The Infected's Life

Chapter 1:The Way Life Goes

Life is good...I have my own house, I have a sweet daughter to care for now, I have a wonderful wife, and last but not least, I helped save a place from a guy...As I said...Life is good. Wait! You don't know how this came to be..do you? Well...let me enlighten you on the situation.........

1 Year Ago

My family and I were on a trip to The Big Apple for vacation. It was a grand time, seeing sights, the eligant food, and all the people. It was wonderful, especially for your average day Texan. Which is me of course.

Lemme give you the facts about me and why we chose New York before my story progresses more. Im Jeremy-Dane Owens, but just call me JD. Like i said, i'm your average Texan teen. Sixteen to be exact. I was about 5ft. 9" tall and weighed over two-hundred pounds, fat ain't I? Im a mix race of Mexican, Caucasian, Indian, and also some German. I have black hair, brown eyes, and some patches of hair on my face.

I grew up near Waco, my family wasn't rich, we don't speak in that 'ol Texas lingo neither. I made good grades, had great friends. A good car, never had a girlfriend, and im somewhat comedic.

See, the reason we chose New York was because we got a great deal from my friend, Will, he's been to the city before. How he got us a discount trip? I dunno, but hey, who would turn down a trip to New York.

Ok lets continue our story now, I don't think we need anymore facts .

We were new some sort of building, it looked like a chemical research building or something like that. As we were walking, we heard gun shots and feared for the worst. So we started to quicken our pace, just to be knocked over by a hooded man. I had a suspicion about him, he didn't seem too right.

What we saw next was horrid. He picked up a car! A freckin car, and chunked it at a helicopter above us. In an explosion of fire and debris, the helicopter fell on us.

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As I was somehow regaining consious,I noticed that, I had survived. I was trying to move, but the lack of strength, and a pain kept me imobilized. I definantley had something broken. I mannaged to move my head alittle, to see my surroundings. What was left of the helicopter was either molten metal, or fire. I tried to look around more, hoping to find help, then I saw them, the charred up bodies of what used to be my parents. My dad was crushed by the copter, but my mom was just on fire. She was still alive, but suffering. I could hear her screams, it was pain in my ears. It was terrible,so i turned away, just to find more dead bodies of the people caught in the wreckage. I could've sworn I saw a kid, a poor kid, holding his dying, what looks like a brother of some sort.

"Oh god...," was all I managed to say as I started to slip out, but right before I did, I felt somebody pulling me out of the wreckage. And then I eased myself, hoping that it was paramedics pulling me to saftey. But I was more worried about the others. What would happen to them? Then my eyes started getting heavy. I couldn't stay away. All I could see, before I went to sleep, was the man in the hood.

...

When I was out I heard a voice. "Wake up..."

"Who is that?" Was all I could manage to say with what little strength I had left.

"You should know..."

Wait a sec, "Will?"

"Bingo bra..."

This was strange... you see, Will is dead.
He died last month in a plane reck while he was going to his mothers place....with, his brothers.
Elijah, Parker, and Jaden.

"Yo dude, you there?"

Hmm, "Oh yeah sorry man."

"Oh is cool..."

"I'm dead... ain't I?"

"No, just near death experience."

"Oh...that sucks."

"Totally, you were having a good life too bro."

"Heh, You're right. Anyways, how's your brothers?"

"They're good."

"Cool...hey, why did you contact me?"

"Cause you're about to go through some tough shit in a couple of minutes."

"What do you mean."

"You'll see...anyways, I gotta go, Later!"

"Wait!"

"..."

"Crap, he left"
I wonder what he meant my that.

Just then I felt a surge of pain hitting me throughout all of my body. "Ahh...F-F-F-Fuck!" It was an eminse pain. Worse than any broken bone, torn flesh, or the burning of skin.
In all ways...it hurt.

...

I started seeing a light after about five minutes. Then a strange voice.

"Hey! Kid! Wake up!"

It sounded familiar. I wonder why he's yelling like that.

"Get up! Quick!"

As I started coming to, I saw who it was.
It was that guy....in the hoodie...the one that threw the car.

"Good you're awake. We need to go, now!"

I tried to stand up, but I couldn't. The pain was still there. The fact that I was tired as fuck didn't help either.
"I-I-I can't," was all I managed to squeeze out between deep breathes.

"Crap!" He started to look around, alot. "Ok, I'm going to have to carry you then."

I tried to object, but he already had me up.
That's when I noticed why he was in a hurry... There were zombies....everywere.
I hadn't been so scared in my life, until I saw this pink, dog looking thing. It was huge, and by the looks of it. It was heading for us! Tearing through everything in its path.

Just then, the man started running.
He was running faster than I thought possible.
He even managed to out-run that dog, looking thing, barely.

...

He has been carring me for about a mile. 'What stamina.'
Then he finally stopped at this, what looks like a medical center. Were he proceeded to ask a question.
"Whats your name kid?"

"'Ah ain't a kid, and it's Jeremy....Jeremy-Dane, but you can just call me J.D."

He chuckled alittle bit, which just pissed me off. "My name is Alex...Alex Mercer." He reached his hand toward me, offering a handshake. Which I returned.

"So Alex...."

"Yeah?"

"Why was the army shooting at you, and how did I survive?"

"Well ,to answer your questions," he raised his arm in front of me.
I could'nt tell what he was doing, until some, vien-like things started growing around his arm.
It started rearranging his skin, muscles and bones into what looked like, a blade.
A GIANT ASS BLADE!

"W-what a-are you?!?" Was all I needed to know.

"Im a zombie kid."

"B-b-but how?"

"You remember that building with a double helix on it?"

"Umm...." I was trying to remember, but all I could think about was that chemicals research building.
Could that be it? No, I don't remember seeing one there. "No, no I don't."

"Oh...well that is where I became this." Still gesturing his 'blade' at me.

"O-oh ok." I was starting to calm down alittle. I don't know why. "So, how did I survive?"

"OH...." he seemed alittle hesitant to tell me." I, transferred you some of the virus I have."

"What?!? HOW?!?"

"It's complicated."

"Is that what all that pain I was going through was?"

"I'm afraid so."

"Fuu- Wait!"

He just raised and eyebrow. "Hm?"

"What are pro's from being like this?"

"Hmm....Strength, speed, agility, and your senses are enhanced by 20%."

"Cool...so what about that arm of yours?" I said, gesturing to his 'blade' arm.

He just stared at his arm for about, five minutes, before replying, "The infection causes the body to mutate. Luckily sense I gave you my genes of the infection, so you should be able to transform for shape instead of turning into one of those undead demon spawn."

"Cool."

"Indeed."

"So.." He asked, "Wanna get started?"

"On what?"

"Training of course." He seemed almost exstatic when he said that.

"Fine I guess...The sooner the better."

"Alright, let's begin."

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The training wasn't so bad....until a group of hunters, that's what he calls those big dog things, attacked us.

They were an easy kill, until I saw a bigger one. But, it had a blade on its arm just like Mercer's.

"OH FUCK.." Mercer looked...scared?

"What is that thing Alex?"

"A supreme hunter."

"So it's a hunter, let's get it!"

"NO wai-!"

It was too late, I had already jumped towards that thing.
Which turned out to be a bad move.

You see, a supreme hunter can use devistators , Really strong attacks that use tendrils to puncture bodies, which I managed to get hit by one, luckily it just grazed me, but I was launched to the roof of a building.
And guess who got knocked out agian.

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I woke up to see it's been twenty minutes sense I got knocked out. I was able to tell because of a watch I had on me.

As I looked over the edge of the building to find Mercer, when I saw something horrid. There was blood... everywhere.

"OH fuck!" I started tearing up, because Mercer was dead.

He was ripped in half with puncture wounds all over his body.
His guts were hanging out for the zombies to fiest on.

"NO! NO! NO! NOOOO!" I screamed as loud as I could. Then I noticed him, the hunter supreme, staring at Alex's body on the other side of the street.

That is it. I'm going to avenge the death of the guy that saved my life. One way or another.

I knew how I was going to kill the hunter.
First, I was ganna jump off the building with my hammer arms ,it is what it sounds like. Then, I was ganna drive them into the hunters head when I hit. Once he stumbles around a bit, I'm going to get on his head and use my muscle mass, makes me really strong, and rip his head right off his body!

I was going to wait till he gave me a perfect shot, until another hunter, regular, attacked me from behind.
Easy kill, but I almost got noticed by the supreme.

I whispered to myself calmly, "It's now or never."
And then I jumped off the building, but as I jumped I felt this pulling motion taking me upward. I was startled and looked up to find a vortex. A blue, pink and purple vortex.
"What the Fu-," was all i managed to say as I was thrown into sed vortex.
And yet agian, I blanked out.

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Authors Note: This was my first fic. I hope it was towards ya'lls liking. Don't worry, there wil be ponies in the next chapter.
Also, are ya'll wondering why I pass out alot?
It's because it's an easy way to make a transition for a section, and I've hit my head alot in the years.

P.S
The reason I didn't describe the training is, because it would've took to long, and I feared ya'll would get bored. And it took up a crap load of time. The story started out at the beginning of the infection, and is now 75% there cause of the training.