The Crawford's Multiverse of Madness

Chapter 13 - The Fall Of The Rain

After a brief discussion with The Red Queen, the group proceeded into the utility pipes that run under The Hive since it was currently the only way out of the current predicament they faced.

Zeel had double checked and triple checked to ensure that The Red Queen provided truthful answers. Even without his nanites active, it was easy for a Homo-Superior to manipulate any AI with just their knowledge along.

Some frequency manipulation here, binary blinking there, and soon The Red Queen had infected her own system with Zeel's coding.

"How can we be sure she isn't sending us to our deaths?" Rain asked.

"Why should you care? You're already a walking corpse," Zeel replied with a hint of mocking in his voice.

He didn't particularly enjoy the company of anyone there aside from Alice, but Rain was literally dying.

"This is the utility tunnels," Kaplan said as his tablet showed him the predicted route they were required to take.

Nobody was more anxious to escape The Hive than Kaplan.

"We should hurry guys, I am getting a bad vibe from this place," Zeel said as his intuition spiked for a brief moment earlier.

Alice also felt a similar situation but had yet to identify the strange tingling of her skin.

"Heck I believe you!" Kaplan replied, "You haven't been wrong once since we landed ourselves in this mess."

"Let's go!" Zeel said looking at Alice.

Immediately, a displeased look was edged onto his face, Alice was holding Rain while walking.

Still, he couldn't exactly tell the stubborn woman that she was holding someone who was going to die regardless.

Zeel then turned his attention to Spencer, only to see him at the side holding his head.

Zeel knew he was faking it but didn't say anything since any threat to Alice gave him the perfect opportunity to get rid of Rain.

"You do know she is dead weight, right?" Zeel asked Alice, who seemed shocked by his question.

"We don't leave friends or teammates behind," Alice replied harshly.

Her favorable impression of Zeel immediately dropped after he asked the question.

"Huh? I see. Okay then," Zeel said while Rain gave him a knowing smirk as she was not unaware of what type of person he was.

After Zeel left, Rain opted to warn Alice.

"You should drop me or he'll kill us both," she said.

"Stay near me, I don't know what it is but for some reason, he needs me," Alice whispered in Rain's ear "He won't hurt you with me around,"

Soon the group encountered a horde of zombies ambushing them from all directions of escape.

*swoosh*

*swoosh*

*swoosh*

Nobody could tell exactly what happened for a moment, everyone only saw twelve zombie heads cleanly cut from their bodies.

Everyone froze at the inhuman display and stared at Zeel.

There he was, eyes flickering from side to side at such a rapid pace that everyone got dizzy from staring too long.

In a mere moment, Zeel had accounted for every single zombie in the immediate area. He concluded that he didn't have enough knives to kill them all.