{MAGNAVERSE ALTERNATIES story)

In a universe as large as our own, their will inevitably be a several worlds which are the same, but also different in their own ways…

The ringing Jaden heard in his ears from the explosion brought him back to his senses as he looked up and around to see people running towards his destination: anywhere but here. He shook his head and began to stand up slowly. But it was as if his body wouldn't let him move.
"Jaden! Jaden, come on!" he heard in the distance somewhere. He struggled to get back on his feet as he heard someone else's scurrying towards him.

"Hey c'mon! Sweetie we have to go! I know a place, but you have to move your ass!" he heard his wife April yelling into his ear, which caused him to get up on his feet.

"Okay I'm good. Lead the way Ril." then they noticed a man running past them who tripped and fell, revealing his bite mark on his ribcage. He didn't even glance at them as he clumsily got up and stumbled away, as if he would have died even if he stopped moving for a second.

"Forget him. We can't help him remember? Where's this place?" Jaden said matter-of-factly. April grabbed his hand and they ran along the busy and backed up street. The Great Panic was happening, and it seemed like even though people know about zombies and what they can do, the world still wasn't ready. April led him to the side away from the street they were escaping on.

They headed into a small broken up building, the metal door barley holding onto it's hinges. Jaden nearly tripped on a corpse which had been completely devoured from the chest up. He's not getting back up, Jaden thought.

"Here, in here." April grabbed hold of a massive sliding door and pilled it open, revealing a staircase with a light shining right on the explosives attached to the stairs. "Destroy the staircase, remember? Then they can't get to you."

Suddenly they heard a paralyzing moan from behind them. Two zombies were approaching them, and their not enough room to pull out their rifles. So April unsheathed her axe and sliced a clean stroke into the head of one of them, while Jaden performed a horizontal slash on the other zombie's head, making it crumple to the ground.

"Keep your weapon out, and be ready for anything." April said. They started hearing gunshots from outside off in the distance. They sounded far enough away from them which meant they had time to prepare the defenses. The couple scurried up the staircase, but carefully watching out for explosives on the way up.

"Well you certainly have been following the book." Jaden said almost cheerfully as they emerged from the stairs onto the roof of the building. The two of them shuffled a wooden pallet that was resting up there to block the door.

April smiled lightly. "You would not BELIEVE how long this took me, though." They approached the edge of the roof and looked down into the sea of bodies below them. Dozens of people running, trying to escape and some were fighting back. The couple knew however that their best chance would to hide somewhere and wait for everything to die down before they could do anything else.

"We should help them." Ril said sorrowfully.

"I know. I want to, I do. But if we fire a shot the zombies will hear or see us. And I don't want to know how they would climb up to us." He held her hand for a moment, then spoke up.

"Let's get ready for the horde."