Code: Z.E.R.O. - The Outbreak

Act 7 Ch. 1

Beginning of the End

"Stay back!" I order with a shaky voice. I can't believe what I'm looking at. My former leader and friend has been turned into one of the undead... This is just like Sky... Only this time... I don't have a weapon to put him out of his misery...

"I'm... sorry Jordon..." I accept my fate... I knew I was going to die one day; I just didn't think it would be like this... Jordon is about a foot away from my face now. I shut my eyes tight so I don't see what comes next. That's when the door gets kicked in, which causes Jordon to turn around and groan. BANG. SPLAT. Bits and pieces of Jordon's brain splattered all over my face. "Aw gross!" I wipe Jordon off my face. "You alright bud?" I look up and see Garcia standing in front of me, holding his hand out. "What took you so long?" I joke as I take his hand. He helps me up. "Well, first we needed to do your plan." Kevin steps out from behind Garcia. "Then we needed to find our weapons." Dom steps out and tosses me my rifle and handgun. "Then we needed to kick some Agent ass." Garcia grins. "So basically, we're HQ's most wanted right now, and they're sending more Agents to our location." Kevin tells me. "Alright so what are we waiting for?" I ask, "Let's get out of here!"

We all run out the room and down the hall. "So what's the plan?" I ask. "Make it to the roof and steal a chopper." Garcia tells me as we run up the stairs to the next floor. "Then what?" "Then we get out of here!" Dom jumps in. "Wait wait wait!" I stop. They stop in front of me and turn around. "What? We need to get out of here!" Kevin tells me. "We can't just leave," I protest, "Vazquez is here. He won't stop this madness until we put an end to it." "Well how the hell are we gonna do that?" Garcia questions. "Well why don't you come find me?" We hear a voice over the intercom. It's Vazquez.

"Where are you? Come out and fight like a man you coward!" Garcia shouts. "Hmhm, if you want to find me so bad, come to the lowest floor of the building. I'll be waiting." He laughs. "Oh by the way Lizard, here's a little motivation for you." "What's he talking about?" I ask. "Christian?" My heart drops. "Jezze?" "Christian! Help me! He's got me and Andrew locked up down here!" "Jezze! I'm coming baby!" I shout. "I'll be waiting!" Vazquez taunts.

"We need to save them!" I shout, "Please! They're the only family I have left!" I beg them. "Don't worry dude," Dom replies, "We're here to help!" "You can count on us!" Kevin jumps in. "We're a team after all." Garcia jumps in. "Thanks guys. Let's go save them!"

We run back down the stairs we previously ran up. "What floor are we on?" I ask. "The third floor!" Kevin replies. Cool, not too bad, just a few floors to go. We run down the hall, only to have our way blocked by 5 Agents. "Get to cover!" Garcia orders us as we all slide behind some desks and stuff. The Agents start firing at us. "We're pinned down!" Kevin shouts. "No worries guys, I got this!" Dom reassures us as he stands up and blasts those Agents with acid. "Take this traitors!" He yells as he turns them all to jelly. "Nice one Dom! Let's get moving!"

We run down to the next floor. More Agents. "Take them out!" Kevin orders. I comply and start wasting them. Kevin blasts a few with his laser pistols, and before we know it, they're all down. "Nice shooting!" I congratulate everyone as we run down to the last floor.

We all race down to the stairs. "It's just a straight away to the elevator! Hurry!" We run as fast as we can down the hall. "Almost there!" I shout, "Ah fuck!" Agents come around the corner and block our way. "Get behind me!" Garcia orders. "Why? What are you gonna do?" "Just do it!" We all get behind him as he fires a grenade from the grenade launcher attachment on his rifle, yelling out his battle cry, "Aghhhh!!!!" BOOM. When the smoke clears, the Agents are gone. "Nice!" Dom compliments "Now let's get in that elevator!"

We open the elevator doors and get in. I hit the button and we're on our way down. "This is it guys, lock and load." I command. We all make sure our weapons are all reloaded and ready to go, but suddenly the elevator stops. "What the hell?" We all look up at the ceiling. "Oh my, did the elevator stop working?" It's Vazquez over the intercom again. "So sorry about that," He says sarcastically, "Let me try to help!" The elevator budges, but not the way you'd want it to. "Vazquez what are you doing?!" I question. "Oh just trying to fix the elevator," He laughs to himself, "I hope it doesn't FALL!" Suddenly the elevator buckles and drops. "OH FUCK!!!" "SHIIIT!!!" "AHHH!!!" "I KNEW WE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE STAIRS!!!" We all scream (In a manly way) as we fall to our deaths.

WHAM! We hit the floor hard. "Ugh... Is everybody ok?" I get up slowly. "Y-yeah I think so..." Kevin gets up. The elevator doors open. "Did you all have a nice trip?" Vazquez laughs. We all stumble out the elevator. "We're not gonna let you get away with this Vazquez!" I snap at him. "Christian!" I hear to the left of me. I turn over and see Jezebel tied up to a pole crying, and next to her, Andrew. Tied up as well, with a bullet hole in his head. "No..."