Slain Vs. T-Rex (2)
Chapter 4: A Whole New Weapon Slain awoke, his eyes were full of gunk and he was extremely dazy. Quickly he picked himself up, ripping out the drips on his wrists. As he tried to gain some kind of reality inside of him, his hand drifted to where he was shot, he had been worked on already. As he looked around, no one was in their beds, he was alone. Everything was silent and no one was in sight. All that he could see was a blood trail, leaking from one of the beds to then hall outside. He looked around more, looking for some clothes, all he could find was the things he was wearing before he had that fire fight. His muscles ached with pain and stretched with strain. He had a heavy head, like a car had hit him going 200 miles per hour. He got dressed slowly, he didn’t like hospitals, in fact, he always liked to patch himself up at home if anything went wrong. He picked himself up off the bed while cracking his fingers and neck. He walked into the middle of the room filled with six beds, including his own. He looked out the window but the light blinded him. Something crept into his ears, the sound of something clashing on the floor. He looked outside and could see something popping up now and then, just the top of it’s head. It was getting closer and closer to the door. Suddenly an array of golden bullets flew into it as it dropped to the floor with a splat of blood. Slain ran to the door and looked at the beast, he couldn’t believe his eyes. It was a breathing living velociraptor. Well, it wasn’t exactly living anymore, but it was. However Slain kept his cool and looked at his helper. He was dressed in a black Swat gear, just without the helmet. He had short brown hair and armed with an MPK. He walked forward and began to speak in his Scottish tone “hey, you okay?” Slain looked at him then looked back at the beast “my name’s Marc Slain, what in the hell is going on here?” the other man walked over to the dead velociraptor and replied slowly “Slain eh? I heard you’re the best, I’m Jamie, Jamie Prendergast of the WWSA, and I don’t even know yet, but loads of these things have been all over the hospital, and they’ve managed to get out as well, killing many civilians” Slain looked at the beast, then punched it, putting his hand inside the beast. Then he took it out with it’s heart in his hand “these things aint no joke, their real, fuck, WWSS huh? It’s nice of the government to send in the World Wide Special Swat teams for us, you got a gun that I can use?” Jamie handed over his pistol from his holder along with some ammo clips. “I heard that there is an underground base that the beasts were first spotted, I think we should head there, so you’re a government hater huh? I guess I’m gonna have a lot of fun with you” Slain looked deep into his eyes, the kid was young “yeah, I don’t like the government, but you only follow the governments orders, for that I respect you more than anything, yeah that sounds like a plan, we can find a way out from there, gain information on the enemy” Jamie liked Slain’s way of thinking, straight to the point, survival was the game. They both walked toward the door. “Where are they?!” whispered Jamie as they headed down the corridor leading toward the receptionist area. “Velociraptors are clever buggers, we better get moving, keep your ears and eyes open,” replied Slain as they picked up the pace. As they ran into the receptionist area, they could see a sight never to be seen in modern times. A Stegosaurus fighting a huge Alosaurus. Jamie looked on as Slain planned. “You got any C4?” Jamie handed over some grenades but he had no C4 with him. Slain flipped out the pin and threw the grenade toward the battle, it hit the Alosaurus blowing a large hole in it’s head. Jamie looked at Slain puzzled “why did you kill it?” Slain looked back at him, obviously he wasn’t as trained as he said he was “because if he would of won, we would have been next of the menu, the Stegosaurus won’t harm us, lets go”. They started to move forward past the injured herbivore. “They said that we can hack into the elevator to take us down,” explained Jamie as they reached over the other side of the receptionist area. They both walked into the elevator, it was glass and very much expensive for a hospital. Jamie looked deep into his backpack to reveal a hacking kit. He opened it up and took what looked like a silver hairpin. He slid it into the bottom hatch below the buttons for the upper levels. Slain looked at the door, something wasn’t right here, it was way too easy. Jamie flicked the hatch open and looked at the wires “this’ll take me awhile”. The bored Slain lent against the elevator door awaiting some action to hit him. During the years he had grown to trust his almost sixth sense, it had been the reason he was the only one to survive all the recent wars. He looked to the injured Stegosaurus; it was limping badly and probably wasn’t going to make it. He felt a sense of sadness, knowing that even though he gave a brave fight, he still basically lost, whereas Slain barely fought and saved him. Jamie found it weird to cope though, Slain was totally new to these new weapons, but he asked no questions and just fought with all of his might. A click hit the floor to the right of Slain. It immediately drew his attention to it, they weren’t alone. Suddenly more clicks generated from all around the reception area. “What is it?!” Jamie asked, still hacking away at the control panel. Slain poked his head around the corner, only to hit a velociraptor nose to nose. Jamie peeped through the glass, to see his teammate face to face with a raptor, Slain stood still. The Raptor then walked toward the herbivore as Slain creeped back into the elevator. “Why didn’t he go for you?” Jamie asked, amazed at what had happened. Slain looked back at the door observing the onslaught as it occurred. “Raptors have a blind spot of sight just between their eyes, he couldn’t see me” answered Slain. Jamie, yet again amazed, this person must be the real Marc Slain as he is definitely living up to expectations. A real living legend, and they were hard to come by. He carried on working as Slain went back to the door, feeling another sense of pity for the now dismembered animal, it reminded him of old times, he tried so hard to save her, he fought so hard and so long, but he still lost. He lent against the door watching the gore festival. We walked out a little more, keeping away from sight. Although he knew a lot about almost everything, Slain always strided out to find more knowledge, as he went by the philosophy “the pen is mightier than the sword”. As he observed, Jamie made an unexpected fault with his hacking, spilling a set of sparks all over the elevator floor. Suddenly, the set of 4 Raptors set their attention to the elevator and started to charge. Slain dived out with berretta in hand, firing shots into the sides of the beasts. He stood firm 5 metres away from the elevator door “get us out of here now!!” he commanded. They charged faster, but to the hero’s amazement, they ran straight past him and charged for Jamie. Slain back stepped and with the same speed as the Raptors he jumped for the door. Kicking one in the head he dived in and stunned the attack. “Got it, here we go!!” shouted Jamie. Slain fired away as they still went for the young fighter. The doors shut on one Raptors head as it screamed in pain “we need that shut to go down!!” Slain picked himself up and wrapped his huge biceps on the violent attacker, with a swift move the monsters neck snapped. He kicked out the head as the door closed, they could both hear the Raptors banging against the door before it went down. “Why didn’t they attack you that time?” asked Jamie. Slain looked at the door then at the floor as he dropped his ammo clip onto the floor. As he reloaded he replied “I tell ya what, you can tell me that one, because I don’t know, I should have been minced” Jamie put his MPK on the floor as the elevator went down. “You would give your life to save me?” Slain put his heavy hand on the young lads shoulder “I’ve lived, and aint afraid to die, you haven’t lived, so your still afraid to die, death aint the end, it’s the beginning of something completely new” Jamie felt a smile coming on “you’re a Christian” Slain chuckled along as he cocked his gun “nope, but if you believe that there is still light at the end of the tunnel after death, then you can achieve what no one else can, because there still afraid of dying. That’s the reason I’ve survived probably, I want to die, so I can be back in my woman’s arms, that’s the only place I want to be” they both smiled a valent smile of hope. “We’re almost there”. Chapter 5: Clash of Eras The door flew open showing the contents of something more than disturbing. Body pieces, bones, left over organs and dried up blood. Even a dead corpse, cut in two pieces. “Shit, that’s Pete, fuck,” swore Slain. “One of your friends?” asked Jamie as they both moved forward in what seemed like a human death pit. “Yeah, one of the only ones I have” he replied. Jamie chuckled along, while Slain gave him a dirty look “shame, he’s the one who started it all apparently”. Slain kept quiet as he surveyed the area, all the dinosaurs had left here ages ago. A huge hole was left in the wall to the left of them. Desks lined the hall as a two giant storage tanks, both broken laid at the end of the room. There was another door to their right “lets check that out, if that’s clear, we can put our guns down, for now” ordered Slain. They walked toward the door with their guns held high. “You know SWAT moves?” asked the older one. “Yes,” said the younger one. “You know the drill”. They both stormed in with their guns, only revealing a locker room, just as bloody as the last room. They split up, opening lockers closing into the middle four. They looked at each other; there was something in these lockers. Suddenly they all flew open showing four female scientists. All purely unique in look, however, seemed almost identical in statue. Slain lowered his weapon followed closely by Jamie as they observed the new dilemma. “Heya, you here to save us” asked one of the girls. Slain laughed “Tie ‘em up”. “Right, so your name’s are, Sophie Sparrowhawk, Maria Harrison, Mel Phillips and Emma Muddiman, what’s your job here?” asked Jamie while Slain looked around the destroyed laboratory. All four girls were dressed in white coats, bloodstains over covering them. Although the young combatant was being fairly easy with the girls, they refused to answer. “What’s going on here?” he asked again but still they gave no answer. Mel, who had brown hair and was a medium build, looked at him in an evil approach. The other three girls looked down, trying to keep their secrets unknown. “Look” Mel said “your not going to do anything with us, we’re all basically dead anyway, so who gives a fuck whether you know anything or not, just leave us alone you dick”. Jamie looked back at Slain who was looking directly at the rebellious woman. “Your right” Slain interrupted “he won’t do anything”. Mel gave an evil smile, she had won this argument. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t!!” Slain shouted as he fired a bullet 2 cm away from her head. She gave a scream, just like the rest of the women. They could see that this guy wasn’t going to take no crap from them, so Emma began to speak. “Right guys, so you were the main research team?” asked Jamie while Slain observed once more, now the girls were beginning to become chattier. “Well, you see, I’m the head researcher” Emma explained. “I’m the main palaeontologist,” Sophie admitted. “I’m the head nurse” blurted out Maria, and finally the rebellious one Mel revealed her part “I’m the gene specialist”. Slain became aggravated and began to walk over, most of the girls found this man attractive to say the least, but nothing more. He was raw and dangerous. “Look, I want to know two things, how the hell did all this come about, and if there is anything we should look out for?” stated Slain as he adjusted his bandana. “Well, it’s simple really, we all were a team of diggers, always been on the dinosaur front, we’ve been friends ever since” Emma explained “about a year ago, this guy came up to me and the girls, and said that they had a breakthrough discovery and needed us to help, willing to give a high wage he said, so we decided yeah go for it, why not eh? That’s when we were sent here, to give life to dinosaurs; there not real, just as close as you can get to it, we extracted genes from old fossils and amber found in rocks. From there our computers could make a real representation of the real thing, just infusing a large amount of genes with flesh, its basically piecing together pieces of a puzzle”. Slain looked deep to himself “who was this guy?” Maria butted in and started to talk “his name was… Pete, said that he was going to revolutionise the world, we didn’t want anything to do with it, but he wouldn’t let us go”. Jamie picked himself up and started to walk, trying to cool his mind down; it was almost too much to take. Slain moved into his seat, he always knew his friend was up to something, but not this. “Where is he now?” he asked, in a much less aggressive tone. “He’s…he’s… he’s dead, we saw him get ripped apart” said Sophie, as she began to cry. Slain started to make things click now, Pete had always wanted to be on top, ever since he left the army he had become infused with making himself famous. He was always intelligent, and had years on his own to come up with something like this. “Right, one thing girls, you’ll be glad to know, there is a chance we could get out of this alive, but… you said you were playing around with genes”. The girls nodded as Slain started to release the ropes around their feet and hands. “Then, what stopped you adding an extra gene or two in the concoction, am I guessing right?” Slain had hit the money, the girls sighed. “Yes, Pete added in two extra genes to the main events, along with the rest” Jamie looked at the tank from far away, looked at documents on the table next to him. “You guys made two T-Rexes, male and a female one” discovered Jamie as he looked back to Slain. The girls nodded in a typical fashion as they began to stand up. “What genes were they?” Slain asked. The girls stayed together as they walked around the broken lab. “E-Gene and the Tracker Gene” explained Mel “the E-Gene gave the dinos, it gives the dinosaur a human edge, gives it deeper sense of feelings, can understand English and even love another dinosaur”. Slain sat down on a desk cocking his gun, feeding himself of the priceless information being so generously given to him “the Tracker Gene gives the dinosaur a sense of vengeance for a particular person or animal, for instance, they will hunt it down, until it’s dead” Jamie looked back to Slain, and started to move back over. “Whom was this sample might I add” Mel wandered off from the rest of the team as Emma began to speak again. “Some guy, who survived a huge fight in the hospital, Pete took the sample from there”. Slain’s eyes grew in amazement, the final piece of the puzzle was fitted, he was being hunted. “Things have just got complicated, I’m that guy” Jamie looked at Slain as he looked back; the hunter had just become the hunted. “Oh shit, you’re that guy, well I don’t wanna be hanging around with you for long” laughed Sophie. “Good thing is though, the first twenty four hours after the gene is implied into the subject, it acts totally the different way, like a repellent rather than an addictive,” explained Maria. Slain looked back “it’s been almost a day since that fight happened, lets get to my house, I’ve got plenty of weapons there that we can use, move out, up the elevator”. They started to move toward the elevator door, but Mel could see some movement. Two little dinosaurs moved in front of her with long green necks, but they were only about a foot tall. She bent down to investigate the cute little creatures. Everyone else had fled toward the elevator except for Slain, who had seen the event as it was occurring. “Mel, get the fuck over here now!!” he shouted. She took no notice and began to move her hand closer to the cute dinosaurs. Just as her fingers were about to stroke one, it became viscous and started to try to bite her finger. The other called for help as about 10 more came in to the attack. Slain ran over, hearing Mel’s screams… Chapter 6: Field Fight Slain picked Mel up in his arms and began to run for the door, he jumped in with about 12 of the carnivorous beasts chasing behind him. Jamie began to fire shots from his MPK along with the girls screaming and kicking. The door began to shut with still Slain and Mel on the floor, Mel still being attacked by the 5 beasts that made it through. Jamie started to snipe out a few, once the door was closed; Slain grabbed the last little beast, and ripped its head off. The girls sighed with relief and Slain was starting to get annoyed at the fact he wasn’t being attacked. He stood up and started to make a plan, they needed to get into his jeep outside. The elevator kept on raising up, “right, stay near me okay, if they try to attack, I’ll get in the way, they’ll stop, even if they don’t I can still get out alive okay?” Sophie moved toward Slain with her eyebrows raised. “What are you saying?” Slain smiled an evil smile “we’re gonna walk out of here”. The door flew open and revealed the situation at hand; the velociraptors had already destroyed the herbivore, leaving just a skeletal corpse. The squad moved forward, Slain up front and Jamie behind the girls. The door was just to their left and soon was directly in front of them, showing the car park. But more importantly a dinosaur frenzy of Brachiosaurus, Velociraptors, Kentrosaurus, the list went on and on. “Right, girls, be close, very close, tell me if any get too close okay?” order Slain. Then started to march towards the car park, Slain’s 4X4 was in sight. They walked down the steps and breathed the fresh air, the sun sat nicely on the horizon as they continued to march into the dinosaur population. No dinosaurs had approached them yet, but Slain suspected that the closer herbivores wouldn’t care; it was the carnivores nearer the car park he had to be worried about. They would attack and his only block was himself, which obviously wasn’t too reassuring. They continued to pick up speed, the orange light dimmed slightly, the day was almost over. They had left the herbivores behind, now to the real challenge, the carnivores. They crossed the main road and were next to Slain’s jeep. They all started to climb in slamming the doors loudly until Slain was the only man left outside the jeep. He walked round toward the driver’s side only to bump into a Velociraptor on his journey. It screamed out for help, looking at its oppressor with evil eyes. It backed off slowly, as the Human moved toward the door. He opened it and rushed inside. He slammed his knife into the ignition and the car revved to life, attracting many dinosaurs from around. “Lets get out of here shall we?” smiled Slain as he stepped hard on the acceleration pedal. A team of 5 velociraptors circled around the car, also one unfortunate beast that stepped at the front of the jeep. It was squashed quickly but spurred the other raptors to attack, bashing their bodies against the windows that in turn smashed Slain’s window into pieces. Viscously the raptor attacked Slain, nipping him from awkward angles, it seemed as if the tracker gene had just hit in to the dinosaurs. Jamie fired a shot from the back seat, which in turn silence the raptor in its tracks. “Let’s get the fuck out of here!!!” shouted Slain as he drove forward, out of the war zone. “There aren’t many dinosaurs on the outskirts” advised Maria, who sat in the front seat with Slain. She was shaking vigorously and harshly, blatant to all around. Slain looked across and saw her, she was petrified ever since this happened “hey take it easy yeah? I aint gonna let nothing hurt you okay?” The warm reassuring words comforted her and suddenly she felt safe again, the shaking had stopped. “What guns have you got at your place that we could use?” asked Jamie who had his window down on the back seat, enjoying the fresh air as it hit him. The car bumped slightly on the road, the day had become almost an everlasting night while fog had seeped into the darkness making everything blind. It was hard to drive, but most people had been evacuated so there was barely any traffic at all. “I’ve got M16’s, RPK’s, barretta’s, Revolver’s, Rocket Launchers…” the sentence was cut off fastly “Rocket Launchers, that’s going a little far aint it?” asked Maria. Slain laughed to himself as he looked back at her, seeing her eyes that sparkled from whatever light was left outside. He thought of a witty remark “hey, in the war, those bastards were priceless” he never was that good at this type of thing. She started to giggle slightly. Suddenly thoughts crept into his mind, flashbacks of his wife and how she died. He caught in a state of daydream but still kept his thoughts on the road in front. “So, where are these huge T-Rex’s then?” asked Jamie, trying to break the awkward silence. “Don’t know, I’m sure they’re coming though, now the gene’s kicked in,” answered while Emma readjusting her glasses. Time seemed to pass quickly; minutes seemed like seconds, hours seemed like minutes. Everyone was naturally bored but Slain, he just thought about the past. Suddenly he started to shake a little himself; for comfort he placed his hands on the cold metal gear stick. He felt a warm presence on his hand, it was extremely more comforting. He looked around to Maria who was holding his hand, “I’m here for you too okay?” she whispered. A smile came over him; the first time he had smiled that way for years, ever since she… “What the hell” he thought to himself, he was beginning to get attracted. “Slain you bastard, what the fuck are you thinking?” he thought to himself. Chapter 7: Broken Home “We’re here guys, this is my house” explained Slain. The morning light had just about sat on the horizon once more, the night had gone quick and everyone had a quick nap apart from Slain. Everyone got out of the car and looked at his house. “Go in, just bash the door in, it’s easy to fix, I’ll grab some stuff out of the car” ordered the owner of the house. A deep sense of destruction overcame the youngster as he repeatedly barged into the door, breaking it open with success. Everyone walked into the house with Slain close behind. They walked in; the house was something you wouldn’t expect a guy like Marc Slain to have that’s for sure. “Make your selves comfortable, there’s bed’s upstairs, and food in the kitchen, Jamie if you want to check out the guns, they’re in the training room just down there” he pointed. The girls sat down on the sofa and began to watch the Television while Jamie walked to the training room. “If you need me girls, just shout, I’ll be in the garden” the girls nodded as Emma walked into the kitchen. Slain walked through the kitchen to the back door, which lead out to the garden. “You know Slain, if you like Maria, you should just tell her” advised Emma “lets face it, you aint easy on the lines, but you’ve got the looks of a supermodel”. He laughed as he walked out the door “it aint that easy” he replied. He walked down the garden smelling the fresh air, he didn’t feel fatigued or tired, he just wanted to get out of the war again. Maybe the war lived inside him. He looked around for a chair; one was near the fishpond, reflecting the light as it rose. Time seemed to have slowed down, along with the tempo of the fight. Just a day before, every minute was intense, now it seemed like every minute was boring. He didn’t mind though, he didn’t want glory, he didn’t want fame, he wanted a life, but he was stuck thinking to himself all of his life “how many lives do I have to take to have a life of my own?”
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