
"No, A big Mac with some super sized fries" Jill said,
"Okay now you are tormenting me. . . ." Cody groaned, Jill walked over to the fire place,
"While we are here lets heat this place up" Jill said, pouring some lighter fluid onto the fire wood then setting it ablaze. Cody bent down in front of it and began to rub his hands together.
"Well, all I seem to be able to find is a metal poll, and some grenade cartridges" Jill said, Cody seemed to be ignoring her and was more focused on the warmth from the fire. Cody smiled and allowed the heat to warm up his freezing hands and legs, the water in the sewer must have been below zero.
"Uhh. . . . Heat" Cody moaned,
"Lets get going" Jill said,
"But Jill. . . ." Cody groaned,
"Oh stop acting like a baby" Jill said, and suddenly the fire went out, Cody looked at the fire place and noticed a brick was missing. Revealing what looked like another room, Jill raised an eyebrow and walked to the fireplace and bent down.
"Woah. . . Looks like a secret room" Jill said,
"What's with Raccoon and the James Bond junk?" Cody asked,
"Umbrella trying to hide all their dirty secrets" Jill replied,
"Right. . ."
Before Cody knew it, Jill was using a metal poll to sweep out all the burning embers and wood from inside the fireplace. Then she used the poll to break some more bricks away, Jill crawled in first and Cody followed behind her. When he finally got to his feet Jill seemed to be reading something.
* * *
Jill read the paper she'd found on the ground that looked like it was torn from some sort of diary, it read:
The endurance ability of the contaminated guinea pigs is truly incredible. Even when shot in a vital area, they can sometimes survive for several days without taking care of the wound. However, after prolonged exposure to the virus, the guinea pig's intelligence level decreases to that of an insect. Even though reviving the dead seems too disgusting, the virus may still be of use. If we inject the virus into our POWs and release them, they would return to their units and then turns into zombies. This plan may work well for us in the future.
In certain areas, the virus seems to have caused the mutation of animals and plants. It may be difficult, but it'll make a good sample for the bio weapon development. I've heard that there is a giant alligator, but I have only encountered a giant creature moving under ground. I don't even want to imagine what creature spawned that monster. I encountered "Nemesis".
If I didn't know about it, I'd have been contaminated and would have become one of them by now. If it is still walking around in the city, its mission to kill all the remaining S.T.A.R.S. and that Redfield kid is not yet over. S.T.A.R.S. members must be very tough since they have survived until this point. However, they cannot hold our forever.....
Jill was startled at what she'd read,
"Redfield boy?" Jill said aloud, Cody turning and looking at her,
"It's mission was to destroy all S.T.A.R.S. and a kid with the last name Redfield? Poor kid, just another dirty deed to lay at Umbrella's doorstep, killing a kid for being related to a S.T.A.R.S. Member. But why didn't Chris tell me he had family in Raccoon?" Jill thought, then it dawned on her,
-"I'm going to die Jill! It's after me!"- "what is after you?"-"The Nemesis"- Cody and her conversation from earlier ran through her head.
"Cody, why didn't you tell me you were related to Chris?" Jill asked,
"Huh, what do you mean?" Cody said, a bit confused,
"It says here that the Nemesis was after S.T.A.R.S and 'The Redfield boy', that would have to explain why it was after you" Jill said,
"But, I don't have any family, I am just an orphan" Cody said,
"You are a fool" A Russian voice said, Cody and Jill both turned around and found Nicholai pointing a gun at them, "I have run a background check on you kid, come to find out, your mom was seventeen when she got pregnet. The father, Chris Redfield, but you see Chris never found out about it, because before Chris found out, they broke up and Chris moved back to Raccoon. Your mothered died giving birth to you, you know, it's stunning how much information Umbrella has" Nicholai said, Cody was in shock,
"Your lying, they'd of told me" Cody said,
"No, you see, things were a lot easier for them if they just pushed all of your past under the rug and gave you to the state. Chris wasn't aware so why tell him? But you see, the reason the Nemesis is hunting you is because you've been seen in contact with Chris, Umbrella feared Chris might have found out about you being is son and told you everything he knew about what went on at the Spencer Estate, so if they were going to kill S.T.A.R.S. For knowing, why not tie up any potential loose ends?" Nicholai said, and suddenly it all became clear to him. Jill seemed stunned by everything Nicholai was saying.
"But you see I am not such a bad guy, I let you know everything you didn't know about yourself right before I killed you" Nicholai said, pointing the gun at Cody's head.
"You shoot him and I'll blow your Russian ass away" Jill hissed, Nicholai turned to find Jill's grenade launcher leveled with his head.
"Woah. . . . A stand off" Nicholai said,
And suddenly, there was a deep rumble, one that shook them all off their feet.
"It's another one of the mutants!" Nicholai called out, rushing out of the passage way. Jill and Cody rushed out also but by the time they got outside Nicholai was gone with out a trace.
"What the hell is it now?" Cody asked, and as if on Q, muddy water spewed out from the ground, trees all around them snapped and fell to their side and the ground sunk. Cody and Jill both sank into a large hole, water spewing all around them. Cody was the first to see it, a large hybrid worm. Tons of feet taller then them, it had massive teeth, and a deep roar. Cody stepped back as it lashed at him, Cody fell back as it spit some sort of mixture of dirt and tooth particles at him. Cody dodged it and ran toward Jill, Jill looked up and suddenly had an idea. Several lamps were leaning toward them, Cody was moving as fast as he could when he felt the ground lifting out from under him and he fell into the clay like mud. Cody flipped over onto his back and began to shoot at the giant worm, the bullets priced it's rubber like skin and green blood oozed out. The giant worm looked down at him and lashed at him, Cody pushed away allowing it to drive it's own head into the mud. Cody scrambled to his feet and ran in Jill's direction.
"That thing is going to kill us!" Cody shouted,
"No, we are going to kill it first" Jill shouted, pointing her grenade launcher at it and firing. The first round exploded on the monster's massive back sending it into a lashing fury. Jill cracked the grenade launcher open and started to reload as Cody fired at the monster. Cody backed up as it rose into the air and looked down at him, as if sizing him up for death. Even though it had no eyes to spot him, Cody heard another explosion and the worm was lashing in fury again, Jill cracking open the grenade launcher and loading another round. Cody quickly emptied the empty shells out of his gun and reloaded. Cody pointed up and fired, the monster was bleeding pretty massive by now. But it was still as persistent as ever, it lashed at them and caused them to jump backwards. As Cody landed he almost tripped, dropping his gun he scrambled to pick it up out of the water. Jill fired again and Cody glanced up to see a lamp about to collapse into a pool of water. Jill was standing in the pool of water as was the worm. Well not actually standing, but the worm was in the water. Cody's eyes widened as the lamp fell, Cody had no time to think, he lunged at Jill and tackled her. Throwing them both onto dry land as-
There was a loud pop and a bright spectacle of lights as the electricity ran through the water. The bullets in Cody's gun exploding as it started to get shocked, the worm's high pitched scream filling the air as it shot up right. It's pallid skin blackening and cracking as smoke poured out, and finally, the braker exploded in a massive ball of fire and the electricity stopped flowing. The worm swayed from side to side then collapsed on the ground. Blood oozing out of it's charred skin, Jill blinked a few times, she'd almost been fried. Cody rolled off from on top of her and walked a few feet and looked at the remains of his gun.
"My only weapon. . . . Gone" Cody sighed,
"what about the Glock and the Beretta you got?" Jill asked,
"Hey that's right!" Cody called out, he looked in his side back and sure enough, there was his Glock and Beretta, each loaded and each had a full box of ammo. Cody smiled and took the Glock out, leaving the Beretta in his side pack. Jill walked up to him,
"Man, you just keep saving my ass don't you" Jill said,
"Well it's a nice ass to save" Cody joked, Jill half smiled and walked past him, "Hey I was just kidding" Cody called out,
"I know, I am trying to find us a way out of this hole" Jill called back,
"Oh" Cody said stupidly, walking to her side, Jill had found a bunch of unearthed bars and her and Cody used them to climb back up to the ground.
* * *
Cody walked side by side with Jill as they walked down the jungle path to the Water Treatment Facility, it had to be late night, probably around three or four in the morning. His body hurt more then before thanks to the creatures they'd ran into on the way.
"It's almost over" Cody's mind kept repeating, Cody followed Jill as she lead them through a steel gate and to a large bridge that connected the Memorial Park to the Water Treatment Factory. Cody took one step onto it and felt it sway, down below was rocky and murky water. Jill was just a few feet ahead when Cody was nearly thrown off the bridge by something heavy landing on the bridge. Cody swung around and his eyes widened at what he saw.
Jill's eyes fluttered open at the sound of gun shots, she saw Carlos looking down at her, and a syringe and empty vial at her side.
"What's going on? Where is Cody?" Jill asked,
"Fighting the Nemesis" Carlos replied,
"WHAT!?" Jill screamed, grabbing her grenade launcher from her side and breaking into a run for the door.
* * *
"That can't . . . . . Be all you got" Cody said weakly, The Nemesis was really getting tired of him. The Nemesis raised his hand to deliver the final blow when-
The entire side of the Nemesis lit up in flames as it was flung into a wall. Jill was standing a few feet away with her grenade launcher pointed forward. Carlos was loading a new clip into his assault rifle. "What's with fire and me today?" Cody mumbled to himself as he raised to his feet. Jill fired again and blew the Nemesis a few more feet back which had proved to be totally useless because the Nemesis hadn't stirred.
"Cody, stop always acting like a hero and fighting the Nemesis alone! It's going to get you killed" Jill shouted angrily,
"Sorry" Cody said a bit sheepishly,
"Sorry isn't going to prevent that thing from killing you next time, when the Nemesis shows up you run your ass off, your not invincible it can kill you" Jill said,
"Don't you think your being a bit hard on him?" Carlos asked,
"No, he's going to get himself killed trying to play hero" Jill replied,
"She's sort of right you know, I mean, that thing can kill you and it's already busted you up bad, so how about you ease up on being the hero and let me give it a crack" Carlos said,
"Whatever, can we just go?" Cody snapped,
"Come on guys, look at us, we are fighting, we are letting the pressure, and all we've lost and seen get to us, we have to stick together if we want to live" Carlos said,
"Yeah, I guess your right, lets get out of here" Jill said,
"Yeah, the sooner the better" Cody commented,
"Hey, you guys, I am going to check a few things, mind if I meet you guys there?" Carlos asked,
"Yeah OK sure, but hurry" Jill said, Carlos waved and ran off leaving Cody and Jill once again, by their selves.
"Lets go" Cody said,
"All right" Jill replied, and the two walked off
* * *
The rain had turned to drizzle as Jill pushed the door open to the Park. There were two paths to choose from, left or right,
"Which way?" Jill asked,
"Uhh..... Right?" Cody replied, Jill looked at him with a bit of uncertainty on her face and they took the right path.
* * *
"Oh great you led us to a water fountain" Jill groaned,
"No, there is something about it, there is a trap door in the water, I wonder where it leads" Cody said, standing up from his crouching possession next to the water's edge. Cody walked past Jill and to a stand, in it were gears. Cody moved the black gear up, and a white gear down, pausing for a moment he moved another black gear up and another white gear down. He then moved two black gears right, as he did, the water in the fountain began to drain,
"Man I am Good" Cody whispered, Jill smiled and jumped down into it. Cody followed soon after, Cody and Jill both traveled down the hatch and into a sewer system.
"Ugh. . . . This place stinks" Jill complained, indeed it did, the walls all around were covered in some type of fungus, and the water was so dirty it felt like oil. That's when Cody heard a sloshing noise, he looked around and saw, large worms heading in their direction. Cody's eyes widened and he opened fire, sending hunks of angry led into the worm's bodies, making them trash about before dying in a stream of purple blood. Yet there seemed to be endless numbers of them, Jill and Cody fired at any one of them that got close until they got to the next ladder. When they got to the top they were close to some kind of cabin, Cody was covered in dried blood, dirt, sweat and now grungy water. Jill wasn't in much better shape, Cody stopped for a moment,
"Tired?" Jill queried,
"Just a bit, my body. . . . It hurts so bad" Cody replied,
"Every muscle in your body feels like it's been hit by a Mack truck right?"
"Yeah"
"Umbrella accidents seem to have that effect on people" Jill said,
"I never really thought about this till now, but what are we going to do, I mean after we escape this?" Cody asked,
"Well, I am going to Europe to help fight against Umbrella, I guess your just going to another orphanage" Jill replied,
"Oh. . ." Cody said,
"I'm kidding! Your staying with me, I don't know about the whole you fighting with us against Umbrella but for sure your staying with me until your old enough to get out into the world on your own" Jill said,
Cody smiled ear to ear,
"No one has ever been as nice to me as you" Cody said,
"Hey kid, I am attached to you, like a son, me and you are going to survive this together and we are going to survive the aftermath the same way" Jill said to him, she could see the gleam in Cody's eyes that told her that he was ready to get on with this.
"Let's get this over with" Cody said, Jill patted him on the back and the two made their way to the cabin. The inside of the cabin wasn't the most luxurious place but it was kind of nice. Cody sat down as Jill searched the place for anything useful,
"Man, talk about a workout, you know, those Night Of The Living Dead movies make this kind of survival seem so easy" Cody said,
"Yeah" Jill laughed,
"You know, I can see it now 'City Of The Living Dead' we could make a script about this, I mean Nemesis and all, we could make millions" Cody laughed,
"Not exactly the movie I'd like to go see, after surviving it in real life" Jill said,
"Yeah I see what you mean" Cody laughed,
"You know what would be good right now?" Jill called out,
"The US Army? A couple of Uzis?" Cody said,
"No, A big Mac with some super sized fries" Jill said,
"Okay now you are tormenting me. . . ." Cody groaned, Jill walked over to the fire place,
"While we are here lets heat this place up" Jill said, pouring some lighter fluid onto the fire wood then setting it ablaze. Cody bent down in front of it and began to rub his hands together.
"Well, all I seem to be able to find is a metal poll, and some grenade cartridges" Jill said, Cody seemed to be ignoring her and was more focused on the warmth from the fire. Cody smiled and allowed the heat to warm up his freezing hands and legs, the water in the sewer must have been below zero.
"Uhh. . . . Heat" Cody moaned,
"Lets get going" Jill said,
"But Jill. . . ." Cody groaned,
"Oh stop acting like a baby" Jill said, and suddenly the fire went out, Cody looked at the fire place and noticed a brick was missing. Revealing what looked like another room, Jill raised an eyebrow and walked to the fireplace and bent down.
"Woah. . . Looks like a secret room" Jill said,
"What's with Raccoon and the James Bond junk?" Cody asked,
"Umbrella trying to hide all their dirty secrets" Jill replied,
"Right. . ."
Before Cody knew it, Jill was using a metal poll to sweep out all the burning embers and wood from inside the fireplace. Then she used the poll to break some more bricks away, Jill crawled in first and Cody followed behind her. When he finally got to his feet Jill seemed to be reading something.
* * *
Jill read the paper she'd found on the ground that looked like it was torn from some sort of diary, it read:
The endurance ability of the contaminated guinea pigs is truly incredible. Even when shot in a vital area, they can sometimes survive for several days without taking care of the wound. However, after prolonged exposure to the virus, the guinea pig's intelligence level decreases to that of an insect. Even though reviving the dead seems too disgusting, the virus may still be of use. If we inject the virus into our POWs and release them, they would return to their units and then turns into zombies. This plan may work well for us in the future.
In certain areas, the virus seems to have caused the mutation of animals and plants. It may be difficult, but it'll make a good sample for the bio weapon development. I've heard that there is a giant alligator, but I have only encountered a giant creature moving under ground. I don't even want to imagine what creature spawned that monster. I encountered "Nemesis".
If I didn't know about it, I'd have been contaminated and would have become one of them by now. If it is still walking around in the city, its mission to kill all the remaining S.T.A.R.S. and that Redfield kid is not yet over. S.T.A.R.S. members must be very tough since they have survived until this point. However, they cannot hold our forever.....
Jill was startled at what she'd read,
"Redfield boy?" Jill said aloud, Cody turning and looking at her,
"It's mission was to destroy all S.T.A.R.S. and a kid with the last name Redfield? Poor kid, just another dirty deed to lay at Umbrella's doorstep, killing a kid for being related to a S.T.A.R.S. Member. But why didn't Chris tell me he had family in Raccoon?" Jill thought, then it dawned on her,
-"I'm going to die Jill! It's after me!"- "what is after you?"-"The Nemesis"- Cody and her conversation from earlier ran through her head.
"Cody, why didn't you tell me you were related to Chris?" Jill asked,
"Huh, what do you mean?" Cody said, a bit confused,
"It says here that the Nemesis was after S.T.A.R.S and 'The Redfield boy', that would have to explain why it was after you" Jill said,
"But, I don't have any family, I am just an orphan" Cody said,
"You are a fool" A Russian voice said, Cody and Jill both turned around and found Nicholai pointing a gun at them, "I have run a background check on you kid, come to find out, your mom was seventeen when she got pregnet. The father, Chris Redfield, but you see Chris never found out about it, because before Chris found out, they broke up and Chris moved back to Raccoon. Your mothered died giving birth to you, you know, it's stunning how much information Umbrella has" Nicholai said, Cody was in shock,
"Your lying, they'd of told me" Cody said,
"No, you see, things were a lot easier for them if they just pushed all of your past under the rug and gave you to the state. Chris wasn't aware so why tell him? But you see, the reason the Nemesis is hunting you is because you've been seen in contact with Chris, Umbrella feared Chris might have found out about you being is son and told you everything he knew about what went on at the Spencer Estate, so if they were going to kill S.T.A.R.S. For knowing, why not tie up any potential loose ends?" Nicholai said, and suddenly it all became clear to him. Jill seemed stunned by everything Nicholai was saying.
"But you see I am not such a bad guy, I let you know everything you didn't know about yourself right before I killed you" Nicholai said, pointing the gun at Cody's head.
"You shoot him and I'll blow your Russian ass away" Jill hissed, Nicholai turned to find Jill's grenade launcher leveled with his head.
"Woah. . . . A stand off" Nicholai said,
And suddenly, there was a deep rumble, one that shook them all off their feet.
"It's another one of the mutants!" Nicholai called out, rushing out of the passage way. Jill and Cody rushed out also but by the time they got outside Nicholai was gone with out a trace.
"What the hell is it now?" Cody asked, and as if on Q, muddy water spewed out from the ground, trees all around them snapped and fell to their side and the ground sunk. Cody and Jill both sank into a large hole, water spewing all around them. Cody was the first to see it, a large hybrid worm. Tons of feet taller then them, it had massive teeth, and a deep roar. Cody stepped back as it lashed at him, Cody fell back as it spit some sort of mixture of dirt and tooth particles at him. Cody dodged it and ran toward Jill, Jill looked up and suddenly had an idea. Several lamps were leaning toward them, Cody was moving as fast as he could when he felt the ground lifting out from under him and he fell into the clay like mud. Cody flipped over onto his back and began to shoot at the giant worm, the bullets priced it's rubber like skin and green blood oozed out. The giant worm looked down at him and lashed at him, Cody pushed away allowing it to drive it's own head into the mud. Cody scrambled to his feet and ran in Jill's direction.
"That thing is going to kill us!" Cody shouted,
"No, we are going to kill it first" Jill shouted, pointing her grenade launcher at it and firing. The first round exploded on the monster's massive back sending it into a lashing fury. Jill cracked the grenade launcher open and started to reload as Cody fired at the monster. Cody backed up as it rose into the air and looked down at him, as if sizing him up for death. Even though it had no eyes to spot him, Cody heard another explosion and the worm was lashing in fury again, Jill cracking open the grenade launcher and loading another round. Cody quickly emptied the empty shells out of his gun and reloaded. Cody pointed up and fired, the monster was bleeding pretty massive by now. But it was still as persistent as ever, it lashed at them and caused them to jump backwards. As Cody landed he almost tripped, dropping his gun he scrambled to pick it up out of the water. Jill fired again and Cody glanced up to see a lamp about to collapse into a pool of water. Jill was standing in the pool of water as was the worm. Well not actually standing, but the worm was in the water. Cody's eyes widened as the lamp fell, Cody had no time to think, he lunged at Jill and tackled her. Throwing them both onto dry land as-
There was a loud pop and a bright spectacle of lights as the electricity ran through the water. The bullets in Cody's gun exploding as it started to get shocked, the worm's high pitched scream filling the air as it shot up right. It's pallid skin blackening and cracking as smoke poured out, and finally, the braker exploded in a massive ball of fire and the electricity stopped flowing. The worm swayed from side to side then collapsed on the ground. Blood oozing out of it's charred skin, Jill blinked a few times, she'd almost been fried. Cody rolled off from on top of her and walked a few feet and looked at the remains of his gun.
"My only weapon. . . . Gone" Cody sighed,
"what about the Glock and the Beretta you got?" Jill asked,
"Hey that's right!" Cody called out, he looked in his side back and sure enough, there was his Glock and Beretta, each loaded and each had a full box of ammo. Cody smiled and took the Glock out, leaving the Beretta in his side pack. Jill walked up to him,
"Man, you just keep saving my ass don't you" Jill said,
"Well it's a nice ass to save" Cody joked, Jill half smiled and walked past him, "Hey I was just kidding" Cody called out,
"I know, I am trying to find us a way out of this hole" Jill called back,
"Oh" Cody said stupidly, walking to her side, Jill had found a bunch of unearthed bars and her and Cody used them to climb back up to the ground.
* * *
Cody walked side by side with Jill as they walked down the jungle path to the Water Treatment Facility, it had to be late night, probably around three or four in the morning. His body hurt more then before thanks to the creatures they'd ran into on the way.
"It's almost over" Cody's mind kept repeating, Cody followed Jill as she lead them through a steel gate and to a large bridge that connected the Memorial Park to the Water Treatment Factory. Cody took one step onto it and felt it sway, down below was rocky and murky water. Jill was just a few feet ahead when Cody was nearly thrown off the bridge by something heavy landing on the bridge. Cody swung around and his eyes widened at what he saw.
