"We drove in that car for miles... Just the thought of what was happening back in the city was enough to break you.
There's a storm of death approaching and there is nothing we could do about it... I just knew one thing for sure... Many more people are going to die, a brutal death that causes sleepless nights to those who survive... I realize surviving in this hell of a place is about to get much harder and for some reason I knew that the goverment wanted a piece of this... Taking risks becomes more dangerous.
We need food and water supplies every week and wasting those could end your life really fast...
I now know that at this stage of pandemic, you need to avoid the whole feast thing... I was getting worried because we have Bill here and making him eat less food might get him sick... This might be a problem thinking the more we need to find supplies, the less chances we have of survival...
Our group is pretty small right now and I feel like I can trust the two except 1 woman I'm still working to figure out who and what she really is... Time is also running out...
Anyway my head was still in one place... I wanted to trust this woman and get her to a lab with the research, but I had no insurance that she might be trustworthy and do the right thing...
I wasn't convinced that she could be the right one for the team until nature took its course...
By that I mean something happened and things quickly changed...
I'm a little embarassed to say, but what the fuck, I have nothing else to loose so I'll tell you how my mind was changed in exactly 15 minutes...
Okay here we go!
We were running low on fuel and we had to stop at the nearest garage to fill up and we did...
Soon after we stopped we had to clean the place luckily it was still one of the old infected we're used to...
we took 12 of them out in just 8 minutes and filled the tank.
Shortly after we all went into the store to grab and eat what we could...
It was the one part you couldn't easily get used to...
Grabbing things from a store and eat without paying... Then She stared at me as I enjoyed a few things in the store and started saying weird things... Me being such an amazing survivor keeping people alive and stuff like that and she followed me around the store talking... Something weird happened right after... I got excited going for some Jurkey when my left elbow knocked a few boxes of Condoms off the counter... She picked one box up and smiled thinking it's a smooth way to ask, so she said "Can we talk for a sec' in that room over there... There's something really important I need to tell you..." And My body reacted and I walked behind her into that room... Bill watched how we walked with that box of condoms and said "Fucking Lucky John... Do your best man..." And smiled at me...
So as you can imagine... I enjoyed Miss Diana's Cupcake for about 10 minutes in the back while Bill and the boy stuffed their face with snacks... There was a camera in the back storage room looking right at us, but then again we ignored it knowing the power was out... She made me feel human again and I changed my whole mind towards her and I didn't believe it was love at first so I had to make sure... I came out to grab another box and went back in to 'help' Miss Diana again... I realized this was what every man needed once everything they knew is going to shit... So we grabbed some things and drove out of there... By things I also mean I saw her grabbed a few boxes on the floor knowing our conversation at the back wasn't over... I looked at Bill and He looked at me back, then the son of bitch smiled and waited on me to say something so I did... And I said; 'We have A scientist right here so we might as well make the best out of the situation before the worst behind us catch up...' and I coughed with a serious face.
I told Bill to get us the nearest research lab so we could start there... He knew of a place we could go
to and it was some private hospital He knew had a lab where they usually researched medication before they were send out... I listened to Bill talk for a few miles none stop and couldn't hear a word he said... All I know is I was looking at the back of the car gazing a glimpse of miss perfect at the back and still wanted a piece of her... I managed to clear my head for a bit and we found a place we could crash for the night before heading out...
As soon as the lights went out my eyes opened and I knew I was in love... I was getting ready to visit Diana when I saw her walk to me... She asked 'Can we talk?' and I said It's really important so yes by all means please... and there was absolute silence except for the fact that I was on top of Diana pushing as hard as I can... Sorry to dissappoint you but some details are left out.
For those who now know me well or at least thought they did... My Name is John Richards - And this is my story enjoying Diana Smith!"
Day 2 of Mutation 08:24 AM...
"Good Morning handsome... I was a bit worried that I won't be able to get sleep last night, but I guess things were still deserted this side so we didn't encounter infected during the night..." Diana said smiling at John.
"Diana... I've got something important to tell you, Can we talk?" John asked with a serious face.
They got ready to move again.
They swiftly opened a few cans to breakfast and got in the car.
"Do we need to talk in private John?" Diana asked with concern.
"No... I believe it is something everyone has to hear as all survivors are included in this mess... I'm glad you explained to me in detail what your work from the goverment was.... I didn't trust you at first but now I believe I understand you a bit better... Bill drive... Let's get the hell out of here, I'll explain on the way..." John said.
"Sure Boss..." Bill replied and drove off on the highway.
"Listen to me everyone... I'll explain this only once, so make sure you listen well on what I'm about to tell you... First I've been trusted with very important intel that perhaps could end this madness, but I believe the chances of reaching that goal is even less now of what has happened out in the city.... Diana is our only hope and she is the most important person in our group, not because she's a woman... But because she's the smartest one here and there are some things that only a smart person can do, So we need to protect her first even by means sacrificing our own lives to do it..." John explained while being interupted.
"Wow... John wait! That's not right everyone here deserves to live just as much as I do... I don't see a reason why they or even you should die for my sake..." Diana said.
"Diana... I've got more than enough reasons to say this, You have to listen to what I say so that you can understand why!
Your Life is worth more than the 3 of us here, because the survival of all the people out there and many more depends on it!" John shouts.
"I don't understand John why are you saying this? I'm just a normal scientist..." Diana said confused.
"You're not just some scientist to me... You may be the last one alive in this whole God damn state and If you have a slightest chance to fix this fucked up place I believe it's a chance we're gonna have to sacrifice everything to get you there... I need you to trust me, because I got something else I need you guys to hear... So hear me out okay..." John said with a serious face.
"The night before I went to work that morning, everything was peaceful... What the rest of the town didn't realize was at the Queens club down town a series of infected started killing their way through the night... When morning broke I got on the bus only to find a young man badly injured, I believed He was the only survivor to have made it this far from night's happening... He was the one to tell me everything on how all this started... When I listened to his story I found it hard t
o believe at first until he died right in front of me and 7 minutes after got up again and started biting people on the bus... I, I had to take him down... But most of the people on the bus were already infected and soon it was just me and the bus driver... It all went to hell so fast, but that's not the most important thing... Before he died, I was told to go to the Universaty to find intel on what caused this and get it to someone smart enough to work on possibilities how to stop this madness... His name was Steven and his best friend worked on a new drug to make the best selling drug on the market and things turned for the worst... I found it really hard that such a young man could be the fall of a whole country... I heard Steven said his name, but I can't remember the student's name I'm not sure his name was..." John said and froze for a moment trying to think.
"Kevin! That's his name..." Diana said with a shocked facial expression.
"What?! how do you even know...?" John asked Diana flabbergasted.
"Because what you told them is not the truth... This was what's to be given should things go wrong..." Diana said.
"I don't understand... the man told me that himself! How can it be a lie?" John asked Diana.
"I'll tell you the truth... Not that it will matter hiding it anyway... Oh shit! Now I see the reason for the accident at the lab in the city... I wasn't suppose to make it this far, thinking that they aimed to get rid of the rest of us knowing project 5229 failed... I was so stupid not being able to see what was going on!" Diana shouts with frastration.
"Hold up Diana... Explain to me what the hell you're talking about because I'm totally lost right now... I need to know how did you know the boy's name was Kevin!" John said.
"Okay - Okay... I'll tell you everything including the things I just figured out... I was working at some kind of Medication lab and studied different kinds of viruses... each of us were assigned to a different virus working our way to find a cure to heal the sick people out there... That 5 star general made us believe our work is based on doing something good for the people out there, but he fooled us all that Fucking Bastard... It's all his fault!" Diana shouted and started to cry.
"I'm sorry Diana... I don't think blaming him right now will change anything... but I believe what you're saying may also clear things up a bit so go ahead..." John said holding Diana's hand.
"Okay..." Diana replied and wiped her tears (snuffing) and started talking again.
"Okay so each virus was build into caches and given codes so we'd know which one is which... I was Assigned to Cache C1852 That's exploring Cancer... me and my friend Melissa was one of the smartest ranked in our work including our boss Professor Ivan Muller... Some of our test that happened to be 80% correct were taken from us... Little did we know that they were using it to test on people... Some of the caches created new viruses inside the community as it was something that was injected into foods and water even at some places made a gas to spread airborne... I was moved to a new caches studying Cache A421D which was a new virus call 'Swine-Flu' and that's when we realized that our research was used on people out there... I asked my friend Melissa to check the virus structure how immature it was developing, and then we knew it was a sickness handmade and not born naturally... When Melissa saw it she reopened Cache 3D215A and saw that the virus had the same genetic Structure as her vaccine for AIDS which ended a failure rate of 89% and the cause of the symptoms was almost completely the same... Soon we realized something wasn't right until they Called for the boss,Professor Ivan Muller, to work on a cache that we know spelled trouble... Professor Ivan Muller worked on cache O5229G and created a drug that replaced lost brain cells at a high level supposing it would make people smart enough to increase brain rate to 28% usage... it stopped at a failure rate of 93%... The other 7% represented the 7 minutes it took to reconstruct the brain waves causing the brain cell mutation to fail massively... He shortly after said that I was complete to me and Melissa saying that the Drug needs to be filtered to a gas making it much lighter as the brain tissue was sensitive to liquid substances... So after a while they bribed Melissa with a lot of money to cough up the intel on cache O5229G and she did and Soon Professor Ivan Muller dissapeared from the lab assuming they killed him and then I was sent to The Universaty with Melissa to find a student named Kevin and bring him in for the next test...
I knew that I couldn't trust Melissa anymore so I ended up keeping any intel I could find away from her... I wondered why they chose this boy until I saw his grades in science class... I thought He was going to be a replacement for Professor Ivan Muller, but I understand now that he was only a cover up should things go wrong...They used him to proceed the tests Professor Ivan refused to do... I heard the conversation between Kevin and 5 star General Harrald Deer... He offered Kevin 2 million dollors if he could make a success of filling the gap of 7% that was needed to complete the drug at the school lab... Shortly after He agreed, Kevin was given the task in which he worked for almost a month on... He believed to have completed the drug turning the liquid into a capsule... It seemed like an oil in a see through capsule, but when I saw that his research didn't lead to the filtering being a gas I knew that his research was incorrect... I couldn't stop it because I know that The general was watching me at all time having his men escort me wherever I go... I wasn't aware that Kevin was given the job to sell the drug at the club to research the effect of the drug on the people buying it... The effects were to be processed best on people who's bodies were used to abusing drugs... We gave Kevin a Black SUV to drive so we could follow his every move... We knew that his friends would find out sooner or later so he was told to let them believe this was his own research and building a black market drug that can be sold for endless amounts of money... He knew that he was gaining 2 million dollars at the end of the success of project 5229... It didn't take him long enough to understand what the drug was and after the explination of the drug we realized that it was a Stimulation drug and we called the drug 'OMEGA 187' knowing a slight overdose would kill you instantly... I believed the drug needed a lot more tests just like Professor Ivan said when he knew that the drug other from a gass needed to be filtered to be usable at a safe rate for the brain... The general already knew this but he let Kevin continue with the project Killing millions of people... I felt so hopeless and then after things turned to worst, The general got orders to contain the problem and his men got overrun by the undead and he started the research on the drug... So He gathered all the lab workers who knew that this was his fault and opened a new lab inside the city and put Melissa in charge to make the gas... It wasn't long before the gas was complete and Before the general arived I wanted him to have the gas tested himself... I went and injected the gas with a different Pathegen and it was tested on Melissa and 12 other lab workers leaving them trapped in a sealed off room... They didn't just get infected but I also saw signs of mutation and I got so angry that I wanted to get revenge for all those people the general killed and so I used the emergency doors to open the hach to the room and the infected got out killing a few of his men and they sacrificed their lives so the general could escaped and soon after I got away - the general gave the orders to blow up the research lab knowing that he planned to kill all of us from the start so no one could blame him for what happened... So I already knew this much, but I was surprised that you had the research of OMEGA-187 because after the power cut, men were sent down there to keep the intel intact so that it could be used as proof that Kevin is the reason all of this happened... Somehow I need to try and fix this mess I was part of this project and now seeing so many people... I don't know John, can we really stop this pandemic?" Diana asked after telling the others of the past.
"I don't know... I now know that the cause was too much for one student so I believe we have to do what we can to fix it!" John said.
"Guys... This is perfect timing, coz we're here at the hospital... I believe this is the closest we're going to get to a lab so we might as well head inside and try a few things out..." Bill said as he parked the car.
"Good thinking..." Diana said to Bill as they got out of the car.
The four walk towards the hospital enterance as they look around for infected.
"Why is it so quiet here? Man... I really don't like this!" John said as he walks in front.
It wasn't long before they reached the enterance when a sniper bullet blew a hole in Diana's chest and the rest duck down.
"Fuck! Bill help me get her inside...!" John shouts as he grab Diana falling down.
"The fuck is shooting at us?" Bill ask as they carry Diana inside the hospital.
"Oh no... no no no - no Fuck! This isn't happening!" John said with a sad face.
"He came for me... The ID chips in my hand for the lab, it was to keep track of us as well... That's how he found me, I'm Sorry John... I couldn't help you clean up my mess... I - ah..." Diana said as she died.
"Shit! What are we gonna do now?" Bill asked.
"I need a moment..." John said pressing both his eyes full of tears with his left hand.
They sat inside the hospital as John used his jacket to cover Diana on the floor.
"A world is created where Love can't exist... I lost my Love as well as my hope - That's what this woman became to me in such a short time... These are people I wish I knew before this nightmare came through... What's worse is that I knew this wasn't some kind of movie where after the shot the person would get up and smile with you again... This is the world I now survive in and staying alive means to give whatever it takes to stay alive... I know now that the dead is not the only thing trying to kill us out there... The mission trying to find someone smart enough to process this information just became something close to impossible and yet It still is my responsability to figure out how to stop this, but in order to get that far I believe I'm gonna have to get dirty! For Those who know my story, My name is John Richards and this is the reason why I change!"
To Be Continued...