A Strange Adventure 2: Dawn of the Dead
By NocturneD/WINGZ
Note: Well, I decided to take a break from the "A Strange Adventure" story for just a few chapters and start a new one. Yes that is very me starting something new without finishing anything and by the sounds of the subtitle this is going to get a little more serious than actual comedy. No worries people, this will still have the funny comedy in it but in the situation with Elwood City infested with zombies… Well that's going to be a big question though.
What on earth possessed me to make a crossover with a PBS cartoon and a remake of a zombie movie from the 70's you asked? And pretty much the game series Resident Evil… Well I was toying around with the idea for a while as I wanted to expand the "ASA" stories but in separate forms like Strickland-Propane's "What If" stories, so no story is related to the previous or next story of the "ASA" series. Only review if you like the story because this is a parody of shows, no reviews saying, "I don't get this" or "The character's are out of character."
PG-13 (Some explicit violence and gore, along with some language)
It was an ordinary day in Elwood City with the blue sky hanging over the people and the straight hard ground they walk on. Life was good in the peaceful small town, a company called "GENE Tech" moved into the city with the Mayor's agreement and set up shop claiming to be a pharmaceutical plant with their many medicines and advanced technology. The whole company made the town looks like a small backyard in comparison of how much money it was raking in from all over the town alone and many towns over.
School was pretty much dismissed for the afternoon as every child raced out of the building and bust on home to do their own thing. Three friends walked home, one was named Arthur and his friends Buster and Francine closely walked with him talking about what they wanted to do on the weekend even though it was only Wednesday. It felt like a long week. Just as the three friends walk past the park with the view of "Gene Tech" Arthur stopped and took a peek.
"Hey guys. That pharmacy plant looks like its smoking." Arthur pointed out; the other two stopped and looked as well.
"Yeah you're right Arthur. Maybe there's a fire over there or something." Francine questioned. "They did say something happened there earlier this morning though."
"Or maybe something happened where a virus broke out and soon will turn people into zombies?" Buster panicked.
"Buster stop being a stupid ass. There are no such things as zombies; those are only in movies and video games. Nowhere else." Francine replied while rolling her eyes. "Or even virus outbreaks for that matter."
"Can't you see? These are how zombie movies usually start out!" Buster hollered at the two.
"I think you need to lay off the monster movies late at night Buster." Arthur demanded. "Now come on, we got a lot of things to do with that assignment Ratburn assigned us today. And we have to do it right away so we don't have to bury ourselves in work over our weekend."
"Yeah, and we all have to do it!" Francine added with a slight moan from Buster. Just then Arthur stopped again.
"Arthur what's wrong this time?" Francine asked.
"Just felt like someone was watching us." Arthur replied, then shook it off and continued walking home.
The two dragged the rabbit boy all the way to Arthur's house, which took about ten minutes. Upon arriving at the aardvark boy's house the three friends saw an ambulance truck along with a few cop cars parked in front. Arthur couldn't believe there were police cars at his house, he immediately raced to his yard and opening the front door where the first thing he saw was his mother sitting on the staircase crying her eyes out with a couple of police officers trying to comfort her, one was female and had dark skin while the other was male and around his fifties.
"Mom? What happened?" Arthur rushed towards his mother; she embarrassed him and held him tightly still crying. She was crying so hard she couldn't speak clearly until the older officer spoke up.
"Son, I'm afraid you're younger sister Dora has been attacked by a wild animal in the backyard and died during the mauling. I'm sorry kid." The male officer explained, with that Arthur's eyes started to tear up and cry in his mother's arms.
"You're father is in the ambulance truck, he was lucky though. Only got some minor scratches on his arm and torso, he tried to fend off the animal with a firearm but apparently it was too quick before he could even fire a bullet." The female officer replied.
Meanwhile outside Francine and Buster walked up to the ambulance truck to see the back still open. There they saw Arthur's father lying face up being attended by a paramedic cleaning and bandaging the wound, yet like Mrs. Read, Mr. Read was only slightly crying just not as hard as his wife seeing his daughter getting mauled to death by a disturbing looking creature uglier than sin. Francine and Buster looked in closer watching Mr. Read being treated while he whimpered like a baby.
"Mr. Read, are you alright?" Buster asked in shock.
"Yes…" Mr. Read sniffed, "Just got scratched by some crazy dog…" He tried to remain calm but didn't have the heart to tell them that some strange creature killed his daughter.
"Maybe you kids should ask one of the officer's for a ride home. Don't know if anymore of those things out there waiting." The paramedic said while wrapping a bandage around Mr. Read's arm.
With that Buster and Francine turned and were about to talk to a nearby officer but then wanted to see what was going inside of Arthur's house. The two friends walked into the front doorway looking around, Francine immediately saw Arthur and his mother crying in each other's arms and went over to them while Buster saw a trail of blood trailing from the front door to the back door. Buster as curious as he always is decided to follow the trail of red liquid to where it lead, already knowing the trail leading out to the front lead to Arthur's father but in the back was a mystery to him. Walking along the blood trail trying not to disturb anything he took notice that there were signs as if there was a struggle in the kitchen with blood specks everywhere around the back door. Buster went through it and looked onto the backyard where there were more police officers along with a dog person detective looking at the body of a young girl covered in a bloody blanket.
"It's sad isn't it?" The detective asked looking at the little girl's body that happens to be Arthur's little sister. "There's only one thing that could have done this… Clowns…"
"What?" The officer next to him asked, "I don't think it's the work of clowns. Because for one the bite marks are of an animal."
"Oh… Well uh, yeah an animal it is." The detective replied.
"Damn those animal rights activists saying we shouldn't impound the animals into a shelter. Being cruel my ass, you see this is what happens with wild animals running around the freaking town and it's forest leaving us scared to even leave our homes. Hell I can take raccoons going through my garbage at night but a wild dog that comes out from nowhere and attacks a little girl. Just makes me sick." The rat faced police officer added, though he didn't look like he dressed as an officer but in a suit.
"Yeah. Just makes me sick to my stomach seeing a poor girl like this just playing by herself in the backyard and then some dog attacks her without warning. Poor little girl." The detective whispered.
Buster didn't really pay much attention to the officers talking to each other but he did see another body underneath a blanket right near the backdoor. He sneaks a peek to see, indeed it's an animal in dog form possibly but it reeked like rotting flesh. Practically the dog looked like it had no skin and fur either, a big bloody mess of what it was but seeing the eye pointing to Buster he had to throw the blanket over the dog again. The feeling sent shivers down his spine and was disgusted by the smell, suddenly he felt a rough hand on his shoulder and he looked up to see a monkey faced police officer with dark hair.
"Hey kid, I don't think you should be hanging around here." The officer said trying to push Buster back inside. The rabbit boy did what the officer said and walked back into the kitchen to see a black colored handgun, more of a revolver type just lying on the floor marked around with chalk as another officer was drawing around it. Buster was starting to freak out with the blood everywhere on the floor, the walls, the corpses in the backyard it was like he was going to throw up but couldn't. Immediately Francine walked up to Buster with a grin.
"Buster, maybe we should go?" Francine asked quietly.
"Fine, but I have to tell you that… I saw what attacked D.W." Buster replied quietly also, Francine was shocked to hear this. "It looked like a dog with no skin."
"Just stop it Buster. I don't want to know anything about what was going on. I just want to go home." Francine pleaded, with that the officer outside called for them and waited for them out front. The two walked outside and got into the police car to drop them off at their homes.
The next day at school, Mr. Ratburn was sitting in the teacher's lounge reading the morning newspaper with the headline on the front page "Little girl mauled" apparently not even paying to the cover, the rat faced teacher opened the set of papers up.
"Oh my god a two for one sale at Bernard's!" The rat said to himself then flipping the paper over he took a look at the cover. Immediately disgusted with the title of the front head line he tried not to look at the picture. "Wild animals…" That's all he read from the paragraph and thinking what kind of animal could do such a thing do a child. Just then Mr. Haney the principal of the school walks in with some news, though he doesn't look in the best of moods perhaps scared to best describe it.
"Ratburn, it appears that three more children and an elderly woman were killed last night. Apparently, the same thing happened to them, mauled by some sort of beast." Haney explained while taking a seat next to Ratburn and pouring himself some coffee.
"Well, if it's true that there are probably more of those things out there. By the way, what was going on with Gene Tech yesterday?" Ratburn questioned his superior.
"Say it's some sort of gas leak. They said they got it all under control but there is a few strange looking black colored vans I never seen before patrolling outside the neighborhoods." Principal Haney thought back then commented on. "One was driving back and forth near where I live last night."
"You don't think those vans are patrolling around the city have anything to do with the wild animals running around and attacking random people right?" Ratburn asked again then putting the paper neatly folded down in front of him.
"I don't really know Nigel. But one thing I'm trying to piece together myself with the animals were once peaceful in the forest, but ever since the explosion at that Gene Tech all this started to happen." Haney pointed out, it seemed too obvious.
Meanwhile at the town garbage dump, Mr. Frensky was hard at work with delivering the city's trash to the location and looking over his shoulder every time because of the recent news. Pulling his truck in backwards while he was in the front seat, he lowers a lever for the garbage truck to dump the trash into the huge pile.
As ordinary his shift went normally for a trash collector, his tilts his yellow hard working helmet back a little and opens the door to his truck. Walking out beside the garbage truck doing its business he stood beside it watching the contents spill out from the back. Taking off his hard hat to expose his bald head he wiped the sweat from it and walked to the pile forming to see if there was anything he could salvage. There were metal scraps poking out, a couple shards of broken glass, a bent steel pipe, and a bunch of bagged garbage. Nothing really suited his interest today.
Suddenly with the sound of feet shuffling Mr. Frensky turned around to see a horrific sight. A very pale rabbit man stood there shirtless; having a bunch of scars slashed all over his torso including a big chunk of his side was torn off of him. Mr. Frensky moved in closer to see if he was alright and needed anything.
"Hey! You need a doctor or something?" Mr. Frensky confronted the injured person. The male didn't respond but kept looking down at the ground moaning slightly. "Do you want me to take you to the hospital?" The injured man still didn't reply with words only being stiff, Mr. Frensky tried to get in closer to see the injured person's face only to find it rotting and his eyes went pale as snow.
"Oh my god…" Mister Frensky muttered to himself and trying to take a few steps back, just then the injured male lifts his head up to expose his decaying face and stinking hole in his face called a mouth opening up. The male wasn't even human but a big pile of rotting flesh as he lunged at Mr. Frensky, pinning him to the ground and trying to bite him. Mr. Frensky tried to reach for the steel pipe he found earlier and prayed to god he was going to get out of the situation as he called for help many times though no one came.
To be continued…
Looks like I'm repeating myself am I? Well with the death part but killing DW instead, how sick am I? Well, you'll see in future chapters as I wanted to try something different, yes every ASA series will have a different plot and will reset like nothing happened. Notice how Mr. Ratburn isn't a nudist anymore? I do promise more funny stuff in the future of this story like what not to do in a zombie outbreak!