“Where am I taking you guys?” asks Dr. Smith to Kristina.
“Take us to our home to get our stuff please. Any word from your contact about going to the O2U facility?” asks Kristina to Dr. Smith.
“He said it could be a couple more days,” answers Dr. Smith as Dr. Smith drives down the street.
Kaden turns on his smartwatch and he reads a text message on his smartwatch.
Kristina sees Kaden reading a text message on his smartwatch and Kristina asks Kaden, “What are you reading?”
Dr. Smith looks into her rearview mirror and she sees Kaden. Kaden sees Dr. Smith looking at him and Kaden answers Kristina, “It’s nothing. It’s just an app I got.”
Kaden makes eye contact with Dr. Smith as Dr. Smith looks into the rearview mirror inside her SUV.
Dr. Smith arrives at the Sinclair’s home and Kaden helps Kristina inside and onto the family room sofa.
“What can I help you guys with?” asks Dr. Smith.
“I think we got it from here thank you,” answers Kaden.
“Are you guys coming back to my house?” asks Dr. Smith.
“Yeah, I think we’ll be there after we finish getting our stuff together,” answers Kaden.
“Are you okay with that Kristina?” asks Dr. Smith.
Kristina looks at Kaden and she sees that Kaden has a concerned look on his face.
“Yeah, let us get settled here and then we’ll meet up with you later,” answers Kristina to Dr. Smith.
“Are you sure? I can bring some of your stuff back with me,” replies Dr. Smith to Kristina.
Kristina looks at Kaden and Kaden answers Dr. Smith, “Thank you for everything, but we got it from here.”
“Is everything okay? Something seems off with you Kaden,” replies Dr. Smith as she looks at Kaden.
Kaden doesn’t know how to answer Dr. Smith and Kristina replies with a stern tone to Dr. Smith, “We’ll see you later, but I just need to relax and pack up our things.”
Dr. Smith feels like something isn’t right with Kaden and Kristina, but she doesn’t want to make it anymore awkward with them, so she agrees to give Kaden and Kristina some space to finish packing up.
“I’m done for the night and I’m going home, come by whenever you want,” says Dr. Smith to Kristina.
“Will do, thanks,” replies Kristina to Dr. Smith.
Dr. Smith leaves the Sinclair’s home and Kaden locks the front door.
Kristina notices that the glass on the sliding glass door is broken, and Kristina asks, “What happened to the sliding glass door?”
Kaden walks back over to Kristina and answers, “I broke it to get into the house. Why was the front door locked?”
Kristina sees that the ACT cameras are still not working as the house doesn’t have power and Kristina answers, “I was attacked by someone.”
“Who attacked you?” asks Kaden.
Just as Kristina is about to answer Kaden, Kaden gets a text message on his smartwatch.
“Who keeps texting you?” asks Kristina to Kaden.
“Dad, he sent those other texts that I tried to show you in Dr. Smith’s car,” answers Kaden.
Kaden shows Kristina the text messages from Kyle and Kristina reads them, “I’m safe, but please stay hidden. Careful with trusting anyone, even Dr. Smith. I love you and your mother. Do not reply to the messages I send. Don’t know if it’s safe to respond. New orders have the base higher-ups looking to leave the base tomorrow.”
“Did you reply to your father’s messages?” asks Kristina to Kaden.
“He told me not to,” answers Kaden.
Kaden gets two more text messages on his smartwatch and he shows them to Kristina and Kristina reads, “The base will probably be locked down. You and mom need to leave now. Go to the O2U facility with Dr. Smith. I’ll do all I can to meet you there. Love you.”
CHAPTER 18
DAY 70
“Why hasn’t your contact from the O2U facility got back to you yet? Is that still in play for us?” asks Kristina to Dr. Smith as they stand in Dr. Smith’s kitchen.
“How is your head?” asks Dr. Smith to Kristina.
“It’s much better. The rest and medication have helped a lot,” answers Kristina.
Dr. Smith gets a call over her smartwatch and she exits her kitchen.
Kristina hears Dr. Smith ask into her smartwatch, “What happened in the lab?”
Kaden walks over to Kristina and Kaden asks, “Why haven’t we left here yet?”
“Dr. Smith is still waiting to hear back from her contact,” answers Kristina.
“We should have left here…” replies Kaden.
BANG! BOOM!
Two loud explosions are heard in the distance as Kaden is replying to Kristina.
Kaden and Kristina exit Dr. Smith’s house through the front door and they see two different trails of black smoke in the distance from Dr. Smith’s house.
Dr. Smith exits her house, and she sees the two trails of black smoke and says, “That’s gotta be from the buildings near the lab.”
Kristina sees Dr. Smith run back into her house and Kristina and Kaden follow right behind her.
“Sounds like the base is starting to fall and someone is causing problems in the lab,” says Dr. Smith to Kristina and Kaden.
“Are we leaving now?” asks Kristina to Dr. Smith.
“I think we have to give the O2U facility a shot. I’ll try to get in touch with my contact on the way over there,” answers Dr. Smith.
“Go get my bag and your bag from upstairs,” says Kristina to Kaden.
Kaden runs upstairs and Kristina asks Dr. Smith, “How far away is the O2U facility?”
“Not very far. I just hope the roads and highways are still clear,” answers Dr. Smith.
“What will happen if you don’t make contact with your person at the O2U facility before we get there?” asks Kristina to Dr. Smith.
“I’m not sure, but I hope it doesn’t come to that,” answers Dr. Smith.
BANG!
Another loud explosion, in the distance away from Dr. Smith’s house, is heard by Kristina and Dr. Smith as they talk in Dr. Smith’s kitchen.
“I’m going to get the last of my things and I’ll meet you and Kaden outside by the cars,” says Dr. Smith to Kristina and then Dr. Smith goes upstairs.
Kaden brings the bags downstairs and Kristina asks Kaden, “Any word from your father?”
Kaden shakes his head no and answers, “Nothing new since his last text messages.”
“We are leaving this place now and going to the O2U facility,” says Kristina to Kaden.
“What about Dr. Smith?” asks Kaden.
“She’s coming as well. We’re taking two vehicles,” answers Kristina.
“We’ll meet you outside!” shouts Kristina from the bottom of the stairs to Dr. Smith.
“I’ll be right out!” shouts Dr. Smith from her bedroom.
Dr. Smith turns on her smartwatch and she calls someone.
“Is everything okay?” asks the woman over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“The base is falling. Kyle has killed a couple of people and he’s destroyed a lot of the subjects, research, and data,” answers Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“ACT is sending me the latest data as we speak and the research is safely secured here,” replies the woman over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“Where are you?” asks Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“We just landed in Colorado, and I’ll be here for the foreseeable future,” answers the woman over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“I’m taking the Sinclair’s to the O2U facility in Edgewater like you told me to,” says Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“Good, that’s the right play for them, and I see that Kyle is doing what I thought he would. Do you know who he killed?” asks the woman over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“The lab technicians just said that Kyle was destroying things and that there was an altercation with him and a c
ouple soldiers around the lab,” answers Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“Well, I hope Kyle takes out as many people as he can,” says the woman over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“Marissa are you making things personal now?” asks Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“You know me Angela, I try to keep things separate, but it’s so hard to keep work and personal life completely separate now,” answers Commander Pine over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
BANG!
Another explosion is heard.
Dr. Smith says into her smartwatch, “I need to get going. Are we all set at the O2U facility now?”
“Yes, you should have deluxe accommodations in the Edgewater O2U campus facility, but please stay safe,” answers Commander Pine over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
“Thank you, I hope to see you soon,” replies Dr. Smith into her smartwatch.
“Let me know if there are any problems at the O2U facility, but you should be setup in their system now,” answers Commander Pine over Dr. Smith’s smartwatch.
Dr. Smith ends her call with Commander Pine, and she exits her house with a duffel bag full of her clothes, supplies, and belongings.
“I just finished talking with my contact and we should be good to go at O2U,” says Dr. Smith to Kristina.
“Great, I’ll follow you,” replies Kristina to Dr. Smith.
Dr. Smith gets into her SUV and Kristina and Kaden get into their SUV.
Dr. Smith reverses out of her driveway and Kristina follows behind Dr. Smith.
Dr. Smith and Kristina arrive at the exit of Fort Derrick and Dr. Smith is stopped by an armed guard at the exit guard station. Kristina watches the armed guard talk with Dr. Smith and Dr. Smith shows the guard her ID.
The armed guard looks at Kristina and then the guard goes back into his guard station.
“Do you think they’ll just let us leave?” asks Kaden to Kristina.
“I doubt it,” answers Kristina.
As Kristina finishes her answer to Kaden, the heavy concrete and steel exit doors start to slowly open.
Dr. Smith calls Kristina’s smartwatch and Dr. Smith tells Kristina that the guard is letting them both go through the exit of Fort Derrick, but they are closing the base and they won’t be able to get back onto the base once they leave.
Kristina agrees to leave Fort Derrick and Dr. Smith exits Fort Derrick.
Kristina follows behind Dr. Smith’s SUV and the heavy concrete and steel exit doors of Fort Derrick start to close.
Kaden sees the exit doors of Fort Derrick close and Kristina gets a call on her smartwatch.
“Kyle! Are you okay?” shouts Kristina into her smartwatch.
Kristina stops her SUV and puts her SUV in park.
“Yes, where are you and K at?” asks Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
“We just left the base,” answers Kristina into her smartwatch.
Kristina gets a call on her smartwatch from Dr. Smith and Kristina ends the call from Dr. Smith.
“Where are you Kyle? Are you safe?” asks Kristina into her smartwatch.
Kaden gets a call from Dr. Smith on his smartwatch and Kaden answers the call.
“Why did you stop? Is everything okay?” asks Dr. Smith over Kaden’s smartwatch.
“My father called us, and my mom is talking with him right now,” answers Kaden into his smartwatch.
“Where are you Kyle?” asks Kristina into her smartwatch.
“I’m in the lab building,” answers Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
“Is Alex near you?” asks Kristina into her smartwatch.
“I don’t know, I haven’t seen him. Why?” answers Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
Kristina remembers when she was attacked by the masked assailant and hearing that person’s voice.
“Because he broke into our house and attacked me,” answers Kristina into her smartwatch.
Kaden hears Kristina say that Alex attacked her, and he can’t believe what he just heard.
“Are you serious?” asks Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
“Yeah, at least I think it was him. I didn’t actually get to see his face, for the attacker was wearing an all-black mask. But whoever attacked me, should have a deep bite mark on their left hand between his thumb and index finger,” answers Kristina into her smartwatch.
“Are you okay Sweets?” asks Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
Kyle sees some people running down an interior hallway of the building that he is in and he sees Ovi and Ty running among the people.
Screams of fear and terror are heard down the interior hallways away from Kyle.
“I have eyes on Ty and Ovi. I’m going to see where Alex is,” says Kyle into his smartwatch as he quickly walks down an interior hallway.
Kyle turns the corner, and he sees two male zombies that have escaped from their holding tables and they are biting into two different lab technicians.
“It’s getting kind of crazy where I am right now Sweets,” says Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch.
Kristina replies into her smartwatch, “You have to get off the base.”
“I will, but I have to do something before I leave. I hope you saw my messages and I’ll meet you…” says Kyle over Kristina’s smartwatch and the call is dropped.
“What are you going to do? Kyle? Kyle?” asks Kristina into her smartwatch, but Kyle doesn’t hear her as Kristina and Kyle’s call was dropped.
“The road is starting to get pretty congested with zombies up here, they must be attracted to the noise and explosions happening inside the base,” says Dr. Smith over Kaden’s smartwatch.
Kristina calls Kyle from her smartwatch several times, but the calls aren’t going through.
Kaden sees a large group of zombies coming towards Kristina’s parked SUV and Kaden says, “Mom, look.”
Kristina looks through her SUV front windshield and she sees the large group of zombies coming directly towards her SUV.
“Where are you Angela?” shouts Kristina as Kristina looks at Kaden.
“I’m down the road and about to get onto the main road that leads to the highway. Do you want me to come back for you guys?” asks Dr. Smith over Kaden’s smartwatch.
“I might turn around and go back into the base,” says Kristina with an unsure tone as she looks at the zombies that have now surrounded her SUV and started banging on her SUV doors, hood, and windows.
“They won’t let you back onto base. The guard that let us out told me it was a one way ticket out and they were going to lock the base down and not allow anyone in or out after us,” replies Dr. Smith over Kaden’s smartwatch.
“Mom, there are too many of them around us now. Can you even get through all these zombies?” asks Kaden to Kristina with a worried tone.
Kaden’s call with Dr. Smith over his smartwatch is dropped.
“Are you there Angela?” shouts Kristina.
“The call was dropped,” answers Kaden.
Kaden tries to call Dr. Smith back, but the call won’t go through.
Kristina puts her SUV in drive, and she starts to slowly drive into the zombie horde.
Zombies are being knocked down and run over by Kristina’s SUV. Blood, guts, and necrotic zombie flesh and tissue are flying onto the hood, tires, front bumper, and front grill of Kristina’s SUV.
SQUISH!
Zombie blood flies through the front grill of Kristina’s SUV and it hits the engine and belts under the front hood of Kristina’s SUV.
More and more zombie blood and flesh are starting to coat all four tires of Kristina’s SUV.
Kristina’s SUV is slowly but steadily making her way through the huge horde of zombies, but there is no end in sight of the zombie horde as Kristina makes her way slowly down the road.
Kaden is worried, but he trusts Kristina.
Kristina is worried, but she can’t let Kaden know how scared she is.
“We are making it, but it’s getting harder to see through the dirty win
dshield and the tires are really losing their grip,” says Kristina.
“Just keep doing what you are doing, we are making it through,” replies Kaden as Kristina continues to slowly drive down the zombie infested road.
“I think I’m going to speed up a little bit,” says Kristina to Kaden.
“Are you sure mom?” asks Kaden with a worried tone.
“Well, I have to try something, this big ass group of zombies seems endless,” answers Kristina.
Kristina pushes down slightly on her SUV gas pedal and her SUV accelerates.
SPLASH!
A big splash of zombie blood and guts hit the front bumper, hood, grill, and front windshield of Kristina’s SUV as Kristina rips an obese male zombie in half with her SUV.
“Gross,” says Kaden.
Kristina slows down slightly as she turns on her front windshield wipers and washer fluid to try to clean off the zombie blood that’s all over her front windshield now.
The washer fluid and wiper blades clean off most of the zombie blood and Kristina speeds up.
Another group of zombies are ripped in half and the top half of their bodies fly into Kristina’s front windshield and completely block the view of Kristina and Kaden.
Kristina freaks out and she swerves to the right to make the zombies fall off her SUV front hood and windshield.
The front tires of Kristina’s SUV start to slide from the loss of traction and Kristina’s SUV skids off the road and gets stuck in a ditch.
The zombies on Kristina’s SUV front windshield and hood slide off the front of Kristina’s SUV and Kaden jokes, “Well, at least we can see now.”
Kristina tries to drive forward in the ditch, but her SUV doesn’t move at all. Kristina puts her SUV in reverse and tries to back out of the ditch, but her SUV is stuck in the muddy ditch and her tires cannot get any traction at all now.
“I think we’re stuck,” says Kristina as she presses down on the gas pedal and her SUV tires spin without getting any traction.
Kaden looks around and he sees that more and more zombies are starting to make their way to Kristina’s SUV.
“What should we do now?” asks Kaden to Kristina.
Kristina looks out her SUV windows and she tries to remain calm as she sees more and more zombies coming towards the back and sides of her stuck SUV.
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