Description: Chlex and zombie apocalypse/ AU/ All Lionel Luthor wanted was to cure his disease...
I do not own anything connected to Smallville.
A/N I hope you will like it. I have the whole plot planned out. It’s of my creation, so there will be no connection to any zombie movie you may know (won’t be too gore or disgusting, will be a love story ) There will be some pretty good twists.
Right now my priority is my book that I am writing, so I may have update this story once or twice a week.
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What would you do if the world’s most revolutionary cure turned out to be a curse? How would you survived in the world full of zombies?
Part 1
Chloe woke up to an insisting ringing.
“What the hell?” she murmured as she glanced at her clock. It was barely 4 am. She growled and reached for her cell. “WHAT?!”
“Sullivan, get over here!” she heard Perry White’s, her new editor, order.
“What happened?” she asked, sitting up and rubbing her eyes with her free hand. Perry wouldn’t just call her in the dawn if it wasn’t important. She had to listen to him if she wanted to make a career she was dreaming of.
Over a week ago Chloe had been granted a very special interview scheduled for this day. She would be the very first reporter that would officially write about the new revolutionary LuthorCorp cure. Lionel Luthor, the CEO, had been suffering from rare and deadly liver disease. His scientists had not only produced a cure for that, but it was the remedy for all the world’s problems. It could cure cancer, even AIDS, all by regenerative cells grow.
Chloe still thought Lionel Luthor was evil and he’d only invested in that research, because he was selfish, wanted to live and refused to sign the company over to his son, Lex, who was currently struggling to make something for his own. Chloe hadn’t see him since she’d finished Smallville high, but she was sure he didn’t even remember her now as she’d been just an annoying teenager who hadn’t let him off the hook until he’d granted her an interview back then. All this time she’d felt like she’d been just a pest to him.
“It’s…” Perry’s voice faltered, “it’s bad, Chloe.”
If he called her Chloe then something horrible must’ve happened.
“What? The world is going to end?” she asked sarcastically while getting up and stretching her tired body.
“Actually, that might be it,” Perry said in such a serious tone that Chloe stilled.
“Chief, what is it?”
“The hell has broken lose, that’s it! Get your ass over here and… be careful. Oh, and better turn the news channel on before you go out.”
“Ok…” Chloe hesitated.
“Today, Sullivan!”
“Ok, I’m going!”
Chloe ran to the bathroom, then put some clothes on and got out of her room.
“Lana?” she asked. “Lana, are you up?! Something’s happening!” She turned the TV on.
In that very moment, the city alarm went off.
Chloe shivered, having a very bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.
“Attention, attention…” she heard coming from the TV. “This is an emergency broadcast,” Chloe frowned, “stay at home, close all the doors and windows. There are serious side effects to the LuthorCorp revolutionary cure. First high fever and exhaustion, then death, after three hours the brain cells regenerate and the body awakes. It was called the zombie syndrome. Infected people don’t think, don’t feel, they’re not even alive. They crave for meat and they will do anything to get it. If you get bit, you will become one of them. It usually takes three days to complete the process. There is no cure. I repeat, there is no cure. If you were bitten or treated at one of Luthorcorp’s facilities, stay away from others or if you’re brave enough, save them by shooting yourself in the head. If you are a survivor, stay away from the infected, find a gun or something sharp. The only way to stop those phantoms is to shoot, pierce or cut off their heads.
Chloe was standing there, in her living room, listening to that, hearing the alarm that was still on. She was squeezing her hand around the remote control, still couldn’t believe what she just heard. Zombies? Zombies?! It must have been some horrible nightmare she would soon wake up from, right?
“Attention, attention…” the transmission started again.
“What… Wh…” Chloe barely uttered.
Daily Planet. Perry had asked her to get there. But he couldn’t be at his right mind! Could he? Chloe was renting an apartment just right the corner, but still…
“Lana!” Chloe called her friend’s name again. “LANA!!” She ran to her friend’s room and… was stopped on what she saw.
She vaguely remembered that her friend had taken the LuthorCorp cure.
“Oh god!” Chloe covered her mouth with her hands as she was staring at her friend who was now standing in the middle of her room, her eyes bloodshot, blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.
Lana had leukemia. She would’ve lived for a few years, but on hearing that there was a cure she’d decided to take it. It was free for everybody and as Lionel Luthor had told Chloe, he’d wanted to redeem himself when he’d got a second chance at life. He wanted to help people. Maybe his intentions were genuine, but she still thought that everything coming out from his hands was tainted. What was happening now was just another proof to that.
“Lana?” Chloe squealed. “Lana… please… are you still there?”
But her gut told her Lana wasn’t there and would never be.
In that very moment Lana opened her mouth and… roared, she just roared at Chloe like she was some predator.
Chloe just stood there, completely frozen.
When Lana moved, trying to get her with her teeth, the blonde reporter finally woke up, running back to the living room, frantically looking for some weapon.
She grabbed the lamp standing on the table and took a swing at her former best friend that was just behind her now.
There was no time for crying, no time for grieving. Chloe woke up today to a completely different world and had to fight to survive. Or die.
The shadow of the person standing behind her wasn’t her friend anymore. It was a zombie.
Chloe hit Lana in the head, using all her strength.
She heard another roar and jumped away as Lana fell to the floor.
But she was still moving, getting to her feet.
There was no time for packing, no time even for grabbing the most useful stuff. Chloe had to run or she would die.
All she had on her was a brown shorts and white tank top, but there was no time for getting anything else.
She didn’t think twice as she got to the door and pushed them open. When she found herself on the staircase, she ran for dear life.
She knew she was being chased.
Chloe stumbled and almost fell from the last few steps. She managed to grab the rail and landed on her feet. She was free. Out of the building.
“Daily Planet…” she thought, but stopped immediately on seeing that the street was already taken over. She could see the walking deads batting those who were still alive.
Chloe was terrified like never before. Even when she’d been in Smallville there had been nothing there that had scared her so much.
Blood was raging through her veins now, heart beating so fast she was afraid she would go into cardiac arrest.
And she would die. She knew it now.
It was either die here on the street or in her apartment when she left her former friend.
Then a miracle happened. She noticed a car coming from the distance.
She had to make it. She had to stop it to save herself. There was no other option. She’d sooner die being hit by a car than being bitten and turned.
She ran to the street and stood right in front of the upcoming car. She closed her eyes as she saw how fast it was coming.
Then she heard a squeak of brakes and… nothing happened. She didn’t feel any pain.
“GET IN!” she heard a woman’s yell and then a gun shot.
She opened her eyes and saw that it was a sport car. She was lucky it had good brakes.
There was a woman with red hair behind the wheel and she was the one shooting at the zombies to make it possible for Chloe to get in.
The stranger didn’t have to tell the blonde twice. She jumped into the car and the woman drove away immediately.
That was when Chloe realized how shaken she really was. And how cold.
Her whole body couldn’t calm down, then the tears came.
“Oh… my God…” She covered her face with her hands, sobbing frantically. “Oh… what… what…”
But it wasn’t the end.
The woman pointed her gun at her.
“Hey!” Chloe yelled.” What are you doing?!” Her body shook even more.
“Have you been bitten?!” the stranger asked in harsh voice.
“NO!” Chloe denied in an instant.
“If you’re lying…”
“I swear! I swear I’m fine! I just… I just saw my roommate turning into… trust me, if I’d got bitten I would’ve taken that gun from you and shot myself!” she said urgently and honestly, her eyes full of tears.
“Good,” the red head lowered the gun. “Are you a good shooter?” she asked while handing Chloe a second gun.
“Wh… what?” Chloe could just stare at her, pale.
“We need to shoot them to survive.”
“Eh… I never… I can try… but…”
“It’s fine,” the woman sighed heavily, “but you keep that gun just in case. It’s not that hard, you just point at the head and then pull the trigger.”
Chloe, still shaking, took the gun. Her eyes widely opened.
“Remember that they are not humans anymore,” the woman continued, her voice getting softer like she was compassionate to Chloe now. “It’s like shooting animals.”
“Uhm…” Chloe nodded quietly.
“I’m Tess. Tess Mercer,” the red head finally introduced herself.
“Chloe Sullivan.”
“Nice to meet you, Chloe.”
“Where are you going? Is there a safe haven?”
“Yes,” Tess answered to Chloe’s big relief. “It’s one of the LuthorCorp facilities at the outskirts of Metropolis.”
“LuthorCorp?” Chloe couldn’t hide the disappointment in her voice.
“Don’t worry. Lionel Luthor is dead.”
“What?” That was news. “Are you sure?”
“Yes, since I was the one to put a bullet into his zombie head,” the answer came bitterly.
“You… Ok, slow down…”
“He naturally was one of the first to turn. I was there.”
“You know the Luthors?” Chloe asked, this time curiosity won over.
“Worse. I am one of them. And I’ve just killed daddy dearest.”
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