Chapter Thirty-4 : Tange Versus Corin: Elevator Fight
"Stop the car." Surge warned from inside the vehicle, and Joey hit the brakes.
"What's wrong?" Erica called from the back.
Surge pointed towards the Surveillance Building, "Guards; three of them."
There were three of them, their faces concealed in helmets, were guarding the doors.
"There could be more." Orchid said.
"True. There's always a sniper," Joey added, "by the position on where we are, they've probably locked onto us by now."
"What do we do?" Erica said, "Shoot them-"
"No!" Surge shouted, "We'd be dead before we could get the first guy down."
Surge struggled to look at the top of the building, failing as the roof of the vehicle came in the way.
"I could try to take out the sniper with my rifle from here-"
Boom! The front entrance of the building lit up suddenly, in a shower of fire, spreading through the street like a river.
Dust and debris flew against the windshield as everyone in the vehicle ducked for cover. Shit! What the fuck was that! Surge looked up gazing outside finding the charred remains of the three guards near the vehicle.
"Jesus Christ!" Orchid shouted, "What the fuck was that!"
"That's exactly what I was thinking!" He commented, "Well-"
Erica crawled to the front, "Got any other ideas? That blast is gonna attract some major shit!"
Just before Joey could man his rifle, Umbrella soldiers began pouring out of the stores and shops surrounding the building and the vehicle they were in. Hundreds of them scattering onto the street like ants, all shouting at each other and ignoring the vehicle.
Looking, back at the building, someone stepped out of the flaming entrance-
"Guy's got the mini gun!" someone shouted from outside.
Erica suddenly lit up all of a sudden, "Tange!"
She was right. It was Tange, holding a mini-gun and two round chambers, the size of a medium size fire extinguisher, strapped to his belt, as he walked into the street.
"It's him! Roland!"
"KILL HIM!"
Too late.
Boom! This was not an explosion. It was the sound of thunder tearing across the sky. Rain then began pouring onto the Earth. Lightning was now flashing non-stop, turning night to day every few seconds.
As everyone watched the group of soldiers arm up, Tange let loose. Orange lightning thrust forward from the rotating eight barrel killing machine and began blasting up the group.
There was a huge line emitting from the barrel and was directed to whatever Tange wanted it to go by directing the gun. Lines of men fell to the ground, dead, injured, or dying.
All the soldiers on the left side of the vehicle fell down almost immediately as Tange paused the weapon and reeled it past the vehicle before he began his quick slaughter, wiping out the soldiers on the right.
Ka-thoom! The windshield shattered suddenly by gunshot, not by Tange-
"Sniper!" Joey shouted, snatching the rifle from the floor when another shot came through the roof, nearly hitting Erica in the shin.
Joey crouched behind the dashboard and armed the rifle and then retreated, as the driver's seat was punctured with holes.
"I can't get a clear shot!" He shouted.
Surge crawled forward and discharged three warning shots upward near the roof of the building, "That should distract him."
"Sorry, man. But that only works if he was three hundred feet away. Not three thousand!"
Three more shots punctured through the roof and two more through the hood killing the engine indefinitely.
"LET ME HANDLE THIS!" Tange suddenly shouted, running in the raining street and turned to face the building.
He again, let loose with the mini-gun carving a trail of bullets upward into the side of the building as the orange endless trail of burning metal made its way to the roof.
There was then an explosion on the roof and the whole top of the building lit up like the tip of a candle. The sound wave then hit with a loud boom and Tange stopped.
Surge opened the door and jumped out into the rain and met with Tange. "That's some crazy shooting!" He shouted.
"Thanks." Tange replied, "We got to get into the building, I have a surprise."
Everyone followed Tange as Surge glanced up the side of the building. He could see the inside every floor of the building right now. Where glass once was, now lay a line of chiseled holes going to the top of the building and stopped at the extinguishing of flames as rain came into contact with it.
"Ah….!"
"What the?" Surge said, as the sound grew louder. Looking, up at the sky Surge saw the source of the noise.
It was the sniper falling to the-
Splat! His whole body squashed, disgustingly into the pavement and was now giving the resemblance of a smashed bug.
Surge ran around the non recognizable human and into the building. Everyone was in there, and there were weapons. Metal crates scattered all over the lobby with ammo and weapons. All this shit could start a small war.
"Shit..." he said as if he had won the lottery.
"Grab what you can," someone said.
Surge looked towards the person who had spoken, "Who are you?"
"Chief Jean Mac." He said, "Call me Mac, I don't wanna go by that Star Trek character."
Surge grinned slightly staring at the loaded M16 in Mac's hands. "Fair enough, got any more of those M16s?"
He watched Mac smile, "Get your own."
He came towards one of the open crates and-
Bwoooop...! Bwoooop...! The room began flashing in shades of red as the alarms went off, droning on and off every few seconds.
"Shit!" Tange shouted, dropping the mini gun gear off of him and quickly reloaded the roll chamber of the .44, "Mac, Joey, and Erica! Make your way to floor basement fifty and locate our escape!" He looked at Surge and Orchid, "You two come with me!"
Peering into the crate again to snatch any possible useful items, he grabbed a belt strap with flash, flame, and regular grenades hooked on and took off after Tange and Orchid.
"We'll use this elevator to get to our two destinations." Tange then said, puzzling him.
"What elevator?" Surge replied, "There is no elevator."
"And about fifty armed Umbrella ants are coming to slaughter us." Orchid commented.
Tange sighed and walked to a control panel sticking out of the floor and pressed the dials on it. "We are standing on it."
The floor then gave a jerk and the whole lobby began to rise up; only the middle section. Now Surge could make out the lift. It was a huge circular disk with the crates loaded on it. The surface of the lift was dark green marble with random patterns of Plexi-glass embedded into it.
Surge looked up seeing a huge tunnel up above for the elevator. The tunnel was round as the lift. The lobby disappeared below everyone's feet as they entered the round shaft which would take them up to the destined floors.
The tunnel's walls were merely see through glass which displayed every floor in the building. Behind the glass were staircases, offices, some carriers, blood smeared windows, armed men running down the staircases.
"Oh shit!" Surge shouted, "Here they come!"
Tange watched the soldiers make their way to the windows overlooking the rising lift and then stare blindly at them, what the hell? Shouldn't they be shooting now?
He looked around him, seeing more and more soldiers on random parts of different floors occupying small areas overlooking them as the lift rose.
"What are they doing?" Orchid questioned.
Tange nodded his head and sighed, "Don't know. They couldn't of just come to watch, there's got to be a catch." He added looking at her.
"I think we have a catch!" Surge shouted, "Look."
Nearest, to the elevator a group of ten Umbrella soldiers were doodling around with the glass and then quickly ran from it. "The catch is a bomb, heads up and try not to die." He commented readying the .44.
Boom! A huge hole was blown into the glass as the charge went off, creating a path for the soldiers to get onto the lift. Glass began raining down on the surface as they all darted behind the ammo crates.
The shuffling of feet came next, slamming swiftly onto the marble surface. Tange quickly leaped up and fired two rounds at the nearest soldiers, killing them instantly.
He jumped out of the way as the sound of gunfire erupted tattering the place where he stood.
Boom! Another explosion higher up blasted through another pair of windows and began raining glass down upon all of them.
Surge began firing up at the newly blown hole as the lift approached while Orchid covered him pumping the shotgun into the intruding soldiers.
Seeing that they didn't need any help, Tange began scanning for some more soldiers behind glass-
Boom! Boom! Boom! Three more explosions sounded out and the lift was pelted with more glass when the lift came to a jerking stop.
Two more soldiers a few stories above landed in front of Tange and drew their weapons at them. He leapt forward as they fired and cartwheeled between them and jumped to his feet and in one swift motion swung the handle of the .44 across the back of the two soldiers heads. Two loud crunches were heard and they fell to the ground, dead.
"What happened with the lift!" Orchid shouted, firing upward at the new openings in the shaft.
"This is our stop!" He shouted back over the gunfire.
A hissing sound was heard and two doors across from each other slid open.
"Which way!" Orchid shouted again.
Tange didn't know as he fired the .44 again, hitting a solder a few stories up and watched him fall onto the lift, "Don't know!" He fired again and reloaded, "Pick one!"
Boom! Another explosion rocked the lift and Tange looked up seeing an explosion at the top of the building. And then dropped an object towards the lift.
They watched as the object fell towards them, getting closer every second, and-
Crash! The figure landed on the lift, crumbling the marble within the vicinity where it landed.
It was human. The figure got up from its crouch and became very familiar to everyone; Corin.
Without warning, Orchid and Surge in opposite directions and went through the opposite openings that were offered to them.
Corin didn't say anything as he stared at Tange, with his glowing cat eyes.
"Tange!" Orchid screamed.
"I'll handle this!" He screamed back and hit the controls, signaling the closing of the openings and the re-departure of the elevator to its next destination.
With the new opening at the top of the building, rain began raining down onto the lift.
"Mr. Roland..." Corin said, "What a beautiful day, isn't it?"
"You can say that again," Tange replied putting his .44 in its holder, "You go shopping?"
With the last fight, Corin was set ablaze and left to burn. Now he appeared the same but with metal plates welded into his skin. He wore this time, white dress pants with black combat boots. He wore nothing over his metallic chest except a white trench coat which stopped at his ankles. And lastly, he had on a pair of black fingerless gloves.
"Yes, I did a little shopping. You like it?"
Tange smirked forming his fist, "If I was a psycho like you."
Corin laughed lightly, "Oh, the audacity of your smart mouthing will be your demise."
With that, Corin leapt forward, coming at Tange fast. He slammed into his chest and launched Tange into the Plexi-glass.
The glass dented inward, and Tange fell to the ground coughing and looked up.
Corin jumped into the air and positioned his feet to Tange's head.
Tange jumped out of the way and watched as Corin's feet smash into the ground. He then darted forward and rammed himself into Corin's chest and sent him to the ground.
With him pinned under Tange's body, Tange began punching him in the face repeatedly. He didn't then see Corin's knee come between his chest. Tange was kicked up in the air and he landed lightly on the lift with a crouch.
Corin placed his hands flat on the ground over his head and pushed himself up, making him do a backflip inches above the ground and landed on his feet.
Tange darted forward and attempted to punch Corin in the face but, was caught by Corin's hand. He spotted his other arm swinging down upon his head and Tange caught Corin's arm and held it tightly.
With, both grasping each others arms, Tange threw himself back and placed his knee on Corin's chest. As his back hit the ground flatly, he extended his placed knee upward sending Corin into the Plexi-glass.
Corin hit the glass, faced upside down. He quickly got out of the awkward position and backflipped onto his feet. Turning around, he found Tange attempting a kick.
He eased back slightly and extended his arm out quickly and caught Tange's foot in his hand. "Wrong move Mr. Roland." He said sarcastically.
Tange looked at him and Corin pushed his foot strongly to the left which made Tange's body turn to face him. Corin quickly sent both his arms forward and hit Tange in the chest.
He watched as he flew back and crash into the metal crates, spilling its contents.
The lift then stopped, and Corin briefly glanced at his surroundings; they were on the roof of the building. The glass dome which sealed the lift shaft was gone, after Corin had destroyed it which gave them more room to fight.
Tange jumped to his feet and looked at his new surroundings. He pushed himself out of the pile of crates and found smooth ground once again to see Corin suspended mid-air again.
"Shit!" He shouted, how the hell was he now supposed to pull this off. With his gun having no effect on Corin shit-so-ever, he was practically out of options.
Corin thrust forward and launched another sea of that blue like substance at Tange. He backflipped out of the way, for the space it took up was too big to maneuver away.
Landing back on his feet, Tange thrust his arm out to see no blue flame come out. Fuck! Goddamn rain! He quickly glanced back at the crates and felt like a miracle had come true.
A rocket launcher lie under a crate, maybe this would be useful to buy him some goddamn time and enough to take out the specific locations in the building.
Tange ran for it but, then had to jump out of the way as another stream of blue toxic came at him.
"Getting tired!" Corin shouted laughing as loud as he had ever heard, "Because I'm not! And I never will!"
Thunder ripped across the sky and the rain began falling as hard as ever, this time in the form of hail. Taking a quick glance at the sky, Tange saw that it was pure chaos. Lightning was tearing from one end of the sky to the other, non stop, new streams of light in every direction.
It was almost as if the lightning was turning night to day. Tange quickly brought his attention back to the rocket launcher and he leapt forward and grasped the big barrel and pulled it up to him and put his eye to the scope.
For some, odd reason, Corin was facing the other way, laughing. Thinking of a line to say to his nemesis, Tange could only think of one. And only one.
With the cross hairs on Corin, Tange shouted, "HEY CORIN!"
Corin turned around and the grin of laughter on his face disappeared quickly.
It's such a beautiful day! You son of a BITCH! Tange laughed, "SAY HELLO! TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!"
With that, Tange pulled the trigger back and felt the thrust of the rocket launcher push him back.
The rocket flew out swiftly and slammed into Corin's chest. But did not explode. Instead, Corin grabbed the rocket and was then soaring through the air. The rocket was then propelled down and went off the edge of the building and towards the streets.
Tange ran to the edge and watched as the rocket exploded midway down the building. He smiled and then turned around. Tange, 2, Corin, 0.
He quickly turned around and headed back to the lift and hit the controls for floor one hundred.
Note: Sry for the long wait, and sorry for using that "Say hello to my little friend" quote. It just popped for a last minute thing. I was kind of lazy to type this up, and I'm so glad this chapter is finished. There are still several chapters until the story is finished and which that I haven't typed yet. There will be more of Ghost and Corin so don't get cranky. So, if you want, please leave a review, I would like to view your inference. Next chapter: Umbrella Ant Bed.