No day... it is still night... actually it is about early morning so: 2am?.))
Rek gave no response at first, he simply stood up. His eyes were distant. "Alright..." He repeated. "Happened..." He cast his gaze to her. "I think I am being tempted to join them. (You lost your chance Jacco)" Rek picked up a bottle of Vodka from the crate Frank and his pal had vacated. He tossed it to her. "I'm fine now." He pulled out two more, handed one to Carlos when he entered and opened his own. "Heres to getting drunk! And to saving the world after we cure our hang-overs! Cheers!" He drank.
Jacob sat by the side of a deserted road. He had been walking for hours, and had given up on finding Ben, when her heard a low rumble. It was a truck from what he could tell. "What the?" A Ford Bronco ((My own vehicle :drool🙂) tore down the road and stopped infront of him. "Need a lift?" Ben said, as he hit the breaks and switched into neutral. Jacob laughed and jumped into the pasenger seat.
Kat watched him quietly, relived when Carlos appeared. Rek was acting funny again, and she didnt want to be in the same room with him alone. "Alright, if you say so." Hestant at first she opened her bottle and took a drink, wincing at the burn. "Wow... I'm more of a whisky girl but this will have to do." She grinned and gave them a wink.
"Well... I'll check, c'mon.. you check the recption vending machine (which you will have to break) and me and Kat will check the diner across the road. We need food, and we had better get it before we get drunk." Rek started reattaching armour plates to his form-fitting jumpsuit. From his pack he pulled out a ration bar. Peeling the foil he bit into it ferrally, chewing on its cereal contents. "Great! Lets go!" He took another bite and hooked his Hazard helmet to its catch on his belt. "Report in, every two minutes." Rek picked up his assault rifle and slung it on his shoulder. He continued to eat the cereal ration bar.
carlos walked into the reception room with an empty black garbage bag that he had found under the sink in a kitchen. he busted open both of the vending machines and drained soda cans and chip bags into the bag. he sealed the bag tight with a knot and put it into the storage compartment of the apc. he poured some sprite into the half empty vodka bottle and walked to where the others were with more empty bags. ((all unused))
Rek ran across the road from the motel and hit the side wall to the diner first. "Right," he quickly attached his Hazmat helmet as Kat arrived, "ready?" The Lieutenant pointed to the door. "On three.. One... Two... Thr-"
Out off the corner of his eye Rek spotted it first and he pushed Kat to the ground out of the way.
The Leaper smashed through the door with a splintering crash that showered them in glass. Rek leaned back and grabbed the creatures jaws, dropping his assault rifle. He kicked out and sent the thick skinned zombie off of him. "Kat!" Rek rolled as the Leapers claws impacted into the ground where his head had been and picked himself up. It whined and and roared. "C'mon." Rek picked up his assault rifle as the creature growled and charged, leaping up at him. From his slightly croutched position Rek could see the Leapers jaws open for him, and in one smooth motion he gripped the rifle, pulled back and ducked.
The Leaper whined the roared in pain as its target moved and it slammed into the brick wall. Rek spun and fired three rounds into the dead things head. It shuddered, twitched for several seconds and then stopped moving.
Behind Rek more undead were coming, hundreds. They had found them. Another Leaper came pouncing out from behind the building and soon several more followed. Rek gulped. "Lets get anything we can and run." He tapped his com. "Carlos, Frank, anyone... If your listening, change of plan. Get that APC warmed up now!"
***
The Hummvee Kevin and Brian had nicked hit the freeway to find them devoid of life. Every now and then there would be an abandoned car and sometimes car crashes. "What the hell is going on, this is like 28 Days Later."
Kevin gave Brian a funny look. "Maybe thats exactly what it is..."
"Where we going?"
"Nevada. Specifically. Groom Lake Nevada."
"Groom Lake facility?" Brians eyes widened. "As in Area-51?"
Kevin was hesitant for several moments. "Yes."
The military vehical sped along the road.
***
The Pentagon, Washington D.C.
"Our intelligance says we are looking at a total loss. The virus spread to quickly. By the time our Military began to respond it was already too late, the virus had taken half the West-coast and has spread quickly across the globe."
The staff of high ranking Generals and duty officers watched as the officer at the head of the meeting explained the extent of the situation.
Moving over to a strobe lighted map of the world he used a laser pointer to indicate his points. "After the virus neared the major cities we began evacuating people away from this line where we believed the Virus to be contained. In our evaquation of the West-coast cities, somehow the virus was carried by several evacuees onto the plains as they had only recently been infected. Los Angeles, San Fransisco, San Diago, Las Vagas and this entire region," he pressed a button and those, cities and respective states went red, "now after the evacuation several of the planes crashed here," highlights Texas, Colorado, and Kentucky, they went red, "and those states were quickly infected. Currently gentlemen, the Virus has, through some means, spread to Europe, Aisa and the Middle-East. We have been getting reports from countries such as China, India, Russia, France, Germany and The United Kingdom; of attacks, riots and panics. So far, we think that about 88% of the Northern Hemisphere has been affected. Now, the continent of Africa seem to be keeping things under wraps but there are scattered and garbled messages of attacks and rampages by animals and humans alike." The officer moved away form the lighted map now that about 75% of the worlds land mass glowed red. "Questions?"
"What caused this?!" One General demanded.
"Uncertain, our research experts are looking into it as best they can."
"How are our forces faring?"
"Our armed forces are down to 19%"
"19! Impossibl-"
"No more questions. What we need are experts on fighting these infected, people with experiance..."
"How can we find people with experiance when this has never happened before."
The officer handed out the files of the Delta Contagion of 7 years ago. "It has happened, only we were ordered to keep it under the Seal of the Eye. SOTE has been lifted for countering this threat." He nodded to an aide who handed out the files of the Hazmat specialists involved. "Intelligance has lost contact with all bases but we have leads that several of these men and women are fighting in a city south of Main. We have dispached a retrieval squad to find them."
"What if they are already dead!" A General stood from his chair.
The officer slunked down. "Then may God help us, may he help us all!"
carlos stopped as he began to run towards the diner. "wha-!" he turned and jumped back into the apc. he fired it up and began driving quickly down the street. he switched on his radio to the frequency of the base that they had come from. "foxtrot-22, this is delta-34, requesting immediate pickup, sending coordinates for lz, keep your eyes on the skys." "roger that delta, sending big bird. over"
carlos panted as he rammed through 2 leapers in the street. "hey rek, get in." almost suddenly, he rounded the corner and screeched the vehicle to a halt, "now!"
Shannon sat up from the back seat where she had been sleeping. "What's going - OH MY GOD!" She reached out and grabbed her mother by the arm. "MOM GET IN!" Kat struggled and began to take off her jacket. "No! We can't! Daran is still inside! I won't leave him!" She had her jacket half way off when Shannon got her in the car. "Rek give me your gun!" Kat struggled with the door, trying to keep Shannon off of her.
Rek spontaneously handed her his assault rifle then spun and darted for the Motel. He scrambled into the room to find Daran awake and sneaking Vodka into his pack. "Get dressed!" Rek kicked the uniform towards him.
"Nice to see you too..." Daran began hopping around trying to put his uniform on. Rek tossed the mans assault rifle to him, which he caught and tripped over. "Ah!"
"Oh! Yea, the booze." Rek quickly filled up one of his packs with bottles of it. "C'mon."
Daran finished and followed Rek out the door. "Wheres your gun?"
"Kat's got it!"
Jacob, Ben, and two other intelligent infected were sitting in the truck as it barreled down the road towards a survivor outpost. They were all to determined to infect as many as possible, but as they were driving, Jacob remembered something. "Someone without infected eyes, start dri-" It was too late, a sniper round tore through the driver's head and sent the truck into a ditch.
Rek, supporting Daran, ran out of the Motel. "Kat, take Daran, I'll take my gun back!" He swapped personage for weaponage and began covering them.
Frank came running round the corner. "Who called the calvelry?!" He fired at the infected, taking several down and then he dove into the APC. "Hey, Carlos! Did you radio for retrieval... It will never get here." He fired out the door. "The outposts were all over-run hours ago. The last message I got was from a SAM site near the outter city limits but Alamagators have it now."
Rek backed towards the APC. Paused. Held up one hand to the infected. The clambering and growning stopped.
Frank caught Carlos' arm. "Hold your fire."
Rek opened his mind to the simple minded pauns, in a world-wide game of chess, the commander should disperse his troops. They all waited in silence.
"C'mon Lieutenant!!" Daran shouted.
Rek nodded as his eyes went lure black as he gave orders to them. He turned and walked onto the APC as the Infected shuffled off, several Leapers followed. Rek sat down as one Leaper bounded into the APC's hold. "Don't shoot!" Rek quickly added. "I've just ordered this Leaper here." The creature whined and layed down at the back of the APC near the door. "I just sent 286 infected and 40 Leapers on a chase to find and kill Ben and Jacob. They'll reach them in a few days."