Not only did I know she gained an extremely valuable power, but she also had experience as a nurse… I needed her, and now I was planning on kidnapping her as well as all the patients that could survive if given enough time to recover. Thankfully, this was a hospital on a smaller scale. There were maybe thirty people up here; half were probably terminal, while the other half were too old for me to really care if they died.
It was a sad truth, but I put more importance on the younger generation than anything else. The death rate for children and the elderly was far higher than for normal people in the first part of the apocalypse. It was from the virus that spread, but also from the extreme shifts in temperature, as well getting them sick easier. The younger people who lived tended to be on the more resilient side because of that.
At the end of the day, I didn't care about the reason; I just wanted to help people and preferably help people I know are for sure going to die if I don't intervene. I had a way to convince Jade, at the very least, that I was magical. "Can I try something?" She nodded, and I tried to store her. One moment she's sitting on the bed, the next she's inside my storage. Thank god it took her clothes with her, that would have been extremely awkward to explain if it didn't.
Time was slowed down to a tenth of normal speed, so I could take an hour, and it would only be six minutes for Alice. Thinking about it further, if I could just store anyone inside my aura, that would be an extremely strong thing I could do in a fight. There had to be a catch, I just didn't know it yet. I doubted there wouldn't be a drawback to just storing my enemies to deal with later.
I walked out of the room and looked for Jade. She was making her way to another room and I stored her as well. The immediate intense pain as I did so was something I didn't expect as I went into my storage dimension to see what she was doing. She was just standing there as she looked down at Alice, who was just lying on the ground. "Fuck. Fuck this hurts." Okay, so I can't store people who will develop powers naturally, it looks like, because they generate their own energy. "I'm kicking you out of here, don't freak out."
If I weren't so much stronger than her, I doubt I'd have even been able to put her inside my storage. It was something to think about, though, perhaps when I didn't have this insane pain in my gut from having Jade inside me. Now I know how the women I fuck feel. Spitting her out, we both appear in the same position as I prepare to cover her mouth if she goes to scream. She doesn't, though.
"What was that?" She asked in a curious way, not like a woman who might have just been kidnapped should act. I guess I still viewed her as the hardened veteran of the apocalypse she was in the first timeline. "It was my power. It lets me store other people, but it looks like if that person will develop a power in the future, I can't because it hurts me.
She looked even happier at that. "Wait, so you're telling me I'll get a power like yours?" I look around and see the other nurses are watching us now as I whisper. "Not here, I'm going back to Alicia's room. Come talk to me after you handle this patient."
I waited for her to show up for another ten minutes, and she slipped through the door as stealthily as she could. It makes her stand out even more; if anyone were walking through the hallway, they'd wonder why the nurse was acting so weird. "Alright, so… I'm from the future and the flood is far worse than you think it's going to be. The entire country will lose access to power, the fields will be salted from the saltwater, and people will begin to starve. Before any of that, we'll be stranded for about a month from the flooding, in that time, the hospital loses power, and this entire floor is left to die."
I explained it as quickly and concisely as I could before she nodded. Once again, I was brought out of my own thoughts as I couldn't put this happy woman with the beautiful femme fatale I knew from the future. "She more mumbled to herself than to me. "Yeah, I could see that happening. I doubt many would be willing to stick around in this hospital if they weren't being paid to."
I try to include her in my plans. "So, I'm going to move all the people who can eventually recover somewhere else so they're not left to die. Do you know who doesn't have a terminal illness in this wing?" With the plan in place, I move from room to room with the four people who could survive if they had long enough to recover in the apocalypse.
A seven-year-old girl… I'd have to call her parents and have them move to the mansion or their own home after I explained things to them. An older man who didn't want to be taken, he might have been good enough to walk away if the power did go out, though. At least until I had to knock him unconscious so he didn't start screaming when I said I wanted to take him away.
The next was a sixteen-year-old boy who broke both his legs. As I go to store him, I feel my power give me a warning this time. My eyes went wide as I realized he would gain power. "What's your name?" He tried to clear his parched and scratchy throat as Jade handed him a cup. "Justin. You think I'll get a power like you just showed me?"
"Yeah, and I just realized that was a good way to determine if people have powers now." Justin was a skinny white kid who might have come from money. As it turned out, his family lived in the same gated community… I'm running into a lot of coincidences, more than should be feasible, but it was the local hospital. It meant I would have to come back to him after I got everyone else.
Moving to the next person, who was a very pretty lady recovering from major surgery, she was out hard from the drugs. I go to store her and get the same pulling sensation… No, what the fuck was happening? Almost fifty percent of the people in the ICU were going to develop powers. What was the probable cause of this? It has to be trauma or something… Maybe weakened immune systems have a higher chance of developing their powers.
I loaded her up into a wheelchair before heading back for Justin. No one tried to stop Jade or me as we pushed the patients out. That was fucking nuts to me. If the world wasn't going to end, they'd be getting in a fuck ton of trouble. If there was a chance that something would come from this, I'd call the police myself to get them in trouble.
Either way, we loaded up the van with people and made our way back. It was already getting to nighttime. I had a few more things to do before tomorrow. At three o'clock, the wave would hit. I didn't feel prepared, but I was more prepared than waiting in my apartment for the flood to stop so I could go back to my job. I was worried… Did I do enough? I still had tonight to do more. I could sleep when I had to. I still needed to steal all the construction vehicles, and I wanted to try one more thing before I had to sleep… Shit, get rid of the seven-year-old first, then go steal vehicles, then try the thing I wanted to try, then go to sleep.
Chapter 19
Police Officer's Point of View
It had to be staged or spliced. It was just too sudden to be anything other than that. One moment, there was a normal-looking man, the next the man was a foot taller and built like a roman gladiator. I didn't have much time to look over this assault, but it vexed me. It was like a puzzle that I wanted to solve. If it were just a normal assault, I'd have already written about catching the culprit, but my curiosity had me coming back to the case over and over again.
"Lopez, stop looking at that department store footage. It's clearly fake; we got another theft to visit. Someone kidnapped a bunch of people from the hospital's ICU. We got another case involving stolen construction vehicles if you'd rather take a look at that one." I sighed as I put down my phone. It was against the rules to put crime scene footage onto an external device, but as the captain's daughter, I got a little more leeway than other police officers.
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I looked down at my phone as I followed the GPS to my third construction site. I had already driven here and taken a dump truck, but I was back for the last construction vehicle I needed. Even though I drove there already, I still needed to follow the GPS as it was about a forty-minute drive from the gated community. I found a wrecking ball at the first job site, which I took. You never knew when you'd have to break down a house, and that was by far the fastest way to do so. Destroying the nearby houses after the flood ends would make the area safer and allow us to build up an actual second city around the gated area.
The earthquakes destroyed most buildings on the west coast, but the east coast survived mostly intact, considering everything. At least this construction site had the rest of the vehicles I wanted. You'd be surprised at how often keys are left on or around these costly vehicles. One out of three vehicles so far(the wrecking ball crane), and we'd see if that number went up with these two.
I knew enough about locks and key making to make keys for them, but it was nice not to have to for one so far. I had developed a very wide and varied set of skills from my time in the apocalypse. I could pick locks, make keys, bullets, weapons, armor, clothes, and just about anything else because of my power. Filling my inventory with materials and just knowing how to make something would allow me to slowly make the item.
I could forge swords and keys if I had iron, clothes if I had cloth, or even electrical components if I knew how to make them and had the materials to do so. The item duplication power I had was spent duplicating the enhancement fluid and power activation syringes since I came back. Certain things couldn't be duplicated, like the storage items or the enhanced sword. Everything had to be mundane and not made using someone else's power.
The ten of each had increased to sixteen over the past two days of duplication, and I wasn't sure what else I should duplicate. Most of the time, I would duplicate food, but with the one-pound limit to start, that only now increased to five pounds, it wasn't as useful as it sounded. Sure, I could duplicate gold for money… But what would be the point with the apocalypse dropping tomorrow?
This was the second time I visited this particular construction site, as I already looted one of the vehicles I wanted and only had the backhoe to go, the forklift wasn't going to happen, unfortunately, even though it would be super valuable to have. It just didn't fit the area; maybe they had one at Walmart or Home Depot, but it wasn't a deal breaker to not get.
"Freeze!" I turned towards the sound of the woman yelling at me and saw a police officer with her gun drawn in my direction. It was so surreal I couldn't help but laugh; she didn't like that. "What the fuck you laughing at?" I kept laughing harder as she just kept getting madder and madder as I laughed at this situation. "Of all the crimes you could show up for. A person walking around a construction site seems kind of insane. Aren't you guys having tons of problems from people assaulting each other over food?"
I kept teasing her to try to get her to drop her guard and take me less seriously. "You must be pretty low down the totem pole to work the graveyard shift and get sent out on this goose chase. What are you going to take me in for, trespassing? And why do you have your gun drawn out like I've done something wrong? Are you going to shoot me for being somewhere I shouldn't?" As I mocked her, I could see she was getting angrier at me, but also lowering her gun as I kept heckling.
"They didn't have a cat stuck in a tree you could help out. This seems like an incredible waste of time." I began moving toward the backhoe as she put her gun down and spoke. "You're coming in to answer some questions. The person on the phone said one of the construction vehicles went missing, and you're in the area where it went missing… Wait… I recognize you!"
I backed up against the vehicle before she finally noticed what I was doing, but assumed I was going to do something different. "Hey, don't jump into that vehicle!" I smirk as I quip. "I wasn't planning to." As I stored the backhoe, I took off running. The second or two it took her brain to process what just happened, I had already knocked her on her ass.
She still had her gun in her hand, but the instinctive reflexes that drove her to try and catch herself instead of falling made her toss the gun into the air. Before it could hit the ground, I stored it into my space as I jumped onto my moped and drove away, with her getting up to chase behind me. When she realized she couldn't catch me, she turned towards her patrol car and started to talk into her two-way radio.
I was already out of earshot of what she yelled, but I could assume she was calling for backup. I made it most of the way down the road before picking up my moped and running into the woods at full speed. I had been wrong about them being too busy to bother with me, but surely they didn't have the police on duty to form a perimeter around me before I could get outside the net.
Running until I got to another road, I put the moped down before driving back in the direction of the gated community, before I thought better. If I was already being followed, why not head to what I wanted to try and do? I wanted to see if I could store a boat in my vehicle storage. It made sense in my head at least. Most people knew instinctively what their power did, but some needed to do research like me, while others had to strengthen their power with constant use.
I could load the moped up onto a boat and appear in a different area altogether before stashing the boat and taking the construction vehicle home first, then coming back for it. There was a dock with some boats on the Ohio River. If I steal it and drive to the Allegany River, I can shorten the distance I needed to make it home. Jumping into the back of the boat, I couldn't help but feel like a kid again. Hotwiring a car and worrying about people spotting me over zombies felt nostalgic.
Chapter 20
Maria Lopez's Point of View
"You lost your gun!" My father had to come early that night to deal with the report I filed for the escaped suspect. Because I had a piece of my equipment stolen, especially something as important as a gun, my direct superior had to be notified. Being woken up at four in the morning didn't do me any favors from being reassigned after tackling the shoplifter and injuring her, for which she filed charges against the police department for excessive force.
It would be easy to fight, but it was still boring and tedious, and made the entire department have to be more careful not to have any other slip-ups. Well, this was a slip-up. He pulled a file out of his drawer before he began writing. Out of curiosity, I leaned forward to see what it said, and after translating the upside-down writing, I panicked. "Dad, you're going to transfer me!?"
He got even more mad at that. "What else am I supposed to do? You've already gotten into more trouble than the rest of the department put together. Maybe me protecting you is why you think you can treat the law however you want! On top of that, you're suspended for two weeks starting today. Go home!... You're dismissed."
I held in my tears until I made it to my civilian car and bawled my way home. Fine, I knew he would sweep this all under the rug, but now I had a grudge. I was going to track down the person who stole from me, even with my future career as a police officer captain at stake. If I could get my gun back, then I might be able to have this entire thing thrown out and my position reinstated. I just needed to figure out who the man who switched places with the suspect was, and I'd have a lead to follow.
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I finally made it home. I was dead tired. The room I ended up taking was Jake's old room. I think one of the videos he sent me of him cheating on Vicky was in her own mansion, in this room. He was so sick he must have fucked other girls all over this mansion. I was monogamous in my first life, even during the apocalypse. It took my death and being reborn as one of the strongest people on the planet for me to think I could have more than one woman. And even then, I still told them my plan to do it before I got together with them.
Most of the good people in the apocalypse died because they reached out for more than they could protect. As nice as feeding everyone was, it made the strong refuse to work with them and made it easier for the evil to use the weak against them. A leader was poisoned by the people he kept from starving to death, another gave up his base after a group of men held his people hostage, and was killed after he left his defenses.
The world wasn't safe. I knew better, but even still, things could snowball out of hand if I reached too far. If I left my girls feeling bad because I couldn't spend enough time with them, then I'd rather not choose as many women; I wanted them to be happy. I've seen far too many cases where a man overreaches and gets murdered in his sleep. I had to implicitly trust everyone I planned to make mine.
So as I walked in and saw that two women were already sleeping in my bed, I couldn't help but smile. It seemed my two girlfriends were already getting along and planned to ambush me with a threesome, but I ended up staying out the entire night, stealing things we'd need. Crawling in between them on the giant bed, I couldn't help but smile as both crawled into my embrace. When they woke up, who knew what would happen, but if this was all they wanted to do, I'd still be happy with how things turned out.
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Third-Person Point of View
The two ladies woke up at about the same time and crawled off the bed as they looked at each other and the man who had crawled in between them. Melissa had already been on board; she'd have agreed to pretty much anything if it meant she got to be with her crush. Vicky had used him to get over Jake, but now she viewed him as her lifeline for living a somewhat peaceful life in the apocalypse. She needed this to work out and was willing to do things she normally wouldn't like share her man with other women.
It was Vicky's idea to ambush him together, but he had stayed out the entire night. It left them not sure what to do next. They stared at each other before Vicky got an evil grin on her face. She walked over to the other side of the bed, where Melissa was, before stripping her top off. Melissa almost gasped, and the light sleeper, Danny, would have most likely woken him up if she did. Vicky woke him up by turning on the TV after all.
Vicky motioned for her to crawl back on the bed and push her breasts into his face while she worked his pants and underwear down far enough for his cock to pop out. Playing with him until he was hard, she took him into her mouth in one go, making him shoot up awake right into Melissa's breasts. Vicky pushed Melissa over so her breasts pressed his face back down onto the bed.
The three of them enjoyed each other's company. Vicky was still too shallow and needed to be wound up before her vagina tented to its full size. It was something she read about after they struggled the first time. Over time, she'd just get accustomed to his size, but until then, she needed time to get horny and prepared for someone of his size.
Melissa didn't need all the warm-up, though, and so she went first. Danny looked down at her as Vicky played with both of them. She moved from kissing Dan to Melissa as she whispered into her ear. Melissa wasn't bisexual at all; she actually disliked most other women because of how she was treated growing up. Every friend she had betrayed her eventually, and it left her a neet shut-in gamer girl who got by on welfare and drawing commissions.
They were complete opposites, with Vicky having thoroughly explored her bisexual side in college and got along fine with other women. She was rich while Melissa was poor. Petite while Melissa was busty, they complemented each other like peanut butter and jelly. Melissa might have gotten her feelings mixed up quite a bit from this new experience, though. Boundaries were being pushed as walls she put up to protect herself broke with every one of Vicky's compliments and every thrust from Danny.
The two of them had her a puddle of a woman, having orgasmed even more than the first time she had sex with Danny, she could barely crawl off him by the time Vicky was finally prepared to ride him herself. While Melissa liked to be on the bottom getting pounded into the ground at full force, Vicky liked being the one on top. She didn't need lubrication this time. Melissa's girl cum provided that in bulk as she got to work fitting all of him inside her.
This wasn't like the first time they had sex. Vicky was ready, and Dan wanted more. He pounded up into her, bouncing her on his dick as she tried to keep balance and not pass out from the intense pleasure it gave her. That was how the three of them entered the apocalypse, together as a united front entwined with each other, both girls down for the count while Danny just cuddled back into them as they drifted off to sleep.