“William? Is that you?”

“Yo! Long time no see! It’s been a while”

It’s William O. Lorry my college buddy. We worked with each other for quite a while but was separated when I was hired by the military.

“You are here too?”

“Hehe, guess we are partners again! I can’t believe when the military looked at my bio, they’ll immediately hire me”

We chatted for a while, talking about life and stuff. But the general in charge of the facility called us for a mission briefing.

“Listen up maggots! Let us run through a quick briefing before starting this mission. We need to take samples from the quarantined laboratory, this sample will help us better understand the virus that we are dealing with...”

I packed up, this is going to be a long day as we are going to the laboratory to get some samples. I better be ready or else I might be infected.

“Squad number 1, you will escort all scientists to the laboratory. Be sure to bring quarantine suits to make sure no one gets infected.”

“Squad 2 you are with me. We’ll go through the building, salvage anything that we might need in this situation.”

“I’m counting on you!

I was about ready to leave when the general called me.

“Saturn! You are staying here, we can’t lose such a valuable scientist. Just monitor us from the cameras linked to the central computer.”

*sigh*”Yes sir…”

I sat and watched them leave.  On the bright side all I needed to do is watch them in this computer.

I can’t believe the CCTVs survived the bombing or maybe it is just a minor bombing with small bombs.

They quickly arrived on-site with scientists on board. The scientist went to the research lab where we first discovered this mutated virus. They quickly brought out petri dishes and took samples of the room.

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I moved to another camera to see Squad 2 in the outside of the building they were looking for things that could be recycled to be used on this laboratory.

I moved to Squad 1 and then see something was off…

They were acting strangely.

I radioed the general, he quickly responded and rushed to the first squad.

I think the first squad got infected. They are acting very strangely, they are really uneasy. I feel something is bothering them, when the general and the rest of Squad 2 arrived they talked for a little bit and then the general acted strange too. What is happening?

The general radioed me, he said that a town north of the infected laboratory has been evacuated. The virus got there sooner than we thought. Squad 1 and the scientist went home to analyze the samples but the general and his squad are heading to the quarantined city.

Squad 1 arrived just shortly they left… They must be in a hurry.

“Saturn, we need to get the samples examined ASAP. This just took a turn for the worse, this virus is rapidly evolving, we need a vaccine or a just a loophole to help us gain an advantage.”

I rushed to the lab, when I looked at this virus I was shocked. The Incandescent is like a whole new virus with new traits and DNA strands, it adapted that fast. This is unbelievable!

The general called in. He said that we need to find a loophole before it is too late. The virus had infected Hamilton in just a couple of seconds.

We examined this virus. Taking data and hoping to find a loophole in its DNA. It’s hard to judge whether this thing could be stopped. In fact it’s killing eve- Wait… Killing everything…

If we could alter its diet we could make it that it would kill other Incandescents in the area. This might be the loophole that we had been waiting for!

I headed to the laboratory to the nursery to nurture this killer. Make it go cannibalistic on its own species. If successful, we might have a chance here…

If not, I don’t know what to expect…