(Shit hit the fan)
We walk down a corridor and I see Daryl talking to Jenner, well, trying to talk to him. I follow behind the two of them as Daryl spits out questions to the scientist.
"What's going on, why's everything turned off?"
"Energy use is being prioritised." He says still not turning to make eye contact with the Redneck at his heels.
"Air isn't a priority? And lights?" Dale questions and Jenner ignores him.
"Hey! Hey, what the hells that mean?!" Daryl shouts at him, becoming impatient and annoyed at the lack of response.
"Hey, man, he's talking to you! What do you mean it's 'shutting itself down?' How's that even make any sense?" I ask him and Daryl nods his head in agreement. "Yeah. How can a building do anything?"
"You'd be surprised." Jenner stated as Rick, T-dog, Glenn, and Shane came running towards us.
Lori calls on Rick and he just waves her off, continuing to follow Jenner into the main room.
"Jenner, what's happening?"
"The system is dropping all the nonessential use of power. It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That started as we approached the half-hour mark. Right on schedule." Jenner looked over to the wall at a clock that read.
31:56
Jenner pauses at the steps that lead the the work stations in the big room. We all followed him and were now gathered around the man, waiting for him to speak again. He didn't. He just handed the bottle of whiskey over to Daryl, who snatched it out of his hand and took a sip from it.
"It was the French." Jenner turns to Andrea.
"What?" She replied, looking severely confused at his sudden announcement.
"They were the last ones to hold out as far as I know. While our people were bolting out the door and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs until the end. They thought they were close to a solution." He explained to us.
"What happened?" Jacqui asks.
"The same thing that's happening here. No power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuels. I mean —how stupid is that?"
"Very." I muttered under my breath trying to subside the massive headache I had acquired during everyone's yelling.
"Let me tell you—" Shane started, pointing at the scientist.
"To hell with it, Shane. I don't even care. Lori, grab our things. Everybody, get your stuff. We're getting out of here now!" Rick instructed everyone and yet nobody moved.
Then an alarm started blaring, making my headache 1000x worse.
"What's that?" I ask Jenner at the same time Carl asks his father the same question.
"30 minutes to decontamination." VI said, answering our questions for us.
"Doc, what's going on here?" Daryl asks to which Jenner just ignores him and continues to do something at the computer.
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A Dead World.. • G. Rhee
Fanfiction"When there's not enough space in hell, the dead will walk the earth.." In a world where the dead started to walk amongst the living, Hailie James found herself a group of people to fight this new world with, people she would die for, people that af...
