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CHAPTER 2: JOHN
Soon enough the squad came runnin' over to us. "What'd you find boys?" Sarge said to us, as he checked out the body. "That looks like our package, guys." James said aloud. Well, just give the sarge a minute and we'll know for sure, I thought.. Sarge pulled out some identification from his pocket. Had a buncha info on John on it. Pictures, age, stuff like that. I didn't get to take a good look though. Silence filled the air, and we all just waited 'till Sarge did his job. Guy seemed pretty determined in this. Well I guess he would, since we can apparently save this person and he will help.. I still don't know how we know him, I gotta ask someone about that when we get back to the base. "Well, I think I can confirm this is John everyone. Let's get on back to the helicopter, Miles, you're taking the body!" Sarge declared to everyone. Wait.. woah woah woah. I'm taking the body!? "HAHA NO. I'm not puttin' a zombie on my shoulders just so I can get eaten, sarge! That's something I'd rather not go through!" I stood up for myself. What if this thing comes back and eats me!? Hell what if it eats all of us in the helicopter!? "PRIVATE YOU WILL SHUT YOUR HOLE YOU CALL A MOUTH AND DO WHAT YOU ARE TOLD, YOU GOT THAT!?" Sarge yelled right back to me. Jerk. Everyone started walking back, but Frank stayed. "Uh.. I'll help, I guess.." Frank said reluctantly. He obviously didn't want to help but he stayed anyways. "Ok.. Alright, grab his arm." I told Frank, as his face suddenly got more disgusted. I couldn't blame him. We both grabbed dead John's arms. "Ok.. 3.. 2... 1, pull!" We pulled John's arms up, and got him on his feet. "I'll take it from here. Go tell everyone I'll be a minute." I told Frank to go over to the chopper with everyone else. Frank walked away, no hesitation. I grabbed John's other arm, now that he was up, and put him on my shoulder. He smelled TERRIBLE. I didn't think anything can smell this bad. I started walking to the helicopter.
I got to the chopper and Frank opened the door for me. I threw John in, and climbed on. "Alright, we're gonna need to keep an eye on John, in case he comes back. He's infected, but I don't know why he didn't turn yet, so watch out. It's gonna happen soon, most likely." I said out to everyone on the helicopter as I closed the door. "You're right. Pilot, get us in the air." Sarge replied. I took a seat. "That was a good job of you two.. Finding him, and finishin' the mission within like three minutes. Didn't expect the two of ya to do that." James said to Frank and I. James.. He was the guy who thought he was a badass. Thought he was the best out of Alpha squad. Always wanted to go up to him and just say, no. You're not. But Alex looks up to him.. Alex is his little brother. He thinks James is the best, but he has good reason to. It's his brother, and they always look out for each other. If I started yelling at James he might not like that. I gotta just leave them to what they do. They are amazing in teamwork together. Alpha Squad is usually seen as the best of our base, with Delta right behind us. They were the baddest of the bad- and was larger- but Alpha beat them mostly because of Alex and James. They were that good.
***1 HOUR LATER***
"Alright, here we are. You know what to do, pilot." Sarge told the pilot. We finally made it back to the base, with John still with us. He didn't turn, or move at all, still just.. dead. I still don't know why he didn't turn, it doesn't make sense to me. We eventually landed and Sarge opened the door. I took John and put him on my shoulder. He still smelled terrible. The helicopter wouldn't smell clean again for days.. "Private, Go give John to the doc, you know which one. He should be in the doctor's building as usual." Sarge said to us as we got out. The doctor's building wasn't far from the landing pad at all, in fact you can see it from said landing pad. I started walking over to it. It was weird, doing this.. I remember, there'd be soldiers all over, either at the shooting range shootin' up some targets, or just hanging around. Now there's nobody. Alpha, Bravo, and Delta were the only squads that made it when the infection happened. The rest of the squads, like Charlie, Echo, and all the other ones, were sent on missions to evacuate different towns and get rid of the infected. Sadly, those missions were not successful. The infection soon spread almost all around the world.. Hell, by now, it probably did. This is one hell of a virus. I got to the doctor's building and opened the door. The doctor I was looking for, is Dr. Red, he's been working on a cure. I'm not sure how far his progress is, but he's been working on it day and night. Not sure when the last time he went to sleep was. I went to Dr. Red's room, and sure enough he was working on the cure. "Hey, Doc, got some work for ya. I'm sure someone told you about John?" I asked Dr. Red. "Ah, Miles! How are you? And yes, I do remember John. Is that him right there?" Dr. Red responded. I told him everything about John and why we need him alive. "Ok.. I will do my best, Miles. Tell your squad I said hi. Bye!" Red tried to get me out or something I think.. which was rude.. but I left anyways. He just needs to work by himself. I went to my room.. I need to take a nap..