iOMG Zombie
Carly could not believe what she was seeing in the court yard of the school. Sam was kissing Freddie. This was a new kind of strange for her. She really did think it was there new intern Brad that Sam was in love with. Carly watched as Sam and Freddie just stood there awkwardly and not saying anything. Freddie looks like he is about to finally say something and just as he is getting it out the schools P.A. system lets out a loud squeal as it turned on.
"All students and faculty please report to the gymnasium immediately. Repeat all students and faculty report to the gymnasium immediately!" Principal Franklin's voice cuts through. What ever Freddie was going to say died on his tongue with that announcement. Sam stood there awkwardly and shifted a little. "Let's talk about everything after the lock-in ok. Let's just get to the gym." He finally said. Sam looked disappointed but shook her head yes.
Carly wanted to dive under the table or hide any where. She even wished she could turn invisible. Instead she did not move as the door swung open with Sam and Freddie coming through. They both looked at Carly as they entered. They all just stood there in an awkward silence for a while shuffling there feet. Students were passing by the door not even bothering to look into the class room. A teacher however did look into the room and saw them. "Hey guys Principal Franklin said for you all to get to the gym." The teacher said.
He walked over and pulled the door to the court yard to make sure it was closed then locked it. He checked the windows to see if they were shut as well. "Whats going on teach?" Sam asked. "Principal Franklin will explain everything at the gym. I need to help in locking and check all the doors and windows." The teacher explained. He ushered them out of the class room and then locked that as well. As the group walked to the gym it got louder and louder as kids and teacher were waiting to find out what was going on.
"Carly! Hey! Carly!" Gibby hollered. Sam and Freddie were standing a little farther apart then normal and not looking at each other. Gibby noticed as he ran up to them. "What's the matter Gibby?" Carly asked. "They made me take Spencer out of the testing chamber." Gibby whined. "What! Why would they make you do that we still have a lot of data we still need to collect. We might have to start over." Carly complained. "I know but they said it was an emergency and that everyone needed to hear what is going on." Gibby explained.
She looked around and spotted Spencer talking to one of the teachers. His hair was still all wild from being electrocuted. She hopped he would not try to get revenge on Gibby and herself for the experiments they did. She was broken out of her thoughts by Principal Franklin speaking into a bull horn. "Students please settle down." He waited for the students to settle down before he continued. "A few hours ago four monkeys escaped from a medical testing lab a few miles away."
"Due to the fact that they may carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans the local police have issued us and the surrounding areas under quarantine till the animals have been caught by animal control. Any unused class rooms are being locked and windows must remain shut. You may not go outside or unlock any windows or doors. Your parents are being notified as well. Stay inside and report to one of the teachers if you see any one of the monkeys. We will keep you posted on the situation.
"That is all. You may now go back to your projects." Principal Franklin concluded his announcement. Some kids started to move around and chat about the info that they were just given. Others started to go back to there projects. Spencer walked over to where Carly and the rest were after finishing his conversation with the teacher. "So guys are the experiments over, can I not get a face full of stink gas again." Spencer asked.
He looked oh so hopeful that the experiments or as he thought of them tortures were done he did not want to go back into the box. "No Spencer we are not done with our tests. We really should start from the beginning since you were let out." Spencer eyes went wide and he looked like he was about to run. "But we can just pick up were we left off. We don't have much left and if we hurry we can get through them with no problems. Gibby can you please give me one moment with Sam and Freddie. I'll be right there." Carly said.
"Uhhhh! Fine let's go Spencer back to the testing chamber." Gibby motioned with his hands for Spencer to follow and they both left the gym for the room where the equipment was. Carly watched them go and then turned around to face her best friends. "What is going on you guys and no secretes." Carly asked. She folded her arms over her chest and waited for there responses. A million things raced through Sam and Freddie's minds just then on how to answer Carly. Sam opened her mouth to say something but Freddie beat her to it.
"Look Carly me and Sam need to talk about what happened first. We need to collect our thoughts and then we are going to talk after the lock-in. Then when we know what's going on we will come tell you what we know. Ok." Freddie actually sounded like he was in charge and not going to back down on his stance. Carly was a little taken aback by his declaration. "I actually have to agree with the nub this time Carly. So if you will excuse me I am going to go back to our project and get me some fudge." Sam walked off. Carly turned to watch her go and then turned back to Freddie.
He stood there for a seconded fidgeting and then hurried off after Sam. Carly was floored. This was major. Like when she found out that her two best friends kissed the first time and had to find out with gassed up Sam. Only this time she witnessed it first hand. Carly knew she was going to get her answers soon but right now she needed to get back to her and Gibby's project. Using some of the more extreme experiments might make her feel better. It was all for science and a good grade. Well that's the way she rationalized it to herself.
On top of the roof of the school a lone monkey scrabbled over and under the heaters and ducted on the school. It stops over a small vent eyes wide, scanning around for any threat real or imaginary, its mouth foaming, and eyes blood shot. A click and a loud whoosh is heard as air blasts the poor creature in the stomach. It screeches and bolts to the edge of the roof jumping at the last possible second to a cable pole. The monkey reaches out and grabs for the poll to shimmy up.
It made it up to the cross beams holding the transformer and the glass wire insulators. It was moved so fast that as it was trying to get away that it touched two of the wires at the same time. 110,000 volts of electricity course through the tiny monkey. Its hands and feet clinch tight around the wires it touched sealing its fate to a shocking death. It was dead before it even hit the ground. The students of Ridgway watched as the power flocculated. No one really took note of what it meant thought.
A passing raccoon scavenged off it that night and in the morning a bunch of scavenger birds seeing an easy meal came down to pick at the carcass. It would not be long before animal control and police found the dead monkey all pecked up from the birds to clean up. The other monkeys had been caught and returned to the lab a few hours ago with no problems. It was sad that they found this one dead and so close to the school. The police and animal control tried really hard to keep them away from the children.
Now that they found the last monkey the quarantine could be lifted and the kids could go home. And not a moment to soon the police gave the all clear to the school and the surrounding area that the monkeys have been captured and returned to the lab. It was early in the morning, and projects were done, and kids that passed out were waking up. Sam did write on a few people foreheads but it was no were near as bad as what she wrote on Gibby that one time. Also not in anything as permanent that time.
"No! No! The chowder is a lie!" Spencer woke up in the fetal position on the floor in his test chamber. His eyes were sticky from tears and his clothing burned in random places. He tried to move but found his muscles were twitching. He tried to speak but found he could not move his jaw or tongue anymore. His hearing was muted and indistinct; the door to the test chamber was open. He could not remember much after he was back in there getting tortured again. He vaguely remembered a pink fog flooding the chamber then nothing.
It seemed the lights were off in the room beyond the chamber he was in. He could see a little out into the room outside. "Hello? Carly, Gibby? Anyone out there?" Spencer shouted when he got his ability to speak under control. He presses his face to the glass and slowly stands up. Something shadowy passes into and out of his peripheral vision quickly. He tries to follow it only for it to vanish from his sight. "Subject seems to be displaying the typical side affects of the knock out-gas: muscle spasms, loss of motor control, and looks to be having a hard time speaking. The voice sounded hazy and far away when all of a sudden.
"Hey Spencer do you remember anything about last night?" Gibby said from the door behind him.
"AHHHHH! Gibby you almost gave me a heart attack!" Spencer shouts out and Gibby shouted in surprise as well.
"Sorry Spence I just came to check and see if you were still asleep and if the gas wore off. I didn't scare you did I?"
"Oh no Gibby I always wake up in fits of terror; you only made my heart pound so hard it wants to jump out of my chest!"
"Ah then if you always wake up that way your fine and your heart looks to still be inside you."
"Yeah I am just doing peachy King on my end. What time is it and no i don't remember happened last night?" Spencer steps out of the testing chamber.
"Its 8:00 a.m. and don't remember anything about last night?"
"Not really I remember getting back in the chamber, then some sort of pink gas filling it, and then nothing after that."
"Test subject is experiencing the temporary amnesia of the knock-out gas." Gibby speaks into a digital recorder. "You should get your memories back in a couple of hours Spence. Like I said it's only temporary."
"Great. Hey where is Carly and everyone else?"
"There waiting for you to wake up because you said you would take us all to get breakfast today."
"Oh right, right, right. Well let's go get them."
Gibby and Brad went home with there parents while the rest wanted to go to Groovy Smoothie. The drive the Groovy Smoothie awkward, Carly sat up front while Sam and Freddie were in the back. Spencer was trying to find out anything about what happened last night after he was put back in the test chamber. Sam and Freddie were silent in the back. Both were looking out there windows. Spencer parked the car and they all go out. Freddie quietly asked Sam to hang back a second.
"Hey could you meet me tonight on the fire escape so we can talk?"
"Wow Fredward you work fast already asking me out."
"Well if you want it to be a date Samantha I'll make ham, fried chicken, get some fat-cakes, and Woo-Hoo punch. It can be a picnic."
Sam's fist clinched and she looked like she was about to punch him and not just for play. She took a deep breath and calmed herself. She knew Freddie was challenging her. She could play his game. "That sounds great Fredward. I'll be there." She grabbed him by the shirt "Oh and don't call me Samantha." Then dragged him into the Groovy Smoothie.