They'd shut the door and locked all these people in with the unknown monster of their own creation. Somehow I guessed that was fitting in a way.
Flicker and I had spread out into different rooms to cover ground more quickly, but I was beginning to feel that it would do us no good. There simply wasn't anything left whole in this place!
I kicked at a can in frustration and it clattered loudly along the floor in the stillness of the laboratory.
There was a heavy grunt from a darkened corner of the room behind me and in cold dread I half turned and was in time to see two huge red eyes open and stare right at me out of the darkness.
"What did you do?" Came Flicker's instant response to my horror filled moment of reality.
"I woke up hell! Run!!!" I screamed out in my natural voice.
My scream of warning was drowned out by a bone chilling shriek of unbridled intensity that erupted from the darkness at the end of the room. Both of my machine pistols were in my hands chattering, as they spewed hot lead into the bulk of the beast I now saw dimly outlined in the corner.
The beast came at me then howling like a demented loon. I dropped down as a massive arm swiped through the air where I had just been standing. I dropped both spent pistols, as they would do me no good for I had seen the beast, as it had come for me and no pistol round would take it down.
In that horror filled moment, as it had raced toward me out of the shadows I'd seen it for the monster that it was even as I had watched the rounds of my pistols deflect off of its metallic laced hide. The beast was the horrifying product of deranged minds at play and I'd never been so terrified in my life by the sight of an animal, if that was what it could still be called.
They had taken what looked like the body of an adult male gorilla and twisted it into a fabrication that one would expect of hell. It was obscene to behold and a terror to the soul, as if it was possessed.
Its arms and legs were gone replaced with massive robotic replacements. It seemed that it's hide shifted in a sort of plate-like armor, even as its head was encased in a metallic skullcap that only its red eyes glowed out of, as its slavering jaw was reared wide open to display metallic teeth of unnatural proportion. When I had ducked under the swipe at my head I had never stopped moving.