ERK! very long chapter! but great things happen
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Chapter 6
The Finest Hour
The group of Sligs waiting near the hatch made their way towards the four Sligs. “I’ll send these co-ordinates to your radar ummm, whats your name again” said Admeet cautiously to the Slig with the radar. It only took 5 seconds to get the co-ordinates to the radar. “Okay, I’ve got a position and it’s Tarios” said the Slig with the radar. “Okay Tarios lead the way” said Admeet. Tarios started walking towards the destination point and the rest of the group followed.
15 minutes later, the group came to the edge of the crater. “Hold up” said Tarios pointing his hand up with a flat palm, “I’m picking up movement over the crater edge”. “It could be those creatures again” said Solister. “There’s only one way to find out” said Zaypher walking over to the edge. The group followed Zaypher over to the edge and saw utter chaos.
The ravenous creatures were picking of the last scraps of meat of a dead Leviathan on the edge (A type of whale). The Bunker was clearly in sight. “We have to get to the bunker quietly” said Admeet, “follow my lead”. The Sligs Agreed and followed Admeet quietly to the centre of the crater.
It didn’t take that long to reach the centre of the crater, and when they did reach it, they were let down by a difficult obstacle. “How many preposterous obstacles are there in this sea?” said Vankor sarcastically, “the front doors locked!”. “Then we will just have to find a way in” said Admeet looking at the door and thinking. “Found it” said Solister as an answer. Solister had found a box of sea mines with a remote activation device stored with them. “They must be used to defend the bunker” said Zaypher inspecting the mines. “They are definitely going to
grab the attention of the creatures” said Admeet, “so be ready for a fight”.
Vankor, being the strongest of the lot, opened the box and grabbed a sea mine and the remote. He carried them towards a point where he was a few metres away from the door. He gave Admeet the Remote and activated the detonation system on the mine “Ready” asked Admeet. “Ready” replied Vankor. He pushed the mine towards the door and before the mine hit the door, Admeet pushed the button to blow it up. The mine went of with a huge boom. It definitely created a hole in the door, and water was pouring into the entrance. This did inevitably attract the attention of the creatures. The creatures gave out a loud roar and eyed the Sligs. “Get ready, here they come” shouted Admeet as he drew out his duel pistols. Solister, Zaypher and Vankor also drew out their pistols and aimed at the creatures. The other Sligs drew out their harpoon guns. “On my command, we run through the broken door” said Admeet. The creatures came ever closer and they showed their razor sharp teeth to the Sligs. “NOW!” shouted Admeet, “RUN!” The Sligs ran straight through the broken door and the creatures swam violently after them.
The four Sligs fired their pistols and harpoon guns at the creatures that were dangerously catching up. “Just run” shouted Admeet. The entrance to a small corridor came into view. “Quick, in there” shouted Solister. The Sligs turned violently and opened the door. They all went inside and Admeet closed the door just as a creature was halfway through the door way. The door sliced the creature in half and all the Sligs could see was the body and head of it. Blood was spilling out of the flesh of the creature and turning the slightly flooded corridor into a blood bath. “God, disgusting” shouted Zaypher looking at the flesh hanging out of the sliced creature. Some of the creatures started banging at the door. “We’d better move” said Solister, “the source can’t be far”. The Sligs waded through the flooded corridor towards the radiation source.
Eventually, they reached the source. They looked through a door window and couldn’t believe their eyes. “My god” said Vankor, “it’s a nuclear reactor. What is it doing here and why is it still operational”. “Maybe the previous owners of this bunker wanted power, so they built this reactor” said Solister, “and maybe when they decided to move out when the resources were getting low, the radiation mutated the creatures when they took over”. “So how do we deactivate it” said Tarios. “We need to flood the reactor first” said Solister, “then we need to activate the reactor and overload it. Because the entire core will be flooded, it shouldn’t cause a big explosion”. “It looks like there is a water pump room just next to the reactor” said Vankor looking at a reactor status map, “and there should be a small tunnel from the reactor to the pump room. There is also another small tunnel which leads to the sea”. “Right, the radiation levels shouldn’t be too bad in there” said Admeet, “Let’s go”.
The only way towards the pump was to crawl through the small tunnel one by one. When the Sligs finally reached it, they stationed themselves around the pump. “It says on the instructions here “to turn on pump, adjust the pressure to 80%, open the main valves and turn on the two generators at the same time”” said Vankor looking at the instructions. Tarios adjusted the pressure, Zaypher opened the main valves and Admeet and Solister turned on the generators at the same time. Within no time, the pump was up and running. The reactor chamber was slowly flooding with water. This in turn opened the valve which allowed sea water to seep in. “The controls to activate the reactor are situated beside it” said Solister, “we need to get there before the creatures can swim through the sea valve. The Sligs dived into the water and swam through the small tunnel.
The Sligs made it through and Solister positioned herself beside the controls next to the reactor. “Good thing these controls are water proof” said Solister, “I just need to push this button to overload the reactor and we are out of here”. Before she could press the button, the tail of a creature whacked her onto the floor suddenly. “Too late” shouted Admeet, “open fire!” The Sligs with their pistols and harpoon guns fired at the creatures that were coming through the sea valve. “There are too many” shouted Tarios. Admeet quickly helped Solister onto her feet. “Run through the door” shouted Admeet, “it’s our only way out”.
The Sligs ran through the door and quickly closed it but one of the creature’s long hands with razor sharp claws was stuck in the gap of the door. Admeet shot it a couple of times and the creature gave up. Unfortunately, the panel to open the door was shot and burnt out. “Seal the door” shouted Vankor looking at the rushing water coming through the door. The Sligs pushed the door as hard as they could. Zaypher however just stood where he was and thought hard.
“Oh no” shouted Solister looking at the reactor, “that creature must have deactivated the reactor and we need to close this door from the outside. Someone needs to go in there to seal the door and activate the reactor”. “I’ll do it” said Admeet looking at the reactor, “I was supposed to be the one to end this”. Suddenly just as Admeet was about to enter the reactor chamber, Zaypher hit Admeet on the head with the butt of one of his pistols. Zaypher then entered the reactor chamber and closed the door behind him. “What are you doing” Shouted Admeet looking through the window at Zaypher. “I’m sorry Admeet, but it has to be done” replied Zaypher. “Open the door god damn it” shouted Admeet angrily, “you were not supposed to die”. “I can’t do that Admeet” said Zaypher. The creatures were dangerously surrounding Zaypher. “I want the heroism to live on, so I’m doing this for you” said Zaypher. He then started to slowly walk away calmly with the creatures eyeing him. He activated the reactor and pushed the button to overload it. “We’ve got to go now” said Solister looking worried. Admeet took one last look at Zaypher and ran for it. “Farewell cruel world” said Zaypher to himself and then he was sliced and shredded by the creatures’ sharp claws and teeth.
The rest of the Sligs came out of the entrance and ran towards the edge of the crater ignoring the fact that the creatures were eyeing them. Eventually, the Sligs made it back to the A.T.T and strapped in. They heard the reactor blow up just as they strapped in. Vankor took the pilot’s seat and started up the motors. The A.T.T started its 100 mile ascent through the tunnel. It didn’t take that long to reach the surface and the A.T.T shot through the water and shot through the rock of the cave onto dry land. The A.T.T was scratched and scraped and the Sligs lay unconscious in their seats. Admeet was the only one who was conscious. He sat there and looked depressed. Zaypher was gone, either dead or still out there; no one would ever know.
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Just one last chapter and thats it for this installment