Kyle's bleeding had stopped for the time and was unconscious. Aya and
Logan had decided that the best place to keep Kyle was in the bottom of the
tube that had the service ladder in it. In the shaft Kyle would be secure
and would be easy access to them. Naturally sub-level 5 had been blocked
off in the shaft and they would have to use the elevator shaft.
Logan pulled himself up through the hole in top of the elevator. He got a set stance and pulled Aya up by her arms. The walls of the shaft were like oversized cheese graters. The aluminum walls were full of holes making it easy to climb. Logan reached sub-level 5 first and scanned the area behind the broken down doors. Aya reached the top and realized the place was empty.
In addition to the lack of opposition the room was different than the other floors. Besides sub-level one all the floors had the elevator place them directly into the corridor. This level had a large hall and tile floors in the form of a checkerboard. At the end of the hall stood two electronic doors, both with green lights above them showing they were unlocked.
"Door No. 1 or door No. 2?" Logan asked.
Aya had found a map in between the doors. It was hand made and unlabeled. "Both," Aya announced.
"Are you crazy?"
"Look," Aya pointed to the map. "This level is huge. If one of us each go through each door all we have to do is pass through a hall, a large room, and then another hall thus arriving in the same corridor." The map was much larger than that. The corridor branched off into seven more rooms and created a circuit of hallways entering and exiting many rooms. Beyond the large corridor was another hall leading into yet another split hallway going parallel and arriving at the same destination. Each hall had doors allowing access to each. Finally the two halls would meet in a single small room.
Logan peered at the map. "Damn, this place is huge. It'll be awhile to search. Should we try and find Jerome first?"
"No. We can't waste any time." Aya was surprised to find herself thinking Jerome was probably already dead and that it wouldn't even bother her if he was. "Kyle might not last much longer.
"If you're not in the corridor in five minutes I'm coming to get you."
Aya ripped the map off the wall and tucked it into her pocket. "I might be ten." Aya teased Logan. She entered the door on the right and the door closed behind her, signaling she was alone once again.
The narrow tunnel was also empty. She reached the end to discover the door had been knocked down. The enormous room was only half lit. The far end was encased in darkness and the lighted end was the scene of a massacre. Blood streaked the floor. Aya looked down in front of her to see the legs and waist of a golem soldier. Ten feet to her right was the upper torso that was the rest of the golem. There were a couple dead men in blood lab coats mangled and dismembered. A peculiar body was laying facedown on the floor hidden underneath a black leather trench coat. Aya instantly recognized it as Jerome.
Aya cautiously approached the body, searching to locate the assassin. If it was still around it was hiding in the darkness. She grabbed Jerome's wrist and checked the pulse.
"Play dead," Jerome whispered before Aya even read the pulse. Aya jumped back, shocked that he was alive.
"Hey, we need you to help us knock out the barrier around the complex. Will you help?"
"Fine now play dead."
"Why?" Aya was confused by the command.
A roar sounded from the darkness. "Ah Shit," Jerome moaned. He got up and shoved a six round grenade launcher into Aya's hands. He armed himself with two magnums.
A large, ugly dog creature stepped into the light. The dog was six feet tall to the shoulder and had three heads. The heads on the left and right were nipping at each other while the one in the middle drooped down. The only sign of life in the middle head of the creature was the constant flow of drool. The head on the left let out a long howl and two more of the same creature appeared into the light.
Jerome didn't hesitate to start firing. He unloaded on the leader with his magnums. The huge dog pounced on him and landed right on him. The dog's enormous feet pinned Jerome's shoulders to the floor. He angled the guns upwards and began firing into the creature's abdomen. The creature collapsed on top of Jerome, struggling to hang on to life.
Before Aya could help him another dog pounced towards her. She dodged it and it flew passed her. She fired three grenades into it's back. The creature went down easily. The final creature charged. She fired a grenade at it and it stopped in its tracks.
"Aya, find the door up there," Jerome said. He had struggled to get half his body free. He tossed her a flashlight. "Lock it behind you."
Aya decided to stay and fight. She pulled the trigger on the grenade launcher again. Nothing happened. The weapon was jammed. She holstered it and started firing at the remaining dog with her sub-machine gun. The creature fired a huge energy beam at her and knocked her to the ground. The automatic gun fell out of her hands and slid across the floor. She got up to go after it but the creature jumped over her and cut her off.
"Go now!" Jerome yelled and began firing with a pistol. Aya rushed over to Jerome and started attempting to pull him out from under the dieing dog creature. Jerome pushed her back. "Make sure you lock the door!"
Aya turned on the flashlight on and raced into the darkness. She quickly illuminated the door and passed through. On the other side of the door she pulled a large lever on the side down to lock it. "Not my fault if you wanna die you bastard," Aya muttered.
"That's not fair," Logan spoke behind her.
Aya jumped. "Stop sneaking up on me!" Aya snapped.
"Why do you get a grenade launcher and I don't?"
"Jerome gave it to me in there. Besides, it doesn't work."
"Jerome? Why did you leave him in there?"
"Cause the idiot wanted to die."
The corridor they were in was just like the map showed. Three doors on the left, three on the right, and one at the other end.
"Uh... Aya, I'm almost of ammo. I ran into another spider. It was the biggest one yet."
"Damn," Aya , sighed. "I don't have more than a few clips for a pistol." She handed him a clip, leaving her with two. Logan, didn't even have a full clip of ammo on him. He had his sniper rifle with only 4 rounds.
"What do we do?" Logan asked.
Aya pulled out the map. "We can go into through the door at the end of the hall. That's where the ladder is. We can go to the armory and also check on Kyle."
"Your so smart," Logan whispered in her ear and kissed her on the cheek. Aya smiled at him.
Something caught Aya's eye. At the end of the hall next to the third door a girl was sitting on the ground. "Eve!" Aya yelled out to her. The girl didn't respond. Aya rushed over, closely followed by Logan. Aya kneeled down beside her and went to stroke her hair but her hand went right through it.
"A hologram?" Logan had a confused look on his face. The image of Eve faded away. The middle doors on each side of the room opened. From each, a single file of Golem Soldiers entered the room. When they were fully assembled, three dozen had formed a large group. Aya tried to open the door they were next to but it was locked. Logan rushed to the door at the end of the corridor. It too was locked.
They set out what little fire power they had on the golems. About 3 died when they went out of ammo. Logan drew his sword and Aya furiously tried to get the grenade launcher to work. The first golem came near and Logan slammed his sword into it's chest. Using his foot for leverage he pulled it out and slashed another golem in the throat.
Despite his best efforts the golems closed and Logan was becoming exhausted. A golem's large arm swung around and hit him in his face, sending him back, away from Aya. The two were now seperated.
Aya gave up on the grenade launcher and used her remarkable ability to attack the golems using Pyrokenesis. After every time she used it she lost a lot of energy. The flames seemed to have very little effect against the golem's rubber outfits. She became so exhausted she couldn't fight any more. A golem slashed at her with it's plasma blade but missed cause Aya had fallen over.
Logan suddenly felt a rush of energy. His senses had heightened. His sword had started to emit a red light. A flow of mitochondrial cells flowed out of the handle of his sword. The cells formed a blade in symetry to the other. The steel stopped glowing and went back to it's original color. The cells maintained the shape of a sword but continued to flow.
He hit the nearest golem with the metal blade and easily sliced through it. Logan noticed his strength had doubled. He brought the mitochondria blade down onto a golems head and cut off a portion of it. One by one he massacred each golem until there was only one left. His mitochondria cell blade disappeared. Logan threw the sword and it hit the golem's chest and the sword passed through its body, out its back, taking the rib cage with it. Using his mitochondria from his body, Logan was deprived of his energy source and collapsed onto the floor and went unconscious.
Aya rushed over to Logan and checked his pulse. His heart was barely beating. She heard clapping echo throughout the corridor. She looked up to see her worse nightmare. Clapping her humongous hands attached to her long arms she appeared at the opposite end of the corridor. A blue tail where her legs should've been and hovering slightly above the ground, Mitochondria Eve had returned.
A/N: I hope I described this important chapter well. Give me your thoughts.
Logan pulled himself up through the hole in top of the elevator. He got a set stance and pulled Aya up by her arms. The walls of the shaft were like oversized cheese graters. The aluminum walls were full of holes making it easy to climb. Logan reached sub-level 5 first and scanned the area behind the broken down doors. Aya reached the top and realized the place was empty.
In addition to the lack of opposition the room was different than the other floors. Besides sub-level one all the floors had the elevator place them directly into the corridor. This level had a large hall and tile floors in the form of a checkerboard. At the end of the hall stood two electronic doors, both with green lights above them showing they were unlocked.
"Door No. 1 or door No. 2?" Logan asked.
Aya had found a map in between the doors. It was hand made and unlabeled. "Both," Aya announced.
"Are you crazy?"
"Look," Aya pointed to the map. "This level is huge. If one of us each go through each door all we have to do is pass through a hall, a large room, and then another hall thus arriving in the same corridor." The map was much larger than that. The corridor branched off into seven more rooms and created a circuit of hallways entering and exiting many rooms. Beyond the large corridor was another hall leading into yet another split hallway going parallel and arriving at the same destination. Each hall had doors allowing access to each. Finally the two halls would meet in a single small room.
Logan peered at the map. "Damn, this place is huge. It'll be awhile to search. Should we try and find Jerome first?"
"No. We can't waste any time." Aya was surprised to find herself thinking Jerome was probably already dead and that it wouldn't even bother her if he was. "Kyle might not last much longer.
"If you're not in the corridor in five minutes I'm coming to get you."
Aya ripped the map off the wall and tucked it into her pocket. "I might be ten." Aya teased Logan. She entered the door on the right and the door closed behind her, signaling she was alone once again.
The narrow tunnel was also empty. She reached the end to discover the door had been knocked down. The enormous room was only half lit. The far end was encased in darkness and the lighted end was the scene of a massacre. Blood streaked the floor. Aya looked down in front of her to see the legs and waist of a golem soldier. Ten feet to her right was the upper torso that was the rest of the golem. There were a couple dead men in blood lab coats mangled and dismembered. A peculiar body was laying facedown on the floor hidden underneath a black leather trench coat. Aya instantly recognized it as Jerome.
Aya cautiously approached the body, searching to locate the assassin. If it was still around it was hiding in the darkness. She grabbed Jerome's wrist and checked the pulse.
"Play dead," Jerome whispered before Aya even read the pulse. Aya jumped back, shocked that he was alive.
"Hey, we need you to help us knock out the barrier around the complex. Will you help?"
"Fine now play dead."
"Why?" Aya was confused by the command.
A roar sounded from the darkness. "Ah Shit," Jerome moaned. He got up and shoved a six round grenade launcher into Aya's hands. He armed himself with two magnums.
A large, ugly dog creature stepped into the light. The dog was six feet tall to the shoulder and had three heads. The heads on the left and right were nipping at each other while the one in the middle drooped down. The only sign of life in the middle head of the creature was the constant flow of drool. The head on the left let out a long howl and two more of the same creature appeared into the light.
Jerome didn't hesitate to start firing. He unloaded on the leader with his magnums. The huge dog pounced on him and landed right on him. The dog's enormous feet pinned Jerome's shoulders to the floor. He angled the guns upwards and began firing into the creature's abdomen. The creature collapsed on top of Jerome, struggling to hang on to life.
Before Aya could help him another dog pounced towards her. She dodged it and it flew passed her. She fired three grenades into it's back. The creature went down easily. The final creature charged. She fired a grenade at it and it stopped in its tracks.
"Aya, find the door up there," Jerome said. He had struggled to get half his body free. He tossed her a flashlight. "Lock it behind you."
Aya decided to stay and fight. She pulled the trigger on the grenade launcher again. Nothing happened. The weapon was jammed. She holstered it and started firing at the remaining dog with her sub-machine gun. The creature fired a huge energy beam at her and knocked her to the ground. The automatic gun fell out of her hands and slid across the floor. She got up to go after it but the creature jumped over her and cut her off.
"Go now!" Jerome yelled and began firing with a pistol. Aya rushed over to Jerome and started attempting to pull him out from under the dieing dog creature. Jerome pushed her back. "Make sure you lock the door!"
Aya turned on the flashlight on and raced into the darkness. She quickly illuminated the door and passed through. On the other side of the door she pulled a large lever on the side down to lock it. "Not my fault if you wanna die you bastard," Aya muttered.
"That's not fair," Logan spoke behind her.
Aya jumped. "Stop sneaking up on me!" Aya snapped.
"Why do you get a grenade launcher and I don't?"
"Jerome gave it to me in there. Besides, it doesn't work."
"Jerome? Why did you leave him in there?"
"Cause the idiot wanted to die."
The corridor they were in was just like the map showed. Three doors on the left, three on the right, and one at the other end.
"Uh... Aya, I'm almost of ammo. I ran into another spider. It was the biggest one yet."
"Damn," Aya , sighed. "I don't have more than a few clips for a pistol." She handed him a clip, leaving her with two. Logan, didn't even have a full clip of ammo on him. He had his sniper rifle with only 4 rounds.
"What do we do?" Logan asked.
Aya pulled out the map. "We can go into through the door at the end of the hall. That's where the ladder is. We can go to the armory and also check on Kyle."
"Your so smart," Logan whispered in her ear and kissed her on the cheek. Aya smiled at him.
Something caught Aya's eye. At the end of the hall next to the third door a girl was sitting on the ground. "Eve!" Aya yelled out to her. The girl didn't respond. Aya rushed over, closely followed by Logan. Aya kneeled down beside her and went to stroke her hair but her hand went right through it.
"A hologram?" Logan had a confused look on his face. The image of Eve faded away. The middle doors on each side of the room opened. From each, a single file of Golem Soldiers entered the room. When they were fully assembled, three dozen had formed a large group. Aya tried to open the door they were next to but it was locked. Logan rushed to the door at the end of the corridor. It too was locked.
They set out what little fire power they had on the golems. About 3 died when they went out of ammo. Logan drew his sword and Aya furiously tried to get the grenade launcher to work. The first golem came near and Logan slammed his sword into it's chest. Using his foot for leverage he pulled it out and slashed another golem in the throat.
Despite his best efforts the golems closed and Logan was becoming exhausted. A golem's large arm swung around and hit him in his face, sending him back, away from Aya. The two were now seperated.
Aya gave up on the grenade launcher and used her remarkable ability to attack the golems using Pyrokenesis. After every time she used it she lost a lot of energy. The flames seemed to have very little effect against the golem's rubber outfits. She became so exhausted she couldn't fight any more. A golem slashed at her with it's plasma blade but missed cause Aya had fallen over.
Logan suddenly felt a rush of energy. His senses had heightened. His sword had started to emit a red light. A flow of mitochondrial cells flowed out of the handle of his sword. The cells formed a blade in symetry to the other. The steel stopped glowing and went back to it's original color. The cells maintained the shape of a sword but continued to flow.
He hit the nearest golem with the metal blade and easily sliced through it. Logan noticed his strength had doubled. He brought the mitochondria blade down onto a golems head and cut off a portion of it. One by one he massacred each golem until there was only one left. His mitochondria cell blade disappeared. Logan threw the sword and it hit the golem's chest and the sword passed through its body, out its back, taking the rib cage with it. Using his mitochondria from his body, Logan was deprived of his energy source and collapsed onto the floor and went unconscious.
Aya rushed over to Logan and checked his pulse. His heart was barely beating. She heard clapping echo throughout the corridor. She looked up to see her worse nightmare. Clapping her humongous hands attached to her long arms she appeared at the opposite end of the corridor. A blue tail where her legs should've been and hovering slightly above the ground, Mitochondria Eve had returned.
A/N: I hope I described this important chapter well. Give me your thoughts.