Chapter Thirty-1: Tange versus Corin- Courtyard Fight
"Fucking carriers!" Tange screamed to himself as he placed another one of the C4 explosives on the grimy walls. He had four to begin with and was down to two more, when he grabbed Erica by the shoulder, "Give me the radio!" She handed it to him quickly and darted off with Surge and Orchid in the dimly lit tunnel. The echoes of the dead were getting louder and louder as Tange hit the send button. "Joey! I need your help!"
There was then silence from the radio when Tange fired the .44, decapitating two or three carriers with just one shot as they made their way around the corner.
"I'm here Tange! What is it?" the radio then replied. Tange fired again as he ran down the tunnel, pulling out another C4, "Anyone there man? Tange? Erica?"
"This is Tange! Joey, do you no anything about the tunneling systems?" He let go of the send button as quickly as he stated the question placing the C4 on the wall-
"Ya, I do, one of those tunnels lead to the basement of my store. Just find the one in theparkinglotof the archives and it should be there!"
He then put his mouth to the receiver, "We're in those tunnels Joey! Where's the store, this place is about to go up in flames." He let go of the send and turned around and fired three more rounds into the dark abyss unable to see the carriers from were he was.
The radio burst to life once more and Joey was heard running or something of the sort, "Just keep going straight, and I'll be there!"
"Thanks!" Tange shouted, stopping once more and placing the last explosive against the wall. He then got the radio and smashed the send button down so far that it jammed and laid it on top of the C4.
He then took off bolting once more, seeing the others, getting a glance of their back features as they passed a light when someone began shouting ahead of them; Joey!
"Come on you guys! Over here!" Joey shouted, Tange barely making out his hands waving in the air. He watched as Surge, Orchid, and Erica suddenly disappear to the left all of a sudden. Tange continued running, the fiery light of the flare Joey was then holding growing bigger as he approached. "Okay man! Stop right there!"
Tange stopped a few feet from Joey and followed him going up a staircase and through a thick metal door. As Surge stumbled through he found himself in a food supply room with everyone else. He then collapsed on the floor in exhaustion as he heard Joey shut the metal door and secure its dead bolt. Tange pushed himself to a wall and sat against it, sighing out loud watching Erica run to her father and hug him.
"Oh! I'm so happy to see you again sweetie!" Joey said in joy, hugging her back.
"So am I!" she replied. He let go of his hug and kissed her on her forehead and rubbed her head with his hands.
"That's my girl."
Tange got up and before he knew it, his hand was held tightly by Joey's hand, "Thanks man! For bringing my daughter back. I owe you man!"
"It's nothing, sir-"
"Oh! Don't call me sir, call me Joey! I hate the yes sir, no sir, yes mam, no mam shit. You're reminding me of when I was in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Tange smiled letting go of Joey's hand and studied his features. He was a man in his middle ages, built up like a boxer. His black hair was combed back and he had thick side burns running down to the bottom of his jaw. He also had a thick crow-bar mustache and a goatee that ran up to the bottom of his lip. And lastly he had the look of I-don't-take-shit-from-no-one. He wore a pair of white, black, and gray camo pants and a sleeveless undershirt. An ammo strap was slung over his shoulders and went around his waist which held some pretty serious sniper bullets.
"So..." Joey then said, "You get the present from my daughter?"
"The bag of bullets," Surge commented smiling, "ya we got them."
"Ya!" Orchid then broke in, "It led to our survival and the re-demise of the undead."
Joey smiled and pulled out a pack of Black & Milds and slipped one in his mouth and handed the pack to Erica who also grabbed one and lit it with a butane lighter, then exhaling a large portion of smoke.
"Low on bullets, are you? Follow me." Joey waved his arms and opened a door and walked up a staircase into the room which was filled with hunting gear, vest, goggles, hats, and most important of all: guns and bullets. "Just help yourself."
As if on cue, Surge and Orchid emptied their vest on the glass counters and snatched a pair of new vests with no Umbrella indentions on them. Looking away from them Tange spotted the front entrance. The metal shutters were all the way down sealing off the windows and door from the homogenous carriers. Shelves were then placed against the entrance lining the whole wall.
Tange looked over at Erica who was re-supplying the bag with more ammo, dropping boxes of shotgun shells, magnum bullets, sniper rounds, and those pussy nine millimeters. The bombs! "Ah, shit." Tange ran after Joey who was making his way up to the roof of the building, "Joey do you still have the radio?"
As they reached the roof Joey responded, "Ya, I turned it off when you guys came in."
"Where is it?!" Tange questioned looking over the ledge seeing the sea of the dead, it looked like the audience of a damn rock concert. Joey pulled the radio out of his back pocket and handed it to him. He took it and switched it on-
"Muaahh! Moof, ayei, raaaaaah...." was what was being heard on the radio, the carriers were right near the C4s, or past it.
"What the shit?" Joey exclaimed as he stared blankly at the radio. He then looked up at Tange and smiled. He pulled out a detonator from his vest and looked at the flashing red button.
"This goes off when we're ready, but first I need to tell everyone something about our escape."
5 minutes later...
"You mean we have to take out those things until we can escape?" Joey asked. For the past five minutes Tange was reading off the laptop he had explaining what had to be done. First they have to go to Hybrid, blow up the specific areas of the surveillance building, take some train to the power plant, destroy the plant, and make their way to the Umbrella HQ and commandeer a helicopter.
"Ya, we have to do this. We can't just waltz right over barriers can we? Because if we could I would've done that," commented Tange as he grabbed two 92FS automatic pistols with laser pointers installed in them along with silencers. Joey grabbed his M95 sniper which was propped on the roof overlooking the crowded street along with the .50AE pistol from the display case which packed about the same punch as Tange's .44.
Surge grabbed one of the three assault shotguns with the side clip attached to the top and loaded it completely with shells. Orchid still held her shotgun but grabbed one of the new shipments of hunting knives and wire cutters. Looking over to Erica, she had the bag of ammo slung over her back and wore one of the bullet proof vest over her wrinkled long sleeved shirt.
Joey sighed and went behind the counter and opened the cash register and withdrew one of the custom guns he had made in the shop. It held about two clips at a time of fifteen rounds, light in weight; it had a laser pointer mounted to the top and a small circular scope in front of it. He switched the laser on emitting a blue line going through the scope. He aimed it at the floor seeing the laser connect to the ground and looked away from the scope at the floor seeing no sign of the laser on the floor. It was great for stealth; no one would be able to see the laser target but the user of the weapon. And best of all, since it held two clips at a time, there were two barrels welded next to each other. Near the trigger was a small little switch which would be set in three places. The right led to only firing the right barrel, left to left barrel, and if placed to the middle it would fire each barrel at the same time, sending two rounds simultaneously.
He approached his daughter and handed her the gun watching her take it in her fragile hands-
"What kind of gun is this?" She asked, tucking it in her pocket.
"I call it Ass-Kicker."
"Joey is there a back door here?" Surge asked.
"Ya, you see that hall next to the staircase going to the roof?" He said pointing at the hall watching Surge nod his head, "it's over there, just move the shelf blocking the door." After that Surge was gone, Orchid swung her grenade launcher over her shoulders and darted after him a few seconds later.
Tange approached him with the detonator in his hands, "You wanna do the honors?" Joey took it and placed it in his back pocket and smiled at Erica and motioned her to go with Tange.
They both disappeared going after Surge and Orchid as he ran up the stairs holding the .50AE in his left hand as he swung the sniper around his back. He reached the top and pulled the detonator out of his pocket and looked at the huge street and pressed the flashing red button.
Nothing happened. What the hell? Joey looked the detonator turning it around in his hands finding another red flashing switch on the other side. It must have needed both the buttons to be pressed down at once.
"It fuckin' figures." He pressed them both down which resulted in a loud long beeping noise next.
The ground began to shake followed by a muffled noise, growing louder and louder and-
BOOM!! The whole street suddenly turned to a river of growing fire, all the carriers in the explosions blast radius disappeared instantly. "Oh shit!" Joey threw the detonator into the succumbing flames and darted down the stairs-
-the whole front entrance of his store was completely gone; ten to twelve charred bodies littered the floor. The whole room was filling with smoke and flames as Joey darted down the hall finding the back door left open and ran out of the gun store and into the alley behind the buildings, looking left and right searching desperately for them.
He matted his hair back and jogged down the street suddenly seeing a chopper fly over him quickly carrying a huge metal compartment of some sort. Joey ignored it-
"Joey!" He turned to see Tange waving his hand to him and he followed, entering another alley following him through a huge blur of turns passing store after store.
This went on for minutes, Joey stopped for a minute and rubbed his face with his hands trying to come back to his sense for they've drifted away for some reason, probably I was stunned by the explosion. Joey regained his grasp back to reality and spotted everyone going up a cement staircase and disappearing through a door. Joey climbed the stairs as fast as he could, managing to not fall down from its slippery surface and went through the door.
He was now in some sort of lobby, and apartment lobby. Everyone was here, Joey felt his chest body tighten as someone hugged him from behind; Erica. He patted her arm and she let go as he turned around to her, "Are you okay?" She nodded her head in reply and sat down on one of the benches in the lobby.
"We need to find a car." Surge then said.
"Relax," Erica reassured, " we're right near the city pass which is about two blocks from here, we'll hit an interstate leading to Hybrid and find a car."
Crash! Everyone jumped but Tange as he held the .44 forward and walked out of the lobby. Everybody followed walking into an empty and clean courtyard. In the middle in a pile of rubble stood a dark figure covered by the darkness. Everyone began edging towards the figure as the street lights in the court began to flicker on and off, growing bright as they approached-
Click! All the lights went on and stayed on as the figure then moved pulling off a raggedy old body coat and threw it to the side. Joey looked closely as the figure stopped moving looking from the eyes of each of them, smiling. It was a black man, with the most fucked up eyes Joey's ever seen. He wore only a black metallic vest, showing off his muscles, which looked bullet proof, along with black commando pants along with boots. He wore the smile of a psycho as-
"Tange! It's been a while." He then shouted coming towards them with huge massive steps, the sounds of his boots echoing off the walls of the buildings surrounding the courtyard.
"Hiya, Corin," Tange said smoothly, did Tange know him? "Why did I get the feeling that I was going to meet up with you again?"
"Oh...Too settle an unsettled score, perhaps!" He-
-"Shit!" Joey then screamed as he hit the pavement after falling, but how. Laying there he saw Erica and Surge also on the floor. Orchid holstered the grenade launcher when-
-she was on the ground next as- Tentacles?! Yes, what Joey was seeing was true, tentacles, seeping out of Corin's arms, which was the solution to everyone falling. As he got up, Corin jumped forward in the air; high in the air, front flipping mid-air and bringing back his arm forming a fist. Time slowed down, as Corin came back to the Earth barreling towards Tange-
-Tange raised the .44 up quickly and smoothly and fired, the loud thunder erupting from the weapon almost deafening Joey, and Corin's head shot back and he fell to the pavement.
"Damn that was quick." Erica said when Tange handed her the laptop, "Hey! What for?"
Tange looked at everybody nervously, "Get out of here, I'll handle this!"
Joey knew something was up now. Corin wasn't dead, which meant that he wasn't human, which also meant that everyone would soon be dead if they didn't do as Tange said. Joey grabbed Erica and ran through one of the other doors leading out of the courtyard along with Surge and Orchid not far behind.
Tange watched everyone get out of the courtyard as he heard Corin's sinister laugh as he got up off the ground, the bullet wound in his head no longer visible.
"You've tried that too many times, you should know now!" he growled charging forward.
Tange moved out of the way sending a blow to the back of his head as Corin charged by. He quickly turned around and jumped forward and kicked Tange in the chest sending him flying into the brick wall.
He fell to the ground looking up seeing Corin repeat the same thing when Tange caught his foot and twisted, causing his whole body to rotate mid air multiple times before he hit the ground. Corin jumped to his feet and jumped forward sending a punch missing Tange as he moved to the side and again as Corin sent out a kick towards his face.
As he missed, Tange jumped forward and sent a blow so hard to Corin's face he thought he heard something break. Nothing broke, Corin was just thrust to the ground shattering the concrete. He looked him in the eyes staring at the cat eyes he had, "Do those glow in the dark if I bend you like a glow stick?"
Corin let out a growl and grabbed him by the collar and began butting him in the head countless times and then placed his knee on Tange's chest and kicked him up in the air. Tange fell onto the concrete on his back and coughed loudly due to the pain in his head.
"Come on! Keep going! We're almost there!" Joey shouted as everyone made their way to the roof of one of the apartment complex buildings. "We'll take that son of a bitch out from the roof!"
Surge scratched his head looking over at Orchid who was reloading the grenade launcher sticking an incinerating round in the hold. "I hope your idea of blowing the man's head off works."
Corin leaped to his feet spotting Tange lying on the ground and jumped in the air and brought his arm back preparing for the punch he was going to send-
-Tange suddenly rolled out of the way and Corin launched the punch a little too late, his hand shattering the pavement as he landed. He got up looking Tange when a flame shot out of his hand going directly towards Corin. He leaped out of the way, rolling on his back as he hit the ground and got to his feet laughing.
"Now you're able to use the flame!" Corin shouted, laughing hard when a shot rang out. Tange fired his magnum again, the round hitting Corin in the chest. It didn't hurt, it tickled. Corin chuckled mildly as he felt the wound heal and shot his arm out and emitted his flame. Tange's blue gem fire was emitted also, both the flames colliding with each other resulting in an explosion at the middle of the courtyard, throwing up rubble.
They both stopped, waiting for the thick gray smoke to clear out-
-Tange quickly came soaring through the smoke and jumped forward and fired his magnum again, stunning Corin again and kicked him in the neck. He was sent back and crashed into a wall, this time going through it landing in a room.
"So you want to play tricks Mr. Roland?" he sneered jumping out of the room and landed in the middle of the courtyard, I'll give you a little trick.
Tange watched Corin jump from the room to the middle of the courtyard and jump up. And stayed there! Corin hovered about a meter off the ground and put his arms to the sky and then shot them in the direction where Tange stood.
Blue streaks of liquid shot in a shower towards Tange. He jumped out of the way being barely hit by the unidentified spray when a small little drop landed in his arm-
-and it hurt like hell! Tange fell on his back grabbing his arm as he felt a burning sensation, like acid!
"Painful?" Corin commented raising his arms in the air again.
Tange jumped to his feet once again and shot another round at Corin; it didn't affect him as another shower of blue streaking liquid sprayed through the air towards Tange, this time missing him.
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"Damn about time you stopped moving you damn prick!" Joey screamed silently to himself and he got a clean shot on Corin from the scope of the sniper.
"You got him in your scopes, Dad?" Erica asked.
"Just a minute, sweetie." He replied waiting for Corin's arms to drop revealing the back of his head, "just give me one clean shot." Joey pulled the trigger-
-"What the fuck!" Orchid then screamed.
Corin caught the bullet, it was crazy. "That mother fucker is fast!" he then screamed. It was all a blur. Joey fired and their enemy turned into a moving blur and caught the bullet in his hands.
Joey looked through the scope again seeing some blue substance getting closer to the scope-
"Everyone down!" Surge shouted. The blue substance jetted over the ledge and landed on the gravel.
Joey sat up against the ledge and took one last drag on his black and mild. "We'll have to sit this out." He threw the spent black on the gravel-
Poof! The blue substance on the gravel suddenly caught fire as the still lit black came into contact with it causing the poison to erupt into flames.
"I got an idea!" Orchid shouted looking over the ledge with the grenade launcher and began to aim at Corin.
Corin sprayed another stream of poison towards Tange, missing him again-
-"fire now!"
"No!" Orchid shouted at them, "Will you guys shut up?!"
There was then silence as she then tried to concentrate waiting for Corin to fire again.
She watched as he put his arms up to the sky and-
-Orchid fired as the beginning of the stream shot out.
Tange jumped out of the way again and saw something explode against Corin as he attempted to fire again. It was a flame round and the blue poison suddenly ignited and went right into Corin.
Corin dropped to his feet and suddenly burst into flames, so it's flammable? Stupid Tange! I could've done that.
He reloaded the magnum quickly slapping the chamber back in place and held it up and approached Corin firing, "Painful? Painful?" He fired three rounds, "Is it painful now?! Huh! PAINFUL?!" He emptied the entire chamber in less then the second or so it seemed, each round hitting Corin in the face. Corin suddenly stopped moving, his body still burning as he fell to the floor.
Tange knew he wasn't dead yet continuing to watch his body burn to a crisp. Looking away from the body he looked up at the roof, from were the direction of the flame round came and spotted no one. Maybe they did run off, but who did-
"Tange!" He turned around seeing Erica run out one of the doors and grab his arm, "Are you okay?" she asked in a worried way.
He watched as she inspected his arm, scrutinizing every detail, "Ya, I'm fine. Are you a doctor or something; just suggestion?" Erica nodded her head and smiled as she let go of his arm.
"Ya, I was a doctor." She said gloomily, "but I was fired for sneaking out andselling the prescribed marijuana."
"Is that why you? Smell of it?"
"Ya, I still can't get over my Mom's death, so I took up smoking it. Can you also believe it? My court day was today for what I did, but then all this happened."
He just listened to what she was saying as she let go of his hand and smiled, "Finished?"
"Yep, come on. The others are waiting in the lobby."
Note: Sorry about this, I had to stop right here. I'm going to regret that. Oh well, leave a review if you liked it or hated it. L8a!