User:Skull26374/MySims Zombies/Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Family
Derek Anderson sat in the bunker's couch, loading his gun. All that ran through his mind was saving his aunt's, Nicole and Shirley. After all, they raised him after his parents died in a tragic accident. They were the only family he had left and he couldn't let anything bad happen to them. He had only been outside the bunker once already, but he knew things were going to get much worse.

"Jenny," Derek said as he stood behind the computer expert.

"Something you need, Derek?"

"Can you see into any store through the cameras?"

"I believe so... yeah, we can. Why? Most stores are abandoned anyways and some of the cameras have been destroyed."

"Can you open up Specialty Hair Care?"

"Let me see... yes." Jenny flipped on the screen as Derek looked on to see his aunt Shirley huddled in the back room of her store with two young girls.

"Thanks," Derek said as he turned to Selena and Finn who were talking to the side. "We're going."

"Where?" Finn asked.

"To get my aunts. I know where one of them is, we'll get the other after, let's go." Finn and Selena paused to look at eachother before nodding and following Derek into the vents.

The three climbed out of the vents to find the mall still crowded with the dead. Bodies layed on the ground, rotting.

"Let's go, I got a map from Lyndsay," Derek said, shooting into the crowd ahead of him. The three managed to keep attention from themselves for a bit before having to run ahead of a crowd of zombies. Finn turned back, pulled the trigger from a grenade, and tossed it back. Selena covered her ears to protect them from the blast. "I hate that." She said as she ran.

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By the time they had reached Specialty Hair Care, the windows to the store had been destroyed. Zombies littered the main room, salon chairs thrown to the ground and mirrors shattered. A young girl was heard screaming in the back room, an older woman's voice telling her to try to calm down and that everything would be okay. Derek instantly knew it was his aunt.

"Get out of here!" he yelled as he shot at zombies trying to break their way in.

"Derek? Honey is that you?" his aunt, Shirley, called.

"I'm here. You guys will be okay, I'm here," Derek called back. "It's safe, you can come out now."

Finn and Selena stood guard while Derek embraced his aunt. The two young girls came out behind her. They seemed no older than eleven.

"Thank God you're alright sweetie," Shirley said as she hugged her nephew. To the side, Selena asked the girls their names. Clara and Taylor. She reassured to them that they were safe now and helped keep them calm. Finn stood shooting any zombie who came by the store. "Do you have contact with Nicole?" Derek asked Shirley.

"Only my cellphone, dear. She's okay. I got off the phone with her not too long ago. She's there with an employee."

"Alright, let's go get her."

"Derek, we can't take the girls with us into more danger, we have to go back," Selena said with reason.

"Fine, you guys take them back to base. I'll get Nicole."

"Derek, honey," Shirley said with a worried look.

"You realize what you're doing, man?" Finn asked.

"It's fine, go."

"Stay safe," Shirley sighed as she kissed her nephew on the cheek before leaving him behind.

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"Nicole is safe... Nicole is safe... Nicole is safe..." repeated over and over in Derek's mind. Gunshots rang through the mall as he continued on. He was on a mission and he would bring her back safely. He couldn't lose any more family members. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a strand of pink. He turned to see a dark woman in a pink ponytail running atop the roofs of stores, a man in dark clothing behind her. They were going fast and weren't stopping.

"Hey!" Derek yelled out. They wouldn't stop running. They reached a corner and disappeared, but the woman looked at him right before she left and smiled. What? Oh well, he didn't have time for that. He would solve that later.

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He reached his aunt's store, Shique Boutique, to find the main storeroom destroyed. He checked the back. She wasn't there either. Neither her nor her employee's body were anymore. No blood or anything. The place just seemed ransacked. He didn't understand. He screamed at the top of his lungs, shooting all over the store. He couldn't lose another family member. He couldn't His screams were a mix of anger and sadness. He ran up to the first zombie he saw and shot in straight in the head. He was releasing his anger. He ran straight into a crowd of them.

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"I hope he's alright," Selena said with worry in the bunker. She turned to see that Derek had returned. Covered in blood, and alone. "No luck?"

"No," he said, walking straight past her to Jenny. "Can you see earlier footage from the camera's?"

"Ye," Gabby said from the couch. "Press rewind, girl."

Jenny rewound the footage to Nicole and her employee turning to see the gate to the store open. A man held them at gunpoint and lead them out.

"No..." Derek said.

"She'll be okay," Shirley said from behind him, rubbing her nephew's back. "She always is."

"Go take a shower man, rest," Finn advised Derek.

As he walked past the rooms with Shirley, Zoe stood outside one of them.

"You are a brave young man," she told Derek.

"Thanks," he responded, clearly not in the mood.

"I know what it's like to have family in danger. My nephew is here as well."

"I remember. How are you so calm about it all?"

"I know that he is safe."

"Hm," he said, turning to walk to the showers.

"Your aunt is safe as well," Zoe said, before turning back into the room.

Derek stood there for a second and thought. It was hope, it was. She could be crazy, but hope was what he needed. She was alive and he would find her. And with that thought, he went to relax.