A low growl came from under the door and then a scratchy voice was heard. "Kill them. Go'in there and kill them.. NOW!" Almost like clockwork all of the soldiers had their guns up and were running to find cover. Just as the others had, Jacob and Ben both made their way to small crate. Taking up a defensive position, they both armed their weapons and aimed for the door. "Get.. get in there.. kill." A pounding sound came from the door.
Gotham's heartbeat increased, and he raised his weapon slightly. Glancing around, he started to step back. "We're going to have to get off this level... We won't be able to take out the thing back there with just two men. If we can escape to the elevator... We can leave it down here and get to safety." He started out of the armory. "It's around that corner." he said. The corridor split into two, and the beast was on the left side. The elevator was at the right.
"Ok. General you take point." Rek loaded a clip into his ammo depleted pistol and grabbed some more ammo. "Wait. What about the rest of Delta? They might be cut off but they are still our men." Rek thought for a moment. "Ok General it can be your call ill cover you." Rek followed Gotham out of the room taking out a grenade.
Before anyone could react the large and heavy metallic doors blew off of their hinges, flying towards a doomed group of marines. All Jacob could was watch as the door slammed against the wall with tremendous force and the marines behind it being literally liquified from the force of the hit. His breathing slowed as he looked back towards the door. Hundreds of infected came pouring at him. A look of intense anger crossed his face as he raised his assault rifle and fired a round at point blank into an oncoming enemy. "You want a ****ing piece of me!? You're gunna have to earn it!!" Jacob started to take shots at any of the infected that got even relatively near his area of fire. Ben joined by his side and fired madly into the immense surge of enemies. "We're ****ed with a capital 'F'..." A lot of the marines in the room had already been killed and turned but the remaining survivors of the room were holding a small position. The only thing seperating them was a huge wall of swarming enemies. Jacob's gun clicked and he scrambled to reload as an infect dashed for him. Ben moved into a covering position but the approuching infected knocked the weapon out of his hand. "*****! Did I say you could touch my gun!?" Ben slammed his fist into the creatures face and it fell onto it's back where he proceeded to jump on top of it. Hitting it three more times, it's brain cavity collapsed with a spray of blood coated a small portion of Ben's suit. As he stood up, for a moment the infected back off. They did not attack until he pulled his side arm out and started to take shots. Jacob took his place by Ben's side and started to open fire into the group of infected in front of them. A horrid scream came from a marine but a visual could not be made but to their horror, more screams followed. Jacob and Ben slowly started to move back to where a supposedly dead marine was laying up against a huge steel crate. "Take.. this.." The marine was looking up at them holding a high grade detonation charge. Jacob took the charge and looked back into the large open area filled with creatures. "We'll have to move in closer to kill all of them." Ben just looked. "****, let's do this!" Ben charged forward opening fire into mass of enemies but his sidearm was knocked out of his hands. Instantaneously he jerked his combat knife from it's pouch and sank it deep into the infected's head. A blood curddling scream erupted as it slid off the knife and into a puddle of it's own blood. "Try me again!" Without even thinking Ben forced Jacob into the steel crate along with the marine and hurrled the High grade detonation pack into the air. After retrieving his sidarm he took steady aim. "Ben! Ben! NO! Don't do it!" Ben just kept aiming. "I have to." *Bang* A deafly loud explosion erupted and then the room went quite. Jacob could not open the crate due to the immense wind pressure still against it.
Jacob forced all of his weight onto the scorching hot door and tried his hardest to jar the door open. At first the door didn't budge but after a heavy puch on the handle, the door slowly slid open to reveal the nearly destroyed room. Burning corpses and body parts were strewn all across the room and a few faint moans could be heard from dying infected. Jacob took a few quick steps onto the charred floor until he saw a faint amount of movement in the corner of his eye. Turning quickly he saw
Ben behind a box. Ben looked up and laughed. "Told you I'd live." Ben breathed hard and deep and then forced himself onto his feet. Now walking, in it's lowest extent, he made his way over to the Jacob and used Jacob as a asupport to help him walk.
Rek felt the vibrations from the explosion but nearly forgot he was even living when he saw the massive creature. Without even thinking he pulled the pin and chucked the grenade. As it soared throught the air the monster roared and opened its mouth, involentarily swallowing the grenade. Rek didnt wait for the result and lept after Gotham removing a sachel charge from his pack. 'Just to make sure that this creature and everything else doesnt survive.' He reached the evevator just as Gotham entered it. Punching in '0.60' into the electronic dial on the explosive Lieutenant Rek slapped it onto the wall. 'I hope this elevators fast.' He thought and he dived into the lift. "GO UP!!! I DON'T CARE WHERE!!!" He shouted to Gotham as the doors slid closed. 'I hope the rest of Alpha and Delta survive,' He thought. "I hope we get through this..."
Then the grenade exploded.
The sachel charges timer flashed down '0.10', '0.09'....
In the acending lift Rek shifted beside the quiet Gotham, anxious.
Before Jacob and Ben were even ten feet from where they had found each other, the infected marine leaped from the large container and came at them with lightning speed. Jacob did not even have the time to remove his sidearm before the creature was on top of them. Ben tried his best in his weakened state, to knock the creature off of Jacob but made very little difference. After what seemed like an eternity, a shot rang out from one of the gaping doors. It had come from a female that was holding a very powerful sniper rifle. "Do I have to save you boys like last time?" Ben chimed in liked nothing had happened. "If I remember correctly, we saved your ass last time." She smirked and gave out a giggle. "Details, details.."
The timer counted down '0'04', '0.03', '0.02'...'0.01' The lift, and the entire complex violently shook as the sachel charge erupted into an explosion, that decimated everything unlucky and lucky enough to get caught in the explosion. The fireball coalesed up the lift shaft for almost a hundred meters....
A violent shaking started to happen around them and none of the three could stay standing. The girl, Nicole, fell forward onto her knees and stayed there while waiting for the explosion to cease. Jacob and Ben both fell forward from fatigue and decided that it's best to just wait it out instead of put up a struggle. "We earned some rest, I think.." They both laughed and sat up slightly.
The fire ball raced the lift as it shot upwards. The lift exploded through the floor above its last stop, buffeted by the shockwave. The doors were torn off and the lift bounced along before sliding and sparking down the long wide service corridor. When it stopped moving Rek shook his head and checked himself, ok, Gotham had a couple of nasty dents on his chest plate but that was all. Gotham spoke first...
Or he would have spoke, instead, the side of the lift he was on fell away and down into the shaft hanging buy a single steel cable. Rek lept after the falling half trying to grab hold of Gotham as he slipped into the darkness below. gotham grabbed the cable but it splintered and was about to snap. "HOLD ON!!" Rek shouted and rolled to the right as a flaming piece of something came flying past his head. he slidded on his belly to the edge and looked over its lipse. Gotham was hanging on the support cable that was holding the weight of the damaged elevator half. Rek reached down trying to grab Gothams hand. he came short, Rek stared into Gothams eyes, "Dammit!" He hoisted himself further over the edge and reached as far as his armor would allow. "C'mon! General...up!"
"This is Lieutenant Jacob Book, of the Marine based, Hazmat Team Delta. This is a message going out to all military personell within the Stasis field of the Quarantine shield. I need all surviving military sqauds, to make their way to the city's hospital. This is vital to the survival of all of us! Book, over and out." Jacob cut his comm and helped Ben into the large hospital lobby. It was seemingly empty, save for a few corpses and half dead infected. After successfully finding a way to treat Ben, Jacob made his way over to the main hospital door and closed and locked them. "Bullet proof glass... hope it stands up to the infected.." Jacob then went on about and hour long trek to shut and lock all doors and windows, along with eliminate any and all infected within the hospital.
Two marines came sprinting towards the front door of the Hospital just as Jacob had finished securing the building. They look mortified when the door didn't open, so they began to shout for help. Thinking quickly Ben made a mad dash towards the door release and it went up. Both marines scrambled inside and started to fire at the oncoming infected. "How did you know about this place?" One of the marines looked over at Jacob. "We got your message." Jacob just smiled. There might be hope for the survivors yet. They decided to have regulars rounds of the entire building while two guarded the door.