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Edited by: Sci-Fi Raptor
Mayhem: Together Again
"Shit!" I fire another shot from my shotgun, watching another one of those living dead fall to the ground. I already lost count of how many there are, but it doesn't really matter. There are too many of them to shoot at. I want to conserve my ammo, but with the large amount of these walking dead, it's hard to use my knife on one of them when I know another is literality breathing down my neck.
I continue to fire at them until there are no more slugs in my shotgun. Needing time to reload, I hold my shotgun firmly and start pounding any of the living dead that comes near me with it. After about the fifth dead person I knock down, I realize that this plan isn't working very well when I see them stand right back up. Completely surrounded, I reload my shotgun quickly as I can. I get in two slugs when I feel a hand on my shoulder. As a reflex, I look over to see a face of one of the dead people. I freeze with fear, knowing that with one bite I'm done for. Suddenly, blood start shooting out of its forehead, groaning as it lets go of my shoulder, falling to the ground.
"The cavalry has arrived!" Recognizing An's voice, I look ahead to see him holding his sniper rifle with Shinobu standing beside him.
I watch as An puts away his rifle as Shinobu comes charging at me and the group of living dead. I'm amazed with her skill as she kills one dead person after another. Remembering that there are more behind me, I turn around and fire at the herd, seeing a few of them go down. I begin to reload my shotgun with the sounds of Shinobu's sword swinging and An's gun firing behind me. By the time I'm done reloading, I look around and see that none of the living dead are left standing.
"Damn! That was easy," An shouts, putting away his berretta. With the threat gone, I make my way towards them.
"Thanks for your help guys," I say, watching them catch their breath. Remembering that I have Shinobu's bag, I take it off my back and hold the straps firmly in my hands. "I hate to cut your guys' recovery short, but we need to..." Just as I hand back her bag, I notice Shinobu wearing a S.T.A.R.S. vest. I thought that An let her borrow his vest, but when I look at him, he is wearing his.
"What's wrong, Officer Motoyuki?"
"Shinobu-chan. Where did you get that vest?" The moment I asked that question, her face looked in shock and sadness.
"I'm sorry Officer Motoyuki," she cries. I don't quite understand what she's talking about until I'm in arm's reach of her. When I look down and recognize who's vest it is, I turn to An with a depressed look on his face.
"I'm sorry man. But..."
"Is this Tèa's vest?" I cut him off. With a nod, I literality feel my heart breaking. I had a chance to save her and I failed. I feel like crying right now. If only I ran a little faster or if I leaped through that wall of fire, she might be alive. This just doesn't seem real.
"Motoyuki! Get a hold of yourself!" An grabs my shoulders and shakes me back to my senses. But it doesn't change the fact that Tèa is gone.
"What happen to her?" I watch An looking down.
"I don't want to give you the image of the way she died since I know how much you liked her." Although I'm angry that he doesn't tell me, I'm glad that he didn't tell me. I don't think I could bare the image of how she died. Then I remember something that she has.
"Oh shit! Did you remember to get the..."
"Key?" Out from under his shirt, he shows key, dangling around his neck. "Hey. I remembered." I watch him put it back inside his shirt, knowing there is no reason to see Tèa one last time. "Say...where are Randy and Jeffery? It's not like them to miss a gun fight, especially Jeffery." I guess that he and Shinobu didn't see the explosion at the Umbrella building.
"They're dead. Both of them." An looks as shocked as I did when I learned about Tèa.
"Can you tell me what happen to them?"
"Let's just say they died heroically." I'm half telling the truth. Jeffery definitely died heroically, but don't want An to know that Randy turned into one of those living bastards.
"How?"
"They attempted to blow up that monster with some C4 that I just happen to bring." An looks a bit surprised that I actually brought explosives since this was suppose to be a quick mission. "Tèa and I saw the explosion, but I don't know if they killed the monster."
"Let's just hope it did. After that first encounter, I don't want a rematch."
"Agreed." I turn my attention back to Shinobu. "Shinobu-chan. We're all that's left. Do you know the way out of here?" She looks around the surrounding buildings before giving me an answer.
"There is a bridge about three kilometers away from here that will take us out of the city."
"That's seems reasonable."
"Hey!" An shouts. "What are you two talking about?"
"Finding a way out of here," I respond. "She said there is a bridge that we can take."
"Is that true Shinobu?" I notice him looking at her. "Then lead the way then."
"Right!" She shouts, walking ahead of us with An following her. Unable to believe of what I'm seeing, I quickly rush to An to get some last-minute answers.
"An! What the hell is wrong with you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Shinobu's a civilian! She can't leave our side." He lets out a sigh.
"She's part of the team now, Motoyuki."
"What?"
"I told her she's a member of the team now."
"Are you crazy! She's like what? A pre-teen?"
"She's thirteen and pretty damn good with the sword."
"But it doesn't change the fact that she's..."
"She's the reason why I am still alive." I hear anger and frustration in his voice. "Without her, you'll be the only S.T.A.R.S. member left."
"What do you mean?"
"Where we jumped out of the building, I landed on my hip pretty badly that I couldn't get up. Without her to kill those zombies and drag my ass to a hospital, I would have been zombie chow." I have to give Shinobu more credit and start trusting her better. All this time since I saw those two alive was that he was protecting her, when it was the other way around. Guess I got to start thinking of her as a young warrior instead of the damsel in distress with a sword.
"Officers! Trouble!" Shinobu yells, taking out her sword.
When An and I see this, we run to her aid without hesitation. When we get to her, we see the reason why she called out to us as a few dozen living dead roam around the street.
"There are too many to go around them," An says.
"So we go to Plan B and just kill them?" I ask.
"Yeah. Here is what we'll do. I'll take the ones on the right side, you take the left. Shinobu gets the ones in the middle and the ones who are coming near us and don't fire in someone else's section. I don't want to lose any more of this team then we already have." Having An act as the team leader actually put me at ease. Since he doubled as an assaulter when he was with S.W.A.T., knows a little more about how a leader's mind works.
I translate the plans to Shinobu, seeing a little fire in her eyes. An and I take our position along the edge of the sidewalk, ready for battle. With our weapons drawn, we wait in anticipation for the action to begin. I could start firing right now, but I know that I'm low on slugs and I'd rather knock them off in bunches instead of one by one.
"NOW! GO! GO! GO!" An shouts, firing his berretta at them.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Shinobu running up to a few of those living dead, slicing them in half. Not wanting to be left out, I raise my shotgun and walk towards them. When a few turn their heads and approach me, I wait until they're packed together before firing, either seeing about four or five of them fall or a few with their heads blown off. I pump my shotgun, waiting for the next group to come towards me.
"Officer Motoyuki! Watch out!" Hearing Shinobu's concern, I turn to my right and happen to see a living dead closing in on me. As a reflex, shoot at it, blowing of it's head.
I start to panic after that, firing at individuals of the living dead instead of a collective group. It doesn't take long before my shotgun is out of ammo. I begin to reload, but I only load in three slugs before I'm completely out.
Once I'm done reloading, I look at An and Shinobu's status, seeing them still fighting their fair share of living dead. I still have quite a few myself and my shotgun won't be able to blast them all. I have a magnum, but I don't want to use it since all the ammo is in the gun, which is only six bullets. I guess using my knife is the only option I have left, unless I want to use my bare hands.
With a back up plan set, I wait for a collective group to gather around or approach me. It doesn't take long for me to use my slugs, but I only manage to kill just six of the living dead. With the shotgun pretty much useless now, I toss it aside and whip out my knife. My heart begins to pound like a jackhammer getting ready for what's about to go down.
With my knife in hand, I find any of the living dead that's isolated themselves from the group. But with Shinobu and An's help, there are only a few left standing. I manage to hack two of them to death before the entire herd is completely destroyed.
"Well, that was easy," An says, reloading his gun. Once he's done and puts it away, he walks over to Shinobu and I. "You guys alright?"
"I'm fine Officer An," Shinobu says, putting away her sword.
"Yeah An. We're good." I tell him, seeing a puzzling look.
"Hey Motoyuki. Why are you carrying around your knife?"
"I have no more slugs for my shotgun, so I don't need to carry it anymore."
"Oh great! Between the two of us, I'm the only one with a gun now!"
"Tell me you have a lot of ammo so I don't have to worry."
"I do, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable if their was someone else with another gun. You know, to watch my back."
"Gun?" Shinobu says suddenly.
"We're talking about the gun situation we have," I tell her. "An is the only one with a gun right now."
Rifling through her bag, An and I wonder what the hell she's looking for. Now that I remember it, that bag was pretty heavy. What in the world does she have in there?
"Here you go." Out of her bag, Shinobu pulls out a gun. I'm a bit surprised that she has one since it's hard to legally obtain a gun in this country, but the fact that the gun is pointing at An and I doesn't help our enthusiasm about having it.
"Whoa!" We both shout, seeing An reach over to her and take the gun out of her hand.. She looks kind of in shock and a little baffle at him, seeming to wonder why he did that.
"Shinobu-chan." When I call out her name, she turns her attention towards me. "An only did what he did because we weren't sure if that gun was load or not and we don't want any more casualties on this team."
"I'm sorry. I didn't know."
"It's okay. Just remember not to point a gun at people unless you're going to shoot them." She smiles, showing a little bit of embarrassment. I notice An coming towards me with gun pointed down.
"Here you go man." He says, handing me the gun. "Pretty good handgun. But it doesn't go with our type of bullets. Can you translate if she has some?" Taking the gun out of his hand, I put it in my holster and turn my attention back to Shinobu.
"I'm going to be using your gun Shinobu-chan, but it doesn't go with our bullets. Do you have the bullets for it?" She digs in her bag and pulls out a few boxes of them. I thought that was it until she pulls out more and more, a total of ten boxes with each box containing 20 bullets. No wonder the bag was so heavy when I was carrying it around. I thank Shinobu for the bullets and shove the boxes in my vest before we continue on.
The journey to the bridge is smooth with no problems in our way. As much as I like that, I'm a little disappointed because I'd like to try out this gun. With about four blocks to go, from Shinobu's estimate, we turn the corner and see a few of the living dead moving around in the streets. With our weapons drawn, we run towards them and attack. We notice that a few of them are on fire, but that doesn't stop them from coming at us.
When we're finish killing them, we hear a second wave of living dead groaning from behind. It wasn't until we turn around that we see a wall of fire that's about ten feet high with a bunch of living dead coming out of there. I tell Shinobu to stay behind us since we don't how many are actually behind it. An and I pick off any of the living dead that comes through the wall. It seems to be over within a few minutes, but we stand our ground and wait incase more go through. We wait another few minutes before we let our guard down.
"Damn! That was intense!" I shout, putting the gun back in my holster .
"Now you know what snipers go through when we can't see our target," An replies, also putting his gun away.
Shinobu follows suit and puts her sword away. We all rest for a bit, knowing that we are all a little drain from our battle. After a minute, we follow Shinobu towards the bridge.
Unfortunately, we don't get far. Before we can make it out to the next street, we feel the ground shaking a bit, hearing a loud stomping sound. The stomping noise gets louder and louder and before any of us knows it, the monster that I thought Jeffery blew up in the Umbrella building, is standing right in front of us.
"The fuck!" An yells. "Thought you said Jeffery blew that fucking thing up!"
"He did!" I shout in disbelief. "This bitch must be really tough to survive an explosion!"
Before any of us could draw our weapons, the monster run towards us at an incredible speed. When it raises it's arm just as it got closer to us, I jumped out of the way before it smashes the part of the street that we were standing on.
I look around for my teammates to see if they're safe. I breath a sigh of relief when I see An on the other side of the monster while Shinobu is behind the monster with her sword drawn. Without a command from either of us, Shinobu runs towards the monster and slashes it's leg. As she rolls away from her attack, the monster cries in agony.
After a few rolls, Shinobu get back to her feet with her sword ready, keeping a far enough distance from the monster. As the monster advances towards her, I notice that the leg Shinobu slashed at has made a cut, seeing large droplets of blood fly with each step.
With a blood-curling scream, Shinobu takes a few steps towards the monster before jumping at it. With her sword above her head, she goes for another attack. Unfortunately for her, the monster is ready for this and swats her like a fly, sending her over the flaming wall.
"NO!" An screams, shooting at the monster as it makes it way towards the wall.
I understand what An is doing and pull out my gun. I manage to empty my clip before watching the monster disappear.
"Dammit! That thing is going after Shinobu!" An continues screaming.
"Have any ideas?" Without answering me, An grabs the key with his free hand, rips the chain and looks at me.
"Take the key and head towards the bridge. If I don't come back with Shinobu in five minutes, you're going to have to leave us and blow up the city."
"WHAT!" Usually, I go with whatever orders are given to me. but it is where I draw the line. "NO WAY! I'M NOT LEAVING YOU OR SHINOBU BEHIND!"
"Look! You're the one with the detonator. You have to blow this city up. And with that bitch still alive, you're going to have to blow it up while it's still here."
"But what about you and Shinobu?"
"I'm going to get Shinobu and get away from that monster. That's all."
"But..."
"No buts! Now go! You're putting Shinobu's life at risk." As much as I want to stay and help, I make a run towards the bridge.
Without Shinobu to guide me, I find myself pretty lost in the streets. There are no living dead roaming around in the streets, but I rather fight them right now instead of finding this bridge. Every intersection seems to lead me into another endless road until I see what looks to be a while wooden bridge. I make my way towards the sight and sure enough, it's the bridge that we been looking for. Sitting on the railing, all I can do now is hope that An and Shinobu will be joining me soon.
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