The By-Product

Chapter 5:Friend or Foe

AO8 looked around the room for another exit until his eyes fell upon a vent that was on a wall.

"It's about time I get some good luck..." AO8 said as he pulled the grating of the vent off and climbed in.

AO8 crawled through the ventilation system until he heard a girl scream from below he then looked down through a grate and child crying above a female rebel who was badly wounded he then heard a zombie's moan and thats when something clicked in his mind.

It was his choice, he could either save those two or let them die. Within AO8's mind there was battle between the combine part of him and the human part of him that had seemed to have grown throughout this whole mission. AO8's mind felt like it was spinning around until a image of a family flashed in his mind and suddenly he punched through the grate and fell through only to land on his feet right in front of the zombie. The zombie swung its left arm at AO8 but, AO8 caught the arm before it hit him and he punch the zombie in the chest he then lunged at the zombie and forcibly ripped the headcrab off the zombie. AO8 then quickly smashed it into a wall and dropped it's limp dead body to the ground.

"W-who are you?" the girl asked AO8 with tears still running down her face.

'I guess they didn't tell this girl about the combine...' AO8 thought

"I'm a...friend." AO8 said calmly

AO8 then picked up the rebel who had just passed out he then motioned for the girl to follow him and they exited the room.

AO8 and the girl ran down a hallway until they got to a locked door AO8 then kicked the hard enough for anybody in the room could hear him.

"Jesus Christ, theres to no way we can kill all of them!" a rebel yelled.

"Wait there's someone at the door!" another rebel yelled.

The first rebel that spoke opened the door only to cringe when he saw AO8 but when he saw the little girl he narrowed he eyes and stared at AO8. AO8 stared back at him through his visor but then heard a fast zombie behind him he then gently place the woman he was carrying on the ground he then stepped in front of the girl and saw the zombie and then he saw it leap at him and as if it were on cue AO8 caught the zombie but felt pain as it slashed at him with its claws he then smashed it's body into the ground and ripped the head headcrab he then turned to the rebel and took his smg and walked passed him. All of the rebels that were beginning to get overwhelmed by the zombie saw AO8 and some of them aimed there guns at him while others continued to shoot at the zombies. AO8 ignored the rebels about to shoot him and turned to the left and quickly took in his surrounding and saw that he was in a big boxed room that had tables turned over and it seemed that this room was a sort-of cafeteria. AO8 soon forgot about it when another fast zombie started to ran at a rebel that was about to fire at him AO8 kill the zombie with his smg.

"Hey, pay attention to the damn zombies!" AO8 yelled at the rebel he just saved.

30 minutes later...

AO8 and the rebels finally killed off all of the zombies...all 200 hundred of them. The rebels took all of his weapons again and made him follow them at gun point again but this time all of the rebels hadn't given him any of the "Try anything and I'll kill you" look which surprised him.

"So why did you help us?" a rebel who was 'escorting' AO8 blurted out all of the sudden.

"Yeah I mean your one of those Assassins...hell you guys are the best transhuman soldiers they've got." another rebel said

"I'll tell you why he did it, it's because he wants to get on our side so he can then betray us!" a paranoid rebel exclaimed.

"Aww...shut up Felix your too paranoid..." a female rebel said in a annoyed tone.

AO8 just stared at them and started to walk in the direction of the com center. When they all got there the commander was there waiting for them.

Chapter 5:End

AO8:Well would you look at that...Olinas made his first cliff hanger...even though it is a sucky one but still its a cliff hanger.

Olinas:Whatever...I guess you don't want a girl friend.

AO8:What...what did you say?!

Olinas:Nothing...nothing...