The school bus rolls through the relatively clear highway lane, needlessly switching lanes to avoid any wreckage or dead mindlessly roaming that might slow down the journey to the groups destination and ultimately their best hope for survival. after exiting off the US 285 highway, while carefully maneuvering around cars, badly spewed about all over the road. the bus ultimately comes to a stop sixty feet away from a gigantic overturned semi truck, blocking the lanes forward. The colossal semi, dwarfs the bus immensely as Craig steps out aggressively kicking the front bumper of the bus in an attempt to alleviate his anger.
As Kevin strides out the front door, followed by the rest of the group seamlessly pilling out of the bus with most of them rubbing their eyes, waking up from much needed naps.
The group encircles Craig, mumbling small conversations to each other, Craig lets out a irritated laugh much to everyone's dismay and confused looks in their eyes.
"Is their any way through" Heidi comments as she crosses her arms together,she shivers a little as she tightens her hold on herself, even though its hotter then usual, for the midday weather in Colorado.
"sadly their isn't" Stan says as he steps through the circle, planting himself at Craig's side "We might be able to move it with the bus and with the help of some other cars pushing it as well". But for now" Stan's voice picking up "We need to scavenge some of these cars and see what we can find, we wont last long on what we got from the shed earlier".
The other survivors shows signs of agreement at Stan's words. except for Cartman as he mumbles something under his breath. they disband the circle and scout the highway roads, scavenging from cars and any other vehicles found on the road.
Kyle joins the two boys, who where previously surrounded by the main group, but now their standing alone.
"Stan your the only one with a rifle, that's actually got ammo, so it would be smart if you took watch on top of the bus" Kyle says enthusiastically."
"Very wise" Craig butts in with a smirk and a chuckle to go with it. He adjusts his beanie as he walks off toward Kenny, presumably to go scavenge cars.
Stan gives a final nod toward Kyle and turns facing the bus, with his rifle hanging by the sling on his back he slowly maneuvers up the bus placing his hands carefully along the sides as Kyle shouts "just climb like we did with that tree house we made for the girls" Stan lets out a snicker combined with a grunt as he pulls himself to the top. carefully pulling his rifle from the sling and walks back and forth slowly from the front to the back of the bus roof acting like a glorified sentry.
Kyle walks toward the side railing on the highway, he sits down on the railing, with the sun glaring down on him, Kyle hand up to shield his eyes from a car door reflecting into his eyes. he pulls out his pistol currently holstered in his back pocket, he inspects it eyeing the detail of the 9mm pistol with great care. he pulls out his pocket knife, carefully scraping four marks side by side then crosses out the four marks with the fifth one. He puts the pistol down by his side and glances at the other survivors. He sees Bebe,Lola, Red and Heidi all jumping up and down in excitement as the look through a vans back compartment. he looks closer squinting his eyes from the sun, seeing the girls going through a suit case, all four of them are pulling out shirts and other clothes from the case, placing the shirts and pants against themselves seeing if they fit, all of them smiling and giggling with excitement at their new find. Kyle looks farther to the other side of the highway and sees Craig and Kenny looking over a truck pulling out a few items, he cant notice anything too well from the suns powerful glare. Kyle begins too look towards the ground trying to stay out of the sun because of his ever growing migraine forming inside his head. Kyle blinks rapidly for a couple seconds as he notices a shadow covering him from the sun, he quickly looks and taking instant notice of Cartmans rotund figure standing in front of him with a look of resentment in his eyes.
"So do you think your the leader now or something!" Cartman exclaims with an annoyed tone. not caring for the idea that his shouting could attract the dead.
"Calm it fatass" Kyle stands up, causing Cartman to instantly back up as he squints with his black eye. "I'm really not in the mood to deal with this".
"Stupid Jew..." Cartman mumbles under his breath as he strides away heading towards the bus, to undoubtedly keep out of the Blazing sun.
Stan makes his final pass on the bus as he yells orders for Bebe to toss him the binoculars. not soon after with the binoculars in hand he skims past the overturned semi fixing his gaze on a white and orange moving truck. He shouts down to his companions below " I don't see any dead on the other side it looks relatively clear".
mixtures of voices are heard down below as the rest of the group circles around the bus again waiting for further news from Stan.
Stan briefly rubs the Binoculars with his coat sleeve then looks through them again looking directly toward the same moving truck, revealing what was not there a few moments ago. A massive horde of the undead mindlessly roaming towards the side of the overturned truck, whether they noticed Stan standing atop the bus or not remains to be seen.
"Shit..Shit..Shit" Stan exclaims trying to be as quiet as possible, a the rest of the survivors on the ground show confused or indifferent looks. he climbs down the back of the bus and breaks the horrible news.
"What are we gonna do now". Red asks as Kevin pulls her closely.
"There has to be some other way past this semi" Kenny says as Lola runs inside the bus and comes out moments later with a map of the surrounding areas.
Craig looks around nervously till he runs toward the hood of a nearby car motiong Lola to unfold the map down on the cars pristine red hood.
The group huddles around the car, except for David whos sitting near the edge of the road sitting cross legged with a demeaned expression on his face. the survivors all share glimpses of the map, inspecting it for other roads or exits they can get off of that can lead them towards the FEMA camp Wendy suggested.
"There!" Kevin shouts excitedly as he points towards another exit a few miles down from where they currently are now.
"We might have enough gas too make it too that exit" Craig says as he runs his finger down the maps lines. a few side conversations start up from the rest of the group.
"And if we don't" Clyde says, instantly quieting the crowd as they look towards Clyde whos Standing behind the group.
"There's nowhere else to go but that way" Kyle chimes in breaking the silence.
"Alright we need to hurry up and leave then" Stan says. most of the group shows accepting nods and smiles as they pack up what they've scavenged from the highway, and head back onto the bus.
The bus makes a quick U-turn and drives off towards the last exit.
After about twenty minuets the bus reaches the exit, all the while the survivors opened up some cans of food to eat boosting everybody's confidence spirits, even Cartmans as he ate a whole can by himself.
The bus took the exit off the main highway. Wendy with her head against the window looked up taking notice of a junk sign dug into the ground next to the exit reading
"COME TO PARADISE YOUR ALMOST THERE" The sign looked crudely made with a piece of Cardboard naild to the bottom with a also crudely drawn map with arrows leading to a town in the middle of the map called "SPRINGFIELD".
"Did you see that sign Stan" Wendy calls out not dropping her gaze from the sign until the bus passes it.
"Yeah" Stan says in a mildly depressed tone quickly ending the conversation as soon as it started.
Wendy mumbles something in her head as Stan runs his fingers through her long black hair. Wendy closes her eyes once again instantly falling asleep, as the bus makes it last few miles towards the FEMA camp.
Authors note: I'm back guys and gals sorry for the LONG wait for this chapter. I planned for more but I just ran out of time and wanted this one to be out of the way so I can make plans for next chapter. Sorry for my inactivity I really wanted to release new chapters but ive been juggling between a job and of course not having WIFI at the new house I moved into. like I said I'm sorry and I will try my hardest to release the next chapter out relatively quick. ;)