A Shot in the Dark (When the World Ended and We Were Invaded: Season 3, Episode #2): When the World Ended and We Were Invaded: Season 3, #2

By Rebecca A. Rogers

The Walking Dead meets Falling Skies in this fast-paced, new adult episodic series.

Ella, Shay, and Lin are kidnapped by a bunch of backwoods crazies. Amara leaves Sarge at the hospital tent to fight another wave of Kyborgs. Limited by what he can do, Sarge attempts to help the other wounded souls inside the hospital, then comes face to face with the enemy. Seeing base camp being assaulted, Matt decides to hide out in a nearby neighborhood until he can receive medical assistance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca A. Rogers
• Release date: Aug 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9798201800093

Rebecca A. Rogers

Rebecca Rogers is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and English at Southern New Hampshire University. Her first novel, Silver Moon, was published in 2011. Since then, Rebecca has published seven more novels, two novellas, two short story and poetry collections, as well as several works of serialized fiction. When she’s not writing about other worlds, she’s daydreaming about traveling our own.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 – The Beginning of the End

Episode 2 – A Shot in the Dark

Episode 3 – Aftermath

Episode 4 – We’re Not Finished

Episode 5 – This is War

Episode 6 – Infestation

Episode 7 – It’s a Trap

Episode 8 – The End of the Beginning

Season 3, Episode #2

A Shot in the Dark

ELLA

These people were nuts. One minute they were shooting bullets over Ella, Shay, and Lin’s heads, the next they were leading them into the woods, so they could squeeze out information regarding Base Camp A. Honestly, they terrified Ella. They were unpredictable. Wild, even. Which meant they could say or do anything and not suffer any consequences. They wanted one thing and one thing only: the supplies and provisions located inside base camp.

Ella began to see right through Lin’s proposal. He’d made a smart move, playing the I-can-get-you-in card. Luckily, these idiots hadn’t figured out what he was up to just yet. But that, of course, didn’t mean they’d never figure out his plan.

Even she wasn’t sure of Lin’s arrangement.

But if she had to guess, she’d bet he was biding time. For what, she didn’t know. Maybe it was all about keeping their trio alive. Maybe it was about letting the resistance deal with these morons once they were inside the camp’s walls. Whatever Lin had planned, Ella trusted his decision; he certainly wasn’t unintelligent by any means.

She might not understand Lin’s idea, but she could play along. The question was: had Shay caught on, or was she confused? Ella hoped she’d take the path of least resistance. Any opposition on their part could spell disaster, since they were dealing with a bunch of loose canons.

You’re not going to touch us, Shay stated.

She hadn’t caught on.

Oh, great. Here we go.

For a brief moment, Ella and Lin shared an oh-shit gaze. Ella feared what these crazies would do to Shay, and to her and Lin. Obviously, Shay hadn’t thought about what would happen if she opened her mouth.

But Ella had the feeling they were all about to find out.

What the fuck did you just say to me? the man who’d been doing most of the talking asked.

Shit, shit, shit.

They were as good as dead.

What have you done, Shay? Ella wanted to shout.

She didn’t feel like dying today, and she didn’t come all this way just to have her still-warm corpse fed to a bunch of hungry zoms.

Don’t pay any attention to her, Ella said, unsure of where she was taking this conversation. She smarts off to everyone, including us.

The main dude stared at Ella for a few seconds, then said, She better keep her fuckin’ mouth shut if she knows what’s good for her.

Shay opened her mouth to speak, but Lin covered it with his hand.

Not another word, he hissed.

Unflinching, Shay’s eyes