(Laff POV)

I would rip open the crate, as we didn't have as much time left, seeing the mother load! There was guns, ammo, food, and water! We needed to split this evenly but that didn't matter right now. Everyone would grab a weapon from the crate as I would grab a nice sniper rifle, and found a scope for it. "This is nice" I would say to oof as he would nod, holding a nice rifle. But the moment of celebration was cut short by the sound of gun fire.

We all took cover and got ready for the upcoming war. Eventually people would storm up, everyone open fire, having the extra ammo from the crate really helped! We were actually holding them off! And they stopped, clearly re evaluating their plan, but I took advantage of that grabbing my rifle and aiming at the people on the floor picking some off before they ran inside. We were holding them off successfully!

"Too well..."

I would look around not trusting how easy this was to hold them all off, before a gunshot would go off, hitting Chris in the hip, people would be charging up from the emergency ladder! We would open fire on them, but with people coming from both sides it was getting impossible to hold them all off! I would look over at Jaren during all the chaos. "Is Chris okay!?" I would ask he would nod "yeah he's better!" He would shout back. "How the fuck are we getting out of here?" I would ask him.

"We have to clear one of the exits." He would say. "It may seem stupid but it has to be the main way!" John interrupted. "If we go through the ladder they can easily jump us at the bottom! If we go the main way we have cover, and the people on the emergency ladder would take longer to get down!" He would shout as jaren would nod, informing everyone of the plan before starting to go through with it.

We would charge down the stairs taking down the men who would approach, and like John thought the cover and the other men being to slow helped us... that's until zombies showed up, now it was utter hell, everyone was fighting someone.

(Socks POV)

I would pull up to the building seeing all the zombies and enemy's, I would immediately open fire along with Jooice and Blaza, helping the others get out, we would run in helping them out more, but there was more and more!

And then it happened.

(Oof POV)

While fighting the people and zombies I was too much of an idiot to check behind me, and I would feel myself getting grabbed, seeing a zombie would put my left arm in the way, seeing as the zombies teeth biting into my skin, I would kick it away groaning in pain, as socks would shoot it. "Oof!" He would grab me as I would look at him. "Socks I-.." I said scared but was interrupted by jaren shouting. "RUN INTO ANY CAR YOU CAN WE NEED TO GO!" All of a sudden it was a shit show, everyone running into any car they could and dipping.

(Socks POV)

I would help Oof into the hummer it having laff and two of the people they met, they were Chris and Nelson i think? But that didn't matter right now. Oof was sitting in the seat next to me looking at his arm as we sped away, or atleast tried to, before one of the enemy's got a lucky shot on our tire making us crash.

I would feel dazed as I was getting shaked "SOCKS WE GOTTA GO LETS MOVE!" Oof shouted at me, pulling me out of car. I would have blurry vision seeing the bullets and zombies come towards us, I would see Chris helping Nelson out of the car before running off. I would see laff trapped underneath a broken open door. I would stumble back trying to lift the door off him. Oof would run over helping me take the door off, before we ran away, a few bullets clipping us in the process.

(Ally POV)

I would've ran into a car with Matt, and Jooice, before Matt would step on it driving away in a different direction of the hardware store. I would see the others crash but escape safely before we were gone. "We have a safe house nearby... we will go there to stay hidden." Matt would say. "B-but we have to go back and help them!" I would try to retaliate, but Jooice would look at me. "Ally.. we saw them escape there is nothing else we can do without risking injuring ourselves... Matt is right we need to go and lay low." Jooice would say agreeing with him.

"Fine.." we would drive for half an hour before making it to the safe house almost out of gas. Matt would close the gate behind us. Making sure no one followed before letting us in the house. "It's not much... but it's better than death." He would say as I would nod. There was one bedroom and a decently big couch. "Ally you can have the bedroom... me and Jooice can share the couch." He would say as I would look at Jooice, he would look at me nodding signalling he's fine with it. "Alright." I would sit down in a chair twiddling with my thumbs hoping the others are ok.

(Blaza POV)

I would barely dive into a car as it was about to drive away. I was in a car with John and jaren. John would speed away as I wouldn't even have time to look back before we were gone. There was not much said between us. We drove for a while, before reaching an apartment complex. "The safe house is here right Jaren?" John would ask as Jaren would nod. We would get out of the car, before following and exact path into a safe apartment room, well actually 2 as it was 2 combined into one.

Jaren would nearly collapse into one of the beds out of stress. I would sit down holding the radio that socks handed me. Waiting for any confirmation that anyone was alive. "Hello can anyone hear me?" I would ask as Oompa would respond. "Blaza how is it going?" Oompa would ask. "Horrible, we got separated, and now I'm in some random safe house." I would say as John and Jaren would look at me. "Is anyone with you?" I would ask. "No..." he would respond. "Keep me updated... please." I would say to Oompa, he would agree before I would turn on the radio. Standing up ruffling my hair out of stress.

"You okay man?" John would ask. "No I'm not! All my friends are gone, and last I saw oof was bitten!" I would shout if of stress, John would grab my shoulder. "Hey it's okay!" John would say trying to calm me down, helping me sit down on the bed. "Your friends are tough people, they will figure something out, but stressing out isn't going to help us... we will rest, and early tomorrow we will go looking." He would say. I would nod feeing slightly better as I would lay down letting my body relax before falling asleep.

(Laff POV)

This was bad.

They were running through alleyways until they reached a doctors office

Oof was slowly looking worse, it was clear we needed to do something before it spreaded  more. I would help socks barricade the door as oof would sit clearly very panicked. "Great just great..." socks would mutter clearly upset." "Socks right now is not the time for whining!" I would shout at him, very stressed out. "Laff, are you actually fucking joking, we just lost everyone! They could be dead! And oof is bitten! I got every right to whine!" Socks would shout stressed. "Well I'm fucking sick of it mate, all of us are upset but whining is going to help!" I would shout back.

"Enough! We need to figure out what to do about my bite!" Oof would shout interrupting the fight. "I have one idea..." he would look at socks axe, and we all knew what he was suggesting. "N-no we can't" i would say as oof would interrupt. "If we want me to survive we have to.. we are in a doctors office we have the proper tools to get it done!" Oof would say as I would look at socks, socks would nod.

I would look around for bandages, disinfectant, and anything useful. "Oof, do you have shotgun shells?" I would ask, he would nod handing me some, i would open it pouring out the gunpowder. "We are going to have to use this to cauterize it." I would say as oof would nod. Everything was ready.

(Huge warning of blood and gore shit, also third person POV)

The three would sit in the room as oof laid his arm out, holding a pillow in his other hand to muffle his screams. Socks would gulp before taking the first swing chopping over half way through his arm getting stuck in the bone as blood would start spilling out, oof screams would be muffled, but he was in pain, socks would pull back and go for a second swing taking it off completely. Laff would immediately start treating his wound, pouring gunpowder onto it, before grabbing a match and lighting it, cauterizing the wound, oof would scream in pain again. It would start bleeding less, as the two would start patching him up.

(End of blood and gore)

(Socks POV)

Oof would be passed out because of blood loss. I would stand there traumatized. I had to cut off my friends arm. I never wanted to do that again. Me and laff would clean up the mess before making sure no zombies were coming. Oof would lay there, still breathing, he was alive. Now only time would tell if they did it right.

(Oompa POV)

I would look out the window, waiting for them to come back, but they aren't. I would look to see Nadwe watching the person we captured. He would be sitting in the chair, not resisting, not fighting, just staring at the floor. I would walk over staring at him. "What's your name?" I would ask him. He would look up at me. "Tuxy..." he would mutter out. "Hey you can calm down... I'm not going to do anything to you, unless you don't tell us what we need.." "where is Woolf?" I would ask. "I don't know... they have mutiple camps where they keep us, they never tell us where the main one is though." He would respond.

I would look at Nadwe. "Think he's telling the truth?" I would ask. Nadwe would nod. "Makes sense, if one were to get captured they couldn't rat out their location..." I would agree with Nadwe statement. "Where is your camp then?" I would ask Tuxy. "It's down Main Street, we are bunkered up in the fire station." He would answer. "Good answer... how many are there?" I would question him. "Around 20, but there might be less after our raid..." he would respond.

"Ok... Nadwe give him some water, I'm going to try to reach the others." Nadwe would nod pouring some water into tuxys mouth, which he appreciated.

(Laff POV)

It's been a few hours since we cut off oofs arm. I would be watching windows while sock rested lightly. Neither of us could sleep how worried we are that oofs going to turn into a zombie. "Laff?" Socks voice would break through the silence. "Yeah mate?" I would respond looking at him. "Have you heard anything through the radio?" He would ask. "Last person who had it was ally I think. So no.. it's just us three here." I would respond. Socks would nod.

"I feel bad." Socks would blurt out. "I could've been there sooner, I could've warned him, but now he's stuck with one arm" socks would say guilt in his voice. "It's not your fault mate, we took too big of a risk, and none of us thought about the zombie factor... surprised only oof got bit." I would say to socks. He would nod before the silence would overcome the room once more.

(Oof POV)

Pain.

There is a ripping pain through my left shoulder, and I feel terrible, I slowly open my eyes. Seeing the area around more, but before I can even sit up I get tackled by socks into a hug. "your okay!" He would say as he would hug me. I would go to hug him back. But then I remembered what happened. I would pull away from the hug looking at where my left arm should be.

But it's gone. I feel pain where it was cut off. I look to see that the nub of my shoulder was bandaged. "You did a good job with the axe socks..." I would mutter out, socks would look at me. "Thanks.." he would say back, laff would walk over. "How you feeling mate?" He would ask, I would look at him. "Shitty, I'm tired and my shoulder hurts like hell." I would respond. "Well we are in a doctors office, maybe there's some painkillers." Socks said before getting up and leaving the office, im assuming to go check for anything.

"I think we got it in time.." I would say to laff he would be unsure. "It's only be a few hours, if we make it the whole night without you turning, then we are good." He would say as I would nod. Socks would return. "Good news, I found some painkillers!" He would say, it would be in one of those foil holders, 5 were popped out, leaving 3. Not hesitating I would take 2 drinking some water. "Now I gotta wait for those to kick in." I would respond as I would grab my bag, it taking a bit longer than normal because of my one arm.

I would look at my gun. "This is useless now... can't use it with only one hand." I would say giving it to laff. "Laff could I borrow your hatchet? It's probably the best weapon I can have..." I would say to laff as he would nod, giving me the hatchet. I would attach it to my bag before standing up. "How are we getting out...?"

(Jooice POV)

I would be laying down on the couch of the safe house, unable to sleep. I have to much on my mind. Is oof ok? I saw he got bit... and that's not good at all. Did Blaza make it out? I didn't even see him get into a car. My thoughts would be disrupted by the other man on the couch, laying down on the opposite side. "You okay?" Matt would ask I would look at him. "No... I'm thinking about my friends.. if they are okay or not." I would respond truthfully. "Well, tomorrow I'll drop you guys off at your base, we should have lost the heat by now..." he would say as I would nod. "That would be nice."

Matt would sit up lightly. "I'm going to grab water... need anything?" He would ask, my stomach would grumble as I hadn't eaten for a while. "Some food would be nice..." I would respond, he would nod getting up and heading into the kitchen. I would sit up, clearly not going to be able to sleep. I would have the radio on the table, listening for anyone... until. "Hello?" I would hear Blazas voice through the radio. "Blaza!?" I would respond into it. "Oh thank goodness your okay Jooice! I've been trying to reach someone for hours!" He would respond excited.

"Are you with anyone?" I would ask him. "Uh John and Jaren... they took me to a safe house." He would respond I would sigh in relief. "That's good, I'm at a safe house with ally, and Matt." I would tell him. "So socks, oof, and laff are together?" Blaza would respond. "I hope so..." I would say to him, as Matt would walk back, handing me a open can of chicken noodle soup. "Thank you.." I would say to him and he would nod. "Well I have laffs radio... ally gave it to me" I would tell Blaza. "And I have socks.." Blaza would respond yawning. "I'm going to sleep, we plan on getting up early and looking for the other 5..." Blaza would respond.

"We are going to make sure the others at the base are okay.." I would respond telling Blaza our plan. "Ok.. have a good sleep Jooice." Blaza would say. "You aswell Blaza" I would respond before putting the radio down. I would start eating the soup Matt gave me. "Thank you for the food.." I would tell Matt. "It's no problem, what kinda host would I be if I didn't feed my guests?" He would joke as I would chuckle, finishing up the soup. "I'm going to try to sleep now.." I would tell Matt as he would nod. "Good night." He would tell me. "Good night..."

(Blaza POV)

Jooice and ally are alive, that is great. I sit in a bed trying to sleep, the other two decided they will take the other room, giving me my privacy. It was nice, but also lonely at the same time. Tomorrow we agreed we would go looking for socks, laff, oof, Chris, and Nelson. Hopefully we aren't too late. I would look at the roof now laying down. Trying to calm down my mind and fall asleep, I was just happy to make sure Jooice and ally got out of there okay. I would feel my eyes slowly droop before I eventually fell asleep.

(3047 words, huge chapter but it's nice to get a new one out. We are 50% through this book now hooray! Idk why but I've gotten a huge urge to finish this book, and I'm going to. So have a good night, day, or morning, and I will see you later.)