Knox County, 1993
"The thunder burst through the windows of the laboratory as a trio of Bald white men in finely cut black suits charged through the front door. As they entered the building, it was rather unassuming at first with it being a typical office building, with the exception of no alarm sounding as they entered. The leader of the men, slightly taller with a variety of scars covering their face in a crisscross fashion walked over to the elevator in the center of the building. With the building already only being a single floor tall this intrigued the leader slightly, however, he knew what he was coming for. He yelled at the other members of the team and a stronger man, with the biceps of a bodybuilder shoved his hands into the elevator door and tore it open. As the door opened the leader looked down seeing the extreme descent into what appeared to be shorter one pulled out a rope from the rucksack that he was carrying and tied it to the top of the elevator. He then grabbed hold of the rope and jumped down. As the shorter man fell down he descended almost gracefully and as the rope hit its final length he gracefully landed on the basement floor. The other men soon followed and as they flanked the door, they removed the Assault Rifles from the rucksack. The stronger man, loading his rifle, disengaged safety and kicked down the door. The raid was quick and within 5 minutes of flashing, screaming, and loud noise the entire laboratory was dead silent again. The leader walked over the dead bodies of the scientists, all in U.S military gear and who were quite armed themselves, however, stood no chance towards the trained killers. As the leader approached the central computer, connected by wires to the roof and several rectangular objects that the leader didn't recognize, he treaded on someone who began to cough up blood. Apparently… they didn't do enough. The strong man pulled the scientist up by the collar and the scientist started to struggle. "What… do you *cough* want" the man conveyed, barely able to string the sentence together with all the blood loss. "How do you access the virus!" echoed the man. The scientist spat blood into the man's face "I'd rather die than tell you… this weapon is meant for the U.S government alone… No ruskie*cough* should get their hands on it" the strong man, clearly angered by the scientist's disobedience, prepared to punch the man. However, it was cut short "Sergei!" the leader gently conveyed while holding his hand between the two. "We have other ways to make him talk…., we have enough of the virus to say… make him talk" Sergei smiled coyly, "I see, sorry boss…" He said. He proceeded to drop the scientist. "You wouldn't dare" the scientist yelled, weakly. "It would kill us all…. Not just America, but Canada, Britain, France" "That's the point," the leader said, a small smile forming in his face. "You see, you westerners destroyed the honor of our country with your little puppet. Many have died due to your actions… now it is time to return the favor… You may not give us the info we want in life… but surely with this virus.. you will be able to tell us in death. Ivan!" the shorter man walked over, "Yes Igor?" "it is time, get the virus" "Of course sir" Ivan unpacked one last object from the rucksack. When the scientist saw the needle and the brownish substance inside he panicked. "No please, gentlemen, you don't have to be hasty ill tell you anything" Igor smiled as Ivan began to inject the scientist. As he screamed in pain Igor replied "Yes, yes you will."
Washington D.C, J. Edgar Hoover Building
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully were both sitting in Mulder's little basement office, with Scully reading through some of the files and Mulder, while annoyed switching through the different channels of the T.V. "You always like this?" Scully asked as Mulder was constantly changing channels. "No, it's just the one channel that I really wanted to watch today was just.. pulled off." As he flicked through he stopped on the ABC news channel. On the tv, a red Banner was across exclaiming "medical emergency, severe cases of necrosis located in Knox County, exclusion zone formed around the cities of Muldragh, Louisville, Rosewood, and Riverside. National Guard deployed to assist in the lockdown". Fox looked over at Dana "Scully?" "Yes, Mulder?" "In your medical opinion… do those shambling corpses on camera look like a severe case of Necrosis?" Scully stared at the tv "You toying with me Mulder… of course, they aren't" "thought so" Mulder sighed. As Scully was about to say something, the door started banging aggressively. "Christ!" Mulder yelled "Come in". A middle-aged woman about 30, in a polka dot house dress and hair done in a blonde bun walked in. "You know the Stopford festival is a couple of streets down?" The Woman gave Mulder a death stare before walking over to Dana. "Abbey?" Dana said, quite delighted. "What are you doing here… how did you get out of the zone?" The woman, who Fox assumed to be around 30 sighed as she loosened up a bit with dana. "I was out on a trip with the husband in Washington and when I heard that this outbreak happened… well I knew it wasn't normal. So I came here because I heard you just started working with a new partner… who I thought… would be able to help" As Abbey stated the last couple of words she glared aggressively at Mulder and Mulder, surprised by the ferocity of her stare almost fell out of the uncomfortable positioning he was sitting in./p
Dana sighed "I'm sure Mulder will be willing to help". Mulder clearly still shocked grabbed his bag and walked over to Dana and Abbey and explained "Well fair enough, you sold me. Apologise for my frosty reception however I can't be too sure." "Too sure of what?" Abbey asked as assistant Director Skinner burst through the door. "Mulder, Scully we have an intruder on the…" He is cut off when he sees Abbey "What is she… doing here," Skinner said pointing at Abbey. Fox utterly confused grabbed his bag and tried to leave yet Skinner put his arm out blocking the doorway "And where are you going Mulder?" Mulder moved back, quite meekly. Dana sighed "My friend here didn't know who else to go to. She has family in the Knox containment zone and we are the only people she could trust with this" Skinner sighed… "I was going to ask you all to go in with me before this trespasser(Skinner glares at Abbey) but I also have family inside the zone… also I have Direct orders from the President. Apparently, this was an act of espionage and we have to go into the heart of the zone to find out what happened and attempt to find a cure." Abbey just sat there gobsmacked. Dana piped up "A cure to what exactly, those people aren't exactly… in a state of Necrosis like the Media is stating" "Zombies" Mulder sighed "Yes they well are…" Skinner said as Mulder cut him off. "No I mean there are zombies in our hallway" Mulder said, grabbing his pistol out of its holster. "We need to go, my car is in the parking lot" Dana said, immediately gaining control of the situation and also removing her pistol from her desk. Skinner was rather shocked "How the hell did they get here so fast". "Let's just hope that we have enough time" Dana said as Mulder started firing at the horde developing in the hallway.