Later sometime after midnight, after remembering a memory from when Amanda was pregnant with Harry, Dante awakens, greeted by another man with a goatee.
Killen: This him?
Bo: Yeah...found this son of a bitch wonderin on his own. Almost shot his ass...should've. Skinners get Black Bessie cause of him.
Killen: Well, surprised, you didn't?
Dante sits up alarmed.
Killen: Welcome back to the land of the living, sunshine. It's Dante, right?
Dante: Yeah....
Bo: Dante, this is Killen Stonequest. My running partner. He's gonna help us get you back to our hometown.
Killen: Hold on, before we do that, I wanna know how much....experience he's had with this world.....
Dante: Well, I just woke up with my head spinning around....I sort of saw what was happening before...
Killen: Before what?
Dante: I woke up in a tank.......I'm just discovering about all of this....except for the infected part...I kinda saw that before...
Killen: What'd you do before all this?
Dante: I was in the military. Retired......I had a wife and son.
Killen: Well...since you've got military experience, I reckon you can kill without hesitation then.
Killen stands up from his chair as Dante sits up, before Killen hands him a pistol.
Killen: You familiar with one of these, old timer?
Dante: A pistol....of course.
Dante takes the pistol before standing up as Bo hands him an extra backpack.
Bo: Here....for any ammo or food you can pick up along the way. We've got ourselves a long journey ahead of us.
Dante, Killen and Bo walk into the next room.
Bo: You run into any trouble on your way here?
Killen: A few Skinners here and there. I think there's a Zeus Corps patrol around.
Bo: Shit. You serious? It's not going to easy to sneak out of here, then.
Dante: Zeus Corps? You told me they're mostly running the wasteland, right?
Bo: Yep...
Killen: Yeah. If you wanna stay alive, you might want to consider staying out of their path.
Dante, Killen and Bo walk into another room with a freight elevator as Killen powers up a generator, powering the freight elevator. Bo pushes the elevator as it takes the three men down.
Dante: So other than these soldiers and infected, what else do we got around this area?
Bo: We call the infected Skinners.
Dante: why?
Killen: They look like they're damn near dying, despite already dead. Newly infected are what's too worry about. If there's one, there's bound to be more.....as far as gangs, they most likely just fight for turf or respect...mostly fear....and the soldiers...their weapons and armor are advanced....only way to fight them is with their own weapons if you can get ahold of them, which is rare.
Dante: How's long is this gonna take?
Bo: If everything goes as planned, should take a few hours before the sun sets. Dante, once we're out here, I need you to follow our lead and stay close to us. You may have soldier experience and that's good, but you're not wasteland experienced.
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Chronicles of the Apocalyse (2011)
ActionA former soldier with no memory awakens twenty years into a post apocalyptic wasteland, controlled by the company responsible for the apocalyse, terrorized by ruthless gangs and filled with horrific creatures. Trusting only the broken, the weak and...
