Bio Melt by Carlton Mellick III

Author:Carlton Mellick III [Mellick III, Carlton]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-06-11T18:00:00+00:00

There were two bodies in the fourth floor waiting room where I’d left the others, but they weren’t anyone I knew. They were both soldiers in uniform, gas masks over their faces, lying in puddles of their own blood. Both of them had their stomachs ripped out.

“Did a rescue party come while I was out?” I asked the empty room.

My voice was alien and deep. It sounded almost electronic. Something was seriously wrong with my vocal cords, some kind of a mutation. That wasn’t going to help anyone believe I was actually human.

“What the hell happened here?”

I went to the soldiers and touched them. Their skin was cold. They’d been dead for a long time. This had to have happened days ago. I wondered how long I’d been asleep. Something had to have gone wrong with my bonding process. I’d been out much longer than I realized.

Gunshots in the distance, the same as the ones I heard when I awoke in the bonding machine. I looked out the doorway. There must have been more soldiers out there somewhere, in one of the distant buildings.

I wondered if the others had been rescued already. Perhaps these soldiers came with a larger group. These two didn’t make it, but their friends might have succeeded in taking Mike, Stewart, and Gary to safety. I wasn’t sure if that idea made me happy or worried—I would be thankful that the others were safe, but if the rescue party had already come and gone, then nobody was going to return to rescue me. I’d be stuck here for who knew how long. But then again, it was possible that my friends were dead long before the soldiers arrived. Or the soldiers came and got themselves killed before they could help anyone. Or the soldiers could have had orders to kill everyone on sight.

I decided I’d have to keep searching. If nobody else was there, I figured I’d try signaling whoever was firing those gunshots from the buildings across the lake.

Searching the soldiers for anything I could use—they were out of ammunition in both their rifles and sidearms, so I left their weapons. I took a gas mask, a water bottle, and a flashlight. But what I really needed was their clothes.

I reached down to undo the tallest soldier’s belt, but it was stuck, a dried rope of intestine wrapped and knotted around it. I knelt down, my bare knees breaking open the film of blood on the floor. With a better grip, I loosened the intestine’s grip on the buckle and unfastened the belt. But as I tried to pull off the pants, the material stuck to the soldier’s flesh, like they were melted to him. I pulled using all my strength, but they wouldn’t budge.

Something moved beneath my fingers. The soldier’s belly bulged and rolled. I let go of the pants and leaned back, realizing there was something writhing beneath his skin. As I got to my feet, a lobster-sized creature crawled out of the soldier’s belly, hissing and snapping at me.

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