Chapter 7
A way out
The sun was shining brightly this morning. Like a silver lining after a storm. The rays shined down on the compound; shedding light to the almost pitch black rooms and halls. The rays shinning on the room of one individual; the blood stains on the walls becoming reveled along with clumps of bodies and pieces of flesh that lined the room. The stench coming from them was becoming noticeable, especially to one. A young man began awaking up thanks to smell. Starting to open his eyes he quickly shut them thanks to the glare from the sun.
"What the hell is that smell?" he thought as he used his hand to cover his nose and stop the smell. Suddenly he became aware that something was wrong. He could move his limbs this morning; something that hadn't happened in over ten months. Struggling, he opened his eyes and used his free hand to cover his eyes from the glare from the sun. When his vision cleared and became focused he was shocked at what he saw. Blood painted the walls and body pieces decorated the floor; rats already eating away at the flesh. Getting up quickly, he started backing away only to trip over something. Opening his eyes he saw the General or what was left of him. His suit was torn apart with a pool of blood around it, his skeleton being the only thing inside it aside from his eyeballs which were the only pieces of flesh left. Suddenly one of the eyes started to turn towards him causing him to jump back into a wall. The eye popped out of the socket, in the mouth in one of the rats. It looked at Garfield before scurrying off.
"What's going on?" he thought as he slid down to the floor
"Good you're awake."
"Beast what the fuck's going on?
"I'll explain things in a sec but there's something we have to take care of first."
"What is so important? Tell me that."
"You might want to get some clothes first. I'll explain things on the way." He suddenly became aware of how cold the floor was. Garfield looked down to see indeed he wasn't wearing any clothes. Going red in the face he picked himself off the floor and made his way to the door to the hall.
"Garfield, do you even know where you're going?"
"Umm…not really" earning a heavy sigh from Beast
"There should be a map at the end of the hall. Go to the one of the bunkers. There should be some uniforms in there."
"Thanks, but how do you know that? Beast what aren't you telling me?"
"I promised to answer your questions but let's get moving first." Agreeing Garfield started to walk down the hall. He saw more bodies and blood as he walked. Some bodies with their entrails strung across the floor, making him fight the urge to throw up. Beast voice provided a distraction away from the scene in front of him.
"So what would you like to know Garfield?"
"For one how did I get out of my cell?"
"Tell me. What's the last thing you remember?"
"Lemme see the last thing I remember is that I was excruciating pain then- suddenly visions of people shooting at him, their screams as they were killed. Decapitation, mutilation he saw himself as he killed anything that got in his way. Next was an image of his reflection in the eyes of one of the soldiers before they were killed. The thing that shocked him most was his eyes. There were three glowing green eyes so cold and emotionless that was suffocating him. They were devoid of the humanity he tried to keep being stuck in this hell hole. The last image he saw was him tearing apart the General and feeding on his body. He wished he could do anything to stop these images. Something caught his eye. Looking ahead he saw someone standing in the doorway. By the look of the person he could tell it was a man but, not human. Their eyes were shining a blood red along with the rest of his body. Seconds later he disappeared in a cloud of red smoke.
"Who was that?"
"Ghost. He was the one who brought us hear remember" Garfield thought back to his last image of him. He finally remembered seeing him enter the room where he was being electrocuted.
"Did he turn us into that thing? I remember him sticking something in my arm." Garfield really hoped so but, something told him other wise.
"No he didn't. I have been going over our body to see what that thing was he injected into our arm. It seems that liquid was a special formula; a catalyst if you will
"What type of catalyst?"
"Well…it seems that it work with our aggression and tolerance for pain. The more anger and pain you felt from the tortures and experiments the harder the formula worked. It even made you more bloodthirsty but, it seemed most of that bloodlust went to me for some reason. Even if you don't admit it Garfield some part of you wanted to kill them. The formula was waiting for certain amount to be stored before it was released but, our body didn't release, someone else did. Probably Ghost, it doesn't seem he likes to get his hands dirty."
"That maybe true Beast but that doesn't explain how we were able to change into that thing. No beyond that. It doesn't how we were able to change period."
"I also sensed black magic inside that formula. But it's different from any kind of black magic. It seems to need blood to work. Also I sense the formula still in us. Our body has assimilated with it; we can't remove it so I suggested we try and watch our tempers. Whole thing didn't make sense to him, but he decided to go along with Beast. Sighing Garfield, noticing he had reached the end of the hall he looked up at the map. The bunker was down the right corridor.
"Hey this kinda reminds me of those Hulk comics you use to read. Remember what he used to say 'Don't make me angry; you wouldn't like me when I'm angry'." Beast joked to try and lighten the situation.
"Not funny Beast; so not funny."
After walking through more bodies he arrived at the door to the bunker. Opening the door he was glad to see that there were no bodies inside. Inside one of the footlockers he saw the only piece of clothing in it was a pair of black pants, a black-shirt, and a pair of dark green boots, some fingerless gloves and a black hooded robe. There were also two Kimber Raptor handguns and some extra ammunition and also a pair of short swords.
"Guess its better than nothing." He said as he began to put on the pieces of clothing. After he was finished he looked at himself in the mirror in the far wall. His hair was a mess and his eyes were bloodshed but other than that he looked fine but, he wasn't happy with how he looked. He couldn't even see a trace of the happy energetic young green changeling he once was. He didn't remember drawing his gun nor shot the mirror to pieces.
"I guess that's one way of channeling our anger?" Beast said questionably.
Sighing he put the gun back in its holder. "Okay time to go." He said as he exited the room. He made his way back to the control room. The rats were still eating the corpses when he came inside.
"Garfield where are we going?"
"We have to find a way to contact somebody"
When he opened the door into the control room he saw everything in disarray. The chairs were ripped to bits, wires were sparking and blood was smeared everywhere. Garfield just sighed at the sight as he made his way over to the main terminal. Surprisingly it was still intact and seemed to be working.
"Great at least you didn't destroy everything"
"Hey why do you think I did this?" Beast asked irritated
"You said you had more bloodlust"
"But it's you had the most anger; though you probably won't admit it" Beast mumbled
After some tweaking of the computer he had managed to get it online and the radio to come on.
"Hello is anyone out there. Over"
"…"
He tried adjusting the frequency and the range.
"Hello is anyone out there. Over"
"…"
"Damnit we're finally free and I can't get a signal out!" Garfield screamed as he crashed his fingers onto the keyboard. Suddenly he heard something over the P.A system
WARNING YOU HAS ACTIVATED THE SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE. THIS BASE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT IN T-MINUS 20 MINUTES. PLEASE GET WITHIN 50KM AWAY FROM THE BASE. THANK YOU.
Garfield's jaw dropped when he saw the countdown. He lifted his hands off the keyboard and buried his face into them.
"Damn two years of intensive torture, experiments, and combat training and you still suck at high tech electronics." Beast said trying to hold back his laughter.
"Oh shut up Beast." He quickly picked himself up and went back to the hanger.
"Shit. How am I going to get out of here?" his eyes quickly landed on one of the fighter jets.
"That'll work."
"What'll…Garfield not that! You don't know how to drive that thing." Ignoring him he quickly made his way to the jet. Once inside he looked over the controls.
"Hey these kind of remind me off the controls of that game me and Cyborg used to play."
"Yea that makes me feel a lot better. Isn't there another way?"
T-MINUS 15 MINUTES UNTIL SELF-DESTRUCTION
"You were saying?"
"Oh shut up and get us out of here." Powering up the jet Garfield strapped on his helmet.
"Question how are we going to get out if the doors are locked?" his answer were two rockets firing and blowing a big hole in the wall.
"Anymore questions?"
"No I'm good. Even if I still think this is a stupid idea." Not wasting anymore time the two blasted off through the hole. A few minutes later they heard an explosion coming from the compound. At the same time of the explosion a button inside the jet started beeping.
"You think I should press it?" Garfield asked
"What's the worst that could happen?" Beast joked. Just then another explosion was heard from the compound. Garfield looked back and then back to the beeping button.
"Oh hell no. I'm not touching that." He said as he typed in the location of Jump City into the onboard computer. Soon a map came appeared on the screen and a location marker popped up.
"Hey looks like we were on an island next to Alaska all that time." Beast said
"That explains why they did that experiment outside. Next stop Jump City." He said as he set thejet tofull powerand set the computer to autopilot. Making sure it was set he went to sleep and enjoyed the ride home.
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