Take me with you

"They kept working on it behind my back." Ray said bitterly, "And before I knew it, they had turned the bloody thing to a sort of a gas bomb if you will. Not as strong fortunately but still potent. Even the plant I was working on the project behind the back and just yesterday they released the gas throughout the world. I only found out about it after the people working into the project had turned to those things themselves."

"Wait they released the virus on purpose?" Shida interrupted suddenly, with his wife in the states he couldn't help but worry more. He had already come to accept the fact that she might be dead but he wasn't willing to give up, at least for Alice's sake. "Why would they do that?"

"You need to ask them yourself." Ray said shaking his head, "Even I am not sure what their objective is, but now you can understand how this whole apocalypse began. The virus didn't affect the living much at all, but for the dead or people that were on the verge of death got infected and before long this whole thing turned out into a total shit storm. And as I said they are after me ever since they found out about the cure I had, they have been trying to hunt me down."

"Why not surrender?" Ryota asked, "I am sure that's the best-case scenario for you. You'll get protection and you get to make the cure."

"Because they killed my wife and my children." Ray said gritting his teeth, "The virus they released caused my whole family to die. I- I had to kill my wife and my son with my own two hands. I am stable enough to not go crazy from it but I am already on the edge, so I'd rather die than work with them."

"I see." Ryota nodded as the tingle in his brain went away and he had sudden enlightenment of what he had to do next, "Do you want revenge?"

Ray looked at Ryota who was looking at him seriously as he nodded.

"You know what I can do and I am more powerful than almost everyone here." Ryota bragged, "So I can help you with it. And together we can find a cure."

"You-You mean it?"

"Of course." Ryota said, "I have no family here so I have no one to miss. But these couple of days I've found a few people that I want to protect and before I go, I don't want to leave them in this shitty world."

"Great!" Ray nodded though he didn't quite understand the last part he took it as a metaphor, "But are you really serious? I mean they are dangerous people and you could even die? I have lost everything now but even then I wouldn't want to take a kid your age to a suicide mission."

"If you ask me one more time, I will punch you right in your face." Ryota snorted, "We'll make a decent plan after we've reached our destination. From there we will move on as quickly as we can."

"Ryota-kun look." Saeko suddenly called out to him as she pointed towards the outside.

Ryota climbed up to look at the bus stuck at the side of the wires and a couple of dead zombies around. "This is the place, right?"

"It should be." Saeko nodded.

Ryota dropped down into the car as he looked back at Ray. "Can I trust you?"

"It depends on you." Ray replied, "I am the one tied up here after all."

"You know how to use guns right?"

"Yeah, I've worked in the military before," Ray said as Ryota cut off his rope handing him a pistol from the gates of Babylon. "Is that thing like storage?"

Ryota smiled and didn't say anything to him. "Shiba-san, please watch out for Alice and us, while we try to clear to nearby zombies and head inside."

Shiba nodded as one by one the three of them got out.

"Remember, try anything weird and I will blow your brains out the next second," Ryota said as a golden ripple opened right behind Ray's head as he gulped.

"Sounds like a plan."

"You ready?" Ryota asked as Saeko nodded getting into a fighting stance, "I'll distract them and Saeko-san will attack them from behind as for you Ray, help open the wires and get the car in."

Ryota quickly sliced his way towards another corner taking out an airhorn he found at Marikawa's place and blowing it. The loud sound attracted the zombies nearby and soon they were rushing towards Ryota.

"Maximum effort!"

Ryota began slicing through the wave of zombies indiscriminately, chopping heads left and right. He kicked any zombies that got close to him, dodging a few ones and attacking head-on again. Saeko, while all the zombies were attracted to the sound, began slicing through from behind with a similar speed.

"Monsters..." Ray gulped again looking at them, as he did he was told.

The Humvee got in successfully, and soon Ryota and Saeko were done with the hoard of zombies as well. Before long only a few of them were left as they met each other halfway.

"I can't help but fall in love with the way you fight, Saeko-san."

"We have a dojo for a reason you know," Saeko smiled, "But I can see that you've learned a few of my techniques as well."

Ryota grinned, "I am quite good at copying. By the way Saeko-san, would you mind if I ask you out on another date after all this is done."

"Hmm... I need to check my schedule first but I will try my best depending on your answer." Saeko said, "Take me with you."

"Where?"

"To your 'hunting zombie in another country' expedition."

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Author here:

I know I have been slow on updates a little but I just have too many ideas going through my head, so I have to sort things out carefully to avoid things like plot hole as much as possible and so on. I will not drop my novel and will see it to completion no matter how long it takes but expects a late chapter now and again.

Also, check this new Marvel fanfic I've been writing... it's upload schedule it's not fixed but I'll update as much as I can.

The name is, Marvel Dominance. You can check through the comments for the link.