Lilo & Stitch Fan Fiction ❯ It Finally Happened... ❯ In Which Sancho Strikes Out Alone... ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 8

 

Sancho laughed as he saw Lilo stagger into the cubicle.

“Ah, so he finally got caught. You've known him for what, 10 years? You never knew he was a carnivore?” Lilo just stared blankly, still shocked from watching Stitch feed for the first time. She was just about to initiate a harsh questioning as to just how Sancho knew how long the two friends had been together when the lights blacked out.

A horrible sound filled the air. Shrieks, the scraping of metal on metal, the sound of something wet hitting the floor, and then…silence. The emergency lights flickered on. Lilo and Sancho's heads darted around trying to see what had just happened, all they saw was that something big had made a deep gash down the wall, no easy feat when the walls were reinforced with 8 inches of solid steel. At a sound behind them the two teens spun to find stitch hunkered against a wall looking…scared? No, it couldn't be fear.

Silently, Sancho knelt and picked up a gun that looked like a .45 revolver and motioned the pair to follow him. Expertly he cleared the immediate vicinity and started down the hall. Many bodies were scattered about. Guards and scientists alike. They reached a cubicle that still appeared to be sealed. Sancho looked behind him and gave the others a look that said all to plainly, “don't move.” When he got to the door, there was a scream and a body flew through the door. Following it came something that, was entirely impossible. It looked like a torso with it's appendages sawn off and blades, long blades for it was over 7 feet tall, attached instead. It's head was even weirder. It's eyes and mouth were sewn shut and the head was connected to the body only by a hideous metal contraption with nails and screw sticking out at odd angles.

Sancho was frozen in awe and fear. The creature stood to it's full height as it heard a scraping behind it. It turned and Sancho saw that a scientist, cut in half, was dragging itself towards them on the floor. The thing clanked over to the fatally injured man and jack kicked him in the head. Then, freeing it's leg, it bent backwards, the sound of joints breaking filled the hall, and skittered off like a spider into the darkness.

Sancho just stared for a moment trying to collect himself, then he turned to his companions. They weren't there. Had they been killed by one of those…things? Or had they run, and he had not heard them? He decided, in a move typical to his roots, to cut his losses and save himself. So he pressed on into the darkness. Along with the sounds of death, he now became aware a deep breathing somewhere close-by that he couldn't locate. He steeled himself and continued.

When he reached the end of the hall, he was dismayed to see a maglock on the door out. A BANG!!! And the door came flying out at him, he barely managed to dodge it. When he stood, he saw the thing behind the door staring at him. Without thinking he lifted his revolver and shot it. ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!!! It finally fell. Sancho walked over to the corpse and jumped as it gave one last twitch of…life? Feeling a slight boost in confidence, Sancho smirked and, in a sudden fit of bravado chuckled. He shouldn't have chuckled. At that sound two more things jumped out of a cubicle behind him and charged. One dove at him with a sort of corkscrew dive the other just tried to chop his head in two. He dove out of the way of the first and, stony faced now, plugged the second one in the face and chest. It fell, but now he was out of bullets. Looking around he saw nothing that could help him, but by the time he had looked up the thing had scuttled away and the breathing had returned.

Looking into the cubicle occupied by the monsters, he saw that a scientist was slumped on his desk with a large blade sticking out of his head. Sancho frowned and, realizing he needed a weapon. He went to get the one that had just become available. He gripped the dull end, which was oddly slick, and pulled. With a shick, it came loose and the scientist screamed and started twitching, not quite dead yet. After a second the screams died and all was silent. He could swear he saw her standing in the vague light regarding him silently, then, in a flash, she was gone. He collected himself and looked around. A stack of papers had been knocked off the desk by the scientists death spasm and Sancho's eyes fell upon the page on top. It was a picture of the things that had tried to kill him with these words written below it;

 

Slayer

 

I first witnessed these creatures jumping

Out of the ground itself. It was just behind

The building that Lord Gantu now uses as a

Jail. Their head are detached from their

Torso, held aloft by hideous contraptions.

Their limbs have been replaced by blades

Of the sharpest steel. To my eyes they appear

To be a manifestation of decapitation. Does

The sudden appearance of these creatures

And their location have anything to do with

The madness that seems to be pervading

The world?