The sun slowly climbed over the hill to shead light on the Mars colony set up by the USSC. It has the appearence of a plastic black bubble on the red landscape. The United States Space Colonizaton program is setting up colonies on many different planets because of overpopulation on Earth.
John Baker, leader of the colony, is outside in his suit tending the Earth plants, an experiment to see if they grow in such conditions. "The plants appear to be growing," He said in to his audio log. "There are some
minor mutations, and considering they've only been out here a couple of hours, we need to monitor them more closely. End transmission." He headed back into the colony, and even before the airlocks were finished cycling, the plant took on a very different shape.


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I'm gonna take a bit to set the scene and tell the characters before we get to the action Tell me what you think

Nice, kinda like Juonis But none the less awesome, Also Like Halo, USSC lol, Great Story, WRITE TEH MORE!

Im really flattered if you took ideas from my story

Keep it up mate.

Thanks! I'm trying to make this story unique but I have been influenced by other stories
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John sat down in his command chair and looked over at Mary, his wife and the self-appointed Hygiene Officer for the colony. She had an uncanny ability to solve puzzles or get out of a sticky situation. " John, we had a problem with the air circulatiors, a pipe had a crack in it and some martian air was circulating through the colony. It's fixed now but we have not yet checked the air for pathogens," she said worriedly. " I'm sure it will be fine." John said in a comforting voice. He checked the list of supplies, and noticed that some raw meat was missing. "Weird," he thought, " Mabe the computer just missed it." "Mary, send a tech down to the freezers and have him check the computer for malfunctions."

I'm having a rather busy weekend, so i'll post more on monday.

This looks pretty good. I haven't seen many zombies in Sci-fi settings (apart from The Flood maybe or System Shock 2 but theyre not your typical walking dead. Well there was Doom 3 but theyre more the religous kind of zombies - possesed by demons; I'm kinda assuming you'll have the zombies come from these mutated plants or be some sort of effect of the planet). Oh, and Judge Dredd now that I think about it, some of the best stories with Mega City one under attack by the dead. But anyway (now that I've blown my first statement out of the water) it has a lot of possibilites. Zombies dont need atmospheric equipment, so they could be in vacuum filled corridors - one rip in your suit and your dead. And, of course, futuristic weaponry vs the undead How big is this colony going to be though? Alot of people = alot of zombies.

Sorry to post so late I've been very busy and I lost my password. Anyway here is the long overdue post!
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The tech's report came crackling over the com, "There is nothing wrong with the computer, but I have noticed strange markings in the freezer." "Thank you," John said, ignoring what the tech said about the markings, then he turned off the com.
"Mary, what do you think about the markings?" John said. "I'm sure that they have some resonable explanation." she said. John nodded and returned to his daily work.

The next day as he went out to tend the plants, he was startled to find that the tomatos looked mutant . They were huge and black, like a large blob of tar.
As he stared at them is disbelief he heard a voice fizzle over the emergency suit com. "John!" it was Mary's voice, "Somethi*zzzzzzzzz*ening, there are huge blac*zzzzzz*olored people slashing and att*zzzzzzzzz*one else. Whatever they are, they appear to *zzzzz* utate the people they bite into*zzzzzzzz* ings like
themselves. John we ha*zzzzzz* ver 5,000 people living here!! What*zzzzzzz* e do?"
" Just hang on, I'm coming!" John said with an uneasily managed calm in his voice. 5,000 people, with an outbreak like this, we don't have much of a chance John thought. He pulled the laser pistol from his storage unit as the airlocks began to cycle though.

Only one thing, when people are speaking you're supposed to start a new line when someone else talks; instead of

Okedoke, I fixed up the last post. Sorry for all the grammar errors This is where the story really begins.
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As the inner airlock finally opened John breathed in sharply. It looked like a riot scene. The main lights were off and the red emergency lights were on. He could hear people screaming and see things jumping from rooftop to rooftop. The things were making a gurgling sound. John ran for the stairs to the command room, paused at the top to make sure nothing was following him, then looked in the window.

The emergency light was damaged and flashing, but in the bits of light he saw a thing trying to get to his wife, who was pinned under some chairs and a table. He tried to open the door, but saw that it was barred. It must've gone through the ventalation shafts he thought. Then he went up and beat on the window shouting, "Hey! Look over here, I taste better!"

The creature quickly jumped towards the window making the same gurgling sound.
John quickly rolled to his right and began firing at it. His shots didn't do it any damage, so he screamed, "MARY, HOW DO I KILL IT!?!"
"Aim for the head...." came her feeble reply. He killed it in one shot when he hit it in the head, then went in to help Mary. "How did you know that?" John said, when he noticed the spent plasma cores and the headless smoking alien in the corner.
"John, the aliens have been trying to destroy the air circulators, I think they're smarter than we think they are."

hmmmmm..... very good, mostly what Blaze said, also how could he be that good of a shot, I mean isn't he just a scientist?

Sorry I sorta made an assumption there. AS the leader of the colony he has to be ready for anything, riot control, mabe even Insurrection. He's ready for anything

If leader of colony he better have a little more than a gun... maybe electric batons, high-duty combat armor and maybe an Smg

Yeah, I should have givin him more gun in the beginning, but who said he wasn't going to get a better gun
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"We better get moving," John said. Mary grabbed a plasma pistol and followed John. "John, lets head to Enginnering, I can figure out what's going on better from there." John replied very quickly, "No, we're going to the security bay. We need better guns." They headed quickly to the bay, stepping over dead bodies with flecks of tar that was spreading over them. Once they made it they open the door and were greeted with a shredded security unit and three tar aliens. They opened fire and only killed one, as the other two charged out the door. John was attacked and was struggling with the alien, while Mary killed the other and ran to help. It was biting and slashing and any exposed parts of his body."ARRRGGHH!" John screamed as the alien tore into his left arm. AS it lunged for his neck, Mary shot and skimmed its head. It reeled back enough for John to kill it. Mary ran up and looked at his arm, then gave him a sad look. The tar was spreading all over John's arm. They quickly went in to the bay. John opened the storage locker and handed Mary a backpack and all the weapons in the locker."Take mine too," John said. Then John sat down on a bench. "Go, try to make a serum. Let it vent into the ducts." he said. Mary quickly ran out of the room, and just before the door finished shutting, Mary saw her husband fully engulfed in the tar.

John and Arl..Mary :>