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Lucas awoke in his prison jumpsuit to an alarm blaring within the prison. He threw his covers off, wondering if it was a riot or a prison break. The air was cold and having a stench of blood filled the cell block, causing lucas to gag as he walked over to the bars of his cell to investigate the mystery that was developing in his mind. He peers through the bars to see two prisoners he remembers as ricky and steven. Eating a prison guard holding a pokeball in his hand.
Lucas:”Hey ricky! Steven! Get me out of here man, wait…”
Lucas sees them slowly turn around to look in his direction, their eyes were white as the finest quartz you can imagine, blood splattered onto their fresh prison jumpsuits as they snarel over in lucas’s direction, lucas can notice this not being normal as he panics to find something to get the handcuffs as he sees a piece of firm wire sticking out from an old radio he had. He tries to pull it from the radio but has nothing to hold the radio so he sets it on the floor, holding it firmly with his shoes as he tries to tuck it out blind. After a minute of tugging it he pulls it out and makes an attempt to pick open the locks of the handcuffs, ricky and steven are now at the cell bars as lucas tries to take off the handcuffs basically blindfolded behind his back. After praying to Arceus to let him open the lock he got the first one off, then the second now that he could see the cuffs. He looks for something to protect himself when he remembers the shiv he keeps in a spare pillow, he rips it open and spots it as it collides with the floor with a loud ting being heard.
He readys the shiv in one hand as he stressful pushes the cell door open knocking steven to the floor with steven grabbing lucas’s leg as he fights with steven as he yells for steven to knock it off. Ricky turns to approach lucas as he shoves ricky away as soon enough lucas got steven to let go after fighting with him. He runs down the stairs leading from the second floor to where the guard was, grabbing his baton, keys, and the pokeball the once-living guard owned. He quickly turns the keys to the door to enter the halls of the prison to run away, Ricky and Steven still shuffling to him.
Lucas arrives in the main hallway past the prison cells as he releases the pokemon in the pokeball, and it was a riolu. It looked hurt, as Lucas knew he could not leave it here. He picks up the riolu in his arms and runs full sprint to the exit, moving past infected debris and barricades, just wanting to get out. He had a close call, though, on a piece of metal sticking out from the wall that scratched his thorax, but he was too full of adrenaline to notice at the time. He kept running as he saw the main door exit with a horde of zombies in front of it. I had to do something fast. The riolu looked in fear out to the horde of infected people sprawled onto the parking lot. Lucas used his arm to make the riolu face away, as he did something from back in his high school football career: plough through them. He readies himself as he runs full sprint into the horde. But he made it out with the riolu in hand, but he ended up tripping on one as they tried to grab him.
He quickly got up as he ran for help or safety as the riolu was still in bad condition. He ran through the forest, and after ten minutes of running, he spotted a campsite abandoned in the woods. He looked around and heard nothing, taking the time to catch his breath. He sat down next to a campfire that had embers, but he kept it going by grabbing some sticks and letting it heat up.
“Don’t worry, buddy, we will get you to safety soon.” He assured the riolu to comfort it in this dire time. He is still unsure of what is going on as he tries to warm up to what little the fire was.
“Ri..olu!” The riolu shouts, only staring in horror at what was behind Lucas; one of the damn dead was following them.
Lucas quickly turned around, seeing the infected, and could not stop it in time. The infected person knocked Lucas to the floor. Fighting with the infected while it pins him to the floor, he grabs a stone from the campfire. It was only within a moment that one of his muscles in his leg was going to get him killed as he, with all his might, kicked him off as he got up with the infected falling back from the kick as he pinged the infected person. He hits them with the rock as he yells.
“Forgive me, Arceus!” as he kept hitting the infected as he soon enough cracks the skull in two. He knew that their may be more soon so he needed a quick break, he laid the rock down as he sat on his knees, confused and scared, he scooped up riolu and ran into the city of rosewood, seeing the police station. Hopping for safety, he ran inside. Seeing people scattered around, wondering what was going on.