The Unexpected Guests

"Miss Hailey... We've got the results from the third subject!" I replied to one of my assistants. "Sure just place it on the reading table. Any more updates?" The assistant replied. "Nothing at the moment Ma'am," I replied. "I guess nothing special is happening right now. Let me know if things come up ok?" The assistant nodded and headed back to the research room. I carefully open the folder containing the results of the third test. As I open the folder, my brother called me from the office phone... "Hailey, I'm currently at the field right now but I've received word from our eyes that a group of tangos is approaching your laboratory. Around 10 people with SMGs, people are coming for that mixture of yours Hailey. I've also got word that you can engage this threat with the utmost force you have available. Good luck out there Hailey and watch your back. *click*" I place down

the folder and headed for the PA room. "Everyone meet me at the meeting room ASAP. Stop everything this is urgent. I repeat everyone in the meeting room now." As I wait in the meeting room I prepared the weapons that I'll be bringing. This is the first time I've got this kind of situation... In the Kirkstoic family, everyone is permitted to have at least engaged in military training since our family has a history of outsiders trying to attack our facilities. And I've got one of the best accuracy results during the gun training just below from my brother. SAS type of training we've been through and every employee is also trained with the same training we've gone through though to a lesser intent. As everyone enters the meeting room I began to debrief them. "Everyone's here? Ok, let's begin. A few minutes ago I've received word from my Brother, you guys know my Brother right?

Okay, He gave me word that a group of outsiders armed with SMGs with vests. Their number is around 10, standard defense procedures is a go. P90's with light body armor and M9's. Five of us will be at the surface as per the usual standard procedure. May God help us in this defense let go." We're a group of 8 people, 2 guards and 6 scientists including me and Tom. Tom chose to stay under while I and the other four headed for the abandoned surface building just above from our current Lab. We've moved underground since I gave the word that we'll be doing research full time.

We placed ourselves on the surface near the entrance of the building. I've disabled the electricity in this part of the building and we're gonna fight in the dark I guess. We waited and waited until we heard footsteps and people talking. We'll engage them if its time. I began the first shot and took two of them and that began a widespread shoot-out. Bullets flying left and right, up and down. They're good but they lack proper communication. As cartridges litter, the floor all over the rain of bullets never stopped. We instead split up and took care of them one-by-one till only their team leader is the last remaining. "I wanna know why you went through everything here just to get me. You'll talk eventually bring him in the 'Room' he'll be talking and spilling everything that he knows but for now let him sleep." I injected him with a special sleeping medicine that will last for two days. For now, we headed back to work in my lab and I can finally read the report they gave to me. "Ma'am great work out there, I also confirmed that our area is clear outside," I replied. "Great job everyone. But now that the intruder has been taken care of time to go back to our regular working times. I'll be in my office reading the report just enter the room if you got any questions. Tom can you call the cleanup crew for the mess upstairs." Tom nodded and left while carrying paperwork. I enter my room with the report in my hand, I said to myself. 'Here goes nothing.' I breathe deeply to prepare myself for the results that might break my soul since this will determine if my best friend is alive or not from the test. As I read the words in the report I saw this while I was reading in between the lines... 'Test subject died from the test... I'm so sorry Miss Hailey, but she gave results that surprised us. We've found out how to stabilize the mixture. I repeat the mixture can now be stabilized. It's both a failure and a success.' As tears fall from my face and hearing that she did give the results we've been wanting all this time. I mourn for a while in my office, it took me two hours to mourn but that stopped as I heard someone knock in my room and said. "Ma'am this is Tom I've got something to say. Are you in right now?" I replied. "You can enter Tom," Tom replied. "Oh, I'm sorry that you're in the middle of... That. I'm so sorry but Ma'am the framework of the medicine is now prepared and ready for further study. I'm sorry that Irina died for this I tried to stop her when she appeared for volunteering before. But she forced me to include her in the testing. I remember what she said to me while I was persuading her to back down. 'Tom, Hailey's out there waiting for a test subject I'm telling you I want in I'm serious Tom. Can you please just listen to me, Tom? I'm one of the people that abandoned Hailey during Golden Week. But I knew that I was foolish and ended up getting infected by the plague. This was karma for me for abandoning a friend that's been with me ever since we've first met during elementary. Tom, I gotta have to make up for the time I lost Tom you got to understand, please it's the only thing I have left.' I don't have a choice but to pick her. I'll hold the responsibility for her death..."

After hearing those words from Tom and hearing that Irina really did agree to do this. I felt that I really did place myself away from my friends that they left because of Golden Week. And how I changed over the one week. It hurts to hear that Irina exchanged her life just to catch up with me. I would call her selfish right now but not today because she gave us a breakthrough to stabilize the mixture for further enhancements and changes. I really am gonna go through a lot of bodies I didn't expect that history would repeat again. But for now, I hope that it won't end in a secret war like my great-great-grandfather. I guess I'll be busy now. "Tom, can you get my medical tools for special occasions? I would like to take a word from our guest in the other room." If I gotta change the world then I would take it by the neck and change it how I want it to be.