ZombieCore: the Musical

Act One, Scene Two

(The gang is in the infirmary, tending to the wounded.)

LEON:

(to a 10-year-old boy) Hey, buddy. How you holding up?

BOY:

I'm fine. I just scraped my leg badly.

LEON:

Can I see it? (BOY lifts up leg.) Thanks. (grabs gauze)

BOY:

Mister?

LEON:

Yeah?

BOY:

Do you know what happened when, you know, the thing started?

(LEON looks at him.)

LEON:

Where were you at the time?

BOY:

I was in a coma.

LEON:

Well thank God you made it out okay.

BOY:

But what happened?

(LEON sighs. He wipes off the dirt on the wound with a wet rag.)

LEON:

There was an unknown virus going around. So many people were dying from it.

BOY:

So, it was the virus that turns them into those things?

LEON:

Not exactly, kiddo. You see, it had been going around for a year when the scientists managed to find the cure for it.

BOY:

So, it was the cure then?

LEON:

Um, no. You know how oil and water act when they're mixed together?

BOY:

They stay separated. You can't mix them no matter what.

LEON:

Yeah. That's kind of what the virus and the cure was like. The only difference is the results. Instead of them just separating, they made a deadly pair. Together they shut down all systems in the body and mutate them.

BOY:

That's what they are? Just mutated humans?

LEON:

It's more complicated than that. (puts away rag and wraps gauze around leg.)

BOY:

Mister?

LEON:

Yeah.

BOY:

Do you know how long it's been?

LEON:

Two years next month.

BOY:

That's a long time to barely survive here.

LEON:

It sure is. (continues with gauze-wrapping)

SUSSIE:

(stabs patient with a pin) Ack! Sorry, dude. There's a reason I don't usually play doctor. I keep damaging more than I should.

PATIENT: