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September 25th, 2011
Inside a garage, a man in a racing suit is inspecting a dirtbike with chainsaws alongside a little girl. The girl helps the man out, but when he sees the sleeves of her jacket rolled up, showing a scar on her left arm, he rolls her sleeves down to cover it. While working, a stagehand approaches, telling the man, Mr. Greene, that he’s going on stage in two minutes. Mr. Greene corrects him that his name is Chuck. The attendant also wants Chuck to sign a release form including a next of kin. Chuck tells the man that her name is Katie and asks if she can be put somewhere safe. The attendant tells him she’ll be in the Green Room. Heading to the stage with three other participants in a game show where they kill zombies for sport, one of the participants, Leon Bell, mocks Chuck for losing his wife in an outbreak in Las Vegas. Ignoring him, Chuck listens in on an announcer who says that after losing Willamette and Las Vegas to the zombies, it’s time for a little payback! Here, in Fortune City, Nevada, America’s entertainment playground, is the zombie killing gameshow, Terror Is Reality (TIR). Hosted by Tyrone “TK” King, a flamboyant trash talker, Chuck and the three other men are racing around the arena killing zombies with their chainsaw mounted dirt bikes. Whether Chuck wins first place or not, he still does win a cash prize. Sitting in a locker room, the news is blathering on about the recent beef shortage, as well as the protests against TIR lead by CURE, or Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality, a group dedicated to humane treatment for the infected, with some members, such as Stacey Forsythe, leader of the Nevada branch, simply wanting their loved ones to be given dignity in death, while others are radicals genuinely believing the undead are sentient. The protests just add to the controversy around TIR. Watching the news with two of his competitors, Anim and Kris, with Anim admitting to understanding them, since his family died in Willamette. Chuck heads off for the Green room, with Kris giving directions. Changing out of his race suit, Chuck is now wearing jeans and a yellow IJIEK jacket. Heading down the hall to the elevator, he spots Amber, a beautiful showgirl to TIR with blonde hair and a shiny gold dress, but has a rotten personality with disparaging things to say about Chuck. At the elevators, Amber’s twin sister Crystal, looking the same save for black hair and having a shiny silver dress, also trash talks Chuck, but Chuck leaves them to be overly affectionate to one another by themselves while he rides the elevator. On all the walls of the elevator is an ad for Zombrex by Phenotrans. Suddenly the elevator shakes and knocks Chuck off his feet. Forcing the elevator doors open, there is mass panic, with one man complaining after being bit. When the man turns around to look at Chuck, he’s now a zombie. Running through the stadium as zombies butcher people left and right, Chuck’s only thoughts are of Katie. In the Green Room, Chuck finds a zombie mauling the assistant from earlier, but discovers Katie hiding in the closet. The girl’s in a panic, believing that what happened with her mother is happening all over again. Carrying his daughter in his arms, Chuck rushes outside the stadium. Not surprisingly, the streets are actually more hectic than the stadium. Along with zombies, there are fires breaking out, but a survivor shouts for any other survivor to head for a Safe House emergency bunker across the street. Inside with other survivors, who are trying to process what happened, but the second gate opens to show a silver haired man with a beard, wearing a Fortune City Security jacket. The man lets everyone in, but Chuck and Katie after seeing the scar on her arm, a very clear bite mark. Chuck defends his little girl, explaining that it happened years ago and they have Zombrex to treat her. The Guard allows them through, but Chuck will need three days worth of Zombrex to treat her since that’s when the military arrives on a standard operation after quarantine. Pointed to a couch in the security room, Chuck and Katie head that way. The Guard shuts the blast door, now standing guard as two blast doors stand between the survivors and the zombies. Inside the security room, Chuck checks on the empty Zombrex box, admitting to Katie that after the show he was gonna go buy some for her. A woman offers to help. Looking up, Chuck sees a redheaded woman in jeans, jacket and a crop top, Stacey Forsythe herself. She assures that she won’t say anything to get them in trouble, and points Chuck to a pharmacy in the Royal Flush mall, handing Chuck a radio to talk to him while she inspects the security monitors, believing she can use it to spot survivors. Since the security guard, Raymond Sullivan, isn’t opening the blast doors, Chuck heads through the air ducts. Heading into the Royal Flush Plaza, Chuck finds the Pharmacy being raided by a trio of masked men with crowbars, antagonizing the pharmacist to steal some money. Seeing the woman in danger, Chuck steps up to fight the Vandals. Having survived the Vegas Outbreak three years ago, as well as the Still Creek Outbreak, Chuck kills the vandals. Checking on the pharmacist, Denyse, Chuck takes her with him until they get back to the Bunker. Getting some Zombrex, Chuck returns to the Bunker with Denyse (Along with any other survivors), impressing Sullivan.
- Going through the Yucatan Casino, Chuck gets knocked out by a mentally impaired animal tamer named Ted, who has been rounding up survivors to feed Snowflake the Tiger. Seeing that he’s an honest guy, Chuck tries to talk him out of hurting people, but accidentally says “Let’s take things nice and slow.” This infuriates Ted since he’s always been called slow, so he fights Chuck with Snowflake helping. Chuck is forced to kill Ted, who begs Snowflake to eat him so she won’t starve. Chuck saves a man running from Ted named Lenny, who turns on the slot machines, and can even tame Snowflake to bring back as a pet for Katie, becoming the first of eleven gifts Chuck can get for her.
As early as 7:00 AM, Chuck injects into Katie’s shoulder a dose of Zombrex, which she is no longer terrified of taking, even going back to playing her Mega Man video game. On the TV, there’s a news report about how Channel 6 Action News reporter Rebecca Chang is inside Fortune City. She confirms on her transceiver that the outbreak started at the Fortune City Arena after the TIR show, and that a behind the scene source got her proof that the outbreak is an act of terrorism. She even shows security camera footage of a man in a full body yellow TIR gameshow tracksuit setting off a bomb at the holding pens. Rebecca reveals that given the suit was worn during the show last night, everyone already has an idea of who the bomber is: Chuck Greene, a former member of CURE, who acquaintances note as a drifter angry about his wife’s death. Rebecca signs off, adding that she’s at the Fortune City Hotel. Chuck is in a panic, swearing that that wasn’t him on the video. Stacey is suspicious, but Chuck swears he and Katie barely got out of there alive. Stacey is also confused on why they would say he’s a CURE member? Chuck explains that he had gone to a CURE meeting once after his wife’s passing. He swears he’s being set up, with Stacey agreeing, since CURE has been notoriously used as scapegoats in the past. With three days till the military arrives, they have until then to prove their innocence. Chuck rushes to the hotel, trying to find Rebecca and her source. Heading back out, Chuck silently realizes that traditional weapons may have cut it for the survivors of Willamette, but here in a major city, he needs to adapt. Using a workshop, he combines various weapons and items to create entirely new weapons, using his mechanic skills to the fullest. Once getting to the hotel, Chuck finds it empty save for Rebecca’s news badge on the floor. Inspecting it, Chuck doesn’t notice the zombie behind him. But it gets shot dead by Rebecca, who is surprised she saved the most wanted man in the city. Chuck tries to explain to her that somebody stole his show suit and planted the bomb. Waving off Chuck’s demands for the source by citing confidentiality, Rebecca is willing to work with him after Chuck agrees to give an interview with her. The two head to the central Security Room to recover the footage. Crossing through the under construction South Plaza, they get to the security room, all the hardware trashed and the security guards shot dead. Recording this on her camcorder, Rebecca does come to trust Chuck a little bit more. Stacey calls in a panic, Sullivan has seen the news and is trying to kick Katie out. Realizing Chuck just talked to the leader of CURE, she follows after. Returning to the Safehouse, Chuck finds Sullivan and Stacey in an argument, which he joins in for simply defending himself. Sullivan is suspicious due to the show outfit, but he relents when Chuck makes a deal: If they don’t find proof of Chuck’s innocence, he turns himself in to the military. Sullivan agrees after Rebecca sneaks in to his surprise, and adds that Chuck can keep finding survivors. After catching Stacey up on what they found, Chuck stops Rebecca from recording Katie. Rebecca tries to be friendly, but Stacey doesn’t trust her since she badmouthed the both of them. However, Rebecca does admit that things are more complex than they thought. Despite finding Rebecca’s lack of confidence in their innocence, Stacey will take any help. Stacey returns to the monitors, while Rebecca heads out into the city.
- On the Platinum Strip, Chuck is nearly run over by fellow contestant Leon Bell. As a younger man, Leon tries to talk big to Chuck, who simply wants to bring survivors to the safe bunker. But Leon is offended, thinking Chuck went from his motocross idol to a spineless chump. A man runs by calling for help, but Leon runs over him with the chainsaw dirt bike, cutting him in half. This disturbs Chuck, but Leon just chuckles that he’s gotten a high score, clearly mixing TIR with real life. With no other choice, Chuck has to fight him, racing through the strip. However, since Chuck is a true survivor while Leon’s just some punk who grew up watching people kill zombies, Leon gets knocked off his bike. Desperate to prove himself, he got back on despite the leaking gas line. Leon kept trying to do tricks until he got too low to the ground and the chainsaw skidding along the pavement lit up the gas, lighting Leon on fire, dying as he declared himself number one. With Leon dead, Chuck gets access to his trailer, which allows him to modify dirt bikes, such as creating the Slicycle from the TIR game.
- In an Americana Casino bathroom, Chuck finds a member of CURE, Brandon, who has gone insane thinking that CURE has finally become a radical movement, seeking to turn everyone into zombies. And meeting Chuck makes him think it’s true. Holding a woman named Vikki hostage, he tries to change her into a zombie, but Chuck saves her. Brandon fights Chuck with a shard of glass, but in the fight, Brandon gets bit by the zombie he tried to feed Vikki to. In a breakdown, he slits his own throat.
Later that night, at 7:30 PM, Chuck checks on Katie to see if she’s comfortable while she sleeps. He and Stacey admit they’re worried about her being surrounded by the zombies and having to take Zombrex, with Chuck swearing that he’ll do anything to make this up to her. Spotting a group of men in the maintenance tunnel, Chuck heads down to investigate.
- In a kitchen in the Food Court, Chuck comes across a blood covered chef named Antoine, who has been waiting for a food critic, clearly in denial about the outbreak. Mistaking Chuck for the critic, Antoine tries to serve him some food that “Smells like chicken.” Realizing what he might have been served, Chuck rips into the chef. Furious, Antoine charges at him with a kitchen knife. Chuck fights him off, where he dives headfirst into a fryer, burning himself to death. With Antoine dead, Chuck is able to free the waitress Cinda, but she doesn’t trust Chuck since he has been on the news all day. So Chuck finds Jasper, a waiter in the next building to earn her trust.
Underground, Chuck spots several men dressed in kevlar and holding machine guns escorting a subway to the ramp. And the one leading them is TK. Chuck tries to sneak closer, but he knocks over a 2x4, getting TK’s attention. Sending his men after Chuck, who chases after TK on a dirt bike. Using the ramps to jump onto the train, Chuck fights past more mercenaries, all the way to the front car where TK is mockingly clapping at his success. Chuck is furious that TK framed him, and demands to know why, but all he’s told is TK just wants to enjoy the land of opportunity. But before Chuck can take him in, the train cars are separated. When the train car finally stops, Chuck calls Stacey to let her know that TK’s the one behind all this. Knowing this isn’t over yet, Chuck has to return to the Safehouse to give Katie her next Zombrex shot. Before leaving, Chuck finds a key, giving him access to various doors in the underground.
September 26th, 2011
Returning to the Safehouse, Chuck gives her an injection of Zombrex, who apologizes to her dad that he has to do stupid things like go on a weird TV show to get her her medicine. Stacey voices in that the TIR show is needlessly cruel, those zombies are peoples friends and family, they should be put to rest not slaughtered on a gameshow. Chuck agrees, but admits he was desperate when he got into that show.
At 10:00 AM, Rebecca returns to the Safehouse, so Chuck tells her that TK was behind the outbreak. Rebecca is not convinced since an outbreak caused by his zombies would sabotage his own show. There’s a rumble in the floors above, with Stacey checking the monitors to find some men breaking into the casino vaults. Chuck and Rebecca head out to find out what’s going on. Heading outside, they find the men from the tunnel raiding the Yucatan, Atlantica, Americana, and Slot Ranch Casino with power drills trying to break into the bank vaults. Fighting them off, the two figure out what TK’s plan is: He started an outbreak to rob the casinos. With this information, Rebecca reveals she’s having a meeting with her source later that night, and offers to have Chuck meet them. She tells Chuck to meet them at 11:00 PM at the Shoal Nightclub in the Yucatan.
- At the Palisades Mall, Chuck finds a dead woman in a Susie costume, where he’s confronted by a man named Brent, who has been broken by the death of the woman, Louise, since she promised to go on a date with him. Now calling himself Slappy after the costume he’s wearing, he attacks Chuck out of misguided revenge, using a homemade flamethrower. However, being on roller skates means that Chuck has no issue fighting him. Lumbering over to Louise, Brent dies holding her hand, hoping they can have that date in heaven.
- At a wedding chapel in the Silver Strip, Chuck spots a fat man in an undersized pig themed dominatrix suit with a chainsaw, Randy, holding his father the minister and a woman dressed like a bride hostage. Desperate to lose his virginity, yet adamant about waiting until he’s married, he’s already killed a woman for rejecting him. The fear of zombies has made him impatient on getting married. When the minister spots Chuck and begs to be saved, Randy slices him in half before attacking Chuck. Chuck fights him off, and leaves him to be eaten by the now zombified bride, saving the woman, Danni.
- At the Royal Flush Plaza, Chuck spots a mailman aggressively trying to deliver some Zombrex, his obsession over perfect attendance making him believe he must still work. But when Carl the Mailman realizes he’s talking to Chuck Greene, the man he believes responsible for the outbreak, he attacks him with mail bombs and a shotgun. Of course, Chuck defeats him, and leaves with the Zombrex while Carl blows himself up with a mail bomb.
At the Nightclub, Chuck meets Rebecca’s source, who is holding her hostage with swords: Amber and Crystal, TK’s showgirls. To save Rebecca, Chuck fights The Baroness twins. Eventually, Chuck does kill one, but the other has a Villainous Breakdown, believing she can’t live without the other, and stabs herself to death. Chuck unties Rebecca, incredulous she trusted the twins, but she offers a conversation she heard them having about TK having another helicopter coming in at sunset. But where the chopper will land wasn’t specified, so they’ll have to watch for where it lands, agreeing to search for it at 8:00 PM on the roof of the bunker.
September 27th, 2011
While waiting, 7:00 AM arrives so Chuck gives Katie a Zombrex shot. But this time, Katie collapses and starts to have a seizure. Chuck starts to panic, because his wife went through the same shakes. Stacey calms him, assuring she’s seen this before with her sister when she took Zombrex. It was hellish to her body, so she just stopped taking it, tired of her life revolving around the drug. Both ponder on a cure, with Isabela Keyes working with the government to make a cure. Chuck is hoping for a cure, but he isn’t ready to trust the sister of Carlito Keyes.
- The Militia Men, four rednecks (Derrick, Earl, Johnny, and Deetz) have set up camp in Fortune Park, shooting at everybody, especially survivors, with sniper rifles. They think they are possibly with the foreigners, socialists, and “Pansies, Floosies, Bureaucrats, Liberals, and them half-assed Conservatives.” Chuck takes them out one at a time as they’re peppered throughout the Fortune City roofs.
- In the South Plaza, Chuck finds bodies hung over the scaffolding with bags over their heads. A hick mall cop, Seymour, is hanging anybody he considers a trespasser, convinced he’s now a big shot. Attacking Chuck, who is forced to fight back, Seymour falls onto a saw blade. With Seymour dead, Chuck saves Ray who was hiding from the mall cop.
- At the Slot Ranch Casino, Chuck finds a man tied to a booth with a bomb by the aging singer in a very revealing leather suit named Bibi Love, who is in the midst of a mental breakdown during her comeback tour, with her assistant tied up backstage. So she doesn’t blow up the hostages, Chuck runs around to get whatever she needs. Getting her a drink, dressing in a Tuxedo, and attracting “Fans” (Zombies). After all that, the starlet has Chuck man the special effects of her show. After a successful show Bibi tries a stage dive, only then realizing what’s really going on, forcing Chuck to save her. Back to her senses, she releases Allison, Juan, and Cameron, and joins Chuck back to the Safehouse.
Later that night, Chuck and Rebecca are on the roof, and with a pair of binoculars, wait for TK’s helicopter. Spotting it at the Fortune City Hotel, they head over to stop him. Getting past his mercenaries to the roof, Chuck and Rebecca rush to stop TK from fleeing. Chuck stops them by using a crane to hook the chopper in place. Frustrated, TK orders his men to start shooting, with Chuck just lowering the winch so he can throw garbage in the rotors. The helicopter crashes, with TK falling at Chuck and Rebecca’s feet, burning money raining from the sky. After being dragged back to the bunker, TK is handcuffed to a dentist chair. Knowing the truth, Sullivan is more than ready to shoot him, but agrees to simply keep watch over him. With only a few hours until the rescue, Chuck has to scrounge up some more Zombrex for Katie, and find any other possible survivor.
- At the Atlantica Casino, Reed and Roger, two washed out magicians, are so desperate to get into the spotlight that they’ve kidnapped a woman and saw her in half as a trick. When Chuck calls them out for it, they attack since they Can't Take Criticism. Despite the ridiculous weapons they’re wielding, Chuck beats them up. With his dying breath, Roger stabs Reed to death for all his abuse, admitting he’s always wanted to do that.
September 28th, 2011
After giving Katie a Zombrex shot, at 9:00 Am, the National Guard’s AZU (Anti Zombie Unit) rolls in as everyone, save for Rebecca who watches on the roof, in the bunker watches the AZU arrive. Everything is going good, until a green gas envelops Fortune City, and the gung ho soldiers now have to deal with zombies with red blisters and acidic vomit. While the green fog obscures much, everyone sees that the rescue team is butchered. On the monitor they spot Rebecca running, with Chuck knowing he has to go save her. Everyone is in a panic, with Sullivan giving some bad news: If the first Military rescue fails there’s a second wave sent in 24 hours if there’s signs of survivors, and if not then all of Fortune City will be firebombed. Chuck heads out, finding a survivor of the military, Sgt. Boykin, had a breakdown after watching his men die, thinking they’re still alive and anyone approaching is a zombie. Taking Rebecca hostage, Chuck fights him off. Defiant about being turned, the soldier kills himself with a grenade. They get away, but Rebecca’s ankle is sprained. Getting back to the bunker, Chuck gets an ice pack on Rebecca’s ankle while TK snarks at them. Having finally woken up, Chuck demands answers from him. Where’d he get the gas? Why frame Chuck?
TK tells him he knows only what he’s told, saying that Chuck made a perfect fall guy. Now knowing there’s a higher up they don’t know about, they leave TK handcuffed. Heading back to the monitor room, Rebecca knows for sure he knows more and he doesn’t have the resources to make a mutating gas. All of a sudden the lights go out, the blast doors open, and zombies come crawling through. Spotting the busted powerbox, Chuck rushes over to reactivate it before any survivors die. With the power back and the blast door closed, Chuck and the survivors kill any zombies still inside. All but Sullivan and TK are accounted for, so Chuck goes looking. Chuck finds TK free, but has just been bit by a zombie. Handcuffing TK back in the nurse’s office, Chuck finds Sullivan had been knocked out. Coming to, he doesn’t know what happened. For the first time in his life, TK is panicking, begging for Chuck to give him Zombrex. Sullivan thinks they oughta toss him outside with the other zombies. Leaving TK alone to ponder if he should be given Zombrex, everyone watches the news which says that an empty bunker was found revealing no survivors. Everyone panics, but Sullivan tries to calm them down, believing the government won’t bomb their own people. Rebecca does offer good news: If she can get in contact with her station, they can get all the survivors out of the city. With everything they’ve learned since the AZU came in, it’s clear there’s more going on than a heist, so Chuck decides to head into the tunnels to find what made the gas. Knowing that there will be thousands of gas zombies underground, Chuck heads there anyway. In the center of the underground is a whole secret area, with a lab full of mercenaries rounding up the zombies. The zombies ignore Chuck, entranced by whatever is inside, so he follows behind them. There, a sound wave goes through, exploding the zombies heads, causing hundreds of queen wasps to appear. When Chuck is the only one standing, the mercenaries swarm him. Getting past them, Chuck heads into a ventilated part of the lab with only a pair of scientists inside. Taking the transceiver, a security pass, and their laptop after fighting back, Chuck reads on the desktop of the laptop who is behind all this: Phenotrans. Before leaving he turns off the gas with a giant switch. Returning to the Safehouse telling everyone this, they’re all confused.
Phenotrans ‘’makes’’ Zombrex, so why cause an outbreak. Sullivan is in denial, thinking everyone is spinning a conspiracy. Rebecca reads through the laptop and finds that there’s plenty of proof. Rebecca already has a theory: It’s been three years since the last outbreak in Las Vegas, and nobody has been needing Zombrex, but now that zombies are back and mutated, and that there are probably line-ups all over the country with a demand for Zombrex. Chuck is Disappointed by the Motive since it once again loops around to cash. Rebecca uses the transceiver Chuck got to make a call to Channel 6 Action News.
She gets a literal Wham Shot when Sullivan shoots her in the forehead.
As Katie hides behind Chuck, Sullivan mocks the dead Rebecca for not getting her award. Now Chuck understands everything: Sullivan was the guy who framed Chuck and has been working with TK the whole time, he’s a Phenotrans mole! Sullivan doesn’t deny it, but admits that everyone in the bunker was supposed to die when the outbreak began. He steals all the evidence while Katie swears she always knew he was a bad guy as he prepares to shoot them all, figuring a firebombing will cover the evidence. Stacey knocks the gun out of his hand with a bat, but he knocks her aside, running away with the evidence. Chuck rushes after him while Stacey watches for Sullivan on the monitors. Heading outside, Stacey reveals that he’s heading for the Yucatan Casino roof, the tallest point in the city. Heading up the roof, Chuck confronts Sullivan, now with several ammo pouches and a skyhook pack over his Security Jacket.
- Chuck Greene: So you’re behind this. You killed all these people…For money!
Raymond Sullivan: After everything that’s happened, that’s what you think? The money is secondary. We’re trying to save lives here, Chuck!
Chuck Greene: Saving lives? What the hell are you talking about?
Raymond Sullivan: Aw, come on! We had to take the necessary steps to maintain a consistent supply. We can’t make the drug without queens, Chuck…A lot of queens. You can thank Isabella for that.
Chuck Greene: And TK robbing the city? What, that’s not about money?!
Raymond Sullivan: He went off the rails. He was well paid for his part. Then he just got greedy. His work, not ours.
Chuck Greene: Whatever happened to “Do no harm,” Sullivan?!
Raymond Sullivan: Open your eyes, Chuck! Do you have any idea how many people are affected in this country? Doctors, politicians, CEOs - some of our country’s best are infected! Even your little girl, Chuck…What would happen to your cute little time bomb if she didn’t get her drug? Fortune City was a small price to pay for this country’s way of life.
Chuck Greene: You murdered these people!
Raymond Sullivan: Acceptable losses. This wasn’t our first time, and it won’t be the last!
Chuck Greene: You bastard! You did it! You caused the Vegas Outbreak too, didn’t you?! You killed my wife! Destroyed my family!
Raymond Sullivan: Everything that we have done has been absolutely necessary!
Now filled with a rage he never felt before Chuck rushes at Sullivan, nevermind his combat training, or his air support. However, when it looks like Chuck is down, The Mole releases his skyhook, but leans in and tells the motocross champion that he and Phenotrans are the good guys. Chuck handcuffs him to the roof railing with the handcuffs Sullivan gave him, so when the plane catches the skyhook, Sullivan is ripped in half. With nothing but the transceiver, Chuck calls Channel 6 Action News, telling them about the survivors. Chuck lands at the roof of the Safehouse, the survivors getting taken to safety. Spotting Stacey with a sleeping Katie, but her backpack missing, Chuck decides to head back inside to get it since several of her mothers belongings are inside. Grabbing the backpack, Chuck is dragged inside the elevator by a zombified TK. Stacey tries to save him, but as more zombies come in, Chuck tells her to leave. The elevator door closes as Chuck tosses her the backpack.
But what most people don’t know is that not long after, Chuck Greene met a hero of the past.
Case Zero DLC
In 2008, two years after the first outbreak in Willamette, Colorado, a brand new outbreak occurred in Las Vegas. Fleeing the city with his daughter Katie, Chuck Greene stops his truck as Rebecca Chang is on the radio stating that the outbreak has been going on for twelve hours and the death toll is in the hundred thousands and a million infected, and a fifty mile perimeter is set up outside Vegas, with soldiers ordered to shoot to kill. Stopping at a gas station in Still Creek, a town 46 miles outside of Vegas with a population of 753, Chuck inspects the blood splattered truck as it is getting gas pumped. Spotting a car driving away and a fighter jet soaring through the sky, Chuck’s watch starts beeping. Heading to the sleeping Katie, whose arm is bandaged up from a zombie bite, he starts to administer her medicine, but she panics due to the needle. Comforting his little girl, Chuck gives her the Zombrex shot. Heading inside the gas station, father and daughter find the building abandoned. An explosion and gunfire outside distracts them as a man steals Chuck’s truck, taking his supply of Zombrex with him. Katie points out that there are people coming to them, and when Chuck looks up he sees the Zombies. Barricading themselves inside the gas station, Chuck takes Katie into the garage in the back, where he tells her he loves her. Heading out into Still Creek through the junkyard, Chuck tries to find Zombrex and a way out. What he finds is the bridge is jammed up with abandoned cars. Climbing on top of an oil truck, Chuck spots a number of army tents with a flipped over ambulance. Heading into the quarantine zone to check out the ambulance, Chuck finds a dead soldier with a radio and Zombrex. As he’s leaving, the radio starts ringing with new orders. Backup is coming to assist the blockade, and at 21:00 hours (9:00 PM) the new quarantine security will arrive. Now with a deadline, Chuck grabs a heavily gutted dirtbike and returns to the garage to begin repairs. Taking note of missing parts (Wheel, Engine, Gas, Handle Bar, and Bike Forks), Chuck scours the town looking for the parts. Along the way, he rescues several survivors who help him out, such as Dick the pawnshop owner who sells him a wheel, and Bob who offers to help find other survivors while looking for his own daughter. A group of survivors, Jason and Archie, helps Chuck find the handle bar for the bike. With all five parts, Chuck puts together a homemade dirt bike. When the clocks hit 7:00 PM, all the zombies go into an enhanced state. Rounding up the last of the survivors (Including Bob and his daughter Darcie), Chuck heads back to the Safehouse to administer Katie a Zombrex shot. After taking the shot, Katie asks a simple question: “Why did Mommy bite me?” Chuck assures her that it wasn’t her mother, but something that looked like her. Hearing a sound behind them, Chuck spots a towering man in a mechanics uniform, and apologizes if the Safehouse was his, explaining they were looking for a place to stay. Taking one look at Katie, the man, Jed, chuckles about how he hasn’t killed a kid zombie yet. Chuck becomes defensive, swearing she isn’t a zombie and just took the Zombrex. Jed doesn’t care, since he’s a psychopath who is enjoying the Zombie outbreak, considering it a legal way to kill without being labeled as murder. Chuck fights Jed in the junkyard, leading to a pile of cars crushing Jed. Now more ready than ever to leave, Chuck and Katey hop on the Dirtbike, where the military immediately swarms the safehouse. Refusing to risk Katey’s safety, Chuck rides off with the army chasing after them. The other survivors are rounded up and quarantined. Driving until the sun rises, Chuck spots his truck, the thief dead in the driver’s seat. The only thing Chuck takes is some Zombrex, Katie’s backpack, a picture of her he keeps in the sun visor, and his iconic jacket, donning it and riding off in the sunrise with Katie.
Case West DLC
Trapped in an elevator with a zombified TK, Chuck has to fight with his bare hands on the moving elevator. Suddenly the doors open, and a man bashes TK’s brains in. “I never did like that damn show,” says an all too familiar voice. Chuck recognizes him, but Chuck is recognizable too. Chuck’s face is all over the TV, being accused of starting the Fortune City outbreak. Chuck explains that it’s a lie spun up by Phenotrans. This catches the other man’s curiosity. Chuck continues that Phenotrans killed the people of Fortune City, Las Vegas, his wife Pam, and Rebecca Chang. Surprised to hear this, the other man admits they were going to investigate a source detailing a Phenotrans facility to the west. Seeing a helicopter move a container out into the desert, Chuck agrees to help to prove his innocence, since he’s warned the cities gonna be bombed any minute now so the proof will be there. Boarding a helicopter, Chuck is threatened if he is behind the outbreak. Groaning, Chuck wonders if his new buddy wants to get back in the limelight. Injecting himself with Zombrex, the man corrects him, “And the name’s Frank. Frank West.”
Arriving outside the facility, Chuck spots with Frank’s binoculars an air duct they can sneak through. However, the air ducts are much more cramped than either man would’ve preferred, and after getting to a dead end, Chuck and Frank end up falling into a pit of zombies. As they fight off the zombies, all the gates start opening up, giving Chuck and Frank a chance to escape. Getting to a shipping office, the duo find just one security guard and prepare to jump him, but two other guards surprise them. Before more guards can arrive, the intercom blares that the zombie supply is loose. The computer monitor lights up with a message to Frank. Chuck is weary to trust someone inside Phenotrans, but Frank points out they started the outbreak at the facility to distract security and unlock the doors. The source faxes them a map with several points highlighted. The Source explains that if they go to those points and give them the access codes, then they’ll be able to access everything about the facility.
Heading throughout the facility, Chuck and Frank put in the access codes through various computers within the facility. Returning to the shipping office, Frank is relaxed since he’ll soon know what’s going on, but Chuck is impatient since if he doesn’t find proof he was set up in Fortune City he’s a dead man. Frank contacts the source, who says they’re trying to figure out what to do. Having to wait for a few hours, the pair go about saving the surviving scientists, men and women who have now technically become unemployed by the facility outbreak. Helping these survivors give Chuck and Frank more access to the facility while they flee with their lives. After waiting for hours, Frank concludes that Phenotrans is collecting Queen Wasps from the zombies with the gas, with Chuck pointing out the zombies are from Fortune City. The Source finally emails back, saying that proof of Chuck’s innocence is in the Director’s office, but they’ll need a keycard. Frustrated with questions, Chuck replies, “Who are you?”
The message board disconnects. With no other choice, the two of them make their way to one of the labs where a keycard is kept. At the Director’s office, there are several monitors displaying to Frank a list of missing people, prisoners, and more. Meanwhile, Chuck finds files detailing the blueprints of Fortune City’s underground and a harvest projection, things he’d already seen. Frank is having a hard time believing that Phenotrans still needs queens, they’ve gone on media saying the drug is synthetic now. Chuck points out they still need queens, and thus still need zombies. Frank looks at his box of Zombex, and realizes that if you run out of zombies you need to make more, even if you run out of prisoners, homeless, or just random missing people. In disgust that this is the price of his life, Frank throws the box against a wall, tripping a laser alarm. Both men leave quickly, but Chuck grabs the box of Zombrex. Fighting through several guards, they’re able to cancel the alarm by using the guards’ radio to misdirect them to some zombies.
Returning to the shipping office, where the Source reveals they have Frank’s evidence but they're trapped in a secure lab and will need time to override the locks. Left with nothing to do but wait, the boredom drives both men up the walls. Reading over the newest email, Frank notes that they’ve got the evidence and just gotta break into where they are. Only problem is the doors are hacker proof, so the power will have to go. The Source tells them to get C4 from the security tower and a detonator from the storage bay, but they have to move fast. Fighting through some zombies and guards they both manage to get what they need, heading for the power room. Jamming the C4 into the generators, Chuck and Frank run as fast as they can before the detonation. Sharing a quick high five, the team heads off for the Secure Labs. As they get there, the power is restored. Among the various chambers full of wasps, is a lone woman. Dressed in a lab coat and her hair in a ponytail, and with less makeup, Frank recognizes the woman instantly: Isabela Keyes, the sister of Carlito Keyes and the creator of Zombrex. Both men are confused at how she’s the source, while Isabela approaches Frank warmly, putting a hand to his face. He slaps it away in disgust now knowing she works for Phenotrans. Isabela admits that it is true, but it was a part of a plea deal she made. When Frank escaped from Willamette with her, Frank was lauded a hero while she was arrested as a terrorists accomplice. The choice was work for Phenotrans or go to jail. This just makes Frank more furious, because this means she knew Queens were still being used all this time, giving Phenotrans the chance to produce zombie outbreaks all over the world. Isabela admits that she’s tried non-stop to make a synthetic cure, but her research was stolen. Isabela begs them to get her out of the lab to continue the research. A voice interrupts, a familiar voice, a voice that has been playing on the intercom on a repeat commercial to the scientists since our heroes got there. Watching over the three is a wheelchair bound woman with a massive bite mark across her left cheek, who sends in all the remaining guards to surround them. Isabela makes a run for it, leaving Chuck to believe that she was just using them to escape. The wheelchair woman tells them that nobody is leaving alive. Chuck laughs at this since they don’t care about lives. But she swears that they do care, since the world relies on Zombrex they are a necessity. Confident nobody would stop the controlled outbreaks even if anyone knew. Isabela shows up with a gun and shoots at the guards. But behind Isabela is a hulking man, Harjit Singh, knocks her aside with a pair of power gauntlets. On the ground, Isabela tries to toss to Frank a flash drive to stop the woman, Marion Mallon, Director of Phenotrans. Singh proceeds to step on the flash drive, crushing it after Isabela passes out. The guards take Isabela’s unconscious body to Mallon. Chuck and Frank fight Singh, who despite being much larger, are able to finally kill him by knocking him into a chamber of wasps, who sting him to death both externally and internally after a few flew into his mouth. Taking a look at Mallon’s gnawed at face, Frank snarks that she looks like she needs Zombrex but demands to know why she would do this. Mallon laughs at this, having already made a cure for herself with Isabela’s notes. Thinking about his daughter, this makes Chuck furious that she’d withhold the cure for herself. Mallon justifies herself that nobody is really deserving of the cure, since humans created the zombies in Santa Cabeza to improve cattle production. She points at the heroes, the men who would take down the company that would make Zombrex as proof of her misanthropic mindset. Mallon shrugs that due to their actions another “Harvest” will have to happen soon. Mallon leaves with Isabela, still a prisoner, after setting off the self-destruct sequence. Chuck tries to stay behind to find the cure for Katey, but Frank forces him to flee.
Watching the smoldering remains of the Facility, Chuck mumbles about how much the world would change if they had the cure. Frank assures him that Mallon was most likely lying, a last minute attempt to make them stay behind in an exploding building. Chuck points out that he ‘’needs’’ to believe in a cure, for Katey’s sake. Frank points out that at least they have proof of Chuck’s innocence, and Frank did get his story, incomplete as it ended up due to the destroyed flash drive. Chuck looks at the file, pessimistic that nobody will believe what they have to say about what happened. Frank’s watch starts to beep, the alarm that he needs to take Zombrex, the Zombrex he threw in frustration. Chuck hands him the box, “Take it. The world needs Frank West.”
