This choice: Use Capt. Sanchez as a saboteur • Go Back...Chapter #5Use Capt. Sanchez as a saboteur by: Seuzz   You are much calmer by now, and though you have nothing like a total command of Captain Sanchez's mind, you feel you're have a sufficient grip that you can use his body to go wherever you want. So you very quietly rise from his desk and exit the office, heading for Building A-6.
It's not far, as it happens, and the soldier on duty salutes you smartly as you go in. This is the largest building on the base, and it is a byzantine mess of spare parts, shelves, partitions, and improvised office and work space. You have to pause on occasion and search the captain's mind for where to go, but it still doesn't take long to make your way back to the small storeroom where the spare compound is locked away. Fortunately, you have possessed one of the three people who have a key. Inside, you find the stuff sitting in a glass container on a work bench.
You've just picked it up and are trying to think of where you can find a storm sewer or some other place you can dump it, when you hear footsteps. You start guiltily, and the bottle slips from your hands. The glass shatters, some of the SX-2 splashes on your leg, and everything goes white.
Aw, shit, not again, are the last coherent words you think before you are engulfed by a maelstrom of heat and color.
* * * * *
There are flames everywhere, and you can hardly see through the waves of intense heat that distort your vision; your only thought, as you had before, is to run very fast and very far. Before? you think. When was 'before'? Oh yes, yesterday afternoon when you were snooping around the base. You had caught only a glimpse of the blue figure before it disappeared, and have been kicking yourself ever since that you didn't try to tackle it.
You pause. Wait, tackle who? Myself? You were on your way to the recreation hall when you saw the explosion and sprinted over to help quell the flames, and you didn't stop sprinting until you were up in the park. After that came the wolf and ...
You are in an open area, but the roar of the fire is still all around you. You can't move, though; your mind is paralyzed by confusion. You look down at your hands. They have a human form, but are blue and semi-transparent. This was what they looked like before; but you only saw them for an instant before Lord and bunch of fire fighters came up and ordered you start running out a hose. Except you were off the base by that point: scared, confused, and you didn't see them put out the fire. But you were there, and helped fight the flames for nearly an hour ...
It comes to you that you are David Johnson, a high school student who was changed in an chemical accident. You are Eric Sanchez, a decorated captain and member of the team charged with investigating SX-2. You are both, but ...
Your legs collapse beneath you, and it's with feelings of both horror and familiarity that find yourself losing all shape and falling into a pile of viscous, iridescent blue. You feel heavier than you felt before, but it also feels like a completely new experience for you. But who is this happening to?  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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