“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. William Tecumseh Sherman said that. I don't think he realized how wrong he was. Oh he may have been correct about the human race being cruel and how quickly their tyranny would end in certain situations...I don't think he ever imagined that something this horrific would plague the world. Poor bastards...they don't even realize what is happening all around them...right under their feet...lurking in their shadows and hiding under your beds at night.” The darkness that swelled under the earth made not a sound. It did not mutter nor speak. It sat silent and waiting. A flash from a shoulder mounted LED light illuminated the darkness and footsteps could be heard at a frantic pace down the winding stone halls. “War is definitely cruelty, but we are fighting a new war in this day and age. Something that isn't fought in parliament. Something that the people shouldn't know about...just yet.” The footsteps that could be heard down the fetid halls become as frantic as ever as a female field agent, clad in ballistics grade armor dashes through a puddle of blackened water that scatters a few rats around the pipes where the water drained from.
“Conspiracies can be found all over the world. Area 51 and the “Greys” that so many people claim seeing and being brought about ships beyond our comprehension. The theories of the Anunaki and the Sumerian tablets along with the supposed progenitors of our world. Telekinetic psycho-technology. Mind control and meta physical destruction of the brain. Weapons of mass destruction that could wipe Russia off the face of the planet in less than three seconds. Military sub levels built in caves that house para-natural and supernatural scientists that fuck with things beyond this mortal realm of ours...and eons beyond our understanding...in the pursuit of what? A better brighter future?” The woman is breathing extremely heavily even though she looks like she could easily run five miles and not break a bead of sweat. Something is strange about this one though. Sweat pools on her forehead, her cheeks pale as a sheet, pupils shrunken down to the size of small specks and the looks of utter horror on her face. “If we are searching for a better and brighter future, my only questions is this. In this hell hole we call home...whose brighter future will it be for? Me and you, or for someone behind closed doors?”
As the armor clad woman continues to run, she unlatches a pair of strange goggles that are attached to her hip and fasten them around her neck. She then reaches into an outer breast pocket, picking out a handful of small round objects and immediately throws them behind her. Once they hit the ground, small blue diodes lite up on them and began to pulsate for a moment. The woman looked back only for a moment to see if anything was following her. She rushes through another small puddle and turns her head back around, only to have a large spiders web firmly attach to her face and hair that immediately shocked her system with fright. She screamed out in the dark tunnels that echoed on for miles it seemed as she scurried to get the webs out of her eyes. Once she was free from the nuisance, she drew her weapon that was holstered on her other hip side. A strange looking pistol that bore a switch that she flipped on, powering up the weapon and illuminating it with a slightly blue tint that shown through small crevasses and other wires along the handgun. It whirred for a moment until it had reached a certain charge on a gauge that said “32% eff.” and a counter on the side of it. The handgun let out a small piercing noise that echoed in the dripping halls around her along with her heavy breathing. She pointed the pistol in all directions, quickly taking aim at anything that she perceived as a threat that shown in the light. A high pitched whine could be heard as a small explosion of light and an odd colored electricity lit up a portion of the halls where she had just been. Following the lights, a chilling and haunting shriek shattered the shadows of the halls around the woman that made her hair stand on end and her hands clam up.
A small gadget on her wrist lights up and a holo-projected monitor starts sending readings to her that continue to climb until they begin flashing red and a warning sign comes into view while displaying “Unk-Unk-Unk” off to the side. Her lips start to stutter as she hears a set of what one could only think of as clawed feet coming in her direction. She points the pistol in the direction of the sound until she notices a counter on the side of the firearm that reads “03”. “Fuck! Shit! No...no no no...” She immediately abandons the thought of using her weapon as she quickly turns off into the direction she was heading and sprints off in a frenzied pace. She quickly ducks and dodges low hanging pipes along with rock formations that jutted out from the side of the wall or that had fallen from the ceilings above her. She made it a point not to look back and did her best to keep her breathing as steady as possible to minimize fatigue but her terrified state was winning. A scratching and whirring noise instantly overrides her thought process as her COMM-Link tries to pick up a signal that is having difficulty getting through. She lowers an earpiece and mic down to hopefully get a response. “Hello? Hello! Can anyone hear me! HQ?! Anyone?!” The COMM whirrs and scratches some more until something could be formed. A familiar voice. “Je...Jess...Jesse! Come in Jesse! Goddammit Jesse answer me! What in the bloody hell is going on down there!” Jesse turns back around and fails to hear any indication that the thing making the noise was continuing its chase. She halts for a moment and waits patiently as the voice continues to scream out her name. She takes this moment to duck behind a large rock formation and begins pulling ammo clips out of a leg carrier along with what appears to be a small medical kit containing small vials of various luminescent liquids and other odd things that even a doctor would not recognize. She opens up the channel and begins to speak to the person on the other end. “Captain! Captain is that you?!” “Yes darling it is, now tell me...what in the nine hells is going on down there!” Jesse changed the ammo clip from her pistol and inserted a new one and now the counter read “25” instead of its original “03” but still remained at “32eff.” “Captain, something went wrong down here.” “Wha...explain yourself Jess. What do you mean wrong?” “Our intel had to have been off on this one. Briefing told us that we were just going to be sent down here on a routine class two portal hunt. Something trivial at best. Shouldn't have been anything three agents would have had to worry about but they said something about getting odd readings around the site so they wanted to be careful and sent the three of us down here. We never found the portal...just...it” “What the shit are you talking about Jesse? None of our sensors detected any sort of anomalies before we dropped you three in the zone. No PKE. No PPOE. No signs of anything down there. What is going on down there! Where is the rest of the company?” “Captain there is something down here, I'm not making this up!”
The point of view switches to that of the captain. A large and very scarred man, easily towering over his intel agent that is working frantically beside him. The captain pauses his onslaught of Jesse and closes his eyes. He breathes in and then lets out a sigh that is all too familiar to the agent next to him as he diverts his eyes away from the captain. “Hendricks and Hyoo Sung. Where are they? Our heart monitors picked up odd readings and before we knew it, they flat lined. What happened Jess?” A slight sniffling could be heard from the earpiece and the captains fears immediately became reality. “Dead...sniff...they're both dead. It...that thing...it picked us off one by one. Tricked us somehow and separated us like beef due for the knife. When I heard their screams and found it consuming them...I..I ran. Those eyes...” The captains eyes drew in for a moment as his eyebrows lowered in anger. “Goddammit...Hendricks was a POA. A rank four one at that. What in the hell could have taken him down that could have walked through a class two?” “Captain, this thing. It's something new. Something that-” The captain immediately cuts Jesse off with a quick bark. “What did you just say?” “Captain it's something new! Something that we've never seen before. Hendricks and Hyoo Sung had never seen or heard about this before and I know that they've been on the squad for three years.” “Jesse, what class and rank is it?” “I don't know captain. The scanner went crazy anytime that thing got near us. Everything is unknown captain” “What in the hell did you find Jess?!” “Captain, it's gotta be supara-natural and it's at least a ra-”
The COMM transmission becomes scrambled and overflowing with static and white noise, only allowing in bits and pieces of scared words coming from Jesse. “It...the...abi...g..inco...t..wil..and it..ac...rup..can..s when it...ear.” The captains puzzled look extends to the intel agent next to him as his eyes squint slightly. “Carmichael, what the hell is going on with the signal?” The intel agent Carmichael, furiously trying his best to smooth out the signal, responds in the most calm manner he can. “I don't know captain. She's only twenty five feet underground so there shouldn't be any issues unless she hit a patch of granite or something that might be putting of some sort of EM interference which we would've detected long ago.” The captains pupils widen as he presses a small button on his ear COMM and screams out “Jesse! Jesse can you hear me!”
Back in the darkness of the underground labyrinth that has Jesse within it's grasp, after she finishes explaining the situation she waits for a response from her captain, but all she can hear is the haunting sound of static from her COMM. “Captain?...captain?” Her voice becomes softer as the sound of scratches and static reverberate off of the walls and the occasional crackle of partial words jump from the COMM. Her eyes widen in the light of her shoulder LED mount and her lips begin to quiver as she catches the sound of the unearthly scream that had sent her in a panic before. The sound of footsteps can be heard, almost like they are trudging through the muck and umbral morass of the world around them. The footsteps began to pick up their pace, creating more noise that bounced off the walls in every direction around Jesse making it nearly impossible to figure out where the source of the sound was coming from, then it stops completely.
The scanner on her arm jumps back to life as it begins to show massive readings and a warning on the holo-screen, this time showing a bright blue blip and a distance between her and this shadowy stalker. The meter tracker reading at twenty five m begins to tick down rapidly to twenty. Jesse stood up from her position shining her light in all directions. Nothing can be seen. Fifteen m can be seen on the tracker and now her shoulder light begins to flicker and spasm. “Wha? No! No no no!” Jesse quickly taps it to try and give it another surge but it is no use. As the light begins to fade, ten m can be seen on the illuminating wrist scanner. Jesses breathing becomes rapid and frantic and she begins to looks rapidly in every direction. Seven m can now be seen on the holo-screen and Jesse draws her weapon and quickly turns on the power. With a thrum and a high pitched whine and a small blue hue that lights up an area roughly six feet in front of her, she scans the area with her finger squeezed tightly against the trigger. As the light from her shoulder LED finally flickers and fades out of existence, Jesses breathing hastened and she takes one hand off of her weapon to affix the pair of goggles to her face and turns them on as well. The room becomes illuminated in a dull green of night vision. She flips another switch on the left side of it and the lenses of the goggle transition in a different mode. One that shifts the night vision to another type while keeping the dull green glow. She scans the area in front of her, beads of sweat forming all along her neck and cheeks. She scans to the left and then quickly to the right. Not a soul in sight. She then quickly turns around and points her weapon straight ahead, only to find nothing behind her. The static from the COMM and the whirring of her pistol are the only noises that she can hear around her along with an occasional garbled word from the COMM as well. The only light remaining in the darkness being the faint glow of her weapon and wrist scanner. She scans to the left and right, then quickly pivots around and fires off six rounds from her pistol the look to be a type of bullet charged with a strange form of energy that glows a pale blue in color. The bullets careen off of the wall and ricochet in all directions. She had hit nothing with her quick burst.
Unbeknownst to her, constantly remaining in the arc of her shadows, blackened tendrils had begun to form and free float around the darker parts of her waist, keeping well enough away from touch and out of sight. The scanner quickly flashes and beeps as Jesse looks to her wrist to see that the meter reading is now only at two m. Jesses breathing intensifies as she looks straight ahead of her, eyes wide with fear and a pale horror sets in to her cheeks and lips. With a quick flash, five pairs of eyes open to reveal nothing but sockets filled with what one could only describe as hellfire that had appeared roughly six feet behind her. The only sounds that were made in that brief point in time was Jesses breathing and then screams of terror as the tendrils quickly tightened around her waist and whipped her back into the darkness next to the hellfire eyes.
“Conspiracies can be found all over the world. Area 51 and the “Greys” that so many people claim seeing and being brought about ships beyond our comprehension. The theories of the Anunaki and the Sumerian tablets along with the supposed progenitors of our world. Telekinetic psycho-technology. Mind control and meta physical destruction of the brain. Weapons of mass destruction that could wipe Russia off the face of the planet in less than three seconds. Military sub levels built in caves that house para-natural and supernatural scientists that fuck with things beyond this mortal realm of ours...and eons beyond our understanding...in the pursuit of what? A better brighter future?” The woman is breathing extremely heavily even though she looks like she could easily run five miles and not break a bead of sweat. Something is strange about this one though. Sweat pools on her forehead, her cheeks pale as a sheet, pupils shrunken down to the size of small specks and the looks of utter horror on her face. “If we are searching for a better and brighter future, my only questions is this. In this hell hole we call home...whose brighter future will it be for? Me and you, or for someone behind closed doors?”
As the armor clad woman continues to run, she unlatches a pair of strange goggles that are attached to her hip and fasten them around her neck. She then reaches into an outer breast pocket, picking out a handful of small round objects and immediately throws them behind her. Once they hit the ground, small blue diodes lite up on them and began to pulsate for a moment. The woman looked back only for a moment to see if anything was following her. She rushes through another small puddle and turns her head back around, only to have a large spiders web firmly attach to her face and hair that immediately shocked her system with fright. She screamed out in the dark tunnels that echoed on for miles it seemed as she scurried to get the webs out of her eyes. Once she was free from the nuisance, she drew her weapon that was holstered on her other hip side. A strange looking pistol that bore a switch that she flipped on, powering up the weapon and illuminating it with a slightly blue tint that shown through small crevasses and other wires along the handgun. It whirred for a moment until it had reached a certain charge on a gauge that said “32% eff.” and a counter on the side of it. The handgun let out a small piercing noise that echoed in the dripping halls around her along with her heavy breathing. She pointed the pistol in all directions, quickly taking aim at anything that she perceived as a threat that shown in the light. A high pitched whine could be heard as a small explosion of light and an odd colored electricity lit up a portion of the halls where she had just been. Following the lights, a chilling and haunting shriek shattered the shadows of the halls around the woman that made her hair stand on end and her hands clam up.
A small gadget on her wrist lights up and a holo-projected monitor starts sending readings to her that continue to climb until they begin flashing red and a warning sign comes into view while displaying “Unk-Unk-Unk” off to the side. Her lips start to stutter as she hears a set of what one could only think of as clawed feet coming in her direction. She points the pistol in the direction of the sound until she notices a counter on the side of the firearm that reads “03”. “Fuck! Shit! No...no no no...” She immediately abandons the thought of using her weapon as she quickly turns off into the direction she was heading and sprints off in a frenzied pace. She quickly ducks and dodges low hanging pipes along with rock formations that jutted out from the side of the wall or that had fallen from the ceilings above her. She made it a point not to look back and did her best to keep her breathing as steady as possible to minimize fatigue but her terrified state was winning. A scratching and whirring noise instantly overrides her thought process as her COMM-Link tries to pick up a signal that is having difficulty getting through. She lowers an earpiece and mic down to hopefully get a response. “Hello? Hello! Can anyone hear me! HQ?! Anyone?!” The COMM whirrs and scratches some more until something could be formed. A familiar voice. “Je...Jess...Jesse! Come in Jesse! Goddammit Jesse answer me! What in the bloody hell is going on down there!” Jesse turns back around and fails to hear any indication that the thing making the noise was continuing its chase. She halts for a moment and waits patiently as the voice continues to scream out her name. She takes this moment to duck behind a large rock formation and begins pulling ammo clips out of a leg carrier along with what appears to be a small medical kit containing small vials of various luminescent liquids and other odd things that even a doctor would not recognize. She opens up the channel and begins to speak to the person on the other end. “Captain! Captain is that you?!” “Yes darling it is, now tell me...what in the nine hells is going on down there!” Jesse changed the ammo clip from her pistol and inserted a new one and now the counter read “25” instead of its original “03” but still remained at “32eff.” “Captain, something went wrong down here.” “Wha...explain yourself Jess. What do you mean wrong?” “Our intel had to have been off on this one. Briefing told us that we were just going to be sent down here on a routine class two portal hunt. Something trivial at best. Shouldn't have been anything three agents would have had to worry about but they said something about getting odd readings around the site so they wanted to be careful and sent the three of us down here. We never found the portal...just...it” “What the shit are you talking about Jesse? None of our sensors detected any sort of anomalies before we dropped you three in the zone. No PKE. No PPOE. No signs of anything down there. What is going on down there! Where is the rest of the company?” “Captain there is something down here, I'm not making this up!”
The point of view switches to that of the captain. A large and very scarred man, easily towering over his intel agent that is working frantically beside him. The captain pauses his onslaught of Jesse and closes his eyes. He breathes in and then lets out a sigh that is all too familiar to the agent next to him as he diverts his eyes away from the captain. “Hendricks and Hyoo Sung. Where are they? Our heart monitors picked up odd readings and before we knew it, they flat lined. What happened Jess?” A slight sniffling could be heard from the earpiece and the captains fears immediately became reality. “Dead...sniff...they're both dead. It...that thing...it picked us off one by one. Tricked us somehow and separated us like beef due for the knife. When I heard their screams and found it consuming them...I..I ran. Those eyes...” The captains eyes drew in for a moment as his eyebrows lowered in anger. “Goddammit...Hendricks was a POA. A rank four one at that. What in the hell could have taken him down that could have walked through a class two?” “Captain, this thing. It's something new. Something that-” The captain immediately cuts Jesse off with a quick bark. “What did you just say?” “Captain it's something new! Something that we've never seen before. Hendricks and Hyoo Sung had never seen or heard about this before and I know that they've been on the squad for three years.” “Jesse, what class and rank is it?” “I don't know captain. The scanner went crazy anytime that thing got near us. Everything is unknown captain” “What in the hell did you find Jess?!” “Captain, it's gotta be supara-natural and it's at least a ra-”
The COMM transmission becomes scrambled and overflowing with static and white noise, only allowing in bits and pieces of scared words coming from Jesse. “It...the...abi...g..inco...t..wil..and it..ac...rup..can..s when it...ear.” The captains puzzled look extends to the intel agent next to him as his eyes squint slightly. “Carmichael, what the hell is going on with the signal?” The intel agent Carmichael, furiously trying his best to smooth out the signal, responds in the most calm manner he can. “I don't know captain. She's only twenty five feet underground so there shouldn't be any issues unless she hit a patch of granite or something that might be putting of some sort of EM interference which we would've detected long ago.” The captains pupils widen as he presses a small button on his ear COMM and screams out “Jesse! Jesse can you hear me!”
Back in the darkness of the underground labyrinth that has Jesse within it's grasp, after she finishes explaining the situation she waits for a response from her captain, but all she can hear is the haunting sound of static from her COMM. “Captain?...captain?” Her voice becomes softer as the sound of scratches and static reverberate off of the walls and the occasional crackle of partial words jump from the COMM. Her eyes widen in the light of her shoulder LED mount and her lips begin to quiver as she catches the sound of the unearthly scream that had sent her in a panic before. The sound of footsteps can be heard, almost like they are trudging through the muck and umbral morass of the world around them. The footsteps began to pick up their pace, creating more noise that bounced off the walls in every direction around Jesse making it nearly impossible to figure out where the source of the sound was coming from, then it stops completely.
The scanner on her arm jumps back to life as it begins to show massive readings and a warning on the holo-screen, this time showing a bright blue blip and a distance between her and this shadowy stalker. The meter tracker reading at twenty five m begins to tick down rapidly to twenty. Jesse stood up from her position shining her light in all directions. Nothing can be seen. Fifteen m can be seen on the tracker and now her shoulder light begins to flicker and spasm. “Wha? No! No no no!” Jesse quickly taps it to try and give it another surge but it is no use. As the light begins to fade, ten m can be seen on the illuminating wrist scanner. Jesses breathing becomes rapid and frantic and she begins to looks rapidly in every direction. Seven m can now be seen on the holo-screen and Jesse draws her weapon and quickly turns on the power. With a thrum and a high pitched whine and a small blue hue that lights up an area roughly six feet in front of her, she scans the area with her finger squeezed tightly against the trigger. As the light from her shoulder LED finally flickers and fades out of existence, Jesses breathing hastened and she takes one hand off of her weapon to affix the pair of goggles to her face and turns them on as well. The room becomes illuminated in a dull green of night vision. She flips another switch on the left side of it and the lenses of the goggle transition in a different mode. One that shifts the night vision to another type while keeping the dull green glow. She scans the area in front of her, beads of sweat forming all along her neck and cheeks. She scans to the left and then quickly to the right. Not a soul in sight. She then quickly turns around and points her weapon straight ahead, only to find nothing behind her. The static from the COMM and the whirring of her pistol are the only noises that she can hear around her along with an occasional garbled word from the COMM as well. The only light remaining in the darkness being the faint glow of her weapon and wrist scanner. She scans to the left and right, then quickly pivots around and fires off six rounds from her pistol the look to be a type of bullet charged with a strange form of energy that glows a pale blue in color. The bullets careen off of the wall and ricochet in all directions. She had hit nothing with her quick burst.
Unbeknownst to her, constantly remaining in the arc of her shadows, blackened tendrils had begun to form and free float around the darker parts of her waist, keeping well enough away from touch and out of sight. The scanner quickly flashes and beeps as Jesse looks to her wrist to see that the meter reading is now only at two m. Jesses breathing intensifies as she looks straight ahead of her, eyes wide with fear and a pale horror sets in to her cheeks and lips. With a quick flash, five pairs of eyes open to reveal nothing but sockets filled with what one could only describe as hellfire that had appeared roughly six feet behind her. The only sounds that were made in that brief point in time was Jesses breathing and then screams of terror as the tendrils quickly tightened around her waist and whipped her back into the darkness next to the hellfire eyes.
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