Breach [commission]

Commission for jackxano

"The breach was silent at first. It reeked of sabotage or treachery and brought back echoes of rumors of the commander wanting to abandon the base. It had been a total mess, a catastrophe. The only winning move would have been to abandon the base and sterilize the whole rock, but someone was unwilling to give up on the base.

The infestation had been so small and it did look like it would be easily contained. However much like with parasites and bugs of all kind, it's easy to kill 90 or 99 percent of them. But eradicating the final 1 percent and ensuring they do not begin to spread again after a few weeks? Very difficult.

As a prelude to the breach our activity had gone from eradication to actual fighting, people being killed or worse, becoming puppeteered by the monsters. Each time we lost someone, they became stronger. Eventually it became almost like a tide, we pushed them back and in no time at all, small new colonies would have cropped up beyond the point where we thought we had already removed them altogether. It was very difficult to clean everything properly and endure their attacks all the while.

In the silence they had somehow crept inside the base. It began from somewhere in the barracks and the chaos spread rapidly. For the first few critical minutes there was no alarm, only the occasional out of place sound, drawing people from their quarters into the hallway. Within the few following minutes all hell breaks loose. Panic and chaos as the creatures would rapidly multiply, turning people into carriers and monsters that would further infect more people. What likely began as just a few parasites, exponentially grew into a wave of horrors, sweeping across the hallways and cabins of the barracks. Security doors left open as panic stricken folks try their best to get out, but all the while allowing the monsters to spread into other areas of the base. At some point, the fortified doors leading into the base are opened.

By now the alarm had been sounded. The silence had become a deafening cacophony of screams, radio chatter and gunshots. Every man for themselves as barricade upon barricade was destroyed. However in the canteen where an organized effort to push the creatures back the situation had began to change, as the soldiers with great effort pushed back the swarming horde.

Eventually, the interior of the base had been cleansed and with this event it was decided that the base was to be evacuated. However, the efforts to evacuate the base would prove to be all too slow and inefficient. In the next few days the command would once again find out that eradicating the last 1% can prove to be an insurmountable task."