The Victor Cruise
Chapter 4: All coming together
Dustin awoke from a loud banging sound. His head was pounding and his whole body felt like it was frozen. He rubbed his eyes and grabbed onto anything close by to help him up. His whole body shivered as the pounding grew louder and louder. The alien was trying to break in, the whole freezer shook every time it slammed its head against the door. Dustin looked around the freezer, all he saw was frozen meet, fish and chicken. He leaned against the back of the wall as the door begin to dent in. With one last might, the alien smashed the door open.
"Goddamn!" Dustin shouted, "I can't die now." He whispered to himself.
The alien began oozing with slime as it stared at it's prey. It was about to take a step forward when it was knocked to the side by a hail of bullets. Dustin eye's widen at the sight as the alien went flying into the kitchen wall. Dustin dashed out of the freezer door and saw Joel aiming a automatic shotgun at the alien.
"Yo Man! Come on!" Joel shouted to him.
Dustin didn't hesitate for a second and ran towards him as the alien quickly recovered. Joel backed towards the kitchen door and fired another bullet at the alien. With swift reflex, the alien dodge the bullet and charged at them. The two rangers broke through the door and scurried down the hall way as the alien continued its pursuit. Dustin continued running down the hallway and spotted a laundry car in the middle of the hallway. Joel ran right past it as Dustin slowed down and grabbed a hold of it.
"What are you doing?" Joe fired shot.
The brunette charged forward at the alien, letting go of the cart, slamming it into the alien. The alien smashed through it as a toy and ran at Dustin, slashing at his arm. The former yellow ranger fell to the ground, wincing in pain, as blood spilt out. Joel fired another shot, sending the alien back. He ran forward and helped Dustin up and they continued running. They turned a corner and saw a janitors closet and ran into it, closing the door. The alien ran right past it and down the hall.
"Dude, it's dark in here." The wind ranger stated the obvious.
Joel turned on a light and bumped into a girl. They both began screaming.
"Jesus, don't scare me!!" Joel glared at her.
Kimberly fell to the ground and looked up. She brushed her brown hair out of the way as she helped herself up and looked at the two boys.
"Excuse me. If im not mistaken, this is my hiding spot first." She crossed her arms.
Joel rolled his eyes and checked his shotgun. He had 5 bullets left. He then looked up and squinted his eyes at Kim.
"Say, aren't you a power ranger?"
She arched her eyebrows in suspicion, "What? What are you talking about?"
Joel snapped his fingers, "Yea you are! I heard about you. Kimberly, the first Pink ranger to ever walked this earth. Im the Lightspeed green ranger."
"Yellow Wind ranger." Dustin added.
Kimberly nodded, acting as if she cared, "That's uh great. That still doesn't change the fact that were on a space ship, no powers and aliens killing us all."
Dustin held his the side of his shoulder, it was still bleeding, he tried to ignore the pain, "So what do we do? I think we should find the others."
"That's probably a good idea. My friends should still be on this ship, if there still alive." Kim mentioned.
Joel lifted up his gun, "I'll lead the way then."
Kim smirked, "You better give me the gun."
"Why?"
She chuckled at his stupidity, "We all know that your going to die first."
Joel rolled his eyes, "That is so stereotypical. Just because im black, doesn't mean I die first."
"It's true though. In every horror movie, the black guy always dies, the non virgins die too, and the girl is always the heroic hero in the end." Dustin informed them.
Joel rolled his eyes, "Man, you watch to much TV."
The Lightspeed ranger kicked open the door and aimed his gun, checking if the coast was clear. He then waved Dustin and Kim to follow.
Kendrix and her gang all had finally stopped running and were wondering the second floor. They slowly walked around, keeping their eyes open, Tori still holding on to Hunter. Conner lead the way as he slowly turned around the corner to see if everything was clear. He spotted a room with a Keep Out Sign on it and below it, Security Only. They slowly crept down the hall and towards it when they heard a loud shrieking sound.
"What was that?" Kira whispered.
"An alien?" Tori asked.
Hunter shook his head, "We've heard what an alien sounds like. This sounds like something different."
"Come on!" Kendrix waved everyone to follow.
They all quickly dashed towards the 'Keep Out' Door and entered it. Kendrix closed the door behind and turned on a light. Rows of guns were lying on a shelf. Everyone gasped in joy as they ran towards the weapons.
"We can use these!" Kira said happily, "Those aliens will think twice for cross Ms Kira Ford." She grinned.
She grabbed a pistol and checked if it was loaded. She then tossed another one to Conner, who fumbled and dropped it.
"Come on Conner. Don't slow us down by being a moron." She smirked.
Conner sighed and picked up the gun. He watched as Kendrix grabbed one herself, leaving only one gun left. Hunter grabbed it.
"Stick close to me Tori. I wont let anything happen to you."
Tori nodded and smile as Kendrix went to the door. Not realizing what was behind the door, she opened it. A large strange creature dived into the room and everyone began screaming. It was a large fury creature with yellow eyes and huge claws on its feet. It looked like some kind of bear, but more mutant like. It turned and tried to claw at Kira but she ducked and everyone scrambled to get out. The creature turned around but Tori manage to close the door on it and the thing slammed into door. They all backed away into the hall, way. They were so startled.
Kendrix pointed her gun out towards the door with both hands, "Everyone. Let's aim."
Hunter held onto Tori as he pointed the gun with one hand. Conner and Kira stood next to each other aiming as the creature tried to break the door down. The door finally broke down and the creature started charging towards them.
"Fire!!" Conner shouted.
Hails of bullets slammed into the creature knocking it back into the wall. They all kept shooting and shooting in till the creature stopped moving.
Jason and the others heard the multiple shots near by. The other rangers in the room all stood up and went to the door to listen. The alien must had left, so the rangers decided to take a chance. Eric opened the door and aimed is gun around.
"Its clear. Come on." He waved at them.
The others dashed out and they followed the others down the hall and around the corner where the found the dead creature laying near the floor. Kat spotted the other rangers, all still holding out their guns. All still shocked at what just happened. Kira put away the gun and turned to see Jason and them.
"Look! It's other rangers." Kira pointed out.
Eric walked forward and inspected them all. He recognized them all from when they went through the security check.
"You guys are all rangers?" Eric asked them.
They all nodded and looked at each other before putting away their guns.
"Come on. Were going to the third floor." Eric moved towards the stairs.
"What about Kim?" Kat asked.
Eric turned around, "Let's get some of these guys off the ship. Then some of us can go and look for your friend, if she is still alive."
Adam bent down and inspected the creature, it was a strange on indeed. It had huge eyes and very sharp teeth. Adam leaned closer, figuring out what it is.
"Is this some kind of dog or something?"
Kendrix turned and saw the thing move a little, her eyes widen, "Look out!!"
Adam's eyes widen as the creature awoke and clawed at Adam right across the face. Adam fell to the ground as Kendrix began firing at the creatures head. It fell back down dead. Jason ran over and helped his friend up, a huge claw marks appeared across his face. Adam wiped the blood away and held his cheek.
"Damn it got me good." Adam groaned.
"Adam. Are you all right?" Jason asked.
Kira ran forward and ripped a piece of her shirt off and gave it to him. He grabbed it and placed it on his face as they all walked to the stairs. They all manage to make it to the safety pods where Kim, Dustin and Joel were standing. They all turned and spotted the large group of survivors.
"Your alive!" Kat gasped as she ran over to Kim.
Tori dashed forward also, "Dustin your hurt!"
"I'll be fine." He reassured her.
Eric smiled as he saw Joel, "Looks like the mechanic of the ship manage to stay alive."
"Very funny." Joel smirked, "But if your looking to get out of here, then I hate to disappoint you. The space pods aren't working. The door wont open."
"Why not?" Kendrix asked.
Joel looked at her and smiled, "Hey Kendrix. Glad your okay."
She smiled, "So what's the problem."
He sighed, "All power to the space pods have been disabled. For some reason, when the ship was attack, some kind of electric surge or something blew a fuse inside the panel and it won't open. Not unless we reset the power will it work. Emergency power apparently isn't enough to go through the back up wires that I had installed."
"So, why don't we just reset the power." Merrick asked.
"That wont be easy. I didn't program the system to direct power to the backup pathway yet. I have to go to the bridge, and reset the whole system again. Also the engine room on B1 is where the electric generator is located. But its not like we can go the bridge and press a button to turn it back on. No, they decided to be 'cautious'."
Conner was a bit confused, "What do you mean?"
"Meaning, you need to people to activate the electric generator. One down there, to pull the switches and one at the bridge to activate through the computer. All the computer on the bridge is now powered up by the backup power, so they should still work."
"So let me recap this." Kim had to think for a sec, "There isn't enough power to open the space pod door, so you need to go the bridge, send another person down to B1 and have both at the same time hit a few buttons to turn on the power. Then you have to reset the system so you can direct the power for these doors?" She pointed.
Joel nodded.
"Who built this ship? That dumbest thing I ever heard." Kim sighed.
Eric took a step forward, "There all kinds of creatures running around this ship. Im sure there is going to be freaky things were going to run across. We have to do this, but no one is going alone." He spoke sternly. He pulled out two walkie talkies he had, "Let's split up into two groups. One will go the bridge, the other will go to the basement of the ship."
Kendrix took a step forward, "I'm going to the bridge." She grabbed the walkie talkie, "Since Joel is the mechanic of this ship, he can go down to the engine room."
Joel nodded and grabbed the other walkie talkie, "Sounds like a plan. Who's with me?"
"I'll go with you." Kira took a step forward.
"Then Im going too." Conner added.
Jason and Kat glanced at each other, "We'll go with Kendrix." The both chorus.
Dustin took a step forward, "Im going down the basement." He volunteered.
Hunter rolled his eyes and handed Tori his gun, "Im not letting you go alone bro."
Kira handed Jason her gun, "You might need this"
Eric nodded to everyone, "Okay. Everyone go to the groups they should think they best can help with. Keep in contact. There should be another armory down in the first floor. Were a bit short on weapons here."
Everyone nodded and went there separate ways. A simple escape just turned into a more complicated matter.
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End Chapter
To remove any confusion. Here is the group and who contains a weapon.
Group - Destination: The Bridge
Kendrix - Handgun
Kim - Unarmed
Jason - Handgun
Kat - Unarmed
Tori - Handgun
Adam - Unarmed
Group 2 - The Engine Room.
Hunter - Unarmed
Joel - Shotgun
Eric - Handgun
Conner - Handgun
Kira - Unarmed
Dustin - Unarmed
Merrick - Unarmed
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