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Okay, time for another 'omnipotent' chapter, better known as Chapter 5!
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Tobias
I morphed my human body and went next to Rachel to comfort her. We needed each other now more than ever. I lost my leader and my best friend in a period of a half hour. Right now, I think we all needed each other.
"It's okay Rachel, those- those things won't get in here. I'm here for you." I said. I kneeled down next to her and held her tightly, ignoring the moans and various noises being made by the zombies trying to get in. "There isn't anything you could've done to save him. Don't blame yourself."
"I know," she began, "it's just that now that I've lost Jake I don't know what to do. He was the leader for christ's sake! He couldn't die and leave us here in this hellhole! I tried to be strong for us and it wound up getting Ax killed!" she said erratically.
This wasn't like Rachel. I had never known for her to be so pecimistic, even if it was her cousin that died. I got up and read the message behind Rachel. I turned to Erek.
"What do you think it means?" I asked him.
"I don't know. My databanks aren't supplying any usefull information on those undead creatures back there. My guess is that somehow the yeerks managed to find a way to re-animate dead bodies, although this is simply guess work." he explained. I nodded to him and turned back to Rachel.
"Come on. We're getting out of here." I pulled her up off the ground. She wiped her tears away with her sleave and picked up the axe again. We looked around, mainly because we had almost no time to when we came in, and realized the room looked a lot like a hospital waiting room, minus the carpet, pleasant wallpaper, framed pictures, and dated magazines. There was a mangled corpse laying on top of the front desk, dripping blood all over the counter and metal floor.
We walked through a door next to the front desk and arrived in a large circular chamber. In the middle of the chamber was a cylinder lined with computer moniters and various switches and buttons. Wires jutted out from various intervals in the machine and connected to about a dozen surrounding operating tables. On the tables were what a ppeared to be more dead bodies.
This must have been where they did some of the experimentation. I thought as I remembered the other rooms we saw through the windows. I walked over to a computer console located on the far wall of the chamber. After pushing another body off the seat I sat down and started to look through the computers various info files, a trick that Ax tought me a few months prior to the mission. Then I found something very interesting.
"Guys, come check this out." I said, beckoning them over. When they all gathered behind me, I clicked on a file that said 'Director's Log'. Soon, a log book appeared, showing every log posted. there were several stored. I clicked on the first one, marked 'July 2nd'. It read as follows:
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Earth Date- July 2nd, 2005.
Log Book of Sorian 529.
Entry 1. Construction is complete and Project Darka is under way. I have recently been promoted to sub-visser, making me in charge of what goes on here. During construction, workers unearthed a mass grave sight containing hundreds of human corpses. After a short debate, we decided to remove the corpses and use them in our upcoming experiments. After destroying the tomb, construction went rather smoothly, except for an unusual series of accidents in which several workers were killed. No more than a week ago construction was finally done and we were all assigned here. The doctors are very whiney, talking about hearing things other than their hosts. I don't give them much attention, but I too am beginning to here whispers coming from the walls. No one is able to explain the strange presence of cold air, despite being underground and without air conditioning. There were some computer malfunctions yesterday, resulting in the unfortunate release of some of our earlier work. The subjects were terminated before long, but not before they infected several doctors in that sector. On the bright side, we were able to see how long it took for a living organism to become infected and become undead. Security has tightened lately, and I have a premonition that it will only get increasingly bad.
Transmission out.
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I closed the window after I saw that everyone had read it. I had a feeling that reading these would explain what we were up against. I opened up the second entry.
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Earth Date- July 8th, 2005.
Log Book of Sorian 529.
Entry 2. Our work is going at a steady pace, but at what cost? I am starting to doubt the integrity of this operation, but I know that if I go against the Visser's orders it will mean my neck. Literally. On their break, several technicians went up to the human dwelling to see what was up there. No one had actually gone as far as the lobby, towards and through the kitchen, and into the basement. When they came back, however, they were horribly wounded and were babbling about 'demons' and 'the dark one'. Two of the men were still missing and presumed upstairs, but after being missing for several days, we gave up on finding them. We elliminated the three that came back not long after they came back. I am having difficulty controlling my host. Though usually docile and reclusive, he started having violent hallucinations running through his mind. We recently made a breakthrough with our ressurection process, finding ways to mutate various organisms into deadly weapons. Our first surviving test subject has been mutating so rapidly that it requires round-the-clock observation, in case it becomes too much of a threat. I decided to entitle the creature 'Princess', a name inspired by a human position of royalty. The hallucinations are becoming worse and worse every day, and I wonder when I, too, shall lose my grasp on sanity.
Transmission out.
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Now it was getting intersting. I was compelled to read more and see what became of the unfortunate sub-visser, or maybe I just wanted some answers, and all I was getting were questions. I closed the file window and clicked on the last one in the log book.
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Earth Date- July 14th, 2005.
Log Book of Sorian 529.
Entry 3. My worst fears have been confirmed. The experiments escaped after a total loss of power several days ago and now the remaining staff here are being killed off and rising again as the undead. Out of the roughly one hundred staff members stationed on this project, only about seven of us are still 'alive', a word I no longer believe in. We 'played god' as the humans say, and now we were going to pay. I realize now, in my final hours of life that I did things no one should ever do, and for this I am sorry. I doubt I will live long enough to undo the damage I created. I tried to escape upstairs with several others, but there were things up there that no creature, human or yeerk, should ever have to see. How could I have allowed this evil to come into this world? How could I-
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It stopped there. I looked down at the keyboard and saw blood splattered before it, some of which had also sprayed on the monitor. It was odd that I didn't see it when I sat down. I looked at the body I had pushed off the chair. I gasped as I saw that the man's throught had been ripped right off, most likely draining his body of blood at a rapid pace. The horrible claw marks were etched deep into body's neck, or what was left of it, at least.
God help us.
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