Atrianna looked over at Vlad and frowned.

"You know Vlad...your lucky. No family or kids to worry about. I have a little girl, and right now, I'm worried sick about her. The only comfort I have is that I know she's not in the country right now."

"So...what do we do now?"

Sam walked into a corner, and sat down. Finally a time to just sit down and rest. Sam thought. He reloaded his AKM, and his Desert Eagle. Then, he realized something. He was STARVING!! He hadn't eaten anything since the Russian base camp 1!
" Um, hey, doc? You got any food?" Sam inquired. The doc nodded and ran off to get something edible.
Wait doc getting food? What about Alexis? Sam thought as he ran over to Alexis.
There sat Smith, operating like a surgeon.
" I hope the KA-bar is sterile Smith, If she gets infected with the Bubonic plague, I'm taking it out on you" Sam said making clear that it was part joke. part joking, about the Bubonic part, but mostly serious, the plague and infected and take it out on him part. If he had used the knife to smash a zombie in the head recently, she could become one of them.

Smith nodded as the doctor ran off. "Yeah, this just doesn't feel right... I can't put my finger on it but everything here is just too perfect. I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but, still, something's just not right." Smith frowned as he considered the original serum.

"I wish I knew what that would do to her... I have to agree though, it appears to have done Vlad little harm and a little harm to Doctor Ian is going to do less than have her leg die on her..." The last part was accented with a sharp slice with his knife, removing a rather large -and growing- chunk of dead flesh.

"Vlad!" He called. "I need you to explain what the serum does. If it does what I'm guessing we're going to need it pretty damn quick in order to save Doctor Ian's leg!"

Vlad looked at the American officer, slightly suspicous of the question, but he dismissed it and answered.

"The corrected serum I created is a combination of human cells, both regular and stem, with enhanced drugs similar to that of steroids, except more powerful. The serum was designed to double a human's natural strength and make regenerative abilities more effective. First tests were so succesful that we discovered that the test subjects were nearly unable to be killed by bullets. If you were to give the good Doctor Ian here that serum, this is only a possiblity, but her body would emulate her leg's tissue...and regrow, as strange as that is. It's the way I created it, or at least the corrected version, the old one had some....different effects."

Vlad checked his AK's magazine and looked at one of the survivors, who continued to stare.

He spoke to one,"Hey, you never seen a Russian soldier before?"

He then saw something he hoped he would never have to see on a survivor.

A bite mark.

He lifted the machine gun and fired a few rounds into the person's head, killing them instantly. He began looking around and whispered to himself,"We've been exposed..."

Atrianna watched as Vlad seemed to gun down one of the survivors.

What the hell?!

"Vlad! What're you doing?! What the hell was that for?!"

Atrianna ran over to the remains of the survivor to see if there was any hope of saving him and noticed something which seemed to explain why Vlad had shot him.

Teeth marks...he was one of the infected?!

Atrianna slowly walked over to Vlad, slowly as not to draw attention to herself.

"What do we do now? Do we search em or shoot em?"

Vlad was still in shock of his own actions, but knew it was the only course of action.

"We search them, be careful though, they could turn at any moment."

The survivor's eyes should pure fear, as they didn't know what would happen.

"Goddammit!" Smith snarled as he 'fought' with the necrotic tissue, trying to cut it off before it would get anywhere... and, for the most part he was succeeding... but not where it mattered. That and he didn't like getting blood all over his hands.

"Vlad, how likely is is that her leg would regrow?" He asked as he watched Vlad shoot a 'survivor'. He saw the bitemarks too on the man's neck. He repeated the question a little after he answered Atrianna's question before turning to Aiden.

"Just keep them away from me while operating, please." He implored the man. "While I likely could attempt to keep them at bay and operate, it's not that high on the list of things I wanted to do this week." Or year.

Vlad began looking over the other survivors as the American asked his question.

"Well, Smith, depends on the dosage...I think mabye half of the cylinder that you had would work, isn't that how much you had left? The serum is extremely effective, though the regenerative process can be....painful to say the least, it takes time, but less than a day, which explains the pain.."

He saw a bite mark, he quickly shot the next survivor, he'd have to check out each one of them, hoping they didn't panic and struggle. He'd probably have to kill them all if that happened, so he needed to move fast.

Atrianna looked over the survivors and quickly did a head count.

Seven women...two kids, this shouldn't take too long.

"Vlad...I'm going to take the woman and kids and give them the once over, you can never tell where they may have been bitten. Unless you hear me shouting, don't come around the corner."

Atrianna hunched down on her legs and gave the two kids her best "reassuring face."

"Alright, I'm going to need you two to come with me around the bend for a few minutes. Don't worry, I won't hurt you, I just need to check you over to make sure you're not...sick."

The two little kids nodded and followed Atrianna around the corner.

"Well, shoot." Smith muttered, looking at the syringe that had somehow appeared in his off hand while he was playing butcher with Doctor Ian's legs.

First do no harm can go to Hell. he thought to himself before stabbing the needle into the affected area and depressing the plunger all the way to give her a half-dose.

He then heard Atrianna herd a family away to check them for bite marks... and, terminate them if there were any...

How can we be human after this?

Vlad nodded to Attriana as she walked with the children to the other side of the wall. He hoped they weren't infected, killing innocent children wasn't on his to-do list, and he had no intention of ever getting it there.

He looked at Smith, as he began applying his 'treatment.'

He chuckled,"You know, seeing the way you're holding her leg, someone might get the wrong idea...might want to give a sedative.."

Yuri and Boris chuckled at Vlad's ultimately dark-humoured joke.

Vlad shook the smile off his face and got out a sedative.

"No, seriously, if she wakes up while you're doin' that, she'll scream like a stuck-pig, and draw everything dead for the next ten miles..."

He handed the sedative to Smith.

Atrianna couldn't help but sigh with relief when both of the children checked out clear.

Thank god for that, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I had to kill a kid.

Atrianna knelt down next to the children and smiled. "I want you two to stick close to that man with the gun over there. He'll watch over you while I check the others okay?"

Atrianna grinned as the two kids ran over to Vlad and made a few attempts to grab his AK. "Leave his gun alone though!"

Atrianna ushered in the ladies and began to check them over.

Alright...the first five check out...now for the last two.

Atrianna breathed another sigh of relief as the last two checked out clear.

"Alright, you all are clear to go. Stay away from the other survivors though, Vlad thinks we may have a few spies among us."

Atrianna waved to Vlad and mouthed the words "All Clear."

Vlad nodded to Attriana, he was quite glad to receive the all-clear sign.

One of the kids suddenly yanked on the AK.

"NO! Nooooo...you don't want that..." He gently broke the child's grip and slung it a bit higher on his back so they couldn't get too it.

Then something came to his mind. He had always kept a small teddy bear in his pocket, he had found it on the ground in a Russian village several years earlier, and had kept it for good luck ever since.

He smiled and put a hand in his pocket, taking out the small teddy bear.

He kneeled and handed the child the bear.

The child smiled as well and took it, Vlad chuckled, "Take good care of it, little one."

He patted the child and the head and stood again presuming to check the rest of the survivors. He still had a bad feeling, though, but he didn't know if it came from the survivors, but they were currently his best bet.

Smith took the sedative with a small blush, "after preforming surgery with a K-Bar on the field without sedative you tend to forget those things." He said, deciding to let Vlad's other comment slide.

After quickly injecting the sedative he breathed a sigh of relief... until he looked down at his BDU's... all of which were bloodsoaked. Damn.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Atrianna mouth something, the gist of it being that everybody she'd checked was clean.

He looked at Vlad and then at himself. "Vlad, you're only about half a foot taller than me... do you have a spare uniform or something I can wear, I hate wearing bloodstained uniforms when it's from surgery."

Vlad chuckled,"Why? Bloodstained pants intimidate zombies.."

He then fished out one of his older uniforms from his pack, tossing it to Smith.

"Don't get it soiled..."

He chuckled and then said,"Have you applied the serum yet? That may ease the operation..or at least would've."

"Ha. Ha. Ha." Smith said, catching the old uniform. "Do you want them pressed or would just a simple dry-cleaning suffice?"

He then tossed Vlad the empty serum syringe, careful to keep the needle pointing up throughout the throw, in answer to his second question.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to change and then clean off my knife and see if I can get a little bit of blood out of my BDU's." Giving a sarcastic bow and salute to Vlad, Smith walked deeper in the complex before he found himself a bathroom. "Hello?" He asked as he opened the door.

The lights were off. That made sense to him as he walked deeper and and then groped in the dark for the lights.

He turned them on and surveyed his surroundings.

Sinks, toliets, stalls, zombies, urinals, zombie dogs, dryers. He thought. Nothing out of place.

Wait.

Zombies! Backing out of the room, and being chased by the zombies, Smith broke into a run out of the bathroom and headed straight for the congregating place that Vlad had chosen.

"Help!" He yelled as loudly as his lungs would allow as he approached the point.

Atrianna instantly brought up her mini-gun the second she heard the word "help!"

She watched as Smith ran in toward the commons area with a group of zombies following in hot pursuit.

Even here we're not safe!

"HIT THE DECK!"

Atrianna unleashed a torrent of lead into the zombies as smith jumped and hit the ground.

Alright...that's all...what the hell?!

Atrianna squinted her eyes as infected dogs ran in.

"Shoot em!"

Atrianna unleashed another blast from her mini-gun and nailed two of the dogs and then threw Smith a pistol.

"What did you do?!"

As the dogs ran out, Vlad immediatley grabbed the nearby two children and shielded them. As Attriana took them out, he stood, brandishing his weapon.

He armed the grenade launcher and fired a round into the doorway that Smith had come out of. The building collapsed and the entrance was sealed.

"No more coming out of there...anyway, anyone could've drawn them out, Smith couldn't help it, but we should all stick together now, I think things will only get worse from here. It's always when you think you're safe that you are in the most danger..."

He pushed over a dead zombie with his foot, examining the creature carefully.

Amidst the ensuing chaos following Smith's discovery of zombies, and the subsequent collapse of the structure, Aiden had managed to grab Alexis and drag her clear of the rubble. Except they were now trapped. On the wrong side.

He looked down at her beautiful form, and then pulled out the vial of serum. The only stuff left of its kind. It could barely be seen, as the light was dim, but the sun gleamed through cracks in the structure. The red liquid of life glistened when he turned it. Finally, he reached down, and gave her half of the liquid remaining in the vial.

She did not awaken.

Strange...the sedative's effects would be no match for the serum, normally.

But one thing he did notice. Her leg had already shown slight hints of healing. But it was nowhere close to being done. It would take hours before it was fully healed, and even then she might not be fit for action. He considered giving her the rest of the vial, but then dismissed the thought quickly.

There's no telling when we might need this stuff again.

Blocked by an impassable wall of rubble, Aiden and Alexis Ian would have to find a way out of the subway. And then his thoughts turned to the zombies. None were present at the moment.

So he sat. And waited.

Smith caught the pistol that Atrianna threw him and worked the action. He then turned to 'face' any remaining Zombies... only to watch as they got introduced to religion by Vlad's grenade.

"Yeah, things are likely going to only get worse after this." He agreed with the Russian. "But, excuse me, I have to change." He then walked to a corner and quickly changed out of his now blood-soaked BDU's and pulled on the Russian's old Uniform, it was a little big for him, but it kept him covered and that was all he really could ask.

Smith then did a quick head-count. "Damn, Aiden and Doctor Ian are behind that wall!"

Somehow, either by his hearing or some sixth sense, Aiden was able to make out Smith's exclamation. But he knew he didn't need this sense to figure out what Vlad would say.

No, he and Alexis were fairly safe, and Vlad hadn't really wanted anyone else with him on his final mission. It was very likely that Vlad would let them be and find them later when the chaos was over.

But that was exactly the problem. Vlad might be very well not be there when this was all over.

They had to get to Vlad as quickly as possible before he reached the hive leader. Because Aiden had an idea about who the leader was.

And he was a whole lot smarter than any of them.

At that moment, almost as if on cue, Alexis awoke, wide-eyed, and trying to figure out what to say.

"The wall collapsed. As far as I can tell there is no way through it. We just have to find a way out of the subway and get to Vlad."

She silently cursed. Obviously she wasn't very pleased with events. And they were about to get worse.

Vlad looked at the collapsed rubble on the doorway.

"They do not stand a chance on their own."

He waved his fist at the door,"Vassili, get a C4 on the large piece of rubble, we'll make it smaller."

He walked with the squad to the rubble, and yelled as loud a he could into the rubble.

"AIDEN! FIND COVER 5 METERS FROM THE DOOR, WE'RE GOING TO GET YOU OUT!"

Vassili began setting the timer.

This time, Aiden heard Vlad much more clearly than he had heard Smith.

Vlad, I guess I had the wrong idea about you.

At that very moment, Aiden heard a noise. A very bad noise. The noise of a brute.

He grabbed Alexis and ran, towards the brute, but away from the wall....

Which was now pure rubble. Then, the entire subway structure started to shake, and the zombie noises got louder.

"Run!" He pulled Alexis, who was no doubt in a bit of shock, though plenty capable of running, and they bolted. The ceiling started to collapse, and then brutes began to pour through the walls. The combined stress of the C4 and the brute horde was too much for the subway.

They made it to Vlad, and everyone began running deeper into the subway, fully aware of the danger they were in.

If they stayed, they would die from the structure collapsing. Or the brutes. And deep into the subway was, presumably, the leader of the hive.

Regardless, no one stopped running. The entire structure gradually collapsed behind them, and kept going. If it didn't stop, they would all be crushed.

Sam appeared next to Aiden and Alexis, and slapped him on the back.

At least they were all running together.

( sorry, my internet went crazy again)
Sam had been sitting down, the fact that Alexis might die being to mush for him. He had already lost his brother, and his father was over God knows where, fighting for the ever trimphant governmant. He had reamined oblivious to the firefight going on, it was all too much for him. Then the explosion broke out, and Sam came back to it.
Run like hell! Were the only words going through his head as made his way towards the exit with everyone else.

Vlad sprinted, moving faster than everyone else, and not because of his height, the super-soldier serum was becoming quite fun.

He lifted Attriana and Yuri and tossed them farther ahead so they ran faster, he wanted to be the one bringing up the rear, that way no one would fall behind.

He stopped for a moment, lifting his AK to his shoulder, firing at the incoming brutes.

( Is it just me, or are Brutes the favorite super Zombie?)
Sam finally made it too the end of the hallway. Vlad was there already, unloading untold amounts of lead into the brutes on the outside. Sam looked at Attrianna, maybe he mini-gunn would be of some use, then he saw the little kids.
Screw the brutes, I've got to protect those kids, and it may help with my impression in Smith's eyes. I hope. Sam went over to the kids.

Noticing Sam break off, he watched as he went over and tried to help the children. Aiden was actually a little touched, and made his way over to see if he could help. The brutes had fallen slightly behind, and at the moment they had a good chance of making it to wherever they were going before the brutes got to them.

That is, of course, until they heard a gut-wrenching scream, unlike any zombie scream Aiden had heard before. A loud noise like that of a train screeching to a halt sounded, and in the distance the subway appeared to explode with debris.

Something was coming.

Sam was talking to the kids, then a screeching noise, like faulty brakes or nails going down a chalkboard, comes from the subway. Sam hefted one of the kids over his shoulder telling him that they needed to get out of here quickly. Sam ran for the Russian base, it was only a few blocks away.
Finally they arrived at the base, The russians apparently had heard the noise too.
" Here comes the lead rain" Sam said to himself.
( I thought we were leaving, but i could just be taking the kid to a safe place...)

(Wait, where exactly are we going anyway? I thought we were heading into the subway because Vlad had a mission there.)

(We're obviously going somewhere...:D We'll see where though....:D)

Vlad looked down the tunnel and shook his head angrily. The zombies were coming.

"Everyone, get to the main station!! It's near here somewhere!!"

He activated his radio,"Begin Operation: Final Dawn."

He sighed, knowing what that Operation meant. He kept running towards the main station.

(This might be the End of Atrianna. Not really sure yet.)

Atrianna was right behind Vlad as the tunnle echoed with the howls and screams of the undead.

"Vlad! Get the survivors someplace safe. Send someone to take the women and children back to the safehouse when your back aboveground. I'm going to try and buy you a bit of time."

Atrianna hefted her mini-gun and ran back down the tunnel toward the undead, stopping as she heard the scream of a jumper up ahead.

This is a better end then I could have possibly hoped for...If this is really the end for me. They're just going to keep chasing us and chasing us, and eventually, they'll catch up to Vlad and the survivors. This is for the best.

She smiled grimly as the footsteps grew closer and closer until the footsteps became shadowy shapes rapidly approching her.

"SUCK THIS!"

Atrianna unleashed a barrage of lead on the first wave of undead, and then launched a grenade into the center of another group that was approching.

They were still coming.

"Bring it on! If I'm going out, I'm taking you all with me!"

Vlad stopped for a moment, watching Attriana. She had a look in her eye that he had seen on many different soldiers. All of them became martyrs of a sort. One thing that all martyrs had in common. They all died.

He ran to Attriana, grabbing her shoulder. He then whacked her hard, temporarily blacking her out.

"This is no time for heroics. We are going to get ALL of the survivors out."

He then ran after the rest of the group, dragging Attriana as fast as he could.

Atrianna felt someone grab her shoulders and then felt something hard crack her across the back of her head.

Son of a-

(Flashback time!)

Three months ago.

Location: Kyoto Japan.

"I don't understand Mom, why can't you stay here?"

"Because...the people in America need help right now. There's been some sort of Bio-attack and I have friends over there. I'm heading back over there to bring them to Japan where they'll be safe.

Damn corrupt politicans. First sign of trouble and they run like cowards. No wonder I left.

"But Mom, What am I going to do while you're gone?"

"Your going to be staying with Li and Leen. I've already asked them if you can stay with them and they've agreed to let you stay with them."

"But I want to go with you!"

"I'm sorry, but you can't. It's way too dangerous for you over there right now. The country is in a state of panic."

"I don't care!"

"I do!"

Atrianna knelt down on one knee and looked at her daughter. "While I'm gone, I want you to keep studying, I don't want you to have the life that I have, I want you to be succesful."

Shalya stared down at the ground as a car horn sounded outside. "That's Li and Leen, They're going to help you pack."

Atrianna knelt down and hugged her daughter. "I promise you, I'll be back soon."

Shayla sniffed once and watched as her mother walked out the door.

Present day.

No...I promised her I would come back. I am going to see my daughter again. If it takes the deaths of over fifty thousand of the undead, I will see her again.

Sam set the kid down, " Stay here, okay buddy?" Sam instructed the kid. He nodded wiping tears and dirt from his eyes. " Hey, uhhh, Russkys! I need you to keep an eye on the kid, He better not have a scratch when I come back!" Sam yelled just as Boris came out.
" Oh, Jahvol mein fuhrer, would you like fries with that?" Boris said in barely hidden contempt.
" Just keep an eye on the kid, okay!" Sam said as he ran back to the subway, joining the group in time to see Attrianna get K.O.d by Vlad.

Aiden grabbed one of the kids, and began running. He waited, there, for a moment. As Sam and some other survivors continued on, he noticed Atrianna. What was she doing? He stood, immobilized by...something...perhaps a touch of compassion, love, and stress all in one.

Then Vlad knocked her unconscious, and all Aiden could do was smile. As they found an exit to the safehouse, finally, survivors began rushing through.

"Big thing," the quiet kid in Aiden's arms pointed.

"What's that?" Aiden smiled and then looked.

The brute in the distance barely fit in the subway. This was going to really suck. So Aiden put the kid down. "Go!" The child did not look back.

Turning to the massive beast, charging more maniacally than any of its brothers, Aiden knew that no one would survive if this thing were kept alive.

Vlad was running, dragging Atrianna, when he noticed it. He and Vlad made eye contact. Aiden knew what he had to do.

"Ow...who hit me?"

Atrianna forced her eyes open and took a quick look around her surroundings.

Lets see here...Vlad's dragging me along the ground, I'll have to get back at him for that...The ground is shaking slightly which can't be a good thing...and...Holy crap!

Atrianna's eyes locked onto the massive brute that was chasing them. What the hell is that thing?!

Her hands quickly went down to the small grenade pouch that usually carried only to find herself down to three grenades.

You've gotta be kidding me! Alright...think...be calm...

"Shoot it in the head! Shoot that thing in the head until it goes down!"

Atrianna quickly reached down to where her mini-gun would be...only to find it missing.

Vlad...I am so going to beat you sensless after this! That was my favorite gun!

Sam ran back to the group, bringing the AKM up to his shoulder. He sighted in on the Large brutes head, firing senselessly at it. 30 rounds later, he reloaded, but the Brute wasn't going down.
"Wheres and RPG when you need it." Sam said exasperatedly.

Yuri looked at Sam.

"Wheres and RPG when you need it."

He smiled, "Right here, American, right here..."

He took out several metal pieces from his pack and began to assemble the weapon.


Vlad looked at the huge zombie charging forward. He sighed,"I'm sorry about having to knock you out Attriana, can't have anyone dying on us, can we?"

He ran faster, firing as he went.

"You still owe me for that mini-gun."

Atrianna then grabbed Vlad's hand and twisted it painfully backwards.

"Sorry Vlad, but if my plan has any chance of working, I'm gonna have to fight that thing up close.

She heard Vlad gasp in suprise and pain and then felt his grip on her slacken momentarily. "See ya soon!"

Atrianna ran toward the giant brute and grabbed her last three grenades.

Sure hope this works...otherwise I'm gonna be in trouble.

Atrianna pulled the pin on the last three grenades just as the brute opened it's mouth to let out a loud roar.

"Suck on This!"

Atrianna threw the grenades just the brute finished it's loud roar. One went off to the side and hit in the arm, but the last two were right on target.

Atrianna grinned as the last two grenades landed directly in the brute's mouth and it's eyes widended in suprise.

"Get down! This is gonna be messy!"

Vlad looked down in surprise at his broken wrist. He understood why Attriana did it, but why did she have to break it now? He shook his head, and watched in wonder as his hand immediatley healed.

The Serum.

He chuckled,"Heh, I love my job..."

He stood, just in time to see several zombies rush towards Attriana's position. He emptied lead into them before they could get any closer.

Suddenly, something tackled him from behind.

Atrianna grinned as the giant brute's head went "Boom," and then the smiled turned to a frown as she quickly had to dodge the remains of the giant brute even as it toppled to the ground.

Atrianna turned around to smile at Vlad only to see that she was surrounded by the bodies of the undead.

Huh, guess they were creeping up on me and someone took em out.

Atrianna then realized that something had tackled Vlad to the ground. What is that thing?

Alright...out of guns...out of grenades...still got my knife...yup. Knife'll work nicely.

Atrianna pulled out her combat knife and rushed at the thing that was currently locked in a battle to the death with Vlad.

"You don't get to kill him! If anyone's gonna kill him it's me!"

Smith held out his arm to restrain Atrianna.

"You don't want to use a combat knife against that... I have no idea what it is, but the thing looks like a damn maniac!"

He raised the pistol Atrianna had given him and fired three times, each time into the head of that... Thing.

"That, Atrianna, is how you kill something like that up close." Smith said before turning to Vlad.

"You okay? After all, I'd hate for you to die before our countries finally get this war thing moving."

Sam helped Vlad up, looking around for more undead... none.
" Phew, for once, I think we can rest a while, hehehe." Sam said, then an Explosion went off, in the general direction of the Russians base.
" Oh CRAP!" Sam yelled as he burst into a run, hoping that it was just a mine or something...

Vlad looked at Smith,"I hope there isn't a war, Lieutenant. Your country is in bad condition as it is, my forces would make it worse. Perhaps some other time..."

He smiled and took Sam's hand, standing without problem.

He looked down at the zombie that had attacked him. It was absolutley ugly, but most were, but there was something strange about this one. Vlad couldn't analyze now, though.

"We've got to keep moving, we must reach the Main Station in the center of the city."

Aiden felt that he had been overdramatizing the situation. Nothing they had seen so far Vlad hadn't been able to handle, and he felt reassured that the man would be able to accomplish his final mission. But there was still something wrong.

Aiden felt very tired. Very, very tired.

The sort of tired you feel where it is as if you have been kicked out of your house, driven halfway across the country, been picked up by a automobile full of foreign military officers, faught hundreds of undead, been taken over by an undead, revived, and run through a subway with a massive monster chasing you.

Of course, this is precisely the situation that Aiden had been in. So he felt that it was quite understandable when he collapsed onto the ground unconscious.

"Lieutenant? What are you on Major, last I checked I was a Lieutenant Colonel, not somebody fresh out of OCS!"

He'd started moving again when he noticed Aiden collapsed, presumably unconscious.

"Alright, who wants to carry him?" Smith asked. "Cause I sure as hell don't!"

He looked around, noticing that nobody was taking him up on the 'offer'. "Damn." He muttered before grabbing the younger man and lifted him up in an approximation of a fireman's carry.

"Alright, let's get going again." He gasped out.

(I'm a bit confused...where is everyone going exactly? And what happend to the men Vlad went after in the first place?)

((Ummm...I think there's been a misunderstanding, but we are still in the subway))

Vlad cocked his head to the right, raising an eyebrow to Smith.

"Sorry, Lieutenant-Colonel, but I have better things to handle then pay attention to an American's rank, even if it's higher than mine. There are bigger things, much like the fact that you are surrounded by heavily armed Russian Elite that may have an itchy-trigger finger for you. I'd be careful."

He kept on walking, shouting orderes in Russian. He looked back at Smith, Attriana, and Sam.

"Come! We must reach the Central Station soon!"

Sam returned to the Russians, it was just a stray Car, blowing up from nothing.
Odd, but explains it better than what I'd imagined.Sam thought. The Russians were heading back into the Subway.
" Come, we must reach the Central Station soon!" Vlad said. Sam checked his Desert Eagle. Still 7 rounds and an extra 5 mags. His Old Desert Eagle was somewhere or other.
" Hey, uhh, Vlad, you keep my Desert Eagle? Or is it lost somewhere?" Sam asked before following the crew into the Tunnel.

While most people would describe the hive as evil, which is no doubt evidenced by the many people it has killed, taken over, and the fact that it is trying to take over the world and enslave all of the humans on it, it could also be described as very extraordinary.

It may be a virus, but in conjunction with something as powerful as the human brain, inexplicable events happen.

"We are close now."

"Yes, we are. But do not forget your role in this."

"You promised me power, and I expect that you will follow through." The man grew apprehensive.

"Just do it." The man in the Russian uniform had a mischievous smile on his face. But the other had no choice.

He drank a large dosage of some strange green fluid, and his muscles began to enlarge slightly in size, while his reflexes and speed increased. Then he approached some zombies and made a gesture. They followed his lead.

"Do no disappoint me," the man in the uniform said.

"I won't. You know how this chemical works. I am stronger than the largest brute." He grinned.

With that he walked off, and he appeared to be going into a dark area. The zombies followed. In the distance all he saw was a sign.

It read, Central Station.

Then the dream faded. Some voice, as if from a distance, spoke to him then.

"The connection is almost lost."