Chapter 5

Paige moaned, "Oh man... I thought the thing was dead for sure now... but it's moving!" Barry looked pressured, "Should I turn it off?" Zach ran over to Barry, "Of course! If it will make it go back to sleep!"

Barry started to push some buttons, but he lost his grip on the control panel when the ground shook. Everyone looked back at the cage; the zombie had punched a crack in it. The thing pounded its deformed hand onto the glass and cracked it even more. Barry ran back to the control to try and shut the cage down so it would sleep. "It's not working! What should I do!?"
The zombie crashed against the cage some more in a brutal rage. Finally, a small shard of glass shot out from the cage and landed in Zach's eye. Blood started rapidly pouring down Zach's eye. He reached up to try and stops the blood but it was no use, his face was already soaked with it. Jill ran over and caught Zach right before he stumbled to the ground. The zombie still stirred in his cell, more and more shard was shooting off and water started to leak out. Paige ran over to a microphone placed on a desk.

"Boss! Boss there's a problem, the specimen is going insane!"

The Boss replied, "I know, I see it on the map, I can't open the door to the room, it won't open!" Meanwhile, Zach was losing blood fast. Jill had ripped a piece off of her sleeve to make a tunicate. "The bleeding won't stop!" As Jill screamed, the zombie almost had the glass shattered! Barry was trying to open the door from the inside but it wouldn't work. Suddenly, a red light started to flash. A voice recited, "Leak in lab G, Leak in lab G, evacuate building."
Barry tried and tried again to open the door but there was no luck.

"Paige, I have no luck!" Barry shouted. It was hard to hear over the ear piercing buzzing coming from the alarm.

The boss spoke through the intercom again, "Paige, is anyone hurt!?"

Zach was lying on the floor in pain. Less blood was coming from his wound, but he had still lost a lot of blood and was woozy. A loud crash was heard and they all turned around to the cage. Glass was everywhere and water flooded the room. The zombie had broken free, and was nowhere in sight.

"Get Zach onto the desk, and out of the water, now!" Paige shouted at Jill. Jill carried Zach over to the desk and placed him safely on top of it. The zombie was nowhere to be seen, and the door wouldn't open. Paige screamed into the intercom, "What the hell are we supposed to do now!? There's no god damn way out of this room!" The boss responded, "There's the trapdoor! It used to be a manhole. It's under the bookcase!"
"Everyone, help me move this bookcase!" Paige yelled to everyone.

Arled just stood in the corner watching everyone fret. "You, move your ass and help me!" Paige screamed to Arled. Before he moved, Arled could have sword he heard a groan coming from behind a desk, but he didn't check. A shelf crashed down on top of the desk that Zach was lying on. Vials shattered on his face. "Aaaaaaaah! Help me!"
Barry turned around to see Zach covered in blood, and the zombie leaning over his face. Barry reached into his pocket and grabbed his gun. He fired a shot which hit the creature directly in the neck, but it didn't even flinch. The zombie opened it's mouth, revealing it's dark gray teeth. Barry fired another shot which traveled into the zombies mouth and out his cheek. The zombie threw his head back. Barry pulled the trigger for a third shot, but he was empty. The thing lowered its head again and opened its mouth, now with a flapping cheek dangling down. It positioned its jaw right at Zach's neck. The thing closed it's mouth, and took a bite right out of Zach's neck. The blood oozed down Zach body and dripped into the water, which started to turn a light red color. The zombie dunked his head into the blood oozing out of Zach, and started licking it up. The blood absorbed into the thing's body. It went insane, it was so overjoyed to be drinking this blood.
"Jill, help! Shoot this thing!" Jill saw what was going on and took out her gun. "This thing, killed Zach! Die you son of a bitch!" She fired five shots right at its head. All of the bullets hit dead on and the zombie screamed in pain. It walked out from behind the desk and hobbled towards Jill. Jill was about to fire another bullet, but the zombie collapsed onto the ground. All of the blood in the water seemed to soak into the zombies dry skin, like he was a sponge. "What the hell was that thing!?" Arled ran over to see what was going on.

"I have no idea. The specimen seemed to be alive. Paige ran over to the intercom. "Boss! It was alive, it was walking! Boss, are you there!? It ate Zach, it took a bite right out of him!" He didn't respond. "Boss, are you there!?" Still, there was no response. Jill walked over to her. "He wouldn't leave, not at a time like this." "He must have evacuated. He wasn't supposed to though." Paige walked over to the desk, which was now moved. A trapdoor was where it used to be.
"This is it... but what are we going to do about Zach?" Jill walked over to Zach, "He's dead. We can't do anything about it. Well come back later and get him when the doors open so we can get him a proper funeral." The trapdoor opened and Arled started to climb down. "Arled, your so insensitive! Someone dies, and you move on. Don't you even care!?" Arled looked up at Jill, "I'm not insensitive, I'm smart and I want to get the hell out of this zombie filled, flooded lab. Does anyone have a problem with that?" Barry shrugged, and headed down the ladder after Arled. The rest of the followed.

The door to safety is shut. Peril awaits in the darkness.

Paige was the last one to drop down into the sewers. "Great, were in the sewers. This isn't much different then the damn lab." Paige complained. The sewers they dropped down to smelled of waste, and dead rats. Polluted water filled the sewers, the only dry land was a small strip of concrete at the sides. "We'll just walk for a little bit and climb up to the streets at the next manhole." Arled suggested. "The next manhole is probably still under this complex. It's a huge building after all, the complex goes underground for miles." Arled shrugged, "No use standing here though. There's only one direction to go anyway, and it's not like there's anymore of those things anyway."

Arled started walking forward, followed by Barry, Jill, and Paige. Paige was tearing madly because of Zach's death. Paige and Zach have been working together for three years and have become close friends. Paige was hoping to go out on a date with him soon.
The group walked through the endless sewers for about a half hour. "Where the hell is the next manhole anyway!?" Paige asked. Paige often got edgy when she was upset or scared, it was her way of getting through problems. Sometimes she took it out on other people, or just swore a lot. "There's a turn up here so maybe there will be one around the corner." Jill said to her, trying to calm her down. The group turned to corner, not expecting to see a manhole, or anything else. Barry turned first, but slowly backed away. "What the fuck is wrong now!?" Paige yelled. The group saw Barry draw his gun. Arled ran to see what he was aiming at. It was another one of the zombies. It was a female, from what he could tell. The clothes she had on were the same as Jill's and Paige's. Jill and Paige turned the corner, and gasped. "What the hell, why is there another one...? We didn't have another fucking specimen.!" Paige screamed in shock and terror.
"Paige... it's an employee. See the clothes, and there's a nametag too." Some blood was dripping from it's ripped neck. The hole in it's neck was much bigger than a normal bite mark. It was like an alligator took a chunk right out of her. There wasn't nearly as much blood as there should have been for a hole that big. The nametag on its shirt was stained red, so was the rest of the shirt, but the blood wasn't there anymore. The nametag was hard to make out, but it looked like it said Tanya. "Tanya... never heard of her before." Barry said. Jill took out her gun and fired three shots at her head. She wanted to fire four shots, but the fourth came out as a click. The zombie stumbled and fell onto the ground, it's head bobbing frantically. "I knew her, she was a bitch."