Episode 8: "Peace or War"
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"What do you want?" Sam asked
The Brunette smiled, "First allow me to introduce myself" She said "I'm Alex Brooks"
Sam nodded, "I'm Sam sharp and this is Carol Pingry" Sam told her
"Well nice to meet you both. Now we've come for your surrender" Alex told them
"Why would we surrender and what for?" Carol hissed
"We know you have weapons, food, and shelter. We want it" Alex said
"Why should we share it with you?" Sam asked "You shot off fireworks, attracting almost every Rotter in a hundred miles"
"We know, but we have more people up in the mountains, some of us are up the streets blocking certain roads and making sure they get here," Alex said "We can stop them from coming here if you agree to leave," Alex said
"not happening" Sam replied
Alex smiled, "we were kinda hoping you say that," Alex said
Suddenly Alex pulled out a knife and lunged at Sam, but sam twisted the knife back and stabbed her in the chest. The two other girls with her raised their pistols but Carol was faster in the draw ant shot the two down, the other teen's behind them raised their pistols and bows and fired at the two girls. Sam and Carol ran across the front to the school's sign.
Everyone that was in the school and by the windows, began to fire off their guns. Both sides had bullets firing at them, Some were still trying to kill both Sam and Carol. Carol moved to one side of the sign and fired at the teens and she managed to kill two of them, but some others spotted her and fired back and Carol quickly hid back behind the sign.
In the school, bullets entered the boarded-up windows and walls, Lincoln and the others shot back. Chandler got up and shot, but he missed and his target got up and shot back at him, hitting him in the shoulder, causing the boy to fall back and cry in pain, Lincoln saw this and yelled for someone to take Chandler to Nurse Patty, Mazzy picked him up and she helped him walk to Patty's room. Liam, from the roof, shot down on some of the targets he could see, he managed to kill three of them, he took a look around and saw that a large group of Rotters was turning down the road the lead to the school, he grabbed his radio and called down to Sam
"/Sam! Sam can you hear me!?\" Liam asked over the radio
Sam grabbed the Radio and responded back, "Liam what is it!?" She asked
"/Rotters, they just turn the corner! they're on their way here!\" Liam cried
Sam froze and looked to Carol, "cover us! we gotta run back! Rotters our heading here!" Sam yelled to her
Carol nodded and they both got to their feet and bent down to still avoid bullets, on the count of three they began to run to the school's doors. Carol turned and fired back at the group, she shot and managed to shoot some of their car's tires making it so some of them couldn't use them to escape. They managed to get in safely.
The Rotters were getting closer and finally, the sounds of gunfire were drowned out by the moans and growls of the undead. Now the Rotters were very close that they bit some of the teens at were attacking the school.
"Fuck this! we gotta get out of here! we'll just report to the scoutmaster what happened!" Cried one of the boys
The remaining teens who weren't being eaten got into the working cars and drove off in the opposite direction.
The Rotters walked to the school's door, but the others locked the doors and headed for the library as they were now in a state of emergency.
Everyone knew this wasn't over, not even by a long shot.
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Sam was in a room with Sully, Carol, Chaz, Patty, Maggie, and Lincoln. They were meeting on the current situation.
"Any Ideas?" Sam asked
Sully sighed, "I don't think we have any. I mean what are we supposed to do? Go after them? We don't know where or who they are"
"Wrong, we do know" Maggie interrupted "They were wearing Bluebell Sashes... We know who the bluebells are... we know where they are... so we can strike back if we want" Maggie replied
"She's right," Carol said "we can't just wait for them to attack us again, we gotta strike back"
"Then what?" Lincoln asked
Carol turned to him, as did everyone else
"I know I've been here for a week... but is fighting really our best option?" Lincoln asked
"They attacked us Linc, they wanted us to leave the school, and since we didn't they fired at us" Chaz told him "We can't let something like this go"
"I understand that... But there has to be a better way, one that doesn't involve death on both sides!" Lincoln cried "If we fight them how many of us are gonna die!?"
"Lincoln has a point," Said nurse Patty "if we try and fight them how many of you will I have to save or how many of you will the remaining few have to bury?" Patty asked them
They all looked at each other. Lincoln had a point, everyone knew it, but the question was to risk their own lives to strike back or to meet them with some agreement. Patty already made up her mind, but the others? what did they want?
"So what should we do Sam?" Carol asked
Sam sighed, "before I give my answer what does everyone else want to do?" Sam asked them
"I'm with Linc, we could come to some agreement with the Bluebells" Chaz told her
"I already made up my mind" Patty replied
"I think we should try out this agreement plan," Sully said
"I don't think we should come to an agreement with them but... We'll give it a shot" Maggie replied "but if they don't agree to jackshit then I'm ready for war"
Sam then turned to Carol. Carol was Sam's right-hand woman and her words as well as what she thought affected them all as well. Carol was smart and knew how people worked.
Carol groaned, "I wanna fight, But I don't wanna risk the chance that we all die... So I'll go along with the agreement plan" Carol replied
Sam nodded and looked to Lincoln, "We're all in agreement" Sam said "We'll try to find some Bluebells and see if they wanna meet up and discuss an agreement
