HARD vector

    “This is Christi Miller with Channel 27 news,  at what is being called “the great wall of Florida,” inarguably the largest roadblock ever constructed. The containment boarder starts at the Atlantic ocean and stretches across the entire state, making most of Florida a huge quarantine zone. And yes, folks, these boys have real guns, with real bullets, and have orders to shoot anyone who does not stop for the isolation teams. The president has called in the armed forces as well as the national guard to create this interdiction zone, in hopes of stopping the spread of what the CDC is calling the worst epidemic the world has seen since the Black Death decimated Europe.
    While the CDC does not know how the virus is spreading, or even if it is a virus, they do have a term for it. The Hyper-Accelerated Recombinant DNA virus, or the HARD virus for short. And until they know what it’s vector, or carrier is, they have no way of stopping it. Even more frightening are the effects of the HARD virus itself. Thought impossible before, the HARD virus is capable of rewriting the genetic code of a person and triggering their cells to restructure, literally mutating the person over the course of days, or even hours. Most people’s minds cannot survive the transformation, becoming  psychotic and totally insane. According to authorities these changes are irreversible, and they estimate that the infection rate inside the quarantine zone is near 95%, putting the death toll in the tens of millions.
    In the midst of this horrible tragedy, something even more remarkable has occurred. Over the course of these tens of millions of mutations, some of the victims seem to have developed some strange... powers... the ability to do things that modern science cannot understand or explain. Real super-powers, straight out of the comic books- people capable of flying, lifting cars, and firing energy blasts. It is a dark irony indeed that mankind now has it’s super-heroes, but they are all insane, and are currently using their amazing powers to demolish the downtown areas of Florida’s major cities...
    Wait! Wait! Pan to the right, Andy! Quick! Passing behind us here is General Christopher Jumilan, given command of this blockade by the President himself. General Jumilan- is it true that you are sending a CDC agent, an ex-special forces member, into the quarantine zone? Is the mission purely to find the HARD vector, or will you attempt to bring out any of the survivors as well? General? General Jumilan...”
    “Sergeant, I want that woman off the air, NOW. I want her, her camera, her tapes, and her crew. Under the emergency war powers act, I want her and her crew put under temporary arrest until further notice. Now, sergeant.”

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