Authors: notes: and thus we begin the start of the very first campaign no mercy enjoy :)

NO MERCY

curing the infection one bullet at a time

Chapter 2: The apartments

The group of 4 sat around on the apartment rooftop feeling wet, cold and miserable, as the 3 men quietly conversed Zoey sat in the corner under a sheet covering part of the rooftop from the rain, she pulled her body toward her in an attempt to stay warm as Bill was currently using a med kit to patch up Louis and the small cuts received from the infected that had jumped him. His shirt was lightly ripped and he winced in pain as Bill applied disinfectant and then bandaged the cuts, once that was done they went back to quietly conversing before suddenly a large helicopter flew by relaying some useful information, "to anyone who can here this proceed, to mercy hospital for evacuation, repeat proceed to mercy hospital for evacuation!" came the pilot through a loudspeaker. Bill then stood up looking over the buildings to a large building in the distance that had search lights coming from the roof, he pondered the situation for a moment before turning to address the others, "we can take the subway tunnels to the hospital, there is a redline station not far from here" he said. "Its worth a try anything is better than staying here" Zoey said as Louis nodded his agreement, "I hate subway's" Francis suddenly said causing Bill to scowl, "don't be an ass Francis, there is a subway station just around the corner" he said standing and walking over to the door that lead down into the building that they were on top of. "Lets get moving people" he said kicking the door open and pointing his flashlight down the stairs, as expected the apartment complex was completely dark as the power had long since gone out, "Francis take the point" he ordered the man in question grunting as he began to descend the staircase into the building the other 3 following as Louis closed the door behind them.

Francis reached the bottom of the staircase and turned his gun mounted flashlight one to illuminate the path for he and his team, the apartments having since lost their power were pitch black and only Francis's cone of light lit the way forward through the darkness, an infected man came into view which Francis quickly took care off with a well aimed shot from his shotgun. He laughed as he reloaded the wasted shell turning back to the others, "I aint gonna let these god damn vampires beat me" he said, "they're zombies Francis" Bill and Louis both retorted causing the man in question to grunt sarcastically as he continued to lead the way forward, he reached the end of a corridor and stood outside an apartment building. Louis then chimed in, "hold up I need to see if they have something" he said gently pushing the door open and entering the apartment, Francis sighed in annoyance while Bill simply nodded urging the man to be quick, 2 Minutes later Louis remerged holding a bottle of medicinal pain pills, "grabbing pills" he said chugging some of them down in an attempt to help ease the pain from his cuts. Once that was said and done the group continued Francis coming to the top of a flight of stairs, infected could be heard groaning and breathing heavily from somewhere nearby, "down here" he said quietly leading the way down as Zoey looked nervously over her shoulder gripping her remaining pistol tightly.

Once at the bottom of the stairs they stood in another corridor several infected were further down which Francis swiftly dispatched, before pushing forward around a corner and down another set of stairs, finally they had reached the bottom floor, and stood in the reception area, or what was left of it, there was several bodies with blood underneath them in one corner of the room causing Zoey to gag. However the path outside was blocked due to a jeep hanging half way through the front doors blocking the way out since all the windows had long since been barricaded, "lets try and get back out to alley we should be able to gain access to the street if we do" said Bill, Francis nodded as he was once again on point. Sure enough round the back of the reception was an emergency exit that lead back out to the alleyway, they looked right to see the flight of stairs the mutant monster had bought down with it, "Hey Zoey wanna go find your pistol?" Francis said jokingly causing her to scoff, they then turned their attention to the left where the alley led down for some time. "Lets move it out people" Bill said as he and Francis led the way down the alley, Zoey and Louis both tagging behind, Louis couldn't help but glance over his shoulder back towards the wreckage they had left behind, he sure hoped they didn't run into another one of those giant behemoths again any time soon.

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Francis was the first to emerge onto the main street blasting away several commons that had been lounging around mindlessly stumbling and even vomiting to horrid degrees, "there is a subway station just around the corner" Bill said noticing a building to their immediate right, "check that building first" he said as Francis gently pushed the door open and peaked inside firing at a common directly behind the door. There was a door to the left and one further down the corridor, Francis pushed open the first door and cried out as a common grabbed hold of him scratching him on the arm, however before it could do any real damage Bill blew its head off with a controlled burst from his assault rifle. "Im good" Francis immediately said rubbing his arm where a small but noticeable scratch was, there was a cabinet directly in front of them and Zoey opened it to grab a bottle of pain pills that had been idlily left behind, "we might need these" she said. Placing the pills in a holster to her side they all left the room and made their way through the corridor of the building, dispatching of the common infected along the way, eventually remerging onto the main street where the subway station was directly ahead of them. "There's the station" Bill said quietly noticing there was a high number of commons all around the station including an alarmed car in their path, "don't shoot that car" Bill said giving a sour look at Francis, who looked back with a smug grin, they began to slowly walk towards the entrance to the subway station, infected immedietly noticed their presence screaming in fury as they charged at the non infected.

Gunfire rose up in response and in several bursts the infected were reduced to nothing, they then continued to walk towards the subway station entrance before Louis cried out as a common jumped onto his back, he fell backwards smashing the common into the car and stamping on its head killing it, they then all looked in horror as the alarm began to Blair out as many angry screams and shouts began to occur all around them. "Not again!" Zoey said looking in terror as shadows began to emerge from the dark corners all around them infected smashing through windows as they charged towards them, "GO, GO, GO" Francis shouted blasting 2 commons before taking off into the subway station. The rest of them quickly followed glancing around to occasionally shoot at the more ambitious members of the horde, luckily at the bottom of the stairs was a safe house which they all charged into, Francis then reached into the bag onto his back and lit a Molotov, "burn assholes!" he shouted tossing the bottle which shattered on impact with the ground. The fire spread rapidly and the mindless infected wailed in agony as the ones caught in the fire were brunt to a crisp their skin turning pitch black as their lights were snuffed out permanently, Louis slammed the safe room door shut soon after that and all of them collapsed to the floor breathing heavily and looking worriedly at one another, "well at least we are safe for now" Louis said trying to remain positive as the car alarm could still be heard from above as well as angry screaming and shouting...

End Chapter

Author's notes: So here we go the story of the first game sticking as close to the cannon stuff as possible, once again thank you all for reading and I will see you all in the next one goodbye.