Scott Pilgrim vs. the Zombies Part 9
I stared in awe at Ramona lying there, alive and well. How could this be? I thought. As she been here the whole time? Gideon was holding her crying, giving her little shakes.
"Ramona. Please. Ramona, wake up… please…" Ramona slowly opened her eyes and Gideon grabbed her hand.
"I'm… Gideon?" She had a puzzled look on her face. Gideon looked at her with a slight smile.
"Yeah, Ramona. It's me."
She scoffed lightly and fell back onto her bed.
"I'm dreaming."
"No, Ramona. Your not." I said. I came up to her and took her hand.
"Scott? I'm so sorry… I should have…"
"Shhh. It's okay." I glanced at Gideon and gave him a look.
"We need to get her out of here. Their running experiments on her like she's some sort of test subject."
"That's because she is." A voice said behind us. I turned quickly to see a scientist, the same one who let me in the first time.
"What are you doing here?" Gideon asked.
"I should be asking you that question. I work here."
"What is wrong with Ramona? Why are you keeping her here?" I asked.
"Your friend is, shall we say, a rare case indeed. She has contracted the disease but shows no significant sign of any of the symptoms."
"So. She's going to be fine?" Gideon asked worriedly.
"Well, yes and no. She will never become one of… them. But she needs to take this medicine." He showed us a bottle of black pills.
"They are specifically designed to keep the infection from spreading to her entire body. She needs to take one of these every other day to insure that it doesn't." He gave them to Ramona who sat up in her bed slowly.
"Thanks." She said. She gripped the bottle as if her life depended on it, which it did.
"There is also one other thing we need." Everyone looked at him.
"Her blood contains a cell that can fight against the virus. We need to extract a bit of that so we can have a definitive cure." He looked at Ramona and she gave a nod.
"Yes. Whatever will help."
"Alright. He pulled out his walkie-talkie and talked into it. "Yes. The patient will proceed with the operation." A few other men in lab coats came in with gloves and masks on.
"We will need to do this privately, if you don't mind." And so we left.
It was agony. We waited for ever it seemed when Ramona finally came out. She was wearing new clothes and her hair was combed and clean. Seeing Ramona without blue hair was weird, but I figured I would get used to her strait brown curls. She came up to us smiling and I gave her a hug.
"What did they do to you?" I asked.
"Nothing really. They just took some of my blood I guess. I was asleep the whole time."
I looked at her and smiled.
"Well, I'm glad you okay." We stood there awkwardly for a while until she asked.
"So, who are your friends?"
"Oh right. This is Natalie, Knives and I think you already met Gideon."
"I do." She came up to him and looked at him angrily.
"But I saw you get attacked. You were bitten."
We all looked at Gideon in shock. Natalie looked at him with tears welling up in her eyes.
"But you…I don't…"
"Natalie, I'm sorry." He tried to get closer to her but she pulled away.
"NO! GET AWAY FROM ME!" And she ran out of the room. I looked at Gideon.
"When did this happen?" Ramona turned towards me.
"You don't remember? I told you when I first met you."
Then I remembered. "I ran out just in time to see Gideon bitten in the arm by one of them." She had told me. He had gotten bit. But how did he hide it?
The pills. I saw him taking some pills a day ago when we were coming here. Wait.
"You had a cure and you never told anyone!" I yelled at him. Ramona looked at Gideon in surprise.
"What?" She said.
"Well. I…" He slowly walked back.
"Well what!"
"I'm out! Their gone! There are no more! I'm going to become one of them!" Ramona looked at him with fear in her eyes.
"No. No. Scott, get away from him." I backed away from Gideon as he looked around the room.
"No, guys. I'm fine! Really! I'm alright!" He laughed like a crazy person. I grabbed Knives and we put our backs to the wall.
We all watched in horror as Gideon transformed into a zombie. His arms started bleeding and his legs bulked with veins. He looked at us with blood red tears in his eyes.
"I'm sorry." Was the last thing he said until he collapsed on the floor. I slowly walked over to his mangled body and kicked him with my foot.
"Is he alive?' Ramona asked.
"I don't th…" Gideon jumped up from the ground and pushed me on the ground. Blood splattered over my face and I got up franticly. He was alive, but he wasn't human.
He looked at us with rage in his eyes. He was looking for his next victim. He was looking for us.
"We have to go!" I said and we all ran out of the room. Gideon roared and started chasing after us with surprising speed. We turned at all the corners we could and finally reached a small laboratory with glass doors. I opened them and quickly shut them. We stood a few feet away from the doors in silence. Finally Knives spoke up.
"Do you think he's gone?" I looked at her. She had a lot of fear in her young eyes.
"I don't know." I leaned down next to her. "But whatever happens, it's going to be okay." And right when I said that, Gideon pounded on the glass.
He was staring at us with those red eyes and that hungry look on his face. He continued to pound on the glass, trying to get in. That door was strong, but I knew it wouldn't hold forever.
"We need to find a way out of here." I told Ramona.
"There is no way. You just had to choose the only room with no exit!"
"Don't yell at me! I'll find a way." I searched for any exit but could only find one. I looked at the ceiling and saw a small vent.
"Okay. There's a vent up on the ceiling. Do you think you can climb up there and escape, Knives?"
"I don't know."
"You can do it. Just try." I walked over to the side of the room and grabbed a chair. I got a screwdriver from a tray and screwed off the bolts.
"Come on. You can do it." I helped her up and she got inside.
"What about you two?" She asked. I looked at Ramona and she gave me a slight nod.
"Were going to stay down here."
"What? No! I can't do this alone!"
"You'll be fine. Just see if you can get some help." I looked at her one last time. "You'll be alright." She nodded with tears in her eyes and climbed out of sight.
Ramona and I stood in front of the glass where Gideon kept pounding away at it. I grasped her hand and we looked at each other.
"Ramona, if this is the end. I just want to say I'm sorry. For everything. And… I… I love you." She stared at me and took my hands.
"I love you to Scott." And she kissed me.
Gideon was almost done with breaking thru the glass. There was nothing we could do. We stood shaking and holding each other. Maybe Knives could get help and we can actually escape. Tough chance though, I thought. We couldn't do anything. I closed my eyes, and waited.
When I opened my eyes Gideon had made a small hole in the glass causing an alarm to go off and was reaching his arm through. It was nearly over. No…
I saw Natalie come running with Knives by her side. She had a shotgun and pointed it at Gideon's head.
"Show's over, mother fucker." And she blasted his head with the gun. He fell down, bloodied on the ground dead.
We came out of the room and I gave Natalie and Knives a hug.
"What happened?" I asked her.
"I went to the scientist's and they told me that they were going to launch a gas into the atmosphere. The gas will kill the virus and everything will be fine! Right?" She looked at me. I stared glumly at the ground.
"Right." I mumbled back.
We followed a few soldiers up to a tower where we could watch the launch. When we got up there we saw the most horrible sight.
Zombies were everywhere. Below us. Thousands of them. I looked wide-eyed at a solider next to me.
"Where the hell did all of them come from?"
"We don't know."
"Well will the gas kill them all?"
"Yes. It will." He said with a hint of uncertainty. We watched as a scientist came up the stairs with a remote.
"Alright. When I press this button, the rocket should take off and extinguish the gas over all of Canada."
"What about the rest of the world?" Ramona asked.
"That's their problem." And with that he pressed the button.
For a while nothing happened. A few seconds passed and I got scared. I was going to say something but a soon as I opened my mouth I herd a loud "bang!". I looked and the base launched a rocket into the sky. Flames erupted from the back and it shot out into the clouds. No one said anything for a few minuets until we herd it. The faint hissing sound. The gas was being released into the atmosphere.
"It worked!" Ramona shouted. She gave me a hug. "It's over."
"No. I said pointing at the zombies. "Not yet." Everyone looked at the zombies and gasped in horror.
They were still alive.
Authors Note: Part one of the epic finale begins! Sorry for the late update but I had lots to do. I'm going to England for a few days so I wont be able to update the last chapter until later. But I will update on this exact date! February 22nd (which is a Tuesday.) Hope you all enjoy this series and don't forget to review!