The Last Chance
By: SyphousX
Edited By:A.E.
Day 1
The Bomb
"I remember like it was yesterday. The date was 7/5/21, my birthday, I was home on my laptop doing school work, aka math; super easy. Anyway it was just after 8 pm. I got done with school, shut my laptop, my mom came through the door, gave me a hug and told me that we need to go. You see back then, in my family it was a thing we did, whoever's b-day it was they got to pick where we go out to eat…" I was caught off by the bell.
"Ok, I suppose we should all go to bed now, I will tell you more when we go to lunch tomorrow." I said, smiling.
The kids stood up, and raced each other to their bed's. It was early spring. The flowers were blooming and the grass with all the plant life was turning green. As I looked in the sky I remembered more and more, the war, the bomb, the death, my family, friends, everything. A tear comes down my face and hits the ground. The night was so quiet you could hear the tear splash on the ground.
"Hey John! You ok man?" Said a very familiar voice.
"Ya, I'm good. Lopez do you remember?" I said.
"Haha. Yes I do. I remember meeting Dan and Star, that was crazy."
"Ya, that was crazy. I miss the old world." I said.
"Me too."
The next morning the farmers are out gathering food. The kids are going to school. All is great until A soldier comes up to Lopez and I.
"We have found a Refuge." Said Sam
"Where?" I said
"South of here."
"Ok, we will see what we can find."
Lopez and I start walking to the stables…
"Wait, there might be people there."
"How many? Are they bandits?"
"Don't know, don't know. So you will be going in blind."
"Ok, well I think it is time for us to take a risk." I said
"Come back please." Sam said
"We will." I said
"Will we?" Asked Lopez.
"I don't know." I said.
Three hours later, Lopez and I found the place. We hopped off the horses and began the search. Lopez chose a good old M16, I chose my favorite, the M1 Grand. Guns in hand we went to the first building, opened the door and stepped inside. Closing the door behind us I began to look for a trip weir. I did not see one but that doesn't mean that there is not one there. We stop moving and listen for breathing, nothing. I move my hand to the left, in a swiping motion to tell Lopez to go look up stairs. He nods and heads up. I walk to the first door I see, it's numbered 234. I open the door slowly, looking for a trap, nothing. I step inside. I took a look around the small room, two windows one to the right and one straight ahead from where I was standing. There is a small blue desk with piles of paper on it, A chair that has some sort of red substance on it. Blood I tough, in the corner of my eye I saw a file with big red words that say: Top Secret
I picked it up, open it. After reading it for a sec I put it into my backpack. All of a sudden I hear a loud bang and yelling from upstairs. I bolt out the door, run up the stairs almost falling down them, turn into the first room and see Lopez on the ground with a paint can stuck to his shoe and there are paint cans all over the place.
"What happened here? Are you ok?" I ask
"I am fine, I stepped in a paint can and saw a cat run by. That is when I lost my balance and fell kicking all of the paint down. I am lucky that I did not get any on me."
" Well I think that was not luck, the paint looks dry."
"Ok, but can you help me up and get this can off of me, please?"
"I don't know, can I?"
"Just help me up."
"Ok."
I bent over and grabbed him by the arm and he did the same. We counted one.. Two.. three he pushed and I pulled him up. Back on track we looked in the rest of the rooms; nothing was in them but a bunch of boxes. We moved on and the next five buildings were all empty. When they walked up to a cement wall with an unmanned gate.
"I think that we might have been looking in the wrong place."Lopez said
"No, I think this is it. Now all that is left is to find a way in." As I said that Lopez found a way that we could get in.
"Found one!" Shouted Lopez.
"Ok I'll be on my way!" I shouted back.
As I got closer to the way in I heard a noise coming closer and closer. Lopez put his arm down for me to grab. I grabbed his hand and he pulled me up. The noise was still getting louder as it came closer.
"What do you think that is?" I said in a whisper
"I don't Know" Lopez said whispering back
"We should hide."
"Good idea."
We both lied down to watch and see what the noise was. The noise was now at least two blocks away. As we watch I begin to wonder if it is bandits. Out of the blue, three military transports, two armored cars, one tank, came in a convoy and smashed the gate open. As we watch the men get out of the trucks I spot the captain. I pull out my binoculars to get a closer look. He was German I could tell that by the arm band on his right forearm. They were all part of a speck ops Nazi team. Lopez raised his gun, almost pulling the trigger. I pulled him back.
"What are you doing!?" I ask in a soft voice
"We need to kill them."
"Ya, I know but there is a tank you kill one it shoots and kills us!"
"Ok, fine, so what do we do?" After a brief moment I thought of something that might work.
"I have a plan, we need to get the troops away from the tank."
"And how do we do that?"
"I don't know but I will think of something."
The convoy moves in. The captain nods at one of the soldiers, All of the troops go to the right while that tank and armored cars go to the left.
"Well that worked out better than I thought. Ok now we take out the soldiers. One by One and hope that we don't get caught."
We Jumped down, making a quiet thump as we landed on the ground. I signal Lopez to go take out the ones on the right while I take out the ones on the left. I hid behind a big cargo box waiting for my first victim. As one lonely soldier walks up to the box looking around. I stand up fast and grab him by the head covering his mouth pulling him down and knifing him right in the neck. Blood was all over the ground but I must keep going before someone spots the body. I poke my head around the corner looking for a different hiding spot, I see one but it is not close at all. I ran for it hoping that they wouldn't see me, I got there. No one saw me, now I wait. After what seems like forever I hear two soldiers talking. The only word I could make out was the name 'Fritz'. He came closer and closer, When he had seen me it was too late, another kill. I pulled the body out of the way. Still at my spot I waited for the next one. Sure enough one by one they came and died. One left to go but the pile of body's was seen. Thinking fast I ran out of there because I knew the tank and the armored cars were on their way. Running I saw Lopez in the corner of my eye, I yelled at him. "The tank is coming!" and he too was now in full-on sprint mode. We found a spot to hide hoping the tank nor the cars would see us.
"Ok now what?" Asked Lopez in a worried tone.
" I don't know we did not bring anything to help in this situation." I said
"Hmmm… I have an idea. We need a big boom right? So if we shoot the gas on the cars that might make a big boom." I said.
"That could work but how are we going to shoot through the armor?" Asked Lopez
"That would be hard, but we are lucky. I got a good look at the cars. The gas is on the outside of the car and not armored."
"I hope this works."
The tank and the car move closer and closer. We had the high ground on them. When they got in range Lopez and I opened fire. The bullets punched right through the gas. No explosion.
"Well we are fu….." Said Lopez before the gas turned to flames and in an instant all of the cars and tank went flying in all directions. Luckily we were not hit by one of the pieces of shrapnel
"What did I tell you?" I said
"Ya ya ya, thanks for saving us, now let's go." Lopez said being sarcastic.
After looking through the wreckage Lopez and I went back to base camp. It was getting late, so we decided to search the rest of the place tomorrow. When we got back the crowd was waiting for the story. I walked over after eating my dinner, sat down and looked at everyone. There were more people from what I could tell. I started right where I left off.
"Ok now for some more of the story. I chose to go to Apple-bee's, we drove there, went in and were seated. When we got our food we ate it or at least began to. I was halfway through my pasta when someone in a black and red jacket, black pants, black everything. I could not see his face nor hands. He held up a big black box with a red button on top. He yelled something. I told my family that it might be a good idea to hide under the table. So we did and some other tables did the same. When he stopped yelling right when the chef and everyone from the kitchen came out he hit the button. All I could see was a big red flash with peace's of the building flying everywhere. One piece of wood almost slammed into my hand but I moved my hand just in time. I closed my eyes after we hid all I could hear where the screams of the people who were burning, sirens were all around. Before I knew it I was in the back of my mom's car with my brother and sister. I asked my mom what happened and after a few minutes she said "I will tell you tomorrow it's getting late."
Day 2
The Missing
"The next day there was no school and my mom was out of work. My siblings were playing outside like nothing ever happened. My mom and I sat down on the couch and she told me what had happened the past night. All I can remember is she told me about the bodies and since we were not injured we were sent home. Ok that is what I can remember about the bomb. Now we all should get some rest y'all got school in the morning."
The kids went to their home and went to bed. The next morning when I got out of my house I saw Lopez getting ready for something, I wanted to know what. Lopez does not go out anywhere without at least one other person but this time he is alone. I started to walk up to him when Sam came up to me.
"What did you find yesterday?" Asked Sam.
"We wiped out a big force of Nazi's" I answered him.
"Oh ok. Well Lopez is going back to that place to look for anything else."
"Ok." I said as I walked over to Lopez.
"You're going to take the rest of the mission?" I asked Lopez.
"Yea, if you want you can come." Lopez answered.
"No, I am good. I think it is about time you do a mission on your own. Just one thing."
"What?"
"Don't get killed."
"Thanks. Ok time to go." Lopez and his horse named Shadow went off.
I walk to the radio tower to see if anyone is trying to contact us or if Ye Old Pub, one of the survivor camps, is going to trade with us again. I walk up the tower and I hear someone but it is so static to understand what that person is saying. I walked over and sat down turning the knobs to try to get the right signal finally after some time I got it, I said "This is Delta base , what is the situation?"
"Oh thank god! Hi this is Mary we don't have a base but we are a dig survivor group all ages between 12-18." Said Mary in a panicked voice.
"Hello Mary, my name is John. What is the noise behind you? Why do you sound like you're in trouble?" I asked
"We are in trouble, we started to make a base near the shore line. The Nazi's had other plans. They brought infected lots of them. We tried to sabatosh them and now we only have 6 people in the group. We need Back up!..." As the static comes in I hear screams and gunshots.
"Hello! I need to know where you are located! Hello!" I yell into the radio.
"We are in Virginia at …. beach…."
"Well that sucks, I am in Minnesota." I say to myself.
"I need to look at that top secret folder."
I walked down out of the Radio tower. Walked to my house and went in and looked down at the folder on the desk as soon as I walked in. Picked it up, closed the door, walked down the stairs to the basement, sat down in my office chair and rolled over to my desk, put the folder down and opened it. An emulator fell out or what I think is an emulator. I pick up the emulator and connect it to my computer. On the screen was a tad that needed a name and password. I looked at the folder flipping it over and over until I saw small letters that seemed to be what I needed. It was too small for me to read. Luckily I had a magnifying glass in my desk's drawer to the right of me. I reach over and open the drawer and look inside. As soon as I opened it the magnifying glass was right there. I picked it up and looked at the small text it read: Name-Joel Password-762358E
I put in the Name and password, it worked, I was in. There was a tab that opened and it was all black with a green outline, there were two green folders.
I clicked on the first folder labeled -The Infection- opened it up and there were bios on each of the different types of infection:
The walker- slow moving, likes to hit you if it can. You can't get infected by them, they can and will hurt you. They have four of the five senses- Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing. Note-I have seen them rip people apart before. They usually are not aggressive unless you get too close.
The runner- fast moving, Likes to hit. You can't get infected. If they swarm you, game over. They have four of the five senses- Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing. Note-shoot them at a long distance. They are aggressive and will try to kill you on sight.
Clicker- medium speed, Will bite. You will get infected and turn. You must be super quiet around them. They have two of the five senses- Hearing, Touch. Note-Again be quite no babies around them at all or you and your family will be dead. They will only go after you if they hear you. Throw something away from you then, kill it.
Stalker-fast movement, will rip and tear, sometimes bite. Super sneaky will kill when you are not paying attention. They have four of the five senses- Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing. Note- they may sound human but they are not, shoot immediately.
Blodar- DO NOT GO NEAR IT, IF YOU DO YOU WILL DIE!
The last thing you should know is that spores can and will turn armies of people. Must all ways bring a gas mask.
That is the last of what the folder had to offer. I finished reading it and exited it. I went over to the next folder marked- Care Centers USA, I opened it and only had five readable centers left and the rest were corrupted: Vergina MC, Omaha MC, Texas MC, Wyoming MC, California MC. MC meaning Medical Center. That is all that I could read.
The doorbell rang, I got up and walked over to the front door. Open it and Sam was there.
"John, I have some bad news."
"Let me guess it's about Lopez."
"Yes, he is in Vergina."
"Wait, how did he get there!?"
"Supposedly he found a pilot that flew him there."
"And?"
"They found lots of them. We need you to find him and bring him back."
"Ok, but how?"
"Take the helicopter."
"Ok, I will."
I shut the door and thought to myself; why did he do that? I ran to my room, went to my closet and grabbed my backpack and some survival equipment. I left my house, walked over to the helicopter and the pilot greeted me and we went off.
Day 3
The Journey
We landed at the nearest airport. I hopped out and to the left of me I spotted a metal wall. I walked toward the wall to find it, infected inside right as I opened the door. Good thing they did not hear or see me, I crouched down and walked very carefully to cover. I thought to myself I was just about to have my first encounter with the infected. I don't know what kind they are but I was about to kill them all or die. I grabbed my gun and made sure there were bullets. I got ready to try to shoot them all when a loud bang and gun shots came out of nowhere and now I was ready for the worst. I looked around the corner expecting the Nazi's to be there, I was wrong. I turned around and there was a clicker about a foot and a half away from me. I had no idea what to do so I froze. I waited until it was to close pulled out my knife and was just about to see if I could survive in the apocalypse with Nazi's and Infected when a person shot it in the head.
"Hey, you need to strike when you see it." Said a man
I stood up and put my knife away. "Ok, I'll keep that in mind." I said
"You look and sound familiar?'' Said the man
"Names John." I said
"J.. John, man it has been so long since I have seen you!" He said
"What? How do you know me?" I asked
"It's me Matthias, you don't remember I moved to Virginia about seven years ago."
"Wait it is you, man it has been a super long time since I have seen you."
"Let's get going before more arrive."
"Ok."
As we are walking to Matthias's camp, Matthias and I talk about the things that have happened over the years. After getting all caught up, we arrived. Matthias's camp was in between two buildings. We walked in, it was quiet too quiet.
"Usually there are kids running around. I don't like how quiet it is." Said Matthias
"Well that could be three things, one there all infected, two they were all killed by the Nazi's, or three they all left for some reason." I said
"Thanks for the encouragement John."
"What I am telling the truth." After I said that, all of us heard a clicker. Everyone pulls out their weapons. We start to walk slowly around. As we walk around all we see is blood, blood in the tenets, blood on the ground, blood everywhere. I spotted the clicker pointing my gun at it. Ready to pull the trigger Matthias comes running over and grabs my gun and points it at the ground.
"If you shoot, who knows how many of them will come after us." Said Matthias.
"Ok, I will not shoot." I said we walked over to the clicker and one of the people from the group ran at it, jumped on it and stabbed it right in the head. As we walk to the back of the camp there is a big building at the front. There are about forty infected trying to break down the door or break into the window. Matthias put his hand out to stop us all, so we pointed our guns at them. Matthias yelled "Fire!" all guns at the same time opened fire. In a matter of seconds all infected were dead. The people in the house came out thanking us for their safety. We all moved to their next safe house. We all sat down. I sat in a chair with books lying next to it. Everyone looked at me like they were waiting for me to say something. "So, John, do you know you're sitting in the story chair?" Said Matthias "Oh I am." I say "Ok, what story should I tell?" I ask if the room was silent then Matthias said "Tell a story about where you went to fight in the war."
"Ok, I went to Vietnam.