WARNING: THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS LOTS OF BLOOD AND GORE.
Chapter Twenty-2: Crimsons and Lickers
Orchid was in the bottom area of the ship. It was hot as hell down their, machines were whirring, and giant metal gears were shifting up and down. It was very dim, because some of the lights were busted or burned out, giving it some ghastly effect.
She climbed down a ladder, going down quickly and landed with a thud, her weapons swinging to and fro. Orchid held the G36 down as she walked down a metal catwalk, passing many turbines, which were shooting steam out from the sides. Everyone was supposed to place bombs in the back and front. Two in the back, were the main engines are, and four in the front. Once the explosives were detonated, they were supposed to cripple the ship, destroying the engines;stopping the ship, and the front; which will most likely puncture a hole, thus sinking it.
She reached a metal door, with a big metal valve in the middle which was dripping with blood. She stepped back, wondering what was on the other side.
Clang! She jumped turning around quickly, the G36 pointing in the direction of the noise. She then gave a sigh of relief, seeing Crash and Surge, standing on the catwalk, near the ladder.
"You fuckin' scared me." she said a little pissed off.
"How's that door?" Crash said ignoring her.
"I didn't check it."
"Why?" he questioned sternly.
"Because, she was waiting for us." Surge commented.
She smiled a little and glanced over at him, "Thank you." she said sarcastically.
Crash, turned the valve, ignoring the blood, or not seeing it, and motioned for both of them to come towards him. "Open the door." he said.
Surge, placed his hand on the valve, and pulled it open, hearing the metal hinges, grind together. Crash turned the flashlight on his weapon on, and jumped into the room, scanning it with the light as he stood his ground.
"Goggles." he shouted. She placed her goggles over her eyes, bringing the complete green vision over her and stepped into the dark room, seeing many cages inside; all torn open from the inside.
She looked at Crash, who happened to be a red, yellow, and orange shape walking about. "What the hell were in these cages?" she asked.
"How should I know?" Surge answered.
"Keep searching!" Crash ordered, as he turned walked towards a puddle on the ground. "What is this?" he then said.
She looked at the puddle, seeing in heat signature, that it was completely blue, meaning that it was cold. She walked over to it, standing next to Crash, were he was crouched down examining it. She activated the light, screwed onto her gun and pointed it at the puddle. "It's blood." she said.
He looked up at her and dipped his finger in it, "Well, we don't have to worry about it now, only that it's been here a long time before we've got here.
Crash got up and walked away, continuing to inspect the room, as she stayed backing looking at the puddle. Something then landed in it. Another drop, causing small ripples to spread. The heat signature showed a blue puddle, with a little reddish dot in the middle, soon there was another. Something was dripping from the ceiling. She backed away, hitting the wall and looked up, gasping in horror.
Surge, turned the corner, seeing a dead dog lying on the ground. It was lying there, skinless and rotten, with bullet punctures all over its side. He didn't like seeing animals like this. Dying with no meaning, being used for experimentation. Rats were inches by it, taking small bits of its flesh off and scurrying off. That's when he heard Orchid.
She happened to shriek, in horror or surprise. He turned away from the dog and ran back to were she and Crash inspected the blood. He spotted her, looking up at the ceiling, leaning against the wall.
"What is it?" he asked placing his hand on her shoulder. She took her goggles off and looked at him with fear in her eyes. "what is it?" he repeated.
"Bodies." she mouthed.
"What now?!" Crash said, pacing up to him, shining the light in their faces.
Surge turned the light on and pointed at Crash, seeing him pull off his goggles. "Well, what is it?" he asked again, angered. That's when Surge so it. A wet sliding shape was hanging above Crash's head; it was a tongue.
"Run!" Orchid whispered loudly.
"What?!" Crash asked, dumbfounded. The tongue curled in front of his neck, out of Crash's vision.
"Crash, watch out!" he shouted, raising his gun, taking aim at the tongue. Crash so it when it was too late. The tongue wrapped around his neck and pulled him up into the ceiling.
"CRASH!" Orchid then shouted in agony. He heard Crash scream from up in the ceiling as some creature up there started slashing at him. His weapon suddenly started firing, showing glimpses of Crash being held by his neck as he fired wildly at something, being choked by the tongue.
Rriipp! There was a large juicy tear, followed by the wailing of Crash. The creature roared, and a snapping noise erupted.
Boom! Something landed on the ground, and Surge pushed Orchid towards the door they came in, scared to death. The door suddenly slammed closed, and a series of locking sounded off. The door ahead of them locked also. They were trapped.
The tearing continued, and a bright light turned on, above a venting fan, shining through the openings of the blades as the fan spun slowly. Surge saw chains hanging from the ceiling, holding shadowy objects on the ends. Surge shined the light on one of the objects and then stumbled back, and fell on his knees and vomited. Orchid was still back against the wall looking at the ceiling and looking at him every few seconds.
There were bodies up, hanging by the feet at the end of the chains, raining down blood. The corpses were all bloated and eyes were opened and random teeth marks and slashes appeared all around their bodies.
He got up, and pointed his weapon at the ceiling again, seeing more of them hung up, swinging lightly as if pendulums on a clock. He began scanning the ceiling, turning around sharply. Something moved in the corner of his eye and he turned around, shining the light on one of the bodies, which was now moving, swinging its hands as its mouth open pouring bile out of its mouth.
He heard a hissing sound, and another, high raspy breathing. It sounded like there were five of those creatures in the room.
"Lickers," Orchid whispered, she had her goggles back on looking at the ceiling. Surge put his on and looked up at the ceiling and stared in horror. About ten lickers, were scurrying about on the ceiling.
"Shoot them!" he whispered towards her taking aim while continuing to view from the heat signature. He raised his gun-
Cling, cling, cling, cling, cling! The bodies began lowering as if someone had pressed a switch, releasing the chains. They all stopped, bodies hanging two feet off the ground, Surge stumbled on the ground as one of the bodies slouched against his back. He got up flashing the light at what happened to be the remains of Crash; A big hole in his stomach spilling his guts, his left hand was broken off, protruding the bone. His mouth hung open showing the bloody inside.
Surge spotted his C4 explosives still attached to his vest and put his hand out to grab it from his dead colleague. He placed his hand on the explosives and pulled his arm away quickly and placed them against the wall. He turned away and pressed a white button on the side, hearing a high pitched beep and looked at his watch seeing the words flashing across it, saying: ARMED!
He spotted Orchid, as a red-orange shape looking at him and doing what he did and placed her explosives on the opposite wall. He heard the high pitched beep and looked at his watch again seeing it say: ARMED #2!
Surge turned around looking back at Crash's corpse which just hung there like an ornament. He then smelled something strong, like a burning scent and spotted green vapor coming from all of the bodies, like steam.
All the blue colored bodies were now slowly heating up in his goggles, he looked at Crash again when the lights flickered on.
Sh-blah! Crash's arms shot towards him, as it growled and drooled, his skin was now burning red and cracked. Surge stumbled back tripping on the dead dog and hitting another one of the bodies which suddenly came to life and began flinging its rotting arms at him. All the bodies were moving, it was a room full of Crimsons and Lickers.
Orchid had finished placing her C4 when something started snatching at her back, that's when the lights shot on. She flung her mask off and turned around and spotted one of the hanging bodies wailing for her. She screamed and fell on the moist metal floor, stunned at the horror. She put herself together after seeing that the thing was hanging from chains.
Huuuuuuu... She froze immediately still lying on her back, hearing the raspy breathing of one of the brain exposed freaks. Looking upward she was face to face with a licker. It stood on the wall, its mouth closed, staring at her. But the damn lickers were all blind, they relied on sound. Well, fuck, it looked like it was staring at her. It's brain was darkish gray and moist, as so was the rest of its body. It opened its mouth, dripping drool onto her armored vest with thick saliva, making her look at it in disgust. As the mouth opened, she heard the smacking of its mouth and muscle making her feel icky.
She tried moving, but was paralyzed with fear, as its long tongue laced out of its mouth and towards her, snaking through the air. Orchid,get a fucking grip! Get up! She came to her senses and rolled out of the way, hearing the piercing of metal next. She got up aiming her weapon at the licker which slammed its extremely long talons into the floor, piercing the metal like it was paper.
Orchid fired wildly into its brain, pushing it back a couple feet and dying. Water began to shoot out of the punctured floor and began to fill the room. She stepped back as the hole bent out, growing wider and wider. It then stopped, the hole as big for her and Surge to easily fit in there. Water was now at her ankles and yelled over at Surge. "Open the door!"
"I can't!" he shouted, killing two lickers on the ceiling, there wet bodies landing with hard thuds on the ground. "Both of them won't open, this room looks like it's sealed!"
"Shit!" she shouted, stabbing her knife into the forehead of a hanging crimson as it tried swinging towards her. She looked up at the ceiling, feeling the water up to her knees now. She saw something. The vent with the fan installed in it, was about twenty feet above her.
She reeled right and fired at three lickers that landed from the ceiling and helped Surge finish the rest of them. The water was now at her waist. She shouted at Surge telling him to start climbing the machinery. She stabbed the throat of a crimson and began climbing the chain it hung on to the top of one of the turbines. Surge then came up next, as she helped him with the last few steps. Now they were about fifteen feet away from the vent.
Most of the bodies were now trashing in the water as they flailed their arms and legs. It was pointless.
"Up this chain!" Surge shouted grabbing a swinging chain which led right up to the vent. "You go first. Go quickly!"
She grabbed hold and began to venture up, her dripping clothes making it harder for her to get a good grip, she looked down seeing the water was now up to Surge's feet, as he stood on the turbine. He grabbed next as she climbed into the shaft going up and then the path going straight. She climbed into into, squeezing her way in and shuffled through the shaft.
The path led to a grill in the floor and she opened it, seeing a dry well lighted area and jumped on down into it, landing on her feet and then collapsing onto the ground, due to her growing tiredness and dehydration. She crawled to her feet as Surge then dropped down next and placed the rest of his C4's on to the walls of this room.
"Surge, look at this." she said looking at the giant object in front of her. It was a giant war boat, about the length of two eighteen wheelers, and as wide as the wingspan of the airplane they entered the ship on. It was plated in dark gray metal plates and had a giant glass window with steel bars holding it in place. It looked to be fourteen feet high and had three big ass turrets on it. One on the top, looking like a cannon making it look like it could shoot rockets. The two turrets on the sides happened to be the same standard ones the ship packed.
They were staring at their escape vehicle; a giant submersible battle boat. To her, it looked like a giant pill with weapons on it. Surge awed in astonishment and looked at her. "Plant the rest of your explosives.
She walked to the end of the room, towards the back of the boat, seeing the giant rotating rudders on them. There was a big metal door behind it, giving her a message that it was the exit due to the big metal doors. Orchid placed the last of her C4 explosives on the door and turned around, seeing one of the side turrets turn its double barrels towards the direction on were Surge was. What the fuck? "Surge! Get out of the way!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.
Surge looked and dived out of the way as the turrets went off, sending streaks of light into the spot Surge once stood.
Surge quickly got up and ran to the other side of the boat, as the turrets followed closely behind him, leaving basketball sized holes in the wall, causing water to pour in. He reeled to the other side, seeing the other turret just quickly slide around and aim at him.
"SHIT!" he screamed, diving out of the way landing under the boat. He fired the G36 at the turrets slightly denting the metal armor. Out of the turrets way, he looked up seeing a hatch above him. He pulled the handle opening it, showing the inside of the boat, as he hopped in, seeing Orchid chase after him.
He pulled his way up to a metal catwalk floor, when a shot rang out, sending sparks flying inches from him. He ducked down, rolling behind some crates as he heard a a man laughing. It sounded like he had a russian accent. Surge got a quick glance when another shot rang out, this time almost hitting him.
"How 'bout you and your bitch give up?" the man said. "I'm not that bad."
Surge returned fire, hearing the man laugh and disappear into another corridor of the boat. The vessel suddenly came to life, dim lights illuminating the room. Electrical humming was heard as the boat slowly booted up.
Surge charged around the corner and pointed his gun at the- "No!" he said. The man somehow now had Orchid in a head lock with a pistol pointed at throat, both standing near what happened to be the electrical room. "How did you get her?"
"There are many entrances to the ship." he said, "she chose the wrong one."
"Shoot him!" Orchid said nervously.
Surge took aim, as the pistol against her throat harder. The man began talking again. "He wouldn't shoot, he knows the risk. He might hit you." He gave a deep laugh, "put down the gun and I'll put away my gun and let her go, and we'll settle this hand to hand."
"NO!" she shouted.
"You are not the one answering the question bitch!" the man snarled. "Let him answer."
Surge saw the gun tighten some more and he set the G36 down. "Let her go." he commanded.
"Turn around and walk away from the gun."
He did as he was told and turned his head. "I said let her go." He didn't like were this was going.
In the corner of his eye, the man ejected the clip from the handgun and throw it into the electrical room. He then pushed Orchid in and closed and locked the door. Surge, hearing her scream, turned around and grabbed for his gun, as they both simultaneously grabbed it. His hand on the barrel as the other on the trigger. They got up and struggled for the gun as it went off, shooting at the ceiling causing the lights to go out and flicker, and making wires disconnect and land on the platform, sparkling; lighting up the room in green sparks.
The gun stopped, as the clip dropped out and Surge punched the man in the face as the room flashed in green flickering light. The man tackled him to the ground and pinned him down and punched him in the face many times. Trying desperately to block the punches, he waved his arms outward and rebuffed one of the blows and smashed the man in the jaw making him stumble off of him.
Surge got up as the man hit the wall and leaned forward as he ran into him and pull his head up and send another blow to his face, and another, and another. The man's face was getting more bloodier when he fell on his stomach.
Surge rolled him on his back and choked him as hard as he could, while his teeth were clenched showing no mercy. The man was trying to grab at something. Too late, he grabbed at one of the thick dismembered cords and ran the green sparkling spot into Surge's chest.
He screamed in pain and clutched his chest as he fell over, hearing his wound cook under the heat. He opened his eyes seeing the cord again being held by the man who was standing above him. Surge felt his nose bleeding when the cord shot down towards him again, this time to his neck.
Quickly, he grabbed the man by the arm which was holding the cord and twist his arm, hearing it break and ram the cord into the mans forehead, watching it melt through and impact with his brain. The man fell over and Surge went to the door and opened it letting Orchid out, who looked at the cord sticking out of the man's head.
Orchid sat in the control area looking out the window as Surge entered after tossing the body out of the vessel. He sat down next to her, staring at the controls. "Well, you're the one who knows all the vehicle crap." he said, "I'll leave it to you."
"Fine wise ass." she remarked, "we need to open the water gate. She pressed a button with a crappy design of a gate and heard the squealing of metal. Water poured past them, and she pressed a blue button, hearing the rudders come to life.
The room was now full of water, and she placed her hand on a lever and pulled it down and the ship back out of the ship and into the ocean. "You got that detonator ready?" she said looking at Surge. "You do the honors."
Surge smiled and pressed a button on his watch and they watched the ship.
Bloom! A muffled explosion was heard,and the rudders on the Renegade suddenly stopped, as millions of giant bubbles rose to the surface. "We just disabled the ship." he said smiling.
Wa-Choong! They both looked back at the ship, seeing the rudders begin rotating again. "what the fuck?" she said, "what happened, and there is no way I'm going back to that ship " she said in anger turning the boat around and emerged the ship above the water.
"We're not going back." Surge then said, "since we were trapped in that room, we had no other place to put it, but there. We just stunned it."
God damn it! She thought, after all that shit they went through, they ended up failing the mission.
Beep, beep, beep,beep! The communications device suddenly sounded off and Surge answered it.
"Hello everyone." voice said, "I hate to bother at this time, but I need your help!"
"And why should we help you?!" Surge replied.
They heard a laugh, "well, one million dollars will be awarded to you each."
Surge turned away coughing, "Holy shit" he said to her. "A million smackers!"
"Fuck!" she said, "I'm in."
Surge spoke into the radio, "Okay, we'll take it."
They heard the end of the radio laugh in cheerfulness. "That's exactly what I wanted to hear!" exclaimed the voice.
"Who is this?" Surge then asked.
The radio was silent for a minute and then the man replied, "My name is Cypher."
End of Part II: Reanimation
Note: Gosh, I worked my ass off on this section. I wonder how long it will be for me to finish part III (actually I have a few paragraphs on the next chapter). I'm probably gonna stop leaving my little notes, because I'm running out on what to say, plus, I'm just getting tired at writing the notes :-)I might have some here and there in future chapters. And if you were wondering who the guy that was just killed by Surge, was Vlad, the sniper from way back. L8er
PS. And if you havn't seen Resident Evil: Apocalypse, see the movie, it kicks so much ass