The End of the World! + (Zombie Apocalypse)
Prologue:
Saturday is a day most kids look forward to. After a long week of school, it’s just required to take a break and probably play video games. Well not for me. After the Zombie Apocalypse, Saturday is more like Doomsday. It’s the day that the Zombie Apocalypse started.
Chapter 1: The News
Sorry, I just realized that I was getting ahead of myself. Let me give you the story of how all this happened. My name is Chase Ambrose and I’m a 13 year old average teenager and the past few days of my life have been insane.
It all started on Friday. Usually, I get home from school after walking a few blocks with my friends to take a nap. I dropped my backpack on the couch (where my younger brother, Charlie was sitting and watching tv; I’m telling you, younger siblings are so annoying) and bolted to my bed. I layed down and I immediately fell asleep. I dreamed of aliens sending spaceships to Earth. I woke up; I always dream of something that has a less than 0.00001 percent chance of existing. I sighed and headed to my desk to play video games when suddenly, I hear a knock on the door.
“Come In!”, I yelled. Just then Dad came in with a panicked look.
“You gotta see this,” He said frantically. I rushed downstairs to see Mom, also panicked watching some breaking news. It was from NASA. As I listened, the more my brain was getting twisted in a knot. Was this real, or just a complete load of barnacles. Mom looked at me, as if about to scream.
I guessed right.
“Aliens!”, she screamed. This is a joke.
“It might not be”, Dad pitched in, worried, “If it is breaking news from NASA…then I don’t know.” I gulped the lump in my throat, remembering what the man had said, “Our radars have sensed that something peculiar has entered our atmosphere. I know you’re going to argue, but we think it might be aliens. We are trying to do the best we can. In some hours we will inform you of our progress. Until then, try to keep safe. This might be the end of the world…”
The system breaked. Dad and Mom stared at me.
“We gotta get moving!”, he said.
Chapter 2 : Hit the road!
My parents told me to pack up. “Where are we going”, I asked, agitated.
“We don’t have time, We have to be quick!”, Mom said. I rushed to my room, packed some clothes, snacks, my phone and a toothbrush. (In case; my mom is so worried about my dental hygiene). I ran downstairs to see what’s going on and spotted Charlie already packed up and trying to get his shoes on. He locked his eyes on me like I wanted a pet alien. Just then my parents, all dressed, rushed us out to the car.
Now I’m not bragging or anything, but our car was a Tesla Model X, with only 5,000 miles (Yes we got it only a month ago.). It’s not the best way to escape the “so- called” alien invasion, but when you have a 80,000$ dollar car, you use that 80,000$ dollar car. We packed our luggage and hopped in.
“Are we going to Disneyland, like you promised, Dad?” Charlie asked.
“No, we have some serious stuff to do,” dad rolled his eyes at me, definitely like We are escaping a zombie apocalypse. “We are meeting our uncle and a bunch of relatives.” Charlie kicked his legs in disappointment, but a couple minutes later we were driving on Interstate 68. Dad put the radio on, and just then NASA’s breaking news went on.
The guy on the video looked like he was worned-out and he took a long time to actually say the stuff he was supposed to say. I remembered him saying he will get back to us, if NASA has successfully redirected the toxin, so I was fully attentive and was all ears.
“What’s up people around the world. I have some good news and bad news. The tragic news for you is, we couldn’t fight the toxin,…er there seems to be some kind of shield. Our systems have detected that there is a mother ship that crashed on the moon. It’s sending their army to our beloved Earth…All has been done, everyone, get to safety until we come to rescue you. The good news is we have around 75 hours until the toxin pollutes the atmosphere and reaches the ground. The strange thing in the atmosphere seems to be a piece from the mothership. We are working on building spaceships, to save at most a couple thousand people. The ticket price is 50 million dollars. Not everyone will be saved…be safe.”
When the news hit me, my hands watered, now I don’t know if Charlie understood the entire thing, but he seemed worried and suddenly started crying. The crying took awhile to stop and I could sense Dad getting very anxious. No one said anything, and before I knew it, we were in New York.
Chapter 3 : Worst Family Reunion Ever!
The streets were filled with people. I guessed they heard the news because some people were either blabbering on their phones(probably to 911) or running for their lives. We entered a parking lot and strangely the person who’s supposed to be in the box for security, wasn’t there. We got out of the car and walked to a huge house. Now, normally in New York, you would think everyone would live in an apartment, but I guess my uncle was rich because his house looked like a mansion. The exterior of the mansion was glistening in the sun. It was made of brick, with white pillars and a grand patio. I don’t remember meeting any of my uncles, so I had no idea who I would meet. We walked through the patio, and there were security guards. Why would a house in NYC need security guards? This was eccentric enough, I guess my uncle was a great scientist or something, and he is guarding his secrets. I figured that’s why we were going here in the first place.
The first guard greeted us and gratefully opened the door. The second guard was staring at me as if I was the reason for all this alien thing. I wasn’t watching where I was going and I bumped right into a man, who was apparently my uncle. I stumbled backward and took a look at my uncle. He was a tall and muscular man dressed in grand clothes, though I pictured him wearing a psychopath lab coat under his clothes. I had to look up to see him, because he was tall. (Duh) He patted his suit with his arms that I swear could lift boulders.
“Ahh…you must be…Chase” he said, “And this must be Charlie…” He gestured to my little brother.
“Come inside…brother, it’s pretty cold outside” he said in a stern voice. Dad came inside along with mom and gave him a hug. Dad said what people say to relatives or siblings when they meet after a long time.
“What’s your name!” Charlie blurted out. Dad and mom gave a stern look at me and Charlie.
It’s not import-…”
“It’s fine, they’re just kids, you can call me Uncle Randolph.”
“Okay Uncle Randolph, what are we doing today?” Charlie again blurted out.
“We are going to an ice cream lab(No joke you will see later) Charlie seemed excited but also a little suspicious which I was too.
“Come this way,” he gestured to the grand hall and just then I realized how amazing this place was. There were a million different rooms. And spiral staircases leading down to the main hall. As we walked down the main hall, liuentents joined us, and the feeling made me swallow the gulp down my throat. There were also a million doors and we walked into a room titled “Ice Cream Room” (I know right, pretty ironic.) Then we walked through a lab with cybernetic machines.
“DUCK!!” Uncle Randolph yelled as he pulled us down to the ground with his meaty hands. I looked up and down at the floor. Ice Cream all on the floor. Just then I heard a sound, the sound of a doorbell ringing, which was pretty strange, because we seemed like a mile away from it. One of the guards probably opened the door because I heard a racket.
“Well, I guess, we meet some more people here that are invited to the party of doom” Uncle Randolph said in an eerie way. Party of Doom, I thought. We went to the door after dodging a barrage of ice cream attacks, until I was soaked in chocolate ice cream. At least it was tasty.
“We’ll get you cleaned later”, Uncle Randolph said, and I swear he was trying his best not to laugh.
“Stupid ice cream,” I muttered.
Chapter 4 : My Cousin Explodes The Mansion(No Joke)
Okay, first of all, I’m not the most grateful person when it comes to meeting people. [Fine, I was pretty shy] And being drenched in ice cream, just made it worse. So, when everyone was greeting, eachother, I was standing in the back looking like a dope. I saw people I didn’t recognize. Then out of nowhere, this girl came up to me, escaping the crowd. She looked about 15 and was a couple inches taller than me. In one hand she had a phone and had airpods connected to it. I guess it was handy, if she got bored greeting and hugging. She was probably listening to spotify or tiktok. She took her airpods out, and scanned me, as if looking if I was fit for her. I guess I didn’t look at her type because she said some insults.
“What are you doing here in the back, shybaby, and you have ice cream all over you” she said waiting for my reaction, then continued her insults. “Are you poor, or something” I knew better than to tell. I was too old for that, instead I tried to get her back.
“Are you deaf, cause you listen to spotify 24/7” now I’m not the best trash-talker, but I couldn’t see anything else wrong about her. I guess she took that seriously, because she pushed me and I slammed against the wall. She glared at me, gave the I’m watching you sign and turned away.
“Now, now, everyone settles down, we have an important matter to discuss.” announced Uncle Randolph. He shows us all to his grand table. Then servants passed the food to us. And we all ate like a pack of wolves. Then Uncle Randolph informed us on his plans.
“I’m planning to send a destabilizing force to stop the toxin, but for that i need all your guy’s help” he looked at me as if I had something to do that’s very vital. After the meal, he led us down many stairs and into the basement. In there I saw the most cybernetic, most amazing scientific sorcerer, psychopathic genius crazy lab. It had a million vials filled with fluids I thought was unknown. We took a left and there were many high tech computers. On one of the screens I saw a broadcasting poll, but Uncle Randolph switched it off immediately after. I knew something was fishy, but I kept going. We went even deeper into the lab and we found a high-tech table that can project images. I knew this guy was a psycho with a lab. Everyone “oohed” and “ahhed”.
“Now this is Table the Table, he shows where the aliens are. You can see that there are armies on Mars and some headed to Earth. Our job is to stop or delay this toxin to buy us time and let us sneak onto the spaceship.
“Wait, you named your table “Table” and you are planning to sneak into the spaceship. I don’t want to die, but how are we supposed to do that,” said the girl I met earlier, who apparently was named Cathy.
“I have my ways, but first we need to delay this thing, we have to create a high neutrino blast that will send the aliens the other way. N-
“If you know all these things, then why don’t you work with NASA or share your work and ideas.” I blurted out. Everyone agreed.
“Well about that, I have a secret for you, don’t be shocked, the person on the news informing everyone about the toxin…was me! “I’m sorry, I was the one to create all this chaos. 2 years ago I was experimenting with an alien detector so we could finally see if aliens exist or not, but it went wrong and it attracted aliens to us. I want to keep it top secret, and try my best to save people, at least my family. So please keep this a secret.” He said that in a very guilty but I saw some innocence in his tone. Then I remembered the broadcasting poll on the computer.
“What, you lied to me” dad shrieked “You said that you were going to stop the toxin and hold NASA for the safety of the people”.
“I know, I lied, so that we can be safe, let’s stop arguing and make an explosion.” Explosion, I thought
“Cathy, I need your help. Hold these vials so I can pour the fluids in. Chase, you hold the circuits. Everyone else brace yourselves.” I gulped and went over to the circuits. I held them as Cathy held the vials. Uncle Randolph poured the fluids in with safety gear, but one of the wires wasn’t connected.
“Wait”, I yelled to late Cathy pour the vial out.
BBOOOOOOOOMMMM!!! The lab exploded, I was thrown to the floor, my last sight was the table named “Table” exploded with errors that the aliens are advancing at a faster rate. I saw Uncle Randolph on the floor.
“No!” someone yelled. Then my vision went black.
Chapter 5: People are Turning into Zombies!
I woke up to sounds over me. My vision blurred, I turned my head and saw Mom and Dad and many relatives standing over him.
“Get up!” someone yelled. I got up, Cathy turned around, tears in her eyes.
“Great, you woke up, you’re the reason for all of this,” she said sadly. She had bruises and a nasty cut on her arm. I looked at myself, I too was badly hurt. My head buzzed and I almost fainted before Cathy held me up. Turns out I had a concussion from banging my head to the ground. I walked over to the crowd. Mom hugged me.
“You’re alive,” she said. I looked at Uncle Randolph, he was more hurt then all of us. He had multiple bruises, blood was dripping down his mouth. Dad dropped down over him. With his last few breaths he said something.
“The e-explosion caused the aliens to instead accelerate to us. I failed. Leave me, get to the cars,” he pointed to the map of the shelf. “Use the map to find the ship’s location. Sneak in the g-gears.” Then his face dropped down, and I knew he was dead. Dad looked up at us, tears drooping down his face. “Get the map, and we have to find the ship. We all rushed, I got the map, meanwhile, dad went to get Uncle Randolph’s car, we got out of the basement and found no guards, which means they probably fled because of the explosion. We ran out, and saw dad get the cars out. I looked at the map, it had a red “x” on the location. When I saw where it was, my mind blew.
“It’s in Siberia on the map” I yelled.
“We have to take a plane in order to get there in time. Randolph said it increased the rate of the toxin” mom hollered.
Just then another explosion happened; I could see in the distance, probably a few miles away that a fire cloud erupted spewing out strange green fluids. Then the fluids spread into clouds that went all over the place.
“The toxin!!” Mom shrieked.
“Get in the cars,” Dad yelled. We all rushed there were 2 cars, each an 8-seater. The first car my mom and dad got into. Me and Charlie went. Then Cathy went into the backseat. Then the rest of my relatives went in the cars. Most were driven by my uncles and aunts, which later I learnt were Uncle Fredrick, Uncle Bill, and Aunt Susy. We drove away down the road. I saw the green smoke spreading everywhere and accelerating towards us. Dad pressed the gas pedal. We were in a high speed car chase, I mean high speed toxin race.
“Are they following us?” Dad asked.
“Yeah”, said Cathy.
“The nearest airport is JFK and it’s 5 miles away,” I said reading the map. Then after a few seconds, I heard shrieks outside. I looked out to see people getting corrupted by the toxin. They were spreading the infection to everyone. I saw a man(i mean zombie) biting a woman, who was walking her dog who then turned into a green goblin. The poor dog also got corrupted. I saw the JFK airport out in the distance. Just then the news came on. Instead of the man(Uncle Randolph who is now dead)being there, there was an actual NASA member about to report to us.
“The toxin got released, people are dying or getting corrupted…”He stopped himself there probably thinking what to say next. “We have detected that the mother ship sent a laser beam to the sun. This was caused by an unfamiliar explosion that happened, shortly before.” I gulped. “The energy of the laser beam that hit the sun, caused a neutrino wave to hit earth in about 5 minutes. We have set up the spaceships in Siberia and are almost done in-completion. Everyone who can afford the price, stands at the gates. I’m so lucky, I get to be there without paying.” He laughed maniacally. Then in the news, we heard a scream. The NASA member fell to the ground. Then the screen went black. My fists clenched. Then we reached the John.F Kennedy airport. I saw people running around, people panicking to get into the terminal. Some people even escaped security, because they were doing a lousy job, probably ‘cause they were also scared of the zombie apocalypse. I knew that the zombies were the least of the problems. NASA said the mothership shot a laser to the sun, but I didn’t know what was going to happen when the energy wave hit.
We parked on the curb, got out of the car, and avoided people running here and there. Since we didn’t have any luggage(suitcases, if you exclude handbags), we ran for the terminal. We snuck past the terminal guards who apparently were distracted by phone calls. We raced past the line, and stole tickets from someone’s agency. I stumbled when a man in a business suit ran past me. He lifted his hat and probably said “Howdy”, but I thought he was rushing for his lifes. Then a voice came on the intercom.
“Everyone, you have 2 minutes to get on the last plane. Those who don’t, accept your fate, as I’ll and my zombie armies will eat you to shreds.” The voice was nasty and snarly. People froze. Then suddenly, a huge 8 foot zombie leaped out of the office. People screamed and started running around. Then one by one, more zombies leaped out of the office, running after people. We ran the other direction. When we ran past the security line, we got caught by officers.
“Stop right there!” said one of them. Then one of the zombies broke out of the terminal. The officers ran and dropped their guns. We also ran up the escalator. The zombies went after the officers, so it bought us time. We ran past the gates. We had to reach gate 25. We were about 50 feet away from the gate, and I thought we would make it, but the 8 foot leader zombie broke through the elevator and started chasing us. He was gaining on us but right when he was about to corrupt us all, we heard sudden rumbling. The zombie stopped. Then all at once the windows of the airport shattered. The floor cracked. I now know what the energy wave would do to the earth. DISASTER.
Flying over a Magnitude 9.5 Earthquake
You know all those disasters that happened in the past, that were caused by earthquakes. If you think that’s bad, this earthquake was terrible. The rumbling itself was loud enough to make a jet engine sound look like a whisper. The cracks widened and soon it turned the airport gates into a trench. The zombie must’ve realized this, because instead of going after us, he ran for his life with us. My eyes locked on gate 25, behind us gate 20 fell into the trench. We only had seconds before the trench swallowed us.
“Get to the gate!” I yelled.
“I know that already!” Cathy yelled over the sound. Dad had to pick up Charlie and before we knew it we reached gate 25. Nobody was there. They must have run into the jet bridge connected to the airplane. The glass fell on top of me, I tripped.
“Help!”
“Chase!” my mom yelled. Then Cathy got me up and together we ran to the pipe. The leader zombie fell into the trench, and we all got into the pipe. We were about =““`halfway through, when the bridge split in half. The bridge slanted and all of us were about to fall, when the security held out our hands. Charlie screamed and with all our team work we got pulled up and bolted in the airplane. Seconds after that, the jetway fell into the trench. Then, the trench moved its way to the airplane. The airplane moved wheels skinning the ground, People stumbled in their seats. Everyone rushed to random seats, including us. Even the plane crew panicked and sat.
Over the intercom, the pilot rushed his words. Everyone got the message. We need to get out of here. The pilot steered the plane out on the runway. The plane speeded up, the trench was about to swallow us. We were about to fall when we took off in the air. I peered down at the ground, which was now a big cavern sucking everything in like a black hole. I sighed, I’ve been so lucky and everything from an ordinary life to a disaster. I taught about Uncle Randolph and how he sacrificed his life for us. I can’t let that go in vain. I don’t know what happened after that. Maybe I fell asleep, but when we woke up we were landing in Siberia. The view was astonishing. Afterwards, we ran to the nearest taxi. He was in a rush, so when we told him where to go, we reached there in minutes. The location was in the hill area. When we reached, the driver immediately asked us if we could buy him a ticket. We explained to him that we were sneaking him.
He asked us if he could be with us. After some thinking, we said okay. We rushed through the terrain and I saw the spaceship. It was at least 100 feet tall, and below many people were running around and checking-in the ship. We went down the trail and snuck in through the hatch. Out there the ship dwarfed us. We sneaked in through the bridge. And when the door opened we snuck inside. Inside there were many gears. Outside, I could hear the intercom, it was saying that they were going to start the ship in 10 seconds. The taxi driver pulled his foot in right when the door closed. We had to figure out how to get in the main hatch. Then I spotted a pipe.
“Let’s get the pipe and loop it around the gears!” I said. Together we threw the pipe around the gears. At around that time, the ship started, it got darker. The gears started moving and the pipe lodged between them stopping them. We all hung on to the rope, and we pushed through holding the pipe. The gears started and with the rope cut, I slammed against the floor. I was getting dragged in.
“Someone help!” I screamed. Then the taxi driver jumped in and pulled me over.I turned over, but he slipped and his leg was cut off by the gears.
“ARRGGGH!!” he screamed. I held him before he fell. Then Uncle Fredrick helped us up, but he slipped, and I missed his hands. He got crushed by the gears.
“NOOO!!” Dad screamed. After that loss, dad pulled me over and the gears stopped. We pulled out of the hatch and entered the main station. It was very high-tech. People were getting to their cabins. Then an announcement happened.
“The gears are clogged, and zombies are coming near! We have detected a tsunami of 100 feet heading over to us. “Brace for impact, while we figure out what’s wrong.” Then overboard, I heard clanging, and then it broke open. The zombies got on board. The crew shot them with guns, but they were too much. People started dying and then the tsunami hit. It washed away all the zombies and flooded the ship.
“Close the ship door,” said one crew-member. The ship door closed and miraculously the gears worked again. Then the spaceship tried to launch, but with all the damage and water, it failed. Another announcement came on.
“Change of plans! We are going to float on the water and head to South Africa. With all the destruction, South Africa rose 1,000 feet and it is the only safe place to go!”
Then we started the journey to South Africa.
Epilogue
TWO WEEKS LATER
See, that’s my story, I got you caught up, but this is how it ends. I went to the platform in front of the ship. The view was amazing. I met Cathy there eating a cookie she must have got from the pantry.
“Hey!” I said in a shy voice.
“What’up,” she replied. I could see the landscape of Africa nearing us. The waves of disaster loomed around it.
“The last few days…have been pretty wild, but don’t you think we can survive on this new place.”
“Dunno,” she said. “Well, I’ll see you when we get there.”
“Same,” I said with a smile.
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