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| March 16 2012 |
The group drives out of the warehouse parking lot and stops to decide what to do
next, drive back into Raleigh and join JJ at JJ’s Gun Emporium or drive away
from Raleigh, the lost city. As they ponder several apache helicopters fly
overhead leaving Raleigh. One of the helicopters starts to swerve erratically
and goes down several miles down the road. The group decides to check out the
wreck. They find another M16 rifle, a dozen grenades and three shoulder-mounted
rocket launchers.
As they are divvying up the loot a pickup truck with four men carrying hunting
rifles approach. They say they are from a nearby small town Dalesbury and invite
the group to come along with them. Dalesbury is a small new England town
bordered up by cars, farm equipment, and cyclone fencing, guards patrol the
makeshift walls with hunting rifles. The group is let in and are voted in as new
residence as long as they can do their part to support the town. The town’s
general feeling is that the government is responsible for this zombie mess. A
middle aged man, Doc, first needs to inspect everyone for bites and treat the
wounded at his office. Noot, Duncan, the sick little girl and Drake all stay
there to get healed up. The town’s mayor is busy and does not get a chance to
greet the group for a few days but the good doctor arranges food and lodging for
the group.
Upon doing a medical exam on all the members of the group the doctor immediately
notices the fresh bit on Drake’s arm and is surprised that he is still alive.
Drake tells the doctor that he is immune to the virus and shows the doctor his
older bite that is still barely visible. The Doctor can’t believe this medical
discovery.
For some reason unknown to Bubba, Dr. House decides to get into Bubba’s face and
get real mean, taunting Bubba. Bubba finally has enough and punches Dr. House in
the nose and takes the bottle of vicodin that Dr. House is holding onto. Bubba
walks away with the bottle with an uneasy feeling that somehow Dr. House has
just used him.
Bubba, Noot, Amanda and Parker go out on their first patrol with 4 town folks
who come along to show the new guys the ropes. The duty of the patrol is to
drive around the surrounding area killing zombies and siphoning gas from any
vehicles they can find. On their first encounter the group finds a small crowd
of shamblers. Parker uses one of the rocket launchers and blows up two thirds of
the zombies, leaving behind a large crater in the road. Just after they group
finishes killing the last of the zombies three military Humvees pull up filled
with soldiers that left Raleigh. Amanda invites the military to stay at
Dalesbury. The town's men don’t think this is a good idea but they are way
outgunned. Bubba doubts this is a good idea too.
As the military pulls into Dalesbury Mayor Kwame meets everyone at the city’s
makeshift gate. A heated argument breaks out between Mayor Kwame who demands the
military to move along and Major Morgan who demands that his troops be allowed
to stay and rest up. As guns are being drawn and leveled between the military
and town guards, Amanda manages to calm everyone down and broker an agreement
between the two parties. The military will only stay two days, eat their own
food and helping with patrols.
The Mayor demands that Bubba, Noot, Amanda and Parker go on patrol with the
military because they brought this problem on the town. So they obey the mayor’s
demand and go on patrol with 4 of the soldiers. Bubba climbs a hill and uses one
of the military’s fancy night binoculars and see’s something horrible. Far down
the road, the road is so full of zombies that all he can see is the road
changing color. They run back to the town to warn everyone that in 48 hours the
hoard of zombies will be at their city’s gate.
A town meeting is called and Bubba notices that Dr. House, Parker and Drake are
missing. At the end of the meeting Dr. House and Parker walk in but don’t say
what they have been up to. The town has decided it will be best to start
building-up the town’s defenses. Bubba, Noot, Amanda and two of the town’s men
who will drive city salt trucks to a nearby town, Mayville, there is a Home
Depot just on the outskirts of Mayville. The town needs more wood posts, and
fencing.
Dr. House has been snooping around the doctor’s office, the doctor is missing
along with all the patients that are supposed to be resting there.
Dr. House found a wadded up piece of cloth that had traces of chloroform on it.
While Bubba, Amanda and the two town’s men are loading up the trucks, Noot
scavenges around Home Depot for anything that might be explosive. Poor Noot
stumbles onto a bizarre scene. In the employee lunch room she sees shamblers,
sprinters and satan-babies. The shamblers are resting against walls, the
sprinters are cradling the babies in their arms and the babies are relaxed
almost sleeping. When they see Noot they activate and start behaving normally.
Sprinter screaming, shambler moaning and satan-baby screeching are mingled with
poor Noot’s own screams as she runs away.
The sprinters are taken out quickly by a grenade thrown by Amanda. Noot runs
past Bubba and Amanda and hides in a shelf as the rest of the zombies are taken
out by Bubba, Amanda and the two town’s men. As Noot is hiding the scrawny
archeologist that was with them in the RV and had died days ago comes after her
as a zombie. The zombie is rifling through the shelf grabbing after Noot when
Amanda fills his head full of lead, M16 lead. Amanda has become quite the hot
shot with a M16.
Drake was resting at the doctor’s office when he heard an old familiar laugh
from behind him and the touch of a cold metal gun muzzle pressed against the
back of his head. Drake turned around and saw it was his old nemesis Kwame.
Kwame is the man who killed Drake’s father and promised to kill Drake too.
Kwame, chuckled and said, “Well, well, Drake, it looks like not even the world
ending in a zombie apocalypse is enough to let you escape my wrath”. Kwame
cocked his pistol, smiled and that was when Kwame’s brother, the doctor stepped
up and whispered into Kwame’s ear. Kwame’s face fell in disappointment. Then the
doctor said out loud reinforcing what he just said “Kwame, this is the man I was
telling you about. The only one who is immune to the zombie virus. We need him
alive if we are to complete are experiments.” Kwame, forcefully controlled his
temper and told his brother “Well if you need to keep him alive for testing,
promise one thing. Make the tests painful”
Drake went to sleep expecting a lower GI to be performed and woke up in a large
warehouse like room strapped down to a gurney. The doctor was standing over him
holding a zombie head that was still alive and snapping its mouth. The doctor
put the zombie head on Drake’s leg and let it bite him. “Now” says the doctor,
“let’s see what happens next” with a cruel smile on his face. |
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