Chapter 7: Below Freezing Point
Yugi's POV
I climbed up the ladder that led to another floor and found some handgun rounds and some chemical bottles. "These can be useful," I said to myself. I took the handgun rounds and chemical bottles and shared the supplies with the group. I looked around this floor and found a ladder, but half of the ladder was above us and the other half was here. The top part of the ladder would descend if we do something. I looked nearby the ladder and found another hole. "Guys, I'll be right back," I said, "I have to go get something that I forgot in another room." I opened the door on that floor which led to a corridor that led back to the security room. On my way back, a zombie that lay on the floor awoke from its sleep and followed me. I ran quickly to grab the valve handle and turned around, only to find that six zombies surrounded me. I took my dual handguns and began to shoot at them while trying to run around them. I eventually emptied the clips and was left with two of those chemical bottles I picked up. I grabbed one and tossed it at them. I missed all the zombies and it landed in the middle of them. When it hit the floor, it created an explosion that blew them away. "Whoa," I said, surprised at the damage it caused. I ran back to where everyone was and put the valve handle in the hole. The plumber turned the valve handle and the ladder made it down. "Now we can go up to the other floors," said the plumber.
Arcana's POV
I swiped the cardkey on the slot and entered the turntable room. I ran up to the left side of the train and inserted the key into the slot to start the countdown, but it wouldn't turn. "Damn it! Everything's frozen! Now I have something else to fix," I said to myself. Suddenly, I heard something by my side walking towards me. I took out my handgun and fired at the creature. I emptied my clip and it didn't even flinch! Crap, this is the end for me now. The creature swiped its claw at me and I fell unconscious...
Yugi's POV
"Um, question. Where are Mai, Kaiba and Mokuba?" I asked. After asking, the door on the upper floor opened and three people looked down and saw us. They signaled us to come up and they waited. "Could they be up there?" I asked? We all climbed up the ladder and caught up with them: Kaiba, Mai, and Mokuba. There was one last floor that we had to go to and we climbed up the last ladder. We ran into the room and found ourselves into another corridor. Something in the corridor was odd though, there was a frozen creature here, and we were all freezing on this floor. "Damn, I'm freezing my shit off here," said the plumber. The door to the first corner of the corridor was the one we all entered. We ran to the center of the room to escape an enormous moth. The moth had us boxed in the middle of the room. I looked around and found to other passages to cross. We split into groups to explore the rest of the area. The plumber, Kevin, Kaiba, Mokuba, Ryou, and I went to the red corridor. Joey, Mai, Odion, Marik, Umbra, and Lumis went to the white corridor. We walked to the door straight ahead of us and tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. To our right was a shutter and to our left was another door. We ran to that door and went into the room. This room was way colder than the entire floor.
Everything in the room was frozen. We went to the other side of the room to find a person holding a switch. We tried to pull the switch, but the person's hand was frozen to the switch. "We have to melt the ice to push the switch," said the plumber. Suddenly, something outside of the room sounded like it opened. We walked out of the room and went to where the shutter was, but found it open with another frozen creature on the other side of it and double doors. By the side of the door was some sort of identification verification machine. Kaiba walked up to the machine and put his finger on the machine and the door opened. No questions were asked to how he had access. He said to wait and he went into the room. About a minute later, he ran out the room with something in his hand and ran to the frozen room. We followed him and entered the room. The plumber found something on the floor that he overlooked and picked it up. It was a broken shotgun. He fixed the weapon and handed it to Kevin. He thanked the plumber and had it ready to use.
Kaiba used what he had on the frozen hand and the switch was pulled. Suddenly, everything got warmer in the whole facility. Seems like this controlled the temperature here. We went out the room and headed to the door that led to the center of the floor until we heard something shatter behind us. We turned around and found the creature that was frozen now thawed. It was some sort of humanoid lizard creature with sharp claws and teeth. The creature screeched loudly and we all ran to the other room. The creature quickly caught up with us and jumped and slashed Kaiba's chest, causing him to bleed. Kevin aimed his shotgun at the creature, but the creature quickly slashed the weapon, causing it to break. "Shit, not good," said the plumber. The plumber took out a few monkey wrenches and threw one at the creature, causing it to fall. "GO!" he shouted. We all ran to the corridor where Joey and the others went to while avoiding another thawed creature. As soon as we entered the room, a voice announced that turntable train while go up in three minutes. Kevin went back to go help the plumber and the rest of us went to the turntable train that was in this room. Joey signaled everyone to get into the train before the 'Hunters' get here. "Are the 'hunters' those lizard creatures?" I asked myself.
Everyone went into train, but I went back to help Kevin and the plumber. I found them both firing with their shotguns at the creatures while walking this way. I told them to go and I took out my last chemical bottle. They went to the turntable room behind me and I aimed carefully. Three hunters were coming this way. I tossed it at them and hit one directly while the explosion blew the others away. "YEAH!" I shouted. I ran back to the turntable room and walked towards the room until the door behind me opened. I heard footsteps coming closer, but slowly. I found Arcana coming towards me with a briefcase in his hand and suddenly fainted. I walked up to him and noticed that he looked pale. Suddenly, he sat up and held his chest tightly. "HELP ME! MY CHEST BURNS!" he shouted in pain. Then, a little pink creature ripped through his chest and squirmed away. "My god, that's just sick..." I said to myself. I ran in the train and the train started going up after a minute.
We finally reached the top of the facility and were above ground once again. We were running to the other side of the turntable until that creature I saw kill Arcana appeared. We all stared at it and it began to mutate. After it's transformation, it became a very ugly creature who looked crippled, but had large claws and eggs on it's back. "Not good," said Kevin, "Not good at all." Everyone began to fire at the creature as I ran to the other side of the turntable. I noticed another switch, which controlled the direction the train moves. I got an idea and told everyone to lure the creature onto the train tracks. They shot at it, luring it to the train tracks. I pressed the switch and the train moved quickly, hitting the creature and causing it to fall. Then, the egg on it's back begun exploding and many of its original form had been born. Marik grew furious and took out his Magnum Revolver. "Fuck this, you die now," he said. He aimed at the creature's head and fired. The bullet pierced through its head, killing it permanently. Everyone went back on the train. I pressed the switch to make the train travel in the other direction and I got aboard the train. Finally, we're safe... for now at least.