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Chapter 13
The Best Laid Plans
Vin was lounging back into one of the few plush chairs Drakken had strewn about his lair. In his hand was a map of Middleton, their current location was circled and had roughly 34 different lines drawn out from it, their possible routes of escape.
He had Kim, Ron and the others getting familiar with their weapons, particularly with moving around with them. He made sure they got used to moving and aiming on the fly, making sure that they had the safety's on, the last thing he needed was a accidental discharge of a firearm now.
Wade kept checking in on him with progress on his and Drakken's study on the virus, they hoped to have an Anti-virus solution made up within the hour, Vin gave them twenty minutes.
"You there Vin?"
"You know for being the only person using this damned thing, you'd think a genius like you would stop asking that" Vin said, mildly annoyed at the interruption.
"Not for long you won't"
"What exactly do you mean Wade?"
"I've outfitted a small remote controlled plane with nine additional head pieces I made, and it should be there now"
As if on cue, through an open window came a small remote controlled plane. Attached to the under carriage of the plane was a large box, it came in and landed on the floor right near where Vin sat.
"Wade, how the hell were you able to get these and send them in here?"
"That's for me to know and for you to wonder about"
"Fine, whatever"
He knelt down over the plane and opened the box, sure enough inside was enough headsets for everyone. He had to admit that Wade was resourceful.
He set the box down on the table, he'd give them out before they left in another ten or so minutes. He went over the available routes they decided on, for the twentieth time.
The basics were all ready set in stone; they'd move out in two vehicles, the majority of them would be in the suburban while Drakken, Shego, and Felix would go in the hover-car. Felix was to ensure that the two villains didn't try to ditch them on the first chance they got, but Felix was told that if it came to it, only to fire warning or wounding shots, just to get the point across.
The hover-car would also provide a heads up for the main team in the suburban, providing them with info concerning their current route, which is why they made at least thirty different routes to the airport. Driving out was way to risky, flying out was their best bet. They also did not have any knowledge on if the government or Umbrella themselves had given clearance to launch the 'neutralizing' missile like they did to Raccoon all those years ago.
About that time Drakken descended the stairs from his office/lab area with the kimmunicator in his hands.
"How'd it go Dr. D?" Vin asked as he folded up the map.
"Well, me and the genius-"
"That's the genius and I Dr." Vin corrected.
"Err, fine! The Genius and I have been able to create a list of substances and chemicals that we could use to make a suitable anti-virus"
"But you haven't been able to make an anti-virus?"
"I may be a scientist, but I try to not deal with the 'science' part of it."
"Meaning?" Vin said, crossing his arms.
"Meaning, that I don't have the required materials here to make an anti-virus"
"Shit, I was afraid of that." Vin rubbed his hands through his short blonde hair; he didn't like having to lead a group out into the battleground without something they could use to fight off the virus if they indeed got infected.
"Do you have at least a list of the materials you'd need to create the anti-virus?"
"Oh yes, I have it right here" Drakken produced a piece of paper from his lab coat and showed it to Vin, who eyed it closely.
"What's with the crayon drawings of Kim tied to a giant table with a laser that's going to cut her in half?" Vin asked, loud enough that everyone in the vicinity heard him.
Immediately Kim and Ron shot a look over to Dr Drakken and to Shego.
"Hey, don't look at me princess. I don't come up with these plans!" Shego protested.
"You were planning to do what to Kim?" Ron shouted.
"It was just an idea! Oh please spare me…….name escapes me..." Drakken pleaded.
"For crying out loud it's RON, RON STOPPABLE!"
"ENOUGH!" Vin shouted, causing everything to go quiet.
"You guys could bicker later, for now let's return to the original topic, shall we?"
The room nodded.
"So this list has everything that you would need to create the anti-virus?"
Drakken nodded.
"Wade, you checked this over right?" Vin said into his head set.
"Affirmative, everything is sound. I even have a copy saved on the hard-disk here. In fact both Dr.'s Possible and Jim and Tim are working on creating several batches of the anti-virus"
"Wade, how are they able to do that? The safe house you guys are at is just that, an ordinary house, you don't have access to the materials on this list"
"Actually several household cleaners and such contain trace amounts of the needed materials, it'll take some time but it should be made"
"Good, keep us posted on the progress,"
Vin turned back to Drakken and handed him the list.
"Keep this with you at all times, I want you to know that list inside and out. God-forbid someone gets infected you'll have a short time to actually make the anti-virus. And keep an eye out for places that would have the necessary materials"
"Will do" Drakken said as he shoved the paper back into his lab coat.
Vin checked his watch; it was time to move out.
"Ok people listen up! The time has come for us to move out!" Light cheering erupted.
"Settle down, now to be on the safe side Wade has sent us enough headpieces for everyone, this way we could communicate with each other easier. It also means that whatever you say will be heard on this so, keep that in mind"
Vin held out the box, one by one each member took a headpiece until the box was empty, and each placed in into their ears without a problem. Accept for Ron, Vin couldn't believe how someone could constantly screw up putting a headpiece on, but he eventually got it.
"Check one, two, check one, two. You guys copy?" Vin said into his headpiece.
"I read you" Kim said.
"Loud and clear" Shego replied.
"Affirmative" Steve Barkin said.
"Whatever" was Bonnie's response.
"I got you" Ron replied.
"Hm, yes. Right" was Drakken's response.
"I hear you," Josh said.
"Crystal clear" Felix said.
"I hear ya" Monique said.
"Roger" Will replied.
"And I hear all of you loud and clear" Wade added.
"Good, they work. Ok, Drakken. You and Shego go in the hover-car with Felix. You'll be our forward eye, if our determined route is too hot, warn us and we'll take another."
"Question?" Shego said.
"Go ahead."
"What exactly determines a 'hot' route?"
"If the street is packed sidewalk to sidewalk with zombies, we don't take that road. If we run into a group of green guys with large claws, we don't take that road, if we run into a bunch of inside out creatures… You get the idea right?"
"Yeah, I got it"
"Ok, let's load up!"
The spare tire was fitted to the left rear of the suburban, Kim suggested taking the flat tire along just in case they might be able to repair it, but the rim had a large chunk blown out of it, rendering it completely useless.
Vin admired the new mismatched look of the left side of the truck,
It'll due, not like it'll win any beauty contests.
Everyone was already loaded up in both vehicles, Vin gave them all strict orders not to fire unless absolutely necessary, they still had to conserve ammo after all. And to make communication easier between the two vehicles they used code names, The Hover-Car was known as 'Corvette'(the ship, not the car) the Suburban 'Black Pearl'.
Vin climbed into the driver's seat, he slung the shotgun, AR-15 and the Springfield off his shoulder and wedged all three in between his seat and the center console, the others had their guns resting on the floor in front of them.
"Black Pearl to Corvette, everything green on your side?"
"Copy Black Pearl, everything is in the green, waiting on your command" Shego said into her headset.
"Move out"
Vin placed the truck in drive, as the hover-car lifted off the ground with its three occupants. On cue Wade opened the front loading door, 'Corvette' raced out of the warehouse and held position just outside and above the doorway.
"A Couple packs of zombies nearby, everything else is clear." Felix said through his headpiece.
"Copy Corvette, proceed with Route Alpha One"
"Roger"
The craft accelerated down the dark streets, the Suburban followed behind. For the most part the streets were not as bad as Vin initially thought, there were only small packs of zombies roaming the streets, no more than 5-6 in a group.
This was good and bad, good because it meant they could stick to their first and most straight forward route. The bad was a gut feeling Vin had, he experienced a similar feeling when he was in Raccoon City, he had this feeling usually just before something big and bad happened to his men.
"Keep your eyes peeled for anything guys, I don't like the vibe I'm getting off of this" Vin said, as his eyes went from side to side.
"Yeah, KP this is feeling so bad road to me" Ron said.
"Keep the chatter to a minimum guys, at least till we're near our destination" Vin said as he turned the corner.
"Corvette to Black Pearl, we've spotted a few inside out guys down the next street, looks to be three or four of them in the shadows, what's your call?"
"Dammit!" Vin said as he pounded his fist on the steering wheel. His gut feeling was getting worse.
"Go to route Alpha Tango" Vin said, Tango was one street north of where they were supposed to turn, it mirrored the main route but it was slightly longer than the original, which is why it wasn't a main route.
Corvette turned back and headed across to the next street. "Alpha Tango has several groups of zombies on it, what's your call Pearl?"
Vin didn't like this, now their backup route was just as risky as the main route, however the backup route would take them further out of the way, eating up precious minutes that they did or did not have. Vin's gut feeling was intensifying, something in his head told him to go to the back up route, but his logic on the situation told him to chance it.
"Black Pearl, what's your decision?"
Vin twisted his hands on the steering wheel, trying to determine if he should take the risk.
"Vin?" Kim asked from the second row.
"You ok son?" Steve asked.
"I believe we need an answer sir!" Will Du said with a certain edge in his voice.
"See, this wouldn't have happened if I was allowed to command like I should!" Bonnie argued.
"So not the time Bonnie, and besides, you were given your chance and you choked!" Kim argued.
"I just wasn't ready is all!" Bonnie shot back.
"Black Pearl?"
"Settle down back there!" Steve spouted back to the bickering teens, he then turned back to Vin, seeing the worry on his face.
"Vin, what's your call? They need an answer" Steve said calmly.
Vin looked over at Steve, then back at everyone in the Suburban. He let out a sigh.
"Proceed with Alpha Tango, Corvette. We'll navigate the crowd as best we can."
"Roger that Black Pearl"
For Vin this was a coin toss, and it turns up that the proverbial coin overruled Vin's gut feeling, it was something he didn't always go against, now he just prayed he made the right choice.
Corvette started down Alpha Tango, which was actually Chestnut Street. It was littered with damaged and destroyed vehicles, as well as the mentioned packs of zombies, however they were spread out enough that they could be easily avoided. Chestnut St. also had a large amount of wrecked trucks on it, making visual contact with Corvette rather difficult.
"Black Pearl to Corvette, how are things from your vantage point?" Vin asked as he wheeled around an overturned pick up truck.
"Nothing more than a couple packs of zombies like we mentioned, looks like smooth sailing from here on……………"
Felix didn't finish his sentence, Vin felt his gut instinct telling him to order them out of there.
"Corvette, do you read me?"
Silence
"Corvette do you read me, Felix, Shego, Drakken? Anybody Respond!" Vin applied more throttle as he dodged wrecked vehicles, the Suburban had grown eerily quiet.
"Mother of God" Felix said on over the radio.
Alarm bells were going off inside Vin's head, should have listened to my fucking gut!
"Felix what is it!" Vin screamed as he maneuvered around a turned over tanker rig, bringing Corvette back into visual.
Vin immediately jabbed on the brakes, causing the trucks back end to swing to one side as it skidded to a halt.
"Motherfucker" Vin breathed.
Standing in the middle of the road, two blocks ahead of their current location was Apotheosis.
They all heard the creature roar, sending shivers down everyone's spine. The hover-car was still holding position a little ahead of the Suburban's current position, not moving.
"Justice" Apotheosis yelled as it hefted the rocket launcher onto its shoulder, aiming it at the hover-car.
Vin snapped out of his trance when he saw the rocket launcher come up.
"CORVETTE, BREAK OFF! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!"
The rocket fired,
"SHEGO GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE!"
The rocket seemed to move in slow motion as it headed towards the craft, suddenly the hover-car started to move, but it started moving too late.
Everyone watched in horror as the rocket exploded right near the engines, sending the hover-car crashing to the ground, it slammed into a corner shop, sending dust and debris everywhere.
Vin didn't know if they survived or not, but he started shouting over the mic for a response.
"Corvette, are you there? Corvette?"
Static
"Shego, Drakken, Felix? Are you guys ok?"
Static still, everyone's mood inside the truck became very grim, sniffling was heard near the back. Suddenly a transmission came over the headpieces.
"This is Shego………….we're alive………" She was breathing heavily, but the truck gave a huge sigh of relief.
"Copy Shego, are there any wounded?" Vin said quickly.
"My leg hurts pretty bad, Drakken might have a slight concussion, and Felix has a few scratches but it looks ok from our stand point." Shego said, everyone could hear her wince a little as she spoke, she was probably helping get Drakken out of the vehicle.
"Hold tight, we'll be there to pick you guys up" Vin said.
Without thinking it through he slammed his foot to the floor and started accelerating towards the area where the craft went down, completely forgetting that Apotheosis was just two blocks ahead of him.
He realized his mistake too late as the truck broke its cover, coming right into Apotheosis's view.
"Oh Shit!" Vin shouted, realizing his mistake. Now they were stuck, they couldn't go back, they had to run the gauntlet.
Apotheosis dropped his rocket launcher and picked up his Vulcan cannon, it started spraying deadly depleted uranium rounds towards the Suburban.
"EVERYONE DOWN!" Vin screamed as he cut the wheel hard.
The rounds shot all around them, Vin was applying evasive maneuvers, trying to weave the heavy truck back and forth to dodge the creature's fire.
Heading right into the incoming fire was never a good idea, but here they didn't have a choice. Vin was doing his best to avoid the fire, but everyone could hear the rounds rip into the sides of the vehicle, they felt the pieces of the windshield as round after round smashed into it.
Suddenly they felt the left rear go flat again. Vin fought for control of the truck, but there wasn't enough room to maneuver.
"HOLD ON!" He shouted as the back of the truck swung wildly to the left, striking a disabled vehicle.
The force of the hit caused the Suburban to roll onto its side, it started tumbling down the road with its occupants still inside. It came to a rest on it's roof as it skidded just yards away from where the hover-car went down.
Groans, and moaning filled the cabin of the overturned Suburban, as white smoke filled the cabin.
"Is everyone cough ok?" Vin asked as ammonia filled his lungs, he opened his eyes to realize the airbags went off. Carefully bracing himself he unbuckled his seat belt, and now crouched on the roof of the truck peering back into the passenger compartment.
Thank god this thing had the optional side curtain airbags Vin thought as he looked back at the overturned teens.
"Oh, man. I am going to be sore tomorrow" Kim groaned as she carefully undid her seatbelt.
Ron just unbuckled his belt, and as a result slammed head first into the roof of the truck.
"Owwwww!" He groaned, rubbing his head.
No one was seriously hurt, which was good, because they now had to get out of the overturned truck and fast. Apotheosis was probably heading towards them now.
"Come on guys, I know it hurts but we need to get moving, now" Vin said as he dislodged his three weapons. Luckily all the other weapons were safely stored under the seats and in the duffle-bags tucked in the back of the truck.
Vin crawled out of his window and started assisting the others on escaping the smoking truck, Shego limped over with her Thompson at the ready.
"You guys ok?" She asked.
"More or less, you?" Kim asked as she was assisted out of the truck, her AR-15 already on her shoulder.
"I should be able to walk this off, you might want to pick up the pace. Tall, dark and gruesome is coming" Shego said, motioning over to the approaching Apotheosis.
Felix wheeled over with Drakken draped over the back of the wheelchair, he was still out.
Vin looked back and saw the overturned tanker truck, near it were several empty bottles. An idea came to him.
"Ron, you and Barkin get those bottles over there filled up with whatever is in that tanker truck, be sure to soak any rags you find in it too."
"I'm on it, but what are we doing?" Ron asked.
"Covering our escape, Molotov Cocktails, now go!"
Ron was off with Steve to the tanker truck and immediately started playing with knobs and levers till one of them released the contents of the truck which turned out to be gasoline.
Apotheosis was almost on them when Vin pulled Will, the last person in the truck out. Monique already had the two duffle bags of ammo out and gave them to Will and Josh to carry.
Several groups of zombies were also closing in on the group, but for now they were the least of their worries.
"Suppressing fire!" Vin shouted.
"What?" Everyone responded.
"Oh Christ, just shoot at the fucking thing!" Vin yelled before he started letting small bursts of fire out from his AR-15, everyone almost simultaneously picked up on it and started firing at Apotheosis.
Ron and Steve came back with 6 bottles filled with gasoline, the holes at the top were plugged by the soaked rags.
"Fall back!" Vin yelled as he pointed down an open side street.
Everyone started sprinting towards the side street when a pack of zombies cut them off, Vin quickly switched to the shotgun and started by ricocheting the buckshot off the pavement in front of the pack, it wouldn't kill them but it would provide them with enough time to get by them.
The pack fell when the buckshot hit them, dropping them all to the ground, everyone rushed over them but one of them grabbed Kim's ankle.
"KIM!" Ron called back as he turned to see Kim fighting the zombie holding her leg.
Everyone stopped and turned to look back, Ron was about to rush in when Vin held him back.
"What are you doing? She needs my help!" Ron argued.
"Dammit Ron, think before you act! Look!" Vin said as he pointed back towards Kim, Apotheosis was feet away from Kim, if Ron rushed right in he'd be in the same predicament as Kim.
"You're going to let her get killed!" Ron shouted, his anger was apparent, Rufus was even incredibly pissed off too as he glared out of Ron's pocket.
"Not likely" Vin said, shouldering the Shotgun, he grabbed the Springfield Sniper rifle off his back.
Kim fired her AR-15 into the head of the zombie that had grabbed her, only to be immediately grabbed by Apotheosis, she started firing blindly into the creature's chest till the gun emptied.
Everyone watched as tentacles shot out from the creature and wrapped themselves tightly around Kim as she struggled for to get free.
"God-dammit DO SOMETHING!" Ron shouted.
"Get the cocktails ready" Vin said coolly as he looked through the scope on the rifle.
He brought the tentacle into his sights, watching it flex as it tried to squeeze Kim.
"Ron get ready to rush in when I tell you too" Vin said as he held his breath, steadying his aim.
Three, two, one…
CRACK!
The sound of the high-powered rifle shot echoed through the side street as the round found its mark, ripping the tentacle in-half causing Kim to fall to the ground.
"Ron GO!" Vin shouted as he worked the bolt action rifle and loaded the next round into the chamber.
Like a flash Ron was back with Kim, Vin glanced back quickly to see Steve and Will with two cocktails ready, each had a lighter in his hand.
"Light'em and throw!" Vin screamed.
The two bottles tumbled through the air, Vin brought one into his sights as it came in front of the creature, and he squeezed the trigger.
The second round shattered the bottle, sending a blanket of fire onto Apotheosis, the second bottle smashed into the creature's chest. It let out a blood curling scream as it started to burn.
"Get into that building now!" Vin screamed as he cocked the next round into the rifle. He heard everyone start rushing towards the far building at the end of the street.
Vin leveled the rifle again, Apotheosis was starting to fan the flames off of itself when Vin got his next target in his crosshairs,
"Eat this fucker!" Vin squeezed the trigger.
The round pierced the flaming box that held the ammo for the Vulcan cannon, the force of the impact sent the flames into the ammo box. The sudden heat caused the rounds to start discharging.
Vin turned and ran towards the building as the rounds exploded behind him, Apotheosis started screaming again as it tried to escape the fire and the rounds, not realizing that the cause of the rounds was strapped to him. He disappeared into the wall of fire.
Vin came through the door into the large room. He latched the door shut behind him.
It appeared to be a waiting room for a dentists office, Kim was laying unconscious on the floor, Ron by her side. All eyes were on Vin when he came through the door.
"How is she?" Vin asked as he ejected the spent cartridge from the rifle.
"I don't know" Ron said worriedly
Vin knelt down across from Ron, noticing the slight cut Kim had on her arm, his stomach sank.
"Oh no" he breathed,
"What is it?" Steve asked leaning in.
Vin turned over Kim's arm, showing everyone the small cut.
"No, no it can't be" Ron started, tears were starting to come to his eyes.
"Only one way to find out" Vin said as he pulled the device out of his pocket.
He stuck it into Kim's arm, everyone waited anxiously till the device beeped. Vin pulled it out and looked at the reading, praying he was wrong.
"Oh Shit"
"What is it?" Shego asked, deeply concerned.
Vin looked up slowly at the worry filled eyes surrounding him, he showed them the reading.
000.05
"No…." Ron said before he started crying, gasps were heard throughout the room.
Kim Possible was infected, and they didn't have a cure for the virus.
Due to my lack of updating in a week or so, this chapter is longer than my usual chapters, mainly to make up for last week.
Bad time to end a chapter yes, but cliffhangers are so much fun!
This time I will not reveal what will happen with Kim, I usually give you guys little hints in my replies to your reviews but this one I am keeping locked down. So you'll all find out what I plan to do with this at the same time.
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