The mission

Chapter 10

      "We can get past them, just time it right." Scarlett said after they gave Moira a little bit of time to process the information Scarlett had given her. She heard Moira let out a shaky breath as the girl looked at the spinning traps as they moved back and forth on their tracks. Scarlett went through first, showing the other two that it was possible. She went into the door where they had gotten the key from and cursed when a large infected, likely the one they had heard moving around, dropped through the ceiling. She scoffed as she dodged the infected large spiky weapon and slid her knife in between its ribs making it let out a cry before she jerked it back out and kicked its leg making it fall to the ground on its knees before she stabbed it in the head killing it.

"God, how can you be so calm and kill it that easily?" Moira asked when they had caught the end of the fight and watched as Scarlett wiped the blood off her hand onto her jacket.

"Like I said, go through what I have, and you'll understand." Scarlett replied with a shrug and Moira gave her a scared look while Claire just shook her head. She had seen some of what Scarlett could do but it was still shocking to see her be this calm. Claire also noted that in a setting like this Scarlett was like a different person, sure she was still kind and sarcastic, but she was ruthless and would do anything to protect someone else. They hadn't found anything else useful and told Scarlett that they should leave the box blocking the door there before going back out and up the stairs to use the lever so they could get the gear piece from the other trap.

"Wait, my bag!" Scarlett said when she spotted her purse when they were about to leave the room. She ushed to it and pulled her phone out, thanking whoever was dumb enough to not have searched through it, before she powered it on. She immediately got a call and answered it while the other two watched, relieved they had gotten a hold of someone that could help them.

"Scarlett! I've been trying your cell for three days, since the attack on the Terra Save party. Are you ok? Where are you?" Leon's worried voice made her heart ache, she missed him and was sad that she had worried him again.

"I'm ok but...Shit somethings coming. Leon, we were taken. I don't know where yet but..." She was cut off as another infected man dropped from the ceiling on top of her. The other girls yelled out as they saw her go down with it on top of her, Claire shot it and Scarlett reached up with her knife and stabbed it in the head before scrambling out from underneath it and snatching her phone up. Unfortunately, it was smashed in the chaos and was no longer useable and she cursed in anger. The other two girls watched as she kicked the dead body in rage and were saddened and disheartened when she told them it no longer worked. She slipped it into her jacket pocket never the less and they left the room and went to the trap from before and got the gear.

When they inserted it into it's spot the gears spun and the door began to slide open. Scarlett groaned when an alarm sounded and all the locked doors holding infected behind them began to open. She made the pair go through the door and had Claire go to the wheel on the pipe to the right and turn it. This activated the flame thrower in the center of the new room, and she told Moira to start pulling the bars off the door out. She then turned the flame thrower and let it begin burning the infected that tried to swarm into the room. She had Claire take over the flame thrower when a few of the infected began to slip by it, she used her knife to end them while the other two worked. She snarled when one of the men managed to catch her with his weapon and blood spilled onto the ground from her face wound but she killed him with a powerful kick to the head.

"I don't have time for this." She hissed and used her power to slip into the last six that tried to brave the fire and made their brains turn to mush killing them. Claire checked to make sure she was alright but Scarlett waved her hand as she wiped blood from her nose and they went to check how Moira was doing with the bars. Scarlett's power didn't drain her as much, likely due to all the use she had done in the past and her body getting used to the power she held.