It was 12:09 PM and the skies over Megakat City were dark, no stars visible, due to a lunar eclipse. Not many Kats were about to watch the heavenly show except the professional and amateur astronomers. The night was quiet for once for which the patrolling enforcers were grateful. Normally these types of nights brought out the crazies.
Unfortunately, trouble was brewing right under their noses within their own building.
In the Enforcer Headquarters Biotech Labs, a long haired, cinnamon-colored Kat was working on a late night project. Dr. Conway was normally a day time worker but a particular project had captured his attention and he was burning the midnight oil probing the secrets of a new virus that had been floating around. Nearby were slides of other diseases he was researching.
At this moment he was studying the cells swimming on his slide under a powerful electron microscope. He'd applied a chemical onto the slide of cells and was watching the reaction avidly. That is, until the lights flickered then went out.
"Wha!" He gasped in surprise. Only the lights of the city shining weakly through the wall of windows gave him any light. Grumbling to himself, "How could there be a power outage? This building has its own power generator." He moved carefully across the dark lab for his desk where he kept a flashlight. He swept it around the room but everything seemed normal.
Just then he saw weird flash of light then heard footsteps coming toward him.
"Who's there?" He called out thinking it was an enforcer checking out the blackout but there was no answer, which was strange all itself and made him wary.
He pointed the flashlight in the direction of the footsteps but his flashlight suddenly flickered off.
"Aw, damn." He complained, now getting really concerned.. "What's going on here, why isn't anything working?!"
He heard something and looked up from his non-working flashlight and blinked in the dim light as he saw a figure standing not four feet in front of him.
"Oh, who are you? Have you come to fix the power?" Conway asked. "Something's affecting anything electrical."
The figure did not respond, it only walked steadily closer only then did he note there were two of them.
Sucking in a breath, Conway began to back up nervously. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" He asked again.
The figures moved forward swiftly and suddenly one of them snatched his arm in a powerful grip. Conway yelped. He noted the figure was wearing a hood over his head and had strangely thin fingers that held him firmly.
"Hey, let go of me! What are you doing!?" Conway cried out, becoming truly frightened.
Silence was his only answer.
He began to struggle but suddenly the second assailant grabbed him from behind and held him tightly by the chest nearly breaking his ribs. The hooded figure in front of him brought up a syringe and rammed it into Conway's heart and shot its contents in quickly.
Conway yelled in pain when the needle struck him. Within seconds a weird pain started in his chest. He started to twitch uncontrollably and his eyes rolled back into his head. As he was losing consciousness, his attacker pulled the needle out and the one holding him released him to fall to the floor.
The intruders looked down at him for a moment, watching the poor doctor twitch and convulse on the floor, blind eyes open, then they moved off to search the room. They took slides with smears of disease cells on them, carefully storing them in a small flat case they had brought with them. Finished they went out the way they had come in, through a strange portal waiting silently for them against a far wall.
As soon as the portal vanished, the lights turned back on. The glaring illumination revealed Conway's sprawled and lifeless body on the floor. Of his assailants, there was no trace.
It begins! "Laughs evilly" This is just a taste of what I have in store for you all. See you in the next chapter! A special thanks to ulyferal as my beta reader!