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