Zane, Rebbeca, and Billy went upstairs to the dining car, when they got there , they saw a man sitting at a table, just sitting.
Zane looked to Billy while Rebbeca walked up to the man, Billy shook his head and readied his gun, while Zane grabbed his Magnum.
Rebbeca checked, " Sir, are you alright?"
She shook his shoulder, then he slumped and his head fell right off his shoulders, Rebbeca jumped back, then the mans body split and inside were hundreds of slugs of some kind, they came together and formed a human like body, before advancing on Rebbeca, before if even got two steps forward a powerful 44. magnum round went straight through the head, then chest of the thing, it fell apart, but two of the slugs somehow lept at them, in response Billy dived to get an angle to shoot them both.
After the rest slithered off they all heard some kind of singing from outside the train, some guy was standing in the storm, surrounded by slugs, looking into them.
Billy asked, " Who the hell is that?"
They all stumbled when the train started moving.
Rebbeca, " What, we're moving."
Billy turned to them, " You two go check out the first engine car, and take these."
He threw a box of handgun rounds to Zane, who nodded, " We'll radio you if we find anything."
They both climbed onto the top of the train, they came up on the power box, with its wires disconnected, Rebbeca connected the cables, but slime started to seep out of the box, a moment later slugs jumped out at her, she yelped and fell back into a hole.
Zane ran and yelled down, " Rebbeca, are you all right. "
She yelled up, " I'm fine, just fell, the doors locked and there's no way back up."
Zane said " Okay wait there me and Billy will find a way to get you out, in the meantime look for anything useful, don't worry we'll get you out soon."
Billy saw Zane without Rebbeca and worried.
" Where's Rebbeca?"
Zane told him how she fell, they got a call from her on the radios.
" Hey guys, turns out the door isn't locked, it's jammed, but I need somthing smaller then a knife to drive it out, oh and I found a key, it says it's to the 'conductor's room', there some kind of lift thing here, I'll send down the key, maybe it'll help get me out."
Zane sent back, " Good thinking Becs, alright we'll find the lift on this floor."
They went through an electrical door, now that the power was back, and found the kitchen. They also found the other lift,and the key within it.
They went back to the conductor's room, killing a few more zombies with there knives to save ammo, and went in to find a map of the train, a green and red herb, and inside a cupboard a briefcase with two strange locks.
Billy hit a button and dropped a ladder.
" Yeah, that works."
When they climbed up they were in a bar area, and both drew their guns when they heard some kind of screeching sound on the roof, they walked through slowly but nothing happened.
As they went to the next room Zane saw an icepick on a drink cart.
" Hey Billy think this will work?"
Billy looked, " That'd probably work, we should look around for anything useful before we head back."
They checked the first cabin and found a can of first aid spray, a box of handgun rounds, and an Olympia over - under break action shotgun, as well as a box of shells.
Zane grabbed the shotgun and ammo, " Oh this is going to work fine."
They went back through the bar car but stopped when, something knocked the chandelier of the roof, there were two claws pieced through the roof, then it collapsed letting, a giant black mass fall into the train car.
Zand saw it , " Is that a fucking scorpion!"
It was a giant scorpion, with a black exoskeleton, white claws, and a white stinger at the end of a long tail.
It let out a screech before swiping its claw at Billy, who hopped back at the last second, he drew his gun and started to fire.
Zane fired as well, it only seemed to agitate it, the scorpion lunged, swinging both claws, knocking Zane and Billy onto there backs, it then shot its stinger at the defenseless Billy.
Zane saw this and time seemed to slow for him, in what must have been a micro second his gun was up and put three rounds on the stinger, forcing it off course, it buried itself into the floor next to Billy's head, he quickly got up and made some distance.
Zane, still seeing in slow motion, pulled the shotgun from his back, dodged the swing from the creautre, and put the barrels, right to its head, and pulled twice.
There was nothing left but a giant cavity where the scorpions head was, the legs and claws still twitching, he looked to Billy, but suddenly felt incredibly light headed.
As he fell Billy caught him.
" I gotcha kid, what the hell was that?"
Zane said, " No idea, everything just, slowed down, adrenaline mabye?"
Billy shook his head, " I've seen adrenaline rushes, that was something else."
Zane replied, " Tell you what when we aren't being chased by zombies, and BULLSHIT giant scorpions, we can run by a clinic, right now if it keeps us alive I could be half alien for all I care."
Billy conceded, " Good point, let's go get Rebbeca out, and stop the train."
On their way out they found a tool for opening hatches and took it.
They went back to the lift and sent the icepick up.
Rebbeca was sitting against the wall thinking, thinking of everything that had happened, zombies, a freinds death, Zane vouching for Billy, it made her head spin, she was a scientist, she took information and picked the facts out of it, but what were the facts here, the dead were walking, that alone made her head hurt, she didn't know what to think, right now she was trying to go one step at a time, get out of this room and stop the train, after that she could try and figure out what this all ment, her radio cracked to life.
" Hey Becs, we sent up an icepick, see if you can use it to unjam the door, we're on our way to the door now, see you soon."
She was relieved, she realy wanted out of the small room.
She said, " Okay I'll meet you guys as soon as I can."
She saw the lift return and took the icepick, it fit into the keyhole, letting her push out whatever was jamming it, she went out and the first thing she saw was a flaming zombie.
Just when she was about to deal with it its head shot back as a bullet passed between it's eyes, she turned around and saw Zane and Billy coming up the stairs.
He hugged her and gave her a kiss, which she, rather eagerly, returned, they separated and heard a cough.
Billy was smirking, " Do you two want some alone time or to find a room, I can go find a distraction."
Both young cops blushed and separated.
" Um- uh n-no we're good, let's go see about that hatch in the kitchen ."
As they walked down the stairs Billy was chuckling, they reached the hatch and Zane used the tool to open it, when they got to the other end and crawled out, two dogs with missing skin jumped out of their cages, between the three of them they quickly killed them, but Zane noticed something shining in one of the cages, when he picked it up he saw it was a golden ring of some kind, he realized from the design it was for that briefcase in the conductor's room, he put it in one of his many belt pouches.
They went to the back of the train and found a hookshot locked to the wall.
Billy pulled the lever and Zane took it.
He was smiling, " Oh I am so keeping this thing."
They went back in and Rebbeca was knocked over when a zombie fell out of the fridge, immediately trying to bite her, but before Zane or Billy could react, she had taken a knife that had fallen beside her, uses her legs to push it away, and drove the blade through its jaw, all the way into the brain.
They all, Rebbeca including, froze for a minute, before Billy said.
" Well damn princess, that's some instinct, remind me not to get on your bad side."
Zane helped Rebbeca up and they went to a broken window with half the ladder gone.
Zane said, " Okay I'll use the hookshot and try to find a way forward, in the meantime you two take this and go to the conductor's room, these an odd case with a lock that ring should fit in."
He gave Rebbeca the gold ring he found, and shot the hook up and pulled myself up, he found a hole and jumped down, a zombie was there but a shot through the eye took care of it.
He looked around the room, he found a jewelry box with a silver ring in it that looked exactly the opposite of the gold one. he also found a knife he would give to Rebbeca, as he was about to leave the room he heard an odd sound, a kind of tearing noise, when he left he saw that eggs had hatched and slugs flooded the hallway, Zane ran past them quickly and down the stairs back to the others.
The two men in tactical gear were talking over the radio.
" This is Delta team, we have control of the train over."
He said into the radio again, " About four minutes from the mansion, we'll use the fire bombs and tak-"
The man looked to a grate next to him and saw slugs pouring out of it, he looked down and saw they were already crawling onto him, then he felt the biting, he panicked started screaming and firing his gun, his partner was attacked as well, then both laid still as the life left there bodies.
Zane met up with Billy and Rebbeca as they were looking for the other ring to open the case.
When they used the ring Zane found and opened the case, inside was a blue key card.
Billy had a look of realization, " Hey back in the second car, the one you found me in, it had a card reader, this must be how we get to the first car, we can stop the train."
When they opened the door they saw to bodies on the ground, they were different in that, they weren't zombies, yet, and were both in tactical gear.
Zane had a moment of silence, then grabbed there weapons, MP5s , and all the mags and ammo they had, he gave one to Rebbeca, and gave his shotgun to Billy.
He said, " Billy this might be uncomfortable but you need a way to carry gear."
He gave him the harness from one of the men, he cringed from the slime but nodded and put it on.
They went into the control room.
" Where the hell is the emergency brake!"
Rebbeca saw a book and quickly read it, " One of us has to use this key card to activate the breaks while another stays to use them."
Zane said, " I'll go turn it on you two stay here and be ready."
Rebbeca said back, " Wait Zane, be careful. "
He replied " You too."
He went out the door and saw the two bodies rising, not having time he shoved one overboard and slammed the other into the wall, shoving his knife in to its head.
He dropped it and ran back to the back cars, he went into the car and saw somthing he prayed he wouldn't, Edward eating a corpse eyes dead, skin grey, he started shuffling and moaning towards Zane.
He drew his Pistol, and pulled the slide.
" Sorry Edward, I hope you find peace."
He put one bullet through his head, and he fell, he ripped the tag off his vest before moving on.
He ran to the caboose and scanned the card, and radioed to the others.
" The brakes are activated over"
Rebbeca called back" Okay we'll engage them over."
He heard the brakes engage and felt the train slow, but at the speed they we're going it would take a minute, but they hit a turn and the train tipped and crashed into a door, derailing it.
When Zane opened his eyes his leg was numb and he had blood on his face, he forced himself up and, started limping to the front car of the train, he found Billy and Rebbeca killing some surviving zombies, Rebbeca saw him and ran over.
" Thank God your okay, I was thinking the worst, we need to get out of here.
Billy saw he was bleeding and limping.
" We need to get some where we can look at our injuries and take a breath, let's head in."
They opened a hatch door and they all immediately blanched, the smell was horrible.
" Oh God my eyes are watering, that's foul."
They climbed a ladder and emerged in a well furnished room, like a manor of some kind, Billy saw a symbol on the rug, anyone who watches the news knew the symbol, it was for Umbrella logo.
Billy realized, " The research station, from the papers, thats where we are."
Zane was looking at a painting at the top of the stairs, he used his knife to scrape of grime, and it read, ' James Marcus.
The PA turned on, " At this time lets us recite the company motto, Obedience breeds discipline, Discipline breeds unity, Unity breed power, Power is life."
Zane said" Wherever we are, I have a bad feeling about this place."
That's done, sorry I've been gone so long guys, just busy, but with the CV quarantine I've had some extra time, so look forward to some more updates, and MABYE, a new story I've been planning, with that have a good one.