A/N: Flashback time! Now, ya'll will et your answers about what are "they" the last chapters talked about. Also next chapters gonna be Gauntlet Crescendo Event. Err... I mean... Well, you now what I'm talkin' about. Woop! Now, then let's get this show on the road. But first...
Flashback Words:
Normal Words: Flashback story
Italicized Words: Dean Hardscrabble Narrating
Bold Words: Writing
So, Enjoy and R&R
-Flashback Starts-
"20 years ago, this place wasn't Monsters University. It used to be one of the largest military research facility in the world."
On the land where Monsters University will stand, there's a large military base that was fenced around an electrified high voltage wire fences. Soldiers and scientist are scattered about, minding they're own businesses. At the center stood a two-story buildings with golden letters, M.A.I., above the main entrance.
"The military built the base because a group of scientist led by Mr. Jericho Thomas Harris, one of the military's science division's top scientists, found abnormal waves of unknown energy emitting from under the land where this university stood now."
Inside the building was a laboratory. A green monster scientist operating a terminal did a hand gesture that says "Come over here for a sec" as a white dragon monster with green eyes, silver hair, and two wings approached the scientist. It's Jericho Harris and he's wearing lab coat just like every scientist in the buildings are wearing. The green monster pointed at the screen that shows the abnormal wave patterns coming from beneath the base.
"He gathered a team of the best soldiers, scientsts, and diggers. I was part of it. I became a scientist after I graduated from the former Monsters University."
A younger 20 years old Abigail Hardscrabble wearing thick-rimmed glasses and a lab coat walked through the halls of the M.A.I. labs. She's carrying her PDA and a few books. Mr. Harris approached her and asked if she could come with them on an expedition. Hardscrabble was nervous but she reluctantly said yes.
"We began our journey and descended into the ground. It took us all a year until we could discovered the source of the anomaly, a meteor"
The team are now in a dark misty cave with huge crater. Mr. Harris and Ms. Hardscrabble slowly approached a giant glowing meteor with a large crack on it. Clouds of fog are slowly pouring out of the crack.
"But, then, there was something or somethings that climbed the cave walls and emerged from the meteor."
Green saliva dropped from the cave ceiling and splattered on Hardscrabble's lab coat. She looked up as an alien figure dropped to the ground. The green alien had a large insect-like head, skinny body, and claws similar to a praying mantis except the claws are bone scythes. Another one dropped from the ceiling and swiped its claws at Mr. Harris, causing one of his wings sliced off. The other alien had a raptor's skull for a head, large claws on its eight feet, and walked like a spider. Then, an alien flew towards a diggers and sliced his arm off. The alien was a large insect with claws on each legs and giant buzzing wings. Soon, more dropped from the cave ceilings as everyone fought them off.
"We were lucky to have made it out of there alive and retrieve some specimens there."
Mr. Harris and a younger William Dubinsky with a small brown beard examines a specimen that emerged from the meteor. It was a green alien slug with needle-like teeth trapped in a fiber glass tank with the word Specimen #1: Xenosite 1. Mr. Harris placed a bird meat in its tank as the slug crawled towards it and ate it. William looked at the three alien specimens that attacked them trapped in three cylinder dense fiber glass cells that has the words Specimen #2: Xerodite 1, Specimen #3 Arachnodite 1, and Specimen #4 Insectoid 1.
"After two days, Mr. Harris found something about the Xenosites: it can acquire and mutate the body parts of whatever oraganic being it eats."
Mr. Harris placed a two-headed pigeon with its beak taped, and wings and talons restrained as Hardscrabble and Dubinsky watched. Three Xenosite crawled towards it and ate it. Few hours later, the pigeon's remains were just its carcass as the Xenosite started developing tiny feathers and wings. Hardscrabble was amazed as she recorded her observation on her PDA.
"Soon, we acquired many specimens, did many experiments, and obtained useful results. The army suggested to move the labs underground because they're were many specimens and not much space to hold them. Few months later, the underground facilities, where we are going, were built as all of the scientist and specimens moved there. But then, a year later, something terrible happened..."
"Red alert! Red alert! Red alert! All personnel evacuate immediately!" The alarm sounded as every scientist were running for their lives.
The lab was shrouded in light fog and had been overrun by the alien specimens that've escaped their prisons. Soldiers were shooting at the escaped Xerodites and Arachnodites. But something was different about them. They're no longer green. Their bodies were pitch black. Relentless bullets fired at them. But the wounds from the bullets kept regenerating at a fast rate. One soldiers took out a grenade launcher.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" The soldier pulled the trigger as the grenade flew towards a Xerodite and exploded.
BOOOOOMMMM!
The soldier took cover and asked the soldier next to him, "How the hell did this happened!?"
"I've no idea and I don't give a crap as long as we kill these things before more people get ki-!" Before the soldier could finish, a Necrodite lunged towards them and decapitated him.
Meanwhile, in the halls, Hardscrabble was running in the bloodied halls because of the monsters that've been killed as an Insectoid chased her. She shot the insect creature with an Desert Eagle, but three shots missed and only two hit the Insectoid and killed it. Hardscrabble continued running while calling for someone.
"Mr. Harris! Mr. Harris, where are you!?" Hardscrabble called out as she shot an black Insectoid five times, causing it to drop dead. Half an hour later, she finally found Mr. Harris in the room where the entrance to the caves are located. She noticed that the gate to the caves were open, causing clouds of fog to pour into the room, and Mr. Harris loading an M60.
"Mr. Harris! What are you doing here!? It's not safe! We have to leave now before the whole complex collapses!" Hardscrabble exclaimed because of the gun shooting, explosives exploding, and people screaming.
"No! You go on ahead! I have something to take care of!" Mr. Harris exclaimed as he put on a belt with grenades attached.
"No! I'm not leaving you here!"
"If you stay, you'll die too, Abigail!" Suddenly, Mr. Harris carried Hardscrabble to an elevator as he threw her in along with a piece of paper. He quickly pressed a 1F button and typed a code to lock the elevator controls, only leaving the 1F button to be active. The elevator closed as Hardscrabble got up. She started panicking. She didn't want to leave Mr. Harris. She pressed the 50F, but keypad was stuck as the elevator ascended to the first floor.
-Flashback Ends-
"The army found me and brought me to safety. I couldn't save him. He locked the elevator controls. And this was the note he threw into the elevator." Dean Hardscrabble said as she took out a piece of paper and gave it to Sergeant Zack. He started reading it.
Dear Abigail,
If you're reading this, then I am most likely dead. I couldn't come with you to the evacuation zone because I needed to take care of those 'fiends'. I descended into the caverns to try and stop the massive horde of creature and the mist from reaching the surface. It turned out that my theories of these creatures and the fog were correct. This mist is like those creatures' natural living enviroment. Meaning that if they don't breathe the fog, they'll remain weary and weak. But someone's been making experiments behind our backs. The creatures that have turned black was a result of gene mutation and radiation exposure. Also, someone stole my high level security clearance and used it to open the cells and the gate leading into the caverns. Someone has been planning this. I don't know who, but I know that if that monster isn't stop, he or she might send those creatures and the mist into the surface. A beginning of a hell on earth. Please stop that monster before it happens. You're my best student and I've treated like my own daughter ever since your parents passed away. I hope you can forgive me for not being with you in the future.
Your godfather,
Jericho Thomas Harris
"Oh man, I'm sorry about him, Ms. Hardscrabble." Rock sympathethically said as he took his sunglasses off, revealing two green eyes.
"He has my prayers." Rhiza sympathethically said as well.
"So, were you able find whoever did all of those things?" Zack asked as he gave the leeter back to the Dean.
"No. 34 personnel were dead. And I've interrogated everybody who was in that building. None of them did it and had Mr. Harris's clearance." Dean Hardscrabble said as the elevator stopped. Everyone got off the platform as it ascended back to the School of Scaring. Everyone was searching the area with loaded guns in their hands. There was a large metal door that leads into the labs or whatever was left of it.
Dean takes out her high-level security clearances and slides it in the card slot and types the password on the keypad next to it. The large metal doors started opening as clouds of fog escaped from it.
"All right, time to rock n' roll, ladies." Zack said as everyone entered the doors.
A/N: Flashbacks done! Woop! Now, you all know what 'they' are, where the fog came, and who was the dragon monster Hardscrabble cried over. I'll try to make the next chapter filled with action. More to come soon. Literally, classes are starting tomorrow and I don't think I'll have the time to finish this. So, R&R.
