PERSEVERANCE

Zachary starts to lose it upon seeing Alpha all the way out here in the state of Colorado, he remembers seeing Alpha as one of the reasons why he is walking out in this world. He gets angry but relieved at the same time knowing that there is a familiar place. Alpha has looked much more rougher than he once remembered him to be.

"How are you here?"

"Well I got booted just like you... something horrible is happening up North.. you know those fuckers than kicked you out"

"Yeah, did they kick you out for the same reason too?"

"No, but yeah... I did my little investigation of the causes of the attack on Norfolk.. and it seems that you are right...some of the man that we picked up from Alaska we're working with them, actually is still part of them"

"Well, how long have you been out of the there?"

"About a year already"

"A year?"

"Yeah, I looked for you, I even went back to Washington, ruined shit nothing there anymore but nightmares"

"Yeah, well I headed to Seattle then moved my way south looking for a part of your Regime"

"And you did... I managed to get in contact with the 4th one, or what was left of it... the 3rd one is in the state, but I'm worried that there's not a lot of them anymore"

"You seem oddly talkative"

"We have a lot to talk about... oh yeah 1 month... we'll be going into the town of Center.. along with the 2 choppers"

"Won't that alarm the biters there?"

"No, Center is a guaranteed safe haven"

"uhm"

"what?"

"This place that we have heard a lot about, a community called 'Haven' do you know it?"

"Do you know Pierre and Fort Pierre?"

"No, that is where Haven is, actually that's where I came from"

"Wait, from Washington all the- holy shit how the fuck did you do that"

"I met up with some people on the way there, some became bad others... shit turned or killed themselves...."

"....."

"Then I got to Haven, and they were expecting people from Phoenix, when they did a fly by the community there that they were in contact was fucked to shit, then we see a massive horde and we followed the interstate and well.. here we are"

"so SPECTRE do you guys have any connections here?"

"Pierre was just chosen as the town because it was safe, no biters roaming about all of the people are still kicking.... it was good"

"So, when we get to Haven what do you want to do?"

"Warn the others... up North"

"hmm, okay"

"How about you?"

"I'll just leave a new life"

"Oh... wait how about your family up North... Sam?"

"Sam, what about her, as long as she does not do anything stupid she won't be booted like us"

"....We don't know that"

"Don't know what?"

"She'll do something stupid or... I don't know"

Zachary just left Alpha before he gets a proper response, Nevada followed him as he headed to the Infirmary. Rodrick is still mourning his son's death, hugging the grave stone. Alpha reminisces about his times back in Washington, stripped clean of his anything but the clothes in his back and unperishable. He walks into the ruined town and sees nothing more but a skeleton of a place that he once called home, thinking there is food he explored the place. With a flash light an his bare firsts he tore around the town trying to find anything.

He only finds a rusting rifle, something that won't be useful, any guns or melee weapons he finds are all rusted and useless. He looks around for food but nothing either. He was also left to die when the snow starts falling again. He searches every single home but there is nothing. The pile of corpses that they burned still fills up the air, some of the dead on it are even making movements. He headed to the other town, a bit intact but probably was stripped clean.

After almost 2 hours of searching he was right, there seems to be nothing there anymore but an eerie reminder of the ruined towns. He gets up and follows the road eastward trying to find a city, village, municipality, or even an incorporated town that they have not fully scavenged for. Empty, he kicks around the town. He thought of going back to Canada, but he remembered Zachary. He sits around there until the cold dead of night.

"Where will he go? Where will that kid fucking go"

He then remembered a conversation that he had with Him before, about the other groups of SPECTRE situated in 4 different states, although he did not specify which state the members themselves are scattered everywhere. He got up again and thought of going to El Paso, he looked for a car that is not in wreck yet. None, all of it stripped off the useful things, he then decided to just walk even if it takes almost 3 weeks.

"Guess I'm fucking walking"

He starts to walk south following the 81st interstate, he spent countless nights and days until he runs out of resources nothing and no one in sight. Even an animal cannot be seen, only the dead are the ones he managed to bypass. He managed to go on almost 4 days without water but his body has already exhausted to its limits, his endurance has weakened. He can hear a horse's gaits on the hard ground, he looks behind and before he can talk he faints down on his side. His blurry vision and impaired hearing made him realized there are people helping him.

He wakes up to see people cooking meals and a girl walking up to him with a bowl of something. His Body feels hot, painful, wet, and his body feels heavy. He soon realized what is happening to him, he is sick.

"Hey"

"Hello, thank you... for helping"

"No problem that's all we can do... so where are you from?"

"...."

Alpha cannot reply as he is really experiencing fatigue.

"I'm from.... Virginia..."

"From that old town?"

"What town?"

"We were scavenging it, looks like a lot of people lived there"

"No... that's..."

He slowly sat up and she starts to feed him.

"Do you have a name, I can call you by?"

Alpha, he almost said that but it is only a code name. He tries to remember his real name after all this years. 6 years, not hearing it almost made him forgot.

"Oscar"

"Oscar, I'm Millie nice to meet you"

He looks around to see a whole family, with their parents and 4 more siblings. The father is playing an acoustic guitar whilst the mother sings a lovely song.