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Novel excerpts: Science fiction

by Callum Ogle

MUTANT

The male inside had woken up, his eyes were red, and the tears had gone from his cheeks. He was rambling and looked at the people behind the glass that had confined him. The soldiers pointed their assault rifles at the glass chamber. The robes that were holding him up in the ceiling snap, the tubes also snap out of his back. The soldiers cock their guns.

'DO NOT FIRE'. Skinner ordered his troops. He watched as the male began to grow in his chamber. He was growing up, getting bigger than the chamber and it wouldn't be able to hold up for long.

The man stares at Skinner and pointed at him. He raise one of his arms, he make a fist and pulled his arm back and swung it forward at the glass. It began to crack.

Dellenbach stood up and ran to Danielle and picked her up. They ran to the door. He stay back to see what was going too happened.

The man threw another punch at the chamber, the crack got bigger. Soldiers began to step back from the chamber. The man threw another punch at the glass chamber.

Shards of glass fell to the floor and the man step out of the chamber.

Bullets fired out of the every soldier's weapon at the man. He stood there, welcoming the bullets, enjoying each one as they hit him.

The man stood there and raised one of his arms at a soldier in the far side of the room. His arm turned into a black, liquorice and it stretch all the way across the room, towards the soldier.

The Black Hand grabs the soldier tight. The soldier struggle, trying to break free but the grasp was too strong.

The arm began to drag the soldier back to the mutant. He screamed in despair pulled his arms out, praying that one of his friends would save him.

A solider ran to help his friend.

'LEAVE HIM.' Skinner ordered the solider. He froze and watch as his friend was being drag to the mutant.

Dellenbach was going to help him, but he was also curious and wanted to know what would happen.

The chest of the mutant opened up. His organs had also been replaced by the black liquorice specimen.

He drags the solider in to his chest and his chest closed back up and the soldier went silent.

Dellenbach and Danielle ran out of the door.

Skinner and his men began to open fire again at the mutant. The mutant didn't seem to mind and he began to grow again, his muscles also grew bigger.

The mutant looked on as the soldier's useless attempts to kill him. He looked at Skinner and smile again, his teeth had gone all sharp and had also grew.

The mutant began to move and ran towards the window. His speed was impossible because all Skinner could see was a blur going across the room.

The mutant jumps out of the window.

Skinner stood there, in disbelief and ran to the window and pokes his head out to see the mutant.

The mutant was falling through the air; the soldiers below had their guns ready to fire him.

'MORE FUN'

The mutant closed its eyes as it was about to land.

BOOM

The ground beneath his feet began to rumbled, soldiers were knocked off their feet as he landing.

He opened his eyes.

Soldiers were picking themselves up from the ground, he could see in the distance a young man who was holding a young woman's hand running away from the building. He felt compelled to the male

'ENEMY' the voice in his head said.

The soldiers close up to the mutant they weapons drawn, pointing at the mutant, The mutants teeth began to show, he raise his arm, it turned back to the black liquorice type again and this time it stretch to grab a soldier and bought him in closer and his stomach opened up again and the solider was put in and the stomach closed again, trapping the soldier forever.

The mutant roar out aloud, the soldiers nearby had to covered their ears to avoid deafness.

He grew a few further inches, his muscles expanding further.

It could see its enemy running in the distance, it wanted to chase him.

'NOT READY, NEED FULL TRANSFORMATION' the voice inside his head told him. The mutant ran out of the complex and in to the street.

The people ran around in fear, as the mutant roar in anger. The mutant looked around at the scare humans, begging for mercy, running in different directions.

A police car blaring its siren drives up from behind the mutant. It turn around, watching as the vehicle was about to ram it. The mutant stood there and raised its arm and the arm turn black again and extended, it trapped the police car in its grasp.

The mutant pulled his arm back and flung the car down the street. The occupants in the vehicle screamed as it travelled down the street.

The mutant looked around the street one last time and roar. He ran to a manhole in the middle of the road and lifted the cover and, flung behind him. It roars one last time and jump down the manhole.

Skinner stood there, his teeth clenched, anger across his face.

'Sir?' his radio went off.

'Yes soldier?' He asked the soldier on the other side.

'It's gone.' The soldier replied.

Skinner biting his radio and then threw it against the wall, two soldiers had to move out of the way and it smashed as it hit the stone wall.

He looked at the soldiers, who were frightened of him but also realise that he was mad. Skinner looked around his men, get after it and bring it back here, alive.' He told them, the soldiers began to assemble out of the room.

A solider walked over to Skinner.

'Sir, we need to get you out of here, in case, Dellenbach came back and tries to kill you.' He told Skinner. A smirk pulled across Skinner's face.

'That, solider, is what I'm waiting for.' He replied and walked out the room, leaving the solider confused.

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