Chapter Twenty-6: The Apocalyptic Awakening
2 days later...
This morning, both specimens were both hooked up to multiple wires and cords relaying to computer systems, and concealed in separate stasis chambers. Pearson in the left stasis and Roland in the right. Subject Pearson was still on tranqs and that wasn't going to change; the bastard stole samples from the 'Blue Umbrella' Labs in Scrapeson and robbed a tyrant storage warehouse while leaving a mess of charred bodies in his wake at 'Red Umbrella' labs. Plus the rogue had a massive supply of T-Veronica fused to his DNA. Second in charge scientist Austin Halen had been running infinitive check-ups on both specimens. Experimentation and memory deleting were to take place in five minutes, or when Dr. G. Walker arrives. Austin had been here for only a year less than Walker, and both of them had been getting along fine with no interruptions or arguments.
The metal doors at the end of the room slid open, and Austin looked up hoping that it would be Walker but finding that it was the dozen count soldiers. All of them were dressed in armored plating and wore gas masks, their eyes only visible. They all held MP5Ks in their gloved hands, with assault shotguns slung over their backs. Two of the twelve were not wearing helmets but headsets; they must be the captains. The two unmasked men advanced toward him as scientist began pouring through the door with Dr. Walker still not there.
"Dr. Halen?" one said addressing him. "By Walker's orders, if anything goes wrong, we'll have to take over."
"Okay, sounds good to me." he replied, "By the way, have you two seen Walker?"
The other spoke answering his question, "He's on his way, we met him on the surface before entering."
"Good-if he doesn't show in the next-" he checked his watch, "-two minutes, we'll have to start without-"
The doors opened again and Gregory Walker strolled in with his morning cup of coffee and set in on the table besides him, "Okay, everyone...sorry for my late arrival, Captain Taylor and Robinson- if you would set your teams up before we get started."
The two captains faced their teams and made some hand motions, and five of the men went to the left side of the room while the other five went to the right, lining up against the wall. The two captains advanced and stood by the exit.
"Okay!" Gregory shouted, "Let's start." He then came towards Austin where he looked at the computer monitor staring in astonishment. "Well, what is it?" Gregory said.
"Look at the screen." Austin replied, "Subject Pearson has had the T-Veronica in his system for a little more than fifteen years. The virus has fused into his brain."
"I know. Umbrella injected it into him after Alexia went into her sleep ten years later."
"What about Roland?" he said pointing to the next screen, which showed low levels of virus in him.
"He must've got it from Pearson, we did nothing to him."
Austin sighed tapping the top of the monitor with his hands making a drum beat, "so what do plan to do, balance out the amount of virus in them and apply the X-Tyrant?"
Gregory nodded his head, "Yeah... But were going to test the X-Tyrant on Pearson so we can get results before applying it to Roland."
"...and then we do the memory erase." Austin added looking at the stasis tubes. "What's going to become of them after we are done?"
"Don't know, and why should we care?"
"Oh yeah..." Austin commented with a smile.
Gregory left Austin and looked over at Stevy Johnson; another scientist who was in charge of the amounts of virus for each specimen, "Stevy, balance out Roland's Veronica amounts to Pearson."
Austin was in charge looking at the neural and brain wave patterns of each specimen. Everything was stable. Stevy began typing away on the console he was stationed in, "Applying Twenty Milli-Liters of Veronica." He stopped typing and placed his hand on a lever. "Delivery on stand-by..." he pulled the lever back, "Delivery on way..."
The smooth churning of a machine switched on and Austin looked at the wall, seeing a giant storage tank with the T-Veronica virus stored inside while being reinforced with Plexi-glass. Next to it was the X-Tyrant virus storage, its bluish-orange colors gleaming brightly. On the other side of the room was the purple liquid of the G-Virus and next to that was the clear blue T-Virus. All the storage tanks were as round as a dinner platter and ran the height of the floor to the ceiling. Austin thought that was risky, but after notifying the Osiris he simply replied that it was reinforced with the thickest and strongest glass. He was right, it was the thickest and strongest but, that didn't seem to calm Austin down. He might as well just stop thinking and shut-up about it.
With the large amount of virus submitted to Roland, would cause high percentage in mutation, but with the virus already in his body already, it would fuse with the virus entering his body and no harm would be done, only that his senses and strengths would go above average and balance out to the same as Pearson's. Which it did as Austin watched the screen.
"Austin?" informed Gregory. "How is it?"
He looked over acknowledging his response and looked at the monitor, seeing Roland's neural and brain wave patterns tie down with Pearson's. Austin gave him a thumbs up and replied with, "It's all good."
"Excellent!" Gregory commented cheerfully, "That's end of stage room, Stevy, switch to X-Tyrant virus."
"Yes, sir" Stevy replied, the whirling of machines churning through the room again. "Relaying virus to Pearson...Amount?"
"Hmm..." he forgot what the amount was, he went to the table and took a couple gulps of his coffee, looking over at the captains, "How you guys doing?"
They both nodded their heads without saying anything and turned their attention away from him. Gregory looked at his papers seeing that it was ten milli-liters. "That would be ten milli-liters Stevy."
"Aye, aye." Stevy responded, "delivering now."
" Austin?" he then said, "keep an eye on the screens."
"Howard?" he said next, catching Glen Howard's attention, "Double the amount of tranqs."
Howard said nothing since he was only two weeks new and didn't know anyone that well, only those porno mags he had in his quarters...bastard.
Gregory looked at the clear skinny tubes, installed in Pearson glow an orange-bluish color as it entered his body. He quickly jerked his head towards Austin who was intensely looking at the screen. " Austin, is it a thumbs up?"
Austin stayed quiet, "Yes it is! It's a thumbs-" his voice quickly stopped as he looked at the monitor, "Oh no!"
"What?!" Gregory said running to the monitor, "Oh shit, tell me you're joking." He looked at the screen seeing multiple windows popping up and saying in big words: WARNING! BRAIN ACTIVITY INCREASING!
"He's waking up!" Austin shouted, "What do we do?"
Gregory turned towards the captains, "Ready your men!" but they were already up, giving orders through hand motions and all the masked men armed all their weapons and readied at the stasis capsule.
Austin began reading the screen, "Strength: rising. Senses: on the fritz! Brain activity: Un-stable and rising! Oh, shit! Oh, fuck!"
"Shut-up!" Gregory shouted, "Stevy! Stop the delivery."
"Too late!" Stevy shouted. Alarms began sounding off and the emergency lights activated. The locks on the door activated, sealing them into the sealed room.
Boom! All the lights then went off at the same time and all the alarms stopped, and the emergency lights clicked on.
"Howard?" Gregory whispered, "Check to see if he's up."
"O-o-okay..." He watched Howard walk to the stasis tube and peer into it, and turned his back to the tube looking at him, "Still unconscious."
Gregory looked at the monitor which was still on for some reason, then realizing that all the computers ran on a separate generator. The monitor showed all warning windows gone and Pearson's body functions were back to normal. "Hmm, must've been a glitch in the system." He looked up and his eyes widened.
"What?" Howard said bewilderedly. Pearson was removing all the tubes and looked down at Howard. His eyes were changed to a bright blue color with a red pupil which wasn't a human pupil but a reptile version.
"What?" Howard said again, even more confused and too stupid to turn around and see.
Austin answered loudly, breaking the silence, "Howard! Watch the fuck out!"
Too Late! In Lightning speed, Pearson shot his hand through the stasis tube and-
-right through Howard's chest, his hand coming out of his chest grasping his pulsing heart. Howard was lifted into the air, already dead, his features frozen in time. Pearson then threw his broken body against the wall and jumped out of the stasis tube landing lightly on his feet, between the two stasis tubes. He looked at Roland's stasis tube and smiled, then turning his attention on everyone.
"HOLY SHIT!" Austin shouted stumbling from the console and making a break for the door which was locked. Pearson flung his arm forward and a fleshly tentacle shot out of the palm of his hand and jetted through the back of Austin's neck and wrapped around it.
Gregory was shocked as the tentacle brought Austin's body in front of his face. Gregory was breathing fast, looking at Austin's dead face when he suddenly smiled widely and look at him.
"What the fuck?!" he shouted falling to the ground.
"Hi, Gregory!" Austin said in a cheerful voice which grew to a low growl, "TIME TO DIE!" The tentacle then through his body to the ground and the sound of gunfire erupted in the room.
Pearson slammed into the wall as round after round dug into his chest, each wound letting black liquid out. His skin color changed to a shade of dark grey as he fell against the wall again. The gunfire stopped when all the soldiers ran out of ammo, the room now silent as they began to reload.
The body soon rose from the ground and Pearson opened his reptilian eyes and smiled holding both his arms out, "God created the Earth in seven days....Watch me destroy it!" With that multiple tentacles shot out of his arm and seized about four of the men in the room, including Stevy. The tentacles holding the bodies then banged them against the virus storage tanks.
Gunfire erupted again, spraying each of the tentacles with hot led. Without even reacting to the rounds the tentacles slammed the bodies into the storage tanks again so hard that all of them shattered releasing the viruses.
Gregory watched as the virus went to liquid to powder in less then a second. The room got real hot all of a sudden as all the vapors combined. This was not good, with the viruses out all together would cause all life signs not to mutate, but vaporize into thin air.
His body then began burning intensely and he looked at his hands and screamed. They were melting away, the flesh peeling off and disappearing into thin air. All the soldiers around the room were reacting the same way as him as Pearson stood silently watching everyone die. He shot out another tentacle at the door, causing it to shatter open and walked out.
It took Gregory Taylor a very long time to die. The intense pain was the last thing he felt. After the viruses left the room and fell into the water supply and air conditioning system, the whole base was brought into turmoil, but with the large amount released, it would not dissipate until taking over a few cities. Or more. This is the awakening of another OUTBREAK.
There was a loud boom and the cell doors opened suddenly for Orchid and Surge. They weren't tortured yet today, maybe because Gail and Mendez were probably having gay anal sex. A sick thought, Surge said to himself. His whole body was bruised as he left the cell. Orchid followed along grabbing a baton from the rusty table. The door ahead of them then sealed closed, hearing the whining of air-
-and then the vapor being let into the room from openings in the ceiling. Surge and Orchid fell to the ground, feeling the air intoxicate them. Surge felt drunk realizing that this vapor wasn't sent out to kill them, but put them to sleep momentarily for who knows how long. Well, it was better than being tortured.
Note: How was that chapter? I hope you liked that a lot. I simply enjoyed writing it. Well you can probably unravel the plot right now. Still writing more, please R&R. L8a!