CHAPTER 22
INT. APARTMENT BUILDING, HALLWAY - DAY
Wayne and Rob are inside of Artaud's apartment building, Wayne has a saw in hand and Rob has nothing. The vines on the wall have only grown.
ROB
How long do you think it's been like this?
WAYNE
A few hours.
Rob shouts
ROB
Is anybody in here still alive?
A few screams ring through the place.
WAYNE
I'll take upstairs and you take this floor?
ROB
Sure. I can live with that.
Wayne vanishes, Rob starts to tear at the branches blocking the door, ripping them fairly easily. He kicks in the door and finds a man with branches growing beneath his skin and other branches poking out from his skin. Rob shouts for Wayne who quickly appears next to him. He's completely speechless watching the man. Suddenly Gabriel bursts into the room.
GABRIEL
You have to get out of here!
Wayne quickly rushes behind him and puts him in a headlock.
WAYNE
Who are you?
GABRIEL
I'm a good guy! I'm a good guy! I know Eric, Volpone. I know him. You can trust me. But they're all coming back.
WAYNE
Who?
GABRIEL
Baren, Zombie Man, and Momus.
Wayne lets Gabriel go.
WAYNE
What about Red Dynamo?
GABRIEL
He isn't with them.
WAYNE
Who is Momus?
GABRIEL
Their leader.
WAYNE
How do you know this?
GABRIEL
I've been following them, and following you.
WAYNE
Me?
GABRIEL
Yeah, I just want to help, I wanted to help, see how I could assist in your plan, tell you theirs.
ROB
Do you trust this guy?
WAYNE
Yeah, I think so. You promise I can trust you?
GABRIEL
Promise, swear, yes, I promise.
WAYNE
What's their plan?
GABRIEL
They never mentioned it near me. I can't hear when...
WAYNE
Oh... You're the one Eric was talking about. The invisible boy?
GABRIEL
Yeah... But I don't like that name.
The footsteps can be heard through the apartment, along with Zombie Man's chains. Gabriel quickly disappears. Wayne and Rob prepare to fight, when the 4 zombies stumble into the room. Zombie Man right behind.
ZOMBIE MAN
I thought I smelled flllllesh! Let us eaaaaat.
Zombie Man and the 4 zombies pounce toward them when a voice interrupts them.
MOMUS
Stop!
Momus steps in.
MOMUS
Blur and Gore The Red in my apartment building! How exciting! I'm a very busy person so I hope you don't mind my visit being short, but I have wonderful plans for the two of you. Speak to Baren about it.
Momus walks out, the zombies follow. Baren comes in to take the powers away from both Wayne and Rob when Rob quickly snatches up a table and hits Baren in the head with it, knocking him out.
ROB
That was easy... And now...
The zombies swarm in, the two fight them off rather effectively until they manage to overpower Rob and swarm on him, chewing at him. Wayne uses his saw to slice his arm open, the scent of the blood attracts the zombies. He runs just fast enough to avoid getting caught but slow enough to keep them behind him.
EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING- DAY
He gets outside and as fast as he can he weaves through all of them punching as he passes, they all fall to the ground. Wayne stops, his arm already healed, and for the first time, out of breath. The zombies begin to push themselves back to their feet.
WAYNE
No!
Wayne gets ready to go back for them when CRASH! through the wall comes the super-powerful zombified version of Gore The Red.