The Horrors of Our Mind [COMPLETED]

The Hour of Death

In the 1970s the government would round up people and experiment on them, this was considered normal and is still done today. You may have heard that the government would put patients on LSD and see what it does and see if they could perform psychic abilities such as telekinesis as well as telepathy. Trial after trial they had no success, so they dumped those patients and moved onto new ones to try something new.

For the new trials, they would combine spider DNA, specifically the genes that give the ability to create spider silk, and inject them into people's temples. With most, nothing happened, but the few that had a positive result would die a few days later, all except Norman William.

Norman William was like any other 23 years old, he worked at the local grocery store during the day, and at night, he worked at the drive-in theater. He did whatever would pay the bills, which is why he accepted the government testing, it paid a lengthy check that definitely would have surprised his bank. So off he went to a hidden government facility to get spider DNA injected into his brain.

Scientists had no clue why Norman was the only true successful patient, but during the trial, they refused to let him go home as they didn't know what would happen. The reasoning for injecting the gene into humans was to produce spider silk at a rapid production rate, as it was extremely strong and could stop a bullet better than a bulletproof vest could, it was cheaper as well.

Over the few weeks Norman was locked in his room at the government facility, the scientists noticed physical changes in Norman. At first, his canine teeth grew longer, and he started to grow barbed hair all over his body, similar to a tarantula. As time went by, Norman did produce spider silk, but it had negative side effects.

The three months that Norman was held in the facility, he had changed exponentially. He was no longer to be considered human. What had once been human was now a hybrid. Norman had eyes all over his face, and extra limbs, all which resembled a spider. He had molted his hair and developed a thorax, in which a recognizable symbol had developed - a red hourglass.

One day, while the guards were in between shifts, Norman took this chance to escape, something he had been planning for over a week. With his mandibles, Norman was able to pry off the lock from his door, and he quietly opened it, hoping it wouldn't squeak. With success, he was able to escape his room and he crawled on the wall, going down the hall to find the exit. To his demise, the guards were coming back. They pulled out their tasers and batons running towards the large spider-like creature. Alarms blared and the intercom was notifying the building was going on lockdown because of a dangerous escapee on the loose, which was of course Norman.

The guards attacked Norman, which in return he attacked back by biting them. Each guard he bit either instantly dropped dead or were on the ground violently convulsing until they died. He did this to every guard and scientist that tried attacking him. Soon he was able to make it to the front door, which was barricaded from the outside, causing Norman to get creative with his escape route.

Norman started looking around his surroundings for a way to escape. Down the hall to his right, there was a large air duct he could easily fit in, it looked like it went to the rooftop. He quickly crawled down to the air duct then climbed onto the wall then the ceiling and opened the new passageway. The metal vent landed on the tile floor with a clang that echoed through the hallways.

Norman quickly crawled in and blindly walked through the air duct, not knowing where to go. Any passage that went up, he took, hoping it would get him out. Eventually, it did, and soon he was up on the roof. He could feel the fresh breeze blow through his hair and hear the birds sing, none of which he experienced during the time at the facility. He crawled down the side of the building and back to the city.

His escape only took an hour.