(So it occurred to me, that I forgot to put in where Emerald and Shade were in the plan, so no worries, I caught the mistake, and the two of them do have their part in this.)
The front of the hospital, it's appearance was a far cry from a place that had once been utilized in saving the lives of others. Thomas took point, with Alicia, and Leeann following close behind him. The heavy, dark, wooden door was jammed shut. Thomas at first rammed his shoulder into it, causing it to crack, and tear at the top, but it only budged slightly. Since that idea had failed, he instead used his bat, and then smashed a hole into the wood of the door. From this point, he was able to get his arm through the created hole, and unlock the door. The only light was the sunlight coming in through the broken, and haphazardly, boarded up windows. The checkered black and white, floor, and dirty white walls, were covered in dried blood, and in some areas such as some of the corners, mold. The reception desk was destroyed, a large chunk of it missing, and the three young heroes could see, a severed leg, the flesh of which was rotting, and infested with maggots. Despite the fact that it was a long shot, Thomas turned on the switch located behind the desk, and to everyone's surprise it worked.
"Well that obviously makes perfect sense. I mean it's normal for broken down buildings, that smell like piss, and would have no way of paying the electric bill to keep the power on, to have power." Alicia noted, in a caustic tone. "I think it's sort of cool, this place would make a fun haunted house." Leeann said, being much more, chipper about the situation. "Or someone's using a power source, located somewhere in the hospital." Thomas said to the two girls. "We should search for clues in this area, before moving on." He told them.
"Hey, this is of mild interest. In other words get over here." Alicia said to her two partners. Leeann skipped over, while Thomas simply walked, as they both went to see what Alicia had found. "Um, it's blood?" Leeann asked the other girl. Alicia for a moment made an expression that clearly said duh, before continuing on to explain. "Well yes, but it's not normal, here watch this." Alicia told them, as she then took a piece of broken tile from the floor, and jabbed at the blood with it. On a near instant level, the blood hardened, and then developed spikes to stab at the attacking piece of floor tile. "Cool!" Leeann said, with a slight laugh at the entire display, while Thomas merely cocked an eyebrow. "Well...that's definitely something, good find, Alicia, I'll take a sample for us to take back to the base." He told her, as he took out a vial, in order to get a sample of the unusual blood that was on the ground. "I'll get a sample, of some of the mold too, it could be regular mold, but I don't want like leaving things to wonder." Thomas told them, as he took a sample of the mold as well. "So now we just move through, and check every patient room in the area, as we go?" Alicia asked him. "Precisely" Thomas answered to her, as they set out to do just that.
The area that Shade, and Emerald had been assigned to was perhaps the most important one. They had been placed in the archives section of the hospital, employee records, patient records, anything, and everything that had a record on file in the old hospital, assuming it had not been stolen or destroyed could be found in the area that they were in. The appearance of it was almost like a small library, with multiple shelves filled with books, along with rusted, filing cabinets, and a large, metal desk with a cluttered mess of papers upon it. The two of them were surprised when the lights suddenly flickered on. "I didn't touch anything." Emerald quickly stated, and looked over at Shade. "I,..I didn't either." Shade said in reply to the other boy. "Well I'm not sure about you, but I'm going to see if I can locate a blueprint map, I don't feel like getting lost in here." Emerald stated, as he opened a filing cabinet, and began to search through. Shade decided to help him, with his search, and began to look on the shelves for anything of use. "Let me know if you find anything useful or interesting." Emerald said as he continued to go through files. Shade nodded, as he continued to look on the shelves, he had begun to make a pile of what seemed interesting to him.
"Aha!" Emerald said with triumph as he located a blueprint of the hospital, and turned around to show his find, to Shade, who himself was holding a small laptop, it was powered on, but protected, so Shade was unable to get on. "Hold on little bro, I might be able to gain access." Emerald said, taking a hold of the computer, and setting it on the desk. Emerald got into a command prompt and entered A30nDy9!_K1Lh3S5. The laptop responded with an access denied screen. This caused him to grumble somewhat, and try a new method. This time, Emerald backtracked the information source, and then overwrote it, along with entering B1r99J!/c.*7f/H/-YfJ_019BmU6v. The screen after this became green, and read "Access Granted." Emerald smirked at his handiwork, and then both he and Shade watched what the computer had to show them. It was a video, a classified one, that was shot with a cheap camcorder. It showed many people, they looked homeless, and even more so they all appeared to have been starved. All of the people were men, and all of them shirtless with their ribs showing due to lack of nourishment.
"This is the final test of Project M99, our previous efforts have ended in failure, but thanks to our new benefactor in Professor Milo, we believe that his research will help us create, stronger, healthier humans, a bright future for everyone no matter how sickly or weak they may be." The voice did speak English, but the accent was hard to pin down, on exactly what it was. The screen cut to the test subjects being lead into a large room, where the doctors would be able to observe them behind a two way mirror. The room was gassed, and what happened next, was not good. The subjects began to scream in pain, causing the doctors to become frightened, and many of them began to try and shut the experiment down, which is when things went from bad to worse, as one of the doctors opened fire, having revealed a hidden pistol, and began to slaughter the others. The sociopathic doctor, then escaped down the hall, as a deformed, but hulking arm busted through the two way mirror. The camcorder appeared to short out after this.
The smell of wet, mold, and decaying flesh, was abundant within the darkness, that Strix was in. It was true, that being in the dark, was not a problem for her. Strix had night vision, along with enhanced hearing, and echolocation. Even in total darkness, such as that of the long hallway, was not a problem for her. As far as she was able to tell, outside of rats, and roaches, it was nothing more than a large hallway with multiple pipes running overhead. The vermin were being drawn to something, as she was able to pinpoint the sound of them eating, something, whatever it was, it was made of flesh. Based upon the waves being bounced back, it seemed to be an limb. Strix followed the noise, as her curiosity had been peaked, and she wanted to see just what was so tantalizing to the rodents, and insects. The chewing, and tearing became progressively louder, as she came closer, and closer to the source of the noise. What she had already guessed was confirmed, as she saw the upper half of a severed arm, being eaten, by the diseased animals that lived in the underground. The arm seemed to be human, but it was also gray, with bones jutting out of it, in a seemingly random order. Reaching down, Strix grabbed the limb, and then with a loud snap, she tore a piece of it, bone, skin, and all, in order to use as a sample.
Tay and M were both relatively hard at work, doing their sky patrol. However, as it appeared, there was no outside action, and while M said nothing, Tay was beginning to become bored. The itch for something to happen was going off inside of the young teenager's head. He wanted to be on the inside with the action, not playing look out, for the what if's that could occur.
Despite this being their first team up, Kate, and Morgan actually proved to work quite well together, and had been able to coordinate their efforts, and they had not gotten into any arguments. If anything, they actually showed a lot of interest in each other. "This is actually my first time, to a surface world, hospital, I certainly hope they aren't all like this." Morgan told Kate, who gave her a reassuring smile, before responding. "Oh, don't worry, most hospitals, up here, are very clean, and professional, it's just when they get closed down, they go into states of decay, though places like this, take the cake." Kate told her. "I mean especially since this one here, was not just a hospital, but originally this was a prison, and later on a test zone, before being turned into a hospital." Kate said to Morgan. "Something seems off with the water, have you sensed anything? Or am I perhaps being paranoid?" Morgan asked the other girl. "No, I can sense something as well, an evil aura is around this place." Kate noted to the other girl, as they continued along with their path.
As the walked down the hallway, had a single, large, metal door at the end, with multiple bolts in it. There was a glass window on it, that was cracked. Whatever foul thing they were sensing, it was coming from behind that door. The two of them exchanged a look, and then with a silent nod, they peered through the glass. What the saw was nothing good. Kate activated her communications link, to send a message to the rest of the team. "Everyone, we just hit a gold mine, we need back up, as in now." Kate said to the rest of the team. "What is it?" Thomas asked her. "You know those monster people we're looking for? Yeah, Morgan and I just found a nesting ground for them, they're in a locked off section, it's a part of the hospital that never got a make over, so it's a lot of prison cells, mostly broken, there's only one door, and we're at it." After a moment of silence, Thomas replied to her. "Alright everyone, rendezvous to their location, let's shut this place down." Thomas told them.
(And don't worry Tay, you'll get a nice part in the second half, since the whole battle thing is going to happen.)