Chapter 5 Spawn of Umbrella
Leon pushed open the door and aimed his gun in every direction before gesturing for them to follow him inside. "Shouldn't there be dogs in here?" Steve said "Or at least dog carcasses?" Suddenly a growling sounded in the darkness, "I think that the dogs are still here Steve. Everyone form a circle" Leon said. Suddenly a bunch of dogs stepped out of the shadows growling, only they weren't normal dogs. They didn't seem to have any skin and there were parts missing from them here and there, like bit of ear or a toe or two. Suddenly, all at once, the dogs leaped through the air towards the five kids "SCATTER!" Leon cried, they immediately dodged in different directions. Blossom shot a blast of her ice breath at two dogs that leaped at her; they shattered as they hit the ground. Leon was firing at three dogs that were running at him, two went down instantly but the third kept dodging his bullets, soon the cartridge was empty, Blossom thought he was doomed, but Leon grinned, leapt back, ran off the wall and flipped round kicking the dog so hard, it's neck was broken and it fell to the ground. The dogs chasing Steve had lost their target; suddenly Luis poked his head out and said, " Hey el, stupidos, Your mother was a mutt!" The dogs growled and raced around the corner only to be on the receiving end of 2 dozen rounds of hand gun ammo. The dogs attacking Dexter kept leaping at him but only got mouthfuls of titanium alloy from his robot gloves. Suddenly Dexter grabbed one that leapt at him by the head and crushed its skull, the other one leaped at the boy genius, while he was distracted, but he smashed it flying into a shelf of cages which broke its neck. Ada was fighting off the dogs with furious kicks, and magnum fire. Soon all the zombie dogs lay dead. "Well that went well." Luis said "Knock it off Luis." Leon said but he said it with a smile.
Chris around the room, it was full of plants and didn't seem dangerous. He gestured for the others to follow him inside. Suddenly he noticed the walls were covered with root like vines that crashed through walls at some points. "Weird." He muttered, "Well, a room that is actually safe. What do you know?" said Steve, "Don't be so sure Steve. Call me crazy but something tells me that something's not right here." Chris said. He then heard a strange rustling noise, then Chris saw a book on the table titled Botinary bio experiment log. He walked over and opened it. "Day 1: We have begun research to create the ultimate plant, a plant that has the beauty of a flower but the defenses of other plants we have already combined the D.N.A. into one plant. Now we have to wait and see what happens.
Day 6: Success! A new plant has begun forming, just when I was starting to lose hope! So far we know only that it can grow on any surface and seems to use it's tendril like vines to protect itself.
Day 13: The plant has become quite big, but is showing a sense of violence attacking almost anything that comes close. I fear the executives may shut us down if things get out of hand.
Day 21: I now know me must end the project the plant has killed one of my colleagues. It can expel acidic spores and sprout thorns on its tendrils. It's one weak point is a collection of dangling tendril like things that protrude from the bulb.. I have planned to exterminate the plant tomorrow. I have developed a formula that will bring death to the plant.
Then there was some sort of chemical formula, Chris checked the date of the last entry, it was yesterday. "So the plant might be still alive." Chris whispered. "What did you say Chris?" Bubbles asked "We have to get out of here." Chris said, they ran to where the door should be only to be greeted by a wall of vines. "Hey what's going on here?" Buttercup said. Suddenly Chris heard movement above him, he looked up to see some enormous plant, on the ceiling. It had a bulb that opened to reveal a bunch of tendrils protruding from a bunch of mass. Vine like tentacles, some with flower like pods. "Guys look up" Chris managed to get out before he a vine grabbed him and lifted him into the air. The others looked up and stared in shock at the creature. "Uhhhhh, a little help would be welcome! Guys?" Chris yelled. Immediately Chris's companions snapped into action, the powerpuffs shot into the air and tried to free Chris, nut the creature sprouted thorns on some of his vines, and swung it at the girls it didn't hit but it did keep them at bay. Steve and Clare began shooting at the stalk, but it didn't seem to do any good. "Shoot the thing hanging from the bulb. That's its weak point!" Chris yelled "How does he know that?" Steve asked "Just do what the man says Steve!" Claire yelled. They turned their fire on the tendrils, which had an effect; the plant writhed and dropped Chris. Then the kids attacked the tendrils, but they barely had any room to attack because the plant kept lashing out with its tendrils and shaking acidic spores down at them. Suddenly Chris remembered the log saying that there was a formula to kill it, there stood an empty bottle filled with water on a desk like area with some jars around it. What had the log said? Yellow 6x2+UMB No.3x2, so he had to combine tem all he ran over too the desk and put 2 quarters of yellow 6 into the jar and added 2 quarters of UMB No.3. It took on an orange color, and Chris flung it at the plant. The plant writhed and shook and slowly withered and fell to the floor in parts, the vines shriveled and disappeared. "I never did like gardening." Chris said.
End of Chapter 5