章節 17: Rematch
Derek puts his rifle down as he just stares down at the street below. His phone suddenly vibrates as it receives a message. He pulls out his phone, it's a message from Luther that reads:
"Retrieve a sample for your B.O.W. locator. The icon with the cross-hairs,"
Derek puts his phone away and his rifle as he heads back inside the building. Heading down the stairs he sees the bottom of the building has caught fire. He heads back to the room where he kicked through the window and shoots the telephone pole outside. He jumps out the window, the feather slowing his fall and he lands down in the street below. The second horde of zombies from before fill the street in front of him, some of them filtering into the street he's on. He looks to the other side of the street and enters a two story. Heading to the roof he climbs up a ladder onto a three story.
Derek jumps down onto another two story, the one Jacob and Page were on earlier. He looks down at the street, only a couple stray zombies near the chrysalid. He jumps down to the street, pulling out his knife and killing the closest one. He hurries over to the chrysalid as the other zombies take notice and uses his knife to chip off a small piece of the shell. He gets up, glancing at the building Jacob had taken Page before he hurries over and takes shelter in a building on the other side of the street. He pulls up his phone, tapping on the icon with cross-hairs.
"Always wondered what this was for," Derek mutters to himself as the app opens. The screen turns black as light blue words appear on screen. Hold sample up for scanning. Derek holds up the she'll piece as a light blue light illuminates from the top of the phone, scanning the piece. The light goes away as a loading icon shows up on the screen. The phone suddenly shows the map of the island, zooming in on the market, a red dot appearing near the middle of it. Derek lowers his phone when he hears the sound of something cracking.
He moves to the doorway, peeking his head out to see the chrysalid move as the shell starts to crack open. With a loud crackle, the shell is torn apart from the inside as a large creature covered in greenish-black skin outgrows the shell. A giant eye on its back looks around as the creature tries to stand up, its changing body making it hard to stay balanced. Its right arm grows larger than the other one, an eye opening up on the shoulder. As the left arm starts to form, the muttering of a chainsaw coming to life cuts through the air. Two smaller arms emerge from its upper back, the right one covering the eye on its shoulder and the other one grabbing onto its chainsaw arm to stabilize it.
Is this really the tourist from before? I couldn't even tell back when it emerged from the plane, it doesn't even look remotely like the thing from the plane anymore!
"The, thing, has emerged from the chrysalid," Derek says into his earpiece.
"It actually hatched a couple seconds before I estimated it to…" Derek's talking catches the creatures attention, which notices him and starts charging toward the building, "It might have hatched too early…keep an eye on it, let me know-"
"It heard me!" Derek exclaims as he runs up the stairs. As he reaches the second floor the creature comes slamming into the building, breaking down the wall around the doorway.
"Gosh dammit! You're messing up the results!" Luther shouts into his ear, "Just run until Jacob starts fighting it, hopefully it'll go for him. If that doesn't work...than help him take care of it, but don't let him know who you are," Luther says the last part in the same cold tone from before.
As Derek is running up the last set of stairs the creature starts sawing at the stairs and everything it can reach. Reaching the roof, Derek feels the building start to tip as the thing is almost done destroying the base of it. He jumps off onto a nearby two story, rolling forward and regaining his footing. As he gets up he sees the building start to fall down towards him. Derek jumps down onto the street below as Jacob comes running out of a building on the other side of the street, shotgun in hand and Page's bag on his back.
The building comes falling down, damaging the one next to it. Derek pulls out his rifle as he backs away from the buildings.
"So you're the fucker who shot at us!" Jacob exclaims as he aims his shotgun at Derek.
"Hey, hey!" Derek replies as he steps away from Jacob, "I'm not the one you want to be shooting right now!" He points his rifle to the clouds of dust as the creature emerges from it.
"Looks like it wants a rematch," Jacob states as he aims his shotgun at the thing. Jacob shoots at it as the creature walks towards them, unaffected by the blast. A zombie walks in front of it, the creature thrusts its chainsaw through the zombies body, lifting it into the air. The zombie's corpse melds onto the chainsaw and makes its way onto its back left arm.
Derek shoots it in the head, causing it to go limp for a second before coming back up. The creature suddenly charges at them. Derek and Jacob turn and run.
"You don't happen to have any sort of explosives do you?!" Jacob asks as he glances over at Derek.
"Just my rifle and knife," Derek replies. The couple of yards that had separated them from the creature are now wearing thin into mere feet, the chainsaw's roars attacking their ears. As the creature lunges at them, they jump to the side, the chainsaw digging into the street and making sparks fly.
Derek and Jacob quickly get up to see the creature slow itself to a stop, standing there for a bit as it catches its breath, the eye on its back left open for attacks. Derek quickly brings up his rifle and shoots it dead center. The creature suddenly straightens up as it stumbles forward, it's right back arm quickly moving to cover the eye. The creatures left arm, which has a weird round with an eye on the side of it, turns around to them. As the creature kneels on one knee, spikes emerge from the round thing as the arm lurches back.
It lunges forward, hurling the spikes towards them. They jump to the side, one of the spikes hitting Jacob's left arm.
"Fuck!" He shouts in pain. He drops his shotgun on the ground before he grabs the spike in his arm. Derek sees that more spikes are starting to emerge from the back left arm of the creature again. He brings up his scope, aims, and fires, just barely scarping the eye, but close enough to cause the thing to flinch. With a scream of agony, Jacob pulls the bloody spike out of his arm, having to catch his breath for a second before he chucks it to the side and picks up his shotgun with his right arm. Derek aims and shoots again at the arm, and hits the eye.
The arm flails about as the creature stands back up. Derek glances over at Jacob, seeing his wound is visibly closing at a slow pace. Before he can ask about it the creature is already moving towards them. Jacob puts the shotgun in the bag, swapping it out for a pistol as Derek continues to shoot at the thing. He first goes to shoot the eye on its shoulder, but the creature's back right arm quickly moves to cover it as he takes the shot. He aims back at the head, shooting it.
"Don't waste your bullets on that," Jacob says as he aims his pistol.
"What else am I suppose to shoot? It's chainsaw?!" replies.
"Yes, cause it has an eye that's not being covered!"
Jacob shoots at it, trying to hit an eye that's under a ribcage forming a shield around the "engine" of the chainsaw. The creature grabs another nearby zombie, this time with it's right arm, and puts it on its back left arm. The zombie flails about as its stabbed with several spikes, but than it melds onto the arm. The arm starts to grow thicker as the hand also grows larger and claws emerge from it. Jacob and Derek continue to shoot at it as they back up, but soon realize that a bunch of zombies lie not too far behind them.
"We can't let it get to them," Jacob states as he continues to shoot, "Only question is how the hell are we going to do that?" As they stand their ground and shoot at the thing, Derek goes to reload his rifle. He sees the buildings around them.
"The buildings, we can get it to break the bases and they'll come falling down onto it,"
"Alright, but which one isn't filled with flames that we can go into?"
"This one!" Derek states as he heads for a building to their right. Jacob quickly follows, and the creatures raises up its chainsaw as it pursues them. They hurry up the stairs as the creature comes barging into the building, tearing at everything around them. To their annoyance, the creature stops sawing at the building's base and turns up to them. The creature uses its three normal arms to start climbing up the walls after them.
"He just had to give it G!" Derek exclaims as him and Jacob run up to the third floor.
Jacob and Derek stop when they reach the top, realizing that it's eyes are left vulnerable as it has to use all three arms to climb. They quickly take aim, as they only have a matter of seconds to shoot. They both fire at the eye on its right shoulder, hitting it. The arm lets go of the wall, causing the creature to start to fall down, but it jabs its chainsaw arm into the buildings wall to catch itself. The creature suddenly lowers a bit as it turns back up to them.
"Move!" Jacob exclaims as the creature uses all its strength to jump up at them. Jacobe runs out onto the roof, pulling Derek with him just as the creatures chainsaw rips part of the doorway. A loud thud emanates from the bottom of the building as the creature falls back down, breaking most of the stairs as well.
"I can't get it with this, Derek come shoot it!"
"On it!" Derek exclaims, not even bothering to think about how Jacob knows his name. He steps onto the broken doorway, pulling up his rifle and shooting the eye on its shoulder. The creature flails about on the ground before quickly getting back up and letting out a roar of anger. It suddenly starts thrashing about and tearing at the bottom of the building, which starts to shake. The two of them see a nearby three story and jump to it just before the building comes collapsing down under their feet.
They quickly turn back to the large cloud of smoke, the sound of the chainsaw now dead. There's a sudden spark in the mist as the chainsaw comes back to life.
"Can't they ever just die like any other zombie?!" Jacob exclaims in anger. As they watch the dust settle and the creature spots them, they feel a heat under their feet. The building they're on is fully ablaze as the flames reach the floor below them. The creature comes charging at the building and grabs it with its three arms and plunging its chainsaw arm into it, furiously climbing the building. The two of them shoot at it, but it keeps charging, the eye on its shoulder now bleeding. They can feel the building start to become unstable as the wall is almost entirely cut in half now, bricks and debri falling under the creature as its claws tear out bits and pieces as it climbs.
"Okay, maybe now we shoot the head, it should stun it enough for the building to fall fully on top of it," Jacob states as he reaims.
"We're on top of the building!" Derek argues.
"Just trust me!"
Derek aims for the creature's head, and the two shoot it at the same time. The creature stops climbing, leaning back a bit. The piece of wall its arms are digged into starts to come loose from the creatures weight. The creature starts falling back, its chainsaw arm cutting through more of the building. It manages to catch itself a few feet from the ground. It lets out another roar before it starts climbing again, causing the building to slowly lean forward. Derek and Jacob start to lose their balance as the building falls forward towards the street.
Derek almost falls but Jacob grabs his arm, helping him keep his balance.
"Jump!" Jacob exclaims. The two of them jump for a building to the side, landing with a hard thud as the building falls down onto another building in front of it. The creature is caught between the two buildings, the force crushing the building beneath and sending the creature down onto the ground into a fiery inferno. Jacob and Derek get up, fighting the aching pains from the landing that cover their bodies. Jacob heads for the stairs to get down, Derek watching before remembering that he knew his name.
"Wait!" Derek exclaims as he hurries after Jacob, "How do you know my name?!" He asks as he follows him down the stairs.
"From reports on the outbreak in China," Jacob says as he puts the pistol away and brings out the shotgun, "And I helped Luther recover your body" They reach the bottom of the building.
"What?!" Derek exclaims as he goes in front of Jacob and blocks his exit, "You work with Luther?!"
"I use to, but now it seems he's found a new guinea pig to do his bidding," Jacob says, moving Derek to the side and walking out onto the street, "Which means he's behind this mess. When I find that fucker I swear I'm gonna-!" Jacob stops ranting when they hear the sound of a stuttering chainsaw, "Seriously?!"
The creature comes stumbling into view, its body glowing with embers, the back arms severely burnt and weakened. It slowly approaches, them , readying its chainsaw for a swing. The two of them back up as it swings with all its remaining strength and than stumbles down to the ground. Jacob walks around onto its back, shooting the eye point blank with the shotgun.
The creature flinches in pain before it goes limp. As Jacob walks back to Derek the body starts to melt into a puddle of brownish-green goo.
"Give me your phone," Jacob states as he points his shotgun at Derek's face. Derek lowers his gun, slowly reaching into his pocket and pulling his phone out. Jacob takes it from him, "Thanks," And he pulls the trigger.
Click.
Jacob chuckles from seeing Derek flinch.
"Relax, I'm not going to kill you," Jacob states as he lowers the shotgun and pulls out a small chip from his back pocket, inserting it into the phone. The screen fizzes out a bit before returning to normal, the chip being ejected from the phone, "Now I'll be able to listen in on your guys' conversations," He hands Derek back his phone, "Look, I know how Luther works, so I doubt you're willingly working for him. No doubt he has something of yours that you care for, so I won't tell Page, you stay out of our hairs, and once I figure out why you're working for him, I'll find a way to fix it. Until then, don't die," And with that Jacob leaves.
Derek, at a complete loss for words and utterly baffled, watches Jacob disappear into the building he had taken Page.
…
"I won't tell Page, you stay out of our hairs, and once I figure out why you're working for him, I'll find a way to fix it. Until then, don't die," Jacob's voice says. Luther laughs maliciously upon hearing those words, "It's going along so perfectly...And when the time is right, boom, they'll have to kill their brand new friend. Let's just hope, she, does her part, unless she wants to lost her greatest treasure,"
Luther glances at another computer monitor, which is displaying a live feed of a room where a guy with blonde hair lays unconscious on a bed.
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TIWHimitsu Seems like Jacob knows quite a lot, could he actually still be working with Luther? Or does he have some like, really super secret version of google that lets him know everything? Who knows, well, I do, but you'll have to wait and see. As always hope you guys are enjoying the story and I appreciate any comments you guys have. :)
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