Broken Britain

== Introduction ==
Broken Britain, originally an unnamed series for half of its existence, before it became 'The Rest of The World', and later what it is now, is a series that ironically is older than Torn Earth itself. The story and idea of it was converted over to the Torn Earth series by the creator, however, as it fit the story and had already been influencing it.
Broken Britain details the lives of a group of brothers and friends living in the United Kingdom. They live through the direct events of what is known as The Outbreak of 2040, as the protagonists become the direct antagonists in spreading the horrible virus known as the Red Beast Virus.
There is another series that runs alongside Broken Britain, but its legitimacy is still being debated. It introduces a second virus which turns people into what are known as 'Slicers'. Although this has been debated in keeping in the story, it unmistakably plays an important part of the story due to the existence of Michael Mardo and Evil Guy, who are both carriers of it.
== Episode 1 ==
Episode 1 dates back in creation to the year 2011, which is, eheh, not a peak time for the creator. However, the story remains, and so does the art until a remake is created in the future. 
=== The Lab ===
The story begins, as did the creator used to do many times before when he wrote a story, with a random stick figure, who is suddenly covered in a thick red ichor that encases him, changing him from within. A cell is seemingly built around him (debatable for revamps), and a scientist, employed by the British-funded LenoCorp, keeps steady observation of his progress.
The year is presumed to be November of 2039, and takes places somewhere in Northern Ireland in coordination with current setting keeping.
A day comes where the man breaks out of his ichor (which seemingly disappears), and is seen as a large towering red creature with two appendages on its back- born anew as the first Alpha Red Beast. The scientist freaks, trying to escape, but not before the creature breaks the window, killing him. The creature then walks up to a security camera, breaking it, causing the reader to lose sight of him, which comes to introduce Evil Guy, who is sitting watching the cameras on the other end.
The story pans to a test subject, Luke Nart, sitting in his cell isolated, when suddenly the door is opened by a soldier. The soldier goes to bring him to some sort of test, when an overhead alarm blares, notifying the site that something has happened. The two continue, Luke turning to look at the walls, when suddenly the soldier is stabbed through the neck by a red appendage appearing out of a vent, hoisting him up into it, leaving Luke to himself as he flees from the scene. Luke comes across a room with a shelf that has a piece of paper on it. Luke reads the paper, which declares that Joey Nart, his brother, has been 'taken' by an unsaid virus. (This illogical piece has been deemed to require revamp.)
Luke continues onward, cautious of his surroundings, when he comes into a room with a flickering light. He comes up to a window, where he hears groaning from, and is shocked to see a quick glimpse of a giant red monster, the Alpha Red Beast, holding a soldier by the throat. The soldier pleads for help from Luke, but cuts off as the creature drives one of its appendages through his skull, dropping him to the floor. The creature, not noticing Luke, wanders off out of the room elsewhere. Luke stands and watches as the soldier seizures, two appendages bursting from his back. The soldier creature, now also an Alpha Red Beast, shambles towards Luke, rubbing its body on the glass as it tries to get to him. Luke flees from the scene, soon coming across an interesting looking door. Walking in, he is presented with a dead scientist, and a broken glass window, blood everywhere. (More revamp also needed here.)
Luke decides he needs to escape from this horrendous site, and tries to make his way to some sort of exit. He randomly stops, and decides to really slowly look behind him for no reason.
Suddenly, uh oh, the big red creature plunges out from a vent, looking down at the small human. Luke, fearful for his life, tries to reach out to what he thinks is his brother by calling him by name. Joey, recognizing the voice, is taken out of his animalistic rage as he recognizes his brother, stopping for a moment. Luke, noticing that the look on the creature's face has changed, turns and looks at him cautiously.
The moment doesn't last, however, as Evil Guy, accompanied by two soldiers, stabs Joey in the back with his knife. Joey roars in pain, returning into his enraged mindset. Whilst Evil Guy is occupied, his soldiers are killed from behind by other Alpha Red Beasts, converting them to the virus. He turns, ripping the knife out of Joey, easily slicing the head off of his old comrade. He lunges at the next one, stabbing it just below the neck several times before it drops. Out of breath, he goes to readdress the matter, but is clutched by Joey, who holds him angrily by the throat, lifting him into the air.
Joey is about to slay Evil Guy, but Luke calls out, trying to coerce Joey not to continue such bloodshed. Joey listens, and tosses the Evil Guy aside, who runs in terror. Joey then transforms, returning to a human state. The two embrace one another, Joey apologizing for murdering a lot of people (yeah because I was like 8 that's what you do in a fairy tale shut up), and go to run towards the gaping exit in front of them. Such a joyous escape is cut short, when Joey is shot and killed with a bullet through the head. Luke tends to his bleeding body. Joey, as a last resort, cuts Luke as he dies, infecting him with the virus. Luke becomes an Alpha Red Beast, roaring in anger, as the Evil Guy flees in the distance, dropping his smoking sniper rifle.
The two have a short chase scene that is depicted with 'After A Whil', where Luke finally has Evil Guy in his grasp. He tells him he will pay for what he has done, and kills the Evil Guy through nondescript means. Luke returns to the body of his brother, who magically revives with Luke being there. Joey, confused, gets up, not remembering what happened. The story ends there as the 8-year-old author writes 'Teh end I was so bored anyways bai', inferring that the story was never meant to continue from there.
The story continues from there.
== Episode 2 ==
It's presumably a week after the incident at the research site. Joey Nart and Luke Nart have successfully escaped, and have returned to a civilian life under cover, unknowingly being the cause of the Red Beast Virus, which they didn't consider. 
=== The Spread ===
Joey, watching some news, is interrupted by Luke, who comes to tell him that their long lost brother is at the door, waiting for them. The two go to the door to meet their younger brother Liam Nart, who has been away because of unknown reasons. The trio embrace one another, possibly never meeting one another and or not seeing each other since a very young age. Celebrations are cut short as Joey's attention is brought to the tv, an anchorman detailing the current emergency situation, with the spreading of a 'Zombie Virus'. The three watch the television, deciding they will venture out to see what's happening on the outside world.
Joey and Luke commence a transformation, both becoming Alpha Red Beasts; Luke, now in place of his appendages, having four tendrils sticking out of his back. Liam is left in horror at the sight, but is reassured by his brother Luke, who tells him not to worry.
=== The Adventure ===
Joey, Luke, and Liam, who is now armed with a stock pistol, enter outside, seeing the horrible sight of these red monsters crawling all over the streets. The trio safely make their way through the streets, coming across military barricades; soldiers from the site (illogically being there) seeing the Alphas and freaking out, but not being able to do anything about it, as their barricades are simultaneously overrun from the opposite direction by a horde of normal Red Beasts, ones without the appendages.
Luke is able to get ahold of one of the Red Beasts, who act strangely docile around the two. He picks it up, sticking several tendrils into its body, killing it. He observes as it sits there, its pure black eyes unmoving as it seemingly voluntarily allows this to happen.
=== The Pause ===
The group continue forth, preparing to round a corner, when they are suddenly stopped. Liam, seized by a thug, is held at knifepoint for his life. He, young and fearful, drops his gun. The thug, not yet noticing Joey and Luke, demands Liam's name. Upon giving it, the thug realizes who Liam is, lowers him weapon. Liam recognizes him as Zack Morray, one of his only local friends. The two share a brotherly hug, before Zack notices the creatures behind Liam. He tries to ward them off with his knife, not before Liam tries to tell him they mean no harm. Zack flips on him, thinking he's a lunatic, when Luke calls Zack's name, sounding somewhat familiar to him. The two have met before, and the tense moment turns into one of joyous confusion.
== Episode 3 ==
The group of four, now consisting of Joey Nart, Luke Nart, Liam Nart, and Zack Morray all sit around, wondering what to do next.
=== The Abduction ===
The group decide to continue forth, when they are disturbed by a Red Beast that lunges at Zack. Ever so skillfully, the moving Red Beast has its brains blown out by a mysterious sniper across the street, who disappears in the darkness of an old apartment window. The group, a little shocked, goes to continue, turning a corner, where Zack is instantly shot in the face, presumably killing him as he collapses to the ground. Liam freaks at the sight, when suddenly a man wearing something like a balaclava turns the corner, aiming a SMG at Liam, and firing into him. The shot is seen from Liam's point as he bleeds on the ground, Joey and Luke fleeing as the man delivers a round of bullets in their direction. As Liam blacks out, the man turns, and walks to him.
Liam has a dream of the man, being stuck in a chair, being helpless as the man goes to cut him up and kill him.
Liam wakes up.
=== The Escape ===
Liam, looking down at his hands, finds he is not tied to a chair and about to die. He gets up from a damp room, approaches a door, and enters into a dimly lit room. Crossing it, he sees a bulky metal door with a yellow pattern on it, a little keycard swiper next to it. Comedically, he looks over to see what appears to be the balaclava man, sitting on a stool, snoring away with the keycard laying on the ground below his hand. Liam quickly sneaks over and snatches the keycard, placing it into the slot, opening the (magically silent) door. He enters into the next room, which appears to be some sort of miniature homemade laboratory, several tubes of bubbling liquids lined up. Liam's exploration is cut short, however, as the masked man awakens, cocking his SMG as he delivers rounds in Liam's direction. Liam tries ever so hard to dodge the bullets, but cannot be helped but to be struck by one just between the nose and his left eye, basically killing him on the spot. (Oh boy do I have to revamp this) He lays on the floor, twitching as the life goes out of him.
Joey and Luke, who were frantically searching the nearby area, hear the sound of a scream not to far away. It leads them to a rundown industrial building. With no other lead, they decide to go in and investigate.
== Episode 4 ==
Probably roughly a minute after the balaclava man has shot Liam, the man goes to fetch his body, when suddenly the ceiling a little distance away caves in, revealing two angry Alpha Red Beasts who successfully land upright on top of the rubble. The man quickly scoops up the body, dragging it towards a doorway as he wildly fires into their direction. The door then closes with the man on the other side, followed by another door, and another door, and five other comedically appearing doors.
The two Red Beasts look at each other.
The masked man, sighing, heaves Liam's corpse next to a tube, this one with some being actually floating inside of it...
=== The Identity Reveal ===
Luke and Joey desperately attempt to get in, Joey attempting to burn the doors down with a flamethrower he randomly acquires. (It was that kind of story back then)
Meanwhile, inside, the man injects a needle into Liam's face. After a short time, Liam stirs, looking around. (I can't wait to rewrite this) He notices he is, or was, bleeding profusely, but doesn't mind it as he sees the man standing there. Liam demands the man reveal his identity.
Surpisingly, he does.
With a slow peeling of his balaclava, Liam is shaken to see who he sees.
"Y-you.. Alive?" Liam stutters, obviously knowing this scarred man from something.
The man in question, which is later to be found out to be none other than Miller Cruz, is a military man with a short black cut that droops over his forehead, his face marked with three fresh red claw cuts over his left eye, and another group of cuts on his soft lower right chin.
Liam requests where Zack is. Not actually knowing, but understanding who he may be referencing, Miller points to the lone tube in the room, currently storing what appears to be a large Alpha Red Beast, suspended in the liquid. As if on queue, his eyes flicker open, shaking his head from a respirator that is fastened to his mouth. Miller, disturbed by this, orders Liam to flee immediately.
=== The New Alpha ===
Joey and Luke, now throughly given up, go to sit down after all of their futile attempts.
Suddenly, the wall explodes, and from the place where doors once stood comes billowing smoke, a figure appearing out of it.
It's Liam.
Joey and Luke with smiles go to embrace him, but Liam dashes past them, saying only that they need to 'Run.'
Turning to look, they hear something else coming. Out of the smoke slowly stomps a large creature, one like them.
Breathing heavily, looking around with large red eyes, moving its burly muscular body with small points on it, and flexing its lower jaw, lined with teeth is a large Alpha Red Beast, angrily fumigating.
The two freak out and sort of gawk at the sight, which causes the Alpha to look at them in confusion.
"Jhoey?" (Should be Luke but)
"Zack?!"
The trio sort of grin at each other, amazed by this odd feat.
Meanwhile, on the roof over a burning city, two masked operatives make their way to a sky light, looking down at the group below. They ever so carefully use a small laser to cut a person-sized hole in the glass, lowering themselves down on roping equipment. The first man hoists himself down upside down, bringing a small tube to his mouth. He fires out a projectile in their direction. (Needs rewrite)
== Episode 5 ==
Liam stands panting, successfully making his way onto the opposite side of the industrial building, and down a corridor. He is ready to turn back, when his ears are hit with a loud inhumane screech. He dashes off in fear in the opposite direction, suddenly nullified by something.
=== The Part I Don't Want To Talk About And Want To Rewrite As Soon As Possible ===
Liam has a vision. He sees a red creature, reptilian in appearance, standing before him. Rubbing his head, he questions what he had seen, if it was a vision of the future.
The first operative waves on his buddy, the two descending to the floor, disengaging themselves from their equipment. On the floor ahead of them lie the unconscious bodies of three giant Alphas. Miller comes walking out of the room he was in, his right hand bloodied from unseen injuries. One of his soldiers asks about his scratches, knowing of the infectiousness of the virus, but Miller, who calls him 'Biggs', dismisses the issue.
Behind a nearby slab of concrete is another operative, hailing from a different background. He loads his gun, jumping out from cover.
Biggs goes to ask Miller about something, but is swiftly cut off by Miller, who tries to warn him of something.
It's already too late, as Biggs is blown away by the spray of an automatic rifle, gunning him down, bits of his body going flying. Miller successfully turns tail and vaults a stack of metal beams, unholstering his pistol.
Meanwhile, Miller's second operative opens fire on the intruder with a shotgun, but fails to do any damage as the opposing operative ducks back to cover. He radios in for backup.
Out comes this utterly deformed stickman wielding dual akimbos, shooting in every direction. He successfully blows Miller's operative away in a flash. Miller pops out of cover, firing at the stickman several times. The stickman, with several holes in him, shoots in all sorts of directions again. Miller takes the time to quickly retreat.
Now with Miller gone, the two operatives, who are obvious nods, according to their helmet designs, to Banshee and Bob from Happy Zombie Apocalypse, (Although that would've been impossible since Banshee died 20 years prior and Bob just simply shouldn't exist) approach the bodies of the Alphas, injecting them with what could be assumed to be morphine or something of its volition, waking them all up from what appear to be tranquilizer darts. The group stir, looking for what had happened, seeing no trace of anything but blood, bullet holes, and some corpses.
Liam, struck with the vision a second time, theorizes that it could possibly be a prophecy of what is to come; maybe himself.
Ironically, he just happens to step in a tiny red puddle that happens to be the same exact stuff that Joey was exposed to, the liquid quickly covering his body, changing him.
(Disappointed Author's Note: Keep in mind that it wasn't until Episode 3, which was finished in 2015, that I grow a brain, and until Episode 7, roughly completed in 2016, that this story is dedicated to Torn Earth, much less given a name in Episode 8. Don't take any of the above for future fact, as it, above all things before it, is my most hated part of the story. I will absolutely be rewriting it once we get there.)
=== The Next Part That Basically Shouldn't Exist As Much As The First Part But Isn't Really That Bad ===
The group notice that Liam is missing; being that he was their primary objective in rescuing. Meanwhile, Liam, in a corridor just around a distant bend, continues to stay paralyzed in ever-growing red stuff.
The group go to look for him, but are interrupted by a suddenly existing portal! The portal, in coordination with a totally retconned interdimensional page of Happy Zombie Apocalypse, prior to its indoctrination into Torn Earth, that also featured several also non-Torn Earth comics, lead to the HZA world, and had flung out Jake Fildel, face first into the ground, Colin DeMaro, never seen but pictured flying through a window, and Joey the Kydol, who interacts with the group.
Big nonos in every part of that sentence.
Joey turns himself red to fit in because he can do that.
He asks them who they are, and they introduce themselves.
Joey Nart is unable to speak.
Liam also introduces himself, causing the group to turn and look at him.
Sure enough, he looks like that reptilian bird thing that he saw in his 1-minute-ago vision.
Luke and Liam have a random stareoff with one another.
Joey asks the group where he is at, but Luke asks him where he is at. 
Joey is from the year 2121. (This is not true)
The group then delve into the chaos of the stupid ass 21 vine from 2015, where they all ask about 21, Liam randomly finds a page with '9+10=' on it, and Jake filling it out with the number '19' as the others respond with '21'. (Jake leaves and is never seen again)
Joey asks again what year it is, and Luke responds with 2049. (This is not true)
The author, still being in grasp of changing this within the next few years, appears in the void plane to scribble out the 4 and replace it with a 3.
MEANWHILE
AT A GRAVEYARD
BECAUSE YEAH 
A gravestone reading 'Rip that guy in the beginning' is shown, and suddenly a hand comes out of the ground. It is the Evil Guy back from the dead.
Meanwhile, the group engage in rolling their 'o's at each other, before finally deciding that they 'need to do stuff'
They walk outside in the pitch black dark.
The Evil Guy finds a gun.
A pixelated FNAF man suddenly appears and bleeds all over the place.
The author puts a note stating that he has no idea what that was.
== Episode 6 ==
Walking outside, Joey Nart, Luke Nart, Zack Morray, and Liam Nart, now all sapient Alphas together, venture out from the industrial building, going down a few blocks. 
While they are walking, they are unknowingly spotted by the Evil Guy, who watches them enter into the building. He cannot believe his eyes, but he knows who atleast two of them are.
At some point, someone suggests returning to looking as humans, revealing that Zack and Liam both also have the ability to return to such.
=== The Hospital ===
Entering into an interesting looking building, which may or may not have been some sort of hospital, the group find themselves looking upon a gruesome battle scene, military soldiers and Red Beasts littering the floor. The group go to explore the backrooms, the old patient rooms of the building, when their presence disturbs a soldier on his deathbed. Mistaking them for Red Beasts, he goes to use his final moments, picking up his pistol, and aiming it at one of the monsters.
Liam, swearing he hears some sort of click, prepares to go open a door, when suddenly he is hit by three bullets in his chest, dropping him. (I so have to redo this)
Luke turning to see what the commotion is, takes a bullet that just grazes the top of his head, causing him to also fall.
The soldier goes to continue his rampage with what's left of his clip, but not before Zack, quickly turned into an Alpha, marches up and stomps the soldier's head, killing him.
Joey, accompanying his dying brother, shouts Liam's name in agony. Luke lies on the floor, shocked as his scalp bleeds.
Later, Zack and Luke, sitting outside of one of the patient rooms, wait patiently to hear something from their brother after spending an hour trying to do their best to stabilize him. Luke complains about a headache, now having his head bandaged.
Evil Guy, entering into the building he saw the group go into, checks out the bodies. Walking around them, he comes across a corpse, obviously recently slain with the outpouring of blood. He rubs his hand in some of it, tasting the blood. He smirks.
Liam has been stabilized. Laying on the bed with a large amount of bandages, he sits there, barely breathing as he looks at his brother.
Meanwhile, Luke, still complaining about his headwrap outside, looks to his friend, who has a look of terror on his face. He pushes Luke out of the way, and is suddenly hit by a projectile.
Across the room, at the hallway doors stands the Evil Guy, shambling, laughs, pistol in hand.
Zack, shot somewhere nonlethal in the lower chest, angrily changes into an Alpha, Luke following suit. Zack charges the Evil Guy, taking a powerful swing at him. The Evil Guy dodges, surprising Zack as he grabs Zack's arm, driving a knife into it. Luke, following quickly behind, delivers a kick into the man's face, throwing him to the floor, his hat flying off. Sputtering with a tooth less, the Evil Guy goes to get up, but Luke seizes him by the neck with a tendril, lifting him up.
Luke is horrified at what he sees, for it is the man from the site from a near month ago, half decomposed already. The left side of his face, totally gone.
=== The Part I'm Debating On Rewriting or Totally Scrapping ===
The Evil Guy laughs, changing, his body lengthening as he becomes a slim tall creature. Unlike the Red Beast, this 'Slicer' creature, once the Evil Guy, cackles as he slices Luke's tendril.
Out from the hallway comes a small group of creatures like the Evil Guy. Under his command, these Slicers surround Luke and Zack, snickering as they prepare to slice them up. Suddenly, the door from the patient room is burst off its hinges, throwing one off its feet as Joey and Liam step out. The group all look at each other, Luke declaring they won't give up. As if given a telepathic message, several Red Beasts come running into the room, immediately jumping onto some of the Slicers, clawing at their faces. Evil Guy, aggravated, lets out a screech, commanding his kind to attack.
Suddenly, one of the walls explodes, revealing a new set of Miller's operatives. Suddenly, the opposite wall explodes, revealing Banshee and Bob.
An epic battle ensues.
(Needs a large rewrite)
== Episode 7 ==
For a moment, the setting is transferred to some rundown building, being protected by a mixture of soldiers and LenoCorp remnants hiding behind barricades as a wave of Red Beasts charges forward. They hold their ground, looking at the bodies as snow begins falling.
=== The Search ===
The room is dark, when suddenly the door creaks open, letting light in. Standing there is Zack, peering into the room. In front of him is a chair with a skull on it. He approaches, looking down at the skull, reaching to pick it up.
A light clicks on, and Zack turns.
Sitting in a lounge chair next to a lamp is a bald man, looking at Zack angrily.
The man tells Zack that what he looks for isn't here, but Zack challenges that, charging at the man.
The man, quickly and calmly reacting, closes his eyes.
Zack swings, but is stopped with the clattering of a blade-like arm. He smiles, knowing he's found what he looks for.
The man, in question, is a Slicer; Patient Zero, to be exact.
His spread, presumably a year earlier, was quick and ineffective. This man, realizing his mistake, made sure that all that had been infected with it were killed before it could spread, thus keeping him the last. 
It's confusing for Zack, however, as he knows that he isn't the only. He informs the creature that there is another, thus requesting his assistance.
=== The Pause ===
Joey shivers furiously as Luke sits down next to him with a hot cop of coffee; the two still as Alphas. Miller, who has oddly befriended the brothers, cooks himself a soup in the kitchen, the group taking shelter in a vacant household for the coming winter. They wait patiently, hoping to see Zack and Liam soon, as they've been out doing things for a little while.
Liam, exiting out of a small shack a distance away, walks through a forest in the dead of night, hoping to get some leisure time to take his mind off things. Upon his walk, he comes across an axe head covered in blood. Sitting there, he looks it over, when suddenly a drop of water drips onto his head. Scratching his head, he looks up to see if its raining, only to stare in horror, a bloodied body perfectly balanced atop a tree branch.
Meanwhile
CHRISTMAS
=== The Assassin ===
Placing the body against a concrete wall, Liam goes to look at this masked man, mistaking it for Miller from before. Taking the mask off, he's met with an unconscious face, scars completely covering it. It's definitely not Miller, Liam sees as he steps back from it.
Suddenly, the man stirs, his head lifting itself as he goes to open his eyes. He looks around, not knowing where he's at. He collects his mask off of the ground, placing it back over his head before he looks around again, appearing to be in some sort of shipping yard. He notices something red hiding behind a nearby crate. Getting up, he goes to investigate, peering over the crate.
Liam bolts, emitting a humming sound as he nopes out of the area, fleeing to the corner of the shipping building.
The man, known as Henry, looks on in confusion at the fleeing red creature.
== Episode 8 ==
Entering into Episode 8, the story is shown to be now named 'The Rest of The World' (which is later changed). The story is reintroduced moments after Liam Nart flees from Henry. Henry, perplexed by its existence, decides to pursue it.
=== The Meeting ===
Meanwhile, returning back to the perspective of Zack Morray and Michael Mardo, the Slicer, make their way back to the hideout Zack knows. Zack asks him how his life was before this whole mess. Michael doesn't remember it much, nor does he chose to because of what he did. The two make their way to the hideout through the snow, getting back to the household where Joey Nart and the others are holed up. Miller Cruz has become an ally of the group now, remaining as a passive-aggressive bystander. The group, fed up of waiting for Liam Nart, gather together to celebrate Christmas in the cold.
(This is the episode where BB becomes an official part of Torn Earth)
Meanwhile, Liam is held down, choking for air as the much smaller Henry holds him at gunpoint, his arm firmly down on Liam's throat. Henry starts with an interrogation of Liam.
The scene switches between the group celebrating Christmas and Liam being interrogated, which in turn leads to Henry deciding to kill Liam after getting little to nothing out of him. He points his gun at Liam, preparing to fire, when he himself is suddenly struck by a bullet. He turns to see the Evil Guy, who has tracked both of them down. Henry proceeds to deliver several bullets into Evil Guy's body, dropping him. Henry hears Liam attempting to sneak away, and turns to shoot him too. There's enough of a pause that Henry is suddenly skewered through the chest by an unknown creature. (Spoiler, it's Evil Guy as a Slicer) It decides to rip Henry apart as Liam hides, fleeing from the scene.
=== Epilogue ===
The story turns to December 26, 2039, where the group is living out the day silently. With a knock at the door, Liam is reintroduced to the family, which has been concerned about its whereabouts. Joey, ill with a cold and wrapped in blankets, stumbles out to greet his brother, where he speaks his first words in his Alpha Red Beast form. After chattering for a while, they realize that they do in fact have a few things to clean up with the discovery that the Evil Guy is still alive.
Meanwhile, the story returns to Henry, lying on the ground some amount of time. Mystically, his eyes open as he props himself up, still bloodied by his encounter. He rises, ready to get more answers out of that thing he had hostage, only to realize that it and the other thing are both gone. He rouses, deciding to pursue the mysterious figures, being that he's left with nothing else.
== Episode 9 - Chapter 1 ==
=== 'The Hunt' ===
3 years later.
The scene starts with Liam Nart waking up, bruised and scarred; now much more matured, more complex looking. He wakes his brothers, and remarks on a freshly burning building that whatever they did has been accomplished. His brothers change from their Alpha forms as the group wanders back to safety, Liam taking charge, ordering that the others should be gathered. Luke and Zack agree to finding Michael and Miller.
=== The Reunion ===
Presumably a few days later, in the dead of the night, Michael Mardo is seen sitting atop a large story building, looking over the ruins of the city below. Zack steps into frame. 
 
Walking alone, Luke makes his way to a building he's well adjusted with. Zack appears behind him, notifying him that Michael has been added to the party. Michael asks what's up, and Luke explains to him the desire to reunite the group. 
The trio stand in front of an old warehouse building, the windows boarded up. Luke is familiar with it as he opens the door, reassuring a worried Michael there's nothing to worry about.
Just then, an automated turret lines its barrel up with Luke's head. Firing off several rounds, the trio duck behind cover, Zack and Michael together behind a crate watching Luke flail under fire as his own crate gets torn to shreds. Zack comes up with a plan to launch Michael, and does so, allowing Michael to slice the turret in half with his scythes. Weary, the group come together, preparing to enter through the next door at the top of the turret's platform.
On the other side, two operatives kneel, ready to shoot. The door opens slowly with a creak, the two waiting.
Suddenly, a hand sticks out, waving at them. Along it is a rather human-sounding voice, telling them not to shoot, and that they are there for their boss. The operatives cautiously approach the door, put off by the red arm that was just shown to them. Opening the door, they are greeted by the three atrocities, smiling back at them. Nervous, they tell them to 'wait a moment', closing the door.
After some whispered discussion, the door is opened back up again, Miller Cruz stepping into sight as the lights are turned on. He's glad to see them again, and agrees to go with them on the continued search for the Evil Guy.
=== The Plan ===
Luke counts off his fingers as he figures out whose present. Luke, counting off Michael, has trouble for a moment, as after all these years of doing stuff, the crew has yet to learn his name. After getting that out of the way, the group has a mini celebration, where the discussion on what to do next comes into play. Luke expresses his desire to leave the island, and make it to mainland. Miller, the only full human left in the group, expresses his concerns with having the harbingers of the entire outbreak migrate to mainland Europe. Miller, straddling the conversation, yells at them for such an idea: doing so would only spread the infection further, killing millions. He's broken out of his tirade when he's told that the infection had already reached the mainland since the beginning, where he drops the subject. Asking what else they'll be doing, a voice speaks up from behind him.
"We're getting the Sergeant." Liam says, walking in as he looks at the group.
Meanwhile
An empty alleyway becomes alive as Henry dashes into it, hiding behind a building as a horde of Red Beasts dash down the street in pursuing him. Thinking he's lost them, he continues forth in the alleyway, escaping from the scene.
=== The Flashback ===
Luke settles down in his sleeping bag, drifting off to sleep as the day ends. He dreams of simple things, before being brought back into a once-existing reality. Awoken by a LenoCorp guard, he rouses from his cot, finding himself back at the place where it all started.
(This scene mostly exists just to rehash the situation with better visuals)
Luke goes through the whole song and dance as he relives his experience.
As he remembers, Luke goes through the process of following the guard, watching him die as he's taken up through the ventilation. He then continues forth, watching his brother Joey slaughter another guard, which reveals the infection process. He then comes across a computer room that then also reveals his brother is the patient zero for the virus, then followed up with Joey coming directly in contact with him, preparing to kill him.
He comes in direct contact with his brother, suspended in the air as Joey holds him up, ready to strike. Sputtering out his last words, Luke settles for his death, but not before Joey remembers who he is, his sentience returning briefly as he puts his brother down.
Then, there is a gunshot, and Joey convulses.
== Episode 9 - Chapter 2 ==
It's dark. Luke can be heard calling for his brother. For a moment, Joey's legs flash into visible sight before being consumed by darkness again.
Joey and Luke look at each other, familiarity coming across them both. The moment is cut short, however, as a bullet rips through Joey, sending flesh spewing onto Luke. Gripping his chest, Joey's thoughts cloud to his animalistic nature oncemore, turning to see the culprit.
There stands the man, the warden watching over the whole operation. The Sergeant, his pistol smoking, dares to challenge with his two bodyguards. Joey roars, the group going into combat as the guards wildly fire at the fastly approaching monster.
Luke cries out to Joey as several bullets embed into his chest, when suddenly a stray hits Luke in the right shoulder, sending him crashing to the floor in pain.
It's dark. For a moment, Joey's legs flash into visible sight before being consumed by darkness again.
Joey, hearing a wail, turns and sees his brother on the floor. His mind slowly creeps back as he stares at his downed brother, but not before jolting in pain as the Sergeant drives a knife square into his back.
The guards go to reload, when suddenly one is struck dead, a terrible limb puncturing through his forehead as he drops to the floor. The Sergeant turns, seeing his flank is exposed as the second guard falls ill to several smaller Alpha Red Beasts. He looks back, ripping the knife out of Joey's back, slashing a Red Beast guard's throat wide open. He switches to his pistol, killing another. Seeing a third approaching, he aims at its grenade, shooting and blowing it and several others up.
As the smoke clears, the Sergeant looks on, proud of what he's accomplished. He is suddenly grappled, as Joey lifts him up, spinning him around, holding him by his neck. Joey's appendage cracks, stretching to prepare for the strike, when suddenly Luke calls out. He begs Joey not to kill him, wanting this bloodshed to stop. Joey cooperates, dropping the Sergeant, who quickly flees from the scene.
=== Reunion ===
Joey turns, walking to his brother. Suddenly, he begins changing, Luke looking on in shock as Joey seems to transform, returning to a human form. Standing head to head, the two embrace one another, sharing sad expressions. The two break from the moment, returning to the desire to escape from the facility. Running for a period, the two come across a large hangar-like exit tunnel, smiles on their faces. They dash towards it, cheerily making their way to the gaping exit.
Suddenly, there is a crack. Luke doesn't notice for a bit, but soon his eyes catch the attention of Joey's state. Standing still, he sees Joey gushing blood as a bullet rips through him, his body collapsing onto the ground. The Sergeant looks on from the far end of the tunnel, cocking his rifle as Luke drops to his knees next to his brother. He weeps as Joey weakly touches his face, telling him he must continue his legacy. In a quick moment, Joey's fingers lengthen, digging into Luke's face as he slices them down his cheek. Then, Joey goes still, leaving Luke watery-eyed looking at his deceased brother.
Luke cranes forward, weeping onto the floor. He cries for quite a while, not noticing that the infection has begun to take ahold of him...
=== Vengeance ===
Growing twice his size, Luke becomes like the monsters infesting the facility, becoming like his brother. His form grows muscular as two appendages rip out from his back. He roars as his clothes fall in tatters below him, The Sergeant dropping his rifle and fleeing after seeing such a horrid sight.
The Sergeant bolts out from the hangar, taking a corridor to get to a safer area. As he turns a corner, he is taken hold by a Red Beast, which he quickly kills with a knife to the head. He continues his escape, fleeing towards a decontamination zone.
Luke is not far behind, audibly within his range. The Sergeant tries to thwart him with a closed metal door, but Luke kicks it off its hinges. The Sergeant dashes down a very narrow corridor, turning to the side and entering into a small observation room, smashing a large red button reading 'Lockdown'. An alarm sounds as the doors on opposing sides of the hall begin closing, not without the first one being seized by Luke as he forces it up so that he can enter. He looks at The Sergeant, growling as he punches the next door, which has already closed by now. He turns to escape the small hallway, but finds the other one has closed too. He stands there, angry, looking back over at The Sergeant behind a wall of glass. The Sergeant, going off a hunch, quickly turns a dial to engage a shutter for the window. Simultaneously, Luke punches the glass, shattering it and morphing the metal shutter as it closes, leaving The Sergeant startled on the other side.
Luke sits there for a moment, grumbling, when suddenly one of his appendages twitches and lengthens. He swings it around, looking it over as an idea pops into mind.
The outside of the small hallway is peaceful for only but a moment, when suddenly a red appendage rips right through the metal door, slowly dragging it open. The Sergeant goes to see the commotion, watching Luke open the door just in time for him to flee again as Luke opens it fully, roaring at him.
The two engage in chase once more, endless hallways biding their time. The Sergeant is almost out of reach, a foot away from Luke, so close to death. It doesn't help that Luke suddenly feels weird, his back itching as it suddenly shoots with pain as four small red tendrils burst from his flesh.
The Sergeant suddenly feels his footing go under him, causing him to fall as a tendril yanks on his boot. Hitting the floor hard, he tries to regain composure, but fails to when a large foot presses itself onto his back, leaning its weight onto him. Luke grabs him by the throat, lifting him up in the same manner his brother did.
"Finally, I have you." Luke says to him in a deep voice as he monologues to him briefly, The Sergeant struggling for his knife.
"Here, how about you try your own medicine?" Luke suggests, taking his knife and driving it into his back in the same manner he did with Joey.
Luke is done with playing games, however, and holds The Sergeant higher up as his now-spiky appendage cracks into position, ready to strike him.
"Go to Hell." Are The Sergeant's last words.
== Episode 9 - Chapter 3 ==
The Evil Guy lay dead on the floor, the entire left side of his head totally blown off from the puncture. Luke lingers down the corridors, thinking to himself about the situation. He yearns for his brother, but doesn't know what to do, what Joey meant by 'continuing his legacy'. He doesn't understand how he's able to retain his sanity, as obviously Joey struggled with it prior. Maybe it was the drive of vengeance that had just kept him determined minutes ago. Maybe he was special. He didn't know.
Entering into the hangar, Luke found his brother surrounded by several Red Beasts: laying there motionless, his face frozen in an open grin. Luke closes his eyes, but cannot fight off the overwhelming feeling of grief as tears begin to stream down his face oncemore. Opening his eyes again, he takes the duty of taking his brother with him, coiling his tendrils around his slain brother's body and lifting him up. He walks to the exit.
The sun is blinding. It's a beautiful cloudless day; a little warm for the season. As Luke's eyes adjust, he becomes aware of the fact that the Red Beast creatures have already escaped from the facility, seeing a burning city not too far in the distance. A groan disrupts Luke's train of thought, peering down to see his brother's eyes slowly open. Luke tears up again as he addresses his brother, who has no clue where he is or what happened. He is struck with pain as he tries to rise out of Luke's arms, Luke pressing him down with a tendril, and reminding him of the fact he has taken a sniper caliber to the chest. Luke questions how Joey is alive, but Joey has no answer.
"It doesn't matter now." Luke concludes, "What matters is you're alive." Luke continues as he begins walking into the horizon.
=== The Nightmare ===
Luke doesn't wake up yet. He instead is brought into a nightmare, where the Evil Guy tortures him, reminding him of the fact of all the millions of innocent people that have succumbed to the virus, and how he alone allowed it to continue with rescuing his brother and killing him. Luke is overcome with guilt as memories flash through his mind, the last thing he sees: the bullet traveling towards him as Zack moves in front of him.
Luke jumps awake.
"Joey! Liam!" he cries, before realizing where he is.
"Oh... It was allllll a dream." he realizes, deciding to still check on his family.
=== Concern for Joey ===
Luke, after wandering around the rather well-furnished warehouse, first comes across Zack in the 'kitchen'. He then finds Liam taking on his workout in an improvised gymnasium. Finally, he finds Joey, sitting in a white unfinished room, cross-legged on the floor, facing away from him. Luke approaches, asking him if he remembers how this all started, by which Joey responds after flashing through his own experience. 
Luke asks about the morality of the subject, whether it bothers him. Luke is put off when Joey tells him he sees nothing wrong with the infection, that they merely 'purged a tainted race'. Luke pulls out of the conversation, leaving with a goodbye as he thinks worriedly about the mental health of his brother.
"What do you mean you think he lost it?" Zack asks as he firmly places his cup down.
Luke explains his hunch on the situation, telling him what he experienced. Zack believes it isn't entirely Joey's fault, being that he probably wasn't in control. And in regards to the Evil Guy, believes Joey is just with the fact that he was killed. Luke brings up a fact from his dream, that the Evil Guy was doing his duty to protect humanity. Zack expresses how he never thought about it that way, but still thinks Joey is fine.
Liam sits, sweat dripping off of him as his name is called.
"You think our brother went insane?" Liam asks, rubbing his face dry.
Liam does realize that for quite some time they had been portraying Joey as innocent in this whole deal, and that they have to remember the fact he basically started the apocalypse. Liam isn't convinced he's insane perse, but Luke informs him of Joey's statement of being 'just'. Liam tells him he'll go check on Joey soon.
"So, you think Joey is insane?" Miller says suddenly as he catches Luke off guard in a dim hallway.
Miller informs him that he seconds Luke's notion, believing Joey is totally off his hinge.
Luke takes this into consideration as he continues on his way, he thinks about the different opinions, hoping that his brother will get better.
== Episode 9 - Chapter 4 ==
=== 'Scavenge' ===
Henry breathes hard, collecting himself from a long run. He looks up at the building in front of him: a large warehouse with all of the windows barricaded. He pulls his pistol out, cocking it.
Liam walks into the empty white room, finding Joey cross-legged on the floor, facing away from him, staring at his hand, which is fleshy red.
"Joey?" Liam asks, breaking the silence. His brother cranes his neck, looking up at him before looking away.
"Hey Liam." Joey responds quietly. "You here to ask of my sanity too?"
Liam explains to him the common concern for him coming from Luke. He tells him he just wants to know what's up.
Joey explains how he believes that this was destined to happen, how they can't go back from this anyhow. Liam inquires on the lives taken, but Joey finds nothing wrong with such destruction, believing they are simply 'useless people reborn for a better cause.' Liam is also concerned by this response, and decides to break away from Joey with an off-topic question. He leaves, taking in this information.
=== Finding The Sergeant ===
"He was last seen... Here." Liam says, circling the city of Edinborg on a paper map. He begins explaining the situation, rolling off a list of requests.
Miller can cover transportation. Zack will take care of foodstuffs, Luke will scout out the local roadways to see the easiest unblocked route out of the city, and Michael will write the directions. The group disperses, quickly preparing for the trip.
As Zack shuts the trunk, the gang pile into Miller's SUV, preparing for the trip. Miller turns the ignition, and hits the gas!
"We forgot gas." Miller says, looking at the gauge.
"...I'll go get some." volunteers Luke.
"Me too." adds Zack.
=== The Gas Run ===
Luke and Zack approach an old run-down gas station not too far out of the main city. Entering through the shattered entrance, Luke peers around the empty station, deciding to head to the back to hopefully find something.
Zack searches the shelves, finding what remains of derelict cans of food, when suddenly he hears something clunk outside. Looking around, he sees nothing out of the ordinary outside of the station.
"Don't move." calmly demands a voice from behind him, a gun audibly cocking.
Luke walks out from a back room, successfully filling his Jerry can, when he stops in his tracks, seeing Zack with his arms up as a mystery man pats him down. He puts the can down, his skin beginning to bubble red.
"Let's see what you got." says the man as he pats Zack down, reaching his pockets and taking his personal knife out. He goes to search Zack further, but is cut off as a tendril shoots out and wraps around his neck. Choking, he looks up, seeing a giant Alpha Red Beast looking him down.
"Oh my God!" cries another man in a straw hat, pointing at the creature with a gas-masked man at his side.
"It's a fucking slicer!" he says in panic.
The two bandits begin firing at Luke, injuring him and their other friend. Luke flings the first man towards them, knocking over the man in the straw hat. The gas mask man turns to look at them, then back at Luke as he charges towards him at full speed. The gas mask man calmly and quickly draws his pistol, aiming and firing at Luke.
The bullet rips through Luke's abdomen, taking him off balance as he lunges at the man and hits the asphalt. He goes to get up, but the gas mask man appears in front of him, gun pointed at his head. Acting fast, Luke smacks the pistol out of the man's hand with his appendage, getting up as the man is left defenseless. With an intimidating growl, he prepares to kill the man, but is suddenly taken off by a heaving cough, which multiplies into a coughing fit.
The man slowly slides away as Luke retches forward, coughing until odd shaped strings shoot out of his mouth in a haze of saliva. The man, regaining his pistol, prepares to fire, but is knocked out cold by Zack, who has also transformed. Zack looks down at the man's corpse, turning to see the other two as they drag each other away. They are freaked out seeing such a sight, fleeing and leaving their friend behind.
Zack goes to help Luke up, but Luke pauses, noticing the red strings on the ground. He's awe-stricken by what he sees.
"...These, worms, came out of me..."
The two recover from the experience, heading to go retrieve the gas.
As the two depart, the scene is brought to the deceased gas mask man, a worm wriggling towards his mask, disappearing into it....
== Episode 10 - Chapter 1 ==
Epik Berm shows off his idea board to the rest of the Brain HQ, proudly renaming the series to 'Broken Britain'. The rest of his brain is not amused, and soon enough, a fight breaks out between the several brain Epiks about the quality of this product renaming.
=== 'Journey' ===
Henry cautiously opens the door, entering into the dark warehouse silently, his gun drawn.
The SUV is finally filled up and ready to go. The group checks in to make sure they have everything before Miller opens the garage, hitting the gas with an actual response this time as the vehicle drives off into the cityscape.
Miller's two mercenary buddies George and Jason casually play cards against one another, as is this custom. They have the entire warehouse to themselves, but they enjoy hanging out with each other most of the time. As one of them goes to draw a card, a sudden bang interrupts the silence as a bullet embeds itself into George's leg, causing him to collapse. Jason reacts quickly, drawing a shotgun from his back, but has his own hand shot, causing him to drop it as the attacker comes into view.
Tied together in chairs, the two wait patiently as their attacker draws near. Henry grabs George by the face, squeezing his cheeks as he forces his head up to his own.
"Where are they?!" Henry demands.
"You'll never get shit out of us!" George barks back.
Henry knows how to change his mind.
After a row of punches and kicks in several locales, Henry draws his pistol, placing it on George's scalp as he asks the question once more. George tells him to go to hell, and Henry remarks about his loss of life, aiming the gun at George's face, quickly aiming down and shooting him in the groin.
George screams for several seconds before Henry ends his miserable life with a bullet to the brain. Jason shudders as his footsteps become apparent, drawing closer as he glares at Jason.
"I'll only ask once..."
=== Edinborg ===
It's by luck that the main roads of Edinborg aren't plagued enough with old wrecks of people trying to escape from the infection. Quickly sailing into Edinburg, the group observe the area around, seeing the many wrecks and scenes of battle between man and beast. Miller has to stop as the road ahead is literally clogged with nothing but old vehicles, the group jumping out of the vehicle and deciphering small groups to begin the search for the Evil Guy. Miller equips his iconic mask, something he's not worn almost since the last time the group was together. Luke tells him to just stick with them so that he won't be attacked by any Red Beasts.
Henry exits from the warehouse, disappointed with his failure to extract information from the bandits he just dealt with. He cleans his gun off from a layer of blood, complaining about how he'll have to track them down all over again, when his eyes come across something.
Turning the corner, he sees the warehouse garage left wide open, a fading trail of tire tracks dashing off into the horizon. His hope returns as he takes on the new lead.
Luke notices the fact that there are barely any Red Beasts around in the large city as he walks with Zack, taking it as a possible indicator of the Evil Guy's presence. Liam surveys the tops of buildings, the sun beating down on him. Miller approaches an old shop, peering in to a shattered glass window, where he is jumped by a Red Beast that viciously goes for his neck. He struggles to keep it at bay with his gun before Joey lays a hand on its head, suddenly causing it to become docile. He helps Miller up, who is more startled of the fact that Joey totally stopped a Red Beast with a mere touch than the actual fact of being attacked by one.
With a scowl, Joey scares the Red Beast off, turning back to Miller, who comments on the fact they seem 'scared' of him.
Liam begins surveying the cars, deciding to investigate a bloody police cruiser.
"Well.. That's pretty damning evidence." Luke exclaims as he comes across the bloodied piles of several Red Beast bodies, organs trailing into an abandoned building. The two decide to check the inside, preparing for what may be waiting for them...
To be continued.
== Episode 10 - Chapter 2 ==
This episode is currently work in progress.
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