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"In the craziest situations, we find love in the craziest ways"
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That was when he finally decided to open his eyes. The sudden bright light hanging on the ceiling blinded him momentarily, but his eyes got back into focus quickly. He sat up, noticing soreness in his lower back. It suggested he had been on the hard floor for a while now. He also grabbed his right arm in pain, realizing there was a fairly large gash. He would have to find something to take care of that later, before it got infected.
The room he was in looked like a bunker of sorts. There were no furniture or any accessories to the room. Nothing really stood out. The walls were solid concrete, large cracks lining the whole room. The red light from the sirens shined on his face, although the noise seemed to have been put in the back of his mind as he continued to wonder where he was. He kept looking around the room, trying to find a way out. Finally, he looked to his side where the shining crimson light was coming from and saw salvation. A way to get out and figure out what the hell was going on. A smooth mahogany door with the door knob removed.
Seeing a way out, he got up as quick as he could. Once he was standing, he realized he felt very dizzy. The world was spinning around him for a few seconds. Nausea was kicking in. He thought he was going to be sick. And then, it abruptly stopped. The only logical explanation he could think of was the fact that him suddenly standing up after what may have been hours of lying there had made him dizzy. The dizziness then caused nausea.
He forgot about it and walked towards the door gingerly, as to not upset any part of his body more. As he got a few feet from the door, he caught something out of the corner of his eye. A hole, almost bigger than the door itself. He turned so he could see it full on. There were pieces of concrete all over the floor both in and out of the room. It definitely didn’t look like it was an accidental collapse in the wall.
He didn’t know where he was or why he was here. Hell, he realized he didn’t even know his own name . He had to get his memory back and get the hell out of here.
After some mental debate, the man decided to walk to the hole in the wall. As he walked, he felt his foot hit something. He instinctively looked down, making sure it wasn’t anything threatening. In looking down, he saw what he was wearing; a beat up armor suit with pieces torn off everywhere. It looked to be a very strong metal of some sort. He wondered where he had gotten that from.
“Oh, look at that,” he said to himself.
He picked up the assault rifle on the ground and checked it out. It looked in perfect condition, seldom the dust. It was also fully loaded, though he didn’t know how much was in each clip.
This’ll come in handy he thought to himself.
Taking his hand off of his gashed arm, the man grabbed the rifle in both hands and began to walk to the hole in the wall once again. As he got closer and closer, more beads of sweat formed on his forehead. He didn’t know what to expect, but for some reason, he had a bad feeling.
He walked through the hole in the wall into a narrow hallway. It was darkness seldom the bright light shining through the hole, enveloping the man in light for at least that moment. He could not see anything outside of that light, meaning he didn’t know which way to begin to go. And for the first time, he looked in front of him. His eyes widened in shock as he looked at the wall. There was something written in blood.
There is no escape from them
The man began to wonder what was Them . He began to hold his rifle tightly in his hand as he looked around for the person that had made this. He saw a barely seen blood trail lead to the left. So, he turned the flashlight on his rifle and looked down the trail.
A few feet down, there was a body sprawled on the ground. A pool of crimson blood was around him, and oddly enough seemed to be wearing the same type of armor the man had on. He went up with his assault rifle to get a closer look at the dead man.
He walked gingerly toward him and kneeled down. He looked through the dead man’s shattered visor at his fairly young looking face. He seemed to have various spots where he was bleeding, including the mouth and ears. His piercing blue eyes were wide open, as if he was shocked when it all happened.
“Poor soul,” he said to himself. He wondered who the hell could have done this to the man.
He sighed heavily and stood up. Whatever happened to this man, he couldn’t be helped now. Besides, the man had things to do. He reluctantly turned around from him and walked down the hall. He had only made it a few feet when he stopped. He heard a barely audible hiss coming from behind him.
He swirled around quickly, rifle aimed. He was shocked to see the previously dead man standing up slowly. He slowly let his rifle down to his side.
“Your..your alive,” the man said.
No answer. The man walked- scratch that- limped up to him.
“Are you okay..?” he asked cautiously.
Again, no answer. He walked closer and closer, his footsteps echoing across the narrow hallway.
“What are you doing?” he asked, much more frantically this time.
A hiss escaped from the man. His body limped ever so closer to him, until he was just a footstep away. The previously dead man looked up, looking into the other man’s eyes.
His eyes weren’t a piercing blue any more. You could see through his shattered visor that they were red. A glowing red. And his mouth was outlined with blood and sharp teeth.
“Holy shit..”
The zombie snarled. The mans heart was racing faster than a race horse. In the dark, the only thing that could be seen was the glowing red eyes. Luckily, the man had adjusted to the darkness. It put it’s hand up, ready to strike. Somehow, reflexes kicked in and the man jumped back as it’s open hand came down. Another attempt with the other hand. He side stepped.
The zombie then charged, mouth open, ready to bite at the man’s arm. It was surprisingly fast as it had just been walking so slowly. The man jumped to his left, out of the way of the zombie. He brought up his assault rifle in quick succession, bringing light back to the fight with its flashlight. He aimed the gun at the zombie’s head just as it turned around. It jumped high in the air, and at it’s trajectory, would come straight down on the man. The man quickly aimed in the zombie’s wide open mouth with haste.
And he pulled the trigger. Three shots in succession was all it took to have the zombie fall in mid jump. It was now bleeding out of it’s head, hopefully officially dead. His reflexes in battle told him he had to have done this sort of thing before.
The man looked down at his kill. His breathing was heavy, and his heart rate was still faster than it should have been. Whatever was going on here, it was turning these people into beasts. The site of the bloody corpse it..it made him want to…
He vomited all over the ground next to him.
He wiped the vomit off his mouth, sweat now all over his face. He had to get out of here and find help.
He turned from the corpse, hoping it wouldn’t hiss at him again. He walked down the hallway, assault rifle lighting the path in front of him. He had no idea what to expect anymore. He decided he would take things as it came
He also decided that until he found out his true name, he would have to use something else.
Trigger. [/SPOILER]
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Ah, shit..
Trigger knew that he had to get to a medical facility to at least cover up the wound. But first, he had to find something to bring the power back on otherwise he’d be virtually blind for the rest of his time down here. He sincerely hoped his time down here wouldn’t be too long, however.
What was only a minute and a half walk to the door at the end of the hallway felt like hours. Sweet light enveloped him again as the red lights from alarms covered the front of the door. The blaring sounds seemed to have stopped altogether, or maybe he had adapted to it. He decided on the latter since his head was still throbbing.
Trigger put his hand on the golden knob and turned it ever so slowly. Any sound made was minuscule, but he still heard sudden hisses at the first sound followed by the thump of footsteps. Trigger had the door turned all the way in his right hand, and just needed the right time to swing it open. He rested his finger gently on the trigger of his rifle as sweat broke out on his face yet again.
Then he heard the scratching and snarling at the door and knew it was the right time.
He swung the door open as quick and hard as he could, obviously catching the zombies by surprise. The sound of the door hitting the side of the wall echoed around what seemed like the entire facility. Trigger put his rifle up, the light flashing at the two zombies on the ground.
Their faces were bleeding profusely, but you could still see those cold glowing crimson eyes. They looked at him and snarled with their large sharp teeth bared. This was when Trigger realized that one of the zombies had the same ripped up armor suit that the last one had. The other one had what looked like a scientist’s coat with the bottom ripped and the white turned to a light brown. He sighed heavily, burdened by the fact that these were once human beings.
That moment of hesitation was just what they needed. They shot up and jumped right on top of Trigger, knocking him over. He heard his rifle skitter across the ground and hit the side of the wall. The one in the armor was on him, inches from his face, blood dripping from it’s teeth. This was the first time he had a face to face experience with it. He saw the smudged dirt and fresh blood on it’s face, the fresh flesh in the middle of it’s teeth. He looked down and saw the long yellow nails. That face to face moment was all he needed.
It was now burned into his mind that once they turn, they are no longer a human being, but a monster.
Trigger saw the zombie put it’s head up, ready to bite. He couldn’t let that happen. He still needed so many answers and he wasn’t going to die in this hellhole. He lifted up his right arm and right hooked the snarling zombie in the side of the face. It blinked, stunned at the sudden shot. Another left hook knocked it to the side of him, more blood coming from it’s face. Trigger felt adrenaline course throw his veins as he rolled over to his gun. He brought it up to the armored zombie, who was just getting up from the punches. He shot three times clean in between the eyes, almost no blood coming out except on the wall behind it. The zombie slumped down against the wall and Trigger smirked. The smirk soon faded however, when he realized something.
He forgot about the other one, and he was still on the ground.
Trigger rolled out of the way of a bite that would have hit him in the jugular vein. The zombie jumped from it’s spot onto him, but Trigger already had the weapon up horizontally, blocking any advances to his face. The zombie fought to get through the weapon, it’s cold red eyes locked onto to Trigger’s. He threw the zombie off of his weapon and made another three shot burst in the side of the head, the bullets coming cleanly out of the other side.
“Holy shit,” Trigger said to himself. His heart was racing, he was panting and he was drenched in sweat. He had barely been awake a half hour and he had already almost died. He had to be more careful with these zombies and show no hesitation.
Trigger sighed and took a look around the room with his light. The walls weren’t as sturdy as the ones of the room he had been in. It almost seemed like normal walls you’d see in a house. You know, other than the fact that the walls were covered in splattered blood and gore. The ceiling had a light on it, but it wasn’t on. It baffled him how the only light that was on was in the room he woke up in.
Trigger took his light back down on the ground. The two zombies now had pools of blood around them, but he noticed something else out of the corner of his eye.
Another body?
He lit his light on the other body. He felt bile rise up his stomach as he looked at it.
He was 75% sure it was a man, but the way his body was, there was no 100% guarantee. The armor on the body was ripped to shreds, some pieces to the side having teeth marks on it. His body was covered in blood and rats were eating at his feet through his boots, which were now only muscle. But worst of all was his face. The skin had been completely ripped off with only muscle left. At some spots of the face you could actually see bone. There were various tafts of blonde hair all over his head, and one of his eyes were missing. The other eye was wide and green. He then let his flashlight go down to a shiny name tag. It read: Private Gunner: Bravo Team .
A sudden flash of a memory went into his mind. An enthusiastic soldier, saluting to a figure that he couldn’t make out. His green eyes were filled with joy and pride. His smile seemed to charm everyone in the vicinity. He looked so ready to do his job…
That was when Trigger had realized he was a soldier of the alpha team some facility, though he didn’t know what rank. It was obvious by the name tag that this man was not on the same team as him, but he had a feeling he knew him. He had some feeling he was close to him. And he also knew one other thing.
He felt a tear drip down from his face onto the mutilated body, though he didn’t know why he was crying. “He was so young..” he said.
He wiped his eyes and looked over the body some more other than an assault rifle with the light broken. He did take the clips out for his gun though. Trigger looked for any clues of either a generator’s location or something to spark his memory.
And he found it: A dust ridden and blood smeared notebook in the tight grip of the private. Trigger took it out of the grip of him and looked at it. It seemed like there were words on the front, but they were unintelligible. He flipped open to the first page, but it was blood smeared pages up until the sixth page.
Journal Entry 1: 5/18/2020
Hello, Im Private Ryan Gunner. It has been, from what I could guess, one day since we were sent down here, meaning it has been two days since the initial incident. I figured since I had this notebook to write status reports on the place, I might as well write what’s happening down here, in case someone else sees. The general told us that Alpha Team was sent down there on patrol and hadn’t responded in about 18 hours. We were sent down there to find them.
Captain Shaw had said he had overheard that the government had planned a viral assault on the lower levels and out into the U.S. to increase popularity among them for taking it down. He wrote it off as some stupid rumor, but part of me wondered if he really meant that or he still thought it wasn’t.
We saw the first hostile about two hours into the search for Alpha Team. Does red eyes….I-I can’t get them out of my mind. The captain had been bit and that’s when we opened fire. Just after that, comms was lost.
Two hours after that, we were swarmed. Most of the team was lost to those monsters, Sergeant Bishop being thrown into the electrical generator. Hah, That’s the reason why I’m writing this with only the light from my rifle. The captain..he transformed into one of them. We had to kill him. That’s when we realized how fast the virus spreads through the body. All that