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By nightfall we made it back to the station on a spare.

It was bad enough driving on only three good tires and having a monster's corpse stinging up a whole van.

On top of that, Martin's injury just seemed to be getting worse with each passing moment.

Long, strange streaks of dark grey were spreading across his upper chest.

Olivia was monitoring him, keeping a cool rag on top of the wound as he kept screaming every other minute at the top of his lungs.

But you wouldn't know it if you saw Mr. Cierney's face. His features were like those were man that had just bagged a prize elk on a mighty hunt.

I decided once we were settled it was going to be high time I had a serious talk about all this.

Once a few miles out, Cierney radioed to get a stretcher ready, Natalie and Jim were there at the garage before we even pulled up.

A blonde, gasped as she saw Martin's injury rushing to his aid and Jim moved the stretcher towards the passenger door.

That's not for him! Move the bug! Mr. Cierney instructed kicking open the van door.

Jim hesitated for a second and then complied by helping Olivia lift the creature onto the stretcher and dragging it towards the lower stairs.

Martin nearly collapsed though as he got out of the van and Natalie and I had to use our combined strength to get him inside.

I'll take him to the bunker she offered. I nodded and followed the others up the control room.

Five minutes later Mr. Cierney had grabbed the bottle of bourbon from his office and a pack of moburos and was insisting we needed to celebrate.

When Olivia and I didn't seem to share his enthusiasm, he sighed and pressed one of the intercoms to speak with the doctors downstairs.

Is the specimen secure?

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