Chapter Four:Down The Street

"Ok,my house is right down the damn street."James whispered to Maria.

"Ok,well there is a service tunnel through the sewers inside the hospital.We can go through it and open up a manhole."Maria said.

James looked at her intently.

"Oh yeah that's a very good idea it's just there are armed gunman waiting to shoot anyone who comes near the hospital and there are savage man eating dogs.But other than that we'll be fine."James said sarcastically.

Maria stood up and scurried across the street behind a bush.

"Maria!"James shouted.

She went behind the trail of bushes all the way around the hospital.James took off after her.

"Come on slowpoke!"she said to James.

She came to a back door and pulled a keychain out of her pocket.On it were about 60 keys.

"Are you the janitor?"James said.

"No im in charge for the 64 rooms on floor 7.I have to lock them when there is no one in there right?"Maria said.

"Sure right."James replied.

She opened the back door.Inside was a flickering light.

"I have to stop by the first aid box for a second."Maria said.

"Why?"

"Because that damn phone booth made me cut my arm."

She showed James the light.A deep gash ran right down it showing yellow flesh and glass.

"Yeah....maybe we should stop by the first aid box."James said.

She gave him a stern look and opened the door on her left.The door hit something.

"What was that?"she said.

Slaps were heard on the floor and a dog came around the corner of the door and looked Maria dead in the face.Although was no ordinary dog.The flesh was burned and seared and it's eyes were red.

"Maria run"James whispered

She grabbed the door handle and shut the door as fast as she could.The dog had no time to think before it's neck broke.

"Fuckin bitch!"Maria screamed.

Pieces of the wall just shot out and James quickly recognized that someone was shooting.Maria fell to the floor.A gaping hole nestled in her face.James fell backwards into the shadows.A man entered the passage.

"Yo Jim forget about the bodies outside we can use her!"the man shouted.

"Oh ok?She's dead right?"Jim said back.

"Yeah yeah.Got her right in the face.She'll be a fine specimen for the Vilcol project!"

Another man came in and grabbed Maria's legs and dragged her out of the passage.James crawled to the door and looked out where they were taking her.The man put her in a wheelchair.Blood slipped between her eyes.

"Dr.O'reilly!We have a specimen for the Vilcol!"The man screamed.

A man in a white labcoat came up to Maria and looked at her.

"Yes,yes she will do perfectly."the scientist said.

The two guards took the wheelchair into the elevator and pushed some button to who knows what floor.James watched the numbers go up.The elevator stopped at seven.James turned around and saw Maria's keys on the floor.He picked them up and looked out if anyone was looking this way.No one was.James dashed for the stairs.He kept going up until the seventh floor.He opened the seventh floor door.It was a bright hallway.Maria was nowhere to be found.James knew she was dead but he had to know what Vilcol was.He pulled out the keys.Each one was number coded.

"Ok time to test all 64 doors."James whispered.

But that wasn't neccesary.Half the doors had windows only the operation rooms did not.James started walking down the hall.He looked through the windows.Patients were inside but they all had bullets in their heads.He came to a door with no window and someone mumbling inside.Actually it was two people!The door said 36.James pulled out the 36 key and inserted it.The talking stopped.James balled up his fist and kicked open the door.It slammed into one of the guard's faces.His nose broke instantly.The other guard pulled out his pistol but James punched him dead in the face.He picked up the pistol.It was silenced.He put a bullet in each of their brains.Maria wasn't in this room.

"Fuck where are you?"James whispered.

"Where's who?"someone said behind James.

James turned around to see the butt of a rifle smack him in the face.Everything got dizzy and he collapsed.

"James can you hear me?"A muffled voice said.

"Yes...I can hear you."James said back but his voice was much deeper.

"I'm afraid I have bad news."the voice said.

James opened his eyes.He was in a room.A big tube thing was in the center and some kind of hideous creature was inside.

"James you are wearing a custom voice modifier we fitted inside your throat."the man said."You see,your friend here,we kinda had a slip up and cut her voicebox with the scalpel so we took your's out.Hope you don't mind."The scientist said

"What?"James said.

He looked down and saw that his hands were tied up to the wheelchair.

"Now James.We have to dispose of you.We fitted you with a voicebox just so you could talk whilest you are in heaven.But we have to throw your wheelchair off of the roof."

Two men came in with bandages around their noses and started moving the wheelchair.James got a last look at the tube and under the glass it said:Project Vilcol,subject Maria Rosenberg.

"No!You made her into an abomination!"James shouted.

"No James,we made her into a queen."the scientist replied.

James was put in the elevator to go to the roof.He started tearing.

"Why did this have to happen?"James whispered.

A tremor was felt coming from a few floors down.

"Well,goodbye motherfucker."said one of the guards.

The wheelchair was pushed and it was going to the roof.

"Oh no."he whispered.

The wheelchair slipped off the side and James started falling down towards Earth.Everything was going so slow.Flashes of his life appeared at random around different corners in his eyes.The floor was getting closer to James.Or James was getting closer to the floor.It was over.But then something extraordinary happened.

End Of Chapter Four