Chapter 226 - Outbreak [Part 1]
Chapter 226 – Outbreak [Part 1]
"I have a request Mizuki" Mirai began in a serious tone.
"Yeah what is it?"
"Don't try what you did last time we sparred, defend yourself in your way".
"Oh about that," he said chuckling slightly, he scratched his cheek with a finger.
"I'm sorry but it's a habit I can't get rid of" he states going in the same fighting stance as Mirai.
Mirai's frown grew deeper.
*Wailing Alarm*
As the sound burst, the red light came in too, like an alert.
"What's with the alarm, did a fire broke or something," Anzai said puzzled it was odd for something like this, in all his years in this base an alarm has never blown like this.
"No," Touka said with shaky eyes, she knew what it meant and it chilled her bones.
"The base is under attack!".
***
A Few Minutes Earlier
Ten sighed taking a seat on a platform while others engaged in some sort of training.
"Why are you feeling down Ten… count yourself lucky, you don't have to face the scary Queen, you're lucky," he told himself wearing a down look, but he knew all too well that was a lie he told himself, his best friends, Shino and Hiro were over there and here he was, it felt odd not working with them this time and just had to feel so down about it.
Haya walked towards him seeing his mood she sighed taking a seat beside him.
"Are you okay Ten?" she asked worried, he turned to her.
"They didn't pick you too, you're all-powerful".
"I don't mind," she said with a shrug.
"Do you?" she asked.
"I don't know. I know I shouldn't but I can't help it" he sighed.
"Because Hiro and Shino are there"
"Something like that… I thought we were like the inseparable musketeer, you know what I mean?" he said sighing once again when he knew his humor wasn't getting anywhere.
"It just feels odd that's all"
*Wailing Alarm*
"What is that?"
"What?" Haya said puzzled but then she saw the red light, she knew something was wrong.
"What's with the lights, did something happen?" Kaname said staring at the lights strangely, others did too, wondering what it was all about.
"Something doesn't feel right," Ten said certain, something like this could only mean one thing.
Anzai and the rest of the bio-genetics rushed in along with Touka.
"Bio-genetics!" he yelled gaining their attention.
"Get your gears, the base is under attack!"
They froze at his words.
***
Level 20: Prime Minister Level
Prime Minister Kiyoshi Office
"It's not an attack, it's an outbreak" Kiyoshi announced.
"An outbreak?" Anzai said puzzled.
"Our security team didn't find any threat from outside, the base is still secured" he explained.
Shino gulps hard.
"Then what could have caused the outbreak?" Touka asked with shaky eyes.
"A footage was drawn from the civilians level, Section one: Marketing hall"
At his words, Anzai's eyes went wide in shook. 'Kado' he thought worried.
"We immediately got the section locked down but we have no idea what might have happened," he said as his hand moved on the flat surface of the interface table, the footage came up.
"Today was vaccination day, a month ago after you guys successfully took Fukuoka and decontaminated the air we knew it was about time we got the civilians vaccinated to boost their immune system so that they can breathe the air on the surface when the time comes for us to move out"
Shino's looks turned puzzled, they were planning on moving out of the base? he did not know of that but it seems that Anzai and Touka did judging from their expression, he gulps, why were they planning such a thing? was something happening to the base?
"We are aware of that Kiyoshi-sama but what does it have to do with the outbreak" Anzai demands, he was getting impatient, he needed to know what caused the outbreak in section one, there could be thousands of civilians there or more.
"When the vaccines were being handled out by the doctors, it happened," Kiyoshi said playing the footage, showing the view of the marketing hall but it was blurry.
"Any normal day just like we have for weeks but something happened that we couldn't explain… if you see right there a doctor suddenly collapsed and then" he points.
They watched it trying to make out the contents but the camera was blurry, suddenly they saw the civilians running away from something, their eyes caught the shadow of something huge and then the camera went offline.
It was hard to explain.
"Normally our sensors picked it up and then the alarm bust out and according to the levels structure and auto if anything as such as an outbreak is caused there will be a lockdown in that particular area, but I know civilians are still in there we have to get them out! Before whatever that thing was to get them or worse" he said.
"Could it be the virus? Or someone infected, but I don't understand, what could have possibly been the cause of this" Touka said trying to wrap her head around it, they were all clean so where did the contamination come from?
"General Anzai is the bio-genetics ready?"
"Yes they are on standby"
"Good because this will only be a simple extract mission to get the civilians out, and contain whatever that thing is," he said sternly.
"Yes, sir we will," Anzai said for certain.
"In the meantime, let's try to contain this as much as we can, a mass outbreak could annihilate us all" Kiyoshi said sternly.
Anzai turned to Shino.
"You know what to do"
"Yes Sir!" he salutes before walking out as the door slides open.
Touka continued to watch the footage trying to make a sense out of it, 'An outbreak just like that' she thought with trembling eyes. 'Something doesn't feel right…'
"I will get the operators to find a way to open the door so that the bio-genetics can get in and get everyone out and then we contain this threat," Kiyoshi said.
'What on earth is going on?' Anzai thought with clenched teeth.