Deliverance Pt2
Philip and Alex got up to the top of the walkway and saw a large control panel, outside through the glass they could see a huge open structure, a great multi-levelled transport structure, the tram rails criss-crossed and brushed-steel stations with the times and the destinations of the trams still flashing out, then they saw a man. A marine who was having some alien trouble, he shot down the aliens who seemed to be teleporting from tram to tram, he was then trapped when a huge alien, a great pale-four legged animal then jumped on the tram and made it fall off, the bottom of the room seemed to move but then as Philip took a closer look he saw loads of people, thousands who had got to the main hub, then another sight appeared, a gaunt man appeared going across in a tram and looked over the side. "15 killed." He shouted then the tram left. They began to become panicked. They began to go up the expansive stairways upwards where a load of Trams began arriving.
"I am Philip and this is Alex, we need to escape, I hope we can be of use?"
"I am Dr. Phlox, we need to get these refugees to the surface but this area is about to be flooded with a large group of unidentified aliens." Philip looked at the camera screens and saw six-eyed aliens running down a hallway, then slowly Each camera was taken out, a low rumble eminated and a giant blue alien burst through the doors, it tried to make its way across the area behind the Hubs cockpit but it failed in getting past two lifts, it then horrifically melted the lifts with its claws that spouted flame.
The alien continued to wander towards the console. It stopped and then stamped on the floor. A lick of blue lightning ran across the floor and blew up another lift.
"GET GOING PHLOX!" Shouted Lewisham. Quickly Phlox punched in a group of commands and the Trams outside began to appear. Each was filled and the trams moved out of the hub to move the other trams in and get another bucket load of scientists in. Philip, Phlox, Lewisham and Alex rushed through a door and at the nick of time, a Tram appeared just outside. They rushed in and the alien ran, but it missed the tram as it left and flew, missing all of the trams and making a huge splat on the ground as its insides were crushed and blew open into a soft light blue mush.
The Trams headed down one hallway but almost immediately aliens appeared and began shooting green lightning bolts, to no avail. Then gunshots could be heard as pistol fire quickly killed the aliens. The security guards on the trams risked being shot by the bolts to kill the aliens, then an even more dangerous creature appeared on the trams. A giant armoured alien began to tear off one of the roofs and began firing what seemed to be bees into the scientists. They were torn apart. Their broken bodies falling off the tram and into the floor. A group of security guards walked up to the alien but then time slowed down except for Philip and Alex who looked each other, the world greyed and then the grey-man seemed to walk out of a white door which appeared out of nowhere. "Remember me? Take this." Philip was handed a Six-shooter and Alex a shotgun. The universe began to slowly return to normal speed and then a strange six-eyed alien jumped onto their tram.
Lewisham hit the monster and then held it over the side, "Who are you?" He rattled it but it did not answer. "I'll deal with him." Philip shot the alien in the neck and threw it out. All around there were refugees being taken but by the end the alien had all been killed or driven off.
Finally they arrived at what seemed to be a tube station, finally they had found a way out, finally they were free but just then as they clambered at the station they found out that they had reached the next tram system, to the secret technologies department. Few dared to go in there knowing what might happen.
"We cannot go on; this area is restricted to even me in places" Said Lewisham.
"Then we must try and go through, surely they'll let us through at this time of need?"
Alexander looked up and saw a small control room, in it stood a security guard and a scientist; the scientist began to talk on a microphone. "Get in Quickly!" He barked. "THERE IS NO TIME!"
The doors in front opened and the trains lights turned on, a dark dimly lighted tunnel of tracks lay ahead of them with another small station where another group of scientists were waiting.
"Get in and I shall initiate the trains."
Scientists flocked in until they had all got into the trains; each had glass canopies with a few metal bars and chain link to defend themselves against whatever they were supposed to be defended against. Security posted themselves at doors and windows; emergency weaponry was taken from safes at the front and given to suitable wielders. Alex and Philip now had a pistol, shotgun and sub-machine gun each. But Philip had a crowbar too, what tactical advantage it would provide he would not know but anything helps from anything that helps.