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Four Plagues by Kancer



Four Plagues [1]: The Beginning of the End
Date: 5 August 2003, 6:07 PM

"Okay, I'll be sure to do that, Sir." Henry shut the moniter off, and walked back to his seat to sit down, when he heard a muffled scream. "Charlie, Ron! Is this a joke? Charlie!" He didn't hear a response, and heard another scream, this one not muffled. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Oh my god, what are you doing to me? Ahhhhhhhhh!" Henry ran for the gun compartment, opened it, and pulled out the old, and never used MA5B AR. He made sure it had ammo, and ran through the Hull door. He heard a few more screams, which only made him run faster.
He finally ran into a room, totally covered in blood,guts,and brains. He only hoped it was the enemies. He ran through another door, and found a human body. He flipped it over, and gasped at the site. The body was pure white, as if all of it's blood was gone. He heard the door open, and pointed the gun at it. There was nothing there, so he turned back to the body. There was also a large hole in it's head. He gagged a few times, then finally vomited. He got up, and walked through the next door.
He found another body, and blood scattered everywhere. The bodys limbs where ripped off, along with the head, which was missing. It was also white.As he walked further into the room, he heard something. It was sort of like a slurping sound. He looked in the corner, and saw something move. He walked at it, and the thing turned toward him. Henry awwed in horror, and fear. "Awwwwwwwwww! No stay away. Don't come any closer." Henry couldn't fire the weapon, he was to scared. The thing leaped at him, and he tripped and fell over. It jumped on Henry, lifted it's club like hand, and brought it down onto Henry's head, crushing his skull. The thing hit him one more time, and made sure nothing was left, it then sucked his blood.
Blood sprayed all over the control panel, and it sparked, starting a fire in the ship. The moniter flickered, and the Master of Operation's head apperead on it. "Henry, Charlie, Ron! What the hell are you doing? Answer me! What's going on up there?"The ship wrenched forward, and made a nose dive. It was heading for the ground at 1200 mph, and gaining, when it hit the water, creating a huge fiery explosion, and also creating a mushroom cloud like wave. Nothing was left of Nightfire 5-18.

"What do we do now? Nightfire crashed, we've been receiving strange transmissions, and we've had reports of more Covenant coming in by the day!" MO Joseph Hardling walked out of the room, and into his office. He pondered of what to do, and accidently fell asleep.
When he woke up, all the lights were out, and a few were flickering. He felt around for his M6D pistol, and finally found. He grabbed it, and loaded it, because he never kept it loaded. He walked around, while feeling around for his thermal goggles. When he grabbed them, he put them on, and turned them on. Everything turned green, and only a few things turned bright orange, and red. He walked out of the room, and immediatly saw a dark blue figure dart into a room. He slowly and carefully followed behind.
As he walked into the room, he heard a slurping noise, which made him stop dead. He pulled off his glasses because there was a light on, and further into the room, he felt very exposed to death. He slowly backed away, but didn't think it was right to be exposed in the back either, so he walked further into the room. He heard static, and then, what seemed like thousands of screams. He walked to the middle of the room, and thought he heard something fall behind him. As he was turning, he was hit in the back of the head very hard. He felt the back of his head, and some of his brain gooed into his hand. He held his brains in front of his face, then turned around and saw something very ugly. It hit the side of his leg, which broke it, and he crumpled to the floor. Others gathered around the MO, and they suddenly jumped at him, and ripped him to pieces, litterally. He screamed, but everyone else was dead also. They left him on the floor, but only after they ripped off his arms, and legs. He was lying there bleeding to death, begging them to kill him. One walked up, and seemed to be their leader. It lifted his foot, and stomped repeatedly on the MO's face. He was still alive, so it lifted it's fist, and punched through the MO's head. It lifted him up, and wriggled him off his arm. It then spoke to the others in another tongue. "Get on the radio, and tell them were coming. We don't want to be caught off guard. Also show them this one, he seems to be very important!"

TO BE CONTINUED....



Four Plagues [2]: A New Enemy
Date: 7 August 2003, 1:29 AM

"Sir, we're getting a transmission." The man pressed a few keys, and the transmission popped onto the screen. "Uh sir, you should come look at this, now!" The Captain walked over to the panel. "What does it mean, sir?"
"I don't quite know? It's in a different language for sure."
"And sir, what are those, those 'things' in the background? Are they aliens, or what?"
"I don't know that either, call the..." The Captain stopped talking, and stared at the screen in disbeleif. On it, the 'things' were holding up the dead MO. They threw him away, and the transmission stopped, the screen turned black. The ship suddenly rocked, and shook violently. "Whats happening," the Captain said. The man pressed on the keyboard rapidly, and stopped.
"It looks as if the transmission was holding a virus, I don't know how it could've gotten through though. I'll try and destabilize it, or atleast gain enough time to stop it." The screen suddenly started flashing dark red, saying, "Warning," over and over again. "Uh... sir, the virus shut the ships engines down, looks like we're not making it home, alive anyway. The ship will crash in about," he pushed more keys, "an estimate is about 30 minutes, an hour at the most."
"How far are we away from Earth City?" The Captain was panicing, and shaking.
"Another estimate," he pressed even more keys,"about 3, perhaps 4 hours away. We have no chance, this virus can't be stopped. I never thought it possible, that a virus could shut a ship down, but I guess there's a first for everything."
"What about a last transmission, do you think we could without spreading the virus," the Captain said.
"What do we have to lose, besides ya know, a few thousand ships," the man laughed.
"I don't find that funny," the Captain said," but will you answer my question already."
"Let me check," the man said," well, I can't find anything about it, so I don't know."
"You don't kn, you don't know! Thats really great!"
"Listen sir, I'm sorry, I guess we could try."
"Well, we're gonna, so start up the Transmission Sender." A few men ran around, gathering the equitment, and supplies they needed to send a transmission. "Is it recording yet?" One of the men nodded, and the Captain started," Hello, this is the Captain of the Octouis speaking. We are sending this transmission for one reason, to protect you, the people from further destruction. At 1300 hours we recieved a transmission from an unknown sender. We proceeded, and opened it, not knowing the damage it will do. As we got further into it, it showed some rather graphic, and disturbing images. When it was finished, we finally figured out that this transmission was holding a virus of some sort, that shut down our engines. We are sending this to warn you, and to inform you that we will not be making it back. We are sorry if the virus has travelled into this transmission, and spreads to you. This is the Captain of the Octouis, signing out."
"Captain, we only have about 45 minutes left."
"We should try and..." The Captain awwed, as he stared out the window. A ship was gaining very fast. They suddenly recieved another transmission, and the man asked if he should open it. The Captain nodded, and the man opened it. It was more of those 'things' on the screen. More strange symbols popped up onto the screen. The Captain looked out of the window, and everything suddenly shutdown. He stared at the ship, and a blue streak shown in the window. He heard a loud crackkk!, and everything blew up!

"Sir, the Octouis has just blown up"
What's the cause,"the Captain said. The worker pressed a few keys, and suddenly spoke out.
"Looks like some sort of virus, they sent one last transmission to... us. We just got it, I'm opening it now." He pressed more keys, and it opened on the screen, and played. When it finally ended, everyone was silent, hoping the virus hadde'nt spread. After about 10 minutes, they knew it hadn't. "Call the President, we need to warn them."the Captain said.
"Doing it now, sir. Uhhh... sir, What's that?" Something suddenly jumped onto the windshield, and broke it. Everyone started to scream as they piled in through the hole. The new enemy wasn't there only problem, there was a big hole in the windshield, which would suffocate everyone. The new enemy was 8 '0 ft. tall, with long, sleet black hair. They were very buff, with wings, and they wore steel armor, which made their skin like rock. They had sharp fingernails, and toenails, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. They were called Gargons. One Gargon walked up to a human, lifted it up, and bit into it's neck, spraying blood all over people, the ceiling, and the floors and walls. The Gargons proceeded to kill everyone else with handleless blades, and their own 2 hands. They then steered the ship down, into a nose dive, killing everyone, and sending a message to the President of the World.

To Be Continued...





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