Never Get Out Alive

Chapter 5: Marco Polo

As I put the helmet on I heard Kai's voice in the earpiece of the helmet i was wearing. "Rhent, hey Rhent, are you there?" "Hey, yea Kai I'm here. This hallway makes a sharp right after the labs." I said. I looked closely as I peered into the darkness and saw a few doors. "It looks like there's a few doors here," I said. "I'm gonna check it out."

Silence at first and then I heard him go "Yea. But be careful." I nodded even though he couldn't see me, I guess I wanted to feel a level of comfort. I didn't know what I was going into after all. As I stepped forward towards the first door I held my breath and I turned the knob, hearing it slowly creak open and hit the wall with a loud echoing thud. I felt the air thicken around me and I slowly let my breath go.

I clicked on the flashlight and shone it all across the room, slowly panning over each and every corner. This was an odd room. Kinda like a locker room of some sorts. But everything was strewn about and thrown around. There was no one in here though. "Kai this rooms clear. I think we're good here." "Alright man. Hey dude you know what this is? This reminds me of Marco Polo." He said laughing. I shook my head and stepped out of the room.

There was only one more room left and as I approached it I noticed that there was glass on the floor. I suddenly became very cautious and I slowly got to the door, which window had been shattered. I slowly opened the door and stepped inside panning it once again over the room only this time it was some sort of a lounge room and I was shocked.

There were a bunch of couches and tables and it looked like a few TV's. Were we supposed to live on this ship? Or had they already expected us to wake up? I heard some movement in the corner and whipped around shining my light just a second too late as a giant armored person came lunging at me and ripped my pistol out of my hands. Before they had a chance to turn it on me I threw it across the room leaving us one on one in the dark room.

My attacker lunged for me and I pulled them towards me while simultaneously tripping them and smashing their head through a table. They quickly got up and kicked me as I went to hit them sending me flying back and landing and flipping over one of the couches. Before they had a chance to react I slipped around the other side of the couch, then jumped and dropkicked them into the door.
I heard a loud crack and then a groan. Doing the first thing that came to my mind I picked up a table and smashed it over their head knocking them unconscious as well.

I reached towards the wall and pressed a button and turned on the lights to see that this person was wearing armor exactly like the Swedish Supermodel from earlier. I picked my pistol up from off the floor and slowly walked towards my attacker and wrestled with my thoughts and finally decided to just tie them up to a couch.

I walked out and approached the very end of the hallway looking for something else but couldn't see anything except for some slight cracks in the wall as if it was hiding a secret door. "Hey Kai, I think I found something here," i said. "This wall looks like it's been raised and also someone else attacked me. They had the same armor as the swedish supermodel too." Pause and then, "Dude shes totally a Russian supermodel. No way in hell she's swedish." "Bet." "You're on man. Also you better hurry up and make your way back here. The other girl is waking up." "Your zombie?" Kai sighed through my headset. "Yes."
I laughed and made my way back to the labs.

As I got inside the girl who was on the table and raised back to life because of Kai, was now rubbing her eyes and looking around. I quickly whipped off my helmet so she wouldn't attack me, thinking i was the other girl. She had short cut blue hair that just barely came to her eyes and ears. Almost a pixie cut. She also had purple eyes and a really pissed off look at both Kai and me and i started to wonder if we shouldve just left her dead.

"Who...are you?" She asked cautiously questioning me. "Oh. Um. Im Rhent, and this here Is uh Kai. Hes the one who....saved your..life. Kinda." She looked over at Kai who was smiling really big, clearly proud being who he is. She stood up and looked around the room taking in everything for the first time.

"Well," she said pausing. "I guess I owe you a thank you and apology for saving my life." She looked at Kai who was clearly already falling in love with this poor zombie girl who doesn't know a thing. He snapped out of his dream world and blushed a little and said, "Oh yea. It was uh, no problem. So! Um. What's your name?" I tried to stifle my laughing and sat down in the chair across from the table to watch this fairy tale encounter go on.

She looked at him and smiled. "Names Rayven." He looked at her and grinned. "Rayven huh? That's a really cool name and I like it. My name's Kai." He said. She laughed at him and said, "Yea I know. Your friend here kinda already told me." He blushed again and as if on cue we all heard a couching from the back of the lab and a groan.

As we turned to look back we noticed that the supermodel was waking up. Then a shadow passed her face and it dawned on Rayven that this was the person who had tried to attack her. I sighed fearing what would happen next and Rayven lunged forward and punched the supermodel in the face snapping her head back and definitely waking her up all the way now. Then that was when she snapped the bonds that held her and reached for Rayven and all hell broke loose.