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whispered.
“I definitely thought we could control this,” a woman breathed.
“Well, it’s a completely new strain,” another male began. “Solanum B is a monster that we created.”
“How can we stop it?” A different woman murmured.
“I don’t know if we can,” the second male sighed.
President Abernathy had heard enough. He pushed the door open and strolled in. He was shocked to find that the whole “Save a Convict” committee was in the large chamber.
“What is ‘Solanum B’?” The president demanded.
He watched in disappointment as the five committee leaders hung their heads like shamed dogs. They had been lying to him since he took office. The group looked around the table, wondering who would start. Finally, Dr. Melbourne began. The president recognized his as the second voice from before.
“‘Solanum B’,” he stated, standing in order to address the President, “is the cause of this epidemic. You see Mr. President,” Dr. Melbourne looked at his fellow committee members. “There hasn’t been a true transparency with you about the ‘Save a Con’ program.”
President Abernathy nodded with a disapproving grimace.
“Solanum B is the manufactured version of Solanum, the ‘zombie-ism’ virus. Our plan was to take convicts and make ‘indestructible’ soldiers, soldiers that we could manipulate through hypnosis so they wouldn’t have the side affect of PTSD after extended time in the field. We were hoping that these manipulatable soldiers would be human enough to take part in battle, but would only die if shot in the brain. Solanum took too long to develop testable results in our patients, so in correspondence with our Chinese counterparts, we created a more vicious strain infused with synthetics and a few steroidal enhancements. Solanum B takes anywhere from five minutes to an hour to fully develop. We assumed that after a few sessions with our hypnotists we would be able to train the infected convicts.
"Boy were we wrong, we didn’t even get past the animal testing phase. One of our infected monkeys bit my apprentice. We hadn’t anticipated that Solanum B could be exchanged through bodily fluids; we assumed it needed to be introduced via injection. It initially took much longer for the virus to infect humans; I’m guessing that it was because my apprentice was bitten by a G.D. monkey. I know now that when a human bites another human the change is nearly instantaneous. My apprentice, Doug made love to his girlfriend that night. She happened to have another man on the side. Her ‘other man’, Thomas McNaab, worked at a Fast Fries location where he was notorious for violating customers’ food. He told us that he had spit on three burgers that day, right before he collapsed and vomited all over the holding tank. As he tried to eat the guard, I realized in that Solanum B spreads like HIV, only much, much worse.
“We tried to contain it, but it was too late. That ingrate McNaab ruined it. From there, it boomed across America in a mere matter of weeks. There’s no cure, only death and then reanimation. You have to shoot the infected person in the brain in order to stop the damn thing.”
“You made zombies. On purpose ?!”
“We’re sorry, sir,” Dr. Melbourne wept, bowing his head in remorse. “The research order was given before you took office, sir.…Out of sight…out of mind.”
“You people make me sick ,” President Abernathy roared, “I never would have agreed to this if I’d have been told the truth! In fact, if I’d have known the truth, I would have shut
“I definitely thought we could control this,” a woman breathed.
“Well, it’s a completely new strain,” another male began. “Solanum B is a monster that we created.”
“How can we stop it?” A different woman murmured.
“I don’t know if we can,” the second male sighed.
President Abernathy had heard enough. He pushed the door open and strolled in. He was shocked to find that the whole “Save a Convict” committee was in the large chamber.
“What is ‘Solanum B’?” The president demanded.
He watched in disappointment as the five committee leaders hung their heads like shamed dogs. They had been lying to him since he took office. The group looked around the table, wondering who would start. Finally, Dr. Melbourne began. The president recognized his as the second voice from before.
“‘Solanum B’,” he stated, standing in order to address the President, “is the cause of this epidemic. You see Mr. President,” Dr. Melbourne looked at his fellow committee members. “There hasn’t been a true transparency with you about the ‘Save a Con’ program.”
President Abernathy nodded with a disapproving grimace.
“Solanum B is the manufactured version of Solanum, the ‘zombie-ism’ virus. Our plan was to take convicts and make ‘indestructible’ soldiers, soldiers that we could manipulate through hypnosis so they wouldn’t have the side affect of PTSD after extended time in the field. We were hoping that these manipulatable soldiers would be human enough to take part in battle, but would only die if shot in the brain. Solanum took too long to develop testable results in our patients, so in correspondence with our Chinese counterparts, we created a more vicious strain infused with synthetics and a few steroidal enhancements. Solanum B takes anywhere from five minutes to an hour to fully develop. We assumed that after a few sessions with our hypnotists we would be able to train the infected convicts.
"Boy were we wrong, we didn’t even get past the animal testing phase. One of our infected monkeys bit my apprentice. We hadn’t anticipated that Solanum B could be exchanged through bodily fluids; we assumed it needed to be introduced via injection. It initially took much longer for the virus to infect humans; I’m guessing that it was because my apprentice was bitten by a G.D. monkey. I know now that when a human bites another human the change is nearly instantaneous. My apprentice, Doug made love to his girlfriend that night. She happened to have another man on the side. Her ‘other man’, Thomas McNaab, worked at a Fast Fries location where he was notorious for violating customers’ food. He told us that he had spit on three burgers that day, right before he collapsed and vomited all over the holding tank. As he tried to eat the guard, I realized in that Solanum B spreads like HIV, only much, much worse.
“We tried to contain it, but it was too late. That ingrate McNaab ruined it. From there, it boomed across America in a mere matter of weeks. There’s no cure, only death and then reanimation. You have to shoot the infected person in the brain in order to stop the damn thing.”
“You made zombies. On purpose ?!”
“We’re sorry, sir,” Dr. Melbourne wept, bowing his head in remorse. “The research order was given before you took office, sir.…Out of sight…out of mind.”
“You people make me sick ,” President Abernathy roared, “I never would have agreed to this if I’d have been told the truth! In fact, if I’d have known the truth, I would have shut
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