Containment Breach: Parts 1,2 and 3

[zaintahir 458]

Containment Breach

Part 1

 

 

Day 0, September 25th, Year 2185

 

I live on BG-385, on the second floor in apartment D-2 at the colony of Lingering Lina. There are a few hundred people living here. For the sake of privacy, I will refer to everyone in this post with an alias. I'll call myself Gary. I lived with... well let's call him Frank. We shared the apartment together. It was a medium sized apartment, 3 bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, a dining room and a small storage room. I started a new life here after graduating. I work in the trading center as a technician, there's also a research lab a about 55 miles east from here. They are off-limits to us colonists, but there aren't many interesting things there, apparently, they are researching a few poisonous plants. Will (again, alias) works there, he's 52 years old. We asked him what goes on up there,  but he simply said that the plants are nothing but boring, just slightly different from your everyday garden plant. He works as a technician there by the way. We asked another employee as well, Adam, but he was extremely drunk. He simply said, "Yeah, a few aliens there, totally wicked". He worked in vehicle transport, he spent most of him time, even during shifts, at the colony, that's what his job demanded. Other than those two, there was only one, Tunad, who worked at the research lab, and he worked as a cook there. Life was good - $92 000 a year, enough friends and a comfortable life overall.

 

Day 1, September 26th, Year 2185  

 

There has been talk going on, there have been no communications with the lab for 24 hours. That isn't uncommon, but not for a whole day. This is the first time that has happened, but something else... Frank and Tunad have not returned from work. Frank did say that he was transferring soon, but he forgot his luggage here - Mabye he was eager and stayed at the place before moving his things? Adam did return, however. We asked him a thousand questions, but he only gave one back. "We're all dead". He locked himself in his room, hasn't come out since. That isn't him, Adam is always upbeat and cheery, what made him this way? What did he see? Behind the conspiracies, there is some panic going around, people are saying that some sort of the poison escaped into the air and killed everyone working at the labs, but that cant be true. They have precautions, don't they? We sent two people in a jeep to check out what has happened, sent them with gas masks as well. things will be alright, wont they? We sent them with a Beretta M9 as well, just in case. They just left, they should be back soon, right? I hope nothing has gone wrong there.

 

 

                                                                                          Part 2

Day 2, September 27th, Year 2185

 

So, they both came back... physically at least, but only one of them came back alive. The other, who we'll refer to as Hemmworth, had a hole through the back of his head reaching his brain, The other, Ron we'll call him - was traumatized and shocked, he wouldn't say a word. We had a senior doctor here - Alan- he examined the wounds. "Well, this is no bullet wound, nor that of a sword or any weapon it seems." "What does it look like doc?" asked Larry, another resident here. "Well it looks like organic tissue as I am seeing signs of cells originating from salivary glands." "English, doc?" said Jones, built like a tank but not a lot upstairs. "Something living did this to him, no type of bullet or knife, hammer or tools of the sort, this was done by something that produces saliva." Dr. Alan explained. "Something bit off part of his head?!" said Jerry, with terror in his voice. "Yes, most likely." said Dr. Alan. We were silent for a second, contemplating what could have happened. Ron passed out soon after arriving, we've put him in the emergency room with Dr. Alan.

 

Day 3, September 28th, Year 2185 

 

Adam came out of the room today - he had consumed two dozen bottles of  alcohol. Ron woke up as well, we all went into the emergency room to talk - as Ron would not get up. We all asked Adam first. "There weren't any plants being researched there." he whispered. "Something else, much more dangerous is there and it killed all of them, the researchers, the guards, Frank, Tunad, Will, they're all dead" Adam hissed in a single breath. His health was deteriorating - mentally at least. Ron, when we questioned him, stared at the ceiling without looking at us once. "Hemmworth and I, we found their home, we ran, we went to the bunker to get weapons, we got what we could, but when we were coming back one of them jumped on the jeep and killed Hemmworth with its tongue, it had teeth on its tongue". He was reduced to tears. "Calm down Ron, everything will be alright", said Sarah, a sweet lady in her mid 30's. We had to do something, these two were not giving any answers. 'They're coming for us", said Adam. "They're nearly here". We did not agree with these two madmen, but what we did agree on is that we needed to get the hell out of here. See, we would be stuck here a while. Getting a signal out there would take a day, and getting to us another three.We didn't have a choice though, we sent it out, hoping for the best. Suddenly - a hiss, and then a screech, not of metal, but of some kind of animal. We sent Lloyd to investigate it. Instead of hearing his voice say back "It's just a rat", all we heard were screams.

 

 

 

                                                                                   Part 3

Day 4, September 29th, Year 2185

 

Out of the 300 residents living at the colony, only 40 people made it. After hearing LIoyd's screams we ran out - nothing, absolutely nothing - No blood, no body, nothing. There was another screech from the inside of the colony, I sprinted inside to see the body of Alford being dragged away by something just out of my sight. "They're here!" said Adam.

 

Then, we heard dozens of steps right above us. The vents; whatever attacked us was using the vents and there was more than just one. "Run!" shouted Joe. Black 3 digit fingered hands grabbed his head and pulled him up into the vents. "MAKE IT TO THE SAFE ROOM" I screamed. We needed to get to the safe room, there weren't any vents there and there was no way "they" would get past the pressure door. We all ran. Those in the other 2 apartment buildings would have been taken at the spot. I pity them - they wouldn't even have known what hit them. I made it to Dr. Alan's work space to help him move Ron. The Doc was packing up some things. "It's his medication." explained Dr. Alan. Just as I entered the room, a long spine-like tail emerged from the vent behind him and before I could say anything else, the tail drove itself through Alan's heart, killing him nearly instantly. The same tail then took Ron by the shoulders and dragged him away. I was paralyzed from the horror I had just witnessed - that is until Jones shook me from my trance and we kept running. Soon we made it to the safe room, a few dozen had already made it through before a teenager had attempted to follow and two of those things dropped down. One faced the teen while the other faced us and we got our first chance to inspect one of "them" closely.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

There isn't a way I can completely describe its features. It was completely black, although with a slight tint of blue; a severely elongated head with some kind of dome on its top. It had no eyes as they (if they existed) were covered by the black dome, but it did have a mouth though - sharp teeth and; just as Ron said, a tongue with some kind of... inner jaw. two pairs of 'dorsal tubes' on it's back, a spine running between them all the way to its tail which had a harpoon-like weapon at the end. It had a skinny frame with an easily visible rib cage. It looked bio-mechanical in some of its body parts namely its neck and part of its head. It stood towering over the teen, it had to be 8 feet tall if I was forced to guess. It dragged the boy away as the other sprinted towards us. "CLOSE IT!" We screamed to Dillon, who was petrified. We screamed once more and this time he pushed the button, the door closed with a thump, and then an even louder thump came of that thing's futile attempt to break down the door. Everything went silent.

 

Edited November 15, 2017 by Destrod

[tweezers 1,034]

Approved. 

 

-Grammar edits.

-Complete restructuring of sentences.

-Added a title and changed the colour of the timestamps.

 

Never, ever try and use commas to continue sentences within a paragraph, as it looks completely horrible and makes it nearly impossible to read. It's much better to use fullstops to break up sentences instead.

 

It's an interesting beginning, I'm looking forward to seeing the next chapters.  :P

Edited April 1, 2017 by tweezers

[Mr.Jellie 1,924]

Nice article.Can't wait till part two

[zaintahir 458]

Approved. 

 

-Grammar edits.

-Complete restructuring of sentences.

-Added a title and changed the colour of the timestamps.

 

Never, ever try and use commas to continue sentences within a paragraph, as it looks completely horrible and makes it nearly impossible to read. It's much better to use fullstops to break up sentences instead.

 

It's an interesting beginning, I'm looking forward to seeing the next chapters.  :P

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