about.”
“I would be glad to. Thank you for the chance to work with you Admiral Bullosky. Not only you,” Dr. Isaiah pointed out, “But especially the specialists that you have afforded me in the last few weeks.” The doctor looked around the room, “This has been the most profitable time in my entire life. We have gone from crawling to leaping the distance of a football field. Whereas before we could enhance a few humans here and there, we now can do so much more. It once required one who was blessed with strength, fighting ability and an incredible threshold for pain for someone to achieve the level we had maxed out at; it is not that way now. Destiny was the best warrior we had once because of who she was and what she could do. That sort of thing will soon be irrelevant.
“Soon,” Dr. Isaiah continued with his eyes growing misty, “We will be able to sit back and do much of nothing while our experiments of today become tomorrow’s soldiers. If one of them falls in battle, we can simply revive them through a process some of you might have heard of; reanimation.”
“What?” Terry cut in with disbelief in his voice, “Don’t tell me you can bring things back from the dead.”
“We cannot directly resurrect someone or something from death, no. What we can do is reanimate the body of a dead being or object with the mind we choose to give them. Whereas cloning is going well but taking a long time, reanimation can give us a large group of soldiers in record time and we don’t even have to find more human bodies to get it done. We simply reanimate the ones that are currently dead with a flat-level mind and the great ability to fight with super-powers that would rival those of Eric Bayne if he were here to see them.”
“Hold on,” Abel said with concern on his face, “You are talking about creating our own zombies.”
“Not exactly,” Dr. Isaiah said.
“What do you mean?” Abel said again, “It is exactly that. Take a body that has died, reanimate it like a monster with a brain and skill set of your own making; for the time we live and the virus we have witnessed, that’s a zombie Dr. Isaiah.”
Dr. Cain spoke up again, “Call it a popsicle if you want to Abel; it is a great revelation for us to be able to create an infinite number of soldiers at any time we need them.”
“I would call it a popsicle if it were one but it is not; it’s a zombie,” Abel said refusing to let it go. “We have now traveled from fighting and killing zombies, to working with them and now we are creating them alongside the demons that have been behind the worst virus outbreak in the history of mankind. This makes little sense. Again, back to the question that Mr. Terry asked that was not answered, why do we need an infinite number of warriors, zombies or whatever you call them? If Bayne is gone and a supposedly traitorous Destiny is gone as well; who is left to battle?”
Dr. Cain smiled, “Organic Ascendancy has gotten to this point by being prepared Abel. You are one of the key components to us being as prepared as we have been. Knowing that we have the ability to create such an instant army without the further cost of human lives is something that will help us all sleep better. What do your spiritual communications tell you?”
“Nothing!” Abel yelled as he stood, “The moment this demon stepped into this facility, the spirits that I was able to contact grew silent.”
“Are you accusing me of something Mr. Nichols?” Bullosky asked calmly.
“I certainly am!” Abel yelled and pointed in Bullosky’s direction. “You have somehow silenced the spirits I once talked to. Now I am completely blind in my work and you did it to cover up for something. What is it you vile demonic bastard?”
Bullosky smiled and looked down as he said, “I have been accused of many things in the countless centuries I have lived Mr. Nichols. Surely you do not expect that yours is somehow more meaningful or threatening than