Cole sat silently in the military transport remebering the events which had brought him to this point. 'I must be fucking insane to be going back there,' he thought to himself, 'but then evidently I must not be the only crazy mutha fucka here.' He glanced around at the the other Agents that were mixed in with the ordinary grunts aboard the transport, most had not even been miltary before the outbreak. 'The alternative was probably worse for those who didn't volunteer for the mission and stayed behind to be tested to figure out why they didn't try to eat anybody when they were infected.' The thought sent chills through him remebering the thing that were done to him after he had been retreived after escaping the facility. The flight had been routine like so many he had taken before and his thoughts begin to drift to how it all begin.<br/><br/>He had been off duty when the shit hit the fan and woke up to the sound of alarms going off everywhere. He had worked an extra half of a shift the day before due to some sort of stomach flu or virus that was going around. He very seldom ever got sick and hadn't worried about it too much,he figured they would pass around shots and everything would be back to normal in a day or so.<br/>Cole jumped from the bed at the sound of the alarm and quickly dressed then raced to his designated area in case of an emergency. When he made it to the research area and opened the door his blood ran cold. The windows between himself and the laboratory were splatted with blood and he could see body parts littering the floor and tables. He noticed two scientists kneeling on the floor facing away from him like they were talking to someone on the floor and spoke through the intercom to them. They turned to look at him simaltaniously and that's when he seen what they were actually doing, they were eating.<br/>He seen a door open on the far side of the lab and security poured into the room in containment suits. He was donning his own suit when additional security came into the room with him along with his commander who immediately started spouting off orders.<br/><br/>Turbulence brought Cole back to the present as the transport was rocked violently. The lights within the transport went red and feit the bottom drop out, they were going down. He could hear the luetenent screaming orders but they were garbled and then nothing.<br/>He was floating in a sea of red and somewhere in the distance he could hear his name. "Cole! Cole! Get your ass up! They're coming in!" Clarity returned in the sound of gunfire and Cole began unstrapping himself and looked towards the cockpit where they were shooting. The cockpit had been opened up as if by a giant can opener and those things like he had seen in the lab were coming in through the breech. Cole was on his feet as an automatic shotgun formed in his hands and he opened fire desintergrating the head of one with the first shot as a spray of the thick black liquid they called blood errupted in a spay. The stench of death mixed with the sweet fragrance of roses filled the transport, he would have gagged if not for his conditioning. "What the fuck happened?" he screamed while he continued to fire round after round. Somewhere behind him he heard somebody yell back. "Lightning! Fucking lightning! Can you believe we were struck by fucking lightning? What's the fucking chances?"<br/>Cole continued firing into the horde that was now climbing over the bodies of their fallen to get inside the transport at the meal that had just fallen into their laps. He hadn't heard a word from the luetenent since he had awakened and assumed he was unconcious or dead but he knew they couldn't stay here. "Hold this line, I'm going topside to get a visual of our situation." He backed away and was replaced by another Agent who opened fire immediately.<br/>The shotgun disappeared from Cole's hands as he jumped then teleported thirty feet straight up where the momentum from his jump kept him suspended momentarily. The situation wasn't bad as it seemed from the inside, they had already taken out most of them and only around half a dozen or so remained. Cole teleported to their flank with a pair of machine pistols and opened fire into the crowd and between himself and the Agents inside they made short work of the horde.<br/>Cole went to the hatch on the side of the transport and pulled off the cover to the control panel. The wires didn't seem to be damaged so he hooked into his XM Suit for a power supply and the hatch slid open. "Lets get away from here before it desides to blow. Somebody grab the luetenent and drag his ass out here and see if you can wake him up. I'll contact Central command and see if I can get a lock on our position."<br/>The transport had went down in the middle of a dessert somewhere and Cole could see a city several miles in the distance and some kind of structure a quarter mile or so away. He figured they must have been held up in the structure away from the heat awaiting nightfall. He was still too far to make out which city it was even with his enhanced vision but figured they would probably be headed that way. He hated going into a city because there would be a lot more of those fuckers but it was the most likely place to find what they needed. They needed to find tranportation that could carry them all with enough fuel to get to their destination. They had barely made it out the door and the mission was already going to shit.