Part III: The Great Fall
Chapter Twenty-3: Personnal Satan
The helicopter landed in the giant underground stadium as Chin Sun peered at the radar seeing many red dots on the screen approaching the base. "Oh, Shit!" he cried as the doors to the choppers opened, Chin seeing a man and a woman step out that he did not know. At last stepped out Cypher with a grim expression on his face.
He ran to him stopping a mere two feet away from his face, "We have a problem!" he said.
"What is it now?" Cypher said with no entusiasm; apparently something had happened to him, maybe he saw Satan or worse.
Chin led him inside the tower which was a giant control tower that was the height of the Saturn V rocket, okay a third the size, but still pretty goddamn tall. He showed Cypher the screen pointing at the red radiating dots blinking on the screen.
"What's the time of approaching?" Cypher asked folding his arms and sighing.
Chin looked at the screen above the radar and looked at him, "five minutes, sir. Sir?"
Cypher looked at him with no expression and then at the two people he did not know, "So the Umbrella wanted to strike early...FORTY-EIGHT HOURS EARLY!!" he screamed pounding his fist on top of the monitor. "Assemble most of your men Chin, and tell them, 'kill anything that's not human when it comes through.'"
Cypher turned around and picked up a long frequency radio to get in touch with Surge and Orchid from the vessel they were in. "Orchid- Surge? Do you copy?"
Cypher let go of the switch on the side of the button and waited for a response as static poured through, "....yes we hear you. Over."
"We have a fucking crisis on our hands! Where are you?"
Again there was static at first and then, "twenty five miles from the Antarctic coast, our map has located a giant dam blocking a river."
Cypher pressed down on the switch and spoke into the speaker, "let me make this short, we have very little time, navigate your way to the dam; it should be open and just follow the river. You should then end up in a giant tunneling series of caverns. They lead to the inner defense system, navigate your way using your map. Hurry, over and out."
He turned the radio off and looked at Tange and Caitlyn, "I cannot believe this is already happening. You should head off to the facility before the whole base is in emergency mode."
"No!" they both said simultaneously.
"We're both staying." Tange said as Caitlyn nodded, "you help that boat get to the dock, it will help with firepower; I heard you say that thing was a tank."
"We're staying to fight," Caitlyn said.
"Fine." That were the only words that came to Cypher he looked at them, then saying the most encouraging words he could think of, "Good luck."
They both walked away running into a group of me who were making their way for the supply depot. Cypher turned to one of the operators closest to him and said, "open the dam gates."
"I can't" was the only thing the operator said.
"Why the fuck not?!" he screamed.
The operator looked at him, "No one's alive on the dam, the whole outer defense was shut down and none of us can access anything out there."
Cypher sighed again for the second time and took his coat off and ran towards the facility. He began thinking what was going to happen next; where he would be in the next few minutes as blue alarms flared on and off. A pair of blast doors where slowly closing which led to the facility and he ran through just before hearing and seeing the heavy noise between the two slides of metal hitting each other like thunder.
Bei woke up to flashing blue lights in the edge of his eyesight as he lazily rolled on his side, suddenly feeling the cold wetness of the concrete ground. He rubbed his eyes with his hands, feeling the grim layered onto his palms. He got up, looking around the room and placed his left hand on his hip, feeling the hardness of metal. It was his gun, empty though as he took it out of its holster.
He had to get out of here, he began searching for a ladder which was probably a few feet away from him from were he landed after that physco bitch pushed him down, holy shit! He could only catch glances of the gloomy room in short glimpses because of the flashing blue lights shining brightly every few seconds.
Turning around, the lights revealed the ladder about five feet away from where he stood. He walked toward it with his hands stretched out, grabbing the grimy edges of the ladder and pulling himself up. Bei climbed his way up, ten hitting his head on another metal object. A metal hatch was right above him with a blue valve on it.
He placed his hands on it and twisted as hard as he could to the left, loosening the small hatch and opened it. A tiny light peered into the room, casting a glare in his eyes as he shielded them with his hands. The ladder ran the height all the way to the small white light at the top some two hundred feet up. To his knowledge, the lowest area of the dam was fifty feet below the ocean surface, and cold as hell.
Bei climbed the ladder passing level after level, edging his way to the top. Every section he passed where there was an opening to the metal doors of each area, a blinking blue light was firing off above the doors.The sound of an alarm grew iminent as he reached the top, the light growing larger, he made it! He was on the top of the dam, seeing the turrets lined up down the top of the wall, each inactive, more like the whole damn dam inactive.
It was cold as hell, despite the fact that the whole antarctic outdoors was hell! The sky was a dark grey as to his years of operating here that a blizzard had just passed. He checked his watch seeing that the sun was going to rise twenty minutes from now after two p.m.
Rrrrrrrr.... Bei heard a low rumbling noise coming out from the sea and looked out, seeing many small dots in the sky, like a storm of locust. Wait one fucking minute, those were choppers, hundreds of them; all carrying giant cargo boxes as they approached. To Bei's surprise as the stormed over the dam, the whole place shaking under the beating of the blade, the boxes were thin silver capsules in the resemblence of a missile without the navigating wings and coned shaped top.
"Holy shit!" he screamed over the noise spotting the Umbrella logo on every single one of the choppers as they stormed more inland, toward the inner defenses. "That does not look fucking good!"
Tange grabbed two MP5K and a flamethrower as everybody else was doing. He strapped on a white vest over his coat without removing it tightening the straps. Caitilyn was doing the same thing, not removing her coat as she grabbed the same supplies as he did.
"The inner defense platform will descend in thirty seconds to an elevation of negative one hundred. All exits will be secured."
"You scared?" Caitlyn asked.
"A little," he responded grabbing mags and fuel containers for the selected weapons. "You?"
"So so," she responded looking at him then going back to what she was doing.
The whole platform then rumbled, Tange seeing the whole gigantic platform begin to descend. But nothing was happening.
"That's not the platform!" Caitlyn shouted, turning to him with a sad worried look on her face, "their here."
They both ran out into the opening, passing chopper pads. As he could recall, the lay out of the platform was two giant paths intersecting each other in the middle of the platform where the control tower was. In the opening area were catwalks connecting each path to each other. The catwalks themselves led to helicoptor pads, warehouses, and turrets.
Above everything was a giant concrete or metal gate that covered the platform protecting them right now from what was now to come.
Tink! Tink! Tink! Hundreds of high pitched aggravating noises of spears being driven into metal, echoed through out the whole chamber. Looking up, Tange saw many spears sticking out of the bottom of the metal barrier. He looked at Caitlyn, "I hope we survive."
"Let us hope." she replied walking to him, wrapping her arms around him. He achnowledged doing the same thing, hearing a sniffle. She was scared, so am I! He heard her voice breaking slightly, "I wish this never happened to me... all this-"
"It's okay, don't cry." he said hugging her tighter massaging her back to calm her down.
"OH MY GOD! HEAR THEY COME!"
Feeling tears in his eyes for the urge to cry for her to for all the pain she's been through, she pushed away looking up. He holstered the flame thrower looking up too. Some black oval shapes were raining down from all the spears wedged into the barrier.
Looking at the ground, over hundreds of men were all looking up, reminding him of the last time he saw so many people which happened to be zombies back in Scrapeson. Hundreds of people armed to the teeth against black pebbles falling from capsules; is that the best Umbrella could do.
The shapes grew bigger as they approached the ground and impacted with juicy wet slaps. Tange's expression changed as he watched the shapes pile up onto each other and rising up from the ground.
"What the hell?" he said looking over at Caitlyn.
Ka-CH-Chong!! The whole platform rumbled abruptly and began descending down, as the shower of creatures continued to rain down onto the ground. Looking closely at the shapes, Tange's eyes widened, Leeches?
The leeches began piling up and started rising. He stepped back bumping into Caitlyn, quickly turning around and veering back seeing the shaped of leeches now at least six feet tall. It shot forward at them both, Tange and Caitlyn quickly stepped away, Caitlyn quickly turning, and started firing her rifle at the leech form. Nothing happened, rounds just passed through it like it was water.
The leech turned around towering over Caitlyn and flung its arm back and shot it forward towards her with incredible speed, so fast that Tange didn't see it hit her, sending her to the ground.
"Fucking leech!" he screamed arming the flamethrower, pulling the trigger letting loose a stampede of blazing fire. Flames enveloped the creature causing it to flail about. He pulled Caitlyn up as he watched it shrink into a puddle of shit into the ground.
Caitlyn threw the rifle aside, holstering the flamethrower, pointing it to another one of the leech creatures and began to let loose flames over the form, watching it also shrink to nothing but a puddle of goo.
Caitlyn turned to look at Tange as he was plowing the creatures down with the flamethrower. She turned around torching three more of the creatures. More and more of them were raining down. The platform then stopped again almost causing both of them to fall to the ground.
"Come on! This way" He shouted, drawing her attention to him as he opened a hatch from the ground, quickly one eighty degree-ing bringing the butt of the gun into the weakly shaped head of the leech man, disrupting its shape as its head exploded and stumbled back.
Caitlyn ran to the hatch and slid down the ladder landing in a narrow tunnel filled with about five more men running about. Tange landed in next closing and locking the hatch and fell againts the wall pulling his fuel cartridge out and setting another in. "I hate Umbrella," he gestured pulling a white cloth out of his vest and wiped his forehead.
She turned her attention away from him, seeing the battling men about fifty feet down the winding tunnel torching a group of five or ten, whatever those leech men were morphing around, their structure like a jigsaw puzzle.
Her eyes then widened as all the leech men, just covered the men as they all were blanketed by leeches. "Shit! Shit! Shit!"
She was pulled away by Tange after he said, "Their already dead, come on!" They ran the opposite direction down the winding tunnel, muffled explosions were heard overhead. Caitlyn was kind of relieved that they were a floor lower.
Chin ran out of the control tower as soon as the platfrom hit the lower levels, darting for a four wheel drive extended jeep, with a giant turret placed in the back with rounds the size of baseballs.
A man he did not know was waiting for him in the drivers seat as Chin hopped onto the turret and spun it around, nailing a group of leech men who have just fully formed. "Gun it!" he shouted, hearing the off road tires squeeling against the metal ground. Another man jumped on, throwing a grenade toward a group of six, watching it explode in a ball of glistenning flames, sending leech guts all over the place.
The whole jeep was rocking, as he rotated the turret, firing on some gas canisters, iginiting their flammablity ingredients as it blew up, the explosion soaring across the platform. The whole place was now dimmed out except the burning of fire.
Men were shouting in agonizing defeat or revenge. Chin didn't believe in defeat, it didn't exsist. The man that hopped on board jumped off, running into a small warehouse, attempting to rescue his fellow colleagues from a hoard of leech men, firing away with both maching gun and flame thrower.
The jeep ran over some pipes, making the whole structure of the vehicle rumble. Chin aimed the turret and tore another group of leech men to pieces, literally to pieces.The vehicle stopped with a strong jerk. Chin rotated the turret and saw leech men, piling into the front, flooding over the viewing window. He pulled the heavy trigger flinging hot melting led into the group, cutting their upper bodies to pieces.
"You Okay!" he screamed at the driver.
"Ya!" the driver achnowledged, hitting the gas, passing another oncoming jeep, which was blazing in flames, crashing into a small shed, and exploding into a ball of flames, poor bastards! Right now was not the time to feel all sorry for the perished ones because surviving was the main objective.
The jeep crashed through the catwalks plowing down ten to twelve more leech men, and skidded to a stop in a helipad, creating a donut as the tires skidded to a halt, one eighty degreeing the vehicle. "What's the hold-up?!" he demanded.
"Somethings jammed between the tires." the driver said getting out of the driver's seat and looking under the truck, "gibe me a minute!"
High screeches were heard from behind Chin, as he reacted by turning the turret, blasting away two more of the inane creatures. He looked around him, seeing the whole platform as a giant battlefield; human bodies lay all over the place, random fires, and the hundreds of leech men that were now edging towards him, from everywhere.
"Ahh!" screamed the driver, as he jumped out from under the car covered in blood, his face was melting as a leech man came out from under the car, quickly grasping onto the driver and squeezed his face with its arms. Chin didn't flinch after seeing the driver's face explode, as he then only cared about his survival, and the hundreds of leech men that surronded him. He aimed the turret and fired.
Bei noticed someone at the end of the walkway after the choppers made the pass. He edged closer, seeing the human figure suddenly dart towards him with incredible speed, closing the distance of one hundred feet to zero in a few seconds. He remembered; that woman that took out the special ops team.
He braced himself, as she launched her hands forward, he kicked them away with his feet, jumping forward after that and kicking her in the chest. She fell on her back. Bei stepped over her, not seeing her boot slam into his chin, knocking him to the ground.
He watched her jump up in one swift motion. He rolled to the side as her boot came down next to his face, expect the unexpected! He quickly jumped to his feet, and grabbed her by the neck and threw her off the dam ledge, watcing her fall silently towards the frozen ocean, her deathly gaze locked onto his eyes.
Bei let out a long sigh, he had finally won. Victory was sweet.
Weeeooon! "What the fuck" he shouted then turning towards the ocean seeing two bright rockets flying towards him, which had probably come from that speeding boat, it doesn't matter bitch, get out the way before your toast. Bei obeyed his mind and ran towards the snowy mountains as the rockets crashed into the dam, shattering it like glass. Feeling the wall fall apart, Bei barely made it, now hearing the heavy sounds of a waterfall.
"Hold on to your ass!" Orchid shouted as she sped through the dam rubble after Surge had fired to rockets at it. The wall exploded like glass, maybe because it was so frozen. He was now cursing over the monitor.
Cypher had told them to follow the river and, Boom! Their there. All they had to do was fire as much rockets at the roof of some platform to bring in the sunlight to melt away the leech bastards like water to a witch. It seemed easy, practically too easy.
Surge came back to the front, sitting down in the seat next to her grining at her, "Shit! You can drive!"
She ignored him as she spotted a dark tunnel were the river led, "that's the place!" she shouted, flicking two switches over her to increase the speed, the whole ship shaking wildly as they entered the tunnel. It was so dark in there she had to rely off the 3D holographic map, next to the steering controls. It was all windy and shit, but they should manage, two million smackers were in it for them.
"Okay, I'm gonna need your help!" she said, "so we don't crash and freeze."
"Fine!" Surge replied sitting up straight.
A not so loud high pitched alarm rang and she said, "decrease right, back, engine by fifty percent, increase left, back by fifty!"
"Right fifty, left fifty." he repeated calmly. The ship sharp turned right. Another turn came up fast, a sharp one by the map.
"Increase whole left side, ninety percent, right side, decrease eight!" She said, hearing Surge repeat quickly as he punched in numbers. The ship jerked to the left this time, but hit the rocky wall. "Fuck! Come on! Cope with me!"
"I'm trying" Surge growled sitting back in his seat.
Chin was screaming at the top of his lungs as he was practically moping the floor with these creatures guts. They kept coming, he didn't care, give it to him. "COME ON YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!! AHH!!" he said screaming over the gun fire.
Ants! They were ants to him, he was the pesticide, wiping every insignificant leech bastard out with his turret. His face was all cut up, as he began screaming through his clenched teeth. He stopped, turning a complete one-eighty, knocking some more off the side of the jeep. Chin was glued to the turret, it was a part of him, he knew no defeat, he spat in its face.
But somewhere, inside, he knew he would not survive. The leech men stopped invading him and stood still for several seconds and then liquidated, all leeches going into one group. The whole group grew turning into the shape of a four legged creature, a leech queen. Chin's eyes widened as he gripped the trigger and fired. The queen sprayed him with poison, he felt his face sizzling as the acid ate through his face.
"AHH!!" he continued screaming, the pain unbearable, continueing fire as the queen collapsed on him, crushing him to death. The queen itself died too after so many of the deadly rounds it had taken and roared in pain and died.
Caitlyn and Tange saw what had happened, the man they didn't even know was crushed by a new form of leech. They too were beat up as well, but not as bad. Her whole body ached, she wanted to get out of here.
The battle was still progressing. Raaah! Leech man! It was behind them, Tange turned around as she began-
Pain! In her back, sharp, stinging pain. She looked down seeing a thin sharp piece of debris sticking out of her chest. Tears formed in her eyes, she was dead. She fell back hitting the metal ground, feeling her own warm blood coarse around her body. She didn't want to die, in the background she heard Tange screaming in anger, killing her what was now going to be her killer with everything he had.
"Can we make it?!" Surge shouted, as light suddenly shown through the front window. He spotted a big metal gate, feeling reliefed at last.
"Arm the cannon and we'll find out!" Orchid said, "Go!"
He leapt from his seat and darted towards the back, and then fell on his stomach, as the ship crashed through the gate. Metal grinding was then heard as he got up and armed the cannon device, aiming it up toward a giant shield hundreds of feet in the air.
"Fire! Damn it!" she shouted.
He pulled the trigger countless times, he didn't know how many, seeing dozens and dozens of missiles launch forward and hit the shild, shattering it like glass. The whole shield was then vaporized from the blast and sunlight shot into his vision, bright sunlight, the brightest he has ever seen today. "Mission Complete." he said with a grin.
Cypher was overjoyed, sunlight! Those leech bastards were now facing death. Most of them would be dead in the next two minutes. He heard the room full of people he was with burst in victory, hugging each other, and common phrases. He had finally won.
Tange crouched over next to Caitlyn after wasting all his fire power on that one leech. This coulnd't be happening. "Caitlyn! No...no...Oh shit, no!"
"I'm still here Tange." she said coughing. "I'm cold all over."
Her voice broke, tears fell down her face. "I don't want to die- Not right now, not like this!"
"Your not going to die." he lied, he knew what was going to happen, "please, hold on Caitlyn! Don't give in."
"I...already....did." she said slowly still crying, taking gasp of breath, "back in Scrapeson."
"Caitlyn-I-" his voice was beginning to break, tears were beginnning to go down his cheeks.
"I always wanted to tell you this, Tange-but-" she coughed, "-it's- too-l-late."
"What?" he said holding her hands in his.
"I....Love you-uhh..." her body relaxed, her hands fell back. Her eyes were still open, Tange laid her hands to her sides and closed her eyes with his bloody hands. He crouched down to the ground next to her, thinking about what she said, those strong words. He never realized it till now too, that he loved her since they met in Scrapeson.
"Oh don't cry you pitiful, insignificant bastard!" someone growled from behind him. He knew that voice. Corin.
He stood up and turned around, staring his nemesis straight in the eyes. "Everything ends."
Corin smiled wickedly, then removing his shades and began to laugh with hatred and wickedness.