CHAPTER SIX: Corporate Battle
I got out of the helicopter and walked over to Adam. I knelt down
next to him and checked him out.
" Adam wake....Adam!!!" I said to try to wake him up. He suddenly
opened his eyes, got up, and looked around.
" What happened?" He asked
" The snake hit you with it's tail and knocked you out." I explained.
He then noticed the snake.
" How did you kill it" He asked me.
" With those 50 caliber machine guns." I told him. Suddenly, Crysten
opened the door to the base and peeked out.
" It's ok!" Adam yelled. We got together in the middle of the field and
walked to the helicopter.
" With no pilot how are we going to get to the city?" I asked.
" I can fly a copter" Crysten said.
" Ok there is one way" Adam said sarcastically.
" Well lets go!" I said. We began walking toward the helicopter. We
stepped over the dead Yawn and got into the copter. We suited up
and toke off. We flew for around ten minutes in the large green
helicopter before I saw the outskirts of a large city.
" There it is." Adam said gazing out on the once great city.
" What was this city called?" I asked Adam.
" Trinidad" He replied. I looked out on the destroyed and
zombie-infested buildings and streets. Buildings and cars were on fire
and dead bodies were waiting to reanimate due to the virus. There was a
large and tall skyscraper in the center of the city that we where
heading towards.
" That's were the guy said he would be." Crysten yelled at us. We got
closer to the skyscraper. The helicopter suddenly stopped about fifty
feet from the skyscraper.
" Hold on a minute." Crysten yelled. I looked at her. She was moving
the joy stick but the helicopter wasn't responding.
" What's wrong!!" Adam yelled at her.
" The controls are frozen. Don't worry.... happens all the time." She
answered. I looked down at the street below. It was a good 50 feet and
we would most likely die if the engines quit. I noticed a large group
of about twenty zombie apparently trying to break into a boarded-up
store across the street from the building we were going (hopefully) to
be in. Suddenly, there was the sound of machine guns from inside the
store and all of the zombies fell over dead.
" There has got to be people in that building" I said to Adam, who was
all ready looking at the scene. Suddenly, the door to the store opened
and five people walked out. They were all dressed the exact same right
down to the combat boots. All had bullet-proof vests, camo-shirts and
pants. Each face hidden by a helmet and gas mask. They carried a small
machine-gun and probably more guns and weapons that I couldn't see.
" Hey up here!!" Adam yelled. The five men looked up at us. One of them
pointed at us, maybe telling the others where we were. Suddenly, they
ran and took cover behind some large objects such as cars, destroyed
barricades, etc. Then for some reason they began shooting at us.
Bullets began to bounce off the helicopter's armor. Me and Adam ducked
back into the helicopter's cabin.
" What the hell are they doing!?" Adam screamed at me.
" I don't know.... they must be crazy or something!" I answered.
Suddenly, there was a lull in the firing and I jumped up and grabbed
the 50. machine gun. I could only get off a few round before they
started firing again. Suddenly, the helicopter started moving up and
soon the men stopped shooting at us.
" What was wrong with them?" I said to myself. Adam heard me a shrugged
an " I don't know". About half a minute later we reached the top of the
building. Me and Adam jumped out of the copter and ran over to the side
of the building to see what those people were doing. We looked over the
side and saw those guys pouring into the skyscraper we were in. There
must have been at least fifty people.
" If me meet them on the way down or they find the guy we are looking
for....." I said to Adam.
" Well looks like were going to have to fight it out." He said back.
" Ok lets go." We both moved towards the signal roof entrance.
" Hold on" Adam said to me. I nodded and he walked over to Crysten.
They talked for a minute and Adam walked back over to me.
" What'd you tell her?" I asked.
" I told her to leave if we weren't back in six hours and I asked her
where the guy was." He answered.
" Where is he?"
" He's on the fifth floor.", Adam opened the door to the stairwell,
" There's one-hundred and twenty floors and we have to take the stairs."
" That sucks." I said blankly.
TWO HOURS LATER
" Why can't......we take....... the elevator?" I said to Adam panting.
We had walked for two hours non-stop. We were on the fiftieth floor and
I was about to die.
" The elevators are probably out of order." Adam answered. Suddenly,
there was a loud explosion and a door a couple a floors down exploded
off its hinges. I grabbed my shotgun and Adam readied his magnum. I
peeked over the rail and saw one of those guys. I suddenly didn't feel
that exhausted and I nodded to Adam to continue down the stairs. We
started to walked very slowly, hugging the wall. The guy started to run
up the stairs. He round the corner and us. Me and Adam aimed our
weapons at the very pale man
" Don't move." I said to the pale man. He stared at us for a second and
then, ignoring my command, he reached for a small sub-machine strapped
around his shoulder. Me and Adam didn't hesitate opening fire and
hitting him in the head and spraying his lower body and legs with
shotgun pellets but, then something very strange happened. The man
shrieked and stem sprayed from him. Then he MELTED. Yes melted, leaving
only his clothes and weapons.
" What the hell was that?" Adam thought out loud. We both stared at the
pile of clothes and guns. I suddenly overcame my wonder and checked out
the pile. I picked up the helmet and looked for an insignia of some
kind. I found it on the back of the helmet. There was an Umbrella sign
but most of it was scratched off. Instead there were the letters W.C.M.
(What could that stand for?) I thought Adam stepped over the other side
and knelt down and looked thought the pile also. The creature was very
well armed. It had a sub-machine gun, and colt 45. pistol, two frag
grenades, and three incendiary grenades.
" This would be better if I had my grenade launcher." Adam said
" Why didn't you bring it?"
" I didn't know, I was out of ammo and left it at the base."
" Whatever" I said.
" We'd best take his or its guns or we might run out of ammo." Adam
said. We then divided up the guns. Adam got the pistol and incendiary
grenades while I got the sub machine gun and frag grenades.
" Well let's get going." I said. Suddenly, there was a the sound of
people talking from the door that the pale man came from.
( Can those pale men talk?) I thought. Suddenly, another pale man ran
out from the door and looked around. Adam shot it with his new pistol
before it looked at us. It steamed up and then melted like the other
one. Suddenly, and hand another one walked out but, this time holding a
grenade un-like the rest who had machine-guns. He looked at us
immediately and threw the grenade. We answered with a volley of hand
gun and shotgun fire. The pale man died just like the rest but the
grenade still landed near us.
There was no time to run so me and Adam just stood there for what
seemed like minutes but was really only one or two seconds. The grenade
exploded but instead exploding and killing me and Adam, the explosion
was very weak but was followed by a cloud nauseous gas. Once I realized
what was happening I tried to get out but, I blacked out before I could
escape from the cloud of gas.
When I came to I was sitting in a chair in a medium-sized room. The
room was painted gray and had no windows. I tried to move when I
realized that I was tied to the chair. I looked to see that Adam and
some other person was also tied to chair next to me. He had brown short
hair and was dressed in a long scientist coat. Adam hadn't awaken yet
and the other man was also knocked out.
" Adam.....Adam wake up." I whispered as loud as I could. I didn't what
the pale men to hear me.
" What.....Where am I?" Adam said emerging from his sleep.
" Hello....Uh....I don't know your name." A voice said from the man
that I didn't know.
" My name's Matt and his is Adam" I answered. Adam continued to look
around.
" My name's Jacob. I was a scientist before the contamination." He
answered.
" Where are we?" Adam asked.
" We are in the basement of Zion Headquarters. I worked here." He
responded.
" How did you get here?" I asked
" Well, shortly after the contamination and this city was mostly
destroyed. I came here to hide from the zombies and other creatures. I
stayed here for nearly a week before I found a radio and tried to see
if anyone was still out there....alive. I got a response and a young
girl said her and a few other people would come and rescue me. I waited
for a day and I heard a helicopter, so I started on my way up but, then
those....uh..... ,cleaners is what they call them self's, attacked and
captured me." He explained.
" What's Zion?" I asked.
" Its much like Umbrella, but we do every thing for the government. We
don't sell our weapons to terrorists like Umbrella did."
" Listen I think we'd better save the rest of the questions for later
and get out of here now." Adam suggested. He pulled out a pocket knife
and began cutting at the rope that was holding him to his seat. He cut
it loose and cut ours loose too.
" Lets go, remember stay quiet." Adam whispered. We walked over to the
door and Adam opened it slightly and peeked out.
" Coast is clear." He said. Suddenly there was a burst of machine gun
fire. We ducked back inside the room.
" They're going to kill us!!!" Jacob screamed as he ran to a corner and
huddled against the wall. I looked at the door and waited for the
cleaners to open it and kill us but, there was only more machine-gun
fire and then a loud and familiar roar. I remembered that roar but,
from where. The diner......the monster that Adam saved me from.
" Adam that roar, its from that monster that was in the diner." I said
to him, panic was beginning to take control of me.
" That's impossible I killed it with the grenade launcher, remember."
Adam said, trying to clam me down. Suddenly, the gun fire ended. There
was another loud roar and then loud footsteps. We were about to find
out what the unknown creature was.
I got out of the helicopter and walked over to Adam. I knelt down
next to him and checked him out.
" Adam wake....Adam!!!" I said to try to wake him up. He suddenly
opened his eyes, got up, and looked around.
" What happened?" He asked
" The snake hit you with it's tail and knocked you out." I explained.
He then noticed the snake.
" How did you kill it" He asked me.
" With those 50 caliber machine guns." I told him. Suddenly, Crysten
opened the door to the base and peeked out.
" It's ok!" Adam yelled. We got together in the middle of the field and
walked to the helicopter.
" With no pilot how are we going to get to the city?" I asked.
" I can fly a copter" Crysten said.
" Ok there is one way" Adam said sarcastically.
" Well lets go!" I said. We began walking toward the helicopter. We
stepped over the dead Yawn and got into the copter. We suited up
and toke off. We flew for around ten minutes in the large green
helicopter before I saw the outskirts of a large city.
" There it is." Adam said gazing out on the once great city.
" What was this city called?" I asked Adam.
" Trinidad" He replied. I looked out on the destroyed and
zombie-infested buildings and streets. Buildings and cars were on fire
and dead bodies were waiting to reanimate due to the virus. There was a
large and tall skyscraper in the center of the city that we where
heading towards.
" That's were the guy said he would be." Crysten yelled at us. We got
closer to the skyscraper. The helicopter suddenly stopped about fifty
feet from the skyscraper.
" Hold on a minute." Crysten yelled. I looked at her. She was moving
the joy stick but the helicopter wasn't responding.
" What's wrong!!" Adam yelled at her.
" The controls are frozen. Don't worry.... happens all the time." She
answered. I looked down at the street below. It was a good 50 feet and
we would most likely die if the engines quit. I noticed a large group
of about twenty zombie apparently trying to break into a boarded-up
store across the street from the building we were going (hopefully) to
be in. Suddenly, there was the sound of machine guns from inside the
store and all of the zombies fell over dead.
" There has got to be people in that building" I said to Adam, who was
all ready looking at the scene. Suddenly, the door to the store opened
and five people walked out. They were all dressed the exact same right
down to the combat boots. All had bullet-proof vests, camo-shirts and
pants. Each face hidden by a helmet and gas mask. They carried a small
machine-gun and probably more guns and weapons that I couldn't see.
" Hey up here!!" Adam yelled. The five men looked up at us. One of them
pointed at us, maybe telling the others where we were. Suddenly, they
ran and took cover behind some large objects such as cars, destroyed
barricades, etc. Then for some reason they began shooting at us.
Bullets began to bounce off the helicopter's armor. Me and Adam ducked
back into the helicopter's cabin.
" What the hell are they doing!?" Adam screamed at me.
" I don't know.... they must be crazy or something!" I answered.
Suddenly, there was a lull in the firing and I jumped up and grabbed
the 50. machine gun. I could only get off a few round before they
started firing again. Suddenly, the helicopter started moving up and
soon the men stopped shooting at us.
" What was wrong with them?" I said to myself. Adam heard me a shrugged
an " I don't know". About half a minute later we reached the top of the
building. Me and Adam jumped out of the copter and ran over to the side
of the building to see what those people were doing. We looked over the
side and saw those guys pouring into the skyscraper we were in. There
must have been at least fifty people.
" If me meet them on the way down or they find the guy we are looking
for....." I said to Adam.
" Well looks like were going to have to fight it out." He said back.
" Ok lets go." We both moved towards the signal roof entrance.
" Hold on" Adam said to me. I nodded and he walked over to Crysten.
They talked for a minute and Adam walked back over to me.
" What'd you tell her?" I asked.
" I told her to leave if we weren't back in six hours and I asked her
where the guy was." He answered.
" Where is he?"
" He's on the fifth floor.", Adam opened the door to the stairwell,
" There's one-hundred and twenty floors and we have to take the stairs."
" That sucks." I said blankly.
TWO HOURS LATER
" Why can't......we take....... the elevator?" I said to Adam panting.
We had walked for two hours non-stop. We were on the fiftieth floor and
I was about to die.
" The elevators are probably out of order." Adam answered. Suddenly,
there was a loud explosion and a door a couple a floors down exploded
off its hinges. I grabbed my shotgun and Adam readied his magnum. I
peeked over the rail and saw one of those guys. I suddenly didn't feel
that exhausted and I nodded to Adam to continue down the stairs. We
started to walked very slowly, hugging the wall. The guy started to run
up the stairs. He round the corner and us. Me and Adam aimed our
weapons at the very pale man
" Don't move." I said to the pale man. He stared at us for a second and
then, ignoring my command, he reached for a small sub-machine strapped
around his shoulder. Me and Adam didn't hesitate opening fire and
hitting him in the head and spraying his lower body and legs with
shotgun pellets but, then something very strange happened. The man
shrieked and stem sprayed from him. Then he MELTED. Yes melted, leaving
only his clothes and weapons.
" What the hell was that?" Adam thought out loud. We both stared at the
pile of clothes and guns. I suddenly overcame my wonder and checked out
the pile. I picked up the helmet and looked for an insignia of some
kind. I found it on the back of the helmet. There was an Umbrella sign
but most of it was scratched off. Instead there were the letters W.C.M.
(What could that stand for?) I thought Adam stepped over the other side
and knelt down and looked thought the pile also. The creature was very
well armed. It had a sub-machine gun, and colt 45. pistol, two frag
grenades, and three incendiary grenades.
" This would be better if I had my grenade launcher." Adam said
" Why didn't you bring it?"
" I didn't know, I was out of ammo and left it at the base."
" Whatever" I said.
" We'd best take his or its guns or we might run out of ammo." Adam
said. We then divided up the guns. Adam got the pistol and incendiary
grenades while I got the sub machine gun and frag grenades.
" Well let's get going." I said. Suddenly, there was a the sound of
people talking from the door that the pale man came from.
( Can those pale men talk?) I thought. Suddenly, another pale man ran
out from the door and looked around. Adam shot it with his new pistol
before it looked at us. It steamed up and then melted like the other
one. Suddenly, and hand another one walked out but, this time holding a
grenade un-like the rest who had machine-guns. He looked at us
immediately and threw the grenade. We answered with a volley of hand
gun and shotgun fire. The pale man died just like the rest but the
grenade still landed near us.
There was no time to run so me and Adam just stood there for what
seemed like minutes but was really only one or two seconds. The grenade
exploded but instead exploding and killing me and Adam, the explosion
was very weak but was followed by a cloud nauseous gas. Once I realized
what was happening I tried to get out but, I blacked out before I could
escape from the cloud of gas.
When I came to I was sitting in a chair in a medium-sized room. The
room was painted gray and had no windows. I tried to move when I
realized that I was tied to the chair. I looked to see that Adam and
some other person was also tied to chair next to me. He had brown short
hair and was dressed in a long scientist coat. Adam hadn't awaken yet
and the other man was also knocked out.
" Adam.....Adam wake up." I whispered as loud as I could. I didn't what
the pale men to hear me.
" What.....Where am I?" Adam said emerging from his sleep.
" Hello....Uh....I don't know your name." A voice said from the man
that I didn't know.
" My name's Matt and his is Adam" I answered. Adam continued to look
around.
" My name's Jacob. I was a scientist before the contamination." He
answered.
" Where are we?" Adam asked.
" We are in the basement of Zion Headquarters. I worked here." He
responded.
" How did you get here?" I asked
" Well, shortly after the contamination and this city was mostly
destroyed. I came here to hide from the zombies and other creatures. I
stayed here for nearly a week before I found a radio and tried to see
if anyone was still out there....alive. I got a response and a young
girl said her and a few other people would come and rescue me. I waited
for a day and I heard a helicopter, so I started on my way up but, then
those....uh..... ,cleaners is what they call them self's, attacked and
captured me." He explained.
" What's Zion?" I asked.
" Its much like Umbrella, but we do every thing for the government. We
don't sell our weapons to terrorists like Umbrella did."
" Listen I think we'd better save the rest of the questions for later
and get out of here now." Adam suggested. He pulled out a pocket knife
and began cutting at the rope that was holding him to his seat. He cut
it loose and cut ours loose too.
" Lets go, remember stay quiet." Adam whispered. We walked over to the
door and Adam opened it slightly and peeked out.
" Coast is clear." He said. Suddenly there was a burst of machine gun
fire. We ducked back inside the room.
" They're going to kill us!!!" Jacob screamed as he ran to a corner and
huddled against the wall. I looked at the door and waited for the
cleaners to open it and kill us but, there was only more machine-gun
fire and then a loud and familiar roar. I remembered that roar but,
from where. The diner......the monster that Adam saved me from.
" Adam that roar, its from that monster that was in the diner." I said
to him, panic was beginning to take control of me.
" That's impossible I killed it with the grenade launcher, remember."
Adam said, trying to clam me down. Suddenly, the gun fire ended. There
was another loud roar and then loud footsteps. We were about to find
out what the unknown creature was.