Chapter Fifteen

With this new factory the town expanded and introduced a whole new type of business to Newbay, this included some mysterious people in suits disappearing into the factory and never seen again for months at a time.

Only about ten hours ago a fire broke out from an unknown source, and while the townspeople fought against the fire something happened to cause chaos to break out within an hour.

Monsters appeared and wrecked havoc throughout the town, polluting the air and water spreading the infection through the townspeople until a small group of survivors made out a distress call calling the Thunderbirds.

More monsters were now appearing throughout their hide out and things were getting closer to the end of Newbay, it was time for their escape.

In about four hours, the town and everything that stood there would be gone forever.


John blinked as he couldn�t believe what he was doing, his arms were held up in front of his face holding back what he could have guessed was a strong attack from the monster in front of them.

No, a Tyrant He thought to himself remembering reading a file that he had got from the computer before it kicked him out.

Groaning a little, he pushed back making the tyrant fall back stunned that his attack had been blocked. �Get going! Now� John ordered to the others behind him, stunned as they were at his actions.

�Johnny, you�re coming too right?� Gordon called as he hung on the ladder.

�Of course I am, just get going� I don�t know what I�m doing but I know that I�ve got to hold this monster back while you get up to the birds� John said worried about what he had become thanks to their experience here in the world of survival horror.

Scott bit his lip slightly torn between helping John or the others, �You heard John, let�s go� He said hoping that he was doing the right thing as the monster got back up onto his feet with a low growl.

�John, take these just in case� Scott muttered throwing the rucksack at John, who caught it easily.

�Thanks, meet you at the top� John replied before slipping on the rucksack while getting two bombs out in the same liquid motion.

Scott nodded and helped the others get up the ladder, �Let�s get moving, we�ve got to get to the top of this building in less than two hours� He said glancing at his watch, barely making out the digits on it.


Virgil looked around the abandoned car park, �We�ll have to use the manual ramps� He said with a soft groan seeing that the elevator wouldn�t work due to the lack of power and the stairs were blocked up by vines.

�Then let�s go� Graham said before the ground below them shook.

�Damn it, what is going on down there� Scott muttered as he managed to keep his balance then followed Virgil and Gordon�s lead to get further up the building towards their Thunderbird machines.

�I don�t know but I suggest we do what John asked, and that was to get up to the top of this building!� Virgil said sounding shaken up from what he had seen in their brother�s eyes while hoping that John was ok down in the sewers.


�WH-where are we?� Scott gasped a little looking around, using his torch to find the floor label as they got to the new floor.

�Think we�re half way� Virgil replied sweeping around the area with Graham before relaxing a little, dodging a bit of rubble falling from above them.

�What are they doing down there?� Graham muttered as he helped Jill and Joey back up onto their feet before continuing their jog up the floors.

�It could be the bombs, think John is trying to defeat it� Scott replied as he kept up with the group, but could feel his body was slowly shutting down needing a few hours deep sleep to recover from the virus fully.

�Let�s hope we�re in the air before they knock the building down around us� Jill suggested as they continued to climb up the tall multi-story car park.

�Think it�s only a few more floors� Gordon added looking up, trying to remember the climb down which felt like days ago to him now.


John shook the sweat away that threatened to blind him; he had jumped up onto the ground floor of the car park before dumping four of the bombs down in the hole hoping that it would have knocked out the monster at least.

�Stay down� He threatened recounting the amount of bombs he had used in the tunnel to getting out of it.

He felt the ground shake and turned his head away from the force of the explosion sending smoke and dust up the hole in the ground, coughing the dust free from his lungs John took off to catch up with the other survivors.

John was half way up the third floor when he was sent flying back into a nearby pillar as the Tyrant caught up with him, causing the whole building around them to shake terribly. He calculated a rough guess to that they only had twenty minutes to get up to the Thunderbirds then another two hours to get out of the town.

�I seriously don�t have time for this� John growled and winced as the monster roared loudly, ripping the remainder of his coat off before his hands grew into large claws. As the coat fell onto the ground, John could see the pumping blood vessels along the Tyrant�s arms they stood out from its grey complexion.

Glancing out of the open areas, he could see that the night was fading quickly as the dawning of the new day approached. �Now I seriously don�t have time for this� John repeated himself worrying about his family above him as they raced towards the Thunderbird machines.


Scott managed to grab the safety rail when he felt the ground shake again under their feet, he was afraid that once he was down on the ground then he wouldn�t be able to find the energy to get back up again.

He looked around and saw that Virgil behind him had done the same thing while on the other side, Graham and Jill supported the boy between them. Gordon was ahead of them looking dusty and worried for their brother down below their feet.

�Keep going, we�ve got to be almost there!� Scott said keeping the waves of tiredness down until they were safely in the air and on their way to the nearest town.

�Just two more floors� Virgil called over the loud boom that made the building shake again.

Cracking could be heard throughout the building making the survivors look around worried at what the source could be the concrete was cracking apart as they started to run towards the next ramp up.

The ground started to give way under their feet; Scott pushed Virgil forward just before the ground gave way completely under his feet.

�Scott!� The siblings called, trying to grab their brother�s hand but it was too late.

He had disappeared in the cloud of dust.


Chapter Sixteen
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