Speaker 1: When the Night comes out presents the Hive Part twelve.
Speaker 1: They heard the horrendous screech as they entered into the
Speaker 1: lower levels. The mine area was so close. Ketnenger was
Speaker 1: breathing hard, and that icy hand on his heart somehow
Speaker 1: got colder and squeezed tighter when he heard the screech.
Speaker 1: They know, he said, yes, they'll be moving fast. King said,
Speaker 1: we need to go back up into the shaft. Why
Speaker 1: I forgot about the door, King replied, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I forgot about the door being closed. We either need
Speaker 1: to open it again or get around it. Hang on,
Speaker 1: Ketnenger said. He picked up his phone and dialed Jennifer.
Speaker 1: Get the barrier door open, but just a fraction. There
Speaker 1: are Ghuls in there. One of the guards yelled, get
Speaker 1: your weapons ready. Kennenger replied. The huge door ahead of
Speaker 1: them began to rumble. A second later, the Ghules on
Speaker 1: the other side began to pour out. There were not
Speaker 1: a lot of them, however, the guards opened fire behind
Speaker 1: Kennenger and King. Three of the dozen or so ghoules
Speaker 1: fell with their heads blasted apart. The rest came running
Speaker 1: forward at a dizzying pace. Two more scrambled up a
Speaker 1: wall like spiders. King whirled around and grabbed a gun
Speaker 1: right out of Mike's holster. He turned and fired, both hands,
Speaker 1: holding the pistol. Dropping to his knees, he fired three
Speaker 1: shots quickly, and three of the creatures fell, heads blown apart.
Speaker 1: Even in the chaos, Ketnenger had to admire the skill.
Speaker 1: How many had they managed to trap in the medical ward?
Speaker 1: Kennenger had no idea. They kept streaming out of the
Speaker 1: small gap in the safety door, all of them snarling,
Speaker 1: biting the air as if there was a meat in it.
Speaker 1: If these creatures knew what was happening, then the others
Speaker 1: near the administration building would know almost instantly. How soon
Speaker 1: would they all be turned around and headed right toward
Speaker 1: the medical wing and the mines below.
Speaker 2: Not long?
Speaker 1: They were running out of time. We gotta move, Kennenger cried.
Speaker 1: They're all going to know where we're headed. We have
Speaker 1: no time. One of the creatures leapt high into the air.
Speaker 1: Kennenger lost sight of it against the rest of the
Speaker 1: hive above his head. When it came down, it landed
Speaker 1: on one of the other men, who trailed behind himself
Speaker 1: and King. He turned, but the shot went wild and
Speaker 1: high he saw the creature lean forward, the needle, sharp
Speaker 1: teeth visible and dripping with some sort of fluid, and
Speaker 1: tore into the man's neck. The guard screamed, but it
Speaker 1: was cut off quickly, and then another of the creatures
Speaker 1: jumped on the pile, and Kenengar had to keep running
Speaker 1: and couldn't watch anymore. The distance between the cell and
Speaker 1: the sealed area was really no more than twenty yards, However,
Speaker 1: when there were grinning, evil ghules headed for you, leaping
Speaker 1: and cavorting and gnashing their teeth, it might as well
Speaker 1: have been twenty miles. It felt like forever that they ran,
Speaker 1: but they all kept their heads. The guns fired and fired.
Speaker 1: Somehow they shot down more of the creatures than not.
Speaker 1: Their group lost two more before they finally reached the
Speaker 1: sealed area through the giant door. Closed the door, Kenenger
Speaker 1: called into his radio out of breath, hands on his knees.
Speaker 1: That's going to lock you in, Jenny cried, indoor radio, God, damnage,
Speaker 1: and shut the door. I know that the ground and
Speaker 1: the air rumbled as the door closed. As soon as
Speaker 1: both doors met and shut tight, all of them heard
Speaker 1: pounding on the other side. They had just made it
Speaker 1: before creatures split off from the group at the Admin
Speaker 1: building had reached them. Just in time, eh Dalton asked,
Speaker 1: breathing heavily. We made it, yeah, but I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine what's happening back at the building, Kenninger said. The
Speaker 1: creatures stood in the office, their heads turning slowly, they
Speaker 1: studied the furniture, the screens. When they realized that some
Speaker 1: of the humans were heading for their home, they dispatched
Speaker 1: some of their number, but at this point it did
Speaker 1: not matter if they sealed off the area below. They
Speaker 1: were free after centuries. What they needed to do was
Speaker 1: add to their number. Once they reached a critical mass,
Speaker 1: the humans would be overwhelmed and they would control all
Speaker 1: of them, or have devoured those unworthy of joining the ranks.
Speaker 1: The one that had been called Q provided them with
Speaker 1: so much information it was difficult to sort through it
Speaker 1: all as a collective. When the bodies they wore were
Speaker 1: dead and rotting, it took time for them to process
Speaker 1: what they were looking at, to understand, and to plan.
Speaker 1: Right now, they were planning, swaying in a breeze that
Speaker 1: was not actually there. There was a city, hive city,
Speaker 1: an entire town filled with people but it was barred
Speaker 1: from them the gate. The gate was huge and it
Speaker 1: was guarded by one man. Yes, now a plan had formed.
Speaker 1: They would get through this door and run up the
Speaker 1: side of this building. They would pour into the administration
Speaker 1: building and overwhelm the humans within. Once their numbers had increased,
Speaker 1: they would easily take the gate and then run into
Speaker 1: the city beyond. Once in Hive City, there would be
Speaker 1: no defense against their number. They would overwhelm the humans,
Speaker 1: turn more of them, and then they would find a
Speaker 1: way to use the lift. Let the humans hide behind
Speaker 1: the door in the mines. By the time they were
Speaker 1: willing to emerge, the Hord would be gone, headed up
Speaker 1: to the surface. Once there, the world would be theirs.
Speaker 1: They would turn the world into a place where they
Speaker 1: would have food and a constant supply of new members. Now,
Speaker 1: how did they get through the blocked door? Those that
Speaker 1: were in the office scanned the door and the frame
Speaker 1: in which it stood. The door was reinforced with metal. Inside, However,
Speaker 1: the frame was mere stone. While that was strong, it
Speaker 1: was not reinforced and had been chiseled away by humans
Speaker 1: who did not understand stone. The Hord understood stone because
Speaker 1: they lived so much of their existence buried within the stone.
Speaker 1: If they had sufficient numbers, they would be able to
Speaker 1: make that stone crack. Then it would break, and the
Speaker 1: wall itself would come down. Then they would run. The
Speaker 1: call went out silently. It was a thought which spread
Speaker 1: throughout the hord below. The windows crowded around the hallways,
Speaker 1: and the cells come up, Come up. Now outside the windows,
Speaker 1: the Hord moved as one unit. They bared their teeth
Speaker 1: and began to make low, growling sounds. Then one by
Speaker 1: one they began to scramble up the side of the building.
Speaker 1: Their claws grabbed at the stone and they ascended fast,
Speaker 1: scrambling like ants. Soon they would be inside, and they
Speaker 1: would use their combined weight to break down the door. Soon, Kedenger,
Speaker 1: King and the rest of the staff that had made
Speaker 1: it through walked quickly through the medical ward. Almost all
Speaker 1: of the creatures had run through into the rest of
Speaker 1: the prison earlier, and most of the rest had run
Speaker 1: through just now. They made quick work. King gime here,
Speaker 1: Ketninger said, as gunfire erupted from time to time. As
Speaker 1: the guards finished off the rest of the creatures, we
Speaker 1: need to chat. King came over quickly, his eyes bright
Speaker 1: to Kettinger. He had never looked more alive, at least
Speaker 1: not since he'd been in the hive. He realized how
Speaker 1: much Dalton King thrived on chaos. This was making him
Speaker 1: alive again, awake, ready to take on a seemingly insurmountable
Speaker 1: task and grab it by the horns. What should we
Speaker 1: chat about, Mike, Dalton asked, with a smile. Should we
Speaker 1: discuss the weather? Well, that's a short conversation down here,
Speaker 1: it's always the same. The same goes for politics. Stop
Speaker 1: goofing around. They're going to attack the administration building, Dalton.
Speaker 1: We have to get this sorted. What do you need?
Speaker 1: Dalton's face turned serious on a dime. I need to
Speaker 1: get access to the explosives you use from. We need
Speaker 1: to shut down the new part of the mind where
Speaker 1: these creatures came from. Then we need to do something
Speaker 1: that will utterly destroy these creatures. I was thinking I
Speaker 1: could rig some flamethrowers for the gods, but I was
Speaker 1: also thinking we could create some bombs that don't just
Speaker 1: explode but burn. We're talking about making something like napalm,
Speaker 1: Kenninger said, Jesus Christ. Yes, Michael, we are at war here,
Speaker 1: you see, and we have to move fast, so just
Speaker 1: let me do my stuff. As they say, King set
Speaker 1: off like a kid and a toy store. He grabbed
Speaker 1: a large wheeled bin usually used to move laundry around,
Speaker 1: and began running around the medical ward. He moved fluidly
Speaker 1: and efficiently, opening the cabinets and closets, and began to
Speaker 1: fill his wheeled cart with things, canisters that Kettinger could
Speaker 1: not read, tubing, and other things that he could not
Speaker 1: possibly tellly. Kettenger walked around the ward, able to bring
Speaker 1: himself to worry about what King was doing. If the
Speaker 1: man was creating a super weapon that he would turn
Speaker 1: against them all to get to the surface, there was
Speaker 1: nothing he could do about it. Now. He had to
Speaker 1: trust that this man who had killed so many was
Speaker 1: thinking of the people in the hive.
Speaker 2: Kettinger, this is Jen.
Speaker 1: Kenninger put a hand to his ear. Go Jen, the.
Speaker 2: Creatures are scaling the walls of the admin building in mass.
Speaker 2: They're piling into the office. Mike.
Speaker 1: They're pressing against the door. That door is reinforced. Kenninger said,
Speaker 1: you know that, Jen.
Speaker 2: They're piling in so many that the walls around the
Speaker 2: door are cracking.
Speaker 1: Jen's voice was strangely flat. It was not a tone
Speaker 1: Ketenger was familiar with. When it came to her, the
Speaker 1: entire wall is going to come down, Jesus Kettinger thought,
Speaker 1: that's insane. Dalton King had wandered back over to where
Speaker 1: Mike stood. What's wrong. The creatures are piling into the
Speaker 1: office and such numbers that they're pressing against the door.
Speaker 1: The door is holding, but the goddamn stone walls around
Speaker 1: the door frame are breaking. King looked puzzled. We have
Speaker 1: seen what they can do. These things can run faster
Speaker 1: than humans can scramble up the walls, and probably have
Speaker 1: strength beyond those of a live person. While we keep
Speaker 1: thinking of them as zombies, they're not. They are demonic
Speaker 1: entities who can think, plan and have abilities we have
Speaker 1: not yet considered. I know you fear for your people,
Speaker 1: but we have to finish our task here, Mike. The
Speaker 1: men you have back at the building will need to
Speaker 1: fend for themselves. Mike felt a cold, icy hand on
Speaker 1: his heart. He hated being away from the people who
Speaker 1: were in his charge. He was the leader, the de
Speaker 1: facto mayor of Hive City, and here he was buried
Speaker 1: deep within the Hive and nearly totally buried away from
Speaker 1: all of them. He might as well have been on
Speaker 1: the far side of the moon. We couldn't even make
Speaker 1: it back in time to help them, Kenninger said, his
Speaker 1: mouth dry and his brain in a fury. We need
Speaker 1: to finish her task. Whatever I can do to help,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Then come with me and help me
Speaker 1: make these Get you men to help me too. We
Speaker 1: need to blow up and seal off that new mind
Speaker 1: shaft first of all. I can do that now. Then
Speaker 1: we need to make aw awmaments. Ketninger just nodded. His
Speaker 1: mind was split in two. One part of him was
Speaker 1: back at the building. He keyed his microphone, jen The
Speaker 1: men need to do their job. Everyone who has been
Speaker 1: trained in firearms, and all of you should have been.
Speaker 1: Now is the time to start using those skills. Create
Speaker 1: some fallback areas, look for places where you can run
Speaker 1: if you get overwhelmed. King myself and the men down
Speaker 1: here have to seal off the mind shaft and then
Speaker 1: we'll be back with weapons to wipe those fuckers out.
Speaker 1: There's no way we can make it back in time.
Speaker 1: Do you read me? There was a long pause that
Speaker 1: hurt Kenninger's heart. Every second, and when she did not respond,
Speaker 1: finally Jen's voice came back, filled with steel and ice.
Speaker 2: Got it, Mike, be careful down there, get back.
Speaker 1: Fast, Roger that. Then the mic went dead, and Kettenger
Speaker 1: shook his head to try and clear it. He had
Speaker 1: to focus. Let's get to workton. Jen stood in the
Speaker 1: office and stared at the phone in her hand for
Speaker 1: a moment. Behind the door, the creatures were growling and snarling.
Speaker 1: The door creaked, and the walls around the door were
Speaker 1: already crumbling. Within the office. From the camera's viewpoint, the
Speaker 1: creatures were tearing at the walls with their hands, pulling
Speaker 1: out pieces of the stone wall. Plus more kept piling in.
Speaker 1: Already they were shoulder to shoulder, and still they poured in.
Speaker 1: Up front, some of the ghouls were pressed against the door,
Speaker 1: unable to move. Jen walked into an empty office and
Speaker 1: tore off her blouse and skirt. Then she went into
Speaker 1: the clock and put on a jumpsuit that all of
Speaker 1: them in the office had. They were to be used
Speaker 1: in case of emergency, and if this wasn't an emergency,
Speaker 1: she didn't know what was. Then she put the shoulder
Speaker 1: holster on herself and made sure the pistol was loaded.
Speaker 1: There were extra magazines for the pistol, and she put
Speaker 1: them into the pockets, pulled out a pair of shooters glasses,
Speaker 1: and then topped it all off with a blue baseball cap.
Speaker 1: With one quick glance in the mirror, she stepped out
Speaker 1: into the office. Once there, she cleared her throat and
Speaker 1: the office workers, many of whom stood around, looked worried. Everyone,
Speaker 1: this is an emergency. Time to get the guns. If
Speaker 1: you've been trained, then get armed and get ready. Jen
Speaker 1: looked around and saw there were a few guards here. Guys,
Speaker 1: we need to get the guards up here and everyone
Speaker 1: who is trained. Those creatures are going to break through
Speaker 1: and probably soon. We need to fall back toward the
Speaker 1: cafeteria here, so let's set that up so we can
Speaker 1: defend it. Then if we lose that, we need to
Speaker 1: seal off the stairs and shut down the elevators and
Speaker 1: let them take the floor. Got me. The guards nodded.
Speaker 1: There was no questioning what Jen was saying. They immediately
Speaker 1: got on the mics and told the guards to head
Speaker 1: up to the top floor. The office workers all set
Speaker 1: about changing into their own versions of the jumpsuits, and
Speaker 1: most of them also strapped on weapons. They had been
Speaker 1: trained and had to get retrained every year. This was
Speaker 1: a prison, and even though the inside of this building,
Speaker 1: carved out of the rock itself, looked like a typical
Speaker 1: office cubicle farm, it was still a place where dangerous
Speaker 1: men were housed. If there was a riot or someone
Speaker 1: got out of control, every person had to be trained
Speaker 1: to deal with the situation. Jen commanded and they responded. Soon.
Speaker 1: The office furniture was piled to make barriers. One of
Speaker 1: them was about twenty yards from the office door. Then
Speaker 1: there were more pieces of furniture in the cafetin, which
Speaker 1: was in the middle of the floor. There was one
Speaker 1: door in and if they all went there it would
Speaker 1: create a bottleneck. However, there was another doorway opposites, so
Speaker 1: they could retreat if overwhelmed. Behind them. As they worked
Speaker 1: to create barricades and make sure there was enough ammunition
Speaker 1: to keep them alive, the sounds of the creatures tearing, clawing,
Speaker 1: and digging their way through the doors was constant. Jen
Speaker 1: took control and everyone just fell in line. Throughout the
Speaker 1: entire time they had been there. She had been the
Speaker 1: one who runs the office, and they just accepted she
Speaker 1: was in charge. When it was done, Jen took a
Speaker 1: post at the first barricade and held her pistol out
Speaker 1: in front, pointed toward the door. How much of the
Speaker 1: wall was going to come down. Depending on how wide
Speaker 1: the space was, there might be another bottleneck to keep
Speaker 1: the creatures from flowing like water over them. However, all
Speaker 1: of them had watched as the creatures leapt and crawled
Speaker 1: up walls. Keep an eye on the wall and the ceilings,
Speaker 1: Jen said, these fuckers can crawl all over anything and everything.
Speaker 1: All around her were the people she had worked with
Speaker 1: for years now. How many of them were going to
Speaker 1: die now? How many would end up bitten and turn
Speaker 1: How many of her friends was she about to shoot
Speaker 1: in the head? Jen pushed those thoughts away. The cracking
Speaker 1: sound grew in intensity and then became a groll. Jen
Speaker 1: watched as a crack formed around the doorframe, roughly a
Speaker 1: foot from the edge of the door. Here they come,
Speaker 1: Jen cried, shoot for the head. Just then there was
Speaker 1: a loud sound that could only have been described as
Speaker 1: the building itself groaning and crying. Jen felt as if
Speaker 1: the building was dying. The entire office door and five
Speaker 1: feet of the surrounding wall fell forward. There was a
Speaker 1: crash and dust shoot for the head, Jen called as
Speaker 1: the dust blocked her v you the creatures poured in.
Speaker 1: It didn't take long for Dalton King to find the explosives.
Speaker 1: They wore masks as they went down into the mines,
Speaker 1: and King only had to look at the walls near
Speaker 1: the entrance of the new mine to know where to
Speaker 1: place them. Kettinger stood back and watched As he worked.
Speaker 1: King seemed to understand where all of the weak points
Speaker 1: were and where the explosives were needed. Now that should
Speaker 1: bring the ceiling and walls down and steal this off,
Speaker 1: King said, muffled through his mask. We should get back
Speaker 1: since we don't entirely know what was Then he had
Speaker 1: to set this off. If this's dust, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: there will be, we don't want to be near it, understand.
Speaker 1: Kettinger nodded, and the two of them walked back up
Speaker 1: toward the medical ward. Once they were near the locker
Speaker 1: room area, King held up his hand. He nodded at Kettinger,
Speaker 1: who returned the nod. Then he pulled out the small
Speaker 1: detonator and hit the button. The ground shook and it
Speaker 1: took a few moments for the sound of the explosion
Speaker 1: to reach them. When the shock wave hit, King and
Speaker 1: Kennenger held on to the walls, but they did not
Speaker 1: fall over. Sure enough, a few moments later, there was
Speaker 1: a cloud of dust down the corridor, but it did
Speaker 1: not reach them in the locker rooms. Once all of
Speaker 1: that was over, they stood there for a moment, just listening.
Speaker 1: Do we think it's sealed Ketnenger asked, I know my stuff, Mike,
Speaker 1: that mine is sealed off forever. I'll trust you. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get the rest of this done. The building is
Speaker 1: under attack and all of Hive City is in danger.
Speaker 1: If they get through, then what are we waiting for?
Speaker 1: King replied. They headed back up the tunnel together. You've
Speaker 1: been listening to When the Night Comes Out the Hive.
Speaker 1: Tune in next time for the Hive Part thirteen. Written
Speaker 1: by Brian w Alaspa, narrated and produced by Ali James,
Speaker 1: Music by Vivek A Bishek. Catch up on the first
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