When The Dead Rise, Where Will You Run?
The government has fallen. The dead have risen, and hope is losing the fight against the infection. This madness is the world that retired Army Staff Sergeant Robert Briggs is fighting to survive in.
After lo...
The Vice President's voice came out strong and clear through the sound system of the press room. The red, white and blue flag stood proudly behind him. Everything was polished and dressed up. They took their time to set this up, which was surprising.
This press conference wasn't about border control, gun control, or any other form of control. No this was the total opposite, this was about anarchy. A wave of madness took to the streets of America and throughout the media there was one unanswered question that kept being raised, where is the president?
"Tonight you might be wondering why I'm speaking to you and not our fearless President. Many of you might have heard stories about his health. Many of you have expressed your concerns about his well being. Well, both the President and myself would like to thank you all for your thoughts and prayers, but despite what the fine people of the media would like the American people to believe, our leader is in good health."
Fake news was a real thing. Some broadcasters were paid big money to chase pointless topics or to leave out a story or two. No one talked about the missing girls in Africa. Woody Allen got his stories pre-screened for years. But this wasn't fake news, this wasn't even news. A virus was quickly taking over countries all around the world, this was reality.
Now, after months of swearing how strong and protected our nation was, it was finally here.
"The President was rushed out of the city before the outbreak and is being held in an undisclosed location until we have a better understanding of what is going on. Our leader will return and he will see us through this dark hour."
Russia was the first to fall. No one understood what was happening, one minute people were getting sick, then people were dying. But they didn't stay dead. Russia wasn't prepared, none of us were.
"Not much is known about this virus or how it got on American soil. We can go back and forth for days about who's to blame for our position at the moment. I could take the low ground and say this is exactly why we wanted to fully close our borders to the outside world. I could bring up that this is the exact reason why we built the wall in the first place, but I'm not that kind of person."
The Southern Grand, more commonly referred to as the wall, was the one campaign promise that was for filled by our fearless leader. A technological marvel that runs from coast to coast blocking America off from Mexico and the rest of South America. An invisible electrical field, which was solar powered of all things, was meant to be the saving grace of America. Now it was the saving grace of South America, keeping the infected at bay.
"What I will address are the facts that we do know. At approximately 0900 hours a tourist group entered the white house. One of the said tourist abandoned the tour group and was apprehended on her way to the oval office."
The world lost all communication with the UK two months ago. People started getting scared and when people get scared, they get violent. People who claimed to have America's best interest at heart were rounding up everyone they felt weren't American enough. Green card holders, immigrants, and more or less anyone that couldn't prove without a shadow of a doubt, that they were born in America were at risk. That two week period was poetically named The Hunt by the administration.
"As we waited for the proper authorities to remove the woman, the Secret Service were informed she was a person of interest in an ongoing investigation being done by the CDC. The woman was then escorted out of the building where her counterparts, opened up fire, killing two guards. The reports that those two guards returned after death or this woman was a carrier of the infection are beyond false. There has been reports of the infection in the D.C area but our country's best scientists are conducting research to fully understand what we're dealing with. Be assured, we have this under control. Now I'll take a few questions, yes you..."
This was not a press conference about control because control or the illusion of it was far more dead than anything else in this new era.
"I didn't say the President was rushed out of the city before the outbreak, you must have misheard me. Next question..."
This era was one of blood.
"We haven't heard any reports about the woman being a United States employee, and to even suggest that an American would attack our country like that is just sinful."
An era of hate.
"Listen, what is happening around the world doesn't need to happen here. We are Americans! We are smart. We are strong, and we're not gonna let something like a virus turn our nation upside down!"
An era of fear and...
"Next question, you in the back...What's wrong with him? What's wrong with him? Shoot him! Shoot him god damn it! I don't care how many people are watching! Get me the hell out of here and kill that son of a-"
An era of the dead.
After that broadcast D.C went dark. People call it the last words of a dying nation. It was our first look into a new order of life. It was our first look into Planet Dead.
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