Chapter Eight: How Many Things Have Been Killed In This City
Corin could feel the T-Veronica coursing through his body, rebuilding his system, as he stood at the train platform below the hospital basement. He didn't understand why he didn't kill Tange and Caitlyn, and was trying to figure out why. Tange was with Umbrella, he should of died on the spot. And Caitlyn, she should of went down right after he did. But why did I not do it? It really didn't matter; he ditched them after that creature came into the picture. He didn't care, he still was going to get the X-Tyrant virus and rendezvous out of this shit-forsaken city and begin his reign to destroy Umbrella like they destroyed his humanity.
He now really didn't need his gun. His physical strength and agility were over normal.
Clang! Corin turned around scanning the room. Nothing. He opened the doors to the train-
Aaarrrggghh! Corin turned around once again and looked at the creature from the sewers. Its body was riddled with bullets and most of its claws were blood-stained and cracked.
"You know, I am really getting sick and tired of this bullshit!" Corin shouted knowing that the creature wouldn't reply, "Oh well, I'll just turn you to shit."
The creature launched itself forward in his direction with its claws out at an incredible speed, but not too fast for Corin. He dove right as the g- creature smashed against the wall. His feet hit the wall and he launched himself forward in its direction hitting its back. The creature fell forward against the train, smashing the door inward. It got to its feet and jumped at Corin now with its claws in a catching position. Corin smirked and before it landed, he kicked it square in the chest sending it back a few meters.
The creature roared in anger and ran forward at him. 'You just don't know when to give up, do you.' It swung its claws missing Corin as he leaned back. It swung again and he moved to his left, then his right, dodging every swipe the creature packed. He flipped backwards as it swung both its claws clapping them together as if trying to crush his face.
He jumped over it and kicked as hard as he could and sent the thing through one of the stone pillars supporting the room. He brought his hand forward and released a ball of fire toward its direction. The flame hit its eye on its chest and the creature began howling in pain as the eye shut.
Wwwwwiiirrr. Corin ignored the monster and turned his attention to the elevator knowing that someone was coming. He ran inside the train and pulled the lever down making it move forward. The train accelerated faster as Corin looked out the side window, seeing the creature run out of sight.
"I'll see you later." he said to himself as the platform disappeared. He watched the speed gauge go up to eighty miles per hour, and he walked out of the cockpit and looked at Rankin's computer finding out how far he was from the Blue Umbrella. The screen showed the underground layout of the lab, then zooming away and focused on the train he was in. He hit a few more keys and a small window flashed up showing that he was only ten miles away.
He turned the laptop off and walked into the next car. The car was pretty roomy and looked pretty comfy. A big metal box lay against the wall on the opposite side of the car. He walked toward it and opened it finding a few useful items. An infrared scope and a grenade launcher sat in there, and he took him, putting the scope over his face, so if Tange, Caitlyn, or that other person should see him, they won't know it was him. He strapped the launcher behind his back and closed the box.
He walked back to the cockpit. He felt the train slant downwards and the speed increased. He checked the laptop again and it verified that only five miles remained. This was taking to long for him; he increased the speed to one hundred and forty. Everything in front of the window turned into a blur as the train sped down the track. He checked the laptop again and let out a sigh and decreased the speed of the train to ten. Light appeared at the end of the tunnel and the station platform came into view. The train completely stopped and
Corin stepped out onto the platform and a smile formed across his face, "I'm here." He looked at the laptop and searched for the virus storage. The laboratory map flashed on the screen and a red area of the lab started glowing. The virus storage was on level B-7. He walked up the staircase to the east and started toward an elevator. He pressed the activation switch. Nothing happened.
"Blue Umbrella Laboratory Power is not active, please activate systems" said a programmed voice from the intercom.
"Shit." he turned and went down the staircase in search for the power activation area. He looked at the other side of the station and spotted another staircase with a small building next to it. He ran toward it and jumped over the train as he was hoping the room was the power room. He ran up the staircase and crashed through the door. He looked around the room and figured this was the room. A few plugs sat near a few sockets at the end of the room. He picked them up and inserted them into the sockets. He turned around and saw a computer turn on. He went up to it and typed: Activate Blue Umbrella Power.
The screen went blank and the whirring of machines sounded somewhere in the area. The room lit up and a twenty-five screen monitor turned on. Corin looked at it and spotted a group of people in the first station. It was Tange, Caitlyn and, someone he didn't know. They looked puzzled, probably trying to find the train.
He smirked and left the room and went towards the elevator and pressed the switch once again. The doors slid open and he entered. He looked at the level switch scanning for the B-7 switch. It wasn't there. He pressed the only switch, which was B-1. The doors closed as Corin looked at the laptop again. The map flashed on the screen showing that all the levels weren't linked with same elevator. This was going to slow him down, now he has to find the elevators, which he didn't want to do.
The doors opened and he stepped out into the marbled floor lobby. The room had a blue Umbrella icon engraved into the floor. A medical room was across from him and a door to the left of it was marked staircase.
He went toward the door and opened it. He went down the staircase and opened another set of doors revealing another lobby, but smaller, being supported by pillars. He stepped in, surprised that there were still no zombies.
The pillars were chiseled with bullets and bits of marble lay scattered across the floor. He continued on and went through the door at the end of the room.
They all wondered were the train was, Tange and everyone else were wondering what all the noise was. He was down to his last clip and only had three rounds in his revolver. Everyone was in need for ammo.
"Hey, there's a room back here!" Caitlyn shouted. Tange ran toward her voice because the station platform was crowded with metal storage boxes making it harder to see. He spotted Caitlyn and Dusty by a small room and ran up to them.
"It's locked." Dusty said.
Tange went to the door and turned the handle, it was locked. He backed away and kicked the door open and looked at Dusty, "Not anymore." He entered the room and spotted a computer in the back of the room and walked toward it. Caitlyn and Dusty joined him and looked at the computer.
The computer read:
Train position: Blue umbrella Laboratory Station Platform
Departure: 4:03:58 A.M.
Arrival: 4:08:10 A.M.
Current time: 4:11:45 A.M.
To call train back a password must be typed.
Hint: In Spanish say Devil.
Password:
"Diablo." Dusty said and Tange typed it in.
"Access granted, Train will return momentarily." said an intercom system installed in the ceiling.
"Well, time to rest till the train comes." he said as he walked back to the platform.
"Hey, wait!" Caitlyn shouted, "What are we going to encounter down there? And what is the escape plan?"
Tange turned around and looked at her, "Well, I'm not real sure, all I know is that there are no zombies." hopefully none. "And the escape is a train located on the lowest level of the laboratory."
"Why no zombies?" she said, "Wasn't the laboratory operated by humans?"
"Yes, but when the virus reanimates the human body they will only be active for about a month, the outbreak began in early November, by some incident with one of there habitats-"
"Habitats? What kind of habitats?" Dusty said breaking in.
"That information is classified; even I don't know what they were doing." Tange said lying.
"Oh," Dusty said, "oh I found some ammo in one of the storage crates, come on."
Dusty turned and Tange and Caitlyn followed him to a crate next to the room they were just in. A metal crate stood open as Dusty started taking items out and setting them on the floor.
"They are just hand guns and small machine guns." Dusty said.
Tange crouched down and took a look and picked two Brownings and an Uzi, along with two magazines for each handgun, and two for the Uzi. He got up and walked back to the platform and holstered the two handguns.
Eeeeeeee... The sound of the train came closer as Dusty and Caitlyn came back. The train came out of a tunnel and stopped; the name was Alexia 5000, Tange didn't know why. The doors then opened and everyone stepped in. Tange went to the cockpit and put the lever to one- hundred and fifty miles per hour, the maximum speed. The train moved out into the dark tunnel, gaining speed every second.
Tange sat in a chair and began to relax after all he has been through today. He was hoping everything else would be a piece of cake. This was the most relaxing thing he has done today besides shoot and run, also running from death creatures.
Dusty came in and looked at him, "Having fun?"
Tange looked up and nodded, "Yep, we just a few more miles till we arrive."
"Good, I'm ready to get out-"
Ratatatata! Gunshots went off in the back and Tange darted to the back along with Dusty. He came into the second car and saw Caitlyn against the train wall firing her gun at some creature in the back. The creature took a step forward revealing itself in the light. It was the tyrant.
"Shit! It's Diablo!" Dusty shouted as he fired the glock seventeen.
Tange fired the Uzi at its face and shouted to Dusty, "So it has a name?"
"Now it does!"
Tange continued firing, now seeing Diablo had a set of claws. He targeted its head and fired blowing charred skin and muscle off its face. It didn't seem to have any effect; nothing had a fucking effect on the squirmy fuck. He backed into the wall and looked down and saw the uncoupling unit and shouted, "We got to keep that thing in that car and uncouple it!"
"I'll distract it!" Caitlyn shouted.
Dusty looked over at him as he fired, "Better hurry up, I've seen what Diablo could do! Heads up!" He paused and went to the other side firing while shouting, "Die bitches!"
Tange looked up and saw Diablo launch at amazing speed in his direction. He jumped out of the way and heard it smash into the metal wall. He got up and fired at its back as it quickly turned around. It swung its claws tearing away the wall as if it was paper. Tange pulled his revolver out and sent the last three rounds into its face.
Diablo wielded back and smashed into the controls. He closed the door to the controls and went into the second car hearing it bang against the door.
"Warning! Decrease speed in the next two-hundred fifty feet!" said the intercom system.
Dusty and Caitlyn had their guns pointed at the first car as the door gave away to the tyrant's inevitable power. The uncoupling system was destroyed and slowing the train down would be too risky because that thing standing between the cockpit and them wanted to slice and dice them to shit.
"We need some kind of explosive device!" He shouted.
He then saw Dusty pull a small object out of his pocket and throw it into the first car. It was a grenade.
"Fire in the bitch's charred narrow hole!" Dusty shouted as he dove to the back of the car. Tange went just as Caitlyn started moving and got behind some of the storage crates.
KaBoom! The first car exploded into a ball of fire as the train sped down the small distance of track.
Tange felt the train roll onto its side as a bright light appeared through the creases in the damaged vehicle.
Boom! The train crumbled into a wall as the tracks ended violently smashing it. Tange was flung forward into the other side of the room as the second car came to an abrupt stop smashing its way on top of the first car.
"Oh shit." he said getting to his feet, "who's not dead?"
Dusty and Caitlyn gave out moans in pain. He crawled out of the train and fell onto the platform and got up, we're here.
Caitlyn fell out of the train and landed on the ground, "What is it with us and trains?"
Tange came to her and helped her to her feet, "I think we're cursed."
"That's the second time this has happened," Dusty said jumping to the ground, "I should be at my apartment, drinking coke, while looking at a Playboy magazine. By the way where's Diablo-the-shit-faced-fucking-fucked- up-mother-fucker?"
"Caved in by our masterpiece." Caitlyn said smoothly pointing at the totaled train.
Tange went up a staircase and entered an elevator, "You guys ready to get the hell out of here?"
Caitlyn and Dusty came in and the elevator descended deeper into the ground. The doors opened and they stepped out into the vast lobby of the Blue Umbrella. Tange edged toward the staircase door and opened it and went down. He reached the bottom and opened a door and entered into a second lobby. Dusty and Caitlyn came in next and looked around the place.
"Follow me." He said and opened a door across the room into a hallway. He went in and scanned the area with his gun. He signaled them to come in. Blood smeared the walls and a few bodies lay against the wall. "Keep your guard up, there are maybe some things still crawling around." He followed the hall as it then turned right leading to another elevator. He edged closer and tapped the button to the elevator. The doors opened and he peered inside. Nothing.
They all got in and the elevator went down, the doors opened showing a hallway leading to another elevator.
"God, why can't all the levels be connected with one elevator?" Caitlyn said.
"Beats me I'm just a corporal," he said.
They ran down the hall and went in the next elevator. The doors opened and they stepped out into a vast hallway.
They walked down until the three paths faced them. A group of labs were straight in front, and a blood-stained sign next to it said western labs. Another set of labs were to the left labeled, southern labs, and another hall right next to it. He edged down the hall stepping over some decaying corpses.
The hall turned left and he poked his head out seeing what's beyond. A man was standing by an elevator, typing away in his laptop. The man looked familiar; dreadlocks, sunglasses, it was Corin. "Corin?" he said walking towards him.
Corin looked in his direction as the elevator doors opened with a smile forming across his face. "Why, hello." he said looking at the laptop once again, "so you found the lab, congratulations."
Something wasn't right; he didn't know what it was, "Why did you ditch us in the sewers?"
"Oh, I thought you and Caitlyn could handle the thing when it showed up, besides I have very important things to do."
"Like what?"
Caitlyn and Dusty walked toward them and stopped.
"Where the hell were you in the sewers?!" she shouted angrily.
Dusty looked scared shitless and backed up, "You're- him!"
"Who?" Corin said smoothly, "have we met, shall I say: Dusty?"
Dusty backed away, "You killed all the rescuers from Umbrella! Run!" he turned and ran back the way they came.
Corin drew his gun and pulled the trigger. Dusty's head flew forward and he fell to the ground with a hole in the back of his head. He aimed the gun at Tange smiling wickedly, "Don't move."
Now everyone knows he's a traitor, so sad for the character who said, "Die, bitches." I don't think I can handle it sobs j/k. R&R.
I might wait a few days before I update nine, this story is almost done, which this happens to be part I of the entire story. Part II is just waiting to be posted, it kicks so much more ass then the city one, has stylized fighting and an army of tyrants. Part III isn't even written yet. So Tra-laa-laaa I'll just have to finish Part II.
L8er!