Outbreak Chronicles: A New City, A New Story

Setting: Wesker's Kitchen, thesame as we left off at the end of Chapter 12. Now everyone is devouring Wesker's seemingly never-ending supply of cupcakes, without restraint. It seems that, aside from being anruthless, torturous, evil, sunglass-wearing, bio-organic weapon, Wesker also makes a damn good cupcake. Speaking of Wesker,our teary-eyed cupcake makeris cuddlingthree junkie puppies that are suffering from symptoms of withdrawal. Bless their hearts...

Wesker: Poor babies (Sniff) They're such little troopers...

Alyssa: Hmph! Sissy!

SB, face smeared with chocolate icing: And now... (chomp, chomp) Chapter 13...

SSW, licking her fingers: Yeah... Mmmmmmmmmmm! What he said...

Chapter 13 - Bloodbath AKA "Hmmmm...So THAT'S Where All the BOW's Went..."

It ran through the halls at lightning speed, towards it's three targets. It would have gone after the larger number of life forms which were closer, had it not been for the sheer size of one of the three furthest away, the one It still managed to remember as the Tyrant. It would be a worthy, and very nourishing kill.

It stopped a few feet into the large room. Odd. It had sensed three life forms in this area as soon as it woke. But looking around, there was just the one. Struggling, suspended from a strange, claw-like structure. Yes, it was the Tyrant, but it was hardly a fair fight. It was more like a mercy killing than anything else. It walked up to the flailing Tyrant, rearing it's arm back, then driving it's clawinto the creature's heart. It knew that this wouldn't be enough to kill the Tyrant, so it quickly withdrew it's claw and drove it into another part of the heart, even deeper than the first time. The Tyrant stopped mid-flail it tried to bring it's arms up to protect it's wounded heart, but It responded by holding them down with it's two hands and continuing to attack the now weakened organ with it's tongue, lapping up the river of blood that it's attacks yielded.

With one last spasm, the Tyrant fell limp, with a bloody crater where there was once a pulsing heart. Now It was bored. That kill was not half as satisfying as expected. Disappointed, it turned, jumped up onto the catwalk above, and decided it would pursue the larger group after all. As it ran, it remembered that this place wasn't safe, and so it needed to get out fairly soon. But It was confident in it's speed, and knew that it could both kill its prey and get out in time.

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They finally arrived at the last room. In here, there was an escape elevator which led to the surface. They had run into a few BOWs on the way, but had managed to get here safely. With a last glance at the others, Kevin opened the door and entered the room. His eyes widened when he took in the scene before him.

It was a bloodbath. It looked like the Umbrella employees had flocked to this room in an attempt to escape, and their numbers had drawn the attention of the BOWs. They had put up a decent fight, judging by the shells and BOW bodies strewn around. But they had still succumbed in the end. There were human corpses all over the room, blood splattered on the walls, and BOWs feasting on the dead. Behind Kevin, there were gasps and retching sounds.

"That stench... Oh God...," Yoko whispered, shocked.

At the sound of her voice, several Hunters and Lickers lifted their heads, and turned towards the new prey.

"Run," Kevin ordered.

They all started sprinting across the room. The BOWs were not quite as motivated as usual, having full stomachs. But their violent nature roused them to attack after a few seconds. Luckily, Kevin and the others had a head start, and they were mostly across the room by the time the BOWs reached them. Kevin reached the elevator first, and slammed on the call button. He hoped it wouldn't take long for the elevator to reach them.

They made their stand in front of the elevator doors as BOWs came at them. Alexander Wilkins, who had been pretty quiet up until then, took a step forward. Mark tried to grab his olderson and pulled him back, saying,

"No, son! Are you out of your mind?"

Alex looked back at his father confidently. "I can handle a few. Just don't shoot me, okay Dad?" He then turned around just in time to catchtwo hunters with a roundhouse kick.

Mark just stared, knowing his boy was changed for good. He silently cursed Umbrella for doing this to his once happy family, but broke his train of thought to shift his focus to the current threat.

Come on! Halfway there! Kevin thought as he stared at the elevator lights. He looked in Cindy's direction and noticed she was having trouble reloading her gun. It seemed to be jammed. To make matters worse, there was aLicker on the ceilingcoming right at her.

"Cindy! Get down!" he called. She did so, covering her head with her hands. As the Licker dived for her, claws outstretched, Kevin planted a bullet in it's brain.

Cindy stood up, uttering her thank you's, only to be interrupted by Kevin saying, "Stay back and watch the elevator! I'll try and help hold them off!"

"Okay, thank you...," Cindy said shakily with a nod.She cautiously switchedher place near Yoko and Davidwith Kevin's by the elevator doors.

"Stay back! Bastardos!" Hernan shouted, brandishing the flamethrower it seemed he had finally learned how to use. Any creature that came within a few feet of him and Tara were barbequed in a matter of seconds.

Vanessa seemed to be holding her own, as was Alyssa, but when a second wave of BOWs appeared, it soon became apparent that they were all screwed.

Suddenly,as if they sensed something, all the BOWs froze in their tracks and retreated to the farthest corners of the room, parting like the Red Sea. Seconds later, a creature walked in, almosthuman-like in the structure of it's face and body, but the resemblance ended there. It seemed to be a Licker, as it was covered in raw red muscle tissue and it's hands and feet were tipped with claws. The only difference was the presence of eyes and the fact that a skull-like dome was where the exposed brain should be. It's eyes scanned the survivors, resting on Yoko. After a good long look, Yoko gasped.

"No, it can't be... Those eyes...," she whispered, recognizing the cold, cruel look in the eyes of the monster. She tried to look away, to move away as the thing startedtoward her at breakneck speed, butby the time she'd snapped out of it, it was already stretching out it's claws to her. She feltsomething hit her from the side, and then she was on the floor.

"Kevin!" Alyssa ran to his fallen body. "What the fuck is wrong with you? DAMMIT!" she said throughher tears as she startedhitting hisdead body.

"Alyssa, cut it out... I'm not dead but... I'm gonna be if you keep doing that..."

Correction: injured body.

They were interrupted by a "ding"as the elevator reached their floor.

"It's here! Quick, help Kevin on!" Cindy shouted witha more-than-subtleurgency in her voice.

"Umm, if you haven't noticed," Carrie shouted back as she fired a few shots at the Licker Mutant before finishing her sentence, "We have other things to deal with before we're free to leave!"

Alex stepped forward again, knowing this thing wanted a challenge. "Hey! You think you can take me!"

It seemed to work well enough, because the creature charged at the teen and shot it's claw out, narrowly missing Alex as he ducked, grabbed it's wrist, and punched it in the stomach, knocking the wind out of it and sending it flying back at least 50 feet into a shelf, which toppled over onto it.

"That should buy us some time," Alex said, "Now let's hurry upand get out of here."

----- End of Chapter -----

SB: (Burps) Wow, that was goooood... Wesker should open his own bakery!

SSW: Well, I'm just glad he's not gay.

SB: Though he never didsay he was straight...

SSW:Drop it or I'll castrate you...AGAIN.

SB:Why do you have to be like that?

SSW: Whatever. Where's the new girl? You said she was gonna show up today.

SB:Sara? Yeah, she's coming.

Sara A. Wesker: Hi guys!

SB: Correction: She's here...

SSW: My, how observant...

SB: Anyway, time for the initiation!

SAW: What initiation?

SB: You have to T.P. Wesker's house and steal his pet puppy! Hehe (Hands her a package of toilet paper and a duffel bag)

SSW: Don't mind him. He'sjust an idiot who thinks he's in aGreek House.

SAW:O...kay, well that's nice. Can we get to writing then?

SB: This is the Closer. We don't write again until the next chapter.

SAW: Right. Well then, let's order a pizza or something.

All: PIZZA!

Yeah, they're gonna get along just fine. Why don't you leave a review for them? Please?