Running down the hallway, the soldiers frantically run from the sounds of flesh squirming, and bones munching echoed, getting fainter the further they ran. Beads of sweat drift off their faces as they see the carnage left behind from the monstrosity they are trying to escape from.
Looking at the various blood stains and burn marks around the hallway, one of the men mumble's "I guess we all know what happened to bravo 7." the smell of iron permeating the air, they found burnt pieces of flesh.
Alice gasping for air quickly yells, "wait!" causing everyone to stop in their tracks. The captain looking back at her before screaming, "what is it?" at the exhausted girl.
Taking a quick swig of cold water from her canteen, she begins talking, "Anyone notice how that thing only attacked us after we mentioned the bombs? is it possible for it to have any intelligence?" she asked the captain, forcing herself to calm down.
The captain quickly shouts, "Are you seriously asking this now? We need to get away from that thing as fast as possible, and you want to talk and ask if it is smart or not?" exasperated as the sounds of flesh and bones crunching continues to echo.
Alice, continuously gasping for air, begins speaking, "Listen, why would it try to hide from us in the vents when it could've come after us at any moment? Why did it only get Robert after we talked about blowing it up? A mindless animal wouldn't know what we were saying, and that thing is smart, and who knows how long it has been watching us from the vent."
Robert finally stops panting starts talking "wait, are you saying this thing can understand what we are saying?" he asks exasperatedly.
All color starts to leave Ben's face as a cold sweat starts coming over him with a crackly voice saying, "Game over man, Game over, how can we fight something that keeps growing bigger and bigger? We're all going to die here, aren't we?"
One of the men from the other team dissapeared suddenly as everyone else was talking about the monster's situation.
The captain rushes out to Ben before slapping him in the face angrily, leaving him slapping off his glasses. "We are not going to die! Alice, are you certain this thing is a smart as you say it is?"
Another man dissapears without even having the chance to scream.
Alice begins speaking, "I don't know, but what I do know is that it knows that explosives and maybe even fire are dangerous to look around you. Doesn't this look like one of those scenes from a horror movie? We should assume the worst-case scenario that it is either intelligent or it has already experienced combat with the bravo 7."
One of the men begins convulsing before falling onto the ground.
One of the soldiers begins speaking, "Hey, we got a man down over here." Going to help him as the convulsions get worse and worse.
The captain shouts, "support his head and hold him down he is having a seizure!" before rushing towards himself.
Jordan then shouts, "you fool stop, something isn't right." Holding back the captain while five of the other men were holding the guy down, he started to have pieces of bone and blood popping out of him.
Red tendrils pop out of the poor man as it goes around, piercing in and out the eyes of all the men around before a large quickly transfers from person to person, hollowing them out by one leaving nothing but skin behind. The last man having one eye remaining, turns into a large lump, looking like he gained half a ton everywhere.
The remainder looked in horror as an inhuman voice spitting up blood begins speaking "res.... for.... creator" before a yellow eye that was originally in the eye hole looks at them while the normal human gets engulfed by teeth.
Edward aims his gun at the monster before releasing a hail of bullets on the creature when a tendril with numerous mouths and teeth quickly either blocks or catches the bullets.
Seeing this, Alice quickly starts shooting at the soldier before shouting, "what are you waiting for? A grand invitation shoot the bastard!"
Not waiting, a few of them start screaming before shooting their guns. Jordan hitting the captain in the face looking angrily at the captain before saying, "Do your job." At the same time, Ben runs down the hallway, leaving them all behind.
Another tendril with mouths and eyes comes out of the creature, rapidly blocking the bullets as it awkwardly steps forward towards them with inverted knees while gurgling blood "ki... them... all." The creature quickly begins getting thinner while the tendrils get bigger before one of them quickly extends, piercing Edward straight in the chest.
Coughing up blood and bits of matter, he shouts, "Get out of here. This isn't something we can beat!" before suddenly he is pulled directly into the walking corpse where it bisects into a huge maw before eating him. He screams in agony as his flesh, blood, and bones breaking with every bite.
"Fall back!" the captain shouts as he watches his group get decimated by the creature.
Suddenly a bullet flies through the air hitting it in the head causing a third chunk of it to go spraying across the floor and wall. Quickly a mound of flesh and eyes quickly fills in the hole looking for its attacker when another takes off a chunk of its bicep. The creature quickly extends a tendril before pulls itself up into the ventilation hiding from the high-powered bullets coming out of seemingly nowhere.
Knowing only one person who could take such precise shots the captain lets out a small smile before shouting "hold your fire!" Everyone stops their fire before one of the few surviving shouts "What the hell was that! We just lost over half our guys and you just panicked the entire time!" he pointed at the captain.
In response the only thing he said was, "Is anyone else holding up any better right now? Can anyone else really say we have this thing under control? We are facing an unknown enemy beyond us and now it appears there is more than one of them. Complaining about it isn't going to get us anywhere so if you have a better idea of what we should do I am all ears!"
Jordan quickly grabbed his shoulder "enough we have enough on our plate as is, no reason to tear ourselves apart."
quickly calming down the captain grunts and looks at Alice. "you were right this thing is intelligent." Before shouting "everyone the creature is hiding in the vents keep eyes on everything we don't know where it could pop out from next.
Suddenly a scream comes out from down the hallway and a guttural roar is heard. It was at this moment that everyone knew there was no way out.