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they continued to spread throughout the ship…
     
                Ardent watched his aircraft land on the carrier deck when one of his officers answered a call, he listened incredulously, “What? Slow down!” the officer turned to Ardent and put the call on speaker. The speaker clicked on and what they heard was chaos—people screaming in terror, others in anger from fighting, gunshots ticking off every other second, and the sailor that placed the call was in utter panic, fear as he shouted into the phone—
                “This is hangar two, the infected are in here!”
                “Calm down, sailor,” Ardent said, “what’s happening down there?”
                “Didn’t you hear me, goddamnit! The infected are here, dozens of them!”
                “Is the security force dealing with them?” Ardent asked.
                “Security force? They’re all dead, sir!” the sailor shouted and then grunted as he was attacked. Static chirped over the line, and then they heard the inhuman growls of the dead and the sailor as he screamed in horrible pain.
                “Sound General Quarters and Security Alert!” Ardent ordered. “Get the security force down there now! Full tactical gear!”
                “Yes, sir!” an officer shouted.
                An alarm wailed throughout the ship and everyone was on alert as they rushed to their stations to prepare for battle.
                Ardent picked up a handset, “Give me 1MC.”
                A crewmember activated a communications circuit, “Go ahead, sir.”
                Ardent’s voice filled all the speakers on the ship, “This is the captain, we have an intruder alert of possible infected people in hangar bay two, security is on their way to deal with the situation. All crewmembers are to arm themselves and standby,” Ardent put the handset down and looked at his bridge crew. “That includes the bridge, arm yourselves.”
                Bear opened a weapons locker and handed out sidearms to all the bridge crew, they put their gun belts on and loaded their weapons.
                “What’s the engine room fire sit-rep?” Ardent asked.
                “Sir, we haven’t heard from the fire crew or anyone in the engine room,” Bear said.
                Bear saw the implications of that on Ardent’s face.
                “Send a security force detail down there as well,” Ardent ordered.
                “Right away, sir,” Bear said.
     
                Crewmembers armed themselves everywhere on the ship and prepared to do battle. Security force members were good to go, fully dressed in tactical body armor, with rifles and shotguns in hand. They marched methodically toward hangar bay two and the engine room, and they had no inkling about what they were about to face…
     
                “I want department heads to check in every ten minutes,” Ardent ordered.
                “Yes, sir,” an officer answered.
                Communication crewmembers began calling various departments of the ship.
                “We need to contain this quickly,” Ardent said to Bear.
                “Aye, sir.”
                “Sir!” a sailor addressed Ardent.”
                “What is it?”
                “Sir, many of the aft departments aren’t responding.”
                “Warn the security force of the situation,” Ardent ordered.
     
                In the sections forward of the engine room, even though the alarm still wailed and the strobe lights flickered like miniature explosions, the corridors seemed quiet, an eerie quiet devoid of any human presence. Air was pushing through the ship like the building force of a hurricane. The wind howled through the steel