it all started as a typical Monday. Or so I thought, Getting up for another dreadful morning of work, ~sigh~ I start making my breakfast in this big lonely overpriced apartment. I started typing an email on the debrief from the other day after that freak accident with melissa and "code 87364" a freak accident that wasn't so much of an accident as I've heard boss man wanted her gone but couldn't fire her heard that he's been making her life a living hell. Ughh well back here at the same hidden cave that's been hiding area 38 for the last 20 years the same, very invasive if I do say so myself, strip search. All because of that previous leak from 1926, I still haven't heard what happened to collin last I heard he was in "the underground". It's about 9:45 when suddenly the sound off for a code "burgundy", for all of you outside civilians that's what we call for potentially catastrophic disaster. And oh what a wonder they had just left out with a 150-gallon tanker of biowaste filled with this new "disease". It's being called "prototype 6723", all I know is that they've told us to stand clear at all times unless directed near. Well, those innocent civilians, oh how they weren't ready for that. We got the first alarm and sprung into action Well... we thought.. the boss comes out and declares " it's all over the world, there is no chance to come back from this event" the boss said. I asked in fear " Uhm-m"(shaken tone) what do you mean" he looks us all dead in the eyes and says "that's no normal virus it's going to turn anyone who comes within 100 yards of it into zombies" everyone gasped, people frantically calling their family's.. well they tried, being in the absolute middle of nowhere and in an underground bunker you don't exactly get cell service we all began to panic! "What will we do", " My wife and my kids", as everyone was frantically screaming and crying I began to try and remediate the peace, but as you would assume that had little to no effect but what do you expect when you hear something that catastrophic.
It's been 3 years since that day. We were finally able to make a solution, but not before a lot of people were killed. I still can't get that day out of my head. I think we did the right thing but something keeps pushing me, something no man nor woman would have ever thought they would hear, nor feel. The voices mess with me. I haven't slept in days, not after the reminder of what happened that day I still can't get my mind off of the fact that we still keep pretending that nothing happened that day and that we are acting as if nobody was lost. Let me fill you in. When we finally made a working antidote it most definitely wasn't the first one. Just imagine how we tested these different variants to find "the one", as they call it. It caused people to explode at one point some just decade as soon as it got into their bloodstream. That was the most horrifying scene of my life to watch as we use innocent people as test subjects and it kills off most and left many with permanent damage. For others, those were some of the most gut-wrenching days of their lives. To conclude this day in history, we had to name this "mysterious disease" thats now known as,
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Short StoryA catastrophic event causes a multi million life casualty when where and how will everything go..