Chapter 1: From Space to Hell


Author's Note Part 1: Alright, so just like my other HOTD story, I've let this one sit for a while, and now I'm going to go through it and edit a few things here and there. I'd also like to thank the people who reviewed before this was updated, because they allowed me to see a few flaws in how it was written before. So, they're the reason that this has been edited even if the way that they phrased it made it sound like they were simply flaming the story.

(Although one thing that I changed on my own that was important, as you can see in the tags, was the pairing. The reason for this is because I feel that with these two characters' personalities, they would actually work well together. Don't ask me what I was thinking when I paired Jack with Takagi the first time around, because I don't actually know. Although, it might've had something to do with the fact that I first posted this soon after I stopped updating my other story, which has the OC paired with Takagi…)

Also, I'd like suggestions for what to do in this story regarding the alien aspect since I haven't seen any of the films. So, anything about them and what to do would definitely be appreciated. But, I think that I've made you all wait long enough for this chapter to come out, so here's the edited chapter 1!


Jack's POV:


As I stand on the landing of the stairs that are connected to the outside of the school, I stare out across the empty courtyard, save for the occasional student that walks across it to go from the gym to the school, or vice-versa. The weather is nice at the time, and I sigh before turning around and placing my hands on the railing behind me as I look towards the sky, but end up looking at the bottom of the landing above me.

"God damn this school is boring." I mutter out loud to myself. "Just like my old school." I continue when I think about how boring the last school I had gone to. The only difference is that my previous school had been a boys-only school. "Although I guess an upside to coming here is that at this school there are some cute girls." I reason to myself as I turn around again with a slight smile and see a familiar looking purple haired girl making her way to the gym.

When I see her, I glance at my watch. "Always around the same time." I say with a chuckle. The purple haired girl, Saeko Busujima, had always made her way to the gym at around 1:30 every day that I was out here to see. Today, she'd come walking out at 1:33. Now, I'll admit this much… I'd never worked up the courage to even talk to her. And you'd think with my past… Well, let's just say that talking to her shouldn't have been very hard.

As she walks into the gym and the door closes behind her, I turn back to looking across the rest of the courtyard and think about my class. And more importantly, the teacher of said class. Any other teacher. I would rather any teacher other than Mr. Shido. I think to myself in disgust. I would even rather a teacher that assigns an essay that's due the very next day. Every day. I add, before I can't take thinking about it anymore, and have to let it off verbally.

"Gah!" I exclaim, and pull at my hair. "Why the hell did I have to get that asshole of a teacher?!" I yell, and just as I'm about to go on a rant to myself about Mr. Shido, I hear the door open, and the sound of footsteps come from the landing above me. I'll bet anyone a million dollars that I know who's up there. I think to myself. And I'm proven to be correct when I hear a voice come from above me.

"Cross my heart and hope to die… Yeah right." I hear Takashi mutter.

Ding-ding-ding! Now, from where and whom do I collect my winnings? I ask myself sarcastically as I trudge up the stairs and walk over to stand next to him. We just stand there, staring out across the courtyard for a few minutes, before I decide to break the silence. "The usual?" I ask him. He nods his head in response, and then turns to look at me.

"You?" He asks. I nod my head, and we go back to staring out across the courtyard. A few minutes later, our silent, peaceful mopping session is interrupted by a familiar pink haired genius.

"What are you doing here Stupid?" She asks. Takashi sighs and turns around. I just let them talk out the usual conversation they have where Takagi berates Takashi about being stupid for coming here to mope about the breakup that he and Rei had not that long ago. While they talk about that, my mind wanders off and goes back to thinking about my own problems. And I don't just mean the problems that I have with Mr. Shido as my teacher… After what seems like a few minutes, but was probably only a few seconds, I'm brought back to painstaking reality.

"Oi! Baka! I'm talking to you!" I sigh and turn around to face Takagi.

"What is it 'Oh wise one'?" I ask her. She seems to fume at this.

"Why is it that you two come out here to mope about your little problems?" She asks me. I just sigh.

"Takagi. You wouldn't underst-" I cut myself off when I see Takashi stiffen up at the almost familiar words. "~Ehem~ Why do you think Takagi? It's so that we can be away from the crowds. Which, might I add, three makes a crowd." I tell her, trying to put across the fact that we want to be left alone. Takagi turns around with a ~humph!~ and then goes trudging back into the building.

"Stupid, Stupid. Stupid, Baka." I hear her mutter as the door closes behind her. I sigh along with Takashi, before going back to leaning on the railing and staring out across the courtyard. After a few minutes, I notice a man in a suit walk up to the entrance gate of the school, and start to walk into it over and over again. I turn to Takashi and see him staring into space. I wave a hand in front of his face and bring him back to earth…

"Huh? What is it Jack?" He asks as he looks at me with a confused look from being broken out of his thousand-yard stare.

"Look." I say while gesturing to the man just walking into the gate. He stares at the sight for a few seconds, before he straightens up and scratches the back of his head in confusion.

"Alright, that's just weird. What's up with that guy?" He asks, but doesn't turn to face me when he asks. I shake my head in response to his question, not having an answer at the moment.

"I don't know. But it looks like they're going to find out." I say at I point at the small group of teachers that were heading towards the guy walking into the entrance gate. I could make out Mr. Toshiba, the gym teacher, at the front of the group. I wasn't sure who the female was, but the other guy I recognized as one of the janitors around here.

I got along well with them since we would greet one another in the halls occasionally. In fact, I got along well with most teachers at this school beside Mr. Shido. Anyways, away from my personal life and back to the matter at hand. Mr. Toshiba didn't waste any time when he got to the gate, immediately walking up to the guy, sticking his hand through the gate, and pulling him into the iron bars by his suit.

I watch as Mr. Toshiba starts to yell at the guy, but I'm not able to hear or make out what he's saying despite there being no other sounds in the area. His face gets redder with each word that he yells, until the guy that he's yelling at leans down, grabs Mr. Toshiba's arm with both his hands, opens his mouth wide, and takes a bite out of said arm. Me and Takashi recoil at the sight as Mr. Toshiba walks backwards, gripping onto his wounded arm in pain, and then falls to the ground a few seconds later.

He writhes there for a few seconds, still in pain from having skin and what looks like muscles and tendons ripped out of his body, before he goes completely still. Everybody who witnessed the scene just stares in horror at the now-still form of Mr. Toshiba, all the while the man that he'd been yelling at eating the body parts that he'd ripped out of the gym teacher with his teeth.

After a few seconds, Mr. Toshiba gets up from the ground slowly, stands up on his feet, and slouches over as he faces the female teacher that had been with him and the janitor. I see her face light up as she thinks that he's alright, even as I realize just what's going on. And with what had happened to me in the past… This was honestly nothing. "Lady… RunNow." I mutter out loud, knowing that unfortunately, she can't hear me from here. Takashi turns to look at me with confusion on his face when he hears me.

"What are you talking about Jack?" He asks me. Confusion evident in his voice. I turn to look at him incredulously.

"Are you shitting me?" I ask at him in shock. "You did see what I saw, right?" I ask him. But before he can respond, we hear a scream. We both turn and watch as Mr. Toshiba lunges at the female teacher, and pushes her to the ground. He then goes on to tear chunks out of her throat and start eating them. The janitor that had been with the two backs away from the situation slowly, before he drops his broom and falls onto his ass on the ground.

The former Mr. Toshiba turns when it hits the ground, and stands up, before he starts to shuffle towards the still form of the janitor. Said janitor continues to sit on the ground, frozen in fear for a few more seconds, before he pushes himself to his feet, turns around, and starts scrambling towards the entrance of the school. I turn to Takashi and see the fear clear in his eyes. "I always said…" I trail off and he just nods in response.

I had always known that a Zombie Apocalypse would happen, and I had also hoped that it would happen during my time period… Why you may ask? I wanted it to happen for multiple reasons. Multiple reasons that I'm not going to go into at the moment. Takashi and I turn around, and rush back into the school to gather up the few people we know well so that we could to survive this.

Little did I know that this would not be the kind of Zombie Apocalypse that I always wanted it to be. Because as we ran away from the scene, I failed to notice a very familiar looking tail shoot out from behind the wall next to the gate and stab the first zombie we'd seen through the head. Nor did I see the tail drag the re-killed body away.


Takashi and I rush towards Takashi's class, before arriving and bursting through the door. The entire class turns to look at us as we stand there breathing heavily from our run, before we walk in with complete seriousness on our faces. We immediately head over to Rei and Hisashi, and an argument breaks out between the prior and Takashi.

I wisely stay out of it, already knowing that things are delicate as they are with what's happening outside. Finally, Takashi is forced to bitch slap Rei to get her attention. For some reason when I see this… I can't help but see it replay over and over in time with the song, "Eye of the tiger"… Yeah, my mind is weird like that.

However, I quickly shake that thought away, and follow the two, and Hisashi, as they walk out of the room. The rest of the class, including the teacher, continues to stare at our small group with shock in their eyes as we close the door behind us. I lead the way towards the roof, knowing that we need to get a look at how the rest of the city is before we can do anything else. After all, if we just immediately head outside the school grounds, and it's a shit-storm out there in the city, then we won't have a clue what to do.

As we run through the halls, I make a left turn and cut through a hallway that isn't unlike the rest in the school. There's only one difference… My locker is in this hallway. I stop half way down the hall and open said locker, taking out a sports bag and slinging it over my shoulder. Then I take out a few disk-like objects that have holes for my fingers to slip in, and clip them onto my belt.

After this is done, I look around the immediate area, and notice another sports bag leaning against the lockers a few feet away. No doubt it was left there while another student is in the restroom across the hall. I reach down and grab onto a wooden bat that's sticking out of it, already knowing that the guy this belongs to might not even think about the fact it was stolen after all hell breaks loose, hand the sports item to Takashi, and then turn to look at Rei and Hisashi.

I think for a few seconds about what to get them, before going over to a janitor's closet that's next to the restroom, and taking out a broom. I break the handle off the brush part, and hand it to Rei. It has a spiraling nail coming out of the handle so it works just like a spear, a weapon that Rei knows how to use quite well thanks to her father.

After handing the makeshift spear to Rei, I look at Hisashi, and know that he hopefully won't need anything. After all, you don't earn a black belt in karate by just sitting there doing nothing. Suddenly, there's a buzzing and crackling sound as the loudspeaker comes to life. We all look up and face it, even though I already have a pretty good idea of what's going to be said.

"Attention students. There is an emergency situation taking place in the school right now. I repeat, there is an emergency situation taking pl-" He's cut off as we hear a ~thump~ on the other side of the loudspeaker, and then another. Suddenly, we hear a ~Crash!~ that sounds like a piece of metal falling onto the floor. "N-n-n-no!" We hear the principle yell, the loudspeaker picking up his fear-filled cries. "W-what are you?! W-w-what are you doing he-" Once again, he's cut off.

However, instead of screams that Takashi and I heard when the zombified-Mr. Toshiba started eating the female teacher earlier, we just hear a grunt of pain, before the sound of something tearing comes through the speaker on the wall… And I have a feeling that I know what was torn apart. Suddenly, a different sound emits from the loudspeaker… One that I thought I would never have to hear again.

It sounded like the squawking of birds mixed with the screeching from a raccoon, and the screech of a monkey. Takashi and the others look at the loudspeaker with a mix of horror and confusion when they hear the sound. "What the hell is that?" Asks Takashi. As the three of them continue to look at the loudspeaker, I slowly back away from it as I feel fear slowly crawl into my body, and appear on my face.

"No…" I say in a hoarse whisper, already having small flashes from my past when I'd heard those same sounds before. Flashes of darkness, skinny shapes bounding over land, lightning and thunder coming from clouds as rain pours around me, and a curved shape lifting into the air as the same sound from the speaker emits from the figure. Unfortunately, it seemed that Rei had managed to hear my fear-filled whisper, since she turns around and looks at me.

"'No', what Jack?" She asked me in her own whisper. I glanced at her when she asks, but instead of answering her question I just continue to back away from the loudspeaker that had given off the sound that has plagued my nightmares. The other two have noticed my behavior by now, and have turned around to face me.

"Jack?" Takashi asks me in slight concern. I turn to look at him, and just stare at his face, my brain still trying to get over hearing that God-forbidden sound.

"We need to get out of here… Now." I finally tell him, though not before swallowing the lump that appeared in my throat. "The roof is going to be our best bet in a situation like this." I tell them as I slowly re-gain control of my body. Hisashi's face turns into one of confusion.

"But I thought you just said that we had to get out of here?" He asks me, making me turn to face him with a frown on my face. However, it's not from his question.

"Yeah, as in we need to get out of these crowded halls." I say, and then turn around and walk away from the three of them at a brisk pace in the direction of the stairs that will lead us to the roof. I hear the others start to follow me a few seconds later, and I grip the strap of my sports bag tighter as we continue walking down the halls. I'm gonna need what's in this to survive what's coming. I think to myself. And then the school around us turns into pandemonium as students rush out of classrooms, screaming in fear as they run.


I open the door that leads to the overhanging walkways and step onto them. The others walk out behind me, and after I close the door, I turn around to find everyone staring at a sight that was expected, but that didn't make it any less terrible. "That's Mr. Wakisaka." Rei says as she takes a few steps towards the thing currently shuffling about. No doubt it was once human, but now it's nothing but rotten, grey skin, and pale, white eyes. Groaning as it stumbles around the walkway.

"Rei! What are you doing?" I ask her incredulously. Is she seriously walking towards one of those meatbags?! I think to myself in shock. She turns around to look at me with irritation clear on her face.

"He might need our help." She responds, obviously not knowing that the former man was beyond anyone's help at this point. Despite this, she turns around and takes a few more steps towards the former teacher. Before I can tell her to stop, the thing lunges towards her. Instinctively, Rei brings up the makeshift spear that I'd given her, and stabs the thing through the chest. It stays impaled on the spear, seemingly dead. But I know better.

Just as I'm about to rush forwards, the thing starts to push towards Rei, completely ignorant of the makeshift spear in its heart. Rei stumbles due to the sudden movement, and ends up being pushed against the railing of the walkway before she slides against it down to the floor, and into a sitting position. As the undead corpse continues to try and get to Rei, Hisashi runs forwards and puts it into a headlock. By doing this, he manages to pull it off the spear and keep it away from Rei.

However, this just changes who the thing is after, and it turns its head 180 degrees, which should have snapped its neck and killed it by severing the connection to the brain. However, this doesn't seem to apply to this thing, and it bites into Hisashi's arm. We all stand there in shock for a few seconds at the sight, listening to Hisashi scream out in pain as the undead corpse continues to bite into the school jacket covering his skin.

Suddenly, the thing breaks through the fabric and into his skin, which finally makes Takashi rush forwards as blood sprays out of Hisashi's new wound. My fellow raven haired teen brings the bat over his head, and then slams it down on the creature's skull. There's a sickening ~Crunch!~ as the thing's head caves in and the jaw dislocates.

Blood and brain matter go flying in all directions as the body slumps to the ground after the brain is turned into mush on the ground. Hisashi pulls his wounded arm to his chest and grips it in pain. When he does this, the two of us share a glance. "Takashi, Rei. Would you mind going ahead and scouting out the area since you guys have weapons? The last thing we need is for something like this to happen again." I tell them. Takashi nods in response, while Rei glances at Hisashi with worry, before giving her own nod. A few seconds later, the two of them head off down the path that we're going to take in order to check for anymore of the meatbags.

When they disappear through the door on the other end of the walkway, me and Hisashi face each other, and then share a sigh. After a few moments, I take one of the disks off my belt, and hold it up for the platinum blonde teen to see. "Hisashi…" I start, looking him in the eye. "Are you willing to lose an arm to live?" I ask him. I see him eye the disk, before looking down at his bitten arm, the blood from the wound dripping off his fingers. Finally, after a few seconds of thinking about it, he looks up at my face and gives me a nod.

I nod back, before opening the sports bag, and pulling out a rope. I get to work tying it tightly around his arm, just before his shoulder so that the blood circulation is stopped, before I hold up the disk. I look him in the eyes to make sure that he wants to do this, and get a determined nod in response. Then, I bring the disk down.

The yell of pain that he gives off is close to the one that he'd given off a minute ago, and I'm quick to wrap the gauze that was in my bag around the stump that used to be his arm as he staggers against the railing, and attempts to keep from passing out. Unfortunately, his scream made the other two from our group rush back to us.

"Hisashi are you alright?!" Rei asks him as she takes his leftover stump in her hands, eyeing the amputated limb on the floor a few feet away with a look of horror and disgust. Hisashi grunts, holding back the tears of pain, but manages to give her a nod.

"Y-yeah. Jack… Jack just had to get rid of the limb… That's all." He groans out, before seemingly swallowing the pain and turning to look at me. "I think… I think I'm good now." He tells me, still obviously in pain. I just nod in acceptance, knowing that we need to get a move on to get an actual scope of how bad things are.

"Alright then, come on we need to move. No doubt that yell attracted some of those meatbags." I tell them before we rush off. We make it to the roof without a problem, surprising since I'm almost sure that the yell would have brought them from all directions. But when we look over the railing…

"No way…" Takashi says in horror and disbelief as we stare out across what was once the city. Now, the streets are crowded with cars, trucks, and people as they try to escape the ruined city. And not all of them are working, or in the people's case, living. Almost all the buildings either have parts of them broken away, or are on fire. There's also the occasional shadow as someone who can't take the stress, just ends it.

However, none of this is what catches my attention. What catches my attention is the grey and black, vine-like substance that has started to grow on the buildings and across the ground. I stare at it for a minute, before turning around and start to pace as I shake my head.

"God damn it. God damn it all to hell." I mutter to myself. "This is bad. This is worse than a Zombie Apocalypse." I continue. Then I look up and stop my pacing. "No way…" I say loud enough for everyone to hear. But that doesn't matter because they can already hear the steady beat of the Blackhawks blades. They turn around to look, and a few seconds later the Blackhawks fly over our heads.

"American military?" I hear Takashi ask as they continue to fly past the city. "But there's no base around here." He continues with confusion clear in his voice.

"That's the self-defense force." Hisashi tells us with a groan, no doubt still in pain from his arm. Unfortunately, I don't have any pain killers in my bag. But, hindsight is always 20/20. "They have some sort of special mission they're on, I bet. They're not even stopping for what's going on down there." He says, gesturing with his leftover arm to the city below us. I hear a groan and turn around to see one of the freakbags walking towards us. But there's something different about this one… It has a hole in the middle of its chest.

I blanch at the sight of the hole, and then rush forwards. I tackle the undead corpse to the ground in a shoulder rush, the thing giving off a grunt from the impact despite the fact that it shouldn't feel pain since it's nerves shouldn't even be working right now, and then I stand up within a few seconds of pushing it to the ground, before I lift my foot and curb stomp its head until the skull smashes open, spreading blood, grey matter and broken pieces of bone across the ground, and over the bottom of my shoe. I turn around to find my friends staring at me with slight horror at the gruesome way that I just killed the meatbag.

"We gotta get higher." I tell them, ignoring what I just did for now, and look around for someplace safe. I continue to look around until I see the observatory on the far end of the roof. Unfortunately, there's a whole hoard of the zombie freaks between us and the presumably safe spot. I sigh at the sight, and shrug my bag off my shoulder. I turn my head in order to look at the group slightly, while also looking through the bag for what I need. "When I say go, we all run." I tell them. They nod their heads in response, probably still thinking about what I did a few seconds ago.

I ignore that little fact for now, and continue to rummage around in my bag until I find what I was looking for. I slip the fairly-thick bracer onto my right wrist, connecting it and setting it up in the correct manner so that it will work, and then close the sports bag and shrug it back on my shoulder. I flinch a bit when I feel a pinch in my arm underneath the bracer, and then turn and face the others. "Ready?" I ask them, to which I get nods in response. "Alright then, let's go!" I exclaim, and start running towards the hoard.

Me, Takashi and Rei all run in front of Hisashi as we rush towards the observatory. Since he doesn't have a weapon, he has to stay close so he won't get picked off by one of the zombies that might stagger towards him after we pass it. Takashi swings the bat at any of the freaks that get close, effectively bashing in the skull and splattering his shirt with blood. Rei, on the other hand, is using the makeshift spear I gave her with expertise. She uses the wood and nail to stab the freakbags, push them away, and shove them off the roof.

As for me, I occasionally have to use the bracers if any of the meatbags get past the first two teens in our group. I would close my hand into a fist, and make to punch one of the freaks in the head. But instead of just punching it in the face, two blades would pop out of the bracer on top of my arm. They looked sort of like claws with serrated edges, and I would also use them to decapitate a few. After about a minute of running and killing off any zombies that got in our way, we made it to the stairs leading to the observatory.

Takashi, Hisashi and I make it up top one right after the other. But then Rei decides to check behind us to make sure none of the meatbags followed us up the stairs. As it turned out, one had decided to follow us. Rei quickly runs back down towards it… and uses her weapon to stab it in the chest. God damn it! When will she learn that the only way to kill these things is to destroy the brain?! I think to myself as Rei gets slammed against the wall next to the stairs when the zombie keeps moving with the makeshift spear still in its chest, effectively stunning her, and freeing the weapon from its dead flesh. After the weapon falls out of the undead body, it starts to shuffle towards her with a groan. Hisashi hears this, and turns around to see the situation taking place.

"Rei!" He yells out as goes to grab the bat from Takashi with his only hand. However, I react quicker and use my left hand to grab onto one of the disks on my belt. Being ambidextrous helps in situations like this. The disk that I grab also happens to be the one that I amputated Hisashi's arm with. I quickly unclip it from my belt, and throw it at the zombie's head. It easily slices cleanly through the skin, bone and grey matter of the thing's brain, and then does a circle upwards in the air in order to return to my hand.

I clip the disk back onto my belt as the re-killed body falls onto the steps, and Rei stares at the place that the disk sliced through it in shock. Because she's frozen, Hisashi runs back down and drags Rei up to the top, the girl somehow getting a grip on her staff as he does this. He looks at me with confusion on his face as they pass me, but I give him a little wave that says I'll tell you later. We have other things to worry about right now. He nods in response, knowing that there are more important things to worry about then how I have a weapon that can slice through bone, let alone how I have it with me in school.

Once we're all on top of the observatory, we open the large storage unit and start to create a barricade out of tables, chairs, and rope that we find. Soon, the stairs that lead back onto the roof are blocked, and nothing can get up into our little safe area. We all stand around the little area we've claimed, or sit against the railing as we rest. While we do this, we try to understand how the fuck zombies could be taking over the city.

Well, the others were. I was focused more on the grey material covering the city, the sound that emitted from the loudspeaker after the principle was killed, and finally the zombie that I killed that had a hole in its chest. That last thought had me constantly looking around the area that we're in in slight fear because of the thoughts that it brought to the front of my mind. I knew that all these things could only mean one thing, and I did not like what that would entail for our survival in this already fucked up world.

"So what is it that you have in that bag of yours anyway?" Asks Takashi after a few minutes of silence. I sigh, knowing that I was gonna have to tell the group sooner or later, and I'm about to explain when I hear a sound that makes me turn around. The sight that greets me is Hisashi holding himself up from falling with his leftover hand as he coughs. He goes on hacking for a few seconds as Rei runs over to check on him.

"Hisashi? What's wrong? Guys! Hisashi is-" She's cut off as Hisashi pushes himself up and holds up his only hand to stop her from talking. Then, he leans against the railing, and looks up to stare into the sky. I can see that his face is already turning an ashen grey, and that his eyes seem to be losing their color, turning a pale white. There's a little bit of blood dribbling out of his mouth, and he's breathing deeply.

"Why…?" Asks Rei. "Why is this happening to you if all that happened is you got bit? It wasn't even that bad. And Jack amputated the limb, so nothing should be happening." She says in a breathless whisper. I just turn my head away, knowing the answer, and hating the fact that I was apparently too late to do anything.

"Well…" Begins Hisashi. "So it is just like the movies." He says. "They bite you… And that's it. You're done for." He says with a slight chuckle. "Looks like getting rid of the area of infection can't even do anything unless you hack it off the second they bite you." He adds. I look back over at the two as Rei starts to sob into his chest.

"No… No! We don't know that for sure yet! What we see in the movies can't be true! It can't happen!" She exclaims. Hisashi just continues to breathe in and out of his mouth for a few seconds before responding.

"But it did happen. To me… And to everyone else in this hell-hole of a school." He replies. We're all silent for a few seconds. Looking at the ground and realize that he's right. Then he breaks it. "Takashi." He begins. Takashi looks up a little to look at Hisashi. "Will you help me…?" He trails off, not finishing the sentence. But we all know what it is that he wants.

"Help you with what?" Takashi asks. Acting like he doesn't already know in an attempt to make the truth be false instead. Hisashi raises his hand and points to the railing in response.

"Help me… Over the edge. The fall from here to the ground should have enough force to smash my head." He tells the raven haired teen. Rei looks at him like he's crazy.

"Why would you want to do that?! Why-" Rei is cut off as Hisashi leans forwards.

"I don't want to become like them!" He exclaims, before he goes into another coughing fit which leads to him hacking up a large glob of blood. He continues like this for a few seconds before calming down and turning to look at Takashi again. "Come on. Do this for me Takashi. I want to be myself… Until the end." He says. However, just after he says this he starts to cough again and falls to the ground.

Hisashi coughs and groans in pain as this happens, clutching his chest in pain. Rei kneels by him, tears streaming down her face as she begs to be able to help him. While this happens, I slightly fear what could possibly be happening, even though I know it's not true since Hisashi's been with us the entire time, and I should only be feeling sadness and anger at what's actually happening.

"You can't die!" Rei yells as Hisashi gives one last yell of pain before going silent and falling limp to the floor. We all stare at his still body for a few seconds, Takashi and I staying silent as we hope that this isn't happening, no matter how much we know that it is, while Rei weeps into Hisashi's chest. After a few seconds, his hand twitches. I grip my hand into a fist, the blades extending on my bracer, while Takashi tightens his grip on the bat.

"Get away from him Rei." My friend says in a low, monotone voice, the sight no doubt making him feel numb so that he can't convey any proper emotions at the moment. In response, Rei looks up with surprise on her face as Takashi slowly makes his way over to her and the body of the platinum blonde teen beside her. She moves so that she's shielding his body with her own.

"No! You can't do that! He's not turning! He's going to be fine!" She yells out in desperation. I know what's going on and move towards them so that I can move Rei out of the way. Sheathing the blades in my bracer as I do so.

"Rei… Come on. Get away from it." I tell her. I say 'it' because the creature that's lying on the ground… It's not the Hisashi that we once knew. Then we all see it move slightly, and Rei looks back at it with hope on her face.

"Hisashi?" She asks as the body moves some more. "See? Look, Hisashi's gonna be alright." She tells us with false hope, her mind refusing to believe the truth at the moment. Then the thing sits up and doesn't pay any attention to us. Rei looks at it with confusion in her eyes. "Hisashi…? What's wrong?" She asks as it stands up and faces her, giving off low, almost silent moans as it does so. In response to what's happening, I rush forwards and grab onto Rei's arm, pulling her back towards the wall in a full nelson.

"Hisashi!" She yells out as I pull her backwards. "No! This can't be true… It can't." She says while starting to cry. I let her out of the full nelson and instead wrap my arms around her waist to keep her standing as I feel her stop trying to get over to the former-Hisashi. Then, as she does this, Takashi tightens his grip on his bat some more and turns slightly to face us.

"I know you can't believe it Rei… Hell, even I can't believe it." He tells her as he looks down at the floor so that his bangs cover his eyes.

"Hisashi?" Asks Rei as she stares at the moving corpse a few feet away.

"But… It's happening…" Takashi states. Rei starts to cry and turns to face him.

"Don't do it…" She says, almost begging my friend despite what she knows in the back of her mind, and just refuses to believe it. However, Takashi turns and looks at the thing that was once Hisashi with hatred and anger in his eyes. Neither directed at the thing itself, but whatever it is that turned him into the thing that he is now.

"It's happening!" Takashi exclaims, before he rushes forwards, swinging the bat over his head as he nears the thing that used to be his friend. "Aaaarrrggghhhhhhh!" He yells out as he swings down on the thing's head just as Rei yells out in one last bit of desperation. There's a sickening ~Crunch!~ as the head caves in, crushing the skull and flinging blood, brain matter and pieces of bone all over the ground.

We all stare at the body as it falls to the floor, dead once again. After a few minutes of silence as we try to accept what just happened, I rummage around in my bag and bring out a towel, which I place over to the body where the head once was. As I step away, Rei finally seems to break out of her shock as she runs over and starts to sob onto the corpse's chest.

When she does this, I walk over and stand next to the wall as I stare at Rei with sorrow, not looking at Takashi as I know that he's taking it harder than she is. After all, he was the one that had to kill it. This goes on for a few minutes before Rei finally turns to face Takashi with anger clouding her eyes, her rational mind taking a backseat as she just reacts to what's happened in front of her.

"Why…? ~Sniffle~ Why…?" Is all that Rei can manage to ask. Takashi just stares at her with a dead look in his eyes… A look that I know all too well.

"He would have bitten you if I hadn't done that." He replies in monotone, his mind obviously out of it at the moment as he tries to come to terms with what just happened.

"Well I didn't ask you to save me!" Rei exclaims. "And how could you know that anyway?! What are you? Some expert on this stuff?!" She yells at him. At this point I'm thinking of telling her that Takashi might not be, but I am. However, I'm not really looking to gain her attention while she's angry. Then she continues. "And I would have been willing to get bitten… Better to die that way then survive by doing something like this!" She yells at us.

"I don't think that Hisashi would have wanted that for you." Replies Takashi. I glance at him and see that his face is void of emotions. Yup, at the moment, he's currently just reacting, only in the polar opposite way that Rei is right now.

"Oh? And how would you know that Takashi?" She asks him. Then starts to chuckle slightly. "Oh I know… I know. You must have hated Hisashi, am I right? Because he was dating me!" She exclaims, her voice sounding like she's going slightly crazy. I just hope that she doesn't go trying to jump over the railing to join Hisashi in death. I don't want to have to grab her in a full nelson again.

With how angry she is. I'd probably only be able to hold onto her for a few seconds before I'm hopping around, holding my foot in pain from getting stomped on. I turn to look at Takashi and see him walking towards the makeshift barrier. "Hey! Where do you think you're going?!" Rei yells at his retreating form. He turns back to look at her, the dead look still present in his eyes.

"Well obviously you don't want me around anymore. So I guess that I'll just go downstairs and smash some heads." He replies as he turns to continue walking. I just stand there in shock for a few seconds, before I finally regain the ability to speak after what he just said.

"Hey… Takashi?" I ask him. He ignores me and continues to untie the ropes that are keeping the tables and chairs together. Then, he gets up onto the table as if to climb over the top and Rei gasps before she finally rushes towards him.

"No stop!" She yells as she grabs onto his arm. She pulls it back between her breasts and starts to cry against it. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! So please… Please stay with me… Don't leave me!" She yells at him in desperation. He continues to stare at her for a few more seconds with the dead look in his eyes, before he finally climbs down off the barricade and wraps his arms around the crying girl in a comforting hug.

I release a breath that I didn't know I was holding at Takashi's reaction to Rei, before I turn around and stare out across the ruined city, taking in the destruction of it, and the possible future for our little group. I grip my sports bag tightly and glance down at it. I'm gonna need all the objects in this bag to help me and the others survive. And now, with a certain enemy even worse than those meatbags out there… It looks like this is gonna be even worse than I originally thought it would be… I think to myself as I glance out at the black-grey substance covering most of the ground and the bottom of some buildings. Watching as it slowly covers more and more of the ground. Much, much worse…


Author's Note Part 2: Alright everyone! So a little while back I read an AVP / H.O.T.D fanfiction that really intrigued me. Unfortunately, after reaching the latest chapter posted, I found out that it hadn't been updated for almost two years. This upset me. And what upset me more was that it was the only one that there was to read. So I decided that I would write my own version. It probably won't be as good as the one that was in this category originally, but I will try to write it to the best of my ability.

Now, on with the actual plot of the story. I've decided that I'm not going to make it so that the entire story is all about the aliens. Instead, I'm going to try and make it a good balance between zombies and Xenomorphs. Otherwise, why should I put it in this category?

Okay, so I'm sure you're all wondering 'How the hell does Jack have predator weapons?!' Well to answer your question… You'll find out soon enough. There's no way I'm going to reveal it this early on! So as always readers, thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this! And see you next time!

(Updated Jan. 4th, 2015: So, after looking through the reviews, and then re-reading this, I found out that there were quite a few changes that needed to be made. So, here is a list of the changes. (That I can remember off the top of my head that is).

1: Hisashi got his arm amputated in an attempt to stop him from turning. Unfortunately, after finding out some info, I figured out that unless the limb was amputated the second the virus was infected, then nothing can be done.

2: John is now Jack. Why? Because all the John's in my stories have bad backgrounds, while all the Jack's in my stories have horrible backgrounds. Now, that is a slight hint as to why he has predator weapons.

3: Jack is now paired with Saeko. Why? Because I felt that their personalities would be the best fit now.

Alright, that's about it for the changes, so now I'm going to respond to the few reviews that I've received for the first version of this.

Kaioo:

Well, even though this is a re-write of the first chapter, I hope that you enjoyed, and I hope that I can continue to entertain you with future chapters!

*Guest* July 7th, 2014:

Well, as you can see, I took your advice to heart, and changed things to be more realistic. I hope that it made it better, and I thank you for pointing these flaws out to me, even if you aren't reading this now.

*bur bur*:

Well, I hope that this counts as an update, and thanks for the compliment!

Well, I think that's about all I have to say for this update, so thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and I hope to see you next time!)

(Updated May 26th, 2015: I've been getting a few PM's about continuing this story, so I've returned once more to edit, and hopefully get out at least one new chapter over the next couple days! However, since I have another Fanfiction that I'm working on at the same time, I don't want that one to end up like all my others. So, I'll get out one, maybe two, new chapter(s) for this story, and then return to that one so it doesn't get forgotten like most others that I have posted on this site.)

(Updated July 19th, 2015: Alright, so once again, I've returned to this story in an attempt to update it! Unfortunately, I'm currently going through a phase of Writers Block, so even if I edit the four chapters that are out right now, there's no telling how long it will take for me to actually update the new chapter. But, we'll see when we get there, won't we? Anyways, not much changed in this chapter besides a few grammar edits, as well as a few details that I changed, or elaborated on.)