Meetup

The drive seemed to just continue on and on, and now that our only salvation that being the sun had disappeared everything instantly seemed more dire. 

13 was the only one given the liberty of sleep right now since everyone else had a task to do. 7 was a glorified battery, 49 was charting our course, and I was driving.

Noticing a large mass ahead I slowed down and started to see what exactly was happening. 

What I saw was a narrow gap which seemed large enough to fit the MTV through but what caught my attention was the slowly expanding and contracting mass which sat on one side.

"We have a problem. Its a narrow gap and a big cursed on one side of it, Seemingly sleeping. Any other route we can take?" I said, I was hoping we wouldn't have to brush past another cursed and cause a chase to happen... Again. 

"No other route unless you wanna take an hour detour." 49 responded

I was really growing sick of this. The trip was supposed to take three hours but that had quickly turned into five and now nearly seven hours. We were so close and I was so tired of the mind numbing driving.

"Lets just take the risk." I said begrudgingly, I really hated chases but I couldn't stand doing this for another hour. "Turn on silent mode, this is going to be a pretty close call."

A few moments later I heard the hum of the engine almost completely disappear, even the sound of the MTVs movement was lessened somehow.

As we continued to slowly edge closer I was able to slowly gain a clearer and clearer idea of how the monster looked.

It was revolting, it was little more then a giant amalgamation of flesh. It's body was also oozing liquid which rolled down it slowly which I absolutely did not want to know what it was.

This creature had likely lived on earth for a long time, since a common trait these abominations had was that the more they ate the more twisted they became.

I shuddered to imagine my corpse becoming part of such a creature, but it was some solace that I definitely be dead by that point.

'I would much rather be dead then that thing.'

The MTV had reached the crossing, either side was the edges of mountains which were far too steep to drive on which is exactly why we were in such a situation. 

Slowly edging past the mound of horrifying flesh we made sure to not make a single sound. I held my breath as I got close enough to the thing that had I reached my hand out the widow I could touch the thing. Not that I would ever want to.

"The thing makes spores and the filter is struggling to pull in air." 7 said, sitting on the computer.

I then heard 49 respond "Just cut the air supply for a bit, we will be fine without new air until we reach the mission area. We can clean the filters there."

Feeling motion, I tensed. The amalgamation started moving, it leaned towards us threating to engulf the MTV whole and then... went back to the position it was in before after simply rustling in its sleep.

'Holy shit that scared me.'

The others wouldn't know just how close we got to experiencing the horror of having the MTV completely surrounded by that thing but I decided to not tell them.

Once we had moved a bit over ten metres away from the horrifying mound I pressed straight on the accelerator. Moving at high speeds would stress my mental capacity but I wanted to get away from that thing as soon as possible and then after vomit from the horrifying 'sight' of the monster.

It was less then ten minutes later we entered the mission area, which then I quickly found a spot to rest for the rest of the night.

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I woke up feeling incredibly tired, I had been put on the first shift of night duty again so I had been left even more tired by the time I had slept.

'I should have learnt an ability to not have to sleep, being this tired is getting really damn annoying.'

groggily standing up, I stretched then walked over to 13 on the computer and asked him "When are we meeting up with the other group?"

13 looked over then responded. "Its scheduled in about an hour, I would also recommend taking a shower like all of us. Even if you don't care about appearance or whatever in front of the others you still need to keep healthy and clean." 

After picking up a new set of clothes and a towel I walked over to the bathroom and opened the door without saying anything back to 13 to which he simply turned around and continued whatever he was doing.

Inside the bathroom I clicked the buttons to hide the regular bathroom and turn it into a shower, which essentially just hid the toilet and sink.

Putting my towel and clothes in the water proof cabinet I simply enjoyed the feeling of hot water.

After my shower I dried myself and got dressed in what was essentially the exact same outfit. Surprisingly the old outfit was still completely intact, no damage whatsoever.

Outside the van I heard 49 say "We are going to need more water, we can last a day or two with what we have but we need to find a good source to get water from."

"Lets head out." I called while leaving the MTV. "We can remember if we find water on the way."

The vast plain I looked around to see was almost completely sparse of anything else. We had placed the MTV in as hidden of a spot as we could but our options were definitely limited. 

The spot to meet up was about a kilometer away but we didn't want to be late so we begun to walk over quickly.

'I didn't realise my shower took so long, I wasted a ton of water. Wait did I? The water for a shower should be filtered then reused shouldn't it?'

After a half a half dozen minutes or so of me contemplating if I did something wrong or not, we arrived at the meetup point and in the distance we saw the other group in the distance.

As the distance between out groups closed, we eventually got a good look at them.

Their group was made of two guys and two girls and I noticed none of them looked particularly healthy. One of the girls had even lost her left arm.

"So you're the backup?" One of the guys said in a snarky tone, as if we would be dead weight.

Ignoring his tone 7 replied "Apparently so, in any case what do we need to know about this?"

"Did the mission not tell you anything?" The snarky guy questioned.

"We were told to meet up with you guys and help you but that was it." 7 answered, perfectly holding back his frustration from showing.

"Alright then, lets get introductions out of the way first, I am 36." 36 then gestured over to the rest of their squad and said "You all introduce yourselves."

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Looking over the group I repeated their designations again in my mind.

36 was an extremely average guy by all accounts with light blond hair.

The petite girl with sharp eyes and short black hair was 34, she was their groups scout.

The other girl who was known as 33 who was the one missing an arm was fairly muscular but with all light seemingly gone from her eyes she looked like she had given up on life.

The last one was 5, I could barely recognise him but those black and dead eyes with no presence to speak of at all was enough to remind me of who this was.

Despite his small stature he was honestly quite scary. He looked as if he was expecting to kill each and every one of us. Of course he wouldn't want to do that but the vibe he gave off was none the less really weird.

7 after putting on a smile then asked "Alright, now lets get to business. What are we going to be doing?"

34 spoke in a tone which even in a situation like this felt far too serious. "We shall be going inside the nuclear testing facility, executing every abomination then taking reactor fuel outside and then escorting it to a signal tower being set up."

'Great, more killing.'