Bo: This way. If we cut through downtown, we should reach a safehouse by sunrise.
Bo gestures towards the highway road.
Killen: Let's hope.
Dante: Jesus Christ. The buildings look so tilted. Unstable.
Dante looks up in shock as he looks up at the skyscrapers.
Dante: What the hell happened here?
Bo: Missiles bombed the hell out of the city and the surrounding areas of infected, hoping to kill as much as possible.
Dante: Did it work?
Bo: For a while. Yeah.
Suddenly, the three men heard a cry off in the distance, but like a screeching sound.
Dante: Uh....what the hell is that? That didn't sound like an infected.
Killen: Bo, you hear that?
Bo: Yeah, I do, but it sounds really far away.
Killen: Shit.
Dante: We're safe, right?
Bo: For now. Come on.
The three men continue down the road as they come upon a giant bomb crater.
Dante: Damn. That's a helluva drop.
Dante walks up to the edge and looks down.
Killen: There's a safehouse.
Killen points out a large building with a silver roof.
Dante: That capital building?
Bo: Yeah. That's our safehouse. One of em, anyway.
Dante: Why there?
Bo: It's the one place bandits won't think to look...plus, less infected. We need to get around this.
Dante: What is this? Downtown area?
Bo: It was. Now, it's just a crater of a wasteland.
Killen looks around then went over to a skyscraper that was a few feet away from them.
Killen: Over here.
Dante and Bo follow Killen, then get inside the building and start to make their way through it. At one point, Killen opened a door and found a mangled body of a Zeus Corps Soldier.
Bo: He's been ripped to shreds.
Killen: Yeah....
Killen walks up to the body and looks it over.
Killen: Body's fresh.
Dante: Is that bad?
Bo: Most likely....let's not stick around to find out, yeah?
The three walk up to another stairwell when they come up on another body.
Killen: Fuck. Another one.
Killen grabs the dead Zeus Corps Soldier's radio as he listens in.
Dead Zeus Corps Soldier: This is Vasquez in Sector 14. Taylor's dead. We have contact of infected. Level2. I repeat; level fucking two of infected! Wait! Shit! I think I hear them!
Gunfire and screeches are heard as a final scream is heard.
Killen: Sounds like these guys died waiting for backup.
The three head up another set of stairs through the door to their left, only to see a mutated glowing Skinner body up against the door.
Killen: Damn. It's a Krens.
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Chronicles of the Apocalyse (2011)
ActionA former soldier with no memory awakens twenty years into a post apocalyptic wasteland, controlled by the company responsible for the apocalyse, terrorized by ruthless gangs and filled with horrific creatures. Trusting only the broken, the weak and...
