What Lies Inside

Bomb:Detonation

The flourish of his hands as Barry slipped different DNA slides through his microscope astounded those who watched through the cameras around him.

A new sequence of Deoxyribonucleic acid spun and danced through his vision as the old feelings of new discovery coursed in his veins.

Barry had found something extraordinary in the meteor that had crashed to earth just last wednesday. When he sent his crew out to retrieve all the fragments, accompanied by himself of course. Barry had let them crack the meteor on the spot.

It was like no rock Barry had ever seen. Its shell shined bluish black, with a peculiar glow emenating from the ever subtle cracks lining its upper crust. Yet inside was where the magic lied. That particular ambrosia of gods was happened upon once Lucas and Jeremy had pulled it into their truck and they had driven back to the lab.

Once his assistants had hauled the metoer inside and laid it upon their center table in the lab, Barry cracked it. He had taken a small hammer and chisel to its rocky surface and opened it to see the insides. It was here that Barry found the labs first discovery.

Inside the rock was a peculiar liquid. It shined like phosphorus, churning in itself and moving as if the goo breathed with life.

It was astonishing. Something Barry had never dreamed he would see.

Now he sat hazmat suit and gear all on, trying to piece together the possibilities of what he could do with it. In the slides, he saw the organisms dancing and multiplying. Mutating and seperating before his eyes. It was extraordinary.

The beeper on the outerside of his suit droned and Barry ignored it, still peering at the mutations he felt hypnotized. Everything in front of him felt like magic. Like something was finally going right.

After he synthesized this, and he worled with it a bit more. Barry's mind spun with all the possibilities. A cure to cancer, Alzheimer's gone, Cellular regeneration, even his brother.

Barry's face fell slightly. He hadn't thought of Anthony in months. God what he must think, alone stuck in his hospital bed. Unable to move. Paralyzed in the same accident that had given Barry hope in being different.

Screwing his face up, and letting the emotion pass, Barry blew out a cold breath and pressed the button on his side to silence the beeper. He had work to do. That bridge would be crossed when he came to it. Apologies later.

Barry leaned forward once again and had only set his masks goggles into the metal scope to see the goo again when a quake slammed through the building. Throwing Barry away from his scope, he was slammed against the floor.

"What the fuck" He whispered, as he pulled himself to his feet.

Again, a thunderous rumble blasted through the building, then followed by a resounding crash as Barry felt the ground heave below him. Something catastrophic was happening here.

Barry turned from his work and spied the door he needed to reach to see what was happening.

"This isnt happening," he thought. Lurching forward ever so slowly towards the door.

After he had taken but a few steps the door swung wide, encompassing a rather large man. He stood head wrapped in hood, covered in rags of black cloth, with a cluster of short fused dynamite strapped along his chest.

"Dear god," Barry stopped mid step,
"Who are you?"

The man didnt speak. He only pulled a triggering device from his coat and stepped into the room ever further.

"Stop!" Barry cried, reaching out behind himself. Stretching to find some weapon to use. He never should have come into the office alone.

"Ill kill you I swear it!" Barry screamed once he grasped a pen from the table. He had backed now fully against it, where the mutagen now lay.

The man with the bomb only stepped forward more. Looking from his amber eyes deep into Barry's
browns. He kept walking further and further, taking ever more confidant strides. Barry just stood and with every step the shaking in his body increased.

The sweat dribbling from his head smoothly trailed down to his chin and beyond. He couldn't believe this. Someone must be playing a joke here. No one would bomb one of the most prolific genetics labs in the country.

There was no reason...

At least. Not to him.

The crunch of glass brought his thoughts back to the present as now the bomber stood but 5 feet from where he stood.

"Why?", were the only words choked past Barry's lips, while the man laid his thumb onto the trigger.

"You, and your colleagues work has only brought wrath onto our planet" came bombers solid reply.

Barry wrinkled his eyebrows in confusion and paused. This allowed the bomber to continue

"We all saw that gift from the heavens. Yet here it lay. In your blasphemous labs, where you play god. Trying ever so slowly to make yourselves just like him." Bomber spat. His thumb leaving the trigger.

The bomber began his speech once again, citing his hatred of science, and the ideals he felt were broken. Once they allowed the people to openly commune in the names of evolution against god.

Here it was that Barry felt was his only chance. He leapt.

Quick, and with silver quilled pen in hand. Barry's leap carried him the few feet to close the gab, before the bomber had even noticed his ranting going unnoticed.

Staying alive was his only thought, as Barry jambed the pen hard through the jugular vein of his attacker. There was little resistance as the flesh of the bombers neck yielded to the metal and it sank deep into his neck.

Letting loose a gurgling yell as his throat filled with his own blood. The bomber staggered back just a step, and jammed his thumb down onto the trigger.

The ensuing blast threw Barry back against the desk he had been working so hard on just minutes ago. The suit he wore ripped and tore immediately from the blast and the shrapnel of hot metals that lodged into his skin.

Yet the worse pain, flamed through his back. Its intensity only matched by the terror Barry felt as he slowly sank from consciousness.

He thought, I never got to speak to Anthony. I never got to end cancer. I never made a true difference. Then he faded.

The shadow of pain surrounding him, until Barry breathed no more.