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Chapter 18 - Shipping yard

In the flooded city, Harriet City, Shawn, James, Marcus, Maya, Margaret and Jenny travel to the city via A.O.W. helicopter as Marcus speaks into his radio.

Marcus: Margaret, take us down.

Marcus turns to Shawn, James and Maya.

Margaret: We're gonna need explosives....a lot of them.

James: Why?

Marcus points to a U.S. Carrier that is stacked on top of two buildings.

Fuck!

Jenny: Jesus Christ! Is that the boat?!

Shawn: Curtis never said it was on the water.

Jenny: Why don't we just use the guns on your helicopter instead?

Margaret: What? No. Where's the fun in that?

The helicopter touches the ground when Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Maya and Jenny step out.

Maya: Do we at least know where some explosives are?

Margaret: Uh....there should be an A.O.W. armory somewhere. Hopefully, with some explosives or a rocket launcher....something to bring a whole fucking building down..

As the survivors are walking, Shawn attempts to contact Kyle.

Shawn: Kyle, this is Shawn. Come in, over.

Static comes through the radio.

Shawn: Kyle? Jake? Sarah?.....does anybody copy? Come in. Fuck....

Shawn turns to Jenny.

Shawn: Don't worry, Jenny. I'm sure your Dad's fine.

James: You know; if we're lucky, maybe they found the sub already which explains why they can't contact us and we can't contact them.

Shawn: and if we're unlucky?

James: Then.....they're in deep shit.

Shawn: We've been in shit deeper than this.

James: We've been in grounds deep.....and still survived, man.

Shawn stays quiet, but then talks.

Shawn: you want to talk?

James: About?

Shawn: Our odds....

A short pause.

James: Honestly.....you think this is it? Humanity's last days I mean.

Shawn: If it wasn't humanity's last days twenty-six years ago, it sure as hell won't be now...I mean hell; we've lived the same routine for decades.....half of us; you even were born into this world....

James: Did Kyle ever talk about his Dad with you?

Shawn: As a matter of fact, he did...his Dad was a brilliant scientist.....was great friends with Dad.....and Dr. Fenix...but I think it was men like Ryder, who shut him out of projects that could've saved the world.

In the front of the truck, with Woody driving and Kyle in the front passenger seat, Caleb investigates the glove compartment, finding a picture of a beautiful woman.

Caleb: This truck belonged to a guy.

Woody: How can you tell?

Caleb: Well, there's a picture of a beautiful girl.

Caleb turns the picture, revealing writing on the back.

Caleb: "in this world or the next, your spirit will keep me fighting" Love, Hannah.

Kyle takes the picture and smiles, before looking back at Sarah.

Kyle: I fucked up.....I almost lost her.....I lied to her...about Nathan and for that I don't deserve her.

Caleb: None of us deserve someone who loves them, man, but we're here and you and Sarah.....you two found each other.....

Kyle: Jake wanted more for me.....for both of us....now if we live through this, he'll never get the chance to see my child...or meet Dad for the first time.....or be an uncle....

Woody: We've survived worse, son. We've been through worse.

Kyle: And we'll go through worse in the future.

In Harriet City, Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Maya and Jenny finally reach the police station and collect the explosives.

Jenny: Why, Marcus, how'd you know?

Shawn: Yeah, these'll do the job, definitely.

Maya: Aw, fuck...more shit to carry in our backpacks.

Marcus: Least we're one step closer to the boat.

At the shipping yard, Kyle and his group finally arrive with Mina watching from a nearby building rooftop with her Armored Condemned Priest.

Mina: He's just as brave as his brother and persistent as his father....but he's predictable....it's a shame his brother had to die...would've preferred to see them both suffer at the same time.

Armored Condemned Priest: (in Condemned language) The boy.....he is your son.

Mina: and he's the man who banished you into the wasteland to become monsters.....he is nothing but a damned creation of my husband.....

Mina turns turns to Armored Condemned Priest.

Mina: If Kyle Desipich lives, our species dies. The man must die here.

Woody drives towards the entrance gate of the shipping yard as Sarah points out Condemned drones at the gate.

Sarah: Condemned!

Kyle: Punch it, Woody!

Woody speeds up and drives through the gates, killing the two Condemned guards in the process. Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra, Caleb and Woody exit the truck, before engaging Condemned forces.

Caleb: Here we go!

Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra, Caleb and Woody fight through the Condemned forces, before finally reaching the first hangar.

Kyle: All right! Let's get a look at the hangar.

The group enters the first hangar, where they notice a rusted submarine with yellow webbing all around the ship.

Caleb: Damn it. I hope they're not all rusted to hell like this one. Let's try the next hangar.

Cassandra: This type of submarine isn't something we'll walk pass, right, Woody?

Woody: Yeah, if anything, you won't trip fall over it.

Kyle: Just keep looking, everybody.

Woody: What the fuck is that white snot looking shit all over the ship? Spider-webs?

Cassandra: Never seen any type of webbing like that. Spiders couldn't have made that.

Caleb: There's a dirty joke in my mind right now, but I'll save it for another time....I'm sure we'll run into whatever made them soon enough.

Cassandra: Eww.

Sarah: Woody, how are the five of us going to operate a Zeus Corps submarine?

Woody: That's what I'm here for, ma'am.

In Harriet City, inside one of the buildings that the U.S. Wolf is on top of, Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Maya and Jenny prepare the explosives.

Marcus: Do you know how to plant these explosives?

Shawn: Of course, the shit-sniffer does.

Jenny: "Shit-sniffer"?

Maya: Yeah, what is up with that name anyway?

James: Dude, don't call me that in front of people.

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