Content Warning. Blood, Violence, Foul language
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Situated in the Bronze Sea, Off the east coast of the mainland of Acadia, lies King's Island, a somewhat remote incorporated territory with only a few thousand inhabitants. Or at least there used to be
About a month ago, The Island fell to an outbreak of the Crux virus, A Yuzhan-Slavonik bioweapon that was commandeered by rogue AI. It's not known if it was a deliberate attack on the island or simply collateral damage from an attack elsewhere. It doesn't matter though, Most of the islands inhabitants were killed, or turned into mouth foaming monsters
Bethany Barns, is one such survivor. She lives by herself in a fortified compound that she discovered abandoned. well off the beaten path, the hamlet was already abandoned prior to the outbreak. Spare for the previous occupant of the red house, who was presumed dead when she arrived here a few weeks ago
An ear peircing shreik echoes from the woods
EEEEUUURRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!
An infected bursts out of the forest and sprints towards the compound, running as fast as its body can physically carry it. Twitching and screaming as it rushes
Bethany pulls a pistol, the creature closes in..
It leaps and starts climbing the fence
The infected quickly reaches the top and climbs over, before it can do so, it ends up stabbing itself on the barbs at the top.
It violently thrashes around and shreiks
YYEEEEUUURRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH! YAARRRRHHHHGHH
She blows its brains out with a single shot
The gunshot is met with the shreiks of more Infected who run out of the woods up the road.
EEEEUUURRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!
Bethany: "Fuck sake"
She quickly and quietly slips into the house..
Closing and locking the door behind her..
A moment later she emerges from a hidden latch and climbs onto the roof
and grabs a rifle and stays low, hoping the infected wander off, otherwise she'll blast them from her little sniper tower.
The infected scampe down the street, making all sorts of disgusting moaning, sniveling and coughing noises... but Beth knows she isn't out of the clear.. They are hunting...
All of a sudden she can hear in the distance, a single gunshot. The infected violently jerk towards the sound, and sprint off back into the woods, howling and screaming as they run off to be someone else's problem.
Shortly afterward though... the sound of a vehicle approaching can be heard
A red muscle car turns around the corner, and comes to a sudden stop when the occupants see Beth's fortified compound
Four people step out of the car. They are armed. The man in the hat with the red beard addresses her. Well.. howdy there neighbor! Been awhile since we've seen a friendly face!
What do you want?...
Well you know, given the circumstances we were hoping you might be willing to give a family in need some supplies... you look like you're doing quite well for yourself!
You see, We just moved in not far away.. And we were really hoping a kind soul would help us out so that we didn't have to go into town where all of the biters are, just to get something to eat..
Im sorry, I really don't have anything to spare. I barely have enough to feed myself
Well I don't know about that now... I'm looking at a whole bunch of fruit trees.. and I'm seeing lots of greens in those crates right in front of us. You wouldn't be getting greedy on some neighbors in need now would you?
Look asshole. I already told you. I don't have anything for you. Get back in your car. and go back to where you came from
Frustrated, one of the visitors tries to open the gate. But its locked tight with chains.
HEY! Touch my gate again and we're going to have a problem
Fucking locked!
The man in the mask turns to the leader. Seemingly having recognized Bethany from somewhere before
Dude! Thats Barns! She's a fucking cop..
Another of the group mutters quietley into the leaders ear
That Bitch was the one that shot my brother! We gotta fuckin kill her. kill her right now!
Shhhh! Not so loud!
Well well. I thought that was you... How're you doin Officer Barns? Im beginning to think with this fence you got around your the place.. and with the way you've been treatin us folk. You aren't very neighborly afterall..
And I had been meanin to ask. This is old man Kriptons place... Did you kill him for it? just like you kilt Olivia's brother?
I aint seen Kripton since a week or two since this whole thing started. I didnt do shit to him, you're not gonna fault me for taking the crazy old bastard's compound. I didnt kill him. But if you don't get the fuck back in your car right now, I'll shoot you all like I did that Bitch's drug dealing brother!
The Neighbors begrudgingly get back in their car. Not content to get into a shootout from a disadvantaged position. Both sides of the argument acknowledge that this is a tacit declaration of war between them though
Its a shame it had to come to this... you have yourself a good evening now. Officer..!
We'll be seeing you again reaaaal soon bitch!
The car squeals its tires and rips away
Beth goes back inside... Now with a real big problem to deal with..
Not far away. Right around the corner in fact, behind the thick brush of the forest lies the gang's safehouse, an abandoned house that they had refurbished and packed themselves into
Why didn't you shoot her! She's bad news! We could have had that place to ourselves!
And alert every freaker in the area with the gunshots?! You saw the gate. It was locked tight. We're gonna have to get bolt cutters at the very least to get in there. We can't just go all half cocked and rush in there
Well fair warning to everyone now. I see her again and Im going full-auto. I want her dead..
Inside the house, there's still some furniture left behind. The gang has barricaded the large windows and put up furniture to block the door. Nothing gets in through the front. It's tight quarters though as there's 4 or 5 people living in a 1 bedroom house. People sleep on cots and the sofa in addition to the bedroom.
Later that night, they are having a feast with the liquor flowing in abundance. This crew wasn't in need. They're just two-bit thugs looking to muscle and scam others out of a free meal.
Another of the group keeps an eye on Beth's compound. Gun in one hand and radio in the other..
Little does she know.. Beth is already out of the house... and she's packing serious heat.. She already knew where the gang moved to.. and she's creeping behind the house through the woods in an armored ghillie suit.
She puts the helmet on
Come to my place and threaten me...
She attaches a suppressor to her carbine with murderous intent
All the people who died and its gotta be scum like you who survived.. I'm gonna rectify that.
She creeps through the dense woods, a walking heavily armed plant.
She approaches the back of the house, the lookout is patrolling around the house.
Beth Takes aim, and without hesitation, plugs the woman with three shots to the chest.THUMP THUMP THUMP
The gunshots are muffled and barely sounds like anything, the muzzle flash is extremely brief. The Gangster flies back and hits the trash pile, Blood sprayed all over the window, she can barely start a muffled scream before the second and third shots silence her.
Her limp bodie slumps over. and the blood streaks down the window... Beth waits for a moment, to see if there's any reaction..
She flanks around the house, looking for more targets
There doesn't seem to be anyone else outside... She waits some more
She slithers to the door, checks that the door is unlocked.
In one fell swoop, she runs past the door, pulling it open..
And diving back into the bushes, lying in wait.
One of the bandits, drunk, investigates
Um... hello? wtf..
THUMP THUMP THUMP
Beth Plugs him too.
The bandit's corpse hits the floor, bleeding profusely. Those inside panic
HOLY FUCK!
The bandits inside panic, and try to grab their weapons.
Wut that?!
SOMEONE FUKKEN SHOOTIN US
Beth rushs to the door, and dumpsters both of them. She shoots the leader in the back of the head and paints the walls with his brains
She rushes inside, and towards the bedroom, by her count, she'd got everyone except for the mouthy one in the tube top.
She peeks the corner, but she's not in the bedroomWhere the hell'd she go?
She leaves the house, her unfriendly neighborhood comittee now turned into corpses littering the old house and the walls and floors painted red..
She creeps through the woods around the house.. trying to find the last one..
She stops and waits for a moment, listening...
Branches crack and bushes rustle.. and the quarry reveals itself, armed with an SMG, the bandit girl creeps through the woods herself. Unaware of Beth's location, but keenly aware they are under attack, having seen her party dead on the ground over by the door.
She turns in the direction of Beth, seemingly noticing her but not having her weapon drawn... Beth on the other hand.. is lying in wait... A terrified expression is on the woman's face...
THUMP THUMP THUMP
Beth dumps her. The green of the forest gets an addition of red as as the bandit gets filled with holes.
Beth surveils the area. The house cleared. the bandits all shot dead.. no sign of any infected... but then, another car engine...
Another car approaches, It's more bandits, associates of the first group... Someone must have gotten a call out during the commotion.
Stop the car! lets kill this bitch!
The bandits loudly and quickly exit the car.
EEEEUUURRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH!
No sooner did they arrive, announcing their presence with the aggressive driving, yelling, and music on the radio... Crux Infected burst out of the treeline behind them.
Beth sneaks away from the battlefield... the sounds of blood curtling screaming coming from the road as the infected eviscerate the bandits in a bloody gorefest.
