ch. 2 Situation Stable
Willy took out a stun gun that he had been carrying, and said in a deep voice: "I'll go down and take a look, Nick you protect Sean."
Nick raised an objection: "Wait, I'll go down downstairs to the commercial cabin, you have to go to the cockpit."
Willie glared, but before he could retort, Nick quickly cut off his senior partner "Think about it! We are on a plane, we have already lost the captain and we can't afford to lose the co-pilot."
Sean chimed in at this time and said, "Don't worry me, I can protect myself, you can go and save the others."
Willie gritted his teeth and looked at Sean's determined eyes. He said solemnly: "Very well, but stay cautious Sean. This is happening because the Kim family is trying to kill you, you must never leave the first class."
Sean nodded. He also knew that right now was not the time to try and be a hero by himself and cause the two agents trouble.
Considering that the cockpit was full of electronic devices, Willie handed the electric baton to Nick and pulled out the magazine he was read and rolled it up.
With the baton in hand, Nick considered that fact that the snakes could easily conduct the electricity and injured other other passengers, so he then handed the electric baton to Sean, which also gave him a little self-protection.
"Is there any weapons on the plane?"
Nick asked the flight attendant, and the flight attendant Julie looked at Nick with a face of bewilderment "Why would we keep weapons on a plane!"
"Where are the eating utensils at then?"
"they're all plastic."
"Damn it!" Walking past the flight attendant, Nick broke off a retractable tray from a seat and slammed his knee into it, Creating two slightly sharp triangular pieces of thick plastic 'Better than nothing I guess'.
Walking down from first class, Nick saw complete chaos as the passengers were screaming, crying and dying in the cramped plane isles.
On the floor were hundreds of colorful writhing snakes, slithering around the blue and purple bloated corpses.
Looking at the chaotic scene, Nick stood on the stairs and took out his badge and shouted at the top of his lungs "Im an N.I.A. Agent, Group up with me!"
Hearing Nick's loud authoritating voice cut above the others, the chaotic people who didn't know what to do, rushed towards Nick.
"Women and children go up the stairs to the first class cabin! The remaining men will join me to seal off all entrances leading to first class and build a barricade to prevent them from entering!"
Nick remembers clearly that in the movie Willie had forbidden anyone to going into first class at the beginning because he was worried about Sean's personal safety. As a result, when the snakes invaded the second-class cabin, the panicked passengers ignored Willie and swarmed up. Not only did a stampede occur, but the stairs collapsed.
Since this fate is unavoidable, it is better to get everyone into first class now while they are calm to avoid unnecessary casualties.
With Nick taking command of the situation, the once chaotic group of people were working as a group on one common goal. There was still crying and groans of pain, but the people had a purpose.
As the women and children were frantically getting up the stairs, an orange and black snake slipped pass the half constructed barricade and was about to attack a boy, only for a pierce of harden plastic to peirce through it's head.
'That was surprisingly easy with this new body, even without powers, this body is very athletic' Nick was surprised by the speed and coordination that this body already had.
Looking at the still writhing snake corpse, Nick remembered a fact he learned from Bear Grills, that even a decapitating snake could still bite hours after death, based purely on muscle reflexes.
Using the hardened plastic, Nick lifted the moving snake corpse and threw it passed the barricade, and started killing any snake that entered as the men were pilling up suitcase and bags to prevent the snakes from entering.
Looking down at the plastic shard, Nick pressing his thumb onto it, getting the snakes blood, and pressed his thumb onto his tattoo.
The snake corpse started turning ethereal as it quickly dissolved atom by atom, and flew into Nick's arm tattoo.
"ARHHH!"
Like being inject with lava, Nick felt an overwhelming heat flowing through his body, changing it and transforming it, causing him to shriek in pain.
"Hey man are you okay!? you haven't been bitten have you!" A male flight attendant asked worriedly.
"I'll be fine." Nick felt a weird sensation coursing through him, like two new phantom limbs were added to his body, but didn't want to test in public.
Looking down at his arm, Nick expected to see a bloodied thumb print, only to see a bright blood red snake insignia inside of his first box.
The men stacked suitcase after suitcase in the doorway, even as they got bitten and had poison coursing them, the men simply ripped it off, threw it over the barricade, and continued to stack the suitcases.
After five minutes the men had constructed a sturdy enough barricades to prevent them from entering, and so they started to kill all the venomous snakes that had appeared in the second-class cabin.
Knowing that their family have safely gone up to the first-class cabin had an invigorating effect on the remaining men, and under the leadership of Nick, they grabbed whatever they could, ranging from broken bits of metal and seat trays to random things found within suitcases like glass bottles and laptops and started killing the snakes within the barricade.
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After killing all the poisonous snakes inside the barricade, the men wanted to rest, but Nick could let them. He quickly directed them to tape off and seal every vent leading to the first class, knowing full well snakes were climbing through them.
After everything was done, the men finally breathed a slight sigh of relief but the battle wasn't over. They still had to stay in the defensive, as the snakes were finding small crevasses and we're able to crawl through the barricade. Once a poisonous snake emerges from their blockade, the snake was either bashed or stabbed to death.
Throughout the course of the battle, over half of the men had been bitten, but medical treatment was impossible so they could only grit there teeth's and bear through it.
They understood that if they faltered here, it would allow the poisonous snake invade the first-class cabin above, then not only will they but also their entire family will die.
For the sake of their families, the men forced their bodies to fight know that they would probably die from poisoning. Of course, there will inevitably be cowards within the crowd, like the famous germaphobe rapper who immediately ran up the stair, pushing women out of the way.
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Clutching a fire extinguisher, Nick sat down onto a seat inside first class and was finally able to catch his breath. Nick implemented shifts for guarding the wall of luggage down in second class, allowing for him to take this small break.
It was thanks to this athletic body that he hadn't gotten bitten, alongside the others who were attacking the snakes, allowing for him to catch his breath every now and then.
The harden plastic that Nick was using quickly broke after a couple of uses, he found a fire extinguisher off of the corpse of one of the men who died trying to build the barricade.
Taking advantage of this small break, Nick slipped away into the first class bathroom. After making sure that no snakes were present, Nick finally started to test his abilities.
Looking into the bathroom mirror, Nick's instinctively active his power without any effort, turning vision turned all blue except for himself while his eyes became that of a snake. 'Holy shit! I've got thermal vision!' Looking down at his orange hands, Nick could see the heat radiating off of himself.
Turning around, Nick looked at the extremely thin bathroom door and could barely see the very faint orange of another person standing outside.
Nick excitement from this ability was short lived however. 'This is completely useless right now! Snakes are cold blooded animal, they would barely appear on thermals! My regular eye sight is better for this situation.'
While this ability could be useful for the future, Nick wanted something to help survive the current situation, so he moved on to the next ability.
On instinct Nick controlled his next ability, causing all of the skin on his body to turn into grey scales '.....I guess snakes skin is sturdier than human skin...'
After spending the past ten minutes witnessing the average unathletic man easily tear through snake scale using makeshift weapons, Nick wasn't all that impressed with the defense.
'That's it?' Trying fruitlessly to activate another ability, Nick just let out a sigh. Nick expected more from a snake, like a venomous bite or a strangle ability, but these new powers didn't increase his attack strength at all.
"Its just a snake Nick, Of course it's not gonna be powerful you idiot. The note said the stronger the being, the more powers you get. So a Dragon would give me a dozen powerful abilities, while a spider would barely give me one weak one' Easily controlling the scales on his body, Nick removed them from his upper body, leave the ones on his legs for the minor extra protection, before leaving the bathroom.
'The number of venomous snakes in the second-class cabin had been small a fraction and there were many people to help me kill the snakes without a lot of danger. Going out alone to kill snakes in other cabins is an act of suicide, I can only buy time until we land.'
Standing straight, Nick said in a loud voice that drowned out the crying and talking "This is not time to relax. I need people who have not been bitten to help assist me with bandaging the wounded. Those that have have been bitten need to write down any and all symptoms alongside any description of the snake that has bitten you. This will save the doctors time and give you an accurate antidote!" After hearing his order, the people immediately took action to help the wounded alongside writing down a description of the snake and symptoms.
'If I remember correctly, its only after they raid the snake dealers warehouse that they get the antidote for all of the snakes? Do I need to make that call?'
As he was thinking this, Willie slammed the door open to the cockpit and threw multiple snake corpse into the first class cabin, scaring the people. Willie had killed four venomous snakes, in his left was a rolled up magazine and in his right hand was a plastic knife covered in blood! After throwing the snakes out, he simply closed the door.
'Holy shit! That's so badass!' Seeing such a scene in real life, Nick was glad that he had a such a dependable partner
Thanks to the presence of Willie, the co-pilot was not besieged by the snakes like he originally had in the movie. Now he could concentrate on flying the plane safe and sound.
'Did they purposely send me into a movie that I've already watched, or was it merely coincidence they sent me into this scenario?' Shaking his head, Nick stopped focusing on such unnecessary thoughts
Walking over to the door, Nick had a quick conversation with his partner only to learn that Willie already contacted the airport tower and the N.I.A.'s Los Angeles branch through the plane's satellite phone, and get them to prepare for the plane's emergency landing and briefed them about the poisonous snake situation.
"Inspector Willie," Deputy Pilot Rick turned his head and said, "I should be all right here, if you want, you go out and help others?"
Willie hesitated for a moment and shook his head: "No, Nick is right. If there is an accident in the cockpit, then we'll all die. I must guarantee your safety before everyone else, Nick will have to deal with the passengers. "
The co-pilot named Rick secretly let out a sigh of relief knowing that that the N.I.A inspector chose to stay protect him, he gave the inspector an excuse to leave because it was the morally right thing to do, but he was still scared for his life.
Reaching down, Rick was toggling multiple a few buttons on the dashboard, while explaining to Willie: "The No. 1 and No. 2 engines indicate a malfunction. I need to lower the altitude and slow down the plane to avoid losing control. "
Looking at the densely packed dashboard with buttons, leaver and switches, Willie helplessly said "Your the boss, you can do whatever you want. As long as we can safely survive the landing, you can destroy the plane for all I care."