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Chapter 16

We have Anti-Virus and Hunters too

Ron looked about the hospital room where he and Dr. Drakken were waiting, when the lights flickered on.

"Booyah, we have power!" he shouted.

Drakken wasted little time as he got started getting all the components into the medical mixer.

"Ron, power is restored throughout the hospital, but there's a problem!"

Ron was a little shocked to hear Wade call in, he hadn't heard from him since he left for this mission.

"Wade? What is it?"

"Apparently the room where the generators were located also carried about 10 of the hunter creatures! From my scans they were all kept in animated suspension from an alternative power source, but when the generators were activated, it cancelled out the other power supply!"

"Right, let's pretend I don't know what that means" Ron said rubbing the back of his neck.

"It means that the hunters are waking up! And the guys are still in the room!"

Ron's eyes went wide with realization of what Wade was telling him.

"Oh, no"

Bonnie was the first of the four to actually start running for the door, just as the first hunter broke out of his tube behind her. It let out a blood curling shriek at such a high pitch it caused everyone to cover their ears.

Will opened up on the creature with his H&K, spraying the rounds into the Beta Hunter till it went empty. The Hunter turned to face Will and the other two, who were standing there in mute shock that it just took 30 rounds and all it accomplished was pissing it off.

"Smooth move genius, now you've made him Mad!" Monique yelled as she brought up her Dessert Eagle.

She squeezed the trigger, sending the large caliber round right into the Hunter's neck, or what would be its' neck if it had one. The Hunter shrieked again as it ran away from them before it fell to the ground, dead.

By now the other 9 hunters were fully awake, and upon seeing their comrade fall they started pounding on their glass encasings.

"COME ON!" Bonnie shouted from the doorway.

Josh started off first with Will and Monique close behind, one Hunter, this one a gamma broke out right in front of him, Josh dove through the creature's legs, and his arm's just brushing the slimy reptilian like skin as he did so. This caused the Hunter's attention to go to Josh, putting its back to Will and Monique.

Josh turned over as he tried to get up, getting a good look at this hunter. It had a very froglike appearance, with its right hand being a rather menacing set of razor sharp claws. It hissed at him as it flexed its claws, Josh thought he was done for.

However because the hunter turned his back to Will and Monique, they both plowed into the creature, knocking it off balance and causing it to go sailing over Josh's head and smack, large head first, into the wall.

Josh quickly got to his feet and started around the large tubes, ignoring the creatures inside who were frantically smacking the glass, within an instant Josh was out of the room; Will ejected his empty magazine on his sprint to the door, dropping it on the ground.

Normally it wouldn't matter where the empty clip fell, but Monique was right behind him, and when the clip hit the floor, Monique stepped on it and lost her footing. She fell to the floor just before the door. By now other hunters were busting out of the casings, the one that fell into the wall was now getting up, and it set its sights on Monique.

"MONIQUE!" Bonnie screamed from the doorway, her voice telling the urgency to get out of there.

Monique started to get to her feet when she felt an intense pain in her back, a pain that went through to her stomach. All the others could do was watch as the Hunter shoved his claw like arm into Monique's back, hearing her scream. Bonnie acted first, again sending .357 rounds into the creature; it faltered back withdrawing its claw from Monique, who started to crawl forward out of the room, leaving a streak of blood behind her, growing weaker with every move. She felt an arm grab hers and start pulling her out of the room.

"DUCK!"

Bonnie ducked down as the wounded hunter came sailing through the door, it caught Monique and they both sailed into the far wall, Bonnie fell back onto the floor but was able to kick the heavy door closed, hopefully buying them some time before the others get through.

The Hunter let out another cry, it wasn't as high-pitched as the other Hunter, but it was enough to get everyone's attention.

The creature had its claw shoved into Monique's stomach, it pulled out and Monique collapsed into a heap on the floor.

"You Bastard!" Josh shouted as he started firing into the Hunter, shortly followed by Bonnie. Both of them emptied the remainder of their 6 shots into the creature, which finally fell back to the floor and died.

The two still stood there with their revolvers pointed towards the down creature, Will stayed back, grabbing another clip for his H&K, watching them both.

Bonnie rushed over to Monique's side, seeing what she could do to save her, but it was too late, Monique was gone.

Now anger started to set in as Bonnie forcefully threw the cylinder open and emptied the casings onto the ground and setting another 6 into the gun before she spun it closed. She walked right up to Will, seething in anger.

"You did this! If you didn't throw your stupid clip on the floor she'd still be alive you Son of a Bitch!"

"She should have watched where she was going" Will said coolly.

Bonnie slapped him across the face as she brought the revolver to his face, cocking the hammer back as she did.

"Bonnie, he's not worth it!" Josh said as he forcefully pushed Bonnie's arm down as he pulled her away.

Will looked on, with the same stone set face he always had.

This is Vin's fault, he's the reason she's dead not mine. He truly is not fit to lead this team, especially after hearing his 'touching' story.

Josh had calmed Bonnie down a bit, they found a sheet nearby and draped it over Monique's still body before saying a quick prayer, they also took her weapon and ammo off of her, knowing that they still needed all the ammo they could get.

The two somberly walked back to where Will was standing, surprised that the SOB didn't say anything like 'you're wasting time' during the whole procedure. They were knocked out of their thoughts by the slamming and creaking of the door they just left.

"Sound's like the bastards are trying to get out" Josh said icily.

"Then let's get moving, we don't want to end up like her" Will said, motioning over to where Monique lay.

Bonnie was going to say something, but the sound of the metal door getting ripped off its hinges cut her off.

"Let's move!"

"I hope this is all we need" Steve said as he placed the coil into the machine, to activate the machine they needed to turn a valve, which was conveniently placed near were it was supposed to be hooked up, saving them some trouble.

"Here goes nothing"

Steve started turning the valve, the turbine began to spool up and the lights across the town started flickering on, they restored the power.

"Nice," Felix said.

Just then an unearthly roar came from across the street, causing both Steve and Felix to turn towards the source of the noise.

There on the rooftop of the adjacent building was something they hoped they saw the last off.

"Mother of Pearl"

Apotheosis was alive.

Vin looked up at the overhead lights in the office as they flickered back on.

"They got it alright" he said as he continued cleaning his .45's. They didn't need to be cleaned, but it kept him occupied, and from thinking about what he might have to do later.

Shego came into the room, cautiously as she remembered what happened the last time she came in.

"Power's back, and I just checked Kimmy, she's at 57percent." She said.

Vin nodded.

"Good work Shego" he said as he started thumbing the .45 APC rounds back into the clips.

"Now what do we do?" She asked quizzically

"The only thing we can do, wait, and pray"

"Is it done yet?" Ron asked impatiently.

"For the last time not yet! Oh you teenagers and you're sass!" Drakken grumbled as he waited for the machine to finish.

Ron had found a small metal container which they were going to place the anti-virus as well as several syringes in for relatively safe transport back to the dentist's office.

"Ron, its Bonnie. I don't have time to explain but we ran into some creatures, they are loose in the hospital, we're trying to get up to you but it's a little difficult"

Ron heard the gunfire as well as the creature's scream through the headset.

"Copy Bonnie, you guys ok?"

"We're holding our own, but it looks like we won't be able to make it back up to you"

More gunshots rang out.

"Then get outside of the hospital, we'll be fine."

"Ron that doesn't sound like a good ide-"

"Trust me Bonnie we'll be fine just get out now!"

"Fine, but hurry up"

Ron flipped his shotgun over and started loading in more shells, he then pulled out his .45 and checked the magazine before he slid it back into the holster.

"It's done!" Drakken exclaimed.

He grabbed the finished vial of anti-virus and placed it into the container before he closed the lid.

Just then a creature smashed through the window and landed on the table, it was a Hunter.

"Drakken, door, go!" Ron shouted as he brought the shotgun up.

Drakken pulled one of his .44's and started for the door while Ron fired into the hunter, dropping it instantly.

Ron didn't even wait to see if it was dead, he wanted out.

Josh, Bonnie and Will were working their way to the front doors of the hospital, apparently turning the power on opened up all the locked doors in the hospital, as it was now crawling with Hunters, Lickers and zombies.

They only shot at the creatures that got too close for comfort, but it was hard to judge with the hunters who liked to leap great distances to get their victim.

They finally made it to the door, but not before one of their shots blew the valve off of a tank of pure oxygen that was in the lobby, causing the area to fill with pure oxygen.

"Get on!" Felix shouted as he fired a few rounds into Apotheosis.

Since their last encounter the creature had changed, its trench coat was long gone, all it was wearing was black pants, its tentacles exposed, and his lips burned away, exposing its fearsome teeth. On its shoulder rested a rocket launcher.

Steve jumped onto the back of the chair and they started flying back, when the creature fired the rocket. It tore past the two and blew up a nearby gas station, the blast rocked them but they continued on.

"Vin is not going to like this" Felix said.

Steve could only nod in agreement.

Ron and Drakken fought their way down the stairs; it seems that upon completing the anti-virus, everything minus the kitchen sink was now after them. The Hunters, the Lickers, this zombie doctor that spit some vile substance that they didn't even want to know what it was.

Ron paused at the door to the main floor, loading in more shells, Drakken pulled out his other .44.

"You ready?" Ron asked as he pumped the first shell into the barrel.

"Let's blow this joint"

Ron kicked the door open, knocking a zombie down in the process as they sprinted into the hallway.

The hallway was relatively clear; the floor was littered with the carcasses of downed creatures, probably thanks to the other four.

Just as they reached the door Drakken turned back, leveling one of his .44s at the zombie they knocked down.

"Bye now!"

Ron just then noticed the oxygen tank was blown and that they were standing in pure oxygen.

"Drakken No!"

But Drakken fired before he understood what Ron said.

Almost immediately a large fireball was rushing towards them both.

Grabbing Dr. D by the collar Ron ran for the door, throwing it open just as the blast hit. He and Drakken went flying in opposite directions, landing hard on the asphalt ground.

Ron slowly started to get up; Rufus was walking around him, clearly dazed.

"Oh, man. Talk about road rash" Ron said rubbing his elbow.

"Ron! You ok?" Josh asked as he rushed toward him.

Ron waved him off,

"Just a little bruised but I'll be fine."

As he was getting up Ron reached for his shotgun, when he noticed it was laying on something.

That something was another weapon, it looked like a machine gun, but it had a little canister in the long handle.

Curious, Ron picked it up with the shotgun, noticing the pilot light on the end of the barrel.

"What is it?"

"I think it's a flamethrower" Ron said as he turned the new weapon around, hearing the liquid inside slosh around as he did.

With the new weapon they walked back over to the others, Will was helping Drakken too his feet, however something was missing.

"Uh, guys. Where's Monique?"

Bonnie and Josh stopped moving, Ron started to dread ever asking that question.

"We lost her, to one of those creatures" Josh said somberly.

"If it wasn't for hard-ass over there ejecting his magazine she'd still be here!" Bonnie spout.

"Wait, what?" Ron asked, confused.

"Moron here ejected his clip while running from the creatures and Monique slipped on it" Bonnie said with apparent venom in her voice.

"If she was watching where she was going this wouldn't have happened."

"Alright, enough. I don't want to hear about it!" Ron argued.

"Drakken, you ok?"

"Fine Stoppable, I even found a new toy!" Drakken hefted up a large single barreled weapon, Ron knew what it was immediately from all of his hours of gaming.

"Dude, that's badical! A grenade launcher!"

"We also found some cool weapons" Bonnie said as she hefted up an AK-47, complete with bayonet and 10 clips of ammo.

Josh showed his large matte black weapon with a cylindrical drum, the name 'street-sweeper' stenciled on the side.

Will, found a Derringer, which everyone laughed at. He promptly tossed it away, disgusted with its size.

"We'll show them to Vin when we get back, lets get moving, we're running out of time!"

Vin sat quietly as he finished loading the Springfield. During the time after his talk with Shego He disassembled each of his weapons, cleaned them, reassembled them, and then loaded each magazine by hand.

All that was left was one clip for the .45 Black Stainless Springfield.

As he held the clip he started doing something he also didn't do in 8 years.

Our Father, Who art in Heaven

He thumbed in one round

Halo Be thy name

The second round went in.

Thy Kingdome Come

The third,

Thy Will Be done

Fourth,

On Earth as it is in heaven

Fifth round,

Give us the stay our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses

Sixth round,

As we forgive those who trespass against us

Seventh round,

And Lead us not into temptation

The 8th and final round went in,

But deliver us from Evil

Vin slid the loaded clip, cocking the slide back.

"Amen"

Just as Vin stood up, the front door burst open. Ron, Drakken, Josh, Bonnie, and Will came through, clearly out of breath.

He rushed around to the waiting area where they collapsed onto the floor; Drakken was fishing through his lab coat revealing a metal case.

"Here," He breathed.

Vin instinctively grabbed the case and rushed back to where Shego was waiting with Kim.

"What is it?" She asked

Vin didn't respond, he just placed the case on the counter and opened it. He took a syringe and filled it with the anti-virus, checking to make sure it was clear.

He went over to Kim's arm with the syringe and a strip of rubber, which he tied around her arm after tapping for her vein to come to the surface. Then he carefully injected the substance into Kim's arm. As a last step he grabbed the infection meter and stuck it into her arm.

064.77

Vin took a sigh of relief.

"Is that all?" Shego asked as she stood by him.

"I hope so; it was 10 percent away from the cut-off mark so we should be good"

Vin and Shego walked back to the others.

"Where's Monique?" Vin asked.

The others shook her head,

"Fuck," Vin said as he clenched his fists.

"Did you……….were you able to...um…" Vin started trying to find a nice way to ask.

"Did we grab her weapon?" Bonnie asked, without her usual attitude.

"Yeah, that"

Bonnie showed the Dessert Eagle,

"Good, as cold as it sounds, we need all the ammo we could get. Thanks for getting it."

"No big, although she'd still be here if High and Mighty over there didn't eject his clip when he was running."

Vin gave a glance over to Will.

"This true Will?" He asked coldly.

"She should have watched where she was going." He said calmly, not caring of the hateful glares he was getting from everyone.

"You see, it's shit like that which makes you not fit to be in charge of the fucking girl scouts! You single minded asshole!"

"I think we need to talk about who should be leading this operation" Will said, still sounding calm.

"Oh don't fucking start with this again, the answer is no Will, you are too fucking stupid and untrustworthy to be in charge of this, now shut the fuck up before I make you shut the fuck up!"

Vin then turned back to address the others, ignoring Will completely.

CLICK

Vin could tell what it was by the sound, the by the faces of all those around him. Will cocked his MP5, which he had pointed right at Vin's back.

"I insist that we have a new leader" Will said.

Vin sighed as he turned around. Yep, its one of those days alright.

I leave you all with, well another cliffhanger, this one leaving more open than the last one did.

What'll happen to Vin and Will?

Will Kim be saved by the anti-virus?

Will Steve and Felix get back?

Stay tuned, next update will be Friday-Saturday!

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