The year is 2010, and all is not completely right in the United Kingdom. Five years on and a quarantine is still in place in what was once the sleepy small city of Malton. Well, that's what it used to be until an accident at one of the numerous NecroTech facilities caused a huge viral outbreak, turning scores of innocent people into blood-thirsty, flesh-eating lunatics that every referred to as Zombies, because of the similarities to the perceived picture.
But for now, the picture will cut back just a little bit, to the beginning of the story, four years in the past –
It was strange, flying away while the rest of team stood there and waved me off. He felt kind of hollow, knowing he was leaving the entire team to possibly die within the quarantine while he escaped and was able to start a new life outside of the city. Why couldn't James have sent more than one chopper so he could have evacuated the entire team with him?
Well, it wasn't his decision anymore ... he was leaving and he wasn't coming back. "Are you comfortable back there sir?" the pilot asked. He thought about it for a minute before replying that he was fine. "Well, we'll be out of Malton in a about 10 minutes, then we'll have to land outside of the safety zone to quickly refuel" the pilot said, pointing at the approaching border.
But suddenly, the two men saw several army personnel on the border walls, and several of them were looking at the helicopters way. The Pilot exclaimed "shit!" when he realised one of the men had a rocket launcher trained on the helicopter. Steering hard to the right, he attempted to avoid the army, when it was quite clearly obvious that they wanted to take down the chopper.
"Hold on and fasten your seatbelt" the pilot yelled, before zigzagging away from danger, but things where not as simple as that. All over the wall, several more men began arming themselves with Rocket Launchers, all ready to blow the chopper out of the sky and kill all inside it. Finally, one of them let off a rocket, which zoomed towards the helicopter.
Unhooking his belt, the man in the back of the helicopter opened the door and looked at the buildings and ground a long way down. He didn't have any second thoughts and with that, he jumped out of the helicopter into freefall. A few seconds later, the helicopter was hit by the rocket and exploded and began it's forced decent down to the ground where it then crumpled upon impact.