Apocalypse Rising [See Description]

It was the middle of the night, the stars were present, the moon was being shown at it's fullest, and the sound of the trees and the crickets added to the midnight beauty. But of course, all peaceful things must come to an end at some point...

The creaking of a metal door broke the peaceful silence of the night with a biped creature walking out and towards a two-wheeled machine that could go faster than usual walking speeds, way, faster.

"Well, I guess I have to go find another town to see if there are any extra Jerry cans or Fuel tanks that I can use."  Said the creature, who sounded slightly annoyed at having to travel to yet another town in search of what it was looking for. As it walked towards the machine, it thought of what would happen if it got stolen by anything. Well, I think it is safe to say, God help them if this creature saw anything touch his prized possession.

When the creature reached the machine, he got onto it and then turned a small key into a small hole, and then the machine revved to life with a loud mechanical roar. The creature on top of the machine smiled at the sound, but then dropping it as soon as it appeared.

"Time to go." The creature said as it pulled one of the handles on the front back, and the machine launched forward, leaving a small cloud of smoke and a loud screech from the rubber on the wheel being rubbed against the pavement very quickly.

The machine was reaching speeds up to 75 miles an hour when on the cracked and worn road that it was being driven on, even though that was barely the fastest it could go, the creature riding it didn't want to use all the fuel inside of it, because ever since this little incident, gasoline has become even more useful and valuable, that it became the currency of the age.

A good 15 minutes has passed and the creature was nearing the next town in search of the gasoline that it needs to fuel his machine. The town was getting closer and closer, until the creature starting slowing down to look at a sign, pinpointing which town he had come across.

"Dirk, huh? Well hopefully dirk holds some fuel." The creature said, starting to gain a little speed until he got to the entrance of the town. He then turned left to enter a Fire Station that was on the side of the town that the creature entered from. The creature then slowed to a halt in the left side of the fire station, and then twisted the key on near the front of the machine, which turned it off. It then got off of the machine and started walking towards the other side of the room where there were stairs to go up to another level of the building.

When it took it's first step onto the first part of the stairs, the stairs started to creak, with each step seeming to be louder than the first, the creature gradually made it's way up to the second floor of the building. He wasn't really surprised by not finding anything up there, but still a little disappointed, knowing that the rest of the floors won't hold anything either. With a deep sigh, he then started walked back down the stairs with the same bored expression he held for all these years, ever since the incident.

Knowing that the rest of the town wasn't really worth checking for loot, besides the two light blue gasoline tanks next to a small shack on the other side of the town. When he was done refueling his machine by filling up the Jerry can he had about 3 times until the small machine just couldn't hold any more fuel. he strapped the Jerry can to the left side of the machine and then got back on it, turned the key within it's slot, and then started to drive down the opposite way that he went to enter the town.

"Next up, Trinity." he said as he sped up to the usual 75MPH he usual went to travel. He turned a small red switch down , which then turned on the MP3 that was wirelessly hooked up to his helmet that he wore even when he wasn't riding on his machine sometimes. He switched the currently playing song to another album by the name of 'The Glitch Mob', and started playing one of his all-time favorite songs.

As soon as the electronic sounds started playing, he sped up ever-so-slightly, growing faster with each beat. He was smiling and doing a small head bang with each beat, it was only until about a minute into the song that it stopped, and a deep voice said something that made him smile even wider, after it spoke there was loud bass explosion in his ears that made him narrow his eyes with a devilish grin and went from going 85MPH, all the way to 124MPH, but not without doing a wheelie in the middle of the continuous speed it was gaining, him not caring how much fuel he just burned by doing that, it did lighten his mood quite a bit.

After about 5 minutes of traveling at the 124MPH he was going, he spotted the top of a radio tower on top of a bright white building, right when he saw it, he slowed all the way down to about 35MPH, and his smile dropped to a saddened frown. The closer he got, and the more clearer the building appeared, the more vivid, and terrifying that his memories had become. When he was about 50 meters away from the entrance, he slowed to a stop, turned off his machine and got off. he made his way through the few barriers and tank traps that were placed around the front side of the building. He was cautiously looking left and right, scanning for any sign of movement. When he got to the front door of the building, he then realized something he should have seen earlier...

"Wait, where are the Zeds? This place is usually completely filled with them, yet there isn't a single one of them in sight..." he said, becoming a little more cautious every second he stood there, until he shook his head and started to open the door, expecting the worst of things to be thrown at him. Bracing for the small amount of time it took to swing open the door, quickly walked inside with his Rifle aiming towards wherever he looked, scanning the room for any signs of danger.

After a minute of slowly walking around the room with his gun raised and pointed towards wherever he look, he slowly lowered his Rifle and didn't say anything, slightly speechless at seeing a once infested place, being completely empty of it's usual inhabitants.

He searched the few rooms on the first floor, and then started walking towards the steps to get up to the second floor, until he heard faint noises coming from upstairs.

'Footsteps...' He thought as he quickly raised his Rifle, and started to slowly walk up the stairs. But when he started to walk up stairs, he started smelling the foul stench he was used to for so long... Blood.

But right when he started smelling it, he started hearing the faintest of conversation, which was nowhere above the sound of someone whispering. The foreign words coming from the voice sent a sharp shiver down his spine. But nevertheless, he continued without stopping until the second he saw.

'Holy Fuck' Dead Bodies littered the entire area of the second floor room he entered, along with an absolute ton of writing on the walls, written in blood. But when he got a closer look at the walls, he noticed something very grim. The writing was not just written in blood, but fresh blood, like it just recently came from a living body. It was only then did he notice the whispers were louder than before, it was coming from everywhere, yet at the same time, nowhere in particular. He looked around to see if he could spot where the source was, but to no avail, he couldn't find anything. He then turned his head towards the wall of blood writing, nothing really standing out, but there was one few bit of writing that intrigued him. He slowly walked right, skimming through the writing, until his eyes laid upon some of the blood writing near the end corner of the room. He read these words in a whisper.

As soon as he read the words to himself, he couldn't help but feel like he was being watched. He quickly turned his head to the rest of the room, seeing if there actually was anything watching him.

Nothing.

"I have a bad feeling about this place, more than ever...I think I am done he-..." He was cut off by seeing movement at the corner of his eye. Raising his gun towards where he saw it, his heart stopped, and his blood ran cold.

Right in the entryway, stood his wife wearing a plain white lab coat, looking completely unharmed by any of the surrounding blood soaked bodies, and or walls. But it wasn't the look of how clean the lab coat looked that made him freeze, it was the fact that his wife was standing there, staring at him with emotionless eyes.

"Uh... K-kate?" He said in a very surprised tone, along with the surprised look on his face.

"Are you okay? H-how did you survive the outbreak of the disea-"  He stopped mid-sentence when he saw his wife's eyes tear up and mouth turn to a saddened frown.

"Why?" His wife spoke nothing above a whisper

"Huh? What do you me-" He barely got to finish, until she screamed at him.

"WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME?!"

He was really taken aback by the loudness of her voice, he was about to say something else, until he saw her entire body jolt up, like something spooked her. But then the unimaginable happened.

Blood started to slowly drip from her nose, painting the untouched floor beneath her in small pools of fresh blood. She then started to gag, which then stopped all of a sudden when blood started to quickly ooze out of her mouth.

"K-kate?!" His voice was trembling in shock at the scene that he was viewing right now. But before he could run up to her and try to help her, he then heard echoing screams all around him, making him look around frantically for the source of the noise, but then stopped looking for the source, when he realized something very wrong.

Where his wife once stood, now stood a pitch black creature with no facial expressions or any sign of life whatsoever, all until 6 tentacle like things started moving out of it's back, and started to slowly head towards him.

He then knew you couldn't run towards the stairs, they were behind the black creature. He couldn't just shoot at it, because he knew this was not gonna be stopped by a few bullets. So he quickly turned his head to the right, looking towards the window. Considering jumping out the window to survive the weird creature, knowing that he wasn't that high off the ground, since he was only on the second floor.

He then took the leap of faith by running towards the window while shooting about 5 rounds at the glass just so he could pass through it easily. He then jumped while he lunged himself towards the glass. Falling a good 12 feet to the ground, he got up very quickly when he fell to the ground from the drop. He then started running towards his machine that he was glad was still there. He then reached his machine, got on it, turned the key, and started the motor that made a loud mechanical roar. Loud screeching came from the machine as it sped away from the large white building.

The creature on the machine never looked back, wanting to get away from the god-forsaken Headquarters known as Trinity. All while speeding away, tears started to form in his eyes, tears of sadness, tears of regret, tears from the memories of his wife being played in his head. Over and over those memories were played, and after a good bit, they stopped.

"I'm so Sorry..."

About 15 minutes later, he calmed down enough where he stopped tearing up. But he still sped up to insane speeds on his machine. Spotting a Huge mountain to his left, he decided to take a rest on top of it, see if he can spot anything. So he slowed down to around 25MPH and turned left, his machine slowing down to about 12MPH on the dense grass that it was being driven on. Then in no time at all, he reached the bottom of the steep mountain, and then turned the key on his machine and then got off.

He then started climbing it with ease, taking caution with every step he took, with every inch he climbed, he couldn't help but notice that the air around him seemed to not move or make a sound, even at the height he was now, he couldn't hear any wind. Normally, you would at least hear a little bit of rustling in the air the higher you got. But the world just seemed, silent.

He was almost to the top when he noticed beams of light coming out from ahead of him, as if the world in front of the mountain was being set on fire, and the light being shown through the top in heavenly lines. This made him very curious and he climbed just a bit faster, until he finally reached the top and saw what was making the light.

KIN, if you don't know what KIN is, it is the largest city in the state, and it's appearance from afar made it seem like it was such a powerful city. But before he could admire the sight of the city from on top of the mountain, he then saw what was making the massive amounts of light was coming from the center of the city, known as 'Union Square'. It was hard to make out what it was, but it seemed ethereal, from the peaceful feeling he was getting from it, it was almost as if he was feeling like he was being welcomed into a home, but not necessarily a bright and heat emitting home...

But right when he decided to get down from where he was, he heard a massive explosion, the sound tearing the his eardrums to shreds, making him bleed through his ears a little. He quickly looked back at the city, which now looked like a Nuclear bomb was being set off, the ground being torn up from the circular dust cloud advancing away from the explosion, and now heading up the mountain with dangerous speeds. The blast reached him in seconds, while he didn't even get a chance to take cover, while the shock-wave from the blast made him fly off the side of the mountain for a good 4 seconds before he reached the side of the mountain, now sliding down the mountain.

He then hit the bottom of the ground with a loud crack, which came from his spine hitting the edges of a rock that was unfortunately placed in a bad position. But before he could tend to his back, he heard a small screeching coming from his machine that used to get to the mountain. Right when he looked, he saw it being thrown in the air from the force of the blast, but more importantly, being thrown right towards him. Before he could roll out of the way, he was hit with the 500 pound bike being slammed against him, slamming his own body to the ground. Before he could do anything, he blacked out.