It's been and two hours and the two fuck head's didn't come back yet. We traveled though the sewer at a sluggish pace. The tunnels ceilings were high and the amount of space in it could fit more then ten people in a line from wall to wall. The sewage waste just went past out shoes, it was disgustingly thick the color it self looked gross but the smell. Dear Lord don't get me started on the smell. When we were walking to the safe area we noticed that there was lights hanging on both sides of the walls giving the place a decent glow. When Tyler asked about the electricity Daniel told us that they are stealing power from the Dome. That Nathan planned it while Skittlez got the teams together for the 'operation', when I tried to pry too get more information Daniel just shrugged his shoulders. This caused Cristina to grunt for reason I didn't know.
When we came to an sewer intersection the middle of it all was brightly light. I was amazed on how beautiful it looked. Christmas lights were hung all around the entrance's of the sewers. The sewage it self thinned out to almost nothing giving us the freedom to walk around and admire the the tunnels is maintenance light's that they probably stole from the Dome also. Flower's decorated the floors and walls, Posters of bands and paintings were high up . As we made our way to the left tunnel a poster caught my eye. The poster it self was old and ripped but many spots but the picture was still recognizable. I momentary stopped to look at the said poster, it was of a group of very colorful people. They all looked happy except the blonde, red, dark purple and a white hair person. Not only were they colorful but their choice of clothing was odd. I never seen any normal person dress as these people dressed.
By then the group was already in the tunnel, Cristina must have noticed that I was distracted by this odd poster because she put her hand on my shoulder. Startled I look towards her, she had a smile on her face. "You listen to them?" I looked her funny, "No, do you?" At this, she smiled brighter and nodded her head. "I use to listen to them when I use to draw. They're called D-Loid, they're similar to Vocaloid but each one of them has something wrong with them. Makes me wounder what they're doing now. Anyway, we should catch up with the rest before they get worried." I numbly nodded following her to the rest of the group.
It took us thirty minutes to reach the actual room where we needed to be. When you came close to the entrance you saw drains on either said of the wall. I only guessed that it would lead to another drain passage since the room I entered then looked to be a maintenance room. The room it self was as long as a school gym yet the floor on the left side by the wall was gated, you heard the sloshing of the sewage under it. A metal bridge that was over part of the said floor lead up to another level of the room. Long wooden work benches lined the bottom level, blue prints and papers were scattered. Two Smokers and three Hunters were growling to each other while pointing at various papers and what looks to be a large map. In the far right corner sat a Jockey who had headphones on and was growling into a expensive microphone, his hands rapidly moved from one switch to another. My only guess was that he was speaking to multiple people at one. Some sort of communication? I thought. Three fridges where by the entrance we came out off, a Charger was helping himself to whatever was inside.
Up On the second Level one whole wall was nothing but monitors overlooking the city and The Dome a Spitter sat there watching all the monitors. When I went up there I noticed that two of the Tv's had my teams rooms in it. Thinking that the infected were watching my team and I in our rooms left me unnerved. Apparently I wasn't the only one because Jacob commented about his team being watched as well. The second level also had a big round coffee table and some bean bag chairs to the right of it nestled in the corner. Over all infected were busy with whatever they were going, they would run and leave and come back running with papers. Some infected came in 'talked' or something then run out again.
Daniel was taken somewhere by a brown haired Witch in a rush leaving us in the care of Ashley. She told use to rest since we seemed like we needed it before asking Marcelo to follow her so they can place Saya in her resting spot. I settled in a blue bean bag chair, placing my guns to the side so I wouldn't be uncomfortable. Tyler decided to join me and sat in an orange one to my right. He dropped his guns and plopped down giving a sigh of relief, with in no time he was sound asleep snoring slightly. He was also drooling and not wanting to see the dumb ass look so dumb in front of me I was nice and whipped the drool. Jacob took that Cristina girl over by the fridges to discuss matters which I don't care about. As for Tiff she was handcuffed on a pipe that up here on the second floor by the Table. We graced her with a bean bag but anything else she wanted would have to wait.
Yet, that was two hours ago. With in those two hours I had time to cool down and center myself. I thought about a lot of things with in that time period. I regretted yelling at Skittlez because I was overwhelmed at the Hotel. She didn't deserve me saying those things, and I know she want's to be normal and human again so with me saying...I must have really hurt her. She's probably out raging and destroying things since that's what she does when she gets sad: it turns into anger. Cristina, Jacob and Marcelo has yet to make conversation, they decided that staying away from me since the Hotel was a good idea. Not that I blame them I did disrespect them knowing of their rank.
When I asked around about their work they would just shrug me off and point to the bean bag chairs. They didn't know how to speak human, which got me curious. Skittlez knows how to speak it yet Nathan doesn't, I wounder how that happened. I'm going to have to ask her, speaking of I don't know anything she has been up to since she turned. I thought as I gave Tyler a shoulder rub.
On a scouting mission we encountered rouges. In the end Tyler ended getting shot in the shoulders, yup both, the bullet ended up messing up his muscles. If he doesn't relax, his shoulders will lock up: I usually give him a massage about two times a day, one in the morning and one at night.
As I pressed harder down on the spot where he was shot Tyler let out a moan. The infected near by looked at us strangely, a small blush dusted my cheeks as I keep on going with my business. "Tyler please try to control yourself." I coughed trying to hide my embarrassment. Tyler decided to ignore me and continue to moan every time I hit the sweet spot on his shoulder. "Ewh that nasty, get a room." Turning I saw Marcelo with a disgusted face as he made his way over the bridge. "Don't say anything until you tried it~" Tyler moaned closing his eyes. Marcelo scrunched up his face before sitting down at the table.
Glancing at him, "I'm guessing you're not here for chit chat?" He looked shocked before composing himself and nodded. "Ah..yeah...we got word that your friends are coming back. Nathan wants to hold a meeting after he and Victoria take care of some business." Finishing up with the the shoulder rub I thanked Marcelo and made my way to the first floor. As I descended down I heard Tiff make a snark remark about how Marcelo should cut his curly hair, he just said that he doesn't talk to icky people before completely ignoring her spur of insults.
I walked over to the entrance the fridge was leaking out an awful smell which was unfortunately next to the entrance so I had the smell of rotting flesh clog up my nostrils. As I waiting for my best friend I noticed that Jacob and Cristina were avoiding me, that every time I made a sudden movement they would tense up and look my way. Thinking back on my behavior I would have to remember to apologize to Cristina and Jacob. Scratching the back of my neck I noticed that I fucked up. It doesn't help that my vision now is being funky, seeing the shadows move isn't normal I don't think.
I looked down the tunnel when I heard rapid footsteps approaching, I was disappointed when I saw Ashley hastily making her way down. She had a handful of papers that she was looking over. As she passes I saw a glance of what was written;
"...Eye's In The Sky spotted hostiles in regions 5 sector B. C squad successfully transferred multiple hostiles in away from Project R.E. Stragglers were eliminated, two were taken into custody...310 MIA...28 injured...Project War still unknown...Tiffany Slakes possible involvement...Contact with Nathan and Victoria...Relocation...Sector destroyed...evac in process..."
I squinted my eyes in confusion. What was that all about? Shaking my head I would just have to wait for Skittlez so we can talk cause apparently I missed a shit ton of stuff.
After about an hour later I was getting antsy so when I heard the soft pitter patter of two approaching figures I straightened up. Coming around the corner I saw Skittlez and Nathan making their way down. Their appearance was jacked up, more rips appeared on their Hunter outfits, red blood from humans splashed on them giving them the look as if they got rained on. Once they entered the room all the commotion within the room stopped. I saw all the infected put there hand over their heart in silence as they watch the two enter. They stayed like that until Nathan growled, after that everyone went back to what they were doing. I glanced up at Tyler who was up and looked as shock as I was.
Shaking my head I walked over to Skittlez who was growling with the two Smokers and Three hunters while pointing at various spots on the map. Nathan was over by the Jocky growling something to him while the Jocky spoke over the mic.
"Hey, look, I'm sorry I yelled at you. I know how you hate being yelled at and all but I just want you to know that I had a meltdown before meeting up with you guys." I fidgeted with the hem of my shirt not knowing what else to do. She ignored me, not that I expected much less. It just shows that she's hella pissed.
Sighing I looked to see what they were doing. I saw two maps one a world one and the other the U.S. one. The scattered papers where reports of some sort. X marks were over Texas, Half of California, Montana and Florida. A circle was over Alaska and Pennsylvania. Dotted lines made a route to those destinations. On the world map many countries were crossed out, I would name them all but there was just too many to count.
"How do I make it up to you?" I was desperate at this point. Not only is she part of a big alliance but also my best friend and I refuse to have one fight break us up. Skittlez stopped what she was doing to turn and look at me. She struggled to straighten her hunched from to her normal height reaching my chest. "Bring Tiff over, hook her to that pipe on the wall and walk away. Leave her and don't stop me then I can forgive you." The Smoker's and Hunter's looked at each other a uneasy frown on their face. I blinked a few times waiting for Skittlez to be serious, a few more blinks I sighed before silently making my way up the bridge.
Passing a sleeping Tyler who was now on the floor sprawled out to a glaring Tiff. "The Hell you want?" She hissed bearing her teeth. Undoing her bounds she gave me a odd look, "Just shut up and come with me. Quietly." I clenched my teeth dragging a bitching Tiff down the bridge. Jacob, Cristina, Marcelo and Ashley were talking quietly by the table where Skittlez was situated yet their eyes followed me, well Tiff. Nathan was more close to Skittlez as they waited by the said pipe. When we reached the first floor silence engulfed the room all the eyes darted to where I walked intensely watching. Why does this feel like death row?
"What the Hell are you staring at you lumps of meat?!" Tiff screamed passing by the table of Smoker's and Hunter's spitting on the ground by their feet. A Hunter let a menacing growl taking a step toward us but the Hunter next to him put a hand on his shoulder causing the Hunter to calm down and back off. When Tiff realized what was going on she began to struggle and scream. Firmly grasping her upper arms I forced her to walk towards the pipe.
"LET ME GO! LET GO! LETTTTT GOOOOOOOO!" She trashed around lifting her legs planting her feet on the wall making it harder to chain her up. I had enough of this. Letting her go Tiff landed on the pavement with a crack as her head was the first thing to impact the ground. I tied her hands to the pipe quickly before she had the bright idea of running off, looking down I saw a spray of blood where her head hit. "What exactly are you going to do" Skittlez looked at Nathan before seriously saying, "Something you should of done from the beginning." Backing up a few feet I watched the events unfold.
Skittlez and Nathan walked up to Tiff who was trying to mold herself with the wall. "Someone guy told me that you are really close to the Leader of the Dome, mind telling me why they are after us?" Skittlez's voice was low and threatening she and Nathan surrounded a shaking Tiff. Tiff stayed silent causing Skittlez to sigh pulling down her hood reveling the monster she became. "Tiff you better answer me or I'll get mad and trust me I'm not pretty when I'm mad." I winced remembering the bruise I had for a while after taking the last pepperoni from her. "Pfft." Tilting her head Skittlez asked what was so funny, her voice becoming aggressive.
Skittlez moved closer to Tiff's face a creepy smile adored her lips. "Hey Tiff, just tell me, why you so close to the leader? What's he want? huh?" With each question Skittlez inched closer to Tiff her smile stretching wider. My eye's widen when I saw Tiff spit in Skittlez's face. Skittlez snarled her jaw clenched I heard her teeth grind. She growled something causing Nathan to lift up Tiff's leg, Tiff tried to kick Nathan away but Skittlez held down her other leg. Sighing Skittlez said in a bored tone, "Not answering me pissed me off but spitting in your superiors face, now that is fucking rude. Nathan would you please." With a bone crunching snap that bounced off the walls Nathan broke Tiff's legs by bending her knees inward. I covered my ears and flinched when Tiff let out a blood curdling scream, not stopping Skittlez huffed before punching Tiff in the face with another crack.
"Now just answer the question yea bitch or do we need to do the other knee?" Skittlez plopped down on her butt beside Tiff resting her elbow on her knee and laying her head on her palm. "GO TO HELL YOU DAMN BITCH! ALL OF YOU GO T-" "Nathan." Wincing again I turned away knowing what's coming next, and like I said the snapping of bones echoed the room along with that curdling scream. "Alright." Skittlez shrugged while walking around to Nathan leaning on his back her face on his shoulder she let out a sadistic smile.
"But you know what happens now is your fault. I tried to be nice. BRING HIM IN" Skittlez turned her head to the entrance before looking back at Tiff. "You know that guy I told you about? Well it turns out he knows you!" Her smile grew that of one an insane person would wear, it was then this isn't completely my best friend right now. Eyes went to the entrance to see a Charger bringing in a man who resembled Tiff. Could this be Tiff's brother? Unlike Tiff when he was being brought over rather than bursting out insults and struggling he stayed still and cried giving Tiff a look of pity. "Tiff don't look ok? Just don't look."
"ALEX! LEAVE HIM ALONE PLEASE I'LL TELL YOU JUST LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Tiff wailed pulling on her restraints. Skittlez leaned closer to Tiff while still on Nathan, "I wanna play a game Tiff. Give me answers and Alex won't die, refuse and well... you know what happens. Ight?" Tiff sniffed nodding her head. The Charger sat Alex down in front of Tiff and right beside the two Hunters: his big mutated arm firmly held his shoulder so Alex wouldn't do anything funny.
"Now Tiff why are you so close to the leader of the Dome?" Tiff's lips trembled as if deciding to answer Skittlez or not. "It's ok Tiff you don't need to answer, Leader wouldn't want you too. I forgive you so it's ok kee-" Skittlez kicked Alex in the face telling him to hush up. "Tiff~ I heard this Alex is the only family you have left." Tiff froze her eyes locking with Alex's more tears made her way down her face. "Tiff no!" Clicking her tongue Tiff answered, "I originally wasn't close to Leader, it was after David came...Leader heard David's story and since I was with David then he wanted me to be a spy for him now." Alex gave Tiff a look of hurt before dropping his head in shame.
"Good good now we're getting somewhere." Skittlez got off Nathan and crawled over to Tiff free side. "Why?" At this Tiff kept her mouth shut Skittlez sighed before giving Nathan a nod. Nathan crawled over to Alex who became apprehensive. A growl escaped Nathans throat as he brought up his clawed hand. Shutting my eyes not willing to see a no doubt brutal murder. "SO I CAN TELL HIM ABOUT YOU AND NATHAN!" Opening my eyes in shock I saw Nathan freeze looking at Tiff. Her eyes were wide and she was shaking violently. "Why?" Tiff shook her head, "I can't say!"
"TELL ME!"
"NO I CAN'T I SWORE!"
"UGHHH DO IT NATHAN!"
"NO!" Nathan sliced Alex's throat open sprays of blood shot out covering Tiff, Alex gurgled his body jerking around. His eye's were wide and trained on Tiff. "ALEEEEEEEEEXXXXX!" His body slumped forward landing on Tiff's feet and once again she cried out to her dead brother.
"Wanna tell me now?" Skittlez's voice was deep and low even with no eyes you could feel the glare that she held.
"YOU'RE A FUCKING MONSTER! I'LL KILL YOU!"
Nathan was licking the blood that stained his hands he looked over to Skittlez who looked at him completely ignoring a devastated girl. Nathan growled over to Skittlez before growled loud enough for every infected in the room to hear. The infected tensed before hurrying to collect their things before running out of the room.
"One last question Tiff."
"What do you w-want n-now?" Despite her stutter Tiff's voice was void of any emotion.
"What's this Leader guy's name?"
"Russell Bester."
"I see." With that Skittlez turned towards us. "Well I have some bad news. We're moving." Jake stepped forward and spoke up, "What? Where?" "We're going west away from civilization and the Dome. We have another base there, one more suitable for living. We led the Dome soldiers to here so we don't have that much time. This is your chance to back out and go back to living a normal life, we won't kill you if you don't want to follow." Skittlez paused to see who would back out and once again completely ignoring Tiff's protests, she gave a smile when no one stepped forward. "Ok I'll explain and answer questions on the way out, follow me."
Turning to the bridge to yell up to Tyler I was deadpanned when I saw his frightened eye's peeking from out behind the wall watching us. "Coming Tyler!?" Tyler jumped before ducking down to grab his gun and running to catch up with the leaving group.
While going though the maze like series of tunnels Jake and his group fired questions right away.
"How did you find Alex?" Cristina asked. "Me and Nathan were fighting off some Dome people when we smelled someone who smelled like Tiff, we followed and found out that he is her brother and stuff." Cristina muttered saying that's so cliche. "Why? You know him?" Skittlez asked glancing back at us. Cristina groaned while Marcelo answered. "He liked C! He worked as the cook for the trainee's and every time C would get lunch he would totes give her free food. Lucky shit." "After we became elites he would come up and hit on her." Jake butted in. "Jacob you whore I was gonna say that! But yeah."
They must be close to call each other such names, especially if they are your leader. I was in the back carrying a faint Tiff. The pain must of been too much for her causing her to faint the moment I touched her legs. Tyler was beside me reloading his gun. He caught me staring and gave a smile, embarrassed I looked forwards to the backs if the elites. Nathan and Skittlez was up in front leading us to the exit of the sewers, while it seems everyone who was here to begin with already packed up and left to God knows where.
"So where exactly are we going." Asked Cristina. "West. Nathan and I have another base in California. Well we have bases all around but this one is the biggest and stuff." This caught me off guard along with everyone else by their faces. At this I spoke up, "That's not exactly close Skittlez. Do you plan on having us walk the whole way?" Marcelo jump into the conversation, "What?! I don't want to walk all that way my feeties would hurt!" Everyone then commented on how that was too far to walk for non-infected. Nathan glanced at Skittlez with a 'told you so' look before she spoke up. "Yeah well, I was gonna have us walk but Nathan was nice enough to get us a ride." The complaining died down, Skittlez crossed her arms with an unsatisfied look plastered on her face.
"How he managed that?" Tyler spoke up tilting his head to the side. "Ahem well, we are heading to a place were we found working cars...we stole the gas but that's besides the point."
"How did you find working cars, it doesn't make sense?" Nathan growled something as if to comment on what Jacob said. Jacob looked to Skittlez for a translation, "Nathan said if zombies like us are real then working cars shouldn't surprise you." Jacob nodded his head saying it was true before we made the rest of the way to the exit in silence.
The exit itself was another man hole we had to climb out of leading out to a apartment complex. The apartments itself were nothing but rubble, a crater a size of a house and as deep as truck was not too far of the man hole we came from. A fire was still going on one of the houses making ash rain on us. The sun was completely gone now leaving us in Hell. There was absolutely no trees to be seen and the smell of chemicals burned your throat. The second everyone surfaced they immediately began to wheeze and cough, Skittlez gave us a apology before walking ahead.
"God! Where are the cars I...my throat...ugh. This is your fault...Jacob!" Marcelo slapped Jacob's arm who was too busy suppressing a cough to do anything. We came to the street where we saw three black jeeps. "2011 moab easter jeep safari moparized jeeps, damn I like." Whistled Tyler. "You into them?" Skittlez asked turning around to which Tyler said he use to own one. It was then that I realized that Ashley and Daniel was by the cars, they vanished yet again without anyone knowing but the infected themselves.
The organizing of who would be in what Jeep was easy, it was who wanted Tiff was the hard part. My team didn't want her with the excuse of, "We had her for years..give us a break." Jacob's team said that they didn't want her cause, "She's your problem, always has been." I even tried to get her in Skittlez's group but Nathan would have none of it and growled all over the place. "He said he would rather chop off his dick before letting her in the same car with us." I told Nathan it's OK since he don't feel pain so having Tiff would be fine, he then began to howl. Silence. "What he say?" I asked. "I'd rather not repeat it..."
So in the end My group was stuck with Tiff in the back, something about how we had more room with only the three of us. We began to follow Daniel out of the city with me in the middle and Jacob tailing us. Everyone who wasn't driving was leveling their guns ready for any kind of attack. It was earlier said that everyone who escaped would be late for they would be scattered and eventually meet up at the base. While driving I saw Nathan fix Skittlez's hood to make sure the wind wouldn't hurt her eye sockets. He then put his arm around her and held down her hood.
I glared at the Hunter who found me staring. I grinned my teeth when he stuck his purple-ish tongue at me. "He so want's to get in her pants." Commented Tyler giving me a feeling of Déjà vu. "Tell me about it." I said before concentrating on the road ahead.
Blarg so what you guys think?