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Chapter 7: Things are Getting Crazier

Ella sighed and shook her head as she read over the data they had already downloaded while Samantha worked on the final two. "One of the scientists are missing," Sarge said and Ella looked up. "We move, Reaper, now," Sarge said and turned to leave the infirmary. Ella looked at John and she suddenly found herself not wanting him to go.

"You just wanna leave them here?" John asked and Sarge stopped, turned, and looked at him where he stood next to Samantha.

"They've got a job to do," Sarge said. John sighed and shook his head before he turned to Samantha.

"Look," he started as he opened one of his pouches. "This is Portman's comm. You call if you need help, okay?" Samantha nodded and John watched his sister and Ella found a part of her wanting him to just look her way. "You gonna be all right?" he asked.

"I'll be fine," Samantha whispered and Ella sighed.

"Okay, I'll see you soon," he told her and Samantha nodded. He turned to leave when Ella stood quickly and stopped him.

"John," she said quietly and glanced at Samantha to see her working and Sarge was already out in the corridor waiting. She looked back at him and took a deep breath. "Please John, be careful. We still really don't know what's going on and how these people are changing and . . ." she trailed off not really certain where she was going with what she was trying to say, so, she thought it best to show him. She raised up and put her hand on the back of his head. She pulled his face towards hers and before he even knew what she was doing she kissed him softly. She held her lips to his for only a second before she pulled back and looked up at him, a deep blush on her cheeks. There was a slight color to John's as well, but barely even noticeable. He just looked at her slightly confused. "Don't die okay," she said in a whisper before she turned from him and went over to help Samantha. She didn't look back at him and when she looked at Samantha the smirk that was on the other woman's face only confirmed that she knew what just happened.


Reaper watched Ella walk away and suddenly he felt his resolve tighten and he followed Sarge out into the corridor. "Pinky, are there? Pinky?" Sarge asked over his comm.

"Sarge? Something is cutting through the Ark door," came Pinky's slightly shaky voice of the comm.

"You have a visual?" Sarge asked as they moved through the corridors.

"Oh, I got a visual all right," Pinky said.

"Don't let it get to the Ark!" Sarge yelled. Suddenly, the computer's voice began the countdown for the Ark's activation. "Pinky, use the grenade!" Sarge yelled as Reaper and he began to run down the corridor towards the Ark door. "Use the goddamn grenade! Throw it!" Kid and Duke joined them as the lights dimmed and the Ark was activated. They ran down the stairs and into the corridor that led to the Ark door. A giant whole was cut through the heavy metal door and they made their way cautiously into the main room. "Pinky's gone. That fucker ran," Sarge said as Duke came through the door.

"Shit," Duke said and Reaper leaned down and picked up the unactivated grenade with a sigh. "It got through." Power suddenly went down and all four men raised their guns. "What the hell is that?" Duke asked.

"System reboot," came the computer's voice and the men looked around cautiously. "Time required to begin renewed operation: five minutes."

"Quarantine cordon is breached," Sarge said. "This mission is no longer containment. Get all the weapons and ammo you can. We're going through. Move!" Sarge said.

"Sam come in, over," Reaper said as he walked to the door. When she didn't answer he tried again. "Sam, do you read me? Over. Come in!" he said and looked to Sarge. His stomach sunk because he worried something happened to his sister or to . . . to Ella. "She's not answering," he said.

"Time required to begin renewed operation: four minutes and forty-five seconds," came the computer's voice once more. Reaper looked to Sarge again and Sarge nodded.

"You got three," Sarge said and Reaper nodded before he quickly made his way through the corridors calling for Sam or Ella to answer the comm.


"Try this now," Ella said as she handed the tongs that held one of the cotton balls. She needed to test her theory to see if what she had made of the situation was right. The tongue that laid on the table jumped and made a hissing noise causing both women to jump away.

"Holy shit, you were right. It's choosing," Samantha said and Ella sighed. It made things easier but complicated at the same time to now know why the monster went after certain people and not others.

"So, not everyone will be infected," Ella reasoned and Samantha nodded. "Will they believe us?" Ella asked and Samantha shrugged.

"John will, I'm sure of it, but Sarge . . . that's another story." Ella nodded and at Just the mention of John's name sent her cheeks blushing, but Samantha never said a word. Suddenly, the doors opened and in walked a distressed looking John.

"Sam! Ella!" he said. "Sam, why didn't you answer your comm? We gotta go now!" He ran over to the table where Samantha and Ella stood but Ella shook her head.

"Why did they take Goat and not Destroyer?" Ella asked and John looked at her. "Why Carmack and not Dr. Thurman?" she asked and John shook his head and looked at her like she was crazy.

"What?" he asked and Ella sighed as she pushed some of her dark hair from her face and behind her ears.

"Lucy had the twenty-fourth chromosome but she wasn't a monster," Samantha said quickly and Ella nodded.

"She died protecting her child, not devouring it," Ella said firmly. "Why did the same chromosome that made her superhuman turn Stahl into a monster?" All the while the two women talked, John kept checking over his shoulder.

"Let's go!" John said firmly.

"Just give her a minute!" Samantha exclaimed and John looked at her.

"We don't have a minute!" he said and Ella sighed.

"Then give us ten seconds," she said calming and John looked at her. Samantha looked at Ella and she nodded. Since, she didn't have gloves on Samantha would do the demonstration. "This is its tongue," Ella said as she pointed at it while Samantha picked up one of the prepared cotton balls.

"This is brain matter from Portman," Samantha said and dragged the cotton ball above the tongue. Just as it had before the tongue jumped up and hissed causing all three to jump slightly. "This is from Destroyer," Samantha said as she ran a second cotton ball above the tongue. Nothing happened and John looked at the two of them.

"It's choosing John," Ella said and John's eyes moved to her, his brow furrowed. "It's choosing who to infect." John looked back at the tongue on the table.

"It's choosing?" he asked and then looked back up at Ella while Samantha moved away. "How is it choosing?"

"There are genetic markers for psychotic and violent behavior," Ella said as she pushed on her glasses.

"It could be a specific neurotransmitter it's picking up on, a ganglion," Samantha said. Ella turned and looked at Samantha while she talked. She filled up a tube of C24 and Ella looked back at John.

"It's latching onto numbers," Ella said. "Numbers in the DNA code linked to-,"

"Linked to what?" John asked like they were crazy. "Evil?"

"Ten percent of the human genome is still unmapped," Ella said.

"Some say it's the genetic blueprint for the soul," Samantha said as she walked over to them.

"Maybe C24 is what destroyed the population," Ella said quietly. "And I helped create more that is bound to do more damage than good," she thought dryly.

"It would explain the building of the Ark," Samantha said. "Some it made superhuman, others monsters."

"Oh my God," John said quietly and Ella looked at him. His eyes met hers heatedly.

"We gotta get out of here now," he said.

"What?" Samantha asked. John shook his head and grabbed Ella's hand.

"Come on, let's go, come on," he said as he let go of Ella's hand and Samantha followed.

"John, what's going on?" Ella asked.

"The people quarantined on the other side of the Ark they won't all be infected!" John said.

"What's going on?" Ella demanded again and John stopped and looked at her.

"Sarge is going to kill them all," John said and Ella gasped and shook her head. "Come on."

"John, slow down," Ella said as she struggled to follow him once they left the lab. John slowed and looked at her over his shoulder.

"We have to move Ella," he said as he slowed and took her hand once more. If he had to he would drag her to the Ark. They had to stop Sarge from killing everyone.

Soon, they arrived at the Ark portal and Ella's stomach was already in a knot. She hated using the Ark. She'd only done it once and that was when she had gone up to the station, she just hoped it was a little bit easier going home. John activated the Ark and the three of them made their way over and soon where sucked in and landed easily enough back on Earth.

Ella sighed and put her hand on her stomach. She was queasy but it wasn't from using the Ark. Every person that would have been there had they traveled through earlier laid dead and she shook her head.

"Oh, my God," John said and Samantha sighed as she looked around shocked. "Sarge, what's your position?" he asked quickly over his comm. "Sarge," John said again as the three of them began to move out. "Sarge, come in. Do you copy?" he asked again and Ella sighed and took Samantha's hand. The other woman squeezed it, but they were both ready for anything to jump at them. "Come in Sarge. Do you read me? Over. Sarge come in do you copy?" Ella figured he finally responded when John relaxed slightly.

"Look, do not kill everybody," John said as they rounded a corner and Ella let go of Samantha. "I repeat, do not kill everybody. They're not all infected. Do you copy?" He must have heard because John sighed and motioned them back into the Ark chamber. After a few minutes Sarge came walking into the room with his gun in his hands. Ella walked over to him.

"You don't have to kill all of them," she said quickly. "I don't think everyone is infected, or even capable of being infected." Sarge looked at her with a slight glare.

"We have orders to contain this threat by any means necessary," Sarge said. Ella went to protest when John beat her to it.

"So let's evacuate the uninfected," John said quickly, "and blow this place to hell." The three looked at him and Ella nodded as she looked back at Sarge.

"And we have orders to protect this facility," Sarge said as he looked at John.

"We don't have orders to kill innocent people," John hissed. Samantha watched the two men just as closely as Ella was. It seemed the two of them were challenging each other and they both had a hard time trying to figure out who would win.

"We have to stop anything from getting to the surface," Sarge said, "by any means necessary." John looked at Sarge and Ella shook her head.

"You don't have to-," she started but stopped when Sarge looked at her. She stepped back and he was about to say something when Duke came into the room.

"Found this little chicken shit hiding under a pile of dead bodies," Duke said and everyone looked his way. Pinky wheeled up behind him.

"Am I glad to see you guys," Pinky said. Ella sighed and rushed over to him. "That thing cut right through the door," he said and Sarge looked at him skeptically. "I tried to use the grenade but it came at me too fast." Ella checked his neck carefully. Pinky looked at her before he looked back at Sarge. "Followed me through the Ark and started to kill everybody. It was horrible."

"There's wound on his neck," Ella said as she walked over to Sarge and looked up at him. "He's clean," she said as she stopped in front of him. Sarge glared down at her and out of the corner of her she saw John step forward half a step. Sarge leaned down and Ella leaned back.

"I say who's clean," he said in a whisper and Ella frowned, "and who's not," he finished as he turned from her and cocked his gun. Ella looked down and slowly looked up to see John looking at her.

"It wasn't my fault," Pinky said quickly. "Hey, I'm not a soldier. You shouldn't have left me-," Pinky was interrupted.

"Sarge!" Kid said as he came running into the room. Everyone looked at him. "There's a storeroom to the south," he said as he tried to catch his breath. "It's got, like, twenty people holed up inside of it. We gotta do something." Sarge glared at Kid and frowned.

"Your orders were to clear that sector," Sarge said and Ella looked at him. "Is it cleared?" Kid frowned and looked at Sarge like he was crazy.

"No, I told them to stay put," Kid said. "They're okay. They're just scared shitless."

"We kill them all," Sarge said. John looked at him and Ella shook her head. "Let God sort them out."

"You can't do that!" Ella exclaimed and Sarge looked at her with a deadly glare, but Kid took the heat away from her.

"This is wrong. I think-," he started but Sarge looked back at him.

"Son, you don't think!" Sarge shouted. "That's an order." The tension in the area was so thick Ella could actually feel it pushing down on her. Sarge was hanging onto sanity by a hair and she didn't know what would set him off. "We're in the field soldier." John shook his head.

"Sarge, if nothings found on them-," John started but once again Sarge interrupted.

"You will obey the direct order," Sarge said towards Kid and John stopped, "of your commanding officer." Kid shook his head.

"No," Kid said and Duke, Samantha, John, and Ella looked at Kid.

"Now," Sarge said.

"Go to hell," Kid said as he threw his gun down. Without hesitation Sarge raised his gun and shot Kid right in the throat.

"No!" John, Ella, and Sam shouted at the same time. The three ran over to Kid.

"Holy shit," Duke said. Ella and Samantha kneeled down next to him and Ella took his hand blood was spurting everywhere and John covered Kid's wound with his hand to stop the bleeding, but it just came out of his mouth. He was downing in his own blood. Ella squeezed his hand so he would know he wasn't alone.

"Mutinous insurrection is punishable by death," Sarge said and Ella looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"It was his first mission!" John screamed and Ella's eyes moved to him. He was visibly shaken and at that moment she saw the man she knew so well.

"And it's not gonna be my last," Sarge said. "I need soldiers," Sarge said and Ella watched as John looked back at Kid. "I don't need anybody else but soldiers!" Sarge shouted. Samantha stood and took Ella with her as she walked over to Duke who gently nudged both women behind him. Ella's eyes were trained on John and she watched as he closed Kid's eyes and stood. He picked up his gun and turned to Sarge.

The challenge was back in his eyes only that time it was fiercer and there was determination and even hatred in his eyes, something she had never seen before and hoped to never see again.