CHAPTER 0 - INVASION
- DISCLAIMER.
This story is a work of fiction, more specifically, a fan fiction. All characters, places, and events are all fiction and never happened in real life. Any resemblance to events, locations, and characters, dead or alive, is purely coincidental.
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March 12, 2011
Present day.
To: Agents
Subject: Urgent.
Due to the recent Ballard Ridge outbreak, and it's spread to nearby cities, we are ordering every agent across the US to prepare immediately. The president has escaped and has initiated the "Purge Protocol". Every city in the States will be obliterated by the detonation of every nuclear weapon in the US, in an attempt to stop the outbreak from spreading.
The protocol will commence on March 13, 2011, at 07.00 AM. A 4-member evac unit will be sent to your location to pick you up and get you out from the country on March 12. Arrival dates will vary between agents. Please look at the attached file to know the arrival date of your evac unit.
File:arrival_date_agents.
Detailed orders to follow once you're out of the country safely.
I wish you good luck.
Andrew Schaeffer
- AMS Director
Received on March 11, 2011. 15.54
12.06
2 hours.
A woman had been waiting patiently for 2 hours. She had it all prepped. Gun? Check. AMS badge? Check. Her shopping products? Well, it's not a priority for her, but she did wear her best outfit. A red leather jacket, a floral patterned shirt, a necklace, a black belt with a gun holster, skinny jeans with a small ripped pattern, a leg purse, and a pair of black boots with a hidden knife for safety.
In short, she's ready to leave.
But the woman was supposed to leave 2 hours ago. Her evac crew should arrive at that time, but they haven't arrived yet. Pretty suspicious, considering AMS agents never late for an appointment.
Did they had unexpected setbacks? Are they still alive? Has the AMS left her to die? She doesn't know, and she doesn't want to know either.
She keeps contacting the AMS HQ for answers. No one's picking up the phone.
The alarm suddenly rang. The security system alerts the woman that someone is trying to break into the house. Her safe house is fitted with a security system. If someone tried to break in, the alarm will ring. In this situation, no one's gonna dare to break into her house and steal some cash. Unless...
The woman quickly checked her computer, right next to her bed. She checked the CCTV cameras of her safe house, and she found out why it rang. The creatures have arrived at her doorstep, wanting to feast upon her flesh.
The woman grabs her gun, an HK MP7, and goes downstairs.
The creatures have been banging the door for a while. Soon the door would break and they will come inside. The woman prepares to defend herself. She got into her usual shooting stance.
"Come and get me, assholes", the woman said.
Soon the door breaks, and they begin to swarm in.
The woman opened fire to the creatures. They're pretty easy to kill. Her years of experience instinctively told her to shoot their heads. Soon, they fell unto the ground, one by one. Blood splattered across the floor.
The woman immediately turned her back. She noticed that they came from the back door too. The woman quickly reloads her SMG and opened fire to them. They quickly died and fell unto the floor.
Knowing that staying in the house isn't safe, she quickly gets to the back door, which leads her to an alley. She looked to the left, the tall steel fence is blocking her path. She glanced to the right, her path is clear. She looked back and saw that the creatures kept coming. She quickly took the right path. The creatures have been waiting there, coming towards her. The woman opened fire, shooting anything that stands in her way. Soon the alley is filled with puddles of blood.
The woman then heard a scream, coming from a neighboring house. She quickly busts open the back door of the house and enters it. The owner of the house, a young girl, is dragged by one of the creatures who got into her house. The woman kills the creature before that thing even gets a bite of her.
"Are you OK?" The woman asked the girl.
"I'm fine", said the girl. "I should have left before-"
Before she even finished her sentence, another creature break through the side door and pulled her away. Screams of agony can be heard behind the door.
"No!" The woman quickly came to her aid and kills the creatures. But it's too late, the creature had the last laugh. The girl died from her wounds.
"Damn it..." The woman cursed herself.
At that moment, the woman's PDA rang. Someone called her.
The woman checked her PDA. She didn't recognize the phone number who called her.
"Who the hell called me in this situation?" said to herself. "More importantly, how the hell the caller knew my number?"
Maybe the one who called was one of her friends but has changed his/her number? Maybe someone hacked her phone during her sleep? The woman didn't want to know. What's in her mind now is to escape the city.
But on the other hand, the temptation to know who's behind the number is strong. The woman really wants to know who's calling her.
With caution, she answers the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hello, is this Kate Green I'm speaking with?" said a voice. The voice is a middle-aged man, around 45 years old. His voice assures her that this man can be trusted.
"Yes, this is Kate Green speaking. Who is this?"
"Good to know. My name is Thomas Rogan, and I need your-"
"Wait, what?", Kate asks. "Thomas Rogan? THE Thomas Rogan who stopped Dr. Curien decades ago?"
"Yes, that's me", Rogan replied. "Listen, I don't have much time, and you don't have much time either. So why don't we just met up, work together and get the hell out of this city?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm here in this city to find this terrorist, known by the codename "Cobalt". I believe he's behind the outbreak, and I suspect he's somewhere in the city. I've been on his tail for a long time and I have to get to him before he gets away."
"What do you want me to do?" Kate asks.
"I want you to meet up with me and help me get to Cobalt. You help me get Cobalt, and I'll get you out from the county. Fair enough?"
Kate begins to think. On one hand, she wanted to help. But on the other hand, she wonders if she's actually talking to Rogan.
"Uh, Kate? You still there?" Rogan asks.
Kate spent quite some time to think, so much that she forgot the danger she's in.
The girl suddenly rises up from the door. Her skin turned pale. Her pupils turned white, an indication that she has turned. She lets out a small but monstrous growl.
That growl alone alerts Kate of the danger. She quickly aims and shoots the girl. She died immediately from a headshot wound.
On that moment, Kate had chosen her answer.
"Alright. I'm in. Where do we meet up?"
"Meet me at the Orchard-Mallard intersection. It's a couple of blocks away from you. Now go. I'll see you there", Rogan replied.
"Roger that... But wait! How do you get this num-"
Rogan hung up before she could even ask.
"Great..." Kate complained. She didn't even have a chance to ask him back.
She saw through the front door. More of them are coming to her way. She needs to go to the intersection to meet up with Rogan. That, assuming that the one on the phone is indeed him.
"Well, here we go again. I guess."
Kate ran as fast as she could. The intersection is just 2 blocks away from her. Huge debris is blocking her way, so she needs to traverse another set of alleyways to get into the intersection.
"Wait."
"Wait a minute, how the hell Rogan knew where I was?" Kate spoke to herself. "Ahh, dammit why I thought about this now?!"
She continues to run, stop for a minute to shoot at anything that tried to get their hands on her. She quickly traverses through the alley.
"Which way should I go- ?!"
Suddenly somebody or something knocked her down from behind. She immediately knew it was one of those creatures. The creature lets out a roar. She can tell that he's hungry.
"Let go!" Kate yelled. She moved her entire body, trying to get free. She kicked on the creature's feet and breaks free. She quickly gets up, and opened fire. The creature died afterward. Her jacket was stained with its blood.
"Damn... My jacket."
Thanks to Kate firing her gun, more of the creatures begin to come after her. Kate starts to run, navigating the increasingly narrow alley. Kate quickly kills one creature standing in front of her, reloads, and quickly shoots the creatures behind her.
Kate is very close to the intersection. All she needs to do is to get through a very narrow alley right in front of her. She quickly attempts to get past the alley, but soon struggled to get through. The alley is so narrow there's no room for her to move her hands, let alone to shoot the creatures.
Right behind her, the creatures have blocked her entrance. Their bloody hands attempts to pull Kate back. Kate scuffs them off and continues to push forward.
The creature's hands touched her jacket. They were close, very close. Kate tried to get her SMG and shoot them, but the narrow alley prevents her from doing so. With no other option, she kept forcing herself to get free.
"Almost there..."
With every last ounce of energy left, Kate forces herself to get out from the alley. She first had one of her hands out, and then use it to push herself out. She got out soon after.
Kate looks back at the alley. The creatures were stuck at the alley. One of them did get their hands out of the alley but their positions make it hard to get free.
Satisfied and proud with the results, Kate begins to mock them.
"Hah! Try and get me now, you slimy basta-"
Kate looks back at the intersection. Her expression changed from satisfied to slightly horrified.
"Aaah..shit."
Kate celebrated too early. She saw a large horde of the creatures standing aimlessly in the intersection. One of them noticed Kate's taunt. He lets out a large roar and begins to go after her. Many others soon followed him. They noticed her. Kate was cornered. There's no place for her to run away safely. The creatures are coming from the left and in front of her. On her right is a huge debris blocking the way, and on her back, is the way she came.
Kate opened fire to the incoming horde. They can be taken down easily, but their immense number slowly overwhelmed her. She quickly reloads, and re-empties out her magazine. However, they just keep coming to her.
Kate was forced to fall back. In her mind, she needed something. Something that's loud, loud enough for them to take their eyes off her. She needs a distraction, but she didn't have one. She had grenades but she's too panicked that she forgot to use one.
Kate fall back all the way to a corner. Their huge amount has overwhelmed her. They were closing in, just a couple meters away from her. She fires her gun, killing some of them, but many more quickly come to get her.
In Kate's mind, it's over for her. She's a cornered animal. She'll gonna die horribly and painfully. The taunt she made became the one which kills her.
"Goddammit!" Kate berates herself.
Kate was about to lose all hope when she hears a rather irritating noise. Kate tries to figure out what made that noise. 'Grenade? Nope, too noisy.' Kate begins to think. 'Gunshots? Not noisy enough... Car...?'
"Car?!"
Right when she figures it out, she hears a familiar voice.
"HEY!"
Kate takes a quick look. The creatures were just a few steps away from her. They were distracted by the loud noise of the car.
Not far from her, a black car has arrived at the intersection. The car spun wildly in a 360 spin, knocking down the creatures and kills some of them. Some of the creatures tried to break into the car, but the driver knew what they were doing, begins going in reverse, knocking them down and even ran over one of them.
The driver exits the car, with the engine still on. He brings out a shotgun and mows down nearby enemies.
"Don't just stand there! Kill them!" Said the man.
Kate immediately knew who he is. Kate soon shoots the distracted creatures and makes her way to the car.
Rogan provides cover fire from the car, killing nearby creatures while also keeping the creatures distracted, allowing Kate to move forward.
"You guys are just as annoying as those guys back in 98'." Rogan mocks the creatures and mows down some more. Kate opened fire to the creatures and makes progress.
Kate and Rogan take turns killing down the creatures. Rogan fired his shotgun while Kate reloads, and then Kate fired her rounds while Rogan reloads his shotgun. The strategy worked. The two managed to take down numbers of them, allowing Kate to have a clear path to the car
"Get in, hurry!" Rogan hurriedly told Kate.
Kate quickly gets inside the car. Rogan quickly re-enters his car. The creatures tried to break into the car. Rogan shifted the gears and hits the brakes. The car moves backward, knocking down one of them. Rogan shifted the gears again, and the car hits another creature. Rogan continuously shifts his gears, moving the car back and forth. He then hits the gas, and the car moves forward. One of the creatures tries to hang onto the doors but couldn't hold on.
The car soon sped away, leaving the horde behind.