“That’s not the best way to avoid death but thanks anyway,” Lieutenant Storm joked with a nervous smile before throwing her protective vest away and picking up her weapon that floated next to her, pouring the liquid from its barrel, trying to clean it with no real effect.
“I do my best to please,” replied Marie with a grin, sharply pulling off her protective vest that had been damaged in the battles with the goblins and symbiotes.
She wriggled as she peeled off her tank top. The chemicals and slimy liquid now smeared against her bare stomach, it was a very unpleasant feeling. She splashed her tank top into the sludge like it was an odious rag she had taking offence to; they both now stood almost waist-deep in the bath of chemical waste. Lieutenant Storm held her weapon out of the grunge adjusting her tank top that now clung to her curvaceous powerful frame. Her tank top was now far from its original brilliant white colouring, it was now an off dull green in parts and transparent in others.
“Guess I shouldn’t complain huh. Who I have to look good for?” she grumbled.
“Well, I’m here,” Marie replied jokingly with a false smouldering taunting look.
“Don’t start something you can’t finish,” Lieutenant Storm giggled.
“That’ll give a sniper something to aim for,” Lieutenant Storm joked, laughing and pointing to Marie’s fluorescent pink sports bra.
Marie smirked sarcastically and tried to pour the sludge from her rifle while answering, “The sniper can look all he wants, but he ain’t touching.”
“According to my visualiser, there’s a room up ahead, we might be able to get out through there,” explained Marie as she trudged through the waste to the vats edge where she helped Lieutenant Storm out of the vat onto a thinly constructed walkway; in return, she was helped by the lieutenant.
“Wait,” Lieutenant Storm called out to Marie who had left her side to search for the entrance into the other room. Marie turned back to face the lieutenant; she watched as Aisling tore her tank top in order to get the Were Inc Insignia off of her, dropping it into the waste vat. “Command left us here for dead. Your captain bailed on us, to hell with the lot of ’em.”
Marie looked to Aisling and smiled. “When this is done, Were Inc has a lot to answer for,” snarled Marie. Aisling agreed and returned her smile.
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hey started to walk towards the room with purpose when unsurprisingly, they both slipped on the metal surface of the walkway. They slide for several moments before they fell down the metallic steps and crashed through the door and into a large room; a room that seemed to have been in constant use. It looked like it was never abandoned since the facility was constructed. They looked up from the snow-white tiled floor that they now stained with their grimy clothing and stained bodies to see a sterile clean white room where everything was in perfect working order. All around them were things they couldn’t have possibly began to explain. There were multiple cylinders filled with clear gelation holding a number of what may have been failed experiments, they held small and different coloured solid substances similar to the creatures they had already encountered; just what was it that Were Inc was trying to do in this facility and what was the truth behind Project Mortal.
They boldly stood, gazing at the equipment around them. The things in the cylinders seemed to be in a dormant state or possibly dead, however, neither of them wanted to risk another encounter with the increasingly difficult to kill symbiotes.
They separated as they walked around the room to examine all it contained and uncover whatever it had hidden. Aisling approached a display stand that stood at waist height. She faced a cylinder, leering at it before she felt compelled to reach out and touch it. The substance within the cylinder caused her to jump with fright when it threw itself towards her hand, even after she pulled her hand away it seemed to struggle to get closer to her like she was what it needed to survive.
“Probably best if you don’t do that again, we don’t know a lot about these things,” Marie playfully laughed as she took the digital-pad from its allotted slot at the base of the cylinder and began reading through it intently.
Aisling nodded in agreement with Marie’s suggestion then set out to explore the room with more caution wherein she stumbled over her own feet then reached out to break her fall and inadvertently activated a hidden door that opened up into a larger room. Marie gripped the digital-pad firmly in her hand while she helped Aisling up. They both looked into the new room with astonishment and at first glance, the room appeared to hold even more sinister creations! They entered the room with great reserve; they could see cages that contained skinless beasts, their teeth both small and large, their eyes mutilated and their skeletons deformed. The smaller creations seemed like they were underdeveloped; it was like Were Inc scientists tried to create or cross breed some kind of a dog or wolf but failed. The company’s rejected, or failed experiments seemed to be stored in these two rooms, but why were they not just destroyed? Why keep failed test subjects? They walked further into the room where they stood at a huge glass chamber that housed a man, with a cybernetic arm, eye and some manner of a metallic chest plate. There was a plaque on the base of the chamber
