Retrieval Pt.2

Two voices vividly rambled, as Riot began regaining consciousness. He lifted his head slightly and looked around, his vision hazy. Riot looked down at his hands and legs, seeing them being restrained by ropes. He glanced over to see Dozer tied up as well however Jackal was nowhere to be seen.

"The hell...?" Riot slurred his words. The two men talking stopped and looked over at Riot. "Oh look who woke up." One of the men said as he walked up to Riot and kneeled. "Where am I? Why do you have me and my friend tied up? Do you work with Deac-" Riot was cut off by the man hitting him with the back end of his Rifle. "Augh..." He groaned in pain as the man backed away.

"Learn to keep your mouth shut trash!" The man shouted in anger. Soon a door swung open bringing in a bunch of light to the room. "Hey now, try to treat our guest with some sort of respect?" A voice said as it entered the room.

"Deacon....." Riot mumbled. Deacon looked down at Riot, then over to Dozer. "So boys, you're going to tell me everything you know about this virus alright?" Deacon slightly demanded. Riot looked at him with pure disgust.

"Hell no, even if we knew something I wouldn't tell you, you snake!" Riot quickly spit in Deacon's face, mildly irritating him. "Hmph. So be it, I'll leave the rest to you two." Deacon said as he sighed and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.

Both the men nodded and turned to look at one another and began chatting about what they should do. Riot felt a nudge against his shoulder causing his head to shoot over to the side, now facing Dozer. "Hey...stay quiet about this but my hands are free since I've been awake this entire time.." Dozer whispered. Riot's eyes widened in surprise since Dozer wasn't exactly bright so this was something new to see from him. He nodded slightly and turned to face the men who just finished talking.

"Alright, you two were going to make you talk either way so buckle up for a serious beating." One of the men said as they both got ready to beat the living Christ out of them. Once one of them was close enough to Dozer, he quickly lunged upwards, grabbing him and bringing him to the ground. Before the other one could react, Riot did his best to distract them by biting their leg.

Once Dozer knocked the first one out, he quickly tackled the other one to the ground, this time killing them by knocking their head off the wall and cracking it open.

"Hah! Good stuff Dozer, now quick, help me out of these ropes we need to find Jackal." Riot said, Dozer nodded took one of the men's knives, and began cutting the restraints off Riot.

Once he was free, he stood up along with Dozer and opened the door. "Where...are we.." The two of them looked confused as the place they were in looked like a well-kept hospital. "Doesn't matter we have to keep moving and find Jackal," Riot said as he began walking out of the room and down the long hallway.

As they both sped walked down the hallway, footsteps started getting closer, causing the two of them to hide in a Janitor's closet nearby. They quickly huddled up in the closet and held their breath as Deacon and a few armed men walked by. Once they were gone, they quietly left the closet and continued their way down the hallway until they reached a door with a hazard symbol on it. They looked at one another and shrugged. Riot grabbed the door handle and pushed it open, revealing the most despicable thing he's ever seen.

Zombies and a few human beings with multiple deformities stood behind separate glass chambers. Dozer began feeling sick to the stomach as they walked by the chambers. Soon a particular chamber came into view. They turned to look inside, to reveal Jackal in the corner passed out.

Riot gasped and started banging on the glass. "Jackal! Are you okay?!" He asked in a panic. They stood there waiting for some sort of response. Riot began to panic and quickly started banging and kicking on the door before seeing the keypad and punching a hole into it, somehow managing to unlock the door. They both pushed open the door and ran over to Jackal to see if he was breathing.

Riot let out a huge sigh as he held his fingers on Jack's neck. "He has a pulse, but we need to get him out of here, like now." He said towards Dozer. He nodded and picked up Jackal. "Alright, I got him, let's get moving," Dozer said.

Riot and Dozer made their way out of the glass chamber and quickly ran past the groans and cries of the unliving behind glass. They took a moment to look around to make sure Deacon nor his men were around, once they knew they were in the clear, they began to make a break for it.

They ran as if their life depended on it and it kind of did. "Look I think that's the exit!" Riot ran for the exit as fast as he could before actually reaching the door. He opened the door to reveal the outside.

"Come on! move it!" Riot shouted at Dozer. He picked up his pace a bit more and they both managed to escape the building safely, for now. The trio ran down the street until they reached a run-down police station.

"We could break into there and see if there are any guns left behind" Dozer suggested. Riot nodded and he walked up to the Police station doors and opened them slowly. Riot walked in and before Dozer since he was carrying Jackal.

"Hey I think it's safe to come in.." he said quietly as he walked around the police station. Dozer entered and sat Jackal down against the wall. He then closed the doors behind them to make sure Deacon couldn't trace their tracks.

"It's going to be alright friend.." Dozer sighed and sat down. "Heh..what's going on?" a rasp and hoarse voice made Dozer look up at Jackal. "You're awake! friend, what did they do to you?"

"you sure you want to know?" He warned. Dozer nodded and waited for Jackal to tell him.

"They..."