Aquila stands over the body, apparently the surgeon was a unicorn. While wiping some of the blood off his mouth, out of the darkness, he hears an unnatural moan from something. He turns to the direction of it and stares into the darkness. Then it fades. “Che cos'è il...(What the...)?” Then, he hears a roar and something smashes into him from behind, it tackles him and he is caught by surprise, he lands face first into the darkness, the only lit torch loosing its light. He manages to turn over and kick the beast off. He stands up and turns in the darkness, then he hears the clopping of hooves... The beast attacks again this time from the front, it knocks him over onto his back and they struggle, the snapping of teeth is heard as he holds its head back. It smelled foul, just like the room itself, it must live here along with the now dead Surgeon.
Aquila puts his hands on the side of its head, extending his two hidden blades into it, the gurgling of blood is heard and the body falls limp on top of him, blood pouring onto him. He pushes it off and stands up. He doesn't feel any pain so he must not be hurt. He stumbles around in the darkness, holding out his hands to feel for things, he finds a wall and feels along it, eventually finding a brazier. He feels his hands around the area, he finds two rocks and picks them up. He strikes them together above the brazier. Eventually creating a spark and lighting the brazier, he then notices something red on the wall, he looks up and sees something written in blood on the wall.
Meanwhile, Redik finally finishes with recovering from what he saw. He stands up, and looks over to the pile of bile he left on the other side of the corridor. “I hate this place...” He wipes the dust off from his robe and begins to think to himself. 'What is taking him so long? Oh man what if he's in trouble!' He rushes over to the wooden door and opens it, immediately covering his mouth, he bends over trying to contain his puke from leaving him. He manages to keep it down and runs into the room. “Don't worry Aquila! I'll save you!”
Aquila was looking over what was written on the wall. It read, 'In life we worry about death, but do we worry about death being in life?' Aquila raised a brow and turned to the beast he killed, once he saw it he backpedaled... it was a pony, but pieces of flesh were missing, its hair all gone, bone showing in places, missing an eye. “Che tipo di magia scellerata è questa (What kind of unholy magic is this)?”
Then, Redik comes running out from the darkness and trips over the dead pony's body. “Shit!” He yells as he falls over face first onto the ground. He begins to get up and rub his now throbbing forehead, due to it smacking against the stone floor. “Damn it! That hurt so-” he says as he turns to see what he tripped on. As soon as his eyes saw what he tripped on he gasped and his arms lost control and flailed around. He stumbles back toward Aquila.
Aquila facepalms and catches Redik before he falls. “Calm down there shoul-”
“Calm down?! CALM DOWN?! THAT IS A FUCKING ZOMBIE PONY!” Redik shouts at Aquila.
“calmare l'inferno giù, ragazzo (Calm the hell down, boy)!” Aquila says getting Redik's attention. “First, explain what a zombie is.”
“Zombies, are usually people who have been risen from the dead.” Redik explains to Aquila as he looks over what was written on the wall.
Aquila nods. “Do you think that perhaps the Surgeon figured out a way through magic to raise the dead?”
“It sure seems that way.” Redik says as he takes a look at the double-dead zombie pony.
Then they both hear the many moans of the dead ponies, Aquila turns to Redik and says. “Redik light the torches!”
Redik quickly nods and runs over to the torches along the wall to light them.
Meanwhile Aquila was approaching the many zombie ponies that were leaving their tables. They all stare at him with hunger. They rush over to him their blood-thirst unending.
Aquila charged too, he slams his hand into one of their foreheads, releasing the hidden blade inside stabbing into the brain. Then he spins and slices one in the neck that was leaping at him from the left. He spins and slams his hidden blade into the side of another's head, he pushes and forces it to the ground.
Meanwhile Redik finishes lighting the torches so they can see everything in the large room. He rushes over and joins the battle, casting an incinerate spell on one of the zombies, causing it to burn to death. One leaps at him and attempts to bite him on the arm, he grabs its jaw and tears it off, then beating the zombie with the bottom half of its own jaw until it dies again.
Aquila turns and kicks one to stop its forward momentum, he then stabs one hidden blade in its head and the other it its body, he then kicks it into another one of the zombies and back flips, landing on the back of one and breaking its back, he stabs it in the top of its head with his hidden blade.
Redik finishes beating the zombie, then he notices the pile of zombies around Aquila. “Well I took care of this one...”
Aquila retracts the blades and notices a bloody piece of paper on the ground, he picks it up and explains how there are more places like this. Along with the decoy Surgeons...”Vaffanculo (Fuck)!”
Redik looks over to him and says “What?! What is it?!”
Aquila tears the paper and sighs, “There are more places like this scattered in the Everfree Forest, the Surgeon here was a decoy and there are many others.”
“And?” Redik asks.
“We need to go to all these locations and make sure these zombies don't come back, and we need to make sure that we get the right Surgeon. Or else this whole thing will start all over. But, first...” Aquila explains as he walks over to the wall, grabbing a torch off of it. He then throws the torch into the body of zombies and they begin to burn. He then quickly runs back to the wooden door.
Redik stares at the fire for a few seconds, then he realizes what is happening, and practically sprints to the door after Aquila. “Hang on wait for me! I don't want to become a crispy awesome dinner!”
Aquila opens the door and lets Redik run through, he then does so himself.
They run out of the cellar door, coughing a little from the smoke, and taking a moment to rest. Then smoke begins to come out of it symbolizing everything was burning.
Aquila shakes his head a little to get the dust off, and beckons Redik to follow. “Come we need to find these locations and make sure nothing leaves them except ourselves.”
Redik nods and follows along, in the meantime, preparing himself for more gross sights...
After leaving the collapsing dungeon Aquila and Redik have determined that their best course of action is to find the other bases and labs in the forest and destroy them.
“Let’s get this zombie hunt started!” shouts Redik.
“Okay, but relax my fiery friend. We don’t want to just go and stumble into and trap or an ambush, do we?” says Aquila.
“No, I guess not.” Answers Redik.
“Well, then according to the map the other zombie labs, if that is what we believe them to be are spread throughout the forest over here.” Says Aquila.
“Then I’ll only have to burn the forest and all the bases will be gone.” Says Redik meanwhile making motions that indicate that he is about to use one of his spells.
Before Redik can do anything he is pulled by the hood and so stopped from even trying to start the spell.
“The Hell, What’s your problem?!” Screams Redik angrily at Aquila.
“I should ask you the same question you idiot.” Says Aquila “Are you forgetting that starting a fire will not only consume this section of the forest but it will also spread to the rest of it and the village?”
“Oh yeah.” Says Redik with a sheepishly smile.
“Besides, we are not sure if the bases will get destroyed by doing so.” Says Aquila.
“So we will have to do it the old fashioned way then?” says Redik with a tone of disappointment.
“It looks that way.” Responds Aquila.
“Well, that’s just great!” says an annoyed Redik.
“Suck it up, you are a soldier under contract now and this has become part of our mission now so you better deal with it and fast.” Says Aquila.
“I know I know, is just that it is really dark in here, it will take us a long time to actually find the entrances.” Answers Redik.
“Don’t worry; this is the perfect time to try this spell that the Dr. has thought me.” Says Aquila.
“What are you going to make light appear or make a torch, because now that I think about it I could make one.” Says Redik.
“Nothing like that, something better.” Says Aquila.
Aquila extends his hand and over his palm he starts concentrating his mana. A ball of white magic starts forming and growing slowly until it burst in a bright light. Redik who had turned away from the sight to not get blinded by it turns around to find what seems to be a beautiful and radiant butterfly made out of light flying over Aquila’s palm.
“A butterfly?” asks Redik.
“Not exactly, this is one of the summons the Dr. thought me. This little creature here is call a Goldenglow Moth. It will help us see in this darkness with its bright light and it has a little perk that could come in handy for me.” Says Aquila
“Well that’s seems nice and useful I guess, but wouldn’t this makes us a target for whatever is lurking in here?” asks Redik
“In a way yes, but we want them to come for us. After all we must make sure to not leave any zombies or monsters behind and this is a good way to lure them to us and take them down don’t you think?” says Aquila.
“Yeah I think you are right, well thought plan there.” Says Redik.
“Let’s go then?” asks Aquila.
“After you and your bright friend of course my good sir.” Says Redik while doing a reverence.
The two special-ops agents go deeper into the forest looking for what they have come to name as “The super really secret very much hidden zombie and monsters bases/dungeons/labs (trademark pending). Or at least that’s how Redik calls them.
As it was predicted a series of zombie attack waves appeared out of nowhere but they were easily handled by our friends, especially with the convenient knowledge of this creature’s weakness to fire. This was making of Redik a really happy camper as he goes around burning monsters down while singing a silly song.
1 little, 2 little , 3 little zombies, 4 little, 5 little , 6 little zombies, 7 little, 8 little, 9 little zombies and I still have many to Burn! (Says this while burning and undead to dead) WUAHAHAHAHAHA! Burn! Burn!
At this image Aquila starts thinking to himself that if he didn’t new better this guy here is enjoying this way too much...
Realizing that most of the attacks where coordinated and usually from the same directions Aquila and Redik realize that most likely their targets where there.
After eliminating increasing waves of brainless monsters they find what seems to be their first target.
They see a bunch of zombies coming out of a big old cabin.
After making a sound strategy they initiate their attack. Redik uses his fireball against the cabin. The big building catches on fire and the zombies around it start to panic. Bought Aquila and Redik come out of the bushes they were hiding in charge towards the mass of confuse zombies. Aquila starts cutting through them with grace while Redik incinerates the zombies that apparently were inside the building and now are trying to escape outside. After 5 minutes they don’t seem to see anymore zombies. Redik decides to go inside the burning cabin to check meanwhile Aquila will stays guarding. Redik enters the inferno which for him doesn’t feel hotter than a normal hot summer day. After checking around, everything inside is either dead or destroy. He decides to go outside but that’s when he hears pounding sounds, after looking for it source he finds it. It’s a door on the floor, most likely leading to the cellar. A big piece of wood is covering trapping whoever or whatever is inside. Redik knows that it is risky, but he is not scared and with his big ego and confidence he decides he can take whatever comes out of there. He slowly moves the wooden piece from the door, after doing so he stands in front of the door and says.
“Whoever is inside there, come out now!” But there is no response. Redik shouts again. “Come out now!”
No response, he’ll have to do it the hard way. He prepares to launch a Shock spell with one hand He starts walking slowly towards the door, veeery slowly, he is almost there, he starts extending his hand to the handle, he almost grabs it, is about to touch it. He grabs it! Is about to open it! He opens it!
Nothing, Redik opens the door with spell in hand to just find a staircase leading to a really dark cellar. He is not able to see anything beyond the three first steps.
“Damn now I’ll have to go down there an- AAAAAA!” screams Redik as all of a sudden from the darkness of the cellar a creature jumps on him, and in a fast reflex he dodges the creature and uses the spell missing the fast target.
What Redik sees in front of him is a pony standing in 2 muscular hind legs, his forelegs are replace for blades. It has a brown coat with green mane and seems to be wearing a bloodied butcher coat.
Redik runs back to where Aquila is standing, "Okay! What's our new plan?! Run? I like that one!"
Aquila smacks Redik in the side of the head, "No, we need to kill it like the rest. Here's the pla- MERDA(SHIT) MOVE! " He pushes Redik out of the way and spins and ducks under a blade from the beast, then leans back from it swinging another. He extends his hidden blades and deflects countless, furious but reckless. In a quick flash, he retracts his hidden blades and ducks under, he spins and sweeps the legs of the pony, the continues the spin and kicks it in the torso before it falls, it goes flying back. "Redik! I'll keep it distracted! I'll find an opening so you can burn it to hell! But first! Flank this thing so we can kicks it's ass!"
Redik nods and runs at the now standing beast, he jumps and grabs the beast's torso, using that momentum to spin and throw it to the ground by means of it going over his shoulder, meanwhile Aquila runs and jumps up, sending his elbow down to the beast's chest once it lands, severely hurting it.
The beast gets angry and jumps up, forcing the two back. It looks for a moment at the two, deciding who to attack...it turns and runs for Redik. Redik yells "Come at me, bitch!" as he gets into his fighting stance.
Aquila runs to the beast too as it charges, meanwhile Redik and the beast clash, he ducks under a blade and grabs a leg, pulling it back, he then wraps his arm around its shoulder, and twists his torso, using his other arm to grab its torso, and he makes it do a full flip onto its back on the ground.
Aquila jumps over Redik, using his shoulder as a step. He lands on the beast, putting a hidden blade in its stomach, and another in the chest, he then grabs the beast and lifts it up and rests it on his knee. He holds it like this to cast whatever spell he wants to kill it, but he yells out, "Now! Do your fireball thing!"
Redik doesn't hesitate and casts the spell, he spins and sends the fireball at the beast. The beast takes it full on and is lit on fire, the blast causes Aquila to stumble back from the force. The beast uses this advantage and thrashes around, making Aquila drop it.
The beast gets up, its flesh burning, it rages and charges Aquila roaring in fury and anger, it tackles him to the ground, mainly because of Aquila being slightly shocked the beast is still standing from a hit like that.
"Figlio di una cagna (Son of a bitch)!" Aquila lets out, his hands being burned as he falls back, meanwhile being tackled by the beast, he puts his hands on it, not caring about the burns. He struggles with the beast, getting burned in the process, but he never actually catches fire due to the materials the cloak is made from, but he ignores the pain for the sake of survival. He manages to knee its torso then headbutt the burning beast, he gets his foot under and pushes it off, his hands and forehead being red from the heat.
Redik runs over to the beast and grabs a stick in the meantime, the beast gets up, by Redik kicks it back and drives the stick into its torso and forces it back into a tree. Then, he pulls the stick out and lets it fall on the ground, he then stomps on its burning head, it not effecting his feet too much due to the burning. He walks over to Aquila and offers a hand, "Who'd have think i'd have to be the one helping the old fart to get up."
Aquila just takes the hand chuckling, "You did good, for once." He playfully punches Redik in the shoulder and moves on to the cabin. Rubbing the burn marks, and his hands he shakes them a little as his flesh smokes a little.
Redik follows, metaphorically, his head is the size of the moon right now, because he kicked the crap out of that thing.
“So this thing survived the fire?” asks Aquila.
“No actually, He jumped me when I opened a door that I believe leads to the cellar.” Answers Redik.
“A cellar ha? I think it would be wise to go check this cellar.” Says Aquila.
Aquila and Redik head to the cabin’s cellar door. After inspecting from the top of the stairs they decide to enter the dark beyond that is down there.
Aquila turns around and calls “Luminoso venire qui (Luminoso come here).”
“You named it?” asks Redik.
“Yeah and?” says Aquila, rising a brow.
“Nothing I think it's adorable.” Responds Redik.
“Chiudere.” (shut up) says Aquila.
The little shiny moth starts flying down the stairs followed closely by the 2 walkers. They reach the bottom of the stairs only to find a giant dark room. It seems to be even bigger than the hall cabin above it. They make their best efforts to try to see what’s in the darkness but with no results. Aquilla tells Luminoso to start flying slowly forward as he follows the little bright moth. Meanwhile Redik stays behind taping the wall in the luck to find a torch or something. He is soon is rewarded as he has found what seems to be a torch. He lights it with a little flame out of his finger. He then notice in the wall right next to where the torch was a little space with a black liquid on it. He notices it forms some kind of trail along the wall. He looks towards Aquila to tell him about his findings, but decides to not bother his friend which seem very preoccupied checking the dark room and the things that surround him, like stone tables and poorly crafted wooden chairs. Redik decides to light it with the torch, "Maybe it’s some kind of lighting system." He thinks outloud to himself. Redik lights it and in a split second the liquid catches on fire and a fast line of fire starts spreading thought the small canals in the wall and lighting torches all around the room.
Aquila stops and takes notice to this. “What have you done Redik?”
“I think I found out how to turn the lights on hehehe.” responds Redik.
By the time the fire reaches the end, the entire room is lit by the torches and reveals a lot of stone tables, chairs, lab equipment, blood all over the room, corpses, and various leather straps that can be attached to the stone tables. As fast as all the torches were lit, the fires were then extinguished all at once, by an unnatural air.
“Okay, I don’t know what is going on but I don’t like what just happened." Says Aquila.
“What do you mean?” asks Redik. All the torches turn on suddenly to reveal a small army of zombie pony monsters, with the blades on their arms like the one from before surrounding Aquila.
“That’s what I meant.” Aquila says being surrounded by them. "Venite a me, voi bestie profano innaturali di sporcizia (Come at me you unholy unnatural beasts of filth)!" Aquila yells, getting into his battle stance. "Redik! Set the fires! I'll keep them busy for as long as I can!"
Redik then yells back with a little anger, "There is no way in the deepest pits of hell you can take those all on! I'm staying!"
"Fallo ora, è poco cagna lamentosa, starò bene (Do it now, you little whiny bitch, I'll be fine)!" Aquila nearly screams at Redik.
Redik had no idea what Aquila just said, but he sounded pissed. Redik just ran back up the stairs to go look for something that will explode.
Meanwhile, Aquila stands there in his classic Muay Tai stance and waits for an incoming attacker. He slightly turns his head back to one and they hesitate attacking. They are like animals. If you stand up to them, they will start to hesitate Aquila learned.
One gets brave and charges, it swings one of its blade arms at Aquila from behind. He spins and ducks under the blade, he elbows it in the back of the head, then turns and grabs it's biceps and leaps forward, smashing his knee into its back and forcing it onto the ground, he then pulls with all of his might and tears the two arms off...he just gained himself two weapons.
He spins around and swings one of the arms, cutting in half one of the beasts charging. He doesn't like the weight and the feel of it very much though, it's too heavy. "Argh! Cosa darei per una spada lunga in questo momento (Argh! What I would give for a longsword right now)!" He spins and deflects a blade and kicks a beast back. THeir attacks are becoming more frequent now, two come at him. One in front and one in back they both swing down and Aquila just barely jumps away, he barrel rolls in the air and stabs on in the back, before he could recover his "weapon" he was forced to leap back from a blade, the beast sends both of theirs forward for a mutilate attack, but Aquila puts the arm in front of him and blocks the two incoming blades.
He pushes the beast back and jumps forward and stabs its neck with the sword, when he lands, he almost gets executed as he spins and deflects, but this causes the arm to fall from his hands. He leans to the side to dodge a blade and sends two fists forward to knock the beast back.
One charges from behind, but this time he ducks down and grabs its crotch, then its neck and uses its momentum to lift it up and over him, to smash it down on an incoming beast.
"REDIK!!! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!!!!" he yells as he dodges three incoming blades.
"I'M COMING!!!!!" Redik yells from upstairs.
Aquila spins to the side to dodge two incoming blades coming for him, he grabs the two arms and pushes them forward to stab into another beast, meanwhile kicking one back from behind, he then kicks the beast in front of him in the back of the head and the other swings and he jumps back, only to jump again and kick it in the face.
"SHIT!" Aquila yells as he barrel rolls in the air, luckily dodging 8 incoming blades all at once, just barely and perfectly. Now he can't even counter attack, he's too busy trying not to get chopped into bits until he hears...
"AQUILA! COME ON THE PLACE IS ABOUT TO BLOW!!!!" Aquila hears from upstairs, he then runs and kicks himself off one of the beasts, just barely sending himself over the group, he ducks under a blade as he lands and pushes the beast back into the group to slow them down. He the bolts up the stairs and to Redik who was outside now.
Just as the building explodes, Aquila makes it out the door and just barely jumps away. Landing on the ground and his back smoking, his robe would be burnt on the back but he was okay. He stands up and notices one of the beasts limping over to them as it burns, Aquila runs over, yelling he jumps onto its burning shoulders and slams both his elbows onto the top of its head.
Aquila jumps off and returns to Redik.
When he gets up to Redik, he slaps Redik in the face pretty hard.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Redik says, holding the red mark on his face.
"For taking so damn long!" Aquila yells.
"Do you know how hard it is to make an explosive out of oil barrels?!!!!" Redik yells back.
"YOU MEAN TO TELL ME, THAT THERE WERE OIL BARRELS IN THAT CABIN AND IT TOOK YOU TEN MINUTES TO SET THEM TO EXPLODE?!!!!!" Aquila says, quite angry now.
"I-I couldn't find a fuse! Don't blow yours man!" Redik says, almost scared.
Aquila just flips him off.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
All of a sudden our to heroes are interrupted by a small and loud (yeah go figured) scream and terror coming out of the cabin. Both of them turn around to watch what was going on when they see a small ball of light and what seems to be a lot of fire over it flying desperately out of the ruble of the cabin and flying like a maniac while screaming in its high pitch voice. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Aquila ‘s face turns white at the horrific scene in front of him and extending his arm out he screams “LUMINOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Aquila turns to Redik and says, "It's your fault, because you were too busy jerking off to light the fuse to the barrels!!!" Aquila then kicks Redik’s balls in anger.
"AGGHH!" Screams Redik as he grabs his balls in pain due to his partners kick. While grabbing his balls in pain he stares at Aquila and says, “It is not my fault you forgot your stupid pet inside.”
In that moment Luminoso burst in a small explosion of light and fire.
“Oh well, is not like I can always summon another moth” says Aquila.
“Bastard.” replys Redik, panting on the ground.
“Yeah I know.” Says Aquila.
After some moments of pain and suffering Redik stands and says “So I guess this base is out of the count then?”
“Yeah… Next one?” says Aquila.
“Yeah that sounds cool let's go.” replys Redik.
And so the dimensional warriors run towards the middle of the forest in search for the other zombie bases.