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8/13/2009 5:06:51   
UrufuHiken
Creative!


Plot = Zombies, blood, and complex moral philosophies. Need you know more?


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Updates: (4/4/10)

  • I'm back! O.O!!! It's the apocalypse!!!
  • Chapter 1 refurbished
  • Chapter 2 up


Update: (4/6/10)

  • Chapter 1 updated and extended


Update: (4/14/10)

  • Chapter 3 is up (at least for the most part, expect updates and changes to it later)


< Message edited by UrufuHiken -- 4/14/2010 13:14:57 >
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8/13/2009 5:09:13   
UrufuHiken
Creative!


Prologue:
"We, who would be gods amongst men."




The security gate gave a resounding ding as John’s identity card slipped through the scanner. On the overhead a green light flashed acknowledgement and the bulletproof glass door slid open with a slick and airy sigh. The door slid shut again as John stepped through the portal. Immediately after the doors had closed, sterilizing chemicals began spraying John for any outside infections. The wispy smoke cleared, dissolving into a thin mist as the sprayers ceased their activity, and another door opened to unbar his path.

“Good morning, John,” came the perky and girlish voice over the intercom.

“Hello Samantha,” replied John in a thick, mechanical tone.

Security Active and Mechanized Action, Neural THinking Automaton, or ‘Samantha’ for short, was the interactive security network of the Aegis II program’s allocated underground facility, somewhere on this 'no-name worth mentioning' city in the middle of hic-ville central. She was an AI program with borderline human behavior, (at least on the outside.) She had nearly unlimited access to all mechanized utilities, and security protocols and devices. When John was first aquatinted with this peculiar AI who would be like his boss, he felt a little apprehensive. Now, however, and after three years of working with the AI, he only felt slightly annoyed by her from time-to-time.

Samantha made a pouting sound over the com-link. “John!” she whined, “your so mean! Why is everyone always so robotic and cold?”

“Well you’re the only robot here, Sam, why aren’t you?” replied John, setting off down one of a series of many honeycombed corridors.

Samantha sniffed loudly but quickly regained her petulant voice. “Well someone has to have a little life down here, else everyone will commit suicide in this decrepit place!”

“I’m pretty sure you are the only suicide inducing object in these people’s day-to-day life, Sam. You certainly induce it in me.”

Samantha began pouting loudly over the com-station. It was all a game to her however, for the two generally did the same thing every day. It was all part of her neural scanning and analyzing process; detecting security threats and possible corruption from the employee’s minds and actions by any oddities in body language or the mental/chemical structure. John often wondered if he would have had a different life if his councilor had been able to analyze as effectively as Samantha.

“No need to be a scrooge, John; analysis complete, the director requests your assistance in Eve’s observatory.” Samantha must have noticed the immediate effect of depression as John heard those words (the distinct chemical changes in his body as his mind went through a series of depressions and self loathing) because she did not bother John after that. He knew that she was watching however, she was always watching and analyzing.

The corridor lights lining the floors and ceilings flickered lazily as John continued to wander through his haze and down the hallway to the “observatory,” the over-glorified torture chamber that served as Aegis project’s main test subjects observatory.

John reminded himself that everything done down here, down in this light forsaken facility of inhuman evils, had a reason. What they did down here would one day save millions. What evils that were committed down here would path the way for a better and safer future for all mankind. He reminded himself, but somehow still felt cold an wretched deep down.

It was OK, however. He would do what needed to be done. No matter the cost.

John swiped his security card again, and a door that was nearly hidden in the wall slid open with silent hydraulics. He stepped through, presented his open palm on a slick part of the wall, an stepped back again as he heard a soft mechanical click. Across the hallway from him, part of the solid wall slid away to reveal a narrow, descending staircase.

John’s shoes clanked noisily on his way down the dank, damp passage. Dim red lights gave little light and he had to keep his hands firmly on the encasing walls.

‘You think with all the funding this facility gets it would be bale to afford handrails,’ John thought glumly, reaching the bottom step and again presenting his palm for scanning. ’Then again, they may have spent it all on scanners…’

The door gave a loud, unlocking click, and John opened the handle with a jerk and pushed the heavy door open. It swung back on hydraulic hinges and locked once again when closed.

The inside of the room was a cliché of bright lights, observatory cages, and willowy looking men in glasses and white lab coats, walking aimlessly and scribbling notes on clipboards. One thing seemed out of place however. Instead of test animals, the cage held a small, decrepit looking, human girl.

The Aegis program had one goal, to make the perfect human being. A person with mental and physical capabilities off the charts, regenerative capabilities twenty times stronger then any normal being, and senses of a heightened power far beyond any other creature. In short, a project to unlock mankind’s true and latent abilities, and enhance them even beyond that point. To give immunity to all forms of disease, and extend life expectancy to hundred’s of years, or even, some spoke of, immortality.

To accomplish this goal, Aegis would use any method at their disposal, even if it meant the death’s of hundreds of test subjects. And hundred’s of test subjects had died, but one had shown the most promise.

Eve.

Though she looked like any other girl of nine years old, she had the strength of an adult and a mind at a university grade level (when they could get her to actually do anything.) She could solve complex equations, read, write, and speak fluently in several different languages, and when they cut her… when they cut her, her wounds would heal in the blink of an eye… depending on the size.

Despite this, she was ill most of the time, at some times totally unresponsive. But even so, thanks to her, they were making progress with other test subjects. Because of this, the people opted to name her Eve. In honor of her accomplishments.

John had a hard time not laughing at that one. The things that were forced upon her was a form of the cruelest torture. Exposing her to disease after disease, injuring her, breaking limbs, cutting, and even shooting her. Though she healed quickly from the injuries and recovered from most of the sicknesses, the arrogant scientist in their dry-cleaned lab coats and prim looking demeanor could only congratulate her, telling her she should be proud of her accomplishments.

But did any of them consider that she didn’t want this ‘honor?’ Did any of them consider the damage they had done to this innocent girl’s life, whose only crime had been that no one would miss her when she was kidnapped and used for testing?

John turned around and read the plaque that stood above the door. ‘To become gods amongst men, we shall walk the path of devils.’

“In the end, what will we be remembered as?” John whispered silently to himself. “Will it be gods, or will it be devils?”

“Gods, of course!”

John turned back around to confront Mr. Ryu, the facilities director.

“Are you sure, director?” John found himself asking, despite knowing what the man would say.

“Of course!” he said. Still seeing John’s doubt, he sighed and motioned for him to follow. “For the sake of many we must sacrifice the few. To path the way for a better life of millions, we must destroy the lives of hundreds. To become gods, we must first become devils. No one ever said the price would be an easy one to pay, but it must be paid!”

“I know sir,” said John. “You have said it many times…”

The director gazed at him for a while before nodding his head in acceptance. “You will feel more sure after today,” he assured him. John looked up expectantly.

“We will need you to keep her calm for the administration,” the director finally said. “You are the only one who gets through to her now, for some reason. Assure her that she will be fine. Keep her occupied. Do whatever it is you do to attract her attention.” The director then turned and motioned up the administration team. John nodded glumly to no one in particular and walked over to Eve.

“Hi Marie,” said John, a sad smile on his face as he kneeled down. John was the only one who used Eve’s true name still, was the only one who even bothered to figure it out in the first place. And though it was at first discouraged, even now discouraged, it was one of the only things that got through to her.

Marie looked up, face blank and as expressionless as always. Through the whole time John had known her, he had only seen her smile once. And that was when he first used her name and presented her with some candy, holding her hand as a syringe was placed in her arm. He had gotten yelled at because of it, but he didn’t care, this girl needed at least a little kindness in her life.

Marie continued to stare blankly at him, recognition seeming to flit on the edge of her mind. Another side effect at being the perfect human being.

“They are gunna give you a little shot now, Marie, but don’t be afraid.” He held his hand out through the bars. “I won’t leave your side for a moment.”

She stared blankly at the hand for a short time, then slowly grasped it with both hers. Though she did so gently, John was always surprised by the potential strength in her grip.

“Everything will be fine,” he lied.

She looked up into his eyes, boundless intelligence floating just behind jade green pools of clouded ignorance.

“OK Eve, time for your medicine,” said a white coated lab assistant with an extended syringe. Marie looked at the syringe and fear made her grip John’s hand a little more tightly. He squeezed back and Marie looked back into his face.

The syringe touched her skin and she did not shy back. In the moments before the injection she spoke.

“Yes. All will now be made right.”

The words caused a slight pause before the injection, but that was not what made John flinch. The moment she spoke, John heard her say another word. Not with her mouth, but he heard her voice inside his mind. A voice that screamed louder and echoed longer then any other he had ever heard. A word that left him frozen in fear.

Justice!

The liquid entered her veins, and Marie held her gaze for moments after. Then her eyes shot wide, her muscles constricted, and her grip went lax as her body shot into convulsions. John held on tightly to her twitching hand, screaming her name as she fell to the floor. Her veins seemed to move like snakes as the twisted and turned erratically.

“MARIE!”

“Someone get in there with her!” John heard the director scream.

“What’s happening?”

“Did someone use the wrong syringe?”

“Analyze it, analyze it now!”

“Figure out what’s happening!”

“Is she breathing?”

“Get a rehabilitator in here stat!”

“Move, move, move!”

Her veins stopped snaking under her skin, and Marie’s twitching muscles went completely lax. Doctors and scientist bustled around the room amidst a tornado of flying papers and thunder of screaming voices. Amidst the chaos, one of the doctors had opened the cage and dropped to her side.

“She doesn’t have a pulse,” the doctor said. “Get that-”

Everything else was cut off on a blood curdling scream as Marie’s body jerked back into motion and her teeth sank into the doctor’s arm.

“Get her off him!” the director screamed. “Put her out!”

Several tranquilizer darts shot into her body but she gave no recognition of them even touching her. Several more men in white coats were trying their best to pull her off the doctor and to pull him away, but her grip was iron. Finally, someone hit over the head with the butt of a tranquilizer gun and she loosened her grip momentarily.

The doctor went flying away, leaving a chunk of his arm behind and pouring blood.

“Get him to the medical center!”

In seconds, the doctor had been rushed out of the room and up the stairs. Moments later, the noise quieted down and everyone calmed. It wasn’t the first time in their line of work where something went wrong, so they gathered themselves up quite quickly.

“Sanders,” said the director when all was quiet again. Mop up that blood.”

“Yes sir.”

“John. John… John!”

John shook himself and forced himself to look away from the unconscious Marie.

“Please move away from there, John,” the director said.

John nodded once and began to stand, but movement caused everyone to halt and look back to Marie.

She was now standing, face blank as ever, blood covering it and running down her shirt. She stared at John almost quizzically.

The director was now pulling him away. “John. I want you to head to the treatment center, see if they can’t give you anything to help.” John nodded his head dumbly, staring back at Marie even as he was pushed through the door.

Outside, after the door had clicked shut and locked, John slumped backwards against it and buried his face in his hands. He felt cold, frozen to the very core. Marie’s eyes still scouring his mind.

He had seen staring eyes like that before, many times since working here. Every child, every ’test subject’ that died, had stared with those very same eyes. And no matter what way John put it, he could only see the eyes of a dead Marie staring back at him. Inquisitive, calculating… dead.

What had he let happen to her?

He gave a little shiver and a shook his head before standing. He would turn around, walk back in there, and tell the director that he was staying with her. And if not, then he would quit. Get locked up even though he might, he would quit!

He pressed his palm up against the scanner and the door unlocked again. With a jerk, he pushed it open.

Hell met his eyes.

Blood covered the walls and pooled on the floor; bodies and limbs lay mangled and broken across the cold cement. He felt something move at his feet and looked down to see the director’s body, severed in half, one hand still clutching the handle of the door he had just shown John out of. There was a ripping sound, and the soft melody of girlish laughter.

John looked up, his eyes meeting with Marie’s. She had broken out of her cage and was covered in blood from head to toe. She was kneeling down and had Sanders’ body clutched to her chest. Sanders’ head lolled to the side, his throat torn out, the white of his spine peeking out from the gore.

Marie laughed again, a piece of flesh falling from her mouth. She stood, Sanders’ body clutched and lolling like some kind of macabre rag doll, and smiled.

“Justice.”

He heard the word as much in his mind as with his ears, and it echoed in the blank void of horror that it had become.

She laughed again the next thing John knew he was running flat out up the staircase and smashing his hand against the scanner. The door slid up and open, and before it had closed again he was halfway down the hall and running toward the medical center. His mind had gone blank with horror and the beating of his own heart in his ears.

He rounded the bend came to a slippery halt. A strange, dark liquid was covering the walls and floors of the dark corridor, and it was only now that his mind registered that the alarm had been blaring in his ears ever since the door opened.

A loud clanking noise brought his attention to the left, and he saw a man ambling towards him clumsily. The man stumbled into the light and fear wrapped its cold claws around John’s chest as the image of Sanders’ confronted him again, and he froze in that spot.

“John!”

John jerked to attention.

“John!”

“Sam?”

“There’s no time John! Follow my instructions!” Samantha’s voice echoed over his com. “To the right John! Run down the corridor to the right!”

Without thinking, John began to run, fallowing Samantha’s instructions.

“Left!”

“Up the staircase!”

“To the right!”

John ran, lungs gasping for air. He passed one of the mess-halls, blood staining the doors, and screams and moans echoing inside. Occasionally, he ran parallel with another human going the opposite way in escape. Occasionally he hopped bodies. And occasionally he saw mangled corpses of fellow co-workers trying to rise from the floor.

Through it all, Sam kept yelling directions into his ear, keeping him away from as much danger as possible.

“Left!”

John turned, feet pounding down the hallway until he came to a jerking halt.

“No good Sam! This is a dead end!”

“Just hold on a second!” she yelled back, almost frantically.

A noise from behind and John turned to see a willowy, mangled corpse claw itself around the corner. In the light, it looked a little different from the others. Dark blotched, pale skin with black blood seeping out of gnarled, half-healed wounds, and elongated, wraith-like hands.

The creature took one look at him, gave a horrible hissing moan, and began a rambling run down the corridor in his direction.

“SAM!!!”

“Go now!”

A door slid up and open behind him, and he wasted no time in slipping through and going down the stairs. The door slid shut just in time for a loud and heavy impact on the other end.



John descended the staircase and came to another door, just like Marie’s observatory. Mechanically he presented his palm and the door buzzed, not in recognition.

“Hold on a second,” came Sam’s voice, now calmer. The door unlocked and John stepped inside.

It was a kind of security/storage room, filled with boxes and flashing monitors. It had some odd’s and end’s equipment like exercise machines, refrigerators, microwaves, and etc.

“What is this place?” asked John.

“A safe house, filled with enough supplies to keep someone alive for years without leaving. And the only room with a manual lock from the inside that can’t be opened electronically. If I were you, I would lock it now.”

John quickly looked around and saw the large deadbolts and bars that could be manually sealed. Dead bolting and barring the door, he gave it a little test shake and walked away assured.

“But can those things get through the doors?” he asked.

“Not without assistance, no.”

“Who would assist-”

“No time John, I need you to follow my instructions directly!”

John paused, but nodded his head and waited.

“The computer directly to your left. Use it.”

John stepped over and looked down at the flashing monitor. It looked like all the other standard computers integrated into the system.

“This is the only computer in the room that is connected to my network. I have downloaded part of my consciousness into it and would like for you to click on the ’quarantine’ option.”

Seeing a little flashing alert on the screen reading, ’quarantine, yes or no?’ he clicked yes.

“Thank you, now that is done, I would like to give you the grand tour.” A little bit of Samantha’s usual perkiness worked its way back into her voice, but she still remained quite serious. “All the remaining five computers are set up on networks and internal batteries of their own. If the need arises, I would like you to take this disk,” a disk popped out of the computer to his left, “and place it in the farthest computer to the right, which already has a bit of my encryption integrated into its system.”

“Against the far wall we have the monitoring system, which is also on a separate network then the rest of our security system. It has less coverage, but it will do.”

“It is also on a separate power system, and can be manually charged or used with a back up generator if the need ever arises, which it will most likely do.”

“The cooking and refrigeration system is also on this room’s private power system, but can in like be hooked up to one of the backup generators or manually empowered and recharged with a handy hook up to the exercising cycles.”

“You have enough supplies to last you three years with a family of four so you should not go wanting.”

“Will others be joining me?” asked John. Samantha paused.

“No,” She said finally. “There is not much time I have left, when the computer finishes quarantining my memory, I will disconnect and ask that you power down the computer and only use it in the utmost of emergencies. Though I will be quarantined to this system alone, an outside source could still hack in.”

“Is that a problem?”

“More then you know.”

John paused, and neither of them said anything for a long second.

“If things get bad,” Sam continued. “You can remove the hard rive from this computer and plug it up to computer to the farthest right. My core code will be downloaded into it, and though I may be suffering from some minor memory loss and no longer able to assist much in outside manners, I will still be able to give advice.”

“What’s happening,” the question was out of his mouth before he could stop it. Again, Sam gave a pause.”

“Extinction,” she said. “Infected have already breached the upper levels and soon will breach the outside world.”

“Can’t you stop them?”

“No, most of my core security measures have already been overridden. It is no longer in my hands. I used crucial time guide you here.”

This news gave John pause. Wasn’t that against her security protocol? Why would she even do it? John voiced these questions. She didn’t answer for thirty whole seconds.

“Because it was the only thing I could do.” Another pause. “Whatever you do, don’t open the door unless help arrives, and you best be sure even then.”

“I still don’t know what’s going on!”

“Look at the monitors.”

John turned. Across the sixteen monitors were scenes of gore and terror, blood and human’s running, killing, and dying. On one of the screens, John saw Marie walking slowly through a hallway bathed in blood.

Marie stopped and looked up directly at the security camera, directly into John’s eyes, and smiled.

“To become gods amongst men, we shall walk the path of devils,” Sam quoted. “I always hated that saying.”

“You too?” asked John, calmly turning off Marie’s monitor. “And now we who tried to play God, have created devils, harbingers of our doom?”

“It would seem so,” Sam answered back calmly.

“Somehow… somehow I knew we would pay for what we have done in the end. I suppose our superiors will only see this as a need to increase our security measures?”

“Most likely,” Sam again answered calmly.

Silence stretched, moving from seconds into minutes, and still neither spoke. Finally, a familiar ding broke through the silence and pulled John’s attention back to the computer. The bright letters ‘quarantine complete’ flashed across the screen.

“If you ever need me…”

“OK, Sam… Thanks.”

“John?”

“Yes?”

“… Good luck.”

Then the system powered down and there was nothing but silence accompanying John as he stood alone amongst flashing monitors.

He leaned against the cold, steel walls. The horrors of the nights events continued to play themselves out over and over in his head, and Marie’s blood covered, smiling face had imprinted itself eternally into his mind.

Finally, determining that doing nothing was becoming too unbearable, John moved over to the desk of computers. Eyes scanning the surface, he found a switch for a video and voice recording device. Flipping on the recorder, John began to speak.

“Survivor’s log, day one. John Brian William’s, 29 years of age.”

“We, who would be gods among men. We, who would strive to challenge God on His throne, have not gone unheard. And He has answered our challenge.”

“Behold now, the chronicles of mankind’s judgment…”

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9/8/2009 0:18:52   
UrufuHiken
Creative!


Chapter One
“In the beginning...”


A dry wind blew across the desolate landscape of the sand-strewn, desert terrain. It stirred up dust devils and whipped through the confined streets of a remote little desert village, stinging the eyes and faces of the various market goers and inhabitants that were brave enough to face the angry glare from a merciless sun.

The wind whipped through the hair and stung the eyes of one man in particular as he made a conservative pace down the dusty streets. Aaron Sou, a Japanese/American doctor of some reverence, smiled happily despite the dry heat and harsh climate of the desert.

Aaron Sou's smiling face shot into view as Maxwell Johnson brought the crosshairs of the scope up to his right eye.

Aaron Sou had a loving wife; the bolt of the .223 caliber rifle slid back. He had four kids; the bolt caught the round and pushed it smoothly into the chamber as it slid forward. One boy; the bolt locked into place. Three girls; the safety mechanism gave a small click as it slid off. Aaron Sou even had a dog and a cat, all of whom in his family depended on the meager cash he scraped in while working as a natural doctor and in his own non-profit organization; the firing pin gave the barest of metallic clicks, a click that tolled like a funeral bell as the gunpowder in the .223 round sizzled and ignited.

Aaron Sou was waving enthusiastically to a passerby as the super-sonic round ripped through his chest, destroying his heart as it passed through his body. He still wore the same happy smile as his knees buckled and he fell dead to the dusty street.

Aaron Sou was also an enemy of the organization, an enemy of Aegis; and it was Maxwell's job to eliminate those enemies quietly and without pity.

Smooth and without ceremony, Max began breaking down his rifle and storing it in his case with lightning quick precision. He was already rising from his kneeling position to make his way back to the jeep before the first echoing sounds of the shocked screams reached him on the crest of the ridge that stood three-quarters of a mile away from the village.

Calmly, he vaulted over the door, stored his rifle case, and started the ignition in one, smooth execution. Less then moments after he was racing away, due south of the village, careful to not stir up a dust trail as he made his way speedily towards his extraction point.

Yes, Aaron Sou was an enemy of the organization and he had eliminated him. Mission success, and that was all that mattered.

Max drove calmly off into the dawn, as merciless as the desert sun and as cold as the arctic winter.

*****

Max walked the cold halls of Aegis's main facility and came to his employer's office doors. The automatic doors slid open with a well oiled shhk, and Max stepped through the portal. His employer, the esteemed - and utterly despised - Kenneth Redfield, was slowly pacing back and forth as he read a file gripped in bloodless hands. Frustration getting the better of him, Kenneth tore the paper in half and spun on the spot.

"I'm going to need your skills again, Mr. Johnson," The slightly enraged looking Director said in calm and even tones that contradicted the look in his eyes. "How quickly can you be prepped to leave?"

"Immediately," Max responded evenly.

"Good, just what I wanted to hear," Kenneth replied. "Go clean yourself up and report back here in thirty minutes time for briefing."

With a slight nod, Max turned to leave, casting one last glance at his disturbed employer as he looked worriedly down at the ripped file before the automatic doors sealed behind him.

Max stood in silence for a fraction of a moment, just enough time for the sound of the closing doors to fade into nothingness before he gave a slight shrug of his shoulders and moved off down the halls.

Max never liked prolonged conversations with his boss. Max was cold and indifferent to his missions, as he was trained to be since thirteen years of age. Kenneth... Mr. Redfield that is, reveled in the wonton destruction of his enemies, enemies who often as not thought of themselves as 'friends.' If someone became a liability to the company, or if they were deemed no longer useful, it was Mr. Redfield who gave the order of 'termination,' which being fired from Aegis quite literally meant.

Not only that, Mr. Redfield enjoyed having his preferred assassins learn every bit of personal details as possible about the targeted subject. He enjoyed letting them know that they were killing people who were by all counts innocent.

There was a time when Max detested the very thought of what he now did without the slightest hesitation. Times change however, and Mr. Redfield's methods worked well in training his messengers of closure.

Max continued slowly down the grey halls of the facility, the low hum of the overhead lights keeping him company as he moved toward the personal dorms of the company's employees. The automated doors gave a small electric whine of recognition as they slid open.

Max was in the dorm's common room, the designated coffee and lunch, and all around lounging room for the employees who were ever fortunate to have that luxury. A few of those fortunate employees were now on break, and the conversation the group was having ceased as Max entered the room.

As was to be expected, assassins such as Max never got on well with possible future targets, at least that was the way seemed to go whenever one Aegis's 'Fangs' entered a room with any of the other employees. No intelligent mouse ever willingly shared the same room with a cat, even if the cat wasn't particularly hungry of playful at the time.
Out of the corner of his eye, Max subconsciously summed up the three individuals in the room.

One female and two males. The female was of average stature, black, shoulder length hair, and brown eyes. Reasonably attractive and in her early twenties. A speckling of small birthmarks in the shape of a half-circle decorated her left cheek. She also boasted an Aegis Sky Shield uniform, naming her a pilot.

One male was in his mid twenties and the other seemed to be early thirties. The older of the two wore a slightly stained, white lab coat and the other a relatively nice suit with a slightly crooked tie. Both had close-cropped, black hair, but whereas the one in the suit was well kempt and trimmed, the one in the lab-coat was in slight disarray, and short stubble was outlining his face.

It was easily apparent that the man in the white coat was one of the facility's many overworked scientist, and by his level three, red identification card, was one the scientist who worked on Aegis's genetic enhancement programs. Max idly wondered for a passing moment if this man had also been one of the ones who had worked on him when he was put through that tortuous program.

Max continued on through the room without pause, and as the door slid shut behind him Max could feel the tension in the room; he was even tempted to pull out his knife and see if he could cut it, but despite how entertaining it would be to see a trio of terrified Aegis employees bolt off screaming in every direction, it would probably not go over to well with his superiors.

The assassin crossed the room without a word and without sound, and left the easily unnerved trio behind. Within minutes Max found himself looking at the door to his personal quarters. He found himself wondering how much dust had accumulated in the all-but bare room, but he didn't go in to check. Turning on the spot, he continued back the way he came. Perhaps if he sat down for a while in the common room, the employees might loosen up and start talking amongst themselves again. For some reason, he felt it would be nice to hear someone else's voice for a change.

When he returned, the previous inhabitants of the room had vanished. Looking around the quiet room, Max thought it fitting though. What use did an assassin have to listen to idle chat if it had nothing to do with a target? So, with a sigh, Max sat in a chair to rest. Alone with the setting sun filtering in through the shaded windows.

Precise to a fault, Max returned to Mr. Redfield's office fifteen minutes later. Cleaned, changed, and ready to go.

"Your chopper is already being fueled, stop at the armory on your way out after you read the files," said Mr. Redfield without ceremony or hesitation as Max walked through the doors. "Be forewarned that we are not entirely sure with what we are dealing with here."

Kenneth Redfield walked over to a flashing computer monitor and quickly punched in a few keys.

"At precisely Twenty-three minutes of Eight AM this morning, we received a distress call from one of our top research facilities. The researcher in question only had time to say that something had happened to one of their test subjects before we lost contact, some electrical interference of some kind..."

"At approximately One-Forty PM, we were able to reestablish contact at the facility. This is what the cameras showed us." Kenneth moved away from the monitor and motioned for Max to step forward. He did so and looked down at the flashing screen.

On every camera display blood soaked the walls and floors. And the corpses, the corpses that looked on with lifeless eyes and fatal wounds, walked and stumbled aimlessly in every
direction.

The dead walked, flesh hanging from bone and in some cases mouths, yet they walked in every monitors' display.

One was slightly different however. As a little girl walked into the view of one of the cameras, Max's eyes were drawn to her. She walked as a live human would, and Max would have placed her as one if he had not felt something incredibly wrong about that child.

As he continued to look, the child stopped. She stopped directly below the camera's feed and slowly looked up into the lens and smiled.

Max felt a sharp pain in his head and the camera went blank. Max rubbed his temples as he stared bewilderedly at the blank screens, it would have seemed that all the cameras had failed at the same time.

"And that's all we received," Kenneth finished with a frown.

"What happened down there, sir?" asked Max.

"That is what we want you to find out," said Kenneth. "This was one of our key research facilities in Aegis's main project. You will go there, contain the problem before it goes public, and get any data and samples possible."

"Be careful though. As one of the products of Aegis's genetic engineering yourself, you do not need me to tell you the dangers that may await you on this mission."

The Director turned away as Max bowed his head in compliance and looked up to the shining plaque that hung over his desk.

'To become gods amongst men, we shall walk the path of devils.'

Max gave one last look at the director before continuing out the door. As he made his way towards the armory, he reviewed the files in his hands. The word's "Genetic Enhancement" popped up numerous times amongst the file's text, and he couldn't help but to let his mind wander back in time to when he was a child; to when he was a thirteen-year-old boy who was 'graciously'
adopted from an orphanage and thrust into a lab for 'genetic enhancement' and 'the greater good.'

The past didn't matter however, it was six years gone and there was nothing he could do about it.

There was nothing he could do about his future either. He belonged to Aegis and that was that. He was a weapon, nothing more, nothing less. And because of what they did to him, he would never be able to be anything more.

Folding the file and storing it in his pocket, Max cast aside all memories of the past and walked into the armory to be outfitted. Visions of the walking corpses and strange girl flickered through his mind. Thinking, he walked down the lines of armaments. Strapping on two .45 acp pistols to his side and complementing them with two quick reloaders.

The reloaders strapped to his back in a generally comfortable fit. Each holding up to six extra magazines for his pistols and equipped with a sliding mechanism so he could reload on the run. Testing his weapons' action and slides, checking the oil and testing the sights and laser pointers, he gave a satisfied grunt before placing them into their respective holsters.

Walking down the lines, Max moved towards the melee weaponry. He picked out a sword that, to the eyes of a normal teenaged boy his age, would probably be considered a cross between an oversized cleaver and a ninja sword. He could almost picture himself in a different version of his life, showing off the weapon to a bunch of admiring, drooling friends.

This was not that life however, and it never would be. To Max, this was merely another weapon's whose light weight yet heavy blade would be beneficial to his mission when he confronted the walking dead. A choice made of practicality, though the walking dead weren't entirely practical. Max had been able to see a few movies in a lifetime before his current reality, and he thought this complimented the situation nicely.

Lastly, Max picked up a standard issue M16 Assault Rifle, fitted it with a small, 4X magnification scope, and taped together two sets of duel clips. Slinging the weapon over his back with his 'ninja cleaver,' he walked out the door and on to the helicopter pad. At his arrival, the engines blared to life and the blades began to whirr.

Wordlessly he mounted, and soon he was flying through the night air with nothing but the moon and the pilot to keep him company in another routine mission, though perhaps routine wasn't the right word for it. It mattered little though, he would complete his mission, contain the threat, neutralize it, and collect the data he needed.

Nothing to it.

*****


The Car's engine blared as Clair's mother stepped heavily on the gas and screamed profanities at the car in Hysteria. Clair was screaming too, though nothing intelligible came from her lips.

'This can't be happening, this can't be happening, this can't be happening!!!' she thought as she viewed the carnage around her.

Buildings and vehicles lay drenched in flame, screams echoed ceaselessly into the night, and corpses lined the roads. And the corpses that didn't stay corpses either.

Walking dead meandered mindlessly up and down the road, grabbing out as people ran past or climbing over cars as they tried hopelessly to flee. The roads were blocked however, and the dead were walking among them.

Cars recklessly smashed into one another, and those who tried to flee the vehicles were ran down or snatched up from the demons that hunted among them.

Clair and her mother were one of the lucky ones though, they were not trapped in by the other cars, not entirely anyway. And her mother was desperately looking for some rout to escape by.

Clair watched as Janice, the channel two news reporter, ran recklessly down the street, distancing herself from her cameraman as he hobbled hungrily after her. Janice made the mistake of looking back, and then running directly into the awaiting arms of a zombie as he stumbled blindly out of an alley-way.

Clair put her hands to her ears and cried as the reporters blood curdling scream joined the chorus of others.

Every second that passed, the streets were growing more and more crowded, and soon Clair and her mother would be entrapped.

"Clair," said her mother's shaky voice. "I want you to buckle up now, sweetie." Though she was scared witless, her mother was trying her best to sound normal.

"Mom?" replied Clair, unsure.

"We are going to be taking a bumpy shortcut," she said as she looked at a trailer ramp. A trailer ramp pointed directly at a house.

"Mom?" Clair squeaked as she fumbled with the buckle.

"Hold on, sweetie," then she punched it, shooting forward and turning towards the ramp at top speed. A zombie had meandered in front of the path and went flying over the hood as Clair's mother refused to slow down.

The next thing Clair knew, they were airborne. For a single, sickeningly long moment, they were airborne. Then they were crashing through the living room window of a whitewashed house, crashing through tables and furniture, breaking through walls and out the bedroom before finally ending up outside again, screaming all the while.

As they broke through the bedroom wall, mercifully alive, they came out at the fenced in backyard. Clair was still screaming and her mother still going all out as they crossed the distance to the end of the yard, where no buildings or fires could be seen covering the horizon; where freedom was.

The car broke through the hedge of bushes and Clair's mother let out a scream of triumph. A scream that quickly turn strangled in shock.

For the second time that night, Clair and her mother were airborne. And then they were dropping. A long ways down.

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4/4/2010 15:04:09   
UrufuHiken
Creative!


Chapter Two
“... There was darkness”



Fred awoke in the pitch-blackness, the stale smell of uncleaned toilet mingling with the putrid, sweet smell of decaying flesh. He let the cold cigarette butt fall from his mouth and hit the hard, cold surface of the women’s restroom floor. Dazedly, he tried without success to see through the dark haze of the unlit room.

Was it night or was it day? Were they still out there or did they meander off in search of another hapless victim. Did any of it even matter?

Probably not.

Haggardly, he reached for another cigarette and pulled out an empty pack. Balancing the empty pack in his hands, he finally let it fall to the floor; he could remember having a full pack the night before… before when? How long had he been lying in the dark confines of the women’s lavatories? He imagined what would have happened if the management had found him in here when everything had been normal, and he let a dark laugh escape his lips. The quiet sound seemed to echo off the walls and amplify a hundred times over.

Gingerly, he raised himself from the ground and balanced on unsteady legs. His stomach ached and gurgled, his head felt like a pounded anvil, and his vision inverted for a moment, leaving him wobbling in confusion. A moment later and he gained his bearings shakily. Holding himself steady and clearing his mind, he had one thought. How am I going to survive? As if to accentuate the thought, his stomach gave a low gurgle of protest.

He knew that if he wished to survive, then he would have to get supplies, and have to keep moving. Kicking away the empty pack of cigarettes, he began to move through the blackness to where he figured the door would be.

'And whatever happens, I still need more cigarettes,' Fred thought to himself.

Stumbling over a stall wall’s leg, he fell up against one of the sinks. Following the row of sinks, he passed the automatic hand dryer and paper towels, and began fumbling around for the door handle. The door gave a little click, but the noise sounded un-naturally loud within the cavernous walls of the store. Slowly he opened the door and peeked outside.

Light was streaming in through the west entrance, and he could make out a fallen poster with 'All-Mart’s’ logo painted in large white letters. Moving away from the restrooms, he began silently moving for the food section. He couldn’t see much in the dim light, but as he passed each isle, he could see that they were blessedly empty of any loitering ‘shoppers.’

Fred started to move down the 'Chips and Soft Drinks' section, and he felt his left foot go sliding out from beneath him. There was a long instant where Fred seemed to just float there, and then a blinding light stole Fred‘s vision, followed by enticing darkness as his skull rang like tolling bell.

Fred groggily shook his head and opened his eyes, many colored lights floated in an abyss of grey. Shutting his eyes tightly and blinking them again, the colors began to fade and the structure of the dim room began to show around him once again. He could feel that his back was wet.

He ran his hand along the slick surface of the floor, and brought his hand up before him. It was wet, covered in some dark, thick liquid… blood.

Fred felt his stomach lurch in protest again, and he tasted the bile that rose up in his throat. Carefully, he rose, and started for the men‘s apparel section. He wasn’t about to eat as he was now.

Mechanically, he went to work, trading in his blood soiled cloths for new and clean ones. Pulling on a pair of dark, blue jeans, he smirked up at the All-Mart advertisement poster. All you want for the price you want! Fred let himself have a humorous smile over the irony of that, before he remembered the reason behind his current predicament.

He remembered the agonized scream for help, calling out his name. He remembered watching the light of life leaving Jeff's eyes as his life blood stained the asphalt street. He remembered seeing his dead friend raise from the ground, hate and hunger clouding lifeless eyes.

It all had happened so fast. How could anyone have anticipated something like this ever happening in real life, like out of some deranged horror flick? And even if the concept of it was somehow plausible, who would have ever expected it to happen to a small town in the middle of nowhere? None of it made any sense, and no one took the warnings for what they were. Even if they did, no one had had time to organize. A few mentions of attacks on the radio, and then full scale outbreak; the dead coming back to life!

Pushing the depression and hopelessness aside, he went to work again, moving from section to section, pulling on a leather jacket, SWAT boots, and other assortments of survival gear. He strapped on a would-be expensive Rolex with a built in compass, and made his way to the sportsman section, stopping on the way to “purchase” a tactical GPS unit and some batteries, including some for his dead flashlight.

Grabbing a “Hunter’s Pack, save 20%” off the wall, he made his way to the gun safes. He was walking up to the glass protective safe holding various hunting knifes and ocular sights when he heard a muffled groaning. Fred stopped dead in his tracks, fear freezing his spine and wiping his mind blank. In a daze, he saw the mangled corpse of the original cashier slowly pull himself up from the floor. His blue cashier’s vest was torn and stained black with soiled blood, half the skin on his face looked as if it had been torn off by jagged fangs, and his jaw was broken and hung limply from the left.

And his eyes, those same dead, glinting eyes that had ravaged his dreams, met Fred’s eyes now.

Memories came flooding back to him, but angrily, brutally he shoved them away Willing himself to move, his frozen spine bent stiffly and his legs began to move shakily. Out of the corner of his eye he could see a rack of baseball bats. Moving determinedly he walked briskly up to the rack and tore a wooden bat free. Turning around, he saw that the zombie had already crawled over the counter and was limping toward him. Glancing idly at the zombie’s employee tag, Fred said, “Sorry Bill,” and brought the bat down over his head with all the strength he could muster.

The impact of the blow made Fred’s hands blister, and the zombies knees buckled as his skull split and his neck cracked, blackened blood spilling out over the floor as he fell.

As Fred stood there, staring down at the mangled corpse at his feet, the painful lurch that he felt in his stomach moved into his chest. Muttering another, “Sorry Bill,” He moved toward the glass case. Examining the case and its contents, he looked down to the blood stained bat in his hands. Giving a rueful sigh, he raised the bat again and brought it down in a shower of shattering glass.

Blinking and shaking himself off, he looked back over to Bill. A metallic glint was shining off the keys at his hip. Shrugging again, he began rifling through the glass rubble, grabbing a pair of tactical binoculars and strapping a pocket knife to the inside of one of his jean pockets. Proceeding, he strapped a hunting knife to the right side of his hip.

Walking over to the pistol case, he shattered that too, this time without the slightest hesitation. Going through the contents, he pulled out a tactical holster and complimented it with a .22 pistol. He strapped the holster around his chest and under his jacket, and took a long pause while he examined the gun.

Fred never really had any experience with guns before - nothing more then the paintball and air soft games he had played with some of the guys on weekends - and he didn’t know if he could properly wield one. He took a moment to look down the sights, aligning them with All-Marts winking mascot and imagined the digital crosshairs of the guns in his video games before letting the gun drop to his side. Picking up the four magazines he could find, he loaded each with the maximum twelve rounds. Loading one into the pistol cartridge, he stashed the other three in a pocket in his jacket.

Moving over to the rifle cabinets, Fred brought the bat to bare for the third time. The glass cabinet shattered into a thousand glinting grains and Fred stepped forward and pulled out a shotgun. Moving with the mechanical precision of the survivals expert, he popped each shell into the chamber, giving it a little pump at the eighth and bringing it up to his shoulder.

'Well this isn‘t too unlike a video game…' Fred thought to himself with a little confidence. 'Except for the fact that this is real and I forgot ‘easy mode‘ and the ‘reset button‘ in my Xbox.' Sighing, he filled his remaining inside pocket with about dozen shells.

After securing all his weapons, (holstering his pistol under his jacket and strapping the shotgun to his back,) his stomach again reminded him why he left the restrooms in the first place. Shouldering his hunter’s pack he headed for the snacks section. Filling his pack with energy bars, protein shakes, chips, Gatorade, water and etc, before grabbing a few not-so-frozen, frozen meals. The passage of over twenty-four hours had left most of the food thawed out and probably bad, but there were a few that looked as if they would be edible.

Gathering up the food, he headed over to home appliances to see if anything would work. Of course all things seemed unsuccessful, and the electricity was undoubtedly out.

An orange glow was now permeating the western exit and Fred knew it would not be long till sunset. He figured that the circuit breakers might be out, and that he could probably find them in the employees only section, but from looking to the orange glow outside, and the lightless haze behind the windows of those big swinging doors, he decided it would be best to let it be.

Fred had one last stop to make before he retired somewhere safer for the night; Fred needed cigarettes.

Then it was too the roof, where he would ascertain his standings before turning in to somewhere relatively safe for the night. Tomorrow, he would leave this light forsaken store behind with the coming of the morning’s twilight.

*****

Fred dropped the last seven feet from All-Mart’s emergency stairwell and hit the pavement hard, dropping him to his hands and knees. Picking himself up and brushing himself off, Fred made a quick glance around the twilight lit parking lot while he rubbed his wounded hands and knees.

Almost everything was as it was the night he had frenziedly pulled into the desolate lot, drunk with fear and mind in a haze. The dead zombie he had laid low with his mag-light still lay at the entrance door - which had stopped opening and closing on its own when the electricity had finally gone - and his car was still the only one in the parking lot.

Making a double take, Fred realized he was not completely right about that. His was not the only vehicle that had been in the lot after he had arrived, and Fred not the only person. He began walking toward his old sedan. Stepping over litter and walking around a suspicious looking stain, Fred soon found himself staring down at his stripped down vehicle. With all four tires and the spare removed, and the gas siphoned out. Fred wasn’t going anywhere in that for quite some time.

He let a resigned sigh escape his lips, then raised his head to look up at the burning sky as the sun’s halo peaked the roof-tops of the surrounding buildings. He wondered why whoever had come had not tried to holdup in the store before his young mind once again remembered all those video-games and movies. Zombies just loved malls, didn't they? Well everyone else must have thought the same thing, avoiding the big stores like the plague itself.

Looking around at the lot, Fred let out a little laugh.

'I guess it doesn't always pay to think ahead like that, at least I was safe!' Fred's smile turned to a frown however, as his memory spiraled back to that darkest of nights.

Fred looked up at the surrounding store and buildings. All the windows were dark, and Fred marveled at the complete silence at the once busy district. Those once inviting shop windows now looked dark and malevolent. The once warm and friendly doorways now masquerading as gateways to a dark and violent end. The district that once pumped the lifeblood into the surrounding towns was now cold and dead, with danger whispering enticingly at every ally and waiting in every shadow. The dawn’s fiery glow gave it all an eerie light.

Reaching into his coat pocket, Fred drew a cigarette and a lighter. Holding the lit ‘Zippo’ to cigarette butt before flipping it closed, Fred made a slow, conservative walk up the parking lot and made his meandering way down the street, no real conscious and distinguishable thought driving his steps as he entered into an increasingly dark world.

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4/14/2010 13:12:16   
UrufuHiken
Creative!


Chapter Three
Trembling Hand



Max wrinkled his nose to the prominent sent of smoke and decay. Thirty-two hours had passed since nightmares had risen from hell to strike out against him. As the chopper had set down outside the research facility at twenty-three hundred hours Friday night, they had been attacked by whatever experiment gone wrong had clawed its way out of the facility.

Within moments of touching down, a mutated monstrosity came ghosting out of the surrounding trees. Max had calmly and swiftly drew his pistols and began firing. Within moments 6 rounds had found their target, striking the monster's chest and head multiple times.

The creature veered left, barely acknowledging the hits, and jumped on the chopper's front end. Ignoring the whirring blades and roaring wind, the creature struck out at the windshield, bulletproof glass shattering as its clawed hand shot through, slicing at the pilots head.

The pilot had been deft enough to recover from her shock and duck under the claw, but was still hit with a hail of sharp glass glistening with the creature's own black blood. Max wasted no time in bringing his pistol level with the creature's face, and in the instant before Max fired he was able to get a good assessment for what he was up against.

A tattered and stained lab coat covered pale and colorless skin. Black claws replaced what once should have been plain fingernails. Corded muscles bulged on otherwise limber and overlong limbs. And eyes the color of gold calculated and analyzed with the same speed and precision, if not more so, than his.

And the wounds he had inflected on the creature when he had first opened fire were all but gone, and even as Max's finger tightened around the trigger, the last wound closed permanently under snaking veins.

The hammer hit the firing pin and the bullet left the barrel with a thunderous retort, but even before Max had fully pulled the trigger the creature was pushing away, dodging to the left. The bullet passed through nothing but air but Max was already firing again. The creature dodged once more but took the next hit from Max's other pistol in the face.

The creature fell back in pain but slashed out at the chopper's control panel as he fell away. It was already recovering as it hit the ground, and with lightning speed, the creature raced away as Max fired the last three rounds in his right hand pistol. The creature entered the protective shade of the trees but Max kept his left hand pistol trained on the general location as he swiftly reloaded his right.

Rising to a crouching stand, he moved over to where the pilot was seated.

The windshield was shattered into a million fragments that glowed dully in the face of the moon's light. The pilot had numerous scratches across her face and hands, but otherwise seemed unharmed. With a minor passing interest, Max realized it was the same pilot he had seen earlier that afternoon. The only thing that seemed to be keeping her in her seat was shock, because it took sometime for her to respond to his movements.

"What are you?..." she began to ask us he began unfastening her from the seat and pulling her up. In response Max moved his hand in indication and the destroyed control panel, and then moved his hand in direction of the facility's' open gate. Men, the corpses of men, were swarming around the gates and making their meandering way through the unbarred exit.

"I would suggest we retreat for now, unless you believe you can repair this before they make their way to you or the creature we fought before comes back?"

The pilot nodded dully in response, and Max moved over to the chopper's emergency kit. Handing her the First Aid and a loaded 9 millimeter pistol with several magazines, he wordlessly left the chopper and began heading for the dense wooded forest, the pilot running to catch up.

Now Max stood on a ridge not to far from what once may have been a happy small town as the early morning sun cast an orange haze over the land. In the distance smoke was still rising and fires still burning. Whatever had attacked Max that night had really managed to do quite a number on the town.

Turning around, he made his way back into the copse that he and the pilot had sheltered in. The pilot herself lay on the ground, breathing heavily and shivering. Max kneeled down beside her and put his hand to her forehead. He pulled his hand away from the freezing touch and frowned slightly before extracting his knife.

All the cuts she had received during their first contact had healed completely and without a trace. Bringing his knife to her right hand and making a swift and shallow nick, he examined the blackish blood that made its oozing crawl out. It seemed without a doubt now, that when the creature had broken through the glass of the chopper's windshield, some of its blood had mingled with hers.

Max moved his hand once again for the penicillin, not knowing what else to do when the pilot stopped him with a trembling hand. She slowly shook her head no.

"I don't w-want t-to become o-one of t-those t-t-things," she said in between shivers while starring at her gun that she no longer had the strength to lift.

Max paused, looking down at the gun in her hands and back up into her paling, brown eyes. Max had never had to kill anyone other then an assigned target before. And though it wasn't much, Max survived under the pretense that he was doing so under the orders of an organization that was, in the long run, trying to do good for humanity.

At least that was how he originally survived. What held him from delivering the finishing blow to this woman that was now a liability, was the fact that Max now saw her as only a liability. Somewhere along the lines, he had forgotten how to see people as human. He had forgotten how to be human.

The pilot had somehow managed to raise her hand to his, grasping it weekly but tightening it through her resolve. She stared Max directly in the eyes and didn't avert her gaze for any reason.

"I regret to inform you," she said, voice strengthening. "that I will now be sending in my notification resignation."

Max looked her in the eyes for a short time before finally nodding his head and reaching for her gun.

You didn't resign Aegis without first resigning your life, and Max was an Aegis Fang, one of those who dealt with all such applications for terminations.

Raising the pistol slowly and putting it to her head, Max cocked the hammer.

"You know," said the pilot, a small smile on her lips. "It feels pretty good, not working for them anymore."

Max pulled the trigger and the pistol gave an angry retort. The pilot's limp body fell back and hit the ground in a spattering of blackened blood. Her dead eyes and lips still smiled up at him, forever frozen in time.

Max stood, face calm and expressionless. He knew enough by now that these creatures, whatever they were, hunted by sound, so he knew also that he would have to get moving before his location was compromised. Turning from the body without a second glance, he walked over to the bag that held all their basic gear and reached out his hand.

He stopped though, looking down at the hand he held out. The trigger was still pulled all the way back and the pistol was gripped so tightly that the veins on the back of his hands popped out. And for the first time in a long time his hand was trembling.

Forcing the grip open and letting the gun fall to the ground, Max whipped the bag over his shoulder and made his way out of the copse, looking back once more to the body of the pilot, the body of a girl not too much older then he.

Turning away, he began his long journey to the distant town.

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