The Bunker

(Three Year Ago)

"So can I come with you two tomorrow?" Insisted Mark.

"No Mark even Susan won't enter until I finish my work. But you can go check up on Chloe and Lawrence to see if they need anything. Maybe take them some breakfast as well." I said.

"Like my broke ass would afford breakfast for myself." He said jokingly.

"I know you are on some celeb show. Saw you on an advertisement for the show. Just saying, you absolutely killed the cover image." I said.

"Well, thank you kind dude who has never been kind to me before the very moment he needed me to pay for something." He said sarcastically.

"Oh well, what can I say. You are a celebrity now aren't you." I joked back.

For the rest of the way we listened to some good beats by Mark. His playlists were fire.

After dropping him at his place, me and Susan remained silent. We were tired from the day.

After reaching our house she went straight to our room and I took the time to call Lawrence and check up on him and Chloe.

"Hi Lawrence."

"Sup Dan."

"You home yet?"

"Yes."

"How's Chloe?"

"She never woke up. I picked her up and took her to the room and she didn't even flinch."

"That's good in way." I said as we giggled." Mark is going to come to your place in the morning and bring you breakfast before he goes to his show. So you don't need to leave your place."

"Alright thanks mate." Lawrence said.

"Be safe." I said as I hung up.

Susan came downstairs to prepare dinner for us two.

"So I'm really coming with you tomorrow?" She finally broke the silence.

"I don't really know. If you can't come then I will take you somewhere nice after I finish my meeting." I said.

"Well I would rather go somewhere nice." She smiled at me.

"Somewhere nice it is then." I smiled back.

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(Present Day)

"What do you mean?" I said in confusion.

"This... Thing. It spread very quickly. Infected almost all animals and some people too. It's very lethal." Hunter said.

"So it infects the host without the host realizing it?" I asked.

"The host will realize it but only after it is too late." Tom said.

"And it has a very annoying thing that it drives people mad. They either shoot everything and everyone they see or they just end up shooting themselves." Hunter added.

"How do we know that someone is infected?" I asked.

"Oh, you will know an infected when you see one. Their cells expand drastically in size. Making them twice as large as they used to be before." Tom said. "However, for the animals they might even end up triple the previous size when exposed to the virus for long periods of time." He continued.

I was sat next to tom in the front seat of their buggy. It was a large buggy that had a mounted turret behind two seats. Hunter got on the turret just in case anything goes downhill. Tom was driving slowly because he said the weight was too much on the buggy and if he sped up we would end up dead. I took the time to really observe the pair. They seemed like normal mercenaries. Like the ones who existed before the alleged virus broke out. I didn't believe what they had told me. Not one bit.

Tom was a little taller than Hunter, he was a more serious person too.

I suddenly remembered Hunter telling me 'Welcome to the new age Daniel'.

"Hunter?" I started.

"Yes."

"I have a couple of questions I would really like to be answered now." I said.

"What is it?" He asked in response.

"First of all how do you know my name?" I asked.

"Ramsey told me all about you before sending me to find you. Hell, he even showed me pictures of you. Or else I probably wouldn't have found you." He explained. "And secondly?" He asked before I could say anything.

"What did you mean when you told me welcome to the new age?" I asked.

"This is a new age. An age of chaos and disorder. People kill each other for water nowadays. It's a lot worse than it sounds trust me. This is a way of nature to regain control over mankind in my opinion." He explained. "A new age where resources are scarce and limited. To push the human boundaries to their absolute limits." He said.

"Oh cut the shit Hunter." Tom said.

"I actually agree with Hunter. If what he said is true then this is a way to regain balance." I said.

"Hah take that serious ass." Hunter said as he laughed at Tom.

"Whatever." Tom said in annoyance.

Tom stopped all of a sudden. In the middle of nowhere.

"What?" I asked.

"We are here baby." Hunter said.

Then the ground under us separated open and the vehicle was lowered to a bunker. All the walls were made of steel and there was a lot of lighting in the bunker. Tom and Hunter got out so I got out after them too.

I turned to the only hallway and saw about thirty guns pointed at me. I slowly raised my hands.

"He's good." Hunter said.

"No keep it pointed at them two until I know exactly who these men are." Tom said as he pointed at me and Hunter.

"What the fuck man?" Said Hunter loudly and angrily.

"You breached the rules man. We don't bring outsiders." Tom said.

"It's fine I can leave." I said.

"Yeah so you can tell the elders exactly where we are." Tom said.

"Who the hell are the elders?" I asked.

Before I could hear anything else I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head and my vision blurred before everything went black.