Chapter 15 - The hardest fight yet to survive!

Garrett fired his pistol quickly at the descending Alpha zombie. But despite his quick response and reflexes against such a foe the zombie managed to dodge out of the bullets path with a quick flick of his head to the side.

He managed to bring his sword up and around to parry and block the incoming claws the Alpha drew against him. But was shocked when a double kick landed in his gut. Winding him and allowing the alpha to use him as a springboard. it leaped off him and shocked Garrett again by bringing out its own pistol. A heavy duty 50 caliber magnum revolver. Garrett barely manages to get his head to dodge to the side as a bullet wizes right through where his head had just been.

He manages to leap back while unleashing his own trio of bullets out of his pistol. But this alpha has way more than just a gun up his sleeve. A hook on a chain is whipped out of his back holster and he launches it into the ceiling allowing him to suddenly go straight up over the trio of shots. Garrett follows him up with his eyes while tracking him. Before needing to dodge behind a metal column as another 50 caliber shot rings out and shreds where he had just been standing. He grits his teeth as he tracks the trajectory and fires back from behind his cover.

However his foe manages to leap to another rafter with his hook and whips around the cover Garrett is using. Seeing this Garrett pulls out a back up he was saving for emergencies. He throws out a flash bang.

The Alpha curses out loud and covers his eyes. When blinded Garrett unloads his clip into the Alpha hoping to do at least some lasting damage.

He hits all his remaining shots into the Alpha. but at best he does some surface damage as the Alphas body shows how high its stats are by only being hurt from the bullets. And not shredded. With an angry gnash of his teeth Garrett ducks back to cover while reloading. But nearly fumbles the clip as he sees what his opponent is using for his chain. It was the fucking Zelda Hook Shot!

He calls out while reloading and sheathing his sword and going twin pistol style now, "Fancy Grapple hook you got! Where did you get it?"

The Alpha lands behind his own cover as he starts to heal from the bullets, "I imagine... the same place... as your sword you have... I recognize that blade... I played many videogames... as a child."

Garrett almost choked on his own spit in shock at that, "You have store as well?! How the hell did you manage that? As far as I know only I have one in my survivor group!"

The Alpha chuckles while Garrett notices the zombie is circling around to get behind his cover behind a stack of chairs and tables, "Well I got my store... and my powers... after eating a little green... pill... I imagine... it was similar for you? After all... you seem so powerful now compared to other humans I have fought so far..."

Garrett goes to answer him after leaping up and firing at the Alpha mid leap making it hiss in pain as suddenly 6 shots hit its still healing body making it leap up into the ceiling again with its hook shot and fire back twice. Garrett gets clipped in the leg and manages to scoot himself behind another column. He hisses at the pain but forgets it quickly at the next line from the Alpha that chills him to the bone.

"I suppose I must.... ask you.... How did you... gain your points?... I had fun building my army.... and making sure I had plenty of points to harvest...After all why kill undead... when the living give you ten times the amount?! HAHAHAHAHAAH!!!!"

Garrett thinks back to the literal horde he fought through to come up here and the horde he fought at the police station. he then asks with quivering lips, "How many people?! How many did you kill?!"

As he peaks over he goes dead silent in shock as the Alpha is holding onto a huge 4 pack anti tank missile launcher on its shoulder as it answers, "Enough to earn some fun Resident Evil and Doom weapons."

Garrett curses and dives for new cover as the missile is launched. He is blinded and deafened by the resulting explosion as the room is filled with dust and crumbling stone and steel noises. Garrett comes back into focus in a world that is ringing, he faintly feels his pistols still in his grips, but a warm sensation is burning up his leg from his calf. He looks down and finds a jagged piece of debris has sliced into his calf muscle. Making him wince and grit his teeth in pain. He has small burns marks and bruises from the explosion that hit near him. But thankfully the column took the worst of it. 

Garrett manages to get to his feet as his injuries begin to heal as well while the zombie cackles at him and pulls the next trigger. Garrett snaps his focus hard into his twin pistols and looks right at the opening to the missile pack. The alpha pulls hard to fire his missile and lets it loose. However Garrett had been waiting for this chance. He pulls his pistol triggers hard, the twin 9mm glocks firing off hard at the same time. The bullets side by side as they fly.

If he hadn't boosted his intelligence and his senses... this would never have worked. He sees his bullets fly off and the rocket begin to peek past its launch tube. The bullets make contact with the head of the rocket in time and the rocket begins to explode. The alpha noticed and only had time to look at his rocket in shock and say, "Aw Fuc-!"

Before a huge fireball of concussive force rocks the whole floor. Garrett is thrown to the floor from the force and a column falls onto him in response. He barely manages to roll out of the way in time to avoid the worst of it. But it still slams a broken off piece weighing close to 300 pounds on his chest. Winding him hard.

He gasps as the room finishes shaking and the dust settles bit by bit. Garrett is breathing harshly in the aftermath. He looks up and checks the room out. The far wall is gone, the windows allowing you to look outside the room are blown to smithereens, the ceiling has a 50ft wide hole in it, and the chairs and tables are all on fire. He checks his notifications and sees he hasn't gotten the all clear message yet. So he pulls himself up to his feet and checks for the Alpha. His leg limping lightly while his whole body is sore and screaming at him to rest. He may be an advanced human now but he was definitely taking more than most humans can get up and walk off.

His body has begun to heal faster than most people. But he wasn't going to take anything for granted and kept his senses up and fully activated. he looked around for the Alpha. Readying his sword this time and his pistol combo that has become his signature technique at this point.

He noticed a bunch of rubble moving and scraping hard against each other with a raspy and heavy breathing grunt sounding out from it. He rushes over as fast as his injured body can carry him and levels his sword tip at the Alpha currently struggling to move the debris of a full column and some of the roof off his body with only one severely burnt arm. It chuckles at seeing Garrett and gives up its mission and begins to talk, "Guess we know... who the true Alpha... of the tutorial is... eh? I won't last... much longer... better ask... that burning question... before I... truly die this... time..."

Garrett holsters his pistol and readies his knife for any surprise attacks while keeping his sword leveled under the Alphas chin. Garrett then asks, "Then tell me! How did you get the green pill that started all of this?! Who gave it to you?! How did you survive your chemical base blowing up on my last mission before all of this!?"

The Alpha wheezes out a chuckle and says, "Aw... poor Colonel... so high up... but so clueless... your government... with the UN... sanctioned this experiment... for creating super soldiers... the pill... was given out... by the thousands... however... they failed to realize... that while everyone could grow... not everyone could grow the same..."

Garrett goes pale at the implications, he thinks back to the odd glow of some mutants and the Variants then asks, "So the Mutants, Variants, and you Alphas?"

It chuckles wickedly at him and says, "Yes... we are the failures... we gave up... against the dark... impulses of the pill... it heightens your abilities... but also your desires... messes with your... brain chemistry... makes your desires rock... to the surface... and makes you hard... to control... those who fail to keep up the fight.... become us! But others... who continue to struggle... against the desires... become you... a true super human... someone who can... end this experiment... once the full contract is done..."

Garrett goes ghost white at this point and asks, "Contract?! The system we all see?! is that the contract?!"

The Alpha gives one final wheeze as it says, "No....the....one....who....created....it.....and....the.....pill....generals...are....pawns....to them...careful....who.....to...trust...." With the final word out the Alpha crumbles into dried charcoal chunks.

Garrett goes silent thinking that message over as the building begins to rumble hard and crack beneath his feet. He goes wide eyed as he sees the rocket has damaged a main support pillar in the corner of the room and the 5th and 4th floor were beginning to crumble hard.

Leaping out of the building he finally gets the mission message, Player has cleared the first ever Nightmare Dungeon! Rewards: +20k points, +5 to all stats, 50% off voucher for summons below 10 million. Player has cleared all dungeons in the local area of the town, another 50k points and +5 to all stats is awarded! Congratulations! Player has been able to reach threshold to evolve once again! Please find a safe place to evolve to the next level!

Garrett takes this with a grain of salt as his body feels sluggish as he hits the ground. He heads to a pharmacy store and shoots the heads to 3 zombies he sees really quick and slams the shutters down. He winces as his injuries let him know they are still there. And his vision blacks out as he thinks back to the general at the survivor camp. he hopes he is one of the good ones. As Garrett feels his body begin to change once again and the pain eclipses any other thoughts as his brain shuts down.

Current stats of Garret Grimsborne (Advanced Human -> Super Human):

Str- 229 +30 Mutant +30 Variant +10 Alpha +10 clear = 309

Agi- 210 +30 Mutant +30 Variant +10 Alpha +10 clear = 290

Sta- 210 +15 Mutant +30 Variant +10 Alpha +10 clear = 275

Int- 193 +30 Variant +10 Alpha +10 clear = 243

Sense- 195 +30 Variant +10 Alpha +10 clear = 245

Store points - 150,100 +70k rewards, +3k alpha = 223,100

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