INFESTED

FanFiction by Chris000

Prologue: Second Sunrise

New Mombassa, Financial District, Kenya 0719 h, 3235

Sol rose over the smoldering rooftops of New Mombassa, sounds of gunfire and screams of the young and old could be heard all around the island. Foreign starships in clearings unloaded hostile humanoids into the city. The Terrans have devastated thousands of major cities like New Mombassa. They would not stop until Earth was brought to its knees.

In the very center of the city at the base of the Millennium Orbital Elevator, a wrecked plane lay half buried in the road, the charred undercarriage merging with a parked car. Inside, laid a sleeping fox with the face of an animal with a body of a teenage human. Two tails surreally drifted in the air. The fox clutched a pistol in a white-knuckle grip. Unaware of the danger approaching, but at the same time subconsciously knowing danger was on the way. The fox didn't even flinch as a D77TC Pelican dropship drifted towards the ground. The pilot gave constant gusts of fuel to the engines, slowing their descent. Landing gear deployed from the nose and troop bay of the ship and slowly touched down. Two armed marines strode out. One bearing the marking of a Lance Corporal put his rifle to his shoulder, sighted it, scanned the horizon and signaled the other forward. The other marine was a Staff Sergeant. "Ok, Lovitski, let's get the kid ready for dustoff." Lovitski replied by nodding his head and saying "Yessir." Both men strode to the fighter-plane ruins. "This the one?" The Staff Sergeant asked his subordinate. Lovitski smothered a laugh. "Hell, he's the only one. They survived a supersonic impact onto solid concrete and the enemy hasn't even found them yet. I'm surprised he lasted the night. The other's gone though. Command didn't say where though. Top Secret they said." The Sergeant examined the fox. "Is he dead? I can't tell." Lovitski put two fingers on the fox's Jugular vein. "No, got a pulse." "Knocked out?" The Sergeant asked a little more loudly, just to make sure. Lovitski shone a light into the fox's eye and opened a lid. An electric blue eye twitched back and forth. "No, he's in REM. You know what they say about dogs, they can sleep through anything." The Sergeant laughed, he then put his hand on the fox's shoulder and shook it. The young Mobian suddenly woke up and yawned. "Corporal Miles Prower?" the Sergeant asked. "Yeah, that's me. People call me Tails." He said scratching his head with the pistol butt. "The Pelican's here to pick you up." Tails looked disoriented. "Hmm? Oh, right! The Pelican." Tails remembered when Sonic was near him last. Wait here for the Pelican, he said. "I'm Staff Sergeant Brown. Sorry we took so long to get here. The Terran ships are still giving us trouble." Tails shook his head. "No problem. Not like I was doing much anyway." Lovitski motioned to the Pelican. "Prower, you'd better get on-board. We have a medical team in orbit waiting for you to arrive. It seems you've taken a beating when you landed." Tails turned to see the shattered, bloody canopy of Ryan's totaled Hev Hawk All Purpose Fighter. "My pilot took the brunt of it." The marines nodded. "I see." said Brown. "Anyway, you need to get onboard. Strap in and you'll be debriefed." Tails nodded, gingerly touching his head where blood caked in some places. He stood up and, with some effort, walked toward the open troop bay. Brown turned and opened a line to the Pilots. "We'll take one look around. If we come back, wait for us, if you see anything bad, take off. Brown and Lovitski took a hundred paces away from the Pelican when an unearthly sound caught Lovitski's ear. "Sarge, I just head something." Brown shut his safety off. "I heard it too, be careful." Half a minute later, in a blown out hotel room, a creature lunged out from the bathroom. It looked like a King Cobra blown up to ten times its size, but with scythes for hands. Lovitski fired off a burst from his rifle. The creature caught a shot and recoiled, suddenly angered, the creature slid forward and sunk its scythe claw into Lovitski's chest. The Lance Corporal was stunned and his eyes were frozen at the scene. The creature retracted the claw and the Corporal sunk face forward in a pool of his blood. Brown shifted his attention to the creature and fired off a three-round burst as well, the well-placed shots severed the arm that impaled the late Lovitski. The creature howled in pain as blood leaked from its arm and sunk back into the shadows. Brown started to make a break for it. The Pelican was in sight when extreme pain shot though him. He lost height and speed. He looked down to his horror to see his left leg missing below the knee. The Staff Sergeant cried out in pain as he saw the limb lying next to him. A second creature showed up and sliced right through combat armor, flesh, ligaments, cartilage, and bone. "Take off!" he yelled, almost cried into the microphone. The Pelican pilots scurried to get the craft airborne again. The creature sliced again taking Brown across the chest and killed him. The creature turned its skull-like face to the dropship and screeched a hellish cry. The Pelican shot upward and was soon out of sight. The creature looked toward the recently killed human. It bellowed another cry and soon, hundreds of tiny creatures, each quadruped. Tiny spikes on their backs stabbed at the flesh and tore it apart. These humans would be the first of millions.