A Shocking Reunion (DAD)

This is the ninetieth episode of Die Another Day.

## Story

"No way," Izzy states.

"Yeah," Antonio replies, "They are alive. And they won't be too pleased to see me." Izzy, Claire, and Antonio sat around, preparing for the eventual arrival of their old enemies. Eventually, it was nighttime.

"They probably haven't gone far from here," Claire states.

"I know Claire," Antonio replies.

"Check what I found," Izzy states. Claire walked over to Izzy.

"It's an old Lincoln Loud costume," Izzy states, "It must have been from a Nickelodeon Cruise that stopped here at the onset of the outbreak."

"It looks like it's surprisingly still in good condition," Claire replies.

"I know right," Izzy replies back. Izzy then puts it on.

"Wow. I can't believe how it still feels, even fifteen months later," Izzy states.

"You're a funny boy Izzy," Claire replies. Izzy then blushes. Antonio then sees a trio of zombies headed his way.

"Fuck! Zombies!" Antonio shouts. Antonio then kills two of the zombies, but the third gets the jump on him. As he tries to fight back, the zombie is suddenly shot in the head. He looks to see who did it, and he sees none other than Phillip Bragg himself.

"Phillip?" Antonio asks.

"Antonio," Phillip answers, "You're still alive."

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Antonio asks.

"I've heard about this group called the Northbrook Regional Authority. Me and Shawn attacked an old research base. You would not believe what was going on in there," Phillip answers. Izzy and Claire suddenly ran out.

"What?" Antonio asks. Shawn then walks out of the woods as well.

"Hello," Shawn states.

"Hi Shawn," Izzy and Claire reply.

"They are doing tests on living people," Phillip answers.

"Oh my god," Antonio states.

"Yes," Phillip replies, "They were performing all kinds of experiments on unwilling human participants."

"Unwilling meaning that they didn't ask for it?" Claire asks.

"Precisely child," Phillip answers, "I can show you guys the abandoned base."

"We'll come," Antonio states.

"Good," Phillip replies, "Because you guys really need to know exactly what we're dealing with here." The five of them then walked into the woods towards the abandoned NRA base.

"Here it is, the old base," Phillip states.

"Good thing we had this place cleared out, but the haunting memories of what took place here still persist," Shawn replies. The five of them walked in. The place was littered with dead corpses, both of NRA members and their test subjects. The walls were littered with bullet holes and loose wires hung from the ceiling.

"Before the NRA took this place over it was a normal run of the mill rural hospital," Phillip states, "Now it's a graveyard." Phillip opens the door into one of the testing rooms. Corpses lay strapped to operating tables.

"They would inject a variety of drugs into people. They would cut off body parts just to see if they could reattach them. And they would deliberately induce zombification," Phillip states.

"Why would they do that?" Izzy asks.

"Because they want to create a cure for the virus," Phillip answers, "Their motivations were geared towards that single purpose, and they don't care about what they have to do to achieve that goal. Ethics and morality are completely alien concepts to them. Even Systrike wouldn't have done any of these awful things."

"That's horrible," Claire states.

"Precisely Claire," Shawn replies.

"Even though I can barely see in this mascot head, I can see some of the horrible things that have happened here," Izzy states.

"Good Izzy," Phillip replies, "You need to know all the awful things that have happened here." Phillip then grabs a clipboard and papers off the ground.

"What's that?" Antonio asks.

"This was what I was after," Phillip answers, "It's a manifest document of every single test subject in this facility. And detailed explanations of everything they did."

"We can show that to our group," Antonio states.

"Exactly," Phillip replies.

"But they might be less that flattered to see us," Shawn states.

"I get that," Antonio replies.

"But for now, let's get out of here. Some of these corpses weren't shot in the head and they might reanimate soon," Phillip states. They then left the area with the clipboard and papers.

## Cast

* Izzy Welch
* Claire Celi
* Antonio Celi
* Phillip Bragg
* Shawn Bragg

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first time that Phillip and Shawn Bragg have appeared since "Burial At Sea", not counting the flashback in the previous episode.
* Izzy's new Lincoln Loud costume was intended to be a direct reference to *The Loud Apocalypse*, a Loud House crossover fanfiction also created by Alex.
* This episode was posted exactly two years after the final issue of the Walking Dead comic books, *Issue 193*, was published.
	+ This is the second episode to release on this date, the first is "Overcast". Izzy Welch notably appears in both episodes.