3 Act: 1 Part: 3

The ground was cold and uncomfortable, David felt the rough stone, pushing against it to stand up, but his limbs fail him, causing him to fall back to the ground. "Good morning sunshine." David recognizes Jay's voice. "Jay? What happened?" David feels a hand wrap around his arms and pull him up, sitting him against the solid wall. "Long story short, we were ambushed, and now we're in a cell, I don't know how long we've been here, as for where we are-" before Jay can finish, footsteps echo through the hall outside the cell.

A face covers the small window outside the cell. "Ahhh, I see you're both awake, good." The man smirks and stares them both down. David leans towards Jay, "Who's this asshole?" The man chuckles, "The name's Sam, and welcome to your new home, mind if I know your names?" David stares Sam down, "Captain Pissoff." Sam's smirk disappears, "Not only a joker, but a high ranking officer... I'm so humbled." Sam stands back and claps his hands, the cell door swings open, 2 men rush in and restrains Jay as another man with a baton goes to David and begins to beat him. The man refuses to hold back and releases a torrent of pain onto David, it's not until the baton draws enough blood that Sam claps again and all the men retreat from the room, shutting the door behind them. David lays on the ground as Jay moves to his side to check his wounds.

"That might jog your memory a little bit..." Sam lights a cigarette, "...so again, what are your names?" Jay sighs,"My name is Jay, this is David..." Sam blows a puff of smoke,"See? Was that so hard?" Sam opens the cell door again,"Help him up, I want you both to walk with me." Jay looks to Sam,"He's hurt, he needs to-"

*Click*

Jay freezes, he looks to Sam and sees a .38 revolver aimed at him. "I said, help him up." Jay wraps David's arm around his shoulder and let's him lean against him, David groans in pain by the movements. Slowly Jay walks with David, Sam patiently waits. The hallway is long and bland, Sam motions the gun towards the end of the hallway, Jay begins to walk down it slowly, still holding on to David.

"The world has changed, the dead have risen, and they're hungry. We need people to not fight eachother, but work together, we need people like you both." Jay rolls his eyes,"If you mean what you say, why did you knock us both out?" Sam shrugs, "Trey and Tom were excited to see new faces, plus you were both armed, they didn't didn't want to be shot, you can understand, can't you?"

"Mhm."

"Stop." Sam commanded. Jay halts in his tracks, still holding onto David. They're almost to the end of the hallway, "I'm glad you can understand, we're good people, and we can tell by how you were geared up, that you planned for that little adventure, so you must have more people, am I right?" Jay is about to reply when Sam cuts him off. "Nevermind, don't worry about it, I'm sure we can find them, and bring them along, same as we did you two." Jay looks him in the eyes, "There is no one else." Sam stares back, and snaps his finger. A man moves around Sam and punches Jay in the gut, causing both him and David to go to the floor. "I thought you were different Jay, but you're both just lying sacks of shit, I know there's more going on here, but don't worry...everything will be worked out..." Jay looks back up just for Sam's boot to connect with his head, knocking him unconscious. Sam turns to his men, "Find the rest."

"Ughhhhh..." Jay turns over to see David standing at the cell door, his body is bruised and beaten, he turns to Jay, a gash is on his forehead. "What happened to you? You look like shit..." Jay chuckles, "Right back at you smartass...these guys are assholes, we need to get out of here." Jay groans as he stands up and looks around the cell. David looks at him,"I've already been searching, there's not a damn thing..."

Jay is about to speak when foot steps echo down the hall yet again. Both Jay and David back from the door, both are to weak to go against Sam and his men again. A sliding door opens to the cell, in the door way is a teenager, can't be more then 17. In his hands are two bowls, both steam with some kind of broth. "H-hi, my names Connor, I thought you both could use some food..." He puts the bowls  through a small sliding door, but doesn't close it. Both grab the bowls, stirring it and finding noodles under the broth, neither complain and scarf it down. While eating David notices Connor is still outside the door. "I'm surprised Sam would have food sent to us at all to be honest..." David looks to Connor as he continues to eat. Connor rubs his neck, "He didn't...I brought you this on my own, because I need your help..."

David raises an eyebrow, "What do you mean? Why help us?" Connor leans down towards the small sliding door. "You don't understand, this place is Hell...Sam tortures people that he doesn't trust, he weeds out whoever he thinks is weak...that bastard thought my big sister was weak..." tears well up in Connors eyes, "...he'll torture you both until one of you give up your base, then he'll raid it, take what he can, and capture anyone he can...he'll turn them into slaves..." David and Jay look at each other, but down the bowls and look to Connor. "We're ready." Connor nods and opens the door, "I'll help anyway I can, but whatever happens, please take me with you...they'll break me here..." David pulls both Jay and Connor close, "Okay, so here the plan..."

*Time Skip*

"Are you sure they're okay? They should have been back by now..." AJ walks back and forth, biting on her nail. Ryan watches her, "They're fine, they might have just gotten caught up in something." AJ stops pacing and rubs her temples, "Its just worrying me y'know?" Ryan puts a hand on her shoulder, "Listen, Jay has firearms trying and is trained in CQC, and David is....David, they're both fine." AJ sighs and sits back down, "I guess you're right, I'm just-"

*WOOF WOOF*

AJ and Ryan looks outside of the mess hall to see Dewey barking and running towards the exit hatch, "Dewey stop!" Ginny yells as she chases right after Dewey. AJ and Ryan leave the room and follow them, finding Dewey scratching at the door connected to the room with the exit hatch, he continues to bark. "I'm sorry Ryan, he's usually only like this when there's something wrong, but I don't see anything..." Suddenly, the hatch bursts open and two bodies fall through, Ryan moves toward and looks through the window, seeing a young man with a zombie on top of him, "HELP ME!" Ryan curses under his breath, Ginny holds Dewey back as Ryan opens the door, kicks the zombie off the the young man and continues to kick in its head, splattering blood and brains onto his boots and the walls around him. Once Ryan is finished, he grabs the stranger and throws him through the door way, closing the door behind him. Ryan bends over and catches his breath, "So...do you mind explaining to me why I just had to stomp a zombies brains out...?" The young man puts his hands up, "I'm sorry! My name is Connor, David and Jay sent me!" Everyone, except Connor, raises an eyebrow, ready to hear what he has to say. Ryan helps him up and calls everyone into the mess hall, Connor sits and explains the situation to everyone. Ron rubs his chin, "So, they got captured by this Sam guy, huh?" Connor nods his head. Ryan scratches at his stubble, "Well, we gotta save Jay, he's our only medic..." AJ shoots him a quick glare, "And David!" Ryan thinks, "Oh yeah...David..." Lily steps up, "I don't know about this, it seems pretty sketchy." Connor stand up, "I know you guys have no reason to trust me, but I'm telling you the truth, these people need to be dealt with, plus you want your friends back right?" Everyone looks to Ryan, his eyes are closed in thought. He sighs "Alright...gear up and let's move, we need to get them back as soon as possible, I think I have a plan..."

*Time Skip*

The group moves through the forest, along the way they discuss the plan. "So let me get this straight..." Connor scratches his head in thought, "You wanna try and use me as a hostage to get David and Jay back? That doesn't make sense...Why would Sam trade two for one?" Ryan shows an annoyed look, "Listen, it's all we've got right now, do you have a better idea? Anyone?" No one replies.

The group continues to follow Connor, leading them through the forest, passing the town Jay and David were originally supposed to search. They eventually reach a clearing in the woods, in front of them is a large three story building, a barbwire fence surrounds it. "Here goes nothing..." Ryan takes one step towards the building...

STOP RIGHT THERE, A RIFLE IS TRAINED ON YOU RIGHT NOW, DO NOT MOVE

Ryan smirks and yells, "And how do I know that you're even telling the tru-"

*WAPOW*

Ryan jumps as the side of a tree beside him bursts. "Alright, you're telling the truth..." Ryan moves and grabs Connor and pulls his knife to his throat, he whispers to the teenager, "Just play along kid, we'll be in and out..." Ryan raises his voice, "We have a hostage! Send out David and Jay now and we'll leave!" The air is filled with silence, the wind blew, leaves rustled around them, all they had was silence...

IF YOU DON'T MIND, I HAVE A BETTER IDEA!

*Click* *click* *click* *click* *click*

Ryan sighs as he turns around, his fears were correct, multiple men and women surrounded his group, all of their guns trained on them, Ryan dropped the knife, "Shit..." Out of no where, the butt of a rifle smashes into Ryan's face, darkness consumes his vision...

Ryan's eyes slowly open, he sees a silhouette, a bright light shining behind her head, he reaches out, putting his hand on her cheek. "Am I in heaven...?" The angel suddenly slaps Ryan across the face, leaving a big red mark on his cheek. He opens his eyes to discover the angel is Lily, tears fill her eyes. "You idiot! If I didn't love you, you'd be wishing you were in heaven when I'm done with you!" She pulls him close resting her head on his shoulder, he returns her embrace and looks around while holding her. They're in a cell, it's only the two of them. "Where is everyone?" Lily pulls from his embrace and and helps him up, "They separated us, it seems like Ginny, Ron, AJ, and Ben are in the cell to our left, while Jay, Connor, and David are in the cell to our right." Ryan rubs his head, feeling a lump where his was hit, it still stings, "Atleast we know they're okay..."

"Hey lovebirds, I don't know about you, but I think we have more to worry about." David's voice cuts through the hall. Ben comes up to his cell door, "I gotta agree, I'm ready to get out of here." Connor walks up to his cell door, "Sorry I got you guys into this, but I know how we can get out, down the hall and down the stairs there's an armory, inside is enough explosives to level a city block." Ryan hesitates, "First off how would we even reach it? Second of all, that would make alot of noise..." Connor nods, "I don't know how to get out, but as for the zombies, everyone else will be to busy fighting to even notice us, we'll just slip out through the commotion." David paces through his cell, "As much as I hate to say it, it's all we've got, I just hate how risky it is..." Everyone agrees, Ryan speaks up, "So, first things first, how do we get out of here?" Ginny sighs, "What would you people do without me?" Ginny pulls a bobbypin from her hair, walking up to the lock, and begins to pick it. Ben walks up next to her, "You know how to pick locks?" Ginny smirks, "Us girls have our secrets..." From the other cell Jay looks to David, "That's actually kind of hot..." Ginny stops, "What was that Jay?" Jay backs away from the door, his face completely red, "N-nothing, just excited to get out is all!" David shakes his head, "My God, you're actually hopeless..." Jay shushes David before he can say anything else.

*Click*

"Got it!" The door to Ginny's cell swings open, letting them free. "One down to more to go." Once everyone was free Ryan moved forward, "Alright everyone, we have one objective. This time, let's try not to fuck it up..."