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Echos of the Faceless
5. The Experiment

5. The Experiment

As Jeff opened the Door, his deep crimson blood spilling out onto the ground, he saw things that bent his mind...

A large room, filled with rows and columns of tables, all with people on them. Some had machines above them, dissecting them while they are still alive, their screams and pleads for help falling on deaf ears as the machine harvested their organs, placing them in jars. Some, the machines implanted organs into them, causing mutations, or death.

"A-aaaghhh!!" Jeff heard, as one of them was injected, their arm bulging and exploding into bloody mist. "Operation: Failure. Status: Alive." The floating machine voiced out, before readying another injection...

"H-help...!!!" Another yelled, as a machine cut into his leg, implanting what looked like some alien tentacle that slithered into him, worming around under his skin before going up to the neck and burrowing under his skull. "A-agh-" His screams were cut silent as squishy, chewing-like sounds where being heard. "Experiment: Success. Specimen: #11- ERROR. ERROR." The machine fell to the ground with a loud thud, before shutting off. The person, however, got up and off the table, before mindlessly wandering around the tables.

'W-what the fuck...' Jeff thought to himself as he saw a door with a medical symbol on it. He limped towards it, all while being unable to block out the screams, and pleads of many, many people being experimented on. He turned over, and saw a small creature in a jar, that a machine was holding against one of the persons chest. It slowly came a live, it looked like a large spider. As it awoke, it spat acid on the person, dissolving his skin before it started eating his muscle, fat and bones. As it started burrowing into him, a gas come our of the jar, sedating it. "Specimens must not escape." The machine said, before lifting the jar. Just as it lifted a jar, a large spike came slamming down, impaling the person and killing the 'specimen'.

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Jeff, finally reaching the door, opened it, as a medical machine ran into Jeff. "Specimen damaged. Administering aid." It said. As it injected Jeff with something, he blacked out, hitting the blood-stained white tiles hard....

When Jeff awoke, everything was dark. As he got up, he saw the medical robot, on the floor as if it's power shut off. Jeff left the medical room, seeing flashing red lights, and a distant "WARNING. WARNING." alarm. All the machines were off, and on the ground. The people, however, were still screaming and pleading... some left to bleed out, other left to starve, left clamped on the tables.

As Jeff, stepped out of the ground, he saw it... the creature, #344, slashing and eating the specimens. Some got crushed under it's powerful claws, others were eaten, and some where mauled and left to bleed out slowly and painfully.. However, with all the specimens, Jeff slowly walked towards the nearest door. As he went to open it, it was locked. Jeff turned, and saw the creature continuing to maul and eat the specimens. Jeff, trying not to get caught, went back into the medical room, to try to his from whatever fate awaited him if he stays in the room...

Jeff, hearing the screams and thuds come ever so closer, frantically looked throughout the medical room for something to fight with, or hide in, but there was nothing... as the creature crashed through the door, Jeff found a vent, just big enough to crawl in. Just as Jeff got the cover off, the creature was right behind him. Quickly, Jeff crawled into the vent, the creature managing to claw his leg, leaving small gashes in his calf.

As his leg burned from his wound, and panicking, he crawled through the vent, all before it buckled under his weight, and gave way, dropping Jeff into a hallway... one that looked more like a hallway in a house, and not a facility...

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