Apocalypse/Chapters

### Prologue

 While en route to a quarantine zone via a military hummer, the group encounters problems occur when one of the soldiers escorting the survivors (Dontey Bailey, Vishal Siddiqui, Wilfred Cunningham, and Rachel Trau) begins sexually-harassing Rachel, who is the youngest at the age of twelve. This causes the soldier in the passenger seat to snap and freak out at the fellow soldier. Suddenly, one of the side doors of the vehicles is ripped right off and the soldier is pulled out and killed. The vehicles are being attacked by mutated beings named Starkers.

The vehicles enter a very thick mist as they approach an upcoming bridge that is out for construction, the driver of the hummer is killed in a similar way as the soldier by being pulled out the windshield. The vehicle overturns off the road killing the Starkers on top but unfortunately stranding Dontey and the others as well as the soldier from the passenger seat who survived the attack. One of the other vehicles ends up crashing on the edge of the bridge where the only soldier in the car is trapped in his seat belt and eaten by zombie Compsognathus before the vehicle falls off the bridge and down to the river below.

Dontey wakes up a few hours later around a warm campfire set by the soldier in the passenger seat and they both have a short chat with the soldier about plans for the following day, but learns there isn't one. The soldier kicks out the campfire and Dontey goes back to sleep while the soldier stays awake.

### September 12th, 2010

Hours earlier, Rachel Trau stands crying in the bathroom of a local house party as she cuts her arm with a razor blade. It is revealed that Rachel suffers from social anxiety and depression and has been having a rough time with her friends and family in the past. Rachel is then comforted by her friend Samantha Richards. Samantha then insists on introducing Rachel to some new friends and making her have an enjoyable time at the party. Rachel and Samantha then begin getting hit on by Jed and Tyler Wright. Jed goes with Samantha, while Tyler goes with Rachel, and Jed's friend Jerome Akkad observes them and cheers on his friends.

In the room, Rachel and Tyler begin making out and undressing, but Rachel soon stops him, and tells him that she's not mentally stable enough at the moment. Tylar understands and Rachel begins to tell him about her recently ended relationship with her ex-boyfriend. It is then that strange lightening emits from outside and Tyler, Jed, Jerome and Sarah leave to investigate it in the woods while Rachel stays behind.

Leaving the security of the house, Tyler, Jed, Jerome and Sarah delve deep into the woods to find the place where the strange lightening had struck, expecting to find a UFO, the group then find a hole in the ground almost as if something had clawed it's way up from beneath the soil. Shortly thereafter, the police arrive at the party and at the sound of the sirens, the kids scatter individually deeper into the woods and become lost.

As the party is broken up, Officer Wilfred Cunningham comes across Rachel alone in one of the bedrooms' and instantly recognizes her as not only the Trau's kid, but as Dawson Bradley's girlfriend. Rachel explains that they broke up, and it is then that Wilfred notices the scars on her arm and offers to give her a ride home and not alert her parents of her wrong doings, while meanwhile in the woods, Jerome runs for his life as a strange creature chases after him. However, he trips and falls. Scared for his life, he places himself against a tree and watches as a Samantha is attacked and eaten by something. Jerome tries his best to control his breathing to avoid being detected when he notices a sticky substance dropping down on his skin, he looks up to find a zombie Dilophosaurus looking down on him from the tree and is then pounced and killed by it.

At the same time, Dontey Bailey sit's alone in the local bar on his fourth beer when he is joined by Vishal Siddiqui, who starts conversing with Dontey. Vishal reveals that he has been having troubles with his family while Dontey tells him he was attacked by a man strange man earlier in the day after going shopping for his pregnant wife Leia. It's then that the same attacker from the supermarket, wanders in and attacks the bartender. Vishal and Dontey struggle to pull the attacker off the bartender, and while succeed, Vishal who is a surgeon takes notice that her wounds are too severe, while Dontey fights off the attacker, the few take notice of an explosion from outside the bar and run out to find the rest of the town in chaos at the same time that Wilfred and Rachel arrive back to see the same thing.

Dontey and Vishal barely escape through the streets when they are signaled over to shelter by a few survivors inside a local hotel, there they run into Joseph Stieker along with Joseph’s friend and Vishal’s brother: Ajay Siddiqui and his son Meraj. The few discuss plans for escaping the hotel and the town as a whole. Dontey suggests that the whole world might be like their town but Vishal tells him not to jump to conclusions. It is then that Wilfred and Rachel arrive in the hotel and Ajay is both shocked by this, knowing Rachel to be the adopted daughter of a close friend. Joseph fills Wilfred in on the plan and the two groups agree to separate. Joseph, Ajay and Meraj to try to escape the town head on, while Dontey and Vishal inform the military of the crisis and wait for rescue. While, Ajay decides because Wilfred is armed that it's best for Rachel to stay with the others instead of trying to escape with him, Joseph and Meraj. Dontey then receives a phone call from the police station from his wife Leia Bailey and can only bear to hear her cry for help. Thus, Dontey, Wilfred, Vishal and Rachel leave, being joined by a young man named Eric Markmen who joins them for safety.

Leaving the hotel, Dontey, Vishal and Rachel come across their next big threat tearing through the town, zombie dinosaurs. The dinosaurs manage to overrun the hotel and Dontey can only pray for Joseph’s safety. Suddenly, the Eric is pulled into the air and ate almost whole by a zombie Daspletosaurus who announces his presence to Dontey by crushing a nearby zombie with its saurian foot. The few are rushed to Wilfred's police cruiser and given a ride to the police station running over various infected and zombies in the process. Dontey and the others finally arrive at the police station to find it in ruin.

Inside the police station, Dontey finds his wife dead, along with his wife's younger brother -- Dawson. While Dontey sobs over her death, Rachel turns away upset but not remorseful. This is before their attention turns to the undead clawing at the windows. Dontey and the others rush to call in an evacuation to the military just as a vehicle screeches through the streets and the sound of bullets firing echoes. The group run out into the street to find the military has already arrived, but only in the form of three vehicles. Dontey and the others are rescued and climb onboard. They soon learn that they are among the last pockets of survivors, not in just the town, but in the whole country. Inside the vehicle, the soldiers are faxed reports and information of the survivors they just rescued.

### Apocalypse

The main protagonist, Liam Kendall is introduced. He is an overweight, greasy, and unhygienic loner. Liam arrives at school early and there is a short introduction to Liam and his best friend; social butterfly and gamer Nick and his crush; hyperactive shy band-freak Leah. Liam is edged by his friends Kyle Dennis, Krista Nguyen and Bailey Graham to tell Leah that he likes her. After much thought, Liam decides to confess his feelings to Leah when he realizes he needs to empty his bladder and heads to the washrooms. Using one of the urinals, he notices a strange kid entering the restroom. He looks over at the kid, zips up his jeans and is about to confront the kid when he is attacked and bitten by the kid who is almost instantly recognized by Liam to be a zombie.

Liam manages to fight the zombie by bashing its head off the toilet in one of the stalls. Worried about the well-being of his best friend and the girl of his dreams, he heads off back to his classroom only to find it locked and the window on the door blocked. He tries to scream for help, but there is no response, he breaks a glass case with an emergency axe and uses the axe to breaks the window of the door. He unlocks it from the inside and runs in, finding almost all the class having disappeared, apparently having gone off to music class with the exception of four students: Leah, Nick, Kurt Heyda and Kylie Willis.

Kylie being Leah's best friend requests that they stay in the classroom but Liam refuses, pointing out that it's not safe. They try to reach a conclusion, but Leah seems determined to stay with Kyle. Liam noticing the undead are now about to attack them forcibly pulls Leah out of the room and leaves Kylie to her assumed demise, but not before she states that she would regroup with them at the back of the school. Liam tosses her the emergency axe so that she can use it for defense. Liam uses an aluminum baseball bat near the coat hangers to attack the zombies. However, during the battle against the undead, Kurt is cornered and bitten.

Liam kills the zombie attacking him and the four run into a very crowded storage room with the only light emitting from one large window. Liam starts to have a nervous breakdown but is calmed down by Leah who comforts him by cuddling him. Liam grabs a nearby fire blanket, and with Leah at his side, decides to take a quick nap to calm him down and wait for the chaos to cool outside the room as well. He is awoken fifteen minutes later by Nick and the two have a quiet conversation about what they are going to have to do about Kurt, Liam soon notices Kurt has become extremely pale, is coughing heavily and his health is deteriorating increasingly fast. Liam decides to talk to Kurt casually, and the few make jokes and take the situation lightly with Kurt unaware of the effects of the bite, but it isn't far into the conversation before Kurt falls unconscious. Liam realizes what has to be done. Liam turns back to Nick to discuss what to do about Kurt, Kurt however returns from his unconscious state and rises as an infected during the conversation and attacks Liam from behind, Liam fights struggles to resist the now infected Kurt and ends up bashing against the window, shattering the glass with his back. Liam with the help of Nick manages to break loose from Kurt's grasp and Liam pushes Kurt out through the window to what Liam hopes will be his demise. However, looking out the window, Liam see's Kurt rising up from the ground and shambling off before looking back at the others.

### Escape From Algonquin

In the servery of the school’s cafeteria, Bruce Pham and Emily Hart sit in the dark, Emily using her cell phone but finding that there isn't any service. Bruce mentions that it's not a good idea to use it, and that the lack of service is likely because of the thick walls of the school. Emily decides to go out into the cafeteria to find out what's going on, despite the Code Red warning, and Bruce's attempts to stop her, she tells him to stay and wait and he nods.

Meanwhile, Liam, Leah and Nick leave the room through the window, onto the roof. The three carefully climb over into the next room over which is a French class room and encounter Krista and Melissa Evans, two seventh graders. The group ponders a way of escape and Liam is reminded of something from his “dream”. He opens the door slightly, and everyone believes he is insane. But he walks over silently and throws a basketball down the hallway, the noise attracting the zombies' attention, the zombies ignoring Liam and the others entirely.

The group moves through the hallway quickly but quietly and upon entrance to the staircase encounter Bailey, of whom they almost mistake for a zombie. They walk down the staircase but find the exit blocked from the outside by a van and realize their only other option is through the front entrance. The few quickly rush through the first floor that is filled with the undead, but find the main lobby too crowded with the undead and decide to rush in through the gymnasium and escape out the door by the school's servery. Leah sprains her ankle in the process and Liam rushes to her aid, carrying her to the servery until they can figure out a plan for once they escape out the school.

Inside the servery, they encounter Bruce, who still is clueless as to the outside situation and the zombies. Leah is shocked and happy to see him, they hug and Leah cries. Liam pauses, remembering Kurt and Kylie and looking back at Leah, Nick, Bailey, Bruce, Krista and Melissa. Liam tries to explain what they had just been through to Bruce.

Being the most logical of the bunch, Bruce accepts the possibility of Emily's death and that with Leah's sprained ankle; they wouldn't be able to get very far outside the school with the undead chasing them. Liam and Bruce come to the conclusion that they would need Ibuprofen from the school's main office to help Leah deal with the pain and Bailey volunteers to go with Liam to pick it up. Melissa volunteers as well, but Bruce tells they should sent as few people as possible. Bailey assures Melissa, Krista and the others that she and Liam will be back shortly.

Liam and Bailey sneak through the gymnasium quietly, along the edges of the room as to not bump directly into any of the undead. They soon reach the empty office through the crowds and they search through various cupboards, Liam notices a cupboard labelled “Medicines” but it is locked and Bailey cautiously decides to search the now unrecognizable body of the secretary. Finding the key and backing away, Bailey is attacked from behind and bitten in the shoulder by a zombie that approaches from behind her. Liam manages to kill the zombie, unlocks the cupboard and grabs two bottles of the medication and a first aid kit. He then fills a glass of water and gives her a few of the painkillers in an attempt to help her. But Bailey has suffered a very severe wound and tells Liam that he needs to stop being negative and stop hating himself and that he needs to leave her behind because the others are relying on him. She takes one of the pill bottles from his hand and Liam accepts her choice. Leaving the office and heading back to the others.

When he arrives back to the servery, he places the medication on the counter and tosses Bruce the first aid kit. He sighs heavily before walking over to Leah and hugging her. When Krista asks where Bailey is, there is only silence from Liam. Krista begins to break down into tears in loss of her friend; Melissa lets Krista cry into her shoulder to avoid making much noise that would attract the undead. Bruce shakes his head in sadness and disappointment and walks over to the counter and is suddenly grabbed by two hands that burst through the thin metal shutters of the servery window. Liam tries to pull him from the undead grasp, but it's no use as a whole swarm of undead gather around. Bruce tells Liam to leave him and get the others out of the school. While the zombies are distracted by Bruce, Liam and the others escape through the back staircase into the yard of the school.

In the staircase, the group comes across Kyle. Who is well aware of the zombies and had survived using a broken pair of scissors. Kyle offers each of them a piece of gum, Liam however refuses. Kyle approaches Liam and asks if he had asked Leah out yet. Liam changes the conversation and asks Kyle how he managed to survive and learns from him that there are other survivors scattered throughout the school and that through careful observation of the undead, they hunt people by sound and smell. This confuses Liam at first, remembering how he and the others had managed to walk past the undead. Kyle explains that the zombies are in fact “dead”, but only by a bit, and that the smell of early decay and Liam's very poor hygiene are remarkably similar, making the undead ignore Liam and those in close proximity to him. This makes Liam partially believe that Kurt and Bailey's deaths were his fault. The group decides to head out the back. However, when they do, Leah is distressed to find Kylie is nowhere to be found and begins to breakdown in tears, but Liam supports her. Promising that they didn't see Kylie die, and she is probably still alive and holed up with the other survivors Kyle had mentioned.

While Melissa comforts a still distraught Krista, Nick brings up the idea of heading to the nearby variety store to pack up on supplies and escape the city. Liam agrees and the few head the general direction of the store. Eventually arriving, the group finds the store abandoned and each grab as many random items as possible. Liam and the others decide they should only grab as much as they will be willing to carry. Upon exiting the store, the group is notified by Kyle that he has decided to stay in the neighborhood and won't be accompanying them out of the city. The group all pay their respects to Kyle and wish him best. Most notably; Liam, Leah and Nick. Liam and the others head off on their way, but not before Kyle is confronted by a mysterious girl whom he is well aware was following them.

### The Road Behind Us

Liam and the others continue down the suburban neighborhood, they soon reach an intersection, and upon turning, run into Stan Marzec and Ken Johnson, both ninth graders at the local catholic high school. Krista is lightened to see Stan alive and well. Liam is happy to see them both and Stan tells him about their escape from their school and their losses along the way, stating that he and Ken started in a group of twelve, and that they are all that remains. Knowing now that the situation is not isolated to the school itself, Stan begins questioning Liam's exact escape plan from the city; Liam notices an open-door van in the driveway of one of the houses. Liam is relieved to find that the van is empty of any zombies and finds a pair of keys in the glove box. The group gets comfy in the back of the van and Liam takes up position as the driver and they begin their escape from the city.

Back at the start of the same day, Dontey and the others continue south on foot following the soldier from the passenger seat whose name is revealed to be Ryan. They continue for hours, they raid two abandoned and empty gas stations in the time being, seeing very horrid images along the way and having to seek shelter from a flock of zombie Pteranodon and even an Albertosaurus. The group soon stops at a empty motel and stop for a rest. There, Wilfred confronts Vishal about plans for getting out of this mess, now that they are aware that all of America is in ruin from the unknown contagion. Vishal considers just staying on the road and surviving, noting that eventually the zombies will rot away and as the years pass there will only be less and less. Wilfred however believes that there must be an escape through Canada or Mexico.

In the meanwhile, Dontey decides to search all the rooms of the motel, making sure it's secure before they get too comfy. Ryan sits down on the edge of the bed with Rachel and tries to apologize to her for the other soldier's attitude on the transport earlier. She shrugs it off, not making it of any importance. Ryan asks if she's alright, noticing her quiet and transparent attitude. Rachel tells him that she's fine and Ryan decides to go check on Dontey. Ryan finds him searching out the last room of the motel and upon opening the bathroom door they find the shower running, Dontey sticks his hand under the water and is pleasantly surprised when it's warm. Ryan and Dontey return to tell the others the good news and the sour-smelling group all happily decide to take showers.

This enjoyment is cut-short however when a zombie Proceratosaurus sneaks into one of the motel rooms and finds itself searching through the house by the sound of the water running and the smell of body wash. The Proceratosaurus storms into the bathroom and attacks Rachel through the shower curtain, Rachel manages to partially strangle the monster with the curtain but this doesn't do much. She manages to fight it out of the washroom using the curtain hanger and slams the door shut. She screams for help and Ryan comes rushing in from the neighboring motel room to her rescue. He attacks the monster with a military blade and kills the creature with a stab right into the exposed cortex of the creature’s brain. He wipes the blood off his hands and face and alerts Rachel that its safe, the water stops running and Rachel opens the door, wrapped in a towel and hugs him, at that moment Dontey and the others rush in, looking down at the body of the dead Proceratosaurus, the group agrees that they have to have someone keep watch when the group is preoccupied.

Rachel and the others collect new clothes from the wardrobes and head out on their way. Eventually, they come across the burning skyline that is the ruins of Fargo in the distance. Back into the wilderness, they come across Liam and the others and climb into the van. After a few minutes of driving, they enter the town of York, Minnesota; they find it ominously deserted with not a one zombie in their sights. However, after a narrow escape from a zombie Triceratops, the van's engine blows and the group has no idea how to fix it. They decide that they'll settle down as nightfall settles and Vishal and Ryan decide to scavenge for supplies. During their search, they come across a man named Thomas Anderson and his seven year old daughter, Melody -- The both of whom were hiding. It is then that Vishal and Ryan learn the town is empty because the local hunter had gone insane and began sniping and killing everyone zombie or not. When asked how they have managed to defend themselves, the man shows them a duffel bag of weapons and ammunition he had from the local police station before they were overrun and ravaged by zombies.

At the same time, outside of town in Kevin Manson and his gang enter town in a city bus with gas running low, the group pulls up approaching a motorbike dealer, all of the group wearing leather clothing with spikes. Kevin looks over at one of his followers and remarks on this being their stop. He motions towards one of the female members in a small leather jacket and shorts and holds her sexually. The girl pulls out a condom out of his pocket and smiles with a raised eyebrow, they both lean forward for a kiss. The others in the gang laugh and giggle, cheering him on, but one of the members steps up, telling Kevin to quite fooling around and dealing with the issue at hand, noticing the small group of zombies approaching them. Kevin looks at the boy in disappointment and agrees with him about dealing with the issue at hand, Kevin pulls out his pistol and shoots the kid in both of the knees. The kid screams in pain and agony while the others laugh and begin kicking him and beating him up. Kevin goes back to making out with the girl. Eventually a zombie closes in and Kevin shoots it in the head, the group decides to steal a few bikes and enter town and they all walk over to the dealer. and hot wire them. The kid reaches out to Kevin, begging for forgiveness, but Kevin laughs it off and drives off on a motorbike with the others. The kid, left helpless is then attacked and devoured by the undead.

### Lament

Dontey and the others manage to find safe haven in one of the abandoned houses. While Dontey thinks it's a great place to set up a temporary stronghold, Vishal confronts him about a more serious issue on whether or not they can trust Liam's group or not. Dontey insists that they're just kids, but Vishal still has his doubts, remembering his cousin Meraj's sporadic and frightening behavior in the past. Wilfred manages to turn on one of the backup generators. With the house now fortified and complete with lighting, they all decide to rest, Vishal, Stan, and Melissa enter the kitchen and start making dinner.

Liam, Leah, Nick, Stan, Krista, Melissa, Ken, Dontey, Vishal, Wilfred, Rachel, Ryan, Thomas and Melody all gather around at a large dining table for dinner. Thomas offers that they say grace. Liam considers backing out because of his beliefs but decides to join in since it's seemingly the end of the world. The group then eats and shares stories of their lives before the outbreak. They soon finish eating and decide that they will continue searching buildings and keeping the place secure while the others get some sleep. Vishal and Ryan decide to go back out only this time Wilfred offers to go with them hoping to find anything that may help with the van's engine.

Stan and Krista are also sent out and head out to search houses for supplies and such in the opposite direction of Vishal, Ryan and Wilfred. They converse about the others and whether or not settling down in the town is a good idea or not. Liam is put on watch over the stronghold and sets up with a rifle from the duffel bag. He gets Rachel to join him for company, not wanting to disturb the others while they finally get rest. After a while the two begin talking about life before the outbreak, Liam admits about his rough and confusing past and living with his overweight and abusive father and Rachel admits to being almost trapped in the world of sex, drugs and alcohol and always living a lie around her adoptive family all to deal with the pain of never really knowing who her real parents were. The similarities between the two become instantly obvious. After a few minutes of silence and staring, the speechless couple lean in close and start making out as they begin to undress, lay down and make love. However, little do they know that rooftops away, they're being watched by the crazed hunter that Vishal and Ryan had been warned about. However, the hunter's reaction changes when he notices something in the corner of his rifle scope. He adjusts the scope and spots Stan and Krista steadily approaching his house.

### Trial By Fire

When Stan and Krista enter the building and walk up the first flight of stairs, they find the hunter himself has set up his own power generator and is watching "A Clockwork Orange" on an old television set while drinking a glass of rye. Stan and Krista are amazed at his collection of stuffed heads and trophy's. He welcomes them in kindly and leads them in the dining room, offering to feed them. When Stan claims they already ate, the man insists. In the dining room, the man leaves to cook them a meal. Stan however is very suspicious of the man and sneaks out of the room and observes him adding the head of a zombie to his taxidermy collection, confirming the theory of him being crazy. Deciding to leave, the hunter sees them sneaking out and mentally snaps, he even attempts to shoot them, Stan and Krista narrowly escaping.

As Dontey watches over the sleeping survivors, he stands thinking about Vishal's words and adopts his friends worry about trusting the other survivors. To put his mind at ease and his suspicions to rest, Dontey decides to check on Liam and Rachel. When he steps onto the rooftop he's shocked at what he finds, seeing the two of them lying naked in one-another's arms. Dontey freaks out. During his almost inaudible rant he complains that Liam was in charge of protecting the safe house and that his poor choices could have led to them all getting killed. He shouts at Rachel to quickly grab her clothes and go back inside. Shutting the door and leaving Liam on the roof alone.

Inside, Dontey is able to calm down slightly. He doesn't want to be the bad-guy. He just wants what's best for Rachel, to take care of his friend's adoptive daughter as if she was his own. Not wanting her to make the mistakes that Vishal's cousin Meraj made. He asks Rachel what she thought he would think if he was here, and she tells him that her life around her adoptive parents was a lie. Dontey takes a few deep breaths and accepts that the most important thing at the moment is survival. He sends Rachel into one of the rooms to get dressed. That's when he hears a gunshot echoing throughout the empty town. He rushes to the roof, thinking that it may have been Liam but upon arrival to the roof, finds that Liam is nowhere to be seen. He runs back in to check on Rachel and finds her missing as well, He rushes downstairs and alerts Nick and Ken about their disappearance and sends them out to go find the missing two.

### In Times of Desperation

Liam is no longer near the house at this point. Instead, Liam comes across a diner, where he is attacked by an infected (a faster, smarter and stronger version of the undead). Liam manages to gain the upper-hand in the attack with extraordinary strength and mobility. He slams the infected against the wall and inhales heavily, sucking out a black mist from the infected’s mouth and into his. The infected falls to the floor lifeless as Liam collapses next to it, pulling up his sleeve to see the bite mark slowly healing itself. However, Liam slowly growls in pain as his body structure begins to change, his bones lengthening and becoming stronger; his body almost instantaneously burning a large majority of his fat and increasing his muscular structure during this transformation, as he screams out in pain, his screams unheard. However, Leah wakes up at the same time, and finding the safe house almost empty; with Dontey on the roof. Leah sneaks out to find Liam and the others.

Kevin and his gang finally arrive in York and wander into a local library building where Kevin has his gang split up and scout out the town. Kevin walks out for a second for a breath of air. There he hears someone coughing. Kevin looks to find military general Theodore Moore leaning against the building smoking a cigarette. Kevin approaches him and the two have a very calm and quiet conversation. Theodore warns him first that if he tries anything funny, he has snipers set up on various rooftops watching them. The few make quick talk; Kevin states that he is working to find someone capable of withstanding the infection and growing from it rather than becoming a mindless slave, explaining that it has become clear to him that the virus is of spiritual nature and are linked by a sort of hive mind that controls them. The idea of this captures Theodore’s interest and the two talk for a few moments longer. Kevin looks back at the library and tells Theodore that he must get going as he has work to do.

In the meanwhile, Ken and Nick manage to follow Liam’s trail and come across the library where they run into Kevin’s fellow bike gang who demand Ken and Nick give them their supplies and reveal their hideout. Thinking in the moment, Ken grabs out the pistol given to him by Dontey and fires at the gang, however, they are quick to fire back and Ken and Nick who take refuge in a nearby building, Nick criticizes Ken for his quick thinking, but Ken alerts him that it is not the time to be arguing, noting the bikers quickly approaching them.

Stan and Krista manage to escape the building, but find themselves chased and trapped by the hunter into a dead-end alleyway, where it is revealed that this is where the hunter has dropped all the bodies of the people and undead that he has killed. He corners the two kids, but is interrupted when a not yet dead zombie bites Stan in the leg. The hunter, annoyed shoots the zombie in the head, killing it. Stan, now limping, shoves Krista back, trying to protect her from the maniacal man in front of them. The hunter starts up his chainsaw and shoves it through Stan’s chest, tossing his body easily over to where the fresh corpse of a zombie lay.

In the meanwhile Leah finds Liam standing in the middle of the dark street as it begins to rain down on the town. Liam looks back at Leah with a look of sorrow and regret. The burden put on him by being the group’s leader, Kurt, Bailey and Bruce, the infection inside him, the conflicted feelings he has for Leah and Rachel and the loss of any trust from Dontey, all the stress has worn him down. Leah walks over to Liam and hugs him, stating he’s likely to get a cold standing outside in the rain. However when she hugs him, she notices his drastically different body structure, but before she can mention any comment, she takes notice that Liam’s attention lies otherwise, the two seeing lights in the distance, approaching the lights, they find the motorcycles sitting outside the library and the dim light coming from within. The two walk towards it and upon entrance encounter Kevin, polishing his trusty revolver. Kevin looks back at them and is shocked to see Liam. Kevin asks him about a girl named Clarissa and if she was with him, but Liam has no clue as to who he or this girl named Clarissa is. Kevin changes the topic to the infection and notes that the infection isn’t of scientific cause, but religious. Liam denies this as a possibility, but Kevin assures him that it is “in this universe”. This only confuses Liam more; Kevin laughs and says that he will physically show Liam what he means and fires his gun. Liam falls onto the floor as the bullet passes right through his heart and within a few seconds; Liam takes his last breath and dies. Leah cries out for him, holding his dead body before Kevin points his gun at her almost point blank and apologizes sarcastically for her loss and fires his gun.

The Hunter lunges out at Krista laughing maniacally, when his arm holding the chainsaw is severed off his body, landing on the pavement behind him. In shock and pain, the hunter uses his other hand to hold where his shoulder should be, blood spewing out everywhere. Screaming in pain, he looks up at where Krista was curled up to see Stan standing there, completely healed, his eyes glowing an icy blue. The hunter stumbles and using the arm he still has pulls out a pistol and shoots at Stan with horrible aiming. The gun fires and in a flash, Stan is in front of him, with the hand over the barrel as it fires. Stan grabs the gun from the hunter who falls to his knees in shock. Stan takes the gun, and the hunter begs for mercy, wanting Stan to put him out like an injured animal. Stan refuses, saying that he's not worth killing, and that if he truly wants to die, he just has to wait. Stan and Christina leave and The Hunter lies on the ground, crying for both his mother and for Jesus to take him.

Almost instantly after his death, Liam awakens, his eyes glowing an ominous red like that of the undead zombies. Liam lounges up before the bullet can shoot out of the gun and kill Leah, causing the bullet to hit the wall instead. Liam instantly grabs Kevin with almost superhuman strength and rips out his heart from his body. Kevin looks down as blood gushes from the hole in his chest and falls to the ground lifeless as Liam begins feeding on his remains. The whole thing goes by almost instantly for Leah, who is speechless. Instead her mind flashes back to a conversation he and her had at a gas station outside of York, where she promised to kill him if he ever turned. Leah grabs a bloody axe from nearby and attempts to decapitate the feeding Liam who she believes is a zombie. But, yet again in a quick second, stops the axe with his bare hand, raising up onto his feet and turning around, Leah watches in horror as his mouth drips with blood and his eyes glow the ever familiar red. Liam walks forward out of the shadow and into the light and the blood on his face disappears along with the glow in his eyes. Liam hugs Leah who drops the axe and begins crying. Liam searches Kevin's body for ammunition or any useful supplies and finds a journal and map about the DC Safe Zone and how it’s a death trap and a ploy, the true path to safety being the Alaskan Safe Zone, where military officials and the President have been sent, taking the journal, he and Leah leave.

### Death of a Good Soldier

The whole time, the scene of Kevin's death and Liam's resurrection has been seen by one of the snipers under Moore's command. The General is informed and he instantly begins his search to track down Liam as well. Taking serious interest in Liam's powers, General Moore comes across the mangled and almost dead hunter. When he asks the hunter his name, The Hunter responds with Thomas Compton. The Hunter explains about Rachel, Liam, Stan and Krista. Moore takes interest to Stan as well. But hearing about Liam fascinates him even more and decides to search for Liam. He then pulls out a pistol and shoots Thomas in the head, before moving his squadron out.

While Ken and Nick manage to hold off the majority of the bikers attacking them, they soon find themselves in trouble when the gun runs out of bullets. The group however is saved at the last moment by the military who demand the bikers to lower their weapons, but when the bikers refuse, they are showered with gunfire, as the bikers are all shot down by snipers and soldiers from the rooftops above, in panic, Ken and Nick flee from the scene in an attempt to go back to the safe house.

A few moments later, Vishal, Wilfred and Ryan decide to finish searching and return back to the safe house when they spot Rachel up ahead. The three attempt to catch up with her and end up crossing paths with the military led by Moore and are temporarily blinded by a flash grenade which sends shrapnel into Wilfred's eyes. Ryan tells the two of them to run and they do so. As the smoke clears, the soldier remembers the man emerging immediately as The General. Moore explains he knew that zombies couldn't do the type of damage that was seen on the vehicle and that only four military corpses were found – one of whom was Moore’s younger brother. Revealing a false conspiracy to Moore that he and the survivors were responsible. Ryan tries to explain to Moore that he has it wrong and that the zombies are evolving. Moore refuses to believe the soldiers words and as the smoke clears entirely, a group of soldiers emerges behind Moore and fires on his command.

Rachel however is kidnapped by the soldiers. One of them, a lieutenant takes her aside from the soldiers and explains that their General has gone mad and seeks revenge on the rest of the Cramburg survivors but he will not harm her, when she questions his words, the lieutenant explains that Rachel could very well be pregnant with Liam's child, and if that baby is born they could use science to isolate a certain genome in Liam's blood that has allowed him to adapt to the virus and gain powers from it, and while Moore plans to create an army of super soldiers from it, the soldiers are only temporarily supporting his crusade to instead create a vaccine.

As Wilfred and Vishal rush back to the safe house to warn the others and are met halfway by Stan, Krista, Ken, Nick, Liam and Leah. The few rush as fast as they can, however Moore and the army have already entered the house.
Dontey slowly and quietly wakes a sleeping Melissa to alert her of the military and the two hide in a closet as Moore and his soldiers awake Thomas and Melody and drag them into the streets. Thomas begs Moore to let his young daughter live. Moore refuses and they are both executed at the curb. However things take a turn for Moore when a large number of infected attack the army, they are surprised at the speed of the infected compared to the undead and just barely hold out. The military pulls back as two helicopters land nearby, the survivors watching from a distance. Vishal looks to see Rachel being led onto one of the helicopters that take off away from York.

Knowing that Dontey and Melissa haven't been seen by the military, Ken decides that they serve as a diversion for Dontey and the others to leave the house. The group agrees and jolts across the street attracting the attention of Moore and his soldiers. Moore orders the rest of his men onto the second helicopter to hunt them down while he alone searches the house for any other survivors, however as Moore enters he finds that Melissa and Dontey have already left through one of the back windows. As Liam and the others continue away, from the military, they run into Dontey and Melissa before being shot at. When Liam frustratingly attacks Dontey asking where Rachel is, Vishal comes clear and admits that she was taken by the military, Liam freaks out on Vishal and Dontey for not telling him, and not doing anything; his attitude changes however when he finds a truck parked outside of the Hunter's house. The group looks around and checks the inside for keys, but none are found. Thus, Vishal climbs in and hot wires the car.

When Dontey asks how Vishal learned to hot-wire, he responds "from Meraj". The group climbs in and drives off to escape town. However, as the helicopter chases after them, the noise only attracts more infected and zombies, the helicopter locates the truck, however, the helicopter is dragged out of the sky by the zombie Daspletosaurus that Dontey instantly remembers from Cramburg. In the meanwhile, Moore hops on one of the motorcycles from Kevin's gang when he is attacked by a strangely mutated zombie that bites him on the shoulder before being shot through the head. Moore shrugs off the pain and takes off after the group on the bike.

Moore continues the chase which leads to a bridge across a river. The van runs out of gas at the intersection and the group gets out and begin lowering the bridge. Liam however notices Moore quickly approaching them on the bike; the noise only increases the rate of speed in which the zombies, infected, and the Daspletosaurus are chasing them. Moore gets off of the bike. His arm has been mutated to the point where tendrils are now taking over his arm. He approaches Liam who is told to step back by Nick. Nick pulls a switch blade out of his pocket and Moore returns the flavor with a military knife. The two begin dueling in a battle to the death, but Nick manages to get the upper hand of the battle and slices Moore’s throat.