Please do not read this if you have not read the sequel: The Untold Legends: BioDoom. If you do read this prior to the first book, then you will be lost in the story.
THE UNTOLD LEGENDS
Gears of Evil
Prologue
Everything went wrong on Mars.
The whole trip was a disaster. Death was written all over that event. The survivors that left the place were saved by the Gods. Even though only 4 people of the entire party that was up there got out, they knew what they were doing. At first, they were all just going on an once-in-a-lifetime field trip. Then got attacked by Splicers, Big daddies, Houdini, and some sort of chemical bio-engineered monsters that hated water. The survivors somehow managed to get organized and escape from the monster-infested planet via a transport shuttle.
But they didn't come back the same. Each one of them witnessed disturbing things that would scar them for life. After the whole event, one single spore of an infectious disease was caught on one, it spreads like melted butter once it comes into contact with water, it destroys all matter in a substance, re-animates it into something unexplainable, and during that process, the host dies then comes back...in a different way. This is a virus that was carried all the way to Earth. This is a story that has happened in a parallel is an Untold Legend of the Gears of Evil.
Chapter 1- Everything goes wrong
It has been a hectic time for Montie. People changed, really changed. They went from caring, loving people, to brain-eating zombies in three hours. Ever since he got back from Mars, he has been on edge from killing a virus that has been plaguing Washougal. Somehow, the virus spread throughout the whole city in just a few hours. He didn't know where or how this all happened, but he was determined to get out alive.
Armed with only a Beretta 9mm and a spare clip that he found next to a body, he really didn't have a choice of what to do. He was alone, even though he started out with 28 other survivors with him at the start of all of this. He was in Safeway, not a really good place to stay in at the time, because there were no guns of any sort. So he barricaded himself in the Security Room, it would hold, but not for long. He had a shopping basket full of little snacks, drinks, and energy bars that would last him for about two to three days, if not, less.
He was thinking of a way out of the store without being eaten by the zombies waiting right outside of the room. He thought of his choices: One, he waits it out until he's saved by someone; Two, he runs and guns through the store; Three, he finds a different route out from the room to the roof. He was wondering about one thing. He thought; What would Sean do? I don't think he would pick option two, or one, but he would think of the hardest option...three.
After their escape from Mars, he never saw Sean again. He said he "had one more thing to do" then shut the escape hatch, and they lifted off into the empty void of space as the monsters broke through the door they had just came in from.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing, I gotta get out of here, of Washington or maybe even the planet."
"Where would I go, Mars? No, I don't think so, I'm not going back to that monster-infested planet!" Montie thought to himself.
"Oh yeah, only planet that's habitable is inhabited by monsters. So then I get out of the state somehow." Montie was getting up and loading the bag with his food.
Montie opened up an air duct on the ceiling.
"Okay, what are you doing, Montie?" He was talking to himself as he was climbing up.
"If I want to get out of here, then I'll go the safest way out; The air ducts, they'll lead me to the roof where there are no zombies, and I can look for an escape route without being attacked." Montie told the plan to the wall.
"Alrighty then, let's go." He hefted his bag onto his shoulder and he started to go through the shafts.
The shaft's door flung open and out came Montie tumbling out. Fresh air flowed into his lungs and the sun shining on his skin. He was wearing summer clothes because it was in the middle of summer. He was wearing a white t-shirt, and blue denim jeans with a pair of Converse shoes.
"Holy crap it's hot out here!" Montie said as he was putting on his sunglasses.
"I agree." Montie was wiping sweat off his forehead, as he was talking to the nobody with him.
"Let's go over to the entrance and see how many there are."
The rooftop was actually pretty big. But it was really crowded with all of the air-conditioning conduits and generators scattered across the pale tan-colored ground.
He walked over to the top of the front doors, and was amazed of what he saw. Normally, people exaggerate of what they see, but there was no way of doing it in this situation. Hundreds, litteraly hundreds of undead were walking around the once only car-covered parking lot was replaced by them. They were everywhere where he looked. On the ground, on the cars, on the street, you name it and at least twenty of them were on it. It was ten times as worse as New York's most populated streets.
"I guess Plan B." Montie said as he was turning around towards the shaft entrance.