Power Rangers Thunder Force #30 Double helix chapter 6: Infection.
Power rangers is the property of Saban.
Bulk is lying on a table in Dr. Frankenstein's lab. Skull is nearby watching the doctor concoct something.
"So Franky. What are you doing now?"
The doctor gets angry.
"That's Frankenstein!"
"Whoa don't blow a gasket dude."
The doctor relaxes again.
"Sorry. I'm trying to find something that will clear the virus that I put in Bulk's blood but nothing is working."
Frankenstein looks in the microscope.
"BAH!"
He sweeps his hand across the table sending the microscope and beakers crashing to floor. Bulk coughs some and looks at has hand.
"Uh doc. These diseases you are infecting us with aren't supposed to be deadly right?"
Frankenstein gives bulk a look that could kill in seconds.
"No of course not."
Bulk shows him his hand, which is all bloody.
""Infection.""
Inside a movie theater a full theater of people are watching a horror movie and seem to be enjoying it. Someone coughs. Then another one coughs. Soon a bunch of people are coughing and getting nasty looks. A man starts coughing violently. A man down from him has finally had it and turns around.
"Look body get a damn glass of water or leave."
His eyes grow in terror as he sees blood spurting out with every cough. He screams along with everybody else. Those screams quickly turn into coughs themselves and more bloody hands.
"Get me the hell out of this place."
"We're all going to die!"
By the time the paramedics with quarantine suits arrive almost everybody is laying on the ground. Only a very few are still coughing. They are all rushed to the hospital after the pathway through the lobby and into the quarantine lab is cleared of all unprotected people. Finally a doctor in a quarantine suit shows up.
"What 's the status with these people nurse?"
"I don't know. It's not like anything the ambulance workers have every seen. They are coughing up violently their own blood. According to victims that can still talk they went from seemingly fine to a few people coughing more and more."
This one guy is shaking violently. He's the guy that told one of the coughers to get a glass of water.
"Shit! I was just telling this guy to get some water and stop disrupting the movie. Then I see he has a bloody mouth and hand. Fuck I have never seen that before. It scared the shit out of me."
"It's going to be okay." A nurse tries to reassure him.
"No it's not. I know what's going on. Almost everybody else has starting this bloody coughing."
The doctor steadies the man.
"Leave me alone. I want to get out of here."
The doctor motions for the nurse and she gives him a needle. He injects the man and he slowly relaxes and lays down.
"I can only hope that this man won't start showing symptoms. We need someone who's immune if we are to ever beat this thing."
6 hours later...
Everybody including the scared man is now showing symptoms. Some worse than others. The doctor steps up with a recorder.
"The further along patients are showing signs of extreme blood loss even though they are no longer coughing. They are also no longer responding at all and their life signs are faint."
The doctor walks over to one particular patient.
"This one seems further along than the others do. We think he is patient zero. In other words the one that the infection started in. Therefore he's further along than the others are."
Suddenly patient zero starts shaking violently.
"Nurse!"
The nurse rushes in and gives him an injection but it doesn't seem to work. The eyes of the patient roll back in to his head and he starts vomiting up a strange substance.
"This doesn't look good."
The patient finally stops rocking and stops moving as well. The monitor goes flat line.
"Damn it. Nurse get the defilbulator now!"
The nurse sets it up and rubs cream on it. She shocks the patient but there is no reaction. The doctor shakes his head.
"Call time of death 3:03 pm."
The doctor takes out his recorder again.
"This strange affliction is now upgraded to a deadly infection."
The doctor picks up the phone.
"I want HAZMAT teams all over the city looking for anybody else showing the symptoms I am about to read off to you."
The doctor sighs and looks at the infection's first death victim.
"May god have mercy on these poor souls?"
Meanwhile the rangers are meeting at their usual place.
"Great so Astyanax is now back in the picture. Damn I thought we dealt with him for good."
"Never put a good virus down before you are sure. Those nasty buggers have a habit of keep coming back."
A man walks up to the counter.
"Can I have a..."
Suddenly the man sneezes. To his horror blood is all over the counter.
"Hey get that out of here."
The man turns around and starts coughing more and more, each one spraying out more blood.
"Oh shit!"
Zanek and the others jump up in shock.
"Call 911!"
The worker calls and he is transferred to the special unit.
"Where are you sir? We are coming to pick you and everybody else in that building up. This infection is deadly and very contagious."
The guy tells him the bar's address and puts the phone down solemnly.
"Oh god. I'm going to die."
"What did they say?"
"That this guy is showing signs of this deadly infection that has popped up out of nowhere. It's very contagious and they are coming for us."
A few minutes later men in protection suits show up and take the rangers, the victim and the owner and put them into the special ambulance. On the way the victim starts coughing more violently than ever.
"Oh shit! I knew I should have stayed home today."
6 hours later...
The rangers are with the others in the lab. The victim from the bar is now in a comatose state. The doctor goes up to the others.
"Okay I am going to assume that you weren't exposed to this infection until this guy walked in. This will be a perfect way to see how long it takes before symptoms show up."
"Have you found any kind of cure or anything?" The bar owner asks nervous.
"No. Usually a cure comes from someone that shows signs of resistance to the infection. And nobody has yet."
"Oh my god. I'm going to die!"
Suddenly almost all the moviegoers start having seizures and throw up the strange substance, then go flat line.
"Okay we have a time between the first signs of infection and death."
The doctor gulps.
"12 hours."
"Get me out of this place!"
The bar owner jumps up but the doctor holds him down and the nurse injects him with something to relax him.
"Are we going to be okay?" Zanek asks.
"I don't know son. I really don't know. When we get a new batch of people that aren't showing signs yet we always hope they won't. But it's not happening yet."
6 hours later...
Zanek is sitting and contemplating what very well may be the end of him and the others. Suddenly he coughs and looks down in horror at his blood stained hand.
To be continued...
Next time the infection is upgraded to a plague when quarantine becomes not enough. Is this the end?
Power rangers is the property of Saban.
Bulk is lying on a table in Dr. Frankenstein's lab. Skull is nearby watching the doctor concoct something.
"So Franky. What are you doing now?"
The doctor gets angry.
"That's Frankenstein!"
"Whoa don't blow a gasket dude."
The doctor relaxes again.
"Sorry. I'm trying to find something that will clear the virus that I put in Bulk's blood but nothing is working."
Frankenstein looks in the microscope.
"BAH!"
He sweeps his hand across the table sending the microscope and beakers crashing to floor. Bulk coughs some and looks at has hand.
"Uh doc. These diseases you are infecting us with aren't supposed to be deadly right?"
Frankenstein gives bulk a look that could kill in seconds.
"No of course not."
Bulk shows him his hand, which is all bloody.
""Infection.""
Inside a movie theater a full theater of people are watching a horror movie and seem to be enjoying it. Someone coughs. Then another one coughs. Soon a bunch of people are coughing and getting nasty looks. A man starts coughing violently. A man down from him has finally had it and turns around.
"Look body get a damn glass of water or leave."
His eyes grow in terror as he sees blood spurting out with every cough. He screams along with everybody else. Those screams quickly turn into coughs themselves and more bloody hands.
"Get me the hell out of this place."
"We're all going to die!"
By the time the paramedics with quarantine suits arrive almost everybody is laying on the ground. Only a very few are still coughing. They are all rushed to the hospital after the pathway through the lobby and into the quarantine lab is cleared of all unprotected people. Finally a doctor in a quarantine suit shows up.
"What 's the status with these people nurse?"
"I don't know. It's not like anything the ambulance workers have every seen. They are coughing up violently their own blood. According to victims that can still talk they went from seemingly fine to a few people coughing more and more."
This one guy is shaking violently. He's the guy that told one of the coughers to get a glass of water.
"Shit! I was just telling this guy to get some water and stop disrupting the movie. Then I see he has a bloody mouth and hand. Fuck I have never seen that before. It scared the shit out of me."
"It's going to be okay." A nurse tries to reassure him.
"No it's not. I know what's going on. Almost everybody else has starting this bloody coughing."
The doctor steadies the man.
"Leave me alone. I want to get out of here."
The doctor motions for the nurse and she gives him a needle. He injects the man and he slowly relaxes and lays down.
"I can only hope that this man won't start showing symptoms. We need someone who's immune if we are to ever beat this thing."
6 hours later...
Everybody including the scared man is now showing symptoms. Some worse than others. The doctor steps up with a recorder.
"The further along patients are showing signs of extreme blood loss even though they are no longer coughing. They are also no longer responding at all and their life signs are faint."
The doctor walks over to one particular patient.
"This one seems further along than the others do. We think he is patient zero. In other words the one that the infection started in. Therefore he's further along than the others are."
Suddenly patient zero starts shaking violently.
"Nurse!"
The nurse rushes in and gives him an injection but it doesn't seem to work. The eyes of the patient roll back in to his head and he starts vomiting up a strange substance.
"This doesn't look good."
The patient finally stops rocking and stops moving as well. The monitor goes flat line.
"Damn it. Nurse get the defilbulator now!"
The nurse sets it up and rubs cream on it. She shocks the patient but there is no reaction. The doctor shakes his head.
"Call time of death 3:03 pm."
The doctor takes out his recorder again.
"This strange affliction is now upgraded to a deadly infection."
The doctor picks up the phone.
"I want HAZMAT teams all over the city looking for anybody else showing the symptoms I am about to read off to you."
The doctor sighs and looks at the infection's first death victim.
"May god have mercy on these poor souls?"
Meanwhile the rangers are meeting at their usual place.
"Great so Astyanax is now back in the picture. Damn I thought we dealt with him for good."
"Never put a good virus down before you are sure. Those nasty buggers have a habit of keep coming back."
A man walks up to the counter.
"Can I have a..."
Suddenly the man sneezes. To his horror blood is all over the counter.
"Hey get that out of here."
The man turns around and starts coughing more and more, each one spraying out more blood.
"Oh shit!"
Zanek and the others jump up in shock.
"Call 911!"
The worker calls and he is transferred to the special unit.
"Where are you sir? We are coming to pick you and everybody else in that building up. This infection is deadly and very contagious."
The guy tells him the bar's address and puts the phone down solemnly.
"Oh god. I'm going to die."
"What did they say?"
"That this guy is showing signs of this deadly infection that has popped up out of nowhere. It's very contagious and they are coming for us."
A few minutes later men in protection suits show up and take the rangers, the victim and the owner and put them into the special ambulance. On the way the victim starts coughing more violently than ever.
"Oh shit! I knew I should have stayed home today."
6 hours later...
The rangers are with the others in the lab. The victim from the bar is now in a comatose state. The doctor goes up to the others.
"Okay I am going to assume that you weren't exposed to this infection until this guy walked in. This will be a perfect way to see how long it takes before symptoms show up."
"Have you found any kind of cure or anything?" The bar owner asks nervous.
"No. Usually a cure comes from someone that shows signs of resistance to the infection. And nobody has yet."
"Oh my god. I'm going to die!"
Suddenly almost all the moviegoers start having seizures and throw up the strange substance, then go flat line.
"Okay we have a time between the first signs of infection and death."
The doctor gulps.
"12 hours."
"Get me out of this place!"
The bar owner jumps up but the doctor holds him down and the nurse injects him with something to relax him.
"Are we going to be okay?" Zanek asks.
"I don't know son. I really don't know. When we get a new batch of people that aren't showing signs yet we always hope they won't. But it's not happening yet."
6 hours later...
Zanek is sitting and contemplating what very well may be the end of him and the others. Suddenly he coughs and looks down in horror at his blood stained hand.
To be continued...
Next time the infection is upgraded to a plague when quarantine becomes not enough. Is this the end?
