The X-Files II:
The Future is Here
Act II: Scene I

10:30 am April 1st, 2004 Interstate 5, Oregon

"Just our luck!" Mulder said pissed.

"They're looking for Mulder and Scully. They think that they're the one's responsible for the outbreak. They still think that this is a terrorist attack." Gibson said to John and Monica.

"There's no way to get around the road block." John said with agitation.

"That man!" Gibson said suddenly as he pointed to the sherif, "He's not human."

"But we're almost to the south border...has it spread this quickly?"

"Yes..." Gibson said solemnly "But this man has not been infected he's the bounty hunter. He just spotted our van..."

"Shit we've got to get the hell out of here!" Skinner chimed in.

"John turn this car around!" Mulder insisted.

"There's nothing that I can do!" John yelled.

"He knows we're in this van." Gibson said with fear in his eyes.

* * * * *

"Panic rules the streets in the cities of Oregon. Many say it is the end." A male reporter yelled into the microphone as he struggled to be heard over the crowd. He continued speaking at the shaking camera. "The recent breakout of the disease known oh to well as the "new black plague" has caused the people of this rural state to result to violence. Many hospitals in the area of Portland are no longer taking any new patients."

Suddenly the reporter was interrupted by the sudden shaking of the ground. The screaming only got louder around him. The people scattered like a flock of chased pigeons. The tall apartment building behind him collapsed all of a sudden and a huge wave of dust and debris rushed his way. "Oh shit!" his voice could just barely be heard over the nearly deafening noise.

No another two seconds had passed when a large crack in the street raced towards him and the camera man. Just as the reporters face filled with utter panic as he ran the large hole swallowed him up in the darkness and the camera went black.

"Mr. President this has gone to far." said a gray haired man in a trim suit to the president as they stood in his office.

The president sat at his desk holding his head in despair. "What the heck am I supposed to do?"

Suddenly the phone rang the president paused for a moment someone was calling him directly. "Hello?" he said in an unsure voice.

"Who is it?" the gray haired man insisted.

"You! This is all your damn fault!" the president said to the person on the phone ignoring his advisor. "What do you mean there's no hope but with the children?!"

Suddenly another man walked into the office, "We're running a trace on the call, it will only be a few more seconds."

"Why are you letting this happen?" the president said angrily, "What about the vaccine? You promised me a vaccine six months ago!"

"Only six more seconds! He's in D.C.!" the man said with his ear to a cell phone.

"Damn it!" the president said as the line went dead.

"What did he mean by 'there's no hope but with the children?'" the president's advisor said insistently.

"He said even if we do take the proper precautions, or evacuate the 'lighthouses' there's no hope for us, only in the children." the president responded as he tried to put it all together.

"But Sir the first to go were the children, they disappeared with the first signs! How can our only hope be in them?!"

The president pushed a button on his phone and a recording of the call played back, "We have the children—"the president pushed it again and it paused.

* * * * *

Skinner jumped out of the front passenger's seat and opened the van door. Mulder jumped out and helped Scully down. But they had no time to unload the wheelchair so they ran off into the field to the side of the road.

John jumped out of the car and fired the gun at the bounty hunter in attempt to distract him. But he didn't even flinch as the bullet sped into his gut. Another shot hit him in the head and jolted him some. But overall neither Monica, Skinner, or John could do anything to stop him.

Mulder and Scully had only made it, limping slightly, a few dozen yards and were just entering the forest. The bounty hunter was right on their tail as they struggled through the trees. All of a sudden Scully fell to the ground, pulling Mulder down as well, as the bounty hunter took a lunge at her.

"Mulder help!" Scully cried as she struggled to get free, but she couldn't see him for the bounty hunter was on top of her, his hands around her neck, trying his hardest to keep her still as he choked her. "Mulder help!" Scully tried to say again as the last air slipped from her lungs.

"Muld—"she said right before she went limp and her eyes clouded over.

*TO BE CONTINUED*

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