Chronicles of the Apocalypse (2011)

Dante, Killen, Colin and James move forward as the Eight-Legged Titan stalks the group in the upper caverns, before finally jumping down in front of the group. Dante, Killen, Colin and James open fire, hitting the creature in the stomach, before shooting it in the mouth, causing the creature to back away.

Colin: There's gotta be a way to stop this fucking thing!

Dante: The radioactive river below! Push it into the river!

Killen: Keep shooting it into the mouth! Back it into the river!

The group opens fire onto the creature, but one of its legs, knocks James into the wall.

Colin: James!

Colin tends to James as the creature attempts to crush Colin and James with its leg, but Dante shoots it in the eye, causing the creature falls into the radioactive river. Dante looks beneath to watch the creature sink, before hawking a luey into the river.

Dante: Piece of shit.

Suddenly, as Dante turns his head, the Eight-Legged Titan bursts out and claws at Dante, who is now covered in radioactive fluids. The creature eventually succumbs to its injuries, before sinking into the river.

Dante: Uh...I'm not going to turn into anything, am I?

Killen: You would've....if you swallowed any...

Dante: wait...so the masks are only on our faces to keep us from swallowing the radioactive fluids? We can breathe in the fumes?

Killen: Oh, yeah....we can breathe in the fumes.....I think....I wouldn't bet money on it though....

Dante: You know what? Twenty bucks says we can breathe in radioactive fumes.

Killen: Deal.

Kyle, Walter, and Bart regroup with Dante, Killen, Colin and James.

Bart: Oh, just in time.

Killen: Yeah, you're just in time to suck my dick.

Kyle: Dude, I can't believe we missed this. I heard all the roaring and loud ass thumping....not to mention; the earthquakes.

Nathan contacts the group.

Colin: Nathan, is that you?!

Nathan: Colin! Thank god! The girls and I have made it topside! We're with Jacob! You guys need to get top side now! Those soldiers are getting ready to decimate the factory!

Dante: How long do we have?

Nathan: A few minutes if best!

Nora: How the hell do we get out?

Nathan: The girls and I took an elevator through an underground factory?

Kyle: Wait...what? Underground factory?

Dante: And a elevator?

James: Who cares? Let's just go before they destroy this place!

Killen: come on!

The survivors in the cavern make the underground factory, where Nora spots an elevator.

Bart: There it is!

The survivors make their way to the underground factory. However, Zeus Corps Soldiers in advanced armor are waiting to ambush the survivors.

Killen: Uh...anyone else notice the high-tech armored soldiers?

Kyle: Ah, damn. They upgraded.

Dante: Is that bad?

Kyle: very bad. These guys are Prime Guards.

Killen: Think they know we're trying to escape?

Kyle: well, they're not here to just sit and jerk their dicks off. Obviously they know something's up, Killen.....meaning we're going to have to fight through them.

The Cratersville Survivors ensue in a gunfight against the advanced Prime Zeus Corps Soldiers, having a difficult time killing them with the bulletproof armor.

Killen: Fuck! the Primes obviously has better armor! Tougher too!

Dante: You think we didn't notice?!

Colin manages to shoot down a Prime Zeus Corps Soldier with an advanced crossbow. Colin takes the advanced crossbow and examines it.

Colin: Holy fucking shit, man.

Shortly after the firefight, Walter notices bombs placed on the factory walls.

Walter: Hey, guys.....Nathan wasn't kidding about the bombs.

Dante: How long we got?

Walter: um.....Forty seconds.

The Cratersville Survivors give each other a look, before sprinting to the elevator and hopping on. Kyle starts the elevator as it takes the survivors to the surface, where they are reunited with Nathan, Nora, Sarah, Ashley and Jacob.

Dante: Get down!

The radioactive factory explodes, knocking down the Cratersville Survivors.

Colin: Damn....

The Cratersville Survivors recover as they look at the destroyed radioactive factory.

Nathan: So....Kyle? Colorado, huh?

Kyle: Yep.

Kyle presents the data to the survivors.

Kyle: Looks like we gotta head north. Williamson Airfield somewhere way in the mountains. This time of the year. Should be snowy.

Ashley: Really wish I had a camera.

Nathan: Okay, let's move before Zeus Corps decides to come back and see if we're dead.

The group makes their way towards a school bus on the highway as Colin attempts to hotwire the vehicle.

Walter: Damn.....nice view....

Dante: (approaching Walter) Hey...that is a nice view....

Jacob: My cousin always wanted to come to the mountains.....it's beautiful out here....

Colin jumpstarts the school bus as he yells to the Cratersville Survivors.

Colin: All aboard the magic school bus!

The Cratersville Survivors enter the school bus as Billy drives, making their way towards their destination. In the Zeus Corps Base, two Zeus Corps Soldiers drag a beaten factory worker in front of Barnes, who is smoking a cigar.

Barnes: I hope you know.....I did not enjoy apprehending you and beating you to a pulp....but it was necessary....so....I'm going to ask this once more; where is those people going?

Factory worker: Look, man....I told you....I don't fucking know...

Barnes: hmm....

Barnes then punches the factory worker down as the two Zeus Corps Guard stand him up to his knees.

Factory worker: You don't scare me.

Barnes: No? 

Barnes pulls out revolver and prepares to execute the factory worker.

Zeus Corps Soldier # 1: Sir. I'm getting signatures on one of a school bus heading north. None of men are driving it. They just left the location of the destroyed radioactive fluid factory of where Desipich and Subject 19 was last located.

Barnes lets down his gun.

Barnes: Well then.....

Barnes stands up.

Barnes: Get our surveillance squad a lock on that bus. I want to know where they're going....

Zeus Corps Soldier # 2: And what about the factory?

A moment before Barnes executes the factory worker.

Barnes: The Prime Administrator can't know we were here....make it look like a Blood Hog raid....kill any survivors and destroy the factory.

Meanwhile, close to sunset, during a snowstorm, Billy continues driving the school bus through on the highway bridge.

Colin: Well, we still have somewhere to get to.

Nathan: Man, we need somewhere to rest. If we keep this up, we ain't gonna get to Fenix or Burton before this thing runs out of gas. It's dangerous during the winter if we're broke down. Weather wise. We'll be ice sculptures in a heartbeat.

Kyle: He's right. We need somewhere to settle down. We can't rest in the open.

James: Yeah, thank you, Captain Obvious, and where do you suggest we settle down?

Colin: Hey, hey, James...c'mon, man.

Jacob: Hey, Billy, up there.

Jacob points out a lodge hotel way up in the mountains.

James: What's that?

Jacob: That, my boy, is a lodge. One of the coziest and warmest places to stay during a snowstorm.

Dante: You sure it's still...ya know...in peace?

Killen: I guess we'll find out when we get there.

A few miles away, a figure is watching the bus drive through the ruins of the highway with his or her binoculars. The survivors finally reach the abandoned lodge when Nathan and Billy exit the front and open the ramp as the others exit. The survivors sneak into the intact lodge to find many decayed corpses.

Bart: Man, you think a lot of people were here? Just sitting? Waiting?

Colin: Guess we'll never know.

Nathan: Okay, let's make sure this place is secure. Sarah. Ashley. Stay out here with Nora. Walter, Jacob, Billy, you guys check the sides of the lodge. Make sure we have no breaches. Everyone else, we're checkin inside.

Walter, Jacob and Billy check the sides, before James speaks.

James: You know; I could just have Jax scan the place for life.

Nathan: Can that floating piece of tin scan this whole place?

James uses his remote to summon Mr. Jax, which floats into the lodge and scans for any signs of life, only to find a bunch of rats scurrying around.

James: Jax is detecting nothing, but a bunch of rats. I think we're good.

Kyle: Doesn't hurt to double check on your surroundings though, kid.

Dante: He's right. Not to doubt you, James, but we have to make sure this place is completely secure.

Dante, Killen, Kyle, Nathan and Colin search the inside of the lodge.

Nathan: Colin, you and Kyle check the upper level. Dante and Killen, with me.

Colin and Kyle search the upper floor of the lodge while Dante, Killen and Nathan search the lower floor. Both searches are seemingly clear as Colin reports to Nathan.

Colin: All good!

Nathan shouts to Sarah, Ashley and Nora.

Nathan: All clear! Come on in!

Sarah, Ashley and Nora enter the lodge while Walter, Billy, Jacob and Bart walk in.

Nathan: The sides?

Walter: All good. This place seemed ransacked, but I think it's safe to say we can hang up our coats here for the night.

Kyle: Agreed.

Colin: Okay, let's try to get this place some power...try to get warm.

Billy: Looks like this place was powered by a wind turbine. If we get it spinning, should get power to this place. I'm going to go try it out.

Kyle: I'll go with you.

Kyle and Billy go outside to turn on the wind turbine as the other survivors look around.

Sarah: What was this place?

Colin: This was a ski-resort. People from all over would come here on vacation. Took my wife to a ski-resort like this out in Beaver Creek for our honeymoon....best time I had with her.

Ashley examines the Christmas decorations including the tree.

Ashley: At least, before what happened, these people had enough time to get ready for the Holidays....and think with Christmas just around the corner.

Outside the lodge, Kyle and Billy activate the wind turbine as the power to ski-resort turns on.

Nathan: All right! And we are open for business!

Kyle and Billy return as the survivors sit around the front lobby, before Walter and Jacob arrive with boxes of food.

Walter: Food Delivery, baby!

James: What'd you find?

Walter: Whole shit-load of cans! I'll get started on cooking them up right now.

Dante examines the giant Christmas tree as Sarah, Ashley and Nora are seen putting the Christmas star on top of the tree.

James: You know; I've been alive for so many years, but still don't get this. What's with this Christmas holiday shit?

Kyle: It's the time of the year where everyone came together. Friends. Family. When you're a kid, you're told that Christmas was all about some fat guy in a red suit delivering presents to you on a sleigh with his reindeer....that is if you're good. If you were bad, you'd get coal for Christmas.....it's this black rock of some type.

Ashley: Oh.....so what's it really about?

Kyle: The real story.....is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, who if you haven't read, he's the son of God. If you read the bible, the story goes like this. Days before Jesus was born, there was a couple, Mary and Joseph. Mary had conceived Jesus through God even though she was a virgin. Joseph and Mary traveled through the sands and settled in a farm where Mary gave birth to Jesus on the 25th of December.

Ashley: And that's what Christmas is all about?

Kyle: Uh-huh.....

Dante: You sure as hell didn't learn that in your time of the Zeus Corps, did you?

Kyle: No, I didn't.....the Christians insisted on it.

Dante: Christian school?

Kyle: Orphanage.

Dante: Ah....you know; my wife and I would take my son to a train station around this time of year....and then afterwards, we would go home and bake cookies....watch old and new holiday movies....Christmas was my wife's favorite time of year.....

Kyle: Back at the orphanage, there was this girl who would always blush with me.

Nora: Boy, I tell you. Listening to this Christmas music again...is making me feel like a kid. C'mon, Nathan! Dance with me!

Nathan: I'm on patrol, honey!

Nora: Oh, come on! Take a break from patrolling for one minute! C'mon!

Nora pulls Nathan in for a dance as the rest of the group laughs. Meanwhile, Walter is cooking some beans.

Walter sniffs.

Walter: Goddamn! That's good! Walter nods to Jacob.

Walter: Hey, cowboy! Want to be the first to sample?

Jacob: I sure would be honored to try out my best friends' cooking, brother!

Walter has Jacob taste a sample of his soup.

Jacob: Hot damn! Just like back home in Texas!

Bart: Hey, Nathan, did you ever catch big foot?

Nathan: The fuck kind of question is that?!

Bart: Just saying...you're a sheriff and all....

Nathan: Prick.

Killen: Hey, Dante, can I talk to you for a minute?

Killen and Dante speak privately on the deck of the ski-resort.

Dante: Wow....now that's one helluva view....Okay, Killen, what's up? What do we need to talk about?

Killen: About when we meet up with your brother.

Dante: Yeah...What about it?

Killen: I've been thinking. I'm a little concerned of when we meet up with him....what if he tries something that will end with you imprisoned or as a lab rat?

Dante: He's my brother. He'll be more happy to see than to see me as a lab ray. What's your point?

Killen: I'm just saying that....I don't want us to walk into a trap.

Dante: We won't.

Killen: How do you know?

Dante: I just know....it's just...I think there's a traitor among us....

Killen: You think it's Desipich? Because he was one of their soldiers....

Dante struggles to answer.

Killen: Be honest....

Dante: I just met him....but he hasn't turned his back on us yet....

Killen: Exactly...yet...

Killen notices Kyle listening in to their conversation as Killen walks away. Dante walks away, but Kyle calls to him.

Kyle: You know.....I get it...I was a soldier....I'm not the bad guy everyone says I am....

Dante: Hey, son, you've helped us out so far, but I don't know who you are....

Kyle: I know that I'm being completely honest with you....

Meanwhile, at the Kronos Industries facility, one of the employees enters Barnes' office, who is looking at Dante's documents.

Kronos Industries Employee: Sir, we have something that may help even the odds in your search for Subject 19.

The Employee and Shawn walk down the Bio Room, where the scientists are working on a serum. Barnes inspects the serum and notices the fluid is light purple.

Barnes: What is this?

Kronos Scientist # 1: Well, sir, we've all been talking and the girl has enhanced agility, healing, speed, and strength, which come from samples of the Python Virus. All the subjects exposed have died from this, all but him....Subject 19.

Kronos Scientist # 2: So we've made a new Virus...it's called Cobra. It's like a copy of Python except better. We believe that whatever Dr. Fenix injected his brother with is what gave him superhuman abilities...including the ability to heal.

Barnes: Well, then where's the serum he had?

Kronos Scientist # 2: We don't know.

Barnes walks toward the Scientist and stops in front of him.

Barnes: What?

Kronos Scientist # 1: We believe that when Dr. Fenix and the general may have taken a sample of the virus the Doctor had made. I guess they figured if they didn't work here, they didn't want their work to get into your hands.

Barnes walks to the Tube of Cobra and touches the glass. Suddenly, in the glass, a black larvae creature pops in front in glass, which causes Barnes to jump back.

Barnes: What the fuck?! The Fuck is this thing?!

Kronos Scientist # 1: It's the parasite that helps with the bodies' nerves and muscles. With the Cobra processing through the subjects flesh and tissue, the Larvae control the reflexes....this one we called Venom...

Barnes: Have you tested it on anyone yet?

Kronos Scientist # 2: No, there's been some...

Barnes: Inject me with it. I wanna test this out.

Kronos Scientist # 1: Sir, we....uh...we haven't properly tested it yet.

Barnes pulls his pistol out and shoots the scientist in the head. The Scientist falls and lies down on the floor dead as the other scientists give a shocked look.

Barnes: Anyone else have any thoughts they wanna share? No? I didn't think so.

Bares puts the pistol back into his holster. He points at the dead body of the scientist.

Barnes: Clean this mess up, and begin the fucking testing.