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I regained consciousness shortly after only to find that there was an absence of power in the building that I was in. A few of them where scrambling about trying to figure out what caused the power to shut down. I looked around at my surroundings to find that my left arm was wrapped in some kind of medical bandage. I hear something faint outside:
"We need to find out if something shorted out the main power grid. Then we will know how much of town is without power."
"Alright notify the runners and make sure that there is fuel in reserve, incase our main supply ran out and shut down the generators.
These people run a town? How could they generate enough power for an entire town? My group was held out in an old school. We had fortification there, and just enough power to run the security cameras, and even that was difficult keeping up with gasoline demands.
It makes me wonder… What else do they have? A constant food supply? Would they even need guns with the area they seem to have? Whatever it is I need to find my way out of here and I wont be able to it without my gear that they took when I came in. I had a backpack, with a couple of mags to my m-4, as well as some medical supplies, a jacket, and a tent.
I was on a supply run for my group when I ran into them. Three men and three women. A large man with red hair seemed to be their leader, as he was the one that gave the other five all of the orders.
I search around the room that I was in after the area was cleared of people, in attempt to scavenge something useful. I found a watch, a key card, and a pocketknife. Its not much but I will have to make it work I suppose. I look down at the watch and it reads:
1:47 pm November 14th 2028
I confirm this with a clock on the wall, as well as an old fashion calendar on the desk near the table I was on.
I reach my hand slowly for the door, when I hear someone pass by. I creak the door open to see if there was just one person, and it was. A man wearing a white lab coat had walked passed the door, and as I saw him turn left at the end of the hallway I figured if someone knew what was going on it would be him, so I slowly left the safety of my experimentation lab to follow him.
He led me up the building to the roof, where there was a (as the sign above the door said) Sky-Garden Section D. It was truly amazing to see a community who had been able to stay sustained for this long since the outbreak, when the rest of the world was set back a thousand years, this town seemed… normal.
I snuck behind an air conditioner block near the corner of the rooftop while the man in the white lab coat recessed back into the building from the roof access. After I realized I was alone, I crept out of my hiding spot and looked around the roof. These people had legitimate crops on the tops of most of the buildings. I was on the roof that held some of their fruits. I ate a few grapes off of the vine hanging off the edge of a honeycomb-patterned plastic grid. I looked across the town from the roof I was on, I could see most of the town. They were right, it was a town. They had secured the border of what used to be most of Riverview Fl. More so the Fishhawk area, which if you lived here before the outbreak was a town in itself.
I saw a few buildings over an entire building's roof was dedicated to solar light panels. There were a few people in the area, but they seemed to be less interested in the solar setup and more fixed to something else inside of the building across the street.
I took some more food and made my way back inside, and back into the room that I had originally been in. It was unchanged so I know that nobody came in to check on me. I heard someone scream:
"Walkers in D! Everyone get out now!"
"Shit!" I said under my breath. I creaked the door open again to find one man, the same one from before running from a small group of walkers. I opened the door and stabbed one of the walkers in the head with my small knife, and kicked another one down that was getting too close.
"What the fuck are you doing out of your room kid? How did you even get out?" The man said as we were both running downstairs toward the buildings exit.
"The door was unlocked and I saw you before. I followed you up to the sky gard-"
The man had tripped and fell down the stairs.
"Are you ok? Get up man! Hurry!" I screamed.
"Thanks, Here…" he said quickly
The man handed me a loaded gun.
"Take 'em out kid!"
I shot a few of them and there was only one left when the gun ran out of ammunition. A woman wearing a blood stained lime green tank top and cargo shorts.
"She's fresh." I pointed out
The look on this man's face was of pure despair.
"She was my wife…"
The man took my pocketknife right out of my hand and stabbed the woman again, and again, crying.
"Follow me." The man said wearingly as the tears kept rolling down his face.
"My name is Eugene. I am the lead scientist here. I am in charge of building D, which is our research department."
"What are you researching?" I enquired
The man pointed at my arm.
"You were bit." He said calmly "We research the infection. How people turn. What the virus really is."
My expression turned from relieved to serious very quickly.
"So y-you mean I was bitten… How… how long do I have? Where is the rest of my group? Why am I still alive?!"
"You should be fine kid. Let me explain it all to you." He reassured.
"The bite isn't what makes you turn, its just the middle man if you will."
We approached the entrance of a building marked "A"
"Here, this is our central power grid. There are thousands of car batteries hooked up to a few dozen generators that get their immediate power through the solar panels that if they were to break, would turn on the generators through a bypass. Now the problem we're having is that the bypass isn't working, that's why everything is down."
We walked up the stairs and Eugene continues:
" Anyway… The bite is just the middleman. The bite is just a way to kill you. But not by infection of the walker virus. What is the symptoms that you associate with someone after the get bitten?"
"Well…"
I had to think about this for a minute. Back to all of the people that we lost in the last ten years. All the way back to my mother, The first person that was close to me that died.
"Fever. Fatigue, Migraines.-"
"Exactly! All of the symptoms of the flu right?" He led on
"Well yea but what does that mean? " I asked eagerly
" What do you take when you have the flu?" He asked with a cunning smile on his face.
"So if you give someone enough of the right medication then it can stop the person from turning. We have people here who have been bitten upwards of 3 or 4 times and live to tell the tale. That's why you got to keep your hand too. I'm sure you had to amputate someone's arm or leg after a bite because you didn't know right?"
It was at this moment that I knew I would have to get back to my group and tell them the information that had only a few moments ago changed how my people would live for the rest of their lives. But these people are too valuable to just leave. I need to keep them around.