A/N: hey everyone, sorry I didn't update so quickly but things have gotten complicated at home. Hope you all enjoy and one last thing I need to tell is that (static). . . . . 'Lost Transmission'
The convoy was back on the road again the next morning after the raid of unknown wolves. The group lost about 100 rounds of all of their weapons, about 18 cans of food, half a gallon of gasoline, and one of their hand radios. But there was still enough of everything to make it across another state. Inside the RV, Jade was caring John's bruise after being hit in the head from the raiders.
"Feel better?" Jade asked him as she was rubbing alcohol on the bruise. "Yeah, I am now that you're here" John answered. That response made Jade blush a little and continued cleaning the wound. This time Shigeru was driving the RV, for unknown reasons he told the group.
Clark, CJ, Carez, Susie and Shakey were going through the ammo pile. So far they have 49 shotguns shells, 150 assault rifle bullets, 21 sniper rifle bullets, 68 UZI rounds, 24 magnum rounds, and three grenades. "You guys think this'll get us far enough into Washington?" Clark asked holding a shotgun shell. Unless we find a military base, we're screwed" Shakey exclaimed.
CJ walked over to a hand radio on the counter and pressed the button on it and spoke. "Humphrey?" He said. "What is it Clark?" Humphrey spoke over. "We have enough ammo for everyone, just only two reloads for each one and then, done" CJ explained to him.
"Great, just gather everything up and sort them out when we stop again" Humphrey told him before hanging up. Humphrey put the radio back on the dashboard of the jeep and sighed. "Bad?" Kate asked. "We have enough, but it'll all go by fast" Humphrey answered. He seemed disappointed to losing another member and losing almost half of their supplies.
"Looks like we better make everything count" Garth said laying back in the backseat of the jeep with Lilly sitting next to him. "I just hope we don't run into any more of those things that aren't zombies" Lilly pleaded as she leaned her head on Garth's shoulder.
Lake was driving the moving truck with David in the passenger seat and with Reba, Janice, Alberto, Luis, and Rose sitting in the back either sleeping or just waiting around to stop. Alberto was covering his son in a blanket and kept him warm in his arms. "So Alberto," Reba spoke. He lifted his head from his son. "How old is he?" she asked. "He's about 1 year old. My girl died a week after she gave birth from slow blood loss" Alberto said while looking at Cesar.
"That's really sad, we're sorry to hear that" Janice answered. "But I pulled strong and managed to feed and care my son" Alberto said as he adjusted his arms to comfort Cesar. "By the way Alberto, how old are you?" Rose asked him. "20 years, why?" Alberto answered, just as everyone including Lake's ears perked up and mouths opened in shock.
While everyone was checking the ammo pile, the hand radio started cracking from static. Carez turned around from the pile and picked up the radio. He pressed the button and spoke. "Hello?" He said. The signal was weak. "Hello. . . . Is anyone there?" said a male voice. Everyone stopped what they were doing and heard the radio. Carez continued pressing the button to hear the wolf. "Who is this?" Carez asked.
"Hello . . . this is Cpl. Trigger. Is there anyone else alive?" Cpl. Trigger asked desperately. "Yeah, this is Sgt. Carez. I am here with other survivors heading east in St. Louis, or what remains of St. Louis." Carez said over the radio. "Oh thank god. Listen; are any of you heading to D.C?" Trigger asked. "Yeah, we are. Why?" Carez spoke back.
"I'm here at an airport with a cargo plane with enough gas to make to Washington. You all can head over here and I'll give a ride" Trigger explained to them, right before hearing a gunshot in the background. "What was that?" Carez asked in fear. "Shit, these things are coming at me. (gunshot) You gotta hurry before this place gets overrun. (gunshot). Hurry . . . (static)"
"We need to get to the airport and fast" Carez said as he quickly loaded up his assault rifle. "And where is that?" Shigeru asked. "I have no idea" Carez said in disappointment. Everyone groaned.
"Guys look!" Jade said pointing out in the sky, seeing a flare shoots up in the air and exploding beyond the trees. "Great work" Carez said as he picked up the radio again. "Everyone, listen up" he said to everyone else in the convoy. "We are heading to an airport that we can use to get to Washington. Keep following up" He finished as he saw everyone loading up their weapons.
Humphrey, Kate, Garth, and Lilly checked their rounds and were ready to head out. Reba, Janice, David, Lake, Luis, Alberto, and Rose checker their guns as well and got prepared. But as they were driving down the road, a walker came out of the bushes and got crushed by the RV wheel. Shigeru swerved around to get control again.
"We must be getting close" John said, seeing another infected walked around in the street before getting run over again. They all drove down the infected covered road towards the airport. Through the lenses of pair binoculars, a white wolf wearing a black military combat uniform watched as the pack came driving down around the airport through the front.
He put down the binoculars and grabbed an Ak-74u w/grip and jumped off a truck near a huge cargo plane parked and fueled up.
The convoy crashed through a gate and made their way into airport runway. A few infected heard the sound of the gate being broken through from around the road and started walking in that direction. Cpl. Trigger waved his arms in the air and tried to the convoy's attention as he ran into the runway.
The RV stopped, and Trigger came running up to the RV with Shigeru in the driver's seat. "Just drive inside the plane, I'll start the engine and you guys will strap in before we take off." Trigger explained to them.
Shigeru, Humphrey, and Lake drove their vehicles into the inside of the plane one at a time. Then Trigger then hears snarling and has time to see an infected run up to him. He opens fire with his AK, blowing the head into chunks. More infected come running down the runway snarling and growling. As lake opens the back door of the moving truck, Reba manages to see infected running up to the plane.
She unloads bullets into at least 5 of them, but as she shoots the 6th zombie in the head, it sat back up and with the headshot. Then she fired another bullet into the head, killing it again. "What the hell just happened?" she thought in her mind.
Humphrey, Garth, and Luis join the shooting and manage to keep away the infected while they see Trigger run into the plane and head over to a staircase to the cockpit. "Keep them off while I start the plane" he says as he runs up the staircase.
Clark, John, Jade, Rose come in and hold off the walkers from coming in the plane right as they hear the plane engine start. "Get the vehicles strapped in now!" Humphrey orders as Carez, CJ, and Shakey run up to the wheels of the RV, moving van, and jeep and tie them down to the floor. The group then sees more infected coming from beyond the runway, forming a horde of them. Susie jumps ahead of everyone and pulls out the M14 and fires automatically at infected from far away.
That's when the plane begins to wobble and then moves slowly. Kate realizes that the plane is starting to take off. "Susie we need to go now!" she shouts at her, but she doesn't move at all and continues killing. Everyone starts telling Susie to get on the plane, but she stands her ground and kills the infected off. But it finally snaps to her as she runs out of ammo and looks around her. She panics and runs back to the plane with a horde coming close to her.
That's when the plane door starts to close. "Susie, come on!" Janice yells at her. The door begins to close further in. Susie runs with all her strength and almost makes it to the door, only to be grabbed by Shigeru by the paw and pulled in just as the door closes completely. Susie gets up, only to see herself lying on top of Shigeru. She sits there for a moment before speaking. "Thank you". Shigeru smiles and allows her to get up and he gets up as well.
Just then they hear the overhead speaker come through. "Hello fellow survivors, this is Cpl, Trigger speaking, I would to thank you all for choosing Cargo plane 45. Our destination to Washington D.C will be a smooth flight and the arrival time is 3 hours, 40 minutes. So sit back, load your weapons, and enjoy the flight." They hear Triggers voice just as everyone smiles.
1 ½ hours into the flight . . .
Susie puts in bullets into a M14 mag and slaps it in the rifle and cocks it into place. Clark, CJ, Rose, Carez, Garth, Lilly, John and Jade are sleeping while Humphrey, Kate, Reba, Janice, Shigeru, Susie, Luis, Alberto, Lake, David, and Trigger remain awake during the flight.
Shigeru comes walking up to Susie while she carefully uses up her share of the ammo. He takes a seat next to her and speaks. "I see you using one of my brother's favorite kinds of weapon?" Susie looks at him. "He had it given to me after he died. It's this and his journal the only things I have to remember him by." Susie began to tear up as she spoke. "He took head shots for me while we were in Los Angeles, we were happy together the last two months until these fuckers came and took his life away from me" then Susie lost it and let out all of her tears drop to the floor. "Look, I know it's hard for you, but this isn't how my brother would want you to live on" Shigeru spoke to calm down Susie. She then pulled him in and cried into his shoulder.
"You think so?" Susie asked pulling away. "I know my brother, he would want the best for you" Shigeru answered. Susie looked at him for a moment, before giving him a kiss on the lips. That's when her bag on shoulder moved and spilling out Matthew's journal. They both look down to see it there on the ground. Susie bends down to grab it, only to see a page folded near the back. She brings it back up to her and Shigeru and opens the folded page.
They both look at the page in surprise and shock.
If you're reading this page, then I died. To Susie, I'm sorry our relationship has ended like this. I hope that you found a better man for yourself. And I was very glad to meet, live, and die by your side. And to my brother, Shigeru. If you find this, you were a step too late to find me, but just in time for me to say, live on. . . Don't spend your days killing these monsters. A man named Tsuvia once said; live well, that is the greatest revenge. I have not died yet. A man doesn't die when shot, stabbed, or even poisoned. A man dies when forgotten, so as long as I'm remembered I won't die. This is my last entry.
-Matthew K. Yoshimoto
Shigeru and Susie both sat there in shock as they just read the last entry of Matthew.
Humphrey walks around the plane and sees everyone in taken care of and walks into the RV, only to see Kate testing out one of their pistols while leaning against the counter. "Well, I can see someone is checking her guns well" Humphrey says, scaring Kate. She turns around to see Humphrey and smiles. "Hey, how's everyone doing?" Kate asked.
"Good. You know, it's been a while since we got any time to ourselves." Humphrey says as he walks up to her. "A long while" Kate added. Humphrey chuckles as he closing the door behind him. "You think we'll find help in Washington?" Kate asked. "Kate, you have nothing to worry about. I'm positive that we will find help and hopefully have this outbreak thing end already." Humphrey said.
"But what if we're wrong Humphrey, What if nothing is there and it's overrun too?" Kate acts worried. Humphrey then walks right up to her and kisses her on the lips. Kate was taken by surprise but then accepted the kiss, which lasted about 2 minutes. Then Humphrey lifted Kate from her back and sat her on the counter while still kissing her.
Then Kate and Humphrey started to kiss more passionately with Kate wrapping her arms around his shoulders and his arms grabbing around her waist. Kate started to moan as Humphrey started kissing her neck. Then he looked up at her and smiled. "You know, we got 2 hours till we land" Humphrey said. Kate made a sexy smile and spoke as well. "Well then, we better not waste any more time" With that, the two lovers took their relationship to the next level.
Cpl. Trigger was flying the plane in the cockpit when he hears a blinks noise on the monitor. The fuel gage was on empty! "Oh my god!" he said to himself. Suddenly the plane started shaking and moving side to side. Trigger flipped the plane on 'Auto-pilot' and ran downstairs.
Everyone in the plane felt it move in a way they didn't think was right. That's when they see Trigger running down the stairs with a worried face. "Hey Cpl, what's going on?" Carez asked getting up from his seat. "The plane is running out of fuel" Trigger quickly spoke out.
"WHAT?" everyone around him said "But there is good news" he added with a nervous smile. "We are over the highway heading towards Washington as we speak." He said. "So what are suggesting?" Garth asked him with his arms crossed.
"Ummmm, uhhh . . . . well . . . ." He stuttered.
10 minutes later full of panicking later. . . .
"Clark, unhook the straps now!"yelled John, who was unhooking the straps of the wheels of the moving van. Everyone was now fully awake and armed with their guns and unhooking the straps off all the wheels of the vehicles.
Humphrey and Kate stepped out of the RV after their time alone to see everyone rushing around and feeling the plane shaking. "What's going on?" Kate asked. "The plane is running out of fuel" said Luis as he ran passed them heading towards the Moving van.
The two looked at each other and quickly join the others. Then they run up to Lilly who was reloading her TMP. "Oh there you guys are, we need to get into the cars now. Trigger will be opening the ramp soon." She said as she climbed into the jeep behind them.
Garth then came from behind and gave them Humphrey's M4A1 and Kate's FAL. "Hurry you two!" Garth said as he climbed into the back seat with Lilly. Humphrey and Kate didn't waste any time and joined the others as they watched the group get in the cars and waited. That's when they hear noises coming from the ramp behind them. "Humphrey, get ready to release the brakes" Shakey said as he ran past them and went into the moving van.
He did so and held the gear stick. Trigger was sitting in the cockpit and started to lower the plane down towards the highway road, where the ramp door started dragging against the road. He spoke a silent pray to god and kissed his cross necklace as he pulled out the speaker radio. "Alright everyone, on the count of 3, get out as fast as you can" Everyone heard him and held on tight to their surroundings. "1. . .2 . . . . 3!" Everyone released their brakes and they all went backwards one at a time and landed perfectly in on the road.
They bounced around a bit before everyone turned on the ignition and drove forward. The whole group watched as they saw the cargo plane fly over a hill, then seeing a huge fiery explosion. They all watched the huge fire as they drove down the highway.
Humphrey pulled out the hand radio and spoke to everyone in the convoy. "Alright everyone, this is it. Washington D.C, the place where we heard about the emergency broadcast. But make sure to ready for anything that comes in our way" He finished and looked at Garth, Lilly, and Kate while driving.
Everyone put in their magazines into their guns and turned the safety off. They all had only two mags for all of their guns and one for their sidearm.
An infected was walking around an alley when its spots the convoy. Then its starts chasing the moving truck while other infected start chasing it as well from all around. "I thought they said this place was infection-free?" Garth wondered. More and more infected came around them and continued chasing them.
Humphrey the picked up the radio "Everyone drive as fast as you all can!" With that, he stepped all the way on the gas pedal and saw everyone else driving fast as well, leaving behind the horde behind them. "Guys look" Lilly spoke as she pointed to a military tank down the road near the capitol building. "That must be the safe zone" Kate said.
Humphrey stepped on the gas harder and sped down the street, before being shined by a bright light in the sky. A black hawk helicopter fly over them, then turned around and followed them. "We're getting close" Garth said almost happy seeing the helicopter. That's when the chopper fired a rocket near the convoy. "What the fuck, are they shooting at us?" Humphrey said.
Another rocket was fired and it hit just near the jeep, sending it crashing into a street light post. The RV and moving truck stopped and everyone got out racing towards the jeep. "Are you guys alright?" Rose asked as she helped Kate, Lilly, and Garth out. "We're fine" Kate answered. "What was that all about?" Alberto asked walking up to them. "I'm not sure . . . wait, where's Humphrey?" Kate asked looking around.
Then they saw him standing on the top of a small hill looking out in the horizon. "Humphrey, Humphrey, is the safe zone there. . . ." Kate ran up to him but stopped midsentence when she saw what Humphrey saw. Everyone joined in as well to see a horrifying sight.
In front of the capitol building were hundreds of zombies, civilians and military soldiers, walking around in a gated area with zombies in hazmat suits along with zombies in SWAT uniforms, doctor uniforms, and secret agent suits. They all growled and snarled while most of them were feeding off dead wolves. Around them were destroyed tanks, helicopters, jeeps, hummers, trucks, cars, and BTRs.
Everyone was completely shocked by the sight and just stood there, seeing that they travelled across the country to seeing the only safe zone overrun by the undead. Then they were snapped back to reality when they hear a huge explosion behind them. They all turn around to see the jeep, RV, and moving van destroyed.
That's when the infected look up to see the group and then run towards the fences, forming a horde breaking through. Then above them they see a black helicopter shine a spotlight on them and see more infected coming out of the streets and surrounding the group.
"Humphrey, what do we do?" Kate asks. Everyone steps back together and look around them and sees more of infected. Humphrey looks around and thinks, but nothing comes to his mind. Him and his group are being closed in by the infected and have no way of getting out.
A/N: Will Humphrey and united pack escape and find out what has happened to Washington? This will take time to update and publish, so I need a lot of reviews from everyone to help me continue this story of survival. 3 wolves from the group will die escaping, learn about Virus Z27, and uncover a beyond horrible secret about their friends and family the past two months.
What will happen now . . . and will the world be rid of this deadly virus?