Vanasse got up to run into the field nearby. The field had tall grass that she could possibly hide in. Before she could get into the field two baseballs hit her in such a way that it caused her to turn to face Inferno of Terror 154T. He then pointed at his nose and made a biting movement with his jaw and then looked at the field. Susan then cried out in frustration. She then turn to ran as fast as she could down the road. Inferno of Terror 154T managed to hit her several times before she got out of range. He then started to laugh in a guffaw manner. (He was trying to laugh loud enough for her to hear him.) He then yelled out that he will, ‘tear her soul apart.’
Nobody was surprised nor glad to see Susan come run up to them. They felt that way because she did something extremely stupid. As luck would have it, they only had five more miles to travel before they come to yet another abandoned small farm town. They also was luckily enough to find food, water and medicine. But no weapons could be found. It was not surprising since the EOD always require that all weapons from an abandoned town, city, etc., be removed. If there were any weapons then it would be someone’s private stash.
In the late evening Inferno of Terror 154T reminded everyone that he was still there by taking the corpse of Cotswold and throwing it thru the front door of the store that they were at. Cotswold’s body was on fire and after they put it out, not only did they notice that Inferno of Terror 154T had eaten part of his body, but Inferno of Terror 154T yelled across the street that their fate is his (Cotswold) fate. He then ran off laughing when he realized that neither Ghost Killer nor Night Stalker would give chase. It turned a couple of the scientists against Ghost Killer and Night Stalker.
“Man, he’s right. You two ARE fucking cowards!” Averillo yelled at both Ghost Killer and Night Stalker when she noticed that both are too scared to give chase.
“Come on, lay off of them they…” Rymer was saying, trying to calm everyone down.
“No sir, she’s right. They are cowards and they are going to get all of us killed.” Gwynn interrupted Rymer responded.
“Now you look here…” Rymer was saying.
“No! YOU look here, there are two of them and only one of him! So why don’t they go…?” Spender interrupted Rymer responded.
“Because they are…” Rymer was saying. He stop when he realized what he was fixing to say and the reaction that it will get.
“What?! They’re cowards!” Cronin said in a rude angrily manner.
“That’s not what I was fixing to say!” Rymer snapped back.
“Yeah, I know what you were fixing to say. You were about to call them human. But look at them. Do they look like us? Hmmm?” Coville mentioned. Rymer didn’t respond because he knew that she was right. He was about to call them human.
“Face it, they’re monsters. Just like their kind. Always have been, always will be.” Vanasse said.
When Vanasse said what she did it caused Night Stalker to run out with hurt feelings. Ghost Killer then pursued her. He’d tried to calm her down but couldn’t since she was too hysterical. It really did hurt her feelings to be called that. She then broke down and cried and asked him what are they and he said nothing because he didn’t know.
Over the course of an hour something was burning inside Night Stalker that she never felt before and it scared her. It was too powerful to be rage, but that’s what it was. It was too dark, too evil to be hate. And then she realized where it was coming from. It was coming from the part of her that was a Demon X. She then screamed out in fury and it scared the shit out of everyone (including Ghost Killer) who heard it. She then ran after Inferno of Terror 154T. Ghost Killer stood there not knowing what to do. He then ran after her when the fear of losing her kicked in.
“Congratulations ya idiots. We now have either two or three of them coming after us.” Rymer said when he heard Night Stalker screamed in fury. Everyone ran out when they could hear both Inferno of Terror 154T and Night Stalker fighting in the distance. They couldn’t see them, just hear them.
At one point they saw Night Stalker fly thru the door and part of a wall in a small church and land twenty feet near a car. Inferno of Terror 154T came flying through the wall at her trying to stump her but she brought up her foot and it collided with his inner thigh near his groin. She then quickly got up, picked him up, and slammed him so hard on the car that it flatten it like a pancake. He then brought his right leg up and kicked her in the head, rolled over and came charging at her. After he’d tackled her, the two of them started to fight until Night Stalker was able to perform a move that threw him over the smashed car and into a tree. Inferno of Terror 154T hit the tree so hard that he’d knocked it over. She then ran to attack him, but before she got to him he managed to stand up and using the small tree as a club, knocked her thirty feet. And so it went on for hours with both of them tearing the abandoned town to shreds.
Everyone, including Ghost Killer, was just standing there speechless and too shock to do, or to think, anything. Even when both of them came near, nobody moved. By that time at least three hours have passed. They finally moved out of the way when Inferno of Terror 154T was thrown into, and thru, the wall of the store that they were at. When Inferno of Terror 154T came out, he’d pulled out a piece of wood that went threw his right side, below his liver. He then took the piece of wood, looking at Night Stalker, he threw it to his right and killed Spender instantly. He then laugh in a guffaw manner until Night Stalker, out of rage, tackled him and both of them went inside the store. Nobody could see what they were doing. They could only hear them tearing the store apart. Eventually the store collapsed and both came out… still fighting.
While they were fighting on the rubble, Night Stalker was injured and she let out a cry. Ghost Killer hearing it, yelled out in rage just like Night Stalker did before. Unfortunately, he was standing so close to the others that it busted the eardrums of both Carlson and Sergeant Merritt. Ghost Killer then did a flying jump kick at Inferno of Terror 154T and Night Stalker, seeing what Ghost Killer was trying to do, grabbed Inferno of Terror 154T’s foot. When Ghost Killer collided with Inferno of Terror 154T it threw him more than twenty feet. And now all three of them were fighting. At that point, despite the danger, everyone wanted to watch the show. It became a lot more entertaining when the three of them ended up in the forest.
“Where are they?!” Averillo yelled out when she lost sight of them.
“Me without my popcorn.” Rymer said. Like the others, he was excited to be watching the show.
“There!” Halsey said when he saw them. He saw one of them hit a tree so hard that it look like a truck hitting it. Halsey then mouthed the words, ‘Holy shit.’
Everyone then ran to where Halsey saw them fighting and then they lost sight of them. They then tried to find them by listening to the sounds of them fighting. It never dawned on them that what they are doing is extremely stupid, they just wanted to watch the show.
“What the fuck are you idiots doing?! Get out of here!” Ghost Killer said after he’d got up to rejoin the fight. He was thrown and almost killed a couple of them.
“After all that work we put in, in creating them?” Carlson said after Ghost Killer left.
Although Rymer was starting to think that maybe Ghost Killer was right, he just couldn’t help but to continue to video tape the whole thing with his cell phone. (They were too far away to make any calls.) Besides it is just way too entertaining. Perhaps Rymer should have known better because at one point Night Stalker, upon seeing them through the trees, called them a ‘Bunch of goddamn idiots.’ If she can see them… so can someone else. And it didn’t take him that long to see them.
“Holy shit man! They’ve been going at for seven and a half hours!” Merritt said when he noticed the time on his cell phone.
Five minutes later, the obvious happened. Inferno of Terror 154T came flying out of the woods and struck a tree. After he got up Halsey said, “No fuckin’ way!” Everybody was video taping him as he came, picked up Vanasse and threw her so hard ag
ainst a tree that it killed her. (Gwynn, when he saw that said, “Holy shit, did you guys see that? That was some wicked shit.”) Before he could come after the others (who was still video taping it) he was tackled by Ghost Killer. Night Stalker came and yelled at them for being so stupid and started to demand that they leave. Rymer finally got the point when Inferno of Terror 154T kicked Ghost Killer into Night Stalker and she landed on Cottrill. Before they could react, Inferno of Terror 154T jumped onto Night Stalker killing Cottrill.
“She’s right! Let’s get out of here… NOW!” Rymer yelled at everyone.
“What about the cell phones?!” Coville yelled back.
“Go get ‘em!” Rymer yelled back.
“You got to be shittin’ me?! You idiots!” Night Stalker yelled out in frustration.
While Private First Class Gwynn was trying to get Cottrill’s cell phone Inferno of Terror 154T killed him by taking his head off. After he did that both Ghost Killer and Night Stalker tackled him. Carlson was able to get Cottrill and Gwynn’s cell phone before it was too late. He then stood there video taping the fight until Night Stalker yelled at him to leave.
“As you can plainly see…” Carlson was recording himself saying into his cell phone. “… their adrenaline glands, which are quite advanced, may be working in overdrive... but it can handled the workload. Judging by what I have seen here today… I can say that they should be able to fight for at least 24-to-30 hours straight. It is indeed quite fascinating to see them in action.”
After Carlson finished downloading the video that both Cottrill and Gwynn made into his cell phone, Carlson threw their cell phones down. Never mind about any family photos, messages, or the like that either one of them may have had (Gwynn had pictures of his little girl and his wife on his cell phone.) on their cell phone, Carlson didn’t consider them important. He was just doing his job.
Inferno of Terror 154T fought both Ghost Killer and Night Stalker eighteen hours and thirty-three minutes before he finally saw an opportunity. While they were fighting near a steep embankment he threw Night Stalker at Ghost Killer and both of them went over the edge. Inferno of Terror 154T stood at the edge while he saw both of them tumbling down the embankment. He was in a great deal of pain. He had tinnitus in his right ear, blind in his right eye, his skull was cracked both above and below his right eye, and all the molars in the right side of his mandible was gone, or knocked lose. Despite all of his injuries, like a typical Demon X, he will pursue his game till the end of the universe.
“Get back up here! So I can finish the job!” Inferno of Terror 154T yelled down the embankment. He knew that both of them were still alive even though he can’t see them. He then turn to pursue the other game. His favorite game of them all.
Rymer and company managed to make it to the next moderate size city before Inferno of Terror 154T realized where they went. Rymer decided to cut across a large field to get to that city, while Inferno of Terror 154T thought that they went to the next abandon small town. Although the city that Rymer went to was large enough to hold 20,000 people, no more than 1,000 lived there. Rymer knew there had to be a police station with weapons that they could use (and perhaps some cops as well). But Rymer also knew that Inferno of Terror 154T would have known the same thing.
When they got to the city Rymer had no other choice but to go to the hospital because of his injured foot. He divided what remained of his company in two: Corporal Halsey, Coville and Carlson will go to the police station; and Sergeant Merritt, Averillo and Cronin will search for food and water. (The food, water and medicine that they got earlier wasn’t anywhere near enough of what they needed.) Rymer knew that they were on borrow time that none of them could afford. But without food, water, shelter and weapons they are as good as dead. He could do the only sensible thing that he could do and he truly hated making the decision. They must wait a few days so that, not only could his foot heal, but also, no matter how remote the chance may be, either Ghost Killer and/or Night Stalker would meet up with them and/or Inferno of Terror 154T would be killed.
Nobody liked Rymer’s plan, but they knew he was right and so they said nothing. (Everyone knew that when those few days are up, they would have only seven days to contact Lenkov or else.) Sergeant Merritt and company had greater success in their search than Corporal Halsey in his. (Without anybody knowing it, Inferno of Terror 154T arrived in the city when both teams got back.) The next couple of days was very tense as they search for weapons and occasionally ran across the locals who told them that they saw a Demon Cy-X matching Inferno of Terror 154T’s description. Everything changed on the third day while Merritt and company was searching for food (the locals refused to bring them any given who was after them).
“Where in the hell is Averillo?” Sergeant Merritt asked Cronin.
“I think she went inside that building.” Cronin responded pointing to an abandoned skyscraper.
Merritt, who had the only handgun with one clip, led the way inside the building. Four hours later, they found the body of Averillo who was obviously killed by Inferno of Terror 154T. As Sergeant Merritt turned to run, Cronin went to search Averillo’s body for her cell phone. When Sergeant Merritt saw what Cronin was doing he yelled at him to come on, he then went over to collect Cronin. Before he got there Inferno of Terror rushed their position. Sergeant Merritt got off several rounds (all of them found their mark) before he was attacked by Inferno of Terror 154T. Cronin then turned and ran for his dear life. As luck would have it, he managed to give Inferno of Terror 154T the slip and made it back to base three hours later.
“Where is Sergeant Merritt and Averillo?” Rymer asked Cronin when he got back.
“Dead. Inferno of Terror got ‘em.” Cronin responded out of breath.
“Tomorrow morning we have no other choice but to go look for more weapons. After that… we are outta here.” Rymer mentioned to their relief.
At 07:04 they left and headed to where one of the locals said that there was a weapons cache. While they were driving there they realized that Inferno of Terror 154T was following them in a truck. After they gave him the slip (and knowing that they don’t have much time) they arrived at the large house where the weapon cache is said to be.
“Finally, some good fucking news!” Corporal Halsey said when he found the weapons cache.
“Everybody! Grab a weapon and take up a defensive position!” Rymer ordered them.
Two hours later Inferno of Terror 154T found them. As he was running trying to flank them, Cronin shot him twice, one was a nick and the other got him in his left kidney. He then disappeared around the corner of the house. Carlson then ran to a window where both Corporal Halsey and Coville was at and then he started to shoot at what he thought was Inferno of Terror 154T.
“Would you stop wasting ammo you dumbass!” Halsey said to Carlson threw his teeth.
“I gotta go.” Coville mentioned. She had to go urinate badly.
“What?!” Carlson asked her.
“You know… I have to go pee.”
“Do it in your damn pants.” Halsey snapped back at her.
“I’m not doing it in my pants!” Coville snapped back at him. She then got up to go to the bathroom that was nearby.
“Dumbass bitch!” Halsey remarked.
“Somebody go with her!” Rymer called out.
“I’m not letting anybody watch me pee!” Coville snapped back.
“Fine! Fire a shot if you see him!” Rymer yelled at her.
“Goddamn civilians!” Halsey said quite annoyed.
“I heard that.” Rymer said in agreement. Two minutes later they heard the shot and heard her scream bloody murder.
“Let’s ditch the bitch!” Halsey yelled out.
“You heard the man!” Rymer yelled out. The four of them then got up to run outside. They all ran to the truck that Inferno of Terror 154T came in since it was closer.
Rymer was the first to get around the truck. He then aimed his rifle over the hood of the truck and when he sa
w Inferno of Terror 154T come out he yelled out duck causing them to dive to the ground. Rymer shot Inferno of Terror 154T at the same time Inferno of Terror 154T shot at him. Lucky for Rymer he was quicker on trigger and his shot caused Inferno of Terror 154T to miss him. (The shot nicked the windshield of the truck.)
“Get in the truck… NOW!” Rymer yelled at them. Rymer shot Inferno of Terror 154T three times before he ran out of ammo. He then yelled out that he was out.
“Die you ugly freak!” Halsey yelled out as he turned over on his back and started to shoot at Inferno of Terror 154T. Although Carlson and Cronin got up to get into the truck, Inferno of Terror 154T was able to shoot Cronin through the liver.
“Go on… get outta here!” Halsey yelled at them while he and Inferno of Terror 154T was shooting at each other. Rymer wasted no time in leaving.
While both Halsey and Inferno of Terror 154T was shooting each other, Inferno of Terror 154T was walking towards him. When he ran out of ammo Inferno of Terror 154T threw down Mary’s gun and ran at Halsey. Halsey managed to shoot Inferno of Terror 154T under his left mandible and below his molars. The shot then exit near the front of Inferno of Terror 154T’s left ear. Inferno of Terror 154T then attacked and killed Halsey, took his gun and got off two rounds (both hit the truck) before he was out of ammo. He then quickly ran to the vehicle that they came in, got in, but he didn’t pursue them. He had another plan to deal with them.
Rymer knew that he was in a precarious situation and there was very little that he could do about it. Inferno of Terror 154T was still alive, Cronin was dying, and worse yet, there was only one handgun with one spare clip and one rifle with three rounds left. In short, eighteen rounds to kill something in which multiple rounds could not bring him down. Cronin mentioned in the truck that Inferno of Terror 154T had to be dying (he was right), but neither Rymer nor Carlson believed him. Rymer wasted no time in getting to their destination.
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