"What do you mean by what they couldn't finish?"
"You told me to look at the pillars right?"
"Yes, the enclave put explosives, but I take it they no longer work. So what have you found out?"
"We can still detonate the explosives if we use an external explosion to, well explode them."
"You know, Dante sometimes, I wonder if what those egg heads did to you had actually made you smarter or if it is just that ability of your speaking through you."
"The second one for sure. I'm not that smart, Vito. I can barely pass as someone intelligent and that doesn't say a lot when most if not all of the people in the wasteland can barely even read."
"So how are we going to do this? I reckon you don't plan to blow us all together with the queen."
"No, my friend, we aren't going to die by an explosion. We have the grenades, right? With what scrap and trash are all around us, I can make an improvised timed bomb with the grenades as the charge and put a timer on them. "
"Are you sure that it would work? "
"To tell you the truth…I don't know, but I don't plan to die just yet, after all, I'm not even eighteen years old. Anyways, I'm going to start making that bomb, please keep any ant away from me or the queen, since I won't be able to defend myself for a few minutes."
While I was busy working on our bomb, Vito had little time to relax as an overcurious ant walked a little too close for the big green man's comfort. The ant glanced at him for a few seconds before opening its mandible and letting out a screech.
There was the muffled pop of a shot fired through the silent cave before the body of that ant fell to the ground with a hole in its head still smoking. "What's wrong with those things? I swear to god, if this bomb of yours doesn't work, I'm bringing a flamethrower next time we're killing insects."
I swung my flashlight at him, shaking my head at his words. Despite having tens of years of experience fighting against all kinds of foes, he still acts more like a teenager than I do, then again he does make a valid point about those flamethrowers. Suddenly I saw a silhouette in the dark slowly crawling on the ceiling and approaching Vito.
"Vito! Above you! An ant, it's above you!"
He didn't even have to look, before firing a short burst, his bullets hitting the body of a sneaky ant before the creature fell to the ground next to his now-dead brother. This might just be me being pessimistic, but these things are starting to get annoyed by our presence, or maybe it was just the fact that they were hungry. Either way, no matter what's the reason, it would undoubtedly be a terrible outcome for us if all of those things charge at us.
And then, out of the very corner of his eye, Vito saw something . . . A gigantic, hunched-over creature was "running" at an insane speed on the walls before stopping behind the queen. No matter how fast he was, the creature had some unbelievable agility for its immense size, breaking out of the green giant's sight and hiding before the old man could train his rifle on it.
"Dante! Whatever that thing was is near the queen. You have to hurry!"
"I'm almost done, here. Just… a… few…seconds left. And done."
"Then let's get the hell out of here."
He didn't have to tell me twice. I quickly planted the bomb just below one of the pillars and as close as I could to the first bomb, before setting the timer for ten minutes, more than enough time for us to get as far away from this room as we could. Just as I was about to go towards Vito something grabbed me, making me scream as I was being dragged away. In an attempt to free me from whatever caught me, my rifle roared to life, then stuttered and choked. As soon as the rifle died, I started to panic and tremble in fear, i-is this h-how I would die? Sensing my lack of struggle a slimy things wrapped around my neck and slowly start to choke me. Right as I thought that this would be my death, a voice, no familiar voice brought back my senses to life.
"Dante! Don't you dare die on me!"
Somewhere nearby another rifle was fired briefly, then fell silent for a second before it chattered back to life this time in short bursts, no doubt to conserve ammo and increase the accuracy. Vito wasn't going to abandon me, after all. The gunshots kept being fired, and the sound grew closer and closer, but it was impossible to tell if the bullets even damage the creature, after all, it didn't flinch at all. Before the creature could strangle me to death, I grabbed the knife that I held on my waist before slashing the tentacle like a limb from my neck freeing me from a slow and painful death.
The creature let out a defying scream before running towards the cave that we had just been, throwing me aside as if I wasn't worth the trouble any longer. A few minutes later, Vito found me leaning against the wall.
"C'mon, Dante, we have to get out of here."
I only grunted in pain as I let myself be caring like a bag on his shoulders, trying to keep myself from falling unconscious from the pain. I was having trouble seeing, but every time I, managed to open my eyes we seemed to be in a different tunnel.
"This was a real failure, I'm so sorry, my friend. If I didn't choose to do this mission, then we wouldn't have been here in the first place. "
"No need to apologize, kid. I just hope that you have learned something from this and in the future, you won't do the same mistake twice. Especially since there might not be such a handsome guy to say your sorry ass from mutated fauna. Now stay still, we have a little under five minutes to make out of these tunnels before your bomb explodes so hold tight."
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