~Time passed- 2 days~
I woke up from the small bed. If I can even call it that, it had more of a reference to a cot. It was made of a hard bendable and slightly moldable plaster-like substance unto which it didn't feel like shit completely. I kept thinking about how bad the cot was till the guard walked up and slammed his baton against the bars. "Think it's time to prove that this guy will escape?" He asked a smirk on his face. His smirk wasn't completely backed up by the fact that he was sweating a little and his eyes showed to support my point as they tried not to look for the thing. He tried not to make complete eye contact either.
"You need to kill it, that is the only way to prevent this." This came out with a hint of fear and hatred towards the thing and its accomplice. "I can't just kill an inmate, captive, whatever you wanna call it." I looked at him slightly disappointed. He looked slightly worried now, it wasn't that we had gotten to know each other while I was in this temporary cell, it was just that he listened and heard what I had to say. He was the only one of them that knew what might happen had what I told him to be the truth.
Which it most definitely is.
We had less than 24 hours left, the exact time I no longer know, it could be in 10 hours it could be in five minutes. This is what happens when you are trapped, you know nothing and you can't do anything to fix the problem you had made. The guard hit the bars with his baton, "Stop spacing out and explain to me as well why one of the best detectives was also part of this?" I looked at him and told him to go ask Timmot. He did as I said and walked off, I heard their voices, not enough to make out but I could tell that they were both understanding of each other and no lies were told.
It took roughly a good 10 minutes if I had to guess before he came back, "So did you hear what you wanted to hear?" He shook his head reluctantly, "To think it was as simple as he always wanted to be part of a team that wanted to help stop the zombie apocalypse." Infected and apocalypse seems a bit much you realize." He looked me over, "Whatever, if I say they are zombies they are most likely zombies." This pissed me off slightly since these things and zombies are completely different.
"Again, not zombies" I muttered under my breath. He walked off, and I noticed his hand shaking a little. He knew this shit was probably true now if one of their best as they say even helped in this. I sighed rested my head against the wall as I waited for something to happen.
As I waited, I looked around the cell for the umpteenth time. Everything was so dull, it was boring and plain. The lab was better than this, yes at the lab we were professionals too, but we still didn't like to take everything seriously. We stuck to the stuff we were doing and focused on not fucking up on that end, but we had all made close bonds there. Now I wonder from this incident how many of those bonds were decimated.
A load thud roared through the hall, and the guard came running up to my cell. "I can't let you out for what you people did, but you were right! It's not that those 2 have gotten out, but word is people on the street calling themselves speed infected started running around biting people. " His eyes were completely insane swaying everywhere and his body trembling. "Get the other officers here and I'll tell you what to do. It's not safe to go out, I thought we got all of those things but it seems that some have escaped." We had failed, and it was all due to one group of these fuckers.
The guard rushed out and a few moments later came back with 3 others. "I couldn't get all of them, a few of them were in shock and I couldn't get them to cooperate. " I nodded, "This is fine." The other 3 officers were just as distraught as he was. "Here's the deal, you need to board up everything, and I mean everything, doors leading outside, windows, leave nothing to get in. And most importantly, make sure that the 2 men that were at the train incident don't escape. That is the main priority right now. Those 2 are a beacon to the rest of them, if even one of them escapes, we are done for." They all nodded and started to scramble around before I shouted out, "One more thing, I forgot to mention but with the way things are now, they are most likely both completely infected. They are waiting for a specific time to attack, or rather break out and take action."
It's not that these guards were just taking orders from me just like that, the one guard knew what was going on and he came to me out of fear, and fear makes it easy to control and manipulate people. I won't manipulate them of course, but if I can use them to keep us safe as long as possible, I'll do just that. Use their fear as my steering wheel and drive this swerving car till it regains control, or rather if it can regain control. I may be a scientist, but it doesn't mean I can't be a jack-of-all-trades scientist. Manipulation, DNA sequencing, combining of materials and components to make newer materials just to redo the process again and again till we reach the final product, and not to mention electrical sciences.
Granted I can't remember the name of a circuit or component for shit, but it doesn't mean I don't know how to use them just by knowing what does what. I can still make some pretty advanced tonight if I know what does what. I can make a supercomputer the size of a small brick if I had the right components. And with the virus, its made with a certain gene dissector and reassembled from my own custom supercomputer and one man's coding skills.
They ran across the halls carrying random things and I could hear some arguing in the main area as they shouted at each other about the situation. Finally 7 guards came, 2 of them being hostile towards me. "You have no control here! We are the officers and you are the criminals. Stop trying to play your tricks and tell your friends in the city to stand down or we may have to take them out for the concern of the public's safety." What the hell do you mean, it's the two 'men' in the cells from the train incident." One of the hostile guards scoffed at me, "How would they, there are only two of them and there are five of you. You bastards are behind this atrocity."
"So that's how you think it is, it's because of numbers now is it. Well those two things you have Locke up from the train incident aren't fucking human anymore!" The two of us were furious and the other hostile one was also pissed but not to the point of the tension between me and the other raging guard in front of me. Our faces red and the guard that had helped us out trying to keep the third guard from joining into what me and the one currently as furious as me in our argument.
"Tsk" went the guard before stomping off, "Fine then, you all listen to some damn criminal. See if I care!"His stomps echoed through the halls, once they rang out and they were gone I continued to tell the guards helping what to do. Also since that one overly hostile one said anything, they were a bit more hesitant now. I didn't want to lose the help of those here helping. These helpful guards that know how to survive. "Let's make sure we don't die, for if we do, who will save everyone when they know nothing about it." They all nodded except that one other hostile guard.
After another 10 minutes of them running amuck, they came back telling me they had finished the layer of protection against potential incoming infected. I informed them yet again after that to make sure that whatever they did to keep the infected out is done twice as much to keep those two in. They agreed, all shaking and rushing to get it done so they don't get killed. Humans truly are selfish creatures aren't they?
The one original guard stayed behind, "So, how dangerous is the situation completely? World ending?" I shook my head, "World ending is over the top, a few countries being taken control by them, yes most definitely with how the shit we are dealing with is going down at the moment." he sighed, "So not as bad as my imagination, but still dangerous to a large scale degree." I nodded and continued, "There might be a lot more death than infected too, so that would help with keeping the infected population down." The guards looked at me awkwardly, their expressions were like a book. They were thinking something along the lines of, 'How can he choose to have more death.' They weren't thinking about it logically.
"Just listen to what I say if you want to survive." They nodded quickly as I continued, "Have you made sure that those two things have no chance of getting out, yes or no?" They all looked at each other shrugging and speaking through their eye contact. "Uhm, I guess one of them said..." I threw my fists against the bars, "IT HAS TO BE A YES OR WE ARE ALL DEAD!" They store at me, "Now, tch" They scrambled around to get back to making sure those two wouldn't escape.
"How did you manage to control them all," a familiar voice said, I heard the footsteps walking down the hall. "You surprised me, Peter." It's Preston you fucking bastard!" I snarled. The others in the cells before yours sure had fun as they watched me kill that annoying officer or guard, whatever you cant to call them. He was sure loud too. I had to break a wall down so the both of them could watch as he was massacred and I threw remains into their cells. How their disgust was amazing. Ever thought it's weird too how someone can change so quickly. No, pretend to have been unchanged the whole time." I sighed, "Get on with it Shoki."
"To think you'd use the actual name of someone that is infected. People really do change overnight." He laughed. "Piss off and tell me why your not gonna kill us too." Shoki walked up to the cell and clasped the bars. "Because, I want to see your efforts fail in the end. I've always wanted to be a supervillain. Now is my chance and I have an army of infected to command at my will." How so?" I snickered.
"Glad you asked, as being one of the ones infected by the original virus from that little kid, I've gained what you can call a King's Cell. The kid had what you call the Queen's cell, you didn't realize because you weren't infected with the same exact virus. Only those infected by the newest form of the virus and evolutionary traits of that virus are affected. The Queen cell rules in this, like a spider,. the female spider is the one that has the power as they get rid of the male spiders once they are done with them. Like I shall do with Arishia who is in one to the next cells." I slammed my body against the cell bars, "Don't you dare touch them! I won't let you get away with this shit!" He turned around and smiled.
"You already have."
And with that he walked off into the next room closing the door behind him as he got to the next cell.