When the survivors finally regained consciousness, they found themselves coughing up sand and their car was on its side and half buried. The sky was dark and it was snowing. It wasn't all snow though, it was mainly ash.
"Damn…" Wolf said, "Did anybody get the license plate of that nuke that hit us?"
"Very funny." Francis growled.
The survivors got their car upright again and began driving. They went along the path they took on the way to Doomsday Mountain, seeing how much it has changed. Not much changed until they reached areas near the Mississippi River. There was nothing left. Charred bodies littered the streets and all of the bridges were out. The arch was gone, and there was not a single infected to be seen.
They traveled east until they reached the coastline. The beach was littered with bodies and graves, some of them were big enough to hold hundreds of people. For the first time in what seems like forever, the survivors stopped, put down their weapons, and just sat down and took it all in. There was no longer anywhere on earth that was safe. Soon, those who survived this disaster will be hunted down by the remaining infected and killed. Then the infected will die off, and the world will be empty. All of these thoughts started to go into Zoey's mind, along with two others. The death of both her parents at the beginning of all of this, and that the people responsible for this were sitting right next to her.
"This is all your fault!" she screamed, lunging at Hoxton and punching him in the face, "Because you wanted just a bit more cash on the mountain of stolen loot you had you made it so billions of people including my parents had to die!"
"Ow!" Hoxton yelled, "Look, we didn't know what was going to happen until it happened. Okay?"
"No! It is not okay!" Zoey screeched, "You need to pay for what you did!"
Then many things happened at once. Zoey grabbed her gun and aimed at Hoxton. Bill tackled her causing her aim to go off to the side. The Payday Crew grabbed their weapons and prepared for a shootout. Zoey pulled the trigger. The bullet went zooming past Hoxton and hit Chains right in the chest.
The Payday Crew looked at Chains as the bullet wound to his chest that was right where his heart was caused near instant death. Then they turned back on the Bill, Zoey, Louis, and Francis.
"Look bitch." Dallas growled, "Just cause you are the last girl on earth, doesn't make you important enough to not kill."
It was a standoff for several minutes before all seven of them saw a lot of movement coming from all of the beach motels and other buildings. It was infected, hundreds of them, if not thousands. They all looked very hungry.