CHAPTER 6
"Dad!" Tails cried. "Dad!"
"I'm sorry, Tails." Amy whispered. "But there was nothing we could have done anyway."
"Nooo!" Tails wailed. "How could this happen? I'll destroy that Dr. Sinister with my own hands!"
"We'll have our revenge soon." Shadow said. "But for now we need to focus on what's happening around us!"
Amy spun around to see three people infected with the T-virus come staggering towards them.
In a flash and bang, Knuckles felled the first zombie. Shadow shot twice and hit the second. The third kept advancing.
"Aaagh! Come on!" Sonic shot wildly.
On the sixth shot the zombie fell and didn't get back up.
"Way too close." Amy gasped.
"Something tells me that's the way to go." Shadow said, pointing down the hallway the zombies had come from.
The hallway got darker but no one dared to find a light switch in case the light attracted more zombies than they could handle. They began to go back to back as they entered a dark room.
"Hello?" Sonic whispered. His question echoed around everyone. They were in some sort of huge room.
"Can everyone hear me? Good. Try to follow my voice." Knuckles said in just over a whisper. "I think I see a door over here."
Something moved with a loud crunch. Knuckles backed up while firing wildly. Everyone else drew their guns and began to back him up.
After about ten seconds they stopped shooting. Shadow's ears were ringing from the shots but he didn't hear anything else.
"What the hell could that have been?" Sonic muttered.
"I don't want to know." Amy muttered. "Come on." She held her gun at the ready as she headed towards the door.
That door opened up into a small room who's walls were covered with vials that smoked and steamed and were all the colors imaginable. There was a small table in the middle of the room that held an empty cage. The cage's bars looked mutilated, like something had really struggled to be set free.
"What is this place?" Tails gasped.
"Look at this." Shadow held up a small vial. "G-Virus." He read. "I thought it was the T-virus."
"It is. That's another virus we're working on spreading around."
Everyone jumped a mile at the unfamiliar voice. They spun around to see a dark hedgehog with bright green piercing eyes. He was aiming a small handheld gun at them. "Haven't seen you in a while there, officer." The Kid sneered.
"What do you mean by there's two viruses?" Shadow hissed, turning his gun on The Kid's chest. "What are you planning?"
"It's not my doing." The Kid laughed evilly. "I'm just the assistant. Dr. Sinister is the one you aught to thank for this apocalypse."
"Who is Dr. Sinister?" Knuckles demanded.
"I'm Sinister."
A secret door opened off to their right and another dark hedgehog stepped through. This one had orange splotches over his arms and one of his eyes and he was wearing a long white lab coat.
"What do you even hope to accomplish with this virus thing?" Sonic asked.
"It's rather simple." Sinister sneered. "With the T-virus being spread, people will do anything for a cure. I need the money and power, you see. And revenge."
"But why are there two viruses?"
"One was accidental, the G-virus." Sinister explained in bored tones. "I was trying to develop a cure for the T-virus."
"So you unleash a terrible cannibalism virus..and you didn't even have a cure for it yet?" Shadow nearly shouted. "What kind of psychopath are you?"
"But once I figured out the effects of the G-virus…" Sinister's eyes gleamed dangerously. "I realized I can truly have all the power I've ever wanted. Let's see what it does, shall we? I need a volunteer."
Everyone in the group got back to back once more. "Try it, I dare you." Knuckles hissed.
"I think I want the traitor's kid." Sinister gave Tails a truly terrifying glare. "I need to destroy them all. Say, what's on that flash drive, by the way?"
"I'll never give it to you!" Tails nearly shouted. "You killed my dad! I won't let you get away with this!" With that, he lifted his gun and fired.
Sinister's evil expression quickly turned to shock and then to pain. He collapsed on the ground, blood staining the white lab coat he wore.
"Sinister!" The Kid said worriedly. He turned to the group. "I'll kill you all!"
He fired but the group moved fast. Shadow ran over to him and knocked the gun from his hand in a roundhouse kick. Then he grabbed his arm and flipped him onto his back on the cold floor and aimed his rifle at him. "Don't move, or you'll end up looking worse than your mad genius."
Sinister gave a weak cough from the other side of the small table. Tails glanced worriedly at him and then at Shadow as if to say, what have I done?
"Who are you really?" Shadow asked The Kid. "Tell me or there won't be enough of you left to bury…if you even get buried."
The Kid stared at the barrel of the gun in his face. "I won't tell you."
Shadow kicked him so hard that some of The Kid's ribs broke with a unnatural sounding snap. The Kid gasped and groaned as the pain set in. "Tell me." Shadow hissed.
"My…my name is Mephiles." The Kid; or from here on out, Mephiles, groaned. "I should have killed you when I had the chance."
"That's right." Shadow growled. "But it's thanks to you that I'm here today. I've been trying to hunt you down for two years. I never thought I'd corner you in a mad scientist's lab while in the middle of a zombie apocalypse."
Mephiles looked like he would like nothing better than to grab his gun and shoot Shadow dead. "You won't be able to find a cure for the T and G viruses yourselves." He hissed.
"Um…guys?" Tails' voice got higher. "Look out!"
Everyone turned to see Sinister, who a few seconds ago was bleeding to death, stand up. He turned to the group and let a small syringe fell from his hand and break on the ground. His eyes had changed. They were a bright, piercing bloodred. He grinned wickedly at them and everyone could see that his teeth had changed to fangs.
"Oh...holy shit…" Knuckles muttered.
"That is the G-virus!" Mephiles laughed despite his broken ribs. "It can change you, make you forget what pain feels like! You will be unstoppable!"
Sinister lunged for them over the table. Vials fell and broke on the floor. Knuckles shot at him until he ran out of ammo.
Sinister didn't even seem to notice. As everyone watched, Sinister's multiple wounds healed in less than ten seconds.
"What is this?" Amy screamed.
Sinister slashed out at her with his newly grown claws. Amy dodged just in time and began shooting at him.
Sinister grabbed a tray of vials and threw them at Sonic, who was nearest and trying to get in a shot. He yelled as the vials broke against the wall, just millimeters from him, and began dissolving the wall.
"We have to get out of here!" Shadow shouted. "Go! Go! Go! Go now!"
Everyone backed up to the door and then took off running until only he and Amy were left.
"Get them, Sinister!" Mephiles hissed.
Instead of pursuing Shadow and Amy, Sinister caught sight of Mephiles.
"What…what are you doing? No! NO! PLEASE N-AAAAAGH!" Mephiles screamed as Sinister sunk his teeth into his shoulder.
"Come on, Amy. We need to get out of here!" Shadow only watched in horror as Sinister began to tear into Mephiles . "He'll keep him busy!"
Amy turned and ran as fast as she could. Shadow slammed the door behind him and darted after her. He could hear Sinister hiss in frustration and then the door collapsed as he came bolting after them.
The G-virus made him even faster than Shadow had imagined. Within seconds Sinister had him pinned to the ground.
"NO! Shadow!" Amy shouted.
There was a loud bang and Sinister was thrown off of him. Shadow scrambled up and shot at Sinister, who was already trying to get back at him.
They made it to the door. Shadow shot once more and then darted for the police car. Just has he had started the ignition, the door to Umbrella's base was torn off its hinges and Sinister ran out of it.
"EAT THIS, YOU BASTARD!" Shadow shouted revving the car and sending it crashing into Sinister. He flew back into the destroyed door and hit the wall with a loud crash.
"Let's get out of here!" Tails shrieked. "Step on it! Pedal to the metal! Just go fast!"
Shadow sure as hell didn't argue.