Hell Scyth
Rock Hard, Dead or Alive
Ok, for arnoud a year now, I've been working on a story. I've worked alot into it, and though I havn't had much time for the 'specific' detail of it, I'd like to see what other people other than my freinds think of it. (by freinds I mean people around where I live. I still consider the people on this site my freinds also). So heres a Prologue chapter. I'd put the first chapter also, but that might take up a little too much. So when you done reading it, tell me of what you think of it.
The Experiment
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I've decided to put in the first chapter so you can get a grasp of the main charactor. Not much detail as of yet. had to keep it small.
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Because I felt like it, and to reveal that this isn't just a story about war, I'm sticking in the second chapter. But I don't think I'll stick i any more after that.
I have to cut it off there as I can't exceed more than 2000 letters, or something like that. If you want to see more though I could always E-mail the rest. I like hearing feed-back on things that I've done, good or bad.
The Experiment
Prologue
Peace. The one thing that is impossible to obtain. At least until the year 2200. In this year the 5th world war ended. The war had cost the second largest amount of lives in any world war. After it ended, the leaders of the countries made a treaty, one that would stop any more wars. The treaty was signed. Everyone agreed to living in peace.
To show the world that everyone was united, and that no more wars would happen. A large space station was constructed. The Orion was the greatest and largest man made structure ever to be built, especially in space. It was finished in 2270 in which people began to colonise the station. It is 2,000,100 miles long and 1,100,000 miles wide
During this an army was formed to protect the peace that we had struggled so hard to get. The United Nations Defence Federation. Elected to be in control of this was Tanaka lee Wong. An Asian, American man who had a long time of service in the army and was one of the few involved in the master plan that stopped the war. The second in command was a man named Robertson Cross. An American man put in charge of managing the army.
The peace worked in everyone’s favour. Most third-world counties were fixed up and are no longer third-world. Diseases were wiped out, pollution had been minimized globally by 37% and every one was happy. Until 2295.
On the day of the 21/5/95, ICBMs went off in five of the worlds’ major capitals. Washington, Tokyo, London, Canberra and Moscow were virtually destroyed and millions of lives had been cost. Then from the ashes of these great capitals, arose a powerful enemy who called themselves the Iron Fist of Earth.
The UNDF came in to stop this uprising before it could do any more damage. But it was of no use. The uprising prevailed and over a period of 5 years, control over the earth changed and the IFE took control over half the world. There is still no recorded information on who is the leader of this organization, but the right hand man is believed to be Meric Klovouske. An Englishman who is an expert in technology, and hacking the Internet. It is believed that he was the one who launched the ICBMs. These days, there are rumours going about that the IFE is working on dangerous new experiments that could tip the act of world domination in their favour. But no one is sure any more. So far this war has cost more than 6 million lives. Will the suffering ever end?
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I've decided to put in the first chapter so you can get a grasp of the main charactor. Not much detail as of yet. had to keep it small.
CHAPTER 1: LANDING
60 SECONDS! The same shout I would hear every time we had to make a forced drop.
50 SECONDS! At this point I would begin to say my prayers.
40 SECONDS! I check my equipment and tried to stay standing up as the dropship rocked from side to side.
30 SECONDS! I look to my left. The soldier standing there looks pale and shakes slightly. I remember the time I had to make my first forced drop.
20 SECONDS! Artillery explosions going off. The sound of people getting massacred. It was like being with in the depths of hell it’s self.
10 SECONDS! I prepare for the abrupt landing and steady myself. I look straight ahead and wait for the hatch to open and have to make my mad dash for the nearest cover before the enemy blast back.
GO! GO! GO! The hatch opens and almost immediately the man in front of me is gunned down. I strafe to my left as soon as I hit the ground and find myself with no cover. I drop down and move into a crawl, seeking anything that I can hide behind. But as I search, all I see is smoke. I am blinded. Crawling fast I hardly realise that the ground in front of me is gone and I slide down the slope. I hit the bottom and curse my bad luck. Trying to sit up right against the cliff side, bullets only just narrowly miss my head. I scan ahead and I can see more clearly. Ahead through the brush is my target. The enemies main Genetic Research Facility. Then more bullets buzz past my head and I fire blindly. I hear the grunts of someone falling down to the ground and smile as I begin to crawl once more towards the facility. As I crawl my orders are replayed through my head as clearly as they’d been spoken to my right now.
“John, you must infiltrate the facility in any way possible. But before you do you must meet up with Newton and his team.”
I stop in my tracks. How could I have forgotten? Newton would be somewhere to the west of the facility. I was North, North West. Looking at my compass I adjusted my direction and headed off again.
My passage chosen was not a good one. About every few metres I would come across an enemy troop or have an explosion go off mere metres away from me. But eventually I spied a group sheltering behind a small wall. I moved closer until I could make out the faces. One of them was Jimmy, my old room buddy in collage. The man next to him was George, but we called him Led man since he had been shot so many times in previous battles. Just behind him getting aid from a medic was Junior. The medic helping him was Duncan. And the guy shouting orders was Newton. We call him that on account he is practically as smart as Isaac Newton himself. I started to run over to them keeping as low as I could at the same time until I saw why they were busy sheltering. Three soldiers pinned them down. One of them had a heavy machinegun and was shooting wildly trying to hit them. He was laughing at the same time at the fun of blasting senselessly while they couldn’t do anything to stop him. I grabbed my grenade and piffed it. It hit the soldier in the head, and before he could figure out what just happened him and the other two were blown to high heaven. Now it was my turn to laugh as I sprinted towards the others.
“ Hey! How ya’ all going.”
“John, what took you so long? We’ve been sitting here for ages trying to protect ourselves from those bloody lunatics.”
“I had a little trouble finding the place and besides, shouldn’t you be a little more grateful that I saved your arses don’t you think, Jimmy?
“ Now he has a point there. He did just save us from being the targets of a trigger happy maniac.”
“That is true George, but I think it would have been a bit more helpful if he got here sooner. That way Junior here wouldn’t have almost lost his right arm.”
“Hey it’s not really all that bad. It’s just a flesh wound. Really, I’m fine”
“Hey, whatever you say buddy, I’m just looking out for you being the youngest and all.”
“ You don’t have to, I can look after my self.”
“I know you can but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t look out for you.”
“ Well stop, you’re not my mother!”
“Hey. Can you two stop feuding and start focusing on the battle. Ok. Now lets get a battle update. We are practically alone and we have to make our way to the facility and infiltrate it. Once we are in we reach the generator room and plant the explosives. We then exfiltrate the facility and make our way to the extraction point. Are we clear on those objectives.”
“ Sir yes sir.”
“Good, now lets move out.”
The passage we took was long. At least this time there fewer soldiers to get in our way as they were mostly at the outside perimeters trying with all their effort to hold off our invasion force. After Ten minutes we reached the wall of the facility. It would be too dangerous to go through the front doors, so I blew a hole in the sidewall and we went in. According to the map info that we obtained from our spies, the generator room should be somewhere on this floor. I attached my silencer to my handgun and the others did the same. We silently made our approach through the different hallways, opening doors and occasionally hiding behind things to avoid gaining the attention of watchful guards.
Eventually we found the door leading to the generator room. We sneaked inside but were spotted. An armed guard began shooting and a couple of engineers began running away. Led man took a bullet but hardly flinched and then shot the Guard directly in the head. Newton made the signal and Jimmy and me began placing C4 as the others herded the scared engineers out of the room. Just before we were finished there was a loud rumble and the lights flickered. I tripped over and cursed. As I got up I looked into the vent in front of me. As I did I fell back cursing again.
“Are you alright, John?”
I nodded and cleared my head. Did I just see what I thought I saw? I laughed slightly and turned around.
“Are you sure your alright. You look pale.”
“It must be all this smoke and hard work. But I am feeling fine.”
At that moment the others burst through. Newton shouted immediately.
“We have to get out of here now! I just got a radio in from command. What ever they sent us in to destroy has gotten lose, whatever he means by that I don’t know, but there is a dropship waiting at the extraction point. He says don’t worry about the explosives; they are going to missile strike the place.”
We ran. Every now and then we would fire blindly at anything that emerged in front of us. We found the hole we made and looked at our compasses and sprinted away towards the extraction zone. Then Jimmy was shot. He fell down to the ground. Duncan fired at the oppressor and we picked Jimmy up. He cursed and cursed as blood went everywhere. Then Led man got shot in the leg. He almost fell so I grabbed him and we stumbled away. Duncan then got shot. The bullet skimmed the side of his neck and he fell. Jimmy went down with him. I snatched a bandage from the medical bag lying next to Duncan and wrapped it around his neck just tight enough to stop the bleeding. I cursed until I saw the dropships. It looked like they would take off any moment. Around the dropships were soldiers, wounded and all. Jimmy dropped to the ground. Newton grabbed him and Led man felt for Duncan’s pulse. There was none. Led man hoisted Duncan onto his shoulder and began stumbling toward the dropships. Newton and me picked up Jimmy. Newton went ahead and I saw enemies approaching, guns blazing. I shot away at rapid pace with my rifle and gunned down two of them. As I turned I saw that Led man was almost at the dropships. But it was too late. The dropships began too take off leaving about a dozen troops still standing there. I stood there for a moment and then searched the sky for what was coming. I saw them. They were about 30 seconds away from hitting. I looked around and saw every soldier, enemy and allied looking up at their inevitable death. I dropped my rifle to the ground and opened up my arms to embrace my demise. But seconds before they hit, the ground beneath me opened up and swallowed me whole. The missile hit as I fell down a shaft sliding down and down in different directions. Thud! And all was black.
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Because I felt like it, and to reveal that this isn't just a story about war, I'm sticking in the second chapter. But I don't think I'll stick i any more after that.
CHAPTER 2: THE SECRET
I awoke suddenly from my unconsciousness. I peered around. I appeared to be in a hallway illuminated by only one flickering light. I guess that means that the generators didn’t get taken out in the blast. To my left the hallway had caved in. To my right stood a double door. I could see a sign saying; CAFETERIA C. I attempted to stand up but was unsuccessful. On top of my leg was some rubble. I removed it to reveal the wound. It was only a small one. Really only a sprain with some blood trickling from it. I forced myself up and felt around. On the ground was a bandage. At least what was left of what I used on Duncan. Poor Duncan. And all the others who were left behind to get blown up by a missile strike. I grabbed up the bandage and wrapped what I needed around my leg and stuffed the left overs in my pocket. I checked what else I had. My handgun was still with me. My compass and watch were broken so I dumped those. I had one grenade. Thank god that the pin hadn’t came off. Then again, maybe that wouldn’t have been so bad considering my current status. In my left pocket was a lighter. I had a pack of bandaids in my front pocket and a canteen half full of water. I grabbed that and took a swig out of it then put it back. And proceeded into the cafeteria.
When I opened the doors I was horrified to find that the cafeteria was littered with corpses. I walked through the caff looking at the bodies that were sprawled across the room. Some of them looked like they had died from debris but most of them had torn limbs and marks all over the bodies. It was sickening and the stench was putrid. I almost threw up from the scene of it all. One of the corpses I walked past had a large chunk taken out of him. It looked like he was torn apart by some sort of creature. I spied a door ahead and moved over to it. Once I opened it I moved through and shut the door quickly. I didn’t want to see the vile mess in the cafeteria ever again.
I moved down the hallway. It was actually well illuminated. And clean considering what I had just saw. Then, as I walked past a door, there were gunshots. Then a thump against the door I was standing next to. The door shook and I wondered if I should open it. Then I herd screams and a cry for help. I reached for the handle and opened the door only to be greeted by a body flying strait past me and hitting the wall with so much force it made cracks. I looked in the door and then flung back as an animal of some sort jumped past and hit the wall. It tumbled and then looked at me, snarling. It was cut and its flesh was hanging halfway off and at some parts I could see bone. It went to jump at me but I was too quick for it. I pulled out me gun and put a bullet directly through it’s head. It fell to the floor and ceased all movement. I looked into the room from which it came and saw a scientist lying against a wall moaning. I rushed over to him to give aid but he held out his hand to stop me from coming closer.
“Don’t come closer if you value your life.”
There was a large wound in his side. I tried to get closer to help but he stopped me.
“I told you. Don’t come closer unless you wish to be infected just like I am.”
“Infected? What on earth do you mean? Do you need a vaccine?”
“No, it’s too late. The infection shall spread and mutate my body until I look just like the creature you saw. It’s too late to save me now.”
“Ok, if you don’t want help. Perhaps you can help me. I want to know what the hell that thing was, and I want to know how to get out of here.”
“Fine. That thing that attacked you was a mutated creature. It was once a dog in case you can’t tell from what still looks natural. It was made using ultraviolet radiation and a bio-chemical we like to call, ‘Chemical M’. These two things combined were supposed to make the ultimate soldier. But not all react kindly to such exposer. It turned them into rabid beasts that will stop at nothing to hunt their pray. But there is something you should also now. Some of these creatures like the one you just encountered are highly contagious. Avoid touching them or you’ll risk infection like me. On that bench are three vials. They will act as an antidote. Use them every 4 hours or if you are bitten.”
“Hang on. Why every 4 hours.”
“Because of the radiation in the air. The air you breathe is infected. Take one of those vials every 4 hours and you should be fine.”
“Great, so now I have to take a vial every four hours to stay healthy, and if I get bitten I’ll have too drink another to stay alive again. And if I do, then I’ll decrease my time to get out of here. Besides. How am I going to know when to take one? Am I just going to find the next creature I come across and ask it what the time is?”
“No. Take my watch. I don’t need it any more.”
“Thanks, now how about telling me the way out.”
“That’s your problem. There is no way out. A lot of the place has caved in from your commander’s pathetic attempts to obliterate every inch of this place and whatever’ inside. Also keeping in mind that there are plenty of creatures still about.”
“Great. Well this is truly my day. I might as well kill myself now.”
“No don’t! You look promising. On the bench next to the vials is a letter. It has information on most the things that have been going on down here as well as saying that every other facility that is working on the experiment must terminate all actions involved with it now.”
“Well. Thanks a lot for making this my happiest day ever. You know. I always wanted to be errand boy.”
“Enough with the sarcasm and get moving. There isn’t much time. Others will come soon to hunt for food. Quickly. Shoot me now. I do n, not wish to bec, become one of them. Please kill m, m, me!”
“Well, since you said please.”
“LOOK OUT!”
I swerved around and narrowly dodged an attack from the same creature I just shot before. It landed on the scientist and tore him open in one mighty swipe. I pointed my gun and shot once more. BANG! I got it in the side. BANG! I got it in the leg. BANG! I got it in the head as it let out a scream of pain that echoed. I stood up and reloaded my gun. Looking around I spied the bench the scientist talked about and picked up the Vials and letter. I opened up the letter and read.
Dear Mr Varicose
In reply to your last letter, I’m afraid it is happening here as well. It does not look good. The creatures are acting wildly and are out of control. Plus, as I write this letter, the radar has picked up a large amount of dropships approaching this very place. So I shall be brief. We are going to terminate all workings on the experiment immediately. I hope that this letter reaches you A.S.A.P. before it is too late.
Yours sincerely
Borris Vancouver
I have to cut it off there as I can't exceed more than 2000 letters, or something like that. If you want to see more though I could always E-mail the rest. I like hearing feed-back on things that I've done, good or bad.
