Changes: Coach party

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The coach party was a group of kids who travelled to London on a coach driven by Greg Thorne. Many kids joined the group from a variety of backgrounds in the early days of the disease.

History

Coach trip

Continental Europe

The coach belonged to a high school from Willesden. The school went on a trip to Bilbao, Spain, shortly before the outbreak of the disease. When people started getting ill, the teachers decided to try and drive to Calais to get the ferry back to England.

They drove the coach hundreds of miles across Spain and France to reach Calais, where they were then stuck in a grotty hotel for a while, with no food, because no ferries were running. At this point, a group of students left with a teacher to try and find another way to Britain. Eventually, the government organised for a single boat to ferry across those British citizens who were stuck on the continent. Crowds of people were desperate to get aboard, and the coach was only able to get on because it was full of kids.

Back in England

The coach driver got sick in Ashford, and more kids decided to split from the main group. After that, the last remaining teacher, Mr Betts, drove the countryside before becoming ill himself. With the coach stuck in the countryside, and nobody able to drive it, sickos soon surrounded it to try and get at the kids inside.

Greg Thorne and his son found the coach one evening under siege by grown-ups, and killed them before taking charge. The only three Willesden students to survive were Aleisha, Brooke and Courtney. In the morning, Greg began driving northwest towards London. That day, Greg picked up Zohra and Froggie, before reaching the town of Rowhurst.^[2]

Rowhurst

After many hours of driving, the coach reached the Futures Enterprise Zone, where some boys from Rowhurst School were being attacked by sickos. Twelve boys were rescued, plus Frédérique with her cat Dior. They drove on through Rowhurst towards the M25, where they encountered Jack, Matt, Archie and their six acolytes. They reached south London by the evening, but London Bridge was blocked, so they decided to sleep in the coach and continue in the morning.

Fight with Greg

Overnight, Greg started getting sick and smothered his son, Liam. In the morning, he went mad and threatened to kill the kids on the coach. He began to drive southwest from London Bridge, with no clear direction. He was holding his shotgun in one hand and driving with the other, swerving wildly and crashing into things. Jack crawled down the aisle and was able to grab the gun out of Greg's hand, after both its shots were fired.

Greg then stopped the coach outside the fence at the Imperial War Museum and started to move down the coach to attack the kids who were further back. Brooke had the idea to smash the rear window with the emergency hammer, but found that the coach was surrounded by sickos, so they couldn't climb out the back. Matt attempted to persuade Greg to stop by offering him the help of The Lamb, but Greg slapped him across the face, gashing Matt's forehead with his signet ring and sending him flying across the coach. Three of the smaller kids, Zohra, Froggie and Jibber-Jabber ran to hide in the coach toilet, and Greg punched his fist through the door where it got stuck.

Bam then tackled him to the ground while Jack tried to reload the shotgun. Greg soon managed to throw off Bam and he turned his sights on Chris Marker, who was reading a book. Chris hit him in the face with the spine of the book, knocking Greg backwards onto some seats. Jack had not yet been able to reload the gun, so Bam took it from him and reloaded it himself, ordering everyone to evacuate the bus.

Bam jumped out the bus and shot at the sickos outside, while the others all ran forwards towards the door. When Greg tried to grab Brooke, she hit him in the stomach with the emergency hammer, causing him to double over. All the kids managed to get off the bus, except for Ed and Kwanele, who were carrying the unconscious Piers. As Greg got up and started closing in on them, they were forced to abandon Piers to save themselves. The kids then clambered over the low fence at the front of the Imperial War Museum and started knocking on the doors.

Imperial War Museum

TODO

Expedition to Tesco

TODO

Battle of Lambeth Bridge

TODO

Members

Willesden

Rowhurst

Bam
Chris Marker
Dior (cat)
Ed Carter
Frédérique
Jack
Jibber-Jabber
Justin
Kwanele Nkosi
Piers
Wiki
Four other boys^[3]

Matt and his acolytes

Matt Palmer
Archie Bishop
Harry Ryan
Phil
Four other acolytes^[4]

Others

Relationships

Appearances

The Dead

Notes and references

↑ There are 23 when they leave the museum, so adding Frédérique, Piers, Jack, Bam, Liam and Greg makes 29
↑ The Dead, chapter 18
↑ The Dead, chapter 16
↑ The Dead, chapter 12

[1] There are 23 when they leave the museum, so adding Frédérique, Piers, Jack, Bam, Liam and Greg makes 29

[:0-2] The Dead, chapter 18

[3] The Dead, chapter 16

[4] The Dead, chapter 12

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 ==== Continental Europe ====
-The coach belonged to a [[Willesden school|high school]] from Willesden. The school went on a trip to Bilbao, Spain, shortly before the outbreak of the disease. hen people started getting ill, the teachers decided to try and drive to Calais to get the ferry back to England.
+The coach belonged to a [[Willesden school|high school]] from Willesden. The school went on a trip to Bilbao, Spain, shortly before the outbreak of the disease. When people started getting ill, the teachers decided to try and drive to Calais to get the ferry back to England.
 They drove the coach hundreds of miles across Spain and France to reach Calais, where they were then stuck in a grotty hotel for a while, with no food, because no ferries were running. At this point, a group of students left with a teacher to try and find another way to Britain. Eventually, the government organised for a single boat to ferry across those British citizens who were stuck on the continent. Crowds of people were desperate to get aboard, and the coach was only able to get on because it was full of kids.