Be Careful What You Wish For: A Zombie Apocalypse
Chapter 192: The Cure and The Brain

Chapter 192: The Cure and The Brain

The man hunched over the microscope in front of him with the coke bottle glasses straightened his back so fast that I could hear the cracking of his spine from where I was standing. "Charles," hissed the balding, middle aged man. "You know better than to announce yourself like that! I could be in the middle of something delicate where I needed my entire focus. Startling me like that could very well end up with all of us dead!"

Charles, the man beside me, straightened his back as a bead of sweat appeared on his forehead. "I’m sorry, Doctor," replied Charles, bowing until he was practically in half. "I brought you the Sergeant like you asked."

Doctor Comeau spun around fast as he looked over at our little group. His face went pale for a second before turning bright red with anger. "Who are all these people!?? This is a sterilized room! We can’t just have everyone tramping all over in here with their outside germs! What happens if they contaminate the samples?"

While the good doctor started on a brand new rampage, I went on an expedition of his lab.

On the far wall of the room stood a bunch of cages on shelves. There must have been over a hundred little white rats running around in their confines as they tried to get away. My eyes drifted over all the specimens until I found what was freaking out all the other rats.

In the far left cage was a rat that kept walking into the wall of its cage as it tried to get closer to its food source, only to be stopped by an invisible force field.

While the other rats were white with red eyes, this particular one was a muted green color with grey eyes and a chunk of its skull missing. It was adorable.

My eyes never left the cutie as I walked around more shelves and cages of other animals, including cats, dogs, ferrets, mice, rats, and even a gator. Half of the animals were green, and I don’t mean it was because they weren’t feeling well.

Opening the cage of the zombie rat, I picked him up by the fur on the back of his neck, only for that piece of skin to tear off from the pressure of me holding it up. Catching the falling creature with my other hand, I raised it up to my eye level. "So," I started, narrowing my eyes as I studied the rat. "Are you Pinky or Brain?"

Given the fact that his brain was showing and he was trying to get the brains of the other rats, I decided he was more of a Brain than a Pinky.

Armed with my new friend, I went back to where the gator was lounging in his cage. At least this scientist had some consideration. The reptile was in a large enclosure with doors toward the top to gain access to the animal. The bottom half held water, logs, and the fish needed to keep this prehistoric reptile happy and demure.

I was wondering if they had somehow managed to turn the gator into a zombie, but there was no real way to figure it out. By its very nature, the gator ate whatever entered its water... dead humans, living humans, rotten meat, really, anything.

It also wasn’t like the things were overly fast either on land, so it wasn’t like I was going to get into a race with it to see if it was zombie slow, and it was already green, so that didn’t help the ’was it, wasn’t it’s test that I was doing.

Letting out a long sigh, I opened the doors of the gator’s enclosure before making my way back to my men, opening the cages as I went.

"I did it!" exclaimed Doctor Comeau with more excitement than I thought was possible for that man. "I’ve created the cure, and it works!"

"The cure?" I asked, appearing from around a particularly large shelf. "The cure for what? The mutant zombies, the dumb zombies, the Reavers, or the Killer Clowns? Or is it the cure for stupidity? Cause I am pretty sure that we could use the cure for that."

The doctor spun around at the sound of my voice, his eyes narrowing on my face as if I were some unforgivable entity that dared enter his space.

"I’ve created the cure for zombie-ism," he announced with a nod of his head. "People will no longer have to worry about being turned into a zombie! I will go down in history as the greatest Scientist of all time! My name will be on the same level as Einstein and Newton!"

"I think those ones added something to the world and the people in it," chuckled Beau as he walked around Tank and the scientists to come stand beside me. "You might just be credited for kicking the human race when they were already low."

"There is no cure for zombie-ism," sighed Chang Xuefeng. "Country K has already tried it, and it just made things worse."

"Country K isn’t as advanced as we are," sneered Doctor Comeau, holding a vial to his chest like it was his baby. "Just because they can’t do it doesn’t mean that I can’t."

"You still didn’t answer my question," I sighed. "What did you develop the cure for? Because I am pretty sure that this guy would disagree with you over your findings."

Holding Brain up in the palm of my hand, I took more pleasure than I should have when Eve screamed and fainted in Adam’s arms.

Oops.

In my defense, I thought he was cute.

"What..." sputtered the scientist as he started retreating. "Why is he out of his cage!? He can’t be out of his cage!"

Before he could say another word, Brain leaped off my palm in a move that not even I saw coming and sunk his teeth into the good doctor’s neck.

"I’m guessing that isn’t good, huh?" I asked, cocking my head to the side as the zombie rat started eating a hole in Doctor Comeau’s neck. "My bad."

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