Part I
Zed, In The Wire!
Researchers have speculated the outbreak actually began in North Korea, in January of 2020. Workers at the airport in the capital city of Pyongyang were unloading containers with capsules containing the bio weapon which had been warehoused in a cave for 60 years. It is believed that the bio weapons, containing the virus, had degraded to such a point that the virus had mutated.
The workers dropped a container and the capsule inside was compromised, spraying the agent out into the atmosphere. This incident corresponded to approximately 130 foreign visitors to the hermit nation attempting to board a jet, in route to Beijing, China. All of these foreigners were infected.
Once in Beijing, they then boarded a number of international flights going to various cities in Europe and the United States.
The records indicate that the first attack, patient zero, was a business man from Munich, Germany, aboard a Lufthansa flight. The patient attacked a large number of fellow passengers and a number of the flight crew before he was restrained.
A number of those passengers and flight crew would board connecting flights to other cities.
The outbreak struck with ferocity inside the United States in all major urban centers, those locations with major international airports. The majority of the uninfected were in the rural areas of the country.
The uninfected fought back. They created safe zones in the rural areas. There were 4 safe zones, now called Green Zones. One was in the North east and centered around Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. There was one in the Southern states which stretched from the Carolinas to North East Texas and from Missouri, south to Northern Louisiana and Mississippi. In the West the Green Zone was most of the desert states, including Northern Arizona into portions of Nevada, Utah and Colorado. The last one was in the Northern Plains west to Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
The Green Zones were walled off or in the process of being walled off. They soon had a government elected by those living in the zones. They had power and water and were living somewhat of a normal existence that was periodically broken up by stray infected subjects.
It is in the Green Zones that the private security industry exploded and business took off.
Private security contractors could be hired to go into the infected areas and conduct operations to recover items, clean out infected, now referred to as Zed’s, from areas that the uninfected needed to get into to help in rebuilding the society.
The private security company that had the highest rating was Crossbow International.
This company only hired the best contractors and the company, as a whole, had a 98% success rate.
Character appearance: http://p.models.com/-247844/images/image2443.jpg
Washington D. C., 21 April 2023
Caiden Janus decided to post himself on the roof of the office building across the street from the Congressional Records vault. He preferred the elevation to monitor as his team, using call sign RED EYE, advanced on the building housing the vault. They were tasked with recovering a box of transcripts from a Congressional Hearing. Why? Who knows?
Janus did not care. He got paid to recover the item, that was it.
He was proned out, wearing an olive drab 5.11 tactical shirt, some desert colored tactical pants and Oakley assault boots. He had his armour plate carrier with a blowout kit weaved onto the front. He also had his blue and orange Florida Gator hat turned backwards to allow for his powerful binoculars.
Next to him was his team’s Designated Defensive Marksman. Most people would just call her a sniper. The woman, Annabel Rutherford was a Brit, who had managed to prove her skills and took a job with Crossbow International.
Next to her was her spotter, who had been beside her for about 6 months now.
To his left was Terry Oliver, manning the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon. He was to provide covering fire as the entry team arrived and entered the target building.
The entire RED EYE team was one of 4 teams that Crossbow International was fielding out of the green zones.
Clients would hire the company to go into an infested area to recover items, turn things on or off, or destroy things that they did not want their rivals to get.
The RED EYE team operated out of the Southern Green Zone, which was an oval with one end in the western Carolinas, its southern border running through rural Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, dipping into Louisiana, clipping the northeastern section Texas.
The group on the roof were watching close, about 20 or 30 Zed as they milled about in the middle of the street on the west side of the target location.
“Holy shit…” the spotter said.
“What do you got?” Annabel replied.
“Is that…is that Hillary Clinton? Zed, by the entrance of the old Starbucks on the corner…maybe 10 meters north of the entrance.” The spotter said
Annabel, Caiden, and Terry all spun to the left to look through their scopes.
Caiden located the Zed he was referring to and damn if it wasn’t the former Secretary of State and First Lady.
Her jaw had been broken and hung slack from her face. She had rotting bite wounds on her neck and bruises on her face, but it was her.
“That’s fucked up.” Caiden said.
“You want me to take her out?” Annabel asked matter of factly.
“Nah, stay on mission. Besides, her current condition probably has improved her people skills.” Caiden answered. Terry chuckled.
“Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 2, we are checked and prepped, and standing by.” Kyle Shearer, the squad leader for the entry team and Caiden’s closest friend in the company called by radio.
“Redeye 1 bravo, Redeye 1 actual, give me a sitrep.” Caiden asked the squad that was covering the rear.
"Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 1 bravo, we are in position and entry team is clear to execute.”
"Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 2, you are cleared hot to the target.” Caiden gave to order to commence the operation.
At that moment the sound of the up armoured “Coyote” vehicles rolling in could be heard echoing across the area.
The Zed heard it also and stopped there lethargic shuffling. When the smell of the human brains in the vehicles wafted to them, they began shuffling towards the sound and the vehicles.
Terry squeezed the trigger on his belt fed weapon and the Zed in front of the pack went down. Some got back up and continued. Others had been freed and did not rise.
Annabel’s M14 EBR fired and destroyed head after head of infected. They did not rise anymore.
The 2 “Coyotes” arrived in front of the depository and squad 2 deployed, and then formed a perimeter. The entry team breached the door and entered the building. The contractors on the perimeter began laying down fire to keep the Zed back.
The Zed kept coming.
Caiden monitored the radio traffic and heard that Kyle was encountering only minor undead activity but was suppressing it effectively.
When Kyle radioed that they had recovered the item, Caiden breathed a little easier.
The entry team came out the same way they came in and every one loaded into the vehicles.
Caiden and the team on the roof fell back and loaded into their vehicle. When all personnel were loaded the convoy linked back up and started to return to Andrews Air Force base which was secure for the time being and where their aircraft were standing by to load them up.
But it became obvious that the return trip was going to increase in difficulty. The Zed were beginning to swarm. All the personnel in the vehicles were utilizing the gun ports, and the hydraulic saws on the vehicles to push through the swarm. From his view, Caiden estimated several thousand Zed were coming down on them.
Zed, In The Wire!
Researchers have speculated the outbreak actually began in North Korea, in January of 2020. Workers at the airport in the capital city of Pyongyang were unloading containers with capsules containing the bio weapon which had been warehoused in a cave for 60 years. It is believed that the bio weapons, containing the virus, had degraded to such a point that the virus had mutated.
The workers dropped a container and the capsule inside was compromised, spraying the agent out into the atmosphere. This incident corresponded to approximately 130 foreign visitors to the hermit nation attempting to board a jet, in route to Beijing, China. All of these foreigners were infected.
Once in Beijing, they then boarded a number of international flights going to various cities in Europe and the United States.
The records indicate that the first attack, patient zero, was a business man from Munich, Germany, aboard a Lufthansa flight. The patient attacked a large number of fellow passengers and a number of the flight crew before he was restrained.
A number of those passengers and flight crew would board connecting flights to other cities.
The outbreak struck with ferocity inside the United States in all major urban centers, those locations with major international airports. The majority of the uninfected were in the rural areas of the country.
The uninfected fought back. They created safe zones in the rural areas. There were 4 safe zones, now called Green Zones. One was in the North east and centered around Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. There was one in the Southern states which stretched from the Carolinas to North East Texas and from Missouri, south to Northern Louisiana and Mississippi. In the West the Green Zone was most of the desert states, including Northern Arizona into portions of Nevada, Utah and Colorado. The last one was in the Northern Plains west to Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
The Green Zones were walled off or in the process of being walled off. They soon had a government elected by those living in the zones. They had power and water and were living somewhat of a normal existence that was periodically broken up by stray infected subjects.
It is in the Green Zones that the private security industry exploded and business took off.
Private security contractors could be hired to go into the infected areas and conduct operations to recover items, clean out infected, now referred to as Zed’s, from areas that the uninfected needed to get into to help in rebuilding the society.
The private security company that had the highest rating was Crossbow International.
This company only hired the best contractors and the company, as a whole, had a 98% success rate.
Character appearance: http://p.models.com/-247844/images/image2443.jpg
Washington D. C., 21 April 2023
Caiden Janus decided to post himself on the roof of the office building across the street from the Congressional Records vault. He preferred the elevation to monitor as his team, using call sign RED EYE, advanced on the building housing the vault. They were tasked with recovering a box of transcripts from a Congressional Hearing. Why? Who knows?
Janus did not care. He got paid to recover the item, that was it.
He was proned out, wearing an olive drab 5.11 tactical shirt, some desert colored tactical pants and Oakley assault boots. He had his armour plate carrier with a blowout kit weaved onto the front. He also had his blue and orange Florida Gator hat turned backwards to allow for his powerful binoculars.
Next to him was his team’s Designated Defensive Marksman. Most people would just call her a sniper. The woman, Annabel Rutherford was a Brit, who had managed to prove her skills and took a job with Crossbow International.
Next to her was her spotter, who had been beside her for about 6 months now.
To his left was Terry Oliver, manning the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon. He was to provide covering fire as the entry team arrived and entered the target building.
The entire RED EYE team was one of 4 teams that Crossbow International was fielding out of the green zones.
Clients would hire the company to go into an infested area to recover items, turn things on or off, or destroy things that they did not want their rivals to get.
The RED EYE team operated out of the Southern Green Zone, which was an oval with one end in the western Carolinas, its southern border running through rural Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, dipping into Louisiana, clipping the northeastern section Texas.
The group on the roof were watching close, about 20 or 30 Zed as they milled about in the middle of the street on the west side of the target location.
“Holy shit…” the spotter said.
“What do you got?” Annabel replied.
“Is that…is that Hillary Clinton? Zed, by the entrance of the old Starbucks on the corner…maybe 10 meters north of the entrance.” The spotter said
Annabel, Caiden, and Terry all spun to the left to look through their scopes.
Caiden located the Zed he was referring to and damn if it wasn’t the former Secretary of State and First Lady.
Her jaw had been broken and hung slack from her face. She had rotting bite wounds on her neck and bruises on her face, but it was her.
“That’s fucked up.” Caiden said.
“You want me to take her out?” Annabel asked matter of factly.
“Nah, stay on mission. Besides, her current condition probably has improved her people skills.” Caiden answered. Terry chuckled.
“Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 2, we are checked and prepped, and standing by.” Kyle Shearer, the squad leader for the entry team and Caiden’s closest friend in the company called by radio.
“Redeye 1 bravo, Redeye 1 actual, give me a sitrep.” Caiden asked the squad that was covering the rear.
"Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 1 bravo, we are in position and entry team is clear to execute.”
"Redeye 1 actual, Redeye 2, you are cleared hot to the target.” Caiden gave to order to commence the operation.
At that moment the sound of the up armoured “Coyote” vehicles rolling in could be heard echoing across the area.
The Zed heard it also and stopped there lethargic shuffling. When the smell of the human brains in the vehicles wafted to them, they began shuffling towards the sound and the vehicles.
Terry squeezed the trigger on his belt fed weapon and the Zed in front of the pack went down. Some got back up and continued. Others had been freed and did not rise.
Annabel’s M14 EBR fired and destroyed head after head of infected. They did not rise anymore.
The 2 “Coyotes” arrived in front of the depository and squad 2 deployed, and then formed a perimeter. The entry team breached the door and entered the building. The contractors on the perimeter began laying down fire to keep the Zed back.
The Zed kept coming.
Caiden monitored the radio traffic and heard that Kyle was encountering only minor undead activity but was suppressing it effectively.
When Kyle radioed that they had recovered the item, Caiden breathed a little easier.
The entry team came out the same way they came in and every one loaded into the vehicles.
Caiden and the team on the roof fell back and loaded into their vehicle. When all personnel were loaded the convoy linked back up and started to return to Andrews Air Force base which was secure for the time being and where their aircraft were standing by to load them up.
But it became obvious that the return trip was going to increase in difficulty. The Zed were beginning to swarm. All the personnel in the vehicles were utilizing the gun ports, and the hydraulic saws on the vehicles to push through the swarm. From his view, Caiden estimated several thousand Zed were coming down on them.
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