Chapter 7: Prison break
with michaels back pressed against the door, looking down the massive corridor of opened prison cells, with many of the light bulbs completely busted out, and a few of them flickering off and on, michael retires the shotgun to the satchel and loads up the a.k. , figuring that there is going to be a ton of inmates ahead. Michael begins, walking slowly past an electric chamber, hearing a horrendous crackling noise, he glances in, and notices an inmate still sitting in the chair. The inmate is still being electrocuted vigorously convulsing, and shaking, obviously infected, because he is still groaning and grunting. Dumbfounded and still staring michael sees, the blue glow of the electric current, flowing through the inmates empty eye sockets, from where his eyes have popped, like unboiled eggs being squeezed in someone’s hands. Somehow, the inmate senses michael near, and rips his arms free of the leather restraints. The inmate then slings the device from his head, and begins lumbering towards michael. Somehow, the inmate is still glowing, as the current is still flowing through his body. Almost as if, he acted like a battery, which was taking a charge. With the current still seeming to be flowing through the inmate, michael begins fearing that if the inmate was to even touch, or get close to michael, that he would be electrocuted. Michael slowly begins backing up, he then looks down and realizes, that since they had set fire to the drugs, the sprinkler system has went off, throughout the prison, leaving puddles of water littered up and down the corridor. Michael begins firing the assault riffle, but it seems to have no effect on the inmate, the metal bullets that are flying through the electrically charged inmate, just seems to make him grow, brighter, and brighter blue, like the friction is charging him up. Terrified, michael runs around the corner and into the first room, he finds. Not realizing where he is, and what he just did, michael looks to see, that he had just trapped himself in the shower room, and the floor is flooded with ankle high water. Panicking at what to do, michael climbs onto a small tiled partition, which is separating the room down the middle, into two different showering areas. As the inmate is approaching the flooded shower room, michael looks up, to see a large water pipe running along the ceiling just inside the entrance. Michael then begins thinking to himself, that if he was to shoot the pipe, just as the inmate enters, that all the water on the floor, and the water pouring from the pipe, might just cause the inmate to discharge all the electricity running through him, and maybe, michael can bring the inmate down. As the inmate is getting closer, and closer, the gun slips from michaels hand, and falls in the murky pool of water on the floor. Rushing before the inmate enters the room, michael jumps from his perch, digging his hands frantically through the dirty water, finally finding the a.k. . . . The inmate enters the room, as michael barely jumps to safety; michael then shoots the pipe releasing the water, which begins pouring all over the inmate. The electric current then starts spreading throughout the room, lighting the floor, and going up the pipe. It is working; michael sees that the inmate is getting dimmer, and beginning to fade, as his current is spreading out, and as the rest of the room gets brighter, and brighter. Michael begins unloading the assault rifle into the inmates head, as the lights go out. With the inmate smoldering and sizzling, he falls into the pool of water, with the sound of a lit cigarette butt, hitting a muddy puddle, as the extremely intense situation, ends. Stepping down, from his slippery narrow safety net, michael heads back into the main corridor, to begin making his way out of the prison, via the only exit left available, which is the main entrance where he first arrived. Michael begins marching his way down the corridor, which seems to have the effects of a strobe light, from the lights that are flickering off and on. Michael then starts becoming overwhelmed, by the stench of the dirty cells that fill the room, and the unflushed toilets inside of them. He sees that the floors are covered in pools of water, and blood, with abandoned shanks, spread throughout. Suddenly michael hears, what sounds like a police baton being drug, across the metal bars of the prison bars. Then out of nowhere, bullets began flying past him, bouncing off the walls, and floor around him. Michael then hears, a familiar voice coming from the second floor of cells just above him. Michael remembers that voice, it is his former boss, the warden of the prison. With michael hiding in the cells, the warden starts shouting, “i never thought, i would be seeing your face again michael” “, you know michael you are not as pretty as you used to be”. (with a light snicker at the end), “and you know what else michael, i would not have had to see that face of yours, if that sorry ass, good for nothing, brother of yours, would have done his job, like i ordered him too.” “by the way, how is that family of yours”, the warden sarcastically, asks. Completely filled with anger and rage, michael yells back, “you son of a bitch” ”, i promise you that your going to die tonight” ”, and you better pray that the abominations lurking these halls get you first” “, because im going to make you feel every bit of the pain that i’ve felt” “,every ounce of it” “, i promise you”. With that, the warden starts in, “you know michael” “, maybe if i would've just listened to you” “, and let you go through with your plan of stopping us from moving forward with everything ”, we could've possibly avoided all this” “, and none of this would have ever happened” “, but where’s the fun in that, right” “, and it’s definitely too late for that now” “, isn’t it? Michael.” “you know what michael” “, if you want me” “, come and get me”. In addition, with that, michael hears a door exiting the corridor, slamming shut, followed by silence. Michael springs to his feet, chasing after the warden, exiting the corridor right behind, into another bloody, dead body filled, dark hallway. As michael slowly begins checking empty room, after empty room, fearing not only the for infected prisoners, but also the psychopathic, gun crazy warden. Michael finally comes across a room, which has a label on the door saying, (laundry room). Michael reaches for the handle and tries it, but the handle, does not move. Michael thinks to himself, the warden has to be in here, it is the only room left unchecked, and it is locked, from the inside. Michael violently kicks in the door, busting it from its frame, while scanning the room with his rifle drawn. But there is no sign of the warden, just a small room lit by the flame of a iron furnace, that is sitting at the end, of two rows of washers and dryers, where they burn the dirty, piss covered sheets of the inmates. As michael is leaving the room, he hears a gnawing sound, coming from behind the row of dryers, he hesitates and approaches the noise, peaking behind the dryers to see the upper torso of a infected prisoner, that has been ripped in half, chopping on a dead guard. The halfling stops with his chow, and slowly begins crawling towards michael. Not wanting to waste ammo, or give away his position with the sound of gun fire, and having all the time in the world. Michael grabs the fire poker propped against the furnace, and plunges it in the little guys back, grabbing the poker firmly, lifting the lively torso off the ground, while it is still wiggling around, michael shoves it in the dryer, turning the dryer on as he closes the door. All right, back in the hallway, michael realizes that there is one more, multi-level prison cell room, which he has to pass through, before reaching the main hallway, which leads to the exit. In addition, with michael needing to hurry if he wants to, catch up to the warden. Michael peers into a small window on the door, which leads through the cell room, he sees the warden running through a sea of infected inmates, shooting them as he goes. The inmates are not really attacking the warden; the bigger inmates are too busy attacking, the smaller inmates. Knowing that there is no way michael could blast his way through there, and make it out in one piece, michael comes up with an idea. He thinks, “if he dresses like an inmate” “, and being a bigger guy himself” “, he might be able to stagger his way through unnoticed”. Michael heads back to the laundry room, and changes into an oversized jumpsuit. Putting it over his clothes, with his satchel on his back inside the suit, filling out the large jumpsuit, and making him look as if, he has an abnormality. Michael then runs over to the mauled guard, and smears the guards blood on his face, and then his clothes. In doing so, michael notices a small knife, on the guards utility belt, that he decides to carry through the wall of inmates, for protection. Michael heads back to the door, and slowly begins opening it, hoping not to draw their attention in the process. Michael squeezes through the door, and begins making his way through the disfigured, and bloody inmates, halfway through the corridor of violent madness, with bodies falling from the upper levels, surrounded by the fighting inmates. Michael notices that, the bigger inmates are not paying him any attention, and that the smaller inmates are acting fearful of him, michael begins limping faster, and faster. As michael almost reaches the end of the corridor, out of nowhere, a smaller inmate that is missing his bottom jaw, throws himself at michael, almost as if he was defending himself, michael shoves the knife in the spot where the inmates jaw used to be, piercing into the inmates brain, and drops the inmate to the ground.