Super Virus Testing Facility
Believe it or not, last night I actually had another freaking iZombie dream. Like where are my The Good Place dreams? Maybe itтАЩs because The Good Place was so amazing that my brain just really wanted more out of iZombie? I once again cannot stress enough that these dreams are coming weeks after finishing the series, but I digress... This one at least isnтАЩt some sort of alternate ending and instead I borrow some of the characters to make some kind of mishmash dream about busting out of a compound with the help of some familiar characters and a helpful robot, but IтАЩll get into that after the break...┬а
I am Liv Moore, but IтАЩm not a zombie. I've recently been living very comfortably in Minnesota when I found out I was pregnant. Unfortunately I contract a virus during the pregnancy that has been going around the US. It is quite lethal and even though IтАЩm testing positive for it, IтАЩm not showing signs, but itтАЩs threatening my fetus. To keep the virus under control, they are sending people who test positive off to a quarantine facility. I am therefore trucking from Minnesota to an unknown location which is basically some enormous military medical base impounding facility. I spent my first few months withdrawn, refusing to acknowledge the other people there because I miss my old life.
After awhile, I got used to the daily routine which includes getting up at 7 a.m. to eat breakfast and then going through regimented exercise activities. At exactly noon there is lunch and from this time until 7pm at night we are allowed to have supervised time with the opposite gender with whom we are typically quarantined off from. The weirdest thing about the virus is that none of us really seem to be sick. Most of us seem completely normal, but we keep being reminded that it is indeed a horrific virus and all the guards are in Hazmat suits. We cannot rebel or even ask questions because they are also equipped with taser guns to keep us in line. Since a few months have passed, my stomach is really starting to swell from the baby. While I still donтАЩt feel comfortable around others, the loneliness is starting to set in. I am the only woman who contracted the virus via pregnancy and that anomaly causes the other women to avoid me for some reason.┬аIt seems to stem from how rare that scenario is.┬а
After scoping out the lunch scene for a few days, I finally select a group of three men who seem relatively approachable. I meet with them and while two of them are faceless, one of them is none other than Major Lilywhite. I strike up a friendship with them and after a lot of talking I finally voice my concerns aloud about how I think it's ridiculous that we're being held up like this and I don't really see a reason why. I don't want my baby to have to grow up in a holding facility not knowing the outside world. Major is a recent quarantine, he was only been brought in the last month, and he is exhibiting great behavior among the officers watching over us. It just so happens that prior to infection he actually worked for the military and was pretty high up in the chain of command. The officers canтАЩt help but treat him a bit differently and so me and the other two men┬а coerce Major into hatching a scheme with us.┬а
It takes a lot of convincing, but Major finally agrees that this is a bad scene and he also wants to get out because there just doesnтАЩt seem to be any real virus. Our plan begins by using Major to┬аguilt-trip the general with whom he used to be close friends. Major pretends he is going┬а stir-crazy in the facility. It just so happens that the base is situated in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hundreds of miles of empty wilderness. Major reminisces about his old love of fishing and how heтАЩll never be able to do it again. The general is sympathetic and since there is just open space outside the facility he grants Major a day pass to go out and fish in a nearby lake. Instead, we all prepare to use MajorтАЩs one-time use day pass keycard to escape like a line of cars sneaking into a gated apartment complex. The general has left Major with the keys to his old Hyundai so we all pile in to leave.┬а
We drive like our lives depend on it, not realizing that, though it is not within eye sight, there is a second outer wall that we must pass through before we are actually off-base. The outer wall is thick, un-climbable, and comprised of a vaccination facility where┬аthey've been trying to produce vaccines for everyone being detained. Faced with those facts we are forced to ditch the car, since our group will be easily spotted at the drive-thru checkpoint, and instead go through the vaccine facility. Major helps us take out a couple of guards walking the perimeter and we don their uniforms to sneak inside. Since I am heavily pregnant, I stick out like a sore thumb and my uniform doesnтАЩt fit at all.┬а
As we navigate the facility we run into a robot that looks like Justin McElroy. Instead of just being Justin McElroy, itтАЩs more like a shiny metal and squared edged robot that has a striking resemblance to the eldest McElroy brother. His AI is incredible and after working at the facility to move deadly strains of┬атАШvirusтАЩ even he has come to believe that everything going on in the facility is made up. His data led him to believe that the military is being unjust. He tried to voice his concerns to the highest authority, but he was brushed off as a simple malfunctioning robot. While he was checked over by the tech guys, he played dumb and acted completely normal so he could get cleared to return to operation to collect more data. He joins us so he can globally spread what he has found and we maneuver the facility with him leading as if he is meant to.┬а
As we get out of an office-type area, we enter a part of the vaccine facility that is just rows and rows of tiny Porta-Potty sized cages with people in each stall. There are multiple levels of stalls and narrow walkways suspended overhead leaving little blind spots for monitoring guards. There are small ventilation windows just above the stall doors and we peek into them to find that people are in various stages of disfigurement. We realize that the military is creating some sort of super strong mutating virus by infecting people over and over again with more and more virulent strains. AKA they are purposefully creating super-bug viruses with coordinating vaccines by torturing people. Our urgency levels go up one million fold and we know we have to get out.┬а
As we follow Justin-bot we are almost immediately spotted and we have to run down winding halls of stall doors to try to get out. We get separated from the two faceless men so my party includes myself, Major, and Justin-bot. We turn another corner and end up in a dead end with no choice other than to try the stall doors. It just so happens that some of the stalls are empty and we all cram into a stall to try and hide. We hear our other two comrades get captured in the distance so we really start getting nervous. Thankfully our compatriots put up a huge fight and buy us some time. Meanwhile, Justin-bot is using one of his attachments to unscrew the top of the stall so maybe we can sneak out onto an upper platform. He gets the top propped open, but we see there is a guard taking his sweet time strolling right above us. We can hear the men finally breaking down the stall doors that lead to ours and Major readjusts the way we are all crammed into the stall. When they bang our stall door open, the door conceals me and Justin-bot while Major allows himself to be captured peacefully. While they are cuffing Major and berating him for betraying the brotherhood, Justin-bot finally gets the top loose and we quietly creep up to the upper platform where the guard has finally left and run for our lives to escape.
