A/N: Ok, this chapter will feature anything170's OC, Ghost and Luna Angelus' OC, Luna. Also this chapter more or less marks the end of Theo being good and shows his slip from sanity, anyway enjoy…
Theo pulled on the shirt of the pale blue suit as Coldplay blared out of the built-in speakers in his wall. He hummed along to the song Yellow as he buttoned up the shirt and felt completely at bliss with himself, he left the top few buttons undone and walked over to the mirror and examined his reflection, he had washed his quills that now hung around his shoulders. His pale blue suit was freshly ironed and it mixed casual style with luxury, he bent down and tied the laces on his polished black shoes.
Suddenly, the phone rang; Theo rushed out of his room and answered it,
"Hey" Theo said cheerfully,
"Holy shit Theo! I thought you weren't gonna answer" The voice said, Theo recognised the voice as Ghost, a Royal Army Captain, he had worked with him twice but the only time he called was if some real shit was going down.
"Why? Where are you?" Theo said, worried
"Me and some of my men are trapped in Neon City, we're surrounded by infected"
"Infected?"
"A virus called the Legacy Gene escaped from the governments biohazard labs about two hours ago, its started to infect the entire city, the city's also been quarantined, now word on the street is that you can annihilate an army".
"Yeah" Theo said "Blessed with a curse I guess"
"Right, I'm sending you the coordinates to your teleport" Ghost said calmly "Hurry up". The line went dead, Theo ran back into his room and pressed the button on the wall, making the bookcase slide back to reveal the staircase, he ran down the stairs and got ready to arm himself.
Meanwhile
Ghost ran down the corridor as he heard the door splinter and crack behind him, his pure white fur was stained with blood, his white eyes were filled with rage and fear. He ran up the staircase just as the door creaked and gave way, the infected burst in, their features horribly distorted and warped. They rushed towards him with a inhuman speed, the wolf pulled out a walkie-talkie from his ripped grey jacket,
"Alpha Team detonate laser barrier"
"Roger" The soldier replied through the speaker. There was a bright flash of light as several planted objects, the size of dinner plates, unleashed a red laser that rebounded of others to form a web of lasers between the infected and Ghost, one of the infected tried to get through by swatting the lasers with his pus filled fingers, the lasers sliced them clean off, the creature screeched as its rotten blood began to pump out of the stumps of his fingers and onto the floorboards.
"Take that you sons of bitches" Ghost breathed before rushing up the stairs and onto the landing. Using his powers, he slammed open one of the doors and walked into the small room, aiming around the room with his M16 Assault Rifle for any signs of the infected, he kicked an overturned coffee table throwing up a thick layer of rubbish off the floor that must have been there for weeks, and walked to the cracked window.
Peering through the grimy pane he saw the infected running rampant on the rain-pounded streets 100 metres bellow, murdering and ripping apart anyone in their way, around a hundred of the disfigured creatures were swarming around the entrance to the block of flats that Ghost was trapped in, he knew that his team were in the building opposite and had the detonation devise to the 10kg's of C4 that they had placed around the buildings foundations. With a swift kick, Ghost knocked the window through, sending the rain pouring in, he pulled out a clip from his belt that was attached to a long metal abseiling line and fastened it to the window ledge, he climbed onto it, being careful not to cut himself on any of the glass, and with one last smile, he jumped backwards out of the window.
Meanwhile on the other side of the square, Theo warped into a small service cupboard, he straightened up from his crouched position and examined his surroundings the light dangling from the ceiling was flickering and cracked, the shelves around him were empty and covered in dust. He opened up his trench coat and checked the harness that was strapped to his chest, on it was two .44 Magnum Revolvers and two double barrel shotguns with ammunition for both. On his back were his 5ft swords with scorched blades from his battle in New Metropolis. He pulled out on of the Magnums from his harness and tried the handle of the door, it turned but the door didn't budge, he slammed the door with his shoulder, it moved slightly and a small gap opened up between the door and frame, he put the gun back in its holster and put his hands in the gap and pushed. The door creaked and opened a few more inches, just enough for him to slip through, pulling out the Magnum as he did.
He found himself in a small corridor, half blocked with rubble, the tiled walls were cracked and discoloured with blood, he glanced around the floor, a few mutilated corpses were strewn all around, their chests ripped open and there guts thrown all around. The rotten smell made Theo almost gag, he kept low as he climbed a small mound of rubble, he heard a roar behind him, he whipped around, a mutated women bound her way towards him, pus pouring from her face, Theo quickly aimed and shot at her, the bullet hit her in the head, she flew back and lay still. More on edge then before Theo rounded the corner and found more infected, feasting on people who tried to get away, he heard a women scream to his left, he turned and saw her being dragged away by two transmute men, their flesh beginning to peel off revealing the bare, bloody bone beneath, Theo pulled out the Magnum and shot at both of them, They collapsed to the ground dead, the women lay unmoving, Theo kicked another one of the infected out of the way of her, blood exploded from its nose and mouth as he snapped its neck clean in two. He crouched down by her, her clothes were ripped and bloody and gashes lay all across her, he felt for her pulse, she was dead.
"Fuck" Theo muttered as he straightened up and turned, he suddenly heard a smashing sound above him, he glanced up and saw a pure white wolf abseiling down a tower block on the other side of the square, armed with an assault rifle, the wolf was shooting all of the infected that he could see, Theo recognised the figure as Ghost. But Theo had left his guard down for too long. Three infected jumped on him knocking the revolvers out of his hands, one of them snapped it's jaws menacingly and bit down on Theo's neck, he yelled and immediately electrified his body, but that didn't stop them, the other two infected bit down on his arms, their poisoned teeth sinking his flesh, Then there was a whooshing sound and the infected flew off him and hit the opposite wall, Above him was a female sky blue hedgehog with long emerald hair, in her right hand, she held a long birch staff, the ends were stained with blood, her long white silk dress fluttered in the thin breeze, Theo also noticed that her short heeled stiletto boots were coated in blood. Another infected bound towards them, the hedgehog simply rushed forward and grabbed it's head, it yelled as she incinerated it in a blast of pure white light, Theo tried to get up, but his injuries limited his movement and he cried out in pain, he turned his head and saw Ghost running towards them, smashing infected with the butt of his rifle as he did so. The female hedgehog turned and crouched by Theo, grabbing his shoulder with her hand,
"Don't worry, you'll be fine" She said soothingly, Theo suddenly felt a warmth pass through his body, he looked at his arm and saw that the ripped muscle and sinew were sowing themselves back together. She eased him to his feet and smiled,
"My name's Luna and I know that you're Theo Arcreus, you're quite famous you know"
"Oh really" Theo said, examining his suit "Thanks Luna" he sighed "Oh shit, this suit cost a lot". Ghost who was busy shooting any infected within sight turned and yelled at them,
"I think you've got a lot more to worry about than you fucking suit!" He frowned at Luna who was busy breaking an infected's skull with her staff then looked at Theo "Who's she?".
"I could be asking you the same thing" Luna yelled over the cries and roars of the infected, Theo sighed loudly, drawing out his swords and disembowelling one of the infected that currently surrounded them "She's Luna and she saved me from being chow, and he's Ghost, he's a vampire and a captain in the Royal Army". Five of the infected suddenly all went for Luna, using his supernatural speed, Ghost whipped around and slammed the rifle into all of them, disorientating them. Luna then quickly pulled out one of the daggers from her belt and slit the infected's throats in one swift motion.
"You're a vampire?" Luna exclaimed,
"A simple thanks would have been nice" Ghost muttered, reloading the M16, Theo meanwhile was surrounded by about a dozen of the infected, all of them where horrible mutated and had their rotting flesh dripping off them. As Theo electrified the blades, a sharp pain hit him and he collapsed to his knees, dropping the swords with a clang, "Not now" Theo muttered, voices began to sound in his head, some were audible only as whispers and others were as loud as fog horns but all of them said roughly the same thing:
How could the government do this? Innocent people were in this city, now they're nearly all gone. The government must be punished
"Theo!" Ghost yelled and tried to shoot his way through the thick horde that surrounded Theo, Luna following close behind, blasting the infected with balls of light. Theo was crouched on the ground, shaking slightly, his iris changing between red and blue and his fur changing between white and grey.
"They must be punished" Theo whispered, suddenly he straightened up, but his fur was grey and his eye was blood red. He turned back to look at Ghost and Luna
"Get out of the way" Theo said, his voice was deeper and more demonic, which slightly scared Ghost and Luna,
"Why? What are you-" Luna asked, but was cut off by a loud demonic roar from Theo, he charged up his electricity, that had gone from blue to deep red and fired bolts at the first few, they staggered back in spasm, Theo growled as his claws on his charged hand grew and sliced at the infected that he had just electrocuted, they were sliced into pieces which fell to the floor. The rest of the infected moved in quickly, Theo heard some gunshots from above and Ghost yelling
"We need sniper support now, there are hundreds of them". Theo cackled and raised his fist in the air as the infected moved in, when they were only a few inches away, he slammed it down on the ground, a electricity shockwave burst forth from the impact, sending the infected flying backwards, the cobbles on the square got ripped up as the shockwave sped across the square, it hit the base of the C4 covered building, setting off the explosive, the building began to collapse with a roaring creak, Theo glanced up and saw that it was heading straight for them. Theo held up his hand, causing the building to halt in mid-air, electricity darting around it quickly, he then thrust his hand forward, causing the tower to fly backward and impact with the buildings behind it, creating a massive explosion, Theo laughed evilly, then he collapsed. Ghost and Luna got to their feet and ran towards him, through the field of dead and mutilated corpses, Theos fur faded back to white and his iris turned back to blue.
"Theo, Theo!" Luna yelled, turning Theo over onto his back, he was breathing heavily and his pulse was incredibly weak but he was alive. Luna tried healing him time and time again but to no avail, Ghost stood up and aimed around the dead square looking for anymore infected, but none appeared.
The watch that Ghost had on his wrist beeped suddenly and Ghost looked at it and smiled, he got out his walkie-talkie and spoke:
"Team, we have positive grant for teleportation from the King, teleport back to New Metropolis immediately" He reached down and grabbed Luna by the arm,
"What's wrong with him?"
Luna shook her head,
"I don't know, it's like…his mind has been gridlocked and he is trying to untangle it"
"How long will it take for him to wake up?" Ghost asked
"It could be hours, days maybe even weeks" Luna said, looking back at Theo, Ghost gently patted Theo on his shoulder
"Hang in there buddy". Ghost surveyed the scene of devastation, he knew that the Legacy Gene was not just in a lab here, but in labs all over the world, and he knew, in the bottom of his heart that this was just the beginning. He pressed a button on his watch, there was a bright flash of light and the three of them disappeared…
Inside Theos mind, one word echoed around with no definite end, a word that would shape his future and cause him to become something terrible…
Revenge…
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Until next time…..
