plods along slower than I ever remember it going. I feel gentle pats on my back, hear meaningless sweet nothings, and other forms of ‘encouragement’ during them, but the hollowness in my stomach is still there.
When we reach Butioret and emerge onto the surface, I calm my mind and go through the motions of looking for food as usual, with all four of us searching together in a big group, not even feeling relieved when we gather the biggest haul of food we’ve ever gotten in a single place.
Then we come to a locked up warehouse, large and seemingly weak, but when I try to break open the door with Ben, I feel a searing pain through my leg and the door hasn’t even budged.
Lily gasps, and I look at her, mystified. In response, she raises her arm and points at a symbol painted on the door. The same one we saw in Perlin City. The insignia Lily’s dad had on his lapel, according to Lily at least.
We spread out, feeling along the sides of the warehouse before realizing it was futile, grabbing one of our precious grenades, and setting it off by a spot Lily swears has got to be the correct one.
The door blasts open, and when the smoke clears from the air, we walk in with our guns at the ready. It holds billions upon billions of chairs, all with monitors beside them, and a giant projector near a plasma screen. I carefully examine the chairs, but the only thing noteworthy about them is that there appears to be broken restraining belts attached to each one of them. The monitors beside them are blank and broken too, or I’d fire them up.
However, the projector isn’t broken, and the four of us all walk up to it. More accurately, I walk up to it, and the other three are more focused on the plasma screen. I see the strange insignia on the projector again, and when Lily’s hand brushes against the plasma screen, the projector fires up and a video begins playing.
The four of us wordlessly watch, stunned, as a woman comes onto the screen, looking directly at the camera with a completely blank expression plastered on her face. This gives me the illusion she’s looking directly at me.. Then she begins to talk.
“Hello. My name is Penelope Whitman. I am the director of operation DEK. If you are hearing this, it is because something has gone horribly wrong with our experiment and I am, most likely, not alive anymore. There is a paper hidden in a warehouse in Perlin City that I would like for you to get to the government capitol if at all possible. It could contain the-”
She stops talking, and I can tell from the guilty look on her face that she almost gave away something.
“Our experiment involves super-human abilities; however, we are having a few difficulties currently, and would like for others to continue our work if something happened.”
A sudden urgency comes into her voice.
“Now go, because if something’s wrong with our experiment, you are in danger if you are within even one hundred miles of here. Remember your new mission.”
The monitor shut itself off, and we quickly vacate the building as instructed, each mulling over what she said in our own thoughts.
I panic when I realize that the sun has begun to sneak down on us like it did when Zentyn. But it’s too late; swarms of zombies are all around us, hundreds of thousands, three times as many there were in Zentyn.
We try to steel ourselves, but I can tell that the line of zombies continue as far as I can see and realize it’s futile to fight. I fight like a whirlwind, and by the brief glances I catch of my friends, we all seem to be holding our own. That’s until thirty target each of us at once, jumping on us and clawing at us like crazy. Ten of them are pulling on my legs, trying to make me fall, and the remaining twenty are clubbing at my head with blunt metal tools to try to either knock me unconscious or kill me.
I see Lily and Aria fighting back to back but struggling to stop the
When we reach Butioret and emerge onto the surface, I calm my mind and go through the motions of looking for food as usual, with all four of us searching together in a big group, not even feeling relieved when we gather the biggest haul of food we’ve ever gotten in a single place.
Then we come to a locked up warehouse, large and seemingly weak, but when I try to break open the door with Ben, I feel a searing pain through my leg and the door hasn’t even budged.
Lily gasps, and I look at her, mystified. In response, she raises her arm and points at a symbol painted on the door. The same one we saw in Perlin City. The insignia Lily’s dad had on his lapel, according to Lily at least.
We spread out, feeling along the sides of the warehouse before realizing it was futile, grabbing one of our precious grenades, and setting it off by a spot Lily swears has got to be the correct one.
The door blasts open, and when the smoke clears from the air, we walk in with our guns at the ready. It holds billions upon billions of chairs, all with monitors beside them, and a giant projector near a plasma screen. I carefully examine the chairs, but the only thing noteworthy about them is that there appears to be broken restraining belts attached to each one of them. The monitors beside them are blank and broken too, or I’d fire them up.
However, the projector isn’t broken, and the four of us all walk up to it. More accurately, I walk up to it, and the other three are more focused on the plasma screen. I see the strange insignia on the projector again, and when Lily’s hand brushes against the plasma screen, the projector fires up and a video begins playing.
The four of us wordlessly watch, stunned, as a woman comes onto the screen, looking directly at the camera with a completely blank expression plastered on her face. This gives me the illusion she’s looking directly at me.. Then she begins to talk.
“Hello. My name is Penelope Whitman. I am the director of operation DEK. If you are hearing this, it is because something has gone horribly wrong with our experiment and I am, most likely, not alive anymore. There is a paper hidden in a warehouse in Perlin City that I would like for you to get to the government capitol if at all possible. It could contain the-”
She stops talking, and I can tell from the guilty look on her face that she almost gave away something.
“Our experiment involves super-human abilities; however, we are having a few difficulties currently, and would like for others to continue our work if something happened.”
A sudden urgency comes into her voice.
“Now go, because if something’s wrong with our experiment, you are in danger if you are within even one hundred miles of here. Remember your new mission.”
The monitor shut itself off, and we quickly vacate the building as instructed, each mulling over what she said in our own thoughts.
I panic when I realize that the sun has begun to sneak down on us like it did when Zentyn. But it’s too late; swarms of zombies are all around us, hundreds of thousands, three times as many there were in Zentyn.
We try to steel ourselves, but I can tell that the line of zombies continue as far as I can see and realize it’s futile to fight. I fight like a whirlwind, and by the brief glances I catch of my friends, we all seem to be holding our own. That’s until thirty target each of us at once, jumping on us and clawing at us like crazy. Ten of them are pulling on my legs, trying to make me fall, and the remaining twenty are clubbing at my head with blunt metal tools to try to either knock me unconscious or kill me.
I see Lily and Aria fighting back to back but struggling to stop the
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