Chapter 3: Part 2.

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Aquino puts his pistol in his pocket, making his way to the hall. The eerie sounds in his head intensify. He suddenly stops, and dives behind a crate. Guards running from the hall, to the entrance of the facility. He exhales, and carries on walking. He makes his way to the door; 657. Aquino unlocks the door with card, "ACCESS GRANTED." A female voice spoke from the console. Aquino steps into the room. There was white smoke, until it cleared ... it all made sense what Maddox was hiding.

In disbelief, Aquino blinks multiple times. "Bodies?" People were hanging from the ceiling, pipes inserted into their mouths, pipes leaving from their stomachs. Aquino walks, slowly. He walks through the bodies, careful not to touch one. "What are they doing here?" Aquino says to himself, horrified. "Lyra was in here .. she's definitely involved in this." Suddenly, a door from the other side of the room opens. Aquino holds his breath, carefully making his way to the exit. He hits a pair of bodies, they start to move. The guards notice the movement. "What is that??" The one guard says, lifting his KRISS - Vector rifle. Aquino slowly exhales, "If someone is there, come out with your hands up!" The guards yell. Aquino goes prone, and crawls to the exit. The guards fire at what seems to be someones foot.  Suddenly there was a sting in his foot. "UGH!" Aquino grunts, and carries on crawling to the exit.

"*STATIC* Lyra, we need asisstance at room 657." The guard speaks into his shoulder radio. "Assistance in on the way." Lyra replies. Aquino gets up and runs to the door. The guards look. But Aquino was already gone. The walk to the scene, there was blood leading to the door. "Get a sample, we'll see who it is." The other guard says, the other puts a drop of Aquino's into a test tube. "Whoever was here, has to be eliminated. They can't know what we're doing." "If they do, we'll tell them its for the disease." The guard nods, and they leave the room.

Aquino is sitting on his bed, grabbing the medical supplies he found at the crash. Aquino takes a pair of tweezers, and carefully pulls the bullet out of his foot. Aquino groans, and throws the bullet away once it was out. He grabs the antiseptic, and soaks a bandage with it. He wraps it around his foot. "Now I know what they're doing, and Lyra seems to be apart of it." Suddenly an alarm is set off in the facility. "WARNING. WARNING. INFECTED INDIVIDUAL DETECTED. WARNING. WARNING. INFECTED INDIVIDUAL DETECTED." Aquino raises an eyebrow, and puts his shoe back on. He gets up and leaves his room. Everyone was screaming, and panicking. "This is serious." Aquino's heart rate picked up. "HEART RATE LEVEL, INCREASING." A bracelet on Aquino's arm says. He sighs.

Suddenly there was a demonic scream coming the cafeteria. A being rose, looking like a zombie.

(Okay, so. What it looks like is a zombie. This story has a mix of Half Life 2 and Maze runner and Shadow fight in it.)

A strange entity was its head, its arms were curled up, and it was running at Aquino. Aquino's heart rate was increasing madly. Aquino turned and ran to the hall opposite from Room 657. The zombie was gaining at him, Aquino kept running faster and faster.

The hall was endlessly long, suddenly ... Aquino was pinned to the ground. The zombie was biting at his face. Aquino looked around for something. There was a crowbar, he reaches for it. It was too far away, Aquino hits the zombie, it lands beside him. Finally he grabs the crowbar, but gets pinned again. Aquino hits it with the sharp end, and gets loose. He gets up, and runs. The zombie was gaining at him.

(That's what it looks like)

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(That's what it looks like)

Aquino was running faster by the moment, until he turned around. He hit it, it fell to the ground. Aquino hit it again, and again and again. There was blood everywhere. He was breathing heavily. "Oh my .. what is that?!" Lyra suddenly came running down the hall. "Aquino! Thank heavens you're okay!" Aquino blinks, saying nothing. "And .. you got attacked?" He nods. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here." "It's fine, now what is happening?" "A few entities broke loose, and now they're attacking scientist, doctors and .. guards." "Is this a guard?" "Yeah, one of the elites ones." Lyra answers, nodding. "What are the 'entities' trying to do to us?" "They take control of our bodies, and try to kill us. Because we're not one of them." Lyra says, "I thought this was a medical facility!" Aquino throws his hands up the air. "It is, just .. not an ordinary one." "Well what do we do now?" Aquino says, sounding frightened. "We have to leave the facility." Lyra answers.  "Going where?" "Well, were thinking about Beltsidar." "Are you mad? That's 3 days away." Aquino frowns. "I -" There was another scream. "Aquino, we have to leave." "But I didn't get my waterproof locker!" "THEN GO GET IT!" Lyra says sternly. Aquino rushes to the room block, going to his room. He grabs the pistol, laying on the bed. He looks at the waterproof locker, then the crowbar.

He grabs the waterproof locker, hurrying back to Lyra. "Are you done?" Lyra asks. Aquino nods. "Then let's get going." They make they're way to the entrance of the facility. A bunch of zombies chase after them. "Keep up!" Lyra says. They start running, they make they're way to entrance, there was helicopters, taking off every second. "HEY! WAIT!" Lyra yells at a pilot who's starting up the engine. "GET ON!" The pilot yells. Aquino and Lyra get onto the helicopter, and they take off.


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