The Burden Of Tomorrow

Chapter 15. The Truth Comes Out

We rushed inside and I slammed the doors shut. Once we were inside the zombies just ceased to exist, they didn't even bang on the door.
The inside of the building was spotless almost as if it was built and then never touched again.
"What the fuck is this place?" Nick asked.
"I have no clue, but I'm thinking we should split up and search this place for anything usefull." I replied.
Everyone agreed and we split into 2 groups and we went down 2 seperate hallways. My group consisted of Heather, Tiffany, Tyler, Tyler's parents and me. We went down the hallway opening every door we passed and serching the room but every room was empty. We continued working our way down the hall until we found a door labled "Testing", I cautiously opened the door and we peaked inside. In the room were 2 scientists tying a man to a table. The man was fighting them trying to get away from them.
"Get back, I saw what you did to the last guy. You turned him into some sort of freak!" The man shouted at the scientists.
We continued watching in horror as the scientists seduced the man and drug him to the table where they strapped him down. One of the scientists grabbed a neddle off of a nearby table and injected whatever was in it, into the mans neck. The man layed there motionless for a while before he started screaming and throwing himself all over almost breaking the restraints.
"Bring in the next one." One of the scientists said, jotting something down on his clip board.
"They just made a zombie." Heather whispered in fear.
"Fuck." I whispered, "Ok, listen, this is what we're going to do. The scientists are not armed, we'll go in and interogate them and once we get answers we take them out so they can stop making these fuckers."
"How do we know there isn't someone in there that is armed?" Tiffany asked.
"We don't but it seems like ther's only one other person in there, if they're armed we still have the advantage here." I replied
"Let's do this." Tyler said.
"On three. 1... 2 ... 3" I said as I kicked the door open.
The scientists ran and hid in the corner after seeing all of us with guns. We made our way around the corner to the third person who turned out to be a security guard. He reached for his tazer.
"GET ON THE GROUND." I shouted at him, pointing a desert eagle in his face.
He got down on the ground without hesitation where Tyler kept a gun pointed at him. I walked over to the scientists and began interogating them.
"What the fuck are you making zombies for? What the fuck is wrong with you?" I asked them.
They didn't answer.
"How about I solve your problem right now?" I asked shoving the gun in they're faces.
"DON'T! We do it because the government is paying us to. They said it's population control." One of them said.
"Oh really? population control? Well how's this for population control?" I asked as I pulled the trigger and shot one of the scientists.
The second scientist began begging me not to shoot him.
"Please don't do this, you dont have to. I won't make any more of them, I swear." He pleaded as he began to cry.
"Here's my answer." I said as I pulled the trigger on my gun.
"He's seen to much, shoot him." I said to Tyler.
Tyler pulled the trigger and shot the security guard.
"Let's go, we need to find the others and find out if there's any more testing going on." I said as I turned my back and walked out of the room.
We continued down the hall searching the rest of the rooms but we found nothing. We eventually made it to the end of the hallway and it branched off into 2 more hallways going in opposite directions.
"Tyler, take your parents and search the right side and we'll take the left." I said.
We split up into 2 smaller groups and went down the hallways continuing to search each room but still nothing. We made it the end of the hallway, the only thing there was a door with a sign that read "Test subject holding room"
I peaked through the small window in the door, the room was packed with zombies.
"We don't have enough people here right now to deal with this room, we'll come back to this one." I said.
Heather looked in the window and saw all the zombies and her face turned pale.
"Baby I'm scared we wont make it out of here." She said to me.
"Honey, I promise, I wont let anything happen to you. We are going to make it out of here and we will live to see morning." I reasurred her.
We turned around and made it back to where we split into smaller groups and started down the hallway Tyler's group went down and we began searching for them.
I saw Tyler for a breif second through a small window in a door at the end of the hallway. We ran to the door and we peaked through the window. Tyler was inside holding a gun to someones head but I couldn't see who it was. I opened the door and saw Tyler holding more scientists at gun point with another test subject strapped to a table.
"What are you doing just aiming the gun at them? Shoot them." I said
Tyler was shaking like he didn't want to shoot them.
"Pull the trigger." I said.
"I... I don't want to kill people anymore." He said in a shaky voice.
"Tyler the guy on the table is shaking, he's going to turn any second, this is they're doing." I said, pointing my gun at them
Tyler closed his eyes and looked away but still didnt pull the trigger. He dropped his gun and collapsed onto the floor unconscious.
"What the hell?" Tiffany asked, as she walked over to Tyler, trying to find out why he passed out. She put her hand on his forehead.
"He's burning up." She said.
I shot the guy on the table and walked over to her. I rolled him onto his back and saw he had been hiding a bite mark since we came into the room.
"OH FUCK. FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, WE'RE FUCKING FUCKED." I shouted as I turned around and punched a hole in the wall.
"Oh shit." Heather said.
"THIS IS WHY HE DIDN'T WANT TO FUCKING SHOOT. FUCK. HE WAS FUCKING SEEING IT AS HE WOULD BE FUCKING SHOOTING HIS OWN FUCKING PEOPLE. FUCK." I yelled to myself.
"Uh oh." Tiffany said, "He's shaking."