Chapter.3:1 The worm
Hah.... At times likes this I would only wish that I had taken one of those warm clothings from one of the apartment. Instead I stupidly decided to walk around with my tattered shirt and jeans.... Looking at the other people with warm and comfortable suits, I couldn't help but envy them behind their back.
Just like before, each time I took a breath, I could see a fog being born as I were moving next to Kathy to the mall through the dark and infested tunnels illuminated by the lights of the SMB’s. I didn't start to shiver yet, but I could feel that my whole body was cold as we move through the tunnels.
What’s funny though is that I were suppose to evacuate with the soldiers to the pods. But they decided that they needed the knowledge that Alice had, if a problem would arise. I told them that they should have just downloaded the data from Alice, but it seems that she herself said that it is impossible unless it is another SAI because the data was not in the same format as the usual one, that’s why we scratched that idea.
So here I am, forced to march together in this cold tunnels with the soldiers as they annihilate all the resistance that stood at front of them.
As we walked for a while a few messengers ran back and forth to report to every ranked soldier of the status of the vanguard. The report was always the good news, as we had still no casualties. Although the good news only lasted until we had found something enormous and terrible past yet another door.
There it was at the first floor of the heavily infested shopping mall behind the exit from the train tunnels… A giant creature that wasn’t the snake, but rather a worm.
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"Mother of god..."
"Wha... what is that?!"
“The question is not what it is, but how the fuck did it get in here?”
“Shhh.. Turn off those flashlights”
Staring at it I could see a gigantic worm at the middle of the donut like structured mall. The mall had over 40 floors, each with tons of stores next to each other and restaurants or stalls. But the worm easily reached the 15th floor with ease as it tried to burrow to no avail through the floor. However this wasn’t just any ordinary worm that could stretch out and had teeth. Rather it had a skin made out of limbs and body parts of a human stuck onto its flesh. That wasn’t the end of it though, the limbs like the arm, feet or legs still moved as they tried to do their body functions while twitching endlessly as the worm tried to burrow. Looking at it you could also see a few intestines hanging around and all sort of bloody organs together with deformed human heads that kept saying “Help, save me, mom, dad” or all sort of sentences that ended with a scream as if it was their last sentence they said when they died
I guess this explains why we couldn’t find any human bodies at all. One was the morphing zombie like creature, the other was this that looked like it collected bodies as its trophies and lastly probably the other creatures that ate the bodies but left no bones somehow.
As the vanguard whispered to each other, they decided to quietly get inside to the upper floors so that they could get the upper hand while the worm busily tried to burrow into the floor.
But the unthinkable happened instead…
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“Hu.. Humans!” One of the chopped off head on the worm called out in a eerie tone.
“Humans?!” Another asked, which kept going until all the deformed and pitch black eyed heads on our side of the worm started to glare at us.
Soon after they started to chant “Human” in repeat that alerted the worm of our presence and a lot more. As broken glasses and tons of high pitched shrieks could be heard from above as the morphing zombie like creatures poured out of every room searching for us.
"QUICKLY THE ABOVE FLOORS!!" someone shouted and reactivated their flashlight.
Following orders our forces immediately tried to pour inside together with those already were to the stairs that lead to the above floors to gain the advantage. Before the worm stops with what it is currently doing and find the source that started the annoying chanting.
Tons of gunfire could be heard as they make their way to the top, while a few stayed behind to defend against the creatures at the first floor.
But the outcome of our offensive attack was bad as the creatures started to overwhelm our forces, that one by one of our soldiers fell to their death by their claws.
Watching over the battle from the train tunnels, I saw that one soldier fell to the floor as those deformed humans swarmed over him, although only one made it out of 5. The last creature then stabbed the soldier who let out a scream of pain who then probably died. But it didn’t end there, the creature gently cut open the helmet, which revealed a man with his mouth open.
A disgusting scene then took place as the creature heavily drooled or rather puked into the mouth, that instantly turned the sudden twitching soldier into one of them…
“EXPLOSIVES AT WILL!” Someone shouted after they noticed that they swarmed us like a zombie apocalypse from a movie and spread the infection while the worm whipped its tail against our forces that crushed a few and blew the rest away so that they got knocked out.
But quickly the battle turned around to our side, as the explosives killed most of the creatures that ran in clusters to our forces while we threw tons of grenade one after another from over 600 soldiers.
It is a wonder how the hull of the Ashinova could still hold even with all these explosives.
After a while, the only thing that was left was the dead bodies of the soldiers and the gigantic worm that was unaffected by our weapons. As the only thing that seemed to affect the worm was that the explosives removed the skin of human body parts, which revealed instead a strong carapace.
While the worm tried to climb to the upper floors to no avail because of its massive body, the soldiers who lay in wait in the entrance to the train tunnels waited patiently for their time to shine. Since the other soldiers was now at the floors above 20th that seemed to be enough to get out of reach from the worm.
Looking at the ineffective grenades, the soldiers then switched to rocket launchers to bully the helpless worm that couldn’t do anything but watch and scream at them and whip its tail onto the wall at the first floor to shake them out of the balcony of the mall.
Although even the rocket launchers that left trails of smoke proved to be useless against the carapace of the worm, which made the soldiers stop with their attack and re discuss their tactics inside the stores instead as the creature made earthshakes without noticing the soldiers that dragged the nearby surviving soldiers with deadly wounds from the battlefield to the train tunnels.
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After a few minutes it seemed that the soldiers were out of ideas since everything they did didn’t affect the creature at all. Not only that, the creature probably knew that and quietly started to watch us instead without showing its only weakness… The inside of its mouth.
I then patted Kathy’s shoulder who were crouching next to me, signaling her that I wanted to discuss something, because she were staring intently at the battlefield with the other soldiers.
They probably wanted to join their comrades in the battle but if they blew their cover, the worm would probably try to kill us instead.
“Kathy, I think we should use the railgun instead”
She glanced at me and soon after observed the quiet battlefield once more for a few seconds and then said, “But what about the other creature?”
“Heh, you don’t have to worry about that. I have another plan in mind for that.” I said with a grin.
“But I only have one single bullet…” She stated.
“But think about it. If we keep waiting here, nothing will be done and new creatures would probably arrive from the deeper parts of the Ashinova” I added.
“Everyone have probably guessed it by now, all we need is for the creature to open it mouth once”
“And what could do the job better than pain?” I sarcastically asked her.
“Yeah you are right” She said while standing up and unmounted the gigantic railgun from her back, which she then aimed it towards the worm.
“Soldiers, use the morse code to those above to get attention of the creature and tell them to ready their rocket launchers for my mark”
“Yes madam!”
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Another set of a minute passed and the soldiers above then threw another batch of grenades onto the creature, which caught its attention. Soon after they aimed their rocket launchers and waited for Kathy’s single bullet.
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“Well… Where should I shoot?” She asked me with her helmet off as she aimed with the glasses that came together with the RG.
“Uh… Alice, any ideas?” I asked her who then stuck her head out of the SMB to check around.
“Well, it looks like an earthworm but with a panzer armor, which means that the whole skin of it behind the armor should be the nerve system itself. Unless of course this creature function like a whole another being”
“Just shoot…” She then said.
“Roger” Kathy answered and clicked the confirm button to the weapon, which started to spew out blue lightning everywhere to the nearby surroundings as it powered up the railgun. Luckily, everyone knew that it would do that, so they stood a few meters away as the railgun powered itself.
“Bzzzzz Mmmmmmmmmm!” A loud sonic boom could be heard that pierced the sound barrier, but no bullet could be seen… Well it’s no wonder, the bullet is so fast that you can’t see it with the human eye.
“KYAAAAAA!” The creature soon after shrieked with a big hole through its body with blood squirting out. Quickly the soldiers barraged the swinging head that swung everywhere in pain with its mouth open as it shrieked.
The sound of exploding rockets could be heard as the worm then fell onto the floor lifeless with a “DUUUN!” while burning smoke left the mouth and from the 2 big holes on the side.
A few seconds later the worm started to curl up to a ball lifelessly.
“Nice” I said with a thumbs up towards her together with Alice.
“Hah, it’s me afterall” She bagged...
“VICTORY!!!” could be heard from the soldiers and cheers as they lifted their weapons above their head chanting the word “victory” as the soldiers at the first floor quickly went outside to help the few remaining surviving soldiers that couldn’t be reached because of the worm before.
Some even kicked the dead body of the worm and flexed their arms in a pose that made everyone cheer happily.
Now regrouping with the other soldiers at the first floor after a while, the old man who was the 2nd ranker of the Ashinova asked “So, what’s the status?
“Sir, we have 272 critically wounded, 181 lightly wounded and 379 have died” said the soldier bitterly in white suit.
“Damn… “ He answered depressingly with his helmet folded.
“Everyone who is not tending the wounded ! Salute for your dead comrades” The old man shouted to everyone, who then lined up in a perfect row without their helmets and saluted.
Soon after the old man told everyone that they were allowed to take a break to ease our mind after the hard battle, as long as it was inside the mall while a few soldiers stood guard at the entrances while taking turns.
Well not like there was a lot to do in the brutally infested mall…
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As I were walking around the upper floors carefreely with my hands in my pocket next to kathy. We tried to search for a uninfested clothing store so that I could change to something warmer because of the cold. After a while we then found a clothing store that said “Vera” on the notice board and went inside the newly broken window. It probably broke after the earthshake I guessed.
“Crack, crack”... Could be heard from the broken glasses as Kathy stepped inside first to check if any creatures was left alive hiding inside. After a while she then signaled me that it was safe by waving her hand after checking every room inside.
“Crack, crack”... More crushing sounds of broken glass pieces was heard as I stepped inside.
I slowly looked around and then stretched my hand as I said “Well, lets look for some clothings then shall we, Alice?”
Since my clothings was ripped in a few spots I took my chance to find clothings that could replace everything I had one me, while also searching for a winter jacket.
After a while I found a few sets that would fit each other and was then about to ask Kathy if they looked good, but it seems she was immersed of looking for new clothings herself. As she stood at front of the bras & panties section.
“Well, looks like I would have to rely on Alice then…” I said with a sulk.
“Hey! What’s that suppose to mean!” She replied.
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Walking around for a few seconds looking for a mirror, I then ended up in one of the dressing rooms of the store. I put the set of clothings onto a stool and picked the one at top of the rest.
“Hey, Alice! What do you think about these?” I asked whilst holding one of the chosen jeans near my legs whilst one of the chosen shirt near my chest.
“I think you should still go with the current black and red checkered shirt, together with a black jeans” she answered.
“Oh, the current one eh…”
I picked up the new set of clothings which was the exact same model as my current ripped set.
As I were changing my clothing, I also took the chance to change my boxers but then suddenly a cute “Eeeek!!” could be heard from Alice.
“Wha..what’s wrong?!” I said in panic and readying myself for battle.
“How dare you change with a girl looking! We’re not even married!” she yelled as if she were embarrassed.
“....” I stood there amazed as silence took over the dressing room.
Soon after I facepalmed myself cursing father of how he could have missed that or rather me to…
If she can think like a human and act like a human, how could I do my private stuff!?
I gave out a heavy sigh and said “Can’t you just like… not look?”
“No....”
“Deal with it then!” I said and started to change my boxers…
Suddenly a light shone into my eyes from the exit which interrupted my changing. In reflex I tried to block the light with my hands and of course I also dropped my boxer onto my pair of feet...
“Eeeeek!” someone screamed which sounded like Alice.
“Urgh, what now Alice?!” I asked.
“Wasn’t me…”
“My.. my maiden heart has been tainted!” who I thought was Alice but were Kathy who said that with a cute tone and closed the door with a “Thud!”
Soon after the door had closed, I noticed that my private part was proudly presented to her…
I gave out another heavy sigh and quickly put on my new boxers and clothings, so that I could go out and apologize to her.
How could I forget that even the automatic door wouldn’t work without electricity…
After I were done changing into my new set of clothing and the winter jacket I opened the door and went outside to look for Kathy, who I couldn’t find outside the dressing room.
Looking around I noticed a light come out from the one next to mine, which made me believe that she must be there. Thinking that she had hid herself inside the room next to mine and cried, I opened it so that I could go and apologize to her…
“WAIT!” Alice screamed after me as I did...
But it was too late. I instead added more fuel to the fire…
As I stood there while savouring the sight of the half naked beauty or rather Kathy with her petite pale body as she tried to change into a new pair of black panties. I couldn’t help but see the rest of her private parts...
“Vincent…” She angrily said while picking up the rifle on the floor next to her suit and also happily showing the rest of her body.
“WaaaaiT!” I pleaded and quickly closed the door and hid myself.
“Yo.. YOU! JUST DIEEE TRASH!!” She screamed and started spraying her bullets that penetrated the door until it was finally forced open. Luckily me and Kathy was the only one here on this floor.
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Waiting outside the room for at least 2 minutes with Alice taunting me of my failure I could then hear a sniffing sound behind the door or rather the doorless room with Kathy in it.
Looks like I had done it now…
Knocking the wall next to the doorless room that was totally dark for some reason I then went inside to apologize once again. But as soon as I stepped inside the dark room a uppercut came out of nowhere that nearly knocked me out as I flew up to the air and landed on the floor. As I laid there on the floor moaning, I could feel that she soon after grabbed my feet and dragged me into the dark room of hell.
“Wa..wait!”
“THUD!” “SMACK!” “SMACK!” “SMACK!” “BANG!” “SMACK!” “THUD!” “THUD!” “THUD!” “SMACK!”
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