C'mon Norbert. You can do this. You gotta. The highway doesn't end, it even branches off to that nuclear fusion plant.

"Norbert, you understand what'll happen if you don't make it there in time?" "Yeah, yeah, fate of the world. I'll get there, Gladius."

I smash through the gates and brake. I charge inside with a gas can and hold my gun up. A man grabs his radio as I raise my

gun, "Intrud-" He drops and I rush to him, "Got the idiot. Charged at me with a pistol." *Alright.*

I switch clothes with him and a monster charges down the road, bigger than any of them. I shout into the radio, "Lock it all down! Right now!" I get inside and blast doors come down. "Shut it all down." *What is that thing?!*

I groan, "Shut it down right now, or whatever that thing is, will kill us all." A loud crash comes from the other side of the blast door. *Run, I'll close the doors behind you.* "Yeah!"

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I back up, another loud crash ping bolts off the walls. I pull a grenade's pin as he breaks through, shifting the air in the hallway. I throw the grenade at the horde coming through. The door closes, crushing a couple that almost get past. The rotten smell of dead animal fills the room.

*Grab that welder!* I turn and run into the next chamber. *It's all hooked up.* I grab the nozzle and start welding the edges of the door after it shuts. I take a deep breath of the metal dust and toxic fumes. A second later, they bend the door. A fist bent the door like nothing.

Gladius was an idiot. We can't stop them, only delay them. "Close them all!" *Hurry through, now!* I run past, each of the gates shut in a split second. The monsters pick up the pace, breaking the doors faster than they drop

The guy with the lab coat yells on the speakers in front of armored soldiers, "Keep going, do not let them inside the reactor room!" I pour gas all over the last wall as they break through, a giant wall of black greets us. They've fused together. The smell of death comes back.

I step forward, "Come on, you vile, inhuman, cold blooded nightmares!" They try to charge, but the gas catches fire. They flail and squeal amongst a hail of bullets. A minigun falls from the ceiling by a tether. *Join in!* I raise that fucker up and let her rip. See you soon, Whiskey.