10K in the dome


Summary: 10K is hunting in Chester's Mill with his father and he gets trapped under the dome, while his father passes away. Trapped in the town he will try to use his survival skills to help him and his friends stay alive. Pairing: 10K x Norrie.

Disclaimer: I don't own Z Nation or Under the dome.


|Forest of Chester's Mill|

In the forest of Chester's Mill are 2 people hunting, Thomas, also known as 10K for his goal to help ten-thousand people, which he set himself after his mother got murdered in a robbery while he hid himself unable to help her because he was 6 years old at the time and his father. After the traumatic death of his wife Thomas' father who was an accomplished sniper lost faith and turned his back on humanity other than his own flesh and blood of course, causing the two of them to travel the world, hunting for different animals and training themselves in survival skills.

"Hey dad, something is wrong, the animals are scared." 10K tells his dad, stopping and looking at the birds trying to flee from something.

"Don't worry son, maybe there is a bear around." 10K's father replies, continuing through the woods, looking for their next meal until they hear the trees above them crashing and look up to see something invisible cut through the branches.

"Ahh!" 10K's father screams out painfully and Thomas looks down again, at his father who had tried to get out of way of whatever cut through the trees, but his legs got severed at the kneecap in the process, the other half of them on the other side of a thick cut in the earth.

"Oh my god. Dad, what happened?" Thomas asks worriedly, rushing over to his father, pulling him away from the cut and tying off his legs with a rope from his backpack.

"I don't know son, but I don't think I'll make it." Thomas's father grunts painfully.

"Don't talk like that. I'll get you out of here." Thomas says, attempting to drag his father through the woods to the nearest road.

"Son it's useless, I'm already bleeding out. What did this to me though?" Thomas's father questions trying to put up a strong front for his son.

"I don't know, it's like some kind of forcefield." 10K replies, touching the dome, getting zapped in the process.

"Doesn't matter, I'm sure you will be able to get through this on your own. I have one last request though son, can you help me pass on? I'm in pain, and I want to go out with dignity, knowing my Son is by my side, bravely carrying on." 10K's father tells him sadly.

"Dad, I can't. I need you." 10K replies tears falling out of his eyes.

"It's alright son, I can't make you do it. Think about it and if you can't grant me mercy, just leave me behind." 10K's father grunts understandingly.

10K sits down against a tree, crying for about 5 minutes, trying to gather his courage to end his father's suffering, listening to his father's painful moans and screams all the while.

After the 5 minutes he stands up, getting out the first hunting knife his father ever gave him and lies his father down, saying "It's alright dad. It'll be over soon, I'm here for you." And positioning the knife over his father's heart.

"Thank you. Son, I'm proud of you. You'll grow up to be a strong, kind man." His father tells him weakly before 10K pushes down on the knife, ending his father's life in a few seconds.

After helping his father pass on he sits next to his corpse for a while before digging a grave and burying his father. Soon after laying his father's corpse to rest he gets up, still crying every now and then and thinks about what to do next.

"First, I'll have to find out what this is." 10K murmurs, touching the dome and then picks up a thick branch, swinging it at the dome with as much force as he can muster but nothing happens.

"I don't get it, there's nothing, not even a scratch." 10K notices.

"Better see how far this thing goes, maybe I can just go around it." He decides, picks up his hunting gear, consisting of his backpack, slingshot and rifle (AN: 10Ks rifle from first episodes of Z Nation)

And follows the invisible wall until he sees that it even cut through a road.


|A few minutes earlier - at Chester's Mill gas station|

Carolyn Hill, a homosexual black middle-aged woman is trying to use the pump at the gas station asking her wife "Am I doing something wrong?"

"Power is out Carolyn, the cashier said the pumps will be on soon." Alice Calvert replies, coming out of the shop with their daughter.

"Chester's Mill is known for it's rich, fertile land and warm, inviting people." Elanor Calvert, better known as Norrie reads from a pamphlet.

"Please these jerks don't even have orange juice, the guy said we have to wait until the next delivery." Norrie adds.

"Alice, did you take your insulin without eating?" Carolyn asks her wife worried about her diabetes.

"I'll be fine, I got a candy bar." Alice replies.

"You need real food honey. We'll stopped at that diner we passed earlier." Carolyn decides.

"Mom, seriously can we please drive somewhere else? I refuse to have my last meal here." Norrie complains.

"Norrie you're not going to your execution, you're going to camp." Carolyn replies.

"Camp? It's like a glorified prison for screwups with rich parents." Norrie huffs annoyed.

"It's a great program Norrie and as soon as they say you're ready, you'll come home again." Alice tells her daughter supportively.

"Los Angeles, awesome." Norrie says, opening the car door when police car's come racing by them, making them look at the scene surprised.

"We can stop for lunch later." Carolyn says, and the family gets in the car, to drive out of the town.

While they are driving Big Jim, the city council man commandeers the radio station to broadcast a warning for all drivers, having seen the invisible wall and the damage it's caused with his own eyes.

"You're the one who's addicted." Norrie accuses her mother, who's driving while looking at her phone.

"I'm using my phone for work, not for sending naked pictures of myself to random boys." Carolyn counters."

"For the millionth time, that was an accident." Norrie defends herself.

"That's what you said when you knocked out that girls' tooth." Carolyn reminds her disapprovingly.

Alice tries to change the topic by turning on the radio.

"Once again, every car needs to pull over immediately, this is not a drill." They hear Jim say over the radio.

"Did you hear that?" Alice asks concerned turning up the volume.

"I can't tell you if this is an act of terror or an act of god. But I'll keep everyone updated as we learn more." Jim warns.

"It's just some stupid viral marketing mom." Norrie says doubtful.

"Norrie's right, there is other people on the road, it's probably just some …" Carolyn says until she sees 10K run out of the woods, onto the road ahead of them, gesturing them to stop and she hits the breaks.

"What is wrong with you?" Carolyn shouts out of her car window until she sees the car on the other line heading towards town crash into an invisible wall causing the three females to scream out in horror.

"Crap he didn't see me." 10K curses.

The three get out of the car and Alice asks, "Is everyone alright?"

"Nothing about his is alright." Carolyn says looking at the crashed car in shock.

"You guys OK?" 10K asks them, coming walking up to them.

"Yes, thank you for warning us. But what is that?" Alice replies thankfully.

"No clue, glad I was able to stop you though. 362" 10K replies, murmuring the number to himself, keeping count of how many people he helped.

Norrie then collapses and her mothers rush over with 10K hot on their heels.

"Norrie! Are you OK?" her mother's scream scared and try to steady their daughter, who has collapsed and is having a seizure, saying "pink stars are falling. Pink stars are falling in lines." Over and over again.

"Does she have seizure's often?" 10K asks them concerned about the girl his age thrashing on the road.

"No, she's never done this, we better get her to a hospital." Alice says freaking out.

"I can tell you the way, I've been in this town for a few weeks." 10K offers.

"help us get her in the back." Carolyn says and 10K helps the women put their daughter in the back seat with Alice getting in the back as well to keep her steady, so Norrie won't hurt herself.

"Get in the passenger side." Carolyn then instructs 10K who slings off his gun and backpack before getting in the car, putting the equipment on his lap and Carolyn turns the car around, speeding off, listening to the directions 10K gives them from time to time.

"Thanks for helping us, you're a life saver. What's your name?" Carolyn thanks him.

"10K. Just my nickname but everyone calls me that." 10K replies.

"Unusual, I'm Carolyn and this is Alice and our daughter Norrie." Carolyn informs him.

"Nice to meet you." 10K says quietly, looking at their daughter concerned.

"What happened to you? You look terrible." Alice asks him, glancing at his bloody and dirty clothes.

"I was hunting with my dad, he got hit by that wall thing though, so I had to bury him." 10K tells them, trying to stay calm since to him, the more concerning matter is the girl still thrashing around every now and then.

"Oh my god, I'm sorry. And thank you, without your help we wouldn't have made it. Shh, it's OK sweetie, relax." Alice replies, whispering the last part to her daughter.

"It's alright, take a right here." 10K says and continues leading them to the hospital.


A few minutes of speeding through town they arrive at the hospital.

"Help! Please, we need help." Carolyn yells, stopping the car and getting out.

"Our daughter had some sort of episode." Alice tells the candy striper who rushes over to them.

"It was a damn seizure Alice." Carolyn corrects her.

"Come on, let's get her looked at." Angie McAlister the candy striper tells them while 10K gets Norrie out of the car, carrying her bridal style while following the girl into the hospital.

Once inside the hospital Angie leads them to an empty stretcher "Put her down here, I'll go get a nurse." Angie tells the group and 10K gently puts Norrie onto the stretcher.

"I don't think I'll be of much help now, I'll get out of your way now." 10K tells them and walks back outside to get his gear out of the car and ask around about what happened.

"Thank you so much for your help." Alice tells the already leaving teen.

Soon after a nurse comes over and checks on Norrie, finding nothing wrong with her.


|later that evening|

Many of the town have gathered in the "Sweetbriar Rose" including Carolyn, Alice and Norrie who are eating a meal at the moment and 10K who is leaning against a wall, barely paid any mind when Duke the town's Sherriff walks in, getting everyone's attention.

"I'm afraid I have some hard news. Some folks are still unaccounted for, but it looks like Chester's Mill lost 12 of our own today." Duke informs everyone.

"Duke, what the hell is going on?" Rose asks him.

"Isn't it obvious, we are under attack." Carolyn says.

"Nobody knows a damn thing, so there is no point in spreading any rumors." Duke tells them.

"Please, our daughter is sick, we need to get her to a real doctor. I mean even if they can't knock that wall down they can still airlift her out of here." Alice tells him.

"I don't know but if those egg-heads out there can put a car on mars they sure as hell can figure this out too." Duke replies trying to keep everyone's hope up.

"When everybody gets home tonight, I want you to check on your neighbors and if anybody needs anything you know where to find me." Duke tells them before leaving the restaurant.

"Great, so he doesn't know what's going on either." Carolyn says, sitting back down at the table with her family.

"Hey, so I asked around and apparently the wall is all around town, not much hope for finding a gap I guess." 10K tells them walking over to them.

"Who is he?" Norrie asks her mothers, seeing 10K standing next to their table.

"He's the boy who rescued us and helped get you to the hospital." Alice informs her daughter.

"Thanks, I guess." Norrie tells 10K who only nods in return.

"I'll keep looking around. If you want, I'll keep you in the loop if I hear something." 10K tell them.

"Thank you." Carolyn says gratefully and 10K slings his rifle back over his shoulder and leaves the restaurant.


AN: Hey guys, hope you like this story idea, I'll most likely just keep focusing on the parts of the story 10K / the calvert family is involved in. The rest of the story is according to canon in most cases.

Anyway feel free to review /PM