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    Princetown
    Dartmoor Prison
    3:57 PM GMT
     
     
    T he prison was completely overrun. Creatures swarmed every hallway and room. More churned through the breaches in the walls.
    Bodies lay uneaten, as the horde of infected searched every part of the prison for anyone left alive.
    Computers lay tipped over next to cooling corpses. Blood gathered into congealing pools.
    The hive mind knew the humans were preparing to hide below ground. Every infected human’s memories were added to the collective knowledge of the hive. Every secret known.
    However, what the humans failed to realize was, the pods did not contain the knowledge – only the spores, every single infected human did. Billions of minds connected. Each brain filled to capacity with information. Each mind capable of controlling every infected person. The only way to stop the sharing of information was to destroy every infected creature.
    O nce enough time had passed, to make sure as many people were infected as possible, the pods started to send out a frequency that tuned all the creatures into one directive, the eradication of all human life.
    The spores would spread, consuming every human. Then once they were all infected, exploded, and the spores multiplied, it would mutate, infecting other species. The land and sky would be wiped clean. Mother Nature would recover from the human scourge, and in time, the world would heal, and the evolutionary chain would start all over again, when, given time, something else would crawl out from the sea, which has been the case, on the fertile third planet from the sun, since the dawn of time.
     

 
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    Doctor Lazaro, Doctor Hall, Noah, Red, the Captain, Echo, Coco, and General Philips
    Dartmoor National Park
    Princetown
    The Gathering Room
    4:01 PM GMT
     
     
    “ T -minus five minutes!”
    Coco fired. The bullet spun the General around. The gun flew through the air. The Generals body hit the concrete with a loud slap.
    “Dad! Echo shouted, while running over to his body. The bullet went clean through his shoulder.
    The General rolled over.
    The Captain slowly got to his feet. His armour stopped the projectile, but it still winded him.
    “Calm down, it was just a warning shot. If I wanted the Captain dead, I would have shot him in the head.” Sweat dripped down the Generals face. Blood soaked his uniform around his shoulder.
    “You, on the other hand,” the General said, as he reached for the gun on the floor with his left hand and pointed it at the doctor again.
    “We only have five minutes to inject ourselves and get below ground!” Doctor Hall stated. “Please everyone, step forward.” The doctor knelt down and opened the bubble briefcase. Inside were rows of injection devices.
    “Did I say you could move?” The General was coughing, with sweat soaking his uniform’s collar.
    “T-minus four minutes !”
    “Father please, we need to get underground,” Echo pleaded, while using her hand to staunch the flow of blood.
    “I said, don’t move!” The gun went off again, this time hitting Doctor Hall in the chest. Unlike the Captain, the doctor had no body armour to stop the bullet.
    Coco stepped forward and fired again.
    “No!” Echo screamed as she rolled her father around. The bullet that was intended for him hit Echo in the neck.
    “Echo!” Coco dropped his rifle and ran over.
    Melanie leaned over the doctor. Blood bubbled on his lips.
    “You’re going to be okay,” Melanie muttered, while cradling him in her arms. She jerked when she felt something stab her leg. She looked down and saw that with his last ounce of strength, the doctor had stabbed an injection into her leg.
    “T-minus three minutes!”
    Noah stood in front of Red, blocking her with his body. Everything was happening so fast. He was confused as to what was going on. However, in all the chaos, he realized the injections were important somehow. He grabbed Red’s hand and dragged her over to the two doctors.
    Bare feet could be