The Terror Within Page #4

We are under gargoyle attack.

Rocky Mountain lab, this is mojave lab.

Your transmission garbled.

Repeat, your transmission garbled.

Say all after suffered.

At least we know they're still there.

Yeah, maybe.

Mojave lab calling rocky Mountain lab.

Your transmission garbled.

Repeat, your transmission garbled.

Say all after suffered.

We've got a major problem.

The girl.

It's like her pregnancy

is in fast-forward.

Last night she was

three months pregnant.

This morning when I checked her,

I'd swear she was seven

or eight months along.

That's not good.

Linda?

It's obviously abnormal.

We can't take any chances.

I guess we'll have to get rid of it.

If possible, we ought

to keep the fetus alive

For further study.

If it's that far along, we

may be able to examine it.

How's the girl doing?

Her name's Karen, and

she's doing much better.

Sue, I'm gonna need you to

help me with the anesthesia.

But I don't know anything about...

I made up a card with all

the right parameters on it.

I'll explain everything before we start.

Okay.

I just hope you know what you're doing.

Swab, please.

Pencil.

I can't believe hal wants

to keep this thing alive.

Nothing stops science.

Scalpel.

Cut from here to here.

Cauterize the incision.

We need to separate the muscle wall.

How's it going, sue?

Right where it should be.

Scalpel, please.

Now the uterus.

Okay, now reach in.

I can feel the fetus.

Sh*t.

My hand.

Hal.

Hal.

Hal!

Holy sh*t, it's in the air vent.

Oh, my God. Karen!

Andre, lock him off.

God damn it.

Half of 'em ain't closing.

Well, Christ, we got to lock it off.

They can't get back

up here, but... damn,

We were gonna do maintenance

on this system next week.

The only way to turn

the others off is manual.

Is it sealed off yet?

No, Murphy and his goddamn law

is shitting all over us, hal.

You guys better get in here.

Let's think this through.

It can't get in at this level,

So what are the options?

Check level by level.

Seal them off one by one.

Send it down to storage on level four.

Then gas the area.

We ought to try and catch it.

No way.

We should kill it.

Now, wait a minute.

A premature fetus isn't a...

Isn't what? A threat?

When's the last time you saw

A premature fetus move like that?

I did some calculations on the computer.

And going by the growth

rate of her pregnancy...

You can't theorize from that.

It's the only database we have.

I say we kill it.

We have to expect the worst from now on.

Yeah, damn right.

Damn right.

All right.

We're gonna need some weapons.

Andre, Neil, you got any suggestions?

The welding gear.

We could rig something from that.

Turn it into a crispy critter.

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