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The Fifth Survivor - Epsiode 1 Page 5


  He looks at the human and tries to reason with it.

  “Hey we don’t have to end this in bloodshed! We could just end this nice and civilized.”

  The man doesn’t respond. In fact, it looks like it lost its ability to talk at all. Without talking it makes a monstrous sound and begins to move toward George as it’s ready to tear him apart.

  “Don’t get any closer, I’m warning you now!” He screams in an attempt to scare the man away.

  However, the man keeps walking up to him until he gets too close forcing George to shoot him. George shoots a couple of shots into the man’s head killing it.

  Pistol Ammo: 13

  “Damn I didn’t want to do it, but I had no choice.” He says soberly.

  Heading to the body, he studies it and upon further review he sees something strange. The skin on the human is rather pale and crusty to the touch. Also it has purple and blue veins which are abnormally dark colors for veins. He also noticed that the man did not even say a word. All he did was groan like he was a zombie.

  Then it hits him, the person he killed wasn’t a person. It turns out that this person is a zombie. He wants to know how did he turn into a zombie, but is unable to gather any theories.

  He continues looking in the armory and finds something else.

  Picked up a Pistol Clip. Pistol Ammo: 28. Each clip gives 15 bullets.

  Picked up a Green Herb. Use to heal partial health.

  Continuing down the hall, he walks back to the elevator to see if he can head back up to the main floor. He sees a couple of zombies and shoots them both from a safe distance killing them.

  Pistol Ammo: 21

  When George gets to the elevator, he tries to hit the button to get back upstairs. However, the elevator is out of order. It looks like the elevator power was cutoff during the emergency sequence.

  “Damn, it looks like I’ll need to find another way.” He says as he bangs the elevator.

  Turning back, he spots a door leading to a stairway. However the door is locked as he kicks it down with no success.

  The door requires a special key to unlock.

  When he turns around a zombie is behind him. He has no time to react as the zombie grabs him and begins to bite him. George pushes the zombie back and begins to shoot the zombie. He kills the zombie with four pistol shots.

  Pistol Ammo: 17

  Despite taking a bite from the zombie, George doesn’t take too much damage. He notices a lot of the zombies are wearing doctor uniforms. He walks to the meeting room where the meeting was supposed to take place and spots a pickup on the table.

  Picked up a Pistol Clip. Pistol Ammo: 32

  He also sees a document on the table as well.

  Raven Hawk Gas Test. July 7th, 2007

  “Today is the day where we test the gas edition of the Raven Hawk Substance. We want to see what happens when people are exposed to this substance airborne. Will it have the same effects as if the person was injected with the liquid form? Some people believe it will, others say otherwise.

  The test will commence at around two in the afternoon. We are doing it just before the meeting at three so it won’t interfere with it. This is actually one of the topics in today’s meeting, so it will work out perfectly.

  If this works out the way I think it will then I will hire you to produce the gas edition of Raven Hawk. It will prove far cheaper to produce than liquid and will cover more area. We shall rule the bio-weapon market soon enough!

  Remember to say this to nobody! Thanks for letting us know about the vial of Raven Hawk that ended up in that scientist’s hands. No worries, Mr. B took care of him. So you won’t have to worry about that cunt messing up our plan.

  Once we tie up all the loose ends, everything will come out just fine…” Signed – Anthony Clark

  “That bastard, Witwer!” George says angrily.

  George now believes that Witwer betrayed Dave as they used to be good friends back in the day. Dave trusted Witwer with checking the Raven Hawk Substance. George begins to feel responsible because he never warned Dave that Witwer might have been working with Hybrid.

  “It makes sense, Witwer was working with Hybrid. When he found out that Dave had the substance, he had him killed to protect his ass. That cunt!” He says angrily while slamming the table.

  While he knows now that Hybrid was responsible for Dave’s death, its little consolation to him. At least his suspicions are proven true that Raven Hawk is nothing but a virus to create bio-weapons. The only question remains, why would they want to create such creatures of destruction?

  As he leaves the room, he sees more zombies ahead of him. He kills one and outruns the other two to conserve ammo. Progressing through the hall, he sees the door to the power room that is actually unlocked.

  Pistol Ammo: 28

  “Perhaps I can power up the elevator and get out of here.” He says in his head.

  When he enters the room though, he sees that it’s pitch black and he is unable to see anything.

  Flashlight is required to enter.

  Turning back, he bumps into a zombie that grabs him and begins to bite him. After taking a decent amount of damage he is able to push the zombie away from him. He shoots the zombie in the head and kills it in two shots.

  Pistol Ammo: 26

  Condition: Caution (Level 1)

  After killing the zombie, he walks back towards the admitting room after seeing more zombies come out around the corner.

  “Where are these zombies coming from?” He asks.

  As George is running, he begins to think that everybody that was exposed to the Raven Hawk gas have turned to zombies. He realizes that he might have to fight the whole hospital unless he finds any survivors.

  George enters the admitting room and finds several people on the floor. Two of them are all bitten up bleeding pools of blood while the other three are lying on the floor with the same decayed skin as the zombies he’s killed. When he moves close to the bodies, one of them comes alive as he gets next to it. The zombie tries to grab his leg and begins to bite his leg.

  George tries to pull his right leg out, but the zombie has a tight grip on his leg. So he uses his left leg to step on the zombie’s head. When he steps on the head, his foot goes through the head of the zombie. The brain pops out of the zombie and eventually the zombie dies.

  As he continues towards the back of the room, he spots something.

  Picked up a Flashlight. Used to light up the electrical room.

  After grabbing the flashlight, he begins to head back to the electrical room. There are more zombies coming from the hallway where the meeting room is located. However, he doesn’t have much ammo to spare. So he runs away from the zombies as he runs to the electrical room.

  When George gets to the electrical room, he turns on his flashlight and looks for the main breaker for the elevator. Once he sees the circuit breaker box, he notices a dead zombie holding on to one of the breakers. However, he notices that the main wire feeding the elevator is not on the breaker.

  “Looks like the elevator is off the table now.” He says as he has to find the key to the stairway door.

  He also sees a pick up on the floor by the zombie.

  Picked up a Pistol Clip. Pistol Ammo: 41

  When he gets the ammo, he exits the room and zombies continue to move around in the hallway.

  “There’s gotta be a security room around here.” George says when he looks for a security room for the key.

  While he doesn’t remember the hospital too well, George heads to the back figuring there is gotta be a security room around. As he heads to the back, he sees another zombie in an officer’s uniform. At first, he’s not fond in shooting it, but is left with no choice. Once George shoots a few shots the zombie falls and dies.

  He sees an officer that he knows on the floor and tries to talk to him.

  “Marlon! Are you ok? Let me know if you’re ok.” He asks the officer.

  Marlon doesn’t respond, but get
s up rather fast to the surprise of George.

  “Looks like you’re ok after all.” George says happily.

  However, Marlon’s face turns into a light purplish color. After the transformation, Marlon begins to go after George. Marlon grabs George and begins to bite him. George pushes him back and shoots at Marlon.

  Condition: Caution (Level 2)

  Pistol Ammo: 29

  After killing Marlon, he feels a bit of emotional pain as he tears up. Him and Marlon were rather good friends back in the day during their High School days.

  Looking at his body, he can’t help but to feel terrible. After feeling sorry for himself, he heads into the security room. Upon entering the room he sees a few zombies in blue officer uniforms. He begins to shoot the zombies and the saving grace proves to the huge table that the zombies are unable to go around.

  Despite having more endurance and more dangerous, they sacrifice their intelligence. He’s able to shoot all three zombies with his pistol.

  Pistol Ammo: 17

  After killing the zombies he sees a couple of ammo pickups.

  Picked up 2 Pistol Clips. Pistol Ammo: 47

  He sees a shiny item on the back wall, it’s a key…

  Picked up a Hospital Key.

  George CHECKS the Key. Turning the key around, he sees that it’s labeled “Stairway”.

  After grabbing the key, he decides to heal himself.

  George uses the Green Herb.

  Condition: Caution (Level 1)

  Once he uses the herb, George makes his way to the locked stairway door. Before he gets there though, there are a couple of zombies blocking his way. Pulling out his pistol, he begins to shoot at both zombies. While he’s able to kill one of them, the other begins one begins to go after him.

  Press “A” and “B” to sidestep… Well Done!

  He’s able to dodge in time and he gets behind the zombie. He sees a fire extinguisher on the floor and grabs it. Using the extinguisher, he slams the head of the zombie until it pops out and bleeds. For George, he actually feels a bit of satisfaction killing the zombie.

  Pistol Ammo: 41

  Quickly he realizes though that he needs to control himself and remembers that he can’t get too cocky. He approaches the door and uses the key to unlock the door. George approaches the stairway and sees a couple of zombies on the stairs. The one on the stairs dives towards his legs and tries to grabs his legs. George is able to shoot the zombie quickly before the zombie could bite his legs.

  Once he kills that zombie the other is up the stairs, before he goes up though he sees a couple of herbs on the floor.

  Picked up a Green and Blue herb. A Blue Herb can be used to heal a person in the poison condition.

  When he picks up the herbs, he heads upstairs and shoots at the zombie that is blocking the door to the first floor. After a few shots, he kills the zombie.

  Pistol Ammo: 36

  He heads through the door and finds himself by the elevators that he had taken. Upon reaching the first floor, he sees nobody in the lobby.

  “Hey anyone there! I’m not a zombie, come out so I can get you out of here.” He yells looking for survivors.

  “Aghhhh!” An African American man in a plaid shirt yells as he’s running from the zombies in the hall.

  “Hey wait!” He yells but the man keeps running.

  He sees the two zombies that are chasing the man and shoots them rather fast.

  Pistol Ammo: 28

  He looks behind him and runs after the man trying to make sure he’s ok. As he runs down the hall he tries to look for the man and he hear another scream coming from the dentist office. When he gets inside though, he’s too late.

  “No! No! Get away from me you zombie freak… Arghhh!” The man says before he gets torn up by the zombies.

  George looks in disgust as he sees the zombies feeding off the man. Before he takes aim at the zombie though, a man behind him shoots both of the undead with a magnum.

  “Hey who are you?” The officer asks.

  “I was supposed to go to a meeting and this started. I simply found this gun to defend myself. Trust me I wasn’t looking for trouble.” George answers.

  “It’s fine. I’m just glad that you can defend yourself. Now look, the exit is only down the hall. I would look for other survivors, but… I doubt that there are any.” The officer replies.

  “You really think so? I would think there has to be a few survivors.” George says.

  “Wishful thinking, I knew that Raven Hawk vaccine was nothing but bad news! Of course no one listens to me though, so now we gotta protect out asses. You wanna get out, come with me.”

  George begins to think whether he should stay in case there are anymore survivors in the area.

  What should George do?

  1. Escape with the officer.

  2. Stay and find survivors.

  You have chosen option #1.

  He decides to go with the officer despite feeling guilty, knowing there could be more survivors. The two head towards the exit with more zombies along the way that the officer kills easily. When they get to the front entrance of the hospital, they prepare to open the side door. However when the officer opens the door, zombies begin to pop into the building and they overwhelm the officer 10 to 1 eating him alive.

  Afterwards more zombies enter the lobby. Before he runs for his life, he picks up the officers magnum.

  Picked up a Magnum. It’s a Colt Python capable of shooting .357 Magnum Rounds.

  Magnum Rounds: 6

  After grabbing the magnum, he runs as fast as he can away from the zombies. Eventually he gets to an area where a shaft is close by, he finds a red button.

  Do you want to press the button? Yes or No.

  You have chosen yes.

  George presses the button and the shaft comes down. The horde of zombies comes towards the shaft and is unable to break through to George’s relief. After closing the shaft, he realizes that he will be unable to exit through the front entrance. However, he is unaware of any other escape route. He decides that he needs to find a map of the hospital.

  Then he sees what looks like a young girl in a white hospital robe and runs towards her. She runs under a small opening that was created after part of the hospital fell during the chaos. However, something catches his attention…

  “Maria? I think that was Maria. Maria! It’s me George!” He tries to call her, but gets no response.

  Either she didn’t hear him or she’s too scared to turn back. He finds himself trapped in a hospital along with a girl who could be Maria. It doesn’t look good for George who doesn’t have an escape route anymore since the zombies have taken over the lobby of the first floor.

  “If I’m to survive this, I better gather some more ammo and health. It looks like this is gonna be a long night indeed. I can’t believe I’m saying this but it’s a good thing the zombies took over the lobby entrance or I would never have found the girl. I’m hoping it’s Maria, I don’t need her to die in a place or crappy situation like this.” He says in his head.

  It’s clear that the Raven Hawk is not a vaccine as Hybrid was trying to pass it off as being. However to George that doesn’t matter, he needs to survive first before he can begin to think about exposing Hybrid and Witwer.

  Chapter 4

  Seeing himself in the hallway, George sees that the main hallways on the first floor for the most part are blocked off. Seeing the map, he sees potential escape routes. One of them is the roof while the other is a parking lot. As he looks for a way to continue on his way, he finds a stairway next to the elevator that leads up to the other floors.

  When he goes into the stairway, he sees a few zombies that try to ambush him from the side. He is unable to get off a shot before he is grabbed by one of the zombies. The zombie that grabs him is able to get in a bite, but George pushes it away fast to avoid taking too much damage. He sees a broomstick next to him and strikes the zombie in the eye causing it to lose its vision.

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p; The zombie is unable to see and falls over the railing. Once it falls to the floor the broomstick goes through its eye and the force pops its brain out. The other zombie tries to grab him.

  Press “A” and “B” to sidestep… Well Done!

  He sidesteps from the zombie and shoots it from behind killing it.

  Pistol Ammo: 24

  After killing the zombies, he decides that he wants to head up to the third floor where Danny Witwer’s office is located.

  “Witwer for your sake you better not be up there! You’ll pay for killing Dave and I’ll expose you for starting this outbreak.” He says angrily in his head.

  Going up the stairs carefully, he looks for any zombies and sees the coast is clear. He sees the door to the second floor, but the door is locked. The door is rather heavy and the lock has the look of a Victorian style door. Deciding that he will not find the key, he moves on up towards the third floor.

  As he goes up the stairs to the third floor, he hears a strange ribbit sound close to his location.

  “Is there a frog in this place?” He asks himself.

  Walking slowly and arming himself with the magnum, he continues on up the stairs. When he approaches the landing for the third floor, a huge frog approaches him from behind. Hearing the loud ribbit sound, he turns around and is shocked by the sheer size of the frog. The creature spits at him, the spit doesn’t do anything to him. In fact, he just feels a bit wet.

  The frog is code named “Frogger” and it’s a frog that has been exposed to a large amount of the Raven Hawk virus and has grown 15x its normal size. Its mouth is huge enough to eat a human in whole.

  The frogger tries to stick out its long tongue and grab George.

  Press “A” and “B” to dodge… Too Slow!

  Despite George diving out of the way, the mouth is far too long to get away from. Frogger grabs him with its tongue and tries swallowing him entirely. However, George still has the magnum in his hand and takes a shot in the frog’s mouth. The bullet lands in the frog’s mouth perfectly and the frog screams in pain.

  The impact is enough to loosen the frog’s grip and he falls to the floor. The frog is in pain and he shoots another bullet into the creature killing it.