The Fifth Survivor - Epsiode 1 Read online

  Entering the shaft he finds himself on top of the elevator and opens the panel above him. A guard is inside the elevator and George comes down to surprise him.

  “Hey, who are you? What are you doing here…” The guard says before he is knocked out by George.

  “Nothing, just a curious journalist, that’s all.” He replies.

  Hitting the button to the top floor, the elevator heads up, and the door opens when it reaches the top floor. After the door opens, a couple of hazmat guards spot him close to the elevator and try to approach him. However, he quickly pulls out his dart gun and shoots the guards before they can react.

  Darts: 8

  After taking the two guards out he heads into a room on the top floor of the building. When he enters the room, capsules can be seen. The capsules contain plants, sharks, and lizards.

  “Why do they have frozen sharks here? Why are they trying to accomplish here?” He says before he spots a document.

  Instructions for testing life forms.

  First make sure that the life form remains dead before applying the “Raven Hawk” substance. After about an hour, the body temperature should increase and the life form should begin to “resurrect”. Once the life form begins to show some form of life, take the life form to the appropriate area.

  For Plants – To the cultivation room.

  For Lizards – To the cages on the lower levels.

  For Sharks – Leave them in the water in the reservoirs.

  Hopefully the Raven Hawk will lead us to the next medical breakthrough!

  The document ends at that point. He decides to take pictures of what he sees and the document with him.

  “I think I need to revisit that door and try to see if I can hotwire the card reader. That basement is bound to be full of goodies!” He says as he decides to head back to the main hallway.

  As soon as he gets back onto the elevator, he hears the horn indicating that it’s breakfast time. All of the guards head out of the building giving George a huge opening to infiltrate the deep parts of the building.

  As he approaches the main hallway, an alarm goes off. Perhaps a guard spotted the downed bodies and rung the alarm as a precaution. However, George can’t take any chances and has to make sure he isn’t unmasked.

  “Crap the alarm! I better get the hell out of here before I become toast.” He says heading out of the building.

  Objectives 2 and 3 – Failed

  Objectives finetuned!

  New Objective – Escape from the facility, use whatever means necessary.

  A guard approaches him ready to shoot him, but he shoots him with his D5K that he picked up. More guards approach him and he kills them all.

  Picked up 45 Bullets.

  D5K Ammo: 55

  The alarm horns go off and a general alarm goes out.

  “Attention! An intruder has been spotted, deadly force is allowed. However, if we can capture him alive it would be best.” The loudspeaker announces.

  He keeps going as he runs up the hill. More guards approach him and begin to shoot at him. He runs as fast as he can as the bullets hit the metal and the concrete guard towers.

  “Hit the intruder!” A guard yells.

  He is able to see the gate and begins to climb as fast as he can. The guards continue to give chase as they see he has jumped the gate. They follow and hunt for him in the forest. The three guards are unable to find him in the forest. When they get deeper into the forest, George ambushes them and kills them all with his sub-machine gun.

  It’s eight o’clock at the park is still empty, so nobody will be the wiser that there was an intruder. He heads towards Lower Highland and runs toward his Mustang. George drops the sub-machine gun on the floor to dump evidence he was there. Once he gets into his car, he guns it out of the area before the guards continue to give chase.

  Objective 5 Complete!

  Mission Complete!

  Once he gets to Jamaica Ave. and Jerome St. he begins to calm down and drive more casually. He takes off his mask to avoid any suspicion and heads home.

  Chapter 3

  He begins to take off his mask and within five to ten minutes he is back home. When he gets home, he takes off his stealth suit and relaxes. After an hour passes by, he calls his brother to see how he’s doing. When his brother picks up, he decides whether he should tell him what he found in the construction site.

  What should George tell Harry?

  1. Tell him the truth.

  2. Just say hi.

  You have chosen option #1.

  George decides that he can trust his brother and decides to talk to him about what he found.

  “Hey Harry, how are you?” George greets his brother.

  “Doing well brother, what are you up to now?” Harry answers impatiently as he knows George is up to no good.

  “Why the attitude?” George asks.

  “Come on George, why else you would call me for? It’s not like you call me to just say hi anymore.” Harry responds.

  “Hehe, well you got me there. Anyway, I managed to sneak into the construction zone in Highland Park. I just wanted to see what the hype as was all about.” George says.

  “You sure about that big bro?” Harry asks.

  “Well, I came to find out that this site is being run by no other than Hybrid itself. Also, the Raven Hawk Vaccine is being tested on animals, but not mice. They’re experimenting with plants, lizards, and sharks. I’m starting to believe that they are building something more sinister.” George answers.

  “You really think so?” Harry asks.

  “I know so! Why else did they get so nervous when I was trying to break into the basement?”

  “Probably because… you were caught trespassing… duh!”

  “Seesh Harry, so much for an intelligent answer.”

  “George it’s obvious that you didn’t belong there. So what, they could be trying every animal to see if the damn thing really works.”

  “I found a document that has them in cultivation rooms and that tells me they’re trying to do a little more than just finding a cure.”

  “What do you plan to do next?” Harry asks.

  “I know that Anthony has an appointment with the director of Woodhull Hospital on July 7th and I’ll make sure I’m there to hear what they plan to do.”

  “How do you plan to get in through security?”

  “Harry you must be forgetting who I am. I have my ways after all.”

  “You think you’ll find anything out?” Harry asks.

  “Probably not, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.” George answers.

  “Ok hot shot, you seem to know what you’re doing. Anyway, I gotta go run some errands. Talk to you later.”

  “Alright little bro, be well.” George replies and then hangs up.

  June 18th, 2007

  The next day he prepares for work. It’s the time of year he should be excited as school is almost done for the year, but he is bothered by his findings at the construction site.

  After he performs his duties in the morning shift, he heads to the break room and has his lunch. When he sits to eat his lunch, he sees something on the television. Upon watching the news, he sees that the Clark Family mansion in Upstate New York exploded last month.

  A strange thought enters his mind. The news claims the explosion took place on May 15th and yet there was no news coverage when it took place or even days after. He begins to wonder why. Then he sees a Lieutenant whose name is Barry who’s visiting the school for safety day at the school. He begins to question Barry.

  Barry is a Lieutenant in the 75th precinct who has a great relationship with Chief Irons. He sports dark sunglasses and he sports a rather arrogant attitude most of the time.

  “Hey… Barry, you heard the news?”

  “Yeah I did, I feel sorry for the Special Forces who were sent there.”

  “Special Forces?”

  “Yeah, you see there was a case of strange murders around the area where the Clark
Family Mansion is located. They were sent there to investigate what or who was responsible for the murders. Sounds like they didn’t make it though, they’ve gone missing for over a month now.” Barry says in a careless tone.

  “I just don’t understand why there was no news coverage about that? It sounds like it should have been on the news.” George asks.

  “Well the mansion was in a remote area and investigators didn’t find out until they went to the area and interviewed people around the area.”

  “Oh, just sounds funky that nobody realized these people were missing.”

  “For all I know they might as good as dead. As bad as I feel, it’s not my division and I gotta do my job to the best of my ability. Well, gotta go to the 8th grade room for career, catch you later.” Barry replies.

  At first George is a bit suspicious about Barry, but realizes that Barry is only a Lieutenant and has nothing to do with the Special Forces of the NYPD. The one thing that bothers him is Barry’s arrogant attitude and his lack of care. It could be that Barry wasn’t there so he can’t make a judgment, but he feels that Barry might be secretly happy that the Special Forces are missing for whatever reason.

  With the Clark Family Mansion gone, it makes George think a bit harder. As he continues to hear reports, he finds out that there was a secret laboratory somewhere in the mansion. However, the damage is too great to tell what might have been inside and what was being worked on. With lack of any solid evidence, investigators can’t really tell what was happening in the mansion.

  George has no idea what to make of the situation. He doesn’t know if he should be happy that the Clark Family Mansion is gone or be concerned. What should have been an easy puzzle to solve has just become a bit trickier. Now he knows that breaking into the meeting in Woodhull Hospital will prove to be paramount in his hopes to crack this case.

  After his lunch break, he tries to forget about Hybrid and just perform his job until the school year ends in another week.

  After school is dismissed, he heads to Dave’s house in hopes that he has gotten some results after testing the sample of the Raven Hawk Vaccine. He gets into his White Mustang and drives towards his friend’s house.

  After an hour drive in rush hour traffic, he finally gets to Dave’s house and sees a bunch of police cruisers in the area. He doesn’t think much as he parks around the corner, perhaps it’s just Dave’s neighbor who got sick. So he gets out of the car and smells the fresh air trying to enjoy the beautiful weather.

  As he’s walking down the block and approaching Dave’s house, he’s stopped by an officer. The officer informs him that he cannot proceed. George asks him why and that he is heading to his friend’s house. The officer informs him that Dave was found murdered in his house with a bullet casing in the house. According to the body, he was shot in the head.

  George tries to ask who could have done it, but he is told that they found nobody and they’re not even ready to investigate yet.

  “Hey, can I go in? I left something inside.” George asks the officer.

  “No I can’t let you in there, this is an active investigation zone and everything inside will be taken in for investigation. That is unless you can tell me what you needed to get.” The officer replies.

  George decides whether he should tell the officer about the Raven Hawk Vaccine.

  What should George do?

  1. Lie to the officer. (Neutral)

  2. Keep quiet (Passive)

  3. Break through police (Aggressive)

  You have chosen option #1.

  As anxious as he wants the sample, it’s no use without Dave’s analysis. Plus, he can’t afford to tell the police about the vaccine as he could get into legal trouble.

  “Actually it was my tennis shoes, but it’s fine I don’t need it. I’ll be going now…” He replies walking away from the scene.

  “Hey listen do you want us to call you if we find out anything?” The officer asks.

  “Fine, here is my phone number.” He gives the officer his phone number in case they find the killer or anything.

  Once he’s done, he walks back to his car. Getting into his Mustang, he feels bad for Dave. However, that sadness turns to concern now that he knows he can’t get the sample now and test it. He begins to wonder who would kill Dave. Running down the possibilities ranging from a vendetta with another scientist to possibly Hybrid finding out he had gotten a sample of the Raven Hawk virus, he’s unsure what to think.

  Driving back home, he begins to rule out the former scenario and begins to see the Hybrid connection as a more likely scenario. As bad as he feels for his friend, he worries more about the possibility that Hybrid is catching on to his probing. George is concerned with one question, why was Dave killed? Also if Dave was killed by Hybrid, how did they find out that Dave had the vaccine?

  When he gets home, he begins to narrow down Dave’s friends and people he knew. While he had a lot of people, lots of them were still unfamiliar with Hybrid. So he was able to cross out plenty of names, leaving only a few on the table. He’s left with three, Barry, Danny Witwer, and a man named Randy. Randy was an ex-partner of Harry during their days as scientists.

  As much bad will Randy wished upon Harry, Randy moved to England and simply cut ties with Harry peacefully. Danny Witwer is the president of Woodhull Hospital and was a good friend of Dave’s. Yes, they had disagreements but nothing serious as far as George is concerned.

  That leaves only Barry who is part of the NYPD. Barry doesn’t seem to know too much about Hybrid and didn’t seem to be too concerned about what happen in the mansion. Barry’s attitude tells George that he doesn’t seem to have too much to gain with Hybrid to keep secrets for them.

  With the lack of any true suspects, George is left to wonder what the cops will find. He isn’t too hopeful that they will find anything and that this will be a case that goes cold quickly. It doesn’t help that he can’t say anything about the Raven Hawk Vaccine as it might get him into more trouble rather than helping him. He decides to try to put Dave away and simply wait for July 7th to come.

  The last person he suspects is Chief Irons as he did not say anything about the Special Forces being missing for over a month. Why would he not say anything? However, it could be that he was unable to communicate with the Special Forces and had a separate group look for them.

  The reality is that George can’t simply go around pointing fingers at people without evidence. That is one thing that he is seriously lacking. Lying in bed, he tries to avoid breaking his head about everything and falls asleep.

  July 7th, 2007

  After a few weeks pass by, George gets up and prepares to eavesdrop into the meeting between Anthony and the director of the hospital. He takes a bug that was built by his brother and he’ll use it to capture audio.

  The night before, he and Harry planned how he would break into the meeting. After going over the plan with his brother, he packs his items into his briefcase including his dart gun just in case. Heading to his mustang, he drives off and heads to Woodhull Hospital.

  Once he gets to the hospital, he decides to park in the garage to stay as hidden as possible. Getting out of the car, he walks to the hospital. Entering through the back, he goes through the hallway until he gets to the main lobby. He sees somebody asking the security guard a question.

  “Excuse me where is the meeting taking place?” The man asks the guard.

  “The meeting is in the basement by where the admitting room is located.” The guard answers.

  It seems to have the feeling of a normal busy day. When George approaches the guard, he simply shows him his ID and the guard lets him through. After getting though security, he sees some elevators. He calls one down and heads inside when the doors open. When he enters he looks for the button to go down. Pressing the B1 button, he heads down one flight to the basement.

  He sees the admitting room and walks by. Seeing the meeting room, he waits for his chance to enter when no one is there. However, he won�
��t have to sneak into the room after all. He overhears a couple of guys saying the meeting in canceled because Anthony had an emergency to attend to. George trying to act normal decides to ask what is going on.

  “Hey guys, did you say the meeting was canceled?” He asks.

  “Yeah, Anthony had an emergency to attend to. He sounded serious as well, couldn’t tell you what it could be. I guess we’re going home then.” The man in the gray suit answers while his friend simply nods in agreement.

  George snaps his fingers and begins to make his way home. All of a sudden he hears an alarm and an announcement.

  Attention: Major emergency in effect! There are reports of a man eating people in the hospital. There is a large horde of man-eaters by the front entrance. All security units report! Everybody run to your nearest emergency exit now, this is not a drill. I repeat… this is not a drill!

  All of a sudden what was a spying mission has turned into one that he simply needs to survive. He hears somebody in the admitting room screaming.

  “Oh my God! Don’t eat me… argghh!” The person screams as it’s being eaten by another human.

  George and the other two men see the person being eaten and decide to make a run towards the elevator. When they get to the elevator though, there are a couple of man eating people in the elevator that pop out right away. While George and the man in the gray suit get away, his friend is the next victim who gets eaten.

  The two of them run from the area as fast as they can. They keep on running until they spot an armory.

  “Alright, guns. We’ll gonna need them if we expect to survive.” He says but gets no response by the man in the gray suit.

  He turns around and sees that the man is being eaten by another man-eater. Grabbing a gun, he prepares to defend himself.

  Picked up a Pistol. It’s your basic pistol. It’s a Walther PPK and it shoots 7.65 mm rounds. It’s not much but it’s better than nothing! Pistol Ammo: 15