Key:
"Speaking"
'Thought'
"Jutsu"
XxXxX=Break
After spitting into the monsters face, Sasuke could tell that the beast more than a little pissed off.
The creature screeched once more then went to bite Sasuke's head, but just as it was about to plunge its fangs into Sasuke a white light ripped threw the creatures mouth and next to Sasuke's head. The creature toppled over and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
A light then was shown into Sasuke's eyes.
"Sasuke? Are you all right?" a voice asked in concern as the light was turned off. It was Z.
"Oh thank God." Sasuke said with such emotion he was about to cry.
"Glad to see I made it in time." Z said as he knelt down in front of Sasuke after turning his light back on and leaned it against the wall.
"You have no idea how glad I am to see you. If I stayed alone for one more second I would gone mad." Sasuke said as Z helped him up and supported him. Sasuke then turned off his Sharingan as he was losing precious chakra at that moment.
"It's no problem, but you look different." Z said.
"Really? How so?" Sasuke asked.
"You look... younger. Almost at the age of twenty." Z said curiously. Sasuke sighed.
"So that's what those golden specs did. I don't know how it happens, but every time we kill one of those... things these golden specs come out of there heads and absorb into my body. But, only the darker ones seem to leak it." Sasuke explained.
"I see, but you look exhausted. Lets get to safe place to hold up. I know of one." Z said as the two slowly moved down the hallway.
"We also need to find the others. Have you seen anyone?" Sasuke asked.
"None that where a part of our group. I killed one of the creatures, but it wasn't one of the dark ones like in the room back there." Z said as they rounded a corner. Z's light at the end of his gun lit up the darkness that once hugged the stairs leading further down.
"You didn't find anyone?" Sasuke asked.
"I found someone. A lot of people actually." Z said as they moved down the stairs.
"Really? Where are they?" Sasuke said with a brighter tone of voice then before.
"At the end of this stairwell." Z said as they turned left at the end of the stairs and Z's light lit up a steel barred wall with several sandbag walls behind it. Dried blood clung to the bars and walls as they moved closer to the cage wall.
"Is this it?" Sasuke asked as said, now young, ninja failed to see anyone behind the cage.
"Unfortunately yes. The guards Al and I talked to said this was the first checkpoint on our way down, but when I got here..." Z said as he decided not to finish the sentence. Z unlocked the door with a key one of the guards gave him, but once entering the barred cage and reaching a larger conference room like area, Sasukes eyes widened.
A few lamp like lights illuminated the still slightly foggy room, giving it a red glow in the damp room. Dead bodies lay stray across the room. Men, women, children, all where mangled in some way, shape, or form. Dried blood stained every wall, ceiling and floor.
"How did this happen...?" Sasuke said as Z set Sasuke down on a chair.
"When I got here it was like this. The door was unlocked and open and there was a lot more bodies in here. I've been throwing them out threw the hole over there," Z said as he pointed over to a hole the size of a body, "I decided I would go and take a look around for anyone who may be lost and take them here. A man gets tired of throwing dead bodies down a hole every once in a while."
"I see. What's our next move?" Sasuke asked as Z began to pick more bodies and throw them down the hole.
"You need to take a rest. Here, let me help you to a bed. All the bunks didn't have bodies in them as most of the people where awake and out here when they attacked," Z said as he helped Sasuke up and into a room where eight bunks sat, clean as ever, "I wouldn't want to let you sleep on a bloody mattress."
"Glad you think that way." Sasuke said as he was lain down onto a bottom bunk. Z took all of Sasuke's stuff off and placed it in one of the empty trunks at the end of the bunk.
"Get some rest. I'll see you when your better prepared." Z said as he turned to leave.
"Wait. What are you going to do?" Sasuke asked.
"Clean up the rest of these bodies and go and try and find some of the others. For all we know they have all gone on to the next floor and completely skipped this place. I'm going to try and catch a few of them before they get to far." Z said as he closed the metal door to the room, leaving the only light of the room to a flickering bulb where twitched on and off every now and again.
Maybe Z was right, maybe he did need some sleep. His body has gone threw a lot in the past hours and he needed some rest to recover. At least here he didn't need to worry about anything attacking him.
XxXxX
Sasuke awoke to the sounds of gunfire in the main lobby. Orders and screams melted to one horrific noise as some sort of fight was erupting on the outside of the door.
Sasuke jumped from his bed and quickly dashed to the door. Sasuke noticed that he suddenly had much more energy and strength than he did before.
"Hold them back! Don't let them in!" a voice shouted as fire continued to penetrate the once quite air.
Sasuke cracked the door open and peered outside to see some common people with makeshift blasters firing at another group of people at the entrance of the large room. After further exception Sasuke noticed that Z and four clones where also among the group.
Sasuke was quick to decide whose side was his and jumped out in front of the group. After quickly shooting threw some handsigns Sasuke lifted the final sign up to his mouth.
"Grand Fireball no jutsu!" Sasuke shouted as a fire ball consumed the hallway where the intruding men once stood. After the fire died down most men that weren't burnt to a crisp where seen retreating into the dark.
"Glad to see you back up to one hundred percent. How does it feel?" Z asked.
"Haven't felt this way in years. But anyway who where those people?" Sasuke asked.
"Bandits. They roam the darkness killing and stealing anything they can find." One of the people that was defending the base said.
"And you guys are?" Sasuke asked.
"We where holding up with these clones a little ways down the hall when Z here found us. He invited us to come back to this checkpoint with him. There is about ten of us plus the troopers." the man said.
"Glad to see you up and about sir." one of the clones said.
"Thank you, but first get those doors shut before they attack us again." Sasuke said.
"Yes sir." the clones said. The four clones walked to the entrance and began to fix the door.
"So, what's our next move?" Sasuke asked.
"Well, we could either stay here and continue looking for more people so when we do move on we'll have more manpower or we can move now and run with what we got. It's your choice commander." Z said. Sasuke looked around the room. Ten regular men with with makeshift blasters, four troopers which are trained in combat, and Z, who is the most elite man here in the room.
"Hey you!" Sasuke called. The man that talked to him earlier looked at him and walked over.
"What do you need? My names Alex by the way." Alex said.
"Are you the leader of this small force?" Sasuke asked.
"Yes, we are a forward unit from Army group C of the Yomuka station three floors down in the engineering bay. We where sent here to look for survivors of this area, but after the last attack we got lost after losing our map." Alex said.
"So is the rest of Army group C is still around here?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, we had fifty plus soldiers after detaching us."
"Do you have any information on where they might be?"
"They could be by the communications room 467 further back where we came from. As you can tell most older communication systems don't work."
"Ok, here's what's going to happen. Z, you and I are going to seek out Com. Room 467 and get these soldiers. Alex, you stay here and defend this area from bandits and those monsters." Sasuke said.
"Monsters? Oh, you mean the Crawlers!" Alex said.
"Sure, whatever. Just hold down this area until we get back." Sasuke said as the two approached the door. Four clones stood by it with their more high tech blasters pointed out into the darkness that an old searchlight was illuminating.
"Good luck." The clone that opened the door said as the two walked out of the safety of he metal cage.
"Thank you." Sasuke said. The two where still on spotlight when they walked past the staircase that they came down from. After reaching the end of the hall Z turned on his flashlight at the end of his gun and on the side of his helmet.
"Where did you get that light?" Sasuke asked, referring to the flashlight on the side of the helmet.
"Neh, found a small flashlight on a dead body and figured he didn't need it anymore." Z replied.
"Ah, well looks like we are going this way." Sasuke said as he turned left.
"As you wish." Z replied as he followed Sasuke down the hall.
The two men crept down the hall, making no noise what so ever. The only sounds that was not there's was the distant squeaking of pipes in the background. After turning several corners the two heard a distinctive noise.
A child was crying and the noise was echoing down the hallway.
"A child?" Z asked to no one in particular.
Sasuke moved ahead with Z close behind as they followed the sound of the crying. They came to a door and heard the crying stop on the other side of the door. Z clicked a button that opened the door, but the only thing they saw was a single light in another room across the way from a window. The window that had the light in it had a door on the inside leading to a room beyond.
Sasuke and Z entered the room cautiously, checking all he corners, but the door behind them shut and locked itself.. The door inside the lit room in front of them opened and three men wearing makeshift armor and blasters entered the room.
"Hello there. Who might you two be?" One of the soldiers asked, obviously the leader. Behind them Sasuke and Z could see other troops in a room behind them.
"My name is Sasuke and this is Z. Z here managed to recover your missing forward unit." Sasuke said.
"Ah, Alex and his crew? That dumbass can't tell his left from his rights. Here, we'll let you out and meet you outside your door." The man said as he started to punch in some keys, but sparks began to fly from the computer.
Suddenly a giggling noise could be heard around the room that Sasuke and Z where in.
"New toys to play with. I haven't had any new toys since the last ones. Here I'll let you play with my pets for a while. They're very cute and enjoy hugging a lot!" a little girls voice said as it resounded around the room. Z scanned the walls with his flashlight, but stopped when his flashlight saw a large spider in the upper corner of the room.
"Hurry up with that door." Sasuke said as he pulled out his swords.
"I'm trying! The damn things busted! Fuck we'll have to do it manually at the door! Just hold them off until we get there!" the man shouted as the three men ran out of the room with the door closing behind them.
"We got incoming!" Z shouted as massive amount of spiders began to swarm out of the AC vent. Z began to unload on anything that moved while Sasuke dashed towards the spiders and began slicing them in two. After a few minutes of this Z saw the spiders gaining ground.
Z quickly switched firing modes of his rifle. Z then grabbed a tube that was coming out of his backpack and hooked it to the bottom of his rifle.
"Sasuke! Get back!" Z shouted as Sasuke jumped back next to him.
Z squeezed and suddenly a blue fire spat of the barrel and lit the entire area in front of them up in a blue flame. After stopping his torrent of blue fire everything in front of them was burnt to a crisp.
"I never knew your gun could do that." Sasuke said as Z disconnected the tube and put it away.
"Our guns can be just about every firearm. Just slap on the right modification and there you go." Z said as the blue flames coming off the corpses of the spiders illuminated the area. Another giggle bounced off the walls of the room.
"You guys are fun! Now it's my turn to play!" the voice said in a playful tone. It got quiet as Sasuke and Z backed up into the corner.
"Do you see her?" Sasuke asked as Z pointed the flashlight in different directions.
"No." Z replied in a quiet voice. Z then pointed his rifle up and there he saw a little girl with glowing red eyes and extremely long nails. She was pale with pitch black hair and a pink dress. The little girl screeched and jumped down towards them.
"Out of the way!" Z shouted as he grabbed Sasuke's arm shoved both of them out of the way. The girls claws dug into the metal.
Z pulled up his rifle and pointed it at the girl. Z squeezed the trigger and a white blast hit the girls head, but the girl seemed unfazed.
"That tickled!" the little girl said before jumping at Z. The girl brought her claws down onto Z, but was blocked by Sasuke's swords.
"Z! Find her weak spot! We can't keep this up forever!" Sasuke shouted as he struggled to push back the girl, but said monster had surprisingly an endless amount of strength. Z jumped backwards and grabbed a small stick that had what looked to be a rocket on the end of it.
"Get out of the way!" Z shouted. Sasuke jumped to the side as Z pulled the trigger on the small rocket. The rocket plowed its way into the girl. The girl then exploded into a red mist with all its blood splattering on the walls.
The two worn out victors breathed heavily as they looked at the still burning bodies of the spiders and where the little demon girl once stood. Sasuke looked to Z who put the tube back into his backpack.
"Where are you keep all this gear?" Sasuke asked in curiosity.
"We replicated some Naruto-sama's storage seal for these weapons and ammo and placed them in our pack. We have weapons for almost everything we run into. Although after seeing some of the things we saw down here, I don't know if we do anymore." Z said as the door behind them opened up and five soldiers ran into the room with flashlights scanning the area.
"Clear!" One of the soldiers said before the leader from before walked into the room.
"Ah! So you guys are still alive! We heard you guys as we fought our way around. Most of the these hallways are collapsed so it took us a while to get around, but where are my manners. The names Giovone. Pleasure." Geovone said as he reached out his hand. Sasuke shook the mans hand.
"Sasuke Uchiha. Hokage of the Village Hidden in the Leafs." Sasuke.
"What's a powerful man doing down here?" Geovone asked.
"Personal reasons. This is Z. Part of the Specks Fox company." Sasuke said. Z reached out his hand.
"Nice to meet you." Geovone said as Z said nothing as he shook the mans hand.
"So you have fifty plus men?" Sasuke asked.
"Well about forty four now. We lost a few on the way over here. Damn Crawlers got to them." Geovone said.
"I'm sorry for your loss, but we've got to get moving. This place isn't safe." Sasuke said.
"Agreed. Lead the way." Geovone said as Sasuke nodded.
"Z, you're on me. Watch my back." Sasuke said. Z nodded.
"Yes commander"
XxXxX
A/N: Woot! Finally up! Sorry guys, but I have been experiencing some changes and have been neglecting this story, but here you guys go! I'm sorry to tell you guys, but I'm going to be getting a new computer soon and will be wiping this one. So I'll be out of a computer for a week and a half? Somewhere around there, but I may be able to start writing on my iPad and transfer the documents to my new computer.
Well I hope that everyone that actually does read this story waits for me!