TMNT Escape the Undead

a/n: Enjoy! :)
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Chapter 1

The streets were littered with trash and body parts, to them it made the sewers seem like a palace. Now even their home wasn't safe. This world was not the one they know, it was a dark, dangerous and hostile place but they were survivors. And it helped that they didn't get to meet many people. But that was in the past, they had moved on since then even left New York. They had made it to a small town just outside the state in Pennsylvania, but that wasn't far enough, they had to keep heading west and then south toward the Mexican border, where they can get a boat and hopefully leave the disease ridden country.

Donatello was sitting outside the overprotected mobile home on his laptop, it was the middle of the day and they were in a field, but could easily get into the town for food and supplies. Raphael sat beside him. "Ya know them zombies might find ya if you sit there too long." He said. Don just gave him a quick contented smile.
"How did this even happen, this apocalypse has forced the entire country to its knees. How did this even happen?" He asked. The turtle in red looked at his younger brother. More than anything he wanted things to go back to the way they were. "Ya know Don. We are working around the clock. It ain't gonna turn back time. It ain't gonna change what happened ta Splinter." Raph shuddered at the memory.

Flashback

It was another quiet night in the city and the turtles had gotten back from fighting with some foot zombies, it was their first proper encounter with the zombies and the turtles returned confused and afraid. It was then that they realised how bad the situation was. "Sensei we're home now." Leo called as they walked into their main living space. A zombie jumped out from behind the sofa. It wasn't just an ordinary zombie. It was Splinter. He lunged at them hungry for his sons. The four boys fought him off as best they could, but in the end they had to decapitate him. The father they loved was gone and could never come back.

They quickly grabbed all the supplies they could that would be useful and left home. They got in the battle shell and attempted to go to Canada. They only made it up to North Hampton before the Battle shell was destroyed by zombies. So they made a new plan and found the Motor Home. They let Don do some modifications before heading towards Mexico. There would be weak points in the border and they could potentially get in undetected and somehow make it out to sea. Where there was a chance at going to another country. They were hoping that the UK wasn't infected and that they could live in London. Or to go to Japan and stay with the Ancient One, who was family.

End Flashback

"Still it doesn't mean that we can't find a better future for everybody." Don said. Raph looked at the screen. It was then that he seen what Don was working on. To Raph it looked like a bunch of long words that a doctor might use. So it was clear he was looking for a cure. "If I can just find the cure before we reach the border then. We can find a helicopter and disinfect the country." The two turtles looked out at the scenery as they reminisced over the past.

As they sat Leo ran over to them. "You two know that thinking about the past won't help the future. Out here it is survival of the fittest." Raph pulled away from Don.
"You are the one who said that we should get food and supplies from the town at night." Don could sense the tension in the air, but he knew better than to interfere.
"What is that supposed to mean. I knew what I was doing."
"You said it yourself, the best way for us to survive is for us to hunt at night. This whole get to the border thing was your idea." Raph yelled. The field was checked out and there were no zombies. So it was safe to shout a little. "So what does big Raph plan on doing. I realised that we are never safe. I said I was sick of being in the shadows, but even now we are in the shadows hiding from people that we could align with." Leo yelled in return. Don went inside to wake up Mikey and get away from the arguing. "Yeah, because ya said not to. Why'd ya change yer mind all of sudden eh?" Raph asked furiously. It was then that Leo jumped on top of him. They started wrestling on the half dead grass.

Across the field a human heard the shouting. He decided to follow it. Don seen him coming. "Raph, Leo. Knock it off we have company. Get in here and argue." He shouted to them through the bullet proof glass window that was opened slightly. The two stopped and ran inside. The person reached the motor home. "Please you gotta let me in. There everywhere all over town. I cannot survive on my own." He pleaded banging on the door.
"I was just there and I never saw anything." Leo said as he opened the door. Raph gave him a hard look, but didn't question it.

A while later the man, who the turtles found out was called Nathan, had heard the story of their origin and how they had to protect themselves by killing splinter. Leo had went over to Don who had his head inside the motor home's engine trying to get it to work. "Hey Don can you fix it?" He asked putting a hand on his shoulder. Don shook his head.
"We are at the opposite side of Pennsylvania, the only way this is going anywhere when it is fixed is when and if we find fuel to make it go. Until then we are stuck in this field." Leo kicked the tyre. "Doing that won't make it go either. Take Mikey and find a gas station. So that Raph and I can fix this, we are the only ones that know how."

Leo and Mikey were on their way down to the town. They took the longest route, it was the safest way into the town. So far the only way were there was no zombies or groups of people. They were looking for the gas station, when they seen a group of zombies mindlessly coming toward them. Mike brought out his chucks as Leo drew his katana swords. "Michelangelo, are you ready?" He asked. Mike only nodded as they engaged in the battle. By the end of it, they were exhausted and still had their sort-of-humanity. "Well that was easy, we just need to avoid being bitten." Mikey said. Then he had an idea. "Leo do any of these abandoned cars have any gas in them?" He asked. Leo shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know, Mikey. Why?" Leo responded.
"Because it would be easier to syphon gas than it would be to actually get from a gas station." Mikey started. "And we have the equipment with us." Leo looked at him and nodded, obviously liking the plan. It was so much easier to find a car and syphon gas as all the gas stations were few and far between, not really in an apocalypse-friendly way. So they got to work. Syphoning gas from the cars that lined the streets. It took about an hour before they had enough to fill the gas tank. "Okay, that's the cannister filled up. We need to get back, we've been here too long." Leo told Mikey. It was then that Leo noticed that somebody had been watching them. "Somebody is watching us." Leo said in Japanese. Mike nodded, and spoke back in Japanese.
"Okay so what so we do?"
"Hope that he doesn't know what we are saying and pass through without a fight." Leo answered. Mike liked that plan, he knew that people were acting a little crazy right now, and would steal whatever supplies they could get off of them. "I will give the signal and we go from there," Mike suggested winking.
"We find a route that takes us further away from camp. Then we double back before heading in the right direction." Leo said.

Across the road the man was holding a shot gun. "What are you saying little green men?" He asked himself.
"Okay then I guess we better go. We would be much safer if we talked about baseball somewhere else."
"Yeah, come on Mikey. Donnie and Raph have to be finished by now." Leo motioned his head to let Mike know what way they were going. They left knowing that the shot gun guy would follow. To be honest it was the oldest trick in the book, and it has worked every time the turtles tried it. "So is there any point in talking to you about sensei, or can it wait?" Mike asked. Leonardo looked upset for about a smidgen of a second then any trace of it was replaced by a hard look. "It can wait." He said.

The walked eventually losing the guy. So they doubled back and headed toward the camp. When they got there Raph and Don were discussing when to go and look for their brothers. "Hey look there they are." Don said pointing at them. The four teenagers ran into each other nearly knocking themselves off of their feet. "Why were you guys gone. Zombies, or any other kind of problems?" Don asked.
"Both actually. Here is the gas we need. We syphoned it when we couldn't figure out where the gas station is." Leo said.
"After fighting mindless zombies, and before eluding an old guy with a shot gun." Raph smiled slightly. He was enjoying the fact that nobody cared what they looked like. Survival of the fittest seemed to include them and had brought them closer to humanity than ever before. "Ya know he coulda followed ya," Raph started, "Waiting for the right time to jump ya an' swipe our supplies."
"Well we made sure that we lost him before doubling back. We did pay attention to sensei's teachings, mostly." Mikey said. Even so he looked behind him and never seen anybody. Raph hit him upside the head. Mikey complained while rubbing his green, bald head.

They were travelling at night, so any groups of people were not ransacking them in the middle of the day. For the most part it was them fighting off as many zombies as possible. Which Raph and Mikey clearly found amusing. While they were doing that Don was on his laptop trying to cure the un-deadly disease, or find a safe house where they were safe from the infected humans. There was probably a few west from there location, so that was where they were going at least until they found a boat or something. The entire plan depended on it.

All four boys were quiet as they were travelling. It was unusual for them to be like that, but they needed to think things over. They had witnessed the people that they loved change into mindless monster's and there was nothing they could do. First it was Casey, who got bit in the arm while fighting zombie-fied purple dragons in his usual attire, meaning sweats, a tank top and his hockey mask. Then April went when a hoard of them broke into her shop when she was in the shower. And Angel went when her school was under attack. At least one of the turtles had been present at all those events and couldn't save their friends. But the hardest one had to have been the only one where they were all together, when Splinter was turned into one of them. It was Donatello's best guess that he had went topside and got bitten, and came home not realising that he was infected.

Nathan came out of the bathroom. "So are we going anywhere that is protected or important in any way?" He asked sitting down at the small table across from Don.
"I hacked the national grid and I am looking for anywhere that has power surges. That way we can tell if anywhere is safe." Don replied while he worked. "As I am doing that I am working to try and find a cure. This all started with a science experiment going wrong, flipping out and giving itself a get out of jail free card. So to find the cure we need to find the source, but we don't know if the original zombie is even still alive. So we are going with the next best thing. Figuring out what triggers the mutation and finding a way to reverse the process." Nathan looked at the turtle confused.
"And how are you going to do that?" He asked. Don looked up from his laptop.
"I have no idea." He said and continued typing.

About an hour later. Don stood up. "Guys. I just found a potential safe house. We need to go towards Texas. And if it isn't a safe house, then we continue our plan to get out of the country." Leo nodded.
"Nathan, can you drive?" He asked taking his eye off the road. Nathan nodded. "Good then take the wheel, for a bit. I am sick of driving." He sat down where Nathan had been. "Don what is the easiest way to get to Texas from here?" Don did some calculations.
"If we stick to highways and freeways. Then we will be able to get gas pretty easily. We can camp in nearby fields during the day, stopping off at small towns to get supplies. Then by the time we reach texas we head towards the border." Don said and then asked if they had a sat nav of GPS navigation system.

It was going to be a long trip, and it was not going to be easy. But it was something that they had to try.

a/n: I usually put a description at the top. But I didn't as I thought that it would ruin the mood. I don't own TMNT or any zombies, which is actually a good thing. I put the Japanese but in there as everybody knows that the turtles speak both Japanese and English. The word for this chapter is Monkey.