Humanity's Last Hope.

Chapter 7: Apocalypse 2.0

        7:00 A.M. Ryan's Place.

As I wake up, I hear the alarm blaring. "FUCKING SHIT! Turn that goddamn alarm off!" Ryan shouts.

Susie awakens from her sleep. "Five more years." Susie mumbles.

I get up and walk over to the window. "Guys. We got to start moving. The infection is about to spread. And when it spreads, most people will be taken out. From what I remember, only 1 out of 4 survivors are immune."

I say while lifting them up. "Pass these around." I say while giving both of them molotovs.

"Get your gear on." I say while walking to the garage. I open the door and walk in. "Let's see..."

I pick up a knife with an engraving that's near a broken down motorcycle. I read it. "Tibi gratias ago Karma, tu nos."

"Wow, I can feel the karmic retribution." I put on my 'armor'. I walk back in the living room.

"Are we going to take the car?" Ryan and Susie asked in unison. I shook my head no.

"We can't, it would run out of gas and get stuck somewhere. Plus it creates noise, which the horde is attracted to. And we ran out of gas."

We all walk out the door. "And, if we are going to survive, we're going to need as much exercise as we can get."

I say while looking at the knife I grabbed. "Ryan, do you know where this knife came from?" He shook his head no.

"It was handed down to me by an elder. They said only a 'Chosen Soul' could wield it."

We walk on the road to the abandoned military base. "So, we should be there in an hour. Did the elder say what it could do?"

He nods his head. "They said it did something called 'karma'. If you cut someone who has committed horrible crimes, it causes an anomaly which poisons them for 2 seconds. But if you cut an innocent person, it does nothing besides cutting them."

I put the knife in the water bottle pocket of my bag. "Good to know." I wipe the sweat off my forehead.

"The infection should have spread already since we are in a less populated area, there should be fewer zombies."

     Almost at the abandoned military base. 10 Minutes Left.

I pull out the knife. "Shh. There is infected."

We all look at the crashed police car near an old restaurant. There are 3 infected cops. "Let's get them. They might have guns." Ryan says.

Susie and I give him a thumbs up. Ryan sprints towards them with his bat. He smashes one in the head. Susie rushes in on one approaching Ryan. "Sit the fuck down!" She shouts as she bashes the former cop's head in with her crowbar.

Ryan stomps his boot into the downed zombie's head, crushing its head, killing it. I run and jump on an infected cop's back and I slam it into the wall and stab it in the head. I search the now decaying body. It has a pistol with two magazines. I put them in my pocket. "Do you guys got any pistols?"

Susie pulls a pistol from the cop's holster. "Got one!" She pulls out two magazines. "And some ammo!" She puts the pistol in her pocket.

"Is there any suppressors?" I ask while checking the rounds in the pistol. 14 rounds in a full magazine and one in the chamber. "Maybe the suppressors are in the CA---" Ryan says as he slips on a puddle of blood.

He falls and hits his head on the police car. The car alarm goes off. "Shit! We need to get inside the restaurant." I say as I drag Ryan inside.

"Is he going to be okay?" Susie asks while checking Ryan's head wound.

"We aren't going to be okay if we don't barricade ourselves until the horde is dead."

I slam the door of the restaurant. Susie pushes two tables up against the door. I backhand Ryan with the might of Zeus. "Get up!" I shout.

He gets up. "Stop, you dick!" I pull out my pistol. "Here they come!" A Leaper jumps through the window.

"Damn! The mutations have started already!" I shout as I shoot the Leaper in the head.

4 infected jump through the window. I shoot two in the head. Susie breaks one's leg then smashes its brain with her crowbar. Ryan grabs a zombie and slams it through a table. And then he crushes their head with a broken table leg.

"More infected! Reload while you still can." I say while Susie and I reload.

I ready the knife. Three more zombies jump in. A zombie grabs my arm. "Let go!" I stab it in the side of the skull. "Asshole."

I shoot a zombie trying to bite Ryan. "Susie! Do you mind helping me out with the door?” I say as I grab the table and throw it out the window.

"Little busy over here!" She says as she roundhouse kicks a zombie out the window.

"Nevermind, I got it!" I grab the other table and throw it at a zombie climbing in. I kick down the door. A leaper pounces onto me. "AHH! GET! IT! OFF! IT'S GONNA CLAW MY FUCKING EYES OUT!" I shout as I punch it in the jaw.

"I got it!” Ryan kicks it off of me.

"Thank you!" I shoot the Leaper in the spine. "We need to fucking book it to the abandoned military base. They might have some old weaponry." Ryan and Susie agree.

I look behind them. "Oh, holy fuck! Guys, run! Fucking big motherfucker incoming!" A muscular zombie has broken through a brick wall. It spots us and starts charging at us.

We all run 3 miles towards the military base. "IT'S STILL CHASING US!" Ryan shouts after looking back.

I light a molotov. "Not for long!" I turn around and throw it on the muscular infected.

"BURN! BABY! BURN!" I shout.

I shoot it with my pistol. "Open fire!" Everyone shoots it. The beast goes down in 30 seconds.

We all sit down and catch our breath. "Heh, well... We are here." We all look at the abandoned military base.

"We barely fucking survived just to get here?" Ryan says angrily. "We nearly got pummeled by the fucking macho man. What even was that?" I reload my pistol.

"I think it was called a Berserker." I say.