Victor Cruise
Chapter 6: Dwindling Hope
Jason and Adam each grabbed a handgun and went to the door. Kat and Kim followed close behind as the former Red Ranger nodded to them. He opened the door quickly and the two boys bursted out into the hall ways with their guns up. The hallway was empty and eire. The ground was a bit wet, leaking from the double doors across the room. Deciding not to go that way, they moved down towards the stairs. Kendrix had mention their there may be explosives on Floor 1, in the second security office. That was their destination, and each ranger was praying that they would get down their safely. They crept down the stairs and looked around the quiet and empty hallway of the second floor. The stairs nearby to the first floor was locked, and they had to take the long way around.
"Is it just me? Or is it to quiet around here." Kim whispered.
Adam nodded, "This is freaking me out." He responded, holding tightly on the gun.
Jason looked back at them, "Come on. Faster we get this done. The better."
Joel and the others had finally left the closet of the second floor, and ran down the hallway, the opposite way Jason and his group were going. They quickly dashed around the corner, all equipped with a weapon. As they turned the corner an alien dropped from the ceiling. It scared the crap out of Kira, she by accident released a Ptera Scream at the alien, sending flying back.
"Crap. We can't go this way." Joel shouted.
"Turn around. This way!" Merrick yelled as he began running
The alien stood up and whipped its tall at Joel. He went flying onto the ground hard. The alien began creeping closer, but Conner and Kira helped their fellow ranger up and they continue running back where they came from. Turning the corner, they spotted two fury beasts starring at them.
"Shi-taki mushrooms." Dustin jumped in surprise.
Conner smirked, "What afraid of swearing?"
Kira smacked him on the side of the head, "Enough. What are we going to do!?"
Hunter began open fire onto the two fury creatures, "Anyone who has a good idea. Let me know."
Merrick looked around and spotted a side door, "In here."
The rangers wasted no time and ran into the unknown room. Hunter closed the door and turned around to see themselves inside the laundry room. Outside they could hear the alien and the two fury creatures battling. The creatures jumped onto of the alien as it swung its tail violently. The alien clawed into one of the creatures and ripped the head off the other. It then turned to the door and started slamming into it. Hunter began backing away, as the rangers looked around.
"Were trapped!" Kira shouted.
Joel was busy moving the bags around as if he was looking for something. Conner and Dustin turned around and watched in confusion.
"What the hell are you doing?" Dustin shouted.
Joel lifted up a bag and saw a large laundry chute against the wall. He threw the bag across and turned to them, as he heard the door began to break.
"Hurry! This leads to the Basement." He shouted, "It's our only exit."
Kira nodded and ran towards the chute. She looked at everyone before climbing in and sliding down. Her screamed echoed through out the chute. Joel waved Conner and Dustin to go next. They each took a turn and went down. Hunter ran over to the chute and slide in as the door busted down and the alien came in. Joel turned around and saw the alien charging at him. He quickly jumped into the chute as the alien smashed its head into the wall. He slide all the way down, in till he found the end, where he went flying out and onto the ground. He groaned a bit as a hand reached down towards his head. He looked up and grabbed it, being lifted up by Hunter.
"That was close." He looked up to hear the screeching of the alien above them.
Jason and the others had entered where the movie theaters. It was dark and cold. They walked through the aisle, looking for the door in the back. They slowly went down, passing dead bodies that were laying in the chairs. The strange things about these bodies were, they weren't clawed open or torn to pieces, but look like they were bitten. Adam moved ahead and looked around as a shadow slithered under the seats near him. Kat and Kim stayed close together as they made it to the front. They turned around and saw Adam stand near some of the chairs. Suddenly a giant shadow rose above him and Kim screamed. Adam turned around and saw a giant snake tower above him. It lashed down and grabbed onto his shoulder. He screamed in pain as Jason opened fire on the snake.
"Adam!" Kat screamed.
The snake let go as Adam fell to the floor. Kat dashed towards him as Jason continued to fire. The snake fled under the chairs. Kat helped her good friend up, as he winced in pain, his shoulder was bleeding pretty badly. Jason ran over to him, and bent down.
"You okay man?"
"How the hell is their a giant snake on board?" He said through his pain.
Kim stood their, too scared to move. The snake slithered around the chairs and towards kim. Suddenly it lashed out and wrapped around Kim's body. Kim screamed out loud, getting everyone's attention. The others looked up.
"Oh my god! Kim!!" Kat quickly fumbled with the gun on the ground and picked it up.
The snake wrapped around Kim's body, tightening. She started to lose breath, getting harder and harder to breath. She struggled to scream as Jason and Kat tried to fire at the snake. It ignored the pain and moved its head towards Kim. It hissed before opening its mouth. Kim looked at it with fear, as she struggled with one last scream. The snake dove in at Kim's head, consuming it.
"NO!!" Jason shouted, firing at it's head.
Tears streamed down Kat's face as she did the best she could to help Jason. The snake went farther down on Kim's body in till it was gone. Jason grew angry, tears filled his eyes as he continued to fire. The snake had finished its meal and turned to the other rangers. Kat fired a few more rounds before she was out of ammo. The snake had bullet holes all over its body but it continue towards the other rangers. The large snake lashed its tail at Jason, sending him into the movie seats. Adam struggled to get up and push Kat out of the way as it lunged down and grabbed him by the leg. He screamed and started to flail as the snake whipped Adam into the air. He went flying into one of the decorative spikes hanging on the movie theater wall. It went right through his back and out towards the other side. Adam grabbed the spike and winced in pain.
"this..is..not..my..day.." he whispered.
The decorative spike couldn't support the weight and snapped off, making Adam fall to the ground dead. Kat looked up, as she saw Jason passed out and Adam dead. She didnt' know what to do. She tried to crawl as the snake continue after her. It started to tower over her, ready to attack again when suddenly a bullet hit the side of the head. Kat turned towards the entrance and saw Eric standing there. His clothes were torn and wet, he was bleeding and holding onto his stomach. His face was sweating and claw marks were seen on his cheek. He held the autmatic shotgun in his right hand as he fired another shot, right into the snakes eye. The snake violently reacted in pain and made a quick get away. Jason finally woke up and looked around. He Kat pushed herself off and ran towards him.
Jason held his head, "What happened?"
She helped him up and grabbed him into a hug, "There dead Jason. Kim and Adam." She whispered.
Eric slowly made his way towards him, collapsing on the ground. Jason and Kim ran to him and helped him up.
"Damn Eric, what happened to you?" Jason asked.
"I've lost the others." He whispered, "The Aquarium incident. The water washed me out. I finally awoke and they were gone. What are two doing here."
Kat wiped away her tears, "We have to find some explosives. This ship is on the course towards Earth."
Jason slowly nodded before closing his eyes, "I can't believe were losing everyone. I can't take anymore of this." He whispered.
Kat nodded, "This is too much Eric. What is going on?"
Tori was busy pacing around as Kendrix surfed through the system. A bit bored, Tori walked into the cockpit and sighed. She was worried about the others. She had not heard from them for a while, and was curious of how they were doing. She looked out at the unknown ship and squinted. She noticed some writing on the side of the ship.
"Hey Kendrix. Check this out." She called out.
Kendrix got up from the computer and walked over to Tori. The surf girl pointed out towards the ship and Kendrix adjusted her glasses. She saw the writing on the ship too. It said US ARMY RESEARCH. On the side with an American Flag.
"That ship is from Earth isn't it?"
Kendrix nodded, "It is. Wait a minute." Kendrix thought for a sec.
She turned around and saw a locked cabinet. She forced the door open and paper came out and onto the floor. Tori bent down and helped her.
"What is this stuff?" She asked.
Kendrix looked at her, "Space records. To let the pilot know what kind of ships are out here incase they run into any problems."
She searched through the piles in till she found a large list of ships. Victor Cruise was the first cruise ship to go into space, but was not the first giant ship to enter though. She ran her fingers down the list and stopped at the name US ARMY RESEARCH SHIP. She moved her eyes towards the side, following a line that lead to a small description.
"A research facility of biological weapons. Information is classified. Code 315." She read to herself.
"Biological weapon?" Tori was more confused then ever.
Kendrix stood up, "The rumors are true.." She whispered.
"What rumors? Kendrix, what is going on?"
"When I was on Terra Venture, doing some research. Some scientists were transferred to a new space station to do a top secret research. At first, I thought it was some kind of lie, and that they were just fired and transferred back to earth. Someone told me they were going to research some new biological weapons for the US, in hopes to advance the nation. They brought all kind of animals onto this ship. Bears, Snakes, even insects like spiders."
Tori arched her eyebrows, "Are you telling me that those things out their are humans creation."
"Something must of happened." She grabbed the paper and dashed to the computer, "Code 315. Maybe I can hack into their computer system, if its still factional."
Tori followed her and leaned on her chair, "What about the others?"
"Hopefully, their alive."
Joel and the others found themselves on B1, in the other part of the laundry room. They got themselves together and walked out of the room and into the hallway. The hallway was filled with webs. The others looked around.
"What the hell?" Joel whispered.
Merrick knocked down some webs and made it to a door. He opened it up and steam filled the hallway. They walked into a dark clanky engine room. They walked across a grated bridge and looked down at all the pipes that were connected. Four Giant engines were stationed all around the room. The bridge pathway went around like a maze. There was a second floor of the engine room, ast he stairs lead down below and connected to other hanging bridges. It was hot and the steam was being released every so often. The others kept walking, trying to find the electric generator. Kira stopped suddenly when she heard some moving around her. She turned around and saw no one behind her and shrugged. She turned back around and a giant spider, about a size of a bike drops down. They continue walking as the spider slowly crept up on them. Conner stopped, sensing something wrong.
"Kira..duck."
She looked at him confusingly as he spun around and pointed the gun. Kira ducked and he fired at the spider as it went flying towards her. It fell back. Merrick looked up and saw 5 spiders crawling around on the ceiling. Joel looked to the left and saw a few hanging from some of the pips.
"Dammit." Dustin looked around, "There everywhere."
Conner and Hunter began open fire on the spiders. A few fell off the ceiling and down towards the steaming water below. Kira turned around and used her fire extinguisher to keep them at bay. The spider lunged forward and knocked her back. She slipped and fell over the rail.
"Kira!" Conner screamed.
He fired at the spider and ran and saw her dangling on the rail, holding tightly. He grabbed a hold of her and tossed the gun to Dustin. He grabbed it and began firing. Joel ran forward, swinging the axe violently.
"Don't let go Conner. Please.." She begged as he did the best to pull her up.
Dustin did the best he could to guard them as he fired. Merrick moved swiftly around them and noticed the electric generator. He ran towards it. A spider quickly chased after him and fired a web around his leg. He tripped and fell.
"Joel! The switches!" Merrick shouted.
Joel helped Merrick up and they both dashed towards the generator. He pulled out the walkie talkie and began screaming into it. Merrick looked back, hearing the gun fire. More spiders began to appear they were everywhere.
"Kendrix! Im here! KENDRIX!" Joel shouted.
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Jason and Adam each grabbed a handgun and went to the door. Kat and Kim followed close behind as the former Red Ranger nodded to them. He opened the door quickly and the two boys bursted out into the hall ways with their guns up. The hallway was empty and eire. The ground was a bit wet, leaking from the double doors across the room. Deciding not to go that way, they moved down towards the stairs. Kendrix had mention their there may be explosives on Floor 1, in the second security office. That was their destination, and each ranger was praying that they would get down their safely. They crept down the stairs and looked around the quiet and empty hallway of the second floor. The stairs nearby to the first floor was locked, and they had to take the long way around.
"Is it just me? Or is it to quiet around here." Kim whispered.
Adam nodded, "This is freaking me out." He responded, holding tightly on the gun.
Jason looked back at them, "Come on. Faster we get this done. The better."
Joel and the others had finally left the closet of the second floor, and ran down the hallway, the opposite way Jason and his group were going. They quickly dashed around the corner, all equipped with a weapon. As they turned the corner an alien dropped from the ceiling. It scared the crap out of Kira, she by accident released a Ptera Scream at the alien, sending flying back.
"Crap. We can't go this way." Joel shouted.
"Turn around. This way!" Merrick yelled as he began running
The alien stood up and whipped its tall at Joel. He went flying onto the ground hard. The alien began creeping closer, but Conner and Kira helped their fellow ranger up and they continue running back where they came from. Turning the corner, they spotted two fury beasts starring at them.
"Shi-taki mushrooms." Dustin jumped in surprise.
Conner smirked, "What afraid of swearing?"
Kira smacked him on the side of the head, "Enough. What are we going to do!?"
Hunter began open fire onto the two fury creatures, "Anyone who has a good idea. Let me know."
Merrick looked around and spotted a side door, "In here."
The rangers wasted no time and ran into the unknown room. Hunter closed the door and turned around to see themselves inside the laundry room. Outside they could hear the alien and the two fury creatures battling. The creatures jumped onto of the alien as it swung its tail violently. The alien clawed into one of the creatures and ripped the head off the other. It then turned to the door and started slamming into it. Hunter began backing away, as the rangers looked around.
"Were trapped!" Kira shouted.
Joel was busy moving the bags around as if he was looking for something. Conner and Dustin turned around and watched in confusion.
"What the hell are you doing?" Dustin shouted.
Joel lifted up a bag and saw a large laundry chute against the wall. He threw the bag across and turned to them, as he heard the door began to break.
"Hurry! This leads to the Basement." He shouted, "It's our only exit."
Kira nodded and ran towards the chute. She looked at everyone before climbing in and sliding down. Her screamed echoed through out the chute. Joel waved Conner and Dustin to go next. They each took a turn and went down. Hunter ran over to the chute and slide in as the door busted down and the alien came in. Joel turned around and saw the alien charging at him. He quickly jumped into the chute as the alien smashed its head into the wall. He slide all the way down, in till he found the end, where he went flying out and onto the ground. He groaned a bit as a hand reached down towards his head. He looked up and grabbed it, being lifted up by Hunter.
"That was close." He looked up to hear the screeching of the alien above them.
Jason and the others had entered where the movie theaters. It was dark and cold. They walked through the aisle, looking for the door in the back. They slowly went down, passing dead bodies that were laying in the chairs. The strange things about these bodies were, they weren't clawed open or torn to pieces, but look like they were bitten. Adam moved ahead and looked around as a shadow slithered under the seats near him. Kat and Kim stayed close together as they made it to the front. They turned around and saw Adam stand near some of the chairs. Suddenly a giant shadow rose above him and Kim screamed. Adam turned around and saw a giant snake tower above him. It lashed down and grabbed onto his shoulder. He screamed in pain as Jason opened fire on the snake.
"Adam!" Kat screamed.
The snake let go as Adam fell to the floor. Kat dashed towards him as Jason continued to fire. The snake fled under the chairs. Kat helped her good friend up, as he winced in pain, his shoulder was bleeding pretty badly. Jason ran over to him, and bent down.
"You okay man?"
"How the hell is their a giant snake on board?" He said through his pain.
Kim stood their, too scared to move. The snake slithered around the chairs and towards kim. Suddenly it lashed out and wrapped around Kim's body. Kim screamed out loud, getting everyone's attention. The others looked up.
"Oh my god! Kim!!" Kat quickly fumbled with the gun on the ground and picked it up.
The snake wrapped around Kim's body, tightening. She started to lose breath, getting harder and harder to breath. She struggled to scream as Jason and Kat tried to fire at the snake. It ignored the pain and moved its head towards Kim. It hissed before opening its mouth. Kim looked at it with fear, as she struggled with one last scream. The snake dove in at Kim's head, consuming it.
"NO!!" Jason shouted, firing at it's head.
Tears streamed down Kat's face as she did the best she could to help Jason. The snake went farther down on Kim's body in till it was gone. Jason grew angry, tears filled his eyes as he continued to fire. The snake had finished its meal and turned to the other rangers. Kat fired a few more rounds before she was out of ammo. The snake had bullet holes all over its body but it continue towards the other rangers. The large snake lashed its tail at Jason, sending him into the movie seats. Adam struggled to get up and push Kat out of the way as it lunged down and grabbed him by the leg. He screamed and started to flail as the snake whipped Adam into the air. He went flying into one of the decorative spikes hanging on the movie theater wall. It went right through his back and out towards the other side. Adam grabbed the spike and winced in pain.
"this..is..not..my..day.." he whispered.
The decorative spike couldn't support the weight and snapped off, making Adam fall to the ground dead. Kat looked up, as she saw Jason passed out and Adam dead. She didnt' know what to do. She tried to crawl as the snake continue after her. It started to tower over her, ready to attack again when suddenly a bullet hit the side of the head. Kat turned towards the entrance and saw Eric standing there. His clothes were torn and wet, he was bleeding and holding onto his stomach. His face was sweating and claw marks were seen on his cheek. He held the autmatic shotgun in his right hand as he fired another shot, right into the snakes eye. The snake violently reacted in pain and made a quick get away. Jason finally woke up and looked around. He Kat pushed herself off and ran towards him.
Jason held his head, "What happened?"
She helped him up and grabbed him into a hug, "There dead Jason. Kim and Adam." She whispered.
Eric slowly made his way towards him, collapsing on the ground. Jason and Kim ran to him and helped him up.
"Damn Eric, what happened to you?" Jason asked.
"I've lost the others." He whispered, "The Aquarium incident. The water washed me out. I finally awoke and they were gone. What are two doing here."
Kat wiped away her tears, "We have to find some explosives. This ship is on the course towards Earth."
Jason slowly nodded before closing his eyes, "I can't believe were losing everyone. I can't take anymore of this." He whispered.
Kat nodded, "This is too much Eric. What is going on?"
Tori was busy pacing around as Kendrix surfed through the system. A bit bored, Tori walked into the cockpit and sighed. She was worried about the others. She had not heard from them for a while, and was curious of how they were doing. She looked out at the unknown ship and squinted. She noticed some writing on the side of the ship.
"Hey Kendrix. Check this out." She called out.
Kendrix got up from the computer and walked over to Tori. The surf girl pointed out towards the ship and Kendrix adjusted her glasses. She saw the writing on the ship too. It said US ARMY RESEARCH. On the side with an American Flag.
"That ship is from Earth isn't it?"
Kendrix nodded, "It is. Wait a minute." Kendrix thought for a sec.
She turned around and saw a locked cabinet. She forced the door open and paper came out and onto the floor. Tori bent down and helped her.
"What is this stuff?" She asked.
Kendrix looked at her, "Space records. To let the pilot know what kind of ships are out here incase they run into any problems."
She searched through the piles in till she found a large list of ships. Victor Cruise was the first cruise ship to go into space, but was not the first giant ship to enter though. She ran her fingers down the list and stopped at the name US ARMY RESEARCH SHIP. She moved her eyes towards the side, following a line that lead to a small description.
"A research facility of biological weapons. Information is classified. Code 315." She read to herself.
"Biological weapon?" Tori was more confused then ever.
Kendrix stood up, "The rumors are true.." She whispered.
"What rumors? Kendrix, what is going on?"
"When I was on Terra Venture, doing some research. Some scientists were transferred to a new space station to do a top secret research. At first, I thought it was some kind of lie, and that they were just fired and transferred back to earth. Someone told me they were going to research some new biological weapons for the US, in hopes to advance the nation. They brought all kind of animals onto this ship. Bears, Snakes, even insects like spiders."
Tori arched her eyebrows, "Are you telling me that those things out their are humans creation."
"Something must of happened." She grabbed the paper and dashed to the computer, "Code 315. Maybe I can hack into their computer system, if its still factional."
Tori followed her and leaned on her chair, "What about the others?"
"Hopefully, their alive."
Joel and the others found themselves on B1, in the other part of the laundry room. They got themselves together and walked out of the room and into the hallway. The hallway was filled with webs. The others looked around.
"What the hell?" Joel whispered.
Merrick knocked down some webs and made it to a door. He opened it up and steam filled the hallway. They walked into a dark clanky engine room. They walked across a grated bridge and looked down at all the pipes that were connected. Four Giant engines were stationed all around the room. The bridge pathway went around like a maze. There was a second floor of the engine room, ast he stairs lead down below and connected to other hanging bridges. It was hot and the steam was being released every so often. The others kept walking, trying to find the electric generator. Kira stopped suddenly when she heard some moving around her. She turned around and saw no one behind her and shrugged. She turned back around and a giant spider, about a size of a bike drops down. They continue walking as the spider slowly crept up on them. Conner stopped, sensing something wrong.
"Kira..duck."
She looked at him confusingly as he spun around and pointed the gun. Kira ducked and he fired at the spider as it went flying towards her. It fell back. Merrick looked up and saw 5 spiders crawling around on the ceiling. Joel looked to the left and saw a few hanging from some of the pips.
"Dammit." Dustin looked around, "There everywhere."
Conner and Hunter began open fire on the spiders. A few fell off the ceiling and down towards the steaming water below. Kira turned around and used her fire extinguisher to keep them at bay. The spider lunged forward and knocked her back. She slipped and fell over the rail.
"Kira!" Conner screamed.
He fired at the spider and ran and saw her dangling on the rail, holding tightly. He grabbed a hold of her and tossed the gun to Dustin. He grabbed it and began firing. Joel ran forward, swinging the axe violently.
"Don't let go Conner. Please.." She begged as he did the best to pull her up.
Dustin did the best he could to guard them as he fired. Merrick moved swiftly around them and noticed the electric generator. He ran towards it. A spider quickly chased after him and fired a web around his leg. He tripped and fell.
"Joel! The switches!" Merrick shouted.
Joel helped Merrick up and they both dashed towards the generator. He pulled out the walkie talkie and began screaming into it. Merrick looked back, hearing the gun fire. More spiders began to appear they were everywhere.
"Kendrix! Im here! KENDRIX!" Joel shouted.
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