A/N: Hey, guys. Last chapter, William Dubinsky is dead. Now, there's a mysterious figure inside the Dean's office and hacked into her laptop. Now this monster has control over what's left of the undergrounds labs. How will the team handle this one? Find out in this chapter. BTW I'm sorry I couldn't post this sooner cause' of exams coming up next week and me and my band members had a beach party last Saturday. So, this means it's gonna take a lot longer for me to post. But I will make sure to post and make this story more exciting as I can.
Dean Hardscrabble was stunned. She's at a lost for words as well as the rest of her team. William Dubinsky, Monsters University's chemistry professor and a friend of Abigail Hardscrabble, is dead. Dean's only reaction is standing still with eyes of fear.
"Ummm... Dean, we're really sorry about... that turtle guy..." Rock said to Dean, trying to break the frigid ice of grief. Dean didn't reply. Her expression changed from stunned grief to slight raging.
"I'm going to find whoever did this. The mutation, the incident, and Dubinsky's death. Once we finish and get out of here, I'm going to find that monster and trap him into this hellhole." Dean said, founding a new resolve as the elevator stops.
"Come on, let's go and be on your guard." Zack ordered everybody as they got their weapons ready.
The elevator doors opens as everybody gets out slowly and uses their eyes to scan the area. They start wandering the halls together. It looks like the place is deserted, but they stay alert for any ambushes. In the Dean's office, the mysterious monster is monitoring them through the security cameras connected to the Dean's laptop. The monster made a devious grin.
"Time for my latest mutation to fill up its belly. Hehehehehehe..." The monster pressed a key on the laptop.
Meanwhile, Dean and the team are looking for another way down. Around the hallway, just behind a corner, a hidden door opens as a mutated creature slowly exits and is looking for something to eat.
"Wait, do you guys hear something?" Zack asked as everyone stopped to listen if there was anything strange.
Suddenly, they could hear a loud hissing coming from behind them. They turn around and see another black creature different from the others they encountered. It's a black aquatic creature with a large plump bag under its chin similar to a frog when it croaks, a wide mouth, four clawed arms and legs, padded hands and feet, a gray scaled tail, and large yellow eyes. It's drooling yellow acid. It hisses at them as it spits yellow acid at the wall next to it. The acid made hissing sound as part of the wall melted along with a head of a dead monster corpse slumped on it. Zack and his team are about to shoot it when Dean yells.
"Stop! Don't shoot it!" Dean Hardscrabble yelled.
"What do you want us to do!? Dance with it!?" Rock asked.
"Just... hold your grounds. It's an Anuradite. They eat insects and meat, and digests them with powerful sulfuric stomach acids. If it doesn't like it or something disturbs its digestion, it'll spit out its food and find something else to eat. They're not aggresive, but they will be if you attack or startle it." Dean Hardscrabble told them as the Anuradite started looking around while still slowly approaches them.
"Thanks for Creepy Biology 101. What now?" Rock asked as he pointed his shotguns at the creature.
"Let's just back away slowly and leave it alone." Dean said as everybody started backing away.
A camera with a small turret attached to it fires a bullet at the creature's arm. It startled it as it makes a loud hissing roar. Rock had enough as he cocked his shotguns.
"Alright, that's it!" Rock yelled as he shot the creature. It staggered, but didn't die. It hissed at him as it spitted the yellow acid. Rock dogded it as the yellow acid puddle started dissolving the tiles on the floor.
"Take it down!" Zack ordered as everybody, except Dean Hardscrabble, started shooting at the Anuradite.
It staggers at each bullet that hit its slimy skin. It dodges more bullets by jumping and sticking on the ceiling with its padded hands and feet. It shoots out an long, fleshy tongue at Zack. The tongue grabs Zack's UMP-45 as it retracts back to the Anuradite's mouth. It swallows the firearm whole.
"Damn it! The thing ate my gun!" Zack yelled as he took out his SCAR 20 rifle and started firing at it.
The Anuradite spits another gush of its yellow acid as it nearly hit Zack's foot. But he manages to step out of it the puddle before it could make contact and might melt his foot. Dean examines it for any weakspots. She notices two large sacs at the back of its throat whenever it opens its mouth. It looks like that's where the yellow acid is coming from.
"Damn, this thing can take a bullet!" Sid exclaimed as he continues firing his Glock-18.
"Somebody, shoot the two sacs in its mouth!" Dean yelled.
Blade hears what the Dean said as he picks up two small knives from his jacket pocket. The Anuradite is about to spit yellow acid on them agian as he swiftly throws the two knives into its mouth, piercing the acid sacs. The acid sacs burst, causing acids to splash all over the area, as its body drops to the floor dead. Everyone breathes heavily after dodging the acid spits and the stress of the probability that they would've been melted to the bone if the Anuradite's acids would've hit them. Rock looks at the Anuradite's dead body.
"R. I. H. Rest in hell, bitch." Rock said.
"Come on, let's keep going." Zack said as everybody moved on. Dean stopped as she stared at the camera with a small turret attached to it. Then, she catches up to the team. Meanwhile, back at the Dean's office, the mysterious monster slowly claps his hands sarcastically after seeing what the Dean and the military squad did.
"Very keen eyes, Abigail. I'm impressed. Makes me want to rip them out of their sockets." the mysterious monster said sadistically. Suddenly, his phone starts ringing. He takes out his phone as he answers it.
"Hello?"
"It's time. Release the plague."
"Of course. Hehehe..." The mysterious monster typed various codes on the Dean's laptop and presses ENTER as the monster leans his back on the chair with a devious grin on his face.
Meanwhile, on the road in the middle of the night, Claws feels like he was about to doze off as he is still driving while everyone's still asleep. He ran out of coffee and has to endure and keep himself awake. But his eyelids beg to differ.
"Ugh... I can't take much more of this... Ugghhh... Why didn't I stick to the interstate in the first place...? Uughhh... Zzzzz..." Claws's drowsiness took over as he rested his head on the wheel. Then, it dropped to the steering wheel's horn. The car made a loud honk as Claws instantly woke up.
"Oh man... That was clo- HOLY SHIT!" Claws said, then, he yelled as he sees a young girl monster with gray skin wearing a school uniform in the middle of the road. Everyone woke up, wondering what was going on.
He rotates his wheel to the left to avoid roadkilling the girl. But he turns it way too much as the car crashes through the crash barrier and dives down from a steep hill.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Everybody in the car screamed as the car toppled and tumbled down the hill as it landed upside down which made everybody lose consciousness.
Few hours have passed after the crash. The car is now busted upside down in the middle of the road.
"Aaugghh... W-What...? Aaarrgh..." Claws mumbled as he started coming to. He was still on the driver's seat upside down. The only thing that was keeping him suspended to his seat was his seat belts. He moaned in pain as he took off his seat belt as he fell on his head.
"Ow! Aaarrgghh! Son of a-!" Claws moaned in pain as he crawled out of his car.
He feels a throbbing and painful feeling on his head. He places two fingers on his head and notices that he's bleeding slightly.
"Damn..." Claws said as he examined his blood-stained finger. "Guys!"
He turns around and see if his friends are ok. He notices that Amanda, Celia, Claire, Brock, and Sulley starts coming to. They moan in pain and took off their seat belts and falls on their heads or backs. They all crawled out of Claws's car.
"Ow... What's just happened...?" Claire moaned in pain.
"Owwww... My everythings... Aaughh..." Brock moaned as he held his back in pain.
"Claws... Ow... What the heck happened?" Sulley asked as he held his head because of his headache.
"Oh my God, are you alright, Claws?" Amanda asked as she saw Claws bleeding.
"I'm fine, Amanda. I guess I must've dozed off. Then, there was a girl in the middle of road. I was trying to get out of the way. Then, I steered too much and crashed." Claws explained.
"Well, I hope she's alright." Amanda said as she looked at the hill where they tumbled down. "But you're hurt, Claws."
"I know. It's just slight bleeding. I've been through worst crashes before."
-Flashback Starts-
A policeman exited a coffee shop with two cup of mocha coffee. He enters the patrol car with his partner inside. He gets inside and gives his partner a cup of coffee.
"Hey, do you remember that time when we arrested that chick yesterday for drunk driving?" the policeman asked.
"Hell yeah. That was awesome. She was semi-nude too. Bonus. Actually, I took a picture of her. Wanna see?" his partner asked.
"Sure, I-" Suddenly...
CRRRRAAAASSSSSHHHHH!
A black sedan crashes the policemen's car. The crash caused the police car to knock over a fire hydrant, causing a geyser of water to erupt. The driver of the sedan is a drunk Claws in high school years as he exits the sedan while
"Arrgh! Son of a bitch!" The two policemen exited the car as they took their guns out of their holsters.
"Freeze, dirtbag! Put your hands in the air!" the policeman yelled as he aimed his gun at Claws. The blue crocodilian monster dropped his booze and put his claws up.
"Redfield 32 here. We've got a drunk driving situation. Send backup." the policeman's partner said at the walkie-talkie on his shoulder.
"Turn around, you drunk jackass." the policeman said as Claws turned around and got his hands cuffed.
"I-I am... so f-f-freakin' sorry, Sheriff Juniors... I-I mean... this is not even my car..." Claws said between hiccups as he got himself pinned to the sedan. "I-I stole from some fag... Hahahahaha... F-Fag... Hehehe..."
"Oh, so you think its funny to steal a car and crash a police vehicle, huh?"
"No sir! Hehehehehahahahaha!" Claws replied like an army soldier, then he laughed.
"I'll give you something to laugh about." the policeman said as they took him to jail.
-Flashback Ends-
"Whoa! You got arrested in high school?" Sulley asked.
"Yyyyyyeah... I sorta did. Hehe..." Claws said embarassingly. "Hey, where's Mike?"
"He's still in here!" Celia exclaimed as he ran to the front of the car.
He ducks down and sees the green cyclops lying unconscious. Claws gasps as he drags him out of the broken down vehicle. Mike has one black eye, his left cheek is swelling, and there are bruises and wounds on his body.
"Oh my God! Mike, you okay!?" Claws exclaimed, wondering if Mike is alive or not. Celia places two fingers on Mike's wrist, checking for a pulse.
"He still has a pulse. It looks like he took full impact of the crash." Celia diagnosed Mike's condition.
"Who cares." Sulley suddenly said causing everyone to give him an angry glare that said 'That's a cruel thing to say'.
"Uhhh... I mean... We all care, right? Hehe... Yeah, we care about the little runt, don't we?" Sulley lied to defend himself.
"What are we gonna do now?" Claire asked as Claws started thinking. They were in the middle of the road and his car is totaled.
"Let's get our stuff and try to find a nearest town. Once we get there, we should call 911 and get Mike to a hospital and get my car fixed." Claws said as everybody get their stuff in the back seat. When Brock tried to get their stuff in the boot, but it's locked and the boot is jammed to the concrete.
"Don't worry, I got the ke-" Claws was about to finished as he tried to get his car keys, but the key broke. "-ys..."
"Great." Brock said disappointedly.
"Relax. I've been through this situation before." Claws said as he walked to the boot and drew his claws. He started using his claws as lockpicking tools as the boot unlocked. "Yo, Sulley, mind lending a hand with this."
"Sure." Sulley said as he used his strength to open the boot. He was successful as the boot opened. Everybody got their stuff as Claws took out a map and started reading it, finding out where the next town is.
"Good news. The nearest town is Growlburg. It's only kilometer ahead." Claws said while pointing to the direction where the next town is.
"That's good news. Come on, let's get going." Claire said.
"Ok. Sulley, carry Mike for us, will ya?" Claws asked.
"What!? Why me!?"
"Cos' I wasn't the one who didn't care if my friend nearly died." Claws said while giving Sulley a hateful glare.
"Alright. Alright. No need to give me the stink eye." Sulley said as he carried Mike.
Everyone is now walking their way to Growlsburg toget some help. The air grows cold as a thin mist followed them.
A/N: Finally, done. It looks like the mist has been released. Well, you know what's gonna happen next. Stay tuned for the next chapter which will be coming in a few days.
