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seemed to talk before she
turned away, apparently convinced of the
Captain’s change of heart.
Captain Huddleston reached into his flak
jacket and pulled out the C-4 and tried to plant it
on the queen, the demonic entourage shrieked as
they realized what Captain Huddleston was up to,
the hive queen wheeled around and shrieked then
she drew a sword on her back and slashed at the
Captain’s forearm at the mid point, the limb fell
to the ground and Captain Huddleston screamed
in pain as he grabbed his severed limb as he
quickly started bleeding, then the queen raised
her sword and sliced across Captain Huddleston’s
neck, severing his head which fell to the ground
along with his body.
“LIGHT HER UP!” Major Walters
shouted. Gretchen flipped a single switch on her
jerry-rigged detonator and the C-4 erupted into a
concussive blast of heat that enveloped the
queen.
For a brief minute or so everything grew
deathly quite except for the crackling fire that
consumed the hive queen. Then a shape emerged
from the fire which as it subsided. The hive
queen survived, stepping from the fire which was
her closest ally, she raised her sword to the
darkening skies.
“Fools.” She hissed, “Now we will take
you by force.” The hive queen paused, slightly
lowering her sword as she took a deep breath,
then thrust the tip skywards as she unleashed a
terrible shriek.
The darkness seemed to come alive as
thousands of shapes emerged from all sides into
the light of the waning fire still smoldering
around the ruined body of Huddleson. This
seething dark forms flew at the building, spraying
millions of shards of broken glass as they quickly
entered the hospital and seized everybody they
could, and as quickly as they came, they were
gone.
When the dust had settled Major Walters,
looked around to see who was left. All he could
see was a young Lieutenant, Spencer and
Gretchen. Spencer’s ears burned with the
screams of the soldiers outside, dying as they
were dismembered.
As the last of his men’s screams faded
into the night, he heard a single terrible voice.
“You will pay the price for your treachery, dawn
will bring you no respite, survive if you can.”
The queen spat, and in a moment she was gone.
“I don’t like the way she said that.”
Gretchen said.
“Major, what are we going to do now?”
Spencer asked.
Major Walters reached for his radio.
“This is Major Walters, anybody still
alive regroup in the main lobby immediately.”
Major Walters said then lead the way
back to the main lobby where he met two other
soldiers. Both were Privates First Class.
Spencer looked around, not giving his full
attention to Major Walters’ strategy, he expected
that the demons would be breaking down the
doors, why hadn’t they already?
“I thought I heard someone as we passed
radiology.” One of the privates commented,
almost as though he did not want to, like he was
restraining an urge.
“Did you see anybody, Private?” Major
Walters asked.
“No, sir, I just heard footsteps.” The
private replied.
Major Walters turned to the Lieutenant.
“Lieutenant, take these privates and go back, if
there is another survivor we’ll meet you at the
access corridor to the west parking garage.”
Major Walters instructed, “We’ll wait there for
five minutes and then we get the hell out of
dodge.”
“Understood, sir.” The lieutenant saluted.
Major Walters, Spencer and Gretchen
headed for the west parking garage, cutting
through the dead bodies that would never be
buried.
After the hallway turned the Major’s dead
soldiers vanished from sight. But Major Walters
still looked back.
“Major?” Spencer asked, “Is something
wrong?”
Major Walters turned back to Spencer.
“Could we have done something different?”
Major Walters asked.
“I don’t know.” Spencer consoled.
“Maybe this was a long time coming.”
“You think…” Major Walters stopped
himself. “I thought I lived an honorable life, I
went to church, helped out in the