A/N: I don't own anything from red vs blue or Silent Hill. Please enjoy the chapter.
Silent Gulch Chapter 17
Church groaned as he was shaken awake. Someone was shaking him and saying his name over and over. A part of him thought it was Caboose and that the blue soldier was just trying to wake him up for some stupid reason but he remembered he hadn't slept since he'd died. Every muscle in his body screamed in protest as he moved to look at the voice. Alessa was shaking him looking terrified. "What's going on?" Church managed to ask struggling to sit up. He heard the sound of some sort of metal points tapping the ground in rhythm as though they were something steadily marching toward him. Church's hand went to his knife as his mind snapped awake, ready for whatever fresh hell was to be thrown at him.
Needlers surrounded the two growing closer and closer. Church couldn't imagine what kind of deity could have made such a creature. It looked like a person doing the crab walk, but in hell. From the elbow and knee down on the arms and legs were large scythe like blades that seemed to be flesh extensions of the creatures limbs. Nothing sat between the creature's shoulders as though the neck and head had been cut off. Some twisted being had moved the head so rather then being between the shoulders it was coming out from between the creature's legs. Vacant eyes stared back at Church as the monster came closer. Their skin looked like the fur less baby mice. "Great, monsters with heads coming out of their asses." Church muttered looking to Alessa.
"You should be more worried about him." Alessa said the terrified look on her face not matching the calm in her voice. She pointed to Church's right directing his attention.
Church turned to see pyramid head staring at him. At least he thought the monster was staring at him. "Why are they here and who is he?" Church asked not looking away from the pyramid head.
"They want to take you away. He's mad that you killed the snake. They call him a lot of names but I call him the boogey man." Alessa explained. "I don't' want them to take you."
"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere." Church assured her gripping his knife tightly. "Stay out of the way until it's finished. I don't want you getting hurt." Alessa moved away the needlers not even noticing her as she moved past them.
There was a low rumble that shook the air and ground around them and Church realized it was coming from the pyramid head.
Church had had enough of it. He was tired, hurt, and still didn't have any answers. "Hey you, thing with the triangle head." Church said no fear, only frustration and anger. He was too pissed off to really be afraid of the freak. "You speak English?" The pyramid head rumbled again. "I'll take that as a no. Then you're useless to me. Get out of my way; I'm going to find someone that's not useless." The pyramid head roared throwing its head back in anger. The needlers scuttled forward moving into range to attack the cobalt soldier with their blades. "Fine, you want to dance, let's dance." Church muttered.
The first needler struck forward slashing out at Church. He ducked out of the way slashing at the creature's arm. It was hard and almost as though most of the arm was made of bone with a thin cover of skin. A needler behind him struck out slicing the side of Church's leg. His leg started giving way under him and he used the movement to turn himself around and with a great deal of force drove the knife into the needler's head. The creature flailed for a moment slicing and cutting along Church's arm and stabbing out killing another needler. Church glanced down at one of the blade arms of the dead needler.
Church turned to be facing the remaining needlers. He'd learned his lesson about showing his back to them. He knelt down and started to hack at the joint of the dead needler. As soon as the blade was cut free Church put away his knife and held the needler blade out before him like a sword. The remaining needlers struck out at him but he used the blade to deflect them. He waited till an opening then he darted forward running the blade sword through the needler's head. He did this over and over until the beasts stopped coming. "Come on, that all you got?" Church asked the blade held tightly enough in his hand that it was cutting into the skin.
The pyramid head raised his blade pointing it at Church. "Well shit." Church muttered.
~Others~
"Where's Church?" Tex asked climbing up into the room with the other soldiers.
"We don't know, how'd you get here?" Tucker asked.
"Lopez brought me." Tex answered. "What's with the statues?"
"We don't know. There were 12 of them but the stupid snake one broke." Grif explained.
"What'd you guys do to break it?" Tex asked.
"We didn't do anything. We were talking about a different statue and it broke." Tucker defended.
"I don't' think that the creatures are going to like that. Sheila called this place a temple." Tex said.
"You saw Sheila too? How was she? Did she miss me?" Caboose asked.
"Wait, you said Lopez brought you here?" Simmons asked.
"He's who brought us here." Grif informed her.
"Yeah, well he doesn't like you guys. Sheila said that he hates you." Tex told them. "Hate to break it to you, well not really."
"Then why's he locking us in?" Grif asked pointing to the tile that was settling back into place locking them in.
"Well crap." Tex said turning to the other soldiers. "So what's the plan to get out?"
"Human pyramid to a window?" Donut suggested.
"No!" The male soldiers all said at once.
"It didn't' work the first time. What makes you think it will work now?" Grif asked.
"I just thought it was fun." Donut replied. The soldiers turned and looked up at the sound of breaking glass.
Tex was climbing up the tiger statue and the wall. "You guys are idiots and I'm out of here." She said reaching the window. She reached out through the old searching for a latch on the outside. She withdrew her hand quickly as something bit her. The movement caused her to loose her grip falling down onto Sister.
"What happened?" Donut asked as Simmons helped the freelancer up.
"A bat monster bit me." Tex answered simply. "I seemed like there were a lot of them out there. So I'd have to say that way is out."
"Bat?" Grif said struck with fear as he moved over right away using Simmons to protect himself.
~Church~
He had to admit that trying to take on pyramid head had been a bad idea. The monstrous being was holding him up off the ground by his shirt with no effort at all. The needler blade had been useless and looking back it was rather obvious. The pyramid head raised his blade to finish Church off but stopped. He lowered the blade and Church a bit looking to the side as though someone had called it. It shook it off raising its blade once again but stopping. Church fell to the ground as the pyramid head dropped him. The pyramid head turned walking away leaving Church lying on the floor trying to catch his breath.
Alessa moved over to his side looking at him worried. "Are you alright?"
Church struggled to sit up and stand. "Come on, we're following him?" Church decided heading after the monster.
"Why, he tried to kill you?" Alessa asked.
"Because he's going to lead us where we want to go." Church answered.
~End Chapter 17~
A/N: So there's chapter 17. Hope you enjoyed the sort of short chapter. I know a fight seen between Church and Pyramid head would have been awesome but I think that would defy any human's ability to write. Chapter 18 will be up shortly. Please read and review.