Cherry
Mom, Dad… Why don’t you answer me?!
Cherry
Why doesn’t ANYONE answer me?!!!
Cherry
What am I doing in this hospital bed?
Cherry
Isn’t anyone getting my texts?!!
Cherry
No bars - can’t get a signal.
Cherry
I’m taking off this oxygen mask & getting outta here...
Cherry
what happened to me? can’t breathe…
Cherry
The nurse came in. Said I was in a fire yesterday. Got smoke inhalation.
Cherry
Don’t remember anything about yesterday. Gotta keep on the mask.
Cherry
It’s weird. She kept calling me “Slumber Bunny”
Cherry
Trying to send this to all my contacts.
Cherry
Why can’t I get a signal?!
Bboy
It’s b/c the hospital blocks all cellphones.
Cherry
How come we’re texting if the hospital is jamming our phones?
Bboy
I hacked into the hospital intranet. Snooped your texts, and added you as my contact.
Bboy
I wish I could creep out of here. I’m Bart - aka “The Bubble Boy”.
Cherry
What? Like you’re in one of those plastic tents?
Bboy
Yes. Severe Immunodeficiency. Can’t leave or a simple germ could kill me.
Bboy
Been in this bubble for years - waiting for a new gene therapy.
Cherry
Smoke inhalation. A fire yesterday. But I don’t remember it.
Cherry
Are ALL the nurses here so weird?
Bboy
Not until today. I think mine’s been drinking.
Bboy
Is Cherry your real name?
Cherry
Sorry. The Doc came in - finally left.
Cherry
They want to operate on me - today.
Cherry
He only said “it won’t be for long” -
Cherry
-then he quacked like a duck - and waddled out!
Cherry
wtf is going on here?!
Bboy
Just saw my Doc in a wheelchair...eating a huge bowl of spaghetti...
Bboy
and being pushed by a naked nurse!
Cherry
I don’t believe it!
Bboy
Another nurse is following them - and she’s spraying the walls with blood from a IV.
Bboy
I hope that was tomato sauce he was eating…
Cherry
We gotta get out of here!
Cherry
Can u connect to the outside?
Bboy
Nope. Only in the hospital.
Cherry
What’s your room #?
Cherry
I’m gonna take my O2 tank and roll up to you.
Bboy
Won’t do much good - but I’d like to meet you.
Cherry
I’m hiding in a supply closet-
Cherry
Some nurse saw me and started chasing me-
Cherry
-until a tall Doc grabbed her and they started doing it on a gurney.
Cherry
It’s like being in a zoo!
Bboy
I found something in one of the doctors’ text mssg.
Bboy
A big supply of a powder drug was reported missing from the lab last night.
Bboy
But today no one seems to be looking for it. Can u see the lab?
Cherry
Giving a peep now…
Cherry
doors wide open - no one on guard.
Bboy
Can you sneak inside and look for a file “BX-221”?
Cherry
As soon as this parade of dancing nurses passes…
Cherry
OK. I’m in. Found it: it’s some experimental drug - a hallucinogen.
Bboy
What shelf was it stored on?
Cherry
How did you guess?
Bboy
That explains the weird behavior.
Bboy
This drug must have got released into the air vents -
Bboy
-and made everyone who breathed it super crazy.
Bboy
that’s why we’re the only ones not affected -
Bboy
Better keep your mask on.
Cherry
Better stay in your tent.
Cherry
Shit! Singing Docs and nurses coming this way…
Cherry
I took stairs, got out just in time.
Bboy
There should be more tanks on that floor. Check the patients’ rooms.
Cherry
I just saw a nurse kill a patient in his room!
Cherry
She suffocated him with a pillow-
Cherry
-and now a Doc is cutting open his guts with a fucking knife!
Cherry
After I ran out, I saw a line of dead bodies on gurneys being pushed into the morgue.
Cherry
They’re all cut open!
Cherry
The nurses are laughing and playing with the bodies - God let me out of here!!!
Cherry
The smell is insane…
Cherry
Wait… The nurses have stopped - looking around in shock - like they’re waking from their trance…
Cherry
They’re screaming at all the bodies - looking at each other...
Cherry
like they’re searching for the person who did this -
Cherry
but they can’t figure out the blood on their hands …
Cherry
I have to get to you before they do.
Bboy
NO! Save yourself! Run down the stairs and outside-
Cherry
No way! Can’t leave you behind.
Bboy
Cherry! I’m okay. JUST GET OUT!
Cherry
I’m on your floor - but the nurses and Docs here are still acting crazy.
Cherry
Nope. But they’re pulling patients out of rooms and strapping them onto gurneys.
Bboy
Cherry, you have to go back down to the morgue.
Cherry
No way! R U nuts now too?!!
Bboy
I did some research in the hospital files -
Bboy
The smell from the corpses kills the drug in the air-
Bboy
We have to get the corpse smell into the ventilation system.
Cherry
you’re not serious
Bboy
The HVAC system is on the roof.
Bboy
If you could get a body up there, the smell would be sucked into the master vent...
Bboy
and the killing will stop!
Cherry
God … I can’t believe I’m going to do this…
Cherry
Bad news - they locked the stairway doors.
Cherry
Can’t get in - I should have used the elevator.
Cherry
What are we gonna do?
Cherry
Do you smell that?
Bboy
All done now. I took a couple of bodies on the elevator up to the roof-
Bboy
-got the smell into the vents.
Bboy
It’ll be normal soon.
Cherry
You got out of your bubble?!
Bboy
I enjoy the view up here in the open air.
