Easy Money for those who are Left for Dead
A Payday and Left 4 Dead Crossover
"Hold on guys, I got to circle a bit. They have jets approaching." Bain said into the ear pieces of the Payday Crew as they took the elevator to the roof of Mercy Hospital after another successful heist. Suddenly there was a loud boom and the whole building shook.
"Whoa! They're hitting the building with missiles! This is nuts! I am sure I saw them hit one of their own guys!" Then there was another boom and the building shook again, and again, and again, until SNAP, the elevator fell 32 floors to the basement. Those last few sentences were the last the Payday Crew heard from Bain. They got out of the elevator, and ran to their safe house.
Back in the safe house the Payday Crew celebrated with good booze and music waiting for Bain to come in and join the party. But Bain never came. The next day they saw the news front page which read, "Civilian massacre at Mercy Hospital!"
"Damn…" Wolf said. "You think Bain made it out? It says here they killed all witnesses."
"He had to." replied Hoxton. "Without him we would have to rely on Dallas to be the brains of this outfit and I would rather not see that train wreck."
"Shut the fuck up Hoxton." Dallas snapped.
"Come on guys." Chains butted in. "I bet he is at his HQ right now and waiting for us to call."
Bain was not at his HQ. In fact he was still in Fairview Pennsylvania in his wrecked helicopter. He was shot down shortly after losing contact with Dallas, Hoxton, Chains, and Wolf. He had been there all night and was nearing the end. The last thing Bain saw was a pale figure, staggering out of the wreck of Mercy Hospital. It looked almost exactly like the photo he was given of the guy he sent they boys after to collect blood from for his client. But that was impossible. That man was supposed to be dying and this man looked more or less alive or like a walking dead man. The man was wearing a tattered hospital gown and had bumps and bruises all over his skin. He was missing an arm and blood was trickling down his chin from his mouth and nose. Nobody was around to notice him, nobody except Bain. But then Bain's vision went black and he died.
The Payday Crew kept pulling off heists after that but never ones as big as they used to. Back then they were doing hits like First World Bank and stealing diamonds form the Garnet Group building. But now they were just robbing gas stations, small stores, and maybe the occasional small bank. It just wasn't the same. They didn't get the same thrill they used to get out of crime.
The biggest blow to the Payday Crew was not making the front page anymore. They used to be the top news story every time they pulled off a heist but now they usually get a small article around the page before the wanted ads. But every Sunday when the newest print came out they would go out to a gas station and get a copy and check.
This week the top story was very different than the usual garbage the passes for a front page worthy story, there was something a little bit more serious. The front page headline read, "Green Flu Outbreak in Fairview PA! Military Called in to Capture Infected!"
"The military huh?" Said Dallas, "I don't get what is so bad about a few people walking around with a runny nose."
"No you idiot!" Hoxton replied, "Remember the guy who we got the blood from back at Mercy Hospital? They said he was showing beginning stages of rabies."
They all continued reading. Each word confirming what they feared. They then realized they set in motion something that night that will end up changing the world forever. Or better yet, open an opportunity to be top of the heist world yet again.
