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Gravemind and Tyler were going at it both equally blocking each others blows. Then Gravemind tripped Tyler onto his back and slammed his fist into his chest knocking the wind out of him. He took the pistol that Ellie had dropped when she had fell and aimed it at Tyler. "Good bye Tyler." He was about to pull the trigger when a loud noise could be heard coming up behind them and a bright white light. A motorcycle. "What in the world is that I wonder?" Just as he asked the cycleist jumpped from the motorcycle and after it had crashed into the group of zombies on the left of the train it blew up killing most of the zombies on that side and knocking Gravemind off the train. "Stryker?! Are you almost done? We have a problem." Gravemind got himself up and was about to hop back up onto the train when he heard zombies around him dieing. He turned just in time to be caught by his throat and held above the mans head and slammed onto the train. "Who are you? What do you want?"

The man got close to his ear and whispered. "You left me for dead on a street and now it's my turn to return the favor." Gravemind's eyes widened as he figured out who it was and just as the man was going to stab Gravemind in the head a zombie grabbed him and pulled him away allowing Gravemind to slip away.

"Stryker we have to go! We have to go now!" Gravemind ran to the front of the train dodging bullets as he went and hopping into the front car. "Come on leave the train we must run from here." Gravemind was clearly afraid.

The man jumpped onto the train and helpped Tyler up from the ground. He patted him on the shoulder and ran to the front and jumpped down to find the hole and with stealth he climbed in and pointed his shotgun at Gravemind's head. "Call off the zombies and I'll let you keep that big head of yours." He watched as Gravemind turned with his hands up with fear in his eyes. Just as he turned all the zombies outside stopped attacking and stumbled away into the darkness but could still be heard in the distance. "Good." He threw Stryker and Gravemind from the front car and dragged them into the sleeping car with a gun to their heads.

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Russ waved at Tyler. "Yo, Bud. Nice to see ya again. Bet your glad I showed up, no?" Russ smiled at Tyler and kicked at gravemind as he had tried to squirm away.

Gavemind winced at the kick. "Yes just over joyed you showed up." Gravemind with clear sarchasm in his tone.

Tyler put an arm around Ellie's waist, and leaned lightly on her.
"Help me out a little, will ya? I think something is broken." He winced and poked around his side a little, discovering several broken ribs. On top of that, the wound on his back was bleeding heavily. It would need attention, soon. "So. I've lost too much blood for my mind to register shock properly, so I hope you'll excuse me if I get right to the point. What happened to you?" he asked of Russ.

"Thanks. Nice to meet you." Russ had a grim look on his face as he looked at Tyler. "Where to begin? Well, I fell. I fell into a dark sleep I never thought I would awake from. All around me was nothing but blackness but then I felt life surge through me again and I breathed once more. I got up and looked around. i knew that everyone was gone and that it was night but I could also sense where you were and where Gravemind had went after he left me dead. I got up and smelt the air noticing things I had never noticed before. I knew exactly where every zombie in the area was. As I went into a dark motorcycle shop I noticed I could see in the dark. Not just dimly see everything like normal but actually see everything like it was broad daylight. As i went to get fuel for the bike I found some zombies found me and I noticed that my reflexes and reaction time, not to mention my physical abilities, had improved. That was when I knew what had happened to me. Oh I am infected and I did die on that street but instead of turn me into one of those monsters like these two." Russ jabbed the end of his shotgun at Stryker and Gravemind. "My body adapted to the Final Plauge virus and integrated it on a micro nomical scale. I now notice that my mental capacity has increased as well. So after that i raced off to find all of you and just in time it seems as well." Russ came over with the first aid kit, handing his shotgun to Ellie to gaurd the two prisoners, and beggining to wrap Tyler's wounds. "Now I'm sorry for making all of you worried but right now you sir need rest. No zombie fighting for you." Russ cleaned the wound on Tyler's back and wrapped a bandage around his entire body. "Hey someone get this thing back in motion. Oh, and get the locks back in place Stryker disengaged them." Russ yelled up the train and no sooner had he yelled had there been clicks as the locks snapped back into place. Then the train lurched forward and began to move again. "Now your ribs will take some time to heal but don't worry you should be fine."

"Ahh but this is something more all together my freind. It would appear that my body didn't just recycle it like you theorized. Instead it seems my milechular structure has physically fused with it. Almost as if it has rearranged my DNA strand. Like I said though I'm still infected. Now I don't know what made this occur but i would theorize that just as a zombie has the possiblility to mutate and change the way the virus infects so does a human. I guess you could say it was just evolution." Russ kicked Gravemind for the fun of it. Russ was still sore at being left on a street dead.

"Sorry Tyler but you are in no condition to go anywhere for awhile and please do forgive me." Russ karate chopped tyler on the side of the neck knocking him unconcious. Russ caught him as delicatly as possible and lifted him placing him on a bed. "Ok we'll wait until sunrise then go out and get all the things Tyler wants us to. As for these two..." Russ picked them up and opened the train car's big door. Russ chucked them out the door of the moving train. He wiped his hands as he shut the car door.

Gravemind rolled for a bit then just layed in the rain. "How could this happen? Things were going so nicely too." Gravemind got up and dusted himself off and tutted at the rips in his tux.