Death comes to Georgia | By : cheryl64 Category: S through Z > The Walking Dead Views: 1165 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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"Okay Bradford tell us what you know." Edward said. It was a small group in the private back room of the bar. In addition to Edward and Agent Bradford; Bernardo, Daryl and Sheriff Foley were sitting around the table.
Brad let out a sigh. "Well I don't think I have to tell any of you that the government does things that people don't know. Most people think the arms race ended with the fall of the USSR, it didn't. It's continued to this very day except now the enemy is the unseen 'terrorist'. Our military researchers have dropped all the nuclear shit. They figured whats the point of defeating an enemy if you have destroyed everything he's built. What if there was a way to destroy your enemy and have all the infrastructure in place? Just go in, do a little clean up and move in."
Bradford looked down at his beer. "I think I'm going to need something a little stronger for this."
Daryl stood up and went to a cabinet in the corner pulling out a plastic 1 gallon milk jug filled with a clear liquid. He unscrewed the top and sniffed. "Can't get much stronger n this, Merle's special brew." He sat the jug on the table watching as Bradford poured himself a shot then sputtered and coughed before catching his breath.
"That's better." Bradford took a deep breath before continuing. "About a year ago, one of the researchers found a way to manipulate brain chemistry in lab rats to make them attack each other attack each other. He figured what if he could find a way to create this response in people? It would be the perfect weapon. People would kill each other without destroying everything around them. He went to his supervisors with it. They thought it was genius."
"Hand me that jug will you." Edward said.
"Since when did you start drinking Edward?" Bernardo asked passing the moonshine.
"Since now, I have a feeling this isn't going to go down unless I'm half drunk." Edward told him.
Bradford continued. "Our military brass kind of let it slip to a few of our trusted allies, soon there was over a dozen countries all working together on the research. The problem was delivering it. I mean you can't walk around in an enemy nation trying to inject everyone individually. They needed a method of mass delivery. That's when the idea of a virus came to them."
"A virus? You mean like the flu?" The sheriff asked.
"Exactly like that." Bradford nodded. "Viruses spread fast and they are extremely opportunistic. It makes them the perfect carrier. Someone infected would spread it to the uninfected. You could wipe out a whole country in a matter of weeks. The problem is that viruses don't differentiate between friend and foe. They don't follow orders. They mutate and change in the way they want without regard to what we want."
"Shit." Daryl said with feeling.
"Yeah shit. One of the lab assistants snuck sample out. We figured he wanted to impress his girlfriend. Bathesda reported it to us 2 weeks ago. We've been looking for him ever since then. Bad luck for your little town he decided to take her camping on that mountain back there. But it was damned good luck for everyone else in this country."
"Good luck?" Sheriff Foley sputtered.
"Yes good luck that Dixon pegged it as something other than a bear attack. He called in Edward. The Bureau got notification as soon as you called it in Sheriff. The military were notified of the call while you were still on the line. It was more good luck you said it was some sort of shifter. Your little town doesn't have to die."
"So what now." Daryl asked.
"Hazmat will come in and evacuate the town. As long as everyone keeps their mouth shut, the military will send in some ringers for the Marshall's office to go in and handle the 'shifter'. They will clear the area then give the Sheriff a bullshit report detailing the capture and execution of the rogue and life will go on."
"So that's it?" Bernardo asked.
"That's it." Bradford said. "Within a week this will all be the basis of some new urban legend. Eventually everyone will forget that anything ever happened here out of the ordinary."
*****
Epilog
Hazmat had done a thorough job sweeping the mountain. They had pulled out 18 infected bodies while the public was fed a story about a rogue shifter pack. For a while life was miserable for the folks living around the mountain as gawkers and monster hunters descended on the area. When they realized that the locals were determined to remain closed mouth about what happened they went away. And life went back to normal.
What was never revealed to anyone was the Real report that was given to the Military brass. One of those 18 bodies was removed 'alive'. It was taken to an undisclosed location in Georgia where researchers could continue their work in an effort to perfect what many in the military considered 'The Perfect Weapon'."
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