A little Escape

Alex and Willie had been friends for a while but were just starting to get their shit together - relationship wise - when the world fell apart.

Nick was the kid eaten by his goldfish (sorry, Nick :/)

After Alex parents died, some people grabbed him and took him with them away from the monsters.

Luke and Reggie ended up in the same colony as Alex.

Cut to seven years later

Alex, Reggie and Luke became best friends.

Out of the three of them, Luke is the only one allowed to go on supply runs (and only after being reminded a thousand times that he can't just start singing whenever he feels like it once they're on the surface). Reggie doesn't have the heart to kill the monsters, he says they're all misunderstood. Alex either panics or freezes, there's no in between.

It took a while, but Alex found Willie's colony on the radio and they've kept in touch ever since.

Reggie likes to draw the monsters and writes down every little detail the search parties are willing to tell him about them.

Emily and Mitch Patterson are also in the colony, as well as Ray.

Ray got separated from the rest of his family and believes them to be dead.

He kind of, unofficially, adopts Reggie and Alex.

Carrie and Flynn are at the colony too. Carrie and Flynn make a badass team at killing monsters.

After the breach in the colony and a cut off radio call with Willie, Alex decides that he can't just sit around anymore, always worrying about Willie and letting his anxiety get the best of him. He decides to ignore his complete panic at even the thought of going outside and go find him.

Luke and Reggie immediately volunteer to go with him.

Luke's parents don't want him to go, they fight. Luke goes anyway.

They find Bobby on their first day out, and he saves them from a giant frog.

Bobby is touch and company starved, having spent the most part of seven years on his own.

On their second day, Alex and Luke fall down a monster hole. While Bobby and Reggie try to figure out a way to get them out, they're saved by a girl and her little brother: Julie and Carlos.

The guys don't make the connection between this 'Julie and Carlos' to Ray's 'Julie and Carlos' because they're oblivious.

The Molina siblings agree to let them tag along, since they're not heading north yet. They teach them how to survive outside, how to kill monsters, how to hide, how to fight, how to avoid them; they tell them about their strengths and weaknesses, etc.

Julie and Carlos lost their mom when the monsters breached their colony at a subway station. They've been on their own since then, and are making their way to the mountains because the high ground and the cold helps keep the monsters away.

Juke fluff because I said so 💜

Reggie and Carlos get close too.

Eventually, they have to part ways. Julie and Carlos try to convince the guys to go with them to the mountains, but Alex won't leave Willie, and Reggie and Luke won't leave Alex.

Luke tells Julie he'll come find her sometime. She says it's a date and kisses him (because hey, they could all be dead tomorrow).

Julie gives Alex a grenade for an emergency.

They go their separate ways. Luke pouts :(

After fighting 'the Queen,' and blowing her up, Alex, Luke and Reggie are poisoned.

They fight and yell at Bobby, and Bobby goes off on his own :(

Willie finds them and nurses them back to health.

Willex kiss 💛

Willie's colony is going to the sea with a yacht Captain, Caleb, and his friends - Dante & Diego.

They're the bad guys, but shhhhh.

While they're celebrating after organizing their stuff to take to the yacht, Luke uses the radio to talk to his parents, but the call is cut off when another monster breaches their colony. He thinks his family might be dead/dying and decides to go back.

Then he notices the berries that Bobby told them not to eat. He tries to warn the others, but it's too late. They're all knocked out.

In the morning, Caleb reveals his evil plans and unleashes the mutated crab on them.

Willie and Alex go to stop Caleb and his crew.

Bobby comes back to help by freeing the rest of the colony (which are mostly older people).

Luke and Reggie fight the crab monster that Caleb had been shocking into submission, until Reggie tells him to stop because the monster looks so sad, (he remembers what Carlos told him: not all monsters are bad, "It's all in the eyes.").

He frees the monster from Caleb's jolts, and the crab eats Caleb and his crew.

Alex decides to stay with Willie to help him fix up the colony.

Luke, Bobby and Reggie go back to their old colony, and find their family still - mostly - alive.

Reggie uses the radio to send out the call about the monsters' weaknesses and strengths and how to fight them. Luke tells the people that it's time to take back their home and stop living in fear.

Epilogue

Luke reunites with Julie and, to everyone's surprise, reunites her and Carlos with their dad.

Julie, Flynn and Carrie immediately bond over their weapons and all around badassery.

Up at the mountains, in a safe place that becomes a meet up point to anyone who's still alive, Luke and Reggie reunite with Alex and Willie.

All is well... for the moment.

The end :)

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