Chapter 31: The Madness Continues

"Huh? Why do you think so?"
"Wha-- What do you mean?"
"You just said something earlier, didn't you?"
"No, I didn't say anything from the beginning!"

Feeling strange, Albert and Rebecca ignored her while focusing back to their fight. Several Hunters and Smokers were summoned by mutated Scott to deal with them, but were quickly taken down effectively by Rebecca's Combat Shotgun. Several shots were fired onto mutated Scott, but the bullets were no match to his thick barrier. Suddenly, Rebecca pointed her shotgun at Albert, alarming him.

"Hey, don't lock your target at me!"
"I'm totally innocent, gal. Someone or something was controlling me!"
"Can it be... HIM?!"

Albert aimed at mutated Scott and was about to fire his gun, but his mind was disrupted. He was ended up shooting at the ceiling, damaging the light sources. Rebecca was surprised as her body was automatically adjusted to Vivian and pointed the gun at her. Before she could reach the trigger, Albert bashed her weapon, causing it to drop. Then, the zeds were ordered to get them while on the ground, leaving them helpless.

Strangely, Vivian began to fire her dual pistols which kept the zeds at bay. Both Rebecca and Albert stared at her in astonishment. Imagine a ten-year-old primary school girl knew how to use deadly weapon although she was not taught to handle it. Maybe their minds were playing trick on them! After they pinched each other to wake themselves up, the similar image was still formed in front of them.

"What am I doing? Where do I get this dangerous weapon from?" asked Vivian in horror when she saw pistols on her both hands. She burst in tears as she was scared of the current situation. Albert and Rebecca backed themselves slowly to Vivian while battling incoming zeds. This was when Rebecca complained something was burning on her back. Albert tried to detect the heat flowing from and found out that it was released from the plasma gun.

"The plasma gun is acting weirdly!" he said and carried it on his hands. He couldn't bear the heat and tossed it in the air. It landed on the ground which was 10 meters away from them. Oh nice, at least that gun was a burden to carry around since it had turned useless already!

"I can't stand of this anymore!" yelled Vivian while continuing to fire her pistols non-stoppable after reloading each round. She didn't like the taste of being forced to do something! However, she didn't realize one of the few rounds of shooting was aimed too low. TAP TAP TAP~ They hit the zeds' legs and the plasma gun. Upon many impacts, the contents of the plasma gun started to leak in the form of liquid. Sparkle bits and flashes of electric current could be seen with their naked eyes.

"Guys, run! The plasma gun was about to release its negative energies onto the surface... to fry us to death!" warned Albert.

Chapter 32: Rest In Peace, Scott

Rebecca pulled Vivian back to the cargo room. After Albert entered, he closed the door behind him. Outside, waves of thunderous noises could be heard and sounds of moaning was seized to 0%, but not for mutated Scott. His roar of battle was yet to be silenced. He was paralyzed by the plasma shock. His tentacles turned into dust and the barrier on his torso started to crack. Of course, this was noticed by Albert after he pushed the door greatly due to the blockage by collections of dead corpses.

"Look, the barrier is cracking! Maybe Vivian is right. We need to break it to harm Scott."
"Me? What do you mean, sir?"
"Oh, nothing. Now Rebecca, use the explosive arrows now!"

Rebecca startled at first. But looking at Albert's serious face, she obeyed his instruction and prepared the equipment. Mutated Scott tried to mind-control them, however, his power was slowly reducing. He groaned bitterly which was ignored by her.

"I love you since the first day we had met. I swear to God that... I'm doing the right way to save you from causing more troubles. Farewell Scott, I promise I'll dream about you in my dream." monologued Rebecca in tears which could be heard by Albert. Then, she quickly launched the explosive arrows straight to his exposed belly. Several detonations occurred as the electric had given extra supportive energy to determinate him. Because of this situation, mutated Scott was seen no more. What left behind was the blue cap filled with dried blood. Noticed him vanishing in thin air, Rebecca sat on the ground restlessly and moaned for Scott.

Albert went forwards and picked up the cap and said, "Well, maybe this can bring back some flashbacks between both of you. Why don't you wear it? I hope he doesn't mind..." He placed the cap on Rebecca's head properly. On the other hand, he regretted for interrupting the sweet time between them earlier. Could it a farewell blessing before this incident happened? Or was it just a coincidence? He watered his eyes and stared at Scott's dying spot.

"Though your suffering has ended, your spirit tells me that you want revenge from the mad scientist. Honestly, we'll... do that for you!" prayed Rebecca. "Let Holy punishes those who deserves to be perished from the world!"

Suddenly, all red sirens were triggered along the hallway. They didn't know what happened until a mechanical voice was spoken. "WARNING, NUCLEAR MISSILES ARE LAUNCHING WITHIN 10 SECONDS!... WARNING, NUCLEAR MISSILES ARE LAUNCHING WITHIN 10 SECONDS!"

"Oh no, the terrifying moment... is HERE!" said Vivian frighteningly. Rebecca and Albert were alarmed as they couldn't do anything apart from waiting for the deadly countdown.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... 0!" The mechanical voice was gone later, but something was emitted from below, followed by clusters of bombing sounds.

Chapter 33: Foolishness

"I afraid you're too late to stop me!" laughed Dr. Berreguard as he appeared at the Door Panel 8A1. Rebecca's tears had vanished by then and she boomed him with several taunts. Dr. Berreguard was not amazed as he threatened them that he was indestructible and their stupidity was too great to halt back.

Rage with angers, both Rebecca and Albert fired their weapon at Dr. Berreguard, but those bullets left no scratches behind. Albert felt frustrated and decided to toss a grenade at him. Weirdly, the grenade was stuck on his mutated body without explosion occurring. Rebecca also tried the last three explosive arrows on him, but the result was the same and nothing happened.

"Lame, you may think grenades and explosive arrows can kill an infected instantly, but not for me! I've told you that I'm completely invisible with my modified second stage G-Virus. Hahaha~"
"(Shock) No... way..."
"Wait, look carefully!"

Three of them witnessed the scene with horror as the explosive materials were strangely pierced into Dr. Berreguard's mutated body. He was surprised that he could not bear the pain and let out a scream. Yellow-greenish blood burst out from his body which corroded the metal flooring. This had created cracks which triggered the emergency sirens. "This can't be happening! I mix the correct ingredient to create a stable virus." he wiled. That was the last sight of him before he was burst into flames and explosions, snapping the plane into two pieces. Since Vivian was standing too near the empty zone, she was flung off. Luckily, she was managed to be caught by Rebecca in the nick of time!

"Please don't let go of me!"
"Shit! Albert, go into Door Panel 8A1 to deactivate the dynamite system! Quick, every second counts!"

Albert obeyed and raced himself into the room to do so. However, it required security codes with 15 letters. It must have keyed in by the professor to make the timer went on without disturbances. How smart was that?! Glancing at the digital timer bomb ticked 00:10:25 on the motherboard, he made haste to break the codes with smart guesses. Nevertheless, all of them were failures which made him groaned desperately.

Through the window, Albert could see an unknown city in view. It was not Everett Town, but somewhere else. This gave him an idea. A dangerous survival idea. He exited the room and ran back to the hallway. Noticing Rebecca was about to get Vivian on board, he ignored and yelled, "Time to get crazy, folks. JUMP!" Before confused Rebecca could answer, Albert had greatly pushed her with him along.

"You're nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuttttts!"
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!"

Above them, the airplane detonated, showering the sky with broken metal parts. The unused missiles which contained G-Virus were also destroyed in this case.

Epilogue

"Am I... alive?"
"Yes, you... Er, we are!"

Thanks goodness, three of them landed on top of a swirling pine tree. Vivian hummed with a sigh of relief as they survived from the plane. She noticed that the guns that she held earlier were gone. She smiled as she was not a good gunner after all.

"Gosh, we've to get down from here."
"How? Jump again?! That's a suicide!"
"Nope, we slide down now."

Albert did first and went sliding down the pine tree. Once landed, he called out for Rebecca, but she was scared and told Vivian to go first. Vivian sighed while pretending the method used as a ordinary slide and slid down in top speed. She roared with laughter when she remembered how she used to play in the theme park's massive slide. Albert caught her before she was landed on the ground to her toes.

Next was Rebecca's turn. She tried her best not to look down and closed her eyes. SWISH~ Down she went with her skirt floated about as the wind 'caught' it. Apparently, Albert saw her purple undies from below during the process! This had made Rebecca's face blushed and pointed out that he was a pervert. However, Albert replied to her, "Excuse me, is this the time to say so?" But, he was slapped by her instead. Vivian laughed when she witnessed the awkward scene. Albert's face was indeed as red as a ripe tomato with a hand mark on his left cheek.

"Let's move on, shall we? We need to find somewhere safe before night sets in." said Albert. Rebecca did not reply him and marched forwards angrily. He grumbled to himself that the girl was too sensitive while proceeding with Vivian sticking near him. From afar, Vivian saw something moving between the ruins of collapsed apartments. Since it was dark, she could not see what it was, and paused for the clearer look. When Albert asked her why she stopped, the little girl lied, "Nothing, I'm just looking at those pine trees around us. They're beautiful!" Albert pushed her forwards gently to make her knew that they should not waste time. She mumbled and looked at the ruins one more time before she caught up with Rebecca.

Watching the three going off, the 'thing' came out from its hiding place. It stared at the pine tree which they landed earlier. A blue cap was hanged on one of the branches which Rebecca did not realize it was missing from her head. It took the cap and wore it. "How comfortable! I can feel it again." it thought with a smile on its face. Later, it lunged itself up into the air with its echoic howl, signifying that the hunt for fresh meats... HAD BEGUN.

>>> THE END <<<

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