Knee Deep in the Dead
Disclaimers: The games are not mine, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to the games and movie companies.
Warning: This is going to rotate between Reaper and Fly's thoughts of what went on in the first book installment to the game series and Reaper's sister is going to be involved in it. As the covers the game itself it's jumping over the narratative in the book of getting from section to section of the base. As with three it's less likely to get dangerous and they've got each other's backs.
As it's going to cover the entire doom series, from Ultimate Doom to Final Doom. The two characters of the second book will come in, but the focus will be on the quartet. With this being a slightly gruesome video game, it's going to be for teenagers fifteen and older and adults for the usual violence and profanity, and now on with the show.
Chapter 3: The Imps And Equipment Collecting
After getting my first look at what attacked us, I saw a monster that was two meters tall with brown crocodile like skin, ivory style spines across its body, red burning eyes, razor sharp claws on its hands and feet and dagger like teeth. As I slowly raised my gun, "Fly I think we found our leader of the zombies now, but..." I started to say and then dodged as a red fireball came flying at us.
"Alright can the chatter, take it down now!" Sam shouted out and we both fired at it and it fell to the floor as she moved away from the side of the wall, and then looked up. "Oh god, guys hit the deck!" she snapped and we quickly took cover and I looked around the corner to see a second shooting at us as I took aim and fired and the repeated shots caused it to fall off the ledge and land in the toxic pool.
As she looked at me. "Thanks for the heads up sis, at this rate with us being like we used to be, it's you're keeping me focused, you're my entire life right now. I'm not losing you now that I just got you back, you girls are our entire world." I said and she nodded gently as she looked between us then. "I think the fact that with the fact there's more of us now we better stand a better chance at survival than if Fly was doing this on his own."
"As to why I'm saying that it's because if he had to do this on his own, it's he's going to be suffering from exhaustion at the mid way point like you did after we got back to the UAC compound back on earth at the time. I mean one general stimulate, giving you a energy bar and you're able to focus after having a chance to rest. And with that, that's just what happened back then I got you to rest and eat something and you're able to focus." she said and we both nodded to that as I answered her.
"You maybe an archeologist, but between both of us we can take care of the medical areas, rest, food and then start a second time. But this is not turning into another Olduvai regarding health a second time. Sarge was a complete idiot in trying to keep going and not taking a break and resting for a bit and here's the result. I'm the last one standing and we had to destroy the data, well I'm not making the same mistake twice."
"Though at this rate, it's just insuring we don't get taken off guard now, time to regroup we have to look around the floor see what we can find. Because this level is onto four or five room and there's ten levels to go through till we find whoever the supposed leader on this base it. With the fact we ran into these guys, it's rounding up the stray ammo. Till we find a couple riot guns after that." I said and she nodded in agreement.
"Somebody want to consider what just happened here, our people have been turned into zombies and now we run into an alien soldier that looks like it's from our interpretation of hell here?" She asked and I ran my hand through my hair. "Yeah you're right, but if it was standing around then there's a reason for it. It's an ambush and they're guarding something that could give us a clear edge in the fight against them now."
"And with those words in mind here, it's they kill the soldiers, reanimate their bodies and turn them into zombies. But it wasn't aiming for you in the firefight. Scientists are valuable to them and with that in mind. Just what the hell was it guarding at the moment, if it knows you're all that matters to us till we find Arlene now?" I added and she looked out the window and smiled as she said it to me. "There's stronger batch of armor in the courtyard out there, but it's in a pile of the toxic waste, John."
"There's got to be a trap door to get in there, but you're superhuman, and we're fully human, so with that in mind, that batch of armor is sky blue. It's got to be our latest version of armor, because this one is ten times stronger than the normal green ones you wear. So with that, time to go over this, you don't need armor that much. But as you and I are the experts in this, and three sets of armor." she said and I nodded in agreement.
"Yeah you get the blue armor, you're more vulnerable, but you're the medical expert and I've done basic first and surgical care training if we got stuck off world at one point. But this is enough we're going to our survival skills training now, as to that time to think of this as being behind enemy lines, and you're more valuable than we are at the moment. Regarding this and you need that armor more than we do as well right now."
"But if he's not only guarding that, there's possibly added ammo lying around and we have to round it up, before we leave this portion of the base and we go from there." I said and she nodded to me in agreement to that. "This is definitely not like Olduvai either. I mean that was genetic experiment this is different, look at this thing, it looks our interpretation of an imp, fooling around with fire and just as strong." she said and I nodded to her as I crouched next to it and then yanked my bayonet and stabbed it.
"I think that should do it, but that's going for over kill right now, you shot it ten times brother." she said in bemusement as she rested her hand on my shoulder then and I looked up at her with a bemused smile on my face. "Well better safe that sorry right now, we don't need it attacking us a second time, Sam. Though the other one, if it wasn't dead before, than its dead by now, look over there." I said and we all turned to see its skin melted off and blood was mixing with the toxic waste and we nodded to that.
"Whoa, what the hell are these things exactly?" Fly asked and I sighed. "These aren't demons, demons are possibly going to be what I saw Pinky get turned into, because he was still connected to his wheelchair. No these ones are some sort of creature, if I have to guess, Hades just made his point clear, lost souls, zombies and next are imps, though if it gets worse I'm looking at demons and possibly our interpretation of lucifer next."
"Once he got turned into the devil finally and he's looking like a Minotaur, so with that in mind, he's at the lowest level of the base. As for these guys though, I doubt these are the only ones running loose around here, there's got to be more and...," I started to say and then looked at the door across from us and signaled to him and he nodded as we both stood up and as I signaled to him in our message system.
'Line draft, and we go on three.' I signaled and he nodded as he counted down. 'One, two, Three.' he mouthed and I slammed my hand on the controls and I saw a third as we both took aim and fired and it went down in a blaze of bullets at that. "Sam, coast is clear, it was a trap, but we got him." I said and she nodded and walked up to us. As she passed four ammo clips to both of us and we stashed them in our flak jackets.
As I was looking around the corner I found a box of bullets, opened it and smiled as I saw ten cartridges. "Fly, I found a box of 9mm rounds, there's ten here." I called out to him and he walked over to me and we split the box down the middle. "I'm looking at 200 bullets here." he said and before she answered that. "Check that Fly. I've got eight more guys." she said and passed us the added four and we nodded in relief at the news.
"Alright I'm going on analysis mode boys, but the zombies take a bullet or two to crippled them and then hit them in the head. These guys it takes five to ten with a sigcow, but I doubt that would be enough to slow down what we're encountering next. We need a rifle or chain gun to take down the next one and if the last is as dangerous as we think it's going to take a rocket launcher to kill them." she said and I nodded to her.
"Well the next step is finding our equipment bags, but we all get one, but you're running medical department and he and I've got the ammo. But food, medical supplies and ammo. We have to start gathering equipment and supplies as they become available, but with the three of us it's enough to last three days in food and water, between us. But if I know Arlene she's stashing them somewhere, so we just follow her trail."
"And you carry the first aid kits, but it's like you said, once we get to the infirmary, we're stopping for ten hours and taking a break to eat and rest, before starting up a second time. So once we get to infirmary you give us the added medication doses and treat our injuries and we can take a break there for a bit." Fly said to her and she nodded. "Got the added ammo from the guys, apparently those fireballs cooked two of your team, there's possibly added ammo lying around here and close by too."
"So we have this as either taking the weapons and ammo off your friends when they're dead or killing them for it." she said and I nodded to her. "If she's not on Phobos, she's got to be on Deimos, but we just follow her trail now, we all love science fiction of any kind and we even did a movie night and Journey to the..., that's it. Alright we have to trace her trail to see what direction she went, and with it, if we encounter anything."
"Zombies, it's we're taking them down and taking the weapons and ammo, but we have to follow her trail now at the moment." he said and I nodded as I spotted a blue bottle on the floor and picked it up. "Whoa what is this thing exactly, alright if this is like the chromosome, I'm betting..., Fly you better check that, it's possibly a more genetically enhanced version of our general stimulates." I said and he nodded to me at that.
As he took it and opened it, before swallowing the contents and I saw his body glowing blue at that and he smiled. "Well how do you feel?" she asked and he smiled. "Great, that's the strongest jolt I've felt since we left the command. We're at 100% these add on to it meter by meter making us strong enough to withstand the more deadly monsters. Alright, again we have to get our supply bag, these can act like a gentle energy drink."
"And we can go back and forth between our supplies and these, I think whoever opened up the gates then created their own version of our general stimulates and added health care benefits. Her cache of supplies are lying around somewhere we just find it and load up our equipment bags at every stop she was in, until we get to whoever the boss on this base is and destroy them." Fly said and we nodded in agreement to his thoughts.
"Well this is definitely not the same situation whatsoever, there it was genetically enhanced monsters here it's possible we're encountering the real thing. On Olduvai, the damn idiot got too reckless and Portman was right, we had no clue what we were dealing with. We should have called for back up when Goat got attacked and then shot him to keep him turning into one of those things." I said with a sigh and she squeezed my hand.
"At the moment best to focus on the here and now John, as I said what happened you have no control over it, no matter what you do sometime, it just doesn't work out. But in the end, it was worth it, look at us now, our sibling bond is back in place, we made new friends. Destroyer, Mac, Kid, Duke, their deaths will not go in vain. To prevent this from destroying our home planet, we must find the mastermind and destroy it."
"Though if this is just the beginning and our interpretation of hell comes into it, I don't doubt it just got worse from here. Phobos: fear, Deimos: terror, if this is going in the direction I think. Than whoever the mastermind is created their own version of hell and then reworked the bases, and if Phobos has been reworked. Deimos has been turned into our worst nightmare now." she said and I nodded in agreement to that remark.
"Okay Mac, Kid, Duke and Destroyer stayed themselves when they were killed, Sarge, Portman and Goat were infected by the virus. Because it chose them to infect them with it, the..., damn it of course, fighting aggression with aggression is safe and it won't turn you to the Darkside, to evil. Because you suffer remorse for taking a life like that, but fighting aggression with aggression to ultimately kill in cold blood will."
"And continuing to do so will leach the good right out of you, turning you into your inner demon. That's the key, I was suffering PTSD, because I saw and had to take life that resulted in a friend being murdered. But the trio and I are the same type of soldier, we weren't going to kill someone like that, and Duke was ready to rebel when he found Pinky." I said and she nodded in agreement to that as she answered me.
"He and I were talking things over when you left him with me, and it was enough that grew close John. Fact of the matter is he was willing to die to protect me, he was going to go against the Sarge if he so much as touched me at the time when his temper started getting the best of him." She told me and I nodded as I sighed at that. "He didn't realize you were my twin when he saw you at the time." I said as I sighed as I said it.
"Damn it, I knew Duke liked you from the second he saw you, God I wish he was around he could have protected you during this while the four of us went looking for Arlene now. But that would be our quintet: you, me, him, Fly and Arlene, before we met the sixth and final piece of our sextet once back on earth if this attacked home. But all in all, we just make sure nothing destroys us, we're alive and we stick together."
"Lucy thanks for the help, you just turned me into a Demi God, I've got a better chance of protecting my friends with you and that chromosome you created." I said bemused and he looked at me at that. "Who's Lucy exactly?" he asked and we chuckled. "Olduvai was a archeological dig our parents were at when they died. But Sam was in the secondary dig when we saw each other ten months ago. Lucy was the first major find she found, she was protecting her baby from her mate who turned into his demon."
"After doing added research into it, it revealed Olduvai was a mega-metropolis, holding close 300,000,000,000 people. She was filling me on what she found at the time and as she did that the scientist part in side of me started taking hold and I read through what she told me and it was that this gene she had was bio-engineered. They were normal humans before they created this chromosome and it destroyed their culture."
"And as she dug into Carmack's research, after Sarge lost his temper she and I dug into it further and I saw the person he infected with the chromosome. We later learned he created a way to revitalize the chromosome that destroyed their civilization and why they created the ark. And it hit me, as Sarge lost his mind finally, because not all of them were infected, but our genomes were still being tracked by scientists by this point."
"And this chromosome brought out the angel or devil in a person, some it turned them superhuman, others into their inner monsters. When I took a ricchocheting bullet right to the liver, she decided to try it on me, before she got attacked and then captured by Sarge, when I woke up. I realized I was still myself and even stronger than ever and I went looking for her, and then saw him and saw he was turning into his inner demon."
"And after a pretty good battle, I threw him back threw the ark and then blew the base on that end. And reported to Hamilton on it after that." I said and he nodded. "Was that how you explained it to him, Sam?" he asked and she nodded. "Yeah we were running out of time and Sarge only gave him four minutes to find me. And I had ten seconds to explain this to him, but did it in a military intelligence issue for him to get it."
"Though now it's gone past war games and straight to games in theory at the moment, if this mastermind read our minds, it's he's using anything he can to scare us." she said as I saw the wall next to me and looked from the color of it to the rest of it and smiled. "Hey guys check this out, found a trap door." I said and touched it and it opened and we walked down the stairs and found a medikit and then walked up another set of stairs.
