Compared to the last three this chapter should be pretty funny. I got the
idea just now, so don't mind if this ones a bit more... spontaneous.
Zombie mayhem!
Chapter 4-----------------------Fun with Molotov---------------------------- ----------------------
"Alright, that's done. The next chapter of our lives has been written. Now we need to think of something... BB, your leg feelin' any better?" Cyborg shouted out to the team.
Beast Boy looked up from his wound. "Its numb. I can't feel anything."
Raven looked up. "That's good. Try walking now."
Beast Boy stood up and moved around. "These things really work. How many of them do you have?"
"Not that many... I'm growing more on the roof, but it's a long way to the top of Titans Tower." Raven said, regretting having tea for the past week. Or lifetime, for that matter. It would have left more herbs for now, when they were needed.
"So now we go up, right?" Terra asked.
"We could do that, or we could try to get to the garage." Cyborg said, pointing toward a door on the other side of the hole. "The basement security system includes retractable steel roofing. If we can activate it, that would make a bridge."
"Where's the switch?" Raven asked, completely unaware of the security upgrades the Tower had undergone since the "Puppet King" issue. From the looks of the teams faces, so were they.
"Over here... Ah, damn. Of all the things for those partiers to break..." he said, speaking to himself, but Beast Boy overheard. The switch itself was broken, but not the bechanism that it needed to turn.
"I have something that could help." Beast boy stepped up. He pulled the lead rod he had picked up in the Animal Hospital out and jammed it into the hole. A perfect fit. He maneuvered the rod until something clicked and the ceilings closed up. "Excellent." He said in a self congratulatory manner.
"Wait," Terra said, worried. "Those... things... like in the basement. If we can get across so can they."
"We can flip the switch as we need it." Raven suggested. "Beast Boy, leave that rod there."
"Okay then, we're going to the garage." Cyborg said, leading the team across the iron and through a door.
It was a little colder in the garage. The presence of several corpses made the team uneasy. Soda bottles littered the floor, shattered glass everywhere. Cyborg was happy to se that the T-Car was still intact. He moved up to it, wary of any zombies that may want a taste of his heel. He opened the door to be greeted by a loud "Uuuuunghh" as a zombie stepped out of the driver's seat. He backed away.
"Cyborg!" Terra shouted. "Shoot it!"
"No way! I'll get blood on the seats!" He shouted back.
"Cyborg..." Raven muttered under her breath as she raised her handgun and line up for a head shot. The bullet flew true and the T-Car's interior was quickly coated in a deep red.
"MY BABY!!!" Cyborg shouted in sorrow. "YOU GOT BLOOD ON MY BABY!!!"
"Better his than yours." Raven said, aggravated at Cyborg's materialism. While Cyborg mourned his loss, Starfire and Beast Boy went to the nearby tool bench, while Terra examined an intact soda bottle. Terra looked around for more bottles, and she came across a tank of gasoline.
"Fun..." she muttered under her breath. She rose up and shouted to the team "Molotov Cocktails, anyone?"
"Hell yeah Terra!" Beast Boy shouted.
Starfire looked puzzled."Terra, this is not time to be celebrating." She said. "We are in danger. Robin is..." She cut off here, on the verge of tears. "He is dead..." She remained standing exactly like that for the remainder of the team's stay in the garage.
Terra was about to explain, but was cut off by Raven, who thought it best not to disturb Starfire. Beast Boy removed a power drill from the shelf, and at Terra's request, a lighter. He saw Terra filling the bottles when he flicked her the lighter. She tested it once; it worked perfectly, and had plenty of fluid in it. With 8 firebombs, and some gas to spare should she find any more bottles, Terra was set.
It was about here when Raven spotted a crate in the corner of the room. "That could be useful." She said, moving over to it. She pried the crate open with a nearby shaft. The side fell over slowly. No sooner than it hit the ground, millions of leeches began to pour out of the crate. These weren't you average pond scum leeches either, these ones were after blood. Lots of it. The leeches spread out across the room, engulfing everything in a huge, moving black mass. A large number of them stopped at the corpse of the zombie and entered it. The body slowly began to rise, and one of its arms lashed out at the nearby Cyborg, extending into long, writhing tentacles. The group's immediate response was to shoot the new foe. As lead hit leech, however, limbs would only fall off and spew more leeches. Starfire had, until this point, remained lost in though, too preoccupied to realize what was going on.
She muttered under her breath "Robin is dead... he has been killed... they... killed.... ROBIN!". She looked up, a fierce spirit showing in her eyes. She had no clue what "Molotov Cocktail" meant, but she was smart enough to know that gas + fire = BOOM. She snatched up a fire bomb and the lighter from Terra and dashed in at the now armless zombie, stepping on every leech in her path. At 5 yards she lit the bottle and threw it into the beast, incinerating it and its leechy insides instantaneously. All that remained was a puddle of deep green ooze on the floor and the enraged Starfire gasping for breath.
"Shit." Beast Boy said aloud, eyes widened and terrified more so than even the first encounter with the hunter.
"We should leave now..." Raven said. "Before those green things find out that they can cross."
"Good idea" Cyborg agreed. "Let's go."
The team left the garage and went back into the hub. Once they had all crossed, Beast Boy flipped the switch to open the iron ceilings, leaving the hole once again between them and the garage. Starfire stared at the door to the entrance. The team went to rest. Relaxation was out of the question though; one of the hunters had apparently found the way out and moved up stairs. They could hear it lumbering around above them.
"We're in for a long fight." Terra said. The team murmured agreement, save for Starfire, who, under her breath, swore that Robin would be avenged. She had no idea of the cost.
--------------Out of ideas for random messages... must... progress in Zero------ -----------
A friend tipped me off, sayin that Rob's death should impact the team more, so I made it impact the team. Again, still working on that rating thing... I didn't give you guys much time to decide between noon and now, so please get back to me on that one.
Zombie mayhem!
Chapter 4-----------------------Fun with Molotov---------------------------- ----------------------
"Alright, that's done. The next chapter of our lives has been written. Now we need to think of something... BB, your leg feelin' any better?" Cyborg shouted out to the team.
Beast Boy looked up from his wound. "Its numb. I can't feel anything."
Raven looked up. "That's good. Try walking now."
Beast Boy stood up and moved around. "These things really work. How many of them do you have?"
"Not that many... I'm growing more on the roof, but it's a long way to the top of Titans Tower." Raven said, regretting having tea for the past week. Or lifetime, for that matter. It would have left more herbs for now, when they were needed.
"So now we go up, right?" Terra asked.
"We could do that, or we could try to get to the garage." Cyborg said, pointing toward a door on the other side of the hole. "The basement security system includes retractable steel roofing. If we can activate it, that would make a bridge."
"Where's the switch?" Raven asked, completely unaware of the security upgrades the Tower had undergone since the "Puppet King" issue. From the looks of the teams faces, so were they.
"Over here... Ah, damn. Of all the things for those partiers to break..." he said, speaking to himself, but Beast Boy overheard. The switch itself was broken, but not the bechanism that it needed to turn.
"I have something that could help." Beast boy stepped up. He pulled the lead rod he had picked up in the Animal Hospital out and jammed it into the hole. A perfect fit. He maneuvered the rod until something clicked and the ceilings closed up. "Excellent." He said in a self congratulatory manner.
"Wait," Terra said, worried. "Those... things... like in the basement. If we can get across so can they."
"We can flip the switch as we need it." Raven suggested. "Beast Boy, leave that rod there."
"Okay then, we're going to the garage." Cyborg said, leading the team across the iron and through a door.
It was a little colder in the garage. The presence of several corpses made the team uneasy. Soda bottles littered the floor, shattered glass everywhere. Cyborg was happy to se that the T-Car was still intact. He moved up to it, wary of any zombies that may want a taste of his heel. He opened the door to be greeted by a loud "Uuuuunghh" as a zombie stepped out of the driver's seat. He backed away.
"Cyborg!" Terra shouted. "Shoot it!"
"No way! I'll get blood on the seats!" He shouted back.
"Cyborg..." Raven muttered under her breath as she raised her handgun and line up for a head shot. The bullet flew true and the T-Car's interior was quickly coated in a deep red.
"MY BABY!!!" Cyborg shouted in sorrow. "YOU GOT BLOOD ON MY BABY!!!"
"Better his than yours." Raven said, aggravated at Cyborg's materialism. While Cyborg mourned his loss, Starfire and Beast Boy went to the nearby tool bench, while Terra examined an intact soda bottle. Terra looked around for more bottles, and she came across a tank of gasoline.
"Fun..." she muttered under her breath. She rose up and shouted to the team "Molotov Cocktails, anyone?"
"Hell yeah Terra!" Beast Boy shouted.
Starfire looked puzzled."Terra, this is not time to be celebrating." She said. "We are in danger. Robin is..." She cut off here, on the verge of tears. "He is dead..." She remained standing exactly like that for the remainder of the team's stay in the garage.
Terra was about to explain, but was cut off by Raven, who thought it best not to disturb Starfire. Beast Boy removed a power drill from the shelf, and at Terra's request, a lighter. He saw Terra filling the bottles when he flicked her the lighter. She tested it once; it worked perfectly, and had plenty of fluid in it. With 8 firebombs, and some gas to spare should she find any more bottles, Terra was set.
It was about here when Raven spotted a crate in the corner of the room. "That could be useful." She said, moving over to it. She pried the crate open with a nearby shaft. The side fell over slowly. No sooner than it hit the ground, millions of leeches began to pour out of the crate. These weren't you average pond scum leeches either, these ones were after blood. Lots of it. The leeches spread out across the room, engulfing everything in a huge, moving black mass. A large number of them stopped at the corpse of the zombie and entered it. The body slowly began to rise, and one of its arms lashed out at the nearby Cyborg, extending into long, writhing tentacles. The group's immediate response was to shoot the new foe. As lead hit leech, however, limbs would only fall off and spew more leeches. Starfire had, until this point, remained lost in though, too preoccupied to realize what was going on.
She muttered under her breath "Robin is dead... he has been killed... they... killed.... ROBIN!". She looked up, a fierce spirit showing in her eyes. She had no clue what "Molotov Cocktail" meant, but she was smart enough to know that gas + fire = BOOM. She snatched up a fire bomb and the lighter from Terra and dashed in at the now armless zombie, stepping on every leech in her path. At 5 yards she lit the bottle and threw it into the beast, incinerating it and its leechy insides instantaneously. All that remained was a puddle of deep green ooze on the floor and the enraged Starfire gasping for breath.
"Shit." Beast Boy said aloud, eyes widened and terrified more so than even the first encounter with the hunter.
"We should leave now..." Raven said. "Before those green things find out that they can cross."
"Good idea" Cyborg agreed. "Let's go."
The team left the garage and went back into the hub. Once they had all crossed, Beast Boy flipped the switch to open the iron ceilings, leaving the hole once again between them and the garage. Starfire stared at the door to the entrance. The team went to rest. Relaxation was out of the question though; one of the hunters had apparently found the way out and moved up stairs. They could hear it lumbering around above them.
"We're in for a long fight." Terra said. The team murmured agreement, save for Starfire, who, under her breath, swore that Robin would be avenged. She had no idea of the cost.
--------------Out of ideas for random messages... must... progress in Zero------ -----------
A friend tipped me off, sayin that Rob's death should impact the team more, so I made it impact the team. Again, still working on that rating thing... I didn't give you guys much time to decide between noon and now, so please get back to me on that one.