“Be quiet!” he commanded me, “You’ll draw attention!.”
“Sorry, but umm..” not sure how to say it, “how are you still alive?” I asked. I thought I would be the only one alive after this.
“Well I was doing work in my office and my wife came in and told me to look outside. I knew this would be a good hiding spot so we went here,” Michael explained.

I finished explaining to her how/why we were there. She seemed so surprised to see anyone else.
“Well what are we going to do now?” Amy (the technician) asked.
“I don’t know, we should probably go warn everybody, we could go over to my sisters house, since her husband is a survivalist.” I suggested, trying to keep my cool. We rushed over to her house to find that the house was completely in lockdown, Will must’ve come home, I thought. I started to bang on the door and yell for someone to let us in.

Once we got inside their house, it looked as if nothing was wrong in the world.
“Oh, I’m so glad everybody is okay!” my sister said looking worried. “I’ve seen you brought a friend”
“Hi, I’m Amy, they found me working on the electricity problem in the town hall. Decided to bring me along I guess,” she said.
“Oh, well welcome to my home, wish I could’ve met you under different circumstances though.” she said laughing a little at the end.
“Yeah,” Amy couldn’t help but smile. Jessica could do that to almost anyone. Will walked into the room at that moment.
“We’re going to have to get out of here, somehow, we can never survive here, I’ve done some research and it turns out the zombies are all over the world, we’ll have to go to space. “I say we try to get a plane and fly to Australia.” Will said fumbling with a backpack the whole time. “Oh, hey guys, didn’t see you there,” Will said finally looking up.
“Hey,” they all said back in unison.
“This is Amy, she’s a technician, she can be pretty useful with making the plane work, I think.” Jessica said, introducing her. He grunted in return. They all started packing everything and anything that is useful and got into the tank. Since Will is a survivalist he has been preparing for this day for 20 years, and it sure has paid off.
They all packed in it and they were off! He went full speed in the tank for almost two hours. They were in the country, with almost no zombies. They stopped to rest for the night, and got up bright and early the next morning. They wanted to make the food they had last as long as possible and decided to go hunting.
Will, Michael, Josh, and Chris do while the three girls make a fire and gather some edible berries and plants. It’s late afternoon before everybody gets back. They have a fire, some meat, some berries and two extra people!
Michael explained the whole thing over dinner and how they ran into each other. They both were hunting and ran into each other. They decided to bring them back here because they didn’t have a chance of survival by themselves. Their names were Lauren and Mason.
“Lauren is a wildlife biologist and has been studying them and how/when they move to different places. Mason is an old army sergeant and knows how to survive in the wild..” Michael said. After the long story they all retreated to bed.
“Well you’re welcome to stay here, we have room for you too,” Jessica said, “You know, we make a pretty good team, I mean we have all the necessary skills to survive. We have a pretty good chance if you ask me.”
“Yeah, we do don’t we,” said Will finally looking relaxed after two whole days of fretting.They made some extra beds for them and Mason started of as the watch person.
They all woke up to Mason screaming at them, they saw a group of zombies coming towards them. But the zombies didn’t see them because the tank was camouflaged. Mason shushed everybody and started to spy on them.
“It looks like they either aren’t interested in us or they don’t see us,” Mason reasoned.”I think we’re safe.” Everybody went back to bed, it was almost two in the morning when they woke up again to the entire tank shaking back and forth.
“What the…” Michael said confused. They all rushed to the windows to find zombies on the other side.
“I thought they left, and who was supposed to be on guard?” Amy said confused and scared at the same time.
“Well I was but then I went to sleep and I told Catherine to and she must’ve fallen asleep.” Mason said, even he was scared at this point.
“This tank will hold, but we can’t stay in here forever, we have to get rid of them,” Will started to pace around. Suddenly Ava whispered something in Lauren’s ear.
“That should work actually,” Lauren said looking hopeful. They whispered some more into each others ears and finally announced their game plan. They all went into action immediately. Catherine opens the door and bolts. Of course the zombies follow her and they take off in the tank, going to the meeting place Catherine had decided. They were going to go pick her up in the woods where the zombies couldn’t find her. As they zoomed along they all started to cheer, it worked! They unlatched the door to find that Catherine was lying on the ground with a deep bite.

“Shut it, shut it!” Will screamed. He started the tank again. Everybody started to scream and Will’s kids started to cry. Even though they were in middle school, they didn’t know how she got bit and they had grown close to Catherine. Now they had to leave her because she had become a zombie.
They zoomed off into the distance, making a cloud of dust after them. Will had been quiet for a long time, so had everyone else. Finally Ava decided to make a conversation.
“I can’t believe that happened!” Ava blubbered, on the verge of tears along with the rest of the team. “That was all my fault, I never should’ve done that plan,” she said.
They all comforted her while Will spoke up. “We all knew that something like that would happen, it was just a matter of time, we probably won’t make it anyway, we just never should do that again. Especially falling asleep on watch.” he commented.
“Yeah, it’s everyone’s fault, and nobody’s fault, she choose to go and get the zombies away from us, but we didn’t stop her,” Michael said thoughtfully.
“That’s true, and Will is right also,” Jessica agreed.
That night nobody slept well, and they have two watches just in case that happened again. They had to keep moving so they decided to drive through the night, everyone was afraid that the zombies were catching up to them. Since they had already seen a pretty big group they wondered if there were more zombies then they thought. Nothing happened that night, which was fine by everyone in the tank.
They woke up the next morning starving. They had forgotten to eat dinner last night since they were so worried. Over a big breakfast they thought of a plan.
“If we want to get out of here alive we have to make a game plan,” Will said.
“Well, the zombies are all over the world. Nobody from the outside world (space)knows what’s going on since we lost contact with them. We need to get to another planet by ourselves. Which means going into space with a spaceship that may not work.” Chris said.
“Wow, you are really like your dad, huh?” Jessica said, laughing.
Chris beamed. That was the best compliment he could get, he thought to himself.
“Once we get there we need to get some troops over here so we can see if there are any other survivors, it’s too dangerous for us to look for them ourselves.” Michael said.
“And we have to get to a landing strip where we can take off with the ship.” Will said.
“Sounds like a plan, that was pretty easy, but where are we and how long is it going to take to get to the closest spot?” Jessica said.
“Yeah, and where is the closest spot? Where are we going to find a spaceship? And the fuel for it, to go all the way to Australia? How long is it going to take? Will we have enough food?” everybody shot questions at Will.
“Umm, let me check the navigator...we are in Kentucky, or what used to be Kentucky he said looking out the window. And the closest spot to a landing strip is in Maine, it should take us, if we go at full speed, three days. Well, we could just go from town to town looking for an airport and we could then just drag it behind us until we reach Maine. To get fuel we could just find a plane that has a full tank of fuel and we should have enough food. At the rate we’ve been eating it we should have a month and half left with food we don’t have to hunt. To be on the safe side though we might want to gather and hunt so we have extra food for the plane, but we don’t want to weigh it down so we have to leave everything we don’t absolutely need behind.” Will answered already having a plan.

“Okay, sounds like a plan!” Amy said. “I could help with the plane, I took a course in highschool about plane techy stuff.” she said again.
“We actually have a chance at surviving now, at least I think, “ Will whispered trying not to scare his kids.
They traveled for a full day before reaching a town that had an airport. They all got out except for Ava and Amy just in case they had to make a quick get-away they had them to go and get them in the tank.
Once they were inside the airport they went and looked for food first, because they could always use some. Plus the food they had wasn’t very good. They found some and Mariah had gone off by herself because she had a hunch that there was a bunch of food in a different room. No one saw her go off and when they got out to the landing strip to put the teams together to look for a good ship they couldn’t find her.
“Where did Mariah go?’’ Chris asked, he had gotten pretty close to her since they were always on the road.
“I don’t know, but I just saw her, she couldn’t have gone too far.” Mason said, not really worried, “Maybe she just went back to the tank.”
Chris didn’t think so though, why would she be so irresponsible? He thought to himself. That’s not like her at all. He stayed quiet the rest of the time, he couldn’t get his mind off of Mariah.
They finally made it out to where all the planes were. They split up into three different groups. The first group was Mason, Michael and Chris. The second group was Jessica and Josh. And the third group was Skylar and Lauren.

In the end they don’t ever find Mariah. Skylar dies shortly after Mariah gets lost because she was the first to eat the airport food and it had mold on it that was deadly. They crash land on the planet of Murgog with only 10 survivors. They had another run-in with the zombies but fought them off when they were at another airport. In all they had to go to three airports to find a good spaceship, that wasn’t falling apart and had a full tank of fuel and oxygen. They meant to go to Mars, one of the biggest military bases in the Milky Way Galaxy. The people of Murgog welcome them and give them the help they need to go and fight the zombies off. They find about one million survivors of the seven billion that used to live on Earth. They get rid of all he zombies but the people that still live on Earth are afraid of the aliens because they never had seen any aliens like them.