When James Stone reached the next town, he stopped his stolen car and dialed the number of the cheap throw away cell phone he used as the bomb trigger on Will Sturm’s automobile. He listened as the phone paused to send its signal to the cell phone beneath Sturm’s car. It began to ring, then the ring stopped. An announcer came on saying, “The person you have called is not available. Please call again.” James figured the explosion was already happening, and the phone was gone forever.
Meanwhile, at the secret factory where Will Sturm worked, the blast tore out almost seven acres of the plant including the warehouse. All Sturm knew was that his desk moved and what was left of the walls to his part of the factory had disintegrated around him. Pieces of it entered his chest killing him instantly, then the volatile chemicals in the factory were released in repeating secondary explosions that tossed cans of chemicals and viral bombs high into the air where the heat of the fires caused them to explode. These secondary explosions sent toxins, virus, and incendiary agents high into the air as the exploded materials added to the tremendous blast and continued to obliterate all sections of the property. Everything within the factory’s insides soon assumed the shape of a mushroom cloud that towered high above its ground zero.
Buildings all over the near-by city fell from the blast’s concussions. They seemed to collapse one by one as more and more of the explosive materials broke loose inside the burning plant’s remains. Entire rooms of five, ten, and even fifty gallon barrels looped high into the air. They exploded hundreds of feet up which propelled other floating cans of toxins and volatile agents farther up and out, and, as they exploded, the surrounding floaters took on new life and moved farther and farther out as the multiple air born explosions self propelled their rapidly escalating devastation. In minutes, most of the small towns in the factory’s vicinity were on fire. Multiple house and factory fires sent up black smoke into the sky. Meanwhile, people were overcome by toxins manufactured from military grade materials, and others who were lucky enough to escape carried slowly developing and very fatal diseases inside them to one city after another. Some traveled by land and air as far away as both coasts before their infections surfaced.
The delay in viral gestation worked exactly as the military experts had planned. The traveling public began infecting town after town with new types of military viruses that no one had ever seen before. Soon, schools, hospitals, office buildings, and every other business in all parts of the United States were either filled with the dead or were locked down to prevent the fleeing people from reaching them, spreading their diseases, and infecting others.