---- Stopping her.


    No one knew what this thing could do to us.


    If it was transferable by touch or even the air.


    The fear of the unknown lingered in every ones mind and I watch them crumble helplessly.


    The special seveny scattered across the cold, unforgiving ground, each of them trembling as the transition gripped their bodies like a merciless tide.


    The sound of retching was relentless, tearing through the silence.


    Lilly clutched her stomach, her eyes wide and ssy as though she were staring at something beyond this world.


    Ben was curled into himself, his knuckles white as he wed at the floor, trying to anchor himself to reality Summer''s gasps came in shallow, uneven bursts, her hand pressed against he wound that wouldn''t stop bleeding and Jason, the lively and cheerful man, was eerily quiet, his head hung low as he muttered.


    something incoherent under his breath.


    My stomach twisted when I looked at them.


    ---- This was not what we had in our mind when we came here to thend of darkness.


    A fate like this was worse than death.


    Why was I spared? They could have forcefully converted me but they didn''t...


    Why was I lefi to stare at my team members slowly giving up on life.


    There has to be a way to save them.


    An antidote.


    Something to stop it! Dammit! Commandor Luc: broken.And I look up to find him staring at me with eyes clouded with agony and eptance.


    $s voice cracked, raw and.


    Please.


    Do it.


    He slide his knife towards me and it stopped at my feet.


    I stared at it with my heart hammering in my chest.


    My hands clench to fists.


    He leaned against the bars, his breath ragged.


    ---- "can feel it...


    mander...this thing inside me.


    It''s taking over.


    Soon, I won''t be me anymore.


    I''ll be one of them.


    I dont want to hurt anyone, Commander.


    Not you.


    Not the others.


    Not innocents.Please...


    end it before I do.


    His words cut through me like a de.


    I turn my back on him and grip the iron rods with a deadly grip when others began to stir.


    Lucas is right, Commander.


    Do it.


    Ben whispered, his voice barely audible.


    He was slumped against the wall, blood trickling from theer of his mouth and eyes hazy.


    Struggling with consciousness.


    Simr ck veins were forming on his leg where one of those monsters had bitten him.


    None of us...


    want to be that.


    You know what we''re asking.


    We better die before we...


    are used by that bastard for his own...


    sick motives.


    Damien, Lilly added, her voice trembling as she forced herself to sit up.


    ---- It''s better this way.


    Save yourself.


    Fight for us another day.


    Let us diemander.


    Thats what...


    Robin would have wanted if she was here.


    Lucas adds and I couldn''t keep it in anymore.


    Enough dammit! Iroared, mming my fist against the cell bars.


    The sound echoed, but it didnt drown out the truth.


    They had given up.


    Thadn''t And I fucking won''t.


    1 turn around to look at them and my rage gets the best of me.


    I have had enough of their bullshit.


    Tf Robin was here she would have asked you to get your fucking asses up and fight for this till the very end! Surrender is not something she preached.