Nick jogged past room after room looking for Beast, the stench of feces and stale blood still ever-present in the air.
His muscles were sore, his wounds radiated dull pulses of pain due to adrenaline wearing off, and his body was caked in blood.
His HK had ran out of bullets nearly half an hour ago and he'd resorted to using his knives, choosing to keeping his side pistol as a last resort. His knives even began to dull and chip away from their constant use, but he finally found him!
Following the low wimpering sounds that were just barely audible, Nick spotted a fresh mutant corpse still leaking blood inside of what appeared to be a large office. The corpse was leaning onto a large wooden desk, Nick quickly entered and lifted the body to the side.
Laying in a pool of blood, Beast could be seen panting heavily. His right front paw looked mangled and chewed to bits, even Nick could tell it was unrepairable with his little knowledge of dog anatomy.
"Shhh it's fine Beast, everything is gonna be okay!" Looking the dog over, Nick noticed that besides the mangled paw and a few cuts Beast looked relatively fine.
Taking out a ziptie Nick wrapped it around the dogs wounded leg and tied it tight, eliciting a yelp from the panting dog but Nick didn't give a chance to complain as he hoisted it up and onto his shoulders.
"This is gonna be a bumpy ride Beast, no time for complaints or consideration." Taking out his pistol, Nick was prepared to leave the office when a folder caught his eye.
It was covered in layers of dust but the words [CLASSIFIED] was barely visible.
Giving Beast a guilty look for staying a little longer longer, Nick quickly opened up the file and began reading the single paper that laid within.
[Expirement Log #217
Name: James Von Reinhart
Date: 8/21/1942
Report: Day 19 of Expirement, Subjects show signs of heavy mental instability as well as further physical changes. These past 19 sleepless days seems to have mentally and physically corrupted them beyond what is considered human.
Today, as if they could communicate with each other, all nine subjects began ripping and tearing their own flesh off their bones within a half second apart from each other despite being in different rooms. Guards were forced to enter the holding rooms to stop this action of self mutilation, only for them to begin attacking the guards.
They moved at near inhuman speed, they sunk their nails and teeth into the guards and ripped them apart with ease, their movements are estimated to be comparable to Captain America!
It appears as though the Russian scientist we've captured weren't lying, this chemical of theirs seems to prohibits sleep and awakens something within humans.
With each sleepless day these people become less and less human, turning more violent and animalistic but they are also turning faster and stronger...
I've immediately requested to stop this expirement and to terminate the subjects, it doesn't seem feasible to weaponize. I fear we are tampering with things we shouldn't be, things about the human condition that should remained hidden.
(SHRED AFTER VIEWING) ]
"Holy shit this sounds familiar... A drug that prohibits sleep and Russian.... Right! That one creepypasta online about a sleep experiment!"
This story was incredibly vague in Nick's mind, but he knew that it was a famous horror story in his previous world and that was warning enough for him.
Taking a deep breath, Nick forced his sore legs to begin sprinting once again throughout the underground facility. Relying on his pistol and the occasional kick to deal with the creatures that got in his way.
Nick now knew what those weird humanoids were, humans that had undergone an experiment and were left here to rot or atleast offspring from the expirements. That being said none of this made any sense in Nick's mind.
'Why was this base left here? There is still equipment from the WW2 era and classified documents, they'd surely want to deal with it... Unless this isn't an official government base! It has the appearance of one but I haven't come across anything that explicitly states that, it's more likely they covertly funded this place! This would explain why nobody has come inquiring about it, but not why it still remains standing and not a pile of ash.'
Nick didn't really care about this mystery, whether it was this world or his past the Government has always done shady activities. It's human nature, every country with power will do any and everything they can to get a leg up on their enemies.
Nick rounded a corner and continued running, everything seemed alright until an overwhelming feeling of dread overcame him. Without hesitation Nick dropped to the floor as a dead body flew past him.
Looking at the splattered remains the landed just next to him, Nick didn't even look back as he realized that humongous old man was behind him!
'Shit that thing must've killed those hiding in that reinforced room!' Nick immediately began running away, only to his horror, he heard feet slamming onto tile!
The large muscular man was desperately chasing after Nick, the only reason it hadn't caught up was due to the injury Nick gave it to its leg!
The thought of throwing the 40lb dog off of his shoulder to get away definitely entered his mind, but Nick shook his head and continued running towards the exit with terror in his heart as he heard the foot steps slightly louder.
Thankfully it appeared the old man was focused solely on chasing after Nick, not allowing him to spare the time or effort to throw a body at him.
Running through the maze like facility, dodging the occasional humanoid with an 8ft tall muscle old man chasing after him, Nick saw the wrecked hole that he entered from!
The tile floor furiously clicked clacked from Nick's running and boomed from the old man chasing after.
Clearing the hole Nick immediately felt the cold desert night air hitting his face and continued running, now on the sand. The sound of something heavy slamming on the ground and kicking up dirt was behind him.
Due to the loose sand moving and causing less resistance for Nick's foot to run on, his speed drastically shrank but thankfully so did the old man.
Allen felt his fear growing as he ran into the dark of the night, sure he had thermal vision but that didn't help much in the dark sandy night as he frantically searched for the swat car.
He was just about to give up the search and fight the behemoth of an old man unarmed before he grew too tired, thats when he saw the faintest orange color in his thermal snake vision and chose to run towards it.
As he neared this heat signature, Nick quickly realized it was the heat from the swat cars engine! With hope refreshed in his veins, Nick's legs sped up towards the swat van.
As he neared the van, the sole seat member who was in charge of guarding the vehicle noticed Nick racing towards him and immediately got out.
"Stop right there before I'll be forced to sho-" the swat members stopped as he saw the humongous muscular man chasing after Nick.
With fear and self preservation, the swat members managed to quickly snap himself out of the shock and quickly get back and start the van.
The swat vans engine roared to life as he immediately put the car in drive and floored it, hoping to leave both Nick and the monster behind but he was wrong.
As the van sped off, Nick's hand managed to grab the vans ladder leading to it roof!
Hoisting himself into the moving vehicles roof with one hand, Beast in the other, Nick took a look back and saw the orange heat signature of the massive man slowly fade into the distance as the Van sped off into the distance.