"I feel so silly, making these little recorded messages… but, Maxis assures me it is not as crazy as he says. Anyway, our supply of element 115 is at a surprisingly full amount, most of it taken from another experiment from fifty years ago… what was it again? Oh, I'm getting distracted- (Static) how hilarious. Zak Maxis was so pathetic compared to Ludvig, how he died so easy with the screams… I don't think Ludvig knew I was there? Should I be lying to an old friend? Maybe, but it does not concern me too much if Maxis dies. My plan requires that… many sacrifices are made, but by then, I will be a god. Yes, a god, I like the ring to it. Ah, but I must begin searching for some pawns, people to use for my plan to succeed. I know that it's up there, and I will control it. I will not be keeping this recording now that I think of it, as it is incredibly revealing… stu-"
"I'll make you pay for taking daddy away, EDWARD!"
(End Recording)
"Let's see what you can do without your legs, zombies!" Knuckles shout as he chucked a grenade over to a group of the undead, crowding around it for a moment as it exploded, cutting their legs clean off with gory chunks of bone sticking out of the exposed inside.
Two of the zombies became crawlers, grabbing the floor as they pulled with incredible strength. Their bodies moved forward as they left a trail of blood to follow behind them, screeching as they stared at the soft flesh of the echidna.
Then Sonic kicked them in the head, shooting them once as he poked the corpses to make sure they were completely dead.
"Disgusting creatures." Sonic remarked as he looked at the hideous deformed corpse of fully grown man. "I can't believe these were once human… or even the mobian ones."
A zombie fox jumped over the window, one of its eyes missing as it charged toward the hedgehog. The reanimated corpse screamed as it neared the blue blur, making him shoot in instinctively in the head where it fell too much like the others.
"Tails, how long until that damn BTR is fixed?" Sonic asked his brother, who was tense enough as it was.
"Give me about five more minutes!" Tails shouted as he worked tiredly to weld the final piece back into place then hotwire the vehicle for use.
"So many zombies, so relentless, unlike the primitive ones I've seen in my labs…" Edward said to himself as the others heard of it as well. "Are they evolving? Or are they being…"
"Being what?" Sonic asked as he stepped close to the doctor, dodging the grab of a determined zombie as it broke its jaw on the floor.
"Controlled. It's as if they are… intelligent is some form."
But the doctor had no time to continue his theory as the zombies continued coming, deteriorating their ammo little by little as they were getting desperate.
"Tails! How long-"
"More time! I need more time!" He shouted back, sweating hard as he tried putting some framing back together.
"We're all out of time."
"All my life I've been debating,
All the crows, they sit there waiting-"
Walking along the cold steel, their feet collided with the floor silently, but there moans were loud and drawn out. They bits of human and mobian flesh stuck in their mouths were no Halloween costume part.
"Wondering what I'm going to eat,
Until I have it, I can't sleep."
Seeing their prey in sight, they began a lazy sprint, having little control of their limbs as they waved around with the wind that they created.
Seeing the blue hedgehog, the creature scratched at his leg as he knelt down to cover it, letting the zombie grapple him as it pulled him down to the ground. Struggling with the zombie as it brought its red stained teeth close to his face; he began to choke as the zombie wrapped its cold dead hands around his neck.
"I finally see you on the floor,
Your hearts not beating anymore.
My lust for you just cannot wait,"
Sonic tried to push it with a morsel of his strength, giving the zombie the opportunity as it bite deeply into the side of his neck, letting a pain riddled scream loose as the hedgehog regretted living through it somewhat.
"Your skin, it tastes like chocolate."
The doctor reluctantly shot the in the head, only inches away from Sonics face as the creatures head popped and sprayed a fair amount of blood all over the place. Groaning, Sonic got back onto his feet as he slightly grinned at Richtofhen, who showed no response as he continued shooting at other zombies.
"Staring blankly at the sun, waiting for my time to come…"
The zombies broke through almost all of the windows as they began to rush inside the room, giving the survivors very little room to maneuver. Tails finally placed the last piece together as he threw the torch aside and climbed out from under of the BTR, being greeted by a zombie as he quickly jumped out of its way.
"I fixed it, let's go!" Tails shouted as he grabbed the rifle and shot the zombies head off from its neck.
"Your happy life it makes me sick,
All the screaming sounds like music."
"Not a moment too soon, my little friend. Although, it would have been better sooner…" Richtofhen answered as he slowly moved backward while shooting to keep the zombies off them.
"Get in the goddamn BTR!" Knuckles shouted as he followed Tails climbing onto the top and opening the hatch inside. Soon the whole group climbed on top and inside with Sonic being the last, wasting the last of his MP5K ammo as he jumped inside and slammed the hatch shut.
"Lucid are in my pooling dreams,
Someone tell what they mean."
"How the hell do we get this thing moving? Do we have the keys?" Knuckles asked, shuffling around the awkwardly closed in space.
"No need, I can hotwire into this thing. We'll be moving in no time." Tails answered as went up to the driver's seat and begun to tamper with the wires.
"Not to put a damper on anyone's spirit, but how will we drive out of the base when we are on the bottom floor?" Richtofhen asked this vital question.
The zombies bashed their fists against the armored exterior of the BTR as their moans were piercing through into the metal hull.
"There's an iron smell of blood in the air,
But I can't find it, anywhere."
"Hey, what does this button do?" Dempsey said to himself as he chuckled, pressing a small red button behind the desk in the lobby, frowning as he heard loud screeches sound out immediately.
"Holy shit, the floors moving!" Dempsey shouted as he jumped out of the revealing hole in the ground. The tiles tore apart as the floor started to open up.
"I've been waiting, for someone to find me and become,
A part of me."
(Part of me.)
"What was that noise? Why is the vehicle moving? Why am I talking to myself?" Richtofhen said to himself as the BTR began to shake lightly.
"We're moving… but we're going up!" Tails said as he felt the weight of the vehicle go somewhat lighter.
"Of course! The lift must have been activated and is taking us to the main floor! Genius! Which one of you actually thought of doing that before getting?"
"I've been waiting for you to come here,
And kill me and set me free!
I've been waiting for…"
"Holy crap, you motherless freaks, give me some personal space!" Dempsey grunted as he slit another zombie's throat wide open. "I can't win without some fucking ammo!"
"Attention, friendly armor rising to lobby, please open the gateway."
"Hey robot machine voice, I don't know who the fucks coming up, and if they're not going to give me ammo, I don't give a shit about some gate, so-"
"Please open the gate Dempsey, I need them."
"How the hell?" The hedgehog cursed as he was stunned by the machines voice requesting him directly.
He looked over as the wall opposite from the desk he pressed the button and saw that the wall was more darkly colored then the rest. He saw a small lever on the far right side as he pulled it down and the right half of the door started to open, revealing the outside runway.
"Please open the left door."
"Man, listening to a creepy monotone voice like this for some reason feels familiar, but I can't just put my finger on it…" Dempsey mumbled as he did the same to the other side.
"Blood's flavour is so metallic,
Its smell it makes me go fanatic!"
"So, we will be escaping sooner then I imagined." Richtofhen stated aloud as they all sat there waiting for the platform to reach the top. "I think things went pretty well here, except that we didn't get the Vril generat-, I mean, golden rod, ha-ha…"
"First of all Richtofhen, we've barely even kept any ammo after wasting it on all those zombies, so the whole getting armed thing was pointless." Sonic bitterly attacked the doctor with his words. "Secondly, we've could have gotten where we needed to go if you just held onto my hand and ran with me!"
"Sonic, you're beginning to sound less like a worldwide hero and more like a worldwide pedo, ha-ha!" Richtofhen laughed. "Oh, maybe you have played with Tails…?"
"Shut it, I've already have an ass making gay jokes, I don't need another."
"Fair enough, rat."
"Texture's that I find in you are as thick as viscous glue…"
"Another thing you need me do for the people you so desperately need?" Dempsey asked as he shot a zombie in the head without even looking. "I mean, if you're done, you could start helping me."
"I cannot help you physically, most of the time. I must concentrate on the others…"
"So are you a girl or something? Cause if you are, the robotic chick voice makes you sound kind of hot."
"No, I am a man, or was one. But I can see how you were confused Dempsey, my own voice is distorted through the means I speak to the world of the living."
"Great, where in the description did this say this was going to be a supernatural spirit kind of story? I ain't up for that bullshit…"
"My senses have become so keen,
With all I touch and all I see.
There's an iron smell of blood in the air,"
"Armor has arrived on lobby floor; please make your exit through the open bay doors."
"I think that we've arrived on the first floor, now we can leave this place and head to the facility."
"Alright, I'll just need to adjust to these controls really quick…"
"Back off Miles, the doctor can drive this incredibly deadly machine… I think I can."
"You think?"
"Well I wasn't in the army, but I have driven a tank before, how different could it be?"
"If you want to know how it could, then-"
"Ah Mile, you're my favourite out of these morons, but your such a bore when you start to talk technical. Try to be more aggressive towards the zombies and make ridiculous remarks at them."
"Hey, is anyone in that BTR? I better get something nice for bringing that platform up and opening the doors for you, cause if I don't-"
But Dempsey was distracted from finishing as a mass horde of the zombies began to amass outside the base. Their moans sounded like the gates of hell as they slowly walked forward.
"Should we help that hedgehog? I guess he must have done that stuff for us and-"
"Forget it, we've wasted enough time here and we need to go now. Screw him and whatnot."
With that, the BTR screeched forward with Richtofhen at the wheel, running onto the runway as he mowed over the zombies, making gigantic bumps as the crushed every bone in the zombies they ran over.
"And now I see it, EVERYWHERE!"
"That little blonde child… I wonder where she is. Maxis said that she lived in Station Square before and left her with a caretaker of some sort, but I wonder if I'll ever meet her? Judgement calls, judgement calls, I wish there was a way to get rid of this trait of conscience. But, I will have to make do. Death is a natural thing, whether it be murder or natural causes, so there is nothing different is some people get killed in the process of my scheme. Especially when a lot will be killed in the event of it..."
"Edward, I want to play… with your head on a pike! Eheheh… don't you like that game? I like it a lot when you DIE!"
"Foolish girl, you will be the instrument to sing my peaceful lullaby, my dead man's lullaby."