chapter 6: the dreaded tunnel

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The dreaded tunnel

 

 

  

 

 

     We fell not too far down, but we landed in the most stagnant water ever! Tj even threw up after he smelled it. We all stood up and weren’t so happy with that. I would have rather had concrete break my fall than the water we ended up in.

 

still, we stood up and shook it off. We had to keep going.

     We looked around and took a wild guess that this was the main sewer pipe for the entire city. There wasn’t anything but a couple of rats and some garbage. But all in a flash, zombies rose up from the depths. They just stared at us. They had us out numbered and surrounded. That wasn’t very good. I slowly reached into my pocket to get the SPACE box. I dug around and realized it wasn’t there!

That’s when the zombies made their attack on us. I covered my eyes and waited for the impending doom we had brought upon ourselves. I thought I had failed to save everyone until I heard machine guns around me. I wondered though why I wasn’t dead yet. What were they waiting for?

     I opened my eyes slowly. No zombies, all them were dead again on the ground in the water. I looked to Tj and my dad as my heart rate slowed. “Where did you get those from?” I asked. “From the SPACE box.” my dad said. Then I remembered it, I had given it to him earlier in the kitchen! No wonder I didn’t have it! Duh! It was that kind of moment.

     We kept on going; there was no time to lose. We killed as many creatures as we could as we went down the way. The less these heathens the better. We fought many creatures we had never seen before. We didn’t even let them get close to us before we shot them with whatever we had handy.

     We encountered more bats as I had seen as my first deadly creature. There were also laser traps with self-activation we had to scurry by in a fast way. Then there were the worst of it all, these zombies that would spit at us. But this spit wasn’t normal, it was actually a poison. All thanks to the mutative side effects of the virus. I was so glad it wasn’t contagious unless bitten.

     It was a perilous journey that wouldn’t give in. Everything went smooth enough until something bad did happen. As my dad shot a zombie that was meters away on his left, one of the poison spitting b******s hit him on his right. He fell down weary and layed there moaning. We killed anything else that moved and then came to his aid.

Tj was totally freaking out about it. “Oh no Bj! He got him! He’s gonna die!” he said in his panic attack. I thought for a moment and tried to keep calm. Just needed to use my head to think what to do. We were down three hundred feet alone in a dirty zombie filled tunnel, yet I knew what to do. “Relax,” I said to Tj, as if it was that easy, “I think I have an antidote I picked up in the lab where I was attacked by the bat creatures.”

     I took out the SPACE box and found a back with a label to what it was for and the instruction. I opened it to find what looked like a leaf. I gave it to my dad and told him to eat it, after all, that’s all the package said to do. Hopefully it would make him feel better. He had the strength to chew and swallow. Within only a few minutes, he was up and ready to go. That must have been some good stuff.

     So we kept going, our mission not over yet. By then there wasn’t much else we could do, we were almost there and it seemed more treacherous to turn back then to finish. About another two miles down after fight and rest, we ran into more of the mutated squid people. They were too easy to handle because they couldn’t shake the ground as they did before. We were in a sewer as far down as it got, there wasn’t much they could do.

     We were off on our journey again, apparently it was like stop and fight, walk on, stop and rest, walk on, stop and fight and well, you get it. Near the end, there were no creatures there, it was nice and quiet. Then we hit something peculiar. It was a smaller sized tunnel at the end, but it was big enough for us to go through. Thousands and thousands of rats were running out of it in terror.

     “Well, there is no where else to go. Let’s just go in.” I said. We argued a few moment on it, frightened and weak. But in the end, we started to walk through the short narrow tunnel. We could hear the spiders talking about us as we went through, and they didn’t sound too good on what was coming.

     We finally finished through it through a big iron gate. It was an empty room, with wires running along the wall, and a big metal box sitting at the end of the room. Lights flickered on and power surged through the walls as sparks. Then, from the powerage, a big metal claw started to move above us, sorta like the ones in the game machines.

     We saw the claw come down over the big metal box and clamp onto the lid of it. It slowly pulled it up and off over to the side. Something moaned from inside of it. Then the thing that moaned sat up. It got out and stared at us wearily, and then it roared.

You’ll love this demon spawn. He was a thirty-foot tall one with long pointed metal tubes protruding from his scalp. He was deathly thin and was a pale yellow color. He was very wrinkled and dry and had giant maggots wriggling out of him. He lifted a hand and shot little lightning bolts from his fingertips as sparks jumped from the metal tubes on him.

     We jumped out of the way just in time. Then he stomped a foot and other zombies fell from the ceiling. He angered, and tried to stab his sharp claws through me. He missed when I tuck and rolled, but instead hit one of the zombies he had dropped on us. He sent three million volts through it and turned it to ash on its fingers.

We were all petrified and terrified at the sight. We thought for sure we were gonna die. But idea struck and I figured out something. I saw these big sheets of rubber next to a pile of scrap iron and wood planks. Remembering a science thing,k?

I realized that rubber doesn’t conduct electricity. I thought we could use them as shields!

     “Tj! Dad! Grab one of the sheets of rubber over there and try to use it as the shield!” I yelled. So they scurried over and each picked one up. The demon sent another bolt to them and…….it worked! But it wasn’t easy. They were thick and heavy, and when the lightning hit, the y warmed up.

     Now we had a chance to win this fight! And boy did we! The only method we could think of was to run around him and hack his legs down. We ran around him with machetes and he moaned at every slice. He one time smacked Tj into the wall, but he was fine, guarded by the bouncy rubber shield. I started to feel bad, they were technically still human, but it was them or me, better yet us.

     Finally his legs went and he fell to the ground, unable to stand. He tried to swing, but couldn’t aim as he fell. Then I turned away as my dad did the honor of beheading him. But he stood up on his nubs; his body not realizing his head was missing. He picked his head up and tried to put it back on, but did it backwards, yet it healed on that way.

     Sick of it, my dad ran over and poured a vile of cure onto his foot. It was an instant thing when he started to shrink back to a normal size and shape. He was human again! And his head was on straight! It was a good thing my dad did that, but why didn’t he do that in the first place?

     The now human tried to get up, but fell down once more. He was too weak and limp to do it. “What happened?” the man asked as if he had only woken up now. “You were a zombie, but we cured you.” Tj naively blurted out. The man freaked out, believing this odd truth. “What?!?!?!?” he yelled. My reaction would have been the same.

     But we really had no time to explain all of it. One because the man was losing blood fast and would pRobably die soon. I felt terrible for him. What a sad was to go. And it was all because of that psycho man who hated people. Sad as it was, it was really happening.

     And second of all, we found that we were not on the lowest place on the earth. There was a lower place below us, really another floor to this place. I only found that out because we fell through it moment later.

     From all the commotion above on the floor with the fight, it had cracked and weakened the old concrete grounds. We heard a split and all the pieces started to rumble. Then the middle of the floor where all four of us were fell through. It sent us spiraling down to somewhere we didn’t know. Little pieces of ruble and giant slabs of stone fell with us and we still just free floated down. Where would we fall to? I didn’t have time to think about it before we saw the bottom.

Chapter 6