Chapter 2
The Accident in a Security Guard's Eyes
When I got to my post, my friend Barney was already waiting for me.
"A little late there" he told me.
"Shut up you ass" I replied. He could tell I wasn't in the best of moods. I really didn't know what was coming to me though. My post is really not that much different from everyone else post except for the fact that it's the only entrance to a lab with heavily guarded blast doors.
When I sat down my magazine was already waiting for me and I picked it up.
Today just happened to be the day the "experiment" was happening. But it really didn't bother me. A few hours later the "test subject" arrives and I can hear the electrical cart or the transport bus screeching to a halt. I can see in my mind the security guard walking up to the bus and saying his sleepy "hello". Not much conversation went on between them, actually none at all, but I could tell they were both nervous by the way everyone else has been acting.
When they finally reach the two blast doors, the guard punches in a few buttons and I hear the first blast door open. When the second door opened I stared at him the whole time he walked to the desk, but he obviously did not c me because he was looking all around. It was almost like he had never been in a lab before. He was trained for 6 months to be ready for anything that could possibly happen to the experiment. When he finally reached the desk, which seemed like forever because he was walking so slow, my friend tried to talk but he couldn't even say a full sentence. It sounded so awkward that I had to jump in.
"Hello Dr Freeman. Turn to your right and follow the colored line on the wall that says to locker room. Then at the left back of the locker room there should be one suit left for you. Put it on and then follow another colored line that says to test lab and there should be another guard to explain you the rest. Have a nice day." I told him in, what seemed to be the nicest voice I had ever heard myself speak in. Well that wasn't too bad. I picked up my magazine again and started reading.
A FEW MINUTES LATER
"Well Barney, on a scale of 1 to 10, how boring is today to you." I say.
"Well John, I really think you should shove that question up you're..." He got cut off by a huge rumble that shook the whole lab. Then the lights went off, the alarms started wailing and the emergency lights turned on. But when my eyes adjusted to the darkness, Barney was gone and there was blood coming from the hallway to my left.
"WHAT THE HELL!!!" I just thought to myself
"OMG!!!" I hear a scientist yell from down the hallway behind me. "THERE ALL DEAD"
"Oh my head, I can't take this" and right there I passed out.