It was early July when Alex woke with a start, quickly sitting up and breathing hard as his memories settled. While his memories integrated with the past owner of this body he was thinking furiously about what he could remember about the plot and timing of the story and then thought 'who cares about the plot, I will help them if I can but other than that they will mostly be fine if things go the same, at least to start.' But he had his own plans to make and had to figure out what he was working with.
I was a bit surprised when I realized I was basically in my own body except younger, about when i was twenty five, but that's good, I know my own body at least. I was also happy that god compromised a little bit, this me won the lottery in 2007 and had about 300 million left to prepare, it was weird that I found that he owned a lot of property on Anderson lake, near Loganville. As that was where I would have spent a lot of money in the first place, to put my compound and bunker, as well as storage, it was a boon, I'm guessing it was god accommodating my future plans and so that I have time for other things, I owned about a thousand acres around center hill church road leading to Anderson lake. Buying all that land was not cheap by any means, he had spent over 100 million dollars buying the land and then buying people's homes for generous amounts, but at least he still had about 200 million left in his piggy bank and survival funds!
Also surprising was the month he arrived, he thought it would be late September but it was earlier, surprisingly so, as it was only July 2nd, he had more time to prepare but also meant that the virus was slowly spreading earlier than canon let on which meant he had to be careful now.
As Alex is going through his memories and information on his assets there is something he hadn't really taken into account, he has a brother, the same brother from his old world. Also something he knew he needed were people, nobody can survive the apocalypse alone, not even with his skills, but where to find people he could trust was something he never really thought about before.
What he did think about though was quick ways to make money, healing, he also figured he could make close connections by miraculously healing some wounded veterans, he could heal most things besides missing limbs, can't heal it if it's not there but he could do things like regrow a missing eye or heal somebody's legs or spine type things, should be easy to buy loyalty with such gifts but still, caution was necessary. As an incentive he would invite families as well.
As he was thinking this he sent a quick text to his brother, it was their joke code for if the shit ever hit the fan or something horrible was going to happen, I sent {NOTLD soon, no joke} as I waited for a reply I went through my documents, I had another place, much smaller just out side of Atlanta, most likely going to use that as a staging point to gather people or things I guess, should I get to that point of capability anyways.
I am also planning to buy a large lot near Anderson lake to store containers temporarily so they don't immediately know they are going to the base I'm making on the larger plot of land. Hopefully it will at least throw some people off 'god' he thinks to himself ' got a shit ton to do and only a few months to figure it out! Guess I should be glad for the extra time as I didn't think it would be this complicated before now.'
As the day progresses he called his agent to find a large property close to the interstate, that's flat, fenced in and at least 50 acres. as well as a large 10 acre just outside Atlanta, in case he decided to help rick and the original crew of the show. He would stock all his properties with weapons and ammunition as well as secured vehicles. If he managed to get some loyal people he would have them camp out on hose properties until the time arrived. -BEEP- he heard his phone go off {don't fuck with me bro, I will gut you jk! Wtf over?} ah same old sarcastic brother mine { for real, get out of the army and get here before October, ask some friends, if they got any kinda skillZ to come as well, immediate family, wife/kids is fine. Large compound being built for up to 500} {your lucky your a rich little shit, only reason I'll be able to convince ANYONE lol}
As a few days pass I have finally got a few things sorted out, I strait bought three twenty foot uhaul type trucks to haul and be able to move different things around quickly such as guns and ammunition. On the fifth day in this new world I went to the closest gun show and bought as much ammo in 5.56/223/40/45/9mm calibers and as many rifles and pistols to match them.
In all on my first day I bought altogether about 75,000 rounds and about twenty rifles with the best attachments without going overboard and about 50 pistols of the different calibers even though his truck wasn't completely full he drove the 3 hours to his home just outside Atlanta and locked the truck in the garage and also padlocked the truck, after having a quick meal there he drove back to the gun show much to the surprise to some of the sellers, but still, they were happy to have a 'real' buyer of their goods, and the fact he bought in bulk didn't hurt anything.
Others were wondering what he was buying all the shit for and an even smaller number had the hairs on the back of their necks standing on end and wished to talk with the young man, just to be cautious.
At the start people were extremely happy to see the young buyer of expensive goods return, as the gun show progressed over the next two days and more and more people were showing up selling their goods he racked up an impressive 400,000 rounds of all calibers, as well as almost a hundred rifles and just under 150 different pistols, he even went out of his way to to buy a few extremely expensive sniper rifles in 50 caliber, he also bought thousands of magazines for all the different guns makes and models, he ended up paying someone ten thousand dollars on the spot to figure that one out and organize things since many guns need different kinds of magazines.
As the end of the fair was rolling around and Alex was finishing loading his new personal toy, a beretta USA px4 storm and putting it in the holster on his hip.
Eventually a small group of people and a young girl near to his age probably, came up to him, they seem friendly enough to Alex so he was calm and just shouted out a quick "hey, what can I do for y'all?" From about 15 feet away "I'm not sure lad" and older man limped his way over, holding out his hand for a quick shake. He was probably in his 70s. "but you bought an awful lot of joy over the last few days and some people are a little bit curious as to why, if there was a reason or if you just like to collect" the old man asked with a curious look in his eyes. I had no reason to be rude so I answered as best as I could under the circumstances. "well I guess you could say it's a combination of different things really but who can say for sure? I won a lot of money a few years ago, but I do like to collect new things as well as I like to do that prepping thing a little bit. There is another reason as to why but not something that should particularly be talked about in such an open environment, so if you want to talk about it some more, feel free to call this number whenever"
Then he looked over to the girl that seemed to be scoping him out, trying and failing to not look interested, she quickly took the paper from him for her grandfather with a small blush on her cheeks. She was cute, early twenties and blonde, but definitely a country girl. "Alright lad give us a few days to settle in and we will give ya a call" he said trying and failing not to laugh at his granddaughters antics.
"Hey mister before I forget, what's your name anyways?" Alex figured he better ask and was glad he did later "Robert Harrison lad, and this squirt is Amy. We will see you in a few days if your still amenable" well that makes sense now why the girl looks so familiar but what the hell is she doing here! Fuck I'm going to ruin canon already he laughed to himself in his head. He just met Andreas sister, Amy!