The Walking Dead: Just Stay Alive
Season 1 Episode 2: Welcome To Hell
Jordan looked around at the faces on the military vehicle as it slowly began to pick up speed and move faster and faster away from the now overrun city. He looked at the person across from him and studied them. The person looked back at him and nodded.
"The name's Dominic." he said. He looked about Jordan's age and had short black hair. He had the build of a football player and wore jeans and a plaid shirt.
"This is my buddy Nick." he said, motioning with his head next to him. He was built a little bit smaller than Dominic and had long blonde hair. His eyes made him look like he was panicking at almost every second.
"I'm Jordan."
"Andrew." The two spoke at almost the exact same time. The truck went over a bump and Andrew looked back to see a person lying in the road.
"Shouldn't we help them?" Andrew asked, sounding worried.
"Those 'people' aren't people." a girl sitting across from Andrew said. "My name's Alicia by the way." she had light skin, dark hair, and brown eyes.
"What do you mean they aren't people?" George asked.
"Those things are dead. Well they are undead." another person spoke up, this time a man. The large group sat in silence for a bit listening to the vehicle speed down the road. Miles looked out to see a bunch of people standing on the road reaching out at them.
The large vehicle continuously ran over any people who stood in the way of it. Jordan, Andrew, and the rest of the people in the back felt sick as they looked back to see runover humans, with guts and blood splattered all over the road.
"I'm going to be sick." Claire said. The truck began to slowly stop in the middle of the road with no explanation.
"Why are we stopping?" Andrew asked. Just then, multiple growls could be heard coming from either side of the road.
"What is the driver doing?" Eddie asked sounding annoyed. Jordan looked around and saw a crate lying on the opposite end of the vehicle.
"There, go for the crate." Jordan said. Dominic, Andrew, Eddie, George, and a boy named Monty got to the crate and opened it. They pulled out M16's and looked down in them. Miles looked out to see the driver trying to shoot the things surrounding him.
"Jordan we have to help him!" Miles yelled. Jordan picked up a pistol and aimed it towards the things trapping the driver. His hands began to shake and he couldn't steady his shot. Dominic cocked the gun back and tried shooting it but it went haywire and shot around the group of people. The things turned towards the back, attracted by the noise. Jordan looked back to see the driver being devoured by the undead people. Just then shots were fired from the woods and the undead began to drop like flies. A man came running out from the woods holding an FAL. He had messy dark brown hair and a brown leather jacket.
"This way! I'll clear them out for you just move over here. Quickly!" he yelled to them.
Andrew looked at Jordan, who nodded back in response.
"Alright everyone let's move." Andrew said. George and Stacy jumped off the military vehicle first, followed by Allison and Eddie. Those four ran to the man who had just come out of the woods. Dominic, Nick, Alicia, and another girl jumped off the vehicle and sprinted to where the rest were.
"Alright Monty, let's go." a man with dark skin said.
"Don't worry I got your back Darnell." Monty said, picking up a dropped M16. The two jumped down and began to run for the group of people waiting. As Monty was running one of the undead people grabbed his shirt. The man in the leather jacket shot the walker in the head, allowing Monty to continue running.
"Shit that was close." he said, meeting up with the rest. Jordan, Claire, Miles, and Andrew were the last one's left on the vehicle.
"We gotta go. Let's move it Bradford's." Andrew said.
"I'll get the rear." Jordan said. "Miles. Claire. Stay right behind Drew okay?" Miles and Claire nodded in response as Andrew prepared for the run.
"Let's go!" Andrew said, jumping off the vehicle. He began sprinting, as Claire jumped off. She started sprinting as Miles, then Jordan jumped off. As Miles was running, a walker grabbed his ankle and he began screaming. Jordan ran over to it with wide eyes. He began to stomp his foot down on his head until almost nothing was left. He picked up Miles and ran after the others. Before he could get there, the man in the jacket yelled out, "You two keep up. Follow me through the woods!"
Jordan let Miles down, and the two caught up with the group as they jogged through the woods. Eventually they came upon a fire that had recently died down. The man in the leather jacket placed his hands on his knees and bent down.
"Who are you?" Dominic asked.
"Gimme a minute." he said in between gasps. Dominic raised the M16 and pointed it at the man.
"I'll ask again. Who are you?"
"Dominic calm down." Andrew said.
"He saved us." Darnell spoke up.
"We would've been fine on our own." Nick said, defending Dominic.
"Let him catch his breath." Jordan said, grabbing the M16 out of Dominic's hands.
"My name is Nathan. Nathan Roberts."
"Can you explain what is going?" Alicia asked.
"The world's gone to shit sweetheart. People are rising from the dead. I call 'em walkers. I've learned you aim for the head, or don't bother aiming. This is it. It's the end of us all." Nathan said with a chuckle.
"What are you saying?" Jordan asked. Nathan took his time and sat down on the ground.
"What I'm saying is, welcome to hell."
In Memoriam:
Army Officer
Driver
Multiple Walkers
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"He's giving us a choice." Andrew said in a hushed tone.
"I say we take this chance." Jordan spoke up.
"I agree." Alicia said.
"Are you guys fools?" Dominic asked. "We can't trust this guy. He could kill all of us for all we know."
"I think he would've let those things eat us if he wanted us dead." Alicia said, rolling her eyes at Dominic.
"Fine. We'll go with him." Dominic said loud enough, so that everyone else heard.
Nathan nodded and looked around at the group.
"If you guys are coming with me, you'll have to elect a leader. That's my one rule. You can pick out of those four too."
