Author's Notes: I'd like to thank everyone who has read and reviewed. I'm not sure how many chapters this baby's gonna be, so just bear with me. If you have any ideas, don't hesitate to speak up. On with the show.
Jill began to finish up her examination of the fifth floor. All she found were mangled body parts, ripped clothes, and shells belonging to various caliber guns. She wouldn't think much of the current she was in, a locker room of sorts, if the lights didn't keep flickering on and off.
"What kind of nut puts a locker room on the same floor as a nuclear generator?" Jill asks her reflection in the wall-length mirror in the shower. "Possibly the same nut who built that house of horrors you had to endure. Jill, you need a vacation after this."
Putting off what sanity she had left, Jill surveyed the room. Lockers were thrown open, their various contents strewn on the floor. Deodorants, boot polish, dog tags, and even a few girlie magazines were crushed beneath Jill's sneakers. She checked some of the still closed lockers but found nothing of use, except a spray on deodorant that would make her irresistible to women as shown in its commercial.
"Here's the good news, Jill: you found nothing that wanted to tear off your head and eat it. The bad news: no one else is here." She sighs in defeat and proceeds to walk out of the locker room, until a banging noise immediately got her attention. "No rest for the pessimistic."
Jill draws the riot gun and heads for the noise. She comes to a locker flat against a wall on the other side of the room. The banging seems to be coming from it. Jill nervously opens it but finds nothing in it. The banging noise continues again. Jill nervously backs away.
On her seventh step, a massive creature bursts through the wall. A series of staples runs from just above its right eye to where the bridge of its nose should be. Its lips had been removed, exposing mutant gums and large teeth. Its single eye looked at Jill with a burning hatred.
"Staaaaarrrrrrssssss…" the creature growled.
"Oh, shit!" Jill shouts. She raises the riot gun and fires into the thing's face but it didn't even flinch. "I don't suppose we can talk about this, right?"
The mammoth creature backhanded Jill across the locker room as she was nothing. She collides into the shower's mirror and falls face first on the ground. She moans in pain and shakily tries to stand up, but to no avail. The massive weight of the creature caused the lockers to shudder and the tiled ground to splinter. Jill wobbly stands up, just in time to come face to face with the hulking creature.
"So, Nemesis, how've you been?" Jill asks, trying to hide the sheer terror she's feeling.
"Staaaaarrrrrrssssss…" growled Nemesis.
It raises back one of its mighty fists and Jill braces for the end, eyes closed. When she didn't feel her face being smashed into tiny pieces, Jill opened her eyes to see four metal spikes had somehow penetrated the Nemesis' body. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, Jill ran to the other side of the locker room. She saw a creature that could have been a man with a steel helmet fashioned to its head and a set of metal claws protruding from its other hand.
"This day is getting freakier and freakier," Jill concludes.
The bladed creature yanked out the claws imbedded in Nemesis' chest and took a swipe with its other blades at the Tyrant's neck. The Nemesis didn't drop, nor did it bleed. The bladed creature backed away, confused that whatever it impaled didn't fall. Nemesis slammed one of its powerful fists up the side of the bladed creature's head, knocking its helmet off. The momentum of the blow catapulted it into the wall Jill took cover against.
Jill leaned over to see who her savior and/or new enemy was. Its eyes had either been removed or sewn together. In any event, it couldn't see and didn't know what it was up against.
"Staaaaarrrrrrssssss…!" Nemesis roared.
The bladed creature sprung to its feet and charged for the Tyrant. Nemesis tried taking swipes at its newest enemy, but the bladed creature proved to be too fast for its powerful fists. Sharp blades made contact with Nemesis' face, drawing viscous fluid. Nemesis roared in annoyance and slammed one fist into the creature's chest. Jill could hear bones cracking and saw a pair of tentacles erupt out of the thing's back.
"Staaaaarrrrrrssssss…!" Nemesis roared, having taken enough from this distraction. With the bladed creature being incapacitated with pain, Nemesis grabbed it by the wrists, lifted it up, and with an explosion of rage, ripped the bladed creature in two.
Jill gulped hard, not wanting to fight another Nemesis. She was thankful for one thing, this one didn't have a rocket launcher. The Nemesis roared and charged for the frightened Jill. It dove at her and Jill ducked. The Nemesis' massive body plowed through the wall and into an elevator shaft on the other side. A sickening boom followed shortly after, but Jill knew it wouldn't be the last time she would see it.
"The guys'll never believe this," Jill says.
She gingerly steps over the fallen pieces of the creature that inadvertently tried to save her life. As she made her way towards the door, her shoe kicked something metal. Jill looked down to see a combat knife hidden amongst some old Playboys. She smiles a bit and holsters it.
"Thanks, Hef." Jill takes one last look around and heads out the door.