Carrion Scourge: Plague Of Monsters by Jonah Buck

Author:Jonah Buck [Buck, Jonah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-03-04T22:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

THE SOURCE

The meteor was a gigantic, potato-shaped hunk of blackened rock. Almost the entire surface was covered in dark scorch marks from its entry into the atmosphere. The only exceptions were some places where pieces had obviously been chipped off by the scientists here for further study. Overall, the giant hunk of space debris was perhaps the length of two transport trucks and as tall as a two-story building. The entire meteor had been placed in a giant glass structure, separating it from the rest of the building.

There were workstations and equipment lining the walls. Overturned chairs and binders swept from desks lay on the floor. More papers lay on the desks themselves, along with black and white photographs of wives and families. There were various knickknacks and diplomas hanging on the walls. This place had been the heart of the station before everything went to hell.

Denise wondered what the French government had told all those wives and children in the various photos. Their loved ones fell down a frozen crevasse? Gas leak at the science quarters? Transport ship sank in icy waters with no survivors? She was guessing that they hadn’t been told their loved ones had been devoured by undead colleagues and bug-eyed monsters from outer space. Maybe they hadn’t been told anything at all yet. As far as anyone in the outside world knew, the French research stations down here were humming along just fine.

Denise could now report that things were, in fact, not fine.

“They must have winched the meteor out of its impact site and then built the facility around it,” Metrodora said. “I don’t see any other way they could have gotten it in here.”

“Most of its mass probably burned up when it hit the atmosphere. It was a lot bigger when it was just floating along in space. This is just what’s left,” Cornelia said.

“So, this is what the monsters hitched a ride on?” Fletch asked.

Denise looked the meteor over. It was big, but it wasn’t enormous. There was no way that the dragon creature that attacked the snow tractor could have ridden around inside this thing. Nor could it have simply attached itself to the outside and surfed through the atmosphere. As Cornelia pointed out, the temperatures would have been immense. Anything on the outside would be charcoal in a matter of seconds.

“I don’t see how,” Cornelia said. “I mean, the only safe place on this thing when it entered the atmosphere would have been the interior, deep toward the center. Maybe the slugs could make the journey safely in there. I don’t think the creatures that killed Poole would fit, though.”

“Do you have another explanation about where they came from?” Metrodora asked.

“Hell,” Fletch suggested.

“Maybe the meteor opened up a subterranean cave system or something. Maybe they’re not from space at all. I have no idea, and I’m not about to ask them,” Cornelia said.

“I think they probably have to be from space,” Denise said. “Otherwise, why bother dragging the meteor up here in the first place? They were obviously studying it before everything went wrong.

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