No Turning Back

Chapter Fourty-Nine: Until We Meet Again...

Within minutes, the tsunami of undead had been reduced to a few stragglers - clearing the path ahead. Richtofen pushed on as we all ran through the gate following closely behind him. I quickly slung the famas over my shoulder and grabbed the MP5K from chalk outline in the wall. The gun seemed to just appear from the wall and fall into my hands. Primis stood behind me and restocked on ammo before we made our way to catch up with the others.

Richtofen stood atop the steps as he lorded over the land with his new weapon. As Primis and I hurriedly made our way up the steps; Richtofen shot at the undead which tailed behind us. Once we made it up to the lander, I was instructed to stand by the Soviet mural and let everyone else do the work. Richtofen then realised the power up was waning as he began to descend the stairs boldly meeting the oncoming hordes and unleashing a final flurry of bullets. His eyes flicked wildly with manic pleasure - proudly wearing the blood of the damned with utter delight. He terrified me. And it was seeing him like this that reminded me of just how dangerous he truly was. He happily immersed himself in the destruction.

The others all kept an eye on the doorway to the left and the stairs to the right which led to another barricade. I held my MP5K at the ready but figured I was not going to get many shots in. Suddenly, Richtofen quickly ascended the stairs without his gatling gun as everyone anxiously peered down. I stepped forward a bit to see a large horde of undead coming our way.

"Out of way!" Nikolai bellowed as he pushed Takeo and Dempsey aside.

The determined Russian ran towards the stairs before diving down them. Upon hitting the ground he created another massive explosion which took out the whole horde. Once the dust settled, we saw Nikolai dusting himself off with a smug grin.

"Ayyyyy! I told you I make big boom!" He grinned.

"Great vork Nikolai! I enjoyed vatching zheir limbs fly all over zhe place!" Richtofen cooed affectionately.

Dempsey shuddered at Richtofen's shrill voice before swiftly shooting an undead soldier before it got too close. Smaller hordes continued to assemble before we finally noticed the last stragglers.

"One grenade comin' right up!" Dempsey laughed as he pulled a grenade from his belt and cooked it.

He threw it towards the stragglers. The resulting explosion created four crawlers before killing the rest.

"Oooorah!" He yelled before returning to us.

"So what's the next step to gettin outta here?" Dempsey asked me - ignoring Richtofen.

It was clear the gesture greatly angered the German. I tried to ignore the seething tension in the air and opted to simply respond to Dempsey's query.

"The next thing is to use the landers. We have to use them in a certain order to spell out the word 'luna', Dempsey", I explained.

"What's the order?" Dempsey asked.

"I'm not too sure. But if we look up at the sky we should see the letters", I replied.

Richtofen glared at Dempsey before storming off and leaving us all. We were still out of breath from the fight so no one put up any resistance to his departure. I could tell that I was appearing far too knowledgeable than him and worried that it would annoy him.

"He's just a big baby!" Dempsey smiled - as if knowing exactly what concerned me.

"You know more about this stuff than him and he doesn't like it... so what?" Dempsey grinned triumphantly.