Day 1: Roxanne concluded that all ties to the old world had been severed, including her current mission. She decided that she now would need to start anew, she decided to spare her target, Hilario Singh. She did not know anything about her target, she never did, except that he had somehow pissed off the order since they don’t just target people as far as she knew.
“At least we got shelter”, uttered trying to lighten up the situation. “Yeah” responded Roxanne, “What should we do know?” “We should get a car up and running to leave the city as soon as possible.”, Suggested Hilario. This seemed like a good idea to her, with how things are staying in the cities would be too risky. “What’s your name?” asked Hilario. “Roxanne”, she answered.” “Name is Hilario, nice to meet you.” “Yeah…I know…”, Roxanne thought to herself. Roxanne looked at her wound and noticed it was infected “Great”, she muttered to herself, “just what I needed…”. “I am going to go for a supply run before I leave, need anything?” Roxanne asked Hilario. “You know, this might be a bit forward but I think I have an idea of who did this.”, Hilario explained, “A little bit to the east passing the hospital there is an office tower that always rubbed me the wrong way, could you go there and bring me one of those corporate books and I will show you who is at fault!”. “Alright, I guess I can do that.”, Roxanne told Hilario, “Lets go then.” “Why should I go with you?” Roxanne was confused since she had realized Hilario was onboard when mentioning the car Idea. Nevertheless, Roxanne need a way to convince Hilario to join her as she knew she could use the extra hand; Roxanne extended her bionic blade making Hilario flinch a bit. “See this?”, Roxanne asked, “From the looks of it I say I could make a pretty decent body guard no?” “Fair point,” Hilario said, “I don’t even have a weapon…You got it, I am with you!” “Great!”, exclaimed Roxanne, “Now lets stop by the hospital to patch myself really quick”, Roxanne said showing her bite to Hilario, “and then off we go to the tower for your book.”
Roxanne and Hilario gather all the stuff they could before realizing they did not have enough space. They then went outside when the noticed a car was nearby. Upon further inspection they realized it was in working condition! “Jackpot!”, exclaimed Roxanne. They got in the car but soon realized the keys were missing. “Can’t you just hotwire it?”, asked Hilario. “I have never done so and besides we would need something like a screwdriver to turn the ignition which we don’t have.”, explained Roxanne. “So much for a car…”, said Hilario disappointed. “There are more cars out there, will find one that working.”, said Roxanne.
That’s when Roxanne noticed the clothing store. “Hey lets go there!”, Roxanne signaled towards the clothing store. “Why?, asked Hilario. “We might as well get more appropriate clothing for this situation no?”, said Roxanne. “If you really think so”, muttered Hilario uninterred. In the clothing store they did a quick clothing change and by the end of it Hilario had change to more practical clothing like boots and cargo pants while Roxanne was now dressed as if ready for the meeting of Royals. “I thought you said we were to change into more appropriate clothing?”, asked Hilario annoyed. “Just because we are in the cataclysm doesn’t mean I have to stop looking my best!”, exclaimed Roxanne. “There is no other person around her but me that you could ‘impress’ by your ‘style’…”, said Hilario with sprinkled sarcasm. “Is it working?”, asked Roxanne in a playful manner. “No”, asserted Hilario. “Fine!”, pouted Roxanne.
“Look!”, exclaimed Hilario, “There is a military Humvee outside!” Both swiftly went outside to inspect it. “Please let this one have them,” pleaded Roxanne, “Keys! It has them!” They both got on and turned the ignition; it would not turn on. “What’s going on”, asked Roxanne confused. “The battery must be dead, if we can find one that works we might be able to get this going.”, said Hilario. “It would be pretty sweet to ride around in this thing.”, added Roxanne. “That it would”, said Hilario pointing at the mounted machine gun in the back. “Lets get the one from the car that did not have the keys!”, exclaimed Roxanne. “Great idea!”, said Hilario in approval.
Once back by the previous car they lifted the hood to check the battery. “Its bolted shut…”, muttered, “We are going to need pliers or the such to get it off…” “Its always something!”, Roxanne angrily yelled. It was then when the head it, the moans of something approaching; a skeleton slowly creeped its way towards them. “Stay back,” declared Roxanne, “only attack if your life depends on it!” Roxanne approached the creature and contemplate powering her CQB bionic; she had no combat experience since her relied solely on it during her entire “career”. She decided against it in the end saying to herself, “This thing is slow and dumb, how hard can it be?” Roxanne then quickly slashed the thing to pieces, “Easier than expected if I say so myself,” Roxanne proclaimed, “its safe now Hilario, just be on the lookout.” “I am going to need a weapon if I am going to stand a chance out here.”, said Hilario. “You’re right about that…”, Roxanne said in agreement, “Lets get into that house and see if we find anything for you, or of value for that matter, before we head to the hospital.”
Roxanne and Hilario entered a house by breaking a window and swiftly looted the place. The house was mostly food and books safe for a few items. “Oh my god! I always wanted one of these!”, Roxanne screamed while pointed at a purse she found in a drawer, “Hey, there is also a backpack and trenchcoat for you as well.” Hilario put on the trenchcoat and backpack while Roxanne marbled at her new-found purse. “Wait, I am wearing all the cargo stuff…are you using me as a packmule?!” Hilario asked in an accusatory manner. “No! Of course not! Its just that I need to be as unrestricted as possible to be able to attack the dead.”, Roxanne explained. “That clothing, while nice, looks just as encumbering as mine…”, Hilario added. “Not the point”, Roxanne declared. “Anyway, we have ransacked this place and still found nothing I can use as a weapon.”, Hilario said. “Well, what are you good at?”, asked Roxanne. “I am good at cutting and piercing”, Hilario responded. “Then let me make something for you real quick.”, asserted Roxanne. After breaking a few pieces of furniture and scavenging the broken window Roxanne presented Hilario with a knife spear. “There, not as fancy as what I got going on but should do the trick.”, Roxanne said while giving the spear to Hilario.” I must say, this feels pretty good on the hands, thanks!”, Hilario exclaimed. “Now to the hospital! This thing is starting to hurt…”, Roxanne whimpered.
On the way to the hospital they had to cut through a patch of woods to avoid attracting the attention of the dead deeper into the city. Unfortunately some of the dead had been lurking by the outskirts and needed to be dispatched before they attracted the attention of others. “Ok, now that you are armed I am going to need your help, engage anything that gets too close.”, asserted Roxanne. “You got it!” exclaimed Hilario. The survivor due procedued to lure the stragglers to a chokehold on the back of a house and were they were impaled and cut by Hilario and Roxanne respectively. “Not bad, for a packmule with makeshift spear you can handle yourelf pretty well.”, Roxanne said jokingly. “I knew it!”, Hilario responded. “I am just pulling your leg. Lets continue.”, Roxanne commanded. After an uneventful pass through the woods the couple reached the hospital.
“Here we are, remember, we are not here to do a mass loot, we find the meds and we leave, go it?”, asked Roxanne. “Yeah, this place makes me uneasy already…”, responded Hilario. They slowly entered the hospital to an empty lobby. They descended down the hallway and inspected all the rooms immediate to them to no avail with limited visibility due to the lack of a flashlight. Roxanne led the way with here night vison augmentation. “How did you get those upgrades?”, asked Hilario. “It’s a long story…”, affirmed Roxanne. “Will you tell it to me one day?”, asked Hilario once again. “…Maybe one day…”, said Roxanne reluctantly. She suddenlty became lost in though about how Hilario might react if he were to find out about the order or as to why Roxanne had been sent in the first place. That’s when they heard noise. “You heard that? Something is nearby…”, Hilario whispered. The two of them then went out into the hallway once more to see two of the dead, but they were somehow different; one of them was covered in what looked like green boiling liquid and the other was bloated with purple sludge a spitter zombie and a boomer as they would become known as later on. “What the fuck is that…”, asked Hilario shocked. “I don’t know but something tell me we have to get rid of them quickly”, Roxanne answered. Soon after the boomer through its sludge at Hilary temporarily obstructing his vision but not blinded because of his safety google he was wearing. Roxanne was wearing a riot helmet she had found earlier, not as flashy as she would like but she knew it would be better in the long run, so she was not as worried about the sludge. Roxanne then quickly ran towards the spitter when it shoot acid towards the couple and it landed on their feet. “Ahhh, it fucking burns!”, shouted Roxanne. “Roxanne! Careful, that acid he is spitting!”, Hilario shouted back. “Now that’s not very fucking fair!”, exclaimed Roxanne when she got out of the acid, “It hurts like hell but we have to kill it before it shoot more!” Roxanne and Hilario then quickly dispatched the both the dead side stepping the acid. “That was intense…we need to find the meds and get out of here fast, something tells me there are more of them…”, Roxanne suggested. “Yeah, this place is too dangerous.”, affirmed Hilario.
After looking through what appeared to be every single room in the hospital and sustaining several injuries dispatching the dead the pair reached the last room. “This is just great! All of that and not a single fucking first aid kit or antibiotic! Oh but if you need an aspirin I can sure as hell hook you up!”, Roxanne yelled furiously. “Calm down, any other stragglers might hear you.”, Hilario responded. “We have been to every room here, I am sure we killed all of them,”, Roxanne responded back, ” besides, the way this wound is going, it won’t matter I don’t find meds for it soon…”. “We will find some soon, I promise, we just need to look else where.”, Hilario reassured Roxanne, “But first lets get out of here, my legs can’t take much abuse…”. “Same here…and you are right, we have to keep moving.”, Roxanne said. “Look! Is that what I think it is?” Hilario asked excitingly. To the end of the room was a CBM for an internal furnace. “That’s a Compact Bionics Module, it’s a toolkit with everything you need to install the bionic that comes in hand.”, Roxanne explained,” This particular one is an internal furnace, says it allows the host to consume organic matter to charge its power supply…could be useful if I could install it.” “To bad we can’t take it…”, said Hilario, “My volume space is full…” “That’s alright, I don’t have the know how to install it so It’s useless to us now.”, affirmed Roxanne, “Now lets get out of here, no distractions!”.
Once outside the hospital Hilario spotted a hatchback in the middle of the road ahead. “Lest go check it out, my legs are too banged up to continue walking…”, suggested Hilario. “Sure, pretty much the same here.”, Roxanne said in agreement, “Here its to hoping it works…” They go in the hatchback after a quick inspection. “Keys!”, exclaimed Roxanne, “Lets turn this puppy on!” With the turn of the key and revving of the engine the hachback turned on, they had acquired wheels. “Now that’s what I am talking about!”, Hilario screamed in enthusiasm. Roxanne proceeded to drive a few dozen yards out of a curve from the hospital when they were greeted by a nasty surprise on the road proper… The noise from the hospital skirmish had attracted a few dozen of the dead and they were in the way. There were to many cars to maneuver out of the way and they were quickly becoming surrounded. “We are going to have to fight…”, Roxanne proclaimed.” Roxanne and Hilario got out without a word, they readied their weapons and as soon as they got close they struck each one of them one by one. By the end of it they had sustained no injuries but the sun was on its way down to a sunset. “I can’t take any more of this…lets rest for today…”, Hilario declared. “Yeah…I am exhausted…and I am sure you are as well. “Roxanne said, “Lets get into that house there and rest for tomorrow. Hopefully we have more luck then.” “… We will find your meds next thing in the morning, I promise…”, Hilario reassured once more. “Thanks…lets secure the house so we can rest.”, Roxanne responded. The two of the broke into the house by prying a door with a crowbar they had made from a pipe inside the hospital. Once inside they closed all the curtains with no regards about any loot inside save for one; when they had opened the bathroom room to close its window’s curtain Roxanne found it, a first aid kit! She picked it up and then closed the curtain. “That’s all the curtains” Hilario said, “I the bedroom, had a big bed where we can both sleep at. Finally time to rest.” “You go on ahead, I have something to do first.”, Roxanne told Hilario. “And what would that be?”, Hilario asked. Roxanne simply showed him the first aid kit she had found and both of them smiled. “I’ll be there soon, save me some space.”, Roxanne requested. “Sure, don’t take to long, we have to leave early.” “Yeah, I know, don’t worry. This won’t take long”, Roxanne responded. Hilario went to bed while Roxanne patch up her wound saving the rest of the kit for a rainy day. With that done Roxanne joined Hilario in bed to finally rest after the first hectic day of many in the cataclysm. “Sit lux guide sancto sanctus…”, Roxanne whispered to herself before falling asleep.
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