Chapter 3

HOURS LATER-SCIENCE LAB

Adam was now unconscious and placed into the imaging room for further monitoring.

"Doctor Eva!" A lady ran in. He expression packed with worries.

"Tell me" Eva said. Her eyes scanning the lady's face.

"The... the other subjects" She stammered. "They are also having strange reactions in different parts of their body"

Eva gasped. "oh no" She fell back to her sit. "Charles..." She took a deep breath, holding her chest.

"Calm down and breathe Eva. We'll sort these out" he said to her before facing the Lady. "Make sure the test rooms are all properly secured"

"Okay Doc" she nodded and rushed off.

Doctor Charles turned to face Eva again but his eyes fell on the strange movements going on, on the screen. "What's that?" he muttered, drawing Eva's attention immediately.

"Doctor Eva! you need to see this!" The radiologist called from inside.

Immediately, the scan was turned off and Eva rushed into the imaging room with Doctor Charles behind her. As she approached Adam's body, her eyes almost fell out of its socket.

"Oh my God" Doctor Charles gasped and covered his mouth to avoid throwing up at the sight.

"Adam?..." Eva muttered in a shaky voice as she stepped closer.

"I don't think you should go close, Doctor Eva" the radiologist warned and Eva stopped walking.

Her eyes were still wide from shock as she stared at him. "What...What's happening to him?" she asked in a whisper.

Adam was still unconscious but his arm mutation seemed to have spread to his left legs and his face. His face looked like a demon drawn out of an anime. The long spikes on his hands grew to his legs making it look just as hideous as his arm. His face was unrecognisable, he looked totally different from anything they had ever seen.

Eva held her breath and summoned alot of courage. Not letting her emotions keep her from doing what she was supposed to.

"Move him into a containment chamber immediately." She managed to speak.

"On it" Doctor Charles responded and Eva rushed out of the imaging room.

She rushed into her office and shut the door, locking her self inside and then she broke down completely. She sat on the floor and released the tears she had been holding up, crying like a child.

"Adam....oh my baby" she muttered in her cries.

"I'm so sorry, forgive me" she cried louder, folding her self up.

After several minutes of tears. She finally raised her head up from her legs and sniffed. Wiping her tears away with her hand then she slowly stood up.

"Eva, this is the time when Adam would want you to put on your big girl pants and make him proud" she sniffed and made to move but she staggered.

"Ahh" she winced and held her head. Pain struck her head and she staggered back.

Then the security alarm went off loudly. Without thinking twice, totally ignoring the pain in her head, Eva dashed out of her office.

As she ran down the hallway, her heart pounded on her chest. The hallway was empty and the red light from the alarm flashed across her face.

Then someone rushed out of a corner and bumped into her.

"Ahhh!" the person shouted.

"Charles, calm down it's just me!"

"Doctor Eva?" he muttered after realising.

"What's going on? why did the alarm go off?" she asked him.

But before he could answer, a figure appeared down the opposite hallway and Charles Immediately pulled her into a corner.

As she tried to speak, he blocked her mouth with his palm and gestured her to keep quiet before releasing her.

Eva peeked down the hallway, it wasn't a human, it seemed to be one of the test subjects and now it was a full mutant. She used her arm to palm her mouth to avoid gasping out.

The creature looked hideous, it's posture was bent. It had just an eye and one ear which were placed abnormally on its head. The eye was on the side and it's ear in front.

The mutant started taking slow uneven steps towards their direction.

"please please don't come here, please" Doctor Charles prayed in his mind and he folded on his spot.

As the creature approached them, Eva held her breath. Luckily, it's eye was on the other side and so it slowly walked past them without seeing them. They waited quietly for it to disappear down the hallway before coming out.

Eva released the breath she had been holding. Doctor Charles grabbed her hand immediately and pulled her down the hallway, rushing back into her office and shutting the door quietly behind them, locking them in.

"Now, please, tell me what the hell is going on!" she demanded. Why is one of our test subjects walking around the facility like that?"

He dragged a hand down his face in frustration before facing Eva. "Everything went wrong after you left the imaging room."

"What do you mean?" she frowned.

"One of the test subjects escaped from its containment chamber. We don't know how it happened, but somehow, it managed to break free."

"And nobody stopped it?" Eva's mouth remained wide open.

We tried!" he snapped, then immediately lowered his voice. "But it was too strong. It attacked the other subjects and somehow managed to release them from their chambers. Before we could contain the situation, they had already spread throughout the facility."

Eva stared at him in disbelief. "Oh my God..." she mumbled.

"The doctor attending to them was the first to die. One of the creatures tore him apart before anyone could do anything." Doctor Charles swallowed hard. "The others started running for their lives. Some of us tried to secure the exits, but..." He paused, shaking his head.

"But what?" Eva pressed.

Charles looked at her, and the fear in his eyes told her everything she needed to know. "We lost control of the situation."

Eva slowly sat on the floor. Her head resting in her folded legs as her hands running through her hair like she was about to go nuts. The she gasped and threw her head up. "Adam!?" she asked.

"I'm sorry Eva, I have no idea. I left him in his containment when I heard the alarm." Doctor Charles avoided Eva's eyes as he spoke.

Eva palmed her face and remained quiet for a while. Then suddenly, she stood up and wiped the little tears threatening to fall out of her eyes. "We need to get out of here" she muttered to Doctor Charles who just looked at her and nodded in agreement.

Eva turned towards her desk and grabbed a metal base ball bat that was beside it. She gripped the bat firmly and tested its weight in her hands.

Doctor Charles stared at her. "Are you seriously planning to fight those things with that?"

Eva glanced at him with a brow raised. "Do you have a better idea?"

He opened his mouth, then closed it. "Just stay close to me," he muttered.

Without waiting for him, Eva stepped forward and quietly unlocked the door, stepping out of the office.