The revenge of the dead

[Titan]

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Prologue

"The year is 2025..." A voice says, "The treaty of Baghdad has been signed. It has been a long war, 22 years to be exact. It all started when sixteen terrorists flew a plane into the world trade centers. The real war began in 2003. In 2009, President Obama began to withdraw the troops, before a group of suicide bombers attacked a U.S. military base. After that, everything went to hell on Earth..."

A voice takes a breathe and continues, "Battles grew more intense. More countries added into the battle. By the end of the war, twenty-five million soldiers were killed, twice that many civilians were killed. Eventually the president of every country got tired of it and signed the treaty, in Baghdad, to end the war. To any other survivors, the cause of it is unknown. I will find out what caused this carnage, I swear it to you."

Cracks of boards can be heard, along with some deep moaning. The man takes a drink of his beer, and turns the radio on, "To all those listening, this is my last transmition. I can't keep my swear, I apologise to all of you. The monsters are breaking down my barrier, good luck out there. You will need it to survive." The man grabs the radio and breaks open the back, cutting his fingers open. He grabs a remote and clicks the button.

That man was general Martin, who had a reputation as the bravest general the U.S. army has ever seen. He spent fifty years fighting in various wars, never showing fear once. He just blew himself up. This invasion is like no other, there is no escaping it. No matter how far you run, how deep you dig, you can't escape. An army so vast, so powerful, so unkillable, you can't escape it, you can only join it. The army, is an army of the undead...

[Titan]

CHAPTER 1

A girl runs down the street, footsteps following her. She begins to feel tired, after a long run, she stops and looks back at her fate. The girl sits down and closes her eyes as the zombies get within a hundred feet of her. She can only hear moans of zombies and the footsteps of them, not seeing anything. A really loud sound shoots out of nowhere, it sounds like bullets.

The girl opens her eyes, seeings all the zombies on the ground, dead. "Are you okay?" A man says, reaching out to help the girl up. "Uh...yeah." She says, standing up. The man aims his M16 down the street, looking through the ACOG scope. "Okay, no zombies yet." The man says, lowering his gun. "Aren't zombies supposed to have skin?" The woman asks, looking at the skinless bodies on the ground.

"Only the ones that recently died. The virus that reanimated dead bodies works on everything. Dogs, cats, skeletons, bugs, i have even seen an undead baby." The man says, walking down the road. The woman follows, "Freaky. Say, what is your name?" The man continues on, "That doesn't matter." The woman shrugs, "Well, I am Ashley. Thanks for saving me." The man stops and sighs, "No thanks are necessary. We are fighting our fate of death. The longer we can hold on, the more of a chance we have to survive."

"That's deep." Ashley says, "Well, what did you do before the outbreak?" The man kicks a door open and looks both ways, before unloading five bullets into a skeleton, "I was a teacher. I had a wife and two kids. One kid turned five a month before the infection. We managed to live together for three monthes in the infection before a sociopath broke into our house and killed my kids. I managed to kill him, but my wife couldn't take the depression and ran off. I found her body a month later." The man explains, opening a closet with a noise coming from it.

"Are you zombies?" The person in the closet asks. The man pulls him up, "No." Ashley's jaw drops. "Bruce!" She yells hugging the man that was in the closet. "I take it you know each other?" The man asks. Bruce speaks, "We're dating." The man shrugs and heads out of the building, "You got lucky." Bruce and Ashley follow.

Ashley looks at the man, "So you're family is dead...how can you keep going?" The man continues on before reaching a building. He puts in a code and the door opens, "I am killing the beasts Satan has bestowed upon the Earth. I'm killing the most Satanic beings to be on this Earth since Satan himself. I am emotionless and fearless. I am the perfect tool to clean up this mess..." The man opens the door and steps into the building, "My name was Danny." Bruce looks at him, "Was?" The man nods, "My name is...Titan."

[Titan]

Chapter 2

Ashley steps in and looks around. Bruce drops downs on the couch, "Finally a place to rest." He says, smiling. Titan follows them, closing and locking the door. "There are two bedrooms in the back next to each other. You two can crash back there." He says, pointing at the back. "What about you?" Bruce asks, looking and only seeing two rooms. "I'm gonna make sure no zombies manage to break through the door." Titan answers. Ashley looks at him, "Don't you need sleep?" She asks. Titan shakes his head, "Nope, I slept last night." Bruce just shrugs and heads into the back. Ashley goes into her room but doesn't forget those words.

Around midnight Ashley wakes up from a nightmare. She gets up and stands in the doorway, seeing Titan sit on the couch, staring at the door, holding his gun. "Go back to sleep." Titan says, not looking her way. "How did you know I was up?" She asks, walking out. "I heard the floor creak when you got up." Titan replies. Ashley looks at him, "I had a nightmare." She says, hoping to see more of what Titan was like. "So what? This world is a living nightmare now. My first nightmare when i was seven was about zombies." He hears Ashley sigh. "Alright. Sit down and tell me what happened."

Ashley sits down and begins to speak. Titan stops her, "Bruce! Stop acting like your asleep!" Bruce gets up, "How did you know?" "You stopped changing positions. While you were asleep you switched positions every couple of minutes." "Wow." Bruce comes in and sits down by Ashley. "Alright go on." Ashley begins to talk again, "Well, the nightmare was actually a memory. My family and I got on a helicopter to safety, but, when we got up all the way, I fell out. I was scared I was gonna die but i landed on something that cushioned the fall. I can't remember what."

Bruce nods, "My family got away too. But they live in a different city, how bout you, Titan." Ashley takes in a breathe at the question. "My mom was killed by the zombies and i dont know where my dad is." Titan says, completely leaving out the wife and kids. Bruce decides to leave it at that and get back to bed. "Come on." He says, tapping Ashley on the shoulder as he passes. She gets up and heads back to her room, her mind wondering about stuff. Titan watches them lay down, then grabs a journal from under the couch and begins to read.

"Dear Journal." Titan reads to himself, "Today i almost lost you at the museum. I was looking around for any..." the page of the sentence is stained from ink, "...I didn't find what i was looking for when i got there. I actually found something completely different. I miss my wife so much, and my son. My great son, Danny." Titan closes the journal and lays his head back watching the ceiling fan spin. "The museum." He tells himself, "Maybe that will help me find him."

[Titan]

Chapter 3

Ashley opens her eyes, staring at the wall. She slept soundly the night before, after the nightmare. "Get up. We're going the museum." Titan says into both rooms. Bruce gets up and walks out. Ashley follows, try to get her bearings. They find eggs, bacon, coffee, and sausuge on a table, waiting for them. "Eat fast." Titan says.

When Bruce finishes he looks at Titan, "Why are we going to the museum?" He asks, wiping his mouth with a napkin. "Because, it has some entertaining stuff. Need something to do in this world." Titan lies. "Do you shave?" Ashley asks. "No." Titan replies. His beard was an unkept, brown, beard. It looked like a five o'clock shadow except a bit longer.

Ashley walks out and sees nothing. "We walking?" She asks. "Yeah. We don't need to be getting extra attention we don't need by driving a vehicle." Bruce groans and walks out. "Well, I see how you survived. During the morning you look and sound like a zombie." Titan says, heading down the road. "Shu' up." Bruce responds, completely ignoring the 't'. "It has a sense of humor." Ashley says, smiling.

Titan shoots four zombies before walking into an alley. While walking down the hall, a cat runs by full speed. A minute later a zombie rottweiler appears, running full speed at the cat. Titan puts up his gun, then lowers it as the dog passes. "Why didn't you shoot it?" Ashley asks, following Titan. "It wasn't bothering us, and zombie dogs run in packs." "Really?" Bruce asks, seeing no pack. They begin to round a corner but a bunch of dogs come out of nowhere. And ambush the cat that ran in a complete circle. "Really." Titan says walking down the alley to the north.

Titan gets to a ladder and pulls it down, "Climb." He says, pointing up. "May I ask why?" Bruce asks, climbing the ladder. "There won't be any zombies on the roof, and we can get pretty far from roof to roof." Titan explains, climbing up. They get to the roof then walk over to the edge. A building to the far north not but a block away from the museum can be seen collapsing. "Wow." Ashley says, standing at the edge, "How do we get across?"

Titan looks around. The building over was half a story lower and about twenty feet away. He steps back and gets a good running start before jumping and rolling when he lands. "Wait one second!" He yells, before heading down into the building. Bullet shots can be heard. Titan comes back out and brings two mattresses with him. He goes back down and gets a bunch of pillows. "Jump!" He yells, "Get a running start and jump!" Bruce does so, landing perfectly and not feeling anything. Ashley hesistates but does so.

From that building on every building had an easy way of getting across. After half an hour of traveling, they get to the museum. "Welcome to the biggest museum in the United States. Built by the people for the children and other adults." Titan says, opening the door. "Home of Sally, the biggest known t-rex in the world, found right here in Oklahoma." "You sound like a tour guide." "Stay together everybody." Titan says, stepping into the first hall.

[Titan]

Chapter 4

Titan walks down the hall, looking at ever exhibit for clues of where his father is. People stole from the museum ever since the infection broke out, so the museum was practically empty. "Mind telling us why were here?" Bruce asks, looking at the empty caveman exhibit.

"Just looking around." Titan says, he walks up to an empty exhibit that used to be his favorite. His dad brought him here once, Titan was strangely pulled into the exhibit about wolves and their history. He had a dog, and to think that his dog was once a wolf was amazing.

Out of nowhere a moaning breaks out. Titan turns around, "Ashley move!" Titan yells. AShley turns around as a caveman zombie is headed at her. It breaks out into a full speed run, "They can run?!" Titan yells loading his gun. Bruce pushes Ashley out of the way as the zombie collides. Bruce and the zombie hit the ground, squirming everywhere. Bruce grabs a club, the only thing he could get his hand on, and smashes it over the zombie's head.

Titan helps Bruce up, "You okay?" He asks. "yeah, how bout you ashley?" Bruce asks. "Yeah, thanks." Ashley was speechless and the events that just unfolded. Out of nowhere, the three hear laughing. A man steps out of the shadow, "She's coming for you." The man says with a giggle, his eye twitching. Titan turns around and aims his gun at the man. "Psychopath." Titan whispers. "Who is she?" He asks. "Sally." "Sally?" "SALLY!" He yells laughing, as something bursts through the wall.

"Holy ---!" Bruce yells backing up. "Its a tyrannosaurus rex! Dinosaurs are zombies too?!" Titan grabs Bruce by the back of the shirt, "Go go go!" He yells, pointing at the exit. Ashley runs first, then Bruce, then Titan runs last. They can hear the footsteps of the gigantic monster chasing them. Titan shoots the glass out of the door, making it to where they didnt have to open the doors.

Titan runs and gets to the first car he finds, shooting the window out and hotwiring it. "Bruce! Drive!" He yells, unlocking all the doors. "Get back to my house, go down in the cellar, and press the big red button!" "What about you?" Ashley asks. The dinosaur bursts through the entrance, "I have a date with a dinosaur."

"No!" Ashley yells. Bruce pulls her in the car, "He'll be fine!" Bruce yells, as he speeds down the road mowing down zombie after zombie. Ashley looks out the window at Titan. "I'll catch up!" Titan yells, turning around. Sally tries to chase the car, but Titan shoots the gas tank of a car, causing Sally to trip. "Hey! I'm back here!" He yells, loading his gun.

Titan bashes a zombie over the head and begins to run as the skinless t-rex chases him. He sees the boundary to the air force base. "Yes!" He yells, running through a hole in the fence. Sally just steps over the fence and continues on with the chase. "Come on. I have been to the armory before." He says, running down a street pushing zombie after zombie out of his way.

"There!" Titan yells, getting to the armory. He runs in and looks around, "Please, dear god, let there be something useful in here." He says, looking through everything. He finds molotov and a propane tank. "This'll have to do." He says, grabbing some duct tape and duct taping the bottle to the propane tank.

Titan needed to get higher, a ladder. He jumps on the ladder and begins to climb. The t-rex gets to the building and hits it, almost making Titan lose his gripping. He gets to the top and lights the cloth on fire, stopping his movement completely. The t-rex looks at him, staring straight at him. "Bye Sally." Titan says hoisting the propane tank up on his shoulder. He throws it into the eye socket then pulls out his gun and shoots at it.

Ashley and Bruce hear an explosion. "S---!" Bruce yells hitting the big red button. Ashley sits down in a chair, "Is he okay?" Bruce sits down, "I have no idea. We'll wait until morning for him." "Okay." AShley says. They sit there quietly before finally falling asleep.

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Chapter 5

Titan stands up, wiping dust off his pants, "Ah god. What happened?" He asks, looking around. His head felt like he had been stoned with the roundest rocks in the world. A woman stands there, "Uh. You fell." She says, looking at him strangely. "Off of what?" Titan responds. "The thing you were standing on collapsed." "Oh. That su-." Titan begins to say, "Its you?" "Me?" "My wife! I thought you were dead!" He yells hugging the woman.

"I...i am dead." His wife says, sadly. "But i'm hugging you, how can you be dead?" "You're in heaven, honey. The building you were on collapsed. You're not supposed to be here, you're not dead." Titan looks at her with a sad look, "But. I miss you, and the kids." His wife looks at him, "We'll be here when you get here." Titan sighs, "Where's Buddy?" "We don't know. He isn't here."

Titan begins to feel his face getting wet out of nowhere, "What the?" He asks. "Listen, you need to get back your hope." He looks at her, trying to wipe the water off his face, "Hope of what?" His wife smiles, "Your hope of friendship, survival, in finding your dad. Me and the kids are fine, you can move on." Titan gets one last look at her, "I love-." He wakes up before he can get the last word.

Titan takes in a big breathe of air, coughing. He was in the middle of the rubble, zombies completely surrounded the building. A bark is heard from behind him, and the sound of four feet running. Titan turns around, "Buddy!" He yells as the dog tackles him. "How did you survive this long?" Titan asks, before feeling a sharp pain in his arm. His arm was broken, and bloody.

"Lets get home, Buddy." Titan says, standing up, ready to begin the long journey home. He shoots a group of zombies, so that he can get through to a vehicle. He drives to his house, before jumping out of the car onto a patch of grass so it leads the zombies away. He opens the door and heads in, finding the door to the cellar.

Titan punches in a twelve digit code, and the door unlocks. He steps in, "Wake up!" He yells. Ashley is laying on the couch, asleep, and Bruce is asleep in two chairs pushed together. Ashley sits up, "Oh my god! You're alive?!" She yells jumping up, about to run and hug him. "No touchie." Titan says, stopping Ashley about ten feet from him. Bruce leans up, "Wow. What about mrs. sally sue?" Titan looks at the ceiling, "Dead. She is ashes on base."

"So where we going today?" Ashley asks, curios about the days plans. "A place." Titan says, stepping out. He gets out some cereal and make, "Don't have time for a good breakfast. Pour you a bowl and come on." He heads outside while they do that. They hear glass shattering and a car alarm going off. They step outside and see Titan in a car, "It's a bit far away." He says. Bruce and Ashley just shrug and get in the back seat together.

Chapter 6

About an hour in the car, Titan wakes the two up. "We're here." They pull into a trailer park. "Wow, who lives in this sh-- hole?" Bruce rudely says. "My childhood home is in this sh-- hole." Titan replies. They go over a bridge, overlooking a creek full of dead bodies. The vehicle stops at a white trailer in the middle of the park, beside a giant tree. The house looks like there was an explosion in it.

The three step up to a tree with the words, Danny, Shawn, Lizzy friends for life. "Shawn and Lizzy were my best friends during middle and high school." He says, staring at the tree, "Lizzy got a record deal and moved away during college and Shawn went with her to go to a great video game school. After that I quit trying to make friends. The last friend I made was my wife." He says, pulling out a pocket knife.

Titan puts the blade against the tree and carves his name out, stabbing the middle of the scratch with the knife. "Lets look around inside." He says, stepping up the porch and walking in. There was glass and blood everywhere. A book is sitting under a desk, slightly burned. Titan grabs it and opens it to the last page. Buddy steps in, and barks, they had to conversation about the dog in the car.

Titan reads the page and sits down, punching the ground. Ashley and Bruce step back, before he throws the book backwards, hitting the wall. Bruce walks over and grabs the book, revealing it to be a journal from the man that stayed here. They look at the body on the floor then continue to read.

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9-22-2024

Horrible news i bring today. Zombies were spotted at countless spots all over the globe. One spot, is the airport downtown. The horrible thing about it, Shawn and Lizzy were coming to visit Danny for his birthday. It would be the first time they have seen eachother in seven years, but, they were at the airport where the zombies were spotted. I feel really bad for Danny, his best friends. This is the last time i am writing in this journal. I have a new one, but i will keep this one for any survivors of the zombie apocalypse.

Signed, General M. Eisenhower.
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Ashley and Bruce look at the body again, almost throwing up. Not for their sake, but for Titan's. His dad was sitting on the floor, charred and burned. They notice Titan grab something off the floor and look at it. A lone piece of paper in this brittle area. He stands up, cracking his knuckles.

"Come on. There is a helicopter pickup. We are getting out of this nightmare." Titan says, walking right past the two of them. Buddy follows him out the door. Bruce and Ashley look at eachother then at the paper on the ground. A flyer to anybody that needed help. "Okay. Lets go." Bruce says following them. Ashley is the last one out the door.

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Chapter 7

Titan drives down the road, Buddy in the passenger seat, Ashley and Bruce in the back seat. He swerves every couple of minutes to avoid driving into a big group of zombies. They were only about half an hour from the pickup zone. They were only about half an hour from safety and freedom.

A building busts outward onto the street. A wooly mammoth runs out and down the street, hitting the car. Titan tries to gain control, but loses it and the car flips. They climb out slowly, Ashley limping on her right leg. Titan pulls his gun out and looks around, "Sh--."

"Wooly mammoths are back too?" Bruce asks, watching the thing rampage down the street. "Well. They are dead." Titan replies, heading up the street. Ashley tries to walk but falls. Bruce is quick to help her up, "Here. Get on my back." He says, kneeling down. Ashley slowly get on Bruce's back. They begin down the street.

The zombie count slowly increases as the get farther down the road. Soon they are to the point where there are hundreds of zombies are trying to bite them at a time. Titan shoots them one by one, but soon begins to run low on ammo. They get backed up into the back of an alley, with nowhere to run. Titan gulps, clicking his gun hoping for a magic bullet to fly out.

Before they run out of time, the building on the right of the alley collapses on the hundreds of zombies. A trihorn walks through, steping on hundreds of zombies. "Thank the maker." Titan says, running back out into the street. They still had time if they ran. "Come on!" Titan yells.

Ashley gets off Bruce's shoulders and runs next to him, her ankle feeling better. They smile together before Bruce trips. Zombies begin to walk towards him. AShley gasps, and watches as the zombies walk into the area. Titan runs in punching the zombies, risking his own well being. He helps Bruce up, sending them up the way.

Bruce runs by Ashley, grabbing her hand, and continuing up the path. Titan throws his M16 on the ground and takes off with them, trying to catch up. They begin to just push through the many zombies they encounter on the way to the pickup point. the zombies don't react fast enough to stop them.

Eventually they make it. They get to the barricade that stands between them and safety. Titan catches up, as the three walk up to the barricade and knock on the door. The door opens, bullets flying. Titan opens his eyes, to see a man standing there, he shot down the zombies chasing them.

[Titan]

Chapter 8

Various men put them through tests to see if they are infected. All three come through clean, dog too. "Alright. You're going to a community that protect you and make sure you are safe until we fix this entire zombie situation." A man says, they hear the helicopter start up, "Go on."

Titan, Ashley, and Bruce step onto the helicopter pad. They smile at eachother. Ashley gets on first, then Bruce, and then Buddy. Titan begins to get on but then hears an explosion. He turns around, and sees zombies pouring through the barricade. Six men run onto the pad, "Go!" Titan yells, helping them on. He grabs an M16 that is on the ground and watches them.

"Come on, Titan!" Ashley yells, holding Buddy. "No, my job is here, and its not done." He says turning around. "I have a reason to be in this city. I can't abandon it." Titan puts one hand on the side of the helicopter and sighs. Buddy barks a sad bark.

"You can come with us and be safe. You won't have to worry about this crap." Bruce yells, standing up. Titan shakes his head with a deep sigh. "You guys are my best friends, and I'll do whatever it takes to protect you. Even this." The banging on the door to get on the building the helicopter pad is on gets louder. "I'll catch up with you." He says as the helicopter begins to pick up.

"No!" Ashley yells again. Titan turns around and waits for the helicopter to get to a safe height. He turns around with a grin on his face, "Don't fall out this time." He yells, just loud enough Ashley could hear. The door bursts open, zombies pushing though as they bum rush the pad.

"Bring it on!" Titan yells, shooting the zombies as they run at him. They keep coming, and he continues to shoot. Ashley watches in dismay as the bullet sounds grow lower and lower, until they are completely gone. The only sound is the sound of the helicopter chopping through the air.

Ashley looks at Bruce, and pulls out her birth certificate. "Do you think we should have told him?" Bruce asks, looking the certificate. "I think he already knew." Ashley says, slowly looking up at Bruce with a tear falling from her eye. She takes one last look at the piece of paper and puts it down, before saying what was on the birth certificate. "Lizzy Ashley Houston. Born November 7, 1994."

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Epilogue

A man takes a deep breathe, "The year is 2026. In 2025 an army invaded. The military built a community to protect any survivors. Life in that community is as it was before the invasion. Not every survivor got to the community and died trying. This invasion has already killed hundreds of millions of people. Almost reaching the billions..."

"...The invasion. Is an invasion of zombies. In 2025 the treaty of baghdad was signed. The iraq government had one last trick up their sleeve. A virus that spread through the air and reanimated dead bodies. The zombie infection, was much worse than people could have imagined..."

"...The virus reanimated anything that was dead. Even beasts that have been dead for hundreds of millions years were brought back. There was nothing worse than having your barricade knocked down in a nanosecond by a t-rex with hundreds of velociraptors following..."

"...In December of 2025, eight monthes after the infection broke out, three survivors were able to overcome death and fear and get to the pickup zone where they would be taken to safety. One survivor stayed behind to protect anybody else he found in the city, ultimately risking himself..."

"...As i said before, this invasion is like no other invasion. IT is revenge actually. This invasion, which has killed millions, is the revenge. The revenge of the middle east. The revenge of Osama Bin Laden..."

"...The survivor that stayed behind was me. I am left to wonder this city alone. Facing the revenge. The revenge of the dead." The man stands up, loading his M16. "Good luck."

[Titan]

*4 days and 67 paragraphs later*


Woo that was long