EDEN /// CHAPTER 04 /// PREPARATIONS

Alright, I gotta gather my bearings here. I somehow managed to find a car that not only worked, but also had the keys in it and didn’t have anything broken. Except for the window. Had to break it to grab the keys. So, around 30 seconds ago, I had filled it with gas and started driving. I think I remember how to drive. And now i’m back in the present. I’m heading towards that crash site way out in the forest. So what I do, is drive for a few minutes, then find a way to get to the forest, and from there it’s just a drive. I’m gonna assume it’s gonna take me an hour or somewhere along those lines to get there. I don’t remember if I actually got a driver’s license. I know i’m like, wayyyy over 16. But I have a really foggy memory. I don’t even know my name, for crying out loud. Out loud… heh. If I did that it’d attract danger. I’m now noticing how quiet it is. I hear birds. I hear the autumn wind. I hear my car and the engine running. But something seems off. I guess this sort of environment just sounds off without other people. No other cars, no pedestrians having conversations. Just me. Which means i’ve gotta be quiet, because on the off chance there’s still zombies lurking around (most of them probably have died of hunger), i’m basically their #1 target and their only target. Maybe I should stop thinking about this.

I find myself a side-street that leads straight into the mouth of the forest, and I pray that’s actually gonna lead to this thing. Most of the car is pretty busted. Screen is broken, and there’s some shards of broken glass on the floor. I had to break the window open to get the keys. Thankfully, i’m not daft. I broke the passenger seat window. If I broke the windshield or driver seat window, something could crawl in and claw my guts out before I have a chance to grab my gun. Which reminds me to put my gun on the dashboard instead of my bag. For convenience. I run a quick check in my mind of possible scenarios that could happen and make sure I have counters to them. Most of them involve running a zombie over or driving away. But, I do make a point to myself about rough terrain. I have no idea how far this road goes into the forest. I know the crash site wasn’t on a road, and this is a sedan i’m driving. Not a Jeep. Eventually i’ve got to get out. Eventually.

Around 3-4 minutes into the drive, at least a mile into the forest, I come across a bridge. Wooden one. Could hold up a car, but then again. Last time I came across a wooden bridge I fell in, got completely soaked in the middle of February, lost a shoe, almost broke my leg, and fell into a canal and had to crawl 2 miles in a sewage pipe to get out. But then again, there’s no way past. But then again again, it’s over a river. Does not look very multiple-year-old-car-not-made-for-off-road-travel-friendly. So I end up taking the gamble, and driving as fast as I can over it, on the off chance it does collapse on the spot, so I might have a chance to make it over before I plummet to my demise. But all this thinking was for nothing. And now as i’m driving I notice something new. In the orange and red blurs of the leaves in the trees, there’s something moving around, crawling on all fours. Probably just a squirrel. Really big squirrel…

NO, WAIT NEVERMIND IT IS NOT A SQUIRREL. It’s some hyper-mutated zombie. Has bloody red tumors all over it, leaking very disgusting bodily fluid. It’s got a collar around its neck, too. Collar has a syringe sticking right into its neck, probably pumping chemicals inside of it like some sick twisted lab experiment. It skitters across the branches and pounces down around 20 feet in front of me, and I guess the parasites controlling the poor bastard it was telling me to stop and fear it, but I was so scared in the moment that I ran over it instead. The sounds of bones crunching and tumors popping cracked into the air for a split second, and I speed past. But Jesus, that thing can adapt well. It manages to grab a rock, and throw it in the exact spot in front of me where it crashes into my windshield and makes me panic like all hell and spin out of control. My car does an Akira slide and I claw at the dashboard, trying to grab the gun while staring at where this thing is. It’s heading towards me pretty fast. Fast for a zombie. Maybe I could outrun it? Although it would still be chasing me for a while and it’s much easier to just pump its face full of lead. Although I am very stupid and accidentally knock my gun down on the floor of the passenger seat. I frantically climb over the gear shift and try to grab the gun. But then it is too late, as the door has been pulled off with the sheer cancerous power of this thing. It grabs me by the leg, and I can feel its bloodstained claws slowly sink into my skin. I’m thrown out the seat right as I grab the gun. Oh God…

That zombie sounds so cute!

If I saw a zombie that were like that, I'm knocking that f**ker down and shooting and stomping that bitch until there's only blood and brains left of that head.

Awesome!

Is that the L'tranger

no it’s the half-life magnum

Same thing

no because diamondback is better than the ltranger
meanwhile the magnum is the best half life weapon behind the gravity gun and shotgun

So I was playing tf2 and just killed 3 guys with one rocket and didn't even realize

i’ve become really unnecessarily good at point blank airblasts