FROZEN HELL

After gathering supplies and driving away they smoothly continue their trip. Looking back they can see the clouds turning grey.

"The snow will get worse"

"Yes, I guess it will"

"We have to go to fast"

They passed by different large and small cities such as Pittsburgh, Columbus, Marion, Upper Sandusky, Findlay, Bowling Green, Toledo, Detroit, are all reduced to rubble. Eerie hauntings of the US government's desperation trying to save the remainder of its citizen. It was painful enough to move Dylan to tears by himself as he is the only one awake, he is a native to Detroit. Despite the freezing temperatures there are still fires and people trying to survive, he can hear their howling screams shiver down his ears.

"Frozen fucking hell"

He can see the horde of biters washing over the cities. He looked back to Natalia and the kids through the rare view mirror, he realized how screwed Humans are even if they are trying to save the world. The dead overpowers the living and they cannot do anything but to group up and survive for themselves.

After a few hours of drive they stopped by at a village in Michigan called Roscommon. No biters inside, he got into a house that seemed opened. He ran back to the car and woke Craig up, he asked him to guard the car and turn on the car heater. He grabbed a machete and headed back to the House to check it, he went into the second floor of the house and it seemed warm. He checked every room until he got into the room over looking the road that they got in and the fresh smell of tobacco, he hears a footstep and before he can react he was already knocked out.

He woke up to see Natalia talking to men in black, she seems to be persuading them that they are good men. Dylan looked behind him and Craig is there sitting and holding the piece of cloth with the insignia on it. Natalia kept on arguing until one of the men noticed Dylan, he sat him up straight and grabbed the cloth from Craig. 'Who gave you this?' He asked, Dylan can barely respond with 'Alpha' as he tremble in the cold.

"Say that again?"

"A-l- Alpha"

"The man who gave you this, describe him."

'Big and tall man, with a beard' He spoke at where his body can make, but the message is successfully conveyed to the men. They went outside and talked to each other, Natalia grabbed a gauze and started to patch up Dylan's wounds. The men stopped her from fixing his wound.

"Thank you, but its no big deal"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah... who are they anyway"

The two got in.

"A member of SPECTRE, Alpha the man you were with was a secret service agent.... they watched on the experiments and well... the President asked them to make sure the kids are good.. but as you can see... shit hit the fan"

"Yeah.. no shit"

"Well, we can stay here for the night... there is some crazy stalkers out there"

"Stalkers?"

"Yeah, adaptation... those pieces of shit managed to adapt depending on the place that they are in"

"Stalkers why?"

"They would stare at you until you make a move.. they learn basically"

"Holy shit"

"Exactly... get some rest"

The men lit up a lamp, they all got close to the lamp. The warm is enough for them to rest easy.

"Can you give us a name?"

"I'm Sierra, the man over there at the window is Yankee... a bit stiff but he means well"

"Heya"

"Hi"

He got his backpack and put out M.R.Es for them to eat. Since they cannot go to the car that they parked at the house parallel to them. The Natalia, Craig, and the kids hit the hay. Dylan took the opportunity to ask them about their group.

"So you guys save this kids?"

"yeah, finding the cure was a lost cause, we were killing children for no reason"

"We?"

"Yeah, we believed that a cure was possible... and that fucking Director must have killed himself... he was aware of what he was doing and he felt the most guilt"

"Desperation?"

"Yeah, we lied to ourselves thinking it was hope... but no"

"...."

"And that Julius... manipulative fuck.. where is he?"

"We found this home in Washingto-"

"The wreck?"

"Well no, a town out side of the city"

"Oh that Washington near Woodville right?"

"Yeah"

"That reminded me of what Alpha said... Randall was it, and Harry are the two main guys?"

"Randall not anymore... Harry is dead and Tobias is working under Julius"

"Working? Covert?"

"Yeah, we made this plan to find you and your people to help us head north"

"We heading to Ontario"

"Then so are we... we just need to go back and get the people then attack Washington"

"Attack... Julius took over huh?"

"Yeah.. he did... we knew fighting them will be tough because we were heavily outnumbered... but they were dimwitted enough to put majority of our people in the second town"

"Woodville I guess?"

"Yeah, the weak will be taken first and those who can fight will act as a distraction"

"Risk their lives?"

"Sort off, we can also use the blizzard that might happen"

"How?"

"We have squads of people that would go to different places to gather supplies"

"I get what your saying, take em and blame it on the snow?"

"Yep"

"Well, we have to go back home and prepare, you tell them everything"

Dylan noticed how quick he was to trust him and how both of the men reminded him of the two brothers. Sierra told Dylan to sleep, the trail back home will only get worse. Dylan and the others were awoken a few hours of their sleep, the two men looked distress as if something is about to get them. Dylan woke up and he was immediately hushed down by Natalia, they all are laying in their stomach.

'what is it?' Dylan whispered to them.

They did not respond, Sierra crawled up the window and Dylan followed back. They sat down on the window and they looked through, the snowfall makes the environment harder to see. As soon as they saw a silhouette of something large on the road they both immediately got down. The two is shivered in fear intensified by the cold.

"We need to get out come on"

They all got down and headed outside. Slowly they walked towards the front door. 'The Stalker' can be heard walking around the house, as if it knows that they are in there. They immediately locked on wiped suppressors on their pistols and they aimed every window and door that is facing at them. The howling sound of the blizzard and their breathing added to the tense atmosphere. The footsteps of the 'Stalker' dwell deep in the howling blizzard.

They all stand behind each other with Natalia and the two kids behind them. in the back door where Sierra is facing they hear the dog door opening slowly. A canine's snout smelling, without hesitation Dylan shot the canine and it moved back.

"Run to the car!!"

Sierra kicked the door down. Him and Yankee opened the garage door with their own strength. It took a while until they managed to push it open. The garage has two cars in their they immediately hopped on which one they can. Suddenly they hear a howl, a gnarly howl that seemed dead. The canine that they shot behind the house walked around the house and the wolf's snout is bleeding. The animal looks exactly like a biter Dylan and Sierra shot the animal down, small maggots are devouring around the animal's body.

The car's are started and they got on.

"What the fuck was that?!"

"STALKERS!!"

"Oh shit"

More of the wolf and other street dogs chase them down.