Authors notes: So for me this is like a chance to start again fresh and so Left 4 Dead 2 as well as my other story is now also gone, but rest assured I will get to doing that again, I just want you all to understand I was not happy with my old work and thus want to start over and will see it through to the end, for now here is Chapter 2.

NO MERCY
Curing the Infection one bullet at a time

Chapter 2: A opportunity to escape

The four of them were sat around the rooftop feeling wet, cold and miserable as the rain now poured down on them strongly as the wind was also strong and sturdy, Bill sat on the edge of the rooftop overlooking the main street below as he could see the mass of infected that had been alerted by their choice to cross the street were now dispersing and thus when they eventually ended up down there it would hopefully be easier for them to manage, Zoey was currently working on patching Louis up after his attack by the Hunter had injured him, thankfully they quickly deduced his injuries were not severe as the creature didn't have long enough to deal fatal damage. Francis simply remained quite as he ensured his shotgun was still in fine working order as Zoey finished applying bandages to the wounds and sealed them up allowing him to put his shirt back on although now it had a few holes in it, thankfully they weren't too big and the shirt was still usable at the very least, "what do we do now Bill, we have been searching for evac's and places to hole up in for days, looks to me like the city is dead old man" Francis suddenly said gruffly as the old man simply shook his head still gazing out to the main street below.
Bill was about to respond to the gruff biker to everyone's utter surprise the helicopter Louis had run out into the main street after came flying past broadcasting a message that all of them could hear loud and clearly with good news as well, "to anyone who can hear this proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation, repeat proceed to Mercy Hospital for evacuation" the pilot was speaking as the chopper flew away from the area once again, Bill suddenly found himself looking up far into another part of the city at a large building in the distance with four search lights moving around its roof.

Bill realised from that moment they finally had a chance to escape, he had a route he could guide them through to the hospital and he was going to take the opportunity, "we can take the subway tunnels to the hospital, there is a red line station not far from here" he explained as the others stood up and joined him at the edge of the rooftop, "I hate subways" Francis grunted causing the other two members of the group to look at him in confusion and Bill to shake his head turning sharply to face the man, "don't be an ass Francis, there is a subway station just around the corner" he finished. He stood from his perch at the edge of the rooftop as he made his way to a door leading down into the building they were on the roof of, "let's get the hell out of this city" he said with a strong bold voice as he kicked open the door showing them the darkness of the apartments below that had long since lost power, "Francis your on point" he snapped to the burly biker of the group who simply grunted in response switching on his flashlight and began to descend the staircase as Bill followed along with Louis. Zoey looked nervously around the rooftop for a moment before sighing entering the dark stairwell with the rest of her team and quietly shutting the door carefully behind them, Francis reached the bottom his light illuminating a pitch black corridor with an open door leading into some one's kitchen, he swept his light through the corridor satisfied there was no immediate threats... although he would not let his guard down as he lead them through, the old wooden floorboards creaking with each step they took putting them all on edge.
Finding his way to another stairwell leading deeper into the apartments he looked down grunting as he began to carefully and slowly descend the staircase along with Bill as Louis suddenly grunted in pain holding his chest, "hold up Zoey..." he whispered behind him moving into a dark room and looking for a bathroom, finding one he entered opening a medicine cabinet and pulling out a set of pain pills, "grabbing pills" he said downing half the bottle as Zoey stood behind him and stifled a giggle, she turned moving back towards the corridor when her blood ran cold... a tall dark figure stood blocking her way. It's eyes were hollow and pale grey, "Oh shit!" she yelled as he lunged forward knocking her to the ground and screaming in fury before a burst of rifle fire behind it blew it's head clean off, Bill standing there with the tip of his gun smoking as he pulled the girl to her feet with one hand, "come on you two, stop falling behind... we need to get out of this building fast, too dark to search for supplies!" he hissed as a shotgun blast on the floor bellow could be heard, Louis held his hands up apologetically as he and Zoey followed the old man to the stairs and down them closing each door behind them as they nervously follow him to the biker with 3 bodies laying on the ground in front of him.

Francis continued to lead them forward through the darkness, going through a hole in the wall which lead through some person's kitchen as an infected woman lunged at him from the darkness before he smacked her against the wall with the butt of his rifle, he then blow her head off and continued walking with a grunt as the remains of her head slid down the wall as her blood had splattered all over the walls, it was a messy job fighting back against the horde... but ultimately they all had to accept this was necessary for their very survival. Francis lead them out to a living room with a large hole in the wall which seemed to lead down to the bottom floor, "anyone else hear that?" Louis suddenly said as he could hear a rather haunting sound from close by, "what the hell is that, sounds big and fat and ugly" Francis remarked jumping down the hole as groaning could be heard somewhere nearby, "watch yourself now" Bill said quietly as Francis walked through another living room and out into another corridor as the groaning continued, the rest of the group jumped down to join him as he approached a door in the corridor with a sign next to it saying reception. He put his hand up as he placed his hand on the door knob, and quietly with his hand on his shotgun tense opened the door slowly and pushed it open, "holy Jesus..." he said quietly as on the other side in the reception room was a large bloated figure facing away from him, they all watched it in alarm as it simply stood there groaning at whatever it was that had caught it's attention, "ain't seen whatever that is before..." Louis said quietly as it continued to face away from them. Suddenly an infected man emerged behind them, Zoey yelled in alarm and fired blasting a hole in its skull as it collapsed to the floor never to move again, however to their alarm the bloated figure had been disturbed by the noise and sharply turned around revealing a fat male infected with boils on his arms and face, "shit!" Francis yelled blasting his shotgun at the infected which then violently exploded in front of them showering blood mist and green liquid all around the room as it's lower body collapsed to the floor.
"Shit that green stuff looks and smells like the shit Bill found back in that alleyway across the street!" Louis suddenly said as angry screaming and shouting could be heard all around them as suddenly the windows in the reception room to their right were smashed in as a large group of infected swarmed the area where the creature died, the group raised their weapons in alarm but were baffled by the infected kicking and clawing each other madly scratching at the green mist rising from the green liquid on the infected body on the ground, "guess it's like cat nip for these fuckers, we will have to be careful about shooting those fat bastards at close range" Bill remarked as he and Francis quickly dealt with the distracted horde. The reception room was now littered with a pile of bloody corpses as the green mist evaporated completely leaving the area of the large infected body, "we can get back to the Alley way through here" Francis said pushing outside and cursing as the rain was still coming down quite heavy now, "once we get back out onto the main street there is a subway station just around the corner" Bill said as he and Francis led the way down the alley Louis turning back to the collapsed stairwell they had climbed a short while earlier, "hey Zoey wanna go try and get your pistol back?" Louis said laughing as Zoey shook her head moving off to follow Bill and Francis...

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They emerged out onto the main street Bill in the front looking around warily, the street was blocked to their left by a chain link fence, the government had tried to divide up the streets to slow the infected... it didn't work, he looked right seeing a flaming tanker crashed into the wall on a street to the right leading somewhere he couldn't quite see from their current angle, motioning with a hand for them to move up he spotted a building to their immediate right with a door in it, "Zoey let's check in here, Francis and Louis push through to that street the subway station is round there" he said as pushed open the door gunning down two mindless infected behind it as he and Zoey went inside. As the other two pushed into the street seeing quite a few infected up in front of the subway station Bill had been talking about, Zoey and Bill entered three different rooms, finding another set of pills and in the room furthest to the right a body wearing military fatigues in the floor in it's own blood, Bill bowed solemnly as he grabbed a pipe bomb a combat knife which he sheathed in his holster and another M1911 handgun which he handed to Zoey who also looked sad, they both then left through a smashed in window and were back out on the main street where Francis and Louis were further ahead blasting the infected around the station.
Bill and Zoey joined them as they stood next to a red car in the middle of the street, they quietly conversed about their next move when suddenly a loud horrific scream pierced their eardrums as a long rubbery appendage wrapped around Zoey's waist and pulled her up against the red car, Francis cursed blasting the smoker off the roof of the entrance to the subway which exploded and collapsed onto the red car... Zoey jumped a mile into the air as the alarm began to go off continuously followed by angry screaming and shouting as they all looked around them in alarm. "Not again!" she cursed as dark figures began to emerge from all around them, breaking through windows and doors and charging out onto the main street where the four of them were frozen in horror, "haul ass!" Bill suddenly said as they took off down the stairs into the subway station, Francis firing over his shoulder as he lit the team's last Molotov ready to cut off the horde, as they ran through the room at the bottom they noticed a safe room at the far end of the room, "safe room dead ahead get the lead out people!" Bill yelled as Francis tossed the Molotov back at the stairs, the infected were engulfed in flames as Francis charged into the safe room, Bill slamming the door shut.

Once they were all inside the saferoom and the door was barred shut by a cabinet they put in front of it the four of them collapsed to the floor taking in deep breathes as they were simply thankful they had managed to get inside the subway station before the horde had surrounded them, after a few minutes of breathing heavily Bill slowly got too his feet, and found himself walking over to a table in the safe room looking out of the next door that appeared to give them access to the subway station they had been trying to get to, Bill remained quite before Francis suddenly spoke up irritating him all over again. "Listen old man, I don't mean to be the barer of bad news, but we are running out of supplies fast, I just had to use our last Molotov, Zoey only has pistols we barely have any food/water left, what makes you think we will survive long enough to get to the hospital?" he said as Bill scowled at the comment, "there will be places along the way we can stop and check for supplies, and as long as we keep together and keep moving we can reach the Hospital by tonight and be on that chopper by the time the sun starts to come up" he replied gruffly as Francis simply shrugged. "Bill is right, if we get into the subway tunnels up ahead we should have a direct route to Mercy Hospital and then the only thing we need to do is get up to the roof and get on the chopper and then we are home free baby" Louis said trying to raise the morale of the team with minimal success, "your an optimist I'll give you that Louis" Zoey said quietly as Bill suddenly turned back to face them. "We'll we've been immune so far but if I start to turn promise you will shoot me?" he said, "what if just your beard starts to turn can I shoot that?" Francis said causing small laughs from Zoey and Louis, "you know who's gonna survive this mess Francis, it ain't the fella making jokes" Bill said gruffly as he opened the next safe room door, "alright let's go" he said as he walked out into the darkness beyond the safety of the safe room followed by Louis and Francis, Zoey took one last look around the safe room before sighing and shaking her head looking downcast at messages written on the wall, somehow she didn't think this journey was going to be as easy as Bill was making it sound.

NONE OF YOU WILL SURVIVE

End Chapter

Authors notes: Here we are people the official start of No Mercy after my adaptation of that wonderful intro, sorry this took a little longer then i originally expected and i hope to be able to give you chapter 3 very soon after this, thank you all for reading and I will see you all in the next one.

Have a great day.