Chapter 27

Major Constantine hauled Deloria further down a partially illuminated corridor that laminate at a T-junction. To his right, we're four rooms on either side before a dead end, while the other was a hall harbouring at least, thirteen patients with no health worker attending to them. Constantine made a brief stop there and thought of laying Deloria on one of the empty beds but had a change of mind and continue down the corridor where he met with a group of three nurses, one of whom questioned him of where he was taking her to. Major Sebastien Constantine sighs more out of tiredness than the annoying question from the nurse.

"It seems you are the only ones ignorant of the happenings in the hospital."

"What are you trying to communicate, soldier?" She asked again.

"There is danger afoot," he said, "quickly, get me one of those wheeled beds." Mata did as she was commanded and Sebastien laid Deloria on it and told the nurses,

"hurry up, let's get out of here to a safer location I will tell you what is happening." With the help of the nurses, Deliria was conveyed to a boiler room and barred the door.

Away from the boiler room to the reception area of the hospital, the Panama hat-wearing gunman named Maggot went on a killing spree, gunning down two-third of the physicians and nurses, most of whom were military personnel for refusing to declare the whereabouts of Deloria.

A male medic who was lucky to be alive after the rampaging bullets were jacked up by Maggot and were made to stand on his feet with a gun stuck to his rib, prodding him around on a tour of the facility in search of Deloria and her man. They trekked for a long while, searching one room after the other, kicking them open in a feat of rage. "You will be next to perish if we can't find them," said Maggot to the terrified young man.

They tread down the hallway leading to the boiler room and halted for a moment after picking sounds of movements. The gunman prowled surreptitiously to the window where he suspected the noises to be coming from and peeped. The first thing that greeted him was a bandaged leg hanging on a bedpost. He looked beyond the leg and saw patients lying quietly on their beds. Maggot now stood up confidently and walked in through the door using the specialist doctor as a shield.

On seeing the doctor with a weirdly looking man behind him, the patients began to panic but Maggot quickly intervened by calming their nerves, "no one is gonna gets hurt provided you all cooperate with me. We are on a trail of a notorious man and his bedridden woman; has anyone of you seen them?" Each of the patients looked at one another in confusion. The man with a hanging foot said to him, "we did not see any of the people you have described to us."

"Really? Asked Maggot.

"sure," he answered.

Maggot shoves aside the medic. What he did next shook everyone to their soul's foundation. He aimed at the man's leg and shot it, bang! A woman lying beside screamed at the top of her voice, and she too got a bullet buried in her skull.

"As I said, if you cooperate with me, no one will get hurt like those fellas. Now tell me, where is the dangerous man and his friend hiding?

A woman raised her shaky hands and answered, "I saw a woman being taken away by a huge man."

"Could you remember the time they passed by here?"

"roughly six minutes earlier," she said.

"Thank you, ma'am. But except me to come back for you if I found out that what you told me was false." He said and hurried off in the direction he was shown. As soon as he turned his back on them, the patients emptied themselves from the hall and went the other direction.

Maggot gave a thorough search without success. But after a long persisting probe, they came across a door left ajar and appears someone has just walked out of it, it was the door to the boiler room. Maggot cocked his revolver and peeped inside with all cautiousness but all he saw was an empty bed and two bags, one each of blood and water drip and a syringe, littered on the floor. There was nothing in there apart from the terrible noise coming from the machines. Maggie squats down and picked one of the empty bags of drips and sent it to his nose for a sniff.

"Deloria," he said angrily and spat on the floor.

"Let's go," he said to the doctor, giving him a firm grip on his belt and pointed to the direction of the door with his gun. Hardly have they taken a step away from the boiler room came an ignition of a car engine.

"It's Deloria," he said to the doctor, "quick, this way." They both rushed to a nearby window and caught glimpse of a Toyota Tundra raving out of an emergency exit gate not known to them. Maggot pumped bullets in their direction but it was too late. He frets and kicked anything his legs came in contact with and still was not satisfied; he got hold of a flower pot and smashed it into a plasma TV streaming with a cartoon.

"Aargh!" He barked like a rabid dog, "you caused this, doctor."

"But how?" Screamed the medic.

Oh shut up your filthy mouth or I blow off your brain." Said the maddening Maggot. After a quieter interlude, Maggot walks away from the doctor and suddenly turned around and opened fire on him and let him lie in the pool of his blood, showing no remorse like he just guns down a game.

"We lost them," Maggot announced to his band. "You, you and you," he said, pointing to three of his loyalists, "seize three of those she-wolves and take them to the car, they belong to me." One of the three ladies was a European, the second was an African American and the third was an Indian American chick and queen of the runway at a Millan fashion outfit.

"Get up, sweethearts," said one of the dudes to the ladies sweetly. Two others got on their feet but the Indian chick maintained her position.

"If you see me stand up, that's when am heading home." She said with full authority.

"Oh yea?" said the notorious dude. He then walked up to where she is lying down and jacked her up so that her bum comes in contact with his bulky manhood tucked away in his trouser. She kept silent and permits him to raise her quite alright but instead received a painful kick on his balls for assistance. While he groaned in pain, the African American took advantage of that and snatched dispossess him of his gun and then bang! She spilt the bowels of two of the gang members to the floor. The one in pain did not give up as he quickly caught the European among them and put a knife to her throat. "I will slice it if you don't drop your weapon,"

Maggot was upstairs in the control room where a large screen shows every activity going on in the facility. "Let's get to work, boys," he said, grabbing hanger and began to smash the monitors one after another while others vandalize the bunch of cables. "Get me the keg," and a keg of gasoline was brought forward. He spilt some of it from the door to the destroyed gadgets and left the gallon there and shut the door behind him. From a distance, Maggot strikes a match stick and flicked it to the highly inflatable liquid that flooded the floor.

Almost when she was about to drop the gun, came a massive explosion that rocked the facility, in a blink of an eye, all went down flat on their faces. The girls abandoned the idea of saving their friend and took to their heels. They were not spared outside either as the gang outside covered them with torrents of bullets. They hid in a car and remained there quiet. From nowhere appeared a clumsy gunman, thinking they were dead and came to recover his gun from them. The American floored him with a bullet in a split of a second and her companion snatched the pump action gun from him, and together, they went on a rampage, levelling everything in the vicinity, glass windows to the facility was not spared until they dispersed the hoodlums and everywhere was silent before the duo sneaked into a Pagani Huayra Supercar and drive off.

Few of the gang that were left alive emerged from their hiding and relished the widespread destruction inflicted on their cars. "Your crazy friends left you behind, " said one of the gunmen to the European lady, shaping her on her bum.

"Ouch, it hurts," she cried and then spat into his face, "never again must you hit me I that part of my body." They all laughed, inhaling and puffing their cigarettes while mindful of the situation they were in.

"Let' get out of here, the Police are onto us." Said Maggot. They wired every part of the parking lot they are certain the Police would park their patrol vans with a time bomb took off in a Ram pick up.