First Tragedy

In the outskirts of the town, in an old factory they had setup their local base. The group entered the factory through gates that were open and there was no one watching the parameters. This made everyone feel tensed. Wolfe who didn't care at all until now also got tensed by the condition. As soon as they entered the factory, they saw a large number of arms (weapons), and trucks and jeeps empty. There was no one there. "What the hell? Where is everyone? There is no one here at all", Swift said the obvious. "Let's get out and see what happened here", Nichols said as he got out. Everyone got out except Wolfe who was tied to the jeep. "Hey, I won't run", Wolfe said looking at Lane signaling her to unlock his cuffs. "Yeah, you won't", said Swift provokingly and joined Nichols. Lane looked at him but didn't do anything and followed her team. They entered the factory where they had set up communication panel, to see why no one responded to the radio. Wolfe sat alone on the jeep playing with the cuffs and whistling carefree. Suddenly, a scream came from inside the factory alerting Wolfe. And soon, everyone came out running screaming, looking back time to time and formed a semicircle around the door. No, not everyone, Wolfe noticed the young technician was missing. Soon a herd of infected swarmed out of the door. They started firing. "Shoot the head. Shoot the head", Nichols said as the infected soldiers kept coming and falling after being shot. Suddenly, wolf noticed 3 infected coming out from the army truck and approaching the group. Wolfe screamed and tried to alert them but the gun sound overpowered his voice. Just as the infected was about to reach Lane, maybe she felt a presence or she heard him, she looked back. The infected had grabbed her arm by the time she noticed, she began preventing her arm being bit and lost balance falling on the floor. The formation broke. She hurriedly brought out her pistol and shot the infected and stood up to go back to formation but as she turned back she saw, Nichols and other soldier on her sight being bit and the infected couldn't be stopped anymore. They started backing down while continuing to shoot. The driver suddenly ran towards Wolfe and started the engine ready to leave the base. Swift also ran and sat on the front. Lane however had lost her footing and wasn't able to run. Wolfe extended his hand to her. She grabbed his hand and jumped with full force. Wolfe pulled her towards him successfully landing her on the back foot of the jeep. The jeep started and they quickly left the post.

"What happened? How did they get infected?", Wolfe asked. "I don't know. It was dark inside. When we reached inside and tried to contact the command, they suddenly came at us. Got one of us before we could react. Then we ran outside and they followed us", Lane said pressing her leg with a painful face.

"Is your leg okay. Were you bitten?", Wolfe asked with worry.

"No, I twisted it when I fell", Lane said and looked at his hand. "Your wound got opened it seems. I'll change the bandage later".

"You're welcome?", Wolfe said thinking she should be thanking him directly. 

The jeep suddenly stopped. Swift came out furiously kicking the tire. "Damn it. Damn it all. How did the infected enter the post?".

Driver also came out and tried to calm him down. "Calm down Swift, we would have also died there".

"Don't tell me to calm down, damn it. Him. It's all because of him. Because of him, our captain got bit and if he had not run away, we could have reached there before and could have stopped this", Swift said while aggressively approaching Wolfe who didn't show any ounce of fear. Swift, to further intimidate and scare Wolfe brought out his gun and put it on his head pressing it. Wolfe looked at him in the eye without blinking. 

"Or we would also have been infected and died. It's not his fault", Lane said further infuriating Swift. "You bitch, are you with him now? You are pretty fast changing your gear knob. Should I show you what you actually are?", he said as he approached towards Lane grabbing her shirt and pulling her out forcibly. The pull broke three of her shirt's button showing the tee inside. She stood there trembling with support of only one leg and other in pain. "You bitch. You broke the formation first", Swift said breaking all the buttons of her shirt. "Hey, you bastard. Let her go this instant", Wolfe couldn't suppress his anger. "Oh, so the dog is getting desperate huh?", he said punching Lane in her guts. She fell down on the ground, throwing up her food while Swift laughed like a maniac. Driver soldier tried to calm down but was suppressed by the Swift's aura. He again approached Lane, pulling her up using her t-shirt. She was pulled halfway until her t-shirt got torn and she fell back on the ground with a large piece of her tees in his hands. He laughed again and was about to catch her again but suddenly he heard a laugh. Watching back he saw Wolfe laughing. "Hahahaha... I get it now. Why you are behaving this way", Wolfe said. "Oh! tell me. Why?", Swift asked amusingly.

"I knocked you out cold earlier this morning even with a gun in your hand. That's why you are picking up on me at every chance. You pussy. Hahahaha...", Wolfe tried to provoke him. "Oh, yes I had the gun in my hand at the time. But I couldn't use it then. You know you were wanted alive. But what now? Everyone is dead. I can use the gun now. Can you stop me?", Swift said smiling.

"Don't", Lane stood up weakly with a gun aiming at Swift. "What? You're gonna shoot me? Hahaha... You bitch, you don't have the balls", saying that he turned to Wolfe and was about to shoot. Wolfe closed his eyes expecting his end. "Bang". "Argh... you bitch", Wolfe opened his eyes and saw that Swift had been shot in the leg. He looked at the woman who shot to protect him. Unfortunately, Swift grabbed her hand and jerked her making her loose the gun. He then kicked her repeatedly before she stopped moving. "Alright. You bitch, I'll end you", and he pulled the trigger. "Bang". Wolfe had again closed his eyes but when he opened them again, he saw Swift shot in the head by the driver. "Motherfucking bastard". The driver approached his body and spit on him. He quickly approached Lane and turned her up. He quickly shook her, calling her. She opened her eyes and looking at them, started whimpering. The driver picked her up and made her sit down on the road. He brought out the anticeptic liquid, and bandages and started treating her wound. "I thought that psycho almost killed both of us today", Wolfe laughed saying. Both looked at him with strange expressions. Before they noticed something in him. 

"What?", he said and looked at himself and saw blood spreading in his t-shirt. He now felt pain in his stomach. "Fuck me", he said and fell unconscious.