21. Decisions, Decisions
The elevator churned to a halt and slid open slowly. David and Yoko stepped off on 1F of the University.
"Remember," Kevin said. "If you find anything important, meet in 3F."
"Right…" David said, not looking back at the group as he walked down the hall to the main entrance.
"Yoko," Kevin called to her. She turned back towards him.
"Are you sure you're gonna be okay?" he said. "You aren't gonna have another dizzy spell?
"I'm alright," she responded with a smile. "Thanks."
"Okay, godspeed," Kevin said as the elevator closed in front of him.
It stopped again at B2F, where Mark, George and Cindy got off.
"Be careful," Kevin said.
"We will return as soon as we can," George said. "With the P-base."
"Good," Kevin said.
"Don't go dying on us!" Alyssa called after as the door closed.
Mark scanned the area and found an open manhole.
"This must be it," he said.
"Yes," George said. "That leads to the waterworks, no doubt Peter used it for his own purposes. Let's hurry, we've no time left."
"Oh gross!" Cindy said, pinching her nose. "More sewers!"
Kevin, Alyssa and Jim stepped off the elevator and into the tight hallway of b4. Along the wall was a paned glass window, wherein a laboratory with a large, empty tube sat in silence. Jim looked through the window at the lab inside.
"What the fuck is up with this place?" Jim said. "It's like Night of Frankenstein or some shit!"
"You watch too much late night B-movies," Kevin said.
"Bitch, we ARE in a late night B-movie!" Jim said, pointing for emphasis. "Zombies, ugly ass monsters, and you fools! How's a black man gonna catch a break?!"
"You'll have a nice break soon enough," Alyssa said, cocking her handgun. "When you turn on us."
"Shit, I'll bite yo ass first woman before you can even think twice," Jim said.
"Oh, give it a rest you two," Kevin said. "Let's just get this over with and get the hell outta dodge so I can get me some cheese fries!"
"Or some pizza, mmm," Alyssa said enthusiastically.
"Way to make a brother hungry, yo!" Jim said, his stomach rumbling.
They stepped through the door and into a dark tunnel. Slowly they advanced until they reached the end, which was entirely enshrouded in darkness.
"Wait," Alyssa said. "What's that?"
Something moved from the shadows, and slowly a large, hairy leg emerged into the light. Another one followed it, and soon another, until the group could make out an immense spider crawling along the floor towards them. Alyssa gasped as Jim screamed.
"Oh my God," Alyssa said. "I HATE spiders!!"
"Shit! Shit!" Jim screamed. "Kill it, kill it mother fuckers!"
"Anybody bring a really big rolled up newspaper?" Kevin said.
Kevin raised his .45 just as the spider leaped into the air, knocking it backward a few feet with the impact. Alyssa backed him up, firing round after round into it until it spit something into her face. She fell back, her face covered in webbing and tried desperately to rip it off. Kevin moved to help her when the spider pounced him. It pinned him to the ground, its large insect teeth snapping, Kevin holding it just barely at bay. His gun slid across the floor towards Jim, who simply looked on, terrified.
"DO SOMETHING!!" Kevin screamed. "PLEASE!!"
"Man, fuck this shit!" Jim said. "I'm out!"
Jim turned to run when another large spider emerged from the ceiling above them. Jim stepped backward, stepping on Kevin's .45. He turned around, accidentally kicking it and sending it sliding towards Kevin, who aimed it directly into the spider's eyes and fired, knocking it backward. Alyssa finally ripped the webbing off her face and grabbed her gun from the floor and fired at the ceiling spider, knocking it to the ground then walked up to it and fired three shots point blank into its head. She then walked back towards Jim.
"You stupid bastard!" Alyssa said, shoving Jim. "You were gonna ditch us! You pathetic excuse for a human fucking being!"
"Calm down Alyssa," Kevin said. "At least we're still alive."
"I'm sick of this shit Kevin!" she said. "He is only going to get us killed!!"
"No he won't, I promise you that," Kevin said.
"Shit, I dunno why you just don't let me chill on the third floor," Jim said. "I ain't gonna do nothin' hangin' around with you fools anyway!"
"No," Kevin said. "We are going to keep an eye on you. We're not letting you become one of those things without us knowing it first."
"Fine," Jim said. "But I swear, I'm bitin' her ass first when I go all dead on yo ass!"
"I can't wait," Alyssa said with a devilish smirk.
The group then made their way to the end of the tunnel, which led them to an abandoned subway system.
"Shit," Jim said. "This looks fuckin' familiar, ya."
They walked down the long subway tunnel, noting the train had stopped directly beside a door.
"Let's take a look inside," Kevin said. "I wonder what a train is doing stopped out here."
The group climbed into one of the cars and searched around.
"What the hell?" Alyssa said. "What's a guy dressed like this doing here?"
Kevin followed her and saw a man dressed in military like equipment lying dead on the floor, an AK47 in his hands.
"Not bad," Kevin said, picking up the gun.
"UBCS," Alyssa said, reading a label on the man's vest. "Umbrella. Why are they here?"
"I dunno," Kevin said. "But let's ask questions later. We have company."
A door in the back of the room slid open as zombies began to file in. The group fired a few rounds to keep them at bay until they exited the car and made their way to the door. Inside was a T shaped passage, one that lead to a ladder and another that led to a locked door. Kevin locked the door behind them to prevent the zombies from getting in.
"Let's look around for a bit," Kevin said. "See what we can find."
Kevin climbed the ladder followed by Alyssa. Jim simply looked around a bit, kicking his feet bored. He leaned against a wall, which was covered with a pane glass window that ran all along it.
"Man, I'm always getting shit in life," he said. "Playin' craps, playin' the women, even playin' video games. Now I got this zombie hickey on my neck an' I'm gonna be one a' those ugly mothas. Can't Jimbo have some good luck for a change?"
He pulled out his lucky coin, and began to remember his great grandfather Jacob giving it to him as a present. "This is a lucky coin Jimbo," he told him. "It got me this far in life, maybe it'll show you some luck too. That Chapman goodness is still in yo blood, I reckon."
"Thanks granddaddy," Jim said. "But it looks like yer coin is outta the ol' Chapman juice. It ain't gotten me nada but jack and shit, an' right now Jack ain't around to give a shit about poor ol' Jim."
Jim flipped the coin into the air, then caught it with his hand. The room suddenly seemed to turn cold as he slowly turned it over in his hand and opened it. Starting back at him from the surface of the coin was a tails.
"Ooooh shit."
Suddenly a long pane glass window burst open directly behind Jim, and dozens of zombie hands reached out to grab him. He fell to the floor in surprise and crawled backward as some of them began to slide into the room. Kevin slid down the ladder with his hands and feet to see the zombies begin to flood into the room.
"Hurry!" he called to Alyssa, who slid down after him. "We hafta go!"
"Where the fuck we gonna go?!" Jim said. "Get up that ladder fool!"
"The elevator isn't working," Kevin said, pulling out
his .45 and firing it directly into an approaching zombie's head. "We need to turn on the power. Go check over there!"
Alyssa and Jim quickly ran down the hall to the door at the end of the hallway as Kevin fired at the approaching zombies. He also noticed that the door he locked was being knocked from its hinges as Alyssa worked frantically to pick the lock on the door.
"C'mon c'mon c'mon! You can do it girl!" Jim said, cheering Alyssa on.
"Shut up and go away!" she said. "I can't concentrate with your stupid voice!"
"I don't mean to rush you Alyssa," Kevin said, stepping backward toward them. "But if you don't open that in the next 10 or so seconds, we're probably gonna die."
"Go go go!" Jim yelled.
"I got it!"
Alyssa opened the door and stepped in.
"C'mon Mr. Policeman!" Jim said, quickly running in and followed soon by Kevin, who locked the door behind them. Inside was a small, congested room no bigger than a walk in closet, and directly in front of them was a large machine with a control panel. Alyssa fidgeted with the controls until a screen popped up that displayed a grid of boxes, some of them lit up and others unlit.
"What the fuck is this about?" she said, pressing buttons on the screen that began to turn the light panels on and off. "This is fucking ridiculous! Who in their right mind would go through the trouble of this shit?"
The door began to rumble with the bangs of the zombies on the other side. Kevin leaned himself, pushing against it in attempt to keep them out.
"Just figure it out already," Kevin said. "Or we'll get drowned in dead people."
Alyssa pressed the panels over and over, unable to light them all up. The door suddenly began to creak open against Kevin's weight.
"Help!" he screamed. Alyssa quickly ran beside him and helped him block the door.
"Do something Mr. Jim!" she said.
"Me?!" Jim said, nervously walking up to the panel, which had buzzed and reset itself. For a few moments Jim stood there looking stupefied, then began to scratch his chin. He fiddled with the light panels for a bit.
"I think I figured this shit out," he said. "Anytime you press one it forms an "X."
He punched the panels over and over for awhile until finally he had filled the screen entirely up and the machine came to life with a whurr.
"I don't fucking believe it," Alyssa said. "He did it!"
"See?" Jim said. "I'm not that useless! Right?"
"What do we do now, cowboy?" Alyssa said to Kevin, still holding the door closed.
"We kick some serious zombie ass all the way to the elevator," he said, slinging the AK47 that hung over his shoulder into position. "Grab one of those pipes Jim, and swing for the fences."
Jim grabbed a pipe as Kevin handed Alyssa his .45.
"Ready?" Kevin said.
"Just do it!" Alyssa responded.
Kevin and Alyssa then stepped back from the door, letting it burst open, and Kevin fired a large volley of rounds into the large crowd of zombies. Alyssa fired her handgun and Kevin's .45 one after another into the wall of undead as Jim stood behind them dumbfounded. Soon enough the zombies were knocked backward enough to give the three moving space. They climbed over the pile of bodies in front of the door and made their way down the hall. One zombie lying on the floor reached out and grabbed one of Kevin's legs, opening its mouth to sink its teeth into his calf, when Jim swung the pipe downward and into the zombie's head, stunning it. Kevin then kicked the zombie in the face, breaking its neck with a loud snap.
"Thanks!" Kevin said to Jim.
"Just this once!" Jim said back to him, adjusting his cap.
The three then made their way to the ladder and climbed up, then made their way to the elevator, the door quickly sliding up and letting them in. Kevin pressed the button that raised it and they were traveling upward. Jim fell to the floor of the elevator and let out a sigh of relief.
"Don't ever wanna do that shit again," Jim said.
"You looked good out there," Kevin said, patting Alyssa on the back, both guns still in her hands. "I like the way my gun looks on you."
"You weren't so bad yourself tiger," Alyssa said, winking at him.
"Careful now," Kevin said with a sly smirk. "Flirting with a cop could pass for bribery. I may hafta strip search ya'."
"You'd love to file THAT report, wouldn't ya' big bad boy in blue?" Alyssa said with a smile and lightly punching Kevin's arm.
"Why don't you two just fuck and get it over with?" Jim said. "You," His jaw suddenly dropped as he looked around the walls that passed down all around the elevator. The walls were completely covered in what looked to be a gigantic hive, and soon the sound of a distant buzzing became dangerously loud.
"It's a giant hive," Alyssa said. "And that sound is…"
Soon large bees the size of a small dog emerged from above them and began to circle the elevator. Kevin and Alyssa fired at them, with only a few shots hitting their targets.
"Shit," Kevin said, tossing the AK aside. "I'm out!"
Alyssa tossed him his .45 after ducking a downward swipe from one of the bees. Jim swung his pipe around frantically with his eyes closed.
"Fuck off!" Alyssa said, shooting a bee in mid flight and knocking it to the elevator floor. Jim then quickly pummeled it with his pipe until it stopped moving.
"This place is the bee's knees!" Kevin said, shooting another bee out of the air. "Where are they all coming from?!"
Soon the elevator stopped and the three quickly ran out to find themselves in a large hive that covered the entire room except for a staircase that led to an upper floor and a door. They ran around, dodging charging bees, Alyssa providing cover fire.
"Hurry and search everywhere," Kevin said. "That thing has to be here!"
Jim then tripped over something that appeared to be a body. He let out a gasp at first, then noticed it to be another UBCS soldier, and in his hand was a small glass tube with a green colored liquid inside.
"What's that?" Jim said, grabbing the tube.
"That must be it," Kevin said. "Hurry, get up the stairs! We'll cover you!"
Jim quickly ran up the stairs, Alyssa shooting bees that were charging at him with great precision. Kevin soon followed after Jim ran through the door and covered Alyssa. They burst through the door and closed it just as a bee managed to slip inside with them. It flew around the enclosed space frantically, Alyssa and Kevin unable to shoot it out of fear of harming each other, when Jim closed his eyes and swung his pipe, knocking it out of the air and against the wall. Kevin then walked up to it and fired a round into it.
"Suck on that!" he said. "Nice work, Jim."
"Uuuuuuuh shit!" he said, slumping to the ground in exhaustion.
"I'll admit," Alyssa said reluctantly. "You pulled your weight out there, Mr. Jim."
"Eh…you too, I guess," Jim said. "This must be karma for me fuckin' up all those bee hives as a kid. I swear, I ain't ever gonna eat honey again!"
"Well now that we're all hunky dorey," Kevin said. "Let's get back and put this sucker in the incubator so you don't become a walking Micheal Jackson music video extra!"
"I TOLD you," Jim said. "Leave MJ outta this!"
Mark stepped down from the ladder first and was followed by George and Cindy. He clicked on a flashlight he found on the third floor and peered into the darkness of the sewer. Water filled the tunnel at knee's length and his legs sloshed loudly with every step he took. George and Cindy followed him down the tunnel until they reached an iron door and stepped through it. As they did, Mark stepped on something hard and metallic beneath the water. He reached down and picked up a steel pipe, then handed his firearm to George.
"Here," he said. "I'll use this."
"Um, okay," George said, taking the gun nervously.
They climbed another ladder and walked down another series of halls and doorways, this time with George taking the lead until they reached a room with an incubator inside. George inspected it thoroughly.
"Are there any vials, capsules of some sort?" he said.
Mark and Cindy searched the room.
"We got nothin'," Mark said.
"Sorry," Cindy said. "I haven't found anything."
"Dammit," George said. "Peter said the P-base would be here. Perhaps…"
"We passed a door on th' way here," Mark said. "Le's go back an' see what we kin find."
They trekked back down the hallways until they reached a large open tank. A small room sat on the other side of the tank on an "island" with a ladder running up to a closed manhole.
"Maybe it's there," Cindy said.
"Yes," George said. "Now I remember, that is a storage area, we should be able to find one there. If Peter used this area for his work, I'm certain he'd have kept canisters and materials. But how do we get across?"
George noted that the metal bridge that lead across had been sunken down into the depths of the tank, apparently its hinges to the island had been broken off.
"Hm, let's find out how we can get to the other side," George said. "We may have to swim."
"That ain't gonna work," Mark said. "That island over there is too damn tall ta' reach, it'd be a waste a' energy."
"You may be right," George said.
Cindy looked above her head and noticed a long pipe that ran all the way across to the other side.
"Maybe," Cindy said. "I can shimmy across this pipe. I was really good at that when I was a kid."
"That is insane," George said. "It will never work."
"We ain't got a lot a' options George," Mark said. "An' time is runnin' out."
"I can't let you go Cindy," George said. "It's too dangerous. I'll do it."
"Don' be a fool!" Mark said. "Yer too heavy an' too down in yer years ta' pull of somethin' like that, an' there ain't no way I kin do it. Cindy is th' youngest an' she's done it b'fore, let the girl at it."
George sighed. "I suppose you're right, I'm not good at physical labor."
George looked at Cindy and grabbed her hand.
"Please," George said to her. "Be careful."
"I will," she said with a smile as she put her hand on his cheek and walked over to the edge of the platform they stood on. She then jumped up, grabbed a hold of the pipe and began to shimmy herself across.
"Careful," George said.
"She ain't a child," Mark scolded. "Pull yerself together George! Yer makin' her nervous."
The truth was Cindy wasn't nervous, the entire thing felt nature, and she kind of enjoyed being the hero for once. She didn't like that George was worried, but in a way she did, because it showed he cared. And that gave Cindy confidence; soon she was going hand over hand and was halfway across in no time.
"Yer doin' it girl!" Mark said, cheering her on.
Suddenly a low sound slipped into George's ear. He looked in the tank and noticed something moving underneath the water.
"What is that?" he said.
"Where?" Mark asked, looking around.
Cindy suddenly stopped and looked down, noticing something plowing beneath the water's surface. Suddenly a large, amphibian head stuck out, its black eyes looking up at her. It uttered a deep, dark croak, then let out a shriek that surprised her. It then leaped into the air and swiped at her, tearing a piece of her skirt off. Cindy screamed and struggled to keep her grasp.
"Dear God!" George said.
"George, give me the gun," Mark said, but no sooner did he utter the words than did a large frog-like creature leap onto the platform behind them from the water. Mark and George stepped back as the monster approached, its large hands revealing sharp claws and its plodding, webbed feet echoing around them. Mark then reared back his pipe as the thing leaped into the air towards them, then swung horizontally, whacking the frog in mid flight into a wooden Umbrella labeled crate nearby, breaking it into pieces. It quickly recovered however and let out a shriek.
"George," Mark said. "Protect Cindy! You hear me? Use yo gun!"
The frog pounced on Mark, pushing him against the railing of the platform, but Mark used the pipe to keep away its gaping mouth and its slashing claws. George nervously pulled out the gun and aimed at the monster in the water, his hands shaking violently, then fired a few rounds, most of which missed. Soon however he was able to hit it in mid flight, catching its attention. With incredible speed it swum through the water and leaped out onto the platform, ducking beneath one of George's shots and shoving him with its strong hand, tossing him backward into another wooden crate. The gun flew out of George's hand and into the water as George crashed through the crate, splinters of wood flying all around him.
"Go Cindy! Move!" Mark said, shoving the frog monster away from him then swinging again, knocking it against the wall. The other frog approached the unconscious George and raised its arm to strike, when Mark flung the now bent pipe at it, stunning it a bit. He looked around frantically, then noticed something lying in the debris of the boxes. He picked it up and recognized it as a military issued grenade launcher.
Mark lifted the launcher and fired a round off into the side of the frog monster, the projectile emitting a hissing acid that charred its skin. The monster fell to the floor and screamed, its body shaking violently about. Mark grabbed some launcher capsules from the debris and fired another round at the other monster with the same effect. George began to awaken as Mark checked on Cindy, who was now on the other side.
"I did it!" Cindy said, waving at them proudly.
"She made it!" George said with a smile.
But George's smile soon disappeared as the door behind her that lead to the room slowly creaked open, and another of the large frogs plodded its way up to Cindy.
"Look out!" George screamed as Cindy turned around to see her attacker. She took a few steps back until she was at the edge of the platform island.
"Cindy!" Mark yelled. "Duck!"
Cindy turned around and saw Mark aim the launcher then fire. A fiery, acidic bullet flew across the room to the other side, and Cindy dove sideways as the giant frog swiped at her only for the projectile to hit it directly in the chest, sending it flying backward through the door. Acid hissed all over its body and it screamed in agony, then froze in a state of death. Cindy grabbed her chest, her heart pounding violently, as both Mark and George let out a relieved sigh. Cindy regained herself and entered the door, carefully stepping over the still melting and boiling body of the frog creature then grabbed an empty capsule. She then shimmied her way back to the others. George embraced her tightly as she landed.
"You did it Cindy," George said.
"You helped me," she responded, hugging him tighter.
She then hugged Mark.
"You saved me too Mark! Thank you!"
"Ah'm jus' tryin' ta' help," he said.
"You saved both of us Mark," George said. "Thank you. If you hadn't come with us, we wouldn't be alive."
"Yeah," Mark said sadly, remembering his horror at the police station.
"We must hurry now, back to the incubator," George said. "The others may be regrouping as we speak.
David stepped through the door leading to the main hallway of the first floor.
"Hmph," he muttered in contemplation, then pulled out his large survival knife from its holster. Yoko followed him through quietly. He heard her follow and looked back at her, annoyed.
"I'd work faster if I was alone," he said crudely, then reached into his pocket and pulled out a handgun. "Here."
Yoko grabbed the gun. "Where did you-"
"When you fainted," David said. "I searched the rooms and found it. Now…I'm going back upstairs to look around. There was a weird statue and a painting, maybe I missed something. You look down that way," he pointed to a door across the room. "Nobody's gone through there yet. Meet back here if you find something."
David began to walk away, then spoke over his shoulder with a short laugh.
"Don't die." He said almost sarcastically, then quickly climbed the steps and disappeared from Yoko's sight.
Yoko stepped through the door and trekked the winding hallways, which took her to the east side of the university then back around to the northern side. As she reached to open the door, she suddenly heard the crackle of radio chatter and heavy footsteps on the other side. She put her head against the door to listen but couldn't make anything out clearly enough to discern, so she slowly and silently opened the door and peeked through. On the other side were various soldiers dressed in armor and wearing black ski masks. On the back of their vests was the label UBSC.
"Just received orders from Nikolai," one of them said. "It's in the courtyard, let's get a move on people! Go go go!"
The troop of UBCS filed out of the hallway and through a large double door that lead to the courtyard behind the University. Yoko followed and looked through the windows along the hallway to see them slowly approach an immense, hulk of a man. It was Thanatos, who simply stood in the center of the courtyard and stared at them curiously.
"Now," a voice with a Russian accent boomed out of the radio that clung on one of the UBCS's belts. "Engage the target. Get him into my range."
"Open fire!" One of the soldiers said as he unleashed a spray of gunfire into Thanatos's direction, quickly followed by the rest of his team. The bullets appeared to make contact, but despite the swarm of stinging bullets Thanatos simply stood there and watched them hit his skin with a thud then fall to the ground like paper airplanes thrown at a solid brick wall. He growled as if agitated and began to slowly walk towards them, each step booming with every short stride.
"Jesus Christ," one of the soldiers said. "Our bullets are bouncing off of him!"
"Sir," one of them spoke into the radio. "Do you have the target in range?"
"Keep at it," the Russian said.
Thanatos began to advance closer and the soldiers began to back off, firing less and less.
"Tell him to go now! He's getting too close!" one of them said. "Sir!"
Suddenly a loud shoomp sound could be heard in the distance as a large capsule with a sharp needle at the end soared through the air and landed firmly into Thanatos's neck, piercing his concrete-like flesh with great ease as three footholds also pierced his skin and locked themselves in place. Blood began to fill the canister and Thanatos let out a pained grunt. He pulled his arm back as if to reach for it but found it just out of his reach. He then slowly turned his head towards the soldiers and a dark, menacing stare came across his face.
"Okay go go, let's get the hell out of here!" one of the soldiers said, running for the door. But as he grabbed the handle, to his shock and horror he found it locked. Yoko had heard a loud click in the room and noticed a light blinking above the door.
"Who locked it?" Yoko said.
The soldier pulled frantically at the door and kicked at it, then pulled out his rifle to fire on it only to find it empty.
"SHIT! OH SHIT!" One of the soldiers screamed as Thanatos let out a blood curdling roar, and with incredible speed unseen for a creature his size he sprinted across the courtyard and swiped his immense, clawed arm into a soldier, sending him flying backward at least 20 feet into a wall head-first, snapping his neck in the process. He then swiped upward at another one, ripping off the vest and, additionally, much of his flesh with it, sending a spray of blood into the air. Another soldier fired at him and Thanatos looked down at him almost sadistically, then swiped horizontal across his face, tearing half of his face off and spraying blood across the floor. The last soldier turned around to see his team completely obliterated and stood against the door as Thanatos slowly lumbered his way. In desperation the man ran to the side, trying to make it to the edge of the courtyard overlooking the ocean, when Thanatos sprinted after him with great speed, then leaped over and in front of him. The man stopped in his tracks as Thanatos reared back and plunged his clawed hand straight through the man's entire body, blood and gore bursting out through his back. Thanatos then lifted the man's still living body into the air and looked into his eyes. Blood seeped through the man's ski mask as he let out blood gurgled noises until he stopped moving. Thanatos then tossed the body aside and let out a victorious roar, then sprinted across the courtyard and leaped over a wall at least three stories high with ease. At the far end of the courtyard, Nikolai Volkoff stood in awe at what he had just seen.
"It would appear I have underestimated you," he said. "But it is no matter. We have the information we need. All that is left is to clean up some…loose ends."
Back in the hallway Yoko stood in awe as well, unable to believe what she had seen, fear beginning to coarse through her body, not of the behemoth that had just obliterated the soldiers, but of the fact that it looked so familiar.
She made her way back to the main room, wondering about the capsule on the creature's neck. The name of the chemical they needed was called T-Blood. Suddenly the word Tyrant slipped into her head. What did it mean, and how did this thing relate to it?
She walked into the main room and sat on the floor in front of the receptionist's desk, trying hard to remember. She let out a sigh and closed her eyes, then realized there was a computer in front of her. Having already hacked into the mainframe, she began to explore more of the University's records and found a strange file. She typed furiously and finally broke through the security systems, then happened upon yet another file named "Peter." Upon searching it she found a great deal of information about the T-Virus and the ingredients of its cure, in addition to various test subjects. She recalled the monsters in the hotel, which were titled as Lickers, the dogs in the RPD, which were titled Cerebus, and finally a large, man-like being like the one she had seen before, titled simply, Tyrant.
She then discovered T-Blood was short for Tyrant, and that the capsule on the monster's neck had a sample of its blood.
"But how," Yoko said out loud, then suddenly noticed the area around her had gotten darker.
She looked up and noticed a large figure in front of a large circular window on the upper balcony, when glass exploded as Thanatos leaped through and landed hard in front of the receptionist's desk with a thunderous thud. He stood up high above Yoko, who fell out of her seat. She began to try to duck under the desk when Thanatos swiped downward, breaking the desk in half. Yoko stepped away and tried to run but the monster put one arm out and pinned her against the wall. It then let out a roar and raised its arm, when suddenly something jumped onto its shoulders from the loft just above the desk. The monster stood up and began flailing its arms desperately as the attacker sliced at its face. Yoko looked up to see David mounting the monster's shoulders and slashing at its face with his survival knife.
"Get the fuck outta here! NOW!!!" David screamed.
"Get the canister!" Yoko yelled.
Before David could even figure out what she was talking about, Thanatos reached up and grabbed him, then flung him hard towards Yoko, who ducked out of the way just in time. David crashed against the back wall of the desk area upside down, then slowly got to his feet again just in time to duck a swipe from the monster. He rolled to the side and stood in front of Thanatos, brandishing his knife. Thanatos then, as if to mock him, put his arm out to the side and extended his claws further, causing David to look at his knife nervously.
"Fine, you win that contest," he said. "Now let's see if you know how to use it, mother fucker!"
David ran forward, ducking another swipe, then rolled between his legs and slashed at the monster's Achilles tendon. The monster let out a short scream as if to express pain and dropped to one knee, which allowed David to climb up its back and begin stabbing furiously into its neck, but before he could realize what was happening the monster quickly spun around, tossing David sideways onto the floor. He looked over at the monster's leg, which was suddenly completely healed.
"What the fuck?" he said as Thanatos raised his arm and let it drop over him. David rolled out of the way only inches before the hand crashed on top of him and ran up to the monster again, only to receive a swift backhand, sending him sliding across the floor and through the debris of the desk, his knife sliding out of his reach. The impact of the hit made David's head spin and he found himself unable to recover. Thanatos then stomped over to David's body and towered over him.
"Come to gloat, huh?" David said with a laugh. "You got lucky."
The creature then pointed down at David.
"Well," David said, closing his eyes. "We all gotta die sometime. Let's get this overwith…"
Thanatos let out a roar and lifted its arm into the air, its claws pointed directly at his head, when suddenly a shot rang out. Thanatos looked up to see a large metal chandelier tumble down towards him. David rolled out of the way as the immense chandelier crashed down on top of the monster, pinning it to the ground. David looked around to see Yoko standing on the loft above the desk with the gun in her hand. She quickly ran down and helped him up.
"The canister," she said, approaching the struggling Thanatos.
"What in the hell do you think you're doing?" David said.
Yoko pushed a button on the canister, releasing it from its position, and stuffed it in her backpack.
"Hurry!" she yelled, helping David up as they ran towards the elevator hallway. Behind them Thanatos managed to get on his knees, then thrust the immense chandelier into the air with a loud crash against the wall, cracking it. He then burst down after them, kicking the door down with his foot as David and Yoko slipped into the elevator, the doors closing behind them. Thanatos then shot down the hallway and slammed himself against the iron doors, leaving a large dent in it with his hand. He breathed heavily, having realized his prey had escaped, stood up and stared at the door in silence, then turned around and simply walked away.