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Post by Defunct FPX profile on Feb 14, 2010 16:40:00 GMT -5
As they passed through the factory, Burner remembered the zombie he shot...He was once just like him...He could speak, he could think, he might have had a family... But how? How did he lose his mind?
"Vasily, mind telling me something about the zombies? What have you found out about them so far? What made them...Zombies? All I've heard is that this factory is infested with them... Speaking of zombies, there's one!"
Burner didn't hesitate this time. He pulled out both of his pistols and fired two quick shots. The zombie dropped immediately.
He ran up to the zombie and checked him...
"Hmm, nothing...Wait, here's something... Fresh bandage!Still packed. Excellent...Ah, what do we have here? A PDA...Hmm."
CHECK
Burner turned the PDA on. There was nothing on it, except for a few encrypted entries. The only one that was not ciphered read :
"Dear Masha
Daddy misses you...I'm writing this from my work place... When I return, I will bring enough money to buy you all the toys in the world...Mom will return too! I promise! I have to go now, I need to work!"
Burner frowned. He had no family, he had no friends home...Why did this message touch him?
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Post by Zeno, Lord Camelith on Feb 14, 2010 17:02:25 GMT -5
Standing next to the Merc, Vasily checked the surrounding are for more zombies. "What makes them zombies? Well, from what I know, they are either formed by massive amounts of radiation or Psi-Emissions, either way, the brain gets fried, and all real though disappears, how they actually end up being able to retain coordination and use firearms is still a mystery."
Just as Vasily finished talking, a zombie shuffled out of a side passage of the tunnel, Shouldering his rifle Vasily put a round through it's head, killing it instantly. "As you can see from that," he said, "They still need their brains to 'live' but seeing as how they might as well be dead, they are unaffected by pain or radiation, I can tell you from experience, blowing a zombie in half with a grenade is not a guaranteed kill."
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Post by Διμι on Feb 14, 2010 17:44:26 GMT -5
Seth felt something drip on his suit as he turned the corner of the tunnel, he could see the exit ahead, a small, penny-sized spot of light at the end of the tunnel. He examined the dripping mass, it was a green, slimy ooze dripping from a crack starting in the tunnel wall, and continuing up to the ceiling. Almost immediately, his geiger counter went off the scale. The place was more radioactive than the piles at the Garbage. He couldn't stay here for much longer.
The zombies hadn't been a problem. Most couldn't even turn off their headlights after their brains got fried, making them easy targets in the darkness. Seth's night vision pierced clearly through the black haze. Seeing no more targets ahead, he turned the device off, saving the battery, and began to quickly make his way towards the pinpoint of light near the entrance. He didn't want to stay in the place for much longer.
He broke into a brisk run, the exit looming closer and closer. Suddenly, he felt his foot hit something soft and fleshy. Tripping, the Freedomer dropped to the floor like a tree being felled.
"Shi-" he cried out. The remainder of his yell was drowned out by a deafening roar from behind him. Seth could dimly see something the size of a small car turn around in the darkness behind him. Without turning on his night vision, he leapt to his feet, pulling out his USP. Hearing the monster's thunderous footsteps behind him, he sprinted towards the entrance, depressing the trigger and emptying an entire magazine of Hydroshock rounds into the darkness.
Some of the bullets evidently hit their mark, as another roar, even louder than the first reverberated down the tunnel. The tunnel exit was only meters away, Seth poured on more speed, figuring he definitely had a better chance facing the beast in the open.
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Post by Zeno, Lord Camelith on Feb 14, 2010 18:30:30 GMT -5
Vasily heard a yell, followed by a thunderous roar and pounding footsteps, "A fucking Pseudogiant?" he thought. "Come on!" Vasily shouted to Burner, "We have a better chance in the open, follow me!" Flipping the safety on his LR-300 off Vasily ran to the mouth of the tunnel, "Go get on the other side of the entrance, when it comes out we can catch it in a crossfire." Just as Vasily got to a decent position, he heard several gunshots followed by another roar.
"Come on Seth." Vasily muttered, and shouldered his rifle.
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Post by Διμι on Feb 14, 2010 18:54:04 GMT -5
Seth felt a refreshing burst of energy as the Moonlight on his belt activated. Suddenly, everything he carried seemed to be half as heavy. He continued to sprint, a figure coming into view at the end of the tunnel.
A zombie? he thought, now of all times! The figure became clearer as he closed the distance, and he recognized Vasily. He waved the man off as he sprinted, signaling him to get out of the tunnel's entrance. The last thing he needed was for the pseudogiant to spread their remains along the tunnel wall as it squeezed by.
The Freedomer finally reached the mouth of the tunnel. He burst out of the portal, quickly sprinting a safe distance away, not in the least tired. The pseudogiant entered the open a second later, squeezing its entire bulk out of the tunnel entrance. The beast was even larger than he thought, standing nearly three meters tall. Its legs were like small tree trunks, ending with clawed feet that could crush a man underfoot without the beast even noticing. This particular creature was nearly symmetrical in its features, two muscular arms protruding from its oblong torso, which dragged slightly on the ground. Seth leapt up, grabbing hold of a fire escape on a nearby building composing the factory complex, and pulled himself up, taking out his SVU.
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Post by Defunct FPX profile on Feb 15, 2010 5:29:15 GMT -5
The monster roared and stomped , creating a shock wave which nearly threw Burner off his feet. He was terrified. "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING?  " Quickly taking out both of his pistols, he fired off a hail of bullets which only seemed to annoy the thing.Roaring, it turned to Burner and with one swift move kicked him, sending him flying into the brick wall. |
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Post by Zeno, Lord Camelith on Feb 15, 2010 12:26:55 GMT -5
Vasily saw the massive creature kick Burner into a building, the Merc smashed into the brick wall and went limp, "Burner No!" Vasily yelled, and emptied an entire magazine of 5.56 AP rounds into the creatures bulk, with a roar of pain the lumber giant turned around and stomped towards Vasily, "Come on you bastard!" He shouted, throwing his LR300 to the ground and pulling his shotgun off of his back he started pumping off rounds into the creature, to his dismay they seemed only to aggrivate the monster even more!
Glacing over to where Vasily saw Seth run, he saw the man on a fire escape of one of the buildings shouldering his SVU, running towards the ladder Vasily shouted "SHOOT THE DAMN THING!"
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Post by Διμι on Feb 15, 2010 12:51:53 GMT -5
Seth saw the scientist quickly jump for the ladder, scaling it with an agility only appropriate for someone running from the pseudogiant. A second later, the beast smashed into the building, shaking it and knocking loose bricks from the wall. It attempted to pull itself up by its arms, but only succeeded in ripping the ladder from the fire escape. The entire structure tilted as bolts popped, leaning closer and closer to the creature's reach.
Seth aimed his SVU directly for the beast's forehead, emptying the rifle's entire magazine of ten 7.62x54mmR piercing rounds into the beast's cranium. The creature dropped immediately, knocked unconscious by the immense impact delivered by the weapon, it's skull certainly cracked.
Seth jumped from the fire escape, landing upon the incapacitated mutant. Pulling out his USP, he fired through the pseudogiant's enormous eye socket. With a great sigh, the beast went limp.
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Post by Defunct FPX profile on Feb 15, 2010 14:11:05 GMT -5
Burner lifted himself. He saw Seth aiming his USP at the mutant. He lost his consciousness again and fell.
"The glow...It's coming to me! It's burning! Yes! Yes...No...No...Not you...Get away...Who are you? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? I WILL NOT COME! I WILL NOT COME! GO AWAY! I HATE YOU!"
With those words, he woke up. He remembered the monster, he remembered he was going somewhere...But who was this figure? Who was this mysterious man haunting his burning dreams? What magic was this? He had seen him more times than he could possibly remember, haunting him, calling his name...
He got up. The scientist and the Freedomer were standing close to the mutant. He saw the Freedomer jab it with his SVU. It didn't move...It was dead. Burner came closer...The sheer size of that thing was terrifying.
"So, what are we going to do with it?"
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Post by Zeno, Lord Camelith on Feb 15, 2010 14:15:10 GMT -5
Looking up to see the Merc more or less unharmed Vasily said, "You know your lucky to be alive, that thing could've crushed you like an ant." Walking over to the Merc he asked "Do you think you broke anything? Oh, and as for the Pseudogiant, this is the first time I've seen an intact dead one, I'll have to have Kruglov and some other guys come down to pick it up. I don't know how they'll get it all the way over to the lab though.."
"Now," he continued. "we should have a more or less straight shot to Limansk, correct?"
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Post by Defunct FPX profile on Feb 15, 2010 14:57:57 GMT -5
"Why don't we roll it down there ourselves?" Burner added jokingly. He had an idea.
"Mind holding my PDA for me? Can you take a photo? Please? I want to mess around with the others!"
He gave his PDA to the Freedomer and stood right next to the pseudogiant, grinning from ear to ear, holding his thumbs out.
"That's the button right there!"
After the picture was taken, Burner reloaded his USP. It was time to go. He nearly climbed into the vent, when a large explosion went off, quaking the ground.
"WHOA! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"
He turned around, when all of a sudden, his face began to burn horribly...He was losing consciousness.
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Post by Zeno, Lord Camelith on Feb 15, 2010 15:27:35 GMT -5
A nearby explosion caused the ground underneath Vasily and his companions to shake violently, "What the fuck is the military up to now?" Vasily said, then he looked over at Burner, the Merc had dropped to his knees, he was grabbing at his face and rapidly loosing consciousness, running over to him Vasily said "Burner? God damnit what is it now?" The man had already lost consciousness. Picking up the Merc Vasily said, "I have to get Burner back to the Lab, you can come with me and hide somewhere in there, or you can hide somewhere out here, the choice is yours." and with that Vasily started back towards the lab.
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Post by Διμι on Feb 15, 2010 18:21:52 GMT -5
Seth watched the ecologist walk away, and then he remembered something. "Wait!" he called to Vasily. Running up to the scientist, he took out the Meat Chunk he had bought from the Duty sergeant.
"Here's something to fix him up. Just slice the artifact up wafer-thin and apply it to the damaged regions of skin. The tissue should emulate the DNA structure and bind in minutes, replacing the damaged skin, it'll look like he never got an injury, aside from small binding scar lines." He handed the large chunk of pulsating flesh to Vasily.
"I'll be watching over the swamps and waste disposal tunnel entrances from the ridge" he said, "if I see anything suspicious, I'll investigate and clear it out myself. Just be quick with the mercenary" he added "my men are still pinned at the Dead City, tell him to send them a message or something."
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