The four boys reached the
entrance to the cafe and all ran over to the sofa’s where the girls and the
strange man were sat, they all sat down on the third sofa watching the old man
slowly sit up, “wha... What’s going on?” he asked with a gravelly voice, “dude,
you were like, in one hell of a crash, but don’t worry your safe here” Rob said
leaning forward trying to figure out what the man was doing there, “oh right,
yeah but wait how are you still alive?” the strange old man asked sitting up
straight, “let’s just say we got lucky, and now answer our questions, who are
you?, and what’s going on?” Lewis
interrupted, “I’m guessing you’re not from around there” he said looking at the
girls nodding their heads left to right, “I’m doctor Chester Davenport, I was working
on the new vaccination when it backfired...” “Wait stop, explain what you mean
by it ‘backfired’?” Lewis interrupted him scratching the corner of his head,
“well, for the past few decades we have been experimenting with a new and
improved vaccination for Diphtheria, Polio and tetanus and we came across a new
set of ingredients that would be easier to supply and only needed to be used
once, and not every ten years, at first we put in a certain amount of this new
ingredient and ten 15 years later, it proved a success, so we doubled the
dosage, and it once again proved a success, so we put in 10 times more than the
original to give immunity to a human for one hundred years, but before we had
tested this there was a mix up, and the new improved vaccination was given to
all doctors around the country, but it was too late to do anything, by the time
we realised it was deadly, wait how did you not get given a jab?” he asked,
“well we were skipping school at the time” Ritchie said still fully interested
in what he was saying, “yeah and we were at a cheerleading tournament” said
Megan, “oh I See” the doctor said scratching his chin, “what was that new
ingredient?” an intrigued Ritchie asked, “I’m afraid that top secret at the
moment” the doctor said confidently, “okay then what has it done to all those
people?, like how are they turning into the undead?” Rob asked holding his
hands out, “well in the new ingredient there are certain substance that
destroys the polio and tetanus cells, but with the large increase in the dosage
it destroyed ninety-five percent of the immune system, leaving the body full
vulnerable to the weakest of diseases like the common cold, the disease then
kills the human within days even hours, then the new ingredient somehow brings
them back to life, we didn’t have time to test this due to the outbreak” no-one
took their eyes off of him whilst he talked, “so what’s with the burning
streets and stuff?” Herbie asked, “oh my god! I forgot, we have to get out of
here! There sending napalm’s over the worst infected areas, wait how did you
get in?” The group looked around at each other, “we drove through the big
gates, what does it matter?” Lewis
said confusedly rubbing his forehead, the doctors eyes widened in fear, “you...
you broke down the gates?! Did you not see the padlocks? “Well yeah, but we
needed food and supplies” Herbie said standing up still looking at the furious
doctor’s face, “that’s what was keeping them in you idiots! Now there’s
thousands of those things everywhere! and how did you survive the napalm?” he
snapped, “well, there was smoke before we got here, there has been nothing big
since then?” Herbie said sitting down on the table, “oh my god, what time is
it?” he said rolling up his sleeves looking for his watch, he pulled back his
right sleeve to reveal a dark gold watch, “oh my god it’s four o’ clock!” he
said standing up quickly, “yeah so?” Lily asked watching him walk around in a
circle rubbing his mouth, “there are three napalm strikes heading across the
country, the first at twelve, the second at four twenty-five and the third at
seven fifty, we don’t have time to get out of the city, we need to find a safe
place like now!” he exclaimed rushing out of the cafe, the other’s followed
just behind, “what?!, you mean that they’re going to burn this whole place to
the ground, just like that?” Rob said hurrying next to him, “well, there was
supposed to be hundreds of the undead here, but you let them free didn’t you”
He sarcastically said to him, the doctor headed towards the toy shop, and he
went straight down the escalators, the other’s all followed quickly behind, “so
how do we get out alive?” lily asked on the bottom step of the escalators, “well
we should get underground but I don’t know how to” the doctor said stopping in
his stride, looking around his surroundings of the bottom floor of the large
shop, “come on, it’s not safe in here, it’s one of the main landmarks of this
city” the doctor said running for the exit, the other’s ran closely behind,
they reached the red pick-up truck, “come on quick” the doctor repeated, he
held his arm out helping the girls jump over the bonnet, then the boy’s leapt over
and stood on the other side helping the doctor over the bonnet by pulling his
arms as he lifted his legs over, then from the distance they could see a yellow
sports car skid around the corner past the big skip and the jeep, It was
Connor.
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