DEAD LEG!!!!

"Uh oh!" Said Cassandra pointed the screens as the colorful fog slowly came together in the form of a horned demon from the game Diablo. (The first one).
And a malevolent voice quietly issued from the speaker, "I shall rise again my minions! Quickly now my pets, Raise our minions of undeath!"
"I hope Holly is just showing somebodies bad taste in Halloween screensavers." Mentioned Jay, "Because that would qualify as not good if he isn't."
“Great,” started Davie as he heard a very distant rumble and chuckling laugh filled the air, “the one thing missing from my day...”
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Gomez had dropped his welding torch, and picked up a Plasma cutter which he would use to cut through the now sealed door, but hesitated. “Surely we’re safer een here than out there amigos?” he asked “The beast ees out there….een here it’s just a computer, what can eet doo…”
“Don’t be so sure of that….” Jay said, glancing down at the hole that White Wolf had previously fallen into, “Somethings stirring down there…”
Sure enough, there were shadows moving around and a few generic shuffles could be heard.
“The simulants must have activated their machine….” Cass said “White Wolf…how many bodies did you see down there?”
“……….lots….” replied White Wolf.
“Then that settles it…we move” Jay replied “Gomez, get the door open…we’ll just need to try to avoid areas where people could have sheltered…there can’t be that many people who didn’t make it to stasis, or died in the tubes…though we need to get a warning through to the guys who we left in the stasis vaults…”
“That’s not strictly true Jay…” Davie said
“What do you mean?”
“Well…it’s just…after the Hymenoptera attack we…well, we were considered traitors and weren’t able to dock with a space station and we didn’t have enough cargo pods or….”
“What are you trying to say Jones?”
“He’s saying Jay…” Cass stepped in “That all those hundreds of people killed in the attack were kept in stasis in one of the cargo bays, we had no way of disposing of the bodies between the time you “died” and the time we were sucked into the wormhole…we’re going to be very, very outnumbered.”
“Well that sucks!” Jay said bluntly.
More noises were heard from below, and skeletal hands began grabbing at the edges of the hole in the deck, Holly laughed maniacally on the monitors.
“Even so..” Jay said “we can’t stick around here much longer, Gomez! Get the door!”
“Si!” Gomez said, and cut through the door with his plasma cutter.
The group burst through, Jay and Davie taking the lead and sweeping their weapons down the corridor left and right.
“Which way?” White Wolf asked.
“Lets head for the drive room” Jay said “Cass, do you think you could override Holly from there?”
“I don’t know..the virus is unpredictable, and we have to assume we can even get there…”
“We at least have to try.” Davie said.
“Ok…” Jay said “Then it’s settled, this way…” Jay started heading along to corridor when a thumping noise could be heard from around an intersecting corridor up ahead.
“What’s that?” Seymour asked
Thump, thump, thump, thump.
“It’s getting closer” Seymour said
Thump, thump, thump, thump.
“Someone do something!” Seymour said.
“Back the other way…” Jay said “We’ll have to go the long way round…”
They turned and started heading back the other way, but the thumping just got louder and faster.
“Run!” Jay said “Come on, move!”
“I can’t!” Seymour said “My legs won’t move!”
Jay skidded to a halt and started running back to help Seymour, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw what rounded the corner…their pursuers sprinted down the corridor, and threw Seymour the floor before they started to kick him over and over in the head.
“HELP!” Seymour cried “I’m being kicked to death by my own amputated legs!!”

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