WHAT THE DARK REVEALS
A Predator Story
PROLOGUE: TRANSMISSION
ENCRYPTED FIELD REPORTUN PEACEKEEPING MISSION -- SECTOR 7DATE: 15-NOV-2011CLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY
[AUDIO TRANSCRIPT -- PARTIAL RECOVERY]
"...anyone receiving this, do not approach the zone. Repeat: do NOT approach. Whatever the satellites showed, whatever Command thinks happened here, they're wrong.
It wasn't the cartels. Wasn't rebels.
There's something in the jungle. Something that hunts.
Martinez saw it first. Said it looked like heat shimmer—like watching someone through gasoline fumes. But it was shaped. And it was watching us back.
We tried everything. Thermal couldn't track it. Night vision showed nothing. Even the dogs wouldn't—
[STATIC]
—three of us left now. Williams is gone. Chen is gone. I'm in the old fuel depot with Ramirez and we can hear it clicking. Like it's—like it's talking to itself. Or to us.
Ramirez wrote it down. Said if we don't make it out, someone should know. Should understand.
[SOUND OF PAPER RUSTLING]
Don't run. Don't hide.
It sees heat.
It sees life.
And when you're scared? When your heart's pounding and you're leaking sweat and panic?
You light up like a fucking Christmas tree.
[DISTANT CLICKING SOUND]
Oh God. It's coming back. It's—"
[TRANSMISSION ENDS]
[NOTES APPENDED BY RECOVERY TEAM, 2012:
Two bodies recovered at coordinates. Martinez, Williams, and Chen remain unaccounted for.
Site has been sanitized and marked as cartel violence.
Recommend permanent restricted access designation.
Request DENIED by Command - insufficient evidence of anomalous activity.]