Chapter Nine: Escape Part I
Caitlyn backed against the wall looking down at Dusty's bloody corpse. 'Why did he do that?' Corin had his weapon trained on Tange face. She quickly brought the Desert Eagle up and aimed at Corin's face. "Drop the weapon!" she said angrily, "or I'll blow your fat head clean off your shoulders!"
Corin looked at her with his gun still fixed at Tange and smiled, "go ahead shoot, I don't care, because the best thing about being me, is that I can never die."
He then quickly aimed his gun at her and she fired without hesitation, his head arched back and he dropped his gun, but his body still stood its ground. She smiled weakly, "to serve and to protect."
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" She looked at Corin's body and he slowly brought his head up, smiling, "like I said, the best part about being me, is that I cannot die!"
"What the fuck!?" said Tange in disbelief.
She fired once again at his face and he faltered back, Tange brought the Uzi up and packed Corin's chest with lead. She fired three more rounds at his neck barely scraping the flesh right off his bones, the gun was able to blow a full grown mans face off, 'for Christ sakes what the hell is going on!'
She spotted the elevator was still open. "Head for the elevator!" she said shouting to Tange over the hail of bullets. She ran toward the elevator and pressed the gun into Corin's temple and pulled the hammer back. A dark hole formed in the side of his head and Corin fell back and hit the ground. She looked at his body and took the laptop from him along with the handgun.
She looked over Tange as he grabbed the items out of the bag Dusty was wearing. She stepped in and he came in and handed her a magazine along with the Eagle 6.0. The doors closed and she looked at the panel seeing that it had three buttons instead of one. One for this floor, another for B- 5, and B-6; the floor they were going to. Tange punched the button and the elevator started its descent.
She began checking her weapons. She had two rounds in the Desert Eagle, seven in the 6.0 along with a magazine, two Browning Hp's with four magazines, she ditched her Mac11 as soon as it went dry knowing that there probably no magazines for it down here, and that she would wasting her time trying to find some. She checked Corin's gun and found out he had no rounds left.
She wiped sweat off her forehead and looked over at Tange who had finished checking his weapons. She noticed he didn't have the assault rifle anymore, because he was saying that it only had like a few rounds left. "What's your weapon status?" she said.
"Down to the last magazine in the Uzi, there are thirteen in the glock, and about two handguns from the ammo crate. I'm all set." he said.
The doors opened and they were in some security hallway. Metal detectors were set down the hall as it suddenly veered right. She looked at the detectors seeing that all of them were badly damaged.
They ran down the hall, afraid wondering if Corin might show up again and turned right as the hall did.
Another elevator was at the end of the hall and looked badly damaged. She walked to it and pressed the button. Nothing happened. She tried prying the doors open and Tange came and helped. The doors slid open grinding against the ground, as it somehow didn't want to open. They managed to open it, and she looked down the shaft. The elevator stood at the bottom at least thirty feet below. Cables hung from the electronic pulleys like ropes, and the top of the elevator had a panel which was barely moved making small bits of light shine through.
KaBoom! The back of the hallway exploded as Caitlyn saw bits of metal slide down the corridor.
"I'm going to rip out your little hearts! And shove them down your throat!" she heard Corin shout, as he was still alive.
She jumped onto one of the cables and slid down it and hit the top of the elevator. She slid the panel open and poked her head in seeing if the coast was clear. She heard Tange fire his weapon as she slipped into the opening and ran out into another lobby, which was bigger then the rest with marble pillars on both sides of the room.
Tange landed next. "Go!" he shouted as the elevator suddenly caught fire.
She turned and ran and came to a stop as two doors stood before her. She entered the one on the right side and shut the door. She looked at the room she was in. It was a small corridor with a huge blast door with a big biohazard sign on it. A couple of bodies lay on the ground and were both completely decomposed, not to mention that smell. Both the bodies were dressed like her but more armor on them. She tried opening the blast doors but couldn't, finding out that there was some keycard to use. She checked Corin's laptop but she couldn't even get it to open the main window, because some password was required. She threw the laptop down on the ground and slammed her boot on top of it crushing the internal parts. She looked around and saw a door to the right of her. She opened it hearing oxygen shoot out of some air vents and entered. She was in a small corridor and saw another elevator and ran towards it running past a door to the left.
Crash! The wall to the left of the elevator crashed through and a big hulking figure came through. Caitlyn stopped and saw the big eye staring at her. It was the creature from the sewers. She turned and ran through a door she past. At the end of the hall were two more doors.
Bang! Behind her the door became dented in as the creature began pounding its way through. She opened the door to the right and was even in a bigger room. A door was at the end of the room and was marked pressurized chamber.
She ran to it and pressed a blue button on a control panel next to the door. A thick window was to the right of the door as the door opened as the pressure matched to the outside. She entered not closing the door and ran down a small biohazard storage chamber room.
She peered in through one of the windows and saw that many stasis tubes inside were broken and littered with dead freak creatures.
Raaaaaaaaaah! She heard the creature smash its way through the door and heard the footsteps become louder. She entered one of the bio-storage rooms and closed the door. She poked her head up into the window to see if the creature was out there.
Thump! Thump! Thump! The creature walked past the room she was in as it was on its hunt for flesh. Just a couple more steps. She heard the steps fade away and got ready to open the big metal door. 3...2...1 Now! She ran out of the room and sprinted toward the exit. She heard the monster howl and its pace quickened. She rounded the corner and ran out and slammed the door shut and slammed her fist on the blue button.
She looked in the window and saw the monster come into view and then stop. The creature started screaming as it began waving its claws viciously around the corridor. She continued watching as the things face crushed inward. She heard its ribcage crack under the building of the pressure and the big eye on its chest popped and the creature imploded into nothing. She smiled and walked out of the room and towards the elevator.
Tange had entered the door to the left after he packed some bullets into Corin's face. He hid in the men's bathroom. He heard Corin walk pass here and into some other room in the lab. A few moments later he heard a crash and some roars.
He waited a few moments and stepped out. He went right and entered the door at the end of the hall stepping into an observation room. A glass door stood between two thick windows and he opened it stepping in. The small hall he was in had more windows and he looked through one of them. Glass vials and consoles were thrown throughout the room and about fifteen bodies lay sprawled, rotting on the ground.
He looked down the hall and saw a giant hole in the wall and ran up to it having the two handguns trained in front of him. He looked at the hole and carefully stepped into it revealing a metal hallway. He looked to his right and the doors were opened and he looked inside seeing Caitlyn about to press a switch. "Wait for me." he said making her jump as he entered.
"Don't do that again asshole." she said pressing the B-8 button.
"I see you."
They both looked up and saw Corin, his body riddled with holes. He closed his eyes and all the rounds slid out of him like magic and the wounds healed up. He looked up at them and began to walk towards them. Fire shot up around the hall as the doors closed as he came closer ignoring the heat.
The doors sealed shut and began its descent. Tange looked at a small screen above the elevator door with the following coordinates:
Feet Remaining: 1050
Time Remaining: 1 min 23 sec
Tange let out a sigh combing his fingers through his hair.
"What the hell is he?" Caitlyn said, "A voodoo psycho?"
"I don't have a clue. I've never seen anything like it."
"Me too. It's like he's invincible, like he might be on some revenge thing. Did you see what happened when he closed his eyes?"
"Maybe, this incident has gotten to his head, but the sooner we get out, the better we'll feel about this thing." he said. He remembered reading some file before about a virus called the T- Veronica of how it turned some lady into this unstoppable creature. But she had gone into a deep sleep for about twenty years before being able to control the virus. Corin couldn't be something like that; if he was he would be king of this planet wiping his ass with the president's face after shitting in the Hudson Lake.
The doors opened and they both stepped out into a corridor at least two- hundred feet long. A door was at the end to the right side of the path. They quickly ran to it in a sprint and noticed some vines grown on the ceiling. They made it and Tange opened the metal door and they entered.
The room was huge; it was probably one-fifty by two hundred feet. A big glass dome was in the middle of the room as parts of it were shattered revealing a cave. This must be the habitat chambers. Vines were grown wildly all over the place and computers and monitors were displayed all over the room.
On the ground, ten lickers were all dead, as they looked to be shot to death. Rotting bodies filled the room and about two hunters lay sprawled in the room. The ceiling was about fifty feet above them and more plants and vines took up most of the space.
As he read in the documents, a man by the name of Francis Wilson Rodriguez wanted to speed the growth of habitat four, the plant, by adding some growth vapor to the chamber, causing it to grow out of control causing it to breach the remaining habitat domes making it burst or crack letting out the specimens. With the specimens out they reached the higher levels and caused the T-virus to escape. With this; everyone died.
Caitlyn was on the other side of the room, crouched down, looking at a rotting licker.
He looked forward seeing another door at the end of the room. He walked toward it stepping on bits of glass and around bodies. He came up to it and put his hand on the metal knob and twisted it, pulling the door open. He was in a hall, exactly like the one before the habitat chamber. A few feet in front of him was another door. To his left was a different door marked bed chambers. He looked right seeing two doors about hundred feet away.
He opened the door ahead of him and looked in. About fifty hunters of all classes were all feasting on the remains of other specimens and humans, quickly turning their attention to him.
"Wrong room." he said quickly closing and locking the door. The scratching of claws quickly erupted against the other side of the door as the bloodthirsty reptiles prevailed opening the door.
Caitlyn was then right behind him as she opened the door to the beds. Inside was a bloody massacre. Every single corpse in there was literally torn limb from limb and thrown about in the room staining the blankets, walls, and floor. Tange looked above him seeing moving vines, plant vines, smoothly slithering across the ceiling about thirty feet above them.
Crash! A few meters away, the wall to their left exploded inward as some giant figure zipped in.
Rrooaar! The giant hulking Diablo stared at them with its gloomy black eyes. Its human arm was missing showing parts of bone stick out like a handle. The skin below its nose was burned away and its jaw bone was smoldered with cooked flesh. Most of its talons were broken off and the rest of its cloths were burned of.
Tange brought his gun up and pulled back the hammer only hearing a click, hearing Caitlyn's do the same. Diablo stepped forward shortening the distance between them. It launched forward with its feet at them and was abruptly pulled into the air.
Hundreds of thick green vines wrapped themselves around Diablo pulling it into the air. Diablo tried fighting it off but only by failing. The vines seeming to not notice, swung Diablo into the wall on the opposite side of the room. It picked Diablo up wrapping its deadly coils around each of its appendage. It squeezed tighter and all pulled away plucking Diablo's arms and legs out of their pedals on a flower. Vines quickly wrapped around its neck and twisted it apart with a long wet rip.
"Go!" Tange shouted running to the exit of the room on the other side of the room followed by Caitlyn, hearing the tyrant's body parts thrown around the room and smashing into the walls like a bug flying into a car window at full speed.
Caitlyn opened the door and stumbled in and waited for him. He felt the snake-like vines barely touch him as he dove through and hearing Caitlyn shut it.
He got up and slapped the last magazine into the Uzi and looked around the corridor they were in. The walls were a shiny metal and the floor was decorated with dried blood. He looked right and the corridor turned right. He walked down and turned right seeing a sign barely hanging on the wall saying station platform.
"I think we found our way out." he said smiling as he walked to the end of the hall. He turned and saw Caitlyn behind him looking like she was going to laugh. The sign pointed to a stairwell leading down.
"Race you to the bottom!" she shouted as she ran by him. He hit the wall and chased after her. She hit the bottom first and laughed at him for his utter defeat.
"No fair." he said laughing and went to a metal door straight in front of them and opened it, stepping in.
One twelve car train stood on the tracks next to an empty railway to the right of the room. The room was a giant cave with two circle like openings for each track. Flood lights hung from the ceiling some fifty feet up which made the chamber look like a spy movie setting to the enemies entrance which leads to the hideout.
"Oh this is not good." Caitlyn said.
He looked at her glancing at the end of the train. "What's wrong?"
"There is no power to power the train and the wheels are locked down by some device."
Tange looked around the cavern spotting a maintenance room she on the other end of the room.
"Warning, missile launch is in progress. All personal please evacuate at once. Operation termination Scrapeson is in progress. Warning-" the intercom system repeated the message as the alarm system went off making a high pitched buzzing noise.
"Come on!" he shouted running to the shed praying that some sort of supply was in there.
Note: Part I is almost done. R&R