You will all die down here

Chapter 16 You will all die down here.

POV Justin

I woke up to the sound of Andrea snoring, last night we all fought for the last bar of chocolate, ending in some fistfights and some children crying, however, in the end, the bar of chocolate was divided into equal pieces for everyone.

I still don't understand why they decided to spend the night in my room. "Justin, are you awake yet?" I hear Amy babble.

"No, I'm still asleep." I say snorting a little when I get up from my bed. On the floor on a mat are Carl and Sofia sleeping next to Andrea. Amy slept next to me. I didn't want to end up on the ground like last time.

"Why did they have to invade my room last night?" I ask innocently while Amy rubs her eyes, let's take advantage of the fact that she is almost asleep.

"Shane asked us to come with you, he doesn't like you being around those soldiers." Amy says before going back to sleep. I guess that explains why they decided to spend the night here.

Jenner is hiding something from me and today I will find out what he is hiding. I don't intend to continue being a human pin.

After a few minutes, everyone started to wake up while I'm deep in thought, the door to my room opened. "How was the night?" Shane asks with a smile. "Andrea, Amy, something came up, we have a meeting in 5 minutes in Rick's room." Shane says quickly. "You children stay here." Shane places his hand on my shoulder. "They are forbidden to leave the room, is that clear?"

I give a quick nod as Andrea and Amy quickly get ready to follow Shane. "How serious is Shane?" Andrea asks quickly. However, Shane doesn't reply and then leaves the room along with Andrea and Amy.

"Kids, don't get into trouble." Andrea says closing the bedroom door on her way out. Given this, I support my back against the door and a smile spreads across my face, this smile does not go unnoticed by Carl or Sofia.

"Justin, don't." Carl says shaking his head.

"We have to stay here, we'll get in trouble Justin." Sofia says.

"And since when do you guys tell me what to do?" I say with a dark smile watching them both flinch at me. "Now I'm going to investigate what this place hides, you can stay here like the babies you are or you can come with me, it's always good to have bait." I said tilting my head a little and walking over to my backpack.

From my backpack, I take my gun and keep it on my waist under the gaze of Carl and Sofia. "I thought they took it from you." Carl stutters a bit at the sight of my gun.

"Just for safety. If they tell anyone about this, they wish they hadn't. Alright?" I say with a charming smile. At this, Carl and Sofia fall silent looking at each other.

"I said okay?" This time I pronounce it a little louder than before. Both boys quickly nod their heads

"Alright." Both children say in unison. At this, I give them a big brother smile. "What are they waiting for? Let's move on." I tell them with my hands at my sides as they begin to gather their things and begin to follow me. "Good Guy." I said suppressing a giggle.

"We are not dogs Justin." Carl says following me with his arms crossed, while Sofia follows me obediently.

"I never said that, Carl." I say approaching him and patting his head.

"Enough, don't do that" Carl says with a red face, at that, I just cover my mouth while I laugh.

"What do you think the adults are discussing?" Sofia asks.

"It's most likely a conspiracy against Lenny and Eliot, they were very suspicious after what happened to T-Dog and I highly doubt that Shane and Daryl will leave the mystery unsolved." I say as I walk with my hands behind my head. I'm sure Shane and Daryl have some kind of plan, I'll leave it to the adults to figure this out, while I search for my answers.

Carl and Sofia fall silent at my response. "Do you think they hurt T-dog?" Carl asks with a bit of a tremor in his voice.

"Yeah, I'm 90% sure they had something to do with T-Dog's death." I say casually as we walk down the stairs to the forbidden floors. At this, Carl and Sofia get closer to me. They are more scared than cute.

We keep walking until we hear footsteps running in our direction. "Someone is coming, we have to hide." I whisper quickly, look in all directions, and near us is a small room. "Let's go in." I say pointing to the room.

Quickly and quietly we moved into the room, which luckily was open, closing the door slightly, allowing me to see outside as we heard voices outside the room.

"Quick, quick, they're gathering in the officer's room. We have to capture them, Jenner will release the gas at any moment." Eliot says quickly as he runs with his rifle in his hands and wearing a gas mask covering his face as does Lenny as they run down the halls.

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"We have to warn the others Justin." Carl says quickly. Whereupon, I put my hands on his mouth to make him shut up.

"Shut up and don't make any noise." I whisper while keeping my hand on Carl's mouth. "Things are going to get ugly at any moment and you two have to stop being crybabies, you're just a burden to everyone." I whisper as they just stand in silence reflecting with tears running down their faces.

If I want good minions they have to stop being crybabies, otherwise, they won't work for me. I remove my hand from Carl's mouth and draw my gun, time for one last visit to the doctor.

"Sorry, Justin." Carl whispers, at this, I walk over to him and pull a knife out of my backpack.

"Take it and don't use it unless it's to save my life, okay?" I say with a small smile. Carl reaches out and grabs the knife as if he's holding a treasure.

"Understood." Carl whispers as he hides the knife in his clothes.

Shortly after, we left the room and continued walking in the direction the soldiers came from. Until an alarm causes us to cover our ears.

*Initiating security protocol 17 sleeping gas released on the 6th floor*

Shortly after, the shots did not wait. Carl and Sofia did their best not to burst into tears as they followed me down the last hallway.

At the end of the hall is an open door and we start to hear Jenner's voice from the other side as we get closer. Walking into the room, I see a huge screen with a recording playing as Jenner speaks.

"The data we are getting from the test subject is astounding, according to the latest analysis after being infected with the TS-20 sample vital functions failed causing the subject to die shortly after. I will try to reduce the amount of blood supplied to the next test subjects." The recording continues to show Jenner in front of a camera.

"Until now there is no progress on a cure, the TS-20 compound is the opposite of a cure, we could summarize that it is a variation of the original TS-19 virus but more dangerous. I have made the decision to contain the virus within the facility, if TS-20 spreads it would be catastrophic. The TS-20 variant must not be taken outside for any reason." A scream catches my attention and I watch Carl cover his mouth with both hands while his gaze is wide-eyed.

Behind a curtain, is T-Dog, or rather, what was T-Dog. He is now a walker and is found tied to a bed with a muzzle in his mouth. Seeing Carl, he begins to squirm at his bonds.

"Are they going to do that to all of us?" Carl asks hyperventilating while Sofia is in shock.

As I start to get closer to T-Dog he starts to become more docile to the point where he stops growling and squirming. My heart starts racing at this and many ideas start running through my little brain. However, my time for reflection ends when I hear a voice behind me.

"You guys shouldn't be here." Jenner says behind us. I spin around with my gun drawn ready to shoot Jenner when the butt of a rifle slams into my face. Then everything goes black.

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I wake up with a pounding headache and handcuffs around my wrists. Damn bastards, how long was I unconscious? I am in the same room, however, there is no trace of Carl or Sofia.

"Excuse me little Justin, you scared me with your gun, who did you take it from? Do you know how dangerous it is for a child to be playing with a gun?" Jenner comments as he sits in a chair across from me. "The handcuffs are a precaution, we didn't know how you would react."

"Where are Carl and Sofia?" I ask quickly. However, I get no response from Jenner. Time to switch the conversation. "You used my blood on T-Dog." I laugh a little.

"You don't seem to be worried or upset about losing T-Dog." Jenner says raising an eyebrow in my direction.

"In the grand scheme of things he was just an NPC or a supporting character." I say shaking my handcuffs slightly. "I don't worry about him. However, I can't sit idly by while you use my minions as lab rats." I say shaking my head. "Do you know how hard it is to get minions nowadays? I want them to be like Wesker's, to sacrifice for me. Don't you think that would be lovely?"

Jenner just wrinkles his face. "What are you talking about Justin? minions? Who is Wesker? Jenner asks me rubbing his eyes.

I shake my handcuffs a bit. "Where are Carl and Sofia? Where are my minions? I ask again.

"I didn't want to get to use these methods Justin, I really didn't want to, however, the research has a cost and we need the test subjects. If it makes you feel any better, your little friends are in the next room, Lenny is watching them, and we have no plans to harm the children." Jenner says with a sigh. "But we need the adults."

"What if I refused and wanted to leave here?" I asked tilting my head a bit.

"Sorry Justin, that's no longer an option." Jenner says shaking his head.

"I figured." I say looking at my handcuffs and start walking towards the bed where T-Dog is tied up. "A few sacrifices to save the world huh?" I say while looking at the calm T-Dog who is just watching me.

"Justin, don't get too close to the test subject." Jenner says starting to approach me with his rifle in hand. I highly doubt he'll try to shoot me, he needs me alive. "Why is he so calm around you?" Jenner asks with wide eyes.

"The truth, doctor, you can be considered by many people as a hero, a man who does what is necessary to save the majority with little cost." I say placing my hands on T-Dog's head as he just sniffs at me. He doesn't seem to be hostile toward me.

Not far from T-Dog is a red button that works as a safety mechanism to release the restraints on the patient's hands and legs in an emergency.

"However, there is just one small flaw in your plan." I say with a giggle. "I don't give a shit about saving the world." I say as a dark smile spreads across my face making Jenner back up a bit.

"Justin get away from that button right now!" Jenner yells before pointing his gun at me. However, it was already too late, I pressed the red button with a smile on my face.

"The restrictions have been deactivated." Says a robotic voice over the room's speakers.

"You will all die down here." I say imitating the phrase of the Red Queen from Resident Evil before bursting into laughter. In that T-dog gets up quickly from the bed and removes the muzzle that covers his mouth revealing a dark smile before lunging at Jenner and ignoring me in the whole process.

"Damn you, what have you done?" Jenner says, starting to fire his rifle at him, however, T-Dog uses his arms to cover his face avoiding fatal headshots by jumping on Jenner causing him to fall to the ground, dropping his gun, and receiving several bites on his arms.

I slowly approach Jenner who is on the ground with T-Dog immobilizing him ready to bite Jenner's neck, however, I decided to try something extremely dangerous.

"T-Dog, stop." I say in T-Dog's direction when he just stands still like a dog following orders without trying to attack me. Oh god, oh god, it worked.

"How…how is this possible?" Jenner asks through clenched teeth, he's got a lot of bites.

I squat in front of Jenner. "Isn't this wonderful?" I say as stars begin to form comically in my eyes. "All the possibilities within the reach of my little hands. Without you Dr. Jenner, this would not be possible, I never would have imagined the potential that my blood has." I say as I take the keys from the handcuffs.

"Did you use me… did you use me all this time?" Jenner says coughing up some blood. "You are not a child, you are a monster."

"Maybe you're right, you're not the first to call me that, I use everyone." I say whispering while making a pout. "However, it's fun and I love to control things. Thank you for doing all the work for my, doctor." I say freeing myself from the handcuffs with a smirk on my face.

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"Imagine the potential that my blood has, imagine all the chaos it could create, not even the gods will be able to stop me. I'll become a king." I say while starting to laugh out loud.

After freeing myself from my handcuffs, I take Jenner's rifle along with the pistol that he had confiscated. "What do you think will happen now, Jenner? Are you infected, will you be the same as T-Dog or will you just be an ordinary walker? I say as I stand up and walk towards the door. However, Jenner just laughs.

"Computer, initiate final protocol." Jenner says looking me straight in the eye. "Fuck you, Justin." Jenner sighs as he closes his eyes.

*Final protocol initiated, time remaining for decontamination 30 minutes.*

At this, my eyes widen, well played Jenner. "Huh, you're troublesome." I say scratching my head. "T-Dog." I say as a dark smile spreads across my face. "Enjoy the food." I say smiling as I close the door and hear a loud roar from inside along with Jenner's scream.

So many possibilities, so many ideas running through my head, however, these ideas must wait, I have something else in mind at the moment.

"I have some minions to find."