Apocalypse
Location –4 MERCIAN, Birmingham
Day 2
Time 3:45 am
Location – Mosley, Birmingham
Three of us drove off and started to move. It was already 3:45 in the morning. “So where are we heading?” asked Lofe. “Queen Victoria Hospital. Let’s hope we meet someone there” replied Andrew. “Shouldn’t we be moving to a military camp rather than a hospital. You should say something Nickolai…. he is asleep seriously.” .“Ha-ha great. I too wanna sleep. You drive after you take a nap. I will wake you guys up when we reach there. Now sleep.” Replies Andrew.
After an hour of driving and finding and using many different routes they reached there but…
“Wake up faggots.” says Andrew. Suddenly Nickolai wakes and in half sleep says “Is breakfast ready?”. Andrew was speechless but Lofe says “No but looks like we have reached hospital but is burning.” “Yeah” replies Andrew gloomily. Nickolai asks “why did we come to a hospital?” In this Lofe adds “Don’t know. He wanted to come here.” On this Andrew replies “I thought we might meet someone here but I was wrong. Let’s move to 4 MERCIAN, Army Reserve Centre. I hope someone might be there. Lofe you drive. I am too sleepy. Take Farquhar Road to go there. It was clearest route.” “Okay.” replies Lofe. “What’s the time?” ask Nickolai. “4:20 am “replies Andrew.
As Andrew proceeds to sleep, Lofe takes over the car. Some time passes.
There is silence in the car when suddenly Nickolai says “Remember our first school trip when we were in 4th grade?” ”Yeah. I remember it clearly. We played a lot, ate together and that day we also did a sleep over together. It was great. But I would have never thought something like this might happen” replied Lofe.
There is silence in the car when suddenly Nickolai says “Remember our first school trip when we were in 4th grade?” ”Yeah. I remember it clearly. We played a lot, ate together and that day we also did a sleep over together. It was great. But I would have never thought something like this might happen” replied Lofe.
Time passes. After changing many routes they finally reach. “Wake up idiot. We have reached where we wanted to.” says Lofe. “Let me go out and check out. Stay in here.” said Nickolai. “Mmmm let’s get out of here I am too tired for it” said Andrew. Suddenly Nickolai calls for us. We go out and were shocked. Lofe breaks the silence and says “What the hell?!?!”
Time 6:25 am
“What the hell”
says Lofe after what he saw. The whole place was destroyed with dead bodies
lying. It was like that place had a massacre by some psycho who loves killing.
“Let’s search for guns here. We might find some here. Stick close to me. We
don’t know what can happen here.” Nickolai said giving us two a warning. “Ok”
other two replied. Searching from each dead body the three tried best and
looked whole area for resources. Trunks, crates everything but they were unable
to find out something. The only things they could find were 2 pistols and some
daggers. “What are these guns called and how much bullets can it fire” asked Lofe.
“Pistols are called Sig Sauer Sig P226. They are semi-automatic guns with 15
rounds firing capacity. They are good
for close defenses. And the daggers are
also of good quality. Let’s get out of here and search for shelter now” said Nickolai.
“Wow you know a lot about guns” says Andrew. “I am working for Canadian defense
if I remember correctly” said Nickolai. “Y-yeah” replied Andrew. “So where are we going to go?”.
“Don’t know let’s look for some other
camp. Maybe we can find someone there.” said Nickolai. But suddenly they hear a
noise. When they turn they were shocked. All of them were surrounded by big
amount of zombies. “W-what should we do. We are doomed.” said Andrew. “Don’t
fear. Take the guns and run behind me” said Nickolai. Both of them took one
pistol each and started running behind Nickolai. Nickolai kept on firing at
zombies and started clearing the way while Andrew and Lofe also used their bats
to get out of there. When a zombie was just going to bite Andrew, a bullet pierced
the zombie’s head. As soon as this happen Andrew tries to locate the path of
bullet and sees a white flag outside a home some blocks away. “There is someone
inside that building” says Andrew. “Let go
there” said Lofe. “No we will not go there directly. We will have to take
longer route” Said Nickolai. “Understood” both of them said.
Three of them
started running in different direction to reach there. They tried to use melee
weapons rather than guns so as to make less noise. Running through corners and
hiding, they finally reach the house with the flag. But they first check if no
zombie is following. Then Lofe knocks at door whereas Andrew and Nickolai
prepare their guns. Suddenly a voice comes from inside. A girl opens the door and says “Hello Nickolai.
It’s been long since we met last time.” “Y-you” says Nickolai shocked
Time 9:10 am
“Y-you?” says Nicolai shocked.
“Shocked!? What did you expect. Obviously it’s me. Now get in” says mysterious girl.
“You know her?” Lofe whispers to Nickolai.
“Yes, we are in the same corps in the army. Her name is Jeanette.” Goes back to Jeanette. “What are you doing here?”
“Same as you. I was enjoying my holidays until all this happened.” replies Jeanette.
“So, are you alone?” asked Nickolai.
“Ahh, I guess not. So, u wanted to me to be alone so u could have some privacy with me? But sadly daddy’s here.” replied Jeanette.
“L-Lieutenant is here.” said Nickolai.
“This girl looks close to him. Can she be his girlfriend?” Lofe whispered to Andrew.
“Who knows. We don’t know what he’s been up to back in Canada.” Replied Andrew.
“Well, lets just ask her for details ” said Lofe.
“Yeah” replied Andrew.
“Hmm, looks like you made it safely here. And some friends have also joined you, huh Nickolai?” said an old man who was walking down the stairs.
”Lieutenant Samuel. Its an honour to see you here!” said Nickolai while saluting.
“Looks like he is an important man” whispered Lofe to Andrew.
“Sure is” replied Andrew.
“No need to be formal Nickolai. Well, why don’t you guys make yourselves while you are here?” said Samuel. In the living room, Everyone started with introducing themselves while eating.
“Hello. I am Andrew Wartin. A microbiologist and a bio technician” said Andrew.
“I am Lofe Kingston. I am a Mechanical Engineer” said Lofe.
“Nick must’ve told u, I am Jenette Rondeez. I am in Canadian defense force. I am in same corps as Nick.” said Jenette.
“She calls him Nick. Hmm, suspicious.” Lofe thought.
“I am Mr. Rondeez. Y’all can call me Sam. I am the lieutenant general of Canadian defense force. Its nice to meet y’all kids.” Said Samuel.
“Well everyone already knows, I am Nickolai Drake. A soldier from Canadian defense forces etc etc.” Replied Nickolai after everyones introduction.
“So whats next?” asked Andrew.
“What do you mean?” Replied Jenette.
“What I meant is that we can’t just sit here all day doing nothing. If I can get a sample of blood of a zombie and a research facility to work in, I can come up with a way to cure this, so called infection. But, do you guys have any idea how this infection works?” said Andrew.
“Well, the owner of this house also got infected with this infection. So we do have intel about how it works but we don’t know much about it either.” replied Jenette.
“Hmmm I’d like to learn in detail. Let’s get to it then.” said Andrew.
Time 6:00 pm
"Hmm. So, now let’s look at the details you gave me.
The person affected by this virus as you stated gets fever and loses his
consious and then he goes crazy. And all of this happens in a course of 2
hours, “said Andrew.
"Yes" replied Samuel.
"There is no
way this is possible. I mean something like this going undetected for so long
and then suddenly resurfacing. It’s
insane."
"It’s true. It’s
all I’ve seen. We had to put him down by shooting his head."
"Shooting his
head, huh" Nick intervenes
"What happened
Nick?" asked Andrew
"So their brain
is still functional. You said this means that the person may lose his consciousness
but his brain is still functional.” Nick said.
“That’s obvious
idiot. How do you think they are walking?” Jeanette said.
“No, he is right.
There’s a phenomenon in which a person starts walking in their sleep. You must’ve heard about sleep walking. In that,
the muscles of the person’s brain remember the way he used to walk and hence he
walks on his own.” replied Andrew
“Weren’t you a microbiologist?
How do you know all this stuff" Lofe asked Andrew.
"Internet, my
boy. Internet.” Andrew replied with a
big smile.
"Yeah, sure. How can we forget that you
love surfing the net.” Nickolai said
“Guys we are getting
off topic" Jeanette stops them.
“Y-Yeah. So coming
back to the topic, if I can get to a place where I can have equipments like a
microscope and a centrifuge, we can find out the exact cause of it." Andrew
said
"Lofe! Can you
make those things?" Nickolai asked Lofe
"Are you insane? I don’t even know what the heck a
centrifuge is." Lofe replied
"There is a
research facility nearby in 97 Vincent Dr. Let’s go there and research."
suggested Andrew
“Yeah sure, with
skills like yours, who doesn’t even know how to hold a gun, we’ll definitely
survive.” Nickolai said, sarcastically.
“Hey!” Lofe and
Andrew said collectively.
“I can teach them
how to use guns while you and Jeanette can go around scavenging. Get whatever
you can find but be back before dawn. We need clothes and food. Guns are in
abundance but not food and water. We also need to power up the grid.” Samuel
said.
“Great idea, dad.
This way we can be a lot productive” Jeannette said, praising her dad.
“Good idea but it’s already
evening and it will get dark soon. We can’t go out now.” Nickolai said
“Then let’s do it in
the morning. For now let’s prepare ourselves for tonight. So let’s prepare dinner.”
Samuel told them
“I’ll help” Andrew
said
“Lofe come with me.
I will show you how to repair guns and handle them. You can be our cage man”
Nickolai ordered Lofe
“Alright, sounds
cool.” Lofe replied.
“Then I will be on guard
duty. Someone needs to check the house” Jeanette said.
