Chapter 21

Tatiana: You finally get it

Natalie was in the backseat dreaming about something crazy. I knew this because her face was twitching and her legs were kicking the back of my seat. We were along the highway. It was dark and there were no zombies around so it seemed safe. We had barely ditched the city and were now on our way to the Falls. How did we know where to go, well, let me explain:

It was 7:00 A.M. And Natalie and I had parked the truck in an old garage to sleep. When we woke up we saw all the dead bodies of what appeared to be, gang members? There were destroyed trucks and fire everywhere. I didn't know how we could both sleep like that, but we did.

We scavenged around the outside areas to find some food. In the pockets of the leaders were chips, sticks of gum, and weird assortments of energy drinks. We took all we found and dined on it in the truck. We also found some blankets. It took us a while to actually learn how to drive because it seemed that the adrenaline made us able to drive before.

After a brief moment of horrible driving we decided we needed to know where this "Realvo Falls" was. Luckily, in the truck, we also found a pamphlet for the Falls; however, it only had information about the actual site and tourist info. But not directions.

Looking more closely to the back of the pamphlet I saw a brand name. It said, "Bernie's printing office". It also had an address, so I told Natalie:

"Nat."

"Wassap". She was still chugging two energy drinks in both hands.

"Can you calm down on the soda and look over here." I showed her the name.

"So… still no directions to the Falls, huh?"

"No, no. This means we could go to that address and find more information of the Falls. It's the only option we have."

"Look, I'm not in the mood to go hunting for something that might not be there, plus, I'm still trying to process why there are several dead people outside with gunshot wounds. Do you think…?"

"No time Natalie. Buckle up because we're going whether you like it or not"

"Oh boy."

Because of the constant driving practice I became a real pro a driving. Well, sometimes. I drove to the address running into a fire hydrant in the front of the building. No zombies. I grabbed the pamphlet and looked inside the building. It was a mess of loose papers and broken computers and printers; I couldn't see any working computers. I gave a loud sigh because the hope had now diminished.

Just then Natalie ran to a computer, on, that had a blue screen that said error. This computer was huge. It said, Error: 556934562421 need more power to operate. The rest was just ones and zeros.

"You still remember where the power plant is?" I gave with a devilish smile.

She nodded wielding the same devilish smile.

We hopped into the car and started the drive to the power planet, once there we would turn it on, go on the computer, find The Falls, and live happily ever after… Well, something like that I guess.

45 minutes later we were there. It wasn't very hard to find because the city pretty much had giant flashing signs saying, "HERE'S THE POWERPLANT! NOW GET THE HECK INSIDE". We gave each other a good luck hug and walked inside.

To be honest I expected it to all be run by like one computer and at a click of a button, but that wasn't the case. It was a mess of large tubes and grated walkways. The room we were currently in was very large and lead to 6 hallways on the ground floor and ladders to the second, third, and fourth floors.

There was a tablet like thing hung on the wall beside us poorly. It was written in pen and the stone slab acted like a hanging clipboard. It had a list of the rooms, which weren't very many.

It was almost impossible to decipher the hand writing so I just went with my gut and went to the middle hall on the right. It was painted poorly and the walls were the color of mucous. Gross. I gripped my machete tightly and walked down the halls equally careful. Natalie was doing the same. Just then we heard an elevator ding. Zombies came pouring in. We dashed for the nearest hallway as quickly as possible. They were too fast. Just then I heard a scream and Natalie was on the floor

To be continued…