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Gordon smiles and points over to the refrigerator. "Hey, come on now, guys! Let's just have a few drinks and just become friends, eh? You can't have too many friends, especially in times like these!"

The other survivors regard Gordon with a mixture of surprise and suspicion. After deliberating among themselves, one of them comes forwards and replies, "Alright. Yeah, you know, we've been getting pretty stressed over this whole situation." One of them grabs the beer from the fridge and starts passing around the bottles.

Two of them refuse the beer. "I hope you don't mind…"

Gordon shakes his head. "It's more than alright. Some of ours don't drink either."

After a few beers, one of the other survivors points at Gordon. "Hey… I know you! You're Gordon Rogers! Hey, I saw you play a coffee house out in Philly like three years back!"

Gordon cracks open another beer. "Oh really? Heh, never thought I'd end up finding a fan out here."

"Oh yeah! I love your stuff and I love how-"

Another of the survivor's group rolls his eyes as he snarks, "And here we go. 'Hey! Gordon Rogers music is great! He hasn't made a terrible song! I like old music that nobody listens to anymore!' Blah blah blah…"

The first survivor shakes his head. "Don't listen to him. He's an asshole. Anyway, I had been working on becoming comfortable enough to perform but this whole thing went down. Would you mind if I sang a song for you?"

Gordon shakes his head. "Nah, go right ahead, man."

The other survivor nods and begins to sing
"My name is Captain Kidd
As I sailed, as I sailed,
Oh my name is Captain Kidd as I sailed,
My name is Captain Kidd
And God's laws I did forbid,
And most wickedly I did as I sailed.

My father taught me well
To shun the gates of hell,
But against him I rebelled as I sailed,
He shoved a bible in my hand
But I left it in the sand
And I pulled away from land,
As I sailed"

As the survivor sings the chorus again, Gordon joins in. Throughout the song, the other survivors seem much less tense and some even smile as they listen to the tune.

The beer plan is working out much better than what I was expecting so far, granted one of the reasons it's working this well is because our team leader here has a fan who wants him to sing along with him and his mates. While you guys sing the night away I'm gonna take my drinks and do something else, assuming I can find anything else to do in here.

I don't really drink plus I need to keep my mind clear if shriekers attack.

This is pretty nice I'd say. Keep singing, maybe we can get them on our side.

After another round of beers, the other group convene together and talk among themselves. Finally, they turn back to the group and one of them says, "Alright, you guys seem like a bunch of good guys. We'll give you a couple cans of gas to fill your bus up. Just… ah… just don't advertise that to everybody you see, okay?"

Gordon nods. "Very well, we won't tell anybody."

The other survivor speaks again, "You guys said that you have a coach bus, right?" Gordon nods and the other survivor continues, "Well, I know a few other survivors that have passed by have been armoring up their vehicles so if yours isn't armored, I'll let you in on a possibly good deal: Head south of Trenton. There's an Air Force base that I know for certain is abandoned at this point. Don't bother trying to go for any aircraft there. I'm sure they've destroyed those on their way out."

Nicolas shakes his head and asks, "Then what's the point of going there?"

"Well, there'll be more gas there, I'd wager. Also, you can probably salvage some of the wreckage there to armor up your bus. I'm sure there's some ammo and weapons there you can 'salvage' as well."

Gordon cocks an eyebrow. "What's the catch?"

Another survivor from the other group sighs, "The catch is that we honestly have no clue to the condition of the base other than that it's been abandoned. The place could be completely clear or it could be crawling with Shriekers. We'd either be sending you to an amazing cache or to your graves. We really hope that it isn't the second one. You guys seem like good people."

The group decides to:
1) Head back to the bus with the gas and continue to Atlanta
2) Head back to the bus with the gas and head for the Air Force Base

Air Force base. But be careful as fuck.
Hopefully the zomborgs will all have windows 8 installed.

I'd rather go to Atlanta. We need to go fast with as little detours as possible. If we take too long again, we might miss this flight as well and be stuck on this hell-hole forever.

Let's keep going to Atlanta, we can't risk dying anymore than we already are.

Air Force base I think

The Airbase is too risky for us. Let's stick with Atlanta for now.

I'd rather go to Atlanta as well. We already have weapons and ammo, and we can maybe find something to armor the bus with while heading towards the city. Let's not risk our lives at the base.

Gordon shakes the other survivor's hand and replies, "Thanks for the tip but we kinda feel that it's a bit too risky for our liking."

The other survivor nods and says, "Yeah, I feel you on that. No way of knowing if the place is overrun. 'Course, now there's no way of knowing what awesome goodies you could've found. Oh well, sometimes safety is more important. Good luck getting to Atlanta!"

Derek nods and says, "Good luck getting to Chicago!"

The group leave the gas station and head back to the coach bus. They regroup with the members left to guard the bus and then fill the gas into the tank. Nicolas turns the key in the ignition and the bus roars to life. The survivors then head down the highway, leaving Trenton far behind them.

OOC: So just as a heads up, I am currently on a cross country road trip so the updates to the thread may be more sporadic than normal at best. This trip will last until about next Sunday so please bear with me until then.

The bus speeds past Trenton with a full tank of gas and the group fully reunited. Gordon says, "Alright, all we need to do is cross the Delaware River over to Pennsylvania and we can just continue to go south to Atlanta."

Nicolas nods. "Yeah. That sounds good to-"

Blaring sirens interrupt Nicolas. He looks into the side view mirror and sees a police cruiser with its sirens on following after them at a steady pace. "What!? Again!?"

Gordon glances at the speedometer. "You're at fifty five exactly…"

The group decides to:
1) Continue onwards at their current speed
2) Speed off in the hopes of losing the cruiser
3) Slow down in order to drive next to the police cruiser
4) Pull the bus over to the side of the road

I say we slow down so we can shoot him in the face. Might as well nip this in the bud so we won't have to put up with this crap later.

Slow down, throw the toaster at him, and speed off.

We should probably slow down without completely stopping to check this out. To be honest, I was the voice of morality here at first and I didn't want to kill unless totally necessary, but at this point I'm sick of all these distractions. Check it out quickly without stopping, and if anything turns out bad we'll kill. I swear if this is the same damn cop…

Not this shit again. Let's just slow it down for now so that way we can figure out what this guy wants and if he wants things like food, guns, or even women we just give him a face full of lead. I doubt it but I have a strong feeling that it's the cop from before so if it is him and assuming his not a carrier of the plague let's just make him a member of the group so that way we can stop this before it can become a recurring theme.

Nicolas slows the car down and turns into the lane next to the police cruiser. On the cruiser is "Burlington Police Department."

Gordon raises an eyebrow. "Burlington? That's in Vermont. Our cop friend here is a long way from home…'

The coach bus pulls up next to the cruiser. The first thing that is noticeable about the cruiser is that there is nobody driving it. On the in car laptop is a grotesque conglomeration of flesh and frayed wires. Everyone's eyes immediately widen. "Oh shit…"

The group:
1) Floors the gas pedal and high tail it out there
2) Drives away in a calm and steady pace
3) Opens fire on the infected police cruiser

Shoot it. We can't let this thing live.

Holy shit! The zomborgs can infect machinery too?! This makes all too much sense and is damn terrifying to boot… Shoot it! Shoot it fast! Fill it with lead! Kill it with FIRE! Make sure you aim for the biological parts as well. Those are what's controlling it.

Bloody Hell! That is both awesome and terrifying at the same time. Quick floor it and shot the damn thing at it's biological parts.

Open fire!

"Hello there officer, you left your porn tab open."

"Holy shit! Fire! Just open fire on the fucking thing!" Every window on the bus that faces the infected cruiser opens up. The group members immediately press the triggers on their guns and a barrage of bullets strike the car.

However, this seems to anger the police cruiser. With an infernal shriek, it slams into the side of the bus, jostling everyone around. It continues to slam into the bus, slowly beginning to push the group off the road. Nicolas valiantly attempts to keep the bus on the highway.

In order to survive this new onslaught, the group:
1) Steps on the gas and tries to escape
2) Slams the bus against the cruiser to try to knock it off the highway
3) Focus their fire on the computer in the cruiser

Keep shooting the damn thing!

Guys I don't think it's a real police officer
FLOOR IT

We're bigger than he is! Ram IT off the highway! This highway ain't big enough for the both of us! Looks like this is your ticket for speeding, and I'm fine with that! This isn't funny, so you have to give it arrest! I hope your name is Colin Alcars, because you're gonna need 'em!

Shooting the damn thing isn't working so let's ram it out of the road and get of here as fast as possible.

Ram it. Shooting hasn't worked so far and it could gain an advantage over us if we keep vainly trying. If we try to leave, who knows what it'd do. The bus is probably many times bigger than the car. I don't think a little bit of biological enhancement can stop the power of a 10-ton bus.

Nicolas slams the bus into the monstrosity as hard as he can. The police cruiser seems unfazed by the several ton bus slamming into it as it pushes up against the bus. The cruiser pushes the bus against a guard rail, causing the bus to slow down. Then, the bus is forced over the guard rail as it flips over into a ditch.

Everyone slowly gets up. Gordon looks around and shouts, "Is everyone alright!?"

Everyone gives off an affirmative except for Nicolas. Nicolas responds with a aggravated yelp of "Shit!"

Gordon rushes over to Nicolas and checks up on him. His right ankle appears to be twisted laterally. How bad the injury is will have to be determined later. The police cruiser is starting to rev up in order to ram them again.

The group:
1) Carries Nicolas to safety with them
2) Leaves Nicolas to his fate and escapes without him.

Come on you let live, I got kill people man.

The injured will slow us down! No mercy! Leave him to the dogs! I mean robots-I mean robot zombies!

Hmmmmmm… That cruiser's right there correct? I'm afraid we'll have to accept our first casualty. But, Nick's a great fighter. One of our best. He's also a friend. We'll be guilty forever. GAHHHHH! This is a damn hard choice. Well, I'll never be able to live with myself if we just let him die. I say we get two of our strongest people (upper-body of course) to carry him away. If this puts us in more danger, so be it. We've been skidding by for long now skipping all of the risks. We need to go all or nothing.

We gotta leave him, he'll just slow us down. We might as well get out of here while we can.

LEAVE THE TOASTER AS BAIT
KILL THE TOASTER
KILL
KILL
KILL
KILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKIOLKIKJNOOUJOJNIHBFYUZFDSHFYCHJG
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Just then

I HAVE

ARRIIIIIIVED

Oh wait, this isn't the American thread? Shit, I'll leave now.

Well shit, I knew sooner or later we were bound to have our first causalities but why did it have to be the war vet. If we carried him than the carriers will be slow down by the added weight and will become zombie cruiser food, but I still don't like the idea of just leaving a mate behind to suffer. As much as I want to see another way out of this the most pragmatic solution is to leave Nick behind, sorry about this old timer.

This is for you Dornan. A lurker noting it's time to say goodbye.

Before my most inevitable death I have a few things to say. Screw you young uns and you were always an a**hole Gordan.

Hey Outbreak your still here?

"Er… if I may make a suggestion? He doesn't really appear like he's gonna survive… not without us, anyways… do we… are we really gonna leave him here?"
"Yes! Leave his flesh for the buzzards and scavengers!"

Gordon grimaces as he turns to Nicolas. "Eh… Sorry, man…"

Nicolas' brow furrows downward and he grinds his teeth audibly. "You're leaving me behind? You fucking assholes! If I could move quickly right now…!"

He rest of the group turns tail and escapes from the coach bus. They run a good distance away but they do not hear the cruiser coming for them. They turn around when they feel it's safe and witness the cruiser slamming into the bus. After a few minutes, the cruiser stops. It turns around on the road and drives away. The bus is left alone now with much of their equipment and supplies still inside.

The group decides to:
1) Abandon the bus and supplies completely
2) Go back to the bus and salvage as much as they can

As tempting as it is to go back and get all of our equipment and supplies let's not. For one we have no idea if any of our stuff is now infected and even if they aren't chances are old Nick is, so unless any of you want to take on a shrieker with possible infected weapons I suggest we move on and find new stuff to replace the old.

Elizabeth does have a point. Should Nick be infected by now, we don't have anything to take him on. I'd say we move on as well.

A shrieker…with a limp.

Ehhhhh… Leave it.

Also, Nick for final boss of story. I can sense it. He comes back, kills one of us, and then epic fighting happens. It'll be grand. On second thought, let's hope that doesn't happen.

Damn, this is depressing. His reaction made it even sadder. RIP in peace Nick, RIP in peace. :^)

Go back very carefully.

I feel pretty crappy about leaving Nicolas behind. I feel like we should go back and check up on him. And if you guys don't want to go back for Nicolas' sake, I feel like we should at least go back for the supplies. If we don't, we're more or less at square one again. We had quite a bit of stuff in there that would make life slightly less difficult.

Eh, I guess Gordon is right. I change my mind.