escaping the plague

“We finally did it years of abuse and we finally pulled the trigger one the gun we stuffed in our fat greedy mouths; the year is 2087 and we as the human race have more than just fucked ourselves we extinguished the little flame we had left. As of 2013 we started to discover viruses and pathogens in the permafrost and ice the covered Greenland and Iceland. Over time we started to discover most that had no effect some had vary minor effects on humans all were mostly directed at extinct creatures, but then 2080 rolled around and there is absolutely no way to recover from this now. buried in the ice we found a body.

This body was 1.3 million years old and it had a note written in a language that we've never seen before it took us two years to decipher it...I..I knew we shouldn't have kept the body the signs were all there, the way this body was buried and how the note looked like it was written frantically.” after a long pause the video continued. “We found a virus in the body but not just one - millions all genetically identical this virus attack human cells and only human cells it killed just as fast as it infected and there is no cure you and anyone in the bunker are immune to the virus but we can't take the risk of you or anyone getting sick you'll be entering the facility at the beginning of the first day in the first month in 2082. Stay safe and good luck this is doctor nicks making my final recording”

Looking down at the paper i was handed before the bunker door slammed shut it saw a small list of people in the bunker and some info on the bunker itself. This bunker could house forty people but just had me and three others.(me)Rick blacktail, Thomas reinhart (requests: Tom), Alexis June (requests:Alex or June), Riley Quinn (requests: none). luckily i knew Alexis mostly because we when friends in high school. As for the others i have no idea who they are. The list had 7 other names on it but each one was crossed out with the words dead, deceased, or missing written next to it in the margin giving me a clear view of the world we now lived in. just go's to show how lucky we are to not be one of them.

Looking further down the page i saw some basic instructions i was to be the leader although i was only the military rank of corporal i was also the only one in here that spent any time in the military so i sorta made sense walking into the room the others were waiting in. grabbing a chair from the dining table (This bunker was fare to comfortable for my tastes but i'll live.) and turning it completely around to face the three on the couch near by

Thomas reinhart: mechanic/engineer
Age: 24
occupation: construction and repair
Admission because: hes is more than capable of handling repairs of any work needing to get done.
Personality: thinks highly of himself, perverted/ lacks a mental filter for that, overall tolerable
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Alexis June: translator/radio officer
Age: 20
Occupation: journalist/field reporter
Admission because: she is here to help maintain contact to the outside world and aloue easy access to most languages.
Personality: loud, loves to party to electronic music, very friendly
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Riley Quinn: cook/basic household tasks
Age: 28
Occupation: maid/restaurant chef/baby sitter
Admission because: everyone needs a motherly figure and a caregiver shell do the tasks most wont on there own
Personality: shy, friendly, loves animals good at gardening.
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Rick blacktail: leader/soldier/guardian
Age: 20
Occupation: caption in US military tank company alpha

Admission because: only person recommended with military training. Info states that he lead an entire tank company on his own after the original caption died and was promoted shortly after died.

Personality:friendly, good with introverts and extroverts, promised to protect everyone when the need arises. Keeps to self unless needed.

OK that's actually pretty accurate and to think all i had to do is answer one hundred or so questions. “OK hello everyone my name is Rick i was told i would be your leader but please we only have to spend like two years of normal stay before we jump in the cryo pods and go from there. You don't have to treat me like a leader just expect occasional orders now as for your jobs tom you were tasked with maintenance and repair so just make sure shit works, the room you'll be in is down the hall to the left kitchen in the east wing .”

“OK not a problem.” Thomas said before picking up his duffel bag and heading to his new room. Looking over at Alex she was listening to music that was far too loud for her to hear me so i just ripped hers and Riley's papers out and hand it to them. Before walking off i look down at my paper and look over some of the info before walking to my room.

My room/office was in the north wing of the bunker as a walked down the hall to my room i would catch glances of equipment that was used to fix up the bunker but most of it had been sitting here for a while as most of it was rusted or just loosely placed about. Approaching my new room i started to see less and less equipment and more and more ferneture it's as if they didn't finish the bunker. Ignoring the piles of stuff i open the door to my room and find the room is very well kept having the desk in the front part of the room and the bed in the back and separated by a wall with and archway as a door.

Walking over to the desk i through my stuff down on the floor walked over to the bed and lie down just to relax. Looking up from the ceiling just thinking of what our goal is here. if the world's gone to shit it wouldn't matter what we did here we’ll probably spent our lives down here worthlessly doing nothing but dieing slower.

Hearing a knock at the door i got off the bed and walked over to the door the let them in before opening the door i asked who it was out of habit. “who is it.”

“Its me Alex i wanna talk to you.” a little confused on what she could have wanted i opened the door just enough to let my face poke through.

“Yeah whats up Alex how have you be…” staring wide eyed at her as she presses her lips to mine out of nowhere. All of a sudden my mind started to throw up flags definitely vary confused and unsure what to do as I've never been in this kind of situation. Slowly starting impressed with her the massive balls she had to do that she broke the embrace and walked off back down the hall. I wanted to say something but as far as i can tell the sound that came from my mouth might as well have been TV static. “Uuuuuuuuhhhhhhh OK bye...” I closed the door and went back to lying on the bed my eyes still wide open with my right eye twitching every so often.

Time: 12:35pm
Date:12/31/2082

It's been a year since we entered this shit hole i think we all are just done with this shit we all just gave up so i started to craft weapons and tools out of shit i found lying around during holidays i took the more precious materials and made jewelry for the girls .Alex spent time writing books and short stories on the PC in my office being as it's the only one that works after getting parts from the other broken ones.
Tom decided to have Riley grow some wheat and other crops and makes alcohol he ripped apart one of the unused bathrooms for the copper tubing and made a little brewery in the now empty bathroom. Riley decided she would do something more productive and took the room i used to use as a bedroom before i moved and made it into a very large farm having me build some new planter boxes and use all the dirt she had access to, she also took what resources we had and made us some new clothes.

We got bored and drunk a lot. Riley was the only one not to drink enough to black out so she kept the rest of us from doing anything stupid like making babies you know the normal stuff.

We walked into the room that had been locked from the inside for a year once the bunker door closed the timer started and now it was open
This room was a bit dusty but otherwise untouched and clean walking into the room we started to notice that the equipment in here was high tech. “Being in the military normally means i see this kinda stuff but this was unreal I've never seen tech like this.” i say out loud to the group. Looking around the room i spot a monitor with some flashing text on it. Walking over to it the text read [ press enter to start blackwall program ] Unsure of what this program is i pressed enter and stepped back after a minute or so large amounts of text started to scroll down the screen the large pods on either side of the room opened and revealed some chairs with clothes on them each chair had a specific uniform on it made specifically for one of us and i particularly found it odd that this bunker had forty people on the list but only four pods leaning on the pod i started to put on my uniform making both girls blush while tom was oblivious but the room. Once i had my uniform on i looked around the room and noticed something out of place this room and everything in it was white but in the corner of the room there were four large chests a dark green color and where a little worse for wear. Walking Over to the stack of chests i noticed each one was addressed to Riley, Alex, tom, and me picking up my box i pushed it off to the side and called the others over

“Hey guys i got something with our names on them.” As the others walked over i handed them each their respective box then turned to mine all of a sudden i started to hear crying i turned towards the origins and saw Alex holding a photo close to her chest and she was crying looking over the other two they were in similar positions but tom was holding it together better he was holding a small watch and Riley was holding a blanket and stuffed animal, turning back to my box i opened it slowly and prepared for heartbreak. Looking into the box i saw my military combat armor along with my riffles and my pistol removing the items i saw another box made of some very nice wood this one had the words “only if” carved into the top picking up the box i opened it and pulled a sealed envelope from inside along with an old pocket watch opening the envelope i instantly recognized the handwriting…. It was my mother's.

Even after a year i still recognized the handwriting the room was dead silent, no one dared say a word we were all sobbing except for me i was completely speechless my eyes wide only placed onto words on the whole page “we're sorry” shaking the feelings from my head i continued to read.

Nick we miss you greatly and wish to see you again in the future your baby brother is close to being born and were excited to have him i'm sorry you won't be there for it but we hope he'll grow up to be great like you

Miss you the family

Dear: Nick Blacktail

We're sorry to have to send you this letter we regretfully inform you that your family has all passed due to the disease or otherwise your mother fell ill and passed giving birth to your baby brother who already had the disease but was immune carrier like you and he has been kept safe from all harm,your father died in car accident on his way to work a week before, and your sister from what we can assume had taken her own life because of stress from losing everyone she loved. We’re very sorry you had to find out this way. There's two items in your box that are what was left by your family and a remote. the remote will be used after you get back out of the pods.

sincerely Linda Graymor.

Standing up and wiping the loose tears from my face i turned to the others to be met by their eyes on me as if waiting for an order. Nodding my head they stood up and walked over to there respective pods, as soon as they were in their pods and there doors were closed i picked up the second box from my chest of stuff and pulled the remote out of it. Glancing over the remote it was about the size of a credit card and only had one bottom on it labeled fifth pod putting the remote in the suits pocket i get into my pod and close the door.

When the pod door closed i was met with a sudden chill realizing that these where cryogenic freezing pods i realized that we were in this for the long haul, as the freezing slowed i started to notice blinding lights flashing outside the chamber the vary same lights that occurred during the experimental teleportation the military used during the martian war with the Korean republic witched claimed a lot of basses destroying most of mars's infrastructure and left most of the planet in waste . Leaning back against the chair i let my eyes close for what felt like the longest blink I've ever had.

Reopening my eyes to a new sight then the laboratory setting i was in before is was a little confused. The cryogenics started to release its hold on me giving me a better look at my surroundings, in the middle of clearing laid four pods and a pod about half the size of the others all of which were covered in dirt and debris each had moss and plants covering their surfaces. Making it seem as if the pods had been here for years reaching for the pod door release switch i pull the lever causing the door to fly open scaring off near by animals stepping out of the pod i looked at the other pods none seems to be damaged which reassured me that the others were safe.

stretching my limbs i walked over to tom's pod i looked for a manual release on the door finding the lever i pulled on it finding it kind of hard because of the rust build up. After some strong pulling and the occasional hitting with a rock i finally got the lever to move yanking it into its open position the door opened and tom fell out revealing his tired body. After some rest on the ground he got up and we started working on getting the others out with both of us it was surprisingly easy Riley's pod was open within seconds. Alex's was a bit more trouble because her pod had a tree growing on it and one of its roots went over the handle it took us about two minutes to cut the root from the handle with my knife which dulled it badly. Pulling the handle down the door opened taking the roots and dirt with it Alex crawled out and we walked over to where Riley was laying in the grass. The rest of us laid down next to her and we warmed ourselves in the early morning sun leaving a peaceful vibe in the air even though it was a dramatically different seen than our previous hole in the wall vault i think we were happy to have some change.

Twenty minutes pass and i stand up and look over to the fifth pod, pulling the small remote from my pocket i pressed the button a little green light lit up in the door causing me to wonder what was powering it was soon as the door opened i rejoiced. Walking over to the pod it had supplies of food water weapons cooking tools and a small cart to carry it in along with backpacks that had extra clothes in them pulling the cart out of the pod it revealed a pleasant surprise two German shepherd puppies picking up the box they where in i looked at the letter written on the side it said that they when to keep us safe and to comfort us when needed these puppies couldn't have been anymore than nine weeks old one sporting a long haired coat and the other the classic short but both had the signature German shepherd colors. Calling over to Riley she ran over seeing as i was holding something she grabbed the box and immediately fell in love with the pups looking into the back into the pod i found two guns a rifle and a shotgun. Pulling them both out i put them both onto the cart and wheeled it over to the group looking over them Alex and Riley were dealing with the still sleeping puppies and tom going through each of the pods grabbing our stuff and salvaging anything useful from the pods. Grabbing each of the backpacks from the cart tossed them in the ground each bag was specific to use making my job easy

“ OK girls Alex here's your bag and Riley hers your bag” i say as i hand each of them there bags full of clothes and toiletries.tom walked back over to the group and drops our personal stuff we were given before we left handing him his bag they each walked off somewhere to change from the vault suits that we were given to where in the pods. Saying behind to look after the dogs i walked over to the box and sat next to it looking down at the pups that have woken up and started to sun themselves. reaching my hand out i pick one of them up to look it over after a check to make sure that they were OK after that i checked gender the one i was holding was a girl,picking up the other i did the same and it was a boy. The only feature difference on the two was the coat making it easy to tell them apart the boy had the long coat and the girl had the short coat.

When Riley came back from changing she was wearing a pair of jeans a black top and had her long auburn hair tied up in a ponytail on the back of her head. Alex came out next wearing a pair of black jeans a fitting red top and gray sweat shirt that was unzipped about halfway leaving her jet black at the top and grey at the bottom hair hang loose . Tom came out from the other direction wearing a pair of brownish green cargo pants a black short sleeved shirt and grey baseball cap which he had turned around. Grabbing my bag i walked to the area that the girls had changed from, opening the bag i pulled out pair of jeans a beanie a thin black long sleeved shirt and a pair of under where pulling the pistol from the pocket of the vault suit i placed it on the ground unzipping the vault suit i changed into my new clothes then put all the vault suit into my bag.

Meeting backup with the group i placed my backpack of clothes on the ground and began looking through the cart finding a fifth backpack it was full of ammunition for my pistol the shotgun and the rifle in the backpack it had a list of the ammunition and the stuff in the cart looking over the list it had a week's worth of MRE’s for three meals a day if rationed to two meals a day would make it ten days rather than 7 and other necessary stuff like toilet paper, drinking water, flint and steel, and a bag of dog food that if rashend should last the pups until they're big enough to walk on the ground with us then we can start feeding them meat. Picking out some rounds for the shotgun i grabbed some slugs loaded them in the magazine tube and put some bird shot sens it's a twelve gauge i'm not worried about missing to bad. Grabbing the rifle i loaded a full magazine and then slung it over my back we don't need to hunt yet but it doesn't hurt to have it loaded. Loading the extra clips for my pistol i put it in my back pocket and put the bag of ammunition back on the cart. cleaning a spot on the cart i picked up the box that had the dogs in it and placed it in the spot.

Alex sprints over to one of the pods and unscrew the large bolt covers on the inside of the pods and places them in the box with the pups.

“What i figured it would make good blows for them for now.” she said with a smile.

“Yeah that works it gives them something to eat and drink out of.” pausing for a moment i thought of what we should do i mean there can't be anything living on this planet other than animals because we can't be on earth anymore it's impossible. “ so what do you guys think we should do wanna head out and find somewhere to make a camp or stay here for today.”

“We gotta head out how knows what animals herd us and are looking i don't wanna be around when a bear or something shows up looking for us.” tom said picking up his bag and putting his knife away after cleaning up a stick to walk with.

“Anyone opposed to this plan.” i say as i look amongest the group. “No OK guess we're heading out then.” grabbing the handle i start to walk towards the trees in the direction i assume to be north based on the where the sun was rising from.

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Time: 8:12am
Date: 6/10/1975
Location: Ponyville twilight's library the day of group's arrival

Twilight had just finished writing in her notebook and started staring out of her window at the direction of the everfree looking over the town as her friends were downstairs waiting for her to finish her work. Looking out to the ever free she saw something that caught her eye - a flash of light off deep in the everfree far from zecora's house. standing up she knew they had to go find out what it was, getting up from her bed she sprinted down stairs to meet her friends and spike. When she got to the bottom she looked at her friends pinkie was playing a game of chess with spike, rarity and fluttershy were quietly talking ad drinking tea on the sofa in the reading nook ,while apple jack and rainbow where in a fierce hoof wrestle trying to see who was stronger both seemed to be evenly matched until AJ faked a yawn to taunt rainbow and almost broke the table slamming rainbow's hoof to it.

“Girls i'm sorry to spoil the fun but we need to go into the everfree i was writing in my notebook and o say a flash of light i think someone needs our help spike wright a letter to princess celestia explaing that where going into the everfree to investigate a flash of light and that i'll write a report when we get back.” twilight said with no hesitation.

“When do we leave twi.” AJ said puffing up her chest a little.

“Immediately we just need to get some supplies go get your saddle bags girls.”

“what direction did it come from i could fly there in back to see what it is.” rainbow said stretching her wings out as if preparing to fly off.

“No rainbow if it's dangerous i don't want you getting hurt we will all go together it's so we have all the elements if we need them.” twilight says walking over to her desk digging through a pile of scrolls.

“Fine.” rainbow started making a poutty face that twilight just shrugged off.

All the girls went off to their respective houses to collect their things for the journey.

Author's Note

sorry about any spelling errors i suck at typing but hey what can you do.
hope you enjoy guys