We're Alive: Descendants - Chapter 18 - Deep in the Red - Part 2 of 2

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Speaker 13 Descendants

Speaker 14 Written and directed by Casey Weyland

Speaker 14 Chapter 18

Speaker 14 Deep in the Red

Speaker 13 Part Two of Two

Speaker 13 Well, it was hard to sleep, especially with your snoring.

Speaker 15 Sorry about that.

Speaker 13 Look, I try to help it if I could, but

Speaker 13 yeah.

Speaker 13 So, uh, you catching up on things

Speaker 13 been flipping through this uh red dragons procedures and protocols manual.

Speaker 13 They really do have strict measures in this place to keep everything safe. Listen, listen to this.

Speaker 13 Decomposing infected are almost more dangerous than alive ones as their their bodies start to break down and release what is deemed the yellow gas. That's that's why I had a hard time breathing.

Speaker 13 You think I'm gonna be okay? I mean, look, it takes a while to affect someone from what I know, so you should be fine. Should you'll you'll be fine.

Speaker 13 Well, you have to be around it for like hours, and you barely got a whiff.

Speaker 13 But you were completely unfazed. Well, I mean, mean my dad was too around that stuff.
It didn't affect him either. So more proof that I'm different.

Speaker 13 Huh.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Prim burned dead infected before they got to that point. Or well, I guess they shipped them off here.

Speaker 13 Never knew that happened.

Speaker 13 It just makes sense that the Red Dragons have such stringent safety protocols. Is there anything in that book about what they're actually doing here? No, not that I can tell from this, but...

Speaker 13 Alright, recruits. Get up and start what...
What the fuck?

Speaker 13 Oh, shit. Oh, Walrus.
What the hell are you doing here? Me?

Speaker 13 How the hell did you little shits get in here?

Speaker 13 A nick?

Speaker 13 I figured you for dead. Why? Didn't think you'd get out of prim alive, especially after I saw you get bit.

Speaker 13 So you must be.

Speaker 13 Get your damn hands off me.

Speaker 13 It's true.

Speaker 13 You're immune. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit. Why the fuck do you care, huh? You gonna lock us up in some place again? The fuck are you trying next? I was always.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 You know what that is? You ever see what a modagan could do?

Speaker 13 I saw it blow a big-ass hole through infected twice your size. Yeah.
You know what, Will? You should just shoot. Considering all the bullshit and times that you beat us down.

Speaker 13 Hey, hey, easy now, nerd. You got this all wrong.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah?

Speaker 13 Why are you even here? What is the boar having you do now? Her?

Speaker 13 She's not having anyone do anything anymore. I'm here for myself.

Speaker 13 What?

Speaker 13 What's that even mean? I figure she's dead. Same as Prim.
Wait, you're saying that the city's gone? Infected took over. Or as I know.
Heard a few distress calls out, and then nothing.

Speaker 13 Oh,

Speaker 13 well, good. Fuck that place, and fuck you two for everything that you did there.

Speaker 13 I'm kind of glad it's done. Went on for too long.

Speaker 13 Yeah, whatever, man. Like, I believe that.
Now, now, you have nothing to hide behind. Don't got no reason to.
Yeah, so then, so then why are you here?

Speaker 13 Yeah, and how can we believe anything that you say? That this isn't, this isn't some sort of new game that the boar is playing.

Speaker 13 You think you have everything figured out, huh?

Speaker 13 All those brains up there will and you still don't know shit. Oh, yeah, then then then then please enlighten us.
Who do you think paid to build this place, huh?

Speaker 13 Where do you think that fucking money came from? The games? There's no way.

Speaker 13 Republic can barely keep their people fed, spend all their money on the military, and ain't no one in the UA willing to support anything like this. They got their own problems.

Speaker 13 Oh shit. Friedrich's coming.
Hide the motagon. But

Speaker 13 and you don't try a fucking thing. I won't.
You have my word. Oh, yeah,

Speaker 13 what what good is that, huh? Well, it's all you got right now.

Speaker 13 Put it away. Hurry.

Speaker 13 Hmm.

Speaker 15 Boris, Chris, and Jess. Getting acquainted?

Speaker 13 Yeah, just chat chat with them about, you know, the ins and outs, how things run around here.

Speaker 16 Good, good.

Speaker 15 Well, I don't have much time left. We'll need to attend to another ongoing matter.
The facility uniforms fit?

Speaker 13 Um, yeah.

Speaker 14 Yep.

Speaker 13 One uniform to another.

Speaker 15 They look good.

Speaker 15 Now, come on, why don't we go have a look around the facility, shall we? I'm curious on Jess's take.

Speaker 13 I, uh, well, I already went through the operating procedures here, but uh, there's still so many questions. I, I.
this Jess here

Speaker 13 seems like a smart lad, should fit right in. Good.

Speaker 15 Hopefully, it can spark some innovation into research and development. And Chris, you'll be on our security team, as well as infected consultation.
A nice fit, given your first-hand experience.

Speaker 13 I mean, if that's what you're thinking,

Speaker 13 Walrus, it was right.

Speaker 16 What do you, uh, what do you do here?

Speaker 13 Oh, interesting, very interesting name, by the way. Uh-huh.
Used to be with acquisitions. Now I'm here more permanently.

Speaker 13 Acquisitions, you so you gather dead infected? You could say that.

Speaker 15 We've had to get creative with how to retrieve our samples. The UA states, Republic, and otherwise are all a bit afraid to get their hands dirty with that sort of thing.

Speaker 13 Wouldn't approve of any of this. That's why you're not telling anyone else.

Speaker 15 Only those who need to know. I alluded to this before, and why you are sworn to secrecy.

Speaker 13 There sure is a lot of equipment here.

Speaker 13 This is not a cheap facility.

Speaker 15 Well, for many years, we've been grateful to be able to rely on outside funding, help keep everything off the official ledger. Unfortunately, that source seems to have dried up recently.

Speaker 13 Oh, it did. Ah, man.
That's a shame. Truly.

Speaker 15 A means to an end, no more.

Speaker 15 But it has created a sense of urgency and to manage with what we already have.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 what do you have?

Speaker 13 This.

Speaker 13 Whoa.

Speaker 15 Every species of infected we could get our hands on collected over the last decade or so.

Speaker 13 No way.

Speaker 13 From every generation of evolution?

Speaker 15 As many as we could acquire. No No one could know more about them than we do.
All cataloged and documented, from their enlarged hearts to chewed and sharpened fingernails, bone growths, everything.

Speaker 13 But why?

Speaker 13 To kill them.

Speaker 15 Know your enemy, right?

Speaker 15 I told you.

Speaker 13 That's what this is for.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Just making sure.

Speaker 13 But...

Speaker 13 How?

Speaker 13 What are you trying to do?

Speaker 15 Find a weakness. Something that can be used against them.
It's what I and my team have been focusing on for years, and it's what needs to be done.

Speaker 13 Others, like myself, have been willing to cross certain lines to see this through. Ah, I bet.

Speaker 15 No war, no petty human conflict, no amount of dropped bombs could ever come close to the amount of suffering this infection has caused. 99.97%

Speaker 15 of the population was killed in some way by these things since 2009.

Speaker 15 It's unfathomable.

Speaker 15 They made us an endangered species, and their numbers are climbing. With every generation, they are outperforming us.

Speaker 15 We don't have much longer. At this pace, in a few more years,

Speaker 13 we will all be wiped out.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 what is it you think I can do exactly?

Speaker 15 Support the Red Dragon team. Read their research.

Speaker 13 Learn along the way.

Speaker 15 This isn't solely on you. I've been gathering every person I thought could contribute and help in this effort.
And Jess, you will be a part of that now.

Speaker 13 We're close. I know it.

Speaker 15 And I really think things will change very quickly, especially now that we have a new

Speaker 15 special sample to work with.

Speaker 13 What kind of sample?

Speaker 13 One of a kind.

Speaker 13 This way.

Speaker 15 Just past the infected tanks.

Speaker 13 All these in your big-ass mason jars are dead, right? Oh yeah, very dead. Some for many years.

Speaker 15 And we keep them in the formaldehyde to preserve their bodies so we can study them over time. It also prevents decomposition and letting out any more infectious gases.

Speaker 15 We do our best to keep everything safe here.

Speaker 13 You seem to know a lot about this process for just a politician.

Speaker 15 Before I was Chancellor, I led a few research projects. This one has been under my umbrella for many years.

Speaker 13 Wow. Yeti, Bull, Muckraker, Skinwalker.

Speaker 13 Wow, there's so many here that I've haven't seen before.

Speaker 15 Always something new popping up here or there.

Speaker 15 Oh,

Speaker 13 look at this one. A soldier.

Speaker 13 Ah,

Speaker 13 those nasty things.

Speaker 13 What what's that on their forehead?

Speaker 13 Rank.

Speaker 15 They carved their rank into the skin as their form of hierarchy. Whatever rank they held in life, they held in death.
It's how they organized quickly as a tribe of infected soldiers.

Speaker 15 Why no one's allowed to enter Fort Bragg anymore. The UA completely sealed off the city from the outside world.

Speaker 13 They're why it's the city of lost souls?

Speaker 13 Exactly.

Speaker 15 These are the reason no one survived from there.

Speaker 13 Well, mostly no one.

Speaker 15 I'm fairly certain everyone died.

Speaker 13 Ah, you know, people love to talk, tell stories. Well, oh, yeah, exactly.
Stories.

Speaker 13 So, so what is this special sample you're talking about?

Speaker 15 It's connected to this lab.

Speaker 15 There, in the cold storage unit.

Speaker 15 Blood from someone who is potentially immune.

Speaker 13 Wait, what?

Speaker 15 Exciting, right? A human anomaly. Walrus here was able to acquire it.
And you confirmed they were, right?

Speaker 13 Uh, yeah. About as well as anyone could tell.

Speaker 15 We've had samples from an immune person in the past, but we were not nearly equipped to handle something so precious back then.

Speaker 13 This

Speaker 15 could make a real difference.

Speaker 13 What happened to that immune person before?

Speaker 15 They died, sadly, years ago.

Speaker 13 What are you doing now with the blood?

Speaker 15 Dr. Andreas and his team are in the labs labs running tests 24-7 while the sample's still viable.
This is all we were able to obtain.

Speaker 13 And what happened to that, Amyo? Died too.

Speaker 13 Pure shame.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, too bad.

Speaker 15 Ah, that's me.

Speaker 15 Okay, I have to catch a train. They won't leave without me, but don't want to upset their schedule.
Walrus here will continue your orientation.

Speaker 12 Welcome to the fight.

Speaker 15 See you when I get back.

Speaker 15 Wincare Welmore.

Speaker 13 Well, Chris, Jess, you wanna come with me? This way?

Speaker 13 You're pretty chummy with the boss already.

Speaker 13 How the hell did that happen? You were in Prim barely a week ago. Took the long way around.

Speaker 13 Ran into him on the train. Moving up fast in the world, huh?

Speaker 13 You two really are survivors. Just another game, I suppose.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 13 Hey, can they hear us in there? No. The labs are sealed.
Nothing in or out.

Speaker 13 You fucking stole that blood sample. What did I think you cared? Dead men don't talk.

Speaker 13 And they had samples before from an immune? Who was that?

Speaker 13 I don't know. Before my time oh but what was going on at Prim sure the hell wasn't is that true Prim supported this place with with its dead infected and and and money that's right

Speaker 13 boar was playing the long game when it came to dealing with the Republic and you just went along with every horrible thing she did because of it right

Speaker 13 there were only a few animals around when I first started working for her any games we ran were done with volunteers men would die die, but because of their sacrifice, that would mean the infected would too.

Speaker 13 Eventually,

Speaker 13 we ran out of volunteers.

Speaker 13 Things changed, and I had to with it.

Speaker 13 Typical. Always passing the blame to somebody else.
Oh, no. I'll admit to doing shitty things.
I can own up to that.

Speaker 13 Part of it is my fault.

Speaker 13 Doesn't matter now, though. You all went and burned it down.
Yeah, and I'd do it again.

Speaker 13 God willing, all that shit will amount to something. It's part of why I intend to stay here and see this through.
With your help now, I guess.

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 13 you're not gonna say anything about us? What good would that do?

Speaker 13 Well, good for you. We're not staying.
Then why the fuck are you here? I thought you'd actually see the worth in this place. I mean, maybe I do, but we have more important shit to deal with.

Speaker 13 Shit that we wouldn't have to do if it wasn't for your fucking trappers and your slaver city. Yeah, like what? None of us.

Speaker 13 Sorry. Come on, Will.

Speaker 13 She's in the Republic, is that it? That's how you ended up here? No.

Speaker 13 And yes.

Speaker 13 Persistent. I'll give you that much.
And you? You're just along for the ride, nerd?

Speaker 13 Well, yeah, yeah, kinda.

Speaker 13 How exactly were you planning on getting to your mom? Driving.

Speaker 13 Hmm. She's that close, huh?

Speaker 13 Right, this way.

Speaker 13 I still have my gun in my bag.

Speaker 13 Just keep it there.

Speaker 13 What are you doing? Would you just give me a minute? Shit. Nick, if he's...
Keys, alright? I'm just getting my keys.

Speaker 13 Here.

Speaker 13 Now, hand me your badges. These the UA ones? They'll work.
Got a mag strip, don't they? Why? What are you you doing? This facility has hard-coated doors and a perimeter fence with checkpoints.

Speaker 13 Even if you did get out, you wouldn't get very far. You'd need keycard access.

Speaker 13 And now, you both have it.

Speaker 13 Wait, what? Really? My truck is parked out by the loading dock. Bluish silver.
Should have a full tank of gas. Anyone asks, you stole it.

Speaker 13 Walrus, what are you doing? What does it look like? I'm giving you a head start.

Speaker 13 But why?

Speaker 13 Why not?

Speaker 13 Put you through enough already. Maybe I owe it to you.

Speaker 13 Well, this is a start.

Speaker 13 If you're heading out of the Republic, watch the border checkpoints. They don't want anyone leaving this place.
Citizen or not. Just a heads up.

Speaker 13 Hmm.

Speaker 8 We'll need weapons.

Speaker 13 There's a few in the truck. Ain't much, but should cover you in case.
And what about mine? I need to refill my moda pistol. Uh, those those are air tanks, yeah? In the workshop?

Speaker 13 All I need is hydrogen and oxygen. You saying you held me up with an empty fucking gun?

Speaker 13 I mean,

Speaker 13 I'm not saying that at all.

Speaker 13 Fine, well, just be quick about it. Okay.

Speaker 13 Thanks, Walrus. Do you do we even call you that still?

Speaker 13 Did your name die with her?

Speaker 13 Well,

Speaker 13 used it for so long, any other just doesn't feel like me.

Speaker 13 Now, hurry up, nerd.

Speaker 13 Hey, if Friedrich comes back, sees you, AWOL,

Speaker 13 nothing I can do then.

Speaker 13 He may seem reasonable when you're on his good side, but after you cross him.

Speaker 13 Thanks for the warning.

Speaker 13 Hurry up. And remember,

Speaker 13 I didn't see any of this shit.

Speaker 13 Oh man.

Speaker 13 I really hope he's not just screwing with us. Oh, he would, wouldn't he?

Speaker 13 Should we should we not trust this

Speaker 13 if Walrus is right?

Speaker 13 This is our only chance to get out.

Speaker 13 Here it goes.

Speaker 13 Oh, shit.

Speaker 13 It's supposed to do something, right?

Speaker 13 Yeah, do it again. Is it me or is it the card? Dude, try it again.
I'm okay.

Speaker 13 It's the same thing.

Speaker 13 Here. Oh, here.
Try mine.

Speaker 13 I'm trying. Are we screwed? Oh, no.
Do these things never fucking work? Oh, shit. We're done, Will.
We're done. God damn it.
No, no, no, don't back up. The spice will pop the tires.

Speaker 13 We're fucking sitting ducks, Will. What do you want to do? Use the cards to pry the door open.

Speaker 13 I got the gate. You're clear.

Speaker 13 Oh, hey. Okay.

Speaker 13 Drive. Drive.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 13 This place.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I know.

Speaker 13 Oh, turn here. But go slower.
Gotta make it look like we don't care, you know? Yeah, drive as I would on any post.

Speaker 16 Got it.

Speaker 13 Can't risk being pulled over now. They'd probably shoot you for speeding.
No, in this place.

Speaker 13 Um. Let's see, what have they got in here? They, uh...

Speaker 13 Oh, hey!

Speaker 13 They have a map in here of the area. Perfect.
Uh, find us a way off base. Figure out the best route to get out of the Republic to the north.
Okay,

Speaker 13 keep heading down this road. I can figure out where Lechagia would be based on this.

Speaker 13 The city's not marked on here, but I remember.

Speaker 13 I told you this would work out.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I almost didn't. But we did, okay? The almost are behind us.
Of all the shit that we had to go through, we're nearly there.

Speaker 13 Hold on, mama. I'm coming.

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Speaker 13 54, 55, 56, 57 of these kinds of bullets. What are they again? 762 rounds for the AK-47.
Go ahead and put them back in the magazines.

Speaker 13 So, that gives us two 15-round magazines with the 9-millimeter and almost two full mags with the AK.

Speaker 13 And about 7 or 8 more rounds with my Mata pistol, depending on how much pressure we lose with each shot. Save those.
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Speaker 13 All right, check the map. How much further is it?

Speaker 13 Um.

Speaker 13 Oh shit, not much longer.

Speaker 13 Oh,

Speaker 13 yep. Yeah, the sign we just passed said New Mexico five miles.
Republic still uses old state borders, it looks like. Well then, we better get ready.

Speaker 13 I'm loading these as fast as I can. Wish we wouldn't have waited so long to count them.

Speaker 13 Relax, bro. You have enough time.

Speaker 13 Haven't seen a car in a while. You think it's heavily guarded? There isn't shit out here.
Oh, beats me.

Speaker 13 Sure is pretty, though.

Speaker 13 Look at those mountains over there.

Speaker 13 That Chiki is in that direction. You think it's in those mountains? You know, the one with the maps.

Speaker 13 Well, these just show borders, not topography. But uh, it does seem like it may be up there.
Well, we'll just have to figure it out along the way.

Speaker 13 Not gonna lie, gonna breathe easy once we're outside the Republic.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 13 all looks so normal from the outside, but on the inside, something's very wrong.

Speaker 13 Right?

Speaker 13 Uh,

Speaker 13 I am surprised, though, about something that happened back there. Oh, yeah, what's that?

Speaker 22 Well,

Speaker 13 for all your talk about the infected being the enemy, I thought you might have

Speaker 13 believed the Chancellor's plan about those experiments.

Speaker 13 Pardon me.

Speaker 13 Part of me did.

Speaker 13 But

Speaker 13 it's probably too good to be true. Even Friedrich himself.

Speaker 13 And you know, like War said, he seems reasonable until you cross him, so why stick around long enough to find out? Right, right.

Speaker 13 But what if they do find a way?

Speaker 13 something that can easily kill off the infected let everything go back to what it was before

Speaker 13 Maybe we'd all stop fighting each other you can see why it's tempting right

Speaker 13 I get it

Speaker 13 Okay

Speaker 13 these mags are loaded

Speaker 13 Is that

Speaker 13 that's it up ahead the checkpoint here. I'm I'm gonna pull over into this berm here.
They they won't see us

Speaker 13 uh are we

Speaker 13 oh oh okay, we're getting out. Come on, stay low.

Speaker 13 How's it look? Well, it's a direct shot there. Two guard towers and only one road in or out.
But it's got some of those metal poles that go down to let cars through.

Speaker 13 Shit.

Speaker 13 Oh, bollard barriers. Is that what they're called?

Speaker 13 Those are the hydraulic kind, too. They go into the ground, but only when activated.
We installed them in parts of Prim.

Speaker 13 That'll make it tricky to use the road anyway around?

Speaker 13 Doesn't look like it. There's Constantine wire in either direction, and this big-ass ditch the entire length of the border.

Speaker 13 Yeah, there's no way through I could see aside from that checkpoint. Damn.

Speaker 13 There's one guard up top

Speaker 13 and one down below.

Speaker 13 Cameras all around.

Speaker 13 There's a bunch of other guard towers in the distance along the border fence, too.

Speaker 13 Watch points. Oh, with radios, no doubt.
I will call in if something happens.

Speaker 13 Great. Just great.

Speaker 13 Not all of them may be manned, but this one definitely is. Followers did say the borders are secure.

Speaker 13 What are we gonna do? Um.

Speaker 13 well, we're wearing Republic uniforms. Any chance that we could talk our way through?

Speaker 13 We could try, but I doubt it.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you're probably right. No one's gonna listen if we're trying to escape.

Speaker 13 Let me think, let me think, let me think.

Speaker 13 No, whoa, whoa. I wanted these in case we ran into affected.
I'm not killing anyone over this.

Speaker 13 They're only trying to defend their home, right? And prevent people from leaving.

Speaker 13 Still. All right, all right, all right, all all right, calm down.
I'm, I'm, I'm trying to think right now.

Speaker 13 Oh,

Speaker 13 boy. Uh, well, you better do it quick because there's another car coming up behind us.
I mean, they're way out in the distance, but they're definitely on this road. Wait, what time is it?

Speaker 13 It could be the changing of the guard. All right, all right, all right.
We'll just have to try and talk our way through. It's only two soldiers.
You cover one, I got the other. Yeah, cool.

Speaker 13 Come on.

Speaker 13 Oh, shit, shit, shit.

Speaker 13 Um

Speaker 13 Nick, I just let me do the talking, okay? Take the AK just in case. You only have to point and shoot with that one.
But we're not gonna have to, right? Because you said that we would.

Speaker 13 Look, Will, okay, I get it. Just follow my lead, right? Okay.

Speaker 13 He's he's waving us down

Speaker 13 this one has a coke red guard look it's all good. It's all good.
Just act normal

Speaker 13 Android

Speaker 13 Whoa whoa, hey man, it's all good. We're under orders relax step out of the vehicle now you two Arms in the air

Speaker 13 Hey there must have been a mistake. We were told to come out here.
The hell you were no one contacted us. Get on the ground.
Police soldiers are coming in. Tell them the situation.

Speaker 13 Uh.

Speaker 13 What are you reaching for? Don't move. No, no, I didn't.
I didn't. You did.

Speaker 13 Fuck it.

Speaker 13 No. Damn.
God.

Speaker 13 Hello.

Speaker 13 I got it. I got it.
The other guard, Will.

Speaker 13 Stop him now.

Speaker 13 Come on. No, no.

Speaker 13 You have to.

Speaker 13 Come on, Will.

Speaker 13 We can't. He's falling back up.

Speaker 13 This is Tech 156.

Speaker 13 You killed him! You UA fuckers killed him!

Speaker 13 Will!

Speaker 13 Find the controls for the barricade! Hurry!

Speaker 13 Hurry! We have to lower it!

Speaker 13 Nick, Nick, Nick! I-I- Hurry!

Speaker 13 Okay, okay. Um,

Speaker 13 this! This is it! Drive your truck through, and I'll catch up! I'm gonna raise the barriers.

Speaker 13 Come on, raise, come on, race faster, Daniels.

Speaker 13 Fuck it.

Speaker 13 Damn it, now kick it out.

Speaker 13 No, Miss!

Speaker 13 Nick! Run! Run!

Speaker 13 Okay, alright, they're too far now. We should be safe.
Uh, smash the controls for the barricade. They can't- they can't follow us.

Speaker 13 I shot that soldier.

Speaker 13 Easy!

Speaker 13 I shot them! Man, easy! I shot them.

Speaker 13 Shit. Shit.
Shit.

Speaker 13 Look, I'll take the wheel. Just pull over.

Speaker 13 You're bleeding. You.

Speaker 13 You've been shot. I know.
I know. I'm fine.
Mostly.

Speaker 13 Why did we do that? Why? Why did we do that?

Speaker 13 I think the wheel is it. Then pull over.

Speaker 13 That was a person.

Speaker 13 They had a family. They had...

Speaker 13 No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 13 Easy. Alright, easy.
Now.

Speaker 13 This is so fucked.

Speaker 13 Like, okay, look, we're done. Alright? We're through the Republic.
Just calm down. Are we?

Speaker 13 We're an infected country now, and your gut's bleeding, and I- I will, just just breathe, man. Just fucking breathe, all right?

Speaker 13 Was it worth it?

Speaker 13 Are you gonna die now, too?

Speaker 13 No, I'm not. Look, the bullet went clean through my side.
I'll be fine, okay? Didn't hit anything vital. How do you know? I'm just fucking guessing.

Speaker 13 Let's just see what happens when the adrenaline stops. Now, come on.
All right, get back in the truck. I could drive.
We need to distance ourselves from that place.

Speaker 13 Come on,

Speaker 13 we're so fucking close now. But to what? Huh? Do we even know? What if she's not even there?

Speaker 13 No.

Speaker 13 Pegs will be there.

Speaker 13 She has to be.

Speaker 13 It's all

Speaker 13 can't be for nothing.

Speaker 13 It can't be.

Speaker 13 Guess we're uh

Speaker 13 headed into the mountains. It's a hell of a climb up this hill.

Speaker 13 Um

Speaker 13 how's uh your

Speaker 13 does it hurt?

Speaker 13 Oh,

Speaker 13 the bullet holes are there, but I think for the most part the bleeding's kind of stopped.

Speaker 13 I'm good.

Speaker 13 Oh, hey no, there's a town coming up.

Speaker 13 Any of this look familiar on the map?

Speaker 13 Will

Speaker 13 oh, um,

Speaker 13 yeah, this is White City.

Speaker 13 Well, it looks empty.

Speaker 13 Nothing's here.

Speaker 13 Where's Lechigia?

Speaker 13 There's no signs.

Speaker 13 They're looking at Oliver's coordinates.

Speaker 13 I think we need to turn left once we reach the town. Keep driving up this road.
It curves a lot.

Speaker 13 Well, at least we're off the main highway.

Speaker 13 Do you think they're gonna follow us?

Speaker 13 I don't know.

Speaker 13 Hi. Well.

Speaker 13 You gonna be okay?

Speaker 13 Ask me again later.

Speaker 13 I'm just feeling a lot of things right now.

Speaker 13 It was him or you.

Speaker 13 You do know that, right?

Speaker 13 Was it?

Speaker 13 Was it really?

Speaker 13 Yeah, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 13 They would have treated us like spies, and according to their rules, they kill those.

Speaker 13 Wait, well, what did that sign say? National Park. That can't be right.
Lechigia is supposed to be a town, right? Not some damn park. Well, that's what I assumed.
Maybe not.

Speaker 13 Do you have to swerve like that? It's the road, Will, not me.

Speaker 13 Fine.

Speaker 13 What if there really is nothing here? Like, like Barris dad sent us to the middle of nowhere just to get rid of us. He would do that, wouldn't he?

Speaker 13 Fuck, what if it's an ambush?

Speaker 13 Um,

Speaker 13 we could always turn back. There's still time.
Should we? No, no, no, no, no, no. This, this, this has to be.
It has to be.

Speaker 13 No, no, no, no. I know this is the right place.
I have a feeling. But it's a national park.
Fuck, I don't know. Will, all right?

Speaker 13 If it's not, then we...

Speaker 13 Then we keep going until it is, right?

Speaker 13 Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 13 The sign, what is what what did the sign say?

Speaker 13 Carlsbad Caverns National Park.

Speaker 13 It's not Lecha Gill, what the fuck? This is where Oliver said to go, I'm sure of it.

Speaker 13 There's buildings at least a few of them coming up. Sounds like a fucking wild goose chase.
Why don't we just park and look? Oh, we're definitely still doing that.

Speaker 13 It's quiet.

Speaker 13 Yeah, and goddamn hot.

Speaker 13 I don't see any signs that someone would be here.

Speaker 13 Well,

Speaker 13 the visitor center is a pretty big building.

Speaker 13 And then there's some smaller brick houses up there a ways.

Speaker 13 Well, we must have passed them on the way in.

Speaker 13 I don't know. Where do you want to look first?

Speaker 13 Fuck. A visitor center, I guess.
If nothing else, we'll learn something on this worthless field trip.

Speaker 13 I don't see any caves either. Obviously, they're underneath us.

Speaker 13 One would assume. Come on.

Speaker 13 Oh, nice view, though. Dang.

Speaker 13 You can see the whole valley below.

Speaker 12 Hold up, hold up.

Speaker 13 There's a plane over there. A plane on the on that far road.
It has it has Westport markings. No, wait.
I didn't see any runways.

Speaker 13 How did they

Speaker 13 land? She's here. Well, I know she's out.

Speaker 13 Hey, easy, easy. Don't hurt yourself even more.
You're bleeding all over me. Look, I'm fine, okay?

Speaker 11 Peggy!

Speaker 11 Peggs!

Speaker 13 Mama! Nick, wait, don't do that!

Speaker 13 Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.

Speaker 13 Shit.

Speaker 13 Infected.

Speaker 13 She's not the only one here.

Speaker 13 Oh, two. Two went behind the building.
I got another three hiding in the parking lot behind us. I don't have a clear shot.
Oh, up in the visitor center. Four more in those windows.

Speaker 13 Shit, shit, shit. Will, we're surrounded.
It's a trap.

Speaker 13 Can we make it back to the truck? By my count, I have enough rounds for each one, and I'm finding my mom.

Speaker 13 Oh, boy. Okay, Nick, Nick, Nick.
I...

Speaker 13 I hear her! She's here!

Speaker 13 She's in trouble! In the visitor center!

Speaker 13 Oh, I hear a whole lot more, Nick.

Speaker 13 And they're saying something weird. Well, let them show their fucking faces.
Hey!

Speaker 13 Hey!

Speaker 13 Nick! Nick, wait! She's up there! She's up!

Speaker 13 Oh my god.

Speaker 13 What kinds are these? Look, Will, it doesn't matter. Hell last, skinny dead fuckers is what they are.
We're 18, 30, uh, Nicknick. We don't have enough bullets left for everyone.
I count you.

Speaker 13 Look, it doesn't matter to me. As long as I see my mama again, nothing's getting in my way.

Speaker 13 Wait, they're not attacking. They're waiting for this.

Speaker 13 Nick!

Speaker 13 Breathe. Nick, don't shoot! Aim.

Speaker 13 Pull.

Speaker 13 Will! Why did you stop me? What are you doing? Don't shoot!

Speaker 13 Mama!

Speaker 13 Nick! Nick, they won't attack! Oh my god.

Speaker 13 Mama! Nick! You're safe! You're here! I can't! I can't! I mean, I don't believe it! Mama, I'm so sorry, I'm- Shh, so we're not shooting them, right? No, they're not dangerous. What do you mean?

Speaker 13 But they're infected. Yeah, I know.
I know.

Speaker 13 You have- you have to trust me. These, they're different.
It's it's why they're here. But but but why did you come here, Ma? What is this Lechigia bullshit? It's a cave.
It's

Speaker 13 I

Speaker 13 I don't even know where to begin, but we came here looking for you, and there's something else too, but.

Speaker 13 Oh my god, you're hurt, Nick. You're.
Mama, I'm fine, really, okay? No, Nick, you're bleeding.

Speaker 13 Nothing, all right? Trust me.

Speaker 13 It's no big deal, really.

Speaker 13 No.

Speaker 13 You really ought to have a doctor. Take a look at that.

Speaker 13 Sorry, who's that? Oh, Nick, Nick, there is there's so much I need to tell you.

Speaker 13 This isn't possible.

Speaker 13 It's good to see you, Nicholas.

Speaker 13 I have waited even longer than pigs for this.

Speaker 13 Now, get over here and give me a hug.

Speaker 13 Uh, yeah, okay, but but who who is this? His grandma,

Speaker 13 Tanya Ting. It's been so long.

Speaker 14 To be continued in the next episode of We're Alive Descendants.

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