Choose Wisely...
Few hours later, Chad returns to the lab with the specimen. He analyzes the creature, examining it while holding a clipboard with papers on it. After a while, he notices a small jagged like point on the inside of a wound. He gets a closer look into what slowly begins to give him the chills.
Chad backs off for a brief moment, looking at the only other scientist in the lab. The scientist glances up at Chad, before looking back down at his work. Chad looks back down towards the wound of the creature. He gets closer, slowly putting his hands near the wound. Just then, the jagged object quickly twitches and injects itself into Chad's wrist.
"Shit!" Chad lets out, as the other scientist looks back at him. "You all right?" the man asks Chad. Looking around, Chad nods. "Sir, if something is wrong…" the scientist is quickly interrupted by Chad. "I said I am fine!" Chad then quickly exits the room.
The scientist follows Chad outside the lab. Chad stumbles down the hall, before lying on his side. After a moment, the scientist catches up to him, kneeling down beside him. "Chad. Chad, you're going to be alright…I need some help!" The scientist then gets up, and runs towards a lounge.
"Are you guys deaf? Chad Carter needs assistance!" After a second or two, a few other workers scramble themselves out towards Chad. They all help him to his feet, but have to drag him to a testing bed. "Lay him on here!" one scientist demands. Chad's eyes then roll to the back of his head. His vision slowly becomes blurred, and his hearing becomes fainter by the second. Chad blacks out.
Chad's vision slowly becomes clearer. When he can see what is in front of him, he is standing in a blizzard out in the middle of a small town. On one side of him stands a powdery white figure, white appears to be covered in frost. On the other side of him stands a more bluish powdered figure. The two figures are both looking at a family of three. Two men with metal pipes are approaching them.
Chad looks at the white powdered figure, and then the bluish powdered figure. The two men walk closer to the family, and then raise their metal pipes, getting ready to harm the family. Suddenly, time becomes an extreme slow motion, and the white powdered figure leans in and whispers to Chad.
"Kill the family." The white powdered figure leans away as the bluish powdered figure now leans into Chad. "Help the family." Chad begins to breathe heavily. He takes a step forward, and then is grabbed by both figures. "Choose wisely." Chad is then let go, and he then strides toward the two men. When he comes within arm distance, time speeds up to normal.
He grabs one of the metal pipes, and jerks it out of one of the man's hand. He strikes the man to the ground. The other man looks at Chad, and then tries to whack him with the metal pipe. Chad defends himself, grasping the pipe as it was in motion towards his head. He jerks the pipe out of his hand, and then whacks him across the face. The man falls to the ground.
Chad looks at the family, and kneels down. "Are you guys okay?" Just then, the family disappears into nothingness. Chad then glances back at the two figures, in which only the white powdered figure remains. The bluish figure appears beside Chad, and then whispers into his ear. "You chose, wisely…home. Your home needs you." He then fades into Chad's body.
Chad, scared out of his mind, falls to his back. He crawls back a few feet, startled heavily. The white figure stares at Chad. He steps forward to Chad, and after a moment is right in front of him, standing tall. "A waste, you have already become. When we meet again, you will be destroyed." The white figure then jolts himself towards Chad, waking him from his dream.
Chad wakes up screaming. The three scientists hold him down as he squirms for a moment, before stopping. "Chad, are you okay. It's me, Stanton. We're trying to help you. You suffered a blackout and…" Stanton is cut off. Chad gets up from the testing bed. "I need to leave, immediately." Just then, Mason and Dalton enter the room.
"Chad, what the hell do you think you're doing? First you blackout, now you gotta leave?" Chad exits the room. "I have to go." "Go where, Carter?" Mason demands as he follows Chad. "Home." Mason, still following him, commands where he is going. "Where the hell is that?" Chad stops, and looks at Mason. "New York City."