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“The scientists watched from the other side of their glass shields. They knew what they had made. They knew it was evil, but they didn’t care. Such was the way of mankind.”
-Professor Nabe Gewell-

What you are reading now are the collected and recorded surviving documents of the R-VEX experiments.

They called it “Rage Virus.” It was the next generation in biological weaponry, designed and tested by the late Professor Nabe Gewell at the Mercy Medical and Biological Weaponry Institute Complex.

“Deployable in gas or liquid form, it would attack the nervous system, rendering the target immobile, before shifting to the glands of the human body and causing huge overdoses in the creation of adrenaline and testosterone. This would drive the victim nigh enough insane, causing them to attack anything they could find, before eventually destroying themselves.”

Or, at least, that was the idea.

These are the notes of three scientists working on R-VEX:

“Most of the time, it worked. The problem was, while the infected attacked normal humans, once all none infected humans were dealt with, it was rare that the infected would in-fight between themselves. As well as this, people rarely died at the hands of the infected; they were usually allowed by the already infected to join their ranks. The infected would just mass together, huddling up like penguins. They almost seemed to draw comfort from each others misery.”

“No one could explain the anomaly and no amount of alterations to the virus could change this. When they did in-fight, it was a vicious affair, with two individuals tearing each other apart, but such an event was extremely rare, and was only a fraction of the hoped self destruction intended by the weapon’s creators.”

“After they had calmed from the initial infection, the infected were relatively approachable. So long as you moved slowly and remained calm and quiet, the infected would just simply wander around, staring blankly at anything it found interesting. This made them trivial to monitor so long as all precautions were taken. If not…you’d be lucky to survive.”

The behaviour pattern of an infected human became mapped out by the Professor, and through a series of tests, this is what was discovered:

“At first, the infected will appear docile and harmless. They are obviously humanoid, however their skin is white from the effects of the virus and the almost constantly throw up, hence how some people have come to nickname them “zombies,” even though they are actually not zombies because they are living things in every sense. They will stand and mindlessly wander and stare. However, their brain is still functioning in certain ways. If something changes, such as an object is taken from their enclosure, they will instantly notice the change with almost aspergic interest. If something is added, they will instantly attack the object until either it is destroyed or the infected has come to the conclusion that it isn’t threatening. For this to happen, the infected must attack the object for at least two hours, none stop without reaction from the object.

If they can hear a noise that sounds like it is coming from a living thing, such as footsteps or a bird’s tweeting, they will suddenly become active, turning their heads to try and find a focus point on the noise. Once a focus point has been discovered, they will move towards trying to get around or break down any barriers till they get to it, at which point they will take all possible measures to actually destroy the source of the noise in the same manner as their previous actions to new objects.

When presented with live animals, such as cows and birds, they treat them in the same way as a new object in their enclosure. Even if the animal in question is much larger and more powerful, they will still attack it, and if it retaliates, the infected will only be spurn on to battle it further.

They do not respond to food, (however they have been known to respond to smell, using it to find things that are hidden in their enclosure,) and do not become interested in anything that would normally interest a normal human. The infected, for example, do not know what to do with books, do not seem to be able to open doors in any other way than bashing them down and don’t make any attempts to use even simple or conventional weapons in a combat situation. They simply rush in and attack with nothing but their hands and feet.

However, they do have a level of humanity, in that they obviously feel pain. If they injure themselves, they make noises that almost sound like the sort a normal human would make and even lie on the floor if the pain is great enough. Sometimes, other infected will actually clamour around the injured individual, not protecting him as such, but they are just curious as to what he is doing.

These mental patterns, while basic, are extremely rigid. No amount of mental manipulation can change these base instincts. The infected are like simple computers that cannot be re-programmed, doing what they have been programmed and nothing else do unless destroyed or shut down.”

This rigid mental programming was what the scientists trusted would keep the infected easy to combat if the Rage Virus did escape, and indeed, the common infected are nothing special. If it was only them, this battle wouldn’t be so one sided. What they didn’t realise we the viciousness of the Rage Virus, and its ability to tear through whole cities in a matter of days. And then, there were exceptions to “normal infection.”

Sometimes, the victim’s physiology or psychology interacted with the virus, and somehow created huge mutations. When this discovery was made, mankind should have stopped their experiments with this man-made nightmare. Yet, they pressed on, fascinated by the exceptions to the rules…

The exceptions, or “Special Infected” as they were dubbed, took many strange shapes and forms. And so, were siphoned off and viewed with great interest by the testing team.

Here are some of the experiments in question, written up in a report by none other than the professor himself:

***

Exceptional mutations report: 1174#(23-4)

(EX04)

History: Pre to infection, Subject 04 already had a highly unstable mind, and was considered a clinical psychopath. He had killed seven people in a knife incident, and was deemed too dangerous to walk the streets by the government, so was used in the Rage virus experiments.

Results of tests: His imbalanced mind was further broken down by the virus; more so than normal. He no longer walked like a human, and instead skulked around on all fours, and made animalistic growls and screams whenever anyone passed by his cell. He didn’t attack in the same way as the other infected, as he demonstrated on March the 31st, 2011, when he was recorded leaping out of transport cell while he was being taken between enclosures, and straight onto one of the monitoring staff, tearing him limb from limb before anyone could get to him. As a result, we have had to put a re-enforced roof on his enclosure to stop him from leaping out.

Mental Condition: He is much more aggressive than any infected previously encountered, and will attack anything vaguely humanoid nigh enough constantly, even if his own wellbeing is under threat. Attempting to approach him is highly dangerous, and unless you are able to hold him down and sedate him, physical analysis is highly difficult.

(EX12)

History: Diagnosed with a fatal lung cancer at the age of 34, Subject 12 took part in the tests willingly.

Results of tests: Only moments after infection with “rage gas,” he began emitting the very same gas from his mouth every time he exhaled. The virus had mutated his vulnerable cancer cells, telling them to endlessly produce the virus in gas form, something that they couldn’t have done with healthy cells. As well as that, his cancer spread to a good portion of his external body. As a result, he began creating clouds of this deadly gas wherever he went, and constantly made coughing noises. As a strange and un-explained side effect of all this, his tongue mutated over a period of months, and grew to almost 100ft.

Mental Condition: Subject 12 is an exceptionally calm infected, almost never attacking un-provoked. While not as docile as Subject 19, he is nowhere near as aggressive as a common infected, and is worlds apart from Subject 04. However, over a period of years, he was actually observed practicing to use his tounge in a similar way to a chameleon or a frog; as in fire it out long distances. At first, he used it to drag objects towards him, which, unlike the other infected, he would sometimes pick up and examine. No one knew why he did this, but it was believed at the time that it was just his uniquely infected brain’s way of passing the time. The true reason for his strange fascination with his mutated appendage was revealed on June the 2nd 2011, when he strangled a scientist near to death with his tongue, using his practiced method of attack. No one expected such sudden, unprovoked violence from 12. Ever since, he was held in a bulletproof glass cell with no bars from which he could spit his tongue through.

It’s obvious that he is more intelligent than normal infected, but no one could have guessed he would be capable of such extensive plotting and patience.

(EX19)

History: Nothing greatly interesting in his history, other than the Subject was diagnosed with Diabetes at the age of 12.

Results of tests: Subject 19 reacted so violently to Rage gas, many though he was dead by the time he subsided. However, he still had life signs, and was brought back my medic teams.

His violent reaction took the form of massive tumours growing on every inch of his extremities. He was described at this stage as nothing more than a huge, bloated humanoid that could hardly walk and never reacted to anything, only ever making gargling noises. He would spend hours sitting on the bed in his enclosure, staring blankly at passers by. Some scientists likened him to an obese man, even though he was of a perfectly normal size pre-infection.

However, even he wasn’t harmless, as Judith Macarthy discovered. She was a medic who looked after Subject 19. While she was trying to take a routine blood sample from the usually docile infected, he was described by an onlooker as suddenly standing up and “vomiting” all over her, before calmly sitting back down again. While shocked by the event, Judith was un-harmed. However the reactions of all other “normal infected” were astounding, in that at the very moment Subject 19 attacked, every infected in the complex went crazy, bashing on walls and the bars of their cells. Any who could make visual contact with Judith as she crawled from 19’s cell, were described as “reaching towards her through their bars in a highly aggressive manner.”

It was as if they could smell something in 19’s vomit that acted like a pheromone, causing them to attack the stricken individual.

Mental condition: Usually docile, Subject 19 has made no recorded attempt to physically attack humans or even leave his holding cell when it was left open. He has, however, repeatedly vomited on other scientists, causing the same reaction from other infected, but thankfully, this event is harmless so long as the other infected are held in their cells.

(EX125)

History: *Withdrawn*

Results of the rests: After initial infection, Subject 125 seemed totally unchanged in any way. He actually walked out of the gas chamber, and sat down outside in the same manner he came in. He even talked to the scientists about his experience, saying that he felt “no worse for it.”

However, after a few hours, he began to show the natural signs of change. He turned pale and began bleeding from his orifices, but while still mentally stable. He didn’t complain of pain, but was obviously scared by these effects. Then, exactly five hours after infection, he changed dramatically. He suddenly stopped communicating properly and started grunting and slurring his words in a drunken manner.

Rather than slowly increase levels of adrenaline and testosterone, his glands actually erupted within his body, pumping an ungodly amount of both hormones into his system, but also a growth hormone. As a result, he changed overnight from a normal man into some kind of massive infected behemoth.

When I heard of his change, I had to see him for myself, and I can safely say that he surpasses even Subject 19 in the violence of his reaction to the Rage Virus. I could only describe him as a humanoid gorilla, as he walks around on all fours, his arms and upper torso have become massively oversized and his head and hands are lost in a seething sea of his own muscle. His strength levels far exceed any living creature on the planet, let alone any human that has ever lived. Luckily, his clunky and ungainly body restricts the use of this un-godly strength.

His skin is as thick as whale blubber, and four times more resistant to abrasion, piercing and bullet impact than Kevlar. This means that he doesn’t respond to any anaesthetics, even ones used to take down elephants. Attempts to destroy his skin samples with radiation, poisons, explosives and acids have had little to no effect. However, we have recently discovered that fire may be able to damage his skin to the point where firearms could penetrate deep enough into his weakened frame to impact a vital organ, which would slow him down at least. Without being able to test this however, we have approximated that it would take about ten to fifteen minutes from first ignition to death without the use of such firearms.

Mental Condition: Subject 125 is so aggressive, combined with his incredible reaction to the rage virus that it is almost impossible to physically analyse him in any way. He attacks anything and everything, and we have had to place him in a re-enforced cell to keep him contained.

However, unlike any infected previously created, Subject 125 is capable of rational thought and communication. His intelligence is comparable to that of gorilla, in that he uses simple tools to complete his goals, and makes grunting noises to communicate, to the point where you can actually tell what he’s feeling and thinking.

When placed with an actual group of gorillas, Subject 125 actually made attempts to communicate with him, but in reaction, possibly to his monstrous form, or just because he resembled a rival to their group, they became fearful and aggressive towards him, and eventually, he with them.

In more detail, when he was threatened, he would give out a long, low growl and beat the ground around him in a display of strength. If he was attacked, or had an object thrown at him, he would make a yelping noise, before promptly making screaming noises and running at the attacker. But possibly the most terrifying aspect of this is his reaction to killing something.

When supplied with dummy humans filled with meat, actual cadavers or even other normal infected, he would single out an individual, and attack them with impressive force. His blows knocked the dummies and the infected all over the place and once they fell to the floor, he would beat down on them, pummelling them into the floor with ground shaking force until they literally broke apart and there was nothing left but a bloody pulp. Once he was sure they were dead, he would turn to the observation staff, rear onto his back legs and actually make a noise which could only be described as growling-laughter.

I witnessed this whole sequence for myself, and I have never seen anything so terrifying in my whole career. The fact that he takes pleasure in the destruction of other living things was one thing, but it was as if Subject 125 was actually threatening us; as if he was trying to say “If this barrier wasn’t between us, I’d do this to you.”


As for his use of tools, Subject 125 will react to any object given to him, and will actively pick up objects and throw them around. We have supplied him with small, soft children’s toys to keep him amused, which he will often throw around his cell, and even at passers by and other infected outside.

This subject is unique in other ways. For example, other infected are actually afraid of him, something though impossible. We actually had to move infected near to his cell to other locations, because if they could see or hear him, they began to either fall to the floor and sob or hide out of his sight.

Personal note: Oh god. What have we done. We should have destroyed that virus the moment we realised what it was capable of. Instead we let it do this. 125 humans have become brainless freaks and four of them are monsters. Subject 125 is almost indestructible, and who knows how many other 125s there are out there? Who knows what the others are capable of, and how many other possible mutations are out there!? This is it, I’m going to put a stop to this now. If this gets out, it will be the end of us…

***

Nabe was right; it was the end of us, and the end of him.

On the eve of the year 2012, subject 125 escaped. No one knew how, but that hardly matters. In one night, he tore the Mercy Complex apart, single handily killing everyone working there, including the professor, and inadvertently released other infected, including the other mutants.

It only takes one’s imagination to ponder what happened next.

So here I stand, in the middle of Washington Dc, only two weeks after that event, and the world belongs to these monsters.

Gah, I’ll finish this bloody report later, I got hit by one of the infected a couple of days back and I’ve felt like shit since. I juts need to lie downadeah shtteaksmss-ns836bdsknad
I really, REALLY need to stop playing Left 4 Dead.

Anyway, this is my veiw on the history of The Rage Virus...

I only have one more story like this left, and then I'll get back to Bloodwork.

Anyone want to add anything?
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lol...Nabe Gewell...