Outnumbered (Vol. 1)

Act 3: Impending Discovery

We all go over to see what he is describing. At first sight, it gives off a familiar feeling to me. I tell Ty to quickly play the video that is displayed on the camera's screen, and so, he does.

"Hurry, it's coming!" the girl holding the camera can not be seen, but her voice can be heard, rushing someone. I immediately recognize the voice as my little sister, Melody's voice. We continue watching the video.

"It is? Oh my God, where's it at?!" The camera flashes an image of the girl being spoken to by Melody, for a brief second, and she is somewhat short, has round freckled cheeks, and has red hair.

"Don't worry about where it is, Allison, just run!" Another girl reveals the name of the first of Melody's friends. This girl runs by Melody and into the camera's view, showing her to also be somewhat short, and young, but slimmer, with medium length, dirty blond hair, and large eyes, even though she is American, and she has braces on her teeth. All the girls in this video are the last remaining friends we have yet to find.

"Jamie, slow down!" Melody calls out, revealing that girl to be Jamie. They stop running when they realize that another member of their group, Beverly is falling behind. They turn and witness Beverly, with her sweaty, short, black hair and bit of running makeup, get tripped by something. She is not able to crawl away because she is being dragged toward the shadows, where glowing red eyes are seen, as she screams for help the entire time.

"No, Beverly!" Melody begins to run to her rescue, with the camera showing it all, but suddenly, what appears to be a Brute picks up Beverly and rips her body in two, bathing in the girl's blood and guts. Melody turns away too quickly to witness the entirety of the horror, but enough was seen to make her lose her sanity, and she can be heard crying considerably over her friend.

"Melody, come on! There's a way out up there!" Jamie hurries Melody while stacking objects to climb to an air vent in the wall of what seems to be the same room in which we stand. Allison and Jamie quickly climb through the vent, but Melody has a hard time of doing the same.

"You're not gonna be able to climb with that thing in your hands!"

"But it's got all the videos of these zombies and stuff on it; I need it!"

"Melody quit being a brat, and just leave it!" Allison also yells at Melody.

"Ugh, fine!" The camera goes flying, and the second it hits the concrete floor, the last thing seen before the video cuts off is the Brute feasting off the corpse of Beverly. I read the time and date on the video, and it reads that it was filmed just a few hours before the current time.

"Melody, she was here not too long ago! Maybe we can catch up to her and the others!"

"Do you think that was the same monster that attacked us out there?" Dwayne wonders.

"Maybe. But for now, let's find that vent that they used in the video and get out of here," David suggests. We look around and soon spot the vent and stacked up objects that the video showed Melody and the other girls using. We all begin climbing to and through the air vent, one by one. We crawl through the air duct until we reach a new and much larger room. We all climb out and check it out. Ty walks up and feels on a massive machine that stretches out the entire length of the chamber and has pipes attached to the walls, reaching to the top of the room.

"What is this thing?"

"It looks like generators," David informs him, with his own opinion.

"Jeez, what would need this much power?"

"Let's keep looking and find out."

"Uh, guys we have a problem," Cheyenne informs the others. We all turn to see the same thing as Cheyenne; the Brute is standing before us again.