A scratching sound causes me to wake up with a jump. I can tell by the sky that it's early in the morning, the sun just beginning to rise. Standing up, I grab my machete and carefully make my way towards the front of the bus where the sound's coming from. If it's the demons, they'll easily be able to trap me inside here and kill me. Glancing through each window I pass though, I don't see anyone, but when I reach the front, I look at the doors and find a zombie trying to pry them open. Relieved that it's not the demons, I kick the doors open, hitting the zombie with them, the force of the impact causing it to fall backwards to the ground.
Stepping out of the bus, I decapitate the zombie as it tries to get back on its feet. I then have quick look around to make sure that there aren't anymore of them in the immediate area before going back inside the bus to get the rest of my stuff. There's not much point in trying to fall asleep again and it shouldn't take me more than an hour to reach Chicago now, giving me the rest of the day to find the supply warehouse. Keeping my machete in hand to deal with any other zombies I might encounter along the road, I begin walking once again.
When I finally reach the edge of the city, I notice several zombies roaming around, none having noticed me yet. I quickly head for a group of old industrial factories, each one surrounded by chain link fences, my hurried footsteps attracting the attention of the closest zombies and their moans attracting others. Entering the front gate of the first factory I reach, I pull it closed behind me before grabbing a rusty chain laying on the ground nearby and using it to help keep the gate shut for the time being.
Taking out my map, I begin examining it, keeping an eye out for any zombies that could be in the factory area with me. I'm also guessing that there's more than one gate, which I can hopefully find and use to escape back outside through, if the zombies now trying to get past the gate behind me don't have some dumb luck and find it first. After a few moments of tracing the map with my finger, I realize that one of the 'L' train lines is nearby and would pretty much take me straight to the warehouse if I follow it.
Behind me, I suddenly hear the sound of the chain snapping in half and the squeaking of the gate slowly being pushed open. Time to move. Not looking back, I put my map away and arm myself with my machete as I start running across the pavement toward the large main building. Not bothering with the front doors since they're closed and boarded up, I instead make my away around to the side of the building, nearly running straight into a zombie standing behind the corner as I round it. I shove it away from me, knocking it down onto the ground, and continue running, now in tall grass, trying to put as much distance as possible between myself and the other zombies in pursuit of me.
Dodging a few more zombies, I make it to the area behind the building to find more grass and a gap in the fence where it's been knocked down by an ambulance crashing through it, the ambulance stopped not far beyond that. I hope that there're no overdrives around right now. I don't need something chasing me around with machines in addition to the horde of zombies coming for me. I quickly escape through the gap in the fence, the ambulance remaining lifeless, and start running down the street I emerge on, heading straight into the downtown area of the city.
This is the worst place I've seen yet. Dead and undead bodies seem to be everywhere, although the undead ones are moving very slowly at least. As long as I don't stop moving, they shouldn't be able to ever catch up with me. Vehicles are also scattered everywhere, many of them burned out. But I guess with what was once a such a big and busy city, I should've expected this.
As I move, I look for a station for the 'L' so that I can easily get onto the tracks and follow along them, hopefully avoiding many of the city's zombies and if any are left here, demons. Spotting stairs leading to an underground station, I approach them and discover that, surprisingly, the gate is up. Taking out my flashlight and turning it on, I descend into the darkness underneath the streets, realizing that I might end up finding myself coming face to face with more zombies or something else, but I don't think I'll ever make it to the warehouse alive if I stick to the streets.
When I'm on the station platform, I hear something shuffling nearby. When I shine my flashlight around though, I don't see anything. I've never been one to be scared of the dark or be scared easily at all for that matter, but this would be one of those very rare moments when I am scared. I even switch my machete for the pistol I got from the police station. If I see any zombies down here, I don't want them getting anywhere near me. It's too late to turn back now though. Any zombies on the street that saw me go down the stairs are probably already making their own way down and any zombies that see them going down will follow out of curiosity or whatever their logic is for following each other.
Wasting no more time, I jump down onto the tracks and start walking in what I think is the correct direction, moving slowly and cautiously, shining my flashlight on everything in front of me. I'll be able to move a little faster once I reach the parts of the track that are outside in the open. Even though the power is off, I avoid touching the third rail in case of the presence of any overdrives. The only corpses I encounter within the tunnel are laid out on and next to the tracks, having long since ceased all movement.
It feels like I've been walking for hours by the time I exit back into the daylight. After putting away my flashlight for now and having a quick look at the map again to try and figure out where I am exactly in the city now, I continue walking, picking up my pace. Below in the streets, the zombies continue shuffling along, seemingly unaware of my presence at the moment. It'll take just one of them to spot me for all of them to end up seeing me, although they'll still have to find a way to get up here.
When I reach a stopped train car, I consider entering it and searching for anything I might be able to use, but I decide against it and instead step onto the next track to go around it. I notice that most of the windows have some amount of blood splattered on them from the inside, a few smashed out as well. It reminds me of what the aftermath of one of my murders might've looked like, but for some reason, it's different to see now, in this forever changed world.
Eventually, I'm able to see the supply warehouse from the tracks. It's big, about three stories tall, completely surround by a barbed wire-topped chain link fence, with several overhead doors built into the front of the building, one of them raised slightly. The fence's gate is closed though with a lock, so no zombies are actually on the warehouse's property as far as I can tell. I can probably break the lock, but I'll have to go back down to the streets to reach it. I decide to head back to the previous station since I passed through it just a few minutes ago.
At the station, I'm not even all the way down the stairs leading to the street when the zombies notice me. I push away the few who are waiting for me at the bottom and run towards an alleyway on the far end of the street, dodging any other zombies who are in my path, more and more zombies following after me as I move. Entering the alley, I make my way through the winding brick and concrete, using my machete to take care of the few zombies I come across within it. It's too narrow for me to dodge them without risking the chance of one of them biting me.
Once I reach the other end of the alley, I find myself almost directly across the street from the warehouse's gate. Quickly, I run towards it and, shooting the lock off with my pistol, pull the gate open, somewhat surprised that the lock hasn't been removed by someone before now. Not bothering to close the gate behind me, I then run for the partially open overhead door. Crawling under it, I grab at the bottom and lower it shut, the zombies pounding on it from the outside just seconds later. I'll worry about them when I'm ready to leave though. If I ever feel the need to leave.
The warehouse seems to have everything I could ever need to live off of, its inventory appearing to be almost completely untouched. Just by looking at the labels on the front of the crates that line the tall shelves, I can see that there's food, medicine, weapons with ammo, even standard clothing, among many other useful items. And parked in front of each overhead door: military supply trucks, their backs empty, and after having quick look into one of the them, I discover that their keys are in the ignition and the gas tanks are full. I've hit the jackpot. Prying open one of the food crates with a crowbar I find laying on the floor, I find that it's filled mostly with canned goods and MREs. Not my personal top choice, but it's not like there's much else to choose from here.
I do wonder why the overhead door was open, but no one seems to be here, alive or otherwise. As much as I'd prefer just staying here for a while though, I know that I must return to Harry and the others as soon as possible, so I use one of the forklifts parked around the warehouse to begin loading one of the trucks with as many of the different crates as possible, not stopping until the truck is full. The truck will drive a little slower now from the extra weight, but it'll be worth it I think, if I can make it back alive. I can't leave just yet though. With all those zombies waiting on the other side of the overhead door, they'll tear me to pieces before I can even get the door fully open. I need to distract them somehow.
Leaving my bag in the cab of the truck, I begin prying open the weapons crates left on the shelves, looking for grenades. When I find some, I take one and make my way to the upper floors of the warehouse via a flight of stairs on the other side of the building away from the trucks. And at the top floor, I find out who probably left the overhead door open, their brains all over the wall behind them. Their death wasn't recent though. They've decomposed immensely. Stepping over their body, I go towards a window that looks out over the front area of the warehouse and open it. The crowd of zombies has grown large. Nonetheless, I pull the pin from the grenade and throw it out of the window. It lands in the street outside of the fence, exploding a second later, sending pieces of asphalt into the air and attracting the zombies' attentions from me to it.
Quickly, I get back downstairs and raise the overhead door, some of zombies hearing the noise and slowly turning back around. I climb into the truck and start the engine. Honking the loud horn, I drive forward, easily running over the zombies in my way. Some of the ones that avoid being run over try to open the truck's doors, but fail to do so. Pulling through the still open gate onto the street, I start heading back in the direction I came from, following the 'L' tracks. Once I reach the edge of the city again though, I'll have to plan a different route to get back. I can't use the highway since it would just be impossible to drive across with all the abandoned vehicles on it in a big truck like this and I'll have to avoid the town with the demons in it. The zombies might not be able to stop me in this truck, but I'm sure that the demons would find a way to.
I continue running over zombies, keeping my pistol handy in case any of them somehow do manage to get a door open, and I eventually reach the edge of the city again. Getting my map out while keeping an eye out for any approaching zombies, I plot out a path back to Harry's little fortress town. I imagine he and the remaining others will be very happy to see me and my cargo when I return. Setting the map down on the seat next to me, I starting driving again.
It's almost night by the time I finally return. I don't notice it at first as I approach, but sections of their car wall have been knocked over. Their gate is also open and, very warily, I drive through it, stopping just inside. In addition to the walls being partially destroyed, many of the buildings are on fire and I can see the corpses of both Adam and Charlie, decapitated with large cuts along their bodies and even a couple severed limbs. It had to have been the demons. Turning off the truck, I climb out, machete in one hand and sniper rifle hanging from my shoulder since my pistol would be pretty useless against any demons that might be lurking about still.
"Hello...?"
I immediately hear a noise behind me and spin around with my sniper rifle raised to see Lily stumbling out from behind a pile of the knocked over cars.
Her body begins to convulse and I start taking steps backwards, bringing my sniper rifle back up.
Lily: "AND YOU'LL BE JOINING THEM!"
Her voice has begun changing as well, getting deeper. Then, I hear a ripping sound and realize that it's her clothes, her body getting bigger in mass, until her flesh rips as well, revealing muscles, veins, and other parts underneath. Blood drips from her eyes, nostrils, and ears. I fire several shots at her as I back further away, but the rounds have no affect. She seems to finally stop growing when she's about the size of six full-grown whales put together. And then something even more unexpected happens: she opens what I think are her legs and her clit shoots out at me like a tentacle. I try to dodge it, but it wraps tightly around my legs and knocks me to the ground, causing me to drop both my machete and sniper rifle. Dragging me across the pavement towards its gaping vagina, large crabs, complete with claws, actually crawling out of it around her pubes, I try to pull my legs out of the tentacle, but the grip seems to only get tighter.
"You fucking whore!"
She lets out a laugh as I reach the opening of her hairy, slimy vagina, before tossing me into the warm darkness of what will certainly be my final doom.