Tales of the Survivors of Willamette
Disclaimer: Capcom owns the rights to "Dead Rising." I am simply a fan who is at their mercy.
Author's commentary: This is an anthology of stories based around the survivors of "Dead Rising," not different from my anthology of the survivors from "Dead Rising 2." I am aware that some stories have been done, but I am writing my own versions. Enjoy, and if you want to pitch ideas, feel free to do so. I am starting with one that I wanted to touch on. Also, the genre may be mixed with drama, horror, and comedy.
Lovers on the Run from the Law
One day, Ross Folk and Tonya Waters went out to the Willamette Parkview Mall to retreat from the outbreak that had occurred. With little to do in the town of Willamette, Colorado, it seemed that the mall had all that anyone could do there. The two people were madly in love with each other, enough that they would do anything for each other.
On that very day, Ross took his girlfriend to the mall, being that it was the main refuge that a lot of people who tried to evade the zombie outbreak took, added to the fact that it was big enough to hold a lot of people.
"Are you sure about this, baby?" Tonya asked, with a tone of her sounding unsure about the idea of going to a mall for refuge. "Couldn't we just get out of town completely? We could head out to Denver. We could stay at your brother's house until all of this blows over."
Ross looked at Tonya and replied to her comment, "We don't have a lot of options right now, Tonya. Sure, I thought the same thing about us going to my brother's place, but there is one problem right now: It seems that the national guard is blocking a lot of the roads. We can't get out if we tried."
Tonya had a look of concern on her face. She had never faced such an incredible problem like a zombie outbreak. Neither had Ross, but the same could be said about the whole town of Willamette, as nothing as extreme had occurred in a small town that few people knew about. No matter how big of a feat that they faced, they had each other by their sides, and they were going to try to get out of the situation anyway they could.
"Come on, let's go find a place to lie low for a bit," Ross said.
The couple walked into the Entrance Plaza, and they saw that some people and noticed some people sat and stood around, some of whom were anxious, as well as some who were prepared to fight any zombies that would come to attack them at any given moment. One survivor that grabbed the attention of the couple was an old lady who screamed out the name Madonna.
"Have you two seen Madonna? I can't find her anyway," said the old lady.
"Who is Madonna?" Tonya asked.
"My little doggy, I can't find her!" the old lady said.
The couple saw how frantic she was in that moment that they just went their way as they noticed that the lady asked other people nearby.
"Let's go somewhere else, Ross," Tonya said. "We should find some food somewhere in case we have to stay here long."
"You're right, let's go," Ross said, as the couple continued to walk around the Entrance Plaza to find somewhere to relax and stay safe from everything that had been going on.
Ross and Tonya were a little surprised that some people had taken refuge at the mall. However, with the mall's massive size, it would not have been a shock if they had come across more people in other parts of the mall. This was not like any other day at the mall in this case, as it was unlikely that anybody was there to shop that day.
After some time had passed throughout the day, hordes of zombies started coming into the mall. Some zombies were originally people who had been infected, whether they had been stung by queen bees or bitten by other zombies that happened to have come in. It didn't help that a large horde had come in because someone needed to get her dog inside, which made matters worse for some people who wanted to be safe from the outbreak. Luckily for Ross and Tonya, they had avoided such an event. However, hordes of zombies had found themselves in other parts of the mall, such as the Paradise Plaza, Leisure Park, the food court, the Al Fresca Plaza, the Wonderland Plaza, and the North Plaza. The zombies were everywhere, but that was nothing compared to a surprise encounter they had to endure.
Nearly a full day had passed, and the couple had found their way to the Wonderland Plaza, after having struggled to avoid the zombies and defend themselves against them. But what was about to happen was far worse than dealing with zombies. After the lights went out in the mall during the after hours, Tonya turned around a bit to check to see what was going on around her.
"Ross? What just happened?" Tonya asked as she continued to look around, and her body shook a bit. "I don't know about you, but I am starting to get scared."
Ross felt the same way in that moment. "I think the mall has a timer on when the lights go out, because it closes around this time. But it's strange, the stores aren't locked up, so we can find a way to be safe in one of them."
"I know that, but there's something that is giving me a bad feeling here," Tonya said. "I don't know what it is, but it's not good."
From a distance, a light had struck the couple, Tonya turned around and noticed the light hit her and Ross.
"Uh, Ross?" Tonya said. "Do you see the light?"
"What do you mean?" Ross asked.
"I mean, DO YOU SEE THE LIGHT?" Tonya had to clarify that she meant that she literally saw a light.
"Yes, I do, what about it?" Ross said.
"There could be another living person here," Tonya said. "Hello? Who are you?"
Tonya called attention to the person with what appeared to be a flashlight, only to realize that it was a big mistake.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" said the person with the flashlight.
As the light got closer to Tonya, the light started to reveal what appeared to be a morbidly obese woman with sunglasses and a police uniform.
"Hello, officer, can you help us?" Tonya said. "My boyfriend and I, we…"
"Boyfriend?!" said the cop. "You won't be seeing him much longer."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Tonya said confusedly which faded into nervously.
The cop got out what looked like taser and turned it on, and then shocked Tonya with it, which caused to fall to the ground, but she was not out.
"What the hell is going on?" Tonya said in a rather scared tone. "Who the hell are you?!"
"I am the law and you are trespassing on this property after midnight," the cop said, who then got out her nightstick and whacked Tonya in the gut with it, which then caused her to cough and started crying a bit.
The cop then approached Tonya while she lied on the ground and started rubbing her face in a rather sensual way.
"Aren't you a pretty little thing?" the cop said as she continued to stroke Tonya's face, whom felt increasingly uncomfortable in that moment.
"ROSS!" Tonya yelled. "HELP ME!"
Ross then turned around after having heard his girlfriend scream his name and noticed the cop picking up Tonya and carried her on her shoulder. Ross ran towards the cop.
"Stop! Put her down!" Ross yelled, only to be met with a nightstick to the face, which caused him to fall backwards to the ground. It was not enough to keep him down, though, as he saw that the cop was taking Tonya upstairs. Ross was not about to give up, as he got back to his feet and tailed the cop, unbeknownst to her.
Ross followed the cop and found one store that still had lights on, and that was the Lovely Fashion House. What he noticed through the window was something he did not expect, as a lot of women were handcuffed to the tables and shelves of the store.
What the hell is this cop doing? Ross thought to himself, but he was not about to let the cop take his lady hostage.
"Hey you! Put her down!" Ross said as he entered the store.
"Well, well, a man just walked right in here and thought he could be the hero," the cop said. "Well that isn't going to happen."
The cop got out her taser and went towards Ross, ready to shock him, but Tonya then got up and saw that the cop had dropped her nightstick and whacked her right in the back, only for her to shock Ross in the process. The taser didn't have enough power to put him out, though, as he quickly got up, and Tonya dropped the nightstick and approached her man and the two raced out of the store.
"Please, help us!" yelled one of the women towards Ross and Tonya, only to be hit in the face with the nightstick that Tonya had dropped and to be grabbed her by her jawline.
"Shut up, you little whore! I'm not done with you yet," the cop said, as she headed to exit the store to find the couple.
The cop then took an even more drastic measure, as she reached for her pistol. She saw the couple running down the corridor of the upstairs part of the Wonderland Plaza. However, they were not too far to avoid anything.
"Baby, we have to keep running," Tonya said.
"I'm with you on that," Ross said. "I'm with you on…AHHHHH!"
Ross screamed and fell to the ground.
"Ross, what happened?" Tonya asked and turned around noticed that Ross was bleeding from a part in his lower back. "Oh my god! Ross!"
Tonya then came to Ross's aid and had him turn around and noticed the exit wound on his stomach, which had a lot of blood coming out of it.
"Come on, baby, get up!" Tonya cried as she tried to help him to his feet. She helped him up and put his arm over her shoulder. "That's it, baby, I'm here for you, let's go. We'll find a safe place."
Tears ran down her face, but it was not enough for her to give up trying to escape from the crazy cop. They headed right for a store that across the way from the Lovely Fashion House and into an athletic shoe store called Run Like the Wind. They went inside the store to relax a bit. Ross's shirt had a bloodstain on it from the gunshot he had endured, which raised a level of concern for Tonya.
"Ross, please take off your shirt," Tonya said. "I need to see how bad the wound is."
Ross then took it off and Tonya looked on at his muscular figure to see the wound, only to have found that it was in the right part of his lower abdomen.
"Oh my god," Tonya said as she began to cry more. "I have to stop the bleeding, but I don't want to leave your side. I can't leave you like this."
"Look, just go and find something to patch me up with," Ross said. "I can't bleed like this, so you are going to have to find something. Don't worry about me too much, just come back for me."
"I will, baby," Tonya said, as tears ran down her eyes much more and then leaned over to kiss Ross on the mouth. "I will be back for you, I promise."
Right when she exited the store, she saw that there were more zombies around and went right into Kokonutz Sports Town and picked up a baseball bat to defend herself against the zombies. She knew that the supermarket was not too far from there, so she ran towards the North Plaza to get to Seon's Food and Stuff. Along the way, she saw that there were zombies who appeared to have been mall cops before the outbreak and were holding pistols. She then picked up the baseball bat to whack one of the zombies in the head so that she could take the gun. However, at that moment, the degenerate cop had finally caught up to her.
"I knew I would find you, you skank," said the cop. "You can't escape Jo Slade."
The level of fear in Tonya's body had risen a lot more than before, but she was not about to give in so easily. She turned around to face Jo, the morally-depraved cop.
"What do you want?" Tonya said. "Please leave me alone."
"I can't do that," Jo said.
Tonya pulled the gun out from the back of her pants and pointed it right at Jo, who then laughed at Tonya right to her face.
"You can't do it, you won't do it," Jo said as she continued to laugh. "You don't have it in you."
"Try me, bitch," Tonya said as she pulled the trigger, which then fired a bullet right to the left of Jo's face. Right when that happened, the evil smile on Jo's face turned into a look of shock.
"The next one will not miss," Tonya said. "You stay away from me and my boyfriend, and you let those other girls go."
Jo did not say anything, which in a surprising turn of events, she turned around and walked away. Tonya then put the gun down and watched as Jo walked away. Having realized that she didn't want to leave Ross like that, with the idea in her head that Jo would try to kill him herself, she thought of an idea to help her boyfriend. She went back to Run Like the Wind and saw some shirts around took them and started cutting them with some scissors that she found on the counter, along with some tape.
Ross looked up at Tonya and wondered what she was doing. Tonya approached her boyfriend with cut pieces of cloth and wrapped it around his body to help cover the wounds more and taped them together.
"I hope this works, baby," Tonya said. "I won't leave you."
"I still feel the pain, now let's just see if I can make it," Ross said.
"Don't say that, I did what I could," Tonya said. "I wonder why I never took any medical classes now."
"It's not too late," Ross said.
For a few hours, Tonya remained by Ross's side to be supportive of him. She didn't know if the store was safe enough, whether it's from zombies or psychopaths. Until a man in a brown leather jacket with a camera came to their rescue. The photographer had a long talk with the couple. Ross even suggested that the man get a pistol for some reason. It was a good thing that Tonya had thrown out her gun when she went back for Ross, because no one was sure what would have happened if he had his wish granted.
Luckily for the couple, the man with the camera took them to a safe place, where they waited for a rescue for a few days. It was not much for them, but it was better than being out in the middle of an outbreak.
Later that same day, Ross had something to say to Tonya.
"Tonya, thank you for not leaving my side this whole time," Ross said. "I'm blessed to have a woman like you in my life."
"Ross, I love you with all of my heart," Tonya said. "I can't imagine what would happen if you had died out there, and I want to thank you for saving me from that sadistic cop. I just wish we had saved those other girls."
"I'm sure they'll be fine soon enough," Ross said. "I love you, too, by the way."
Tonya leaned towards Ross and gave him a big hug and then the two kissed.