Downfall : Recliamation Day

Downfall is a stroy of a pair of mantinence agents who go into the infected city of philidelphi after a world wide viral plague

water sloshes between my feet as we move through the old pipes of spurce street. The sling of my REC 7 digs into my back through my hazmat suit as we apporoach Jefferson Univeresity. The asphalt has us barricaded in each side makeing a man made canyon ten feet high. My partner Jacob is a bout four paces ahead of me sweepingback and forth with his mp5. He holds his hand up and in synch we stop and listen, we hear the sound of multiple pattering of feet comeing towards from above. We hug the left wall pointing are guns upward, the shadows of multiple creatures jump across the gap and run along the sides of the canyon. Small sums of loose asphalt falls on us as the creatures run past.

After five minutes the of waiting just in case we move on. We move on until we reach a part of a canyon that ramps upward, we climb it until we reach the flat street. Around us are the one year old burned out hulks of old brick buildings, the cause of the fire was most likely unattended gas lines that we just walked were they used to be. We look around us and we see the black, green, and brown of slimey paw prints. Jacob says " Peter, it looks like a pack of about fifty infected dogs, give or take ten", " I say "s**t, we can never have an easy day". I look around us and say "Come lets get to the extraction point we only have three more days out here". We move down the street toward an intersection, we take a left onto eleventh street and move down the road. We hear multiple howls to the left of us on " I look at Jacob and say "double time to the extraction piont". We move foward on a slight jog constantly looking left and right makeing sure there aren't any nasty suprises.

We make a right and in front of us and we skid to a halt. In front of us are about sixty infrcted dogs. We both move back slowly always keeping are eyes, keep looking at dogs. There hairless skinny bodies covered in patches of thick slime, the slime gleams in the sun light. There bodies covered in flith from months of surviveing in Philly. A lot of the dogs have bites and cuts all over them with slime spilling out of them. The dogs seem to be eating something but i could tell what. Then Jacob's mike squacks, then in unison all the dogs look at us, through my mask i shout "RUN".

We start running down the road, whats left of the road where on is turned up as are rubber boots smack down. I hear are chopper pilot on are mike say " Alpha Foxtrot two three, I advice going into what looks like a side entrance on your left". We jump over a small wall and we start running toward a small gray metal door. Jake holds up his mp5 and sprays the lock of the door, he slams into it and busts it opens. I look to the left and there is a locker " Jake slam the door ". Once he slams the door i lean the locker against it, I pull down the night vision goggles mounted onto my gas mask. The dark room turns into shades of dark green, I look at Jacob and he has done the same with his goggles. His shoulders light up with his bright IR patches. We move into the dark interior of the building not knowing of the dangers ahead.

We come out in a wide central hall way, small beams of light reach throught the boarded windows. we take a left up a wide set of stairs, we breath hard through are masks trying to get in as most air as possible. We move up on the right, we go towards another stair way when a movement catches my eyes. Jake stops st the motion of my hand signal he asks "what's wrong" "i think i just saw something in that room". He looks past me and says " come on and keep moving and watch...". I hear something slam behind and i flip off my safety into full auto and spin around. I see Jake's IR patches being drag across the floor along with him. I fire at the mass of flesh that is pulling him, the bullets impacts the creature and i hear it hit the floor, squel, and scamper away. I help Jake up and we start jogging up the stsirs watching are flanks makeing sure we are not grabbed. I see anthor one of those things hang from a board on a window, I say "contact up on the window". I fire a burst and the creature falls off and hits the floor screaming. I put two rounds into it's head and it doesn't move no more. I look at the corpse and see that it's a hairless chimp covered in slime. I say " looks like philly zoo isn't sceured anymore" "It's amazeing how adaptable the virus is". I take out a camera and snap a picture for analysis later on.

We finally bursts through the roof access door, the light blinds us and we flip up are goggles. I say "Watch Bird we have reached the roof ready for extraction" "Roger Two Three prepare for dust off". The chopper circles down onto the roof and we jog towards it keeping are heads low. Jake covers me as i strap on the sides of the MH-6 Little Bird, just as i finish the door behind us bursts open. in the door way are four of the chimps, I fire at the chimp in the door way as it charges th chopper. Th chimp rolls down as it dies and I feel my REC go to slide lock back. I drop my mag and slam in a another one, I then hit the slide release. I fire at the next chimp seven feet away from the chopper, it falls dead. I feel the chopper and lurch up from the roof, a chimp jumps from the roof and lands on the side of the choopper, the second one miss and falls screaming from the roof. I put the barrel of my rifle into the chimps maw and I squeeze the trigger. It black goop of its blood covers my boot and my suits leg, it falls limply from the chopper and I see it's body land on a sedan below.

I say "that was way to close, we have to report to command that this part of the city is active again" Jake nodds at me. I thank the pilot for his life saving advice, then I notice i glint, at first i think it,s an old car wind sheild. Then i notice it's i scope, the launcher that accompians it fires at us, and i yell on my mike "left side incomeing rocket". It was to late the rocket the rocket hit the tail rotor and shattered the rotor. the chopper starts to spin uncontrollablely towards the ground. I fly off the chopper onto an adjecent roof, a ventalation shaft rushes toward my face. I feel a sharp pain and thwn i black out

Chapter 2 will only be made if people who read this and comment that they want the second chapter 

    

Author's Note

ignore grammer and convention problems

Reviews

[Julia]

amazing description and story line, i showed this to several of my friends and they give a thumbs up :)