The morning greeted me with shining sun when I awoke. I packed up my tent and resumed my hike back to Elektro. At first glance it didn’t look like anything had changed over night, including the amount of infected. As the town got closer something seemed different, I saw a dead infected outside the fire station. Maybe theres somepony inside that can help me. Two figures emerged from the building wearing some type of cloth over their faces. Huh, must have got cold last night or something.
“Hey over here, can you guys give me a lift?”
They looked at me and said something to each other, then they raised their gus. I dove behind a car as they opened fire. What the hell? I loaded my rifle and was preparing to take aim when I heard a loud bang ring out. I dared to peek out from my hiding place and found that one of the figures had dropped. Where did that come from. I took aim at the remaining colt, as he was now running for cover, but before I could fire the unknown shooter beat me to it. Who did that? I can't stay here, I have to move. I got up and sprinted to the nearest car and dove behind it. A shot had not gone off. Alright, I’m fine, now the next car. The next car was down the road a bit further. I repeated the process until I was behind a building that covered me from the snipers sights. That was strange, he didn't fire a single shot. I have to get to my bus and get the hell outta dodge.
I returned to my bus and began putting parts on it. I took the extra wheels out of it and attached them to the bus. Then I managed to get under the bus and attach the new fuel tank. Once everything was fixed I emptied the jerry can into the bus and sat in the drivers seat. Buck. I face hoofed. How could I forget to check for a key. I hope hotwiring a bus is the same as a car. I opened the compartment containing the mechanics for the steering wheel. Skills, don’t fail me now. I found two wires, crossed my fingers, and touched them together. I almost fell backwards when the engine roared to life. Yes! Thank you Rumble. I put the bus in reverse and began to back onto the main road. I shifted the bus into first and took off down the coast.
Once I was out of the town I looked at the map to find any towns that might be worth looking for loot. I saw what looked like a construction site labeled factory on the map, it was between two towns called Orlevets and Polana. I can stop there for some extra parts. I continued to survey the map and found a large town called Berezino. That might have something of value. I started driving to the construction site first.
The roads were littered with bodies and broken cars. As my bus sped down the road I neared the turnoff to head to the construction site. I stopped when I arrived at the compound, it bared a striking resemblance to the site in chernogorsk, except it was surrounded by walls and various other sheds. I pulled my bus inside and disembarked. Next to the entrance there was some sort of military booth, there were two mags for my rifle and some sort of black flashlight, it had a red light and seemed like it would be rather harder for ponies to spot at night. I began checking the sheds and moved on to the main building.
Well I should have enough parts for this bus and then some. I decided it was time to go to the town.
When I arrived at the town I Stopped a ways outside. I climbed to the top of a hill to survey the town. I took out my binoculars and began to scan the area. There were some infected in town but I thought nothing of it. I got in my bus and drove it into town. I stopped near the center and unloaded anything I didn't need to carry. I went in and looted anything of value and left. There were big tents near the hospital and I went to go investigate. In the first tent I found an mp5 and a few mags for it. I checked the rest and didn't find anything until I got to the the last. NIce, i've always wanted a sniper. In the last tent there was an m24 military grade marksman rifle.
Where should I go next? It looked like there there was an airstrip to the west called bolata. Maybe I can find some way to get help there, at the very least maybe somepony that doesn't want to kill me. And with that I decided to head to bolata. When I went back to my bus all the tires were slashed. Fuck, why does this shit always happen to me? I raised my rifle and began to look around. “Who’s there?” Nopony replied. “I’m not joking, you better come out wherever you are.” I searched for about twenty minutes and didn’t find anything. I had two spare wheels but all of my tires were slashed. Well isn’t this fan fucking tastic, I guess I’d better take what I can with me to find more wheels. I left nothing on the bus but a few cans of food and water.
It took me almost two hours to find more wheels and walk back. Oh when I find the guy that did this, he is so dead. I’d had more than a few close calls trying to find the parts I needed. I Went back to my bus and checked what was missing, not to my surprise half of the food and water was gone but not all of it. I put the rest of my gear into the bus and began to replace the tires. Once everything was fixed I started the engine and drove in the direction of Bolata.
The drive was going to be long and my bus was beginning to run low on fuel. I stopped in a town called Solnichiny to refuel. With nothing but a jerry can the process was a bit tedious but it was worth it for a working vehicle. After I finished refueling I went down the road again.
It had been a long drive time but I was finally through Cherno and was almost to bolata. I was driving peacefully until two colts jumped in front of my bus pointing m16’s at me. I slammed on my breaks and came to a stop.
“Step out of the bus slowly.” One said.
I did what he said. The other one said something into his collar. More ponies began to rise from the ditch and forest all holding rifles.
“What do you want from me?”
One of them began to answer me but I didn’t hear him before the but of a gun met my face. I met darkness as I lost consciousness.