No ownage of Kids Next Door however I am in charge of my characters: King Shadow, Dr. Phendrite, Dr. Jack Kite, Jake Diabolical and Angel Amy, Rachel, the Axe Man and some more that might appear (Check other stories to hear about various characters
Chapter 3: Mutation
"How many people do we have left?" Fanny asked anxiously looking at the remaining party members. Originally there were about twenty girls and the two boys but ever since they began traveling various things had happened. Ten of the girls were first to go when a group of men dragged them off. 86 got as many people out as she could and ordered them to take a path down an alley where two more were viciously shot by two police women who thought they were men.
"Well, us, three girls other than us, the boys, and these two police women now." Abigail told her. "Guys, anything to eat?" Number 4 asked with a starved look on his face. "Quiet boy!" one of the officers ordered pointing a gun at his face, "You're still not trusted! Don't even look at those girls." "Shut up!" he barked slapping the weapon out of his face, "They're my friends I can look at them all I want!" In one sweeping movement the other police woman slammed him into the ground and aimed her weapon at his face with nervousness in his eyes. "That's what we like to see from you males, fear!" she yelled and hit him on the head nearly knocking him out.
"Geez, that smarts!" he shouted back and got up, "You're insane!" "Four please stop!" Number 3 pleaded and hugged him. Another second and Kuki was tossed away from him by one of the women, "Careful! No boys can be trusted!" "That's it!" Hoagie yelled louder than anyone, "Alright, it's rather obvious by now that if this thing were airborne we would've sucumbed to it by now! I've studied Phendrite when I was working at the KND Moonbase for a bit and I know for a fact that we would have began acting up long ago!"
"Okay, if you're so smart, how did the infection get around then!" one of the KND girls shouted back. "Physical contact," he replied sadly. "You mean?" Abby asked. "Yep," he nodded, "the men 'infect' women and after that the women infect other men. Now I know there aren't many women that are infectis so that only leads me to some conclusions. The men kill the females after 'infecting' them, that abomination is infecting just men, or it all has to do with where it started. This thing was airborne at one time but now by physical contact the infected can transfer it on to others by 'injection'. Not even female bodies can withstand it being injected into their systems. I know, I've seen."
"Yeah right!" one of the women sneered, "We women and girls are much stronger than that!" "It's biological and virus-like! Not even the strongest people on earth might be able to withstand it what makes you think you can!" Hoagie asked her. "You're lying! You boys just want to do to us what the other males want to!" "Whoa whoa whoa! Hold the phone you two. Hoagie, if you've studied this, please do tell what happens after long exposure or too much at once." Abby asked curiously. "You don't wanna know, it gets worse than just harrasing, but for me to explain it to you you must know this. When infected these people feed by biting into their victim and sucking out their blood." "like vampires!" one of the young girls screamed. "Yeesh, not so loud, but yes like vampires, but if they are shot enough they will be killed you don't need a steak. Anyways, too much at once I don't know about that, but if the being is in an infected environement for too long it begins to, well…"
Suddenly their was a scream from one of the women as a man latched itself onto her and tore her shirt off. She quickly spun around and fired all her shots into the body then got out a dagger and stabbed him in the back. He screamed incoherently and crumpled to the floor. "Um…that was sudden. Did he bite ya?" Wally asked the woman trying to look away from where her shirt had been. "No, boy, he didn't! Now stay away from me!" she yelled back picking up her garment. Just then the man stood back up and clutched his hands to his chest locked in a crumpled position then flung them out to his sides screaming. "Um, Numbah 5, you might not wanna see this, this is what happens in the enviorment for too long." Hoagie warned as the mans eyes narrowed and veins showed in them.
His purple and tan skin began to fuse together and his hair began to fall out as he continued the screaming and his skin boiled. The lump in the man's pants slid under him and came out the back revealing something other than a male organ. Instead it was a long, sharp tipped tail attached to an extendable dark purple spinal cord coming out of the bottom of the back waist. With one last roar the man's clothes and skin burst off at once revealing a new shelled form without a mouth or hair that resembled somewhat a dark puple skeleton with three fingered clawed hands. His eyes were now pitch black with red pupils like the monster except this creature was much smaller and had no mouths of any sort on it.
The creature took one look at the women that had shot him down and slammed its tail into her chest and proceeded to suck blood through it. "Ah help!" it was now the woman's turn to scream while the creature glared angrily at her. The other woman and two girls began to fire upon the creature not seeming to phase it that much. The woman let out a few last screams and fell to the ground dead allowing the creature to whip its tail around and knock the other woman and one girl off their feet.
It immediately pounced on the woman and began sucking out her blood but before it could finish the girl slammed the butt of her gun into its head irritating it. The creature unstuck the tail from the woman's bleeding side and snapped the girl's neck with it killing her instantly. The officer began to struggle away but not before the monster slammed one of its claws through her back killing her as well.
"That's what happens!" Hoagie yelled and leapt backwards after getting out a gun and firing multiple shots into its hide. The creature stealthily ran at them like a raptor might a bit hunched over and leapt onto the other girl smashing her body through a wall. BLAM! The remaining unnamed girl finally shot a bullet through the monster's skull and through its brain. It roared angrily and Wally finally leapt onto the beast as Kuki fired at it along with Fanny, Abby, and Hoagie. The shots didn't seem to get through its shell however and it spun wildly around knocking all the operatives off their feet other than Wally still climbing on it. "Take this!" he yelled and fired wildly into the creature's skull where a hole had been made from the bullet.
It let out one last agonizing scream and after throwing Wallabee off it fell unmoving. "Whoa that was tight!" Abby yelled and slapped her pal on the back cheerfully. "Oh my lord! What was that!" 86 shouted lowering herself to the ground in shock. "That," Hoagie told her sitting down, "Was what we like to call Vendrites. Apparently that's what happens with too much exposure to Phendrite or things that contain Phendrite." The other girl, Rachel was her name, the remaining one, was crying on the ground at what had just happened.
"There there," Abigail said patting her back and trying to comfort her, "It'll be okay kiddo." "You sure?" "Positive." "Hello? Hello? Come in this is Number 1!" Nigel's voice yelled statically over 86's communicator and she picked it up. "Fanny here." "86! Listen I was shot down earlier today by some unknown force and crash landed. There have been men and women and police all trying to get me but no one seems to see me as an ally. I have tons of weapons ready, can you get over here!" "Let me check!" 86 replied and checked her locater, he was only about one or two miles away, "Yeah I think we can, just stay alive!" "Oh don't worry, you know I can do that. One out!"
86 sighed and got everyone together, "Okay people, Nigel has crash landed and we need to get to him. My communicator told me he's only a little bit aways and he has tons of weaponry think we can manage?" "Sure do!" Wally replied and charged forth. "Follow him! He's going the right way!" Fanny ordered and they ran.
"What are you things!" Nigel yelled taking another person down that was staggering towards him. They mearly looked at him hungrily and he kept firing into the crowd of seven around him. "Take this, and this, oh yeah and have one of these just to top it off!" he yelled and threw a bomb into the crowd. BOOM! The people were sent flying but just got back up and staggered toward him again. "Dang it, what takes you guys down!" Suddenly he felt something lurking above him and drooling. Nigel looked up to see the monster that the others had encountered a day earlier drooling the acid like subtance from its human mouth. Nigel backed up and the monster charged at him.
"Yeesh, how many of these blasted things are there!" Hoagie yelled while Kuki and Wally shot at the following vampires downing them in seconds. "We can't hold em off forever!" Kuki told them as one jumped on her. "Ok buddy boy, no ride for you!" Wally yelled and kicked the man's head off his shoulder. Kuki screamed and rushed to the front of the group where 86 and Rachel were talking.
"So, this Nigel guy, who is he?" Rachel asked 86 wonderingly. "Oh just an old friend, a comrade. You know, I don't really want to admit it, but he's a pretty darn good leader and very styling." "What?" Kuki asked, "You're complimenting on-" "Shut it!" 86 screeched at her, "Or I'll make ya vampire chow." "You know, it's rather hard to tell if these things are after us for food, or just the girls." Hoagie said to Wally. "Yeah I know," he replied, "But they're still after us and we're all friends so consider them dead!" he shot another one in the forehead and it fell to the ground, "So, a Vendite is what the thing we saw back aways was right?" "Yeah, there supposed final form. Just think this is what the Shadow Corp. employees do to people. I'm sure this was an outbreak but still it was their fault like everything else they do is," Hoagie replied and shot one that had jumped in the air, "They either try to infect you or suck out your blood." "And then after they morph they lose their mouths and suck blood through their tails, yeesh, what a nightmare," Wally commented.
Suddenly they heard a familiar roar in the distance. "Oh no!" Kuki and Abby gasped as the others just gulped. "It's that thing isn't it?" Wally asked troubled. "I bet my bottom dollar it is!" Hoagie hissed back, "Man, what now!" "Alright, I have yet to fight this thing, but from what I saw of it it just looked like it had a bunch of mouths and a tall figure. So let's move!" 86 ordered. "No!" Wallabee Beetles barked back, "You may not have fought it but we've seen what it can do! This thing is unstopable, no amount of bullets was able to phase it, you have to avoid it!"
It was too late when said that though as 86 along with the girls had gotten out of the alley and ran towards it. The monster immediately saw them and lashed out at the girls with one of its claws knocking them backwards. "Ugh!" Rachel cried and got back to fire into its human face. This somehow disturbed the creature and it began scratching at its human head. She kept on firing until the monster tried something different. It whipped around wildly and slammed its tail against Rachel's back and knocked her a few yards away.
"Alright come here!" 86 yelled and leapt at it only to receive a spit from it which melted her weapon. She landed in front of it and roundhouse kicked it in the stomach causing it to growl and slam its fists down on her propelling her into the air and back into the alley. "Alright, Numbah 5's turn!" Abby exclaimed and charged forth constantly firing shots into the being's face. Angrily it whipped its tail around smashing a wall but she leapt right over it and dodged another spit then shot into the side of its head. Finally it decided it had to do something different and grabbed her in its hands attempting to squeeze her to death. "Ugh! Can't break free, pressure too tight!" she gasped as its human mouth opened to take a bite out of her.
"Hya!" Kuki screamed and body slammed into it knocking it back a tiny bit and releasing Abby who she pushed out of the way of another tail slam. Angrily the beast roared and charged up one of the blast from chest mouth it had shot their aircraft down with. "What's that pretty glow for?" she asked as it grew brighter. "KUKI!" Wally screamed and knocked her out of the way then fired a bazooka blast into the hole disabling the attack. It roared in pain and charged crashing through cars and sides of buildings! "Hold on!" Hoagie yelled and picked 4 up with a jet pack as the monster slammed into a telephone pole.
"Thanks man!" Four gratefully said, "I owe ya one!" "Hey," Abby yelled, "Where'd ya get that gear from!" "Oh you know where Nigel was supposed to be," Hoagie told her as she nodded, "A ton of equipment was there but he wasn't! We'll search after we deal with gruesome here!" "Right!" Abby replied and charged at it. Suddenly, out of nowhere a Vendrite leapt down and attempted to slam its sharp tail through her waist. RIP! The Vendrite became suspended in the air as one of the monster's tentacle tounges from one of the shoulders stabbed into its back and began sucking something out of it. "What the? It's helping us!" Abby asked herself. "Um, I think it's just feeding Numbah 5," Hoagie told her, "Get down!" With that he flew forth and Wally jumped off shooting it in the chest mouth where the hole was.
It screamed inhumanly and fell backwards then flipped up throwing the Vendrite at them. Rachel kicked the body out of their way and Abby, 86, and Kuki fired their weapons all at once into its chest mouth. It screamed wildly and stumbled about attempting to slam its tail and claws into them. "Take this!" a familiar voice exclaimed as a bald figure leapt high in the air and fired tons of shots into the creatures human face causing it to fall not moving. "Number 1!" they all exclaimed looking at the boy's scratched and bleeding body. "I held it off for as long as I could, I waited as so long for you guys to come, but I was just so badly beaten, I'm sorry guys." He told them stumbling to the ground unconcious. Number 5 and 4 caught him. "He's still alive," Hoagie told them with a smile, "Might wanna get outta the streets though."
The group found a nearby manhole and happily hopped down into it for shelter. "Creepy!" Kuki cried out. "Hey I like this place! Just stick next to me," Wally told her wrapping his arm around her neck. "So, Numbah 2," Abby began as she sat next to her pal, "You said that monstrosity was feeding, well it had plenty of chance to feed on us all that time, why pick a highly infected humanoid?" "What?" Hoagie asked. He had never really noticed that the thing didn't try to suck things out of them like it had with the caged men then he realized something right then. "I get it! That thing doesn't suck out blood like the Vendrites do it sucks out something else! Yesterday that same monster before we took off, killed two perfectly fine police women and a cage of infected males which we were included in. Now it never sucked anything out of the officers it just murdered them, but it did suck out things of every prisoner it could get its tounges on. It doesn't suck out organs or nothing, oh no. Rather it sucks out Phendrite! All the infected things is what it sucks stuff out of! It must need Phendrite to live." "Wow," Abigail said, "Just wow, so we have a Phedrite addicted monster out there that we may or may not have killed and if it's still alive will be rather ticked off at us. Gee how pleasant."
"Huh, where am I?" Nigel asked waking up beneath some blankets startled. "Oh, Number 1 you're finally awake!" Fanny exclaimed, "I would like you to meet someone. Rachel Nigel, Nigel Rachel. She's the special weaponry defense person of Sector F, and as you, Rachel, know this is Nigel, leader of Sector V." "Oh why hello," he said shaking the girls hand and then asked, "Fanny-I mean 86! What happened? The last thing I remember is this huge monster falling and me talking to you for a few seconds." "Oh that's pretty much what happened," 86 replied, "We finally deep sixed that freak and got into the sewers." "Great, thanks 86." "No problem."
Meanwhile above the surface an eye on the creatures human head flickered and twitched. It finally raised its claw up and slammed it on the ground balancing and making sure it could stand before spotting a crowd of infected people and charging forth. A black haired young boy with three fingered claws and a blond young girl with thumb claws jumped down from a street light and jumped into the sewers making sure not to let the monster spot them.
Well hope you all liked this chapter. If any of you know about the boy and girl please don't tell who they are I don't want it spoiled for the next chapter. And what do you guys think of the structure of and what the Vendrites can do? Just wondering. Well please review it's awesome and if you don't just enjoy it, this is edward18 signing out for now PS: The Eding of Earth might be updated soon to anyone who cares.