The Infested Building: First Awakening|1

The infested building:

First Awakening.

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By: prettycoolguy4474

Subject 4474 had awoken from being in cryo storage for 27 years after the outbreak of a infection that was named "the hivemind" started quickly spreading; the hivemind makes anybody who's infected with it not have control of their own body, the infection controls their body. As subject 4474 stumbled out the cryo tube he had been placed in, he found himself to be looking at a bulletin board that had a note that read:
"Dear subject, if you are seeing this it means you're likely the last one left; they were hoarding the door as I was writing this, so I dont have much time left. Under the table is a metal pipe- use it to defend yourself."
         As he finished reading it, he looked under the table, located underneath the bulletin board, and found a metal pipe. it was slightly dented but it would work for now.
         As Subject 4474 walked through the halls, they noticed how bleak it is here: white tiled walls with a green stripe going horizontally down the hall, the gray tiled floor, and the white paneled roof with buzzing lights. But soon the metal mechanical sliding door opened in front of them, as a person stumbled out; they looked normal, until he saw their face which had a huge rash on it. The person's eyes were fully white; Before he could find out the answer, the person lunged at him- in a panic he swung the metal rod. The person's skull made a loud cracking noise as they hit the wall; not moving. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued walking. He would've most likely said something; but due to the time he spent in cryo storage he forgot he can speak.
         After staring at the body for a moment, he continued to walk down the hall. Once the door slid open he found himself in a dark hallway with a single window, looking out the city was a mess: orange colored sky, broken or collapsing buildings, and many infected people roaming about. He realized how high up he was, and would need to take the long way down as he soon figured out the elevator was not functioning. Though he soon found the stairs, as he walked down the stairs one of the steps broke and luckily, he managed to grab onto a vent. As he grasped the vent, the metal pipe slipped out his hand and he watched it plummet down the stairwell. Pulling himself up into it, the vents were oddly large; able to fit a person inside them who can stand upright and walk around in them-- likely for maintenance purposes. As he walked through, he noticed a separate entrance located inside the vents that appeared to lead into a room. Peering inside, he got spooked by a person dressed in a hazmat suit with a gray lab coat on and no helmet.
         "Woah! Jesus Christ, you scared me!" the person said, breathing quickly. Subject 4474 slowly untensed his body, now staring at him. "Who are you anyway? You seem like a subject here. are you?" he asked, but subject 4474 just cocked his head at the man. "Hello? Are you gonna speak?" the man said, but still received no response. "...not much of a talker, eh? I can tell you've been in cryo storage for a hot moment." the man said, staring at subject 4474 in the eyes. Subject 4474 now looked down at himself, his gray fabric clothes and his black boots weren't very nice looking; they had a few cuts and rips on them but he thought they would. "You seem a bit defenseless, here." The man threw over a sheathed machete to Subject 4474 "take it, I can protect myself just fine." He opened a hatch above himself and climbed out of sight. Subject 4474 was unbothered by it so he just continued walking through the vents. His next encounter was worrying, he saw a tall and skinny creature that wasn't like any other infected; it was bent over a corpse of an infected before it looked at subject 4474, its face having a large mouth on it. Moments later, it lunged at subject 4474; he managed to dodge out the way and start to run away, it started to chase after him. Subject 4474 had to make sure he wouldn't get caught, running through the vents; then he closed the vent behind him as there was a jammed vent in front of him. Suddenly a panel of the vent above him bursted open, the hazmat guy showing his face: "hey! Looks like you need some help, here; have a crowbar and pry open!" subject 4474 did exactly that, he now constantly needed to close the vent behind him just so he could pry open the next one, yet soon he was in a large room with a huge fan at the bottom; and the catwalk was broken up ahead, so he ran with all his strength...
         He felt nothing below him.
As he opened his eyes, he found his shirt collar being the only thing holding him onto the other side of the catwalk; he managed to pull himself up, and as he got up he heard a screech from the creature. As subject 4474 turned he saw the creature lunge at him, he reeled his fist back before punching it in the torso; it fell down while screeching. The only sound it last made was the sound of it dying painfully, subject 4474 sighed in relief, and partial fatigue, about escaping...
         Until the catwalk broke beneath him.
Subject 4474 found himself on a flat steel beam that was a few feet above the giant fan, his heart started to race as soon has he saw the blood dripping from his head; the steel beam creaked, making subject 4474 get up; he saw a door at the other side, so a few seconds after he had gotten through the door the steel beam collapsed. The room had a ladder going down, and once he climbed down he found himself in a lab place. Instead of the walls being white with a green stripe it was a red wall with white tiles at the bottom of it, with a white paneled ceiling and black marble floor.
         And he heard a sound behind him.