Metal Thunder (Karl Heisenberg - Resident Evil)

Chapter 14 - Devastator

I tried, I tried so damn hard to make her matter and I failed. Now I might be just about to lose her...

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Across the catwalks, through the tight quarter corridors, and from chamber to chamber, Emily Tempest ran. She had no idea where she was going, tears streaming, as she struggled to keep the lightning from causing chaos, but it was trickling all over the skin of her arms like tingles. I can't do this, no matter how hard I try, I can't take it anymore, I can't deal with him anymore, that bastard! I'm sorry mother, I tried to give him a chance but I can't! I didn't just do this for you, I did it for myself, I really want to be like him, but not if he's going to treat me like crap! All these words were swarming her thoughts as she sprinted down the hall, colliding with hanging wires dangling from the ceiling until she descended a metal staircase.

This place in the factory was unfamiliar to her, the only source of light was some red electrical devices that would likely burst if something hit them. Emily stopped, her arms clutching both sides of the two generators in the room, she was hyperventilating. Never had she cried this much since the first time the military and law enforcement began to hunt her back in her hometown. Heisenberg wouldn't come looking for her now, even if he could determine her location with all the cameras he had, he was too pissed to even bother with her anymore.

Where do I go from here? She wondered quietly as she walked forward a little, listening to the serene sounds of the generators running. From above there was another metal catwalk that took her perhaps between the factory's floors, but it was the lit room at the far side that grabbed her attention the most. Without her music and too far away from the bedroom above the ground to be alone and drown out her sorrows, if that was even possible in the factory at this point. She tried to breathe slower and turned another corner and entered the room.

It was wide and brightly lit with several structures made out of scraps of metal put together with wires and pipes like computer servers the size of giant pillars. The sound of exhaustion of air and steam filled the area. What was she doing here? If Heisenberg was unwilling to search for her and demand she smarten up, or hell, apologize for his behaviour once again, would she ever be able to work with him? First, he entrusted her to his Soldats alone and that went haywire, he put her loyalty to the test with the nearly impossible task of polishing his hammer and gave her another chance but this time with a watchful eye, all for it to fail and lead to where she was now, seemingly lost.

Emily leaned against one of the metal pillars, breathing with the steam exhaustion, it started to calm her slowly. Perhaps one of those great smokestacks she saw from the factory's exterior was far above, she shut her eyes briefly, but it wasn't for long as the peacefulness was interrupted by thumping, loud, slow and very near, like the sound of metal boots. Her eyes popped open, her body bolt upright as she whipped her head left and right searching for the source, but the lights flickered and the antechamber grew darker and warmer. How far into the depths of the room had she gone? Then around the corner from behind the nearest pillar emerged a great cybernetic creature, covered in metal scraps from head to toe and three drill blades on each arm. Just like the other Soldats, it had a red core where its heart used to be when it was human. Emily swallowed anxiously, this design, sturdy as it was like a tank, she could tell immediately that Heisenberg had not yet messed with the remains of its brain to recognize her as an ally, for it was moving slowly towards her, drill blades raised and ready.