I tried to return the favor..
During the first few weeks after the infection, Voo would like to say she was the most prepared. But she actually was one of the people who panicked and hid away. Watching her whole world change into chaos in a matter of days could make anyone fearful.
Her family and friends were all infected, that was a fact. She’d also like to say some survived, that would be a lie if she did though. Everyone she knew was either dead or infected, which made it kinda hard to recover from her panic attack.
Then came the day she had to go out and find resources. It was the basic fact of surviving an apocalypse, get supplied and leave the city. So she head to the nearest grocery store and supply store, whilst being quieter then a mouse because of the infected roaming around.
She got the basics. Cans of food, can opener, lots of water, knife, hatchet, matches, a blanket, and a big backpack to carry it all in. The only thing she was lacking was a gun. Being Canadian and not coming from a family of hunters, that would be a hard task.
But she couldn’t let her mind dwell on getting one, she had to leave the city and move on to the next.
It took Voo several days to travel to the next town. She realized on her walk how out of shape she was and suddenly wished she had done more in PE. Though it was a good thing that she didn’t have to run the entire way because of infected, or else she might’ve been died very quickly.
On her walk over to the town, she had used most of her supplies and was running dangerously low on them. If Voo has went on a day more, she would be ravished not just by the walk, but by hunger and thirst.
Voo used signs to locate the nearest store. It was a longer journey to it then expect because of infected but she managed. When she neared it though, she could hear someone yelling for help. That’s when she saw him.
He came running out of the store with an infected chasing after him. His mind was clearly set on getting away from the infected and not on anything else, this made him ignore the ground in which he was stepping.
She watched him trip over parking block and fall to the ground. In her mind she knew who would be able to escape the infected if he tried to get up. It was almost if she was watching it in slow motion, and it made her heart ache for the man whom fate seemed to be a bitch to.
Voo searched the ground around her, looking at all the dead bodies, trying to find something that could help. Then she saw the to-be savior of the man. Near the body of a policeman, there was a simple handgun.
Not even thinking, she picked it up and cocked it like she had seen done in several video games/movies. Out stretching her arms, she closed one eye and squinted the other to look down what she assumed to be the sights. Then, with a slow breathe, she fired.
The recoil of the gun was hell to someone who hadn’t had experience with guns outside of video games. Both of her arms felt an ache it’s course through them and made her almost regret firing it. But the infected was dead and the man was safe, for now at least.
Running over to him, Voo helped him to his feet. “We have to move, they’ll be more coming because of the gun shot.” When he finally stood at full height, she felt almost stupid for not noticing it before. It was Pause. The youtuber herself and many of her internet friends fawned over. She considered it irony that she’d meet one of the people that made her the most happy in a hell like situation like this.
But she couldn’t stand here and chat about how she loved his videos, there was infected running towards their location and they had to move. So, they ran.
Whenever Pause was slacking behind her, exhausted from the stress of the whole situation which had just occurred, Voo didn’t hesitate to call back to him. “Pick up the pace Pause, I’d expect the greatest UHC player to be better than this!”
This sparked interest in Pause and he was suddenly back up to her speed. “You…know me?”
"Know you?" She smirked and thought back to all of her fond memories with Salad. "I used to write and read fanfiction about you!"
*smiles happily* yes, yes, yes, thank you! :D I feel like I will learn from this since it has more feel for a post apocalyptic world. Thank you! *hugs Red*
