Sodor Left for Dead [AU]: Alternative fate.

We woke up to the sounds of the zombies getting close, we need to move again, we started making our way up the line, and haven't broke the news to James or Duck about what happend at Crovan's gate, even if i know we will have to tell them soon.

Connor said it might be a good idea to go throwards the Iron works nearby Killdane, it was the safest place he could think of, and i suppose i have to agree with him on that. We traveled along the already eerie line of Peel Godred, surrounded by many corpses, dead trees and bushes, at a point, however, we stopped as we heard distant screaming, quickly followed by gunshots and what sounded like a horn from a bus, we got closer and we saw the station completely surrounded by a large group of zombies, on the middle if them all was a small group of people, among these i could recognize Jenny Packard, and in the middle of everything, was Bertie.

She had an old rifle, which im very sure used to belong to Old Bailey. Eric, Connor and I knew we had to do, so we slammed the breaks on James and Duck, running over a few of the zombies, as we ran up and attempt to help as much as we could, Eric and i were armed with the shovels we used to put coal on our engine's firebox, and Connor had a small knife he stole from a restaurant near Wellsworth.

We eventually dealt with the zombies there, wetalked to the small group of survivours there, apparently they had all escaped on Bertie the day of the outbreak, they managed to survive by keeping a low profile until they got to here, where they met Old Bailey.

Soon after, Jenny showed up, when Old Bailey asked her about where she was, she stayed quiet, and says she just doesn't want to talk about it, making it clear something bad had happend to Jack and the pack.

The line hadn't been overrun by zombies until recently, as Henry passed by last night, with vans filled with survivours. James and Duck reacted to the news, Duck with some fear and James with anger. The zombies changed their target from Henry to the group of survivours, that night they lost a lot of people, Old Bailey himself being one of them.

Apparently, a few engines have passed this area recently, of course, there was Henry.
However, Jenny did mention she heard multiple diesels passing by at night, however she couldn't tell who exactly it was, as it was night time when she heard that.
We mentioned how we wanted to check the iron works, that's when Jenny froze.

Im taking a guess, and ill say she came from there before meeting up with these survivours, but why did she escape?

We got nearer to Harwin Lake, when we found two engines. One was Henry, and the other one was... Unexpected, to say the least.

We heard them discuss for about two minutes before they realized we were there, Henry sighed, and Diesel 10 groaned, as he wondered why haven't other diesels showed up instead.

I was glad to see they were alright, when James suddently slammed throwards Henry, demanding an explination as to why they had abandoned us, when he said that, instead, WE had abandoned them.

I wasn't just going to hear them arguing much, and i was also curious, i walked up to Diesel 10, and realized the person driving him wa sthe manager from the iron works, Adam.

Diesel 10 told us about the day of the outbreak, how only a few zombies had made it in, and soon mentioned how Jenny and most of the pack had made it inside as well, he didn't know her well, but he was sure the only members of the pack that were missing were Max, Monty and Oliver.

Apparently, we hadn't been the only ones to think the iron works were safe, as Henry went there for the very same reason, as well as two other engines.

I was about to ask him who the engines were, but let's be honest, he doesn't even take time to remember the names of his fellow diesels, if it was a steam engine, he wouldn't even bother giving them a name, so i instead asked him what type of engines these were.
He said two steamies and another diesel.

He then chuckled, correcting himself, sayimg only one steamie.

I asked why, and he said that, before we got there, the iron works had been overrun by zombies, which "old square wheels" had accidentally guided there on his arrival, and when he dealt with the zombie humans, he noiticed that the "weird red one" had been basically mauled, and he then had the honor of putting him out of his missery.

We talked about how we should return to the iron works, when Diesel 10 said it wasn't possible, apparently the other survivours, including Arry and Bert, had locked themselves inside the iron works, basically leaving us for dead.

Henry for being careless and basically guiding zombies here, and Diesel fot being a threat in general, despite how strong he could be, everyone was sure he wouldn't care to use others as meatshields for himself to survive.
As for the other survivours, it was for resources.

So, we are now telling them about the situation with the military, and just trying to know what to even do. I met up with Phil again, his family had luckily survived so far. I think its best to find a better safe place, now that we know the iron works have left us for dead.

We think Cronk is a good place to stay, at least for now.

Its been about an hour, we left on James and Duck, as the small group of survivours got their things ready, Bertie's coming, as well as Diesel 10 and Henry. As we made it to Cronk yards, we couldn't believe who was there.

Gordon had survived, and seemed to have been here for a long time. His driver, Keith, was there too.

In fact, a lot of people were there. Apparently Gordon had been attacked by a group of zombies and the military on his way here, we knew a bit of that thanks to the radio transmition from Crovan's Gate.

Gordon is, mentally, broken. He hasn't stopped mumbling since we got here, James is very upset at this, but at least he is alive.

He did say something that caught us off guard, however.
I did not understood exactly what he said, but it was either
"This is wrong, you shouldn't be here."
or
"This is wrong, it shouldn't have been you who found me."
And as weird as it seems, i think he's right. As of recently, i feel like i shouldn't have made it this far, i shouldn't have had survived this long.

Its just weird...