After getting betrayed by Dr Van we found ourselves in another predicament as he took our blood and then trapped us in the room and used the fog to knock us out. If we were gonna get off this island once and for all we had to do one job and that's to take down Dr Van.
As I began to regain conscience I awoke to the sound of the alarms blaring in the building. As I looked around the rest of the group was still unconscious. "Hey! Hey! Ana! Get up!" - I said as I nudged her shoulder. As Ana awoke she looked confused as to what was going on. "What's going on...?" - Ana asked as she still seemed out of it. "Dr Van used the smoke to knock us out and now the alarms are going off in the building. We gotta go." - I said as I helped Ana up.
"Jean get up man! We gotta go!" - I said as I nudged his shoulder to wake him up. Halima awoke shortly after to the blaring sounds of the alarm. "I'm gonna kill that fucker when I see him I swear." - Jean said as he got up from the floor. "Oh shit guys! The door is open." - Ana said as she began to walk towards the door. "Alright lets go." - I said as I grabbed a needle off of the floor to use as a weapon.
As the rest of the group followed we entered the halls but everything looked completely different than how it was before we fell out. Everything was thrown all over the place and the only lights that were on were red alarm lights as the alarm kept sounding across the building. As we walked down the hallway we saw the corpses of the security guards that previously guarded the place. "Holy shit...looks like we weren't the only ones that he fucked over." - Jean said as he looked at the horrific sight.
As we kept walking we saw Dale laying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. "Holy shit...its Dale!" - I said as I ran to his aid. "Dale...Dale...wake up buddy. It's us man." - I said as Dale seemed out of it. "Angel.....here...the keys to the car." - Dale said as blood was coming out of his mouth. "Hang in there man. Can you tell me what happened?" - I said as I held Dale up. "Well I went to check on you guys to see how you were doing but I found you all passed out on the floor. I had no idea what had happened so I went to Dr Van to confront him about it. When I walked into the room he was gearing up as if he was about to leave. When I asked him why you guys were on the floor he said that you guys were just pawns and that he had no intention of letting you guys leave." - Dale said as he continued to go in and out of conscience.
"Dale...stay up for me man. Tell me what happened after." - I said as I kept trying to keep Dale awake. "He told me that his plan the whole time was to get you guys here so he could steal your blood and then flee to the US and sell it on the black market. He said something about your blood being worth money. He said he never had any intention of creating a cure or saving anyone." - Dale said as he coughed up more blood.
"That rat bastard..." - Ana said in disgust. "What happened after?" - I asked. "When I told him I was gonna wake u guys up and tell you about it he took a gun off one of the guards and shot me. He then began shooting at the rest of the guards killing or wounding most of them.." - Dale said as he was struggling to stay awake. "Do you know where he's going?" - Jean asked. "He told me he was planning to take the boat he told us about and flee the island with it. He's probably on the way right now." - Dale said.
"That bastard is gonna leave the island. We can't let him or else our blood gets out there and then it will end up in the wrong hands!" - Halima said. "It's also our only way off the island..." - Ana said. "I'm sorry Angel. It's all my fault." - Dale said as he kept coughing up more blood. "No don't say that. You thought you were doing the right thing. It's not our fault we were deceived. You did good man. We will make sure he doesn't get off the island." - I said. "When you find him make him wish his mom kept her pants closed." - Dale said as he handed me a gun. "We will man. We will." - I said as Dale began to lose consciousness.
"Dale...Dale...stay with me man!" - I said as I kept nudging him but no response. All of us stood there and watched in horror and sadness as a member of our team had died in our arms. As I placed Dale on the floor my eyes began to tear up as I felt sad but also angry and hatred for what Dr Van did. "We have to take Dr Van down...for Dale. We can't let him die for nothing. We have to stop him." - Ana said. "We will and when I find him I'm gonna make him wish he was one of the infected." - I said as I got up and began walking towards the exit.
As we left the building we got into the car and took off as we didn't want that bastard to get off the island. "Shit the gate is closed!" - Jean said as we saw the locked gate. "Hang on tight." - I said. "Why?" - Halima asked. "We are about to break through it." - I said as everyone began to buckle up. I reversed the car to get enough distance between us in the gate and began to burn rubber. After burning rubber I stepped on the gas as the car went through the gate knocking it down.
"Holy shit that was crazy!" - Jean said as we continued to drive. A few moments later the skies got suddenly cloudy and hard rain began to follow. It was the perfect weather as the day had gone from full of hope to full of hope to sadness and regret.
As we arrived at the docks we could see Dr Van loading the supplies on his boat while carrying an assault rifle on the other hand. I parked the car and quickly confronted Dr Van as I aimed my gun at him.
"Huh? So I'm guessing you guys found out the truth?" - Dr Van said as he turned to our direction with a deceiving smile on his face. "Dale told us everything. He told us about how you were never gonna let us leave the island. He told us how your intention was always to use us for our blood and throw us away like trash. I always knew we couldn't trust you" - Ana said. "You're a smart girl. You had every reason to be skeptical of my offer. After all the world we live in now is drastically different than how it was a few days ago." - Dr Van said as he stood next to the boat.
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"You have to understand that it's every man for himself now! Nobody is going out of their way to help others....and if they are well they unfortunately pay the price of death. Your friend Dale ultimately had to pay that price. He couldn't keep his two senses to himself! He thought being the good guy was gonna get us some place but he never understood anything! You think the government was worrying about us when the outbreak started? You really think that?! They weren't worried about shit! They left the island at the first opportunity they received! They said fuck the rest and left us like garbage. They left good people on the island! Doctors, policemen, firemen! They left everyone. It didn't matter if you were a good person or not! It didn't matter if you put your lives on the line countless times for others. None of that mattered! They left everyone! They never gave a shit about any of us!" - Dr Van said as he thought he tried justifying what he was doing.
"So just because an apocalypse breaks out its a reason for you to abandon all your morals? You think that you can justify doing that because of the outbreak?" - Ana asked as she stood behind me. "You gotta understand that it's nothing personal! I'm just doing everything I can to stay alive. If that means betraying a couple of good people then so be it!" - Dr Van said. "You son of a bitch...you call yourself a doctor? A doctor doesn't take lives. They save them. I don't care how bad shit has gotten out here. I will never allow that to be an excuse to stop saving lives and abandon my morals!" - Jean said.
"Oh you poor soul...you never really had it in you either? Putting your lives on the line to save all of these people and for what? A sense of relief and character? You did all of that and yet your pathetic ass is still here trying to survive! Meanwhile I took the first chance I got at potentially getting something good out of this! With this blood I can sell it and make potentially billions of dollars from the right buyer. It's the least I could get for doing all that I did on this island. I saved dozens of lives and the first chance the government got they took it and tossed us like trash. Everything I did and it was for nothing...but now all of it will be for something." - Dr Van said as he lifted up his gun and prepared to shoot us.
Before I could fire my gun, another shot fired from behind Dr Van striking him in the heart killing him. As I stood there wondering what happened a figure emerged from the shadows. As the figure got closer it turned out to be someone that I didn't expect to be alive. "Jack?? How the fuck..." - I said as I was surprised to see him alive. As he got closer he had a gun in his hand and began pointing it at us. As I was about to shoot he placed his finger on the trigger and aimed it at Ana and the rest of the group. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. Pull that trigger and your sweet little fan club dies." - Jack said as he aimed the gun at the rest of the group.
"How the hell are you alive? We heard you scream when the infected attacked you." - Jean said as he was just as surprised as the rest of us. "You really thought you could get rid of me by tossing me into a horde of infected? You guys claim to save lives yet you tossed me to a horde at the first chance you got." - Jack said. "You tried to kill me and Ana you sick fuck!" - I said "Shut the fuck up! Shut up or I will blow their heads off." - Jack said as he kept aiming the gun at them. "Well it turns out throwing me into a horde of infected wasn't enough to kill me. Just like you and your little fan club I'm immune. Isn't that crazy?' - Jack said as he laughed.
"Wait...if you're alive then was that you who sabotaged our car?" - Halima asked. "Ah the quiet girl finally spoke and is actually smart! To answer your question, yes that was me. When I woke up I went back to the room to see if you guys were there but you weren't. A few moments later I heard a car taking off and I figured that the only ones who would possibly be trying to escape would be you guys and I knew that the only place you guys would be going to would be the fire department so I followed you guys there. Once I found a window to go in I tried to enter the department but you guys had the door barricaded and there was too many infected in the area to try anything so I thought of the next best way to try and kill you all!" - Jack said.
"So you thought by sabotaging our car we would be stranded and then killed by the infected because we wouldn't have anywhere to go?" - Ana said. "Correct. You're pretty smart!" - Jack said. "That still doesn't explain how you knew we were going to the docks." - Jack said. "Well after you guys left the fire department I went inside to check the communications room and that's when you guys made a big mistake." - Jack said as he hinted towards the radio and looked at Jean. "Ah shit.." - Jean said as he knew he made a mistake. "So I sat down and scrolled through the channels but didn't hear anyone but I wasn't about to give up so I tried looking for a way to find logs of previous audios and that's when I found the conversation that you guys had with that doctor. Once I heard that you guys were going to the docks I started walking over here and boom...here I am!" - Jack said as he was laughing.
"Look man..we are just trying to get off the island. We have gone through hell to get here and we really need to get out of here." - I said as I tried to plead with him. "Well it sounds like today isn't your lucky day. I can't let you take this boat and I damn sure can't let you guys leave this island alive." - Jack said as he cocked back the gun. "Please man...you don't have to do this!" - I said as I kept pleading.
"Well too bad...I hope you found peace in all of this and I hope it was all worth it. Night night." - Jack said as he placed his finger on the trigger. Right as Jack was about to fire I aimed my gun and fired the first shot. As I fired the shot striking him in the head his gun fires but misses as the bullet fell in the water. As I looked around I made sure the rest of the group was okay.
"Are you guys okay?" - I said as I looked back and tried to catch my breath. "Yeah...we are okay." - Ana said as she looked at me and smiled. I walked up to Jack as his dead body stood there with the gun in his hand. "I hope it was worth it." - I said as I looked down at his body. "Guys we should probably get going before the rain gets worse." - Jean said.
I grabbed the keys off of the dead body of Dr Van and got on the boat as the rest of the group got on and sat down. We all buckled up and from the looks on everyone's face they seemed relieved that we were finally on the boat and ready to leave the island. "Is everyone ready and buckled up?" - I asked as I looked back at Ana. "Yeah we are." - Ana said as she smiled.
I turned on the boat and began riding as we began moving away from the island. As I got farther I looked back at an island that was in flames as the outbreak took its toll on everyone. I felt a sense of relief that was accompanied with a sense of sadness as what was once a place of happiness and escape became ground zero to a horrible tragedy. With all the lives that were lost along the way it served as a reminder to never take anything for granted. Our lives would be forever changed as we escaped what seemed to be...The Last Resort.