Chapter 71
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Sharon helped open the portal, allowing herself, Teri Bauer, Bianca Montgomery, Superman, and Liv Moore to come through. They saw a familiar face, Blane. Blane and Liv were enemies on their world, Blane was a gangster, killed a lot of innocent civilians. But when Seattle was locked down, Blane became a neccessary ally to save people, human and zombie.
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Liv: Why am I not suprised that you're in Hell?
Blane: Do you want me to do my Godfather impression. "How did things get this far? I don't know."
Liv: By your own actions.
Blane: Yeah. Just as well, I could never do justice to Brando. I do have a question about your world now, in particular...
Liv: It is none of your business how Peyton is doing. You belong here, if for no other reason than all the crap you put her through.
Blane: I was going to ask if you know if any of the Beatles made it there.
Liv: Oh. None that I saw.
Blane: Just as well, they probably made it upstairs. Met a few legends here though, so Hell isn't all bad.
Liv: Look, we're here to help rescue a few of our loved ones. I doubt you want to help.
Blane: Don't be so sure. How about this, you tell me who you're looking for, and I'll see what I can do. If I'm successful, and I can't promise anything, you owe me one.
Bianca; I'm willing to do it.
Teri: Me too.
Liv: I know I'm going to regret this, but yes.
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These people told Blane who they were looking for, and he immediately asked his subordinates to look. In the meantime he let them in his house.
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Liv: You seem to be doing fairly well here.
Blane: Dog eat dog, survival of the fittest, selling people the drugs they crave. It's not new to me.
Superman: Tell us about this mini-kingdom.
Blane: We are in the neutral zone, between two warlords. You've heard about the world with the asteroid, where everyone went a little nuts.
Bianca: We've heard of it.
Blane: Before the announcement, George and Mark were in a biker gang. Their town got desperate, turned to these bikers to protect them from bandits, during the world war. Mark went insane and declared himself a god, George was his high priest.
Teri: I've heard this story, wasn't he one of Zoey Allen's husbands?
Blane: Yes, she married three warlords to allow children to get to the Arks, Mark was one. He got people to take the "Mark of the beast" forced it upon punishment of death. Then he said they were now damned, only he could protect them from God.
Liv: Kind of like how you turned people into zombies, then made them pay you for the brains they needed.
Blane: Yes. Anyway, Zoey did take his mark, became his "queen." Before the end George murdered Mark, claimed to be the new god. People were desperate enough to worship him in the final days. I kind of envy that. Anyway, Mark is still understandably upset, he and George went to war. For now they have a truce, but they could easily start up again.
Liv: What do you do here?
Blane: Other than selling various drugs, I help people got food and medicine. Mainly so that I have friends who can protect me, if and when things go south again. As I see it, either way I come out on top. If your side wins this inevitable war, I get reincarnated until I earn Heaven. If Evil wins, I'll just keep doing this, fill my life with song and women. Frankly that sounds more fun than Antarctica.
