Chapter Six: Into The Sewers

 They all heard an explosion in the distance. Tange head ached from the terrible crash just thirty minutes ago. Corin was fixing Caitlyn's wounds with a cloth damp cloth from Corin's aid pack.

Tange had a white cloth wrapped around his forehead and he sat on the couch in the Italian restaurant waiting room.

"I'm feeling a lot better," Caitlyn said, "thanks."

Tange got up and walked towards Corin and said, "So you work for Umbrella too?"

"Yeah, I need the money to make a living." he replied.

"Same here." Tange walked towards the kitchen looking at that this restaurant looked like it had not been attacked; all the tables had four legs, silverware neat, no zombies for God sakes. The windows looking out of the restaurant were devastating. He entered the kitchen to see if there was a back door. Standing at the end of the kitchen was a door.

Tange walked toward it and opened it looking out. An alley was to his right going in two directions, while to the left was as usually, a barrier and totaled vehicles. He closed the door turning towards the rows of gas stoves. Looking down at the floor he saw a big hatch, Tange slid it open revealing a ladder.

Ummhu... Tange ran towards the backdoor and peeked outside. Zombies were crowding the small alley and were coming toward him, shit! This was not good. But it was always not good. Corin and Caitlyn came running in.

"What now," she said.

"The usual," Tange replied climbing down the ladder. Corin came in next and heard the backdoor break open. Caitlyn came in last and Tange slid the hatch shut. He turned to look at the room.

It was just a storage room.

"Shit! We're screwed!" Corin shouted.

Caitlyn leaned on a shelf and checked her gun. Tange paced back and forth thinking what next to do. They could go back up and fight the zombies; no we would die before we get a chance to open the hatch.

"Whoa!" Caitlyn fell over and hit a shelf causing it to fall over. The shelf hit the ground causing all the items on it scatter all over the small.

Tange helped her up, "Nice work."

"Shut-up!" she said with a grin.

"No," he said, "look."

She turned and saw a corridor with a rusted door at the end.

Tange walked to the door and opened it. The door started rubbing against the ground due to that the surface was rough and the door was rusting with metal. He managed to yank it open revealing an old elevator.

"Yeah, nice work Caitlyn," Corin said sarcastically.

They all piled in. There were only two switches; one going down and one going up. Tange pressed the down switch and the doors closed and started descending. The doors opened revealing a platform in some cavern.

They all stepped out and Tange ran down the platform and turned a corner. The platform ended to a concrete path leading into a dimly lit cavern tunnel. He waited for Corin and Caitlyn to catch up then continued. The path was filled with winding paths and narrow areas. He looked up at the cave way ceiling looking at the smooth rocky texture.

The path continued coming out of the tunnel were the path went back to a bridge platform and into a massive chamber of the cave. Waterfalls on either side of the path dropped water for hundreds of feet into water below. 'Whoa, this is freaking awesome.'

They all continued down the platform toward a building on the other side.

"Wow," Caitlyn said looking around, "I never knew Scrapeson had a cave system."

Tange came to the other side followed by the others and entered the small building. Corin went in first going up a staircase followed by Caitlyn, then Tange. They entered a small surveillance room with about twenty to thirty monitors.

"This must be some kind of Umbrella facility." Tange said walking up to a monitor say standby. He touched and screen and a surveillance video sequence went on the screen. The date said December 20, 2009. The tape started to play showing a group of five men wearing gas mask and were armed with rifles and shooting at eight of the same creature; tyrants.

"Why won't they die?!" One of the masked men said as he fired his weapon.

"Just shoot them." another said.

The group of tyrants came after a man and rammed its fist through him and pulled it out roughly taking the man's heart in its hands and throwing him aside. The other men continued scattering and spreading away from the giants shooting continuously.

Another tyrant with two claws ran at another man and rammed its talons in him and threw him across the room making his head explode on impact with the wall.

The tyrants finished off the small group making them suffer by pulling them apart limb from limb as the men screamed in agony and died.

The group turned and a big deformed creature stepped into the screen.

It was about the same height of the tyrants but had a big bloodshot eye the size of a dinner plate and wielded a humongous claw with talons sticking out all over its arm and a giant tentacle as the other arm.

The tyrants came toward the creature and were torn apart by the creature's deadly claws and tentacle. After the killing, the creature made a meal of its prey by swallowing each tyrant whole.

Suddenly the creature started to mutate. Two more sets of claws formed were the tentacle was and two more eyes were formed, followed by the creature's new head coming up from behind its back. Tentacles then came out of its back and the creature spotted the camera.

Tange saw the thing swing at the screen and the screen went blank. "So we have a new thing we have to watch out for."

"My God," Corin replied.

Caitlyn looked away from the screen. Before the incident, that had already happened? And everyone was so blind to know what had happened until it was too late.

"You ready to go?" Tange said to her.

"Fuck yeah." she said exhaling. She grabbed her gun and walked toward the door and waited until Corin and Tange came out. She walked behind and followed them through another section of cavern. She started rubbing her shoulders because of the damn lack of heat. The path was well lit not like the others and it ended at a metal door with the words across it no trespassing.

Corin kicked it open and went in first followed by her. The room was the room from the surveillance tape, were that mutated thing killed those walking giants. It was big and empty and nothing but small ripped pieces of leather lay on the ground. She walked ahead toward another sign on the door on the other side which said City Sewers.

"Ladies first," Tange said.

She ignored him and opened the door. A hall the shape of a hexagon with a metal catwalk came into view. She stepped in feeling her foot click against the metal ground. She continued walking seeing a man's body with his lower jaw violently shredded and his face covered in a green liquid. It also looked like he had been wrapped in string; spider webs. The hall turned left or right and she turned right and looked over seeing about ten to fifteen bodies wrapped in web and glued into the ceiling hanging like a giant meat freezer.

"Damn, what could've done this?." Corin said lifting his gun up.

The ceiling boards had been removed and were lying on the floor and were covered in blood.

Uuhhhgg... Caitlyn jumped and spun around and saw the door at the other end of the hallway crash open and zombies came pouring out like a soda being opened after it had been shaken. Tange and Corin raised their weapons and began firing at the zombies. Caitlyn raised her rifle then stopped and heard the rattle of a metal pole from the ceiling above the zombies.

Clang! Crash! A figure came out of the ceiling and seized about two zombies, followed by another coming through the floor at lightning speed grasping more zombies. They were spiders.

She felt Tange grab her arm and pulled her through the hanging bodies and he let go and all of them broke out in a sprint. She heard melting sizzling noises behind her and the zombie cries fading in the distance. The hall turned to the left revealing a metal door.

Crash! The metal catwalk boards shot up and a spider shot out and sprayed a green gooey substance at them. She jumped out of the way and some landed on Tange hand. She pulled the magnum out and fired at the creature's giant abdomen causing it to pop into chunks of intestines and hair. Corin was busy shooting up more spiders while Caitlyn checked Tange's hand. His hand was screaming red.

"I'm okay," he said, "it only burns."

"Right now would be a good time to run!" Corin shouted running past them. Caitlyn turned and a spider turned the corner causing a couple of its feet to go on the wall. She and Tange turned and caught up with Corin which he turned around and placed his finger on a panel.

"Hurry up!" he shouted.

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. The spiders were getting closer and she and Tange were going to be the next meal if they stop. They ran past Corin and he pressed the panel and a big metal door came down from the ceiling. One of the spiders came through but was crushed by the weight of the fall door. It squirmed around trying to catch them with its hairy legs then stopped and died.

Caitlyn turned around and went through metal doors saying sewer control. The room was deserted as well as everything she's seen so far. There were switches and computers throughout the room all on and running. Tange walked up to one of the computers and typed something.

Clanch!

"What was that?!" Corin said jumping.

"The sewer," Tange said calmly, "it's draining. Don't want to swim through four feet of shit smelling water do you?"

Caitlyn walked to the door opposite of the room and opened it. The room revealed a ladder going down. A small light appeared at the bottom. She started climbing down keeping her eyes on the bottom. She reached the bottom feeling her boots squish against the grimy ground.

"Heads up!" Tange said sliding down the ladder.

Corin came next. Caitlyn looked around seeing a rusty red door at the end of the corridor. Tange walked to the door. The door suddenly swung open and a wave of stink crept into the room. A small frail man ran in.

"Who are you? Yes, you." he said in a crazy manner.

The man was insane, more than insane, more like insanely messed up, which yeah, insane. He suddenly walked out and Tange followed him. She went next stepping down from a small ledge landing on the wet, slippery ground.

The man continued to run down the long shaft not stopping or looking back.

"Hey, wait up!" Tange shouted. The man didn't answer.

Aaaarrggghhh! Caitlyn jumped and almost lost her balance on the grimy ground. Finally the man stopped after a huge shadowy creature stepped into view.

It had to be at least over eight feet tall with two humongous claws like arms hanging down like a gorillas. It had bits of clothing attached to its muscular body and its face was disfigured. Big, bulging, bloodshot eyes covered its chest and shoulders. The eyes centered its attention on the crazed man.

He took a small handgun out of his filthy jacket and fired at the monster.

"This gun." he said, "is my beauty,"

Bam, bam!

"my wife,"

Bam, bam-

"my cute little child, and I am the dad!" he looked up at the creature.

Arrrggh! The monster swung its claws and ripped the man in half. It then continued stabbing the mangled corpse like some wicked kid torturing a frog.

Caitlyn and Tange jumped back and began pumping rounds into its shit- disfigured body. The creature grimaced at the shots and brought down its muscular arm down on the ground. She reeled left and started firing at the big bulging eye in the center of its chest. The eye scanned the area and stared at her as if was ready to jump up and attack her. The eye then closed and the monster jumped at her with its claws stretched forward. She jumped out of the way hearing it crash into the wall that was once behind her.

Tange was still firing and backed down the narrow pathway and opened a metal door. Caitlyn's Mac 11 went dry as she upholstered the Magnum and began firing point blank at the creature blowing off a chunk of its talons away before dashing toward Tange. She fired once again at point-blank and heard the thing scream in pain as she dove through and as Tange pressed a button causing the door to slide down, blocking the creature from them.

"That looked like the monster from the surveillance feed." she said running her fingers through her hair.

"I won't be surprised if it was." Tange said coolly slapping another clip into the M-16. "Where the fuck is Corin?"

"I don't know, he was with us until the monster came out, then. Vanished. I- "

Screech! The metal door ripped like it was paper as the creature's claw came through. Caitlyn turned around seeing that the tunnel they were in was much bigger and much longer. She ran down the area and heard the door collapse hearing the creature's heavy footsteps enter the tunnel. She turned around and fired the powerful magnum as bullets hit the creature's sickening eye. The eye blinked and closed as the monster howled. She fired once more and the thing lost its balance and fell on the slippery floor. Tange fired rounds into its back as she went to the other end of the tunnel and hopped onto a ledge built into the wall and poked her head out. Tange was running at a sprint as the creature got up. He hopped onto the ledge and poked his head out and fired a couple more rounds.

"I think, it's time to go!" Caitlyn shouted as she ran down the hall and opened a door and stepped into a well lit room. Tange came in and shut the door and ran to the other side of the room.

She came toward him and noticed a ladder leading up. "Hmm, I didn't see that."

He started to climb and a few moments later she heard a metal noise scraping against the ground.

Bang! She turned around and saw that the door they came through was dented. Oh shit, time to go! She jumped onto the ladder and began climbing hearing the monster's cry again. She looked up and felt snow touch her cheek as she reached the top and got out onto the street.

Tange closed the manhole and looked up, "Well, there's the hospital."

She looked down the abandoned burning roads while snow was still pouring and looked at the hospital.

Note: It's me again, ya. How is it now, you likey? R&R