Kai / 10k fanfic / Znation

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Kai's pov.

It had been a few hours after I left the team. Believe it or not but I had arrived to the lab first. I was now camping and waiting for the rest to arrive if they ever will. 

Apparently I'm dumb as a rock. I took only my weapons. I didn't think about taking my shirts or any food and water. And now karma had slapped me right across my dehydrated, sweaty face.

For some reason I wasn't that hungry. But I knew I will be so I tried hunting anything to save for later. I only managed to get a rabbit and a bird. The bird turned out to have worms so I had to discard it. Now I was left only with a small rabbit.

Now I was in a pretty sunny spot a bit away from the track I was on before. I figured that If someone wanted to find me I better get off the track so I could use it as an escape route.

I started a fire and sat down to skin my rabbit. It was a pretty easy job. Once it was skinned I prepared the rabbit to cook it and placed the skin in the sun to dry it. I'll bring it back and gift it to Cass or 10k.

It was when I head a car head down the nearby road. I was still pretty close but I could still  have some time to hide before someone stopped to look around.

The car was the white van that the team had. I instantly grabbed my sniper and detached it's scope and looked trough it. The driver was good old mighty Doc. Next to him I caught a glimpse of blue. I instantly knew that it is Murphy. I couldn't see the rest of the team but I knew that if Murphy is alive then everyone else is too.

I quickly gathered my stuff and ran out the fire. I left the rabbit and it's skin where it was because clearly I was in hurry. As I looked around to double check I heard the van come to a stop. My head spun it's way that I thought it will just pop off.

I started walking towards it and before I could come out of the forest someone tackled me to the ground. I wanted to cream but a hand pressed down on my mouth. Before I could fight back I felt something hit my head and everything went black.

The next thing I noticed I was being dragged. I didn't want to be hit again so I remained like I was still blacked out. I tried cracking one eye open but I got blinded by the sun. That must mean that I was being out in the open.

I still kept still but I started to think of a plan. I almost came up with one when I suddenly was dropped down. I held back a groan and didn't move. I listened carefully to hear a pair of footsteps retreat. After they had left I cracked open my eyes fully to be met with green grass.

I tried getting up but I could barely get up to my all fours. Pain emerged from my abdomen and I looked down. My stitches had opened up and I was bleeding.

I groaned and huffed as I managed to pull myself into a standing position. Once I was standing I felt nauseous and I almost fell back down.

I closed my eyes and breathed in. Once everything went back to normal I opened my eyes back open just to see that a pretty big crowd of Z's were aproaching. I looked around and found all my stuff neatly placed by a nearby rock. I tried walking up to it but I just wobbled and fell back down.

I refused to let some rotting dumbasses eat my brain so I gathered all the strength I had left and started to crawl.

I was a foot away from getting to my stuff when a Z grabbed me. I grunted and somehow managed to roll onto my back. I started kicking the Z with such strength that the Z's head popped off.

Before I could breathe In two more aproached me. This time I didn't hesitate but rolled onto my stomach again and crawled to my stuff.

I took one of my handguns and quickly turned off safety. Thank god the gun was loaded as I aimed and shot bith of the Z's between their eyes.

I looked around and didn't see any more zombies. I sat there for a good moment to catch up with my breath.

Once I was rested enough I packed all my stuff and got up. I struggled a bit but managed to stand up. As I started walking each step was wobbly and full with pain.

I wanted to just lay down and fall asleep but I had a mission to do so I fought.

I couldn't remember much after that but the last thing I knew I crashed down against a wall into one of the labs. One of the signs said: "Biohazard" but I just chuckled. How ironic. All of us are infected with whatever shit you call this Z shit so a little radiation won't hurt.

That's when I heard voices and a few pairs of feet shuffling closer to me. I didn't even turn my head as I knew I won't have enough strenght to see who those people are.

I was right. I blacked out right before I could look up to see who they were.

The next time I woke up was what felt like after a few minutes.

I was carried by someone. I was hanging over that person's shoulder so I couldn't see their face.

As I cracked open both my eyes I realized that I wasbeing carried by 10k. The clothes gave away that it was him because only he wore clothes like that plus his scent filled my nose.

He stumbled a bit which caused his shoulder to dig deeper into my open wound so I grunted in pain. He immediately stopped and pulled me down to hold into bridal style.

He looked down at me with a ton of worry. I just chuckled.

"You actually didn't think I died huh?" I asked him which caused him to snort.

"You can put me down. I can walk on my own." I said and flung my feet off his arms. As my feet hit the ground I winced in pain but stood up.

I looked around and noticed that everyone was here except Cass. My heart immediatelly sank. I looked at tge rest of the team but they all had their head pointing the floor.

"It's okay. We have a mission right?" I tried my best to cheer everyone up. The first to look up was Murphy. Then the rest followed him and I just smiled.

Then Warren handed me back my stuff that she was carrying. I thanked her and she led the way further.