Infection Site [IC]

[Tiffany Korta]

Lucy looked around at the fallen foes with some concern, not for herself being dead made her immune to their infection, but for the fallen themselves.

 

“Is there nothing we can do for them? Something that doesn't involve fire or beheadings. With what you know someone must be able to find a cure for this.â€

[trollthumper]

"I'll see what I can do about cure stuff," Nick said. The blue light still flickered over his head like a halo, and it cast more perspective on the basement. This was half a lab - someone had made some modifications, mainly in the form of the hyperbaric chambers and the attendant machinery, but it was still, for the most part, the basement of an office building. But there were some computers nearby, hooked into the chambers - likely gathering data on the vampires during their recuperation.

 

He placed a hand on one of the computers. "Access," he said with a voice like a dying modem. The computer flipped on, files opening at lightning speed. "The voice of rust can break most security, but odds are they've got some sort of back connection." But as Nick watched, some of those files began to collapse, winking out before his eyes. "Crap. The alarm must have triggered a purge or something. Bloodline, get that drive here now!"

[RobRX]

Bloodline hurried to hand over the drive to Nick before everything was being purged. "Here!"

 

It then occured to him that, perhaps, there was a predestination paradox there. They caused the purge, destroying all data on the cure and caused the apocalypse to be unleashed. The ramifications of all that seemed very catastrophic to him and he hoped that it wasn't the case. Time travel was a very confusing and confounding matter, after all.

[trollthumper]

The drive plugged into the computer. With Nick's encouragement, some of the files managed to migrate onto the drive, but others were lost to the tide of the remote purge. Soon, the computer was just an extremely heavy paperweight, hollowed out of all data. Nick removed the drive. "We may want to get out of here," he said. "And bring the bodies. I've got a feeling they're not going to stop at purging data. We need to --" 

 

Suddenly, the air filled with a slight scent like burning metal. Bloodline could feel a massive headache coming on, one that seemed to send the darkness rushing into the corners of his vision. For the other vampires, though, the reaction was much more adverse. They roused just long enough to send up a tide of hissing before collapsing once more. 

 

"No, no!" To Nick's senses, there wasn't even the tinge of undeath. Something had killed the vampires, and fast. And soon, the smell of metal was subsumed by a smell like rotten eggs... "Get out! Now!"

 

The heroes had just hit the top of the stairs before the impact came roaring up the stairs. Somewhere in the room, a spark had lit, and the entire basement of the office park was now an inferno. Nick could only stare back into the flames, wondering how much had been lost... and who had taken such steps to cover up their deeds.