Monday, 4 February 2008

Chapter 12 – Sickening experiments

We breathed deeply after that encounter and in a few seconds carried on.
- “Guys, do you think chief still wants us to do this mission considering these creatures live here?” Jack wondered.
- “I really don’t know, Jack.” I said, “I very much hope that we will reach that base soon enough and that these creatures are merely a hallucination.”
- “Well they’re definitely not a hallucination.” Jack said.
- “I hope that none of us end up like Jeffrey.” Rick said.
- “Tell me about it.” I said, “That snapping sound was pretty scary.”
We entered a slightly larger room than all the ones before. It had plenty of various equipment there but that equipment was all broken.
- “Hey guys, is that those creatures as well?” Rick pointed towards two figures not too far away.”
Suddenly the two figures turned towards us and I could definitely be sure that they were some of those creatures too. However they were different to two other types we’ve met so far. These ones were kind of green, had a slightly pointed face and also had spikes of weird shapes sticking out of various places in their body.
- “Ouch!” I quietly said to myself.
- “Guys I don’t like the look they are giving us.” Jack said.
The creatures then roared and began to gently trot in our direction.
- “All right guys, open fire!” I commanded and we did.
These guys could take quite a few shots before they went down. One of them even reached us and smacked Rick in the face before dying.
- “Rick, you all right?” I asked him.
- “Yeah I’m fine. It’s just a bruise.” Rick said.
He received a black eye from that hit.
- “Well I sure hope there isn’t anything stronger.” Jack said.
- “Who knows.” I began, “From what I’ve seen so far anything is possible. I wonder what kind of other monsters are here waiting for us.”
- “And how do those bad guys survive them?” Rick added.
- “They must have some way of controlling them or perhaps avoiding contact with them.” I guessed.
We then looked around the room, but nothing gave any clues so we continued to the next few rooms. There was a staircase down. We went through it and entered another big room with some broken equipment.
- “Guys, watch out. If anything moves – shoot it.” I warned.
Finally we saw something glowing in the corner of the room. We slowly walked up to it. There was a fresh corpse next to it.
- “Sucks to be this guy.” Jack said.
I then kneeled down and looked at the glowing object. It was one of those electronic diaries. I picked it up and open its file.
- “What’s on it, Jim?” Rick asked.
- “Let’s see.” I said.
There was only 1 file saved on it. It was called ‘creature report’.
- “Ah finally, something to enlighten us on the creatures.” I said.
- “Read it.” Jack said.
I began reading it:

‘Creature report by doctors Kegs, Max, Raymonds and McKen.

We are starting this report to describe the experiments involved in the project ‘The Great Survivor’ and various tests used on human subjects. Unfortunately all of these are the failed experiments turning test subjects into beasts. The names of the creatures are taken from the surnames of the original test subjects to take part in each experiment.

Vagro
Named after Raul Vagro this experiment involved injecting the subject with a modified B-virus and concentrated Sodium Glucathol in a mixture of some Slik water. The subject seemed not to show any effect up to 48 hours. After 48-51 hours hunger became very prevalent. After about 64 hours the subject lost sight and after approximately 72 hours the transformation began. The subject turned into a 4-legged, eyeless, but orienting purely on its sense of smell beast. It is highly contagious and we’ve discovered that one bite can induce the same effects in healthy humans.

Maliff
Received its name after Timothy Maliff, who used to be one of the scientists working here, but tested the new ingredients on himself. The experiment involvedthe same virus and a slightly more dilute Sodium Glucathol, and an hour after injection, ingestion of a pellet containing Iron bromide and Hydrogen Karkoxide has occurred. The test subject felt very energetic for 28 hours after which its muscle fibres began to grow in size. After about 49 hours the subject began growing tongue tissue as well and after about 55 hours the full transformation began. Maliffs can infect humans in the same way as Vagros, i.e. through bite, but they also can infect if a human touches their tongue as their tongue contains masses of creature’s blood.

- “I hope you didn’t touch Maliff’s tongue when you shoved that grenade in his mouth.” Jack said to me.
- “Don’t worry I didn’t.” I said and carried on reading:

Nix
Got its name after James Nix, this result is achieved by a constant ingestion of Potassium 3-methylglucathol and B-virus for 4 hours every hour. Potassium 3-methylglucathol is achieved by a complex reaction involving Sodium glucathol and potassium carbalyl. The symptoms did not start until about 30 hours after first ingestion. After about 30 hours the subject’s eyes increased in size, the hairs clumped together into very dense keratin structures looking like spikes, and the face began to elongate. After about 51 hours the subject’s face reached its peak elongation and some unusual brain activity was detected. After approximately 66 hours the subject reached full transformation. Nixes mostly pass on their infection by human contact with their spikes and teeth.

Crept
This creature received its name from Gavin Crept. The experiment involved dilute Sodium glucathol again mixed with B virus, but this time also mixed with Barium pentoxide and injected into the subject. This then amplified by treating the point of injection with slight gamma radiation. The subject’s mouth began to extend 8 hours after injection. By 20 hours it pretty much was the only part of the face left, except for the two eyes which merged into one. By about 32 hours the subject’s limbs merged with the torso forming a snake-like body. By 35 hours the transformation is complete. Crepts too pass their infection through the bite, but also through a sting on their tail.

Ganos
The creature got its name from Alexander Ganos. The procedure here was quite complex. It involved high doses of radiation and many many chemicals that have only been created recently. However B-virus and Sodium glucathol were still used in the conjunction with them. The subject behaved itself very erratically pretty much a few minutes after end of operation. By about 12 hours a slow transformation into something that looks like a giant bee began. By about 24 hours the transformation was complete. Ganos do not transmit infection through bite, but only through sting.

- “This is sickening.” I commented.
- “I seriously do not wanna know exactly how Ganos and Crept look like in reality.” Rick said.
- “Neither do I.” I said.
- “Well guys, we better hurry. I mean it said that Vagros can smell their prey, so they must smell us here if we don’t move out.” Jack suggested.
- “That’s a good point, Jack.” I said, “Let’s move out and get the hell out of this damned place.”

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