"I have already told you!", screamed Dr. Barclay, the top research biologist at a secret government testing facility for bio-weapons. "When we have to feed them, we put on protective gear and never stand too near the cage. NOW GO FEED THEM!"

"You meen when I feed them," Isaiah said under his breath as he walked away. "I always have to feed them." Which was true. Dr. Barclay rarely went any where near the test subjects.

Isaiah sulked over to the refridgerator and glopped out some of the disgusting gooey meat they fed to all the subjects. Even the cute little bunny rabbits ate the runny meat.

"Now Isaiah," Dr. Barclay said, "I've got to run. There's an important meeting with the pentagon staff tonight. I've got a lot of progress to report on.
So be sure to stay here until 8 to watch the subjects. Especially #'s 10-15. Those are the ones I injected with our latest break through , serum 79. Good night."

Isaiah made a half attempt at a wave and went back to dropping the goo into the cages. He shuddered, even after working here for a month he was still not used to seeing cute little bunnies and mice devour raw, bloody meat.

Although, he just noticed that the test subjects that were injected with serum 79 were not looking so good. In fact, subjects 10-15 all looked pretty sick.
Though, he thought, they can't feel too bad because they are still eating. He thought nothing more of it and went home at about 10 to 8.

The next day when Isaiah came into work Dr. Barclay was in a very goos mood.

"Good news my boy! We have just been given another grant, for 50,000 dollars! Can you believe it? Every-one at the meeting was very impressed with what I told them. Even the president told me that he was looking forward to seeing what I could do next!"

"That's great sir." Isaiah replied. Then he saw subjects 10-15 were dead and asked Dr. BArclay what happened.

"All of those subjects had to be terminated. They were all very hostile this morning when I was trying to check their vital signs. It's a good thing I had gloves on because those little animals can bite pretty hard."

"Are you all right sir?"

"Yes I'm fine. They didn't even bite through my gloves. Though I will probably need to buy a new pair now. These ones are covered in blood. I had to smash them pretty fucking hard to get them to stay down. Maybe serum 79 has some sort of side effects like steroids?"

"Maybe. What do you need me to do sir?"

Dr. Barclay paused for a second, then said, "go bring me some new animals to be tested on. I want to see what serum 79 will do to animals who's systems are mostly clean."

Isaiah brought back 2 rabbits, 2 mice and a dog."I thought a variety might be good sir to test it with differing species so we can extract exactly what the serum does."

"Good thinking. Let's get to work."

It took about 2 hours to get the serum dispersed in the right quantities. The subjects reacted immediately. They all laid down and didn't move again until Isaiah brought food.

For these animals Isaiah acyually brought normal food because they were not Barclay's subjects. However none of them were interested. He puzzled at it for a second and then decided to try the "meat" he fed all of Barclay's subjects. They took to it immediately.

"Dr. Barclay," Isaiah said, "Serum 79 seems to do what all of the other serums you have come up with do, but a million times faster. Look at the new subjects already!"

"Yes, I see." Then Dr. Barclay paused and said, "I think we're going to try some new tests today. I know that these subjects will become violent with humans, but lets see how they do with each other. Please grab me numbers 10 and 11."

Isaiah went and put on his protective gear and grabbed the 1st bunny and put him in a larger cage, then he did the same with the 2nd bunny. They started to fight immediately and did not stop until the 2nd one had devoured most of the 1st.

"Disgusting." Isaiah said.

"Quite. But this is your job, and it's a job that you get paid quite well for. So, get to work putting the mice together, and put the dog with a new dog. Be sure to record your findings and do try any other experiments thatcome to mind. As for me, I must go tell the secreatary about serum 79." And then he was out the door.

Isaiah started with the mice, same results. Then he went and grabbed that yippy lttle dog from the "clean animal" room to put with the subject dog. He alway hated that stupid yippy thing. And just as he suspected, the little yippy thing was torn to shreds by the infected pit-bull.

He went to go record the results in his computer when he saw that Dr. Barclay had left his on. So he quickly added in tonights results and then went to snoop on Doc's computer. After all he had been working there for almost 2 months and was still not quite sure what they were doing there. On the day of his hire they made him sign a privacy agreement and was told he would learn more about their operations once he had gained their trust, or worked there for atleast 6 months.(Enough time to get benefits and a raise.)

After looking through most of the files and finding nothing of interest Isaiah was almost ready to give up when he found the file that no-one was supposed to be able to find.

It was the file that exposed Dr. Barclay's research for what it really was. Although he was making some bio-weapons for the U.S., mostly he was trying to find a way to make the perfect virus. One that could spread indefinately and wipe out an entire continent.

It was sickening. It showed humans getting sick everywhere and then they died and got back up. Watching Dr. Barclay's little video was like watching a zombie movie turned cartoon. Was this really what Dr. Barclay wanted to do? Make zombies? Was this what the government was paying him to do?

"Eh-hem." Isaiah heard from the door way. He jumped up and tried to give an explanation.

"Uh-um-uh-Sir-I didn't-uh-oh dear god- sir I swear I won't tell any-one about this. I swear!"

"I know you won't boy. Because I'm going to kill you." In a split second Dr. Barclay pulled out his gun and shot Isaiah right in the chest. He barely had any time to react, Isaiah was dead.