Objective 6: 5:39 P.M. Cargo Room

Just as they thought that they had made it through the worst, Claire, Ken and Yoko came face to face with another obstacle.

"I'm surprised you survived," Tanaka said as he stood in the middle of the chamber. He stood in the middle of a puddle—most likely caused from a broken pipe. He wore a black trench coat, a foreboding and unusual piece of clothing that didn't seem to fit properly with the man's posture—as if his bone structure was disproportioned.

"Mr. Tanaka," Ken bowed, "Where is Mr. Ryuzu?"

Tanaka laughed, there was something not right about his voice…his breathing. "Does it matter anymore? Everyone is dead…except for you and me, Ken. You seem to be untouched."

Claire pointed her gun at Tanaka. "Drop any weapon you have, and step away."

Tanaka laughed again; that wheezing noise coming from his throat. "Don't you see? I don't need weapons anymore, I'm all powerful!" He opened up his trench coat. Where his chest cavity should have been was now an open hole. His heart and rib cage were all there, but growing from his lungs was a huge pulsating tumor. "It turns out," he said menacingly, "That when you get enough of that virus, you don't become a zombie, but an invincible weapon!"

He's nuts! "Don't listen to him Ken, he may sound human, but he's become one of them!" Claire had noticed that his arms were flayed as well.

"Would you believe them, Kensuke?"

Ken glared at Tanaka. "I've had it with the Blood Sharks, and I don't need anyone telling me what to do! Besides, I think the exposed organs are a little much, don't you think? I'll take care of that." He shot Tanaka in the chest. The bullet pierced his heart.

Tanaka cowered back, but didn't fall to the ground like they expected. He smiled at them. His head began to twitch violently. The skin around his neck began to stretch and his head started lifting out of its socket. With a burst of flesh, Tanaka's vertebrae shot up, at least seven feet away from his body. On each row of his vertebrae, long claw like tendrils sprouted forth and began to stretch out. He had become a monster.

Ken and Claire began to shoot at Tanaka's body. He swatted Yoko and Ken aside with his long arms, knocking them to the hard concrete floor. Claire ran around to Tanaka's back and shot at a few of the tendrils. Two of them snapped off and fell to the ground where they began to wither. Tanaka wildly spun around and knocked Claire back with his long neck.

Yoko got back up. She rubbed her head and tried to assess the situation. Above Tanaka's head was a long power cord fastened to a generator at the end of the room. This gave her an idea. She ran over to Ken to see if he was alright; the knock back must have been quite a heavy blow.

"Ken, are you all right?" Yoko propped his head up.

Ken groaned. "I'm fine but…ow, what a headache."

"Can you lend me your gun?" Yoko grabbed the handgun off the floor. "Cover Claire for me, I have an idea."

"You're a real dues-ex-machina ya know that?"

Claire shot off another tendril. Without them, it was harder for Tanaka to hit her. She then began shooting at the growth in the middle of his chest. A few shots and it erupted into a mess of flailing nerves. This caused Tanaka to shake violently—it looked like he was mutating like the zombies had done. Huge boney legs came from his rib cage and touched down on the floor. His arms became huge, sharp claws that reached up to the long vertebrae. Claire thought that he looked like the skeleton of a T-Rex, minus the tail, with larger claws, and with disturbingly long spinal cord.

Yoko reached the generator cable and looked back. Claire was having a difficult time aiming for Tanaka's head. Those sharp claws, they would tear her apart if she didn't kill it quickly. The puddle…if Tanaka could just get a little closer to the center…

Just a little more…a little to the left…now! "Claire, get back!" Yoko turned the generator off. The lights above Tanaka went dim as the emergency lights kicked in. This was the perfect distraction she needed.

Taking careful aim at the wire above Tanaka's head, she shot cleanly through its cable. It snapped and fell into the puddle below. Claire grabbed it off the ground and tossed it around Tanaka's neck. Yoko took her queue and pulled the generator switch back up. A jolt of electricity went through Tanaka's body, frying his brain and catching his flesh on fire. He fell to the floor, twitching wildly, until at last he convulsed no more.