More Then Surviving
By
DesireeStorm
A/N:
Fear The Walking Dead
AU: with elements of The 100, namely people only named differently.
Pairing: F/F, M/F, M/M
Rating: M/FR21- sexual content, language, violence, death
Chapter 01-
How It All Ends
Elyza was just finished up securing the last crates in the bed of the trail, watching people moving about, completely clueless to the rumblings going on in various cities throughout the world. Once done she hopped up into the H2, the power of the engine thrums through the frame as the engine comes to life, across the top of the roof is an extended frame the top being a solar panel. Under it were utility boxes with keypads in order to open them each. She pulled out of the parking lot of the shopping center and heads northeast out of L.A. Following behind her were 2 semi-trailers that she had rented and hired some drivers for, to load/unload, her last minutes ordered supplies. She looked at her current checklist and saw it all completed with this load. Though she is sure that she will make another run before she is done for the day. Its only 10:15am. She turned the radio tuner onto the news to block out the outside world as she moves along the highway. Thinking of any last minute things she might need. Time was running short for all that needed to be completed.
The early June traffic wasn't heavy she arrived at her destination with the hour. Taking the turn off that leads to a short range of foothills that lead towards the mountain range beyond. The entrance runs through the base of one of those foothills which leads towards the nearest mountain range. The gate opens after the guards received a signal from Elyza, the thick metal doors slide to the sides while another two slide into the top and bottom, both sets moving cleanly and quickly for such heavy things. All along mid-way up the steep foothills is a brick wall similar to what one would see on the sides of freeways going up 8ft tall topped off with what looked like steel spikes that one would see in a war zone not out in the sunny Californian landscape, faint trails can be seen leading to the wall, nothing can be seen past the hills though, what wasn't so easily seen from the outside the wall was the reinforcements angling down to not look as thick as the 8ft base was. The inside of the wall has a walkway built about four feet from the top so as to not alert the outside world of the guards who patrolled the area. They would be able to look over if needed but not be visible unless looking right over the top. This set-up was more for secrecy and for the protection of the guards along with the cameras. It only took several different security system firms to install all the wiring and equipment hidden all along the wall, along with twenty different masonry crews: ten men each to build and reinforce it only took until mid-March to complete it and then they moved onto the three inner walls, each being smaller than the last, all having four entrances. Then finally the last wall being the compound's wall, which was reinforces with steel plating covered over with cement bricks. Each company few workers each, as they were hired to work for the compound for future wall work. Not knowing that is would be begin soon after their main job was completed. Spread out in front of the outside wall were various bushes and cactus. All planted to grow so high as to block the view of the wall in some places. Plants that didn't need much in the way of water and have since spread even further down the foothills. Making approaching the wall from the outside more dangerous than it was worth, even if you could somehow reach the wall, climbing it would be a nightmare without the proper gear.
Elyza thought back to the last six months and all the hundreds of millions of dollars she and her family spent to get this place built in order to meet their demanding standards in such a short span of time, and was never more grateful then the present for her grandfather's shred thinking and business sense, which left his children and grandchildren swimming in money, as in the billions. Or for her parents for moving to a country that allowed the purchase for firearms and other excesses for the right amount of money. The 60 Sq. mile property her parents have bought within the state's national forest, cost over 10 million, it sat just northwest of the great Los Angeles are, she had hired over 20 of the top construction companies in the state each with their own unlimited budget to use the best materials needed along with extra if needed, the only drawback was a timeline. Each company were chosen for the reputations for never cutting corners and always standing behind their work, each company was told in advance to hire as many people they needed so long as the workman ship was excellent and if they completed on time of the June deadline there would be a bonus for the companies along with a 10k bonus made out to everyone who worked on the crews even if it was only for one day. Needless to say each crew worked their asses off to do the very best. The walls alone cost close to 250 million. The companies were paid roughly 400 million after cost, time and materials, the bonus paid out were roughly around 15 million give or take. That's not including the extra materials that was put into storage in 60 warehouses by each of the entrances for future expansion of the outer wall, since the land would be needed to support a growing herd for more grazing land. Most of the bricks were left on half bed trailers just waiting to be moved to the site of construction. Each warehouse had enough materials to build 2 Sq. miles each.
All the work crews had the theory that her family were one of those rich Prepers, the nut jobs, that think the world will end and needed to be ready or a cult in progress. Little did they know her family was getting ready for just that event, the end of civilization, well as they knew it at least. Everyday more and more shipments were being delivered either by chartered plane on the small air strip that had been installed or allowed in through the gate through a prearranged time, with some security guards hired through a private firm, all whom were a couple just starting to think about kids or not want any at all. A security building just before the entrance the only things within sight for miles. It had its own generator and solar panels to supply power to keep the monitors and air running along with the half kitchen and a small bathroom. It housed two guards at all times on an 8hr rotations. In the restroom, was secret escape tunnel built in, that ran through to the base of the foothill parallel to the tunnel entrance to exit out into a secondary security house with a locked gate that only the inner guards could release the lock. If the outer guard house is about to be compromised it would allow the guards to get to safety and be able to seal the smaller tunnel.
With only the people closest to her family for help, all Aussies like her family, all having met in a privileged private school for the intellectually gifted in Melbourne. Elyza was 15 and midway through an accelerated medical school program, when her mother was offered a chance to work with the CDC which was too good to pass up. After they had settled in L.A. she kept in touch with them all, and flew home for visits along for training sessions for the parts of the program she couldn't complete with on-line correspondence. She had just completed the program just after her 18th birthday and was finishing up her minor in Arts in preparation for applying to various hospitals for her residency when a tragic fire hit her old school's graduation ceremony leading to her losing some friends and leaving several of her other friends without their parents. With nothing to keep some of them in Melbourne, they took up her folks offer to live with them in L.A. For however long they wanted or needed. Lindsey Reyes, Marie Blake, Bob Blake, Larkin Green, and Jarod Miller were received with open arms. The Lexs' mansion housing them quiet easily. For a family born into extreme wealth like the Lexs' they were the most down to earth, hardworking, caring people, one could ever meet. They even joined her in her martial arts training under Master Indra strict guidance. Though only Elyza, Marie, Bob, and Jarod seem to excel in learning how to defend or attack with various types of weapons.
Elyza returned to the present and drove through the first sets of gates and drove slowly to the next set this one opened by remote, she drove through it slowly allowing the semi-trailers to follow through, and the same with the next, she then signals them to park in the unloading area clearly marked. She waits till they are in position and pulls up in her parking spot, and then proceeds to another of the H2 with an empty trailer and gets in. She watched the security guards and work crew began the unloading of the trailers. Once the trailers are empty she pulls in front now empty semi-trailers just as they move up behind her and leads them out same as they entered. Only after the non-personnel leave, did the security guards and work crew begin to move all the unloaded cargo into the unloading zone to be sorted into their proper storage buildings, they then proceed to go straight into the guard house to wait for the last run. Once they were done for the day they would then go to the medical wing of the outer guard house to be in quarantine for the next 72hrs, which will begin the lockdown for the entire compound. Any runs out from the compound after lockdown, personnel would only need to wait 12hrs to be cleared.
Elyza make a stop at a munition depot to buy out the current stock of ammunition, after showing her paperwork for being able to buy what she was. She also bought 2 pallets full of empty bullet casing of various types. This take up a quarter of the trailer she is pulling, all cases covered in a tarp and strapped securely. Before she leaves she speaks with the manager of the depot to put in another order for express shipment to be picked again in the next week, it would be secured in the depot trailers which she bought straight out from him, she would have them picked up later in the week but arranged for them to be stared for up to the next month if any issues came up, the manage was who had dollar signs in his eyes was only too happy to arrange this for a price, she also slipped him a clip with a twenty crisp folded 100s for all his help and to please rush the order to be shipped first thing in the morning, so long as it arrived in the next few days at the depot, he would get double that. Elyza felt slightly bad, knowing it was unlikely she would ever see him again. But she knew that they would need those munitions to for later. She then went to Best Buy to pick up the last shipment they had order which took up two quarters of her trailer, she also went in and bought 100 copies of all the current games with various memory sticks for each systems and all the hand held games systems they had in stock, with anything they would need to be charged. She then went and bought all the i-Pods in stock along with all the various headsets and mics they had too. The purchases she made in-store filled up back of the H2. The sales personal were tripping over themselves in order to help her, offering suggestions of other things to buy. The manager said if that she needed more systems, they would have to order it from their warehouse, she did, she would rather send a semi-trailer to pick it up from their warehouse if that was possible, he was again all too happy to help, so she paid in advance and had all the paperwork along where to get the shipment with the directions to pick it up in the next week, though arranged to have it held there for up to a month just in case.
She figured if her group can go to the location for it along with any of the neighboring warehouses. She already had a shipment of batteries that Duracell sells in bulks sitting in one of their warehouses. She looked over the addresses for both stores' warehouses and saw that they were located within a quarter of a mile of each other, in one of the outlining warehouse districts. She pulled up tablet out and did a google sate search of the area and looks at it in real-time and panned the view around to see if she would plan out any other place there to look as since they would be going there anyway. Not too far from Best Buy's warehouse she caught the logo of one of those big chain stores that sold hunting and survival gear, along with weapons and ammo. She took down some notes, then continued to scan the area and saw a chemical company. Her watch beeped, which broke her out of her planning. She cursed softly, and put her stuff away to work on later. She radios the two semi-trailer drivers, and verified if they were ready to continue. Since they stopped at Costco meat loading and unloading area, both trailers parked to be loaded. As it would take about an hour to load and secure everything, she made a last stop to Hersey Factory outlet, and had them load up the rest of her trailer with cases of various candy bars. Can never have enough chocolate. When she left back to Costco the drivers radioed that they were ready. It was just hitting 3pm when she started to head up meet at the truck stop the prearranged semi-trailer filled with potatoes that was last shipment they were receiving. She had the trucks follow her just like the ones from that morning had. Only difference was that there was three Bikes mounted on a smaller trailer after the main one behind the rig. The driver would be leaving the rigs and trailers on the property. They would bring it into the first two gates leaving it outside the third and would then ride back out with the guards opening the gates to let them out. The entire compound would go into lock-down from then on out until it became common knowledge to what was happening.
The guards and work crew watched as the drivers rode away until the gate closed behind them. They then began unloading all the cold perishables into the cold storage warehouses that keep the fresh produce and meats at. Once that was done they sorted out everything else out. It took them a few hours to completely unload all the trailers, but once they were done. They all headed into quarantine which signaled they work shift over.
Elyza used her headset to inform HG that everything was unloaded and stored. After getting the all clear from them he also headed straight for the guard's quarantine wing to wait out her own 72hrs to be cleared to reenter the main complex. It was during this next week also that all personnel were request to get physical done now that everyone was now accounted for to assure that everyone was healthy. She helped her mother and the other 4 doctors with the exams which only took 4 days to complete. Once the all clears were given everyone went back to the jobs. Or help others with theirs if they had no work at this time. With the lockdown now in effect. People began to get into their routines now that all outside contact was cut off.
End of Ch.01
A/N: Yes I know another story but seriously this one just wouldn't let me try to write anything else. So figure write it down and get it out of my head, so only a few chapters so far. Enjoy. Also my numbers might not be spot on, sorry.
