Unleashed_A Science Fiction Horror Adventure by Aaron Bunce

Author:Aaron Bunce [Bunce, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Autumn Arch Publishing
Published: 2019-08-22T06:00:00+00:00

0315 Hours

Voices and chaotic thoughts filled the darkness of Jacoby’s mind, but he wasn’t dreaming. Somehow he knew he was sleeping, but also felt powerless to change it.

Jacoby tried to make sense of the voices – they sounded urgent, desperate, but without clarity or meaning. He felt pain, too. Something was happening to his body – cold and hot mixing together in succinct pinpoints of pain in what he was sure were his arms.

Other noises punctuated the darkness around him, some clear enough through the smothering presence covering his ears, others just distant, jumbled sounds. He heard coughing, sniffling, and retching. Was it him? Was he dying?

The darkness parted suddenly, as if in answer to his unspoken question. He blinked away the blur in time to find the syringe from an auto injector pulling free from his right arm.

Jacoby groaned and struggled to collect his wits, but the room appeared to be different. The glass wall to his right was gone, now replaced by a large, complicated piece of medical equipment.

“…is he ready?” someone asked nearby, their voice muffled by a strange-looking mask. An airline snaked down from the ceiling and into their faceplate. They wore a rubber suit as well, the protective garment merging seamlessly with the mask.

Why are they wearing those suits…? he wondered, but his temples throbbed again and his thoughts scattered.

Jacoby tried to reach out to the closest figure in the suit, to get their attention, only to have a painfully bright bank of overhead lights blaze to life. He pressed his eyes shut and drifted off.

He opened his eyes again and the light was gone. He was in a small, dark space, a clattering noise banging loudly all around him. A twinge bit into his temples and he was sliding from the darkness. The room around him glided out of the fog.

“…antibodies…showing indication of infection,” a man said as Jacoby tried to clear his throat and rouse himself. He inhaled deeply, the stabbing pain almost constantly burning at his temples now.

“…it could be a parasite…brain mass. Take…blood, tissue, and bone marrow…cerebrospinal fluid samples,” the man continued, but he could only seem to grab every other word.

“…alter behavior? Is…dangerous?” a woman asked, her voice stronger and closer.

“We can’t know the true scope…contamination…him. Middle…outbreak…strange but…of our worries. Virus…we don’t understand. It appears to have been isolated…and those in the clinic. The orderly…cardiac failure…autopsy and…tissue analysis.”

Something in Jacoby stirred, a distant glimmer of strength returning. He opened his eyes and fought for clarity. He puckered his lips and sucked in a breath – the strength had been fleeting, his heart pounding weakly in his chest as the predictable pain stabbed into his arm and the cold crept in a moment later.

No…fight it…don’t…sleep. He peeled one eye open just as a long needle slid into his right arm. The black claimed him again.

“Jacoby, can you hear me?” a man asked, his voice quiet but close. He recognized the voice, and when he peeled his eyes open again, found his bed surrounded by what looked like a clear, plastic tent.

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