Chapter 2

In the end Madison and her boyfriend Travis talked, he had to go find his child and the child's mother. So they would split for now and meet up at her home before coming back to the school when able.

In every neighborhood that we were clearing I set up a vehicle that would basically blast music in the streets of the different neighborhoods to draw the walkers to them instead of targeting civilians, that was the hope with that plan anyways, it should work well enough.

So far down town the riots hadn't started yet but they were close to doing so from the looks from the satellite feeds I was receiving in the room set up for me at the school. It had satellite access and all the little joys. I think Annie stayed as my personal techie only because I had the music going and the fact that she was simply bored otherwise.

The only other person in the room right now was one of my Navy seal commanders, Jack Cassel. "So do either of you think we have a snowballs chance in hell of holding this city?" I asked them both curiously. I honestly wasn't in any way sure one way or the other. Annie didn't seem to have an opinion or probably didn't even care one way or the other. Her family was safe and that's what mattered to her the rest was simply extra.

Jack actually seemed contemplative. I knew he wanted to help who he could as it was the. Asks of his joining the Navy. "As much as I disdain it on our own soil, the only firm way to hold the city will be with a firm hand on certain matters such as rioting and looting. The rioting will be a hotbed for the infection to spread so that needs to be stopped cold, brutally if necessary." He sighed with that said there was nothing to add really.

I sighed as well. I didn't like it anymore but I was probably more accepting, knowing what the alternative looked like. "Very well, lead your men, do what you must to hold the city by any means. And for what it's worth, I hate it as much as you do my friend." And with that he grabbed his gear and left the school for his unit to prepare to intervene in this stupidity about to go down in downtown Los Angeles.

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Jack

I have been waiting and watching for things to deteriorate, I am currently watching from an alleyway with three of my men to watch my back.

In the end the riots began anyways, nobody can stop people from being stupid. The people were warned that there would be zero tolerance for violent actions, that curfew would be in effect soon but the crowd surrounding the police didn't seem deterred.

He had to wonder if people thought the military was bluffing simply because there wasn't yet any military presence on the streets. They would understand after tonight though.

Once the lady cop shot the female Walker, the crowd went ballistic. A few minutes after that I was forced to call in my men and moments after that dozens of helicopters swarmed the downtown area like birds of prey with hundreds of men and women repelling down and dozens of military transport vehicles, jeeps and even a single tank could be seen rolling down the street to annihilate anyone who doesn't immediately surrender.

Once my men were opposite the violent mob of hundreds I used the speakers of one of the police officers cars. "By orders of the president of the United States of America, martial law is now in effect. Curfew begins in 30 minutes, anyone found outside after this time will be executed for treason. Violent action, destruction of property, and riots will be met with deadly force. This mob is hereby ordered to disperse. You have 30 seconds to comply, to begin peacefully making you way home. If things turn violent, lay down on your stomach with you hands on the back of your heads and you will not be shot." After a few ticks of the clock and only a few people fleeing for their lives i continue.

"You now have 15 seconds." I say as my men raise their weapons, they knew the stakes now, much has been explained to them about what's happening everywhere in the world, they would do what they had to for themselves and their families.

"10, 5, 2, 1…." I saw as I counted down a lot of people were trying to move to the sides and were on their stomachs trying to get out of the way of the shit sandwich about to be sent their way. I guess a lot of people were still snowflakes and simply didn't believe he would give the order, the cops in the area looked alarmed and actually afraid I would give the order but they also looked resigned, they were huddled in a large group behind my men, with dozens of Swat units and regular police officers stood frozen waiting.

I just sighed "light them up." I tell my men after several stones were thrown at my men from the still raging crowd. And they did, and then people died by the dozens and soon the hundreds. "Advance" I gave the order, we would March through the downtown area and cleanse it of this infection one way or the other. "Make sure their brains are scrambled or they will come backs and bite us in the ass." I call over the radio, several teams in reserve to knife anyone in the head who wasn't already bleeding from an extra hole in their dome.

The LAPD members just watched in disbelief, what could they do though? They knew most of them would probably have died soon after considering the things they have witnessed over the last day or two. There only job was to cart off anyone who surrendered peacefully to another location.

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Alexander

I just watched the satellite feed grimly as Jack wiped out groups of rioters left right and center, including some armed gangs. Thankfully he had set up his sniper units at key locations and pretty much annihilated all resistance. Bangers don't hold up well against marines or seals it seems.

Even from here when I go outside I can hear the gunshots periodically from different units in the area putting down the infected or what I hoped was the infected anyways. Annie is kind of just watching the feeds with a blank look and I can tell she truly didn't believe it would get this bad this quick, both the riots and the infected people.

So far my men have held their respective areas easily enough, the big fear is downtown right now. My people had cut down the infections spread fairly early on by removing the junkies and the homeless to get rid of the most susceptible quickly. But in the end that would only help so much I suppose. But help it did. At least my people aren't dealing with hordes of the infected, only a few pockets here and there even in the worst of places like down town.

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Alicia

My mom had finally found Nick, he had called her and she picked him up, didn't give him time to talk it seems, just grabbed him and threw him in her car and drove home as quickly as she could and locked the doors behind them.

They could hear the shooting going on all around them and they were all three huddled in the living room afraid of what was going to happen now. They suspected things would be bad from the speech but the shooting hasn't stopped almost since it had began. It wasn't really that long ago that a military hummer rolled through and announced over speaker that everyone was to remain inside and to lock their doors. They drove by almost every 5 to 10 minutes probably patrolling the neighborhood.

Eventually there was a gunshot on their next passing and she saw through the window her neighbor getting shot but she could already tell he wasn't well and was most likely infected. She wanted to simply cry at the likely massive loss of life going on around her with no way to actually make it better or to even help at all. Her boyfriend Matt still never replied to her text and now she had to assume he may well have been infected since it's been almost 12 hours since they talked. She would hope though that she would see him when her family went to the school for safety.