Chapter Twenty-8: Misunderstanding Confrontations

Surge and Orchid finally made it down the crater slope. His legs ached like a bitch and he washoping that this was going to be the only mountain that hewould climb down on. Taking his mind off his legs and the crater, he checked his gun once again, ejecting the clip.

"Why do you keep doing that?" Orchid said obviously pissed of his prudent inspection of the gun.

"Do what?" he said acting like he didn't know what she was talking about.

"Check your damn gun for about the millionth time."

Surge finished, slamming the magazine back into its place and looked at her, "Because I happen to be in a volatile scenario and would not like my gun to jam thank you very much."

Orchid was silent as she turned her attention to what was ahead.

Surge looked at it too, frowning loudly, "Aw, damn it!"

A huge wall, twenty feet high stood in their way. It stretched all the way from left to right as far as he could see.

"Does this mean we're out of the city limits?"

"Oh, shit I hope so-"

Beep! Beep! Surge and Orchid heard something followed by a low rumbling noise. Hey, that sounds like a truck...Oh shit!

Turning around, there was a huge dump truck speeding down the crater slope, the horn honking wildly. Someone then jumped out of the cab and landed on their feet and shouted, "GET THE HELL OUTTA THE WAY!"

Surge and Orchid were already out of the way running, aimlessly away from the speeding truck.

BOOM! It was a solid impact; the truck hit the wall sending invisible shockwaves through the ground, knocking both of them off their feet.

"Are you two okay?" the unknown figure said approaching them. Surge looked at him; he was the same size as Surge and about the same size in build. He had a goatee and a light mustache and sideburns that went to the bottom of his jaw and the most peculiar thing was that he wore sunglasses.

Surge got up helping Orchid to her feet and looked at the man, "Shit, dude! What the fuck's your problem?"

"What the fuck's yours?" he replied back looking from Orchid to Surge, "I was hoping the gas tank would explode."

"Well, it didn't!" Orchid shouted at him. "Who the hell are you anyway?"

"My name is Tange Roland, and what about you two?"

"Surge."

"Orchid."

Surge looked at the laptop on Tange's arm and then at Tange seeing his expression on his face change serious hated look. "What is it?"

In a split second, Tange moved fast, kicking Surge's hand which held the gun and caught it and pointed it at his face. "Who do you work for?"

Surge glanced at Orchid and she raised her gun. She was too slow; a shotgun was then set at her face. Shit, he moves fast! I wonder how fast he is if-

He hit Tange's arm upward releasing the gun-

Surge was sent to the ground feeling the pain in his chest a second later, he wasn't shot-

Bam! Tange's face jerked to the side. There was a small red line on his cheek as he caught the gun and veered it toward Orchid.

"That- was a mistake." Tange then said.

Bam!

"No!" Surge screamed but Orchid landed next to him.

"I'm going to ask you again nicely, with a new question. Do you work for Umbrella?"

"No!" they both screamed at him.

"Actually, we used too like less then a week ago." Orchid then said, "Do you?"

Tange smiled throwing down their weapons at them, "My bad, I've been rather tactless lately."

"Well, I hope you didn't kill anyone over your condition," Surge shot back getting up and checking his gun again.

"I just killed five people a few minutes ago because they wanted to kill me." He smirked a little and raised his shotgun and aimed it at the crumpled truck and fired. In a split second the whole truck exploded blowing part of the wall down and knocking everybody off their feet again.

Tange had almost killed two people a few seconds ago, all because they were Umbrella outfits. He had recognized them before but couldn't remember where, but it really didn't matter now. He stepped through the desecrated wall first going quickly through the scorching flames.

The rubble soon ended when he came across a street and turning towards the fire, "Okay, it's clear." He shouted grimacing to the repugnant taste of the odor in the air reminding him of Scrapeson.

"Aw, shit!" Tange turned around watching Orchid run through the debris, accidentally touching the burned surface.

"You okay?"

"Great." She said sarcastically.

Surge came next and looked at the city with utter despair, "This place reminds me of that damn boat."

"Let's go." With the shotgun wavering down to his side, those precious memories just started pouring into his head, yeah precious. He turned his attention to the laptop on his arm, seeing a 3D map of the cities, which were ten miles apart and a Umbrella facility five miles away from the city they weren't in. There was then a thin black line boxing in everything including the crater and was labeled, border.

The street turned right and the scenery around them changed from creepy to completely shit blown. Great massive crashes went down the street ravaged by small to large fires; buildings were vandalized and ruined. There were several knocked down road blocks and a line of squad cars crossed into the street with all the sirens on. And on top of all that chaos were zombies.

"Holy shit." Surge said, "You have any kick ass weapons to replace my feather weight pee shooter?"

"Hand me your gun." Tange said to Orchid. She gave him her handgun and he lent over the shotgun and the strap of ammo he was wearing, "make some good use with it." Orchid nodded pumping it as Tange handed Surge Orchid's handgun.

"What about-"

The zombies slowly recognized them and were now making their way towards the group of three in ungainly steps.

"What about you?" Surge shouted raising both the guns up towards the approaching crowd.

Tange sighed and pulled the .44 out and looked at him, "this is mine."

"Great now tell me where the hell we're supposed to go?"

"There!" Orchid shouted pointing at a silver colored building that look typically unharmed, "That looks safe." She pumped a round out blowing away the closest group knocking them back a few steps or to the ground.

"Go!" Tange shouted, they all ventured into the crowd firing away.

Orchid pumped another round into the closest carrier blowing its upper torso away as she jumped over the repeated obstacles to get to the building as fast as she could. Glancing over quickly Tange was merely pistol whipping and kicking the carriers in the face making them fall to the ground and not get up again.

Reloading the shotgun, she pumped it again and crawled under a barrier and got up and loaded two rounds into a group of five. She felt something tugging at her back and she did a one-eighty and slammed the butt of the shotgun into another carrier, hitting its temple. Blood sprayed out the side of its face as it stumbled to the ground with an angered growl.

She began to search for Surge with her eyes, frantically firing another well placed shot at another reanimated corpse stunning it a little and then pushing it to the ground and stomping on its head with her boot.

"Orchid!"

She looked in the direction of the screaming seeing Surge behind a fire hydrant screaming something at her and pointed at Tange. She looked at Tange who looked at her through his shades and screamed at her to move, he was aiming at something and she turned to look and-

KA-Boom! She was thrust to the ground as a flash of orange and yellow filled her vision. Cars and trucks flew upward as she watched them soar past her. The explosion lit up the night sky for only a brief amount of time and then died away.

Orchid got up, feeling trashed and seeing spots in her vision. Her hearing suddenly came back to the howling wind and groans of the undead. Snapped back to the pragmatic world she saw a carrier crouch down next to her and grab her arm.

"Get off me!" she screamed panicking as it opened its blood encrusted mouth and-

-flew off of her and hit a squad car. Looking up, Tange stood over her and helped her up and pointed the .44 at something. She looked seeing a group of twenty falling over a police barrier and then noticed the red barrel sitting next to the crowd.

"Hold tight!" he shouted and another deafening explosion tore through the air. When Orchid opened her eyes once more she saw the disgusting group of twenty a part of the pavement, cars, and stores.

She pumped the shotgun and ran down the street toward the building with Tange trailing behind. She saw Surge running backwards down the sidewalk firing at a group. He stopped and knocked a trash can over and saw her.

They were about ten feet from the building when she could see that it was called The Arclay Archives. There was another sound distorting explosion as they pulled the heavy doors open and stepped in. A second later Tange barged through taking off his sunglasses and throwing them to the ground, Orchid caught a glimpse of smoke radiating off them.

"Those damn things almost melted my eyes out," he spat.

Orchid and Surge looked at the huge lobby and checked their guns. Orchid was down to about ten more shells and placed seven into the shotgun and pumped it and put the safety on. Surge emptied his clips and replaced them with new ones and cocked back the hammers.

"Where did you get those extra mags?" Orchid said.

"Squad car, talk about a miracle."

Orchid turned away smiling slightly, looking over at Tange who was finishing reloading the .44, and spun the barrel and put it back in its place. "That was some pretty good shooting out there." She said to him, he drew his attention to her and smiled.

"You're not bad yourself." He remarked.

"Okay, so what now?" Surge said.

Bam! Bam! Raaaah! Bam! Bam! Gunshots suddenly tore through the air making everyone jump.

"What the fuck was that?!" Surge shouted pointing the guns at random directions in the complex.

"I guess that's the 'what now' part." Tange then commented.