High School of Dead: New Evil

A photo of two children floats in the abyss.

A cosmic hand barrels through a portal grabbing the photo and disappears with it. The Photo was hurled into the clear blue skies as an Airplane appeared.

It hits the windshield and wavers into the sky once more. An eagle takes it by its beak flying through the city of japan. The photo slips from its beak, through the gates onto the roof while a teen is standing on the edge of the roof staring at the sun.

"Why... He looks down at the massive drop. " Does he have to take everything...from me?" The Teen's handshakes while he lifts a foot from the edge. He bites his lip while a tear rolls from his face and down below. "Tsk!!"

The Teen hits his back onto the roof, sobbing.

"Why...WHY?!!!!" His sobs grow louder while the photo lands beside him. "Huh?" He grabs it, staring at the back of the photo until he flips it. His eyes dilated.

"YEAH!! YEAH!! RAAA!!!" Zombies sprint down the halls.

Blood splattered on the dirty lime and strip lemon walls. "Don't trust the doctor."

A child laughs sinisterly as the Giant teddy bear stands on a battered bed covered in blood.

 "If we shall die killing the undead, so be it!" President Kennedy unloads bullets from his chirping commando into the walking corpse. 

Four individuals held off the horde of zombies on a platform.

"Insta-Kill!!~" A phantom-like voice announced.

"Hey, Player!" The American soldier ducks from a swipe of the zombie before rushing into another and kicking it away. "Drop the chips and give me some ammo!!!" He shouts, catching the arm of his first attacker and hurling the dead into the ground. 

The soldier drives his knife into its skull. 

"All is forgiven." A German soldier with a pencil mustache kept his pistol trained on someone before pulling the trigger. 

 "I did it because we are the problem for the causes we thought we fixed...This is the end." The Russian soldier remained on his knees, closing his eyes, and surrounded by the seven soldiers consisting of an American, German, Japanese, and Russian lying dead. Younger and Older versions of themselves with evidence of spilled cups. 

A black hair little girl in her white dress points a revolver at Nikolai's head with a boy in his blue pj's by her side. 

The revolver cried out. 

"HAA!!!" The Teen sits up, panting. Tears rolled down his face as a line of red numbers remained where he'd looked. "What's happening?!" The numbers vanish.

"Hey, Doctor. Why are we still here?" A voice called to the boy. 

The four soldiers took in the clean and spacious rooftop before locking eyes with the high schooler. 

The high schooler crawls back, hitting his back against the roof edge. 

The four diverse soldiers slowly approached the panicking Teen. 

"Hey. Hey. Easy." The German soldier was the first to speak. 

"Please, Boy. Where are we?" The Japanese man raised his hand, taking the lead. 

"You're not the one to ask the questions here!" The high schooler stuttered. "I saw you in my dreams, and I think you're Takeo Maski!" He points to the Russian. "Nikolai Belinski!! Tank Dempsey, and Edward Richtofen!!!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Hey!" The American points. "There's no date, nor did we give our first names! Do I need to cave your skull in to get you to squeal?!"

"No! No! I'll talk! I'll talk!" The Teen opened his hands to the rushing American that the Russian intercepted. 

"Now. Now. Comrade. The bird is singing. Let it. Hmm?" He raised a brow.

Tank remained quiet before pacing back and forth, lasering into the kid. 

The soldiers look down on the kid who took in the clear blue skies. 

"Alright." Nikolai sighs before taking a knee. "Would you do us so kindly and shine light into this 'Problem.' " He squinted his eyes. 

"J-japan in Dojima High! I'm Marcus Knight, a Junior!" Marcus' eyes bounced on the lasering eyes before he looked to Takeo, taking in the environment.

"I'm...home." He cracks a warm smirk.

"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!!!" Tank burst towards the boy. 

"Wh-what do you mean!?" Tank snatched the photo out of Marcus' hands. "It was on the roof! I mean, I had never seen that before." Marcus raised to his feet, grabbing the roof's edge from behind. "Can I go?" 

"You are not getting off that easy." 

"Dempsey, hand it here." Richtofen accepts the photo in his palm, allowing Nikolai to peek. "So you found it on the roof, yes?" He looks up from the picture and into the cornered high schooler's eyes. "You know of the revelation." 

"Of what kind?" Marcus' breath shakes. 

"You have about five seconds before I throw you off this roof." Dempsey starts. "So, start talking." He chews his tongue. 

 "Tank? Edward?" Everyone gazed at the children from the photo holding hands. They were in pajamas while the girl carried a teddy bear.

"Is this supposed to happen?" Takeo said softly before snapping to Edward, sitting on his butt, gazing at the photo unhinged.

"This can't be happening! This can't be happening!" Edward repeats while the girl runs up to him. "We did everything right! What am I not seeing?!" The girl grabs his shoulders. A plead pours from her eyes.

 "Edward...This is just like your books."

"S-Samantha." She gazes back at Marcus. 

 "And who are you? I may ask?"

"M-Marcus Knight." He looks to the kid by Samantha's side. "You must be Eddie." He hid behind Samantha. "You know...you look a little like..."

"This is not the time." Samantha looks back at Edward. "Ed, do you have any idea what's going on?" She places his hands on his cheeks while he looks up at her.

 "I-I don't know." Edward stuttered. 

"I can help." A voice leads to the cosmic being, in the shape of a male, having skin that embodies soft blue light surrounded by clouds of multiple colors.

 "Wha-what the hell..." Marcus slowly shimmered along the edge, keeping himself behind the soldiers and the children. 

"Who are you, shiny?" Tank tilts his head. "You came to finish the job?" 

 Cosmic entity smirks.

 "I'm Apollo, ruler of the Midnight Zone or Milky Way, you humans called it." Everyone stares in shock. "A popular question goes by, 'Why are you here?' "

"We all like to know. Oh god, thy father." Nikolai remarked. 

 Apollo nods as everyone looks at each other hesitantly.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Apollo's blue, glowing eyes land on Marcus, who is sneaking towards the roof exit door. "Count this as a warning." 

Apollo took steps toward the second roof that stretched across the main, his toeless feet guiding the way for the others. At the same time, Nikolai wrapped his arm around Marcus' shoulder.

"Let's do as he says, friend. You never know what lengths he'll go." The Russian soldier walked the Teen after the group. 

They climbed the steps of an extra roof, glancing over the railing. Marcus remained beside Apollo on his left while the other was on his right.

"Look. What do you see?" Apollo gazed over the white railing blankly while Eddie's lips quivered.

"Samantha!" He points out everyone followed his guide and grew horrified by the scene.

A woman with blue, glowing eyes was eating a corpse as its ribs and guts were seen by the world. The woman snaps a rib in half, chowing down the fat and meat from the bone.

Marcus hurled but stopped it. He turned his back on the scene. 

Nikolai sighs.

"Great, another bottle to drown my sorrows."

"Tell me...What's this for?" Samantha glared while Apollo smirked.

"You remind me of my daughter Burakku-"

"TELL US!!! ASSHOLE!!!" Edward roared, making the others jump. 

"For the end game." Everyone but Marcus glared, while Apollo only stared.

"Uh...Mr.Apollo." Marcus said softly, getting Apollo's blue shimmering eyes. "Why bring them back?"

"I watch you four, and I must say...It was interesting." Nikolai swigs his flask, offering Marcus some, but he refuses. "You collected powerful artifacts by any means and completely erased five percent of the universe." 

Nikolai chokes.

"Five percent?!"

"I didn't stop you, didn't I? It was a mindless joke." 

Takeo and Edward held Tank back.

"A JOKE?! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DIED?!" 

"Everyone lives and dies. Your life span is short, so I'm doing them a favor." Tank growls while everyone glares.

"You're telling us you made us go through all that, and you could have put the artifacts somewhere less risky or stopped it from activating for some godly humor?" Takeo starts. 

"The joke has been delivered. And yet, I'm still waiting for the punchline. You should be proud. There's a game out of you."

"You know, you could officially bite me." Tank grinds his teeth.

"Wait, game?" Eddie said softly. 

"There's nothing we can do, is there?" Takeo leans on the railing, looking down on the glowing-eyed crowd of walkers who were formerly students and teachers. 

"There is, but it's only affecting this universe." The experienced zombie killers sigh. 

 Marcus's jaw drops.

"How is that a good thing?!"

 "It's not... in a way, but at least it wasn't scattered like the other time, " Samantha said while Marcus rubbed his head.

"You will have your lives back, but for an Easter egg hunt," Apollo announced. 

 "WHAT?!!!" The soldiers shout. 

 "There's no time for that?! People are dying?!!" Marcus opened his hand down the significant drop. "You don't think they will come up here?" 

Apollo only stares.

"There are fourteen artifacts, all hold their challenge...All over the world."

"You can't be serious?" Edward leans forward. 

"Without the teleporter, there's no way that's possible." Tank kept his hand on his knife holster. 

"Who's willing to volunteer?" Apollo looks at the group, which consists of four diverse soldiers, two children in pajamas, and a High Schooler. 

They all either stepped back or held their ground. 

Apollo grabs Samantha's head in a flash while a blue light flashes from his fingertips. 

"AHHHH!!!" She cries, dropping to her knees.

"SAM!!!" Edward and so did the soldiers, and Eddie raced to Samantha's aid. 

"HANDS OFF, BASTARD!!!" Tank spat. 

Everyone gathered around the two, trying to pry his hands off, but to no avail. Dempsey pulled a knife, and it went through Apollo's neck, only to not affect him. 

The American reverse-gripped the knife, trying again only to cut the wind. Tank stumbled forward while Takeo tagged in. 

Apollo dropped Samantha, who lay in a ball, sobbing while Eddie checked on her. 

Eddie and Edward glared menacingly.

"Now, I'll take my leave." Apollo voiced.

"Wait, you didn't--" Apollo enters a portal, disappearing with it. 

Nikolai grunts while Marcus kneels at Eddie and Edward.

"H-hey, are you ok?" Samantha looks up at Marcus.

"Like a spring trap with live wires." She grunts.

"COME ON, WE GOTTA GET UP THERE!!!" Everyone gazes from the extra roof at the three teens in Uniform: a kid with a baseball bat, a Girl with a broomstick, and the other running beside them.

They barreled through a horde of blue-glowing-eye zombies. The broomstick teen was doing flips and attacking while on the move. 

They all stared in awe, except Samantha, who was still in pain.

"She fights like my wife. Both beautiful and yet horrifying." Nikolai comments. 

"If young me was here." Edward followed. 

"Hey, Takeo, does every Jap fight like that? I like it." Tank tilts his head toward Takeo. 

"Keep your mouth trapped, Dempsey."

"Takashi!" The broomstick Teen noticed Marcus. "Hey! Block the Stairway!!" They race up the staircase towards him.

 "Uh-Y-yeah!" He races into the closet while the soldiers unsheathed their combat knives. 

Watching the slow horde make its way towards the slim staircase. 

"Rei. Stay with Takashi. Keep them off us!" The barehanded student raced into the closet, helping Marcus push out an office desk. 

The squeals of the desk legs intensified under the many groaning zombies. 

"Yeah! Ok." The girl grips a broomstick, aiming the end of the nail down the staircase at the three arrivals. 

"Let's go!" The Teen with a baseball bat rushes one zombie before delivering the bat into the skull of one and the white checkered wall. Painting the wall red. 

"Rah!" Rei drives the screw into the walker's head. Watching it fall like a tree. 

"Move it, twinkle toes!" Tank walked along the metal railing before delivering a weighted kick. The zombie continued to the top, going through his leg and body. 

"Hey!" Takeo rushed Takashi, who fired up his bat. 

The bat came full throttle towards Tank, who ducked and knocked the zombie over the railing. 

"Hey! Watch it!" Tank roared while Takashi only kept his eyes on the remaining zombies growing close.

Marcus stares around the school supplies office and rushes, jumbling chairs and supplies on the floor.

"Hisashi!" Takashi shouts through the growling walkers, and Rei screams. 

"There!" Hisashi rushed from across the office, pushing Marcus aside. He grabbed the emergency fire holes. "Turn it on when I tell you." He ran from the room towards the staircase to the two slowly overrun.

Rei sat along the wall, looking up at a zombie leasing his bloody gums at her. 

"Now!" Hisashi shouts. Marcus turns the red lever, causing the holes to spark into a burst and knocking the walker from Rei. Hisashi held up the water hoses, allowing the cold water to brisk their skin. "Get away! Hurry!" 

Rei and Takashi go to the roof while a bundle of walkers follow. 

Hisashi aimed the water hose at the zombies, pushing them all off the stairway. "Come, help me with this!"

...

The Horizon is set while the stairway is boarded with tables and chairs.

 "Ugh!!!" Hisashi leans forward on his knees, grunting.

"Hisashi?! Tell me, what's wrong?!" Rei placed a hand on his back. 

He vomits, making a puddle of blood.

"Don't make her see this!" Marcus and Samantha looked at each other before looking back at Hisashi with bags under his eyes.

"I-I'm sorry, little one." He gave a weak smile.

 "L-little one?" She looks down at herself. 

Rei glares at Marcus.

"What's wrong with you?!" She shouts.

"Me?" Marcus points. 

"She's a little girl! You can't-"

"Rei..." She glances at Takashi, whose back is turned. " There's no way she can unsee what she saw...especially in this world."

 "M-Marcus," Hisashi voiced. I-I know we just met. Can you do me a favor?"Marcus approached Rei and Hisashi. He took a knee and slowly nodded. "There..." He pointed to a railing at the edge of the roof. Could you carry me over the railing? The impact will destroy my head."

"NO!!" Rei clamped onto Hisashi's back. 

"Y-you can't be serious?!" Marcus looks to the railing with shivering eyes. 

"If not... I will." Takashi turns around and grips his bat from across the roof. "He will turn infected...like the others."

"T-this is not fair!! It's just a bite! " Marcus glances at the bite on Hisashi's arm, slowly leaking dark liquids from his black sleeve. "There's no way a bite could be that! I mean, come on! If we can wait it out, we could get alcohol to clean it." 

"Right! He can make it!" Rei remained wide-eyed, staring at Takashi's tilted head with a bloody bat. "He will make it!"

"Marcus..." Takashi slowly approaches them while his shoes click on the floor. 

Hisashi eyes flickered to his head. 

"PLEASE!! KEEP HIM AWAY FROM HIM!!!" Rei cried, pleading with Marcus while Kakashi inched closer. 

Marcus looks at Samantha, who stands a few distances from them.

"There's nothing we can do." She said softly. 

"REI!!" Takashi spat.

"NO!!!" Rei roared. Hisashi's eyes opened, revealing his glowing blue eyes. "HE ALL I HAVE LEFT!!!" 

"REI!!!" Takashi held the bat over his shoulder while Rei only shielded Hisashi. 

Hisashi hungered for Rei's neck, only for Marcus to pull his hair, dragging him off Rei's lap. 

"STOP!!!" Rei scrambles from the floor, only for Takashi to hold her back. 

 Marcus drags (Zombified) Hisashi across the roof by his hair. Hisashi dragged his legs before getting on his hands and knees, crawling after his aggressor. 

"MARCUS!!!" Rei screams, watching Hisashi get on his feet and claw at Marcus, who leans back. He stumbled onto the railing. 

"RAAGH!!!" Zombie Hisashi charged; Marcus dodged at the last minute, watching him fly over the railing. 

"NO!" Rei escapes Takashi's bindings before reaching the railing. "No! Oh god!" She falls to her knees while Takashi looks over the railing. 

Down below awaits the student painting the school grounds in his blood. 

Takashi clicks his tongue, taking in Rei's cries before looking to Marcus, who remains curled in a ball on the floor, his shaky hands resting on his head. 

Samantha sits beside him, placing her hand on his head and caressing it.

 Marcus' shaky breath turns into sobbing while the Diverse Soldiers and Eddie watch.

...

"What the hell is happening, Doc?" Tank looks to the Horizon falling behind city buildings. 

They stood near Samantha and Marcus, watching Kakashi and Rei sit doing their own thing.

Edward leans on the wall with his hand on his chin.

"I hate to admit, but I believe we're dead."

"Go figure." Tank grips the railing. 

"Great, I have unlimited Vodka! But I stopped a long time ago...Oh well." Nikolai chugs his flask to no end. 

"Samantha, can you still hear us?" Takeo looks down at Samantha with Marcus' head on her lap. 

"Clear as water, but we should keep it down. We don't want the two thinking we're loose screws." Samantha whispered, watching Rei take the wall near the stairs while Takashi looked at the city. 

"Dying a million times and traveling with the same faces can do that to you." Nikolai winced, looking down at wide-eyed Marcus, who was looking out into space. 

"How are you standing?" Samantha whispered, getting the Russian soldier's attention. 

"Doing our goose chase. We managed to cross paths with Dr.Monty and his journal. Stating the kill counts and deaths labeling the four of us, during so the Doctor tried to kill us after the Revelation." Tank spoke for Nikolai. 

"Hey!" They turn their heads to Takashi, standing feet from them. "How is he holding up?"

 "He hasn't talked, so it's hard to say," Samantha answered while the high schooler took a knee.

"How did you get here? And judging by your accent, you're far from home." Takashi smirks.

"My parents and I moved here from Germany..." She looks away. I haven't seen them since." Takashi pats her hand while she looks up at him, smiling.

"Ok, stick with us, and you'll do fine." Takashi looks back at Rei, huddled in a ball and looking out. "Rei, we're getting out of here."

The high school girl rises to her feet, grabbing her broomstick before looking out to the main roof.

"Talk about the cold shoulder," Nikolai adds. 

"I don't know if I should be proud or worried since Samantha is a good liar." Eddie pushed himself from the wall. 

 "Both, Eddie..both." Edward looks down at Eddie.

"Marcus, get up." Samantha looked down at Marcus, who only blinked. 

"We can stay here." He stuttered. "A chopper can be here any minute now." 

"I haven't eaten anything." Takashi voiced. "And How long do you think they'll take? Minutes? Days? Come on." He reached down his open hand. 

"Please." Marcus covered his eyes with his palms. 

"Come on!" Takashi raised his voice, causing Marcus to jump. He clicks his tongue before pulling him to his feet. "I'm not leaving you. Alright?" 

Marcus nodded while Takashi patted his arm. 

"Come on." They made their way towards Rei. 

Walking the halls, the four made it down the rooftop as the Experts chatted lightly and watched their six. 

 Eddie walked near Samantha.

"It bugs me. How quiet and clean the halls are..." Marcus whispered.

"You're right. It doesn't sit with me." Rei eyed the slim halls. 

"Let's keep moving. Be alert; don't want 'Them' chewing our flesh."

"AH!!! AH!!! GET IT OFF ME!!!" A power drill and a scream echo down the halls.

"Come on!!!" Takashi shouts, racing down the hall with Rei and the others in tow. 

They followed the noise and turned a corner, seeing a pink-haired girl with glasses drilling a power drill into a zombie skull until it dropped to the floor.

The power drill whirled to a stop, and soon came the weight of the dead female teacher and the drill sounding the halls.

 The pink-haired girl backed up, covered in blood from head to toe.

They noticed A blonde woman with huge assets, A girl with a wooden sword and purple hair appeared by the pink-haired girl and an overweight student. 

"HOLY HELL ON CHRISTMAS MORNING!!! THEY ARE HUGE!!!" The others nodded with a blush while Samantha stood in front of Eddie, blocking his view.

 "In all my life, I never have seen something bigger than my Katana." Takeo stared while they grew close to the group. 

"Then my wife..." Nikolai adds. 

"Are they plants?" Edward whispered. 

"Who are you, two?" Takashi questioned as the four combined into eight, standing in the hall's center surrounded by bodies. 

"I'm Saeko Busujima from the Kendo club; the blonde is Shizuka Manikawa, a nurse." The purple-haired girl with a kendo stick voiced. 

 "It's nice to meet you..." Shizuka covered herself. "Uh...why do I feel eyes peeling me?" 

Marcus looks back at Nikolai and Tank.

Edward slaps their there heads.

"Hey?!!!/ What? Can a guy live a little?" Tank and Nikolai voiced their opinion. 

 "Schwenine's." Edward glared. 

Zombies appeared around the corners as they approached the group.

"Clear them..." Takashi sprints, smashing a zombie to the side. "Out!!!"

Everyone works quickly while Marcus and Samantha check on the pink-haired girl.

"Are-Saya?" She looks up at Marcus.

"No!" She pushes him back. "Not you!"

"What's wrong with you?! I'm just trying to help!" She towered over him.

"You and everyone know, I'm smarter than all you dimwitted combined!!" Everyone looks at the commotion. "AND YOU!!!" She points to Marcus. "You are just a nuisance!!"

"That's enough." Samantha squinted her eyes. 

Saya's eyes widen.

"HA! Who brought a child here?!" 

"No, time, let's get to the safe room." Takashi kicks a zombie away. 

"There's a Teacher lounge just a few clicks away." Saeko drives her wooden stick into a walker's skull. 

"Lead the way." 

...

In a teacher's lounge while a full moon hits the blinds. The group relaxes while Kohta flips the channels and sighs.

"Nothing."

"Then will rest here for the night." Takashi declared. 

 Saeko whistles, gaining everyone's attention.

"Na'uh, you did a lot. Rest."

"You-"

"This is not a discussion." She smirked while she leaned on a table, watching the locked door with a shade blocking the window.

"Fine, I'll take the second shift." Takashi sighs while everyone takes a spot. 

Marcus took the couch from across another with Samantha and Shizuka while Kohta, Saya, and Rei took the one in front of them.

 "Aaaah~! What a long day, goodnight everyone." Shizuka leans from Marcus and Samantha.

 "Night." Everyone but Saya spoke. Marcus leaned his head, looking at the blind, raining soothing white light on his face. 

He felt Samantha lean her head on his shoulder.

'What should I do?' Marcus closes his eyes.