Haro654: That's right. And more threats will be coming.

ClearwingYuta: Thanks.

1jesus: Thanks. I'm make sure to get to "Become ONE" soon enough.

Guest: Okay. And I think that the Hyenas will fit well in the story.

LoamyCoffee: It's actually the LMB (Last Man Battalion.) PMC just means Private military company. But yes, they are a very high-level enemy that the group isn't ready to fight against.

Perseus12: Thanks, I was going to us "The Sun Ain't gonna Shine Anymore", but figured that it would be better to just go with the Walking Dead's theme.

ShadowUzumaki55: Thanks. It's nice to do those moments where Jack and Saeko are bonding. And yeah, he'll be staying with them for the story. And the LMB aren't rival agents, however, there's this other faction called the Hunters that do kill Division agents.

Guest (Dexter): Dual magazines.

Dracus6: I'll think about it.

Guest (Atom king): Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Yep, things are going to get very interesting with all the factions coming out of the woodworks.

The situation was getting worse as chaos reigned down on the city. On the bridge, the Dead were swarming towards the LMB like locusts. The sounds of car alarms and guns firing were heard all over the structure as the Dead moved towards it. The LMB was doing their best, but soon they'll be overrun by the corpses.

But the situation was just as bad in the neighborhoods of Tokonosu. Not only was there a dog barking nonstop at the Dead, but then there were gunshots that echoed in the night. Jack heard it and turned towards the sound of it. As Kohta looked in the direction of the gunshot, he ran into the room and grabbed the ACR. "That sounded like a shotgun," Kohta said, aimed his scope in the direction of it. Jack came back out and flipped the magnifier of the Hybrid Sight up and did the same thing.

They saw a man with the shotgun—an over and under double barreled shotgun—in the streets and blasting away at any and all zombies that were close to him with a grin on his face. Yelling at them like an idiot, before loading his gun. However, he fumbled putting the shells into the barrel. It dropped and when he tried to grab it, the Dead lunged and devoured him.

Jack watched it as it all went down and growled in anger, hearing the man's screams of agony. And it wasn't just that man. Looking through the scope of his assault rifle, he could see people being eaten and torn apart. At a food vendor, a man was getting bitten into and held in place by the Walkers. Another man was pounding on a door and begging to be let in, only for a small group of zombies to come and attack him.

It's all gone to hell.

[Play The Walking Dead's theme]

The intro of the story first starts with a quick view of the spot on the stairs that Takashi and Jack would meet at, before showing the gates of the school as they moved, but there's no one to move it.

We then switch to showing the hallways of the school. Bloodied and with the bodies of the students that didn't make it. But still no zombies. The scene is then cut to a dead person's watch, which was a Smart Watch as it glowed. Beside the watch was the name Jack Recker.

A boken is stabbed into a grass field, with the camera focused on it, and the background blurred out. Saeko Busujima is spelled on the wooden sword's blade. The camera then focuses on the background, showing that it was the city.

A gas station was then shown from afar with only the light shining it into view. Cutting quickly to a view of a bloodied handle baseball bat, the viewer sees the name Takashi Komuro next to it. Cutting quickly away from it, Rei Miyamoto is spelled next to her makeshift spear, that was leaning against the outside of the bus.

After a few shots of the city, we cut to a lone pistol on the ground with Kohta Hirano spelled next to it. The camera shifts and moves up to show that it was laying right in front of the gates of the Takagi house. With Saya Takagi appearing above it.

A lone medial bag with the name Shizuka Marikawa near it is seen in an empty room. A teddy bear is seen on the road with the names of Alice Maerasto and Zero near it.

As the intro was about to come to a close, it's finally shot was on a wall that had the symbol of the Division spray-painted on it. Then the words Cowboy Alchemist presents appeared on screen, before it cuts to black, and the title is shown.

"The Living Dead"

Act 5: Innocence among the Living Dead

Just then Takashi and Saeko came up the stairs. "What's all that noise," asked the dark-haired boy.

"Turn off the lights!" Jack order, looking over his shoulder at them with an angered look in his eyes.

"What? Why?"

"Just do it!" Saeko did what he said and turned off the lights. Then she and Takashi walked over to the balcony, with Takashi picking up the Benelli. When they walked onto the balcony, Jack faced the outside. They too could see and hear the unfortunate souls that were out on the streets running for their lives, only to be screaming as they died. "The situation's getting much worse."

"Then why aren't you doing anything?" Takashi asked with a glare. "You're a Division agent, right? It's it your duty to save people?"

Jack turned and looked at him with a similar glare. "You're right. I'm a Division agent! You think I like not being about to save them!?" This got Takashi to shut up and looked at him a little surprised. "We need to keep the lights off, because people will see it and come to us. Bringing the Dead with them!"

Saeko placed a hand on his should, getting him to stop and looked at her. Realizing that he was getting too loud, he took in a breath and released it. "I don't like the situation myself, but Jack's speaking the truth, Komuro," she said to Takashi when she turned to him. "Plus, the more people we take in, the more impossible it'll be to move as a group. We're not capable of saving all the live ones out there."

"I may be an agent, Takashi. but I'm only human, and I'm just one agent. I'll help those that can be saved," Jack said, before turning to face the streets, and looked at the roaming zombies. Saeko glanced at him as he glared at the Dead. "I can't save everyone, and I fucking hate it."

Saeko turned, giving Kohta a view of her backside and it made his nose almost explode with blood, as she walked into the house and went back downstairs. Takashi looked at the street with a deep frown. Then he turned and walked back into the house.

Jack sighed and grabbed the binoculars off the ground. He then looked out at the streets, while Kohta was pinching his nose to stop the bleeding. Then he saw something as he looked towards a house with their lights on.

A man and a little girl that couldn't have been no more than six or seven. They were likely father and daughter.

Armed with a wrench, the man had greying hair and wore a white dress shirt with brown pants with a tie and suspenders that crossed his body and looped around his shoulders, meeting with each other on his back.

The girl had shoulder-length pink hair with bangs reaching down from the side of her temples and stretching outwards, with a mole under her left eye, and wore a white headband on her head. Her attire consisted of a white jacket, a pink dress top and a light blue skirt, black socks and shoes.

The man pulled his daughter to a metal gate and entered into the garden of the house with the lights on. Being driven to the light and hoping that whoever was inside would let them in. After they entered, she seemed to ask something, and he stopped to close the gate, before crouching down and comforting her. He then walked up to the door and started banging on it.

Jack could see the silhouette of some people through the windows. But they didn't answer. Likely not wanting to let them inside. He was looking desperate, but all it got him was the lights turning off.

"OPEN THE DOOR!" The man yelled, being heard by Jack. He sounded really desperate and the agent could see it. "I SEWER TO GOD I'LL BREAK IT DOWN! GODDAMMIT, DO IT!"

The lights turned back on, and it looked like it worked for him. The door opened…

And a knife taped to a metal pole stabbed in him the heart.

The daughter looked at her father with wide eyes, as the knife was pulled out, and the father stumbled back. Dropping his wrench. The people in the house simply closed the door and turned off the lights. When the man stumbled back into the gate and accidentally opened them, he fell to the ground. The little girl ran and kneeled by his bleeding body.

Jack couldn't believe it. This man just wanted to save his daughter, and it got him killed. Leaving his daughter to cry and to basically die with him. On one hand, he wanted to murder the people inside the house, but on the other hand all he wanted to do was run down there and hug her, comfort her, and tell her everything was going to be okay.

"I WANNA BE WITH YOU, DADDY! I WAANA STAY WITH YOU FOREVER!" He could hear the girl yelling, and that was the final straw.

And there were Walkers coming right for her.

"Kohta."

The younger student pulled the charging handle of the SCAR back and let it go, then switched the safety off. "Rock and roll!" He exclaimed with a grin, before pulling the trigger. The DMR fired, hitting the zombie closest to the little girl. As it fell to the ground, the girl saw the zombies were coming at her, and ran away to one end of the garden wall. "That's what you deadbeats get for going after a little girl. If you want something to eat, then why don't you munch on some of these. Ready, aim, DINNER TIME!"

He fired a few more shots, killing more zombies with headshots.

Jack, who had walked into the room, walked back out with his gear on and weapons on. The Honey Badger was in his hands, and the ACR was on the left of his backpack. "Alright, I'll go get her, and you cover me," he told Kohta, pulling back the charging handle of his PDW.

Kohta looked at him and nodded. As he continued shooting at the Dead, Jack walked down the stairs. Takashi and Rei walked up to the stairs and approached the agent.

"What's going on," Rei asked.

"There's a little girl that needs our help," Jack said with a smile. "I'm going out there to rescue her."

"Then let us help you," said Takashi.

"I can't risk you guys coming with me."

"But—"

"Let him go." The three of them turned their heads to see Saeko standing at the door. Holding her boken and the M92 holster on her hip. "It's his duty as an agent, after all," she said with a smile.

Rei looked surprised that Saeko had agreed with Jack, as the Division agent walked down the stairs. "I'll be back. If something bad happens to me, then you're in charge, Takashi," he said, before turning towards the door and went towards it. "Wish me luck."

As he walked past Saeko, the purple-haired young woman smirked and said, "You not going to die, agent," she said, before twirling her boken around before posing with her back turned towards him, with a hand on her hip, and looked at him over her shoulder. "Don't worry about the others. I'll hold down the fort." Jack nodded with a smile and turned off the lights.

"Jack." Takashi threw him the keys to the motorbike. Jack caught it and looked at it. "Take the bike. It'll be quicker."

When the four of them walked outside, Jack walked over to where the bike was parked at and got onto it. Takashi set up a ramp for him to drive off of, as Saeko and Rei got ready to open the gates.

"When you're there, you'll have a lot of zombies coming at you," Saeko said to Jack. "The bike's noise will bring them right to you."

"Lucky for me I have my guns suppressed," Jack said, ready to ride.

"It's all set," said Takashi, after finishing the ramp. "You ready?" Jack nodded and started the engine. Reeving the bike and attracting the attention of the Dead.

Jack deployed the drone, and Saeko and Rei opened the gates. He drove forward with the drone following. Driving onto the ramp, he was airborne and flying into the streets.

Takashi and Rei looked at him with confidence in his abilities. Saeko watched him with admiration and confidence too. Up on the balcony, Kohta grinned. Inside, after having some really interesting dreams about the gun nerd when he started shooting, Saya woke up from the sounds of the motorcycle and put on her glasses. Shizuka was still asleep, even with all the shooting and engines.

Landing on the road, Jack turned and bike towards the house and the girl, before taking off at top speeds. He maneuvered past the Walkers, as his drone fired and killed any that were in his way. And then gunshots came from behind him, as Kohta shot down more of the Dead.

Back at the house, Saya came walking down the stairs with her hair down. "What the hell? What's with all the racket," she asked as she approached Takashi and the other high school girls.

"Something good happened," Rei said.

Saya raised an eyebrow. "Like what?"

"I realized we're still human beings after all.:"

"Shut up."

Kohta continued firing the SCAR-H at the zombies, helping the S.H.D. drone clear a way for Jack to get to the girl. When he ran out of ammo, the charging handle to the rear. He then pressed the mag release and the magazine fell out, before he inserted another one. Kohta hit the bolt release, making the SCAR's infamous charging handle more back forward.

Jack was getting near the girl, and when he arrived at the house, he turned the bike. Taking out multiple zombie with the vehicle, before riding into the garden and jumped off. As the bike hit the door, but didn't break it, as Jack landed on the ground. He looked towards the girl saw her sitting in a corner, hold her head and crying. The dog that was barking was there, standing in front of the girl and barking at the zombies near her.

Pulling out his Honey Badger, Jack quickly started shooting the zombies approaching her. With them all died, the dog bark at Jack and the girl looked up at him with wide, teary eyes.

"Ms. Shizuka! Come on, get up! Ms. Shizuka!" Saya yelled at the nurse as she walked back into the house.

Shizuka stirred and opened her eyes. Still groggy and obvious still asleep, the nurse looked at Saya as the towel that was covering her came off. Showing everything. "Is it time for breakfast?"

That just pissed off Saya, as indicated by the anime-style angry mark that flashed on her head. Growling, the pink-haired teenager came up to the blonde woman. "SNAP OUT IT!"

She grabbed Shizuka's cheeks roughly and started pulling them, which was painful for the nurse. "Stop it!" Shizuka begged.

The agent then turned towards the gate and saw more of the Dead coming in him. The drone fired at them, before returning to his backpack to recharge. So, Jack ran to the gate and shut them closed.

"There's one behind you!" The girl screamed.

Jack turned and saw the zombie coming at him. Drawing his tomahawk, Jack swung and cut into the zombie's head. Killing it and it fell to the floor. "Thank you," he said gratefully to the pink-haired child. As she waved her hands in front of her face, the dog barked.

The door to the house opened again, and Jack turned toward it. As the man that stabbed the father came out to do the same with him, the agent aimed at the man. Making him stop and look even more fear than he was, with tears in his eyes. "Please, don't kill me," he begged, as the people inside looked just as scared.

"Like you killed this man in cold blood!?" Jack demanded with a glare.

"I didn't want to hurt anyone! Just go!" The man went back inside the house and shut the door. Jack sighed and lowered the Honey Badger. They weren't worth the bullets.

As Jack got the situation under control, Kohta breathed a sigh of relief. Then he heard Saya behind him said, "Hirano!"

"Takagi?" Kohta turned to look at her.

That's when he saw Saya wearing the top that would be better off as a bra, as it tightly fitted her and really only covered her breast, and the pair of shorts that no self-respecting girl would ever wear. And then there was extremely busty Shizuka, who was still very naked. Saya's arm was blocking the view of the blonde's nipples and Shizuka's medical bag, as she held it, was blocking her crouch.

Kohta stared at Shizuka with white eyes and jaws hanging, looking at her in perverted shock. He strangely held the SCAR-H with the buttstock pressed up to his crouch. Throbbing up and down in mimic to his throbbing dick. "M-M-Ms. S-Shizuka," he managed to say. Then the nurse pulled up the bag, and showed him her pussy, and then Saya took her hand off the door frame, showing her nipples. Seeing the full body of the nurse resulted in Kohta's nose squirting out blood.

We're getting ready to get out of here!" Saya told him and walked into the room, tying her hair in her signature ponytails. "That's no way we can stay with all this goddamn noise. I want you to grab all the weapons and get ready to move. Got it!?"

Kohta snapped out of it and hugged the SCAR-H to his body. "Oh, okay!"

Afterwards, Saya walked out onto to Takashi, Rei, and Saeko with another large duffle bag filled with food. Saeko and Takashi were standing guard, with the purple-haired girl having her wooden sword and Takashi with his shotgun. "Miyamoto, Komuro," Saya said as she approached them. "Let Ms. Busujima handle it and give me a hand." Takashi then saw Shizuka walking out of the house, still with nothing but the duffle bag. His nose busted with blood a blushed, as Saya looked at the nurse with an exasperated look. "How about you look in that bag and find some clothes to put on."

Shizuka gasped and blushed, having finally noticed that she was naked. "No wonder I was feeling so cold!"

As she ran off somewhere to put something on, Takashi snapped out of it and said, "We'll have to prep the car to leave."

"And now is our chance to get it," said Saeko as she stood on top of the wall. "While the zombies are too distracted by Jack."

Saya leaned over the fence and look down the street towards where Jack had gone to. The horde was now much larger than it was before, and any attempts for him to get out of there was going to be impossible. "What's he going to do about that? Recker can't make it through that on the motorcycle."

"If so, then we'll no choice but to go get him," said Shizuka, walking over to the group while half way down with buttoning up a thin-fabric white shirt.

The teenagers stared at her.

Shizuka put her hands on her cheeks. "U-um, do you…think it's a bad idea? I mean I've got the car keys."

"No. Sounds like a plan," Takashi said, and Rei nodded.

Saya turned around and placed her hands on her hips. "He's right! Hell of a plan! We'll rescue Recker and then haul ass to the other side of the river! Let's do it!"

Back with Jack, he walked up to the little girl as she stood near her father's dead body. The dog was standing next to her with a sad look on its face. It was just a small puppy with a white coat and black ear flaps. He was wearing a red dog collar with a bone ornament that hangs at its front. The agent kneeled down on one knee and smiled gently at her. "Hi, what's your name? Are you okay," he asked, as she looked down nervously. Jack wanted to kick himself. Of course she wasn't okay. She just lost her father.

"A-Alice," the girl, now known as Alice, said.

"Alice? That's a lovely name. I'm Jack," said Jack with a wide smile.

But the girl continued to look sad, before looking down at her father. "Mr. Jack. That man…That's my daddy," she said in misery.

Jack stared at the man. He was a good father. He loved his daughter that he willing to risk everything for Alice. He didn't deserve to die like this. Jack decided that he should be honored. Standing up, the agent walked over to a clothes hanger and pulled off a blanket. After laying it on his body, he picked some flowers and placed them on the father's chest.

Alice and the pup watched as Jack prayed for the man to find peace in heaven. Afterwards, he walked to Alice and knelt. "Your father was a good man. I'm so sorry this has happened to him," he said. The girl started to cry and hugged Jack. Barring her face into his shirt and sobbing in saddest, as Jack hugged her comfortingly. "It's okay, sweetie. I've got you."

After packing up everything but the guns and the crossbow, Takashi, Rei, and Shizuka brought it all down to the gate. "We've got tons of stuff," said the nurse. "I wonder if it'll all fit.

"What if the Dead start attacking us while we're loading," asked Rei.

"We'll just have to do it very quietly like the bandits in RPGs," Saya said.

"Let's do it then," Saeko said and walked out of the gates with Takashi.

The two of them stopped a few feet in front of the Humvee and stood ready. Saeko with her sword and Takashi aiming his Benelli down the street. Rei and Saya grabbed some of the bags and walked to the back of the car. Shizuka took the keys and opened the left side of the car. But when she looked at the steering weapon and everything else used for driving, the ditsy nurse looked surprised. "What is this?! The steering wheels on the wrong side," she said as Rei and Saya opened the back and started loading.

After Alice stopped sobbing, Jack placed a hand on her head, and she looked up at him. "Listen, sweet, we'll need to be quiet. The noise will only bring more of the Dead."

"Can we get away from them," Alice asked.

Jack looked at the gate and saw the Dead reaching their arm through the bars and were trying to get to them. He pulled out the duel mag in his Honey Badger. In his hurry to get to Alice, he forgot to load his plate carrier with more mags. For both the PDW and the ACR. "I'm not going to be able to shoot my way out, but we'll try, honey," he said. It felt weird, like he was being a parent now.

"But can't we just go above all of them?" Alice asked with the puppy seeming to nod with her.

Jack sighed and groaned, "Trust me, I'd love nothing more than to…" he stopped for a moment and looked at the fence walls of the garden. The Walkers weren't going to be able to get up to that height, and if they played it safely, then they could get out of there was no problem. He took off his backpack and put his Honey Badger on it. Jack then pulled off the ACR and looked at the girl. "I've got an idea."

As Kohta watch his classmates pack the Humvee. "We load our stuff, rescue Jack and the girl, and get out of here," he said to himself with a skeptical look on his face. "I don't know, there too many of them, even for a Humvee."

He looked at the undead horde that were now gathered at the house the girl was at. It's grown much bigger than before. "Wish we had a tank or something."

A light flashed on his face from below. Kohta looked down and saw Saya moving a flashlight around in circles. Messaging him to come on down. He waved down at her and picked up a bag he was using for his SCAR-H magazines. "Maybe if Jack can somehow get to use. But, how?" Kohta looked at the house and saw something. He grinned and chuckled. "Very nice."

That thing was Jack standing on the walls that separated the houses and their gardens from the streets. He was wearing the backpack in front, on his chest, and in it he placed the puppy with its head sticking out of the it. Holding his ACR by the barrel and the stock and having taken off the optics has to not have them damaged, he had Alice piggybacking on his back, and sitting on the assault rifle.

Jack looked down at his feet nervously as he carefully took cautious steps forward on the wall. On both sides of the walls were the Living Dead. But it was going smoothly. "Okay, don't look down at the street. Just look at where you're walking and it'll all be fine," he said to himself. Then the puppy started to under his chin, tickling Jack with his wet tongue. "H-Hey! Cut it out!"

"Down." Alice the dog's head down, making it stop. Jack panted a little.

When he regained himself, he continued on. "Thanks. I'm surprised you're not scared."

"I am. How about you?"

"Me? I'm not scared of anything," he said, trying to act brave. But then he figured the best thing to do is to have a little fun. "Well, maybe mimes." It wasn't true. Jack hasn't even seen a mime in his life. But it did make Alice giggle.

The two of them continued on for about a minute, before Alice said something. Jack couldn't hear her.

"Did you say something," he asked.

"I've gotta pee."

"…You're kidding. Can you hold it?"

"Um. No."

"How about you just think of something else, like…playing or your favorite cartoon."

"No! I can't! I-I can't hold it anymore!" She said in a low voice as to no attract the Dead.

Jack sighed. "Okay then. Just go away and pee."

"Are you sure," Alice asked.

"Just…do it."

Hoping that he'd forgive her, Alice let it out. Jack could feel it all on his shirt and pants, and it wasn't really a pleasant feeling. Well, this wasn't how Jack ever though his life would turn out. The world is going through a zombie apocalypse in just one day, he's activated, becomes the leader of a group of people he hardly knew and were forced to fight together, finally was able to bond with his crush, saved Alice and now was stuck with dealing with her needing to go pee at the worst time.

But then the sound of a vehicle was heard in front of them, and Jack looked at what it was. When he and Alice saw it, they gasped, with the agent having a smile on his face. The puppy barked.

It was one of the strangest sights he's seen, but one he was happy to see.

Driving down the street was Rika's Humvee, driven by Shizuka. As Takashi, Rei, and Saya were inside the vehicle, Kohta was stinging his head out the top with the Super 90. But the sight to behold was Saeko standing over Kohta on the roof of the Humvee with her boken in her right hand, and her left hand on the back of her head. The wind flowing through her hair, making it wave, and through her apron which allowed her thongs to be shown. As Takashi was sitting in the back with Saya, Saya was leaning over Rei's passage seat to get a view of the front of the Humvee. As they traveled at top speeds, every bump in the road their boobs and asses jingle.

The Dead all turned their attention to them.

"Wow, there's so many."

"Doesn't matter. Don't stop!" Takashi said.

Saya grinned and pointed toward the horde. "Run 'em down!"

And that's what Shizuka did. Saeko bent down and held onto the Humvee as the vehicle started hitting the Walkers in front of her. Making them bounce off the windscreen and leaving their blood on the vehicle, and crushing any zombie that went down under its tires.

Shizuka turned the Humvee to the side and had it come to a screeching halt. Stopping next to the wall Jack was standing on and facing down a roadway that would get them out of there.

When it stopped, Saeko jumped off the car and took at a zombie, grunting with each hit, before taking out another one.

"Jack, hurry up!" Takashi called to him.

"This isn't exactly easy to do!"

Saya then popped out of the top of the Humvee. "Hirano, buy us some time," she said with a flick of her left ponytail.

"I'm on it!" Kohta said and aimed the shotgun at the zombies. When he fired, the shot could be heard all over the neighborhood as the pellets ripped through a lot of zombies, knocking many down. He then aimed at more and fired. Sending some down and making each spent shell eject out of the gun. "Got you!"

Saeko continued to hit the zombies each with a single to two hits to the head. Deciding to practice what Jack taught her, she pulled out the M92 and aimed it at a Walker's head. Shooting it dead in the head. For every zombie that was within striking range, she killed it with a swing of her boken, and killed those that were further away.

When she was done, she walked back to the Humvee. She jumped back onto the Humvee and looked to Jack with a smile. "This is the last ride to the other side of the river. Are you going to get in?"

"Are they your friends," Alice asked Jack.

Jack smiled at his group. "Yeah…really good friends." He then started running carefully and then jumped from the wall.

Landing safely onto the Humvee, Jack took Alice off his back. Kohta and Saya ducked back into the car, as Jack helped the little girl inside, before taking off his backpack and setting it and the puppy inside.

"Hit it," Saya said to Shizuka.

"Okay." Shizuka started the car and speeded down the road. As they were still on the roof, this sudden movement made Jack fall onto Saeko's boobs. It surprised Saeko, as the two of them fell down into the Humvee.

Jack groaned, but then felt something pressing against his face. He opened his eyes and gasped when he saw cleavage.

He was laying down on the flat area that was between the seats, and he had his arms around Saeko, as she was lying on top of him. Her hands were at the sides of his head, and his hands were on her back and butt.

The two of them stared at one another with wide, shock eyes, before blushes slowly formed on their faces. Takashi, Kohta, and Saya were looking at the two in surprise, while Rei had a mischievous look on her face. Jack quickly took his hands off her and held them up. "I-I-I so sorry! I didn't mean to…"

"It's okay," Saeko said, getting off of him and looking at him with a smile. "I know you didn't mean to."

"But he did enjoy it," Rei said with a smirk. While Jack did enjoy the moment, he wasn't going to milk it.

He turned his attention to Alice, who was getting the puppy out of the backpack. "You're going to be okay?" Alice smiled and nod. Jack sighed in relief. Just seeing her smile was enough for him. He's always been good with kids, even though he's rarely interacted with them. Maybe it was his harsh childhood, but all he wanted was to give kids like Alice happiness. But that was just a theory.

Takashi sniffed the air and smelt something that was likely Alice's pee on his shirt. "Dude, you smell like piss," he said, covering his nose.

Alice looked embarrassed, but Jack simply patted her on the head. "It's okay. I'll just go up top and change," he said, before taking a clean, long-sleeved tan shirt from his bag. "No looking." Jack got up and sat down on the sat on the roof.

The others respected his wishes and didn't look through the opening. First, Jack took off the plate carrier and laid it next to him. Then the own shirt with piss on it was dropped down.

Saeko saw it land next to her, and was curious about what he looked like underneath his shirt. She looked up and saw him putting on his new shirt.

Although she was only able to catch a glimpse, Saeko gasped lightly. As he rolled down his sleeves and put back on his fingerless gloves, she saw old scars. Scars that could only come from broken bones, cuts, and small burns. Saeko began to wonder why he had those scars. But then she remembered how Jack reacted to Shizuka on the bus. To him being mentioned.

"Watanabe, this is Recker," Jack said into his Smart Watch. "We're on the move and heading to the Base of Operations."

"Copy that, Recker. Were you able to rescue any more citizens?"

Jack sighed and looked down. Saeko quickly looked away before he could see her looking at him. "We were only able to save two. A girl and her dog," he said, staring at Alice and the puppy sleeping. "We were using Rika's house as a safe house, but the Dead quickly overran the place."

Watanabe sighed. "Understood. Just watch out for any more hostile forces and infected, and let me know what happens."

"What about the LMB? Are we to worry about them?"

"Right now, we don't have to man power to confront them. If those troopers attack you first, you're authorized to fire back at them."

"Understood. Out." Jack slipped back into the Humvee and sat down.

"So, we're still on our own," asked Takashi.

"For the time being," Jack said. He then let out a yawn, as exhaustion settled in. It's been more than fifteen hours since he's slept, and after fighting and doing much of the heavy lifting, he was starting to feel tired. "We should get some sleep. I'm done for one day."

"Damn right…" Takashi said from his seat next to Rei.

As he was about to close his eyes, Jack thought about everything that's happened as he sat next to Saeko. Somehow, they'd managed to make it out alive. Now they had to make it over the river and get the Base of Operations. Then find their families, and save what remains.

One day down. Many more, that may be their last, to go.

The Living Dead Will Continue…

Narrator: "On the next episode of Cowboy Alchemist's The Living Dead…"

Alice: "Roll, roll your boat gently down the stream."

Kohta: "The Dead!"

Jack: "THIS WAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!"

Narrator: "The Living Dead. Updates coming soon."

Saeko: "I'm here if you ever what to talk, you know."

Narrator: "Only on Fanfiction."

And that was the third Act of "The Living Dead" and we're back on the road again. But that'll have to wait for another time.

Other than Jack going out to save Alice, nothing else has really changed.

So, with that, I'll be going back to update "Heroes of Tomorrow."

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