Fucking Apocalypse

"Prologue"

Please remember that this a prologue, so this is what happens before Penny meets any of the "team". Thanks for reading!

Also picture up top is technically Penny, but imagine more hair over her right eye, like enough so you can't see her eye. The eye she's covering is blue and yes, she has heterochromia.

Penny's POV
My mother has been going to a therapist for a year, it feels like a 1000 years. After her boyfriend left, A.K.A my father, she picked up a drinking problem and she got depressed. Oh, did I forget to mention, she goes to rehab too?
Anyway, I'm currently sitting in my mother's truck. I have to wait for her to get out of that hell hole, I'm her driver. When her drinking problem got bad, she got her license taking away, by the police. Luckily I had my beginners at the time.
  I got bored of sitting in the truck, so I stood outside, leaning on the truck door.

Amanda's POV
I was currently sitting with my therapist, Steven Beck, or as he likes to be called, Doc.
  "Amanda, so, can you go into detail about your relationship? You've only touched on the subject." Dr. Beck asked, he had a notebook in his hand, a pencil in another.
  His question reminded me of the memories, it made me mad, "I've told you multiple times before! I don't want to talk about it-" I gasped seeing his face, he looked surprised at my outburst, "I am so sorry! I didn't mean this!"
  "It's fine." He said with a chuckle, "Do you want to continue?" I nodded, i needed to get this off my chest.
  "I was in a relationship with a guy named James Beck, I dated him for 3 years, on our 5 month anniversary I told him I was pregnant." I stopped for a minute and took a breather, the doctor looked shocked, "Is there a problem, Dr. Beck?"
  "N-no! Keep going, your doing good!" He said quickly writing something in his notebook. I straightened my posture and continued, "He started to grow more distant, leaving the house late in the night, coming home drunk and having lipstick marks all over his neck, the list goes on. He started to mentally abuse our daughter, cursing on her, calling her useless, telling her she's the reason for all his problem. Just really being a dick to her..... he left us 6 months later. That's when I took up drinking and needing your help. I got my driver's licenses taken away."
"So how do you get here?" Dr. Beck asked me, clearly curious. "Well my license was taken away this year, as you know, my daughter is 16, so she has her beginners. She drives me here and waits in the parking lot." I answered standing up to peek out the window, she was still standing there. "I really respect her, she's went through so much, all because I was being stupid and making bad choices. She deals with me every day." I went back and sat in the chair, in front of Dr. Beck's desk. I shook my head, "She should be with her friends right now...but she's waiting for me to get out of rehab..."
  Dr. Beck nodded. "She's seems great, but I have a question." He laid the notebook and pencil on the desk, he leaned forward so his elbows are resting on the table.
  "Shoot." I said, scratching the bridge of my nose.
  "You said your ex-boyfriend's name was James Beck?" He asked.
  I nodded.
  "I have a son named James...any idea what his middle name was?" He asked me another question.
  I thought for a moment, "The memory is kind of fuzzy, but I think it was Andrew." He was in pure shock. "That's my son..." he said quietly.
  I was also shocked. My therapist is my ex's father?!? "You should come meet Penny!" I said happily standing up.
  "Penny?" He asked, clearly confused, but standing up anyway.
  I opened the door to the hallway and walked out, him following after me, "It's your granddaughter!"
"Oh Jesus! I forgot!" I hear him gasp, still following me. I pushed open the door and saw Penny bashing someone's head in with a wrench.

Penny's POV
  I waited around for my mother. I stood still, kicking around a rock by feet.
  Suddenly I heard a groan. I turned around at the sound of the noise. A strange woman with green-grey skin and one missing eye was limping towards me, "Um, Miss? Are you okay?" I stood up properly as the woman grabbed for me, like a baby reaching for they're mother. I stepped backwards, avoiding her grasp.
  She groaned again and got closer than before, lunging for me, I nearly dodged her and she fell to the ground. I took this to my advantage and grabbed a wench though the open back window of my truck, I keep it there in case I need to make any small repairs.
  By this time she was up again and lunging for me, this time I dodged her quickly and the realisation hit me. Shit! Holy, actual shit!!! This is a zombie!! It has to be! She's green, trying to eat my brains and has wounds and isn't dead! This is the fucking apocalypse! She grabbed my shoulders and and grabbed her neck to keep her virus filled slobber off me. She pushed me to my truck, my back pressed against it.
  I used my other hand, the one with the wrench in it, to stab her in the chest. It didn't work and she kept trying to get her rotting teeth to my neck. Think Penny! Think girl! You've seen 90% of all the zombie movies in the entire world...... of course! The brain! Kill the brain!
  I pulled my hand up to her head while still trying to keep her from biting me. I quickly pushed her away from me using my foot and used the wrench like a bat. I let my arms go though the air and whacked her in the head, I let go of the wrench went it hit her, so she fell to the ground, wrench in her head.
  I heard someone gasp and turned quickly to the source of the sound. My mother and who I'm guessing is her therapist stood outside of the door
  "Damn, kid!" He said.
  "Penny! Why'd you hurt her?" My mother shrieked, running to the dead Z.
  "Mom get away from her. She's dead." I said looking at the blackish blood on the wrench.
  The man walked over and examined the Z. "This doesn't look like a normal person."
  "It's not, it's a zombie." I responded. "Penny don't be silly, zombies don't exist!" My mother said, standing up to my height.
  "Mom, look at it! It's green and grey, it has wounds and it wasn't dead when I found it, plus it tried to eat me!!" I said, point to my head.
  I gasped when I saw a Z come up behind the man. "Duck!" I screamed, he crouched down, covering his head with his hands. I threw the wrench and it stuck in the Z's head and it fell the ground, wrench in it's head.
  "Thanks, Kid." He said. I gave him a thumbs up and smiled. I heard my mother gasp, then speak, "Penny! This is my therapist, Steven Beck."
  "Call me Doc." He said, smiling at me. "Alright, Doc! I'm Penny." I said shaking his hand, then brushing more of my brown hair in front of my right eye,
  "Penny, this is your....." she paused I could see the excitement in her eyes, "Grandfather!!"
  I looked to Doc for confirmation, he nodded smiling. I was about to hug him when I heard the groans and moans of the Z's. I ran for the truck jumping in, them following me, Doc in front with me and Mother in back. I looked in the rear-view mirror and counted 10 Z's behind our truck. I started the truck and pressed my foot down to the floor, zooming out of there.

_____Time Skip______

I stopped the truck in front of an abandoned army truck. I guess the government tried to stop some Z's...I guess it also didn't work. I jumped out of the truck with a old metal bat, I had found it when we made a pit stop. Doc and Mom still didn't have any weapons, but Doc jumped out to help me, just incase.
  I don't think the fact that the zombie apocalypse is actually happening has sunk into my mother's brain yet. She's definitely not ready to face Z's yet...she just stays in the truck.
  I crept around to the back of the truck and Doc quickly opened the back doors of the truck, I held my bat, ready to swing at what ever came out. Nothing came out of the back so we jumped in and started searching the truck, I grabbed a couple knifes and put them on a nice belt I found. I also a cool messager bag and started filling it with food and water. Doc grabbed a couple cans and helped me fill my bag. I turned around to look for more water, knowing we needed more.
  I heard Doc chuckle, making me whip my head around. He had found 2 hammers and started swinging them around. I laughed and noticed something shine in the sun. I stood up and walked over to it, it looked like a scope, maybe a gun. It was hidden under some bags, so I moved them out of the way to reveal a a perfectly new Sniper rifle. Well not new, but as new as you may get in the apocalypse.
  "Well, if you though your hammers were good..." I said, holding up the gun. He laughed and smiled, "Well, I did."
  I grabbed a small handgun and a couple small knives for Mother on the way out. We made our way to the truck and I passed the weapons to my mother. She huffed saying, "Why would I need these? I don't want to kill people."
  "Mom! They aren't people! They're Z's! They want to eat your brain and make you a Z! You have to kill them to survive! It's the apocalypse, Mom! It's kill or be killed!" I yelled to her.
I was going to continue, but a man and his friends stepped out of a red truck holding they're guns at us.
  "Humans!" Mother yelled and ran at the people. They held they're guns at her as she ran. The Leader  I assume, grabbed my mother and held a knife to her throat, she gasped and wiggled around in his grasp.
  Doc dropped his hammers and put up his hands. I held my handgun at the man holding my mother. "We just want the truck. We don't want to hurt you." He spoke as if I were a child.
  "You can't have it." I said laying my finger on the trigger, ready to pull it whenever.
  He smirked and held the knife closer to my mother's neck, making a small cut. She whimpered and looked at me and Doc.
  I ran at the man and he dropped my mother and grabbed me in stead. My mother fell to the ground and coughed, holding her neck, hair falling in her face.
  "Kill her."
  I watched in horror as a man shot my mother in the head, immediately mercing her. I screamed and watched her die, tears falling down my cheeks.
  Not even a minute later someone rammed into the side of the man, knocking all three of us down. I quickly stood up, seeing Doc fighting the man on the ground.
  "Run!" He yelled to me.
  "But-"
  "I'll be fine! Go!"
  I ran into the woods nearby, people trying to shoot me until the lost sight of me.
  I slowed and bent down placing my hands on my knees. I could feel my heart beating in its chest.
  I could feel the bag around me,
It carries all the food and water so that's good. I also have my guns and knives. I could be set for awhile.
  But where will I go? I'm all alone.
  I decided to just stay here for the night. I climbed a small tree and tied my legs on to the tree so I wouldn't fall while I slept. I grabbed my bag and opened it, I Doc had found some goldfish and put them in here, so I snacked on those. I made sure to only eat a few, I wanted to salvage my food.
I'll go back to the city tomorrow, i need to stock up on bullets and stuff.
  I made a list of things in my head I could look for when I went to the city as I fell asleep.
I'll definitely need to find some more apocalyptic clothes.
  I glanced at my tank top and shorts, I chuckled to myself sleepily.
  I watched as the sun set and the moon rose, quickly falling asleep.