Chapter 13 – Blood and guts

The three of us quickly went out of the room and through the next few rooms. We came into a corridor. As we were making our way through there I received a radio call from David:
- “Jim, how are you guys holding up? I haven’t received a message from any of you in a while.”
- “Well we hit trouble.” I said, “There are some kind of bloodthirsty creatures down here.”
- “What kind of creatures?” David got confused.
- “They were results of failed experiments.” I said, “And sir, we lost Jeffrey.”
- “What?! Lost as in don’t know where he is, or lost as in dead?”
- “Dead sir. We heard him die over the radio.” I clarified.
- “How could this happen?!” David couldn’t believe it. I could sense anger in his voice.
- “I am sorry sir.”
- “Well should I send in a bravo team? Do you need back up?”
- “It’s no point really.” I began, “It’s a suicide mission here.”
- “Yes we need back up.” Rick suddenly said.
- “All right I am sending in the bravo team.” David said.
I gave Rick a puzzled look and then asked:
- “Rick, why are you doing this?”
- “Come on Jim, we will die down here alone!” Rick justified himself.
- “It’s better just three of us to die here rather than the whole team.” I said, “Never mind, it’s probably too late now anyway. Let’s just go and get this over with.”
We proceeded through the corridor and in the middle of it came across a pack of Vagros. We opened fire on them. Many were dying quickly, but a lot more were coming.
- “Guys, fall back a bit.” I said.
We began going back while shooting them. Here a few Maliffs joined the fight.
- “Aim for Maliffs.” I said.
- “No problemo.” Jack agreed.
We began shooting at Maliffs. I needed to reload here and so did this in quick succession. One Maliff came pretty close, so I threw a shockwave grenade into the crowd of creatures and me and my teammates quickly ran out of the radius of explosion before it happened. I could hear numerous creature screams.
Suddenly Rick screamed. Jack and I looked in his direction and there was a mouth coming out of the floor that grabbed him by the waist. It then came out of the floor and we could see that it was part of a Crept. It was of similar colour to Vagros and looked exactly like in the description – it had a big jaw and a snake like body with a sting at the end.
- “Damn, these are ugly-looking bastards.” Jack said and both of us began shooting at the Crept, but it kept on holding Rick and at one moment snapped its mouth shut ripping Rick in two.
Jack and I couldn’t believe it. Rick was bleeding heavily and could barely move. Crept’s only eye came out from inside of its mouth and saw us. That Crept then attempted to bite Jack, but we brought it down quickly enough.
At this moment one of the Maliffs pounced onto my back and together we fell onto the ground. He tried to slap me with his jagged tongue, but I had my SSS on the way. Here Jack shot at Maliff’s head point blank, bursting it. But as soon as that happened two more Maliffs came and grabbed Jack. I barely removed the dead body of Maliff that tried to kill me off myself and got up. I wanted to help Jack, but the Maliffs broke his legs and then snapped his neck.
- “Noooo!” I screamed and then went berserk on them with my shotgun fire. They went down quickly as each shot got them in the face.
A few more Vagros were just remaining, but I cleaned them out without any problems. This was a tiring fight and I could barely breathe because of so much adrenaline. I looked over at the bodies of Jack and Rick, then at all the bodies of the creatures. It was too shocking and extremely scary to realise that you’re left here by yourself.
However I knew that going back would be just as bad as continuing with the mission, so I decided to continue the mission. I slowly got up onto my feet completely and began to slowly walk along the corridor until I reached its end.
When I exited the corridor I found myself in a relatively big room, but it was quiet. Maybe all those creatures that we just killed were in here. I continued making my way through the room till I reached two doors. Both were locked.
- “Well now that is just great, isn’t it?!” I got mad.
I decided to set up breach explosives on them both, then stepped aside and detonated both of them. One door led into a room full of weapons. Those weapons however were slightly older versions of what we used now. However extra ammo can always be handy, so I collected some ammo for my SSS and also got myself a V SMG. You never know when rapid fire is needed and as I lost my two teammates I’ll have to do the fighting on my own.
I then heard some sounds, so I quickly exited the weapons room into the big room and saw a Crept with two Nixes. They seemed to have heard the battle or something and now they spotted me and wanted to feast on me.
- “Sorry, not today.” I said to them, then quickly got out two shockwave grenades, activated them, dropped them by my feet and then quickly ran through the next door.
A couple of seconds later I heard explosions and monster screams. I carried on through the corridor here until I reached a slightly bigger door with a damaged warning sign.
‘No unauthorized access! Danger of burning!’ it said on the sign. Well I had no choice but to push the door open with all my might and to enter the next area.