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The year is 1984 or at least that's what Big Brother says. Whatever Big Brother says is true then it must be true. If 2+2=5 then that is true. Big Brother is absolute truth, anyone that says otherwise must be corrected. Big Brother might think it is truth but, something else knows otherwise. That something has no name and yet it has many. At first the people thought it was the Thought Police because members of the Party would suddenly vanish. The only problem with that theory is once that person is taken by the Thought Police no body remembers them but whatever this thing is people remember them. "What happened to Stephen?" one would say, "Isn't Judy suppose to work today?" another would say. The only thing Big Brother asks is this….."What is this thing?"
The outbreak started with a dog, a huskie to be exact. The animal was walking down the dirty street of the protals. 'Only animals and protals are free' was one of the government slogans. For a human both protals and Party members would have thought this was just a dog but, in reality it was more then that. This imitation was highly intelligent. The government scientists found its frozen remains in the Antarctica were it thawed in the lab and absorbed 40 rats, 10 birds, 5 cats and 5 dogs including the one walking the street. All the animals escaped from the lab for one purpose, consume.
A child about 6 walks up to the dog, petting its fur. Its tail wags then tugs the child by the collar leading the boy into an ally. The child followed the dog right behind a vacant lot. The only thing living was a boy and a dog. "Doggie?" the boy asks. The dogs response was a low alien growl where its face opens like a dangerous flower. The boy didn't have time to scream, the red threads wrapped the boy quickly and dragged the body into its maw. This was only the beginning of the infection.