ON THE ROAD AS ALWAYS

The fire station gets quickly overran by different forms of the dead, all of them even start fighting one another. Seymour on the right hand side of the truck sees massive speakers set up on top of the buildings.

"Holy shit.. fuck fuck"

"...."

"Shit man, we might have gotten even farther from the others"

"Or we could have led it to the others... we're heading to flagstaff"

The hour drive was filled with nothing but the silence of the air the humming of the truck and the whisper of the wind. They see the airport on their way to the city, in ruins nothing shocking anymore for them. They just looked forward hoping nothing worse will come to them in their arrival to the city. As they arrive in the entrance of the city they can only sigh in anger and disappointment. The whole city is in ruins, the overgrowth has reached up the peak of the buildings. Having no idea what to do they just stayed there hoping that something, a miracle were to bring them to Colorado.

"Hoping Colorado is gorgeous"

"There are some towns in between the small mountains... maybe none of them are batshit crazy"

"Hopefully"

He noticed a foul and unpleasant smell coming from Seymour, but it was obviously because they did not have a proper bath for over a week. He ignored it and starts to drive away through the ruins of Flagstaff, filled with the grim reminder of the dead walking around it. He shrug the thought off his head and stepped on the pedal, hoping that they will meet after what has happened.

Instead of stopping for the others they continued as their heading to the same place, a small municipality called Ophir. A small municipality tucked away in the mountainous region of Colorado, part of the even greater Rocky Mountains Range. The sight there are gorgeous, the municipality was taken over by SPECTRE and has agreed with the inhabitants of Phoenix as a way to safely travel into Colorado and into Haven. A community created where balance is achieved, peace and harmony is a reality.

Their long 5 hour road trip has started, hopefully the truck will last long as they can. They passed by the Four Corners monument. As they enter the state of Colorado the temperature has started to get lower and they immediately felt it.

They passed by the cities of Cortez, Dolores, and Rico, along the way they gathered items as well not changing the vehicle. After that they see the towering mountains which is part of the famed Mountain Range, the 3 of them are in awe of how beautiful it has gotten. The roads and houses near it has started to disappeared and being reclaimed by nature, the same as every city that they have passed by.

As they got closer to the municipality Seymour starts to look weak, Rodrick easily picked up on it.

"stop the truck"

"What?"

"Just so-"

Rodrick stopped the car as Seymour jumped off it, he got hurt and he is full with scars and scratches. Rodrick gets down and prepared the crossbow, he starts to feel afraid as Seymour is showing some familiar symptoms. He starts to cough up blood, darker ones. He tells Rodrick to stay from him, Nevada cannot hear what is happening outside.

"Are you okay?"

"Wh-WHAT DO YOU THINK!!!"

He starts to get rowdy and tries to attack Rodrick, everything starts to feel heavy and painful for Seymour. Seymour falls down flat on the ground and Rodrick notices a blood stain on his pants. He went and pulled it up to reveal a bite, he looks at Rodrick and begs him to put him out of his misery. Rodrick can only look on Seymour with his the lower parts of his teeth under going black decay. He starts to groan as he is loosing and dying.

Rodrick aimed the cross bow, but before he can do it someone appears and ends Seymour's life easily. The quiet shot suppressed almost the whole sound of the gun, Rodrick lays his eyes on the merciless man. He starts to fall on his tears devastated, Nevada sees him through the side-view mirror and she gets out of the truck and towards Rodrick.

"what happened?"

"Seymour, he moved on....moved.. shit"

Nevada starts to feel sad, but not enough to cry over the man.

'Follow me, we'll bury your friend' The man said so with a calm and husky voice, it is as if he has witness enough of this to fully be insensitive to killing someone. The man puts Seymour's body on a blanket and puts him behind a truck, they got in their respective cars and starts to drive. It was no time for mourning, yet. Rodrick, despite being a soldier will never get used to any type of death. The man's presence felt familiar. The sun starts to sink in front of them and into the lining on the hills, they buried Seymour's body in the small graveyard.

Rodrick sees one of the most out of place thing in this municipality earlier as they were getting in. A helicopter flew over their heads and to the direction of the city of Denver, north-east of the municipality. The distinct skull was also on that vehicle, it reminded him immediately of Zachary.

Zachary and the others are still in the middle of the horde after hearing the wild blaring of the alarm. They moved quickly, they decided to run as the 'Bawler' is directly in the middle of the horde and it cannot hear them. They start to run like hell to where ever they can. It took them over 3 hours to get to the city and the sun has starts to rise. They just got into the city and they already have to think of something to ride in, same destination, that is all they know in order to find the other 3.

"All right what do we do, a fucking horde is almost 3 hours away from us"

"We need to get out of this city fast"

"Yep... shit.. I can't think of anything"

"How about that?"

Bogdan pointed to the sky as the sound of a helicopter propeller can be heard. They immediately thought of the tallest building in Flagstaff.

"Then we need to go outside... shit what the-"

As they are thinking of what they can do the dead that was awakened by Rodrick's drive earlier has already poured into the city streets.

"They have obviously been here"

"SUV SUV!!!"

Without any haste Zachary breaks the glass and gets in, they all waited outside sees the dead coming to them, none of them running. Zach hotwires the car and manages to unlock all doors, down side is that the car is running out gas.

"Fuck, we need to find the tallest building fast"

He starts driving off, they passed by different malls also filled with their common friends. The helicopter that is watching over the area noticed the movement of the dead, almost heading into one direction.

*See that down there?*

*Yep, wha- a car a car*

They see the SUV from the building, Zachary immediately followed the direction where the helicopter is going.

*Cover fire, be careful*

The men on the helicopters starts clearing out the horde in front of them making the drive easier, they passed by the University of Arizona. As much as they are happy to see an opening it was not long until a bump in the road caused them a near death experience. Their car was overturned by something big in front of their road.