Part II Wrath of the Nightmare

Hiya friends. Told ya I'd make a second part. Okay, how did I get twenty views but only one review? Come on guys, leave some nice reviews when you read it, how am I supposed to know what you liked, and what I should improve on if you don't tell me? Anyways, the Great Hammermaster has delivered. Read.

Ann slowly opened her eyes, as if she didn't expect that she would be able too after that. She looked behind her, and watched the door slam shut again and again, and again. Then it stopped. She had made it through. Ann stood up, and sighed and whispered a brief prayer of thanks. But then she noticed the surveillance camera looking down from the ceiling. The computer screen in the other room caught her eye.

"Hello Ann," the words on the computer screen suddenly said. "Its the tooth fairy. I've come for revenge for all the times you didn't brush your teeth."

Ann stood up, brushing her pony tail off of her shoulder. More words appeared on the screen.

"Follow the yellow brick road! Follow the yellow brick road!"

Ann looked down, and saw that the carpet was yellow.

"Follow follow follow follow follow the yellow brick road!"

Suddenly a hatch on the ceiling opened up, and a gun barrel extended out from it, and fired at Ann. She turned, and ran for her life as the bullets pounded off the ground, piercing the yellow carpet. Ann rounded a corner, now out of the firing range of the turret. But she kept running.

Jack dug his way out of the rubble, trembling from the pain which coursed through his body. He was lucky that he had been under the table when his wall had exploded. When he stood up, he immediately ran into his room, and pulled a small metal box out from under his bed. He took a key from his pocket, unlocked the box, and opened it up. Inside there sat a small pistol and a couple rounds of ammunition. Jack grabbed the ammunition, stuffed it into his pockets, and took the pistol which he had hoped to never have to use.

Ann ran around the corner, into a dead end with a door in front of her. She walked to it, and placed her hand against the computer terminal. Surprisingly, it opened. Ann hesitantly stepped inside. The door suddenly slammed shut behind her, and locked. Ann shrieked, and leapt forward. It was then that she realized exactly where she was. She was in the cafeteria. But the cafeteria was in complete disarray. Tables were knocked over, chairs were thrown about. And the floor was covered in the dead bodies of several members of the crew.

Ann covered her mouth in fear as she looked down at the bodies, viciously torn hacked as if with a butcher knife, broken and bloody. The faces of the dead held a look of pure terror, and pain. Suddenly Ann heard metallic footsteps. She looked up, and saw the waiter stepping walking slowly towards her from out of the darkness. Its infrared eyes glared at her as it advanced upon her. Ann backed away. She knew something was wrong with the mechanical waiter. The machine extended one of its mighty arms, and a knife extension moved outwards towards Ann.

"Cleaning of the Cafeteria completed," the robot suddenly said, in its mechanical voice. "Beginning chopping carrots mode."

The waiter lunged. Ann dodged to the side, and the knife went crashing by her into the wall. Ann then turned, and ran for her life. The robot pulled the knife out of the wall, and chased after Ann, its metallic footsteps clanging like a gong upon the floor.

Ann ran to the other side of a table so that it stood between her and the homicidal machine. The waiter jumped on top the table, and stabbed its knife at Ann. Ann fell to the ground, and rolled away from the machine.

The robot jumped down from the table, swinging its butcher knife down upon her. She swung her legs up, and kicked the robot as hard as she could, knocking the machine back. The robot slammed backwards in the the table, knocking it over and falling to the ground. Ann jumped up to her feet, and ran as fast a she could towards the kitchen. The robotic cook got to his feet, and ran after her.

Ann ran to the door to the kitchen, pulled it open and slammed it shut behind her. But the door locks weren't activated for some reason, so Ann couldn't lock the door. Suddenly she heard a clanking sound. Ann turned around, and looked into the robotic kitchen.

Pots held in robotic arms connecting into the walls cooked pancakes, and mechanical arms with spatulas on the ends reached out and flipped them each in turn. Another mechanical arm held a simmering pot of soup over the burner. On the counter next to a block knife holder a mechanical arm extending out from the counter chopped up carrots with one of the knives. The refrigerator opened itself up, and a mechanical arm extending out from the wall next to it reached in and grabbed a milk carton. It then handed it to the mechanical arm which was next to it, which handed it to the next mechanical arm, who handed it to a fourth mechanical arm which poured some of it into a bowl. Each mechanical arm was tube like and flexible, not stiff and mechanical.

Ann watched the mechanical kitchen cooking and cleaning itself. But she knew the Mechanical Waiter was coming after her. Ann took a step forward. Suddenly each and every arm in the kitchen stopped what it was doing, and turned towards Ann. Ann ran straight through the cafeteria as fast as she could. On the left mechanical arms grabbed forks and spoons out from a drawer and threw them at Ann. The flying utensils banged painfully against Ann as she ran. One fork struck her in the forehead, causing it to bleed.

The door was knocked open, and the homicidal robot charged in after her. Ann dodged to the side as a pot of boiling water was knocked off the stove down towards her. Luckily when it splashed open it the water did not reach her. A dish whizzed over her head and shattered against the wall. Ann tumbled to the ground when a series of glasses crashed into the wall where her head had just been. A piece of glass cut into her leg.

The mechanical waiter pushed through the kitchen after Ann, for none of the machines in the kitchen attacked him. Ann rounded a corner, dodging as another arm threw a pair of kitchen shears. Ann then turned, and saw an exit on the far side of the room. Then a mechanical arm wielding a knife swiveled around towards her. Ann gasped, and bolted for the door. The arm threw the knife at her. Ann ducked, and it went over her head, just nicking her ear with its serrated edge.

The arm then quickly reached into the block knife holder, and threw a bread knife. It then grabbed a meat cleaver, and threw it. Knives flew through the air as the hand continued to throw them at Ann. She dodged them as best she could, but the knives flew, deadly accurate. Ann dodged a knife, and punched the button beside the door. The door shot open, and Ann took a step out of the kitchen. Then Ann felt a sharp pain shoot into her leg as a knife connected with her flesh, and dug in. Ann cried out in pain, and fell over outside the kitchen. The door shut behind her.

The knife jutted painfully out of Ann's leg. Ann took it in her hand, and pulled it out of her leg. Then she looked up at the closed door. The Robotic Waiter ran to the door, and reached for the control panel. Ann took the blade that had been in her leg, and threw it into the door. The blade shattered through the glass, barely missing the Robot's head. The robot looked through the window at Ann, and then turned, and walked off in the opposite direction. Ann breathed a sigh of relief, and got to her feet. It was then that she realized where she was. She was back inside the lab, where all the Zerg specimens were contained.

Ann walked forward, walking between the individual tanks which held the Zerg captive as the sleeping narcotic which she had injected them with moved through their blood stream.

"Awakening sequence begun," Ann stopped when she heard the computerized voice speak over the intercom. "Draining tanks."

Ann's eyes shot open in terror when she realized the significance of this report. The tanks began to empty themselves of there water. She immediately ran to the computer terminal, and immediately typed in the pass code to cancel the command.

Access denied.

"What?" Ann typed in the code again.

Access denied.

Suddenly a window popped up on the screen, and words began appearing on it.

I think you might want to let your pets loose. For they get unhappy staying in cages for long.

The cages split open. Ann turned, and looked at them in utter fear. The window closed, and the computer changed back to normal.

Electrocution cycle beginning.

Ann saw a door on the other side of the room. She immediately began running for it. Suddenly the wires which were attached to the skin of the Zerg specimens lit up as electricity flowed through it into the mighty beasts.

As the electricity shocked them, their eyes flashed open, and they began to awaken. First a few Zerglings, snorting angrily at the electric wires, and tearing themselves out from the wires. Then a few mighty Hydralisks, dark throaty growls coming from within their throats. A defiler broke out, hissing like a snake, as sulfur like gases rose from its back. A massive tank in the corner split open as a giant tentacle shattered through the side of it. The glass fell away, to reveal a mighty sunken colony, bleeding in some places from the glass. But now it was awake, its mighty tentacles thrashing around wildly as the beast tried to find ground through which to bury its tentacles. It slammed the razor sharp appendages into the metal floor, breaking through it quite easily. The colony then broke through the floor, and pulled itself beneath it.

Ann kept running. The Zerg perked up when she ran past, seeing what was to them simply a meal. They roared in anger, and began charging after the fleeing human. Ann screamed, and looked back at the Zerg hunters as she ran. A razor sharp tentacle shattered through the ground where she had just been. Ann jumped to the side and the tentacle shattered through the ground again.

She looked back again. At the front of the herd of Zerg ran three voracious Zergling, bounding across the ground with blade like arms which looked like mighty swords. Behind them bounded six Hydralisks, and one Devourer flying over the rest. Without warning, it opened its mouth, and spit a glob of purple acid down upon Ann. She leaped to the side, and it splatted against the ground, but drops of it flew up, landing on her skin. Ann screamed as it burned her flesh, but did nothing more.

Ann ran to the door, drew it open, and leaped through, slamming it shut behind her. The Zerglings slammed against it. Ann immediately slammed the locks into place, and continued running. The door slammed inward as the voracious Zerglings slammed themselves against it. Then a Hydralisk came, and impaled the door upon its scythe like blade. It then thrashed its arm around, shredding the door to pieces, viciously tearing in an attempt to break through the metal structure. With a mighty heave, the Hydralisk tore its blade back out from the door.

The Hydralisk roared, and hacked viciously at the metal structure trying to tear it off. One Zergling got impatient, and tried to leap through the hole which the Hydralisk had made. It got stuck in it, and began clawing desperately to get through. The Hydralisk roared in anger when the Zergling covered the hole which it had worked so hard to create. Through the other end, the Zergling watched Ann run off down the hallway and slam another door shut on the other side. The sight of her running made it even hungrier and angrier, and it began viciously trying to pull itself through the door. Then their was a loud gust of air, and the Zergling cried out in terror. Then it fell limply against the door, it was dead.

On the other side of the door the Hydralisk closed its chest cavity, and stepped aside for the Defiler, which looped its mighty tentacles around the Zergling's body, and with a mighty tug, drew the Zergling out of the hole. The Hydralisk then swung its blade into the side of the door, searing off the hinges and causing the door to fall inward.

Jack inched along the corridor with his gun held outwards. As he passed the darkened rooms around him he looked into each one, hoping he would not see a dark figure crouching, or the evil glare of a killer. He knew one thing, something horrible was happening on this Space Station, and he had to escape before it all hit the fan.

He was looking for the captain. Only the captain could override whatever was causing the problems with the station's computer and electrical systems. He had the power to cut anyone out from the main computer system. His room was just ahead. Jack held his gun outwards, hoping not to find a dead body strewn about in the room, hoping he would not see what he had seen in the other rooms.

Jack stepped to the door, placing his hand around the knob nervously. He was afraid of what he would find inside. He was afraid that like the others, someone had already found the captain and had killed him. Jack closed his eyes, feeling fear flow through his body. But he had a greater fear, of being left alone on the ship, searching around for someway to escape, and then meeting the killer himself.

With a deep breath, Jack pushed the door open and stepped into the room quickly. What he saw was shocking. The room was torn apart, the computer smashed, glass on the ground, and papers strewn about everywhere. But Jack saw something which he had not expected. Their was no body, but there was blood. The papers were stained with blood, and their was blood on the desk and chair. Had the captain exploded? No. There would be more remains. Maybe something had taken the remains. But why would anyone want to do that?

Jack heard a strained moan. He froze, and slowly turned around. Jack then heard footsteps, and readied his gun. The footstep pattern was irregular, like the owner of the footsteps was limping or something. Jack slowly peaked out into the hallway, and saw a strange girl with orange hair staggering through the hallway. Her face was filled with fear, and her legs wobbled as if she had ran quite a distance. Her pant leg was soaked through with blood at the bottom of her leg, suggesting that she had gotten cut there.

"Please God save me," she moaned, as if she knew that there was no reason to escape her death.

Jack didn't know who she was, but she clearly wasn't the killer behind all this. Jack stepped out of the room. The girl's eyes grew wide, and she screamed, before falling to the ground in a faint. Jack walked to her side, and looked her over. Her face held a look of terror and despair, as if what she had gone through made her feel that there was no way she could survive this. Jack, however, was not about to give up. He lifted the girl off the ground, and began walking off in the opposite direction from where she came.

Then he heard the sound of metal tearing and bending. He looked back from where she had come. He did not know what had caused the sound, but he knew that it must be something terrible. Jack looked up above him and saw the ventilation duct. He quickly grabbed a chair, stood on it, and opened up the duct. Then he quickly hoisted the girl up into the chute, kicked the chair aside, and climbed up in after her.

Then the door from which the girl had come split open, and a monstrous head poked through. The ceiling tiles were like wire mesh, so Jack could look down through them. The creature then pulled its mighty bulk through the door, and grew quiet. Jack recognized it. It was one of the Zerg specimens. It was a Hydralisk. But how had they gotten loose. It huffed quietly, and stepped forward through the hallway, gazing from side to side into the vacant rooms around. The creature sniffed lightly, for it was hunting for its prey. Jack looked at the girl in horror, realizing that they had been hunting her. And the creature could smell the blood from her wound. Jack took the girl in his arms, and slowly and quietly began moving over the ceiling tiles trying to get away before the Zerg creature smelled her blood. The Hydralisk stepped to the side, and a defiler crawled through the door, hissing evilly. It moved through, and after it came a second Hydralisk. Jack backed away with the girl in his arms,

Soon four more Hydralisks had entered the room. They growled softly, and began moving down the hallway, sniffing for blood. Jack stopped moving, praying that the Zerg would simply walk by, and leave him and the girl alone. The Hydralisk stopped right below him, and leaned over to the ground. Its eyes gazed over a small drop of blood which lay on the ground. The Hydralisk sniffed it lightly, and reared back up again. The other Zerg waited while the Hydralisk looked from side to side, trying to pick out where the source of the blood had fled too. But it didn't smell a trail of blood. The trail of blood ended here. The Hydralisk looked around as if searching for an explanation as to how this could happen. Jack held his breath. The Zerg Hydralisk, when seeing no reason as to how that happened, moved its way down the corridor, trying to pick up the scent again. The other Zerg followed behind it.

Jack's foot suddenly slipped, and slammed against the metal wall. The Hydralisk turned with a grunt, and began growling back in its throat. It then moved back until it was right under the ceiling where Jack was, and gazed up towards it, growling the whole time.

Jack didn't move. But then he noticed the Hydralisk's chest cavity open up. Jack rolled to the side as the Hydralisk loosed needles spines up through the ceiling. The Hydralisk heard Jack roll to the side, so it leaped up into the ceiling, knocking the ceiling tile up into the air. Jack stood up, and began running down in the opposite direction which the Zerg had been traveling, but the other Hydralisks now knew where he had gone. They began leaping up into the ceiling grating, knocking the tiles up into the air. One knocked up the one under Jack, causing him to go flying into the air, letting go of the girl, and flying off into the air. Jack crashed painfully back down against the wire grating, slamming his head painfully against it. The girl landed twenty feet in front of him.

Jack immediately got to his feet, and ran over towards the girl. But suddenly the ceiling tile right in front of him was knocked up, and he found himself staring into the dark eyes of a Hydralisk. It roared, and swung its blade at him, before falling back down under the ceiling. Jack ducked the slash, and then jumped over the broken in ceiling and scooped the girl up in his arms. He then stood up, and ran for his life with the Hydralisks running just below him.

They leaped up at him, slamming through the ceiling grates, but Jack jumped out of the way each time. The Defiler had apparently disappeared. But the Hydralisks were in hot pursuit. Jack looked ahead, and saw the wall where the door was through which the girl had come. He would have to get down from inside the ceiling so as to get through that door. Just then a Hydralisk jumped up through the ceiling grate right below him, causing Jack to fall down onto the ceiling tile. The Hydralisk immediately stabbed its blades into the ceiling tiles to its left and right, so as to hold itself up there. It swung its head from side to side, snapping and roaring, while Jack held tightly to the girl and the grating, trying desperately not to be knocked off. Then another Hydralisk broke through the ceiling tile behind him, and snapped at his leg.

Jack kicked the Hydralisk in the face, causing it to fall back down to the ground. Then the Hydralisk under his tile's weight proved to be too much for the ceiling grates, for they broke, and the Hydralisk fell back under, causing Jack to fall down as well.

The Hydralisk landed on the other Hydralisks, causing them all to fall to the floor in a heap. Jack tumbled to the ground with the girl in his arms just in front of them. He immediately jumped to his feet, and ran towards the door. One Hydralisk jumped back to its feet immediately, and charged after him. Jack drew his gun, and fired back at the Hydralisk as he ran. The bullets pelted rather harmlessly off of its hard carapace, jolting it, but nothing more. Jack then ran through the door, and slammed it shut behind him.

The Hydralisk slammed its blades into the weakened door frame, causing it to splinter and break apart. Then it squeezed through, and continued chasing after its prey. Jack ran down the hallway, searching desperately for the one room where he needed to go. The security room, set up in case something like this ever happened. The mighty Hydralisk rounded a corner behind him, slamming painfully into the wall. There it was! Jack immediately ran inside the security room, and pushed the girl under a table. The walls were lined with weapons in glass containers. He grabbed a chair, and smashed the glass. The Hydralisk broke into the room, howling while barring its scythe blades. Jack grabbed a rifle off the wall, and fired a round into the creature's face.

The bullet pinged against the Hydralisks face, causing it to bleed. The creature roared, and leaped towards Jack. Jack dodged to the side, and the Hydralisk slammed into the wall knocking several guns down from their hooks. Jack threw the rifle aside, and grabbed a Gauss rifle. The Hydralisk turned, and roared before charging towards him. Jack pulled the trigger and fired a stream of rounds into the beasts hide. The Hydralisk roared as the bullets pelted off of its carapace. The Hydralisk then split its chest cavity open, and fired a stream of needle spines at Jack. But Jack had grabbed a Zerg shield off the wall, and hid behind it. A Zerg shield was a large metal shield made during the wars against the Zerg to withstand the weapons of the Zerg. People would lie down and lay the shields out over themselves. Jack then dropped the shield and opened fire again. The bullets cascaded into the creature ricocheting off its carapace, and flying off into the walls. Jack threw the Gauss rifle, and grabbed a Canister Rifle. He fired a few rounds, but the Canister rifle did little more than the Gauss Rifle to the Hydralisk.

The Hydralisk roared in anger and sprung forward again, landing right in front of Jack. It swung a blade for his chest, but Jack immediately fell to the floor and pulled the Zerg shield over his body. The Hydralisk, being as unintelligent as Zerg were, began slamming its blades down into the metal, trying desperately to break through it. The Hydralisk tried nudging the shield off of Jack, but Jack moved along underneath it. The Hydralisk grew angry, and roared. Jack then slid out the other side and grabbed a small concussion rocket launcher. He fired a rocket into the Hydralisk's chest, the explosion throwing the beast back against the wall, and knocking it senseless.

Jack then stopped, for he heard the cries of the other five Hydralisks further down the hallway. He grabbed a shoulder-braced minigun, and jumped out into the hallway. He let the gun spool up, and then pulled the trigger. Bullets sprayed everywhere rapidly tearing through the walls and through the floor and ceiling as Jack struggled to control the mighty gun as the gun recoiled again and again and again. Jack then got a hold of the situation, and moved the gun barrel down pointing it towards the five Hydralisks. They let loose Zerg like shrieks as their skin was torn apart by the relentless streams of bullets. It was like sheets of metal were being spewed everywhere as hot lead flew everywhere.

The Hydralisks, in fear, and utter confusion turned and ran for their lives, not understanding how so many bullets could be fired at once from one man. Jack released the trigger, and shouted happily. Then he heard the Hydralisk back in the security room growl as it awoke again. The girl was still in there! Jack ran back inside to see the Hydralisk standing back up. It saw him, and hate coursed through its eyes.

The beast roared, and reared up on its tail. Jack raised the minigun to his shoulder, spooled it up, and pulled the trigger. Bullets coursed out from the barrel like locusts flying down upon crop lands. They cut the Hydralisk, ricocheting off his carapace when fired at an angle, tearing chunks of carapace off. When they shot straight on, they shattered the carapace and pierced the vulnerable skin beneath. The creature roared as its skin split and bled, its flesh was torn and cut. The bullets filled the air, tearing the creature apart, bloodying its body. It roared in anger, and charged towards Jack. He threw the minigun aside, and ran to the side of the room. He then reached onto the wall, and grabbed an advanced 50 Caliber rifle.

The Hydralisk reared around towards him, and Jack readied himself to fire the mighty gun. He knew he only had one shot in this thing without a tripod. Jack braced the gun against his shoulder, and pivoted it until it pointed towards the beasts heart. The minigun had torn enough of the carapace away that the armor piercing round just maybe could break through the carapace and pierce the heart. The Hydralisk reared up. Jack pulled the trigger. The recoil slammed the gun into his shoulder, spinning him around and sending him sprawling to the ground. The Hydralisk roared, and Jack squeezed his eyes shut. It roared a second time, this time in pain. Jack looked up, and saw a stream of blood pouring from a bullet hole in its chest. He had pierced the heart. The beast groaned in pain, and fell forward, crushing the desk which it landed on, and falling to the ground dead.

Like it? I do. A third part will come, and not sure if there will be more, I'll see. Now inspirational quote and I'm gone.

Henri Ducard: If you devote yourself to an ideal and they cannot stop you... you become something else entirely.

Bruce Wayne: Which is?

Henri Ducard: Legend, Mr. Wayne.