The Laughing Plague - A "Crossed" TL

I'm happy that isn't the case but the point still stands that after a day or two we should have reports of the crossed entering into the nations of Canada and Mexico. At the very least we should see people living in the surrounding areas. DC is lost so that means we have crossed in the states of Maryland and Virginia and possible into my home state of West Virginia. If I starting seeing reports of people with a cross like thing going around forcing people to eat their own eyeballs and raping the dead I'm going to get my ass out of the area like white on rice. My family are fairly close by so getting them shouldn't be too hard. 

I have a few people with guns or other weapons so that isn't a worry for me. It'll be getting my mother to care about it at all. She is a Trumper and yells it to anybody who disagrees that he is the best thing ever. So she may just think it's just some ploy of some kind.  

I don't know about the ones we have seen aren't the organized ones. The ones with the masks seemed to know what they were doing and had a plan. So I would make a case we have the first intelligent one in the story. It's only a matter of time before we see him again and leading a band of crossed into battle.

Still I'm waiting to see how the wider world deals with this. What is Russians doing? What is the feelings in places that are watching as two of the most powerful nations are being attacked and falling? 

It's only a matter of time before the call is made and we start bombing cities in a mad dash to keep this at bay. If we don't see a nuke in the first week I would think them fools.  

"What do you mean we don't have any ?" Prime Minister Patel demanded as she stared at the monitor in front of her.

"We disbanded our chemical weapons programme decades ago." Said General Nicholas Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff.

"Christ Carter I know that, I mean you're telling me we didn't keep any stockpiled in an unofficial capacity?"

"Im afraid not ma'am. The Chemical Weapons Convention is rather clear on that matter."

The Acting Prime Minister took a deep breath "Did the Chemical Weapons Convention take into account a virus that makes people mutilate their grandparents before eating them?"

The head of Britain's armed forces said nothing.

"Right. Okay so gassing these animals is out of the question. What options do we have ?" Patel asked.

"We have options. None of them are particularly pretty. All will result in enormous collateral damage. So far we are blockading the main roads and secondary roads in and out of affected areas and giving the troops manning the checkpoints shoot to kill orders on anyone trying to leave who is behaving in an erratic manner. Right now we have several thousand troop's deployed out of Colchester garrison blockading the M25 north of London whilst we have units out of Warminster protecting a line stretching from Bristol down to Portsmouth to keep them out of Devon and Cornwall with an aim of keeping this thing contained to the South East of England. That's our current plan. As for more enhanced options we can bring in a much larger degree of air and fire support in an effort to hammer this outbreak into the ground. This would essentially leave every urban area south of London and east of Devon a ruin. The final option well...." The general trailed off looking down. The Prime Minister knew what that was.

"I'm not nuking my own country general." She said bluntly.

"I'm not saying you should. Just that it's an option if the worst comes to it. Right now we need far more relaxed rules of engagement to contain this , Prime Minister."

"Very well, General. You have full authorisation to utilise any and all military equipment and personnel you need with the exception of the nuclear arsenal, for now."

"Very well, Prime Minister." The General nodded and cut the video link.


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"How long should we stay here?" Nicole asked Ben. They were sat on a church pew along with dozens of other refugees who had fled north in the last few hours.

"Not long. Those people - if we can even call them people - will head north too. Once they run out of victims they'll travel in search of more. We should leave soon." Ben said stifling a yawn. He was so tired and the coffee the vicar had given him hadn't helped much .


"Go where ? London's gone. My parents are there. I don't know if they're alive or not." Her lip quivered as she held back tears .

"We're not too far from Oxford. We'll make our way there. A big town like that will have a crisis centre in operation and I'd imagine the army will be there too."

"We don't have transport. The ambulance is out of diesel and I doubt you'll get a taxi." Sarah glumly said as she rubbed her eyes.

"That police van outside. The one those poor coppers came here in?" She suggested.

"Maybe. Don't know if it has fuel but I can ask them for the keys." Ben said as he went over to the mentally broken policemen.

"Hey buddy. Which one of you has the keys for your van?" Ben asked an officer with sergeants stripes .

"I do." He replied. He handed over the keys without thought or hesitation.

"Get out of here, kid." The cop said. His eyes stared though him. "Go. Whilst you still can."

"Come with us."

"No. No we'll stay here. We don't deserve to get away. Not after leaving those kids. Those poor kids. All that screaming." The officer stared into space and said nothing more. Ben patted him on the shoulder and returned to Nicole.

"Got the keys , love. Let's get a move on."

Suddenly , the church bell started ringing.

A man burst into the front door. Ben recognised him as one of the guards from the small militia that had formed to guard the roads into the village.

"They're coming!" He screamed.

In the distance down the road, a faint sound of laughing and whooping grew ever closer.

"Hahahaha"

The way I see it nuclear weapons will be more or less forced upon them while they want to use them or not. The prime minister has a responsibility to the people of the United Kingdom to defend them from this mob of crossed-face abominations from hell itself. The way things are that time is soon to come. The only question worth asking is when is the use of nuclear weapons going to be utilized and by whom is that order going to come from.

Becuase lets face facts here that order is soon to be made and while we may like to think otherwise the facts are that outside of such weapons a good bit of the United Kingdom is lost and will be lost in the days to come. I will say that now that it's been a few days timeline-wise other nations should be closing their doors in order to stop them from entering. Of course that isn't going to work once one of them intelligent ones thinks of just flying into their airspace.

kspence92, can I write something about France?

Actuallly that would be nice!