Part Five
Eden: Paradise Lost
Part Five
Whitney and Kyle wait in the foyer as Lance and the others come down from the roof.
Lance: Jasmyn? Cody? Dustin?
Whitney: With Max.
Lance: Their bravo team is on the move and coming here, go and secure the back entrance , then have them meet up at the substation.
Whitney: Will do.
Kyle: Yes, sir.
The two head off as Lance and the others continue on.
John parks the armored camper as the Bravo unit gets out and heads towards the back entrance as the snipers were laying lethal cover for them as John gets the camper back to the edge of the town, John parking as he grins to himself and and closed the middle batch as he grabs a beer out of the mini fridge in the back.
John: All of that zombie slaying makes a man thirsty.
John's pops the tab and drinks the beer down with one long chug.
Lance, Kris and the others come into the sun control room as Max still works in the computer as Jasmyn, Dustin and Cody were already there waiting
Lance: Everybody meet tech guru and my ace, Maxwell Harrison.
Max: Hello.
Jared: The hell is behind that?
Everyone looks at the large locked sliding door.
Lance: Hopefully some solid answers.
Kris: Okay, start explaining from the beginning…
Lance: Well…
Kris: And no half truths.
Nick: Or lies.
Lance: Haha, well okay then.
Maxwell: Better let me explain, sir.
Lance: Right, of course. Take it away, Max.
Max spins around in his chair as he faces everyone.
Max: Three months ago I hacked into the government security day planner for shits and giggles. Granted yes it was illegal, immoral whatever you want to say but at this point I could give a shit. So I hacked the system and started reading about all of this top classified off hand scientific funded shit and one of them directly stated everything about their discoveries with the type O blood mutagen and how the infection rate changes the brain activity.
Mary: So?
Max: So!? Nothing goes through off hand channels without direct approval from the president. This project was presided, reviewed, funded and approved by President Geer.
Krista: Son of a bitch…
Kris: Typical, men in power pulling strings begins everyone's back.
Lance: the only thing we don't understand is content, why would he commission this? It doesn't make sense. I don't find Geer to be a cynical or insane man.
Jasmyn: Or a man with murderous intent.
Terry: Bad things can be composed under the best if not misguided intentions. We're here to find out which is what.
Mary: What about the A.P.P? What do you know of them?
Lance: The radical political party with the shit kicked figurehead? What about them?
Kris: President geer sent us here under the pretext that you were working for Finch.
Lance: No affiliation there, comrade.
Krista: Then this wasn't about stopping anyone from sabotaging EDEN, this was about covering the president's own mess.
Mary: I don't think so. This is about keeping Finch from getting to this place and finding out, at least what the president thought.
Shane: Doesn't change that A.P.P may still be behind some form of EDEN sabotage.
The group turns as Bravo unit strut inside as everyone was relieved to see them.
Shane: We got filled in a bit on the way in.
Kris: Can you get ahold of General Marcus?
Shane: Tried, channels blocked. Something's jamming the lines.
Max: Yeah there's an encoded jamming cursor for any outline long distance calls, I've been trying to override it but so far no luck.
Shane: So the president's got secret projects, A.P.P. is behind something as well and you ragtags decided to come at vigilante. All in all, I'd say this is a pretty fucked situation.
Lance nods as Max turns to the computer.
Lance: So are we ready to find out or what?
Max types in a sequence and with a smile he pushes enter and sees the flash of an accepting screen. The door unlatches and begins to open as Jasmyn, Terry, Kyle and Cody aim at the opening doors as Kris, Shane and Nick come up next to Lance as the interiors lights flicked and begin to turn on slowly
Lance: Misfit's, with me.
Kris turns and faces his men and women.
Kris: Nick, Shane, Krista, Miles, Colby and Mary follow me, Jared stay and hold down the area.
Jared: Got it.
Max: I'll monitor from here.
Lance begins inside as he has his AK raised as Kris and the 23rd follow behind. The group keep their guns leveled as they walk through the large man room, Max monitoring them as Jasmyn comes over to a computer and begins downloading files on a USB drive.
Jasmyn: This should help us understand what's going on here.
Mary: Can you make any of it out?
Jasmyn:, It's not saying much from what I can see. But the full download will take time.
Jasmyn leaves it running as she stands and raises her machine gun as she begins looking around as Krista looks at a few beakers that were full of green liquid as Nick finds some files and flips through them, finding nothing or interest.
Lance: this was all they were working with?
Shane: Room doesn't seem very big for testing on the scale they would've needed to.
Max: He's right, they pumped hundreds of millions into this, where are the cells, holding rooms?
Kyle comes over to a room with a keycard reader and a numerical pad, Kyle looking about as he flips on a nearby switch. Lights begin turning on everything inside of the room as opening window plane slots begin to rise as everyone looks around on edge as Lance comes up to a window nearest Kris, who looks at him as they then both look back to see the sight before them.
Lance: This...this is new.
They look upon large habituated cages, and tanks are placed all about as the group looks on in awe.
Krista: What the hell is that!
Lance: Max?
Jared and the others surround Max as Max zooms in and looks about.
Max: I have no clue..
Kris checks the thermal and sees blue sits that are immobile.
Kris :There are things in there…
Max: Most of the cages seem to be locked and intact, least from what I can see.
Lance: Any camera feeds inside there?
Max: None that I can find, sir.
Lance: Damn.
Kyle: Hey there's a keycard/numeric pad over here that seems to head inside.
Nick comes over as Shane looks down trying to see anything through window panes.
Nick: Can this thing be opened?
Max: Working on it.
Krista: Did they in any of the reports say anything about animal testing?
Max: No, meaning this was off radar even from the President. I got the sequence to the door.
Nick and Kyle back away, guns leveled as the keypad lights up and the door unlocks , opening outwards slowly as Colby aims as everyone slowly gathers around it
Lance: Anyone wanna go take a look?
Kris casts him a look and decides to go first. The rest follow behind as they head down into a staircase, everyone's gun leveled and ready as they're all hit with an instant rancid smell.
Nick: Fucking...shit…
Cody: Feces and dead flesh...bad combo.
Krista gags and heaves as she throws up as Miles walks down an aisle passing dead rabbits and cats, their skin and flesh nearly deteriorated and still in a stage of decomposition. Miles checks the food and notices it's freshness.
Miles: This food is fresh, at least a day old.
Mary: How can that be?
Max: Maybe the team gets flown in on the roof, dropped off and then picked up at designated times. It explains the helipad.
Kris: can you find any flight patterns in EDEN'S aviation day planners?
Max: Is that an order to hack military air space?
Kris looks at Shane who nods.
Shane: Yes.
Max hears the orders and smiles as he begins to type into his laptop.
Nick and Kyle come up to a cage with threes inside of it as suddenly two screaming chimps appear, the two backing away as the zombified Primates beat and screech against the metal bars.
Nick: Jesus.. they're…
The chimps had the dead white eyes and patches of rotting skin.
Colby: Fucking Christ, they were experimenting on animals…
Lance and Jasmyn spot a large undead Lion watching them from it's large cage.
Lance: Not just any animal's…
Jasmyn: Looks like mammals, any and all kinds too
Miles, Kris and Terry come up to a large tank, the three watching as nothing can be seen through the clear plating at first until a dolphin swims up and slams its tail against the glass, making all three jump back in shock and horror as they notice a second Dolphin just watching them.
Kris: I think you're right, Lance.
Max moves the camera over to the right. It can't see anywhere beyond where Kris was walking to.
Max: I'm blind here, boss. You guys are on your own.
Lance: We'll be careful. What's the word on the flight patterns?
Jared pushed his com in
Jared: A charter chopper swings by here every day at 1: 45pm and gets a ETA pick up time around 12:45 am. This pattern went on for at least three years according to the flight logs. But it was cancelled as of yesterday, with the chopper never coming out today.
Mary: Odd...I wonder why?
Nick: I think I got an answer.
Nick and Kyle aim at three large dog cages that had their bars ripped out and flesh snagged along the ridges.
Nick: I've got three dog cages empty.
Mary, Colby, Jasmyn and Lance came over as the other dogs were not moving.
Mary: Jesus…
Jasmyn reads the clipboards on the three cages
Jasmyn: a great Dane...a German Shepherd, and a St.Bernard.
Nick: Great, zombie Scooby Doo, and cujo on the loose…
The group looks about now on edge and alert before Kris shouts for them, everyone hurrying towards where his voice carried as the rest were already there.
Kris: We may have...bigger problems.
The group stare at an extremely large cage that also was ripped apart, bit with torn and shredded bodies strewn about as three men and a woman in lab coats were completely eviscerated, limbs and organs strewn all over the cage. Lance looked about as the chimps were still aggressively making noise.
Lance: Looks like the scientist were cleaning house on the smaller animals but couldn't pull it off with the big ones.
Mary: What the fuck was in that cage?
Kris: whatever it was...it's out.
Kris pushes the com link in
Kris: John... John hey there may be things outside of here that aren't strictly zombies so you need to keep an eye on everything... John?
Outside, near the edge of town, metal plates were laying ripped and torn across the road as Kris's voice can be heard as we see the camper from the front end has been ripped and shredded asunder, and a half eaten drugged out headless corpse lay slumped over the front the wreckage as something large and hairy was eating in a low snarling growl.
End of Part Five.