As darkness falls, the streets light up with colorful decorations and spooky costumes. Its Halloween night and the kids are gathering to sign up for the annual candy collecting competition where its a race to see who can get the most candy before 12am. This is the 4th year where Palm Springs has gotten involved. The Winner gets the value of his candy priced and the amount is doubled and the money is donated to the "Kids Helping Kids" foundation.
Its fifteen after 10 on this warm night and the kids head out with there pillow cases and garbage bags and the parents hangout in the HQ of the organization and let the kids race off door to door in this well known and wealthy neighborhood.
Its now 11pm and the race is half way through when a local broadcast comes on warning all people that there has been an escape attempt made at Amherst Correctional Facility and that there has been a perimeter set to catch Jim Baker. The reporter asks all people in the Amherst area to go inside there homes and lock all doors and windows for there own safety. The people in Palm Springs are not worried since Amherst is almost 45 minutes away and they expect that police will have the escaped convict trapped inside the 2 mile perimeter.
The kids are getting close to being finished with the competition, it is now 11:15 and the its expected to be a tight game with very close scores. Everyone is excited and anxious to get more and more candy as a new broadcast comes on TV but nobody pays attention to it. The broadcast says;
WARNING TO ALL PALM SPRINGS RESIDENTS AND VISITORS.....AN ESCAPED CONVICT HAS BELIEVED TO REACH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD..... FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY PLEASE SEEK SHELTER IN YOUR RESPECTIVE HOMES.....CALL 9-1-1 IF ANYONE SUSPICIOUS SEEN WALKING AROUND OUTSIDE.....
This message went across the bottom of the screen 3 times. Police officials reached Palm Springs to make a larger perimeter and everyone was told to return to there homes when amongst the crowd a body was spotted laying down on the asphalt and appeared to be unconscious.
When the scene was cleared ambulance was called to deliver the man to the hospital and police officials blocked off every street and had K9 police dogs running through backyards and SWAT patrolling the streets armed with M16 assault rifles and shot guns.
After further investigation, the male subject that was driven to the hospital was pronounced d.o.a. but no significant wounds have been noticed on his body. He had consumed a very large amount of liquids that have been handed out at designated areas in the streets.
The police come across another male deceased on the ground and he was also pronounced dead on arrival with the same conditions as the first body found. This aroused a significant amount of suspicion and the police were on lookout for any other bodies.
Midnight is struck and the body count now goes up to 8. Everyone is very overwhelmed and the president was told about the situation, everyone voted to get military involved. When the U.S Army arrived, they started quarantining every block around the neighborhood.
Everyone believed that this would make it more safe and secure but what they were about to discover would strike fear into there eyes. People became very sick and started dying off one by one, everyone had been crunching there thirst from the drink stands posted on every block. The plot thickened, a few people attempted leaving the quarantine and they were shot, as well with the few that tried approaching the soldiers.
By the end of the hour, everyone had been acting very peculiar and looked uneasy, very pail and made poor decisions. All of the soldiers were then told to fire at will, to anyone who shall try to leave the quarantine or attack a soldier. Army personnel started firing at a few targets that were approaching the small HQ tent but they kept limping towards them. The soldiers were confused by what was going on then later realized only head shots would disable them.
Many quarantines were overtaken and army personnel were firing to keep people from entering the quarantine. After a while, every quarantine that was formed in Palm Springs has been overtaken and every person had been immune to death, after only a few minutes after being shot, they would wake back up as if they were zombies.
After every death, more soldiers are called and more firepower is given, hazmat teams come in and helicopters control the sky but one thing is sure, Jim baker will remain where he is, Hidden.
TO BE CONTINUED
