After a quick reunion Sarah dropped the bag and shared what they had found. "A few guns, some ammo and look at this." She pulled out a two red sticks. "Flares. Nice huh?"
"I really like these." Mel pulled out of her back pocket a small felt case full of throwing knives. "I don't really know how to use them but I'm sure they'll come in handy sometimes."
Sophia threw Annie a gun. "You can borrow this. I'll want it back though, okay?" Annie smiled and nodded.
"Everyone sit down." LeAndria instructed. "We have four friends that are being held by those annoying bastards from the NIH. We need to get them out...you know we don't have much time to do that before they're zombie food."
"And speaking of zombies, they've finally come down here." Sophia added.
"So what's the plan?" Sarah asked. They got to work devising a way to rescue the others.
***
"I'll be okay, I promise." Lauren N. said to the others who were handcuffed to a metal pipe in the same red dim lit room they were in. She was led out by a soldier leaving the three other girls in the room by themselves.
"What are we going to do?" Devin asked.
"I don't know but we need to figure this out." Christa said.
"I think I have a plan." Caroline suggested and she pulled a bobby pin out of her hair. "I saw this in a movie once. Do you think it'll work now?"
"Only one way to find out."
***
"Come in." A voice from the other side of the door called. The soldier led Lauren N. into the room, still dark and dripping water from one corner. She began to tear up as the giant man stood by an army cot that hugged the wall on the side.
"You can leave." He instructed the other soldier. Lauren shivered at the dampness of the room, her breath could be seen -- short and static.
"You look nervous." He said walking closer. She tried to shuffle back. He only laughed.
"Don't be...it'll be over soon enough."
A single thud could be heard from the other side of the door. The man pushed Lauren to the side, causing her to fall to the floor and went to open the door. "I said to give me privacy." He yelled as he opened the door. He looked down to see one of his soldiers slumped down against the door dead, a single bullet through his head.
"I can give you some privacy." Sophia held a gun up against his chin.
"Okay...okay....you win." He said throwing his hands in the air. Sophia kicked the door open still pointing the gun at the man. "Lauren, get up!" She called to her who quickly jumped up and ran out of the room.
Lauren ran down the hall and heard a few more voices.
"This way! This way!" A flare was thrown in the opposite direction and gun fire echoed through the hall. Mel Lok and LeAndria ran past her as they ducked and weaved from enemy fire. Lauren hugged the wall as soldiers soon ran past her as well, not noticing her there.
"Fuck! There's more of them down here!" A female's voice yelled.
"Shoot him quick!" Another one said. More gunfire ensued.
In the dimly lit room the three girls could hear the gunfire outside.
"I think I almost have..........got it." Christa said freeing the cuffs from her hands. "We have to be careful...something is going on outside." She opened the door quietly and was received by a gun to the face.
"Keep quiet or I'll shoot!" Sarah said not knowing who it was.
"Oh my God, Sarah it's us!" Christa said.
"Christa?! Let's get you out of here!" Sarah led the group down the hall making sure that no soldiers were around.
"STOP!" A soldier yelled from behind them.
"Run!" Sarah instructed. They all ran and were greeted with gunfire. They managed to turn a corner without being hit. "What the fuck. What the fuck." Caroline said catching her breath. "If I had known we were going to get caught in a cross fire, I would have worn my LuLuLemon cropped leggings."
***
"What are you going to do to me?" The man said facing the wall on his knees, a gun pointed to his head.
"Once I get all my girls out of here, I'll shoot you." Sophia said. The man just smiled.
"Please don't." He said as he pulled a knife from his sleeve without Sophia noticing.
"You would do the same thing to us if you had the chance."
"Well...I do have the chance." He turned around too quickly for her to react. He threw the knife with such accuracy at Sophia's throat.
Annie rounded the corner at the same moment as the knife lodged into her sister's neck. "SOPHIA!" She ran towards her sister as she fell, blood gushing from her neck. Within moments she was dead. Annie began firing from the gun she had borrowed from Sophia earlier. Bullets ricocheted off of the walls as Annie missed. The man rolled out of the gun fire and grabbed the gun from Sophia's dead body. He took aim at Annie.
Mel and LeAndria turned the corner as they saw Annie running towards the man shooting.
"Annie no!" Mel yelled.
The man fired a single shot that went through Annie's head and out the back. She fell right where she was as tears ran down the side of her face.
The man then aimed the gun at LeAndria who didn't have time to react. His finger was about to pull the trigger when a blade pierced through his head causing him to topple dead over Sophia's lifeless body. LeAndria turned to Mel who had a throwing knife in her hand.
"I guess I know how to use these..." She said.
The group united after realizing the two sister's dying.
"We need to get out of here." Christa said. "If the zombies are coming, we need to get somewhere safe before they find us."
"I know the tunnels well...I know a way out." Sarah said. "Gather the weapons you can...I can't promise we'll all make it out of here alive...but we will try."
The girls ran down a dark passage after they said their final goodbyes. At least they found each other... Christa thought. Only the sounds of their footsteps and of dripping water covered the noises of moaning zombies coming up behind them.
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