Surviving Apocalypse with Powers of Fictional Characters

{Team Ares, you jerks! When you come back *bzzt* I *bzzt* you *bzzt*}

That was the last message Melissa spoke over the radio, before it went out of range.

Chai stood up after rolling down from the Range Rover that was going at 80 km/h.

It took him a few moments to get back his stability, and he began running clumsily towards the Fire Station.

SMASH!

ROAAAR!

SQUAAKK!

Tens of zombies inside the building were attracted by the unknown person breaking the window.

Shrieks and howls came from every corner of the building's windows and doors.

"HEY!! GRAB MY HANDS!" (Zack)

The person looked at him with a flabbergasted look, and tried the hardest to reach him.

It wasn't easy hanging on a ledge with one hand, and reaching out with the other.

'Almost…there…' (Zack)

"Ah".

The person's hand slipped!

Instinctually, Zack let go of the wall he was gripping, and dived straight to the person.

The fall felt like an eternity.

Although free-falling from three stories up only lasts a few moments, but it certainly felt long for Zack and person he's trying to save.

It might be the adrenaline, or his super-powered brain processing information at a high speed, but he could see every single details on that person's face.

Dark, auburn hair.

Fair, pale complexion with hints of freckles across her nose bridge.

Naturally-sculpted auburn eyebrows.

Deep, blue eyes with miniscule tints of hazel.

Perfectly oval face that accentuates one's femininity.

***

"ZAAAAAAAAACK!"

Just a few meters away, Chai screamed.

Seeing his best friend falling down to bloodthirsty zombies waiting on the ground floor made his adrenaline kicked in.

He ran faster and faster.

"These sons of b*tches-"

He launched himself into the air.

SPLAT!

KA-BASH!

DOOF! DOOF! DUSH!!

Chai's first attack was a flying kick, leveraging the momentum he produced by jumping.

It sent three zombies' bodies splattered and stacked on the wall!

"Wachaa!"

He threw a right straight directly onto the nicely aligned zombie heads. The punch smashed through them as if he was punching watermelons!

"Watoo!!"

Instinctively, he created a one-meter radius by roundhouse-kicking the tens of zombies swarming him.

The force generated was so strong that some zombie's neck got twisted in abnormal angles!

"Heeyak!"

Chai gracefully executed the [Kame School Martials Arts] kung-fu moves.

Flesh-hungry creatures rushed in towards him, all 360°.

"Humph. Know your places!"

With a flick of an arm, Chai made the zombies crashed into each other by directing their charging forces.

Calmly dodging and side-stepping the incoming attacks, the turned the masses of zombies into a ball of living corpses who got their hands stuck with each other.

Ever since the skill got upgraded into the second level, his combat ability risen exponentially.

'Crazy. Is this really me? It feels like me…and not me at the same time.'

'F*ck all that! I'm lovin' this!'

"A-tatatatatatatatatatatatah!"

His fists moved tremendously fast that they blurred. Heads upon heads of zombies were smashed into pulp.

While Chai was busy 'playing' with the zombies, a loud 'BOOM' sounded a few inches behind him.

Falling down from ten meters above ground level, two figures laid down still on the yard space between the building and the metal fence.

Zack landed on his back as a result of losing his focus.

Opening up his eyes, he realized that he was hugging a woman.

"H-hey, miss…are you alright?" (Zack)

There was no response.

Zack could only felt her trembling body on top of him.

'She must be scared sh*tless.' (Zack)

When he regained full control of his senses, he realized the softness of her body.

Her sweet but sweaty smell pervaded his nose.

Looking downwards, he could see her head buried in his chest.

Wearing a thin, dirty tattered dress, Zack's skin could feel the contours of her body. This made him cursed his [Super Senses] skill for giving him a super-sensitive sense of touch.

A shadow loomed over his face.

Slowly, the shadow revealed itself.

"Motherf*cker, sleeping comfortably with a bolster while I finish off the walkers? The gall!"

It was Chai!

A big smile appeared on Zack's face. He was relieved to see his best friend, especially in this kind of situation.

Extending out his right hand, Zack grabbed it and Chai pulled him up.

"Who dis?" (Chai)

He pointed at the trembling girl hugging Zack.

Zack helplessly shrugged.

'Ground's rumbling.'

Zack could feel the wave of steps coming to his direction.

He looked at his best friend.

As if telepathically linked, Chai knew exactly what Zack is thinking.

"Hey! Me and him are gonna go North! You comin'?" (Chai)

The woman snapped out of her trembling, and suddenly looking around the area.

"DANNY! DANNYYYYY! OH MY GOD, DANNYYYYY!!!"

She screamed while running towards to the ground floor's window.

She tried to scale the window and climbed back up to the top floor.

"DANNY! DANNY!!!! PLEASE!! PLEASE!!!!!"

Her frail figure could not muster enough energy to climb up. She stumbled down on her rear.

*hic* "Danny…Danny…." *sniff*

Liquid dripped down her pale cheeks. She sobbed and called out the name endlessly.

While dejectedly kneeling down, two handsome youths came into her view.

As she was about to open her mouth, roars and howls entered her ears. Her pupils stated to dilate and her heart rate raised up.

Chai squatted down, and looked at her eyes.

"As much as I like to smack those things sh*tless, you'll be in the way." (Chai)

Puzzled by his words, she felt her entire body lifted up and positioned on a person's shoulder.

"Miss! We'll talk later when we're at a safe place!" (Zack)

With her head on Zack's back, she felt her legs and rear being clutched by a man's arms.

"H-hey! What are you doing!! Let Me Go!!! HEELLLLLLPPPPP!!!"

She trashed and struggled, but to no avail. The man holding her was too strong.

CREAAAAAAKKKKK.

"BRO, LET'S GO!!" (Chai)

Three humans started moving out from the metal fences of the Fire Station.

Zack ran out first, and the woman kept struggling and screaming.

And then, she got slapped out of the sudden.

When she looked up, it was an ethereal man with a stunning visual.

"I swear, if you scream one more time, I'll break your neck like that steel bars behind us." (Chai)

She traced her eyes back to the metal fence where they came from, and the bars were bent almost 45°.

'W-What? Them too?'

She kept her mouth shut along afterwards during their escape.

***

Catching their breath, Zack and Chai slumped down against a wall.

The first batch of horde appeared on the way North, which heads to the Air Force Base.

They ran far East until they saw a small power substation.

It was surrounded by a grey-two meter brick wall with blue metal spikes laced on top.

The climbed up the gate and broke into the 1,500 square feet building which housed the power substation.

"God dam*, I'm so hungry after that work out." (Chai)

"Is food the only thing in your head right now?" (Zack)

They playfully argued back and forth.

Curling up her body in the corner, the woman that Zack saved looked at them cautiously.

'It can't be that they saved me out of goodwill, right?'

"How much you got? I brought like, too little." (Chai). He showed Zack a few protein bars, candies and chocolates.

He brought the snacks together during the 'Distraction Mission' in case he got hungry.

"Me too. Just for some light eating. How's your water?" (Zack)

They shook their black military canteen. They could roughly have enough for a day.

Glub. Glub.

The duo drank their water heartily. They finally had the time to cool down.

Glancing at the woman, Zack heard her gulping.

"Miss, you should have some." (Zack)

He walked towards her. Out of nowhere, she started scream off warnings like a cat that got its tail stepped.

Putting his hands up, he gestured that he meant no harm.

He placed the canteen on the ground, and slid it over to her direction.

Still staring at the men warily, she slowly took the bottle with her eyes locked onto them all the way until she opens the lid and start drinking.

"Ah-hey! You idiot! HEY!" (Chai). He got shocked seeing her gulping down the whole canteen in just a matter of seconds.

'She must've been dehydrated.' (Zack)

"Great job, bolster. Now we'll have to find more. Sheesh, Zack, ya should've told her to just take a sip, not chug it like we're in a drinking competition!" (Chai)

Shaking his head, Chai opens up a chocolate bar.

Unconsciously, the woman started to drool looking at Chai eating.

Zack giggled at her, and offered up some of his food.

"I-I won't be tricked! I won't trade my body for any of it! I'd rather die!!"

She curled and hugged her body back into a corner. Her eyes screamed resolved, but her body said otherwise.

*Grumble grumble grumble*

Her stomach's rumbling was quite loud that both Zack and Chai heard it.

With a smile, Zack threw a candy bar and landed near her.

"But isn't it nice to share our food with others?" (Zack)

She looked at him with an estranged expression.

'Nobody would be this idiotic to give up their food. What does he want? What is he up to?'

After staring at the candy bar for several seconds, her hands quickly grabbed it and tore the wrapper away.

"Haha bro, look at her looking at you. She must be thinking you're an idiot." (Chai)

Zack helplessly looked at his best friend.

The candy was gone a blink of an eye. She has been hungry for more than a day.

While talking about their next moves, a cold feminine voice interrupted them.

"What do you men want?"

"Sigh. What a 'mannerly' child. Oh, and you're dearrrrrrrrrrrrly welcomed for the free food and water!" (Chai).

"Okay that's enough, bro. Hi, I'm Zack. Me and Chai here were on our way to the Air Force base up ahead." (Zack)

She was silent for a few moments.

"My name is Jen."

"Jen, the only thing that me and my buddy here wants is to find a way to quickly board a plane. Our other teammates are waiting at the base, so to speak." (Zack)

He inquired her if anybody from the army came to rescue them.

"Nobody came! The firemen said that help was going come, but they lied! If somebody came to get us out…then, Danny…he..he.." (Jen)

Tears stated to gush out from her watery eyes.

She told them that when the event happened, she was at the movies with her fiancé. They thought the screams and panic they heard outside the cinema were the people from the horror movie hall.

Miraculously, they escaped with their life. They killed a few zombies along the way.

When they ended up at the Fire Station, they were taken in by the firemen.

The firemen tried to calm the situation down, but they could not handle three to four hundred starving people.

Without any positive response from the higher authorities, they decided to take the Fire Trucks to get help from the Air Force base up north.

That was when all hell broke loose.

"Somebody told the others that the Firemen were going to leave us, and the whole Station panicked." (Jen)

They started fighting among each other on who gets to follow the firemen.

In the end, a group of cunning people worked with a gang of hooligans to escape with the Fire Trucks.

They held the firemen who knew how to drive the trucks at knife-point.

'They might've survived if they worked together.' (Zack)

After the society scums took away two Fire Trucks and escaped successfully, a group of civilians rised to the occasion.

They bantered and threw tantrums towards the remaining Firemen. They wanted them to drive them to the safety of the Air Force base.

The ruckus made by the people on the ground floor attracted the nearby zombies.

Panic ensued and all hell broke loose.

The only remaining Firetruck was frantically driven by some untrained madman and crashed the Station's front gates, breaching the barricades.

"We were placed at the top floor. When the zombies came in, we had time to find a place to hide ourselves." (Jen)

Hordes upon hordes of zombies began invading the Station.

The survivors like Jen had to endure thirst, pain and hunger for almost 24 hours. It was a day later, that a beguiling phenomenon happened.

"Out of nowhere, we heard a song. We felt from the zombies outside started moving, then after a while…they were gone!" (Jen)

She and her fiancé slowly crept out of their room. Seeing that the corridor was clear, they were going to make a break for it.

"And then that bast*rd pervert got into our way." (Jen)

Her eyes shone with vengeance. Her furious expression tells it all.

Jen's exceptional beauty did not go unnoticed. Her exquisite face, her unique hair…and her ravishing body has gotten a few men lusting over her.

The only thing stopping them from her was her big-built fiancé.

"Danny fought him, but he was weird. He looked like a weak fat person, but his strength…he was stronger than my fiancé." (Jen)

"When the fat guy ran out of energy, he kicked open a door and zombies came out!" (Jen)

The despicable man set up a trap for the couple, she said he screamed: "If I can't f*ck you, nobody can! Go f*cking die with him!"

CRACK!

Startled by the loud noise, Zack and Jen looked at Chai.

Chai punched a hole on the ground.

"F*cking fatso! Jenny! If we ever meet him again, let me at 'em!" (Chai). He pounded his fist to his palm in anger.

"What happened afterwards?" (Zack)

"We ran. We ran back up, and the zombies chased us. We were at a dead-end once we reached the top floor." (Jen)

Melancholy flooded her heart.

The last thing she saw was her fiancé smiling at her.

While holding off the zombies with his body, he endured the pain of his flesh getting bit to give Jen time.

The last words from his lips would forever be etched in her memories.

'I Love You'

Upon reciting that, Danny fell down as the zombies swarmed his delicious human body.

"By the time I came to sense, I was down on the ground. When Danny died, something deep inside my mind came out and I could feel the world shook." (Jen)

"I realized the floor, the walls, the window were…destroyed. Like something blasted it." (Jen)

"I figured I'd jump out and die…since Danny is dead. But my hands…they kept me alive. I small part of me wanted to live. I wanted to continue living. For Danny's sake." (Jen)

She wipes away her uncontrollable tears.

"Jen, you said that you felt something came out and suddenly things around you got destroyed." (Zack)

She nodded.

"Did you had a robotic voice spoke to you in your head, after the first creepy-voiced announcement?" (Zack)

"I…can't remember." (Jen)

Looking at her curiously, Zack took out a Space Grey iPhone X he used earlier today.

As if he has been waiting for this day to come, he handed her the cellphone.

She saw a list of names.

"Jen, I won't ask for anything else in return for the food and water. I just need you to read the names on this list, one by one. Tell me if something happened." (Zack)

'They seem…okay. It's just reading a list, I'll just entertain him a little.' (Jen)

Raven.

"..."

Akira.

"…"

Lucy.

Nyu.

"…"

After almost 70 names, it finally appeared.

"Jean Grey." (Jen)