Chapter 4 New Discoveries

Crypto worked his way upstairs with no real hurry. He ran into a few mutilated humans and vaporized them. As he worked his way up to the roof he started to try to figure this out.

First he sees humans that have come back from the dead and eat people then he sees an inside out human with claws. What were these things? Where they come from? If they were in fact humans than what made them like that? All he could come up with was stuff he saw in zombie films and other cheap monster movies he has seen.

As he made his way to the roof he could he hear burning. As he opened the door he saw a crashed helicopter on the side of the building. And not far from the side he saw what looked like a large capsule. He walked close to it and it open up. White steam came from the open cylinder and saw a silhouette of a large bald muscular man. He walked out and he could see the large man. It was white skinned and was wearing a thick green coat. Crypto didn't even want to take a chance with him.

"Eat plasma you ugly SOB!" Crypto yelled firing his disintegrator ray at the large creature.

His weapon had no affect to the creature and walked toward him as he kept firing. The large man then lifted him arm attempted to smash Crypto. But he used his jet pack to get away from the creature's attack. While in the air he continued to fire his plasma blasts at the creature but still had no affect. The creature then ignored Crypto as he made his way to the door and left.

"Alright, what just happened?!" Crypto said landing.

"I am not sure but I do have news." Pox said using the hovering hologram projector coming from behind.

"Okay, so what did you find out?"

"When I examined the ashes of those mutilated humans, I have discovered that the creatures were dead before you disintegrated them. Their cells seemed to have been altered somehow by a virus of some sort."

"Virus?"

"Yes, a virus. The virus seems to enter though the victims' cells and once it makes contact to the cell's nucleolus it will manipulate the cell's DNA. As the cell begins to replicate through mitosis, the virus is copied with each division and co-operate with the cells."

"So what is the virus itself?"

"The virus itself is a protein crystal with a RNA core."

"So this virus is what makes these…zombies right?"

"Yes, I guess it is safe to say that those things are zombies. But I can't be sure till I get a better sample."

"So how am I going to do that?"

"Well, actually all I need is a brain stem. Just extracted their brain and I will know more."

"About the virus, you wouldn't happen to know what it is called would you?"

"No, there doesn't seem to a record of this virus in the US government knowledge or at least one that does this and explains it like this anyway."

"Speaking of zombies there seems to be other creatures besides those things."

"What do you mean?"

"When I first entered the police station I was attacked by some inside out creature with a huge tongue and claws."

"Hmm maybe there is a little more to this virus then we may want to believe."

"Alright I'll get you a brain stem and then I'll look at these murders again."

"I won't worry about the murders anymore Crypto. I will be waiting for you with the brain at your saucer."

Pox then left the roof of the police station and Crypto went to go get the brain stem for examination.