Several hours before outbreak
Dr. Nogland sits in a seat in the main testing chamber. The room is crawling with scientists and guards. In the center of the room floating in a chamber of clear sterile liquid was their newest creation. It was a work in progress, but soon the testing would begin. The Doctor was currently staring into a computer monitor reading over the effects of the virus they had developed.
Not only were they working to perfect, but they were also trying to create a cure for it, in a scenario where this could potentially backfire on them. It was a pretty smart plan to use the asylum for testing, as well as building the labs underneath.
There were multiple experiments currently going on.
They were injecting the virus into necrotic tissues to see the reaction that would follow. As always, the place was busy.
Dr.N was exhausted. He had been working in the labs since early this morning, and now it was pretty late. It was good that his shift would come to an end in two minutes.
I might as well pack up and get ready. I'm pretty much done here.
After logging off the desktop, he leaves and walks down a hallway heading to his office.
"We got a situation here!" A voice shouted from one of the labs.
There was some commotion going on. Dr.N stops walking and stares at the scene. One of the patients was lashing out at the guards.
Five men in riot gear and armed with M4s ran into the lab, and tried to gain control over the situation. The panicking patient made a grab for a fire extinguisher mounted on the wall. He tried to hit one of the guards with it. The closest guard dodged it easily, but then everything went crazy. The fire extinguisher smashed apart several samples of the virus. All of the guards opened fire, rounds peppering the his body at extreme speeds. "Gas masks on!"
To make matters worse, the alarm began sounding.
Guards were running left and right to restore order and secure the test subjects. Scientists scrambled to the exits in a desperate chance to escape. Dr.N runs to a nearby maintenance room and shuts the door behind him. He finds a gas mask, and quickly puts it on.
The virus is airborne, I need to leave. Now.
He leaves the room and tries to find an exit. However. There was another problem. The exits consisted of stairways, and elevators.
The doors were electronic. But now they were unresponsive.
The power must have gone down somehow.
Crowds of scientists were pounding on the doors.
The doors to the labs had all been automatically locked too, sealing anyone still there inside. Then there came more gunfire.
The infected patients had escaped. With nowhere else to turn, Dr.N makes a retreats back to the maintenance room, and hides.
He can hear screams, gunfire, and even explosions, outside the door.
Things had gone from bad, to worse.
Then the most nightmarish thing happened. He could hear even more gunfire, and then there was the loud growling sounds.
Their newest creation had escaped.