Secrets

Jiro secured the perimeter checkpoint into Captain Venkman’s fortified command bunker nestled deep below remnants of a former capital city now reduced to post-apocalyptic sprawl.

Retinal scans confirmed Jiro’s identity before immense seamless gates slowly pressurized open allowing him entry.

......Passing numerous readiness alerts and combat response squadrons drilling counter-incursion tactics along the way,

....Jiro considered the vast military operations required to secure statehood comforts for elite leadership elements trying to orchestrate rebuilding efforts atop mass graves civilization-wide.

Reaching Venkman’s inner offices, Jiro overheard heated exchanges as he waited for clearances into the strategy theatre.

An emergency policy session argued appropriating essential dwindling resources towards relief efforts aiding unaligned refugee enclaves gathering beyond urban stronghold boundaries.

Venkman’s insistence on stockpiling critical supplies anticipating imaginary assaults countermanded rising requests recognizing humanitarian crises brewing.

Jiro noted systemic blindness - the same command-and-control blindness blocking acknowledgements around initial containment failures before global outbreak waves crested uncontained dooming billions.

..... Some never accept preventable disasters even as maelstroms of their stubborn creations immolate followers begging for reality checks til the end.

Admitted inside finally, Jiro approached Venkman observing holo-maps tracking the latest skirmishes, supply projections, population metrics and other statistics judging how aggressively to respond towards challenges festering outside.

Saluting wearily, Jiro hoped debrief revelations would shake stubborn generals clinging to sinking ships unable to accept unavoidable surrender terms against destinies overtaking their gates.

“Mission report Nexus Strike Team engaging Ancient Enemy Origin Facility”, Jiro stated handing over recovered drives from their disastrous delve into buried secrets facilities hiding ground zero outbreak gates.

"My gods...so Nexus did birth Bergen-3 monstrosities before losing containment?

And they chained innocent test populations in cells more nightmarish than providence designed?",

.....Venkman muttered in horrified shock scanning translated medical logs detailing forced chimera blending trials violating souls made prisoners by the powerful.

"Get Dr. Morneau here immediately!", Venkman yelled hoarsely at aids who rushed bringing the science officer from an adjoining research lab.

Morneau arrived hastily, data review holo-visors flashing wildly cross-referencing Jiro's recovered data fragments against CORSEC pathology databases.

Looking up gravely, the doctor whispered: "DNA signatures confirm Chimera experimentation.

.....Protein cypher chains present throughout next-gen entities our squadrons now confront daily it seems.

.......Protean evolutionary leaps outpacing vaccine developers flag these genocidal atrocities traced directly back to Nexus playing god without moral restraints."

Venkman braced against the realization dawning too late that modern outbreak strains genetically intertwined from past bioengineering sins of arrogance and indifference sacrificing innocents towards damned progress.

She dismissively waved away Morneau's technical explanations about exactly how custom Protean biologics cultivated.

infectious characteristics ensuring no treatments could quench plagues once uncontained outbreaks mutated beyond apex predator dynamics into an immortal lifeform category ever-hungry assimilating energy stores until all resources extinguished the sustaining ecology itself.

Regaining composure facing revelations upending her schematic paradigm pretending sufficient firepower somehow held tsunami tidelines, Venkman turned towards tactician mode contemplating counter-response options now unavoidable.

“Morneau, accelerate Chimera Vaccine prototyping utilizing Pure Origin strain samples we secured extracting that abandoned campus near ruined Atlanta zones last month.

We must boost immune response rates if epidemiology projections about airborne delivery pose credible threats according to Nexus data.”

The doctor nodded agreement while noting logistical obstacles confronting the mass distribution of untested vaccines given the widespread infrastructure collapse and population density crash.

Venkman dismissed budgetary concerns citing this civilizational survival pivot outstanding any fiscal constraints.

When Morneau persisted in questioning instead the ethical complexities rushing preemptive innoculations, Venkman pounded the strategy table swearing that history damns those abandoning moral courage against even hell’s horrors.

"Whatever phoenix futures emerge from these smouldering ashes," Venkman declared, "the living dead demand no more betrayed souls furthering blood profits or cursed science!"

Departing towards the arsenal proving grounds inspecting plasma-energy beam weapons undergoing testing evaluations before field deployment scale-up,

Jiro kept pondering Venkman’s dramatic change accepting simply no defense stood sufficient against ancient sins resurrecting judgement day upon the guilty and innocent alike.

He sighed acknowledging their shared tasks now - strengthening whatever redemption shelters might shield the suffering through storms once broken open by humanity’s past reckless transgressions chasing dreams of power, profits and even twisted notions of progress at civilizational expense. Haunted by fresh innocent faces from forgotten non-combatant camps begging for aid repelled by stiffening fortress fears,

Jiro radioed Lieutenant Riley arranging immediate tactical support liberating trapped families from the scramble zone.

He swore this night the lost would gain guides leading them towards exodus hope unseen beyond horizons tomorrow might yet make possible somehow...

Later that week after Jiro helped relocate overflowing refugee groups into modest haven camps near the command bunker perimeter contrary to explicit exclusion policies Venkman previously reinforced ruthlessly, emergency alerts raised military response levels to active invasion status.

........Streaming feeds displayed colossal mutated entities amalgamating mechanical and biological inputs overwhelming defensive line encampments along North shores in ways matching fears from newly understood Nexus-birthed atrocities.

.....Jiro geared up swiftly mustering strike forces rushing to reinforce their crumbling blockade bulwarks. Locking exo-armor, Jiro radioed air squadrons overhead trying to slow inexorable assaults towards surviving city sanctuaries fearing this night their reprieve ended.

........Hybrid lifeforms continued tearing through battlefield formations mercilessly chasing remnants fighting withdrawal maneuvers seeking refuge behind fortified bunker walls requiring now either miracle breakthroughs or apocalyptic stands showing how humanity fell facing fears called forwards from histories they refused to fully grapple.

Joining frontline stretcher units evacuating waves of casualties relentlessly, Jiro kept firing plasma tracers towards no end visible of murderous descendants hellbent exterminating last survivor enclaves.

.....Night turned day then night again multiple times immersed in fending off intractable death crawling within breached gates as defenders rallied each strongpoint before being forced backwards again without relenting towards central fortress gates.

In lulls organizing final haven huddles within Headquarters refuge halls preparing to lock down the entire subterranean city,

Jiro overheard Venkman barking orders interrogating Morneau about possible Hail Mary options before annihilation facing them Sodom and Gomorrah style for science sins unleashed judgement day forwards uncontained.

The doctor reluctantly revealed one last ditch effort - the experimental Chimera Vaccine doses might save some lives still by protecting DNA integrity temporarily so their essence escapes fully assimilated fates.

Venkman wanted certainty the cure proved better than death if unleashing a Trojan Horse risked everyone.

......Morneau blinked twice resigning outcomes now to Providence alone acknowledging no other choice remained gambling soul’s last sanctuary.

.....Jiro steeled hearing the verdict - dawn brought apocalypse and their unavoidable exodus facing Judgment futures barrelling down.

He squeezed his lucky charm necklace one last time before ordering survivors towards emergency bunker transport loading as Venkman’s voice announced facility-wide injections immediately.

.....The hissing doors sealed as the first hybrid claws breached their final wall leaving the living awaiting whatever lay in store soon...