Everything was fine. The economy was on a roll. Another election year was starting. Everyone had heard of ‘African Rabies,” but it was a foreign problem. Ever since the “African Rabies” outbreak , the government had made the Phalanx vaccine available, everyone was confident everything was under control.
Until it wasn’t.
In St. Louis, the first sign was when a pilot on a cross country flight reported a “disturbance” among the passengers and made an emergency landing at Lambert. Emergency personnel and airport security roared across the tarmac, ready for anything.
They thought.
A news crew caught the whole scene and broadcast it live. The airliner came in, bounced, and slewed sideways across the runway. Miraculously, the landing gear held. Even over the whine of the engines, the EMTs could hear the screams, Before the airliner even stopped, an emergency exit popped open. Out tumbled a stewardess, covered in blood. Hanging on to her right arm by his teeth was a man in a business suit. An airport cop laid into the man with a billy club. The man tore out the cops’ throat with his teeth.
People in the coffee shop waiting for their own flights first knew there was something wrong when the sirens went off. Airport security was all running through Lambert, and then a special report came up on the TV monitor, showing the whole nightmarish scene, as dozens of blood covered passengers fled from the plane, and then started turning on airport security, quickly overwhelming them.
It was the first day of the Great Panic.
Hosted and narrated by:
E. Potter (Hooch)
Completed 05/18/20.
Scenes played: 6
License: Community License
