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Chapter 7

"There's no hope for me

No light I can see

Then 'he' reaches his hand

...and help me to stand..."

Year:1990

This rarely happened. His employer called him in to his office when he noticed that Dr. Curien was getting low these passing months. He stood beside Dr. Curien, listening to him and trying to comfort him while the doctor was having an emotional breakdown. "...He's dying, Caleb...slowly...I did everything I could to help him but he didn't recover..." Dr. Curien sobbed. (His employer preferred Dr. Curien to call him by his first name since he claimed to be the 'friend of all human beings'...) "He's all I have left...he's all Katherine left for me...I couldn't do anything..."

"That...is where you are wrong, my friend." said his employer. "You haven't tried everything." He sat down on his chair behind his desk, looked calmly at his 'friend in need'. "There are other ways that I...we can help your son." That caught Dr. Curien's attention. "Is...is there another way?" he asked. He would accept any kind of help now for the sake of his son. Goldman grinned. "Yes." he pulled a black folder out from the drawer and gave it to Dr. Curien. "You're not the only one who tries to save someone they love, friend. There's a...warden in Louisiana who had a lab underneath his prison. He tried to help his crazy mother. I went there with my other associate to see what he was working on. It was marvelous. I believe what he was working on can help your son as well..."

"It can?" Dr. Curien asked. Hope was coming back to him. There was a way to help his son after all... "I can bring you there so you can have a look at it yourself..." Goldman leaned forward. "Tell me, Roy..." he lowered his voice.

"Have you ever heard of 'Formula X'?"


"Come here to this place

Dark place full of grace

I am waiting for you

You will see me too..."

Year: 2000

Robert came out and slammed the door closed in frustration. "I really wish that Bob have amnesia or something after I knocked him with my baton. He wouldn't shut up about the 'woman in the wall' nonsense." "Seriously, I wish that he's dead." Lance murmured. Sarah glared at him. "Careful what you wish for, Lance. It might come back to hurt you." "Mind your own business, woman! No one ask for your-" he stopped talking when he heard Robert cleared his throat. "...oh, crud." Lance sighed...and took a glance at Anthony who was having a very hard time trying to sit down after Robert hit him hard right in the nuts. Everyone could tell that it was painful as hell because Robert's baton broke in two when he hit Anthony. 'That really shut him up...' Lance winced.

"He's okay, Terrance. Calm down. No one's going to die." Stephen tried to calm Terrance down. It didn't work. "...I just...want to get out of here." Terrance shook in fear. "Everyone here is slowly going crazy. All of you see it. Look at Bob. He's gone mad...There are dead things walking around and killing stuff. I want to go home." he sobbed. It was hard trying to calm down the youngest researcher when he got scared. At least he didn't go crazy. Sarah held Terrance. "Shh, Terrance. We're still here. Alright? We'll...We'll find a way out." she talked to him. "You said that two days ago...and a few days after that...and after that. We're still here. We're getting nowhere." Terrance sniveled. Stephen groaned. Terrance was right. 'We're stuck.' Stephen was feeling hopeless as well. All communication lines were cut off and they couldn't contact anybody outside. They stuck here for almost a month now...and surprised to see a boy found his way up here to them. But that didn't make any difference. They were still here.

"We're doomed...Maybe Bob was right...we're doomed." Terrance cried. Stephen looked at Terrance. "Terrance, calm down...or Robert will think that you're going crazy like Bob and he might put you there with him." Terrance stopped crying. Sarah smiled. "Very good, Terrance." "Hey, where's that kid and Allan?" Robert looked around. Carl pointed to the entrance. "I saw them went out. I think Allan wanted to show the kid around the place." "They left without telling me?!" Robert boomed. Everyone held their breath. 'Allan's so in big trouble now...' Terrance looked like he was going to faint again. "That Allan...never follows my orders..." Robert grumbled. He walked towards the door. "If I come back and one of is missing, I'm going to do the same thing I did to Anthony to all of you!" "Including the kid? Awesome..." Lance smiled mischievously. "You're a troublesome idiot." Stephen hissed. Robert sighed and walked out when- *SPLAT!*

"What the hell?" Robert peered down on the floor. He stepped on something squishy. He realized that he stepped on an oversized leech. It went splat with red blood. He saw these things before. There were LOTS of them when the creatures broke out from their chambers. They were in the all over the place down below. He looked up and saw a hole in the tubes. That could mean only one thing. He ran back to the room. "We got unwelcome pests coming on our way!" he bellowed. Everyone spooked out. "Get something and armed yourselves! Knife, scalpel...anything! Fast! Move it people!" Everybody ran around and looked for something that they could use. Terrance was still shaking at the corner. "What's going on?" he asked. Robert brought his chain out. "Stay away from the door...and keep your eyes on both ceiling and the door! They're coming." "What's coming?" Sarah held her pipe tightly, ready to hit anything that comes through the door. "Remember those little blood-suckers down in the DBR Institute?" Robert asked...everyone nodded. "Well...they found a way up here through the tubes and the ceiling..." he gestured to the ceiling.

"We're going to die! We're going to DIE! HA-HA! PAINFULLY! HA-HA!" Bob was screaming his head off in the detention room. Robert groaned. "I swear...if he kept screaming like that tonight, I'm going to use his damn body to cover the hole in that goddamn tube!" Everybody glanced at one another. There were sounds of scratches and something slithering through the entrance door. They came closer. Carl looked at Robert. "Wait. What about Allan and that kid?" Robert shook his head. "They're on their own..." A few seconds later, slimy-looking leeches with large body and teeth slithered their way in to the room at an alarming speed."Incoming!" Robert yelled.

-Somewhere else on the same floor-...

"Wow..." Daniel looked around the room. A very big and long room that almost looked like a giant greenhouse. There were all sorts of flowers and plants all over the place. At one side, all of the vegetation and fruits grew. "Are all of them safe to eat? I...remember that there was a floor down there where the trees and-" "Oh, don't worry. There're safe to eat." Allan shrugged like it was nothing. "Those smart scientists who stayed here managed to...well...remove those harmful things off these plants. Don't worry, we won't turned in to those walking corpses." Allan led Daniel out of the room and went to the other way.

"This is a very important room that I'm about to show you, Daniel. Robert never sent anyone here alone." Allan opened the door. There was a bridge over the green water. A large machine with some control panels was in the middle of the bridge. "This is the power room where we set the temperature on this floor. The reason why it is important was that if this whole place is too hot...I think you those giant capsules with strange looking bodies inside them, right? Well, if this floor is too hot, those things will wake up and possibly break out from the capsules. So, we have to make sure that it stays this way. Not too warm." Allan explained. He looked at the panel and frowned. "What the-?" he looked closer. The temperature was higher than usual. He quickly set the temperature lower. "Who the heck changed the temperature...?" Allan scratched his head. He turned around and saw Daniel headed to the other way towards the other door. "Daniel, don't go there!" Allan shouted but the door already slid open. He rushed to Daniel but he stopped in his place when he saw the chamber.

"What is this place?" Daniel asked Allan. His eyes locked on the enormous cylinder containment in the middle of the chamber. It seemed that all of the tubes and pipes in this facility leads to this chamber. There were machines all over the place. In front of the containment made of glass, there were control panels that linked to it. Everything in this room seemed to have more than enough power to run the whole facility. Allan glanced at the room. "I...I don't know. I never see this room before. I didn't even know it exists." he answered, still bewildered at the sight of the room. Then Daniel saw something inside the cylinder glass. It looked like a human being...only with silver skin and spikes on both arms and horns on its head. What caught his attention was the glowing light from its chest. It glowed with a small tint of...light blue. The same light blue when he was in the...

"Hello, Daniel..."

"We...We better go now, Daniel. I don't think it's safe here." Allan pulled Daniel out from the room. "Don't go..."the mechanical voice called out. It sounded...sad. Allan didn't seem to hear the voice. Daniel looked back at the mysterious being in the glass. It stared back at Daniel with white eyes that sent chills down his spine. "She's waiting down there..." that was the last thing Daniel heard before the door slid closed behind him. Allan noticed Daniel's behavior while walking out from the power room. "Daniel, are you alright?" he asked. "You seemed to...froze back there." Daniel shook his head. "It was nothing." he answered. Allan frowned at that. "Daniel..." he spoke. "You can tell me anything. Were you hearing voices back there?" "I...I..." Daniel stuttered. He didn't know what to say. "What did they say, Daniel?" Allan asked. Daniel looked surprised. Suddenly Allan was interested in these things...what a surprised. "Why do you want to know?" Daniel asked back. Allan paused for a moment then he shook his head. "Never mind. I shouldn't ask you that." They continued their way back.

"I think what we saw back there is the thing that your father worked on." Allan spoke up. "My wife mentioned something about a room that only a few have access to it. She also didn't know what was inside." "Well, I guess you can tell her when we reach the room." Daniel shrugged. Allan looked sad by that. "I'm sorry. Did I say something wrong?" Daniel apologized. Allan shook his head. "No, no...it's just that...I don't think I can tell my wife anything anymore." "What do you mean?" ...there was silence. "...My wife...is not here, Daniel." Allan answered finally. Daniel didn't like the sound of that. "At least...she's in a better place now." Allan wiped off his tears an let out a sigh. So many good people died in this place. They all have families and friends. All gone and broken in the flash when those creatures broke out from their chambers and attacked everyone. "Now it's just me and the rest of the researchers in he-"

A large leech bounced upward to Allan with a wide opened mouth full of fangs. Daniel and Allan screamed. Robert reached out his hand and caught the leech's tail just in time before it bit Allan's face and swung it down on the floor. He quickly stomped on it until it splattered all over the floor. "Allan..." Robert glared at him. "...get in the room before I shove the remains of this leech up your rear!" Both Daniel and Allan quickly went inside the room...with blood all over the floor and researchers with bloodstains on their uniform. Sarah, Stephen and Terrance were so relief that both of them are back. "Thank goodness! You guys are alright." Sarah sighed. Stephen tried to calm Terrance down again. "Wait...Where's Carl?" Allan looked around. "Dead." said one of the researchers. "Got eaten by those suckers from inside and out..." All of them sadden. Another guy dead. There was no corpse to mourn.

Robert came inside again. This time, he closed the entrance door. Everyone looked at Robert. The whole room was deadly silent...this time, it was filled with tension. "Those who are injured, raise your hand up." Robert asked in a cold tone. Nobody raised their hand. "Good." he sighed. "From now on, I'll keep my eyes on all of you. Anyone who leave this room without my permission will-" Then everybody heard something in the detention room. Robert paused...then continued. "Those who leave this room without my permission will have a serious punishment from-" "Ugh!" The sound coming from the detention room wasn't a nice one. Everybody stared at the door... the banging and the scratching in the room ceased. Everybody looked confused. "What the hell is Bob doing now?!" Robert walked to the door and opened it. The door swung open and everyone saw the horror in the room. Bob was lying on the floor, motionless soaked in blood and wounds all over him. There was a long cut on his stomach and it traced all the way up to his neck. It was as if he was cut open by something sharp. "Oh, my God..." a researcher gasped at the sight.

Robert quickly closed the door and locked the door. "That's it! If I see more of those leeches again..." Robert grumbled. Other researchers dropped their stuff and settled down again. Sarah, Stephen and Terrance removed their lab coat and put it aside. "Hey...how come it's getting cold around here?" Lance tried to warm himself by rubbing his hands. Terrance looked at Daniel and handed him spare clothing. "You might want to change, Daniel. Those torn blue of yours won't help you with the cold." They were grey shirt and black jeans. A bit big for his size but better than wearing this torn pajamas... "Thank you."

Terrance tilted his head. "I'm curious...how old are you exactly?" Daniel looked at Terrance with blank expression. "This is 2000, right?" Terrance nodded. Daniel thought for a second then he answered. "...I'm 19." Allan looked at him in disbelief. "What?" Sarah, Stephen and Terrance couldn't believe it either. "You...don't look like 19...more like 11 or something." Terrance stammered. Daniel shrugged. "Yeah, it's weird. I even wonder myself why I still looked like this." "Maybe you are a retarded kid." Lance blurted out. Sarah stood up, walked to Lance and slapped him hard right on his cheek. "The only retarded people I see around here is you and Anthony." Sarah hissed. Anthony and Lance glared at her. Allan sighed. "Never mind them, Daniel."

...Later that night, while others were asleep, Lance, Anthony and some of the researchers were still awake, talking quietly to one another. "You guys noticed it, right?" Lance started the conversation. "Everything was less dangerous around here. When that brat showed up on the entrance, all hell broke loose around here and we got in trouble because of him." the other researchers agreed. "Look. Bob and Carl are dead. Who will be next? Anthony?" Anthony glared at Lance. "Well, that was just a question." Lance defended himself. "I mean, that brat brings nothing but trouble. Just like his insane father." they all nodded. "Anyway, I think we can solve this problem. There's one solution that can rid of some troubles around here..." they listened closely to Lance. "Gentlemen..." he whispered.

"...We have to get rid of that little brat...fast."


Year: 1992

Dr. Curien was confused. Things didn't go according to plan and he hates it. He was supposed to be here. He said that he would be here to see him. 'I should have known that he lied...' he sighed. He was now stuck in this abandon place with all of those 'mutants' around. That was also impossible. Those 'mutants' were all dead in Louisiana...He heard that the outbreak was contained...BANG! "What the-?!" Dr. Curien looked at the door. He heard footsteps coming closer to the room where he was staying. Whoever it was, that person had a gun. 'This can't be good...' Dr. Curien put the brown envelop inside his lab coat and pulled out his gun. This didn't make him feel good to hold a gun... A young man wearing brown coat walked inside with a gun in his hand. He didn't noticed Dr. Curien in the dark? He cocked his gun...and the young man seemed to freeze. "Don't move-or I'll shoot you!" Dr. Curien spoke up.

The man tried to reason with him...and Dr. Curien found out that he was an agent...'Agent Rogan'... He came here with other agents but he was the only survivor...dang it. Nonetheless, he insisted that he could bring out of this place. 'This...'Rogan'...must be the bravest...or the craziest guy I ever met. Trying to get us out of here with a gun that almost ran out bullets...' he didn't mention it out loud.

"You have a name that I can call you properly?" Agent Rogan asked him. He smirked.

"...Name's Roy, agent Rogan..." he answered.

Author's notes: Gosh, another long chapter... Nope, I won't tell you guys anymore spoilers...I'll just complain that I don't like the stuff that I'm studying now in University...Grammar? Feel free to point anything out...just don't use strong words, please. Next week will be ONE of the MOST busiest time in University so I won't be able to write stuff for a while...

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