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Ch. 31 The Hunt Begins
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Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 32 Conversation Over a Cigarette
“This was Dr. Milton.” The research lab manager lifted the bloody sheet from the corpse. As an anthropologist, I’d studied and been around a lot of dead bodies, most of them skeletons that had been dead for a long, long time. I wasn’t prepared for the grotesquery that my eyes fell upon under that sheet. The man’s throat had been ripped out, savagely. I managed to not flinch or look away, though. I kept up the image of a professional who saw worse things than this all the time. I wondered how often in the future I might. The manager looked up at X, addressing him as his disguised persona. “What do you think, Mr. M?”“I think it's a good idea you called me in, sir,” X responded in his imitation of how the stereotypical Man in Black spoke, nearly monotone and emotionless, rather than his usual bouncy exuberance. “What can you tell me about other unusual things going on around here or seen around here lately? Have there been any?” X pulled from his jacket a small notebook and began taki
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 31 The Hunt Begins
As I write this to you, dear reader, I’m still at Underdenver hospital, but not as a patient anymore. In a strange twist of fate, I work security here now and am provided, in return, an in-building apartment that I share with X as we strategize our next move. The apartment includes all our basic needs, including food, which comes in the form of free meals in the hospital cafeteria. No hospital on the surface has ever served food of this high quality, I am sure! My mouth would water even now writing to you about the steaks I’ve eaten lately. I think I’m starting to put on a few pounds.It took me a week and a half for the medical staff at the Underdenver hospital to give me their blessing that I was good to go. That might seem like a long time to let vampires run around unchecked. X stopped in to visit me frequently. He assured me that my recovery was not hindering the vampire investigation.“While you are in here, I am doing preliminary work on the streets of Underdenver, Carl. First
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 30 Underdenver
Internal bleeding. That’s what the doctors said happened to me when I passed out on the train getting here to Underdenver. They think the car crash–never a good thing for anyone to experience–was especially not good for someone still recovering from the damage I’d sustained in Dust Bowl. I may be writing to you again from a hospital, dear reader, but at least this hospital in Underdenver is a lot nicer place. The people are a lot nicer and I have a lot more freedom. Nurses or orderlies come and take me out of my room daily, not only for therapy, but just for the sake of getting out. I’m not just left in my room to mentally rot while my body heals. There’s even a social room to hang out with other patients. The next day after my arrival here at this hospital in Underdenver, X came and got me and personally pushed me in a wheelchair into the social room. (They say they’ll let me try to start walking on my own tomorrow.) It wasn’t too crowded. We were able to find a corner with some co
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 29 Finding Liz
The twenty foot by thirty foot office building we were in consisted of one large room, except for a men’s room and a ladies’ room in the back. In hindsight, we should have thought to check those, I suppose. Even though I was “the new guy”, still getting used to life and procedures as a field agent, I felt really dumb when the ladies’ room door swung open. I can only imagine how frustrated with themselves Mont and Mitch felt, veterans that they were. There in the doorway stood Liz. She’d been in the restroom the entire time. As Mont had guessed, she must have used her own Control-issued multi-key to get in. But, then who had re-locked it from the outside, trapping her in here? The sheriff’s department, to keep her out of the way while the Dirt blew in, maybe? But they would have just taken her to jail, wouldn’t they? Liz looked terrible, as if she hadn’t slept in weeks. Her usual demeanor, that of a prima donna corporate manager was gone. At that point, she just looked tired and los
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 28 The Good Rock Mine
Old Man Brooks’s family had leased a nearby mine to the Good Rock Mining Company. The mine had been closed down for the past 12 years, but there were still buildings there, surrounded by security fencing. The security fencing wasn’t hard to get past. Local kids and thrillseekers had already seen to that with wire cutters. We had taken off from Alice’s in the predawn hours when we were least likely to be spotted. We planned to complete the five milehike necessary around sunrise. Alice had offered to lend us her car, but Mont didn’t like the thought of us having it if she wound up needing it. He also didn’t want her car to entangle her with us in the sheriff’s eyes since it hadn’t been proven yet that she was working with us. Alice had also wanted to come with us. Mont denied this request, but it was a very understandable one. She and her fellow townsfolk who wanted to explore and understand the Dirt had been at it their entire lives. For some outsiders to come along and see all the
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 27 The Green Man
Friday night, we stayed in Alice’s basement as we had Thursday night, but there was a new tension in the air. Not that there hadn’t been tension before. After all, we were wanted by the sheriff’s department in a small Arizona town that was under a powerful curse that was due to start having its effects Sunday night at midnight, including bringing to life supernatural threats from the pasts of Agents of Control, including even more Agents of Control on their way as backup. Who knew what kinds of supernatural horrors the backup Agents had been exposed to, if my own colleagues’ stories of giants in Kandahar, ghosts of the dead appearing to the living, and cosmic eldritch cults in Canada were to be believed? And believe them, I did. When we contacted Control to report Liz going AWOL from the group, Mont handled the call. He was second-in-command of the group, which made him in charge with Liz gone. Control instructed us to use Spitfire’s comm equipment to monitor the local police and em
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 26 Alice is Back but Liz is Gone
A few hours later, as Friday’s sunrise was approaching, Liz had another, more detailed call with Control. She relayed to us that Control wanted us, if possible, to hunker down there at Alice’s until backup arrived. If circumstances forced us to move from Alice’s, we were to inform Control of our new whereabouts as soon as possible after we relocated. We risked a few forays upstairs Friday morning for more than just restroom use, but we made our camp in the basement to avoid being seen through upstairs windows. We brought a microwave from the kitchen downstairs along with food from the cabinets and upstairs fridge. Mont and Mitch even found a home game system hooked up to a small TV in a guest bedroom. We guys passed the time Friday gaming and eating. I got to have normal male bonding time with Mitch and Mont as if we were colleagues from a regular, normal, mundane job with normal lives. We laughed and smiled a lot. I realized they were the kind of guys I’d be friends with anyway if
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 25 DUMBs
“Carl, do you know where you are?” X greeted me from the foot of a hospital bed. I blinked my eyes in a panic, wanting them to focus faster, to bring an end to the blurriness of my surroundings. I wanted to rub my eyes, but I realized that my arms, though not strapped down to the hospital bed, were attached to IVs. My right arm had two of them. My left arm had just one. I kept blinking my eyes hard, focusing them without assistance from my hands. As X and his surroundings came into view, I was relieved to see that I was not in the same hospital room as before.It’s not that I couldn’t still be in the same hospital because my extraction experience had been a dream, or returned to the same hospital after recapture, merely moved to a different room, but I could tell the room was very different from before. This room was clearly a single bed room. My other room had been a two-person room in which they just never gave me a roommate. The curtains weren’t plain white. They had a nice desig
Field Team 42: Paranormal Responders Ch. 24 The Train Ride
After what I thought might have been about thirty minutes, a door appeared in the tunnel to our right, metal, obviously reinforced, with a small, lit up keypad right next to it. X steered us to it. He propped me up against the wall for support while he handled the keypad. By that time, I had become so weak that right before we saw the door, I had been about to say that I didn’t know how much further I could go. I noticed that my breath was coming in slight gasps as I leaned on the wall, watching X punch code after code into the keypad.Finally, something worked and the door opened with a loud mechanical hiss. I realized it had been hydraulically sealed. A gush of pressurized air came from the other side. X gently collected me and we walked through.On the other side was a train station. We were obviously still underground, but this station looked far larger, grander, and more fancy than any city’s subway station in the mundane world. Stairways went everywhere, both up and down. Dozens
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