Capítulo 34: Betrayal
"Turn off your light and get down," Page commands as she turns hers off and crouches. Derek obliges, quickly turning his off too and crouching down. The moonlight shines above their heads as they walk through the hall. Suddenly the sound of something tiny hitting the window grabs their attention. Soon the windows are being assaulted by thousands of raindrops, and are quickly followed by thunder. The lighting flash gives the hallway an even more forboding feeling.
Making it halfway across the hall they stop at seeing a faint light coming from underneath a doorway. Page glances in front and behind them to ensure nothing is there with them before walking over to the door. Placing an ear against the door she hears nothing but a low buzzing of a small fan or something. She slowly stands up, looking behind her to see if the bull's out there. It's nowhere in sight.
Where the hell did it go? How fast can that thing be?
Page signals for Derek to stand before placing a hand on the handle, readying her gun. Opening the door ajar, she sees an empty room, the wall in front of her covered with monitors. The light from the monitor creates a silhouette of someone sitting in one of the chairs. Carefully approaching, she stays a couple feet away as she nears the chair, ready to fire. Moving to the other side she sees it's a prison guard, his throat sliced open and blood trailing down his neck and onto his shirt.
He looks like a normal corpse, not showing any signs of being infected by a virus. Page pushes the chair to the side so she can get a better look at the monitors. Looking through the ones on the left she sees one showing a long concrete hallway with lights in the walls protected by metal cages. It doesn't look like any of the other halls in any of the other monitors from what she can see, the most obvious thing being it's still lit up. Looking through the other ones she sees the cafeteria, where a ton of zombies are, and the greeting area where the zombies have broken the metal detector gate.
Some other areas also have some zombies in them, but most of the place seems to empty. Movement in one of the halls catches her eye. Someone is running through the hall in the direction of the camera but it's too dark to see who. They soon run out of sight, but before she looks for another monitor they might be visible in, something much larger appears. It looks to have a humanoid shape, but much bulkier, and looks to be almost seven feet tall.
"That son of a bitch, he made a tyrant of his own…" Derek mutters as he walks up to Page, watching the same monitor.
"How can you tell?"
"The shape, the size, but," He leans in closer, seeing it's somewhat quick pace, "It's too fast to be one, this one seems more like Ustanak,"
"Ustanak? The thing Neo-Umbrella made to get that guy who carried antibodies to the C-Virus?"
"Yeah, the thing that my Ada-that, Carla, made," He steps away from the monitors and Page, "Let's hope it's not after us, I've had more than enough fun being chased by all these mutant monstrosities,"
Page looks back to the monitors then sees the monitor in the bottom middle of all the others is displaying a computer's desktop. She looks at the different icons, seeing one labeled "map" and clicks on it. A window opens over the whole screen showing a 2-D layout of the prison, separated by floors. There's the first floor, second, sub-floor one, and sub-floor 2. Curious, she clicks on subfloor one, and it displays a much smaller area made up of only a couple rooms. There doesn't appear to be any stairs leading down to the second subfloor. She clicks on it and nothing but a long hallway shows up on screen, the right end starting where the storage room on the subfloor was.
Going up to the second floor she looks for the room Jacob talked about. In the top part of the map she spots a medium sized room labeled "Head Office".
"That must be it," Page mutters to herself as she scans the second floor map for stairs. She moves back to the first floor and finds the security room, it's in the lower left side of the prison. The hall right outside seems to go almost all the way to a staircase leading up. It ends a couple rooms short though and it makes a sharp right into another hallway that turns left and continues to go up connected to the showers. At the end of that hallway are some stairs leading upstairs.
"Okay, so we just follow this hallway and we should make it to the rondevu point in no time," Page says as she moves away from the monitor. The two head out of the room and make their way down the hall, the rain continuing to hit the windows as it tries to get in. Reaching the end of the hall they turn the corner, a door at the end of the next corner in front of them. They walk past it, turning left and continuing down the hall, seeing the door to the stairs at the other end. They stop at the sound of faint, but rapid stomping. They jump back as the right wall in front of them breaks apart. They hear footsteps running away, and as the dust starts to settle the stomping picks up and quickly follows. A large hole in the wall shows a room full of washers and dryers. However, the wall is too small for either of them to fit through.
The stomping comes to halt as something hits the wall far ahead, and metal screeches. They see that the door at the other end has been dented on its right side. Page and Derek hurry over to the end of the hall, Page trying to open the door but it won't budge. As Page steps away, Derek grabs it, trying with all his might to get the door to open.
"Come on you stupid door!" He bangs a fist against it. As Page tries to recall the map to find another route they hear someone laughing. They turn around to see no one.
"Absolutely marvelous," They hear a familiar voice say.
Page and Derek glance at each other.
"Everything is going just as planned. Even you, Derek,"
Page and Derek hurry over to the hole in the wall and see Luther standing in the laundry room.
"You know, I had my doubts at first," Luther continues on, "I thought Jacob would shoot you on sight, but I'm glad I was right in the end,"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Derek asks, aiming his gun up at Luther.
"Ah, ah, ah," Luther says, holding up a small device with a glowing red button. Derek hesitantly lowers his gun, "You didn't, really, think I expected you to not get found out did I? I was hoping you'd betray me, and make some new friends, so I could set off my trap,"
Before Page or Derek have any chance to react or respond, Luther presses the button on the device. The thing on Derek's neck detaches itself, falling onto the floor.
"Have fun," Luther says as he leaves the room. Page is about to bring up her gun to shoot him in the leg but she's distracted by Derek's groans of pain. He stumbles back a bit, crushing the device, and losing his grip on his gun which falls to the floor. His whole body tenses up as he feels the virus starting to spread through his body.
"Derek? W-What's wrong?" Page asks as she walks up to him.
"Get away!" He shouts as he pushes her aside. As he tries to move away from her he falls to the floor, his skin starting to crack apart. Page watches in horror as his body suddenly catches fire, Derek screaming in agony. The flames quickly disappear, leaving Derek naked, nothing but ashes of his clothes remaining. The guns he had on him are heavily damaged and on the ground near him. She looks down at Derek, his skin now having several cracks in it, showing exposed muscle underneath. She stands there, the air deathly still and quiet except for Derek's heavy breathing.
He gets up, his back facing her. It feels like an eternity before he turns around, glaring at her with a feral look in his eyes. There's a small pause before he starts to walk toward her.
"D-Derek," Page says as she starts to back away, "Derek, listen to me, you have to fight it!" He continues to walk toward her, and Page soon finds her back against a wall. Derek thrusts a hand around Page's throat, pinning her to the wall. He grits his teeth as he continues to stare at her with a burning gaze of anger. She brings up her gun and points it towards his head.
"S-Sorry," She says with struggling breath before pulling the trigger. The bullet goes straight through his head, causing him to let go of her and stumble back a bit. She quickly goes to the door to their right, but it's locked. She quickly runs down the hall towards the security room as lighting flashes and thunder roars.
"Sorry doesn't cut it," Derek says irritable as he cracks his neck before taking off after her.
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TIWHimitsu
TIWHimitsu What the hell will Page do now that Derek's mutated and after her? Seems like she was a bit hesitant to fight him, or maybe she just knows it's gonna take a lot more than a pistol to kill him. Either way, RUN PAGE, RUN! Hope you guys are on the edge of your seats and let me know what you think! :)
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