TYLER'S POV:
As soon as I saw the flare be launched into the air, I knew there was a problem. The red gleam shone in the air, and slowly fell back down to the ground just as the entire group arrived. I felt my heart jump into my throat when I saw the Revivalists standing there, armed to the teeth with rifles. In the middle was a man with a shaved head and scar across his eye, similar to mine. He proceeded to wave over a few Revivalists, and they proceeded to shove down a hand-tied Noah and Benji to their knees, both of whom were struggling against their bonds. Noticing this, the man at the front kicked Benji in the gut and kneed Noah's head, causing them to stop and writhe in pain.
"You fucking bastard, let them go!" Heath yelled as he raised his rifle. Jenny however, grabbed his rifle, causing him to glare at her. "Heath, if we shoot, there's no chance they'll get out alive!" Heath reluctantly lowered his rifle, and the man at the front smiled.
"Yes, listen to your friend, one of the few that has any sort of common sense." He said. "The hell do you want?" Heath yelled out, and the man grinned. "I want to first introduce myself as Seth, otherwise known as the Emperor, and this is the first time that anyone has seen my face." Seth began. "Second, I'm here to explain where you went wrong."
"Went wrong?" I asked. "Yes, went wrong, for everything that has happened you brought on yourself." I clenched my fists tight at this, and resisted the urge to shout at them. "What the fuck do you mean?" Cindy asked. "Well, here's the thing, I requested my congregation to never, ever attack the military base again after the debacle involving Iscariot Dean, we were willing to leave you people alone as long as you didn't attempt to intrude on our purpose." He paused. "Unfortunately, once the damnation arrived at your base, you believed that calling the military would solve all your problems, when in reality it would make things worse, which is why we prevented you from calling them."
I felt my knuckles turn pale due to the grip on my gun. "Well, all you had to do was leave us be, but that was apparently too hard to do, and you decided to request that I disable the radio block." Seth said. "Why'd you turn it off then?" Jenny asked. "False sense of security, and we were able to know everything you did, including finding out about the damnation." That made my blood run cold, as it made so much sense now. He turned it off because we wanted to escape, and he turned it off so he could listen to our plans and try to foil them.
"When I found out about the damnation, I sent a five person group to convince some people to give him to us." He looked over at Benji, and I realized what he was going to do. "He was the only one who went through, but not before killing one of your own." Noah glanced at Benji in horror, as Benji was breathing heavily and looking extremely guilty. "Why?" Noah asked. "I wanted to protect everyone, I was scared everyone was going to die, and if you guys found out, you'd kick me, Hiroto, and Aiko out, we wouldn't survive a day!" I saw Homer stomp off towards the infirmary with a pistol, but Aiko suddenly stepped in front of him. "Get out of the way Aiko, your friend deserves to lose something." Homer said. Aiko shook her head. "Does that make you better than Seth?" Homer paused, then stepped away, seeing Aiko's point.
"Oddly enough, Benji here did the smart thing and originally try to give him to us, but he chickened out, so he had to be punished, and that's how he got a crossbow bolt in him." Seth walked to Benji, kneeled down, and grabbed onto the wound Benji was shot, causing him to screech in pain. "Let him go!" Aiko yelled. Seth shook his head.
"Now, if that wasn't bad enough, after we gained the damnation to our salvation, you decided to infiltrate and stain our grounds with your presence, and destroy any chances of evolution of many members of my congregation, just for a group of heathens." He paused. "Fifteen members of my congregation you killed, fifteen." He said. "You robbed them of their chance for evolution, becoming the next form of life!"
"Next form of life my ass, they're in hell!" Terrance yelled out, but Seth ignored him. "So I had to get a little payback, and I decided to be generous by killing only eleven and nine dimes of your people." I was confused a bit by that last part, but judging by the look on Leon's face, I guessed it was Eve's unborn baby. "Now, you'd probably expect that we'd going to want to gun you down, but I'm also here to make a proposition."
Huh?
"My proposition, is that you join us in our cause, have deviants conform to our beliefs, make them believe in our mission, become prophets of God, and you all will stay safe until the end of time." Seth said. "What if we don't join?" Heath asked annoyed. Seth smiled. "Well, we will shoot all of you, make sure you turn, and either add you to the wall or the correction room." Seth replied. "The military, we'll shoot them down too, and we'll go in the chopper, and wipe out everyone on Willingdon."
Seth grinned madly at this. "Your choice?" Everyone paused for a moment, before Cindy spoke up. "Why do you really want us?" Cindy asked, causing Seth to grin. "Cindy, you may not realize this, but I don't answer questions like that. Those questions, bore me. I only give an answer, but I don't answer until I know for certain that you're ready. I'd much rather go straight to the nitty gritty and then, once we reach a certain place, I'm gonna tell you the answer that we both know you've wanted me to say."
"Then no deal." Cindy said. "No matter what we do, we're getting out." Seth chuckled again and shook his head. "I can prevent that." Cindy raised her brow. "How exactly?" Seth clasped his hands and kept his grin.
"First, we're gonna break your toes with a sledgehammer. Not too bad, but then, we're going to work our way upwards to the ankles, break them both on up to your shins and the shins is when you're really gonna wish you accepted our deal. But the real kicker, is the thighs; once we get past the thighs, you'll lose all feeling and by the time we get to your hips, you would have shit and pissed yourself all over and the only way you're gonna know, is by the smell of it. Then Fred here…" He patted a bald man's back. "...is going to come for you with a long fucking rod and he's gonna jam that long fucking rod up your ass, until it can't go any further and Fred here, goes deep." He smiled as Fred held a metal pipe in his hand and tapped it against the dirt.
"If you make it that far, there's still hope for you, cause that's when I'm gonna ask a question of my own, it will be my one and only question. If you answer, with the correct fucking answer…well then, I guess you'll be able to be a true Revivalist, and that's how we're gonna work you." Seth said. "Even if you gave me the right answer now, it won't do you any good because you have to do it the way God likes to do it and this is the only way that God likes to do it."
"So, now that I've explained it all to you…" He grinned madly. "We begin."
The first shot fired and shot through Gabe's neck, and numerous bullets began flying overhead after that. The fight was on.
STATS
Alive
Unknown
Dead
Undead
ALABAMA: Leon, Chloe, Will, Timothy, Matt, Jake, Mitch
TYLER'S GROUP: Tyler, Franklin, Marvin
DREW'S GROUP: Drew, Samuel, Fiona
THOMPSON'S GROUP: Roy, Derek, Josh, Yvonne, Abby, Erik, Thompson
ELI'S GROUP: Jenny, Eli, Chris
NICOLE'S GROUP: Nicole, Ray, Charlie
PENELOPE'S GROUP: Terrance, Harley, Garrison, Maria, Bernard, Pete, Penelope, Zoey, Brady, Michael, Lola, Ross, Thomas, Wendell, Todd, Ernie, Paul.
THE WOODS: Henry
HEATH'S GROUP: Heath, Beth, Jack, Bayley, Vanessa, Bill, Peter, Samson
THE BANDITS: Elroy, Dan, Tara, Kimmy, Reese, Kal, Ross, Amelia, Jorge, Oliver, Walt.
JOHN'S GROUP: Noah, John, Xander, Alice, James.
CONSTANTINE: Sal, Kaitlyn, Zack, Riley, Issac, Eve, Pierce, Curtis, Bryan, Jeff, Gavin, Frank, Brianna, Brittany, Janet, Jack, Tyson, Zeke, Alicia, Philip, Gwen, Dennis, Tony, Trent.
INVADERS: Fredrick, Sally, Harold, Miranda, Kathy, Robert, Steven, Joe, Verne, Andre, Brie, Jacob, Luther.
HOWE'S: Quinn, Gage, Paige, Lex, Garrett, Kirby, Haley, Ben.
CODY'S GROUP: Cody, Tyrone, Mitchell, Eugene.
BENJI'S GROUP: Benji, Aiko, Hiroto, Takeda, Rico, Logan, Kanna, Yuuto, Mika
THE MILITARY BASE: Cindy, Sasha, Homer, Sean, Chloe, Megan, Gabe, Bert, Ronald, Joshua, Nikki, Kent, Conrad, Harriett, Ryan, Wesley
THE REVIVALISTS: Seth, Fred, Darrius, Holly, Joel, Joan, Ed, Louis, Erick, Lila, Jeanette, Clyde, Steve, Mary, Alexa, Mike, Craig, Brent, Victoria, Cora, Tara, Gregory, Nick, Dan, Jason, Adriana, Jeanie, Darrel, Xavier, Horace, Carson, Sandra, Kayla, Antonio, Doug, Richard, Milo, Judy, Marcel, Earl, Dean, Shane, Bryon, Perry, Hunter, Mia, Keith, Al, Noel
WELLINGDON: Connor, Hanson