Destruction by Anthony Milhorn

Author:Anthony Milhorn [Milhorn, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

The manufacturing lab was scorching hot. The air was hard to breathe, thick with smoke and embers. Those creatures, in their fury, with their battle with the now very dead guards, had damaged the electrical room beyond repair and the fall out had ripped open electrical mains. Now, those sparking mains had lit the room itself on fire. Even though it was several doors down, the heat from it was already staggering.

Madison's brain was also burning.

It was on fire, both literally with fever and mentally speaking, it blazed hotter than the sun it seemed. His vision was beginning to blur on the edges, and he noticed he was starting to feel a horrible burning sensation creep up his now fur-covered legs. Whatever Rakinos had done to him, whatever damage it had done, it was killing him faster now than ever before.

All of their calculations, all their tests, and planning had been for nothing, and Madison knew that now as he tapped keys furiously, encoding a very destructive algorithm into the system. It wasn’t hard for him; he had helped design the system itself. Something had gone desperately wrong with all their particular plans, not only morally but also scientifically. The best course of action was to wipe the slate clean.

The DNA they were working with, altering and changing it had been beyond their comprehension. It had been something more than they were ever prepared to handle, and they had been fools to think they could master its secrets with a little bit of pharmacology.

Sweat ran into his eyes from his forehead, dampening the patchy brown and gray splotched fur that now lined his formerly human head and it ran down his muzzle and dripped onto the keyboard. A drop of blood soon followed, splashing with a thick wet plop.

Madison ran the back of his palm over his face, and it came away streaked with red.

His eyes were bleeding red tears.

As he contemplated that for a moment, a fierce itch rose in his throat and he coughed, unable to help himself; the sound was a loud, hoarse barking that he had never heard a human being make in his life and when he opened his eyes, he saw that he had, in fact, coughed up a large amount of blood. The monitor before him was splattered with scarlet.

A bolt of fear ran through him. Not yet. He wasn't finished. He knew he would die, as he should for allowing himself to become a pawn, an instrument, for allowing himself to be a fool for greed and power. The price, he thought, thinking of his estranged family, the price was far too high but the bill was due, and he would pay it in full.

Turning, he saw the gas line that ran to the chemical vats. A solid red pipe a few inches around made of thick metal. There was a valve on it, about halfway up the pipe itself. If he could find a way to break that valve off,

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