1 Chapter One

12:00 AM (December 21st 2020)

Subject: Dennis Rogers

Subject Sexuality: bisexual

Criminal activity: Robbery and assault

Test subject number: #24 and last subject

Location: Test bunker in LA

(No ones POV)

"All right people let's get this moving, we dont have a lot of time before the infection hits us" Said the leading scientist. He passed his clipboard around to one of his associates. "Test subject #24 is sedated and restrained in case of failure, we will now begin the procedure." The scientist then grabs a needle off of a metal table full of different utensils. He rubs the spot of injection with alcohol and then proceeds to plunge the needle into the subject's arm.

Seconds turned into minutes as the scientists waited for something, anything. Just when they thought this was another failure, the subjects veins began illuminating with a dark red molten color. The scientists watched in awe as the subjects body twisted and turned, eventually returning to its original form. The subjects body glowed brighter with each passing second.

The scientists forgot the world around them existed until their attentions were ripped back to the present as an alarm went off. Over the speakers littering each room, an urgent sounding voice was heard. "The infected have breached, I repeat the infected have breac- wait no, what're you doing?! NO HELP ME-", the com was cut short, the dying screams of whoever was on that intercom being heard at the very last second.

The scientists drew their attention back to the task at hand. They tried to touch the subject but his body was extremely hot and burned their fingers. They couldn't lift or put him on anything to roll him out. It was too late as it seems, the infected have made their way inside of the testing room. The murderous growls and groans of the infected filled the room, as well as the screams of scientists getting ripped into by the monsters. One by one the infected dropped each scientist in that room, they marched up to the subject hungrily and dared to touch him. A sound released, scarring them back and making them run off different ways in search for different food and pray.

The subjects body stopped going crazy after a few hours, and he went back into s sleeping state.

(Dennis's POV) (A day after the siege)

With a groan I sat up, my head throbbing painfully. I have no idea or recollection of what happened, the last thing about this place I can even remember was getting put to sleep by a guy in a doctor's mask with a needle. Anything after that was just blank.

I pushed my legs over the table I was laying on, I stepped down onto the ground and my legs felt wobbly, I immediately fell down to the floor with a huff. How long was I out for? I can vaguely remember hearing screams of people and that's it. My body felt so weird, as if my guts would fall out of we with one wrong step. I finally gained some strength in my legs.

I made my way out into the hallways, seeing narrow passages leading who knows where. I immediately slap my hands over my nose and gagged. The entire place smelt heavily of decomposing and rotting corpses. I entered the room I came from and looked around for anything use against the zombies. I found what's seems to be a combat knife and a pistol with its respected cartridge of ammo. I walked back out into the hallway and began making my way down a passageway.

I passed tons of doors, checking only some to see they lead no where. I had been lucky to not encounter any of those monsters. Speaking of the devil, I heard desperate and hungry sounding groans coming from a door ahead of me. The sign had exit overtop so I knew I would have to fight them in order to get outside.

I began walking hesitantly towards the door, ignoring the growing shadow from another doorway next to me. Immediately I jumped back as the door was ripped open by one of those freaks. I grunted as I landed on the ground abruptly, the zombie running closer and closer to me.

I looked around desperately for my gun or knife, my heart dropping when I found out they were both scattered a ways away from me. My mind filled with dread but my attention was ripped back to reality when the zombie made itself known again. It stood only inches away from seemingly starring me down.

It then wasted no time lunging at me, I screamed and held my hands in front of me. I waited for impact but it never came.. I opened my eyes to see that what once was my arm turned into a tendril and impaled the monster in its head.

"Holy shit!!" I screamed aloud. the creature fell back, it body now lifeless. The tendril turned back into my arm, the veins growing a molten red before returning to normal. I looked at my arm in awe, could I do that again?

I have to remember the feeling, it felt like a rush of power going through my body. I focused the feeling as best as I could, but all I could manage were finger blades by the looks of it. This will have to do, with my other arm I hurried up and grabbed my pistol as well as my knife and ran towards the door. Ready to kill these monsters dead.

Reaching the door I pulled it open, running towards the monsters while they weren't paying attention. I drove my clawed hand into the one of monsters skull and jumped back when blood squirted on me. "Grossss" I gagged but dodged and hit the floor as the other monster tried to attack me. I hurried and jumped up, flaring my arm around rapid and wildly. I sliced through the monsters arm completely, surprising myself as I did not expect the blades that were my fingers to be that sharp. I pushed my bladed fingers together and drove them into the monsters head with a low grunt. The monster stopped groaning and growling as it fell to the floor, lifeless.

I looked at the mess I made. I killed these two creatures..It was self defense yes, but I'd never kill anything before.. I sighed and looked towards the exit door. I made my way over and opened it up. I saw that there was an elevator and went towards it pressing a button that said 'up'. Doors closed on the platform and I had begin rising upwards to who knows where. I just need to survive and leave. My clawed hands turned normal when I wasn't paying attention, I wonder what else I could do. I guess we'll just have to find out.