Chapter 9
(Be advised this chapter is not for the feint of heart. This as well as possible future chapters are why its in the rated M category.)
I woke up to the all to familiar room where the children of the Spartan I program woke up after augmentation. I looked to my left then to my right as there were row upon row of children sleeping silently as they have yet to wake up. I looked down at myself to see that I was at the age this massacre happened. My thoughts were interrupted by a high pitch scream of pain as a little girl had woken up. I looked in her direction and instantly regretted it because when I looked in her direction she was looking back at me but her eyes were devoid of life as the augmentation had caused her entire upper body to turn so that it was facing backwards. She sat with her legs facing away from me and her entire stomach had been ripped to shreds as the augmentations broke her spine and twisted it around. I was horrified by the scene in front of me then one by one children woke up to only be instantly killed by their augmentations or in extreme pain before the augmentations took effect. Then a panicky voice reached me.
"Delac! What's going on. What's happening!"
I turn to my left to look into the terrified face of my best friend.
"I don't know but we need to stay calm."
"CALM! Calm! How can you be calm when everyone is getting ripped to shreds by their augmentations. I don't want to die like that."
My friend was panicking and steadily getting worse as more and more people woke up in pain only to be silenced moments later by their augmentation.
"I don't want to die. I don't want to die."
My friend was beyond hysteria as he started to full on freak out. Then he suddenly stopped. He slowly lifted his head and looked at me with tears in his eyes.
"I can feel it dude. My body, it's rejecting the augmentation."
"Don't say that you'll be fine."
His expression only turned to one of sorrow.
"Don't lie to me. I know that it's my time. Just don't let this experience haunt you."
He suddenly crouched over as if in extreme pain then he sat back up with tears.
"Good..."
He was cut off as there was an audible pop then blood started to flow out of his eyes, nose, and mouth as every major artery burst. I would have thrown up at that time but my augmentations increased my resilience to throwing up and I just sat there feeling sick. The next person to wake up was the person across from me in the aisle of beds. I could instantly tell something was wrong with him as he slowly sat up with a wicked smile. He slowly looked around and surveyed the dead bodies then his eyes came to a stop on me. His grin got bigger as he adjusted himself to look like a predatory animal about to pounce on it's prey. It was at this time that it dawned on me that I was the target. I struggled to get out from under the covers when he jumped with a menacing howl towards me. He was coming down on me then suddenly there was a gunshot. The bullet passed right through his skull and his evil smile only got bigger. Now with him covered in blood he crept towards me with, what I now realize as his augmentation, claws extended. He raised his claw to strike and swung. Before the claw struck I heard someone yell my name before darkness.