The MLUV shakes, water grind aginst its waterproof tires. The MLUV is driving across the waters by the bridge.
Kohta and Alice: "Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily. Life is just a dream.~" They smile looking out: sitting on the roof in front of the Passager side. They continued. "Row, Row..."
Saya is looking out using a Binocular. Marcus is seated on the roof back of the MLUV gazing at his tattoo that Burraku gifted him.
Marcus: "Is there any hope?" He whispers under his breath while clearing his throat wrapped with a bandage. He winces. Saya's eye glance at Marcus turned back. Eddie appears seated by him.
Eddie: "Please don't do that." Marcus kept forward: pretending he's not there. "Remember what Tank told you?"
'To not be a princess, I know....' He clenches his fist. 'How many of my friends have to get hurt for me to slipped who I am?' He remembers Scarlet talk.
"None. You did you're best to protect them, secrets hurt, but sometimes it can give someone an advantage hurt you even more." Marcus glances his eye at Eddie staring at the bridge they slowly pass. "Before any of this happened, I had a friend. There was this artifact, that Samantha's father(Monty) told us not to touch. He told me, there was something evil hidden in the thing. Yet, I ignored it. I was hesitant, I allowed him. Then...Monty shot him." Marcus's mouth gaped while Eddie gazes at him. "You still have time to decide. Choose wisely." He disappears while He gazes back.
Saya slammed her hand against the MLUV glaring at nervous Kohta not looking back.
Saya: "How dare you teach a little girl a filth song like that! I'll strangle you mother goose!!!" She slams her hand once again while Alice looks at Saya with a tilted head.
Noami: "We're almost on land." Marcus and the others held tight while the MLUV parks on land by the bridge.
Kohta: "Now, we can stretch." He does so still with Alice. Saeko gets out after Kakashi and gazes at Marcus. The bandage was wrapped across her right eye while the aftermath blood stained it. Marcus looks away.
Kohta: "Here we go!" He holds Alice to Kakashi below them. Alice panics and held her skirt down while Kakashi raised a brow.
Alice: "No! You might see it!" Kakashi shakes his head with a light smirk only for Rei to take her from Kohta.
Rei: "You don't have to be insensitive, you know!" Kohta and Kakashi gaze at one another. "We're gonna get changed, and you better not peak!" She gazes at Marcus only for him to slide on the hood of the MLUV.
Marcus: "I know." He kept his gaze away while Rei nods and walked Alice to the back with the others while Shizuka drops a bag of clothes.
Kakahi: "So, who's has a topic?" He gazed at the two.
Kohta: "That other night..." Kakashi and Marcus grim. "You're not holding that gun right. You could lose your bearings that way."
"Ok?" Kohta grabs the shotgun from the MLUV and Hands him the gun. " And?"
"When using a shotgun, You need to aim, at their chest, you get better spread, that way." Kohta points out.
"When I ever run out of ammo, I could smash their brains with this." Kohta sighs. "Hey, Marcus? Can I ask you something?" Marcus spinning Sliver looks to Kakashi's. "Since the first, we met you were pointing out 'them' like you're some kind of guide, can you explain?"
Kotha: "Yeah, like with the Hell Hound you called them, how did you know they explode at first death?" Kohta questioned, grabbing their attention.
Marcus clears his throat.
Marcus; "It was just a feeling. Did you see their skin and magma? I figure they were gonna explode while The Sprinter was a guess on my book." Kohta and Kakashi stare cautiously at him and opens their mouth only to be interrupted by Zeke's barking. They look to see the girls done. Shizuka with her usual attire as the girls has their school uniforms with either a small piece of armor and a Rei strip with the M14 around her chest.
The girls manage to find Samantha a white t-shirt her size, blue jeans, and sports snickers.
Marcus; "Wow...you guys look badass." Marcus smirks while Kohta and Kakashi nod with a blush.
Saya; "Have anyone told you, no one asks for your opinion?" She rudely asks.
"Keep talking, I might give you a name, four eyes." He points.
"Yeah? And what is that?" Saya asks like she didn't care.
"Oh-you'll found out when that time comes." Saya raises a brow.
Rei: "Hey, Hirano can you, teach me. How to use this thing, my broom broke during that fight that night." Kohta's eyes sparkle while he was in his nerd zones explaining from basic to advanced.
Samantha and Alice looked up at Marcus still on the hood.
Marcus; "Oh, finally they got you out of those pajamas. It's probably smelly during all that running."
Samantha; "Yeah, but I decided to keep it as a reminder." Marcus nods understandably. "Oh, Alice, this is Marcus the one, I was telling you about."
Alice smiles.
Alice; "Hey, Big brother Marcus. Is it true you know all about guns?" Marcus raises a brow of the words 'Big brother and Guns.'
Samantha; "Alice calls everyone this since she the only child, no offense." Alice shakes her head.
"It's fine."
Marcus; "You surprised me someone your age wants to know about it."
Alice; "Samantha was telling me you know how to use some of them. She was debating you can teach her." Samantha blushes while The Experts, Afterlife Finn and Eddie got their attention.
Samantha waves her hands defensively.
Samantha; "WHAT NO!!! I DON'T THINK I SAID THAT!!!" Everyone was now listening in their conservation.
Tank and Nikolai laugh their ass off while Edward and Eddie's eyebrow twitches.
Tank; "I can't believe it, the girl has a crush on him!!! I guess it has to happen sooner or later!" Nikolai and Tank laugh harder while Samantha covers her face.
Edward and Eddie; "Schwein." They growl while Billy and Takeo hums.
Finn and Takeo; "I think it's best to teach her. I was taught at a young age." They said in sync.
Marcus hums.
Marcus; "I guess I could teach you to shoot one." Everyone's eyes pop from their sockets.
Naomi; "Wait, that is a little too much if I may ask!"
Saya; "Why teach a girl something like that Marcus? Are you losing it?" Saya glares.
Rei; "I'm with Saya." Rei follows behind.
Marcus; "Look, it may be a little crude, but she has to learn this sooner or later."
Kakashi; "To let a little girl take a life, even from 'them'. No." Samantha glares at Kakashi.
"You guys don't understand the problem we have. There, lunatics, The undead, and maybe more when we go down the road. What if she and Alice were separated from us, they might get hurt." He calmly explained.
Saya; "IF. Marcus." Saya's glare hardens while Saeko steps up.
Saeko; "He convinced me." This gain everyone's attention. "He's right, we should let them, seeing those things from Walkers to Sprinters to Hell hounds to Brutes shooting from the sky. Out here is getting dangerous every passing day." Kohta clicks his tongue and steps up.
"Hirano, how dare you agreed to this!!!" Saya shouts pointing to Kohta gazing up at her.
Kohta; "Sorry, Saya if Saeko believes him, I will too." He nods determined as Shizuka follows after while Marcus smiles, warmly.
Shizuka; "If we let you this, I want to know too." Marcus and the others grew surprised.
Kakashi; "You no fighter Ms.Shizuka, we don't want you to be put in harm's way." Kakashi tries to convince, but she shakes her head.
"My decision is final." She gives Kakashi a serious stare.
Samantha; "I won't do anything out of context, Lets us do, this." She looks sadly at the others. Naomi sighs and stepping up. Shocking Kakashi, Rei, and Saya.
Naomi; "Fine, you better use when it necessary." Naomi seriously glances at Samantha as she nods.
Samantha; "I will Naomi, trust me."
Marcus; "Is this everyone's final vote? Four to three." Everyone stays quiet while Rei, Kakashi, and Saya grunt. "Going once, going twice? Saya, are there any walls at your house by any chance?" Saya glares.
Saya; "Yes...yes they, are." Marcus nods ignoring her glare and looks to Shizuka, and Samantha.
"I'm going to teach Samantha on the road while Shizuka. I'll do the same when we get there if you want Kohta to help you?" Marcus questioned.
Shizuka; "I don't mind both." Marcus nods.
Marcus: "Let's get going."
Driving down the road while cherry petals fall.
Marcus and Samantha sat on the roof on the MLUV on the back while He teaches her how to aim.
Kakashi and Rei watch on the roof behind them in front of the passengers.
BANG! Samantha misses a street sign. She sighs while Marcus smiles.
Marcus; "You'll get there. It doesn't take a day to become a pro. I'll wrinkle when that time comes." He smirks taking Sam(Pistol) while Samantha giggles.
" I'll learn when I get there, Dummkopf." They gazed at petals raining down. "Besides...I heard stories about Rei and Kakashi dealing with others" Marcus frown as so the two behind them.
"Yes...they have to know the hard way, and I don't want you to experience that too...but there's no way you can ignore them at some point they can show up like spiders."
Samantha; 'Besides, I'm not used to you dying, at those places...The prison, I thought I lost you at that time. I thought I was alone, and I don't want to be alone again when the other Rich-" Samantha stops choking in her words while Marcus places Sam in his Coal-color, right shoulder hostler while he side hugs her close.
Marcus; 'Don't explain.' He brushes her hair with his hand while Samantha looks up at him. "You'll never lose me." Marcus warmly smiles while Samantha smiles back. Kakashi and Rei smile.
Shizuka; "Hold on!" Shizuka shouts and stops at the two-way road as they all look to see a horde of walkers ahead.
Saya; "Turn right." Shizuka listens they keep coming, across horde after horde as they want to get away of dodge.
Kakashi; "Why are there so many?!"
Rei; "Probably, of the noise last night?" Shizuka drives into a highway as she drives full speed from the horde. Kakashi, Rei, Samantha, and Marcus sighs in relief.
Saya; "WAIT, TURN IT TO THE SIDE!!!" Shizuka notices steel wires across the Lanes in front of them. She drifts the MLUV.
Shizuka; "HOLD ON UP THERE!!!" Everyone on the roof holds on to something while the vehicle hits the wires on the side, but it keeps going heading for a wall.
"HIT THE BRAKES!!!" Shizuka hits the brake as Kakashi, Marcus, and Samantha stay on while Rei flew in the air due to momentum. Kakashi reaches for her, but their hand never touches. Rei hits the ground hard in front of the wall, unable to move. Zombies approached them.
Kakashi; "REI!!" Kakashi jumps off to help Rei.
Marcus; "Samantha stays in the bug. Hold you're ground!" He shouts jumping, off the bug pulling Silver and Sam.
Saeko jumps out while Kohta appears from the hole above the MLUV with L96A1.
The three defend the truck as much strength as they can as Marcus pulls headshots from miles or shoots the ones, getting close.
Marcus; "Kakashi!!!" Marcus grips the pistols together while the clips slide from Silver and Sam. He shoves the two into his empty right pocket. "How are you two holding up!!?" He pulls two clips from his filled left pocket, shoving them into the two. He uses his forearms: pulling back the chambers in a quick motion.
Kakashi; "UH!!! She's not able to get up, and I used the gun she has, it ran out." Rei winces while Kakashi gazes lying down across her chest at the horde approaching.
Marcus; "Fall back! We are jumping this wired!!" Saya and Naomi hop out with Kakashi hunting shotgun and Marcus Ak47u.
Saya and Naomi; "HOW DARE YOU MAKE A LITTLE GIRL CRY!!!" They shouted, lighting the zombies in bullets holding them back.
Afterlife Finn; 'DAMN, THAT's HOT!!!!'
The Experts; "Agree..."
RAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!! They heard lighting and roars within the massive horde. The ground shakes twice its size as Two Brutus runs through undead smashes their heads or knocking them to the side rushing the survivors.
Marcus eyed the others trying to jump the wire.
Marcus; "I'LL HOLD THEM OFF GO!!!" Marcus rushes the two popping heads.
Everyone; "MARCUS!!!"
Marcus; "GO DON'T YOU DARE LOOK BACK!!!" Silver and Sam click as he throws them to the side, sprinting at Brustus's laughing.
Kohta clicks his tongue as he tosses his bolt sniper rifle over the wired and grabs Alice while Samantha opens the door running after him.
Everyone: "Samantha!" Saeko ran after her.
Samantha; "STOP!!!" Naomi and Saya stood next to Kohta looking back at Marcus and others with respect and sadness.
The two zombies go to attack Samantha but leap at Saeko only for her to cut the heads off with her broken wooden katana.
She sprints past the horde while Saeko barrels through after her. The others called and were surprise the zombies were ignoring her.
Marcus; "HAAAAA!!!!" Marcus shouts, racing toward the two abomination dodging walkers.
-Flashback-
Saeko: "Who are you?" She smirks.
Scarlet: "Do you wanna know about secrets?" His eyes gaze at her's. "They can always be discovered."
-Flashback Ends-
Finn fazes from Marcus: flying by his side while his dog tattoo glows.
Luna leaps over everyone's heads behind the wire and onto the other side: Racing towards the two, it passes Samantha and Saeko, by a long shot running by Marcus right.
Everyone was out of words seeing a Phantom, and a wolf aiding his sacrifice.
Marcus, Finn, Luna, and the two Brutus arrived.
Billy shots electricity from his blue hands while Brutus's comes down with their Botons.
Marcus dodges a crushing blow and lands a punch. Billy dodges and continuing his assault.
The Brutus Marcus punches, rolls a foot away, crushing the unlucky walkers. The Brutus Billy electrocutes would strike him as it would go through or Billy would dodge out of instinct.
A Hell hound goes to take Marcus's head off, but Luna wrestles it to the ground.
The survivors look at them in amazement.
Marcus punches Brutus's knees out that Billy was holding off, and puts him in a chokehold.
The Brutus gets up reaching for him, but couldn't he swings wildly at the crowd of zombies, Insta-killing as Marcus glances at the survivors staring at the battle with the undead horde, a Super Survivor and a Phantom.
Marcus; "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!!! GO!!!!! AAAAAAH!!!" A walker sneaks behind him, Biting his leg. "GRAAA!!!" He forces Brutus to spin knocking the zombie from his bleeding leg.
Samantha; "NO!!" Samantha picks up Sam from the ground, and extra clips by it, Marcus dropped. She picks it up reload it while she struggles to pull the chamber back.
Kakashi; "SAMANTHA!!!" Saeko put Samantha on her shoulder while she continued struggling with Sam.
Samantha; "LET ME, GO!!! I CAN SAVE HIM!!!!" She shouts as Saeko knocks a zombie to the side and Hands her to Kakashi that followed.
Saeko nods and ran into battle.
Kakashi: "Saeko!!" He backs up while zombies approach him and grunts running back to MLUV with Samantha beating his back with a bit of rage and sadness
He jumps over the wired fence.
Most of the zombies ignore the fight happening while they head to the fence, reaching out for the survivors.
Marcus snaps Brutus's neck with a punch while Saeko cuts up any zombie that came near.
Finn shocks another Brutus to death. Marcus drops to his knee while Saeko aids him to stand.
Marcus: What are doing?! He shouts while Saeko walked up the steps nearby while Luna and Afterlife Finn protects them.
Saeko stays silent.
Marcus and Saeko reach the top standing above the stairs, looking at the survivors.
Saya tears run, and she shouts.
Saya; DUMBASS!!! WHAT WAS THE NAME YOU THOUGHT ME?!!!! Marcus's lips shake while tears pour. He smiles.
Marcus; RICHTOFEN!!! Saya lips quiver as more tears run.
Saya; "Ok." She said softly while Saeko helps Marcus from their sight with Finn and Luna by his side.
The zombies were getting aggressive as the end of the wires begins to snap. The survivors, back up ready to bolt, until...
???; "GET ON THAT WIRED!!!!" Firefighters stood behind wires and shoot Zombies off it with powerful extinguishers. "Keep them at bay."
???; "Saya?" Saya looks back and her teary eyes widen.
Saya; "MOM?!!!"
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In the afternoon, Marcus and Seako entered the mobile vehicle shop.
Seako sat Marcus on a rolling chair. He grunts, wincing. His bloodied knuckles shake while Saeko stares dead in her eyes.
Marcus: "...Sa-Saeko." Saeko raced to back scanning the environment. "Saeko?" She raced back with a med-kit and took a knee.
Saeko: "Let me see you're leg."
"Saeko!!" She looks up at him. Marcus was crying his eyes out be he kept firm. "Kill me." Saeko looks to the floor.
"Please...you're leg." Marcus hesitantly does so while Saeko pours Alcohol onto the wound. Marcus's eyes flinch while his fists clench. She wraps the bandage around his leg. "Your hand." She does the same.
The environment was quiet while the afternoon sun rays in.
Marcus: "I'm...bit. Why are you helping me?" Saeko finished wrapping his hands.
Saeko: "Is there any other?" Her voice cracks while Marcus keeps quiet.
"No." Saeko stands up while Marcus looks up. "Saeko, I don't know how long I will live, but I'll guide you to Saya house."
"It won't be necessary." Marcus glares.
"It will come-AH!" He gets up from the wheelchair and steps on his wounded leg catching the countering with Saeko's help. "This is not a discussion!" Saeko helps Marcus through the door.
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In the middle of the night. Saeko is driving a quad-bike down the road of zombies with Marcus holding tight.
Saeko: "How are you?" Marcus blinks his baggy eyes.
Marcus: "Getting tired, but don't worry about me." Saeko bits her lips and dodges another.
The quad-bike rides up the long steps and hits the dirty white tile floor. Marcus and Saeko gaze at the walkers, sprinter, and crawler surrounding the Totem made of charcoal bones and skulls in place on the fountain. The zombies gaze at the two while Saeko goes to turn on the quad only for it stirr.
Marcus: "Wait." He grabs her hand, staring at the dead that glance: never left. Marcus gets out with a wince while Saeko aids him.
Saeko: "What are you doing?!" She whispers helping Marcus approach the dead.
"Something interesting." They slowly approach the dead getting closer to the totem. The crawler's screeches causing the two to step back while the zombies and sprinter growl. "Let's go." They step back: walking by the zed that eyes followed their movement.
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Saeko and Marcus enter a mini shrine. They eyed the place: seeing no zed. Saeko leans Marcus against the wall while Finn faze from him. Staring at Marcus with a faceless look. Saeko gazes at him by her, but she ignores him.
Marcus; "Are you frowning?" He gazes at Finn with his skin pale as snow. "You can see the world without me...You should be happy." He cough and grunts looking at the ceiling.
Finn; "It will be different without you." His phantom replied while Marcus chuckle.
Marcus; "Yeah, it will..." The experts and Eddie appeared, all couching around him.
Tank; "You did well, kid." He grabs his shoulder. "You made me proud."
Edward; "He did."
Nikolai; "Cheers to you brother." He pours his vodka onto the floor and sips. "I should stop drinking this."
Takeo; "You fought like a true warrior. Even at the bitter end." Takeo bows his head.
Eddie; "You did well, protecting her. You should be at rest." Marcus chuckles while his eyes darken. Saeko sits beside him and holding him close.
Marcus: "Saeko...no." Her grip tightened while Marcus sighs. "Finn, guide her to Saya in the morning. Down the long road." Finn nods.
Luna lays on his lap while he pats her with a smirk. A tear rain down from Marcus's eyes.
Marcus: "I'm sorry...I couldn't keep that promise..." His head drop.