New Friends

(Michael and the guy shook hands as they introduced themselves.)
Michael: "The Name is Michael Smith, you can call me Mike
???: "The name is Greg, it's great to meet you, Mike.

(The three of then set off on the way to find Raymond and bring him with them, as they are on the road, the box truck starts to make noises and then they hear a pop and have to pull over.)

Greg: "Shit." (As they pull over, the engine starts to smoke as they lift the hood up.)

Mike: "What's the problem?"
Greg: "One of the pipes on the truck busted and we will need a replacement immediately."
Mike: "Alright, we'll fan out, you two check those cars over there and ill check the ones over here. (Mike pulls out his Revolver and slowly approaches the cars as he takes a deep breath and flings the door of a tinted muscle car open and aims in, a zombie lunges at him and knocks him over, the gun flies out of his hand as he struggles with the zombie on top of him, holding its head back.)

Mike: "RAAAAH" (Mike pulls out his knife and cuts its head clean off, he then kicks the body off and punts the head clean into the trees nearby.)

(Mike checks the car for supplies then checks the engine for the part and moves on to the next car, he finds no one left in it and assumes it was abandoned, he checks it and finds some medicine and a hatchet.) "Look what we got here, looks like I got myself a new hatchet."

(Mike heard screams and went sprinting over to Shane and Greg, he arrives, and Greg is being bitten by a zombie, he walks up and kicks it off then stabs it in the head and kneels down to Greg.) "Your bites are pretty bad, we could try and get you to the settlement you guys live at and get you saved, or you know the other option, your decision man."

Greg: "Just do it, I don't want to put anyone at risk."
Mike: "Alright, Shane you might want to look away if you don't want to see this." (Mike pulls out his revolver and points it at Greg, as a shot is fired, we then see a saddened Shane and Mike driving down the road as Greg found the part.)

(Shane and Mike spot a home and decide to pull over and check it out.)

Mike: "Alright Shane, quick in and quick out, no messing about get work done."

Shane: "Alright." (Shane cautiously led the way in by kicking the door in, Mike followed behind him as they scanned the area and split up as Shane went upstairs and Mike stayed on the ground floor to look around.)

(Mike looked around in the kitchen and saw a door, he cautiously approached it, drawing his hatchet, as he took a deep breath and opened it two zombies walked out, and he took a step back tripping over a fallen over chair.)

Shane: "You alright down there Mike?"
Mike: "All good Shane, only two zombies I can handle it." (As mike said this one of the zombies fell on top of him knocking his hatchet out of his hand as he struggled to keep its arms and mouth away.)

Mike: "Shit, got to get out of this." (Mike looked around and noticed something behind him as he grabbed it, he realized it was a toaster and bashed it over the head of the zombie, caving it in and killing it, as he got up, he grabbed the cord of the toaster and swung it at the head of the other zombie knocking it clean off.)

Mike: "Damn zombies, can't believe I struggled against these two." (He spit out blood and tossed the toaster aside as Shane came down.)
Shane: "Nothing upstairs, you find anything down here?"
Mike: "Nah, nothing but these two, guess this place had already been ransacked, we should just get back and-" (As he said this, he heard the box truck start up and peel off as they both ran out and after it as someone flipped them off from the driver side window."

Mike: "FUCKIN GREAT, THERE GOES OUR TRANSPORTATION."
Shane: "How do we get there now?"
Mike: "I Guess we walk. (Him and Shane started towards the direction they were headed and looked tired and bummed out.)

30 minutes of walking

(Mike noticed the truck and told Shane to be quiet, he pulled his revolver and walked up to the driver side and noticed the guy looking at a map, be holstered his revolver and flung the door open grabbing the guy and tossing him on the ground.)

Mike: "You got about 30 seconds to explain yourself before I kill your dumbass."

???: "Woah man, I wasn't trying to steal from you, I just have a quota to meet, all these supplies will really benefit my settlement, we just got a really injured person."
Mike: "What did the guy look like? what kind of weapons was he carrying?"

???: "I didn't get a good look at his face, but he had a katana and was super messed up."

(Mike Looks at Shane with a concerned look, and then back to the guy.)
"You're going to take me there, that is the friend I am looking for, and I swear to god, if you try something or mislead us, I will torture you.

(As Mike holsters his revolver and Shane puts his hammer up, Mike then picks up the guy and throws him in the truck, he then starts it up as they take off for the settlement.)

(After 3 Hours of driving, the three of them then pull up to a gate, Mike tosses the guy out and tells him to get them inside.)
Guard: "What are you doing with Eric, and why do you want inside?"
Mike: "My friend is in there, if you let me in then you can have your friend back, and I will negotiate with your leader."

(As the gates open up and allow them to drive in, Mike looks at Shane to make sure and stay on guard.)

Mike: "Alright, now take me to my friend first, and we should probably get this guy some attention." (He then shoves Eric towards the guard as they walked into a nearby building with a sign above the door that says infirmary.)
Guard: "Your friend is asleep in the infirmary just past this lab, go on in and ill follow you." (As he gestured, Mike started walking across the lab, as he did, he noticed a woman standing at a table, she looks up from her work as she makes eye contact with him, her eyes are almost emotionless and her stare could almost kill a person, she isn't scary, but mysterious and has a bit of superiority in her eyes.)

(Mike starts to feel uncomfortable just as he hits the beginning of a hallway and shakes the feeling off, he then walks into a room where Rey is sitting, and he pulls up a chair and sits next to him.)

Rey: "Is that you Mike?"
Mike: "It sure is buddy, What the hell happened to you?"(As he said this, the woman in the lab coat then appeared in the doorway and began to talk.)
???: "The Guards and I were on an expedition to get ingredients for me to make new substances." (She walks by them and stands next to the bed as she analyzes every square inch of them both, she studies their physical being and also studies their gestures and movements to get a hypothesis on their personalities.) "We were walking, when we happened to uncover your friend here, I was fascinated on how he must of been there for days, yet he was still alive, so I told the guards to pick him up, we brought him back and I helped him the best I could, I wanted to study him, to see what kept him alive and allowed him to be able to survive to put it simply."

Mike: "Uh-Ok, I appreciate you for helping him." (Mike had no clue what to say as he felt uncomfortable and looked down upon.)
???: "I do not need you thank your; it was not hard I believe it was easy even, I did it so I could further my studies in optimal survival in the wasteland."

Shane: "We didn't catch your name."
???: "The Name is Dr Kukyo Akari, but you can just call me Dr Akari."

Mike: "Well it is great to have met you Dr Akari, but if you do not mind, I would like to catch up with my friend here." (As Mike said this, Akari backed out of the room and gave all 3 of them looks as if they were not human, but only another tool she can use for her studies.)

Mike: "Shane could you stay here with him while I go and talk to their leader."
Shane: "Yeah man I can do that." (As he said this, Mike then gets up and is escorted into a luxurious house with furnishing and power, as he is then lead to a room that is like an office, as he sits down and waits.)

???: "What brings you to my settlement? Do you wish to live here?"
Mike: "I don't know that yet, But maybe."
???: "Well, I have to ask you a few questions, 3 specifically."
Mike: "Go ahead."
???: "First question is, what brings you to my settlement?"
Mike: "I was informed by one of your settlers that my friend was here, and that you had a good settlement, I was intrigued by it and decided to come."
???: "Second question is, what did you do before the apocalypse started?"
Mike: "I don't see what has to do with anything, but if you must know, I was a Former Marine for 4 years and later a Sheriff in the small town I use to live in, I have a degree in Engineering as well."
???: "Third and Final question is, why should I let you into my settlement?"
Mike: "You shouldn't, you should keep your gate closed, never let anyone in, No one can be trusted in this world anymore."
???: "Are you saying I shouldn't let you and your friends stay? Why is that?"
Mike: "You don't know me, you don't know what I am capable of or what I will do behind your walls, I could kill everyone one by one if I pleased and you would be too late to know."
???: "And that is exactly why I will let you stay, that mind set is something we need and will help us thrive and become better than we ever were before you guys."
(They got up and the man offered his hand to shake, Mike looked at it and walked out.)
???: "My name is Franklin Ogundimu, I am a former Mayor, I have 2 rules for my settlement, you will be nice to everyone and do the job that is assigned to you, and there is no guns allowed inside the walls, you will relinquish it, your weapons are still yours to take when you got outside my settlement, but they are of no need inside the walls." (Reluctantly Mike relinquished his hatchet and his revolver, and then walked off to go find Rey and Shane.)

(Mike is escorted to his new home and given new clothes as well as essentials, he is then informed that they indeed do have power.)
Mike: "You guys have power?"
Guide: "Yes we do, we get it from our inground solar panels, they were built by our resident engineers." (Mike looked at him weirdly, then walked in and decided to take a shower and trim his beard.)

(After a shower and a night's sleep, Mike gets up and decides to go check on Rey and Shane.)

???: "Oh hey there." (As a woman walks up to Mike and startles him, his reflexes kick in and next thing he knows, she is on the ground with a broken arm crying.)
Mike: "Shit, I'm so sorry are you ok? I haven't been around humans in a very long time."
Woman: "Damn monster, you aren't human, you're no better then one of the undead or even the bandits." (She takes off running and next thing he knows, he is reflecting on how much his life has changed and how much more dangerous he has become to humans, thinking can he really live among them again?)

(As Mike is walking down the street, a group of angry residents walk towards him, and 3 big guys tackle him.)
Mike: "What the hell is all of this about?"
Man: "You harmed a resident, I knew it was a mistake him letting you guys in, we are going to lock you in the cell till you learn to play nice." (They zip tie his hands and it takes all 3 of them to carry him to the cell.)

Several Hours later

(Mike gets up from his nap in a basement cell, noises had woken him up, he gets up and tries to look through the tiny window as he hears screams and other noises.)
Mike: "What the hell is going on out there." (Someone runs by as he grabs there foot and proceeds to ask them what is going on, the man trips and is terrified as a zombie falls on top of him and starts to eat him alive and Mike is forced to listen to his cries of pain and agony.) "SHIT!"

Mike: "How the hell do I get out of here? (Mike is messing with the bars and other things trying to find a weak point to get out.)

(30 Minutes later, Mike hears commotion outside and looks out the window, He sees zombies fall one after another and then at the door he heard bangs, then a hammer plunged through the door, and someone kicked it in and popped in Shane.)
Shane: "Been looking for you man, Let's get the hell out of here."

(As they run out, Mike is unarmed as Shane sees all the zombies and gets pissed off.)
Shane: "Get to Rey and make sure he's fine since he's hurt, then get our weapons and meet me outside at the truck."
Mike: "What are you going to do Shane?"
Shane: "Just trust me." (As he said this, Shane started to scream and make commotion, attracting all the zombies as they surrounded and swarmed him.)

Shane: "BRING IT ON MOTHERFUCKERS!" (As Shane says this, he starts bashing in head after head of the zombies, not letting a single one of them touch him, he just keeps swinging his hammer as Mike runs to get his stuff.) "COME GET SOME!"

(Mike then grabs his revolver and Shane as well as Rey's gear, as he grabs Rey and runs back out, but as he gets out there, he is amazed by the sight.) "SHANE YOU CRAZY BASTARD, DID YOU KILL THEM ALL?"

(After clearing every zombie inside the settlement, Shane and Mike prepare to look around for survivors.)

Mike: "Look at all this chaos, I told them they shouldn't trust people so easily." (As he said this, they heard screaming from under a rock as they lift it and throw it off a woman, they notice that her arm and leg are completely mangled and she is on the verge of dying.)

Mike: "Sorry about this." (He pulls out his gun and blasts her through the brain.)