After the Apocalypse

A pandemic survival story

Season five, Episode twenty – “Released”

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The truck roared down the highway towards Defender. Janet gripped the wheel and focused on the road. The old man held the grab handle and rested a calming hand on the dog’s head that had been thrust under his arm from the back seat. He was trying very hard not to worry about how fast she was pushing. 

"It would be nice not to die in an accident on an abandoned road!” The old man shouted over the road noise as Janet took the Defender exit off the highway. 

She squeezed at high speed between a wrecked bus and a derelict semi. The old man visibly stiffened as the tires protested in a plaintive squeal. 

“Don’t worry.” She replied, “I’ll get you there in one piece…(pause) Probably…” She added with a wink.

“Goddamn woman!” The old man cursed and held on tight as they bounced onto the two-lane access road. “Going to get us all killed.” 

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 After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode nineteen – “Consumed” 

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The King was quite pleased with himself and was pleased with the outcome of his work. He leaned back in his chair and took a swig of high-end whiskey. In the old world this would have been a luxury brand. Very expensive. Something he couldn’t get. Unless he stole it from some rich asshole.

It wouldn’t be wasted on him intentionally. That world hadn’t made any luxury for him.

Now this bottle and everything in the DC was his.  Hell, everything was his. As far as he could see and as far as he could reach, it was all his now.  

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Season five, Episode eighteen – “Swarm” 

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Liam and Zooey had opted to stay with Mag’s group when the Kaiju – as Paul was called – left. They had gone to Defender with the old man. Now Liam was equal parts glad and anxious. Glad that he had an opportunity to make an impact, potentially turn the tide of the conflict with his drones, and anxious that it might not work.

He knew everyone on Mag’s team had doubts. Doubted the feasibility of this drone attack plan and they were skeptical he could pull his part of it – the drones - off. The plan sounded too much like science fiction, or a James Bond plot point to most of them. 

But it was all they had.

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Season five, Episode Seventeen – “Moving Day”

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“Good to see you.” Mags said to the old man, shaking his hand and simultaneously rubbing the big dog head that had been enthusiastically pushed into her lap.

The entire team was now gathered to decide on what to do next. 

What action to take.

Bill knew what actions he would take and he took them. He executed a happy round of greetings to his old friends and associates, gathering head scratches and pets. Then he ambled off to curl up in a grassy patch of shade at Janet’s feet where she stood leaning against a wall watching the proceedings in silence. 

Mags watched him go about his work and wished she were as sanguine and confident. They were refugees, gathered here, at the Zoo. The King had chased them from their fortified farms and agricultural community at the Distribution Center. 

Now they had to decide what to do. 

Her vision of the future was dead. 

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Season five, Episode Sixteen – “Exodus”

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The Corporal angled behind an oak tree and rolled prone into the tall grass. He came to rest with the barrel of his rifle pointing uphill towards the command tent where The King had just executed Ottweiller. 

Far enough to be out of sight, close enough to shoot pursuers.

He had just been witness to a brazen coup d’etat.

‘What a cluster..’ He thought, as he waited there in the grass and slowed his breathing and watched to see if he would be followed, “Totally SNAFU’ed”

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Season five, Episode fifteen – “Cuckoo”

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The sun was beginning to push its light into the sky in the east. Mags knew by the feel of it that it was going to be another hot and humid summer day. The air was thick, and it felt like breathing through a wet towel. 

On normal days she would be glad to greet the dawn. Today the brightening sky reminded her of the awful deadline she faced.

The new barn smelled of hay, animals, fertilizer and tractor grease, as she entered and made her way to the front. The barn was a symbol of what they were building as a community. Only in cooperation and with a common vision of the future could such a barn be raised.  It was a triumph of her leadership, proof that real, physical progress could be made when they pulled together. 

That anything was possible. 

But now it felt more like a mocking tribute to her failure as a leader. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode fourteen – “Barrage”

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Although it was still a few hours before dawn, the room felt stifling and warm. This time of year, the late summer heat that accumulated during the day never really cleared out during the night. 

Like an old family home, the distribution center had seen much. The cafeteria sat in benevolent judgment of the people now gathered in it for yet another convocation of conflict.

The room had a familiar, lived in feel to it. The carpets were worn and stained, as were the ceiling tiles, as water from the storms leaked brown through the sun-cracked asphalt roof. There were messy piles of boxes stacked against the walls. Many of the fluorescent bulbs were burned out or blinked a feeble yellow on their way to death.

It seemed like years, but it had only been a few months since the fastidious force of John Tasker, the original DC manager, had kept everything spic and span. Mags’ people were too busy trying to stay alive and working to build a new future for the niceties of scrubbing the carpets.

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode thirteen – “Whirlwind” 

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General Ottweiler was worried in a way that he hadn't been since before everyone died from the sickness. 

This felt like the old, pre-apocalypse days when there was a change in administration.  He’d lived through it. The new overlords in Washington DC would have ‘new’ priorities. Often with a radical shift in priorities and policy that would dramatically affect the armed forces. 

Since the great dying, and up until now, he had been master of his own domain and he'd nearly forgotten the headaches that come from dealing with politics and politicians.

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Season five, Episode twelve – “Burn” 

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An animated 3D Defender Bioceutical logo rotated slowly on the screen. The old man’s crew had managed to get a generator running, and with it, the backup power to the facility.  

At least enough to get the main systems back online.

“ Developing a Better Future” scrolled slowly, left to right, as a reminder. A reminder of the vague and poetic aspirations of corporations that were often an apologia for malfeasance.  

The computer was in the office of Roger Updike, Chief Information Officer, better known to all present as ‘Rabbit’.  

The password to access the machine, they had discovered, was, of course, “Jonah”. 

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After the Apocalypse

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Season five, Episode eleven – “Politics”

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Congressman Alvingham looked out of his office window. There was some sort of interaction going on at the fence. His guards were turning yet another group of refugees away. There was a scuffle, and a shoving match started. They were shouting and angry and the guards needed to draw their weapons. 

One refugee was a bedraggled older woman. His guards pushed her to the ground. When she recovered her feet, they shooed her away from the fence. It looked like she was weeping. 

The congressman rubbed his eyes. Running this new world wasn’t always easy. 

But the important things never were. 

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