Infected

by HTFBrony333

Infected is sort of like a zombie apocalypse, but the infected people has red eyes and has intelligence. They can run, jump, smell you, and they can even talk! Based on my OC HTF characters, Cain, a light blue fox and wears a green bandana, loses his mother. Months later, he learns that the world he once knew is gone, replaced by a merciless world he now knows.

9. Chapter 9: Escape

Infected

Chapter 9: Escape

The plan was risky. Shadow needed to squeeze through the jail bars and try to get the keys. Lakey and I needed to escape first to knock out two guards and take their outfits. When we do that, we need to find where the boss is and gather information. When we do that, we go back to our jail cell, tell everyone what their plan is, and escape. Sounds easy right? Well, it wasn't. Another part of the plan was to find something to help us escape, for example, a car. None of us knows how to drive so...that's out of the question. But, we'll figure it out somehow, tonight, we escape. If we mess up, it's over. The next day, shadow was ready to do her part of the plan. "Are you ready, shadow?" I asked, petting her until she purred. "Mm-Hm!" shadow nodded, watching a dusk soldier walk past our jail cell, and saw the golden keys hanging by his belt. "Him." shadow whispered, pointing to him. "Alright shadow, do your thing." Ian said, giving her an eager smile. Shadow squeezed through the jail bars and followed the dusk soldier. "By the way, why did you guys name her Shadow?" ava asked rai. "Well, her fur color matches the shadow, so she camouflages in the dark. Pretty hard to see her if you ask me." he answered, watching shadow hide in the shadow when the dusk soldier turned around. Shadow managed to grab the golden keys from his belt, and quickly running back to us. "Good job, shadow!" lakey said, hugging her. Shadow gave the keys to me and lakey and I got out. We closed the jail door, without locking it, and we were getting ready for our part. Then, I felt a hand touch mine. I turned to see ava with a worried look on her face. "You be careful, okay?" she said, letting go of my hand. I smiled and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

"Don't worry, ava. I'll be back." I gently said to her as I followed lakey. We ran down the hall, hid in the darkness of the corner, and saw two dusk soldiers coming. "Here's our chance! Get ready dude." lakey whispered. I nodded as the dusk soldiers got closer and closer. Finally, at the same time, lakey and I grabbed them, dragged them in the corner of the darkness and...

*Whack!*

*Pow!*

*Punch!*

We knocked the day lights out of them! "That's for keeping me here for a month!" lakey said, cracking his knuckles. We took their uniforms, which was surprisingly easy to put on, and we started to walk down the hall. "Ugh! How do these guys walk in these things?!" lakey said, struggling to keep his boot up. "Shhh! Come on, if we keep these masks on, they won't know that we escaped, alright?" I said, whispered. "Just hold on." Lakey and I continued to walk down the hall, searching for the boss's room, until,

"Hey! What are you two doing!?"

Lakey and I gasped as we turned around and saw a dusk soldier running towards us. "The boss wants us to be at the laboratory, ASAP. Hey...since when you two looked young?" he said, noticing how short we were. "U-uh! P-puberty?!" lakey quickly answered.

*Silence*

A sweat drop rolled down my head as I looked at lakey, "Puberty? Seriously?" I thought. Luckily, the soldier shivered as he said, "Whatever, just get your tails over to the laboratory." We started following him to the laboratory, and it was huge. There was a bunch of dusk soldiers gathered. Someone was talking in the center. "You stay here, I'll go in the center to get a better look." I whispered to lakey. "Aye-aye!" lakey whispered back, cheerfully. I sneaked past dusk soldiers to get a better look. I started to hear the person talking.

"Boys. It's time we follow what's on the plan. You all know your parts, correct?"

"YES, SIR!"

"Are you sure?"

"Well, to be honest, sir. You never told us the plan yet..."

My eyes widen as I saw who the boss was...it was the scissor bear. He wasn't wearing his goggles, he has blood red eyes, I shuddered. The scissor bear walked up the group of dusk soldiers. He talked to the group of soldiers, surprisingly in a calm voice. Suddenly, he grabbed a dusk soldier by the mask. I watched in horror as he grabbed his large pair of scissors.

"NO! PLEASE, DON'T KILL ME SIR! I-I PROMISE I'LL LISTEN CAREFULLY, PLEASE DON'T!"

Someone needed to stop this monster. I felt a little guilty for the dusk soldiers. What if they aren't really evil? They were forced to work with him? I couldn't take it anymore.

"STOP!"

I screamed from the top of my lungs. Just before the scissor bear could kill the dusk soldier, he froze and looked at me. I felt my body tremble as he put the dusk soldier down. "Well, well. If it isn't trouble maker Duke." the scissor bear said, walking to me with the large shiny scissors. "D-duke?" I thought. I looked down at my jacket and there was a nametag clipped onto it. It said Duke, of course it did. "Y'know duke, for all the trouble you were making lately with your buddy, Gregory, I should kill you right now." he said, walking around me. I gulped, "Me and my big fat mouth." I thought to myself. "But...everyone deserves second chances." the scissor bear said. I growled a little,

"You didn't give him a second chance."

I said, in a deep voice, pointing to the trembling soldier. "True. I didn't. But, I give special people second chances, duke." "S-special...?" I thought. "No matter...I said to much, remember the plan, duke?" the scissor bear said, stopping in front of me. "Dang it..." I thought again, a sweat drop rolling down my head.

*Silence*

"I'm waiting...duke." the scissor bear snapped, showing me his large scissors. Just when I was going to say something,

"No! Uh, sir! I remember the plan!"

I gasped as I recognized the voice. "L-lakey!? No..nononono..." I thought as lakey pushed his way out of the crowd. "Well, well. George." the scissor bear said, turning away from me and walked to lakey. I can hear lakey gulp as the scissor bear grinned. "Tell me George, since you sticked up for duke, want to tell me what the plan is?" Lakey gulped and answered,

"U-uh...to lure our prisoners outside where a horde of infected people are coming. They're chewing their way out of the gate and if that happens, the whole town will be filled with infected. Our j-job is to lure our prisoners to them, and while they're distracted, w-we...escape?"

*Silence*

I can see Lakey's brown eyes fill with relief as the scissor bear lowered his scissors. "Thank you, George." the scissor man said, petting lakey on his head. I sighed I relief. "You heard George, everyone. At 5:30, we round up the prisoners outside and let the infected horde in. While the infected are distracted, we escape through the jeeps in the garage. Understood?" the scissor man said.

"Yes, sir!"

We all walked out of the laboratory and ran back to the knocked out soldiers. We took off their cloths and ran back to our jail cell." Dude, how did you know?" I asked, amazed. "Well...let's just say I asked one of the soldiers while you were getting called on." Lakey answered. "Thanks." I replied, as lakey and I ran down the hall. "Oh! Oh! Wait!" lakey said, stopping. "What? What?" I said, in a rush. Lakey grabbed a empty bag fro the corner, emptied it out, and said, "Hold on! I gotta do something really quick!" lakey said, running off. "What!? But that's not part of the plan, lakey!" I said. Too late, lakey ran off and I had to run all the way back to our cell. I told everyone what happened and let them out. "That sick, twisted, heinous, monster." Ian angrily commented. "I know that he's a bad guy and all, but he's insane." ryan said. "Where's lakey?" raven asked. I sighed, "I dunno, he said he had to do something and ran off. I tried telling him it wasn't in the plan but-"

Suddenly,

"Guys! Hey!"

We all turned around and saw lakey, with a full large bag. "What's that?" rai asked. "Food, of course!" lakey grinned, answering. "Ugh, whatever, let's just hurry up and leave!" ian said, as we all ran down to the garage. I looked down the hall and saw that two guards were guarding it. "Crap, there's two guards!" I said, whispering. "I got an idea!" shadow said, jumping into the shadow. I literally couldn't see her, but I saw the tip of her tail. I watched as shadow started to mess around with the soldier. I saw her whisper in his ear, which got him angry at the other soldier. "Dude, why'd you say that about my grandmother?" he said, growling. "Huh? I didn't say anything!" the other soldier said, confused. "Don't lie, I heard you!" the angry soldier yelled. "I'm not lying!" the other soldier yelled back. Before we knew it, they started fighting. Sooner or later, they were both knocked out. Shadow leaped out of the shadows. "Ta-daa!" "Yes! Great job, Shadow!" Rai praised, petting shadow's head. Suddenly, the alarm went off. They must've realize that we're missing. "Hurry! Come on!" I said, grabbing the garage door, but it wouldn't open. "No! No!" I quickly said, trying to knock it down. "Allow me..." Ian said, claws popping out of his fingertips as he tried to use his claw to pick the lock. "Come on, hurry Ian!" ava aid, hearing footsteps from the hall. "Does it look like I am!?" ian said, using his pointer finger claw. Finally,

*Click!*

"It opened! Come let's-" ryan said, opening the door until,

*Bang!*

We froze, hearing a loud bang from the end of the hall. We turned to see hands sticking out of a metal thick wall. "I-infected!? I thought the gates were holding them!?" raven said. Then, faces stared to pop out and we screamed. We ran in the garage and closed the door. I heard the wall give out, pounding and scratching was on the door. "Hurry!" I cried, raven and I holding the door shut. Then, lakey, ava, shadow, ryan, and ian climbed in a large jeep. "Don't worry guys! Imma hot wire this jeep!" lakey said. "Do! You! Even! Know how! To hot wire! A jeep!?" I cried, struggling to hold the door as hands started to pop out of the door. "Nope! But I'll try! I see this in movies a lot!" lakey said. I saw flashes of light coming from the car. Suddenly, raven screamed in pain. "Raven! Are you alright!?" I cried. Raven punched an infected wolf and quickly turned back to me. "Y-yeah...I'm fine..." raven said. Then, I heard the car start. "Guys! I did it! Come on!" lakey cried. I grabbed raven and we jumped in the jeep. Just in time before the infected could bite us. Ian stepped on the gas and we crashed into the garage door, escaping from the prison. "YES! We did it!" ava happily cried. We all let out happy cries as we drove into the forest, away from Happy Tree Town.