13th asylum

introduction:

This my first fictional story, inspired by a misspent youth, full of years and years, hours and hours of video games and movies. With the plot inspired by the video games resident evil, silent hill, max payne, and a small bit of the suffering mixed into one. The title refers to the thirteen colonies that colonized the united states and the madhouse that has now insued and my insane fictional idea of their solution to the madness. It tells the epic story of a man, who has lost everything, including who he himself, truly is. With the government losing order, and their supporters they try to gain complete control over everyone. The government hatches a plot, thinking that in the end, it will make things better. Soon to find, that it was not one of their best ideas, and that they had unleashed, an unimaginable horror upon everyone including them selves. It all begins when one man stands against them, and when things seem to be as bad, as they can get; things just seem to continue getting worse, and worse. Which end up leading to an epic night, of gruesome horrors with the main character and his newly acquired companion fighting for their lives, just trying to survive the night? In, which it encounters, a climactic and sudden end. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: Massacre


its 2012 and his name is mike loomis, and this is his nightmare. It all began when michaels life began falling apart. The world has been corrupted by greed and a hypocritical government that controls and manipulates the citizens lives at their discretion, and michael is the only one that sees it, and try’s to stand up against it; and the government feels michael needs to pay for it, but michael won't go down without a fight. If he only knew, how dark it really was going to become. Michael might have just accepted his life the way it was, even after he had lost everything. It all began on the night of june 28, michael came home from a long day at work, were he is a correctional officer at the state prison. Michael arrives in front of his house, to find the front door wide open, with the framing of the door cracked and busted, with pieces of the framing splintered, and laying all over the floor. Michael rushes into the house running up the stairs, screaming for his wife and daughter, hoping that nothing has happened to them. Michael opens the door to the master bedroom and there is no sight of his family. As michael walks down the hall toward his daughters room, one of his daughters toys that her voice is recorded on, begins going off. Saying, "i love my daddy" "i love my daddy"(repeating) as it ominously fades out, with a robotic tone getting deeper, as the battery dies. An eerie feeling rushes through michael, sending chills up his spine. Michael opens the door slowly, and finds his wife and daughter lying in pools of blood, with gun shots to their heads. Michael falls to his knees holding his lifeless family in his arms, crying and letting out a blood curdling scream. Consumed and blinded by the emotions running through him, michael failed to realize that the intruder was still in the room with him. As the intruder comes out from behind the door; with michaels back turned, the intruder comes up from behind; michael turns his head to see him, but it is too late, he strikes michael in the side of the jaw with a swift blow , braking michaels jaw , and knocking him unconscious, and that is when the real nightmare begins. Michael awakens in a dark room lying in a hospital bed 7 months later with his face wrapped in gauze, and his left hand, handcuffed to the rail of the bed, with no memory of what had happened, or of his life before the incident. A nurse walks into the room, michael begins trying to speak, to get the nurses attention, only to find that he cannot, because the immense pain in his jaw. "groaning" the nurse jumps, shocked to find that michael has awoken from his coma. The nurse runs out of the room and calls the police, letting them know michael has came to. The nurse comes back in the room and begins tending to michael, he finally manages to fight through the pain in his jaw, and asks the nurse, “what happened to me”? She hesitates, and says “i cannot talk about everything” ”, right know” ”, “but you are recovering from a gunshot wound to your head” “, and you have had multiple surgeries to repair your jaw” ”, from the damage caused” ”, and also from the removal process of the bullet fragments”. “ we were not able to remove a few fragments from your brain” “, so you will probably suffer from migraines’ and lapses of memory”. “we drained the blood that was on your brain” “, and left a part of your skull removed for a several days until the swelling of your brain resided”. “it truly is a miracle that you are alive”, and as she says that, the police come in. The nurse unwraps the bandages from michaels head, and hands him a mirror. Michael is in horror, to find his face horribly disfigured. His head is shaved, with two huge scars, with one leading from his right cheek, all the way down past the ridge of his jaw, and underneath his chin; and the other huge scar on the left side of the top of his head, that stretches from the front of his hairline, to the back of his head. The police then unlock michaels handcuffs and asks michael, if he thinks that he can walk, michael gives the police a nod letting them know, that he believes he can. The police then cover michaels head in a dark cloak, fearing that the bright lights of the outside might cause michael to have a seizure. As they lift michael out of the bed, they handcuff his hands behind his back, and escort him out of the hospital and down to the station. When the police remove the cloak from his face, michael finds himself in an interrogation room, with a dim light in the corner. Confused and curious as to why he is here, michael asks the detective; "what am i doing here” “, and what has happened”? The man starts with, "well im detective jacobs and you can stop pretending like you don't know what happened”. “you killed your wife and daughter, and failed at killing yourself”, and all of a sudden memories of michaels family come rushing back in, an overwhelming feeling of emotions take over, bursting into tears; michael says, "my family is dead”, “i couldn’t have”, “i wouldn’t have”. The detective butts in, and says well, "we have a cell for you and you'll see the judge tomorrow” “, but i don't remember anything your talking about,” michael explains! With that, they escort michael to his cell. The next day, michael sees the judge after meeting with his lawyer, that has informed him, that when the police arrived at michaels house, they found him in his daughter's bedroom, with both; his wife and daughter shot in their heads, and michael suffering from a gunshot wound underneath his chin, with the weapon in his hand. The lawyer has told michael that his only hope of avoiding the death penalty, is to plead insanity; michaels lawyer has told him, since he has no memory of the incident, and looking like he does, that it will not be hard, for the jury to believe that he is insane. After the jury comes out with the verdict, the judge looks michael in the eyes, takes a deep breath and says; “this is one of the most hideous, and unimaginable crimes i have ever seen in all my days” “, and death is too good for you”. “therefore, in complete confidence and conviction, i sentence you to a life of solitary confinement in the state psychiatric hospital” ”, with all the sick psychos you belong with” ”, to rot and live your life, with what you have done weighing on your conscious”. “may god have mercy on your soul”, and with a bang of the gavel it was set in stone; michael had murdered his family, and tried to kill himself. Michael became a zombie, and empty of every human emotion. Completely empty inside after a few weeks in his padded room with a straight jacket on, michael did not think things, could get much worse. However, michael had no idea, on how dark and twisted things were about to get, and how the reality he thought he knew, or what little piece of sanity he had left, was all truly an illusion.

Originally Posted by H3orH3D_Script4U (Post 945668) I think I can take it! And if you want me to stop posting so much, say it also. Need to know if I'm crossing a line myself. :p

chapter 2: The nightmare begins


february 15, 2013: 11:00pm , michael awoke in a cold sweat to find the door of his padded cell opening slowly, but there is nobody there, an ominous feeling overcomes michael almost like it is still a dream, but it feels so real, “maybe i do belong here”, michael says to himself. Lightning flashes out the one small window that is covered with bars, revealing the blood covered walls of michaels room like there has been a massacre, panic overcomes him. Michael slowly walks out the door. To find the hall littered with the dead bodies of patients, guards, officers, and doctors with their throats and wrists slit, some hanging from nooses on the light fixtures above, and some are laying on the hospital beds, with their chest plates cracked open, like they were operated on, by some mad doctor.michaels first thought is that he has to get out of here, but it is a huge sanitarium, sixteen floors and as wide as a football stadium and of course michaels on the top floor. What could have happened to everyone, and why did it spare michael? As michael looks closer at the bodies, he notices that one of the bodies has a note attached to it. Michael cannot grab it because he is still in his straight jacket; after a few minutes of struggling, michael pulls his best houdini, and finds his way out of contraption. He then reaches down and grabs the note off the guard, it reads. (guards note) " i hope my sacrifice in some way pays for all the torture and sickness, that is taking place here, i don't know what to do, i can't take living with what i know anymore. I know that their is no way i am going to make it out of here alive anyway. They have been drugging the patients, and trying to control them with experimental drugs, that they want to use on the public to make them more cooperative with their agenda, whatever that may be, but every drug they have used has just made the patients more violent, and a lot stronger, almost like its a steroid. We had a patient suffer some kind of fatal reaction to the drug that they delivered 2 days ago, and when dr. Rollins was harvesting his organs for examination of the chemicals effects after the patients death, the patients eyes opened, he sat up; with his chest cut wide open, and started attacking the dr. . . . He was dead, how was that possible. I unloaded my clip into his head, but the scariest thing is that it took four bullets before he ceased attacking the dr. . . . I was terrified at what just had happened, and i was even more terrified because, we had already administered the drug on all the patients in the entire hospital. We called the government branch that manufactured the drug and let them know what had happened, they told us to stop injecting the patients with the drug, and let them know if we have anymore incidents. Two days went by; and we started wondering why none of the other patients were dying, or showing any of the symptoms. We called the government branch back and let them know, we have not had any more incidents, and it might not have been the drug that caused it, and they sounded relieved and told us to continue. But then it started; i was on the 14th floor and one of my favorite patients johnny started biting himself, and banging his head on the door. He continued, until the glass broke, he then picked up a broken piece of glass, and began gouging out his eyes, he then reached down, cutting open his stomach, from his chest all the way down to his waist, spilling out his intestines’ all over the floor, he fell over dead. We called the police, they finally arrived to file a report of the incident, and take the body to the morgue; but as they started with the process, johnny got up and started to strangle one of the officers with his intestines’. In a panic, i grabbed the axe that was in the emergency case, and hit johnny in the head with it, stopping him instantly. As soon as i did that, all of the patients doors sprung open. And at the end of the long hallway i see dr. Rollins, covered in blood with his throat slit from ear to ear, pulling the emergency switch, releasing the locks on all the doors, and causing all the lights to go out, except a few emergency exit lights, and doing so with a evil grin on his face. Terrified; me and the other officers ran to the closest stairway, and as we started to head down, i notice that patients were coming up the stairs, so we ran up here to the 16th floor and barricaded the doors, had dr. Rollins taken the drug himself, why would he do that. Right now, the officers are trying to hold off the patients, but there are way too many and they are becoming unstoppable, im not going to let them kill me, that is for sure. If you find this let my wife and kids know im sorry, and i love them (end note). As michael finishes the note, he notices the gun in the guards hand so he grabs it, the gun is still warm, like it had just been fired “, is that what woke me up” “, and not the thunder, michael silently asks himself. He stands back up after crouching and picking up the gun. With the lightning flashing through the windows creating a silhouette on the wall in front of michael, he notices a man on a gurnee behind him, beginning to sit up. Michael quickly turns to see a man, with a completely ripped open chest, with no organs running at him. Horrified, michael empties his clip from his newly acquired gun, into the mans head bringing the man to a stop, the man falls on top of michael knocking him to the ground. Michael gets back up and scavenges, through the guard and the two officers bodies, trying to find more bullets, but there are none. He grabs an axe from the emergency case, and now begins his descent into the darkness.

chapter 3: Trapped
As michael began down the hallway toward the elevator, he stopped and remembered the emergency switch has been flipped, so the elevators are not going to be an option for him, so he is going to have to begin his descent out of this nightmare through the stairwell. As michael reaches the door to the stairwell, standing in a dim lit light of the red exit sign above the door. He hears a loud thud behind him, frightened; michael turns to see that one of the bodies hanging from a noose on the light fixtures has fallen. Relieved, michael turns back and begins heading down, and as he does, michael hears a groaning sound, coming from the man that has just fallen from the fixture. Michael looks back to see the man rising too his feet, and as the man is rising; multiples of the deceased patients throughout the corridor, begin getting to their feet. In a panic; michael slams the door to the stairwell behind him, and notices a fire hose raveled up in a wheel, michael unravels the hose, and quickly wraps it around the handle of the door and the wheel, twisting it into a secure knot, hoping it will hold long enough for him to escape, and get ahead of them. Michael rushes down the stairs; to find that the stairs leading to the 14th floor have been completely barricaded, with desks, chairs, filing cabinets and splintered pieces of broken wood. Having no way down, michael realizes that, he is going to have to try the stairway on the other side of the building, hoping that it is clear of debris and patients, so that he can get out of this madness. As michael approaches the door to 15th floor, he hears crying that sounds, like a woman on the other side of the door. Not wanting to frighten her; michael slowly opens the door, but as he does, it squeaks with a high pitch; qriiiick, michael sees a nurse; in a panic, the nurse looks up at michael, terrified realizing he is a patient, and thinking he is one of them, she runs around the corner, then michael hears a door slam. Looking down the extremely long, dark hallway at the other set of stairs at the end. The entire floor looks deserted; and right as michael approaches to turn the corner to follow the nurse; the stairway door at the end of the hall flies open, slamming against the wall, piles of bloody patients, come filing through the door. Right then, michael also hears loud footsteps coming from the stairway, which he had just come down; the patients on the floor above had finally broken through his, poor attempt at slowing them down. Petrified, michael shakes off the terror, pulls himself together, and rushes to the door, where the nurse had barricaded herself. Michael tries opening the door, to find that it is locked; he then hears a muffled crying on the other side of the door. Repeating, "i don't want to die”; “i don't want to die”. Michael rushes to a large information window attached to the room. Peering into an empty darkened room, that looks empty, in a frightened scared voice, michael begins trying to convince the nurse to let him in, and that he is not one of them. Asking the nurse; if she, had heard any of them talking, instead of just groaning, and tells the nurse, that packs of them are coming down the hall after me right now, and that their going to get me. Panicking, saying “please let me in” “please let me in” (repeating), pleading with the nurse to let me him the room. Michael then hears a (click), the nurse has unlocked the door, michael opens to find a dark security guard room, full of patient files and patient information, lit only by a small flashlight in the corner, belonging to a decapitated guard, that is slumped over beside it, and with the nurse curled up under the desk. Michael grabs the nurse out, from under the desk, she screams; he asks her to help him push the desk against the door, they get the door secured, michael asks the nurse her name, and to tell him what in the hell is going on here, exactly. Crying hysterically, the nurse tells him, that her name is samantha price, and that she attends to the patients that are sick, or harm them selves, in the building, and that today is her first day on the job. Samantha then lets michael know that she has no idea, what is happening here, so michael hands her the note that he had found on the dead guard upstairs, to clear some things up for her. Samantha reads it; and says, "oh my god i had no idea that they were doing this to the patients” ”; i would've never applied to work here if i knew this was going on”. Samantha asks michael, “who are you” ”, why are you a patient here” “, and what are we going to do to get out of here”? Michael tells her his name, and then begins telling the story about his wife and daughter, and what they say, he has done. As michael is telling samantha, he begins to see samantha is growing more and more, frightened and unsecure about being alone in this room with him. Michael tries explaining to samantha, that he has no memory of what happened, or his life before it, and how it is extremely painful for him to know, that his wife and daughter are now dead. Michael lets samantha know that there is no possible way, that he could have done this, and that he was, set up for some reason. Still unsure samantha hesitates, but decides to put her trust in michael, and work together, to get out of this hell, that we are now trapped in. A somewhat calming feeling overcomes them both, knowing they are not alone in this nightmare anymore, and if they work together, and use their brains, they might just be able to get out of here, alive! Michael quickly scans the room, and beside the officer, he notices a shotgun lying on the floor, michael rushes to grab it, and checks to see if it is loaded. It is, but he notices that they are non-lethal rubber bullets, frustrated and disheartened, michael crumbles to the floor sliding down the wall; banging his head against it. Then michael hears samantha say, "hurry come here", who is now holding the flashlight, shining it at a cabinet “, i think this is an ammunition cabinet”, samantha says. However, it is locked, michael rushes back to the guard, and shuffles through his pockets, finding a key ring, with tons of keys on it. Michael hurries back over to the cabinet, and miraculously, the very first key he tries opens the cabinet. Samantha mumbles "somebody must be on our side", michael opens it, to find, two cases of rubber bullets, and two cases of live ammunition, one of them being shotgun shells, and the other handgun rounds for the hand gun; that he got off the dead guard upstairs. In addition, there is a satchel, which they can now carry useful supplies in. Relieved now feeling like rambo, michael explains that we need to sit tight, and wait for the infected patients on this floor, to clear out, or give up looking for us. As he finishes saying that, a pack of slumbering patients, begin staggering slowly by the large information window. Samantha silently squeals; as she does, michael covers her mouth with his hand, as they both curl under the desk together. Samantha drops the flashlight, it slowly begins rolling across the floor, and then the battery dies, shutting out the light. The patients have noticed the movement, and begin banging on the window, michael draws the shotgun up aiming it at them, but he notices that their struggling to get through the plexiglas window, he lowers it, thinking maybe they'll give up. With the patients now banging on the door and the window, a large, lurking, shadowy figure comes up behind the patients, picks up one of the smaller patients, and hurls him through the window, plopping it out of its frame. As they begin pouring into the room, the patient, which was thrown through the window, starts getting back to his feet, samantha fires the pistol, which michael had just handed to her, shooting the patient in the head; exploding it all over the other patients that are now climbing through the window. Michael notices a tank in the corner that looks, almost like an oxygen tank; he fires the shotgun, exploding the tank, and decimating the patients. With their body parts all over the room, and the only one left, being the big lurking figure outside the window, not being able to fit through, mike and sam remain safely inside the room, and unload all their bullets into the big creature, bringing him to a bloody end. Realizing now, that all they have left is the rubber bullets, and shaking off the extremely gruesome event, samantha and michael slide the desk from the door, and exit the room. Holding samantha’s hand slowly peeking around the corner and down the hall, michael sees that it is clear. Even though it is clear, michael is still frightened, that the explosion might have drawn some unwanted attention to them. Mike and sam run to the stairway, only to find that it is also, inaccessible and completely blocked off. They both head back to the hallway that contains the room they were just hiding in, and notice at the end of the hall, that their is a fire escape outside the window. Mike and sam rush to the window, and notice that it only leads to the floor below, the rest has collapsed and is no longer there. Samantha shaking, and extremely frightened, lets michael know; that she is afraid of heights, michael then tells her, that it will be ok, and that he will go first, and then she can follow him down, and he will cradle her as they both go down together. Samantha overcomes her fear, and they both begin their way down the ladder, reaching the window, michael peers in; and it looks empty, besides a few dead bodies of guards, doctors, and nurses sprawled about. Michael busts out the window and climbs in, turning around; michael reaches for samantha’s hand, and as soon as he grabs her hand, the ladder pops from its hinges and crashes to the ground 14 floors down.

chapter 4: Clarity


achingly michael and samantha pick themselves up off the ground, one step closer to getting out of this. They find their way down the hall, but right next to the guard room, michael looks into a padded cell, where he finds a horribly mutilated body, with both its arms full of syringes. Then michael takes a closer look at his face, and realizes that he is extremely familiar to him, michael knows that he has never seen the person here before; and with his case of amnesia, he has no clue as to where, he recognizes the person from. Curious, and wanting to find answers, thinking if he could just remember who the person is, that just maybe it will jog his memory. Michael then recalls the guards room from the floor above; and remembers that it had patient files and information in it. Remembering that, samantha and michael both rush into the guards room, where samantha rummages through the ammunition cabinet, refilling their little ammo situation. Michael rips through the filing cabinet, and by finding the patients room number on file, michael is able able to locate the patients name; he reads the patients name, and then all of a sudden michael’s memories come flooding back in. The patients name, billy loomis, filled with sadness, michael continues reading, as he reminisces at the same time. The patient was michaels brother, they did everything together, they both worked at the prison together, michaels brother, was his shadow and went everywhere he went. However, why was his brother, here as a patient? Did michaels brother take what happened to him, that hard? Just then michael sees another file; that says, (patient evaluation): June 30 2012: It reads; we have orders from the top, that billy is highly unstable, completely unattached from reality, and extremely suicidal. Billy has been ranting on about "i killed them” “, i set him up” “, if i did not do it, they would kill my boys, and me” “, im sorry”, "im sorry” “, im sorry" (repeating). As michael is reading this tears begin filling his eyes, and start pouring down his face. Michael begins filling with anger, because he knows exactly what billy is referring too. Samantha notices michael is distraught, but michael continues on reading: When we ask billy who, and what he is talking about, he will not answer us, billy just bangs his hands against his head and repeats, "im sorry”. He is extremely violent, and just sits in his cell, rocking back and forth, billy is too far gone, and there is no hope in bringing him back, or introducing him back into society. (end document) michael consumed with rage, and wanting to pound billy for what he has done. Michael fights back his emotions, and notices there is another document in billy’s file, dated just two days ago, that goes on to read, (patient cleansing): February 13th 2013: We have been informed of the current situation our government is trying to enforce on the populace. We have our orders to exterminate the patients with a new drug that will send a chemical to their brain receptors, putting them into a coma, and that we have to allow them, to starve themselves too death. As michael is reading this, he silently starts thinking to himself; “that just maybe the bullet fragments, that are still lodged his brain, might have acted like a blocker to the receptors, and may have prevented him from receiving the full dosage of the chemical, that would have caused him too become one of them. Michael continues reading on: The other option we have; is that the military will enforce martial law, and massacre who ever they feel, are not useful in society, or anyone that resist, or fights against them. They feel this is the only peaceful solution to the situation. They informed us that billy loomis, and michael loomis are being contained, because the fear, that they would not cooperate with this endeavour, and they would cause a problem to this peaceful solution. His brother, michael loomis has already refused to cooperate, and threatened to expose this protocol to the public, so we contained them both, for the better good. The asylum has just received a transmission from the prison telling us that we have the governments permission to begin administering the drug, and that the prison will begin administering the drug on the inmates there at 0900 hours. We have also been informed that the government is going to secretly expose this drug to all the families, which are on the government food program. The transmission ended with “, may god rest there souls” ”, may this bring a new beginning” ”, and a brighter future”. (end document) in shock, and horrified by these revelations, and consumed by emotions, michael rushes into billy’s cell. As samantha curious and confused reads the documents. Michael begins pounding on billy's deceased chest with both hands, shouting; “why” “why” “, we could've fought this together”, with the last pound of billy's chest, billy’s eyes open; lying flat on his back, he hurls michael across the room, slamming him against the wall. Samantha rushes into the room after hearing the commotion, to find billy holding michael, by his throat with one hand, several feet off the ground. Seeing that michael’s face is beginning to turn blue, samantha reloads her pistol; billy slowly turns his head, looking towards samantha, still holding michael by his throat. Samantha shoots, hitting billy right between the eyes, and with that billy is dead again. As they both fall to the floor with michael gasping for air, samantha runs over; rubbing michael on his back, emotionally saying, "i can't believe this is happening” ”, and why would they do this to you, and everybody else". Now knowing that samantha has read the documents and now knows what is going on, she looks in michaels eyes and says, “im so sorry about your family, and your brother,” “you don't belong here, im so sorry i doubted you,” “but we can't stay here, we have to get out” . With that michael and samantha sprung to their feet and headed to the nearest stairway praying, that it was not blocked off or infested with the infected patients. Michael also began to worry that it may be filled with infected civilians; not knowing to how far this nightmare has spread.

Chapter 5: Family matters

samantha and michael cautiously open the door to the stairwell, looking at the massive amount of debris piled up, that blocks the path leading up to the floor above. They noticed, crushed and dismembered patients tangled in the carnage, showing the ruthlessness, and lack of self concern, that the infected patients have for themselves. Samantha speaks up, it is almost as they were building the barricade, the patients did not even hesitate or slow down, they just continued crushing each other, and mashing themselves, becoming a part of the blood covered barricade. Realizing how insane their strength is, michael begins thinking to himself, and recalls all the syringes in billy’s arms, that just maybe the more of the dosage the patients take, or are given the stronger and more dangerous they become. Thinking of this, michael tells samantha, that we have to find the medical supply room, and destroy the rest of the drugs, to prevent anymore harm, or this situation from getting any worse. Michael then asks samantha, if she knows where the supply room is located; and samantha reminds him, that it is just her first day here, and that she has no idea. However, she does remember a layout of the building, hanging on the wall in the lobby. Realizing that is their next goal, and they need to find that supply room as soon as possible. Michael and samantha peer over the rail, glancing down the poorly lit, narrow, seemingly endless flights of stairs, that lay ahead of them. It is quiet, and most importantly, nothing is blocking their path, with no sight of the horrors that they encountered on the floors above. Michael an samantha start heading down; and as they reach the stairs perched between the 11th floor, and the 10th floor, mike and sam, hear rustling and groaning below them. They look down too see the mangled infected patients, climbing up the flights below, with the larger infected patients, slinging the smaller ones over the rail. With the little guys bouncing off the metal with loud, pings all the way down, splattering in pools of blood, on the ground floor below. Michael and samantha rush to the exit of the 10th floor stairway, to see the hallway littered with the infected patients just swaying and standing all about, blood dripping from their bodies; almost as if they were waiting for mike and sam. Michael notices an elevator shaft completely exposed with the doors nowhere in sight. He explains to samantha, that we are going too have to slide down the cable too escape, and reach the ground floor. Michael can see the hesitation in sam’s face, but she knows that they have no other option, to escape this alive. By now all the slumbering infected patients, on the 10th floor have noticed their presence, and begin limping towards them. Michael tosses the satchel with their supplies down the shaft; hearing it bang on the busted elevator doors, that now lay at the bottom of the shaft. Leaning in and looking down, michael notices at the bottom, that the doors of the elevator are open, because of the light shining through. Mike and sam look at each other and mumble, "lucky us" as samantha climbs on michaels back, they leap for the cable. Grabbing it firmly and holding on for dear life, michael begins climbing down the worn, splintered cable, glancing up as they descend. Noticing the infected patients, are still coming toward the opening above, and as the patients reach the edge, they do not stop. The patients begin hurling themselves down the shaft, trying to knock michael and samantha from their grip of the sharp pointy cable, which is now digging into michaels hands, causing them to bleed down his forearm. As patient after patient, fly past them, and are slamming onto the shinny, busted up doors below, covering them, with their blood, and piling on top one another. All of a sudden a patient latches on to samantha, and begins trying to yank mike and sam from the cable, that would certainly lead to their deaths. After a struggle, samantha manages to bite off the infected patients thumb, dislodging his grip, sam then head butts him knocking him free, the patient bounces from side to side, of the shaft, down to a mound of bodies, which now lay below. The patients finally stop their assault; only because there are no more towering above them, michael did not think the patients would ever stop coming. As the two reach the 3rd floor, michael begins getting tired, and his grip begins slipping, with his hands soaked in blood and sweat, michaels grip then slips and they begin sliding out of control, down the cable, squeezing as tight as he can, and sliding faster and faster, michael can now feel his hand beginning to burn. As michael feels the flesh melting from his hands to the cable, mike and sam, slam into the pile of bodies at the bottom of the shaft, which act like a padded pillow of pulverized bones and flesh. They gather themselves, and get too their feet. Michael begins digging through the mashed up, bloody corpses, looking for their supply satchel, which is now underneath all this disgusting, bloody mess before him. As he is digging through body after body, michael finally finds the satchel. However, samantha notices one of the piled up bodies behind him, is not dead. The partly decapitated patient, rises too his feet, and starts lurking towards michael. Samantha quickly picks up a small stone stand, just outside the elevator opening, and smashes the abomination in the head, severing it completely from its body, which it was barely attached too, to begin with. Michael then stumbles’ his way over the corpses, and the decapitated straggler, and out the elevator shaft into the hallway. Mike and sam run through the halls towards the lobby, with michael following samantha in agonizing pain, from his shredded bloody hands. Michael asks samantha to stop, and tells sam that he needs to wrap his hands, and that they are killing him. Samantha reminds michael, that they are heading to the medical supply room, where they will be able to tend to michael’s hands, and get him some pain killers. Samantha and michael finally, walk into the lobby’s lounge area, with the layout of the building, plastered on the wall, which happens to be right next to the exit of the building. (very tempting) as michael looks at the map, he finds that the supply room is located in the basement of the building, which is only accessible by one stairway, which is located in the northern part of the floor, which they are on currently. Feeling somewhat relieved, that mike and sam do not have to climb back up through hell. Michael notices something has caught samantha's eye, samantha looks over by the small section, that is set up for toddlers, and visitors. Samantha gasps, then shouts out loud, nooooo! With an obvious sadness in sam’s voice, michael ask samantha, what is wrong? Samantha crumbles into michaels arms with her head on his chest, explaining, "i completely forgot with everything that has happened” “,that my husband and daughter were coming to have lunch with me” “, how could i forget that”, with samantha in a panic, michael asks samantha, “what makes you think that there here”? Samantha then points to a small doll, that is sprawled on an empty chair and explains; “that’s my daughters favorite toy” “, and she takes it everywhere she goes” “, she never leaves the house without it” “, and she would not have left it behind, without something bad happening”. Trying to ease samantha’s mind, michael mention’s; that just maybe her family got out of here, when the emergency alarm sounded, by heading right out the front doors. Looking somewhat relieved with that possibility, samantha grabs the doll, and shoves into the satchel. Samantha runs to the front desk, grabs the phone, and starts dialing her home phone, it rings and rings, no answer. The answering machine picks up, playing a message that the whole family had recorded together, samantha slams the phone down, hanging up. Starting to panic, samantha then tries again. This time her husbands cell phone, but the same thing, it just keeps ringing and ringing, finally her husbands voicemail picks up saying, “you have reached jason price, and i can’t get to my phone right now, if you leave a message i will call you back. Maybe!” samantha decides to leave a brief message, speaking into the phone visibly shaken, samantha asks “oh honey, are you there” ”, are you ok” ”, where are you”, samantha lets him know that we are looking for them, and that we are going to find them. Samantha then ends the message with; “please tell alyssa, that mommy loves her” ”, and that everything will be ok”. Samantha hangs up the phone, and tells michael that they have to find her family. Trying to console samantha, michael gives samantha a hug and tells her that we will find them, and that everything will be ok. First, let us get to the supply room, to take care of my hands, and destroy the rest of the drugs, that caused this mess. Samantha nods, then michael, and samantha both begin heading down the hall, toward the supply room. They reach the door, leading down to the supply room, noticing that it is locked from the inside, michael shouts, “let us in we're not infected”, no answer, he shouts again; “if your in there, back away from the door, i’m going to shoot the lock and come in”, no answer. Michael pulls the trigger, blasting a hole in the door, and releasing the lock. The door slowly swings open, revealing a dark set of stairs, winding down to the supply room.

as samantha and michael are making their way down the stairs, they hear a slight whimpering, samantha immediately recognizes the noise, and realizes that it is her daughter alyssa, who is now crying, and hiding in a corner behind some boxes. Samantha rushes down the rest of the stairs, and says; “oh honey” ”, oh honey” ”, come out, it is mommy”, alyssa comes running out, wearing a little, sunday school dress. Terribly frightened and crying, alyssa jumps into her mothers arms, saying, “im sorry mommy, i should've stayed outside like daddy told me mommy”. Samantha replies, overcome with emotion, “its ok baby, im just happy you’re ok, you are safe now and you don't have to worry anymore”. Samantha then asks, “where did your daddy go”? “honey”! Alyssa replies, still crying, “when the alarm started buzzing” ”, and all the lights started flashing” ”, daddy went looking for you mommy” ”, he told me to go outside, and wait for daddy and mommy to come out”. “i waited” ”, and waited” ”, and no one ever came” ”, i got scared mommy” ”, so i came back in looking for you” ”, but i saw a scary man covered in blood mommy” ”, he chased me mommy” ”, i ran in here” ”, i locked the door” ”, then you found me mommy”. Samantha, just overcome with happiness that alyssa is ok, she cradles alyssa in her arms rubbing her head and says; “it will be ok honey” ”, im proud of you” ”, we are going to find daddy now” ”, it will be ok”. In addition, with that, michael begins scavenging looking for ointment for his hands, after awhile of shuffling through the enormous amount of supplies, michael finally finds some cream. Michael puts the cream on his hands, and wraps them in gauze. Samantha manages to find michael a strong painkiller, and she tells him to take these. Michael takes the pills, and within minutes, he is not feeling a thing except extremely calm and peaceful. They see a large amount of boxes with a government seal on them, knowing they must be the drugs, michael tells samantha, “we have to burn them” ”, and destroy them” ”, all of them”. Samantha agrees, but says, “we have to find my husband, jason first”, and with that; samantha hears a familiar sound, it is jason’s phone, playing a specific ringtone, that samantha recognizes immediately. It is coming from the opposite side of the shutter door, which is attached to the loading dock, where they deliver supplies coming into the building. Alyssa speaks up, “mommy” ”, mommy” “that is daddy's phone mommy” ”; i thought i heard it ringing, before you and that man found me mommy”. Samantha hesitating starts heading toward the shutter door, with michael and alyssa hanging back. As samantha gets closer to push the button, which is on the wall, right beside the shutter, to open it. Jason’s’ phone stops ringing. With samantha’s hands shaking nervously, knowing that no one answered the phone, samantha presses the button. As the shutter slowly rises, samantha lets out a loud scream, “oh no, no, no, honey”. Seeing jason, lying in a pool of blood, splattered on the ground, suffering from the trauma of an extreme fall. Samantha rushes over to jason, kneeling over top of him, rubbing the hair that is soaked in blood from his forehead. Realizing jason is dead, samantha looks up, to see a window, on the 13th floor busted out; realizing jason must have been thrown out the window, while trying to find samantha. Samantha crying, asking jason, “why didn’t you just leave”, michael covers alyssa's face, to hide her from the traumatic scene, and takes her away. Alyssa not being able to recognize that it is her father lying on the ground, asks, "when are we going to find my daddy", michael struggling for words, speechless, not knowing what to say, replies, "soon". Samantha extremely distraught, from another intensely traumatic experience, manages to pull herself together for alyssa. Samantha walks back in; with a fire in her eyes and says, “lets burn this fucking place to the ground”. With that, samantha and michael begin setting fire, to the inner walls of the first floor, in hoping that the fire, would spread throughout the interior of the building. Samantha and michael then rush down the stairs and light up the drugs, which are extremely flammable and flare up completely, within seconds. As sam and mike head up the incline of the loading dock ramp, exiting the nightmare that they had just endured, past jason’s lifeless body. With michael, carrying alyssa, as she tightly grasps her doll in her arms, hiding her face from the gruesome scene, of her fathers body, motionless on the ground. Samantha reaches in jason’s pockets, and grabs the keys to their vehicle. Samantha then notices a folded envelope, in the chest pocket of jason’s jacket addressed to their home, which has the same government seal, which was on the boxes. Samantha gently kisses jason’s forehead, she then looks into his eyes, one last time and says, "i love you". The trio makes their way to the car, realizing there is not a vehicle on the road and nobody insight. They safely reach the car without a problem, in what looks like a ghost town. As the three of them get miles away, with samantha refusing to look back, samantha begins reading the letter inside the envelope. Which reads, (public notice) dear civilian, we are running a military sweep of the city, gathering all the dangerous and violent elements that have been destroying our peaceful community, we have been monitoring all the citizens with wire taps, and undercover surveillance. It has been determined by us, that you are not a threat, and are still useful in society. We ask you to quickly gather your family, and evacuate the city, to the military base located on the outskirts of town. Do not mention this to no one, other than your own household, at the risk that you would alert someone that is not on our safe list. If you show up at the base with someone that is not on our list, you and your family will be considered a traitor and charged with treason, and immediately contained, separated, and thrown into military holding cells. We regret that it had to come to this, but we will make sure, that this situation comes to a swift, and peaceful end. We look forward to seeing you and your immediate family. We will begin the sweep starting at 9pm tonight. Thank you for your cooperation and good day. (end letter) samantha letting out a sigh as she finishes the letter. Michael glances in the rear view mirror, too see the asylum lighting up the night sky in a blazing inferno, which can be seen for miles around. They had finally escaped the nightmare, but michael was soon, about to find himself alone again, and thrown back into the madness, and realize this was truly far from over.

Chapter 6: Guns a blazing


as michael pulls onto samantha’s street, which is located in a nice, upper class neighborhood, he notices the streets are deserted, and the houses are vacant. Samantha tells michael what the letter had said, as michael pulls up in front of samantha’s home. He looks in samantha’s eyes, and tells her that she needs to gather her things, and take alyssa to the military base, where they will both be safe, and out of harms way, with michael realizing that is not an option for him. Samantha tells michael that she is afraid, and she does not trust that they are telling the truth. Samantha is worried that once they get there, they will do something to harm her or alyssa. Michael eventually convinces samantha, that it is her best option for both of them, to make it out of the city alive. Michael then offers to help sam, gather some of her things that she will need, before the two of them, head to the base. Samantha declines michaels offer, and tells him that she will take care of it. Samantha lets michael know, that he can take her vehicle, and use it to get out of the city, before things get bad. Michael asks, what about you two, how will you get to the base? Samantha then lets michael know, that she has another car in the garage. As samantha gets out of the passenger side, peering in through the open window. Samantha asks michael, “where are you planning to go” ”, just incase things do not go well at the base”. Michael tells samantha, “i am going to head to the prison where i worked” “, and destroy the drugs, that i am certain they still have there”. As samantha begins pulling away, with alyssa in her arms, michael stops her and offers samantha the guns that are in the satchel. Samantha refuses, and lets michael know that jason has a gun rack in the house. Samantha tells michael that jason worked as a police officer before this, and that she thinks he loved doing that, as much as he loved her. Samantha then rushes around the car, with alyssa still in her arms, reaches in the window and gives michael a hug, thanking him for protecting her and alyssa, and says maybe we will see one another again, after all this is over. Michael removes the house key, from the keys still in the ignition, and hands them to samantha. Samantha jogs to the front door as alyssa is waving to michael the whole time, samantha opens the door, and disappears into the darkness, shutting the door behind her. Michaels pulls away, heading towards the prison, realizing that it is the place where this nightmare, first truly began, not knowing if he would ever see samantha and alyssa again, or if they would make it out of this alive. Michael approaches the prison, on a dark deserted country road. Still miles from the prison, michael notices an orange glow, over the horizon. As michael gets closer he realizes, that there is a small section of the building engulfed in flames. Trying to think positive, michael begins hoping that the guards themselves, have began destroying the drugs. However, as michael pulls up to the front gate, he realizes; that probably is not the case. As michael glances up to see that the barbwire, along the top of the fence is entangled with the mutilated corpses, of multiple police guards. Becoming numb and accustomed too the horrors, that he has seen all night long. Michael smashes through the locked gate, driving into the visitor / employee parking lot. Michael climbs out of the vehicle, with his satchel over his shoulder. Before going in the front entrance, michael hesitating, changes his mind and decides to go around to the side entrance, that is attached to one of the guard towers, that over looks the prison yard. Remembering that they are loaded with ammunition and a.k. Assault rifles. He realizes that with the massive number of inmates in the building, it would be a death sentence to enter the front doors, and that he would not have enough ammo to protect himself, especially if the prisoners have already taken over. Michael rushes around to the side of the building to the tower entrance, that allows the guards to access the tower without having to walk through the inmate infested yard. Twisting the handle, trying to open the door as he reaches the tower. However, he notices the doors locked, michael tries kicking it in, but it will not budge. Michael realizes that he is going to have to waste, very valuable bullets to unhinge the lock. Hoping that the tower has not been raided, michael draws the gun up shooting the lock. The door slowly swings open, revealing a circular room, with a set of stairs, and a door straight ahead, leading from the prison yard, that is lying on the floor, completely off its hinges, and looking like it has been smashed with an axe, or some kind of heavy sharp object. Michael slowly starts making his way up the winding stairs, looking at the walls that are covered in blood smeared hand prints, looking over his shoulder as he goes. Michael reaches the entrance to the guard tower, stepping over two dead, muscle bound infected inmates. One of them is grasping an axe in his hand, and both bodies having been riddled with bullet holes, and he notices they are lying atop a busted, splintered door, in pools of blood. Michael lifts his head, to see the gruesome end of a guard, who looks like he tried holding them off, but ended up failing miserably. The guard is crucified, sprawled, and plastered to the wall, in a bloody mess, both his hands and feet impaled with splintered pieces of wood. Michael notices a note, which has been pierced into the guards forehead with a poorly made prison shank. Michael grabs the note covered in blood, that is addressed to some fellow guards, and it reads, (bloody note): Just incase i do not make it out of here, i just want to let you guys know, or whoever finds this, exactly what took place here. We followed through with our orders and administered the drug on the prisoners at 9pm, but there was a horrible side effect. Some of them started killing over immediately, and others started violently killing themselves and one another. We did not intervene, because it was ending with the same goal we had, when we first administered the drug on the prisoners, just a little bloodier, then we had wanted. After all of the prisoners had perished, we went in to begin gathering the bodies and cleaning up the mess. Then the unimaginable happened, the prisoners began coming back to life, even the ones that were brutally mutilated and murdered. They began violently attacking us, and they killed a handful of guards. I and five other guards managed to escape the initial assault. We came up with a plan. We decided that i would run to the guard tower, and try to reach the military base, by radio and let them know, exactly what has happened. I would then wait for the others in the tower, while they went ahead, too burn the rest of the drugs, and destroy them. I managed to reach the tower, but i could not get through to anybody. Nobody answered, so i was unable to inform the base of what is happening here. I am beginning to see a fire in the distance, on the other side of the prison. Therefore, the other guys must have made it. I do not know if there going to make it back to the tower alive though there was a lot of inmates roaming the halls. I have noticed about seven infected inmates, stumbling through the yard. I hope that they do not realize i am up here, i can see that one of them is holding an axe. It does not look good; they are starting to head toward the tower. They must have noticed me up here. I can now hear them now banging on the door downstairs, i have already locked the door up here, and im going to use the guns in here to hold them off, and bring them down, then i am going to get out of here. I cannot wait for you guys any longer. They are attacking my door now with the axe. Oh god, i hope i can make it out of this (end note). After finishing with the chilling note, michael realizes that he wasted his time in coming here, since the guards have already destroyed the drugs. Regretting being here at all now, michael decides to go ahead at least upgrade his arsenal; he sees an a.k. On the ground completely drained of bullets. Michael picks up the empty gun and shoves it in the satchel; the gun slightly hangs out the flap as it barely fits. Michael begins looking for more ammo in the room, but he cannot find any. Michael having worked here, he knows that there are two more guard towers; he begins hoping that he can get lucky, and find some ammo in one of them. Michael heads towards the door and notices that it is slightly open, hoping that the other guards went through here, and not the infected inmates. Michael opens the door all the way. To reveal a long straight walkway, leading across a cement wall, that is littered with bloody footprints, which lead all the way across too the opposing tower door, which is already perched wide open. Shuffling across the vast walkway, michael shoves the pistol in the waist of his pants, as he grips the shotgun firmly in his hands, eagerly suspecting some hideous, grotesque beast to jump out, and get him any second. Slowly approaching the other tower door, out of nowhere, michael sees three scraggly, infected prisoners coming through the door, with one grasping a guards head, in his hand like a bowling ball. Michael decides to forget the ammo and just get out of here, and make a run for the car.

however, as michael turns, he realizes it is already too late for that. Ten bloody, infected prisoners, come squeezing through the door behind him. Chills rush through michaels spine, he thinks about, jumping off the wall but realizes, that it is too far of a fall, and he would only hurt himself badly, or die. Therefore, with that in mind, michael decides to push forward through the smaller pack of inmates, liking his odds much better. Michael blasts through the three menacing figures with the shotgun, exploding their heads, as they fall to the ground. Michael rushes through the door at the other end of the walkway, stumbling over, and kicking the head of a decapitated guard, which the prisoner has just dropped. Michael knocks a huge cabinet over blocking the door, which perfectly and amazingly wedges itself between the wall, and the door. Therefore, there is no way the beast can get through and get to him. Safely inside, huffing and puffing, trying to catch his breath, michael takes a minute to recharge himself. Michael notices the room is loaded with ammunition, he loads the satchel with as much ammo as he can carry, causing the bag to be much heavier. Now just wanting to get out of here as soon as possible, michael starts heading toward the door, which leads down the stairs and outside. However, michael begins hearing the sound of footsteps, coming up the stairs. Michael locks the door, and puts his ear to the door hearing the moaning of more infected prisoners. With michael trapped, and with only one-way out, he wedges a chair between the floor, and underneath the handle of the door. Michael then begins looking for some kind of rope, or anything that he can repel down with, and exit the prison. Michael becomes extremely frustrated, and cannot find anything. Michael now realizes, that the only exit out of the last tower, leads through the prison. Michael decides that he has to go, because the inmates are about to bust through the door. Michael hears the legs on the chair beginning to crack. He runs out of the tower, and across the walkway to the last of the guard towers, shooting his shotgun and looking back as he goes. They quickly pile out the door behind him, they seem, to be moving a lot faster, then any of the others he has seen so far. Michael reaches the last tower, to see the bodies of the five guards ripped apart, all over the room, he notices one of their heads missing completely, and realizes that it was probably the one, that he had just been playing soccer with. Michael slams the door behind him locking it, while sliding another cabinet in front of the door. Michael heads down the stairs, to exit the tower. He sees the door leading into the prison is already open, he realizes that the five guards must have been trying to exit the prison by coming through here, and out through the towers. Hoping he has better luck, michael passes through the doorway, and shuts the big metal door behind him, latching its heavy locking mechanism as he passes through, not sure of what was ahead of him, and the horrors he was sure to find, inside .

Chapter 7: Prison break


with michaels back pressed against the door, looking down the massive corridor of opened prison cells, with many of the light bulbs completely busted out, and a few of them flickering off and on, michael retires the shotgun to the satchel and loads up the a.k. , figuring that there is going to be a ton of inmates ahead. Michael begins, walking slowly past an electric chamber, hearing a horrendous crackling noise, he glances in, and notices an inmate still sitting in the chair. The inmate is still being electrocuted vigorously convulsing, and shaking, obviously infected, because he is still groaning and grunting. Dumbfounded and still staring michael sees, the blue glow of the electric current, flowing through the inmates empty eye sockets, from where his eyes have popped, like unboiled eggs being squeezed in someone’s hands. Somehow, the inmate senses michael near, and rips his arms free of the leather restraints. The inmate then slings the device from his head, and begins lumbering towards michael. Somehow, the inmate is still glowing, as the current is still flowing through his body. Almost as if, he acted like a battery, which was taking a charge. With the current still seeming to be flowing through the inmate, michael begins fearing that if the inmate was to even touch, or get close to michael, that he would be electrocuted. Michael slowly begins backing up, he then looks down and realizes, that since they had set fire to the drugs, the sprinkler system has went off, throughout the prison, leaving puddles of water littered up and down the corridor. Michael begins firing the assault riffle, but it seems to have no effect on the inmate, the metal bullets that are flying through the electrically charged inmate, just seems to make him grow, brighter, and brighter blue, like the friction is charging him up. Terrified, michael runs around the corner and into the first room, he finds. Not realizing where he is, and what he just did, michael looks to see, that he had just trapped himself in the shower room, and the floor is flooded with ankle high water. Panicking at what to do, michael climbs onto a small tiled partition, which is separating the room down the middle, into two different showering areas. As the inmate is approaching the flooded shower room, michael looks up, to see a large water pipe running along the ceiling just inside the entrance. Michael then begins thinking to himself, that if he was to shoot the pipe, just as the inmate enters, that all the water on the floor, and the water pouring from the pipe, might just cause the inmate to discharge all the electricity running through him, and maybe, michael can bring the inmate down. As the inmate is getting closer, and closer, the gun slips from michaels hand, and falls in the murky pool of water on the floor. Rushing before the inmate enters the room, michael jumps from his perch, digging his hands frantically through the dirty water, finally finding the a.k. . . . The inmate enters the room, as michael barely jumps to safety; michael then shoots the pipe releasing the water, which begins pouring all over the inmate. The electric current then starts spreading throughout the room, lighting the floor, and going up the pipe. It is working; michael sees that the inmate is getting dimmer, and beginning to fade, as his current is spreading out, and as the rest of the room gets brighter, and brighter. Michael begins unloading the assault rifle into the inmates head, as the lights go out. With the inmate smoldering and sizzling, he falls into the pool of water, with the sound of a lit cigarette butt, hitting a muddy puddle, as the extremely intense situation, ends. Stepping down, from his slippery narrow safety net, michael heads back into the main corridor, to begin making his way out of the prison, via the only exit left available, which is the main entrance where he first arrived. Michael begins marching his way down the corridor, which seems to have the effects of a strobe light, from the lights that are flickering off and on. Michael then starts becoming overwhelmed, by the stench of the dirty cells that fill the room, and the unflushed toilets inside of them. He sees that the floors are covered in pools of water, and blood, with abandoned shanks, spread throughout. Suddenly michael hears, what sounds like a police baton being drug, across the metal bars of the prison bars. Then out of nowhere, bullets began flying past him, bouncing off the walls, and floor around him. Michael then hears, a familiar voice coming from the second floor of cells just above him. Michael remembers that voice, it is his former boss, the warden of the prison. With michael hiding in the cells, the warden starts shouting, “i never thought, i would be seeing your face again michael” “, you know michael you are not as pretty as you used to be”. (with a light snicker at the end), “and you know what else michael, i would not have had to see that face of yours, if that sorry ass, good for nothing, brother of yours, would have done his job, like i ordered him too.” “by the way, how is that family of yours”, the warden sarcastically, asks. Completely filled with anger and rage, michael yells back, “you son of a bitch” ”, i promise you that your going to die tonight” ”, and you better pray that the abominations lurking these halls get you first” “, because im going to make you feel every bit of the pain that i’ve felt” “,every ounce of it” “, i promise you”. With that, the warden starts in, “you know michael” “, maybe if i would've just listened to you” “, and let you go through with your plan of stopping us from moving forward with everything ”, we could've possibly avoided all this” “, and none of this would have ever happened” “, but where’s the fun in that, right” “, and it’s definitely too late for that now” “, isn’t it? Michael.” “you know what michael” “, if you want me” “, come and get me”. In addition, with that, michael hears a door exiting the corridor, slamming shut, followed by silence. Michael springs to his feet, chasing after the warden, exiting the corridor right behind, into another bloody, dead body filled, dark hallway. As michael slowly begins checking empty room, after empty room, fearing not only the for infected prisoners, but also the psychopathic, gun crazy warden. Michael finally comes across a room, which has a label on the door saying, (laundry room). Michael reaches for the handle and tries it, but the handle, does not move. Michael thinks to himself, the warden has to be in here, it is the only room left unchecked, and it is locked, from the inside. Michael violently kicks in the door, busting it from its frame, while scanning the room with his rifle drawn. But there is no sign of the warden, just a small room lit by the flame of a iron furnace, that is sitting at the end, of two rows of washers and dryers, where they burn the dirty, piss covered sheets of the inmates. As michael is leaving the room, he hears a gnawing sound, coming from behind the row of dryers, he hesitates and approaches the noise, peaking behind the dryers to see the upper torso of a infected prisoner, that has been ripped in half, chopping on a dead guard. The halfling stops with his chow, and slowly begins crawling towards michael. Not wanting to waste ammo, or give away his position with the sound of gun fire, and having all the time in the world. Michael grabs the fire poker propped against the furnace, and plunges it in the little guys back, grabbing the poker firmly, lifting the lively torso off the ground, while it is still wiggling around, michael shoves it in the dryer, turning the dryer on as he closes the door. All right, back in the hallway, michael realizes that there is one more, multi-level prison cell room, which he has to pass through, before reaching the main hallway, which leads to the exit. In addition, with michael needing to hurry if he wants to, catch up to the warden. Michael peers into a small window on the door, which leads through the cell room, he sees the warden running through a sea of infected inmates, shooting them as he goes. The inmates are not really attacking the warden; the bigger inmates are too busy attacking, the smaller inmates. Knowing that there is no way michael could blast his way through there, and make it out in one piece, michael comes up with an idea. He thinks, “if he dresses like an inmate” “, and being a bigger guy himself” “, he might be able to stagger his way through unnoticed”. Michael heads back to the laundry room, and changes into an oversized jumpsuit. Putting it over his clothes, with his satchel on his back inside the suit, filling out the large jumpsuit, and making him look as if, he has an abnormality. Michael then runs over to the mauled guard, and smears the guards blood on his face, and then his clothes. In doing so, michael notices a small knife, on the guards utility belt, that he decides to carry through the wall of inmates, for protection. Michael heads back to the door, and slowly begins opening it, hoping not to draw their attention in the process. Michael squeezes through the door, and begins making his way through the disfigured, and bloody inmates, halfway through the corridor of violent madness, with bodies falling from the upper levels, surrounded by the fighting inmates. Michael notices that, the bigger inmates are not paying him any attention, and that the smaller inmates are acting fearful of him, michael begins limping faster, and faster. As michael almost reaches the end of the corridor, out of nowhere, a smaller inmate that is missing his bottom jaw, throws himself at michael, almost as if he was defending himself, michael shoves the knife in the spot where the inmates jaw used to be, piercing into the inmates brain, and drops the inmate to the ground.

michael jumps over the inmates body, running through the open door, he forgets to shut the door behind him, michael turns back to shut the door, but the inmates have noticed him, and have begun charging towards him, very quickly. Michael turns away and begins running, michael rounds the corner and sees the warden, who has now been surrounded by infected inmates, and is lying on the floor in front of the exit, with his limbs being ripped from his torso. With michael still being chased, by the pack of inmates and the warden having, the other packs, complete attention. Michael reaches inside the back of his jumpsuit, and grabs the a.k. Out of his satchel. Charging forward, michael begins firing on the inmates that are attacking the warden, splattering them everywhere, and clearing his way. With the warden, still breathing, with all his arms and legs ripped from his body, and bleeding out, michael leaps over the wardens torso, feeling satisfaction, with a small sense that billy, and his family have, been avenged. Michael then bursts through the doors exiting the prison, with the pack soon following behind him. Michael enters the car, striking the ignition, and begins pulling away. With the inmates throwing themselves onto the hood of the car, out of nowhere, one of the inmates reaches through the driver side window, latching onto the side of the car, and grabs michaels arm. As michael begins speeding out of control, he swerves, slamming into the wall right beside the exit. Smashing the inmates on the hood, slinging the one from his window, and splattering it all over the wall. With the impact, knocking michael, in and out of consciousness, he looks to see, the pack still coming towards, the mangled vehicle. With michael, still being dazed and helpless, he sees headlights speed into the lot, and plowing through the inmates. The vehicle pulls up next to michael, and he sees a blurry figure jump out the car, which has a familiar voice, coming towards him, the person pulls michael from the wreckage, loads him into the other vehicle, and drives away, narrowly escaping, thanks to the familiar stranger. With that, the lights go out, michael closes his eyes, and passes out.

Chapter 8: Reunited


as michael begins coming to, with a tremendous headache he glances over, excited to see samantha driving the car. However, where is alyssa? Samantha notices michael has awoken from his brief slumber. Michael asks samantha, “how long have i been asleep”? Samantha replies, not long 15, 20 minutes at the most. Michael asks, “what happened to alyssa”? “why is she not with you”? Samantha begins recalling and telling michael what had happened while they were apart. “after you dropped us off we ran into the house, i went into my bedroom and sent alyssa to her room, to play with her toys, until i gathered everything we needed. I then grabbed a large nap sack, and ran to the closet, and begin loading it with some guns and ammunition. I shoved one of the guns in my waist not sure, that i would need it, or not. I also loaded the bag with a change of clothes, i then ran down to alyssa’s room, where i found her playing as if nothing ever happened, i grabbed her a few outfits and threw them in the bag. I rushed downstairs to the kitchen, leaving alyssa upstairs alone; i then rummaged through the cupboards, and refrigerator, grabbing some canned foods, and bottles of water. As i finished filling the bag i heard, thump, thump, and footsteps on the stairs. I rushed out of the kitchen and to the stairs, leaving the loaded bag lying on the floor in the kitchen, now holding the gun in my hand, i turned the corner hoping to see alyssa, but there was no one there. I turned toward the front door and saw it wide open, with a bloody handprint on the middle of the door, and blood smeared on the knob. I started heading up the stairs, following a trail of blood that was soaked into the carpet. I rushed into alyssa’s room, but there was no trace of alyssa, or anybody else. I turned back and headed to my bedroom, and continued following the trail of blood, i reached the doorway, to find a large blood soaked man, dressed in civilian clothes, just staring out the window immediately next to my bed. I asked him, “what have you done with my daughter”? “you bastard!” he did not answer; he just remained standing and blankly staring, out the window. I asked him again, this time he slowly turned his head, and let out a loud shriek, he began charging towards me, very quickly. I then unloaded the gun into the man; he fell to the ground at the base of the bed, spilling blood all over the floor. I then heard the sound of little feet come running up behind me. I turned to see alyssa, come running up behind me, and she then jumped into my arms, still holding her doll. I asked her, “where were you honey”? Alyssa said, “i was playing hide and seek mommy”, “i was hiding under my bed mommy” “, what happened mommy”? I replied, “nothing honey”, not letting her see the body lying on the floor, i rushed down the stairs, grabbed the bag in the kitchen, and headed into the garage, throwing the bag in the trunk of the car. I then started the car, and we began making our way to the military base, driving through a few neighborhoods that i noticed had, obviously been over run by infected civilians, with cars on fire wrecked, and the streets just littered, with unimaginable numbers of infected people. We reached the military base, far on the outskirts of the city, and there were lines of cars, waiting to get into the secured facility, and with armed guards standing around everywhere. The atmosphere around was almost to relaxed for what was going on, almost as if they had no idea of what exactly, was happening in the city. Sitting there in line, it was taking way too long. Therefore, i left the vehicle running. I jumped from the car, grabbed alyssa, and approached one of the guards heading into the base. The guard then stopped me, asking, “miss” “, miss,” “are you on the list”? “i have to check my list”. I tell him my name, the guard then scans through his list and says, “you and your family are on the list”. He asks, “and where’s your husband ma’am”. Visibly shaken and upset, i began telling him about our night, and exactly what is going on in the city, and i began asking the guard if he had any idea of the nightmare, that was over taking the city. As i was telling the guard the story, i slowly began seeing his expression beginning to change. Shocked and looking terrified, the guard tells me, that was not; what was, supposed to happen here. That the military on the base had no idea of what was happening, and that they have been trying to contact the prison and the asylum, for hours now with no response. The guard then tells me, “with us not being able to reach anyone” ”, it seems as if we are cut off from the rest of the world.” then he informs me, that they sent a few teams out, but they never came back. The guard then got on his walkie-talkie, and contacted someone, within a few minutes, we heard a loud siren going off on the base, and the line of vehicles began moving faster. Thinking of you michael, i began telling the guard about your story and everything you have been through. Pleading too the guard to allow you onto the base. With everything you have been through, the guard let me know, that if he was at the gate, he would surely let you in. And for me that was good enough. With this being the safest place in town, i then asked the guard, if i could leave alyssa here with him, and if he would look after her, while i came and got you. The guard then told me, “sure mrs.” “i will keep her safe” ”, and make sure nothing happens to her”. With that, i asked the guard his name; he tells me, “my name is private james long” “, ma'am” ”, but everybody calls me jimmy”. I convince alyssa that she will be safe here, that mommy will be ok, and that i will be right back, and to have fun with jimmy. Alyssa began to cry, as i handed her to jimmy. I told her, “i love her” ”, and that everything will be fine.” i ran back to the car and begin pulling away, as i watched jimmy hand alyssa over to another guard, safely inside the fence of the base, then i started to make my way, to save you”. By the time samantha finishes the story, michael and samantha were just pulling up to the base, but it was a very different scene from what samantha had just got done describing and it wasn’t looking very safe and secure anymore, all michael could think to himself was; i sure hope alyssa is ok!

Chapter 9: Missing persons


as samantha and michael first approach the base, there is no sign of the armed guards; with the loud siren still blaring, they drive past the line of cars that were waiting to enter the base. They notice that the cars are now wrecked; and in a panic, it looks like they have smashed into one another. With dead bodies hanging out the cars windows, showing signs of massive trauma. They look closer to see that the gate blocking the entrance, completely smashed through by a deceased civilian, who is now sitting in a suv, perched atop the gate, blocking the path, so that no one can drive through. With that samantha begins regretting leaving alyssa here, and begins breaking down. Michael tries to reassure samantha, by telling her, “that we found her once” ”, and not to worry we will find her again”. Finding them selves in another horrible situation, samantha and michael jump from the vehicle. While samantha grabs her oversized bag, that is full of supplies out of the trunk; out of no where, michael begins to feel weary, and begins staggering against the car; starting to feel the effects of this long sadistic night beginning to weigh heavily on him. With samantha trying to hurry, and michael lagging behind, they make their way into the base, by climbing over the hood of the suv; past the corpse of a passenger, with the flesh ripped from his face. Samantha and michael then notice a decent sized medical tent, set up outside of the main building. It has a light inside; that is shining through, casting the shadows of four figures; who looks too be operating on a small body, which is lying on a table. With samantha fearing the worst she rushes in, and finds that she is partly right. Samantha finds four mangled infected civilians, tearing out the organs, of a middle aged woman’s upper torso, that has been severed from its lower half. Catching the infected civilians attention, samantha and michael enter the tent; the blood drenched organs begin hitting the floor, as the infected civilians, see something more enticing. They begin charging at sam and mike, with one of them knocking samantha to the floor pinning her to the ground, as sam struggles to get the gun from her waist. Michael musters up his strength fighting off the beasts; he delivers a swift kick to the head of the creature, knocking it off samantha. As samantha's life has just flashed before her eyes, she jumps to her feet. They both fire multiple shots that echo throughout the surrounding area, dropping the rowdy infected vessels, to the ground. Sam and mike scavenge through the tent trying to ignore the smell of the dismembered body on the table, swatting flies away as they go; they both begin gathering multiple medical supplies, that are spread throughout the tent, just incase they get injured, or they run into anyone along the way. They exit the tent, and start toward the building. Samantha and michael run into the building, glancing above the door as they enter, they notice a security camera panning back and forth, realizing that the place is heavily monitored, and that there has to be a surveillance room, showing most of the facility. Michael mentions to samantha, we have to get to that room, and check those monitors immediately. That has to be our best bet at finding alyssa; it would also give us the upper hand on whatever else is roaming the rooms and the halls. With that, samantha and michael begin heading down the hall, working their way through dead civilians and dead military men. Out of nowhere, an older gentleman in military fatigues comes running from an adjacent hall, and rushes into a room, ahead of them slamming the door behind him. Not sure, what he was running from, sam and mike, glance around the corner, noticing nothing is there, thinking that it is strange, sam and mike approach the room, and open the door. Opening the door, samantha and michael are greeted with a gun pointed at them, by a man sitting behind a desk with a name plate on it saying, colonel henry myers, he must be the officer in charge of the base, colonel myers quickly withdraws his weapon saying, “sorry you two” ”, thought you might of been one of them”. Samantha immediately asks the colonel about alyssa, and if he has seen her; the colonel lets samantha know, that he has not, and he is sorry. Samantha then asks, what happened here, how did you guys lose control; the colonel lets them know that little under an hour ago, the base was over run by hundreds of blood thirsty crazed civilians. The guards tried holding them off, but there was way too many; most of the guards retreated into the building some stayed and fought, with most of them dying. The colonel barricaded himself, in a room just down the hall, waiting for it to die down. After it did, the colonel then came in here to get the phone number, of his superior so he can find out what exactly is the next step that he needs to take. As michael begins pointing to a camera, in the corner of the room; he asks the colonel“, is there is a surveillance room in the building” ”, that has monitors” ”, so we can view the building” “, and try too find alyssa”. The colonel replies, “yes” “, it is right down the hall, which i just came from” “, it is the very last room, on the left”. With that, colonel myers calmly asks, sam and mike too leave the room, and tells them that he is about to make an important call, and that it is private. The colonel, then kindly asks sam and mike, if they would please shut the door, on their way out. With that, samantha and michael slowly closes the door, exiting the colonels office. They make their way down the hall, and enter the surveillance room, locking the door behind them. They notice a few chairs, and about 20 monitors in the room. Samantha and michael, then quickly begin scanning through the monitors, noticing multiple packs, of infected civilians throughout the building. Samantha notices colonel myers, on one of the monitors on the phone, slamming his fist on the desk, as he is talking to somebody. Samantha begins growing curious as to what he is saying, since there is no sound on the screens. Michael notices there is a room, that looks kind of like a cafeteria, on one of the screens that is heavily barricaded, and filled with healthy civilians and soldiers, all grouped up together; but there is no sign of alyssa. Continuing to search the screens, samantha notices the colonel has finished with his phone conversation, and is now writing something down, on a piece of paper that is on his desk. All of a sudden the camera in the cafeteria begins to pan; and michael finally sees alyssa cuddled in a corner, with a soldier and her doll; thank god! She is ok. Out of nowhere, samantha gasps, followed by a loud bang, as samantha and michael hear a gunshot from down the hall, which echoes throughout the building. With samantha, covering her mouth with her hand, michael glances at the screen to see colonel myers, slumped on his desk bleeding from his head. “oh my god” “, he just shot himself”, samantha says; “why would he do that”? Michael then shows samantha the other screen and she immediately forgets the scene she just saw; seeing her daughter and the soldier that she is with, being jimmy. Samantha is overcome with excitement at the sight of her daughter. With samantha and michael, just having to find the cafeteria, they exit the room. As sam and mike pass the colonels office, curious as to what he was writing down, just before he shot himself; samantha enters the room and grabs the note from his desk. It reads (suicide note) i just got off the phone with the commander and chief; he has let me now that the situation, has gotten to far out of hand, and that he is extremely relieved, that we have not initiated the solution anywhere else, in the country. He let me know that they will be terminating the program as we speak. He also informed me that to prevent the situation from getting any worse, and the information of what happened here from leaking. They have dispatched two stealth bombers, equipped with the latest underground nuclear device, which will penetrate the surface of the ground detonating, and will cause the city, and the surrounding area to collapse in on itself, causing a crater that will look like a meteor impact. They are going to say that a meteor hit the city, in order to cover up, exactly what happened here. He informed me the strike will be here within the next hour. I also, really need to get this off my chest, and if any of my guys find this, i want you to know, i am extremely sorry. They ordered me to feed you guys the drug contaminated food, at chow this afternoon that we gave to the lower class citizens in the city. So very shortly, you will more then likely become one of them; i am so sorry you guys, and they also ordered me to serve it to the evacuated civilians when they arrived, but i was unable to do so, before the attack. They changed their minds this afternoon, and did not want anyone who knew about what we were doing, to be allowed to leave the city, or survive through the cleansing, except for a select few. I never imagined my career ending this way, but we all have to go sometime, goodbye (end letter). After reading the note, samantha becomes white as a ghost, fearing for alyssa again, who is now trapped in a room with a bunch of soldiers, which can turn violent, and become infected at anytime. Samantha also feels bad for jimmy, because he has no idea, of what is about to happen to him. With that, mike and sam begin making their way to the cafeteria.

chapter 10: End game



with them having to hurry, to save alyssa and get out of the blast zone, before the nukes arrive. Samantha and michael rush through the halls blasting their way, through hoard after hoard, of the zombie like civilians. Samantha and michael finally reach the cafeteria after bringing down many enemies, as samantha and michael reach the door; they then hear the crying and screaming of civilians, as the now infected, military officers are attacking the civilians. Sam and mike realize they were not fast enough, they begin trying to force their way through the barricaded doors, but there not budging. Peering through two thin glass windows, samantha and michael notice a couple of civilians tearing down the barricade, trying to reach the door, and escape the carnage. Just as the civilians remove the last few pieces blocking the door, that is trapping them inside, their blood splatters all over the two windows. With samantha and michael now being able to enter the cafeteria, they bust through the doors, shooting soldier after soldier, being as cautious as they can; in hoping alyssa is still ok, and not wanting to accidently shoot her. After clearing the room, mike and sam look to find that there is no one left alive. With samantha panicked, and extremely emotional they begin sifting through the bodies, coming across an ominous sight, as samantha finds alyssa's doll covered in blood, underneath a pile of bodies. However, there is no sight of alyssa, or jimmy. Samantha tries wiping the blood from the doll, but it is not coming off, she places it in her bag. With the only exit in the room, being the one they came in; samantha and michael begin looking around the room dumbfounded. Searching the room, michael happens to glance up, and notice that a cover is missing, from a large metal vent, that leads to the roof. Figuring alyssa and jimmy must have escaped to the roof, and with michael being too big to squeeze into the vent, he recalls passing a metal ladder, that looked, like it lead to the roof, in one of the hallways that they passed through; on their way to the cafeteria. Therefore, with that, michael and samantha decide to make their way back, through the base. Sam and mike reach the ladder, with michael climbing up the ladder he pops open the hatch, and slowly pokes his head out; circling his head, looking around the rooftop, michael suddenly sees alyssa and jimmy sitting by the edge of the roof, near the front of the base. He climbs out onto the rooftop, with samantha closely behind; samantha begins running towards jimmy and alyssa, with alyssa turning to see her mom; alyssa springs to her feet and rushes towards samantha. They embrace into each other’s arms, with samantha crying; the three of them all approach jimmy, samantha tells jimmy, “that she can't thank him enough, for all that he has done, and protecting alyssa”. By know jimmy is obviously feeling the effects of the drug. Jimmy begins telling them; “my stomach feels like its eating itself” ”, and, that everything inside him is telling him; that he wants to just end it all, and end the pain. With jimmy fighting with everything, he has; michael approaches the edge of the roof, and sees the overwhelming sight of wave, after wave of infected civilians, blocking the path to their vehicle. Samantha begins letting jimmy know why he is, in the pain that he is in; the anger that runs through jimmy’s veins, seems to be giving him some of his strength back. With the roof not being so high, michael realizes that he could definitely jump down from here, and once down, he could help everyone else reach the ground, if they could just clear a path to the vehicle. Jimmy lets michael know he has a few grenades on him, and seeming to accept his fate; jimmy offers to jump down, and try to draw the infected civilians away; clearing a path for them. Jimmy hands michael the three grenades, telling him good luck, jimmy then jumps from the roof. Immediately catching the infected civilians attention, they begin chasing jimmy as he is stumbling away. Michael pulls the pin from the first grenade, and launches it into a large crowd that is now going after jimmy, exploding body parts everywhere. Giving jimmy and them, more room to make their escape. Michael leaps from the roof, while keeping an eye out, samantha hands alyssa down to michael, with samantha soon following. Now with the three on the ground, michael looks to see the crowd around jimmy getting bigger and bigger, he launches another grenade towards jimmy, buying jimmy a little more time. As they make their way to the vehicle, with samantha carrying alyssa, shooting some of the abominations here and there, michael hurls the last grenade towards the suv that is blocking the gate, which is now surrounded by the beasts. The suv explodes, and flies into the air disintegrating the monsters around it, and falls clear of the gate allowing them to exit the base. Michael pulls out the a.k. And then clears out the rest of the infected civilians blocking their path , as they reach the vehicle, michael looks back to see jimmy waving them to leave, without him; they begin pulling away, as jimmy is overwhelmed and consumed by the pack. Looking into each other’s eyes, and holding one another’s hands, while alyssa falls fast asleep on her mothers chest, they drive away from the base to a safe distance, perched high upon a cliff, far outside of town. They exit the vehicle, standing on the edge of the cliff, with alyssa still in samantha’s arms, michael places his arm around samantha and rests it on her shoulder, embracing as they watch the stealth’s deliver the nukes; they hit vaporizing the ground underneath the city. Immediately the city and the surrounding area crumble, and disappear within seconds, as if they were never there. Leaving nothing behind, but a crater of smoke and smoldering debris. After the incredible sight, they jump back in the car and begin trying to figure out, what they were going to do next, with everything that they knew, now gone, after a long talk. Both samantha and michael, realize that after being involved in this nightmarish incident together, and basically still being enemies of the state, samantha and michael decide they would change their names, and become a family in a nice small quite town, with a brand new start, and hopefully a safer and peaceful future. However, knowing they will never be the same after this night. They will always worry about the horrors, of this night repeating down the road; michael hopes that the government will learn from this night, and what playing god causes. Michael knows, that even with the awful events that took place, the government will probably soon hatch out another plot, to follow through with there first goal of thinning the population, but michael knows there is nothing he can do, until that day comes, and until then, the three of them can only look forward, and live for today. However, when that day does come, both samantha and michael will be ready, and hopefully so will alyssa!


The end