Chapter 6 : Quest for the Ultimate Gift, Part 1
Alex POV
After I satisfied watching that replay, I got up from the chair and headed to the kitchen to grab something to eat. 'Man that notebook was awesome. If I could spawn a clothes that fit to me. Maybe I could spawn something that doesn't invented yet, like lightsaber, teleporter, wait... Teleportation already exist in this world, cloning machine, and even a light speed spaceship.' I thought to myself.
"Alex!"
I quickly snapped out from my out thoughts and turning to the voice who called me, it was Maxwell, what does he want now?
"Yeah?" I answered.
"Could you come with me to my room? I need to talk to you for a moment." He asked.
After we arrived at Maxwell room, he shut the door and turned to me.
"Listen Alex, I need your help." He said to me.
"What help?" I asked.
"I need your help to obtain the ultimate gift from my parents."
"What? Seriously, where?" 'What is this ultimate gift he talking about?' I asked myself.
"On the Capital City, that's where they hid it. Can you help me? Please." He pleaded and gave me his best puppy dog eyes.
That made me softened my heart, "Fine, alright I'll come with you."
"Great, now start packing." He said excitedly to me. He grabbed something from underneath his
"But, I don't have any clothes. And how long are we traveling anyway?"
"We will gone for about 2 days, if we keep looking for it all day, the Capital City is massive you know. And you can use my clothes, it's on that wardrobe." He explained.
"Oh, okay." I replied as I headed to the wardrobe to pack.
I grabbed a blue hoodie, a pair of glove, white undershirt, green short, and a pair of red sock. I put them in the backpack. And it all fit inside that backpack, I wonder it was a magic backpack like Lily told me that Maxwell use it when traveled around the world to collect Starites and save her from turning to stone.
After we say goodbye to Maxwell Mom and Dad, Lily, Sarah, Edwin, and a lot of Maxwell brothers (I don't know how much they are. Maxwell said there are 40, but I lost count at 32.) we headed to the nearest bus stop to get into the Capital City. After we got one we entered it and took a seat before the bus headed to the Capital City.
After we arrived, Maxwell payed the bus and we exited the bus, then we started walking toward the Capital City. I saw several smoke rose from the buildings in Capital City.
"Huh, that's strange." Maxwell said.
"What strange?" I asked.
"The City, it looks like it's in chaos, we better check it out." Maxwell answered before we started running.
As we entered the Capital City, the streets were empty, there is no sound but the sound of the wind and some papers flying. Many cars were abandoned, crashed into a building or other cars, and rolled over.
"This is really strange, the City usually wasn't like this when the last time I went here." Maxwell said to himself.
"Help! I need some help!" A voice called from distance.
There's a figure running toward us, he's wearing a brown suit, a black tie, white shirt underneath the suit, and black pant. His skin is pale and veins are visible, the sleeves of his clothes are torn off and now he's running toward Maxwell.
"Help me young man! The zombies are chasing me!" He said to us.
"Zombies?" I turned to Maxwell.
"The zombies never attacked the Capital City, and I didn't know where they came from." He answered.
The person pleaded to Maxwell to help him, I noticed he got some kind of bite mark on his right shoulder.
"Sir, are you wounded?" I asked.
"No, I just got some minor cuts and... That's all." He answered.
"But sir, you got a wound on your right shoulder, have you been bitten?" I asked again.
"It's not (cough) a wound, and (cough) I'm not bitten." He answered.
"But sir, look at your skin, they weren't normal." Maxwell added.
"And your cough?" I asked.
"Oh, (cough) my skin are normal. And my cough are normal too, I got a cough 2 months ago." He answered.
Suddenly I caught his eyes turned into a bloodshot red, his skin started to get paler, and his nails just turned into claws.
"I am, (growl) not... (growl) bitten!" He growled before jump to pounce me.
Suddenly his head is shoot by someone in the mid-air as his headless body fly pass me, I saw Maxwell holding a smoking barrel of a Revolver.
"Wow, how did you..."
"You still have a lot to learn Alex." He said to me before putting the Revolver on his pocket.
"What's this? A guy bitten by zombie and then turned into one of them?" I asked Maxwell.
"They usually bite and turn humans into an undead." He answered,"You better armed yourself, there are thousands of them."
I pulled out my notebook and write 'Shotgun' and 'Ammunition box', a Shotgun just appeared in the front of me, I put away the notebook and grabbed the Shotgun. I also grabbed the Shotgun shells from the box and filled my pocket with it, Maxwell grabbed ammo for his Revolver and we entered the city to search the gift.
As we walked in the streets, we could hear gunfire and explosion from the distance, I saw a sign on the middle of the streets.
"Hey Maxwell, look!" I said to him.
We walked to the sign and read the words, "Evacuation center, Capital City Firehouse." It reads.
"The firehouse isn't far from here, we could walk there." Maxwell said.
I followed Maxwell to the Firehouse where the Evacuation center located, as we continue walking, the sound of gunfire is getting louder and we spotted a three shadows near an alley, it was three soldiers wearing a gas mask, armor, and long black sleeves shirt. And walking backwards while shooting something.
"There's too many of them, we need help!" One of them said.
"Charlie tam to Alpha team, do you copy?" One of them said through the radio.
"We need an extraction team immediately! Alpha team do you copy? There's three of us left, we need an extraction team immediately!" Another one said through the radio.
We quickly approached the soldiers and talked to them.
"What's happening?" Maxwell asked.
"We and Alpha team are sent to cover the extraction of civilian and Bravo team to the Firehouse, unfortunately we are ambushed by the zombies and the bus left without us." One of them answered, "And what are you kids doing here?" He asked.
"Hey you there, we could use some help from you and your friend." Another soldier said to us.
"Got it." I answered as I walked to their side and start shooting the zombies.
As I shot the zombies, I inspected them. They have pale blue skin, yellow eyes, and wear a ruined white shirt. And they all looked the same, even some of them have horns in their head.
After I shoot all my 8 pellets from my Shotgun, I heard a 'click' from the trigger and reloaded the gun by putting the pellets one by one inside the Shotgun.
After the rest of the zombies killed, we regrouped at the streets.
"Thanks, without you two we could be dead." One of them thanked to us.
"No problem."
"By the way, my name is Private Harris." One of them introduced them self, he has a teenage boy voice.
"I'm Sergeant Kyle."
"I'm Lieutenant Frank, I'm the leader for this team."
"My name is Alex, nice to meet you all." I introduce myself.
"I'm Maxwell, friend of Alex."
"Alright then, where you two going?" Lieutenant Frank asked.
"We're going to the firehouse." I answered.
"Same here, now let's move people." He said to us and leading us toward the firehouse.
After we arrive at the firehouse, I saw many bus and trucks parked near the firehouse, chopper taking off and landed on the roof, and a lot of gas mask soldiers guarding the firehouse.
"Halt. Identify yourself." One of the soldiers stopped us.
"Lieutenant Frank, Sergeant Kyle, and Private Harris. Charlie team members, and these two are our guest, Alex and Maxwell." Lieutenant Frank said to them.
"Alright, you are clear to enter." He said as he opened the gate.
We entered the firehouse, Lieutenant Frank left us and say that he has some business with the bus driver (probably to beat him for leaving his team.), I put the Shotgun on the backpack, and magically it fit on that backpack, the backpack weight did not increase after I put that Shotgun.
"Hey, you two, I need your help at the third floor." A doctor said to us.
"Why?" Maxwell asked.
"There's many injured person on the third floor, but we don't have enough Doctor to took care of them, can you help me?"
"Alright, we'll help you." I answered.
We climbed up the stairs to the third floor and reached the medical section, many patients are injured and lay on the beds. "Sir, we ran out of bandages and medicines sir." One of the doctor said to another doctor.
Maxwell quickly pulled out his notebook and writing something, suddenly many bandages and medicines appeared in the front of us.
"This is more than enough, thank you." He thanked Maxwell.
"Anytime sir." He answered as he put the notebook back.
"There's a problem on second floor, we can use your help down here." Corporal Kyle said to us from the stairs.
We quickly got into second floor to see the problem, the second floor was crowded, many people chattering and rushed to the landing pad where the 2 helicopters are standing by. Some people are stuck in the crowd and fainted, some of them fell and getting stepped by the others.
"People, please be patient, we are getting you all evacuated to the safe side of the city." Sergeant Kyle said to the crowd.
I saw a little girl crying in the corner, and I approached her to ask what happened.
"Hey, what's happening?" I asked her.
"My parents, they leaved without me." She answered while sobbing.
I pulled out my notebook and write 'doll', and a brown bear doll appeared in the front of me, I put away the notebook and give the doll to the girl.
"Here, this should cheer you up." I said to her as I gave the doll.
"Thanks." She said to me as she hugged the doll.
I just smiled to her, she's kinda remembered me of Sarah when she was only 10 years old, it was her birthday and I gave her a brown bear doll like this one. And I feel something appeared on the top of my head, I looked up and see a Starite appeared on the top of my head, I stepped backwards and grabbed it. It's my second Starite ever since I got my first one on Maxwell's 13th birthday, my star necklace suddenly glow and absorb it, the necklace stopped glowing after it finished absorbed the Starite. Well, looks like the star necklace wasn't an ordinary necklace, it's a magic necklace where you keep the Starites you've collected so far.
"Hey Alex, come here!" Maxwell called me.
I quickly slide down a silver pole like those fireman's do when there is an emergency, after I reach the bottom, I headed outside to met Maxwell, who is standing with a giant robot at his side.
My jaw fell open as I stared at the robot, "How is it? Cool huh?" Maxwell asked.
"But, how? How did you built that?" I asked.
"I'm not build that, the military just dropped it off from a helicopter moments ago." He replied.
Suddenly the alarm went off inside the firehouse, this could mean a bad thing.
"The zombies! They're here!" One of the soldiers said.
"Quick, get inside the robot and hold them off while we evacuated the civilian and personnel." The mechanic said to us.
"Got it." Maxwell said before climbed in the robot.
"Why are you just standing there? Get in, I need a co pilot." Maxwell said to me.
"You know how to control this thing?" I asked as I climbed in the robot.
"Of course." He answered.
I took the back seat and Maxwell took the front seat as the flap closing, the system went online and I got a targeting computer in the front of me. The bus and helicopter started to leave as the zombies break through the gate.
"Alex, give me a lock." He said to me.
I tried to touch at a red box that on the my computer, suddenly Maxwell fired a single missile and destroyed a group of zombie, I touch another red box and Maxwell fired the missile again, another group of zombies eliminated.
We continue to do that until all the buses and helicopters left the station, but we quickly overwhelmed as the zombie is climbing and biting the wire on the legs and arms. "Alex, I activated the self-destruct countdown, prepare to bail out, pull the red lever on you right." Maxwell said to me.
I pulled the red lever and another flap closing and I was launched far away from the robot, there is an explosion at the station as my pod deployed a parachute, I landed near Maxwell's pod and got out from the pod as quickly as I can.
"Okay now mister, what we need to do next?" I asked Maxwell.
"I dunno, I was hoping that we landed on a road, but looks like we just landed on a forest." He answered.
"So, don't tell me that we are left by the soldiers and got lost in a forest." I said to him.
After we found a road, the buses and helicopters are speeding away from our view, and now, we are left for dead.
(A/N : I know, you probably thinking this chapter is like one of the missions in the Capital City Firehouse, then yes, it's inspired by the zombies attack mission in the Capital City Firehouse.)