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After They Threw Me to the Horde, Their Regret Drove Them Insane - Hot
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00:00By year 4 of the outbreak, I'm the only lucky charm in the entire safe zone.
00:04A sip of caramel latte allows me to fend off the zombies, for sweetness keeps my pacification field stable.
00:10Commander Cole Medox and his people protect me like I'm made of glass.
00:14That lasts until they drag Mason Rock back from outside the perimeter.
00:19X-Marine, big on survival rules, bigger on judging people.
00:23The second he gets here, he can't stand the sight of me eating canned peaches or sleeping on the softest
00:27mattress in camp.
00:28He keeps saying the same crap over and over.
00:31Nobody gets special treatment. No freeloaders in a dying world. If you eat our food, you pull your weight.
00:37A hold presses in on the walls. Everyone else is out there reinforcing the perimeter.
00:42I'm sitting off to the side with an iced caramel latte in both hands. Sugar helps keep me calm. Mason
00:48storms over.
00:48Everyone else is out there bleeding and you're sitting here drinking sugar? Nobody gets special treatment.
00:54If you're so damn important, prove it. Get on the line.
01:00I hit the mud hard. The tears come fast.
01:03Please, don't do this. I'm not combat class. I don't have to go to the front and kill them.
01:11Excuses. You're nothing but dead weight in a pretty dress.
01:14A thick sewed boot comes down. Sweet coffee splashes across my face.
01:20You want a drink? Jesus. You're a damn joke. Look out there. That's the real world, princess. Not the safe
01:28little bubble Mattis built for you.
01:30My eyes lock on the hoard. It rides like one living thing, less than 500 yards from the wall.
01:36Kual tells me before, I'm not a weapon. I'm a luck. As long as I stay calm enough, clean enough,
01:42safe enough, my peacification field keeps those dead things miles away.
01:46But now I'm covered in mud. My dress is torn, and I can feel it. The field is collapsing. Piece
01:53by piece, the infected pick up on it at once. Their cloudy gray eyes turn toward me in perfect sync.
01:59Low, hungry grouse rise from the mass. My whole body's not shaking.
02:03Please. I can't. My ability isn't for fighting. Maddox said I keep them out. I'm not supposed to kill them.
02:12Maddox isn't here, so stop hiding behind his name. You still lying to me? All that crap about staying clean?
02:19Not getting touched? You're spoiled, this is. Spoiled and scared. Today you're gonna see blood. Go!
02:25I slam down again. Daenerys infected is less than 50 yards away. Its head hangs at an angle, while that
02:31white, choking sound leaks out of its throat. It shambles closer. I squeeze my eyes shut and lock my arms
02:37over my head.
02:39One second. Two. The pain never comes. Instead, everything goes weirdly quiet. I crack my eyes open. The infected stops
02:4810 yards away. Its whole body is locked up, frozen in place, like it doesn't dare take another step.
02:53My dress is filthy now, but there's still enough of the fuel left in me. As long as even the
02:58lethal remains, they won't touch me.
03:01You all see that? These dead freaks are just stupid. They're not scared of her.
03:07I knew it. She's been playing all of you. The infected out there move like rotten meat, and you're scared
03:12of this?
03:13No! They won't come near because I'm here. Let go of me. I need to wash up, and I need
03:18clean water. If I lose the field, they'll break through.
03:20Still talking about a bath?
03:22Mason lets go without warning.
03:23I slam onto the concrete in the loading yard. People from the mess line start crowding around. Some still hold
03:28down to trays. Some clutch unopened cans.
03:31Back when Maddox was here, nobody dared say any of this out loud. Now the jealousy finally spills over.
03:37Everybody listen up. This is your saint. I threw her right in front of the infected, and they didn't even
03:42touch her.
03:42So what does that tell you? It tells you the infected outside aren't half as scary as you've been told.
03:46You got played. She's been feeding off your fear. Made up stories. Ate your food. Took yours not a miracle.
03:51She's a parasite. Dead weight gets people killed.
03:53Yeah. I saw it too. They didn't jump her.
03:56So what? She lied the whole time? There's no field?
03:59Fuck! I almost lost a leg trying to find her shampoo once.
04:03I shake my head, trying to explain, but my throat is so dry, nothing comes out right.
04:07Still making things up?
04:11You like pretty things, don't you? You love being clean. Fine. Let's fix that.
04:16What are you doing?
04:24No! Cole gave me that!
04:29Maddox, Maddox, Maddox, that's all out of your mouth.
04:31What, you can't survive without a man? This is the end of the world. Only fighters make it, not women
04:35like you.
04:36The knife comes down again and again. The white dress that's been against my skin this whole time turns into
04:42scraps at my feet.
04:43Cold air rushes over me. All I have left is a thin slip. The shame cuts deeper than the cold.
04:49A few low whistles sound from the crowd. A couple people laugh under their breath. Their eyes drag over my
04:54bare shoulders. My legs.
04:56Eyes off!
04:58Mason snaps at them, then kicks something dark and heavy toward me. It lands at my knees.
05:02A set of tactical fatigues. Stiffed with old blood. The fabric is caked with grease and dried gore. The smell
05:09hits me so hard, my stomach twists.
05:13Put it on.
05:15Put it on!
05:16Stripped it off a body from perimeter duty yesterday.
05:19I stare at the pondo and nearly gag. Cleanliness, sweetness, low stress. Those are the things that hold my field
05:25together.
05:25If that rot and blood touch my skin, the field won't survive it.
05:28I'm not wearing that. Please, don't make me touch it. Just give me something clean, please.
05:35Clean? Where the hell do you think you are?
05:39Don't push me.
05:40You either put this on, or you stand here half naked in front of everybody.
05:43The rough fabric scrapes over my skin, with his hands still forcing it down, leaving hot red tracks everywhere it
05:49drags.
05:50And then it's on me. That stink. That blood. That rot. The second it settles against my body, I feel
05:56it.
05:57The field dies, just like that. A deep rumble rolls across the sky. Overhead, a sick dark red starts bleeding
06:04through the clouds.
06:05The floodlights on the wall flicker. The alarm system spits static, like something is chewing through the wires.
06:12I only need one look. My heartbeat stutters. That's not thunder. That's a field collapse warning. The horde is about
06:20to hit back.
06:23You hear that? Something's wrong out there. Get everybody into the bunker, right now!
06:31Quit feeding people bullshit. It's thunder. What, you scared of rain too?
06:40See this? This is your saint. One little noise and she's fallen apart.
06:47Starting today, there's no princess. No saint. She works like everybody else.
06:52If you eat our food, you pull your weight!
06:54He points toward the decon bay behind the infirmary.
06:57They've got blood-soaked gear stacked in there from perimeter pickup. You're washing it.
07:03If it's not done by tonight, don't expect rations.
07:13Rocco, don't!
07:17Rocco, don't!
07:17She can't go into the decon bay. That stuff's contaminated. If she's got even one cut on her, it could
07:22go bad fast.
07:23You need labor. Send me. I'll wash it.
07:27Shut up, old man. You don't get a vote. You want to play hero for her so bad? Fine.
07:34No!
07:50This is what happens when people push me.
07:54Anybody else wants to stand up for her, go ahead.
08:00You see that? That's what weakness costs.
08:05Anybody who sticks their neck out for dead weight gets broken with it.
08:11I hate you. You're gonna regret this.
08:17Drag him out.
08:21If he can't work, he doesn't stay.
08:24No!
08:27He runs the kitchen!
08:28He can still work! He still feeds everyone!
08:32Feeds everyone?
08:37Anybody can stir a pot.
08:49Live, kid! You hear me? Live!
08:52And right then, the last thread in me, still tied to the word human, snaps.
08:57The pain goes quiet. The fear goes quiet.
09:01All that's left is hate, claiming through my blood, one slow inch at a time.
09:06If none of you want my field, then all of you can die with it.
09:10Miles beyond the wall, the ground splits open.
09:13An apex root, covered in black bone almond, starts hauling itself up from on the ground.
09:28The Deacon Bay reeks of disinfectant and gore.
09:31The metal sink in front of me is packed with blood-soaked gear.
09:35The water turned black-red. A long time ago, a greasy film flows on top.
09:41My hands are numb.
09:43High concentration disinfectant mixed with infector residue has eaten them raw.
09:48Red, welts, blisters, split skin. I keep scrubbing anyway, over and over.
09:55All I can see is the look Walk gives me before they drag him out the gate.
09:59Move it.
10:00One of the guards bangs his rifle stock against the metal door.
10:04He used to sneak me wild flowers he found near the wall.
10:08Now, there's nothing in his eyes but disgust.
10:12Mason tells everyone the same thing.
10:14If these clothes aren't finished, everybody gets half-rations tonight.
10:18He knows exactly how to use people.
10:21Just one little sentence, and suddenly, I'm everybody's scapegoat.
10:25Keep left.
10:26I lower my head, and keep scrubbing.
10:29Then the floor jolts under.
10:33An earthquake?
10:43I lurch to my feet, and fall right back into the basin of filthy water.
10:48I know what that is.
10:50It's here.
10:51The apex lord, my pacification field,
10:53has held down for three straight years, has finally come.
10:58I drag myself to the window, with one hand on the wall.
11:02Through the dirty glass, I see a massive break ripped open in the perimeter wall.
11:07Tens of thousands of infected are climbing over each other to get inside.
11:11At the front is a three meter apex fruit.
11:14Every blow it throws takes a life.
11:17The screaming, the gunfire, the crying, all explode at once.
11:21The same people laughing at me, a little while ago, are now running blind in every direction.
11:28They're inside!
11:29They're inside!
11:29How is this happening?
11:31Why are they so fast all of a sudden?
11:34We can't hold them!
11:35Run!
12:00This is your fault isn't it?
12:03You're on them here!
12:05There's no way the Infector get this strong this fast unless you did something!
12:13I told you.
12:15I'm the one keeping them out.
12:18Bullshit!
12:21If you brought them in, then you're gonna fix it.
12:24What are you doing?!
12:33I'm hanging you from the mast.
12:34They like meat, right?
12:36If they're busy eating you, you get time to pull out.
12:39Maybe this is the one time in your life you're actually useful.
12:42You die for everybody else.
12:45He drags me through a crowd in full collapse.
12:48Roger, you really think this will work?
12:50Shut up!
12:52You wanna live? You listen to me!
12:56One life for hundreds!
12:58Worth it or not!
12:59Eyes flicker. Faces tighten.
13:01Then they all go quiet.
13:02A few of them even step in to help hold me down.
13:06I'm sorry.
13:07We wanna live too!
13:09Jake, just think of it as saving everyone.
13:12I look at those numb, twisted faces.
13:14And the last bit of warmth in me goes cold.
13:16These are the humans I protect for three years.
13:18God, they're disgusting.
13:20They drag me to the base of the watchtower.
13:22Mason finds a thick rope and starts wrapping it around me.
13:25Around my waist.
13:26My arms, my chest.
13:28It bites deeper and deeper into flesh.
13:30The winch starts turning.
13:32My body rises into the air, inch by inch.
13:34Wind slams into me so hard, I swing.
13:37Below me, countless rotting hands stretch up toward the sky.
13:40The apex brute stands out front, pounding its chest in excitement.
13:44I hang there, tears nearly gone.
13:46Staring at the sky soaked dark red, like fresh blood.
13:49Cole?
13:51Where are you?
13:53You said you'd protect me.
13:55Look!
13:57They're really moving toward her!
14:00Open fire while they're distracted!
14:03Even with bodies all over the compound, he still thinks he's the hero in this story.
14:08Then, at the far edge of the horizon, a blinding blow streak ignites.
14:12Real cannon, the apex brute blocking the main gate loses its head in one shot.
14:19The giant body crashes down.
14:21Right after that, an armored truck tears straight through the infected, plowing them aside as it roars into the compound.
14:27The mounted machine gun on the roof spits fire without mercy.
14:30It's slaughter.
14:31Absolute, one-sided slaughter.
14:33The truck fishtails hard and stops right under the watchtower.
14:37The door gets kicked clean off its hinges.
14:40A man steps out, a long blade in his hand, still dripping blood.
14:44Cole Maddox, he's back.
14:46Silence drops over the whole compound.
14:48Even the infected seem to feel the killing intent rolling off him.
14:52The movements hitch for half a beat.
14:54Maze's hand twitches, his throat to work once.
14:57Maddox?
14:59He forces out a smile and points up at me hanging in the air.
15:02Good timing.
15:03I found out this woman's a traitor.
15:04He's the one who brought him here.
15:06I was just about to execute her.
15:07Cole doesn't look at him.
15:09Not once.
15:10He just slowly lifts his head and looks up at me, hanging from the mast.
15:14Fealty, broken, barely conscious.
15:17In the net moment, I see something I've never seen on this man before.
15:21His eyes go red.
15:23His whole body starts shaking.
15:24The blade slips from his hand and hits the ground with a high plank.
15:29No!
15:30No!
15:30No!
15:31Die!
15:32He throws down the long blade and starts climbing with his bare hands.
15:36Fast, messy, nothing like him.
15:38The metal pole shreds his palms open, but he climbs like he can't feel any of it.
15:44Maddox!
15:44Are you insane?!
15:46The infected are still attacking!
15:48I'm executing dead weight for the sake of this compound!
15:53You're the commander!
15:55You'd really throw everybody else away over one woman?!
15:58Shut the hell up!
16:00The rower comes from Tyrese Cole as a mounted gun.
16:03The XO is usually solid as stone.
16:05Now his face is white as paper.
16:07And even his grip on the weapon is shaking.
16:09You stupid son of a bitch!
16:11You have no idea what you've done!
16:14Why the hell do you think we protected her all this time?!
16:17Why do you think Maddox nearly killed himself finding her clean dresses and sweet coffee?!
16:22You think it was love?!
16:24She's the only thing holding this hell down!
16:27At the top of the mast, the rope gets sliced.
16:30I drop.
16:31Straight down.
16:34Cole catches me in mid-air.
16:36His back slams into the ground, hard enough to shake him.
16:38A white cough tears out of him, and blood spills from his mouth.
16:42But even then, the first thing he does is reach for my breathing.
16:45His fingers stop under my nose.
16:48He freezes.
16:49Then the sound that rips out of him doesn't even feel human.
16:52It's raw.
16:53Torn straight from the deepest part of his throat.
16:55No!
16:56No!
16:56No!
16:56No!
16:57No!
16:57No!
16:58No!
16:58No!
17:01No!
17:03No!
17:03He's not dead!
17:04Kull lifts his head.
17:05His eyes are so rad.
17:06They've gone dark.
17:07He holds me tighter against his chest.
17:10Caked in mud, half-broken.
17:12But...
17:12The lock is...
17:13The hell are you talking about?!
17:15What lock!?
17:18Mason, aren't you the one who believes in survival of the fittest?
17:22Aren't you the one preaching no free ploders?
17:24That only the strong deserve to live?
17:26He lowers his head and gently wipes the mud from my face with his thumb.
17:30Congratulations.
17:32A smile slowly poos across his face.
17:34Not sane, not warm.
17:36Something twisted.
17:37You just unleashed the most terrifying monster left in this world.
17:41The battlefield goes quiet, not slowly, all at once.
17:45The infected, tearing into survivors, stop mid-bite.
17:49Even the wind seems to die.
18:14What the hell is this?
18:17No.
18:19No!
18:23No, that's not possible.
18:25No, that this isn't real.
18:26Cole rises slowly, with me still in his arms.
18:30My eyes are closed.
18:31My whole body is covered in blood and mud.
18:34But the air around me has changed.
18:36That softness is gone.
18:37That meekness, that sweetness, all of it, gone.
18:41What replaces it is pressure.
18:44The kind that makes people forget how to breathe.
18:47Everybody down!
18:49If you want to live, get on your knees!
18:53Keep your heads down!
18:55Do not look into her eyes!
18:59Cheap trick.
19:01I'm not buying this.
19:05Put her down!
19:06This is some freak control stunt!
19:09That's all!
19:10Kill her and it stops!
19:29How?
19:30How...
19:32How is that possible?
19:34The infected?
19:36They're protecting her?
19:37Protecting Cole too?
19:38Cole looks at him
19:39and finally says the thing.
19:42He's buried for three years.
19:43You always thought this disaster had a cure, didn't you?
19:46It doesn't.
19:47She is Patient Zero.
19:49She is the source of the infection.
19:51She is this new world's...
19:53Queen.
19:54Oh!
19:54What?
19:57Oh!
19:57Oh!
19:58Oh!
19:59Oh
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