Project Haunt.

[Oedipus Rex]

    Captain Vasser ran through the thick forest, the only light coming from the flashlight at the end of his rilfe, and that coming from the pale full moon. He looked over his shoulder, panting, searching for the thing, the monster. He wasn't sure what it was, but it was there, and it was dangerous. It had killed off the rest of his unit, and now it was toying with him. It would wear this one out before it had it's meal. Vasser knew that he had no chance. He heard the bushes rustle behind him, and he stopped running, there was no point. "Better to face this head on while I have a bit of my sanity remaining" He said to himself, and turned towards the bushes, bringing up his rifle.
    "Come out and face me, monster" Vasser said to the night air, searching for his attacker, "Let me see the face that murdered my friends."
The bushes parted, and the creature stepped forward. It walked on four legs like some sort of disfigured wolf. It had bloody, spiked teeth that were now cackling, and black, soulless eyes. It walked towards him casually, almost taunting him.
    Vasser aimed his rifle, and placed his finger on the trigger. The creature snarled and lunged towards the captain, pinning him before he even had a chance to react. Vasser struggled under the monster's grip, but he was no match. He could smell the blood on it's teeth, and he knew that his would add to the stench soon. The creature opened it's mouth, and slowly bowed it's head until it was nearly centimeters away from Vasser's, and dug in.

    Captain Vasser woke fretfully, sweat beading down his entire body, shaking as images of his nightmare flooded his mind. He rolled over on his cot and looked at glowing red alarm clock.
It read 5:57, three minutes before it would have gone off had he not been awoken. He got up and turned it off before heading into the bathroom and washing his face. Looking in the mirror he saw that his face was pale, His eyes were bloodshot, and his lips were red. "This is going to kill me" he said to himself before exiting the bathroom.
    He continued his morning routine of showering, getting dressed in his uniform, which consisted of a black all weather jacket, black cargo pants with the ends tucked into black boots. On the arm of the jacket was a patch which read, "Q.R.C." along the top, with a skull in the middle and "Quick Response Containment" along the bottom.
   Vasser quickly made himself a cup of coffee, skipping breakfast as the nightmares he had usually woke him up with no appetite at all, and exited his quarters, heading outside to the base.

(I have intentions for finishing this, unlike -22 and dropping [Which nobody remembers, Ok? Ok.] and I will be putting up the next bit as soon as I can, probably tomorrow. For now I ask for your suggestions and critiques of what I have written so far whilst I go make some brownies. Ta-ta for now )

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(Ok, so, I was wrong. I enjoy writing this, so deal with it  )

    Vasser looked around the area as he drank his coffee. It was large and fairly square, surrounded by a ten meter high wall to keep out any would be trespassers. Inside the wall lay eight complexes, Vasser was at the barracks now. Besides that there were the central offices, the armory, the garage, a heliport, a medical center, the research facility, and the holding cells. The area was busy this morning, with people bustling about carrying orders, reporting to training, and the like.
    The door behind Vasser opened and he turned around to inspect it. Out walked three soldiers clad in uniform whom he recognized as his unit members, and his friends. Leading the group was a tall man, easily seven foot. He had dark brown hair and pale skin. He was dressed in a flat top cap and red sport sunglasses, in combination with the same uniform the captain had on. His name tag read Ammos Gravit, but the other operatives at the base had taken to calling him 'Ghost' because of the ski mask he wore on missions which had a bright white skull painted on it. He was second in command of task force 27 and Vasser's best friend.
    Behind Ammos was a smaller Asian woman. She had black, short hair and wore only the standard uniform. However she was very pretty. It was not uncommon for her to walk around the complex and hear the occasional wolf whistle as she passed. Her name was Ava Origana and she was the designated marksman of the four. Behind her pretty exterior was a cold blooded warrior who could take a man's, or creature's head off from half a mile away.
    Bringing up the rear of the group was a man who wasn't particularly short, but was very well built. He looked as though he could run straight through the wall surrounding the base without slowing down. He wore the same uniform as his teammates, along with some black gloves. His name was Scott Folley. From the way he was built it was almost obvious that he was the heavy gunner of the squad.
    Ghost spoke first, his voice was powerful, but not gruff. "Couldn't sleep again Vasser? These operations are really taking a toll on you."
    Vasser looked at his friend, "Nah, I'll be fine. If anything I'm learning from these night terrors." He said, hoping he could just blow off his question. "Now that you're all here, let's go see what the commanders want with us today." he said before beginning in the direction of the central offices.
    Ghost looked at Ava, who shrugged. "If he doesn't want to talk about it, then it's best not to pressure him." She said in response to his look of confusion. "Come on, we better catch up to him."

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    The glass double doors of the central offices closed behind the four as they entered. The walls were sickly white and reflective due to many coats of polish on the cold steel. There was a circular desk in the middle where a woman in a standard uniform sat surrounded by computers and monitors. Vasser walked to the front of the desk and took out a small card from his pocket. He swiped it on a small computer at the desk and entered his password when prompted. The woman behind the desk looked up at him as she finished up patching his information through and received their assignment for the day.
    "Good morning Captain Vasser," she said in a cheery tone, "How are you today?"
Vasser shrugged, "I'm the same as I always am, how are you?"
The woman took out their assignment sheet from a printer near her and handed it to Vasser. "Oh, I'm OK I suppose. I wish I could get out behind this desk and see some action" She said with a smile.
Vasser took the paper and did a sort of half chuckle. "Funny, I wish I could sit behind a desk all day." He said before heading away from the desk and back to his unit, who had taken to standing near the door waiting for him.
    Vasser gave the paper to Ghost, who skimmed it over. "Ah, looks like we're capturing some sort of scientist's pet gone wrong. The description shows a quadruped canine like creature, capable of incredible speed and strength. I don't know about you but I wasn't aware that we had been demoted to animal control" he said, handing the paper over to Ava for her to read.
    Vasser quickly thought over the description again before quickly speaking to Ava. "Can I see that please?" He asked, stretching out his hand. Ava, who was slightly annoyed that Vasser waited until she was looking over their assignments to want to read them, obliged and handed them to Vasser. The Captain quickly read o er the description again. Canine like figure, great speed and strength? Vasser quickly began to panic, but soon calmed himself. Surely it was just a coincidence, no need in getting all worked up over it. He skimmed over the rest of the paper. They were to depart later that day via helicopter. The area of operation wasn't too far from the island where the Q.R.C. headquarters is, which is where they were now.
    Vasser handed the paper back to Ava before speaking to his unit as a whole. "You are free to go about the rest of your days. Meet me at the armory one hour before dust-off." He told them before exiting the central offices and heading to the training center located near the barracks. Hopefully a bit of target practice would calm his nerves.

(I told you I had intentions of finishing this. I have just been busy these past few days [He says while lying through his mandibles.])

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((This is probably not the best written thing ever made, but it's mine and I'm proud of it.))


Capitain Vasser had spent the majority of his day releasing his tensions at the firing range, shooting row after row of targets all the while trying to forget the approaching evening. He had even managed to make himself down some food at lunch, not alot of food, but it was better than nothing.


When the time came for him to report to the armory, he did so very unhapily. He quickly entered and found Ava there, cleaning her gun. Vasser opened his supply locker and took out a set of midnight black carbon fiber armor. The armor was made to be extreamly light, and simply slip on over a soldier's standard uniform. Vasser donned the chest piece, and slipped on the leggings, locking everything into it's place. He also grabbed a F2000 assault rifle from the locker, a common choice among the soldiers due to it's fast rate of fire.


((My PS3 has problems with me typing large bits of text, I'll submit this in parts.))

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Ava spoke to him when he was done with all this, not looking up from her rifle. "Is everything alright Cap?" she said, sounding slightly concerned.
Vasser looked over at her, she was donned in the same armor as he was, and had her hair tied up in a ponytail. Somehow, she always achieved the impossible of looking stunning and deadly at the same time. "Yeah, I'm fine. The missions just make me a bit apprehensive as I get older. I'm sure you understand."


Ava was about to reply to him when Scott and Ghost burst through the door, both of them laughing at something that must have been very funny. They both approached their lockers, Scott carrying on with the story that he must have been telling. "And when the S&R team found him, he was strung up in his tree by his underwear, and the CO has never been heard from since!" Ghost burst into laughter, bending over clutching his side with one hand, and holding his armor with the other.

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Vasser cleared his throat and the pair fell silent, seeing him looking at them quite disdainfully. He spoke up "I'm sure that was a very funny story, but we need to get our shit togeather so we can get this operation over with." The pair looked at ava, who shrugged, before going about their business readying up quietly. When they were finished, Vasser spoke up again. "Alright, you've all seen the documents on this one, just a simple experiment gone wrong with a deadly outcome, nothing we haven't handled before. The experiment in question is described as being the size of a large wolf, and looking canine. I want a nice, clean, simple tag and bag on this one fellows, no monkeying around and we'll be back in time for supper." He looked around at his unit, "Sound good?"
"Yes sir!" came the standard reply from the three individuals. "Alright, now let's go catch us a beastie."