Season 1 Part 1 (WR:TS)

**Season 1 Of** *What Remains: The show* is called "First Days of the Apocalypse" (FDA For short). It is about the first days of the Vivus Mortuus outbreak, and introduces our first main characters to the show. The story follows Nick Butler, Scott Blackwell and Jared Porter.

**First Days of the Apocalypse** is based on Chillpollo's What Remains novel.[1]

## Characters

### Protagonists

Jared Porter

Kanen Draught

Nick Butler

#### Anti-heroes

Omir Singh

Luke Mayfield

Scott Blackwell

Maya Singh

Mike Davis

## Plot

#### Pilot (Episode 1)

LNTS/wAA plays camera move to wall transition into Scott's house, watching TV, when suddenly he hears the news about the infected in charlottesville. Scott is surprised, he goes, camera flashes between Scott making, eating and finishing breakfast, grabbings his keys and going to the car. Scott drives to charlottesville, and wanders around the farm, when he enters the barn. In the barn, he meets the zombie and fights it, mid-scene Nick drives to the barn himself but crashes. after killing the zombie, Scott runs out of the barn and to his car, he starts driving and sees nick on the side of the road, post-crash and drives off. episode ends with the zombie rising from the dead, and starting to knock on the barn door.

#### New Home (Episode 2)

Scott gets home and grabs his guns, he runs down to his basement, and starts loading and preparing. fractured past happens. loud booms, shootings and crashes can be heard through the streets, Scott kills some people, many people die. 2 months later, the streets are empty. Nick wakes up, and starts crawling out of his car, he slowly picks himself up, and walks back to richmond in the middle of the night, he sees EDRU cars and hides. the soldiers find Nick and take him in, that is when he meets Jared. a few minutes later, they arrive at the richmond base (stan owned), and Jared helps Nick sign in. a soldier guides nick to his hangar "rooms" that the EDRU own, and nick goes to sleep. The next day, Nick wakes up and begins working at the base, the rest of the episode is nick working until he returns to his base.

#### Bonds (Episode 3) (Filler)

Nick and Jared bond over through the days, and over work. they become great friends

#### The Storm (Episode 4)

A month later, Scott infiltrates the R-EDRU base, and puts bomb in certain places all over the base, Nick and Jared see this, but pay no mind. they have another normal work day and some Nick and Jared Shenanigens like buying outside stuff. Scott has to "work" as he is hiding as a soldier inside the base. At night, Nick and Jared hear the bombs beep faster, and begin running downstairs, where the 2 try finding a car to escape the, base as they knew it would explode (they saw the bombs, like said before). Scott runs out of the base, grabs a radio of his and tells his co-workers, that everything is ready. the base slowly begins exploding, Nick and Jared are seen by Stan who suspects they are the ones who bombed the base, some people managed to escape. Phoenix soldiers arrive, and a shootout begins. Nick and Jared arrive at Grandpa porter's house, Jared greets nick into the house and the 2 go to sleep.

R-EDRU Stands for Richmond-EDRU.

#### Aftermath (Episode 5)

Scott comes to Stan and tells him that it was Nick and Jared who did the attack, and explains their full plan. he tells Stan that he installed a tracker under their truck, and gives Stan a GPS machine that shows where the tracker is, and leaves. Kanen arrives at the EDRU base, and confronts his father after around 8 years without talking to him. His father tells him (in a destroyed office) about Jared and Nick, and that he wants them Dead. Kanen decides to listen to his father. he secretly grabs the tracker and gets out. he tells his men to fly away. Stan sees that the tracker is gone, and goes Crazy, he runs out of the base, gone. Jared and Nick investigate the city, and loot it a bit. **(Some of this episode contains filler content).**

#### Play Stupid Games (Episode 6)

Nick and Jared go back to looting the city and encounter a bar. they loot the bar until a bullet goes through the window, the bullet alerts the infected and they start attacking. this infected were different.. they were fatter, stronger, more durable. A pillar inside the bar falls on nick, Jared comes to help but fails, a bloater moves him, Jared runs away and Nick is eaten. Jared runs back to the house, Kanen Surprises him, and aims at him. Jared leaves the door, and Kanen questions him about the bombing, and Jared convinces him that it wasn't them. Kanen was about to leave him alone, but gunshots attack them, Jared runs inside, and Kanen runs away. Scott is seen on the road, walking hrough the city, with his clothes semi-destroyed. The EDRU tag still remained on him. Scott looks at the distance, even the road looked like its boiling, he rushes to the boiling area, thinking its water, but it was just heatwaves. a man walks to the road goes to help Scott, and questions him due to his EDRU clothing, Scott confronts him that it was just disguise, and the man believes him. he gives Scott water and Scott gulps it down. the , 2 talk for a bit, until blue jeeps are seen in the distance the 2 hide from the jeeps, it appears to be the US military. the man talks with his group through a walkie-talkie. the soldiers search around, and set their stuff back, when a zombie herd arrives, and begins attacking them. the military defeats them, they almost hear scott and the man, but ignore it. the soldiers leave. Jared walks the road, and sees Scott and the man. The man runs away. Jared chases Scott, down to a beach. where Jared outruns Scott, and jumps on him. he catches Scott's leg and starts beating him up. Scott manages to escape after a ton of beating, and Jared just leaves him be. he lies on the sand, crying. The man goes back to his base, a base of 3 other survivors.

The man's name is revealed to be Omir. Omir returns home and his friends shout at him for doing a stupid thing like this, Luke Mayfield, A member of the group, tells them that they need to move, as this place has become dangerous, but Omir tells them that they didn't see him. the ret of the group agrees with him, and they all head to sleep.

#### Win Stupid Surprises (Episode 7)

Jared wakes up on Virginia Beach, he looks up at the hot sun, feels a turtle crawling onto him. he moves the turtle and gets up. his back hurts. He begins walking towards the city, and has dark thoughts.

The escapees wake up in their beach house and begin their day. Luke tells Maya and Mike to go search for the loot in the city, while Omir stays with him, and does duty inside the house. Mike and Maya wander into the city, and Jared sees them from afar. He runs to his grandfather's house, and enters through the back door. he goes up the stairs into his grandfather's room, locks it and sees an H&KG3 on the bed. Jared grabs the rifle and hides inside a closet.

Mike wanders near grandpa porter's house and finds it unlocked, he enters the house and searches the rooms. when he reaches grandpa porter's room, he tries breaking in, and eventually manages to. Mike looks around the room, and finds nothing, until he eventually opens the closet door, and sees Jared. he aims at Jared, disarms him and takes him to the beach house. Mike introduces Jared to Luke, and Jared spots Omir, who he saw the "Yesterday". He calls Omir over, and Omir doesn't hear him, Luke shouts at him and Omir comes. Suddenly, a helicopter arrives, and Jared warns the team to close the lights. the helicopter passes, and Jared recognizes it. Maya arrives and Jared asks for binoculars, and sees that Kanen was the one in that helicopter and asks if he could talk to Kanen. they discuss it and let him.

Jared climbs the building where Kanen has landed, Maya and Mike go upstairs to try and see if anything will happen. Jared tries to talk to him. Jared walks up the stairs while Kanen starts setting up a sniper, to try and shoot Jared's new friends. Jared realizes what Kanen is about to do, and before Kanen is about to shoot, Jared kicks his sniper away. the bullet hits the side of a building. Kanen asks him what Jared just did in an angry tone, and Jared tells him it was a "mistake". Kanen tries to shoot again, and Jared kicks it again, making Kanen miss the second time, Kanen enrages and starts running after Jared, the 2 begin parkour running across Norfolk and he chases him down to the beach. Kanen shoots Jared's leg, jumps on and starts beating him up. Jared manages to escape, Kanen tries to grab him, but Jared gets inside. Mike and Maya get down, and Luke tells everybody to go outside, to attack Kanen. Omir, Luke and Maya attack Kanen while Mike helps Jared take the bullet out of his leg. Kanen calls his men to help him out, and they do, but fail miserably. Kanen and his men retreats. Jared and his new friends find a boat on the shore and sail into the sea.

Jared's team sail for a while, when they see an EDRU marine boat, Jared tries to talk with the soldiers on the boat, and clears their way. a shark jumps on the EDRU boat as the team leaves. timeskip till 2am, Jared wakes up his friends, and tells them they arrived at shore. they walk off the boat and start walking towards a fainting light in the distance, when suddenly they see a walker, and hear a shot. the zombie falls on the ground, and the team duck down. a sheriff walks over to them, and says "You need some help?". **EOE**.

#### A New End (Episode 8)

The sheriff walks over to them, and asks them if they need any help. he calls over his daughter and they let the escapees into the town. The escapees wake up at around 1pm, Jared walks downstairs to a knock on the door, the sheriff tells him to meet them at a restaurant. eventually once there, the escapees are greeted by menues, and the sheriff tells them to pick out foods on there. After about an hour, everybody finishes eating, Luke tells the sheriff they're ready to go. He leads them to a garage and lets them take a jeep from there, gives them the keys, and the escapees drive away. Jared tells them a bit about himself on the way. Upon arrival, the escapees exit the car, and Luke tells them to follow him. he leads them to the woods, and in the woods, he takes them to a cabin, where his friends told him they would meet, but when there, The escapees only find bodies, Luke's friends' bodies, this enrages Luke, and Jared tells him that this is probably Scott's doing. The escapees walk back to town, and Jared walks in front, he spots Scott. Jared pulls out his rifle, and tries to shoot Scott. He misses and that alarms Scott, causing him to run away. Scott runs into a hotel and breaks in, the noise of the glass alerts his location to the escapees. Jared and Luke come up with a plan to go look for him and kill him, they get into the hotel and split up to 2 different staircases, to surround Scott once they arrive at his floor.

They go up and Luke tells Jared the floor is clear, they go and start looking for him, Scott breaks into a hotel room and locks it from the inside by pushing a bed onto the door and sits on a secondary bed inside the room. they try breaking in, but cant. So Jared tells Luke that room might be a connected room, with a second door that leads to another room next to that one. They break into the room next to Scott's and find the second door, Luke breaks inside while Jared runs downstairs to wait for him below. Luke breaks into Scott's room by breaking the door connecting the 2, and Scott runs to the bathroom, and enters the vent, Luke looks for him and sees the open vent. Scott crawls inside and sees a big leap, where he would have to latch onto another opening in the vent system. Luke climbs up, and Scott realizes he has to take the leap, and does. He manages to latch onto the other opening, and disappears. Luke walks over, and doesn't see Scott, he realizes Scott might've got down somehow. Scott climbs down to another room a few floors below while Luke runs to Jared. He tells Jared that Scott is gone. Scott, inside the room, takes another leap and breaks the window, falling down into the pool.

Jared and Luke hear this and run to the pool. Scott hides in a basket, and the 2 begin looking for him. Luke walks over to the towel place, where Scott was hiding, while with his back turned on Scott, Scott jumps out of the basket, stabs Luke and runs away. Jared runs over to Luke, leaving Scott to run away, **again**. He calls the escapees, and they come to take care of Luke. On the way to the car, Luke and Jared see Scott. They run after him and Luke starts beating him up. Jared asks if he could Join in, Luke lets him and the 2 continuously beat up Scott. Suddenly, out of the forest, screams come, and Stan walks out. Jared shoots Stan in the face, and Stan starts beating up Jared. Luke tries Stopping him but can't, because of his Strength and Size. Jared gets beat up, but is shot by Kanen, who arrives too, with his helicopter, Stan reveals that Maya is pregnant and falls down, the escapees drive away. Kanen picks up Stan, and takes him to the helicopter, and flies away too. Scott is seen bleeding on the concrete sidewalk. **EOE**.

#### Welcome Home (Episode 9)

The escapees return home to the old town, named Wilmington. They tell the sheriff that they went to Roanoke Rapids and found Luke's friends bodies, so they tell the sheriff if it will be alright if they stay in town. Maya and Omir go back to their apartment building, and argue over Maya's pregnancy, as it was revealed that she was already in her 5th month. Jared walks back to his house to read a bit. after a while, at night, Phoenixes arrive at Wilmington and try to get into the town, but the sheriff was alarmed by this, and he and the escapees begin a fight with the phoenix, the escapees (+ The sheriff and the girl) fend off Wilmington, Omir gets shot, and the escapees win the fight.

The next day, the town was quiet, everybody was in their house. Suddenly, Jared hears knocks on his door again, and when he opens it, he finds the sheriff at the door, again. The sheriff walks Jared to a secret weapon garage, and Jared was surprised by this, the sheriff told him to keep it a secret and Jared keeps that promise. **EOE**.

The part ends with Jared keeping his promise to tennorman.

The man's name is revealed to be Omir. Omir returns home and his friends shout at him for doing a stupid thing like this, Luke Mayfield, A member of the group, tells them that they need to move, as this place has become dangerous, but Omir tells them that they didn't see him. the ret of the group agrees with him, and they all head to sleep.