Okay, so before I start this, I want everyone to know that this is a PARODY. I realize that most of what happens to the characters would never happen. I just make things happen the way I want them to. But I try to do it in a serious way... If that makes sense at all. Anyways, in case you didn't read my summary, this is about when the FAYZ wall goes down, what happens to all of the characters. THIS IS A SPOILER ALERT TO ANYONE WHO HAS NOT READ GONE, HUNGER, LIES, AND PLAGUE. I am sorry if you do not agree with how I made the characters, but this is my dream. All characters that belong to Gone, Hunger, Lies, and Plague belong to Michael Grant. My OC's are obviously mine. Just so you know, I am constantly being told I am OOC, and I know that I have way too many grammar and spelling mistakes. You have been warned. So, shall we begin? Yes, I think that would be great. Oh, and in this version, when little Pete "died" he actually died and the wall came down. Wow. That's the longest A/N I've ever written.

Sam Temple was late for school. Again. As you probably gathered from the again part, this was not the first time he was late. He'd been late a total of 18 times. He'd been counting. It was kind of sad, he could lead the twisted freaks and normals alike of the FAYZ, but when it came to the regular world, he was a lost cause. What he really wanted was to sit down, and talk to Dekka. He missed her. It wasn't a romantic kind of feeling, he missed Edilio the same way. They had both been as close to friends as anyone had in the FAYZ. Astrid went to his school, but that just annoyed him. After she killed little Pete, she retreated from civilization and went into an 'I hate the world' phase. And if the want the truth, the world kinda hated her too. But everyone else had been split up and thrown in different schools all over the state of Maine. And moving from Perdido Beach to Maine was not an easy transition. Sam missed the warmth. In short, he hated Maine.

But this time it was only late by a few minutes. When he sprinted into the building, the doors to homeroom were just closing. As fast as he could he dropped his stuff in his locker and dashed to his homeroom. When he dropped into his seat, the teacher, a tall thin woman looked at him disapprovingly.

"Thank you for joining us Mr. Temple." Sam knew better than to talk back. Out of habit, he glanced to the back of the room where Astrid sat, contemplating her nail. She completely ignored him. Astrid's mother thought she should go to a grief counselor, but she had flat out refused.

"Hey." Sam looked over and saw Lindsey smiling at him. She sat next to him in almost all of his classes, and she'd been nice. but hadn't tried to flirt with him or anything.

"Hi."

"What was it this time?" She asked, with only a touch of laughter in her voice. Sam shrugged sheepishly.

"Guess I'm not used to such harsh living conditions." Lindsey rolled her eyes. She was the only one in the school who knew where he came from, excepting Astrid.

"Miss Day, is there something you'd like to share with the rest of the class?" Mrs. Gretchen's eyes bore a hole in Lindsey' face and heads swiveled around to stare at the two of them.

"Um." Lindsey fumbled for words. Sam looked at her sympathetically. It had been him talking anyway.

"I was asking her about the homework in social studies." Sam told her, lowering his head, as though in shame. Mrs. Gretchen looked mollified and walked away, and Lindsey smiled at him gratefully.

"Thanks." She whispered. Sam nodded. If the FAYZ taught you anything, it was to not be afraid of measly old teachers. When you're used to fighting for your life things kind of come into perspective. Sam did not consider this a great deed.

The bell rang, causing the majority of the class to jump, Sam included. The next class Sam had was one of the only ones he didn't have without her. She had band where she played flute and Sam had extra gym. If you weren't taking band, you had options of other things to do while the band kids did band. Sam had picked gym. Sam got his gym clothes out of his locker, and slammed the door. His locker had a tendency of not closing very well.

"Bye," Lindsey called, already walking down the hall. Sam turned and walked the opposite direction to the gym. He got changed quickly, not wanting to be caught up in the rush of people. They were just coming around the corner when he was able to escape to the gym.

Once inside the gym, all the students were arranged into alphabetical squads. Being a "t", he was fairly close to the end. He was the first person in the last squad, only before Wheeler, Young, and Zell. Plopping him self onto the ground, he waited for the others to start trickling in.

"You're no fun." Brianna whined. Edilio rolled his eyes. He sometimes joked that he wished that he had not been out in the same school as Brianna, but the truth was he was just relieved that there was someone from the FAYZ with him. If felt good to have another warrior with him too, unlike Sam who had Astrid. And if Sam wasn't joking in his letters, she had gone goth, dying her hair black and everything.

"But seriously, slow down." Brianna rolled her eyes.

"Calm down. The Breeze has this down." Now it was Edilio's time to roll his eyes. He was scared that Brianna would wins by too much. Now, normally people would be happy when their friend won by a lot, but when they won before the starting sound had finished, people would talk.

"Just be careful." Brianna put a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry, this isn't the FAYZ. I'll be fine." Then she was running. The normal track runner would not be running toward the track to preserve energy, but Brianna was far from a normal anything. Edilio always went to her meets. He was always nervous that she would do something stupid, and really didn't want to be there if it did happen, but he felt like he had to be there for her. They'd both gone through hell, a lot of it together.

Edilio made his way to the bleachers, and sat apprehensively. Brianna looked over to him and winked, as the starter signal went off. Then she was running. Right from the start she was at the front, and be a lot too, but at Edilio's furious look, she grinned and slowed down. Now she was only winning by a little. She slowed even further until she was neck and neck with the person in the lead. For a while, she matched her pace with the guy next to him, then as the finish line came into view, she got on a burst of speed and crossed the line just before the other guy did. Edilio clapped, and cheered. Most of the crowd did. Brianna was popular here. Everyone liked her, especially the boys. Brianna smiled, and ran over to Edilio. She was smiling.

"Did I do okay Dad?" She asked sarcastically. But they both knew she didn't mean it.

"Oh come on. Another letter in the mail came from Sam." Brianna jumped.

"Cool!" They all felt so isolated from one another. They had all gotten used to being together all the time fighting together, some of them stuck to cinder blocks together. None of them liked being so far apart. Sam and Astrid were in southern Maine, Edilio and Brianna in the middle, and everybody else just as spread out. They were all uneasy. Jack sometimes emailed Brianna. They'd formed kind of a bond. Brianna didn't dare to call it a relationship, but thy bother liked each other pretty well. But now Jack was at some techie school, and even he was sometimes in over his head. He didn't have time to talk most of the time.

Edilio turned, and led the way to his dorm. Most of the people couldn't get used to being back with their parent,s so they were at boarding schools, Edilio and Brianna included. Girls were strictly not allowed in the boys dorms and vice versa, but Brianna could always run away, and Edilio didn't have a roommate. That was why Brianna went to Edilio's room. She ran there, and was waiting cross-legged on the floor when Edilio came in. She tossed him the letter she'd gotten off his desk, and he sighed and started to read.

Hey guys. I guess I'm not so god at this. Usually emailing worked. But I guess since not having anything made me think computers were too complicated. Anyway, how are you? Nice running Breeze. Listen to Edilio when he tells you to slow down. Edilio, you better from the plague yet man? Someone saw my foot the other day when I was putting on sneakers. They saw the heel that got torn off and I swear they almost had a heart attack. I think they went and puked.

Yeah, I hope things have been going better where you are than where I am. We had to watch this video on slavery and there was this dude getting whipped. I almost passed out. The teacher made me go back to my room. Everyone thinks I'm a freak. If only they knew how right they were.

Have you heard from Dekka recently? I haven't in a few months. Starting to get worried.

I don't get why we all have to be separated. This sucks guys. I'm not so popular anymore. Caine would laugh if he saw me. I have now idea where he or Diana is though. Maybe they found another island. Well, I gotta go. MY teacher's giving me the death stare. Maybe I should be writing notes in class... Anyway, I'll try to write more later, but if not, see ya.

Sam

Edilio looked at Brianna. "He sounds miserable."

"I know. None of us are having a very good time here."

"You got that right."

It was so dark that Dekka could barely even tell if her eyes were open or not. It had been like this every morning since she'd been abducted from the school she went to in Maine. It wasn't that she liked it there, it was a little like Coates all over again, but at least now she knew how lucky she'd had it back then. And she even had a couple friends here. Elizabeth in particular.

Elizabeth was tall, several inches taller than Dekka, but they got along fairly well. She had a scattering of freckles across her face, with blue-gray eyes. She was also twig skinny, even though she rode horses and was used to chucking around cumbersome hay bales. Dekka had gone with her once or twice to the school's stables, but she likes watching Elizabeth ride her solid appaloosa Shiloh better than riding herself. Horses made her nervous.

But there was no Elizabeth now, and there hadn't for almost a month. And Sam, who would have surely come up with a plan was a hundred miles away. Dekka looked at the ceiling and wondered if Sam even knew she was gone. Surely he would have noticed that she hadn't sent a letter since about a week before she was taken? She didn't even know who she was taken by. She had been taken to a room a couple times, but they were very careful not to say any names and blind-folded them. They asked her about the FAYZ and is she knew what it was, but she hadn't said a word since she'd been taken. After a while, she'd just been left in the dark room. There was no more food being pushed through the for and Dekka wondered if she was going to die.

There was water in the little bathroom, but after a week or so, (it had already been a few days) she would die for sure. Even now she stomach clenched with hunger, but she reminded it that she'd been through worse in the FAYZ. Plenty had died there. Dekka thought it wouldn't be such a bad thing to join them. She remembered praying with Hunter, right before Sam killed him. She remembered the bugs that had invaded them both, and how Dekka had almost been split open by them, when Sam and Lana had saved them. No, it would not be such a bad thing to joined Hunter, and the other good people that had been victim to the plague. Like E.Z. His death was terrible, being eaten alive by the worms. True, they had found a way to not get killed by the worms, but that was after they lost E.Z.

Maybe Quinn would send word to Sam. They went to the same school, but they'd never hung out much. Dekka wasn't by nature a forgiving person, and Quinn had joined Caine at one point. Now he fished. There was a big lake by the school and he would go there after school and on the weekends and fish. Many of the people found it disturbing to do the things they'd do at the FAYZ, but Quinn found peace in floating in the water catching whatever was there. Then he'd give it to the school. He didn't need it any more after all. And it just seemed too wasteful to throw it away after the FAYZ. Even if they hadn't really talked much, he'd notice if she was gone, right?

Quinn was at loss of what to do. In the FAYZ he would have told somebody, like Edilio, or Sam, but here, what could they do? But he was getting desperate. Dekka had been missing for nearly a month and the teachers wouldn't say a word about it. They didn't even tell some story like she had to go home or anything. They just said it was none of his business. And in a letter that had just come in from Edilio and Brianna asked if he knew where she was because Sam said that he hadn't heard from her, and Edilio and Brianna noticed that they hadn't either.

In a way, it was easier in the FAYZ. Here there weren't talking coyotes, or greenie venom, but here there was also no Sam. It was so much easier being able to have one job: fishing. But now he was sure that Dekka was in trouble and he was the only one who could do anything about it. He decided that he had to tell Sam. So, he wrote a letter.

Sam, I'm sorry for not telling you this sooner, but I didn't know what to do. Brianna and Edilio sent me a letter saying that you hadn't heard from Dekka in a while. She hasn't been at the school, and the teachers won't tell me anything about it either. I didn't want to worry you, I mean, you're so far away anyway, and I thought she'd come back, but I haven't seen her in like a month. I'm starting to get scared. What should we do? Is there anything to do? -Quinn

It wasn't a masterpiece, but it said what needed to be said. Quinn didn't want to wait for the postman to come and get it- it wouldn't be until day after tomorrow, and Quinn wasn't sure Dekka could wait. So even though it was highly against the rules, he started making his way out of the school property and towards the local post office, a few miles away from the school.

After about the first mile and a half, he paused to rest. He'd been jogging steadily, but he wasn't in shape very much in the running respect. Now, stick him on a boat, and he could beat anyone, but running had never been his thing. He wished there was Brianna. Or even Taylor, though she got on everyone's nerves. He got up, and kept running. This was something he had to get right. He'd screwed up a lot in the FAYZ, but in the end he got it right, and was determined to keep doing that. He knew Sam had to hear about this. Even if he was a hundred miles away.

So, there's the first chapter. Tell me what you think ;) Reviews are always accepted and are very welcome. Just to warn you guys, I'm not a very fast updater, but I'll do my best. I'm not going to make excuses, so just to let you know. I'm not going to abandon this story though. So, please try to bear with it. Thank you for reading!

***Cozy