necronik 1: intro
#1 of necronik
Silence. Maddening silence. The only sound to be heard is the wind blowing moaning wails into my ears, muffled by the gas mask over my head. Everything is blurry, I blink a couple of times to return my vision to normal. My eyes are met with light pouring out windows in columns, looking down I am met with the sight of the bodies, unmoving, bathed in red, furry and human alike laying in piles on the concrete warehouse floor illuminated by the columns of light. fuck I set upon the task of picking myself up, trying to ignore the pain all throughout my body. As I push myself up with my hands I grab onto the stock of my SPAS-12 and bring it with me as I slowly rise to my feet. Pulling the pump down I check the chamber, seeing a single red and gold tube, I pull the pump forward with a click, and for the first time I see the amount of bodies that are in this abandoned warehouse with me.
jesus Christ, there must be a hundred of them in here
I began looking for a doorway, an exit, looking to the left my enhanced eyes catch something shiny, a door handle. I bring my shotgun up and walk slowly, measuring my steps and stepping over the dead in respect, when I reach the door I remove my hand from the pump and rest the shotgun on my forearm keeping it pointed forward as I turn the handle slowly and push lightly, peering in the room, then, seeing it was pitch black I click on the flashlight attached under the barrel. Bright light illuminated the office in a circle the desks and the floor were littered with papers, shipment orders, and personnel files. I point my lighted gun to the far wall illuminating an opaque white plastic tarp with the word quarantine written in black on a yellow band stretching across the middle. Walking over to the quarantine tarp I grab a handful of it in my fist and pull, it gave way without much effort, crumpling up in a white heap on the floor. Light rushed in my face and caused me to squint against it letting my sore eyes adjust. Through the bright window I see barren earth and more bodies lying on the ground. I reach up and adjust my gas mask and open the door in the same way I did before. I step out of the dark warehouse and into the bright light of the wasteland that used to be the USA.