Part 12: Drop Point.

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I should post something I've had this completed for a while but I wanted to post it just so I could see if anyone actually still read this stuff lol but anyway I hope you enjoy and please review, as always I don't own resi but I do own Echo.

It was only around two hundred metres to the shore but we had to travel up the river to get to our drop point near Downtown, it took us about ten minutes to get and real distance between us and the Island but I saw it enough time to pull out the radio and regain the signal. I couldn't hear much mainly static but as we got closer and closer I could just hear sirens, every emergency service going was at their maximum stretch which unnerved me. I kept my ear on the radio waiting for any update on the situation but the radio's signal was dead. As we rolled forward a fog had begun to gather over the city from Lake Huron, the afternoon sun was sent into a haze across the sky it felt more like late evening rather than mid-afternoon.

"Well this is creepy," Alice pointed out as she drew her handgun and tried to pick out targets in the fog.

"There's no point in trying to aim through this, you ain't gonna see anything," I told her.

"Yeah I know but this fog probably isn't doing wonders for your signal either, yet you keep trying," She replied sharply obviously she was as unnerved by our blind flying as I was.

"Well I just hope we get something I don't wanna get sprung on in that mess," I said to her calmly but just as I did I heard a low growl above us like thunder but more draw out, I looked up and saw through the top of the fog a path had been cut, "Fuck!"

"What?" Alice asked.

"Look up there," I told her pointing up at the trail.

"Oh my god!" She exclaimed, as the growl kept getting louder and louder and the trail through the sky kept getting longer and longer until I heard a whoosh as it came over our boat on it run into the city.

"Get down!" I shouted while I dove on Amy to cover her.

Darius was still standing when we heard the shrieking sound as the bomb flew through the air and the low penetrating thud as it shattered the ground, the shock wave was so sufficient that the boat began to pitch and yaw violently knocking Darius off his feet, I looked up into the air and saw the smoke cloud rising high into the air like a volcano had just gone off in Downtown Detroit. The blast had started my ears ringing which completely disorientated me, I tried to check if everyone was okay in the boat but every time I moved I heard another fragment of concrete ping off the side of the boat into the water some even landed inside the boat but I didn't want to move incase one hit Amy.

I kept hearing a gnawing at the back of my head like something was burrowing into me, and every time I felt it get a bit deeper my mind jumped to a vision of Alec, she was in the same car as before everything was the same except I could see a cloud of dust engulfing the streets behind the car it was speeding away but it wasn't outrunning the cloud by much. The cloud started to close in the back of the car was receiving a pounding with the small chunks of rock the explosion had created I kept watching but as soon as the car became engulfed by the cloud I was brought back to our boat where the water was beginning to calm and the debris had stopped falling and we were back in the fog with a difference there was no sound coming from Detroit now, like the city had died.

"Holy crap!" I said as I stood up, the faint skyline that I could see before was gone the Renaissance Center was no more the towering structure had been erased but then again it is the heart of Downtown so the most obvious target for a bomb drop.

"So that's now two cities down in two weeks," Alice said sarcastically.

"I don't think that is a laughing matter," Darius said calmly as he pulled Amy up to his side.

"I wasn't laughing," Alice said seriously as she turned to look at us all in the boat, "Now we have the choice of looking for survivors in the city or going elsewhere and trying to escape the virus."

"I don't think running will help us," I told her.

"He's right Alice, anywhere the virus has already hit is fucked so we might as well do as much as we can here first," Darius backed me up.

We kept on our course towards the Downtown district or what was left of it, we remained in silence for the whole trip to edge of the quay, but when we touched onto it and moored the boat we finally began talking again.

"Firstly, we need a map," I told everyone, "Where would we get one?"

Alice was hauling her gear off of the boat and onto her shoulder when she opened it and pulled out a folded piece of paper, "Try asking and not assuming," She told me with a cheeky grin on her face.

"Okay, so now the entire landscapes changed how do you aim to get our location?" Darius asked me.

"Well that, was the Joe Louis Arena," I said while pointing over to a pile of rubble.

"Yeah I guess it could be," Darius replied confused.

"It's about three hundred metres away so we must have just moored up on what was Princess Detroit Riverboat Tours," I told him.

"I guess. So where to now?" He asked.

"Erm not sure I guess we should try and look for survivors at least look for as signs for what is happened at the epicentre of that blast," I said questioning myself.

"You don't know what the hell you're doing do you?" Alice asked me politely.

"Not a fucking clue the city just got bombed, I don't know where to go or even if we will escape the city!" I shouted at her while I collapsed down on the floor.

"I think we should find some guns or atleast a way of defending ourselves and then try and find Alec and the others, how does that sound?" she asked while crouching down to me I didn't want to tell her where they had gone because I knew she was just trying to make me feel better so I thought I should give her the satisfaction.

"That sounds good," I said to her trying to sound happy as she helped me back to my feet.

"Hey guy's there's a girl over there," Darius shouted as he pointed over to the epicentre of the bomb.

"Where?" I said moving over to him.

"Right there leaning up against that wall."

"Er…. That's not a girl!" I shouted.

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