Among Us

Chapter 9

We were walking around the corner when we heard someone call for help through the mic. Their voice sounded hoarse. We ran quickly around the next corner and saw Michael and Joe laying there on the ground.

"Oh my gosh!", Sasha exclaimed as we ran to toward them.

Joe had a three-claw cut on his chest, which was bleeding and his breathing was unstable. Michael on the other hand was much worse. He had two stab wounds in his stomach area and two gunshot wounds, one in his arm another in his torso. I knelt down beside them and began to check Michael's pulse.

He coughed and his breathing became very shallow. He opened his eyes and coughed again.

"It's going to be okay.", I told him.

"No..., It's too late for me...", he said coughing a bit, "But you need to help Joe before it's too late for him..."

Marc knelt down beside me, "No it's not too late for you. Where's that Michael that won't take no for an answer?"

"He's right here. And I won't take no as an answer for Joe. He needs help right now.", through his helmet I could see guilt in his eyes, "Make sure you take care of Abby okay Heights. If you don't I might just come back and haunt you.", he laughed slightly.

"Now go.", he coughed out.

"No. We aren't going to leave you. NO man left behind.", Abby said.

"Yeah! I'll help Marcus with Joe, you guys lift Michael.", Sasha said and we nodded.

We quickly but carefully picked the two up and brought them aboard the ship and brought them to the med bay since the door was now working and was the best place to get them help.

"Abby go get the nurse!", I said and she ran off to find her.

"I'll go with her!", Sasha said and ran off to join her best friend.

"I was serious about what I said Heights..., about taking care of Abby...", Michael said.

"And you going to live to see that.", I said holding my hand.

"No...I'm not. Tell them bye for me okay...", he said then closed his eyes slowly.

"What!? No! No! No!", I exclaimed checking his pulse franticly.

No...

"He's...He's gone...", Marcus hung his head.

Just then the chief and the girl's burst through the door. When Abby looked at the lifeless body on the bed I could see the look of shook on her face a tears in her eyes. When Joe coughed that's when we remembered Joe and the nurse rushed to his aid. Through his helmet I saw him open his eyes slightly and he turned his head to where Michael laid. He didn't say anything. I suppose he was too shocked that his best friend was dead.

"This is going to hurt a bit okay.", the nurse told him and he nodded slightly.

The Chief closed the air-tight door and we all took off our helmets and the nurse took of Joe's. She poured the disinfectant onto the wound causing him to wince. She then wrapped a bandage around the wound even though the suit was still on. I guess it would cause too much pain for him to take it off.

"Now, you need to stay here and rest. Put your helmet back on and after we leave and the door closes you can take it off.", the nurse said and Joe nodded.

"Uhh, guys..., the others are still out there!", Abby said covering her mouth.

"You're right! We need to get them! If that thing is there we can get them on board then leave the killer here.", Marc said.

"I'm coming too.", Joe tried to get up but groaned in pain. His voice sounded very sore.

"No. You need to stay here.", the chief said then put his helmet back on.

"Okay..., but Jóse and Shaun are tied up in the Communications building and both are gaged.", Joe told us and we nodded.

We all put on our helmets then he opened the door and we left closing the door behind us.

"We will make sure the ship is ready while you four get the others.", the chief said then we ran off to find the others.

We ran around the ship's outside until we found Emily, Chris, and Chloe on the opposite side from where the entrance was. Chris and Emily were fixing the panel that was higher up so they had to be on the crates that were nearby, while Chloe handed them their tools.

"Guys! We need to go now!", I said.

"Huh? Okay. Coming down.", Chris said and the siblings climbed down.

"Everything okay?", Chloe asked.

"No. We need to leave now before it's too late.", Marc said.

"O-okay. Do you have Jóse and Shaun?", Emil asked.

"Not yet, but you need to get back inside. If were not back in ten minutes come looking for us. We'll be near coms.", I said.

They nodded and ran off with urgency. Then it was our turn to run off. We went in the direction of coms according to the remotes map. We had finally got to the building and went inside. On the floor was a broken computer and in the corner we saw Jóse and Shaun tied up. Sasha and Marc went to untied them while we closed the air-tight door. After they were untied they lifted up their helmet and removed the gag.

"Thanks...", Jóse said stretching.

"How long were you tied up?", Abby asked.

"A while before the reactor meltdown started.", Shaun said while he and his brother placed their helmets back on.

I opened the door and checked if the coast was clear. When I saw that it was we ran through the snowy field. I thought it was odd there was snow here but hey, we're being chased by something wanting to kill us that could possibly not be from Earth so I can't comment.

We were almost near the office area when another Jose and Shaun stepped from around the corner. We stopped in our tracks.

"What's going on?!", Marcus questioned.

"They're fakes!", the Shaun beside us said.

The other copies took of their helmets and revealed that they looked exactly like the brothers. Both had blood on their suits. But then they morphed into human like creatures but with black corruption on half of their body. But they still had the suits on.

"Looks like we're going to have a little setback for you guys.", the one in red said as his voice became disoriented. The blood on his suit almost blended in with it.

Then then one in dark green opened his right hand and long claws extended from his fingers.

"How's your little friend? I hope I did kill him, too much.", he smirked his voice also disoriented.

"On three we run to the ship.", I whispered through the inter com.

"One..."

"Two...

"Three!", I shouted then we all began to run for the ship.

"Ahh~ a chase.", one of them said.

The gravity slowed us down as we tried to do as fast as we could. Gun shots could be heard in the distance as they chased after us. The bullets missed us but hit the control panel for the ships door causing the door to close. Now it could only be opened from the inside.

"Open up!", we shouted as we banged on the door.

"We're trying!", we heard Emily say through the mic.

Another shot was fired this time nearly hitting us.

"I think there is a vent or something we can use at the side of the ship!", Shaun said and ran off. We followed with the imposters hot on our trail.

"There!", Shaun pointed to a vent large enough for us to squeeze through.

We all worked to together to pull the vent open. Jóse and Shaun went in first since we felt like they were probably the most tired. Then Sasha went in. Abby was about to go in but a powerful gunshot shut the vent door. We turned around and saw the two fakes.