Dead Rising/Survivors

Frank West is a fictional photojournalist in the video game Dead Rising, he is also the main protagonist of the game. Frank finds himself in the biggest scoop of his career, after hearing of a small town called Willamette in Colorado, being blocked off from the rest of the world. Frank hires a helicopter, and flies over the town.

At first, it looks like a possible riot, or even civic disobedience. Frank asks the helicopter pilot to drop him on a roof of a mall, and to pick him up in three days. He meets a strange man on the roof of the mall, and when asking the man what has happened here, he tells Frank to go in and see for himself. Once he's in the mall, he realizes though, this isn't just some riot. The town is infested with zombies, with him stuck in the middle of it. As he tries to help survivors, and win the Pulitzer Prize, he slowly starts to unravel the mystery behind the zombie infestation.

Frank ends up meeting Brad and Jessie while escaping the zombies. As both of them stay secretive for a while, Frank does a little bargaining. As Jessie runs out to save Brad from an attacker, Frank accidently hurts her, and after a little talk, Frank takes her place to save Brad. Jessie hands him her handgun after he utters the infamous, "Kinda... I've covered wars ya know", and Frank takes off.

Once reaching Brad, the attacker is the same guy he met on top of the mall, and is now continusly firing at them with a P90 (A Submachine Gun, you cannot get in the game) After defeating him, the man takes off, and while Frank presses Brad for info, Brad tells him nothing until Frank shows him a picture of an old man, which he took in the Entrance Plaze of the mall. Brad seems to have an interest in the photo. Since he does, Frank makes him a deal, Frank shows him the photo, if Brad tells him some info. Brad agrees, and Frank soon finds out both Jessie and Brad are DHS (Homeland Security) agents.

Frank and Brad eventually go to see the man. He turns out to be someone by the name of Dr. Barnaby, someone who Brad desperately tries to get him to return to the Security Room they are hiding, with him and Frank. Dr. Barnaby declines, saying he will only leave once he is guaranted safe passage out of the city first.

Brad leaves Frank for a while, leaving Frank to explore some of the mall. As he ends up looking for survivors, he runs into a few not-so friendly people. Some are just misguided, the stress of the situation has made them fend for themselves, making them not trust anyone or anything, or sending even one person into a Vietnam flashback once he sees his grand daughter eaten by the zombies. Some, seem to be his directed, corrupted by the situation.

One person, Kent, is a photojournalist like Frank, but he is so willing for an amazing story, he captures someone just to infect him and take pictures of him at time of infection. Another person tries to get back at some women who have made fun of the way he looks and acts. Some are just completely insane, whether it was the stress of the situation that turned them that way, or if they were just insane to begin with, and while they kept it away from the public eye, since everyone has turned into zombies, they release it to help them survive.

Frank ends up dealing with a few, and rescuing some survivors, before returning to the Security Room, just in time to see the one man who was shooting at them with a P90, not dragging Dr. Barnaby from his hiding place. Brad takes action, Frank quickly following behind. They make their way back to the Entrance Plaza, the man now carrying a 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle, firing at Brad and Frank from a far.

While Frank and Brad take cover, Frank notices Dr. Barnaby is tied up and hanging in the middle of the Entrance Plaza, zombies under him, reaching for him and trying to get a meal. After some fierce combat, Frank and Brad corner the man when he is out of rifle ammo. He ditches the rifle, and he pulls out a handgun. Brad and him have a small shoot out, leaving both Brad and the man wounded. Frank fires at him, but missing him completely.

Frank grabs Dr. Barnaby, who is knocked out at the time, and both him and Brad make it back to the Security Room. They put Dr. Barnaby aside in a small room, letting him rest, while they also let Brad rest from his wounds. Brad's situation slowly gets worse as he begins to run a fever. Jessie says he needs medicine, and Frank decides to go out and find some at a supermarket in North Plaza.

Upon entering the supermarket, he comes in contact with the manager of the supermarket. He is carrying, a sort of "Cart of Doom" so to speak, a shopping cart with blades and pitchforks at the end of it. He seems to be a psychopath like some of the others, really taking a passion to anyone who wants to shoplift from his store. Frank calmly tells him he needs medicine, but the man points out it's the same thing "this bitch" said when she came to "Vandilize" his store. Frank notices the women he is talking to in the middle of his "Cart of Doom", a strange woman he saw in the Entrance Plaza before the zombies broke into the mall.

Before Frank can try and talk to him more about the situation, the manager attacks. A battle ensuses, the manager chasing Frank down with his cart, and even a shotgun that he had placed on his cart. After some well placed shots from Frank at the manager from his handgun, the manager ends up falling to the checkout counters, wondering and worrying who will take care of his store while he's gone. With his last ounce of breath he yells "CLEAN UP! RESIGTER 6!" and then falls dead. Frank goes to help the woman, but she breaks away from him, telling him it is his fault for the zombie outbreak and mentioning something about a place called "Santa Cabeza". She runs away, and Frank steals the key from the manager to get access to the pharamacy where the medicine is.

Frank gets it, and returns to the Security Room, giving Brad the medicine. Jessie comments on blood found on Frank's jacket, him mentioning it must be from the woman he saved. Jessie askes him a few questions about her, Frank telling her she said something about a place called Santa Cabasa. Dr. Barnaby hears it from the other room, and Jessie goes over to ask him about it. As Frank tries to get pictures about it, and more information, Jessie shuts the door, leaving Frank in the dark on the situation. Frank then says he'll get his information elsewhere, and then searches the Security monitors for the woman, hoping that if he questions her, he'll get his answers.