Elite Survival

Introduction: The Start Of It All

  "Sir, are we sure Patient Zero is a hundred percent stable before we allow you in there?" Asked the curious but anxious engineer known as Danny, one of the newest recruits in the laboratory.

"We've had our team check it over twenty five times in the last two hours, they've confirmed it is safe for me to approach him. If in a rare chance that something does go wrong, the soldiers guarding his containment unit will sedate him with darts, relax." General Eiling reassured the young scientist, patting his shoulder gently.

"Well, if you say so, General Eiling. Just step onto that platform right there and you'll be given a suit to project you from the odor it gives out." Danny instructed, pointing towards an open door to his right. The General gave a nod and make his way over to the door, stepping onto the elevated platform.

The door closed behind him, leaving him in the dim, round room, about a minute later a compartment slid open before him to reveal a grey and white suit with a gas mask, which he quickly put on. A few seconds later, he felt the floor move under him, and he was sent down deep into the ground. He expected that he went under about two hundred feet when the elevator stopped moving, and two doors slid open in front of him to reveal a bright, white room filled with ten soldiers who also wore gas masks, all saluting to him in perfect stance. He happily saluted back.

"At ease my friends." He said, watching as they relaxed and placed their hands behind their backs, their full attention on him.

"I am glad you all have taken the duty of keeping guard over Patient Zero, it is an honor to work with all of you men and women. America salutes you, Soldiers." The General stated proudly, giving a wide smile at he gave a salute to them all.

"Now, you will all make sure that Patient Zero maintains a calm and gentle behavior when I am in there, be on alert. Open the door please, Professor Evans." General Eiling called loudly, looking up to his left about ten feet into a room with a glass wall, where a woman with jet black hair in a tight bun stood with a clip board, about fifteen or so more scientists or engineers stood behind her.

"Yes, Sir." She replied, walking over to a holographic keyboard in front of the window. Professor Evans typed in a code, then stepped back a moment later as the door opened before the General.

Without another word, General Eiling stepped inside, the soldiers following him inside.

Inside the medium sized room stood a tall, pale figure strapped to a table tilted about ninety degrees towards them. It was a male with black eyes, purple and blue veins that showed clearly all over his body. He stared straight at them, his chest moving up and down every few minutes as if he felt the need to breath only if he felt like it. He has a muscular body that looked as if he had been put on steroids.

"He is unable to speak at the moment due to side effects of medicine we give him every two hours, just letting you know before you speak with him. His way of responding back is by nodding and sometimes grunting." Professor Evans said through a speaker in the room.

"Hello Patient Zero, are you feeling okay today?" General Eiling asked, slowly walking over to the still creature.

Expecting a nod or grunt back, he waited a few minutes before Patient Zero nodded his head from side to side.

"Oh, are you in pain?" He asked gently, seeing the pale experiment avert his eyes towards the ground.

Patient Zero went extremely still once again, after fifteen or so minutes of not responding back, the General decided that maybe he'd come back later and try again. Turning around, he was about to order all the soldiers to leave with him until he heard a loud ripping noise behind him. Whipping around, he saw Patient Zero ripping all bounds restricting his movement, he threw all leather straps and metal chains at a nearby table, shattering all beakers and test tubes set up on it. Turning back towards the General, he began running at him full speed without a second thought.

"FIRE!" General Eiling yelled without hesitation, a split second later seeing darts fly rapidly towards the pale creature.

Grabbing the metal table that had held the tubes and beakers a moment before, he used it as a shield and threw it at them, knocking them all over. They all tumbled into a pile, one soldier grabbed a radio and began yelling into it.

"CODE RED, CODE RED! PATIENT ZERO HAS GONE ROGUE AND IS ATTACKING, SEND BACKUP NOW!" The man yelled, panic clear in his voice as he helped up his comrades, while a few were knocked unconscious or bleeding heavily. But, helping his fellow soldiers was no longer a worry as Patient Zero crushed them all against a nearby wall, loud screams filling the room as everyone took their last breath.

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Turning away from the bloody mess, Patient Zero ran out the room and into the elevator shaft, where the elevator was now gone from sight. The scientists and engineers who General Eiling was talking to earlier had run off, no longer in that room in the wall. Patient Zero then gave a giant leap, wall jumping up the elevator shaft until he reached the top, where a hundred or so soldiers stood positioned, waiting with all guns aimed at him. Giving a loud roar, he charged. All guns fired, but he had leaped high into the air into the middle of the crowd, where he began throwing them and smacking them against the wall with loud yells of pain as bullets tore his flesh. Only becoming angered more, he grabbed a nearby cart filled with a bright, glowing liquid and threw it. It all spilled on the floor quickly, making it's way to more than half the soldiers and making them scream in agony as the green substance began melting their limbs or severely burning them to the point of passing out. Taking his chance of running, Patient Zero ripped the exit door off its hinges and ran out into the bright, sunny day. Releasing the infection to the world.