Daisy opened one of the back packs Tombstone had sent her to get,inside she counted several dozen boxes of 9mm ammunition,along with a dozen or more boxes of .12 gauge shells.
She checked the other,two cases of MREs " Whatever that is" she thought,a first aid kit,batteries,flashlights,more ammo and several hand grenades..." Where the feth did he get these" she said to her self.
The third bag was a smaller leather one,inside she found several full magazines for Tombstones MP5 as well as several for the 9mm pistols he had given her,a huge amount of cash,two changes of clothing,a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey,witch she took out and had a large pull from....and finally,what appeared to be a bag filled with over a pound of white powder...she sighed and closed the bag.
" Well..." she shrugged and drug the first bag filled with ammo over to the front of the house...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! SPAIN BEAT GERMANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOST A £5 BET!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm... radioactive zombies riding atomic bombs that explode and rain more radioactive zombies on the earth.
The only way that could possibly turn out better is if the bomb was made out of random zombie parts, the plane dropping the bomb was made out of holding onto each other (including the propellers), and it was named the Enola Brain.
Ooooh, and they use a special element, Element Z; the only element that has zombie atoms that moan "NUCLEI, NUCLEI!".
Shadow went though the house telling everyone who wanted to come with him to meet him in the entrance.
In the end everyone found their way to the entrance. K had his bag ready to go. Bonzo had his chainsaws resting over his shoulders – somewhere he’d found some more makeup and had scrawled a rather disturbing design over his face. He grinned insanely as he looked at the groups reaction to his new look, giving K a wink as he stepped over to the door.
Shadow looked towards Keira but she slowly shook her head, not yet ready to leave the house.
Halon and Tombstone were in conference – it made sense for at least one of them to remain behind and hold the fort. Tomb looked over at Daisy at the same time as Halon looked over at K where he was trying to ask Bonzo to help him bring the stretcher with Vikky on it out to the car. They caught each other’s eyes and smiled. Halon called over to Shadow and joint the group huddled by the door, shouldering his rifle.
Tombstone went over the Daisy and put his arm around her.
Jennifer was in two minds over what to do – she wanted to rearm herself, but she also wanted to keep close to Tombstone. Although she needed weapons she realised that she could probably arm herself in the bunker – Shadow would probably not mind if she helped herself to a few things, though he had not looked pleased when he had found her down there with Tombstone…
Seeing everyone had decided what they were going to do Shadow unlocked the front door and lead his group out to the battle bus.
“Ok campers, where to?”
K glanced at Vikky and shyly raised his voice “There was a doctor at the hospital that I want to try and find.”
Shadow nodded slowly – a hard task, if not impossible. “Anyone else?”
Bonzo swung his chainsaws around in a complex arc and laughed manically.
“Ok – one vote for killing things – I get you” said Shadow with a smile.
Halon suggested that they find some more weapons and ammo. Shadow carefully kept his face blank as he nodded.
Ok – everyone in the house, feel free to RP as normal.
Everyone who is in the battle bus, please PM me what you want to do (kill stuff, find the doctor, or find some guns, or suggest something else). I will write the third part of your event when I have all the replies.
Shadow,Halon,K,Vikky and Bonzo are going into the city.
Tombstone,Daisy,Jennifer and Keira are staying at the Fortress..
Have I got this right??
... I have to say it seems a bit strange that Bonzo would leave Keira,since he seems so protective of her...but then again,Bonzo is a bit strange...so.>shrug<.
Tombstone walked over to Shadow and Halon after the others had climbed on board the "Battle bus".
The biker looked intently at the two other men, " Both of you..watch your asses out there...if you get into a bad spot..cut and run..in this brave new world..no one is tallying up hero points...if gak gets hot...bail out."
Halon smiled at the biker " Don't worry man,we'll be ok...just don't try to repopulate the world while we're gone"
Tombstone laughed ,shaking hands with Halon " ...And don't you go get stuck in any of those fething things throats...be safe..be quick and be back soon."
Halon nodded and climbed aboard the riot truck.
Tombstone turned to Shadow.
" You sure you wanna stay behind ?" Shadow said.
" Feth Bro..you sure you wanna go ?" the biker answered.
Both men laughed.
" Shadow" The biker said seriously " Don't feth around out there my man,hit and run...bring your ass home safe brother."
Shadow nodded " You just make sure I have a home to get back to."
Tombstone nodded shaking Shadows hand and bear hugging him with one arm " Watch you six out there soldier boy."
" Always" Shadow said climbing aboard the battle bus.
" Hold down the fort Easy rider".
The engine of the riot vehicle roared to life,Shadow saluted Tombstone and pulled away from the house.
Tombstone lit a cigarette and watched as the vehicle moved away in the direction of the main roads.
"Feth " the biker said blowing out smoke,he turned and walked back into the house,bolting the door securely behind him...
The ride was slightly bumpy and with the exception of Bonzo relatively quiet.
It was nearly impossible to sit back and enjoy the ride, but that really wasn't the vehicle's purpose and the corpses and abandoned vehicles that littered the road didn't help much either.
"You know what?" Halon said to no one specificly "I really, really want a gas mask and helmet."
Shadow moved his head slightly to answer. "You know that the gas mask won't do anything for you. The disease is transfered by the bites."
"Yeah, but what if..." Halon was thinking of a valid reason for his want of a cool looking gas mask "...what if we came to a place with hazardous stuff in the air and we couldn't get in because of it? We could use it then."
"I already have some masks in the bunker. That would just waste time." Shadow responded without moving.
"ThE kId WaNtS a MaSk. We ShOuLd GeT hIm OnE!" Bonzo piped in "ThEn We MaKe BaLlOoN aNiMaLs OuT oF dEaD zOmBiEs!".
K could only stare at Bonzo who was now appearing to do the Macarena or at least attempting to.
While they were distracted Halon turned to Shadow.
"You think it was a good idea to leave them behind?"
"What do you mean?" Shadow replied.
"I mean we have a bunker that is now guarded by a guy in a biker gang, an apparent relative of some kind of mob boss or something, an anti-government hippie, and a chick who just lost the love of her life. We could get seriously boned out here." Halon said quietly so that Bonzo couldn't hear and potentially spout out the doubts that Halon had.
"We just have to trust them I guess." Shadow replied easily "After all, we do have a psychotic clown stuck in a sealed metal can with us.".
OOC: why would they take an unconscious person with them in the riot truck I wonder? especially when there's a medic back home
OOOOC: The zombie corpses havent been deep fried yet, have they?
Keira sat heavily on a couch, fumbling with the MP5 she had liberated from the bathroom. It was heavy, but only because she wasn't used to its weight.
"I'll have to get used to it." she muttered to herself, and she stood up, and walked over to the window, and looked out into the post invasion front garden. The dead were piled three deep at some places, and limbs scattered those few areas that were bereft of corpses. Blood and mulch had splattered the window, making it hard to see out of. However, as she watched, something stirred amongst a pile of bodies. In true cinematic fashion, a mangled hand burst from the pile and reached upwards to the sky. Another followed, before a horrifying head popped up between. Its yellowing eyes fixed on her , and the zombie began to pull itself upwards. Keira felt herself get angry. Images of Tom's death seemed to be burned into her retina's, and she gritted her teeth. Grabbing up the MP5, she slammed a magazine into the breach and began to march purposefully towards the door. The zombie by now was halfway across the lawn, constantly stumbling on the recently re-deceased.
Keira began to unbolt the front door.
Tombstone stopped halfway through a personal moment with Daisy, and listened.
"Does that sound like the door being unlocked?" he said slowly, momentarily panic stricken.
Keira opened the door.
The zombie was about 8 metres away, and it raised its rotten hands forwards, vainly grabbing at the air.
The MP5 suddenly felt weightless and but she raised it with two hands to keep herself steady. She squeezed of a couple of rounds, but they went wide.
Tombstone heard the shots and was already pulling his trousers back on.
Keira aimed again, but proceeded to miss once again. The zombie was about 5 metres away, and was moaning intently.
Keira then let go.
She screamed her lungs out and ran at the zombie, firing the MP5 with one hand. Most of the bullets ripped through air, some hit the zombie in the chest, but a few, a few slammed into its knees, and the ghoul fell backwards, landing heavily on the ground. Keira was then standing over it, pouring every round left in the gun into the zombies head. The face was gone almost instantly, mulched into paste, the structure of the skull soon followed, until it occurred to Keira she was just shooting the ground. She didn't stop firing though.
Tombstone charged through the door and grabbed her heavily from behind, and began to drag her back inside, yelling profanities at her every step of the way...
Tombstone stared in stunned silence, as Keira emptied the MP5 into the prone zombies head completely annihilating it.
The woman shrieked like a banshee,even after her magazine was empty and the creature was quite obviously no longer a threat.
Tombstone rushed into the yard and grabbed Keira in a bear hug in an attempt to get her back inside.
The woman went wild,Tombstone had fought three hundred pound men,and beat them to the ground,but holding on to Keira was like trying to contain a force of nature gone berserk.
Her head smashed into the bikers nose,breaking it " Mother Feth!!" Tombstone shouted " Gak!! hold the feth still!!..Feth!!" ,her elbows smashed repeatedly into his ribs and chest " Keira!! Relax!!" Tombstone yelled over and over,as he drug the woman back into the house.
"Fething relax!!!" Tombstone shouted as they entered the main room,he spun Keira around so she was facing him and had to act fast to avoid a knee in his tender areas.
The biker honestly did not want to hit the woman,he understood the sort of anguish she must be feeling,the rage she must feel for loosing Tom,but he had no intention of letting her take her pain out on him.
" Keira! You need to calm down!!" The biker said,he ducked as she swung the MP5 at his head, "FETH YOU!!" screamed Keira " FETH YOU!!!..WHY DID HE HAVE TO FETHING DIE..WHY!!!??"
Tombstone glanced quickly behind Keira,he saw Daisy moving slowly up behind her, preparing to jump on the raving woman.
Taking his eyes off of Keira,even for that brief second was a mistake,she swung the MP5 again,connecting with the bikers head,white light flashed behind Tombstones eyes and he stumbled ,almost loosing his footing.
Instinctively,the biker dropped to one knee,even in his half blind pain,he was determined not to hurt the woman,he saw her closing the distance between them,the MP5 raised like a war club.
With Rattle snake speed,Tombstone struck the woman in the diaphragm,pulling his punch at the last second so as not to crush any vital organs.
Keiras breath was forced from her body in a giant whoop,she toppled back to the floor,all the fight gone from her.
Daisy moved in,but Tombstone motioned for her to wait,she stopped,but obviously very reluctantly.
Tombstone picked the MP5 up from the floor and tossed it onto a couch,he stood for a second, whipping blood from his nose and trying to clear his head.
He then turned to Keira,who was sitting up,but still having trouble catching her breath.
" Keira." Tombstone said " I want you to listen to me,I'm sorry about Tom...in the few hours I knew the man...he showed more heart than most people I've ever know..and if I could change what happened to him..I would." The biker spit blood out of his mouth onto the floor " I understand how much you must be hurting...but I can't change it...I really hope you don't want to go another round Keira...becuase..I don't want to hurt you" Tombstone spit blood again "...And I really hope your done trying to hurt me."
The biker braced for Keiras next move,hoping it would be a peaceful one.
Jennifer watched as the Riot van pulled away form the house. She heard the door slam and a series of clicks as Tombstone did up all the locks. She went into the kitchen and pulled a pizza out of the fridge. she shoved it in the oven and headed up the stairs finding one of the empty boxes of minigun ammo she checked the side to see what caliber it was. she put the empty box, heading downstairs to check on the pizza, it wasn't cooked yet so she got her backpack and empted it onto the counter looking at what she had left. she refilled the water bottle in the bag and filled the camelback. her magazines were all empty but could be reloaded from the half empty box of ammo she still had. The smell of melted cheese caught her nose. she pulled the pizza out and started to rip bits off, she hadn't relised how hungry she actually was and managed to finish the whole pizza in minutes. she opened the fridge again to get something to drink and pulled out a bottle of apple juice and poured herself a glass. she empted the box of ammo on one magizine and headed down to the bunker to get some more.
She dropped down the hatch and looked around. this place is like a terrorists aladins cave she thought to herself looking at th stacks of guns and ammo litered over the bunker. she wandered over to a pile of ammo and looked at the side of the box, 5.56, perfect. she removed one of the boxes from the stack and placed it by the ladder before heading back in to look for more stuff. by the time she had finished, about half an hour later she had found more ammo for the minigun, another pistol, a mp5k, some grenades, loads of ammo for her guns, a sling for her rifle and a LAW, She didn't know where it came from but it would probably be useful later. Finished in the bunker she passed all the supplies up onto the floor and pulled herself out.
Heading through to the kitchen she saw a small drip of blood on the floor, she didn't pay it any attention, thinking it must of come from the dead cop from earlier.As she was filling up up her rucksack again she caught a look at herself in the mirror, her jacket was covered in blood and there was a thick layer of grime covering her face. She Packed Her bag quietly, carefully packing the grenades and ammo into the pockets before strapping the LAW to the side of her rucksack. she took the rucksack upstairs along with the minigun ammo and left them all by the Minigun she put the rucksack out of sight but making sure it was easily acessible, no need for anyone else to do a patrick.
She'd heard some muffled shoting a while ago but she hadn't seen them while she had been working. She felt she needed a shower, Taking some towels from the cupboard she made her way to the bathroom. She stepped inside placing the towels on the rails and locking the door behind her, she placed her pistol in the windowsill before getting undressed and stepping in the shower. She stood, watching the grime flow off her body and swirling down the plughole. She ran her fingers through her hair letting the events of today sink in, if she haddn't been knocked out and could feel the lump she ould of thought it was a dream. She finished washing the muck from herself and stepped out the shower drying off and getting redressed quickly. She was Just about to unlock the door when she remembered her pistol, snatching it from the ledge she tucked it doen her trousers and stepped ot the bathroom. Heading down the stairs she went into the livingroom, looking at the bookshelf she could see that Shadow was very well read, lots of war novels and reference books but nothing that interested her so she looked for some DVDs, finding a copy of starship troopers she sat down to watch it.
OOc: I'm down in the bunker for the whole kreia thing
Tombstone stood ready for any reaction Keira may have,the biker honestly wanted her to relax,he truly had no desire to hurt the woman...she had been through enough.
The Biker noticed Daisy stepping closer to Keira again,a look of grim determination on the young woman's face.
"No No No!" thought Tombstone " No cat fight here..nope,I don't need that gak now"
He spoke To Daisy quickly " Hun, I need you to do something for me."
Daisy looked over at Tombstone,questioningly.
" Run upstairs" The biker said " Second door on the left,there's a radio ...I want you to turn it on..channel 33..you know how to use a CB?"
Daisy nodded.
"Good" Tombstone said " Call sign Fortress Alpha,,that's us...Calling Battle Bus...that's Shadow...I want you to call and check on them...ok?"
Daisy nodded again,she glanced at Keira,who was still doubled over attempting to fully recover,looked over at Tombstone " Be careful." she said,and rushed up the stairs.
Tombstone breathed a silent sigh of relife,and stared at Keira " Ok darling" Tombstone said " Let's try to stay calm...ok?"...
IC: Keira stared at the floor ahead of her, frantically trying to push her breathing rate back into the normal perameters. It wasn't hard for her, she had plenty of patients that hd winded her before, but Tombstones punch had knocked her down, good and proper.
"Ok darling, lets try and stay calm...ok?..." The biker said. as he nursed his nose. Kiera glanced at him, then back at the MP5 just out of reach. He seemed to comprehend what she was thinking, and he shook his head.
"No more, i dont wanna hurt you."
Keira stared at him. She hated him so much at the moment, but at the same time, well at the same time, the nurse within her began to override her feelings.
"Your nose needs fixing." she said coldly. She reached over to him and gently touched the nose. He grunted in pain. She felt it over a couple of times, and Stone pulled a way.
"Stop being a baby." She commanded.
Tombstone begrudgingly turned back and let her assess the damage.
"Yeah. This isn't that bad. This will hurt alot."
she grabbed his head and forced the nose back into its original shape, with a resounding crack. tombstone clenched his teeth until the pain passed.
"Thanks..." he mumbled.
Keira then punched him in the face with as much force as she could muster., and was awarded with his neck snapping back from the force of the blow. She then ran out the front door, and sprinted for the awaiting 'getaway vehicle'
OOC: She's just trying to find somewhere to cool off, but who knows where it could lead , I mean she is stealing the only other mode of transport
BTW, sorry for punching your character Fitzz, but I needed an escape route, and I don't think there's anywhere in the house that's private enough.
OOC: Nicely played ghosty,no apology needed for belting old Tombstone.
I should however warn you,Keira is going to be "making her escape" in a vehicle that had yet to be restocked with supplies.
When our characters arrived at the Fortress,everyone unloaded most of their belongings from the truck,and even though Daisy had drug a bag of ammo to the door (drug it because it weighs 150 lbs),she nor Tombstone ever loaded any equipment/supplies back into the truck.
So essentially,Keira is rushing off unarmed...well,maybe there's a gun or something left in the truck.
The drive was silent. Halon was sitting next to Shadow in the front passenger seat, with Jennifer and Kevin sitting behind them (but facing the other direction due to the chairs), Kevin holding Vikky in his arms. Bonzo just sat down on the floor, humming quietly to himself and giggling incoherrently.
Then there was some static on the radio.
Bzzt--"how do you--"--bzzt--"was it--"--bzzt--"or was it channel 33? Hello, hello? This is fortress alpha to battle bus, anyone there?"
"Oh feth" Shadow said, turning the mic on.
"This is battle bus numero uno, what is it, Daisy?"
"Oh, uh, nothing, just making sure you're all here still.."
"Everything okay back home?"
"Well, apart from Keira going apeshit.."
"What?"
"Nevermind.. I better go now.."
"Wait - what the feth happe--"
"Byeeee!"
The radio clicked off.
Shadow exhaled heavily in annoyance.
"Hey, I'm sure 'stone's got it, right?" Halon said.
"Yeah.. I guess."
Half an hour later, they were at the entrance to the city. It was eerily quiet. There wasn't a single sign of life. A few pieces of paper drifted in the wind, the trees rustling uncomfortingly. The only bodies on the streets were those of dead zombies and what appeared to be humans who were too badly damaged to be re-animated. Shadow drove slowly down the road. Shadow stopped.
"Why're we stopping?" Halon asked.
"Ssh."
"What?"
"Ssh!"
"Why?"
"Just shutup and listen!" Shadow barked.
A wooden door creaked loudly open from a beaten up house on their right.
There was a moment of silent, Halon and Shadow staring intently on the black door.
Then nothing.
Halon turned slowly and looked at Shadow. "Must've been the wind" he said.
Then there was suddenly a load moan.
"gak that's some funny wind!" Shadow shouted.
They watched in horror as a Zombie stumbled through the doorway. It moaned loudly at them, before advancing. It then began to come even faster. Then in a hail of bullets, it was obliterated by Jennifer's gunning.
"gak! feth, gak man, did that thing just try to run at us?"
"Those things don't run man!" Shadow replied.
"Well that one just did!"
"Well in that case--"
More moaning. It got louder. And louder. It quickly sounded like an entire school singing in time.
"Oh...gak.." Shadow said slowly.
Then, almost in time, every window, every door, of every building, had multiple zombies standing in it.
"What the hell are they doing?" Halon whispered.
"They're just staring at us!" Jennifer called from the turret.
"I wish they'd just be quiet!" Kevin yelled. "That moaning is killing me!"
Then they came. The ones in the windows either jumped out of the windows, collapsing on the floor only to get up, and others pouring out of the doors in their dozens. They didn't run, exactly, but they were much faster than the slow shuffling that'd been witnessed earlier.
"Go!"
Shadow went into third gear, and slammed his foot down onto the accelerator. Looking into the side mirror, he saw them power-shuffling after them. There was no chance of them catching up, surely...
Shadow looked forward. "Oh crap."
They were coming out of the buildings ahead, too. From the left, right, ahead and behind they came. Jennifer opened up with the minigun again, blasting apart zombies.
Halon leaned over his seat to talk to the people in the back.
"Lock 'n' load, people."
Kevin grabbed a pistol from one of the wall racks, checking it was already loaded.
"We're here!" Shadow called.
"We're where?" Kevin replied.
"The hospitol. Go! We'll hold them off! You've got five minutes to find that doctor of yours, K. Halon go with him!"
"Aye, aye, Kirk" Halon replied as the battlemobile skidded sideways, the back door facing the hospitol entrance. Kevin and Bonzo jumped out of the back, and Halon and Shadow leaped out of the side doors. Halon and Kevin raced off to the hospitol, while Shadow grabbed his rifle and opened up, joining the fusillade being laid down by Jennifer. Bonzo headed off to the hospitol as well, whether because he wanted to go with the other two or he thought he'd get more combat, Shadow knew not.
He sat back in his padded chair and stared around at the dimly lit men sitting around the table.
"Sir" said one of the men "We need your decision - we need to act now, before it is too late."
He slowly raised his hands and rubbed his face - the gritty sleep stung his eyes. He sighed.
"Sir?" came the voice again.
He nodded. "Send the go signal. And my God have mercy on our souls."
********
The bomber crew had been circling on station for over 9 hours - they were getting close to bingo fuel. Any longer and they would either have to call a tanker or land at the closest airbase that remained open - and there were few enough of those left in the Northern states of America.
The captain sighed and calculated again their remaining fight time. He was half way through his mental sums when the black signal box suddenly lit up. He turned to his co-pilot, their eyes wide. They both independently verified the go code.
"Looks like we are really going to do it. Damn, did you ever think something like this was even possible a week ago?"
The co-pilot shook his head. "No, couldn't say that I did. I hope they know what they are doing."
"We wouldn't have got the go code if they didn't."
The co-pilot nodded. "Plotting course to target... Ok, we have a vector."
The pilot loosened his neck and shoulders. "Roger that. Going dark."
IC: Keira clambered into the Vehicle and sat behind the wheel. Nope. She realised she'd forgotten he keys. And in her tantrum, as she realised that was what it summed to, in her tantrum, she hadn't picked them up. She could hardly walk back in there now. So she just...sat there, and stared out into the country side. Something scuffed in the back. She noticed it, but didn't comprehend it. Something scraped in the back considerably louder. Her ears pricked up, and the hairs on the back of their neck stood on end. Who was back there? Something thumped hard behind her seat. Keira's heart was hammering in her chest. She slowly looked into her overhead mirror. A pair of milky dead eyes stared back.
"Oh shi- "
The zombie grabbed her by the hair and began to drag her over the seats. Keira began to scream.
Tombstone sat up, nursing his black eye. On the one hand, he was impressed. That girl had a hell of a right hook. He also didn't see it coming, though he really should have. On the other hand though, she was unhinged at the moment, and it could lead to complications.
He heard the scream from outside.
Swearing loudly he grabbed up the closest weapon to hand, the MP5 and sprinted outside. The back of their getaway vehicle was swinging from side to side, and a mixture of screams, moaning and the noise of things banging against the sides reached his ears. He sprinted straight for the source, and leapt into the back doors. A zombie was holding keira's head by the hair, and kept trying to reach down and bite her, only to get buffeted away by Keira. Tombstone squeezed the trigger. It made a rattling noise. Out of ammo. Cursing he leapt into the jeep and stamped down on the zombies head.
Now the initial danger was over, Keira burst into tears, and tombstone held her close, comforting her against the horrors that could have been. As she cried, Tombstone checked for bites. She was lucky this time, and it hadn't had the chance to sink its teeth into her. But it had been so close...
The biker held the trembeling woman tightly,repeating " Your ok,your safe." over and over again.
Tombstone glanced at the top of Keiras head,and noticed a good bit of hair had been yanked free, "Yes" he thought " I bet that does hurt."
After what seemed like forever,Keira stopped trembling,Tombstone looked at her,whipping the tears from her eyes with his thumb..." I thought...."
" That it had me.." Keira finished,nodding " I thought It was all over..that..it was going to bite me..and I'd be.."
" Shhh" Tombstone said,cradling her in his arm " It didn't..your safe."
" I'm sorry I hit you." Keira said " Well...sorry I hit you a few times."
Tombstone smiled and nodded " It's ok..I ..I understand." The biker laughed lightly " You pack a mean punch darling."
Keira smiled slightly.
" You up for going back inside?" Tombstone asked " We have a lot to do...and,having you ...it's a huge help."
Keira nodded " I'll be ok..well..as ok as one can be."
Tombstone reached for the door handle and Keira hugged him around the neck, " Thank you."
The biker tilted his head and smiled " Anytime."
Tombstone drug the remains of the ghoul from the rear of the truck,tossing it casually away.
He and Keira entered the House,Daisy meeting them at the doorway.
" I radioed Shadow" The young woman said.
Tombstone nodded " What's their situation?" he ask.
" I'm not sure...they sounded fine" Daisy said.
" Ok" Tombstone said " I'm going to check back with them in a minute...but first..we are going to load the truck with supplies,guns,ammo,food,first aid and such...I'm getting a really bad feeling deep in my guts that...that we're not safe here."
Together,he,daisy and Keira loaded the truck with all the supplies Tombstone had said they might need,they then headed upstairs where Tombstone keyed the radio mic.
" Fortress alpha to battle bus,Shadow do you copy?- over."
He waited a moment and sent again.
As Tombstone moved to Key the Radio, an unfamiliar voice came over the radios speakers.
" Shadow?" the voice called " Shadow, This is Papa Bear ..over."
Tombstone keyed the mic " Caller, Identify again..I say identify again over."
Papa Bear came back over the radio " Who is this?...Wheres Shadow...over."
The biker spoke quickly " Listen buddy...I'm a friend of Shadows..holding the fort so to speak...Shadow...well,Shadow is out in the gak..I'm attempting to call him back...over."
The man on the other end of the radio was silent for a long moment,he then spoke " Roger that..." he chuckled lightly " Sounds like Shadow to be on recon even in this gak storm...I advise recall...and bug out...over"
Tombstone frowned " Bug out?" The biker said " Abandon position?-over."
The man spoke again..grimly " Roger that...I'd probably get court martial-ed if anyone knew I was sending this message" the man said " But Shadow and I have seen alot of gak together...so ..Re cal ..get Shadows recon in...and Bug out...the city...The fly fly boys have executive orders to make it glow."
the man spoke rapidly " Can't transmit anymore..pulling back...estimate three hours til cookout..over and out.
The Radio blurted static and fell silent.
The bikers blood ran cold....
Keira watched the bikers face go pale,seeing him looking so concerned,well,it frightened her.
She had heard some of the conversation the biker was having over the radio,but most was garbled and she didn't understand alot of it.
"What is it?" she asked " What's wrong?!!"
" We have to get moving" Tombstone said " .I think the military is preparing to blow the whole city off the face of the earth."
" You mean nukes" Daisy said,a touch of panic entering her voice.
Tombstone shrugged " Who knows...nukes,neutron bombs...whatever they plan...it's going to be unhealthy for us."
" So we should get the feth out of here" Daisy said.
" What about the others...they're out there...some where." Keira added.
Tombstone keyed the mic again " Shadow!! do you copy!?" The biker barked " Shadow!! If you read me..get the feth out of dodge brother..the military is planning to drop a whole load of hurt right on top of all of us!!"
Tombstone paused,listening for Shadows reply,he keyed the mic again " Shadow!! do you copy?-Over!!"...
Ok, was not expecting the pilots in a secret mega stealth bomber to have their taking across the cockpit picked up on a CB radio a hundred or so miles away, but OK
As of now I am away for the weekend - I will be back some time on Sunday afternoon where I will try and post the second half of the red event above, and may add in some orange events for everyone else.
SilverMK2 wrote:Ok, was not expecting the pilots in a secret mega stealth bomber to have their taking across the cockpit picked up on a CB radio a hundred or so miles away, but OK
As of now I am away for the weekend - I will be back some time on Sunday afternoon where I will try and post the second half of the red event above, and may add in some orange events for everyone else.
Play nice!
I thought that the pilots were talking over the radio,and that since Shadow was military,and had "Acquired" military gear,then that was how Shadows radio picked up the transmission.
Until then, Tombstone just has to come and save us. No probs.
Also, we could say it's the best CB radio in the world considering Shadow's status.
As for the Jennifer thing, gak my bad. I just went back a page or two and read something FITZZ had wrote about who was on the bus..
We'll just say that everything with the turret never happened, and anything that Jennifer said was Halon, and that Halon jumped on the machine gun turret instead, but only after we'd stopped.
PROBLEM SOLVED.
Anyway, now that Silver's gone.. even though he's still online.. APOCALYPSE TIME!
FITZZ wrote: OOC:...Ok,went back and rewrote how Tombstone discovers the upcoming " Military cook out."
Phew, its just a cook out. At first I thought they were going to nuke us or something.
IC:
K and Halon had reached the hospital no thanks to the undead staff. It was hard trying to get directions off of the blood spattered direction signs as well.
"Rad..." Halon tried to read in the dim light "probably radiology. What part are we looking for? Emergency rooms or staff rooms probably.
K only shook his head and continued to look around trying to get a sense of direction in the place.
"Do you even know this doctor's name?" Halon asked as he pushed aside a gurney with a partially eaten corpse strapped to it.
"No, not really." K answered "But I could recognize his face if we find him."
"You do realise that he probably had his face removed during this small apocalypse right?" Halon asked slightly annoyed.
"Yeah, but I'll know." K said sheepishly.
The two headed down towards the emergency room area and listened for any signs of movement. It was slow going, but Halon wanted to make sure every room was empty and before he moved on. After checking each room he closed the door so he would know which ones he had gone through. As they got closer to the emergency room they could see a body slumped over a desk with some soft smacking sounds coming from it. Halon shined his light on it and saw that it was a ghoul eating a long dead nurse. The ghoul barely turned its head when Halon put a round through the back of its head. He checked over the desk and shot the nurse in the head as well, just to be sure. The hospital had been silent, with the pairs' foot steps and Halon's shots being the only loud noises so far.
"I guess all of that gunfire outside drew them out. Oh well, that's good for us. Unless the party wagon gets taken out and we have to walk back." Halon said to K while looking at a hospital map on the wall. Halon looked around and grabbed a rag to wipe off the blood and grime that was on the map.
"Let's see, no doc in the emergency rooms so lets go ahead to the staff quarters. He may have hidden in there when this broke out." Halon said to K while noticing a dead guardsman and taking his weapon. "Almost a fresh clip, most excellent.".
OOC: Right, so Halon went with K after all.. so, considering Bonzo went off with you two as well, it's just me and an unconscieous Vikky. Oh, and the hundreds of ghouls. Sorry guys, but I have to make the story more interesting.
"gak!" Shadow shouted. His clip was empty. The ghouls were almost upon him. He leaped into the drivers seat, and slammed his foot down on the accelerator, smashing the vehicle into the undead. Most were run down or knocked out of the way, but a few got stuck and climbed up the front. "Ugly mother fethers.." Shadow said. He could just about make out the building ahead of him. He kept going, strapping his seatbelt on.
smash
The battle bus crashed into a brick wall - going right through to the other side of the house. The ghouls were smashed to pieces. Shadow sighed. A moaning came from behind him. Looking back, he saw the back double doors were still open, and he could see hundreds of ghouls through the hole in the wall shuffling quickly towards him. "gak!"
A ghoul poked its head up infront of his face. "feth!" He punched it in the face, and drew his hunting knife, stabbing the ghoul in the face. It died. Shadow jumped over the seats into the back, lobbing the zombie out of the backdoors before closing and securing them, just as the zombies reached him. He heard them pounding the vehicle from all sides. He realized he was swetting.
"Battle bus! Come in! Shadow! Do you read?" "Tomb!" he shouted gleefully. He turned the mic on. "Man am I glad to hear your voice. It's a shitstorm out here! The ghouls are faster than before, I'm trapped in the battle bus.. inside someones house.. See, there were these zombies on the front and I kinda smashed into a wall." A slight chuckle came from the other end. "Listen, bud, you gotta get the feth outta there! They're gonna bomb the city in three hours! Is everyone still okay?" "Oh..gak.. They're all at the hospital.." Shadow looked up, all the windscreens and windows were blocked with ghouls pounding on the bullet proof glass. "gak.."
Tombstone thought quickly,he spoke into the mic " Shadow,Bro...is the battle bus immobilized completely??"
Shadows voice came back over the radio " I'm not sure man,those fethers are everywhere...gak."
The biker felt a surge of anger at being unable to help his friend, " Bro...go topside if you can't get the bus moving...go through the top hatch..I know you have alot of fire power...pick them ugly fethers off from up there...clear a path...get to another vehicle if you can."
" Vikky's out cold in the back" Shadow said.
" Feth me " Tombstone said..." There's no way you can carry her through all that gak...if you have to...leave her...bolt up..she'll be safe inside...get to Halon and the others...you can come back for her then...but bro..you guys have to get the feth out of the city.."..
Shadow replied " Hang tight bro...I'm going to try something"....
gak. There was no way he could get out of this. They were probably on top of the bus by now anyway, it sounded like they were pouding from every angle. He jumped back into the drivers seat, and revved the engine to life. He drove forward, his vehicle barely moving despite all it's power. Furniture, bricks and bodies clogged the way. Shadow couldn't even see where he was going. After a few painful seconds, it slowly began to trundle forward, the engine screaming out furiously. It hit the other wall, but didn't have the momentum to smash through it. Instead, it crushed the ghouls in front of the vehicle. There were still the ones on the bonnet. Shadow drove backwards. He could hear discusting crunching and squelching sounds from beneath the tyres. Suddenly the vehicle was free. The zombies on the front slid off, and Shadow looked out of the mirror. There were zombies. Everywhere. All standing behind the battle bus in the street, howling and moaning at him. He reversed quickly out of the hole in the wall, and spun round. The zombies ran at him. He looked out of the side window momentarily, and at a glance he saw no end to the tide of undead. He drove forward, heading down another road. They were everywhere. He just kept on driving and turning, he didn't know where he was going now, he just kept on trying to find a place where there were none of those things.
FITZZ wrote: OOC: I'm not sure what Tescos is...but if they sell beer I'd love some,some cigarettes as well please.
Didn't think you would.. I'll just have Shadow go to the american equivelant.
Tesco are an evil business trying to take over the British economy - they're the most well known (along with sainsburys, asda and morrisons) supermarket in the UK, having a supermarket version of shop called Tesco's and smaller shops, called Tesco extra's. Like starbucks but less well-known for evil tendancies.
Besides, you have ACHAINSAWWIELDINGMENTALLYUNSTABLEEX-CLOWNATYOURDISPOSAL!DISPOSE!DISPOSE!!!!!!!!!!RAAARGH!!!
*ahem*
-shifty eyes-
Halon, K and Bonzo don't even know Shadow's driven off yet.. just find the dead doc and walk outside and see all the zombies have gone and Shadow is also gone and put 2 and 2 together.
This hospital is actually a top secret military research lab that has created a fully functional time machine. We'll discover it on accident and not knowing what it is, use it to save ourselves and maybe the world.
halonachos wrote:Actually I have the perfect idea. Time machine.
This hospital is actually a top secret military research lab that has created a fully functional time machine. We'll discover it on accident and not knowing what it is, use it to save ourselves and maybe the world.
... ...I don't think Time machines and zombies work very well together...
Tombstone waited a moment,then called over the Radio again.
" Shadow!!" the biker called " What the feth are you up to ??"
" I broke loose." Came Shadows voice back over the speaker " But I'm cut off from the hospital...the streets are filled with those ghouls...their fething every place man...I don't know if I can get back to Halon and the rest."
" Feth" Tombstone said " Get yourself clear...we'll figure out our next move when you get someplace safe."
" Bro" Shadow replied " It doesn't look like anyplace is safe around here."
" Understood." The biker said... " I'll contact you in five minutes...out."
"Over and out" Shadow said.
The biker hung his head,trying to decide on the next course of action.
" What are we going to do?" Daisy asked.
" We need to decide quickly ..do we stay put,or what?" Keira said.
Tombstone motioned for the women to quiet down for a moment,he finally looked up.
" We have to wait for the rest..." Tombstone said "..or at least wait til we know if they can make it back."...
Hmm...something about the space/time continuum being affected by the existence of re animated life forms,I saw it on ST:TNG once.
Do not trust that fairly-low quality program.. first series sucked.. most of the rest is good though
Gotta love ST..
Anyway, lets say... 2 hours and 40 minutes 'till bombing?
Also, who knows how effective DA BOMBIN' will be, these things might be in the sewers, and many will have escaped the city already.. unless they're like the zombies in I Am Legend who stick together in packs. Hmm. Been wanting to watch that movie again since I started writing about the zombies getting faster - it was inspired by that film. Also, do you guys mind finding Shadow's cat Bob in the bunker? He'll be eating the mountain of kitty food I left for him.. unfortunately I've forgotten to include him in any RPing... and then there's.. *shudder* Patrick's *shudder* cat as well. These dudes don't just disappear into thin air! Black holes, maybe..
halonachos wrote:I wonder if we could shoot down the bomber before it had a chance to arm its weapon?
Or if we could find some pretty green smoke ala The Rock or MW2.
goog idea, and it was flares not smoke, all we need to do is find a sky scraper and run up the stairs, not take the elevator, in a dramatic slow motion fumbleing the flares while bashing zombies away and burst through the door with them lit to have the jet roar overhead,l maby get a wave from the pilot to.
halonachos wrote:I wonder if we could shoot down the bomber before it had a chance to arm its weapon?
Or if we could find some pretty green smoke ala The Rock or MW2.
goog idea, and it was flares not smoke, all we need to do is find a sky scraper and run up the stairs, not take the elevator, in a dramatic slow motion fumbleing the flares while bashing zombies away and burst through the door with them lit to have the jet roar overhead,l maby get a wave from the pilot to.
BTW did he even mention if it was a nuke or not?
In Silvers "event" concerning the bomber,there was never any mention of the Payload that was being transported,however...the executive who green lights the mission does make the statement " May God have mercy on our souls.",which IMO would indicate a whole lot of BOOM is headed for the city.
Now,in an RP I did,Tombstone states that the bombs could perhaps be Nukes or Neutron or any of a dozen types of "City killers",but never specifies exactly what...as he doesn't know any more than a bomber is on the way.
Tombstone ran down the steps out to the front of the house,opening the garage door as he went,he quickly pulled the truck into the garage,jumped out and closed the bay door.
" There" the biker thought " At least we won't have to fight a mob of those fething things to get to the truck now."
He glanced around the garage at the various items Shadow,for one reason or another didn't add to the Battle Bus.
On one work bench sat a .50 caliber machine gun,Tombstone erupted into a gail of laughter " My god." he said " It's like a fething candy store."
The biker opened the tailgate of the truck,shoving a few bags of supplies aside,he slid in to the rear camper,he glanced at the compartments inner roof and smiled...a small sun roof was cut into the top,a silly luxury item...made no sense at all,other than the trucks previous owner had more money than brains...but now,it would come in quite handy.
In less than a half hour,Tombstone had mounted the .50 cal to an armature and bolted it to the roof of the camper,now all one had to do is stand in the rear bed,pop through the sun roof and that person would have access to the .50 cal.
The Biker turned,noticing Keira and Daisy standing in the garage admiring his handy work.
" Not exactly a Battle bus" the biker said " But it will give us a bit more fire power out there."
Keira spoke up " It's a good idea."
Tombstone smiled.
" I contacted Shadow again." Daisy said " He's still on the run..hasn't been able to circle back and retrieve Halon or the rest."
Tombstone nodded..." Ok,we need a few crates of .50 cal from down in the bunker" the biker paused " I'm going to go radio Shadow again and attempt to coordinate a rendezvous."
The biker lept from the truck and rushed back into the house,the two women close behind him.
K looked around inside the Hospital, the once vibrant hospital white walls were now crimson red, with small amounts of wall still untouched by the splattering. He still remembered his way around the hospital.
"Why don't we check out the security room?" K said to the others. Thinking that he could check through the security tapes to find out what happened to the doctor.
However, the security room was not marked on the map or recorded on the blueprints of the hospital so it would be difficult to find. The hospital did have intercoms incase of an emergancy, which all lead to the security room. However, the chances of anyone being there anymore were rather slim. K was pondering where to look first when suddenly he heard a buzzing sound
"HeY, i ThInK i'M wInNiNg!!!" yelled Bonzo mashing the button on an intercom.
As Keira ran up the stairs after the biker, she made the mistake of glancing in the mirror. The ghoul had pulled out more of her hair than she had thought, and there was an ugly bald patch on the side of her head. She felt no love for her hair any more, and either way, it was unsafe having it as long as it was.
"I'll be back in 5 minutes, dont leave without me!"
She then went back down into the bunker. A mirror and a pair of scissors and a shaver were found next to a box that was labelled 'miscellaneous weapons'.
Keira ran back to the mirror, and began to cut her hair. She cringed as the first lump of hair fell fromh er shoulders, but after that, it became easy, and soon, she had cut her hair to a single inch long. Keira brushed her hand through her now short hair. It felt weird, but she knew it was necessary. No more pussying about.
Keira then grabbed up a tactical harness, and strapped her MP5 onto it. She grabbed up a couple more clips, and stuck them into her backpack.
"Now, Im going for a big gun."
Her eyes alighted on a barett.
"No, that's almost as big as me."
She instead looked for something more realistic, and ended up grabbing a 12 gauge with half the barrel sawn off. Keira pumped it experimentally, then, apparently satisfied, she grabbed up a case of ammo, and ran up the stairs to meet up with the others...
Jennifer was about halfway through the movie when she heard daisy open the door, her pistol heald out infront of her. she stood up from the couch and daisy jumped back in surprise.
"easy there daisy, you look like your gonna shoot me" she said
"well, we hadn't seen you in ages and tombs sent me to look for you"
"I wasn't exactly hidding, why the rush now"
"the army's gonna nuke the city, we gotta get outta here"
"oh, frack...give me a minute"
Jennifer turned off the TV and rushed out of the room charging up the stairs and into the room with the minigun, she grabbed her bag and picked up her rifle slinging it over her shoulder. Checking all her guns were loaded. she could now hear Tombstone in one of the other rooms, trying to call shadow over the radio. She opend the door and he glanced round giving her a little nod.
"go"? The house is six miles out from the city.. so unless they actually nuke the city, we should all be fine.. even if they do nuke it, we'll still all be dead.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:"go"? The house is six miles out from the city.. so unless they actually nuke the city, we should all be fine.. even if they do nuke it, we'll still all be dead.
OOC: Yes,but it's still two plus hours til "drop time"...so we could conceivably put another 150-200 miles of distance between us and the city,wich would be far enough if to be "safe" even if the bomber dumps out a nuke.
I don't want to abandon the fortress,but I don't want to get flash fried sitting in it.
Tombstone glanced up,seeing Jennifer at the door,he nodded," Looks like were gonna be on the road soon Princess" he said.
The biker returned his attention to the radio, " Shadow come in my man, over."
Nothing.
" Tombstone calling Shadow,come back...over." The biker called.
" Tomb..(STATIC)...the fortress.. (STATIC)...attempting to get..(STATIC)...will contact you in ..(STATIC)..Do you copy..(HIGH PITCHED WHINE)..."Came the reply.
" Mother Feth" Tombstone whispered to himself keying the mic " Shadow say again...your transmission was garbled...please repeat..over."
From the corner of his eye,the biker saw an unfamiliar (or so he thought) person enter the room,he jumped and drew his weapon.
Keira ducked quickly shouting " Wait..it's me."
She peeked up from behind the bed.
" Holy gak!" Tombstone said,grinning a bit " You startled the feth out of me...didn't make you with the new haircut."
Keira nodded " After the truck incident..it seemed logical."
Tombstone nodded " The look works for you Britney" he grinned.
Keira rolled her eyes,but smiled a small smile " Feth you...you should cut yours to..dirty long hair."
" No time for a beauty treatment" The biker said " I got to try to raise Shadow."...
"While I do appreciate the Dr. Who reference, I still don't believe you to be anything good if you managed to survive this long in the city." Halon began "Why should we believe you?".
"Why should I trust you?" the Doctor responded "I know K, but I don't know you and how could you survive so long if you were a good guy?".
Halon had been logic slapped and he didn't like it too much.
"Good point." Halon said as he slowly let his finger leave the intercom button and began following K.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:"go"? The house is six miles out from the city.. so unless they actually nuke the city, we should all be fine.. even if they do nuke it, we'll still all be dead.
OOC: Yes,but it's still two plus hours til "drop time"...so we could conceivably put another 150-200 miles of distance between us and the city,wich would be far enough if to be "safe" even if the bomber dumps out a nuke.
I don't want to abandon the fortress,but I don't want to get flash fried sitting in it.
@ Ninja...I like your version of Tombstone.
Right, so we chain ourselves to the fortress, and protest. Then Silver will have no choice but to put the bomb range at "one city and five miles".
Bonzo, looking quizzically at the button pronounced. "iT MusT bE MaGiC, No OtHEr WaY Of LooKiNG aT It, Now INTO THE BATCAVE!"
He then followed the rest of the troop into the building to discover more about this mysterious 'Doctor'.
OOC - I'll let someone else RP the meeting as I think you guys have a better idea of who the Doctor character is supposed to be. I'll RP after we've met him. ^^
OOC: I know it seems I keep getting off track, but I feel this is important. And I actually meant to finish the flash back, but I figure it's 2:30am, I'll finish it later
K indeed had known exactly what he meant, but not the importance of it.
~~~FLASH BACK~~~ 2 months ago...
K was staring into space, as he had done since he woke up an hour ago. He couldn't feel his arm anymore, and would not look to see if it was ok.
He knew it wasn't.
He knew that he didn't have any reason to live anymore. His chess career was over, he lost his arm, and he was now orphaned. There wasn't a point to trying. He amused himself that he was only a fraction of the man he once was, but only for a moment, as the pain of this revelation set in. The nurses didn't know what to do for him, he hadn't spoken a word since the accident. Most stopped worrying about him when the doctors found out that he wasn't speaking on purpose, he was choosing to say nothing.
He sat there, in his imperfect silence. He could hear people around him, but none of their chatter, their pains... their screams... really made it to him. They were all white noise of the orchestral sympthony inside his head, stuck on an ostinato between the strings, cellos and pianos, playing the same 3 notes over and over.
His beautiful hell drowned out the world...
Yet, there was one man, who knew how the song was supposed to continue.
Just outside the open door to K's room
"Yeah! Sure. Fine, whatever! The kids a freak, there's nothing wrong with him, yet he won't talk to me. He's all yours"
"How can you be so disrespectful to your patients! They rely on you to have their best interests at heart, and you clearly don't!"
"And you do? I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker! If the kid wants to give up, then you should just let him! Besides, treating him won't bring him back, and you know it!" he storms off.
The Doctor enters the room.
"I'm guessing you heard all that, didn't you Kevin? I'm appauled he even has a job as a doctor. A doctor is supposed to CARE for his patients!" the Doctor loudly proclaimed, hoping the other doctor can hear him.
"..." K hadn't moved
The Doctor sits next to K
"Listen, I'm going to do what I can to help you through this, but I need you to bear with me. I'm still getting to know you, so I might seem alittle odd at the beginning, but I indeed am helping."
"..."
"Thats the spirit! So is there anything you want to do?"
"..."
"That's an excellant idea! We shall play chess then!"
"... ... ..!"
The Doctor pulls out a chess board and sets it up.
"Now, do you want to go first, or shall I?"
"... ..."
"Ok then I'll go first." The Doctor moves his pawn on the far left up two spaces "Now, it's your turn"
"..." K doesn't even look at it.
"Ohhh, that's right, I forgot something, I'll be back in a moment, ok?"
The Doctor leaves the room, and K is left alone with the chess game. The Doctor later comes back with a tape player, to see that K had moved the pawn on the opposite side as the Doctor had done before he left.
"Hmmm" The Doctor then moves the same pawn up, then turns around to set the tape player up. The Doctor turns around to see that, yet again, K has mirrored his move. The Doctor makes his move again, then presses play on the tape player and it starts to play Für Elise. The game continues on for awhile, with K only moving his pieces when the Doctor wasn't looking. In the end, K soundly wins.
"Well, I've got to move on to other patients now, I'll come back later, ok?"
SilverMK2 wrote:The wild speculation entertains me
well if you think about it, if we all plan for a nuke then we'll be OK if its not, but if we plan for a convertional bomb and its a nuke then we're fried
SilverMK2 wrote:The wild speculation entertains me
well if you think about it, if we all plan for a nuke then we'll be OK if its not, but if we plan for a convertional bomb and its a nuke then we're fried
NO WE'RE NOT!
Think about it, as my devious mind is (which is not from a role-play beneficial(sp?) point of view) - if we don't move, then Silver won't nuke us, as it'd be too much of a shame to end it now.
But, from a role-play beneficial PoV, Shadow can just get back, ask his mate what bomb it is, and then Silver can decide to ruin/make our plans.
The bomber neatly split the air around it. All of its stealth systems were engaged, even though the enemy had no way of detecting it - the zombies had no anti-air missiles, no radar stations... so far they had not even shown the ability to even move at more than a slow trot.
The pilot took one last look at his instruments as they glowed softly in the dimly lit cockpit before beginning the weapon release checklist...
Tombstone continued to attempt to raise Shadow on the radio.
" Shadow!!" the biker bellowed " Please repeat last transmission..come back..over!!"
" Holy feth!!" Daisy cried.
Tombstone quickly glanced up,staring at the young woman,who was looking out of the window with the Gatling gun.
" What is it!!" Tombstone shouted.
Daisy turned,and Tombstone could see the fear in her eyes " The things..zombies..they're everyplace."
Tombstone rushed to the window,the field in front of the house was teaming with ghouls,daisy and Tombstone both recoiled as a small group of the zombies triggered one of Shadows traps.
The explosion was tremendous,over a dozen of the walking dead were vaporized instantly,dozens more were ripped apart,heads,arms,legs and internal organs sailed through the air.
And still they came,dragging entrails behind them,slavering and moaning...that sound...like hell on earth.
" What the feth are we going to do!" Daisy said " We can't drive through that many of them!"
" Feth" Tombstone growled " Gun 'em down girl !!"
Daisy snatched up the AR-15 she had practiced taking head shots with earlier,slapped a fresh magazine in and yanked a round into the breach.
She fired round after round,slowly taking aim on each successive ghoul,brain and bone flew through the air as she loosed round after round with deadly accuracy.
Keira rushed into the room " Those fething things are all over the place...we're stuck inside."
Tombstone nodded, " We're gonna have to thin 'em down...pick a window..go for the head shot,single fire..don't rock-n-roll,it's a waste of ammo."
Keira rushed to a window,snatching up a Kalashnikov AK-47 as she went,she checked to make sure the weapon was on single shot,clicked off the safety,threw open the window and fired,the recoil kicked hard,but she braced herself and fired again,,dropping an advancing ghoul.
Tombstone jumped to the Gatling gun,instead of spraying the oncoming horde,he focused on sighting on the heads and released short controlled burst,vaporizing multiple zombie skulls at a go.
The biker gritted his teeth " Damn it Shadow..where are you!!?" he growled looking at the radio....
SilverMK2 wrote:The bomber neatly split the air around it. All of its stealth systems were engaged, even though the enemy had no way of detecting it - the zombies had no anti-air missiles, no radar stations... so far they had not even shown the ability to even move at more than a slow trot.
The pilot took one last look at his instruments as they glowed softly in the dimly lit cockpit before beginning the weapon release checklist...
But the pilot forgot that Halon had super awesome mega rockets and the next sound the pilot heard were his klaxons going off alerting him of a missile lock. The rocket impacted with the bomber, shredding it to pieces as nanobots dismanteled the aircraft. The pilot had ran to the back of the plane for he knew he must still carry out his mission
What happened to 2+ hours before bombing?/we need an event./editedagain no we don't, we've got two in-game hours (right??) to save each other.. guess that's down to me, and I will, but I'm just really busy with school ATM.. so maybe tonight or something.. RP pause button if y'all don't mind for a bit.
I'll do some RP trickery soon (tonight or later), but first I really could do with Halon/Not_u/GUO moving on the hospitol story, finding this doc and then getting outside to find Shadow has disappeared.
IC: Keira heard a tinkling of smashing glass downstairs, and sprinted towards the source of the noise. A zombie with a cone on its head had rammed through the window, and was proceeding to stumble around the room. Keira ssqueezed off a spray in the zombies general direction. The gun bucked wildly, and only a single bullet hit, embedding itself in the walking corpses chest. The force of the shot caused the ghoul to stumble, and Keira took the opportunity. She grabbed up a candelabra from its place on a small table, and struck the zombie on the face. It staggered, and fell back out the window. She grabbed up the AK again, and ran to the opening. Zombies were stumbling around outside, trying to gain precapice, to climb in. A zombie in a business suit with overly greasy hair and a ponytail reached up to try and grab her. Keira twisted out of its grasp, and fired her gun into the mass without aiming. Flesh, bone and gristle crumpled under the fire, and the mans disgusting pony tail was shredded from his scalp.
Keira emptied the rest of her clip into the masses, then dropped the gun, and pumped the 12 gauge.
Tombstone sprinted past holding what looked suspiciously like an RPG. Keira shook her head and looked back out the window. A thin ghoul with a baseball glove and head gear on was slavering towards her.
"Head protection?! That makes things difficult.."
She fired experimentally into its face, and though she could see underneath the visor its head get peppered by shot, it didn't slow.
Keira lowered her gun and took the kneecaps.
The zombie face planted hard, its visor colliding with full force on the windowsill. His head snapped back from the force, and the zombie didn't get back up again.
She heard a loud explosion to the left, and saw Tombstone running back towards the bunker, laughing.
Hm. Ghosty, if you look back to one of my posts (very, very far back) I do believe you will find a part where I wrote that the windows were all completedly boarded up with wooden planks and nailed to the walls/each other. So unless the zombies also have super strength... Meh.
ghosty wrote:Well. Obviously you forgot to bord up the one next to the toilet. On account of such a lovely view.
Toilet on the second floor..
WHO DO YOU THINK THESE ZOMBIES ARE, THE NIGHT STALKERS FROM I AM LEGEND OR WUT?!
Well, lets hope Silver doesn't see above sentence. Otherwise, I've just killed everyone in this RP.
-sad- won't be posting tonight guys, too busy. Guess I'll just do with that what I've done with all my RPing commitments here on Dakka.. do it at the weekend.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Well, lets hope Silver doesn't see above sentence. Otherwise, I've just killed everyone in this RP.
-sad- won't be posting tonight guys, too busy. Guess I'll just do with that what I've done with all my RPing commitments here on Dakka.. do it at the weekend.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Well, lets hope Silver doesn't see above sentence. Otherwise, I've just killed everyone in this RP.
-sad- won't be posting tonight guys, too busy. Guess I'll just do with that what I've done with all my RPing commitments here on Dakka.. do it at the weekend.
quick editz it out
But it's against the law to do that.. it's got a rather bad punishment you knowz.. you go 2 hell.
Tombstone rushed back into the room with Keira,he was dragging a piece of plywood behind him.
" Quick" the biker shouted " Help me brace it over the hole in the window!"
Keira grabbed an end of the plywood and she and Tombstone laid it flush against the window frame.
" Hold it there" Tombstone said,he dashed off again.
" Hey!!" Keira yelled " Where the feth are you going!!"
She felt a ghoul outside push against the plywood," Tombstone!!" Keira shouted " Hurry the feth up!!"
The biker charged back into the room,holding a screw gun and a sack of large screws,he rapidly anchored the plywood to the window frame and in a few minutes had firmly secured the hole.
"C'mon" Tombstone yelled " He grabbed Keira by the hand and rushed up the stairs, practically dragging the woman behind him."
Daisy had held her position at the window,Tombstone glanced outside and grinned, the yard was littered with dozens upon dozens of dispatched zombies.." Don't let up on them girl." The biker said hugging Daisy from behind.
" Don't worry hun,I'm having a ball!" Daisy laughed as she fired another round into the head of a ghoul bellow.
Tombstone unslung his MP5 and joined Daisy in dropping a few of the walking dead.
Keira slapped a fresh magazine into the Ak-47 and rushed over, she fired out into the horde,.." So..what's the plan??"...
Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Well, lets hope Silver doesn't see above sentence. Otherwise, I've just killed everyone in this RP.
-sad- won't be posting tonight guys, too busy. Guess I'll just do with that what I've done with all my RPing commitments here on Dakka.. do it at the weekend.
quick editz it out
But it's against the law to do that.. it's got a rather bad punishment you knowz.. you go 2 hell.
And then you die.
I'm actually waiting for Drk to post something. This is his story arc and I don't want to misguide it, now had we gone to a Flipper McCoy's or a Hobbytown USA, then it would be my ball to carry.
Darkvoidof40k wrote:
Well, lets hope Silver doesn't see above sentence. Otherwise, I've just killed everyone in this RP.
-sad- won't be posting tonight guys, too busy. Guess I'll just do with that what I've done with all my RPing commitments here on Dakka.. do it at the weekend.
quick editz it out
But it's against the law to do that.. it's got a rather bad punishment you knowz.. you go 2 hell.
And then you die.
I'm actually waiting for Drk to post something. This is his story arc and I don't want to misguide it, now had we gone to a Flipper McCoy's or a Hobbytown USA, then it would be my ball to carry.
So..
Drk needs to RP So that Halon can RP So that GUO might RP And then I will RP.
See, I don't want to ruin it. The doctor is apparantly not dead and I don't know the relationship he has with K. I could say that the doctor has a thing for one-armed-chess-champion kids, but somehow I don't think that's what he's going for.
See, I don't want to ruin it. The doctor is apparantly not dead and I don't know the relationship he has with K. I could say that the doctor has a thing for one-armed-chess-champion kids, but somehow I don't think that's what he's going for.
" So...what's the plan?" Keira asked Tombstone as she fired round after round into the drooling horde of ghouls below.
" Too spread out." Tombstone said.
" What?" Keira exclaimed " Why the feth would we spread out?"
" Huh?" the biker said, " No..no,not us,them...they're spread out...well some of 'em..I..got an idea" the biker dashed off.
" Wait..Damn it" Keira shouted,she turned and looked at Daisy,who was methodically placing round after round through the heads of the zombies in the yard.
"where the feth is he off to now?" Keira asked the young woman.
Daisy glanced over her shoulder and raised an eyebrow, " Hun..there aint no telling."
A moment later Tombstone rushed back in the room.
" Is that a boombox?" Keira thought to her self.
Sure enough,the biker was carrying a large portable radio,he quickly placed it on the window sill and hit the play button.
The music came blaring out...
" Come on you rotten mother fethers!!" Tombstone bellowed " Let's fething party!!!"
OOC: I decided to add the song for the simple "cinematic" enjoyment of the idea of a yard full of walking corpses being blasted to bits whilst "Sweet Home Alabama." blares into the night...
OOC: Actually, you could have split up, one or both could decide that K is crazy and went to look for Shadow outside
IC:K shook his head. He needed to pay attention to what he was doing, as his flashback had caused some trouble. He had actually walked past where they were supposed to be going.
K quickly turned around, and thought over what the Doctor had said. "Up, down, left right, up down down left." he thought to himself. It was a cheat code for the video game "Zombie Stomp Dude" that some noisy brat had yelled angrily at him when the Doctor decided K should try to interact with others. The cheat unlocked all the levels in the game, which K refused to use because the cheat was probibly for people who had already beat the game, and people like this kid who declare themselves the greatest gamer ever because they beat the last level of the game, even though they didn't play the rest. K resisted the urge to kick him in the face, only because he was terminally ill.
When they arrived at the game room, K immediately noticed the game controller wasn't plugged into the Gamestation, but the chord went under it. On closer inspection, it was plugged into a small power outlet type thing.
K put in the cheat code, and the wall behind the TV opened up...
Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:OOC: Actually, you could have split up, one or both could decide that K is crazy and went to look for Shadow outside
IC:K shook his head. He needed to pay attention to what he was doing, as his flashback had caused some trouble. He had actually walked past where they were supposed to be going.
K quickly turned around, and thought over what the Doctor had said. "Up, down, left right, up down down left." he thought to himself. It was a cheat code for the video game "Zombie Stomp Dude" that some noisy brat had yelled angrily at him when the Doctor decided K should try to interact with others. The cheat unlocked all the levels in the game, which K refused to use because the cheat was probibly for people who had already beat the game, and people like this kid who declare themselves the greatest gamer ever because they beat the last level of the game, even though they didn't play the rest. K resisted the urge to kick him in the face, only because he was terminally ill.
When they arrived at the game room, K immediately noticed the game controller wasn't plugged into the Gamestation, but the chord went under it. On closer inspection, it was plugged into a small power outlet type thing.
K put in the cheat code, and the wall behind the TV opened up...
Well, I know exactly where this is going.
EDIT: Wait, no I don't. I mis-read, I thought you said the TV opened up. But the wall? This is getting a bit.. meh..
Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:I can change it, what were you thinking?
That there was some sort of recording of the Doctor that would deeply move Kevin.. or something.. I dunno.
But how this doctor who was turning into a zombie (takes what, less than 24 hours? And even less before they go rabid?) could rewire loads of stuff and make a moving wall and engineer this is beyond me. Although thinking about it, I would say he's alive by drugging himself with everything they had and now he's cured or something..
As the music and gunfire echoed into the night,the horde of walking dead diminished.
Dozens of ghouls were drawn by the song blaring from the radio Tombstone had set up,and were rapidly dispatched.
In short order only a couple dozen zombies remained,Daisy was now amusing herself by shooting some in the buttocks.
Tombstone sat back,allowing the Gatling gun to cool down,he lit a cigarette and began to load one of his MP5s spent magazines.
Keira seated her self on an ammo crate,and like wise began to reload her weapons .
" So" Keira said looking up at the biker " What's the plan?"
" We can't bail on Shadow" Tombstone said " I think we need to at least wait until he contacts us."
" But.." Keira spoke softly " What if he can't contact us?...what if..he's ..gone?"
Tombstone shook his head," He's not dead...I would.."
" You'd know?" Keira asked ,she shook her head and sighed " No..you wouldn't"
Tombstone shrugged,slapping the magazine into the MP5, " I don't know."
Daisy fired another round " Eat gak you filthy fether."she said,she raised her weapon and turned to face Keira and Tombstone " What about the bomb...the military?" the young woman asked " Do we just sit here and wait to get blown to pieces?"
Tombstone rubbed his eyes and shook his head " Of course not..But,who knows what the military intends to do...it may not be a nuke..feth they could napalm the whole city and never affect us."
" Or they could drop a nuke right on our heads" Daisy said.
" Of course if we do make a run for it" Keira said " Where do we go?"
Jennifer had entered the room,she spoke in a low tone,almost a whisper " We go to my Father.."
Drk_Oblitr8r wrote:OOC: Actually, you could have split up, one or both could decide that K is crazy and went to look for Shadow outside
IC:K shook his head. He needed to pay attention to what he was doing, as his flashback had caused some trouble. He had actually walked past where they were supposed to be going.
K quickly turned around, and thought over what the Doctor had said. "Up, down, left right, up down down left." he thought to himself. It was a cheat code for the video game "Zombie Stomp Dude" that some noisy brat had yelled angrily at him when the Doctor decided K should try to interact with others. The cheat unlocked all the levels in the game, which K refused to use because the cheat was probibly for people who had already beat the game, and people like this kid who declare themselves the greatest gamer ever because they beat the last level of the game, even though they didn't play the rest. K resisted the urge to kick him in the face, only because he was terminally ill.
When they arrived at the game room, K immediately noticed the game controller wasn't plugged into the Gamestation, but the chord went under it. On closer inspection, it was plugged into a small power outlet type thing.
K put in the cheat code, and the wall behind the TV opened up...
We were on the same page, its a secret government lab with a time machine.
"Surely, if they did drop a bomb on us, surely we could just hide in the bunker? Shadow did say it could withstand nothing short of a nuclear holocaust."
Since we're going down the way of the montage, why the hell not? (Oh and Halon, as I was writing this line, I was going to give advanced apologies for abandoning you. Then I had a winidea)
BIC:
Shadow switched the vehicles build-in MP3 player, and then floored it. The bus smashed into the crowd of undead, sending them crashing to the floor. The battle bus shrieked around a corner, and kept going til it was outside the hospitol once again, at which point it skidded sideways to a halt. Climbing up onto the roof of the battle bus, Shadow grabbed his mobile from a pocket, and phoned Halon. They'd traded numbers at one point during the first night watch in the tower. "Shadow? What's up?" "They're everywhere! Get outta there! I've just been around half the city trying to get away from them, and I made a mess of someones' house in the process." "But what about--" "Got to go, zombies co-" The conversation was cut off as he detached the minigun from its pintle, and waited. And waited. Then they came as one, a horde running from the alleyways and from up the road. He opened up with the minigun, and the fun began. Shadow found himself laughing. "Like a video game! But better!" he shouted. "Mother fethers! Come get it!"
They kept coming, he kept shooting, blowing zombies to pieces every second. The minigun's belt feed was soon dry, and he hastily replaced it on the pintle, and grabbed two rifles that he'd brought up with him. A machine gun in each hand, he opened up, taking down yet more zombies. But they kept getting closer. And closer. And closer.
" Princess" the biker spoke,shaking his head " Until I know what's going on with Shadow..we are staying put."
Jennifer glared at the biker.
Tombstone turned to Keira, " Maybe heading down into the bunker isn't a bad idea.."He paused a moment " Only down there..we have no idea what's going on ...up here..we can see what we are dealing with."
Daisy glanced back out of the window " Stone..it's getting crowded out there again.."
Keira and Tombstone rushed to the window,another large group of ghouls were approaching the house...
Jennifer moved to the window,pushing past Tombstone.
" You see this." she said pointing out of the window " Those fething things are going to keep coming!..and sitting here on our asses is going to get us all killed."
Tombstone started to speak,but Jennifer cut him off " If those fething zombies don't get us!!" she yelled " Then maybe we get blasted by a fething nuclear warhead."
Keira looked at the biker and spoke " She's right Tombstone." the woman said softly " I know your concerned about Shadow and the rest...but..maybe .."
A huge explosion rocked the house.
" Some of them hit another one of Shadows traps" Daisy said,she raised her AR-15 and loosed a few rounds.
Jennifer locked eyes with the biker " At least try to contact my Father again.."
Tombstone nodded,he turned to Daisy and Keira " Do what you can to keep those feths from getting to close to the house."
The two women took positions at the windows,weapons raised,in a moment both began to fire into the ghouls below.
Tombstone walked with Jennifer into Shadows computer room,after several missed connections,they managed to find an operative server and contact the Satans Servents safe house.
TStone: Anyone there?
1EyE: Stone?..yea,we're still holding it down.
TStone: Losses?
1EyE: None since your last message.
TStone: Phoenix?
1EyE: Upstairs..he's safe and sound.
Jennifer sighed.
TStone:Hostiles numbers?
1EyE: Not to many now..we fragged alot of them,but more keep showing up...maybe 50 ATM.
TStone: Our numbers/supplies?
1EyE: 15,we've lost 5,plenty of gear.
TStone: Keep holding it down,will attempt contact briefly.
1EyE: Stone..if you try to get to us,don't come through the city,it's fethed...take the smuggling route.
TStone: I planned to take that route..have you set up Radio/cb?
1EyE: Police/Military band set up..been monitoring local activity..
TStone: Monitor Channel 66..if we head for you,I'll contact you via Radio.
1Eye: Got ya..Channel 66,Stone...watch your ass.
TStone: I always do.
Tombstone turned to Jennifer,the woman spoke " Now you know..there safe...we can go to them."
The biker spoke lowly " They're not safe..they're in the same crap we're in." he sighed " But ..if we bail...that's where we are going."...
The M4 Carbine bucked madly as Cpl. Saunders fired point blank at the rotting undead around him. Even through his M42A2 pro mask the stench of the undead and unrestricted warfare assaulted his nose. Even after days of fighting, he still had to resist the urge to vomit in his already filthy pro mask from time to time.
Saunders turned his head away from a sudden intense burst of heat as someone with a flame thrower off to his left hit a cluster of newly arrived undead with a long burst of liquid inferno searing and charring the flesh right off the bone with a gut wrenching sizzling and cackling sound. Even then though, it still took an uncomfortably long time for them to succumb to the flames and die once again.
Missiles launched from an MLRS battery well behind friendly lines streaked down low from overhead and impacted the enemy ranks, shaking the very ground that he was standing on making Saunders struggle to keep his balance amid the chaos. Someone else wasn't as lucky as he was, and he could hear his bloody shrieks of pain as the undead tore into him. Looking down he made sure that the M-61 Frag grenade was still firmly attached to his plate carrier. If it came to that... He would make sure that his end would be quick.
Empty brass shell casings corkscrewed through the air as Saunders fired round after round into his enemies sending bits of skull and brain matter spraying out as his 5.56 rounds ruined peoples faces. Their lifeless bodies going limp and falling into rotting heaps onto the ground.
With his mind lost in the madness of battle, Saunders almost missed the annoying buzz that was his commanders voice coming in over the Peltor's headset ordering a general retreat. It was a drill that had become an all to common sight on this offensive. Saunders turned and ran towards the nearest Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) still firing his M4 until the last second when he mounted up through the ramp on the back and crammed himself into the already overcrowded troop compartment.
With a hydraulic hiss and a metallic bang the ramp raised and locked in place. Saunders could only listen to the sounds of battle still raging around him as he sat in complete darkness pressed up against someone else. Soon the only thing that could be heard was the ever growing hum of jet engines as the fast movers flew in and started to bomb the battlefield into oblivion.
Saunders continued to sit in complete darkness and listened to the thumps and whumps for a good long while as round after round was dropped on the enemy. A smile creeped across his unshaven face beneath his pro mask as he pictured the death of his enemy.
The madness of the battlefield was music to his ears....
It took another four hours of cleanup after the area was carpet bombed to dust before it was declared secure by command. Saunders found himself once again at the decon site getting hosed down by CDC workers in their yellow Hazmat suites. A trail of crimson red water snaked its way off of him as it worked its way to a drain pushing along in it's current chunks of meat and brain matter.
Eventually he found his way to a cot and sat his weary body down upon it. While all around him other soldiers that had survived the day got some much needed sleep, Saunders just sat still... staring at his freshly cleaned Mopp suit and pro mask until finally sleep overcame him and he closed his eyes.
His hands still firmly gripping his loaded M4 carbine as he slept.
"Holy crap, a hidden tunnel!" Halon said in awe as the wall began to move. "This might be some kind of secret lab deal we have going on right now."
The group began to inch towards the new gaping hole as the door finally finished opening. The insides were lit rather oddly, as if someone tried to make it look forboding on purpose. There was some dripping heard, but nothing out of the ordinary for a secret hallway hidden behind a videogame console.
"Listen K, we need to get this done and over with. We were supposed to find this guy's corpse by now and be back in the party wagon." Halon said while scanning the only way they could go, forward.
There was a slight hissing as the door behind them shut and bright lights began to reach their way towards the adventerous trio like a bad science fiction movie. The hallway was fully revealed, it looked sterile, clean, white, and Halon noticed that they had left a lot of footprints on the solid white tiles.
"Hurry up, there is much to discuss." The doctor's voice seemed to boom from all around them. Looking up Bonzo spotted an intercom.
"HeY, tHe VoIcE iS cOmInG fRoM tHe CeIlInG sInK." Bonzo imitated the doctor's voice. "I wOnDeR hOw ThEy Do DiShEs?"
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Do we have another Patrick on our hands?
K walked infront of the others, anxious to see the Doctor. He had been worried about him since he left, of all the hospitals around before the infection started this was the only one left. There had to be a reason that this one was fine.
At the end of the corridor, was a large door, which opened as it was approched. The light coming from inside the room was brighter than that inside the corridor, bright enough to hurt K's eyes.
"It's good to see you again, K"
K could see the Doctor, but he was paler than normal. He had his hand entirely bandaged. The room was filled with various medical machines, K knew some of them, but others seemed too complex for him to understand.
"I.. Was worried..." K said, when finally looking back at The Doctor.
"Yes, well, it's ok now K. I suppose you're wondering what I've been doing here."
"Yes, we have!" said Halon, noticing that he and Bonzo weren't getting any attention. Bonzo was too busy looking at all the shiny lights.
The Doctor turned to Halon, suddenly remembering they existed "Ohh yes, I almost forgot about you two. I thought you were going to go look for your friends. They left."
"They left?"
"Yes, but I wouldn't blame them. They were attacked by the horde."
"Are they.."
"They're fine, but we should probibly start looking for them. They smashed through a building"
"They smashed THROUGH a building?"
"Yes, they came out again. Shouldn't we be looking for them?"
"Yes lets go"
The Doctor turns back to K "Look, K, we'll have to catch up at a later point in time."
K nods, and they all leave, with the Doctor leaving last, grabbing a small pen like object from his desk.
Saunders walked along the highway peering through grimy windshields into long abandoned cars looking for any signs that they may contain undead entombed within. During the initial outbreak, hundreds of thousands of people tried to flee the infected zones in their vehicles clogging the motorways. Turning them into deathtraps for many a unlucky soul as then ran into stalled or abandoned cars and trucks, turning the normally flowing freeway into a parking lot.
Saunders walked around a burned out fuel tanker and the blackened hulks of several more vehicles around it. The smell of gas and seared flash still lingered in the air around it. He quickly looked around and despite the smell, didn't see any bodies inside any of the wrecks. Around him he could hear gunshots as other members of his unit found something worthwhile to shoot at.
He quickly moved on and continued to search more vehicles, walking toward a school bus that looked rather promising. Not being able to shoot anything was starting to piss him off from deep within his core.
The task at hand was simple, though time consuming. Command had sent out several advanced parties to clear the way of stragglers so that the damned engineers could bulldoze a clear path for the main body to follow thus speeding up the advance on a nearby city. So far resistance had been thin at best, with no mobs of undead anywhere to be seen, and the advance had proceeded several miles down the freeway at a steady pace.
The soldiers were making small talk to each other, but Saunders just kept his mouth shut and kept to himself. Apparently Sgt Jones from over in Charlie Company had bought the farm while trying to take a dump earlier. Not really a way he wanted to go he thought to himself as he used a thermite grenade to kill a zombie still strapped into the drives seat of a armored bank car still wearing his faded grey guard uniform.
He let a smile grace his still unshaven face as the burning thermite melted through the roof of the cab and burned its way completly through the zombie before exiting the bottom of the vehicle and disappeared into a self generated molten hole into the pavement disappearing from view.
By nightfall the tired, dirty, and exhausted soldiers were relieved in place by another unit and airlifted back to the rear for a short time. Once again, Saunders was put through the same song and dance that he found himself in every night with the decon, and sluggishly moving through the chow line before once again finding himself sitting on a cot still warm from the last body staring with bloodshot eyes at his freshly cleaned Mopp gear until sleep overcame him.
He pitied the people around him that still clung onto hope. For he know that they all were already dead....
JP400 You can't just jump in a game in progress, it sounds like your posts don't fit in this setting anyway(army's been munched), PMSilverMk2 if you really want in the game
FITZZ wrote: OOC: I'm not really against JP coming into the game,so long as he doesn't have a compulsion to fire off grenade launchers at rescue helicopters.
I would suggest clearing it with Silver though.
I think he played too much resident evil. Karon that is.
IC:
Halon looked out the window, "Oh hell, oh hell, oh hell," Halon said in crescendo. "We are almost entirely screwed."
"Not necessarily." the Doctor said while walking calmly towards the exits.
"You know what doc, you are the only person besides this one crazy guy we knew to make me worry so much. Hell, you make me worry than Bonzo here." Halon said while pointing his thumb over his shoulder at Bonzo, who was too busy gawking at the zombies with a hint of murderous glee in his eyes.
"I think we should stay in the roads, sure the zombies can see us, but we don't waste time going room from room and it should give us more time to react and run." Halon said as he began walking out the no longer glass-pane doors. The smell outside was somewhat better than the smell inside the hospital Halon noted while shouldering his new used automatic rifle.
"Oh, and which way to the garage? We do need a car after all. Something heavy and secure like an ambulance, if you know how to fly a helicopter and there's one nearby I'll accept that too." Halon asked the Doc while walking backwards into the city.
"No, we don't have a helicopter and the garage is over this way." the Doc said while pointing his bandaged hands towards the back of the hospital "Oh, and walking backwards in a dangerous situation is not highly advisable."
"Oh yeah, and why is..." Halon said, but was cut off as he tripped over a corpse laying on the pavement. Halon put his arms back to stop the fall and ended up scraping them enough to cause him to bleed.
Halon looked at the Doc questioningly, "Yeah, you are worrying me. Bonzo, watch our new friend here. I don't like his hands..."
"So LeT's CuT tHeM oFf!" Bonzo answered while revving his chainsaws and moving towards the Doc.
"No, Bonzo, just watch him to see if he does anything funny." Halon said quickly while getting up.
"HeHe FuNnY oR hAhA fUnNy?" Bonzo joked with Halon.
"Hehe funny I guess..." Halon said grinning at the clown.
The rest of the walk to the garage was relatively uneventful. There were about two or three zombies milling about the garage, one of them was wearing a jogging shirt and a highlighter yellow thong. Halon was quick to execute that one, zombies were freaky, but zombies in thongs were another thing. They came upon a couple of working vehicles and found one ambulance. Halon opened the hatch to the ambulance with his weapon raised in anticipation, nothing was inside, it was almost pristine in the back of the ambulance. Halon opened the doors and the same thing, really clean seats and interior. In fact all of the working vehicles seemed to be really clean inside despite the exterior.
Halon was puzzled and rubbed the back of his head trying to comprehend this. Bonzo was busy watching the Doctor, probably hoping that the Doc would do a trick for them. Although that was his job, Bonzo was always willing to teach others the trade.
"So, while the military man is stunned. Which do you think we should take K?" the Doc said while holding his hands behind his back.
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@Halon
Darkvoidof40k wrote:and kept going til it was outside the hospitol once again
^ I was refering to the battle bus, of course, in the rest of that sentence.
Funny, I had never heard that phrase until after I enlisted. It's the phrase given to describe when command "asks" for volunteers for dangerous assignments by selecting people at random for one reason or another. First time I was voluntold to do something I ended up burning poo in a combat zone. It took days to get the stench of Jp8 and human crap off me, even after I burned my uniform and showered several times.
Being Voluntold was what brought me to my current situation. Sitting on an uncomfortable cargo seat with the sound of twin turbo engines drowning out everything else around me a few thousand feet up in the air heading to god knows where.
On this overcast grey day myself and a few other lucky individuals were tasked out with providing on site security for the extraction of select survivors that were holed up inside the hot zone. Little did they know however, that we were not there to "rescue" them per say. Those who we pulled were then flown back to a "Medical" center run jointly by the CDC and DoD for processing. This processing center was nothing more then a modern day version of a concentration camp. Those that showed any signs of being infected or ill, were immediately taken out back and shot. Their bodies then dumped into a mass grave which was incinerated to contain/negate any risk of infection.
If you were one of the "Lucky" ones that were healthy, you were then sent to one of several medical holding areas where you were treated no better then a caged lab rat as you were poked and prodded in every way possible as the brains tried to figure out a cure/solution for the problem at hand. Once you were used up, you were then flown by plane elsewhere. Nobody knew exactly where these people were flow too, but general rumor around the camp was that anyone who sets foot on that plane was never heard from again.
Saunders thoughts were broken and he was pulled back into reality as the rear ramp of the helicopter started to drop and locked into its down position. Out the back buildings were seen coming into view, some of them smoldering sending black smoke up into the still over cast sky. Below them it looked like they were flying over a commercial or medium residential area on the outskirts of a very large city. Vehicles could be seen densely packed and abandoned in the streets below them as they flew overhead.
He could also see them below in the thousands as they mulled around looking for fresh victims. This was they had to force people to do this job, it was very high risk and very rarely did the aircrews return with fully intact crews.
With a flash of orange and red flame, the gun ship escorts started to prep the target sites for insertion by laying down missile fire. Saunders was happy that they were using HE rounds this time instead of Flachettes, which did damn near nothing against the undead last time he found himself in the hot seat.
The Chinook slowed as it descended over a multi story building with a pretty flat room. The Letters S.O.S could be seen painted in white paint across most of the roof and several people stood waving their arms overhead frantically at the helicopter and its occupants.
Saunders charged his weapon as the bay light turned green sending the security detail running down the ramp and onto the rooftop with weapons at the ready.
"Drop everything you are currently carrying and board the helicopter! Do not attempt to take anything with you. We only have room for yourselves and nothing else! If you attempt to carry anything on with you, we will leave you here to die." Screamed the OIC in the general direction of the un showered and ragged survivors.
The group quickly complied and started to file one by one past us as we inspected them for any signs of undead contact. One of the other guards pulled a older man wearing a faded brown coat and a ball cap pulled down over his face from the group and forcefully shoved him away from himself and everyone else sending him to his knees. The old man looked up only to stare down the business end of the soldiers carbine.
His cap had fallen off revealing his face... which was pale and sweaty and his eyes were sunken.
"Wait, what are you doing?" cried a blond haired girl who looked to be in her mid 20's and who was quickly building up into a panic "Thats my father! What the hell are you monsters doing to him!!"
She tried to run over to him but myself and another guard physically restrained her as she tried to worm free of our grasp. Suddenly loud banging could be heard on the barricaded door as the undead who were drawn to us started to break down the door.
"Lets move people!!" shouted the Lt as the Pilots started to apply throttle to the engines.
The old man and guard looked at each other for a split second. The silence only being broken by the abrupt report of his rifle as he fired one single round point blank.
The blonde haired girl screamed and threw a punch at the guard next to me hitting him in the side of the face. She then turned to me and reached out to grab hold of my pro mask. I tilted my body so she couldn't get hold of my mask and with a wet crunch that sent teeth flying I brought my rifle butt up and smashed it into her chin. Her limp body fell over backwards and landed with a thud on the roof. She started to cry as blood flowed freely out of her mouth and turned her cotton shirt crimson.
The guard who was on the receiving end of the punch ran over and returned the favor a few times over on the girl while the survivors stared on in shocked silent horror from the back of the Chinook.
"We don't have time for this bs!" The OIC said as he pointed toward a door that was about ready to come completely off its hinges.
"What about her?" I asked looking at the girl who now had a red swollen eye and a obvious broken nose.
"Leave her."
.......
The Chinook lifted off just as the undead broke through the door. As we pulled away into the overcast sky heading toward out next extraction site, the last image I saw was of the girl holding her dead fathers corpse in her arms crying as the undead descended upon her like a pack of wild dogs.
I just stood there as the ramp raised blocking out the light and once again throwing us into complete darkness.
I've not been online long enough over the weekend to read your RP's, so I can't tell if they are suitable for the setting of this game (I will read them as and when I have time - my in-laws are staying over this week though, so my internet time is limited atm).
You also have joined without asking anyone (IE me ) if you could, despite several people asking you if you had permission to join/etc. I seem to remember your RP's were quite good in a couple of other threads I've seen you play in, so provisionally I will say that you can join, even though you have kind of just barged in (pending assessment of the suitability of your RP's anyway).
Sent you a Pm... maybe I mis sent it... I send out about 20/30 a day. It happens... if so I apologize.
@Dark:
Yes, But guess I didn't.
Enough to have a general idea whats up.
Anywhere USA. Haven't decided yet. I tend to dislike meeting up with people cause you then have to take days to make 1 post while waiting for others to respond.
Well, no offense then, but your posts make for little more than a good read then, and don't particularly add much to the story.
The whole point of this RP is that everyone is getting screwed and we're all riding out the apocalypse, fragging zombies on the way.
I mean, the military organisation that you are describing was set up pretty fast, especially with all the confusion. The entirety of the US, and the rest of the world, is covered in zombies. They're everywhere. I'd doubt that there'd be enough forces left (after most of the military being either A) in Irak/Afghanistan or B) already being in the cities trying to keep order when the shitstorm started.
Basically, why RP in this thread if you have no intention of interacting with the other players? Defeats the point, IMO.
Although, nice writing you've been doing. Bit harsh though, with that girl. I mean, shooting her dad I could understand, but beating her up and leaving her to die..
edit: Also, most of us are quite frequent posters. I mean, I don't post every day, but I do check up on this thread every day (more or less). And those who don't post particularly much are likely to be the ones to die first (i.e. next).
Tombstone and Jennifer re entered the "Tower",both Daisy and Keira sat loading magazines,by the looks on their faces Tombstone assumed they had been conversing as well.
The Biker looked at the two women, " So..What's on ya'lls minds?"
Keira started to speak,but Daisy cut her off " We think we should get the feth out of this place."the young woman said.
Keira looked up at Tombstone and nodded " Same as we've been saying Tombstone...sooner or later..we're dead if we stay here."
Jennifer spoke " They're right,and now we know my Father is safe with your..gang..we have a place to go."
Tombstone spoke lowly,his temper barely contained " Your Father..and my people...are NOT safe..they're caught up in exactly the same sort of gak storm we are..."
Jennifer began to protest,but the biker raised his hand to continue " I understand the illusion of safety...we have it here as well,but The Satans strong hold is no safer than this place..in fact..it's not anywhere near as stocked." Tombstone continued " The main reason I have for wanting to get there is the fact that 15 Satans Servants are held up inside...that's 15 soldiers that would be damn good to have with us."
Jennifer stared at the biker.
" Plus I've given you my word ...I'll get you to your Father." Tombstone finished.
" So then what?" Keira asked.
Tombstone turned looking at the woman questioningly.
" I mean" Keira continued " Say we can make it through the fething army of ...those things out there,and say we make to your friends little club house,and say...by some miracle they are still alive and not wandering around eating each other...what do we do then?" Keira stood and walked to the window " Do we keep running?...get drunk?..what do we do?"
Tombstone shrugged " I guess we figure that out when we get there...personally,I say we'd head as far away from major population centers as we can."
Daisy looked at the biker " There was a commune...a bunch of cabins up in the hills...about 200 miles from here,not much around there except a small town...and even that as about 20 miles away from the camp sight."
" Not a bad idea" Tombstone said " We'll look into it."
Daisy nodded,behind her Keira turned and fired her weapon out of the window...
OOC: If at all possible,I'd like for Ninja or Ghosty (or both) to RP.
I really need a bit of interaction between characters,as I'm sort of running out of things to do,plus I don't really want to have your characters start doing things/acting in a manner you don't wish them to.
FITZZ wrote: OOC: If at all possible,I'd like for Ninja or Ghosty (or both) to RP.
I really need a bit of interaction between characters,as I'm sort of running out of things to do,plus I don't really want to have your characters start doing things/acting in a manner you don't wish them to.
I really don't see much we can do, we're all sort off wating for the group in the city to RP so we can move the story on, or silver to post an event
Tombstone sat on the edge of an ammo crate smoking a cigarette.
Keira had taken a chair and seemed to be trying to get some rest,having become frustrated with shooting at the ghouls outside.
Only Daisy had yet to loose interest in the walking corpses outside,even though their numbers had diminished,she still occasionally fired a round or two out of the window.
" Give it a rest would you." Tombstone said as Daisy loosed another round.
The young woman turned,pouting slightly,but she set her weapon aside, " There's still some of those things out side." she protested.
" Yes,I know" The biker said " But save your ammo."
"We have a ton of ammo" Daisy said.
" Ok..how about..I have a fething head ache..so stop shooting."Tombstone snapped.
Daisy nodded and looked out the window.
Jennifer walked over and sat near the biker, " How long will it take us to get to your gang?" she asked.
Tombstone looked up,for a moment he wanted to grab the woman and shake her,but he remained calm.
" Well,...If the roads aren't covered in those things,which I'm sure they are...it will take a few hours" The biker said.
Jennifer seemed to sense Tombstones aggravation, " Look,I'm not trying to boss you around...I was only asking how far we'd have to travel."
The biker nodded " I just want you to understand...we'll go..when I say we go."
" Who died and put you in charge" Jennifer snapped.
"Everyone." Keira said from her seat,her eyes still closed " Everyone died...and put him in charge" she opened her eyes and looked at Jennifer "..Or...do you think you can make it through all those things without him?"
Jennifer stared at Keira " All I'm saying is sitting around here is a bad idea...we should get moving soon."
Tombstone stood up and walked out of the room,Daisy begin to follow him,but he motioned for her to stay put.
The biker walked down the stairs into the kitchen,from outside he could hear the occasional pounding of the ghouls,he placed his hands comfortingly on his pistols for a moment.
He sat a large tray on one of the counters,opened the refrigerator and placed some cold chicken,fruits and roast beef onto the tray,to this he added a loaf of bread and several bottles of water and beer.
"Ok" he thought " I'll bring up this food,we can all have a meal..and then..then we decide what to do."
The biker picked up the tray and headed back up the stairs.
FITZZ wrote: OOC: If at all possible,I'd like for Ninja or Ghosty (or both) to RP.
I really need a bit of interaction between characters,as I'm sort of running out of things to do,plus I don't really want to have your characters start doing things/acting in a manner you don't wish them to.
I really don't see much we can do, we're all sort off wating for the group in the city to RP so we can move the story on, or silver to post an event
OOC: True,I'm just trying to keep the interaction between characters going.
But your right,we do need Shadow & Company to do some RPing or a Silver event...
OOC: right im having a bit of insomnia at the moment, so im gonna write a bit and pray i don't wake up anyone.
IC: Keira had her eyes closed. It was better than looking around the room at the others. The whore seemed to have got caught up with the killing, and had lost all her ideals. Stupid B*tch. Jennifer was no better. It wasn't that she hated her. Far from it. But Keira felt Jennifer was bad news. There was something about her...
She couldn't describe it. It felt like she would ditch them all if things got tough.
"I will break, into a thought, with what's written on my heart..." she muttered to herself.
Keira had never admitted it to Tom, but the music he listened to had launched an offensive on her I-tunes, overrun the miley cyrus, and infected the pool. What she would give to listen to her music.
Her I-pod was in her bag.
Keira's eyes snapped open, and she reached down to her bag. Rummaging within, she brushed aside worn clothes, pushed an empty magazine out of the way, and closed her hand around the familiar white tablet.
Fully charged.
Keira smiled, and put it back where it was. Best not act antisocial, she didn't want them to get the wrong impression.
"I'm so sick, Infected with where I live Let me live without this Empty bliss"
Tombstone climbed the stairs,his heavy engineer boots thudding with each step.
each thud of his foot falls where amplified behind his eyes,he had spoken the truth to Daisy,his head did hurt,not enough sleep or food,but more likely going cold turkey off the coke.
" Feth it" the biker thought " Can't afford to be all torked out with this gak going on."
Still he felt a bit of refreshment might help sharpen him up,he quickly pulled the small bottle from his jacket and snorted up.
" Much better" he thought,he replaced the bottle and entered the "Tower".
"Dinner is served" Tombstone said,setting the tray of food down on an ammo crate.
Daisy took an apple and a bottle of water and sat on the floor near Tombstone.
Keira opened her eyes,stared at the tray and closed her eyes again.
" Not Hungry?" the biker said
" No...not really." Keira replied.
" You need to eat" Tombstone said " Your going to need your strength".
Keira stared at Tombstone " My strength is..." she cut herself off,paused and took an apple,some grapes and water.
She hated to admit it,but the biker was right,she couldn't afford to let hunger weaken her.
Jennifer took a bit of fruit, along with some bread and roast and a bottle of water,she ate hungrily.
Tombstone snapped open his switchblade and cut off a piece of bread,he took a large slab of the roast and made a sandwich,which he wolfed down, chasing each bite with swigs of beer.
Daisy had taken the boom box Tombstone had brought up earlier and was searching through radio stations looking for any news she could find.
Most stations had either gone off the air,or were repeating the same canned Civil Defense recordings,still she searched.
" Ok" Tombstone said lighting a cigarette "Let's make some decisions.."
Before anyone could speak,a news reporters voice came from the boom box speakers...
The bomber swept through the sky, a dark blur amid the clouds.
"Bomb release check complete". Several switches were flicked to their final positions. "Ready to commence bombing run." The co-pilot looked over to the captain on the other side of the cockpit, waiting for orders.
The captain was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Beginning bombing run. "
The co-pilot nodded. "Acknowledged. Beginning bombing run."
Through a break in the clouds they could just make out their target - a medium sized city sprawled over the horizon. Even from here they could see the clouds of smoke drifting into the air from burnt out buildings - the pal of smoke rising to join with the clouds.
***
The bomb bay doors opened and the dull light picked out the metalic object it contained and the clamps that held it in position - for now...
***
Aleksander was desperately fighting off the hordes of zombies that surrounded him and the few remaining survivors who had made it to his house. Thousands of them had arrived from the surrounding towns and his defenses had proven too few. Now he fought on the roof, using his gun as a club (his supposedly plentiful supply of ammunition having run out some time ago) to batter at the zombies who not only threatend to climb out of the windows onto the tiles, but also the zombies who had piled up against the walls and formed an undead ramp up to the second floor.
A sudden blinding flash made him and the other survivors pause and turn in confusion. A giant fireball had formed in the sky over the northern edge of the city.
All he managed was a surprised "Oh FE..." before the blast wave hit, plucking him and everyone around him, living and dead, and hurling them into the air. Their flesh was ripped and scorched from their bodies as the superheated shockwave flattened the entire northern part of town.
Further south, the group in the city also noticed the flash and brilliant light now illuminating the world with its harsh light, made even more stark by the ceasation of all the artificial lights - knocked out by the massive EMP blast, along with pretty much everything else electronic in the city.
The blast wave swept towards them, demolishing buildings as if they were nothing, and vaporising human and zombie alike (although there were precious few humans remaining).
Luckily the survivors were far enough away from the centre of the blast that by the time it arrived, the shockwave had cooled and lost some of its ferocity. However, they were struck with hurricane force winds and their skin was still scorched by the heat.
God alone knew how much radiation they had just been bombarded with.
Sitting to the south of the city, the survivors at Shadow's bunker watched in horror as the giant mushroom cloud from a thousand movies formed in the air.
Daisy stood stunned. "Oh. My. God." she stammered as a warm breeze stirred her hair.
Aleksander is now dead
Everyone who was in town is now suffereing from radiation poisoning - quite a serious dose - immediate medical attention is advised. (This is what happens when you mess about for too long )
Everyone in the southern group has radiation poisoning but only very, very mild doses
Not Aleksander! I imagined him surviving to the end!
IC: Keira watched as a gigantic cloud filled the air, a giant symbol of man's greatest and arguably worse creation. Daisy was hysterical, Jennifer and Tombstone were yelling.
Keira felt no need to lend her voice to the cacophony, so she stood up and ran downstairs, and outside. A couple of zombies were crouched amongst the corpses of their fellows, eating.
The mushroom cloud had reached it's climax and blotted the sun out of the sky. The world went into shadow.
A zombie staggered towards her, and she absent mindedly fired in its general direction with her 12. It flew backwards and crumpled amongst the dead. Keira stood there watching the explosion for several more seconds, before she went back inside.
Keira went back upstairs, where silence had befallen the group. They were all watching the mushroom.
'Radiation poisoning' Keira thought. They were far away, but they would still of undoubtedly contracted some. She couldn't quite remember what all the symptoms were, but she remembered a good few.
"Listen up, we've more likely than not got radiation sickness. It was only a small dose, but it's gamma radiation. We gotta treat this seriously. Now, theres no cure, but such a small dose isn't fatal. Dont be alarmed if you get" Keira read from a list memorised in her head.
"Sterile, headaches, feeling sick, massive diarrhoea, and... Oh, uncontrollable bleeding from cuts grazes and your gums." The others looked stunned
"Oh. at most we'll only need to worry about whose occupying the toilets, but the group in the city..."
She tailed off at the thought of them.
"..The group in the city are probably all dead. And if they aren't they soon will be. No cure to radiation, and it can cause massive internal bleeding at close proximity."
She sat down on an ammo crate and stared at the explosion.
Hm. If this results in the death of everyone who was in the city, I have to say I will be quite dissapointed. I just got on Dakka and was about to post Shadow returning to/having returned to the house. Then I read your post. :/
Now I'll have to think up a new post, and FYI Ghosty, send Keira into the bunker.. there's quite a bit of medical wotsits in there.
So, what do we do now that we've all been "messing around" for too long? Wait for Silver to declare our characters dead?
Your characters will not die from this (unless you really want to not get medical attention in the near future ). I have an interesting thought on what will be happening on the near future, and wanted to get a move on with progressing the whole story as things seem to have stalled somewhat.
Also, the group has not really faced all that much danger recently and I wanted to step things up a bit, but sorry for messing up your planned RP.
Ghosty, I realize there's no cure. Just pump me fulla the magic glowy stuff and see what happens.
Nah, but I think it's safe to say that the involved characters will be out of action for a couple of days, giving Silver plenty of time to swamp us with zombs. Joy to the world then, everybody.
ghosty wrote:Tsk Tsk, the bunker wont hold a miracle cure to radiation poisoning. Cos there isn't one. And before you say there is, it cant be done. Kay?
Oh i will pump you dark, pump you full of a deadly dose of morphine and kill you slowly. She aint forgotten about the jaw. Biding the time, biding the time....
ghosty wrote:Oh i will pump you dark, pump you full of a deadly dose of morphine and kill you slowly. She aint forgotten about the jaw. Biding the time, biding the time....
You wouldn't. -loads shotgun weakly-
In all seriousness, while I see how it would make sense, I would've thought she'd have understood the reasoning behind it by now (although I've mostly forgotten what happened now anyway..) and dropped it. And if she does kill Shadow, you know she'll be next, right?
Besides, I wouldn't appreciate it - I'm enjoying this RP very much, and I'd like to stay part of it. After all, who's the one supplying the food, ammo, shelter and giant guns? Hmm?
OOC: I do however believe it is entirely believable that Shadow would have a supply of "Rad Block" and other Radioactivity "Countermeasures" stored in the bunker.
Considering he has obviously been preparing for some sort of " Civil breakdown" for some considerable time,I feel this is a precaution he would take.
Tombstone cursed himself as he watched the mushroom cloud in the distance.
He had gambled that the military wouldn't use nukes on American soil...he had been wrong.
" What fething moron decided this was a good tactic." the biker thought " Nuke the cities?...if the zombies don't kill you.. the blast...or the radiation will."
"Feth,there wont be a country left to save." Tombstone thought " ..Gak headed politicians...tucked safely away...this was their fething solution...idiots."
From behind him he heard Daisy crying " We're going to die..." the young woman sobbed.
Tombstone turned to her " No we're not.." he thought of all the conversations he had had with One Eye,who had been a Marine for ten years and had made "Survival" a hobby of his after his discharge.
" The wind is blowing away from us..towards the city,that will help us from getting a real bad dose of radiation" the biker continued " also...and this I'm not sure of ,I'm only speculating that some of the idiots that decided nuking the city was a good idea,would perhaps have sense enough to use low yield warheads...so as not to kill everyone nearby...but again...that's only my speculation."
" So what can we fething do?" Daisy asked tearfully.
" I'd say the first thing we do is check Shadows bunker,the guy obviously built it and supplied it for a major gak storm." Tombstone said " I'm betting he has meds to help with the effects of radiation poisoning down there...medication that will help us allot."
Jennifer spoke,barely containing her anger " Then what Mr. know it all biker?" the woman spat " Are you ready to get the feth out of here now?...or would you like to sit around waiting for the military to make another bombing run and finish us off?!!"
Tombstone glared at her,for a moment he wanted nothing more than to haul out his pistols and shoot the woman in her face...but,she was right...he had chosen to stay..he had fethed up.
" We are going into the bunker...finding anything Shadow has stored down there that we need...and then we're getting the feth as far away from the city as we can." The biker said.
" What about the others?" Daisy asked.
Tombstone gestured out the window towards the dissipating Mushroom cloud.
K couldn't answer the Doctors question, he had been transfixed by blast. The Doctor knew this, he also knew that K was not fully healed from his surgery, he was physically as good as he was going to get, but his immune system had some difficulties recoperating, and K hadn't been taking it easy, who would in a Zombie Apocolypse?
He concluded that K would not survive radiation poisoning even for a moment.
The Doctor tore a locket from his neck and frust it into K's hand. He then tore the bandages off his arm, and pulled several needles from his lab coat pocket.
The Doctor had been working on a cure for the virus, and had only managed a temporary solution, with serious side effects. The vaccine slowed the virus down, allowing it to grow in different ways.
In short, mutation.
The Doctor thrust needle after needle into his arm, hoping that it wouldn't overlad his system, allowing him to control the mutation long enough to be able to protect K from as much radiation as he could. With each injection, he could hear a voice.
"Lead, lead, lead, lead, lead. In life you sought to help people, from the pain you lived with everyday... In death?"
He stopped, he had three left, and gave them to Halon.
The Doctor stared at his arm, the wave quickly approching, nothing was happening. He needed a new plan. He litterally threw K into the back of the ambulance and slammed it closed.
The Doctor then began to wonder what radiation would do to the chemical cocktail that was now his DNA, as he was showered with radiation.
Jennifer sat on a chair, at the front window of the "tower". There's a zombie apocalypse - and he won't leave. There's a nuke exploding six miles away - he won't leave. What will it take, a bloody divine intervention? she thought.
She looked out of the window, towards the city. She saw lights heading towards the fortress at an alarming rate. And she'd only ever seen lights fixed to a vehicle in that pattern on one vehicle..
She ran down the stairs, and into the back room, where Tombstone was standing about angrily. Looking at each other, Tombstone and Jennifer both said "what?" at the same time.
Tombstone decided to speak first, "Shadow's taken the bloody key for the trapdoor."
"Oh, that's OK then, cause he's just pulling up outside" Jennifer replied.
"You what?" Tombstone said, as he ran out of the room - he would of hit Jennifer if she hadn't moved - and he headed for the front door, and he practically wrenched it open.
--
Tombstone rushed out, but something grabbed his leg and he fell. He spun on his back, unholstering a pistol as he did, and saw a zombie with no legs and one arm gripping him. Bang.
"One shot--" he began, but someone finished the sentence for him from behind, "--one kill.."
"Shadow! Man you alright? We thought you'd been toasted" Tombstone asked, as he ran over to the armoured vehicle.
The ex-commando coughed heavily, but opened the drivers' door, and practically fell out into Tombstone's arms.
"gak."
Tombstone dragged Shadow inside and upstairs, and put him on the bed in the "tower". Tombstone turned to leave, but Shadow weakly grabbed his arm.
"Tomb..you..can't let Keira..near me alone.."
"Why? She's the only one that can save you."
"I dunno.. I just got a bad feeling, k?"
"I won't let anyone hurt you man - getting a man when he's down an' all that. And speaking of 'k', where're Kevin and Halon?"
Shadow just sighed heavily. "Don't you have some zombies to watch out for or something?"
Tombstone began to search Shadow's pockets, until he found a set of keys - he removed the one for the bunker trapdoor, and headed downstairs to where the others were waiting. "I've got the key, and Shadow's upstairs - Daisy, could you go up and just make sure he's alright? In his state, I think we need to watch him carefully."
Daisy nodded, and headed for the tower.
Tombstone knelt down and placed the key into the lock, and turned it slowly. There was a click, and he lifted up the trapdoor, and began to climb down.
In the bunker below,Tombstone found a large metal box with a biohazard/radiation symbol stenciled across it.
In side he found what he was hoping for,several bottles of "Rad Block",capsules that would help prevent the degenerative effects of radiation poisoning,along with pills to prevent certain side effects of radiation exposure...while none of these were a cure...they would most definitely help them through the worst of it.
The biker also found bottles of coagulant as well as several containers of something called "Bio wash",a sort of lotion that apparently helped block radioactive particles.
He also,after some searching, located a Geiger counter,he hesitantly switched it on,the machines indication needle swung wildly for a moment,then came to rest...if he was reading this right he had taken a dose of radiation...but not a bad one,he'd be ill for a bit...but,as always,would survive.
Tombstone stripped of all his clothing,he quickly bathed using some containers of water,and began to generously lather himself with the Bio Wash.
From behind him he heard a noise,he turned to see Jennifer and Keira staring at him.
" Strip." Tombstone said.
" Excuse me." Jennifer replied raising an eyebrow.
" No time for modesty princess" The biker said " Strip and wash up...it'll help prevent the radiation sickness...or at least help us from absorbing any more."
Keira nodded " It's a hazmat wash,a rad guard..right...like they use at nuclear power plants?"
Tombstone nodded.
Keira shed her clothing,not caring about modesty at the moment and quickly doused herself in the liquid.
Jennifer,covered herself with her arms,looking at Tombstone.
The biker laughed " Princess...believe me,you ain't got nothing I haven't seen."
The woman quickly undressed,and poured the Bio wash all over,keeping her back turned to the biker.
Tombstone had found some towel and tossed one each to the two women, " Don't put your old clothing back on...there probably contaminated."
"If you think I'm going to walk around naked so you can stare at my ass your insane." Jennifer said.
Tombstone shook his head, " No princess...Shadow has a ton of BDUs and such,I'm sure something will fit you." he pointed at the lockers against the far wall.
Jennifer and Keira wrapped their towels around themselves and went to get a change of clothing.
Tombstone proceeded to wipe his leather jacket down with Bio-wash,he wasn't giving up his colors.
When the three had dressed they each took some of the "Rad Block",Tombstone gathered up the supplies and rushed upstairs.
He had Daisy wash and change and gave her some meds as well. " Your going to be fine" the biker said to her.
He then did his best,with help from Daisy to take care of Shadow.
After Shadow had been cleaned up,Tombstone waved the Geiger counter over him,he had taken a much worse dose of radiation,he was going to be very sick....but Tombstone thought he'd pull through.
Shadow slowly spoke to the group,telling them what had occurred in the city,he sat up slightly " Vikky is still in the Battle bus...someone needs to go get her out."
" What about Halon,Bonzo...the kid K?" Daisy asked.
Shadow shrugged weakly.
Keira glared at the man " You fething left them."
" I couln't get to them..." Shadow started.
But Keira had already stormed from the room.
" I'm going to go get Vikky" Tombstone said " And...check on Keira as well...Princess..you and Daisy stay with Shadow."
"We need to leave" Jennifer said.
" We will be soon." The biker said exiting the room...
Keira walked quickly into the kitchen,anger boiling up inside of her," That bastard" she thought,she picked up a drinking glass and hurled it across the room into a wall,the glass shattered like a bomb.
" He left them" she whispered " he left Bonzo...he left that kid." she lowered her head,fighting back tears.
" Keira" a voice spoke from behind her,it was the biker,Tombstone.
" Go away." She said " Leave me the feth alone."
Tombstone knew how volatile Keira could become,he didn't get any closer,but spoke again.
" The girl..Vikky...I'm going to get her inside, I don't know how bad she is" the biker said " Maybe you could take a look at her...when you feel up to it."
Keira said nothing for a long moment,then she nodded " Ok."
Moments later Tombstone was outside,a few scattered zombies shamble towards him,he drew his pistols.
A ghoul in a high school cheerleader uniform staggered forward,raising her arms and moaning.
The biker thought briefly,in life this girl had probably been the high school babe,sought after by all the young men,popular,beautiful...alive, now...her face contorted and mangled,an eye dangling from a ruined socket,her throat torn out,dried blood covering her brightly colored uniform...she was simply ..one of them.
He aimed his pistol at her head and squeezed the trigger,the back of her head exploded outwards showering brain across the door yard.
The biker approached the battle bus,dispatching ghouls as he walked,he reached the vehicle and opened the rear door.
Vikky lay there unconscious,her breathing heavy,but seemingly ok.
Tombstone quickly lifted her over his shoulder and carried her back into the house,inside,he laid her gently down on one of the couches.
In the light of the front room,the biker examined the girl,no bites,but her color was very pale,and a small trickle of blood was running from her nose.
"Feth" Tombstone muttered.
On the couch,the girl coughed,blood dribbled down her chin...
OOC: I can't really RP anything at the minute.. but if it comes down to Keira having a go, then someone just RP Shadow replying, "I had no idea where they'd gone by then - for all I know they could've died long ago. Believe me, I didn't wanna leave any of them.. but with more ghouls than I had bullets heading my way, and the mushroom goin' up, you think I had a choice?"
Keira entered the front room and leaned over the prone figure of Vikky.
" Get me some water and towels." she said to Tombstone " And get me some of the Bio-wash as well."
Tombstone went to get the things Keira asked for.
Keira gently examined Vikky,prodding her abdomen with her fingers.
A thin trickle of blood ran from the girls mouth.
Keira was no expert concerning radiation poisoning,but she knew the signs of internal bleeding,the girl was in trouble.
Tombstone returned with the Bio-wash and water,and helped Keira clean the girl up.
" We need to attempt to halt the bleeding" Keira said " The coagulant you found may help" she paused " Was there any types of IV,saline or such down in Shadows play room?"
" I'll look" Tombstone said.
" No..I will." Keira shook her head walking past the biker " I know what I'm looking for."
A moment later,in the bunker,Keira had located what she was looking for,several IV "drip bags",some labeled indicating they were meant for radiation treatment.
" This fether certainly believe in being prepared" Keira whispered.
She returned to the front room and quickly set up an IV pole,sliding a needle into the girls vein,she administered the contents of the radiation treatment bag slowly.
" I hope I did that correctly" Keira said " I believe I did...but we'll have to monitor her." she looked at Tombstone " She's in a bad way...I don't know if she's going to pull through."
The biker nodded " We should give Shadow some of that too" he indicated the rad treatment " He's not as bad off as she is...but he's still pretty sick."
Keiras eyes narrowed " Feth him." she spat " He left everyone back in the city..."
Tombstone stared at Keira " I'm sure he didn't have a choice." The biker lit a cigarette " He would have never left Halon unless there was no way to get him out...and he wouldn't have left the kid either..or Bonzo."
" You keep believing that if you want." Keira said " But I don't...I'll treat him,because I'm a fething nurse..and it's ...what I took an oath to do,but if he dies...I won't care."
Tombstone nodded " Fair enough...but,do what you have to do to help him."
Keira snatched up the Iv bags and headed upstairs,Tombstone close behind her.
As the two topped the stairs they were met by Daisy, she looked concerned.
" Shadows unconscious". she said " He seemed delirious before he passed out."
" What a fething shame" Keira said pushing past the young woman and into the room.
" What's her fething problem?" Daisy asked Tombstone.
" Anger issues" the biker said "C'mon",he and Daisy entered the room.
Keira sat up the IV and pushed the needle into Shadow arm,he flinched in his sleep,moaning slightly.
" That's all I can do for him" Keira said " we'll just have to wait and see."
" And just how long will we be waiting?" Jennifer said,a hint of disgust entering her voice.
Keira shrugged " a few hours at best until we see any sort of improvement...maybe longer."
"Fething fabulous" Jennifer said " In the mean time maybe the military will come back through and finish us...or perhaps more of those fething things will show up."
Tombstone spoke " Princess...in the mean time..we're going to get the battle bus de-contaminated and loaded up with more supplies...as much gak as it can carry..then were getting on the road."
Jennifer looked at the biker " then let's do it...the sooner we leave the better off I'll feel."
" Princess" Tombstone spoke " I hope you really understand ..getting to your Father isn't going to make the big bad zombies go away."
Jennifer paused for a moment,she seemed slightly saddened, " No..of course it won't...but at least I can die with him..if it comes to that."
Keira looked at the biker " What about Halon,Bonzo and the kid?"
" I hope they're still alive" Tombstone said " If they are..they'll try to make it here."
" And if they're hurt? or trapped in the city?" Keira said.
" Then god help them." Jennifer said exiting the room.
" They'll show up" Tombstone said "Halon knows how to handle himself..he'll watch out for the others."
Keira shook her head, " And if they are hurt?...dying?"
" Then what can we do?" the biker said " Get ourselves killed going on a rescue mission?...Keira..if they are dead..then they are...we can't do gak about it...and getting ourselves killed won't bring them back."
" So we do nothing?" Keira said.
" We get our gak together here...and hope they show up." the biker said " That's all we can do."
" No...that's all you will do." Keira pushed past Tombstone into the hallway.
Tombstone followed her quickly,grabbing her arm and turning her to face him.
Keira struggled, but the biker pinned her to the wall " Let me fething tell you something" the biker roared " this holier than thou act your pulling is a load of gak!"
Keira kicked out at Tombstone who held her tighter to the wall,his nose a mere inch from hers " I like Halon...the kid too,I don't care much for your clown friend..but I don't want him dead...if I did..believe me..he would have died in that front yard." the biker spat " Now..the way I see it is ..they are alive and headed here...or..they are fething dead...if they're trapped...they're dead...because the fething radiation is going to kill them if the fething zombies don't!!"
He released Keira who stood glaring at him.
" We need you" Tombstone said " But...I can't tell you what to do...if you want to go die looking for them...then go."
" Bastard" Keira spat.
" I didn't create this situation Keira" Tombstone said " I'm just trying to deal with it."
From downstairs a burst of weapons fire reached their ears...
" Feth me" Tombstone said drawing his weapons and running down the stairs.
Keira leaned against the wall,a single tear slipped down her cheek,the fething biker was right,there was nothing she could do to help those in the city..to even try would meen her death,she could only pray that they would find their way back here...soon.
Another shot echoed trhough the house,Keira ran down the stairs to see what was going on...
As Keira made it to the front room she was greeted by the sight of several ghouls advancing on the others.
" How the feth did they get inside." Keira yelled.
" The Princess went to check out the battle bus." Tombstone shouted back ,shooting a zombie through the head, " They all came at her at once and pushed the door open before she could lock it."
Jennifer drove her katana through the head of a ghoul, "It wasn't my fething fault!" she protested " They came from every where"
Daisy was standing calmly near Tombstone,her pistols raised,she slowly and methodically fired round after round into the heads of the oncoming zombies.
Keira frowned a bit,seems the hippie slut was beginning to enjoy being a killer as well,her and the biker made a perfect couple.
As she was having these thoughts, a zombie loomed up from behind her...it's drooling maw open,ready to feed.
" Get down!" Daisy shouted at Keira.
Keira felt the ghouls stinking breath on her shoulder,she dropped and dove forward,at the same instant Daisy squeezed the trigger of one of her pistols.
The ghouls head exploded.
Keira leapt to her feet,staring at the destroyed zombie,then at Daisy,who only shrugged and went back to firing into the skulls of the ghouls nearest her and Tombstone.
Jennifer whirled with her sword,it looked almost to Keira as if the woman were dancing,she quickly beheaded two of the walking dead in a graceful fluid motion.
Keira raised her .12 gauge to fire at an approaching ghoul,but Jennifer fired her pistol from across the room blowing a fist sized hole through the zombies skull.
Tombstones pistols clicked as a slobbering zombie closed in,the biker quickly spun,round house kicking the walking corpse in the face,the impact from the blow knocking the ghouls jaw almost completely off,the biker lept back,produced his switchblade and with startling accuracy threw it into the zombies skull,the long blade buried itself deep into the infected brains and the zombie toppled over.
The last zombie,who had been a young girl of perhaps 12 in life shambled towards Daisy,the young woman lowered her weapon for a brief moment,staring at the child ghoul,Daisy shook her head sadly,raised her pistols and fired two rounds through the zombie girls head.
Keira slumped into a chair,the front room now looked like a slaughterhouse,the bodies of over a dozen zombies lay around the floor,blood and brain matter was every place.
She looked up at the figures of Tombstone,Jennifer and Daisy,who were reloading and cleaning their weapons...
" These are the real killers" Keira thought " The zombies...they were just people who died from an infection and came back as those things...but people like these three...they were the real killers...they enjoyed it."
She covered her eyes with her hands and tried to force the images of the front room away.
OC: Ouch man. Sorry I haven't posted anything, but I was on a surprise trip to the west. Original plan I wasn't supposed to go, but then I had to go. Second plan was that I would be home saturday, got home sunday.
So this nuke business, it is irreversable in real life. However, zombies are credited as being fake in real life so I'm stuck at an impass here. Is it possible for it to be cured in the RP or are Bonzo, Shadow, the Doc, K, and I doomed to a rather grisly death?(Radiation poisoning causes shock, diarrhea, vomiting, and other fun things to try and RP).
The next thing the Doctor remembered was laying on his back, had he passed out?
He stood up, he felt alittle hungry, but he had eaten before they arrived. He tried to think over what had happened...
"K!!!"
The Doctor ran over to the Ambulance, tearing the doors off. K was bleeding from his mouth. The Doctor knew that he had to cure his radiation poisoning quickly, but without thinking, he puts his hand on onto K's arm. K began to glow strangely for a moment.
When he stopped, the Doctor was at a loss for words at what just happened. Not only had K been fully cured from the radiation poisoning, but his arm had grown back.
The Doctor had pondered this for a moment, then remembered Halon and Bonzo still had radiation poisoning. He debated with himself whether or not he should, who knows what side effects would occur to them. But it was probibly better than death. The Doctor cured them of everything? He wasn't sure how much he had cured them, or if it included any mental problems they may have had, but they no longer hand any cuts or bruises that come from being in a Zombie apocalypse.
The Doctor pondered how it had been possible for his new powers to work. But he knew he hadn't been affected by the mutation yet, as all the test subjects had mutated physically. The lab rats he tested it on grew twice their size and ferocity. He was worried that this would be his fate, and that he'd hurt them if he stayed with him.
Before they woke up, the Doctor started walking down the road away from the mushroom cloud...
Brighter then anything I have ever seen filled the back of the Chinook as we headed south out of the city toward our last target. I blinked several times seeing colored dots as I did as the light faded. From the pilots compartment I could hear yelling and the dull buzzing of several alarms as they screamed for attention. Something electrical arced in the overhead sending hot sparks showering down upon us.
My eyes widened in horror in realization of what was going on just seconds before the blast wave hit us. Being as high as we were in the air, it was nowhere near as bad as anyone unlucky enough to be caught on the ground would get, yet even then the Chinook bucked wildly and went sideways tossing everyone around the back like limp rag dolls. I hit the far wall against an electrical panel sending shock waves of pain through my body.
I looped my arm through one of the cargo net seats and tried to hang on and keep from getting thrown around any worse then what I already was. The screams of the injured filled the cab amid the flickering red lights and cascading sparks that painted a image drawn from the depths of hell itself. Smoke was now starting to find its way into the cab through several now busted view ports and tears in the hull.
After a few more tense moments, in which I was sure I was going to die, the pilots managed to regain complete control of the wounded helicopter just above tree top level. I stood up and looked around at the bruised and bloodied people around me. Most of them would need medical attention when and if we landed. I walked over to the OIC who was looking out a hole in our hull at the mushroom cloud as it rose its ugly orange and red head over the once proud city.
"I think we are going to be OK" he said as he gave me a thumbs up with his now torn Mopp suit.
I weekly smiled at him....... and then all hell broke loose.
The metal hull gave out a sudden and sharp groan as the stress became too much for it. I remember standing there looking at the OIC as the propeller tore its way through the cab sending a shower of debris and sparks cascading in its wake and turned the upper half of the OIC into a warm, wet, red visceral spray that covered the front of me. His detached hand flew over and bounced off my shoulder. All I could do was stand there wide eyed as I watched the Chinooks rotors chew through the cab and its occupants as if it was all happening in slow motion. The screams of the dying fell upon my deaf ears as my mind detached itself from reality.
I watched the front of the cab burst into orange flame as a severed fuel line caught and torched everything in its path as the front half of the hull detached from the rear half and spun off burning into the distance.
I closed my eyes and held on for dear life our our section made impact with the ground, with a thunderous metallic clash that sent up a cloud of debris and dirt.
This, isn't what I had planned. I had a really nice story that I had been working on for a few days where I flew in and started to gather everyone up, but now thats out the window lol.
I was heading to the bikers group next, so I'm just going to say that we crashed somewhere semi near you.
Think of my post as a band aid until I can get some more time to crank out the creative juices.
In the darkness of the nuclear shadow, the radiation blasted corpses of the undead writhed - the virus within them struggling to adapt to the bombardment of energy.
Most of the zombies failed to cope with the changes - the corpses remaining blasted husks littering the street. But of the thousands which expired, more began to alter. No two seemed to adapt the same - some sprouted thickenings of the skin and bone, forming armoured ridges and sharp spikes, mutating horribly.
A fewer number still changed in such a way that they developed hightened speed, strength and dexterity.
But in the swirling radioactive dust, one zombie stood apart - its body twisted far beyond its once human form - a huge cranium housed a twisting and pulsating mass of virus spawned brain tissue, it's limbs had lengthened and thickened, massive pus covered muscles bulged straight through the ripped remains of it's skin and radioactive slime dripped from it's gaping maw.
It slowly scanned its surroundings, sniffing the air before catching the distant scent of prey. It growled - the twisted throat making it emerge as a horrific burbling.
It moved off at a fast shamble, covering the distance more quickly than a person could run; its huge bulk cracking the fused glass-like surface the tarmac had become...
Edit: might I also suggest that we do an event for this fight, and when you write it up, you include us all leggin' it off to our vehicles and then finding mr. army man along the way.
Still plenty of regular zombies mooching about, as well as a handfull of various types of "advanced" zombies (probably about 1 per 100-200 regular zombies).
One or two "super" zombies (with above human speed/other powers - I will let you invent these guys if you want to, though I may add some of them into encounters too) - about 1 per 600-1000 regular zombies.
Then one mega zombie, written about in the event above.
Edit: Yeah, I will be doing the event for the mega zombie, and possibly with some advanced and super zombies before that too.
K has been cured of Radiation poisoning (along with Halon and Bonzo) and grown a new arm,because the Doctor,who has been shooting up some sort of " mysterious formula",laid hands on them.
A whole batch of advanced zombies,a few super zombies and a Mega zombie,are all on the loose...and probably headed straight for us.
...And...yet another Helicopter...that could have rescued us..has crashed.
" Let's get these rotten feths out of here" Tombstone said,indicating the destroyed zombies scattered about the front room.
The biker quickly disappeared into the bunker,and returned several moments latter with a arm load of body bags,why Shadow had these,Tombstone didn't want to really know.
He pulled on a large pair of rubber gloves and tossed a pair each to Daisy and Jennifer,together they placed the bodies of the ghouls into the bags and stacked them near the front door.
The biker paused for a moment,opening the door to throw the corpses out just might let more of these feths in the house,of course they could always drag them upstairs and toss them out the window.
" Ok" Tombstone begin " We may have to..."
An explosion rocked the house.
" Holy fething jumped up feth!!" Tombstone shouted.
" What the feth was that!!" Daisy exclaimed.
The biker thought quickly,it had to be more of the ghouls triggering yet another of Shadows explosive traps in the yard.
Tombstone readied his weapons and slowly opened the front door.
Outside,a few dozen zombies approached the house,the biker raised his weapons preparing to fire " Get upstairs to the Tower!" he said to the rest " Get the big bastard going...light 'em up!"
As he aimed towards a zombie who was perhaps a dozen yards away,the biker froze...walking amongst the ghouls was, what at first, the biker had simply taken for a rather large zombie.
The creature was at least seven feet tall,perhaps more,and,while it appeared to be a walking corpse,it's was covered in black spines,like small spikes,it's mouth opened wide to reveal a maw filled with dagger like teeth,its arms were long and ape like,ending in huge clawed hands and it's eyes shown with an intelligence the biker had yet to see in any ghoul.
The biker slammed the door and bolted it.
Keira had stayed behind when the other two woman had rushed upstairs.
" What is it?" Keira asked,obviously concerned at the look on Tombstones face,she had never seen anything close to fear in Tombstones eyes...but she saw it now.
Keira raised her voice " Tombstone! What the feth did you see?!"
The biker looked at the woman " You don't want to know." he whispered,he grabbed Keira by the hand and ran up the stairs.
They rushed into the tower,Daisy whirled and spoke rapidly " Do you see that thing!" she blurted,Jennifer stared wide eyed out the window.
"Move..Move!!" Tombstone shouted diving to the Gatling gun " Grab your guns damnit!! fething light these fethers up!!"
The three women each grabbed a rifle and took positions at the windows,Keira gasped as she finally saw what had the others so shaken.
" What the feth is it?!!" she shouted.
" Feth if I know" Tombstone barked " But let's hope it can die."
The biker opened fire on the behemoth with the Gatling gun, a stream of rounds tearing into the creature,ripping chunks of rotten flesh from it in a gore slick spray.
The thing slumped,gazed up towards the biker and roared,Tombstones blood ran cold.
" Feth you..you piece of rotten gak!!" the biker screamed back pouring on more fir from the Gatling gun.
The weapon found it's mark destroying the creatures misshapen head in a hail of bullets,an iridescent icor spraying across the yard as it's skull exploded.
Tombstone continued to fire into the creatures prone body,reducing it's torso to a churned mess of blood,bone and rotted flesh,he then turned the weapon on the approaching ghouls as the women poured fire down on them.
Moments later,with most of the walking corpse destroyed,the biker fell onto a ammo crate,he lit a cigarette and opened his flask,belting down several large swallows of whiskey.
Daisy took the flask from him and turned it up herself,before she could return it to the biker,Jennifer grabbed it and drained it,flinching afterwards.
"Ok" Keira said " Just what in the name of god was that thing?!"
" I have no idea" Tombstone said shakily " And we aint going to stick around to see if it's an only child" the biker rose to his feet,he stared out of the window " we're getting every fething thing we can carry..loading it on the battle bus..and getting the feth out of here."
OOC: Well at least silver isn't following traditional horror movies. The second helicopter always saves the heros, the first is always destroyed. This time the second helicopter didn't even give us an RPG for the end level boss.
IC:
Halon felt surprisingly well for someone who had just been dealt a fatal amount of radiation poisoning. A hell of a headache, but it was far preferred to another outcome. Halon looked around and saw the lingering shadow of the mushroom cloud along with some small fires in the distance, probably triggered by some gas lines or something else catching fire during the explosion. More importantly he saw Bonzo laying on the ground, slowly moving his hands to his head. The doc and K were missing though, this was the only thing that bothered Halon at the moment.
He got up and looked around, all of the previously noted vehicles were still there along with some equipment K had with him. Halon moved towards the closest thing to him, the ambulance, and opened it back up noticing K lying unconscious on the floor of the ambulance.
"Well, at least ones already in here." Halon said to himself as he moved towards Bonzo and began to lift him up. Bonzo's head swayed back and forth as Halon lifted him into the back of the ambulance, once both were inside he shut the rear door and entered the driver's seat to begin hotwiring the ambulance. Halon was lowering his head when he saw the keys in the rearview mirror hanging behind the driver's seat.
"Maybe we'll get lucky after all." Halon thought as he shut the driver side door and turned on the engine. "Hell, the car even works after that.".
Halon put the ambulance into reverse just as Bonzo began to return to the world of the living.
OC:Seeing as though we may potentially be seeing a new personality in Bonzo, I leave it at this for now.
Never know, this stuff might cause him to grow a brain. Oh, the horror!
Anyway..
IC:
Shadow jumped up at the sound of weaponsfire, before sinking back down into the bed. He looked to his left, and saw Tombstone lighting a cigarette on an ammo crate.
"Hey..what's hap'nin'?" he asked weakly. "Did..you get those ugly..mother fethers?" he managed to crack a weak smile.
I opened my eyes slowly and blinked several times trying to clear my blurry vision. As they came into focus I found myself staring out through the broken lenses of my pro mask into what remained of the Chinooks bloody and mangled troop compartment.
Reaching up with my right hand I pulled the sticky rubber mask off my unshaven face and let it dangle loosely around my neck. At this point, between the dose of radiation I had been exposed to and the undead outside, I felt that isolation at this point was the least of my worries.
I looked around at the smoke filled cab at the mangled and charred bodies which were thrown about and I didn't even bother to check them for life. Fate had sealed their doom with the crash and were beyond any help I might have offered.
From outside, I started to notice the undeniable moan of the undead. I quickly looked outside and I could see them already starting to bear down upon the crash site. I uttered a curse as I quickly ducked back into the wreckage and madly started looking for a rifle. I pulled one out from under the headless body of a woman and quickly made sure it was loaded. As I turned around my eyes fell upon the rear gunners M60 still strapped to the wall.
A smile crept across my face.
Outside, a man wearing the torn shreds of what was once a nice business suit shambled toward the wreck. His discolored hands reaching out as if he was grasping at the very air itself. He could sense his would be prey as it moved about the inside of the wreck. A sickly moan escaped his rotten lips as he moved ever closer until he was standing at the gaping, ragged hole where the helicopter had torn itself in half.
He lurched forward, his target was just outside his grasp as he reached with both hands towards it....
And then his head exploded as several rounds impacted its decaying face sending rotten brain matter and dark meaty chunks spraying out in a wide arc.
Saunders gunned down the first zombie as it attempted to grab him, which was a little too close for his comfort. He stepped over its still twitching body as he continued to fire the M60 in controlled bursts at the shamblers. Empty brass shell casings and black links fell at his feet as he made his way further and further from the wreckage.
When the immediate danger was clear, I found myself on mostly deserted road. Only a few abandoned cars could be seen. The air was thick with the smoke of various fires as the city burned. The world was getting darker as the sun was getting more and more blocked out from fallout. Try as I might, I couldn't help but think about the amount of radiation around me and the effects it was going to have on my long term goals in life.
Suddenly off in the distance an explosion was heard and I saw a fireball come up over the horizon followed by a large amount of automatic gunfire. My hopes quickly rose as I realised that I wasn't that far away from other survivors. I will admit though, that I was a little shocked that anyone else had lived through the blast but at that moment it didn't really matter.
And that's when I saw them.
At the edge of the road, a very large mob of burned corpses stood there staring at me. My hope turned to sheer horror as my gaze fell upon them. Something was different about these from the others. They just stood there, eyeing me. It felt as if they were, for a lack of a better term, trying to size me up. And that's when it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Their eyes were glowing a yellowish orange as if they were on fire.
I let out a blood curdling yell as I pulled the trigger and started to dump everything I had into the mob. Round after round hit home blowing bloody chunks out of their decaying bodies and several fell where they stood.
Then I heard the sound of the hammer fall on an empty chamber. I stood there with the barrel of the gun giving off a reddish glow as smoke twisted out the end of it and stared at my enemy and waited.
Several decaying heads turned and looked at each other and another wave of horror hit me when I saw them smile to each other, as if they found the situation funny. They then turned there gaze upon me and let out a joint screech that was louder then anything I had heard before. I dropped the empty machine gun and covered my ears trying to block the painful screech.
The horde started to move towards me. They started out at a shamble like normal, but soon to my horror they upgraded to brisk jog. I unslung my M4 as I started to run down the road toward the gunfire.
jp, you switched from 1st person to third and then back again in there. One or the other please.
I 'spose if Shadow can drive a vehicle 6 miles after being hit by a nuke I 'spose someone could survive a helicopter crash and then get up and gun down some people after being hit by a nuke.
OOC: Edited my last RP so my character could talk to Shadow.
Tombstone moved closer to the edge of the bed,Shadow was still weak,but seemed to be looking a little better.
" Tough mother fether" The biker thought.
" We fragged a gak load of 'em soldier boy" Tombstone said to Shadow " But..we got problems."
" That's the understatement of the century biker boy" Shadow said with a small laugh.
Tombstone nodded " What I mean to say is...they're ...changing...one of them at least..I'm guessing it's affects from the nuke..but who knows."
" What do yo mean changing?" Shadow asked trying to sit up.
" I mean..I just wasted something that looked like a cannibal gorilla porcupine from hell." Tombstone said " It was some sort of...mutant..I guess."
Shadow simply stared at the biker.
" It's time we abandon ship" Tombstone said " I have a plan...but we need to move fast..before..before god knows what else staggers out of the woods."
Shadow nodded slowly " I think you may be right man" he said " Plus...we're to close to the city now..we need to get away from it...what with all the radiation blowing around."
"Exactly" Tombstone said " We are going to load up all the ammo,supplies,fuel...everything we can...then we're out of here."
Shadow tried to get up,but Tombstone stopped him, "You rest...save your strength...believe me..your going to need it."
The biker left the room and,with the three women began to load the Battle bus with every thing they felt would be of use,crates of ammo and weapons,tinned food,fuel...even hammocks for Vikky and Shadow.
Tombstone watched as Keira and Daisy loaded the last crate of ammo onto the bus,Jennifer stood close by him,both held RPGs,assualt riffles slung over their shoulders.
" Ok" The biker said " let's get Shadow and Vikky onboard..and get the feth out of here."
Darkvoidof40k wrote:jp, you switched from 1st person to third and then back again in there. One or the other please.
I 'spose if Shadow can drive a vehicle 6 miles after being hit by a nuke I 'spose someone could survive a helicopter crash and then get up and gun down some people after being hit by a nuke.
Someone go save him.. -cue Halon and co.-
Really?
Psssst...
Its called A STORY! They go back and forth on POV all the time and things happen that would not in real life. If this was realistic, zombies wouldn't exist and we all would be shadows on a brick wall.
How bout you just sit back, relax, and enjoy the read?
Tombstone rushed up the stairs,Shadow was sitting up on the edge of the bed.
" I feel like hell bro" Shadow said to Tombstone.
The biker nodded " I know man,but we got to get moving..I'm going to help you down stairs"
Tombstone helped Shadow to his feet,he wobbled a bit,but finally managed to stand.
"Dizzy" Shadow said " But I'm going to make it."
" Of course you are" Tombstone said " Your an ass kicker..and ass kickers always make it."
Shadow grinned at the biker " You say the sweetest things"
Tombstone laughed " Feth off...c'mon bro,Ima help you downstairs."
As the two men reached the front room,Tombstone noticed Keira had a huge piece of plywood,she had a spray can of paint and was apparently writing something on the wood.
Tombstone sat Shadow in a chair,then read what Keira had sprayed on her sign.
* HAVE LEFT FOR CAPE CITY*
* TAKING ROUTE 25 TO ROUTE 6 SOUTH*
* AVOID HIGHWAYS*
* MONITER CB CHANEL 33*
" For the others" Keira said " In case they show up"
Tombstone placed several boxes of ammo,three .45 pistols,several MREs and a bottle of "Rad block" into a backpack.
" We'll hang this on your sign" He said " They may need it."
Keira nodded and the two quickly went outside and nailed the sign to a tree facing the incoming road,they fixed the backpack to the sign and hurried back inside.
" Ok" Tombstone said " let's figure out who's driving what."
" Huh?" Jennifer said.
" Well" the biker said " We got the truck and the battle bus.."
Shadow spoke " I can drive the battle bus." he noticed the look on the bikers face " I can do it man...trust me."
Tombstone looked at Shadow " It's not a matter of trust...I'm just concerned you'll black out at the wheel...you know it could happen"
Shadow said nothing.
" Maybe we should leave the truck for the others" Keira said.
" If they show up here..they'll have a car..or something" Jennifer said " No way could they walk from the city."
" The princess is right" Tombstone said " Besides..we're going to need everything in both vehicles..."
Keira stared at Tombstone,but said nothing.
" I'm telling you..I can drive" Shadow said,getting to his feet," I'm a soldier..I can fething do it."
Tombstone sighed " If you put that bus in a ditch..or wrap it around a tree.."
" I won't" Shadow smiled " Now let's get it in gear."....
Halon couldn't believe what he was seeing, it looked like some kind of marathon of the macabre as he drove towards the gunfire.
Halon had noticed that Bonzo had awaken and holding his head with both hands.
"Hold on to something and make sure the kid doesn't fall out or bounce around too much back there!" Halon shouted to the back. In the rearview he could see Bonzo looking curiously at him and finally grabbing K and strapping him to a seat in the back.
With that, Halon slammed the pedal down and sped towards the running zombies.
Saunders heard the humming of a diesel engine and continued firing while looking for the cause of the noise. The humming grew louder and louder as he continued to focus fire into the nearest threats. He then saw the glare off of a metallic object that was growing larger as it approached. Then he saw it flash red and white as it got closer.
Halon had seen the soldier at a distance and began to flash the sirens to let him know that this wasn't some kind of runaway vehicle careening towards him. The soldier continued to fire, but it seemed that he was aiming lower than before. As Halon reached 600 yards he slammed on the brakes and turned to the left of the soldier to allow him to get in as soon as Halon had stopped the ambulance.
As the ambulance came to a halt, the soldier dispatched the last zombie between him and the door and ran towards the door and flinging it open. After quickly scrambling inside, he slammed the door and Halon began speeding towards the bunker-house.
"The name's Halon," Halon began while offering his right hand in a handshake gesture, "not really my real name, but that's what my friends call me.".
"Saunders, Cpl. Saunders" the soldier said as he shook Halon's hand "Thanks for that.".
"You're lucky you know, I usually don't pick up hitchhikers because you don't which ones you can trust." Halon began as Saunders looked out over the road and out his window for any threats. "But during days like these, its easy to pick them out.".
"So, where are we going?" Saunders asked.
"Home my good sir, home." Halon mimicked a chauffer.
I spent the next few minutes making small talk and introducing myself to the others in the back of the ambulance before I sat down in the back near the rear doors and took the weight off my tired feet. I could feel several hot spots on the pads of both feet and wanted nothing more then to take off my combat boots and let them breath. The crappy GI stocks that I was wearing were not helping things either.
I felt my nose running and I rubbed the back of hand across it and stopped when I noticed a red smear across my black rubber glove. I unzipped my CLS kit and rummaged through and pulled out my combat pill pack and an atropine injection. I popped a couple of the anti rad pills and depressed the auto injector against my outer thigh and held it there for a few seconds before discarding the now empty container onto the floor of the vehicle.
Leaning back against the seat, I looked out the back windows of the ambulance at the landscape as it passed by. It was then that I first noticed that we were being followed by something very large.
The other passenger that was awake in the back when I came in noticed me staring hard out the back window and promptly joined me.
"What the hell is that?" He asked looking at me sideways only momentarily breaking his concentration at the thing.
"feth if I know, but its gaining on us." I said as I slapped a fresh magazine into my carbine and chambered a round.
"Hey Halon!" I yelled over my shoulder at the driver.. "Pedal Faster!"
And with that I opened the double doors at the back of the ambulance as it speed down the road and opened fire.
Grey rectangles=city.
Blue squares=towns
thin black line=Highway/Route
Thick Black line-Interstates.
White square=Fortress.
Purple Square=Satan's Servants safe house.
Brown rectangle= Cabins.
All green=woods/forest.
Although it isn't quiet in scale,
The distance from the Fortress
to "Cape City",bottom right of map,
is 200 miles,not sure what that is in
kilometers for you guys in the UK.
@ Silver,feel free to use this,or make a better one
for any purpose you may want.
Gotta post in the afternoon/evening.. but don't let me hold up the RP, just make Shadow get someone to pack one or more of the fairly large crates containing food rations from the bunker - those things taste like gak but they'll keep everyone alive for a couple of weeks if all else fails.
Gotta post in the afternoon/evening.. but don't let me hold up the RP, just make Shadow get someone to pack one or more of the fairly large crates containing food rations from the bunker - those things taste like gak but they'll keep everyone alive for a couple of weeks if all else fails.
Hmmm,I thought all you Brits drove in Kilometers...you see what the American public school system fails to teach people.
Anyway,I've already RPed several "Loading up the vehicles" post,and I'm fairly certain I mentioned packing large supplies of MREs (That's- Meals Ready to Eat) into the truck.
MRE's are (for any who don't know),vacuum sealed meals often used by the military,they have an entree,bread or crackers,dessert,various goodies and can even be heated via a water activated heating element,plus..they're not to bad taste wise.
So,for RP sake..we'll just say that,among the many,many crates of supplies loaded onboard the Battle bus and the truck, a couple dozen cases of MRE's (12 meals per case) have been loaded as well.
oh. I was thinking along the lines of really small rations - i.e. they fit into a small health bar but are rich in everything your body needs. That way you could get dozens in one crate.. or more.
Let's just go through what we've loaded (what I've got off the top of my head):
Battle bus
- three crates of MREs
- two shotguns + three clips per gun
- four machineguns + three clips per gun
- gatling gun + one crate of ammo
- one flamethrower + two fuel canisters
- 5 Pistols + 5 clips of ammo per pistol (not including our characters' holstered weaponry)
- grenade launcher + two reloads
- as many grenades as our characters could be bothered to carry
- CB radio
- three spare gallons of fuel under seats
- half a dozen bayonets
- equipment and tools, e.g. repair kit (spanners, blowtorch, welding mask, pliers etc), first aid kit, survival kit (flares and such)
- spare clothes aplenty
Pickup Truck (everything is covered up on the back)
- Bazooka + 20 missiles
- two large tents (incase we end up having to rough it)
- four gallons of fuel
- the second gatling gun + two crates of ammo
- 6 machine guns + 4 clips each
Oh, and guys? What about our ambulance? Then there's Mr. Saunders to sort out.
And isn't the battle bus going to be completely soaked in radiation?
The ambulance has next to nill. Some first aid supplies(maybe radiation stuff), an unconscious K, a recovering Bonzo, an awesome Halon, and a Cpl.
Halon has a M16 with 3 clips that he scavenged from some dead guys in the hospital, Saunders has whatever he has. K is unarmed even though he just sprouted a new arm. Bonzo still has his chainsaws, but may not be as maniacal as before. We're also getting chased by something really big, and not the end level boss.
Gear:
Head: None
Face: M40 Pro Mask
Hands: NBC rubber gloves
Body: Mopp Suit with LBE molle. 6x 5.56 mags, 2x Beta Cmag, CLS kit, 1x m67 grenade, 1x thermite grenade
Back: Camel Pack hydration system
Legs: Drop down leg holster on right leg with 3x spare 9mm mags, Drop down tactical sheathe on left leg, Mopp Suit,
Feet: GI combat boots, NBC rubber over boots
Weapons:
Colt M4 Carbine (5.56)
+ HWS (Holographic Weapon Sight)
+ Tac Light with IR cover
+ Forward grip
Wow.. you really know your stuff. I really haven't the slightest what nine tenths of any of that stuff is. Only time will tell if I can be bothered enough to google it..
Darkvoidof40k wrote:oh. I was thinking along the lines of really small rations - i.e. they fit into a small health bar but are rich in everything your body needs. That way you could get dozens in one crate.. or more.
Let's just go through what we've loaded (what I've got off the top of my head):
Battle bus
- three crates of MREs
- two shotguns + three clips per gun
- four machineguns + three clips per gun
- gatling gun + one crate of ammo
- one flamethrower + two fuel canisters
- 5 Pistols + 5 clips of ammo per pistol (not including our characters' holstered weaponry)
- grenade launcher + two reloads
- as many grenades as our characters could be bothered to carry
- CB radio
- three spare gallons of fuel under seats
- half a dozen bayonets
- equipment and tools, e.g. repair kit (spanners, blowtorch, welding mask, pliers etc), first aid kit, survival kit (flares and such)
- spare clothes aplenty
Pickup Truck (everything is covered up on the back)
- Bazooka + 20 missiles
- two large tents (incase we end up having to rough it)
- four gallons of fuel
- the second gatling gun + two crates of ammo
- 6 machine guns + 4 clips each
Oh, and guys? What about our ambulance? Then there's Mr. Saunders to sort out.
And isn't the battle bus going to be completely soaked in radiation?
Not to be TFG,but I have to interject that Tombstone and the Ladies loaded quite a bit of gear onto both vehicles,and your list would reflect a bit light as to what I had in mind.
This is what I had basicly thought of hen I had them loading up.
Truck
-----------
Several ammo boxes of .223 rounds
Several dozen boxes 9mm rounds
several dozen boxes .45 rounds
several dozen boxes .12 gauge rounds (Buck and Slug)
several ammo boxes of 7.62x39mm rounds
2 crates of .50 cal ammo.
x 3 AR-15
x 3 AK-47
x 3 MP5
x 2 Spaz 12 shotguns
assorted Handguns
x 4 5 gallon fuel canisters
x 4 MRE cases
assorted magazines for weapons
various knives
First aid
tool kit
+ water.
The Battle Bus would contain a similar list,plus RPGs,grenades,camping supplies (Tents), and other miscellaneous goods.
And of course,we can always stick more stuff in the ambulance.
I know this seems like a lot,but honestly,several thousand rounds of ammo can easily fit into one foot locker,and all of the fire arms could fit into one crate,so weapons and ammo wouldn't occupy a "ridiculous" amount of space.
Plus the Battle Bus,being a police riot control truck,would have lots of compartments for weapons/ammo storage,as well as compartments for other gear.
" I'll be fine to drive Tomb" Shadow said insistently, " believe me..I look worse then I feel".
The biker nodded.." Ok bro,I'll drive the truck...you drive the battle bus." Tombstone lit a cigarette and went to the liquor supply,he shoved several bottles into a sack and refilled his flask.
"We going to a party?" Keira asked with a slight look of disgust.
" They're for medicinal purposes" The biker grinned " as a trained professional you should be aware of the many ways in which alcohol can be used in emergency situations".
" I know it can be dumped down your throat until you end up driving that truck into a tree". Keira said.
"Nonsense" Tombstone retorted,his grin broadened " I never drink and drive."
"Lair" Keira said shaking her head.
" That wounds me" the biker said, " anyway,I'll lead our little convoy..Shadow,stick close..we have a lot of distance to cover...almost 200 miles to get to the Satan's safe house..and we have no fething idea what's going to hit us between here and there."
" I'll be on you like stink on gak bro" Shadow said.
"We stay on CB channel 33" Tombstone said " and be ready for anything"
" I'm always ready" Shadow said.
"If you two big bad men are through ...may we please fething leave." Jennifer said
" In a sec Princess" Tombstone said " First we need to get Vikky on the Battle bus" he paused " I'll carry her,Shadow..you and Daisy go on point...cover my ass while I get her aboard."
" I got you man" Shadow said.
Daisy smiled at the biker and chambered a round in her AR-15.
" Alright" Tombstone started,but..before the biker could finish his sentence,the sounds of automatic weapons fire could be heard in the distance.
The group turned in the direction the gunfire seemed to be coming from...it was getting closer.
halonachos wrote:Oh and a quick question, are we going to meet up with you at the house or the road?
OOC: Well...I just RPed the group at the fortress hearing your group heading towards us,so I guess it'll be at the house...and..of course your group has "guest" following you.
I suppose we should prepare a little "copper coated snack" for the "Guest"
"What the hell is that thing?" Halon tried to yell over the gunfire.
"I don't know!" Saunders yelled back while trying to shoot the thing coming after them "It sure as hell isn't going down though."
"Are you shooting it in the head?" Halon called back.
"Yeah, I'm shooting it everywhere." Saunders said in his head.
Halon knew that they were getting close, but he also knew that this thing chasing them could screw everything up.
"The CB!" Halon said aloud "Bonzo, K do either one of you remember the channel the radio was on for the others?"
"Uh, no." Bonzo replied, "Sorry about that."
"Well look whos feeling better." Halon said while grabbing his M16 and trying to give it to Bonzo. "Take this and shoot the big thing chasing us."
Bonzo grabbed the gun slowly and tried to aim around Saunders while still sitting on the bench. The M16 soon joined in the small chorus of gunfire and diesel engine while they gunned towards the safehouse, Halon tried calling through the CB while flipping through the channels.
*** A screech of static blared over the radio,Tombstone listened closely.
"*** Halon >static< Can anyone>Static<***"
" Mother fether!!" The biker roared grinning from ear to ear.
Tombstone rushed to the door "It's them!" he yelled
The shots continued to get closer.
" Feth..they sound like they're in trouble." Keira said stepping towards the door.
" Yeah" Shadow nodded " It sounds like they have company"
Tombstone paused,recalling the lumbering horror he had gunned down earlier.
" Take this" the biker said handing an RPG to Shadow along with a few extra rockets " Belive me..you may need it."
" The zombies are driving tanks now?" Shadow asked
" Um..no,but some of them ARE tanks now." Tomnstone replied
Shadow nodded.
"Every one else ready?" the biker asked.
Daisy and Jennifer nodded,weapons held ready.
Keira looked at the biker.
" I guess so" the woman said,she racked a shell into her shotgun.
" Ok then" Tombstone said " let's give 'em cover and get 'em inside."
The biker unslung the AK-47 he had shouldered,chambered a round and clicked off the safety.
"Let's rock" he said,slinging open the door.
Tombstone moved into the yard,weapon ready,Daisy and Jennifer took up fireing posistions on either side of the biker,while Shadow moved to the right,clearing his line of fire to use the RPG.
Keira moved along with the Tombstone,shotgun in hand.
In the distance,moving quickly up the road to the house,Tombstone saw the ambulance.
" They took an ambulance?" the biker thought to himself "How convinent".
As the ambulance closed the distance the group could hear the report and see the muzzle flashes of weapons fire.
I aimed at the things head and let another controlled burst loose from my carbine. I could see the rounds hit home tearing bloody chunks out of its flesh, but despite my best efforts I just wasn't doing enough damage to it.
"Why won't it fething die!?!" yelled Bonzo over the sound of gunfire and the speeding ambulance as he also fired round after round into it.
"I don't know" I said as the ambulance made a hard turn. Its tires squealing in protest as we skidded through the turn.
The thing was close enough now for me to get my first good, clear look at it. The thing was massive, about the size of a large bull and hunched over running on all fours. Its rotted skin was covered in what looked like thick scales. Its head was elongated and large, sharp teeth filled its gaping maw as a thick drool was oozing out onto the road as it ran.
With a sudden burst of speed the thing lurched forward and lept high into the air.
"Brace for Impact!!!" I yelled and a split second later with a metallic crunch that caved the roof in a good inch the damn thing landed onto the roof of the ambulance. Bonzo and myself turned up and started spraying automatic fire through the roof hoping to dislodge the monster.
It was then that I heard weapons fire coming from outside the vehicle.
" Oh my God!" Keira exclaimed as she witnessed the rotted behemoth land with a crash onto the top of the ambulance.
" Holy feth!" Tombstone whispered.
Daisy aimed at the monstrosity,she squeezed the trigger of her weapon.
As if this was an unspoken signal,everyone opened fire,the ambulance was perhaps 30 yards in the distance,but Tombstone could see that most of the rounds loosed were finding there mark...the problem was...they didn't seem to be having much affect on the beast atop the ambulance.
Tombstone glanced back at Shadow who was trying to sight in a shot with the RPG.
" I can't risk it!" Shadow shouted " I could hit the car!"
From behind the bike,r Keira began to scream at the top of her lungs " Get the Feth out of the Car!!" the woman bellowed "Bonzo!!! Halon!!! get the feth out of the car!!!"
Shadow continued to keep the sights of the RPG sqaurely on the creature,hoping to get a clear shot.
" Get out of the car!!!" Tombstone yelled along with Keira,moving forward and fireing at the monstrosity,Daisy and Jennifer began to yell as well and advanced along with the biker.
"Saunders, Bonzo get strapped in I'm making one hell of a turn." Halon shouted back to his gunners.
Halon had debated with himself as what he would do now that they actually made it to the house. He decided that it would be best to turn so that the thing would still follow them, but allow the others, who were thankfully still there.
Halon saw an RPG and saw that it was in capable hands and hoped that it would be enough to bring this thing down. Halon turned the wheel to the right as fast as possible, the amulance almost rolling over, and revealed the creature casing them.
It was massive and had pieces of flesh dangling from it like ripped clothing, some of the flesh was colored a lot differently giving the thought that it could be made up of different people a good run. It's eyes were sunken back and its skull seemed to be popping out of it's forehead like a rhino's horn almost. It bled black ichor from the multitude of gunshot wounds it had received during its chase.
There was a loud thump as the beast jumped and landed on top of the ambulance. The increased weight slowed the vehicle down and dented the roof inwards. The sudden impact caused several compartments in the back to open up and throw medical gear all over the place, Saunders received a stethoscope to the head and Bonzo ducked as a box of activated charcoal flew across the back and landed with a thud against the other wall.
The sheer bulk of the creature had caused the ambualnce to start getting bogged down and soon enough it stopped. Bonzo and Saunders fired frantically at the roof in order to get the beast off of it, over the gunfire Halon could barely hear the others shouting at them "OUT NOW" was the only thing he was able to make out over the gunfire and the creature banging on the roof.
The banging soon gave way to a loud roar as the beast appeared in Halon's rearview mirror again, it had fallen off of the roof and was holding both of its large hands over it's left eye.
"I think you guys did something." Halon shouted back to his gunners as he revved the engine. The ambulance went into reverse and slammed into the monster, sending it on its back before Halon changed gears and got clear of it.
Shadow aimed carefully at the monster now that it was on the ground and the ambualnce was away just enough to be safe.
"You're one ugly motherfether." Shadow said as he fired the RPG at he monster as it was trying to get back up. The RPG impacted and blew the creature into two meaty chunks, one headed away from the house and contained part of the monster's torso and it's left arm while the remaing pieces of it launched up in the air like a popped up baseball and landed with a sickening thud near the group. The creature raised it's remaining arm and tried to grab at Shadow, but the chorus of several automatic weapons being used in unison blew through the monster's skull and sent bright green tissue spraying out of it.
"Wooooh!" Halon cried out as he got out of the ambulance and fell to the ground. Bonzo and Saunders came out of the back and soon Saunders found himself staring down the barrels of several automatic weapons.
"Hey, he's clean guys, he's clean." Halon shouted towards the group, still laying on the ground.
"Yeah, I got banged up when my helo crashed, but nothing bit me." Saunders quickly added to defend himself.
"Where's the kid?" Shadow asked Halon, standing near Halons head.
"In the back still." Halon said while pointing towards the ambulance, "Something weird happened in that hospital we were at, and something weird happened to K. Just letting you know."
Anywaaay.. back to the cargo thing, FITZZ, I have absolutely no comprehension(sp?) of different ammo types. I'll probably have to go and look it all up..
I would suggest all the weapons (to the exclusion of all else) go in the battle bus - Shadow did retro fit the walls with compartments/straps and shelves (with straps) to it, which already had weaponry attached prior to being loaded up with all the other stuff. The pickup would be better with the other stuff IMO.
I should post some IC.. but I've got too much stuff going on at the minute. If I get some free time later (which I will), then I'll post then.
Oh, one last thing. What about Bob and the crazy feth's cat?
Shadow glanced down at the hulking corpse. "Ugly piece o' gak isn't it?"
"I hear you on that one, bro." Tombstone replied.
"Oh gak. I've just remembered - the cats." Shadow stated, before calmly walking back into the house, discarding the RPG along the way. It didn't take him long to find Bob and the other cat. Don't you turn out like your crazy son of a bitch owner now he thought as he looked at the other cat. He headed upstairs, before returning with some cat cases. He put the two cats in one each, before returning outside, and placing them in the battle bus, along with plenty of cat food.
"So, who are you?" Daisy asked their new companion. "You can call me Saunders." He replied smoothly.
As the others chatted to Saunders, Shadow went back inside. He gathered up loads of the wash that they'd used on themselves to remove radiation, and poured it into one container. He linked it up to a hose and proceeded to hose the ex-police riot vehicle down - the outside anyway. Once he was sure he'd done as much as he could, he discarded the tool.
Suddenly he felt dizzy, and his vision blurred. He placed a hand over his head before stumbling to the ground. He groaned quietly.
"You alright, Shad?" a familiar voice rang out from nearby. He looked up, and as his vision cleared, he saw Tombstone. The biker extended a hand and helped Shadow up. "Yeah, I'm alright. Thanks." Shadow replied, before heading inside the house another time. He found Tombstone was accompanying him, as he headed into his living room. He glanced miserably at his massive plasma TV - it was useless to him now at any rate. 'Least I wasn't the one to pay for all this stuff he grinned slightly to himself. He wasn't going to give up all of life's little pleasures though. "So, what're we doin' here then? I thought we'd got everything." Tombstone said. "Well, you thought wrong then. In times of despair, a little fun won't go amiss, no?"
Tombstone nodded slowly. "What do you have in mind?"
Shadow walked over to his TV, and next to it, there was a large plastic box - filled with about fifty DVDs. He picked it up and showed it to Tomb.
"That'll do a fat lot of good won't it?" The biker said.
"Hold it."
Tombstone abliged.
Shadow turned and began rustling around the room. "Here we go." He pulled out a portable DVD player, a laptop and a large battery that had multiple cables and leads sprouting from it.
"What's this?"
"Battery - external leads for connecting up to stuff and to plug into places to recharge. Sure, the power might be off someplaces, but not everywhere, right?"
Tombstone glanced down at the plastic box. He found to his delight that at the top where good films - I Am Legend, The Alien Trilogy, Predator one and two,Die Hard, Mission Impossible III, 2001, 2012, Disaster movie to name but a few. He couldn't say he'd like everything that Shadow had, but he knew his buddy had pretty good taste.
"Think they're good?"
Tombstone looked up and grunted.
"Wait til you see Brazil - amazing film, that."
After the pair had rooted around and grabbed a minifridge filled with beer, and dug up a host of other interested things they could watch, read, view, play and generally use for fun, they headed back outside and loaded up the pickup with it - securing it all tight - "we can't loose the booze." Tombstone said solemnly.
JohnHwangDD stumbled into the thread, desperately looking for people to help him. The wall cracked and splintered behind him - bricks and plaster dust raining down about him, the dust clogging his lungs and choking him.
"Noooo!" he managed to croak as the mass of necrotic muscle and bone reached out a huge, twisted arm and crushed his skull.
The beast roared as it continued to maul the corpse until it was nothing more than a lumpy pool of gore spread around the room before moving off in search of more victims.
Yeah, he's just gone to like every active thread in this section of the forum and posted that btw. -.- I'm tempted to report it, but I'm too nice a guy.
Tombstone stepped into the front room,followed closely by Shadow.
The rest had gathered there,Halon and Suanders were talking with Keira,Daisy,Jennifer and Bonzo.
Halon and Bonzo had carried the unconscious K into the house and placed him on a couch near were Vikky lay.
Daisy rushed over to Tombstone throwing her arms around him, "Are we leaving now?" she asked.
" In a couple of minutes" The biker said putting an arm around the young woman and walking over to the rest of the group.
The biker threw an arm around Halon " Good to see you man...for a minute I figured you had cashed in your chips..I'm glad I was wrong about that."
Halon grinned at the biker " I still say your one spooky looking fether...but it's good to see you to man."
Tombstone laughed and looked over at Bonzo,who was standing very close to Keira,almost child like.
" Glad you made it out of there too Bonzo" the biker said.
Bonzo simply nodded and replied " Thank you."
" That's odd" the biker thought,but turned his attention to the new guy " I didn't catch your name." Tombstone said to Suanders.
The Cpl.tilted his head slightly and offered a small smile " Call me Suanders" the soldier said offering his hand.
" Tombstone" the biker said shaking the mans hand.
The soldier raised an eyebrow " That's an interesting handle you have there Tombstone."
The biker grinned " It's earned."
The soldier grinned back " I've no doubt..I've heard of your club...The Satans Servants..not a bunch anyone would want to have as enemies."
The biker smiled " So...how'd you come to hook up with our friends here Suanders?"
" They showed up about 2 seconds before I would have been ripped apart by that thing your buddy fragged" Suanders replied." I dove in their ambulance..and here I am."
The biker nodded,he knew there was more to Suanders story,but for now...what he had said was good enough.
Shadow stepped up and introduced himself to Suanders,the two talked briefly about several milatary units they were familar with.
" Ok ramblers" Tombstone said " I belive it's Time to get rolling...I'm driving the truck..Shadows got the Battle bus...so..who's ridding with who?"
" I'm with you hun" Daisy said,wrapping her arm around the bikers.
Tombstone pulled Daisy closer, "Ok..what about the rest of ya'll.."...
Why do I get the feeling that this is just Drk making an excuse not rp?
@ FITZZ - Saunders*
IC:
"I'm not letting you out of my sight, biker." Jennifer said.
"I'll go with Shadow in the riot vehicle - helluva lot safer than that pickup." That was Halon.
"I 'spose we'll just dump Vikky and Kevin in the back seats and Saunders can come along with us."
The soldier in question just nodded silently.
The ex-commando noticed Keira glaring at him, but when his gaze fell upon her, she turned away. "I'll go in the pickup." Keira stated quietly.
Bonzo spoke next; "uh.. I'll go where Keira does."
"Well, that's decided then. But we do still have that ambulance." Tombstone reminded them.
"I say screw it - we don't need another vehicle and hence we should not waste our fuel reserves on it when it runs out. I do, however, think we should try and salvage it for useful parts, such as the fuel tank."
"And if someone gets hurt? We could use the equipment." Keira challenged.
"Do you know anyone qualified to use all that gak?" Shadow retorted.
"Do you know anyone qualified for all the gak that we're in now? Cause I sure as hell don't see anyone."
Shadow turned around and opened a cupboard, and pulled out a shotgun that had the stock sawn off. He racked it. "Well then, maybe you need to see an optician, cause you're lookin' at the best man for the job - overly qualified." Shadow grinned.
Keira looked angry, but said nothing.
Shadow turned to the others. "I got some stuff to attend to. I'll leave you all to finish this discussion about the ambulance." With that, he walked off in search of two cats.
OOC: Guys, just to let y'all know, I'm going away tomorrow (sunday 1st) for 8 days. I will be taking my laptop and portable wireless "thingy" but whether I will be able to get on the internet is unknown, but highly probable.
Of course, they just had to forcast rain for the next 10 odd days, didn't they?
Tombstone clicked on the CB,dialing in the agreed upon contact channel.
" Radio test..channel 33"The biker said " Shadow you copy..over"
" Roger that..I copy..over" Shadow replied.
The biker pulled the truck up to the end of the access road,surveying the situation on the main route.
There were several wrecked cars,most of witch seemed to have been abandoned.
A couple dozen ghouls,drawn by the noise of the engines shambled into view,nothing they couldn't easily drive past.
" Looks pretty clear so far" Tombstone said " I don't see any of the bigger things..over"
" Roger that..Let's head out then..over." Came Shadows reply.
The Biker drove forward,knocking a ghoul down with the trucks bumper and driving over it's rotted body,he felt it's head pop like a grape beneath the trucks massive tire.
Tombstone turned south onto the Highway,checking his rear view mirror he saw the Battle Bus turn in behind them crushing a few zombies as it went.
The biker brought the truck up to 50MPH,no need pushing it to hard,there was no telling what they might run in to ahead.
Jennifer stared out the windshield, " So..it's about 200 miles to your gangs safe house?" she said to Tombstone.
" About that far...maybe a bit more" the biker replied " Barring any real trouble..we'll get there in a few hours."
The woman nodded and closed her eyes,resting her head against the seat.
Tombstone looked at Daisy " You can get some rest to if you want." he said .
"No" Daisy said " I'm going to keep watch with you" she smiled at the biker " Just to make sure nothing sneaks up on us."
Tombstone nodded and caressed Daisies thigh " Sounds good to me..I could always use an extra set of eyes." the biker smiled " and..the company."
Daisy glanced up at the biker smiling " It is going to be a long ride."
Tombstone nodded as he dove the truck steadily down the Highway....
Twenty miles west of Cape City,in a fortified mansion,protected by a small army of Motorcycle gang members,Adam Phoenix sat at his desk in a luxurious upstairs bedroom.
The biker One Eye had reported to him that Phoenix's daughter Jennifer was now under the protection of the assassin Tombstone.
Phoenix didn't particularly find that bit of news comforting,his dealings with Tombstone had led him to believe that the man was absolutely psychotic...a cold blooded killer in every sense of the word.
Still,One Eye had assured Phoenix that Tombstone would protect his daughter,and in time see that she was brought safely to him.
Phoenix sighed, while these "Satans Servants" made excellent business partners and had vastly increased both his profits and power,he certainly didn't care for their undisciplined behavior..nor their unpredictability.
"Perhaps" Phoenix thought "..a bit of precautionary action may be in order."
He removed the small cellular device from his inner jacket pocket and hit the call button.
OOC: For those who don't recall,Adam Phoenix is Jennifer's Father,he's the drug kingpin who faked his own death,and basically controls the entire drug trade in the surrounding cities.
I thought it might be interesting to throw a few twist into the story that doesn't involve zombies,but that still may give our happy little group some problems.
OOC: I guess I'll throw a bit more into the Phoenix story.
...BIC...
In a subterranean warehouse,somewhere near Cape City a phone rang.
A huge man,dressed in a dark grey suit,answered the call quickly.
" Yes,Mr Phoenix..is that you?" the man said.
"I understand sir..yes sir" a long pause " I'll handle it personally sir...goodbye sir."
The man turned,sitting in various chairs and couches were a dozen other men,all of them employed under Mr.Phoenix for their various skills.
"We've been given orders boys" the huge man said." You each have 30 minutes to get your gear together...then we move out."
A tall thin man with a face like a rat spoke quickly " What orders..what the feth are we doing?" the man downed his drink and continued " why in the feth are we heading out into that crazy gak going on up there?"
The huge man looked at the others evenly,speaking lowly and with menace in his voice " We have orders" he said " you will all be made aware of what they are very shortly...if you chose not to follow them to the letter" the huge man produced a pistol " Your free to stay down here."
The rat faced man shook his head getting up from his seat " Wait a second..wait a second,I'm not saying I ain't gonna do what the Big Man says...I'll be ready..I'll be ready to go..30 minutes..ok."
The huge man glanced at his watch " 28 minutes to be exact." he said.
The other men scrambled to get their gear together,the rat faced man leading the way.
OOC: @ Silver.
Feel free to use these guys in any event you may wish to,just keep in mind that they work for Jennifer's Father and thus would never attempt to harm her,unless they absolutely had to...or had some as of yet undiscovered "evil plot".
"Yeah, we don't want to get stuck out here again." Shadow told Halon "The noise from the trucks is enough to draw them out, the gunfire will just bring in more."
Halon looked to the front of the battle bus, Saunders was sitting next to Shadow while Vikky and K were strapped into seats and looked like they had fallen asleep that way. It was tempting to just leave them though, Halon's mid played with the idea but he was just too nice of a guy to do that.
Vikky passed out for who knows what reason and K was probably knocked out from the nuke.
"Hey Shadow?" Halon began.
"Yeah?" Shadow replied slowly.
"You're the top secret guy around here right? Do you know if anything was going on in that hospital, some kind of research or something?" Halon asked.
"Not really." Shadow said quickly, Halon didn't know if he was faking or really didn't know anything. "Why?".
"Well," Halon said with a sigh "there was this doctor there with a secret room and after the nuke went off he was gone. I felt fine besides a big headache, Bonzo seems to be no longer crazy, and K has his arm back.".
Shadow turned his head back to look quickly at K.
"How did I not notice that?" Shadow said in disbelief.
"You mean that kid had only one arm before?" Saunders joined in.
"Yeah, only one arm. I also don't think a nuke would cause the arm to grow back either so I think the Doc did something to him...us." Halon said ending in a lower town than before.
Halon was quiet and put his head back against the interior of the battle bus. "What the feth did that guy do to us?" Halon thought to himself.
Jennifer looked out the window watching the abandoned cars go past, every so often a pack of ghouls would look up from whoever they were eating and try to chase after them but the vehicles easily out ran them. She wondered if there was anywhere left safe from them, some form of safe haven where they could live instead of being chased around the country by the ghouls, obiously some form of military remained their new freind was proof of that.
She looked ahead, there was a sign indicating a turn off for a town ahead, the sign was dented and falling over as a car had lodged itself at the bottom of the post. a body was trying to get out the car but couldn't itself from the seatbelt, she chuckled silently to herslef as they drove past, atleast these things weren't that smart, then they would be in trouble.
Then it clicked in her head, she was actually on her way to see her father after so long.
Tombstone drove steadily along,the lights from the Battle Bus reflected in the rear view mirror.
For the first time in days the biker felt almost optimistic,in a little over an hour,hopefully,he would be back amongst his brothers,back among The Satans Servants,his only real family.
He glanced over at Daisy,who,despite making a great effort to stay awake,had dozed off.
"Meh" The biker thought " She needs the rest."
" So..about another hour?" came Keiras voice from the back seat.
"About that..give or take" Tombstone replied,surveying the surrounding roadside,lots of stalled and abandoned cars,some looked completely burned out,ghouls shambled about here and there,but apparently most of them had made their way to the cities and surrounding towns.
" And I suppose your biker buddies will be happy to see you." Keira continued.
" I would think so.." The biker said " Hell..they'll be happy to see anyone who's alive."
"Especially us women folk." Keira sneered.
"Wha..look..I don't know what your getting at..but rest assured,no one is going to rip your clothes off when you walk through the door." Tombstone replied irritated.
" No...not when I walk through the door.." Keira said
" Let me get this clear with you now" Tombstone said " My brothers aren't a pack of knuckle dragging slack jawed drooling idiots."
"Ok" Keira said,not sounding very convinced.
" Don't worry" Bonzo spoke up " I'm sure things will be ok."
Keira turned and looked at the clown,she started to say something,but was taken back by Bonzos new mannerisms.
" You have my word" The biker said " No one will bother you."
Keira said nothing,she turned her head and watched as the wasted roadside rolled by.
" It's Mr Phoenix's opinion that due to the nuclear strike,those who have his daughter will have abandoned their stronghold and are quiet probably headed for Cape City...more specifically,the biker safe house."
The group of seated men listened intently.
" Mr. Phoenix has requested that we begin patrols,within a 20 mile area,concentrating on the most probable routes that they would be using." the Huge Man said.
" Mr. Phoenix wishes for us to retrieve his daughter and assure her safe arrival at his location" The Huge Man continued " Mr.Phoenix has also issued other directives,all of which you will all be made aware of when it becomes necessary."
" And what about all those fething things/" the Rat faced man asked.
The Huge Man laughed lightly,gesturing to the back wall which held a variety of firearms.
" No doubt we can accommodate your security needs." The Huge Man said.
The Rat Faced man said nothing.
" Gather what you believe will be of use to you..all of you" The Huge Man said.
The group of men moved to the rear wall,each selecting various side arms,SMGs,Assault Riffles and ammunition,several men added grenade launchers to their caches.
" If you are all prepared gentlemen" The Huge Man said " I believe we should be going."
5 minutes later,four identical H3 Hummers appeared,ascending from the underground garage.
A half hour had passed,and Tombstone and the others had driven in silence,the steady thrum of the trucks engine and the roar of the battle bus behind them the only sounds in the still night.
It had been perhaps ten minutes or more since the biker had seen signs of any ghouls either,apparently this stretch of road was far enough away from any populated area.
Keira broke the silence " I honestly don't want you to think I'm expecting your friends to...behave badly" she said to the biker " I'm simply ..oh..I don't know..cautious."
Tombstone nodded but said nothing.
" After we meet up with your friends" Keira continued " Do we have any definite ideas as to what follows."
" I'm honestly thinking about the commune Daisy had brought up" Tombstone said " It's isolated...only one small town nearby...seems like it may be a place to hold up for a bit."
Jennifer glanced over at the biker " My Father may have other plans." she said.
Tombstone laughed " Princess..once I get you to your old man,you and he can go where ever you like."
" Where would your Father want to go?" Keira asked
" I've no way of knowing that" Jennifer replied " But..I don't know that some run down cabins out in the woods would be his ideal location."
Tombstone roared laughter " Princess...right about now I'd bet your dear Daddy is only concerned with not getting his ass bitten off."
Jennifer rolled her eyes and returned to looking out the window.
" Right now" the biker said " I'm just concerning myself to getting you to your old man" he looked over at Jennifer " Once that's done..we'll make plans from that point."
The Biker revved the truck up to 60MPH,the sooner he was at the Satans safe house..the better he'd feel.
"He's starting to speed up." Saunders said to Shadow barely above a whisper.
"I know, I can see it myself." Shadow replied lethargically.
"Hey, you feeling alright?" Saunders said louder.
"Wh-, yeah, I'm fine." Shadow said as if he just snapped out of a trance and began to speed up to keep pace with the truck.
Halon was almost falling asleep when he heard this.
"Shadow," Halon began with a yawn "if you're tired, ring Tombstone and let him know that we're changing drivers."
"Am I correct to assume that you know how to drive one of these?" Shadow asked almost irritably.
"No, but I didn't know how to drive an ambulance before today either." Halon began while trying to stand up a little before continuing "Are we there yet?"
"Halon?" Shadow asked.
"Yeah?" Halon responded.
"Do me a favor and spit into the wind, tell me where it lands." Shadow said sarcastically.
"Why?" Halon said going along with the joke.
"If it hits you in the face we're not there yet." Shadow ended chuckling.
Saunders couldn't help but laugh a little as well, the joke wasn't funny, but in this situation anything was.
"So, where exactly are we going now?" Saunders sked Shadow.
"The biker's hideout or something." Halon said interrupting Shadow.
"Almost correct." Shadow sad while dsmissing Halon "The gang that Tombstone is in has a safehouse around here and that's where we're going. We also have the daughter of the guy in charge with us so chances are there will be more bikers."
"Is that a good thing for us?" Saunders asked "What if they're hostile?"
"I doubt they would be, we helped protect the guy's daughter after all. That most likely counts for something due to the whole "honor" thing most mafias and some gangs have." Shadow lectured.
There were a few minutes of silence.
"Can I get on the gatling?" Halon asked.
"Why in god's name would you want to do that?" Saunders asked while he turned back to look at Halon.
"I'm bored and it mightwake these two up." Halon said "It's almost like a charity kind of thing."
"No." Shadow replied coldly.
Halon was bored and looked down at the car's floor.
He began softly kicking K and Vikky in their feet, trying to wake either one up.
"C'mon" Halon said quietly "One of you two wake up."
"Why are you bothering them?" Saunders began "Is it because you're bored?"
"No, its because its freaky as hell back here alone with two unconcious kids. Almost Children of the Corn creepy." Halon said seriously.
Shadow grabbed the CB and called in,
"How much longer do you think Tomb?"
"Not too much longer, traffic is surprisingly light for this time of day." Tombstone replied with a chuckle.
"I hear that." Shadow said while replacing the CB on its holder.
How much longer do you think Tomb?" Came Shadows voice over the CB
"Not too much longer, traffic is surprisingly light for this time of day." Tombstone replied with a chuckle.
"I hear that." Shadow replied.
The biker laughed and replaced the CB.
" Tombstone" said a voice from behind the biker.,he glanced into the rear view mirror and was surprised to see it was Bonzo who had spoken,the biker hadn't even been aware that the clown knew his name.
" What can I do for ya Bonzo" the biker answered.
" Why did the zombie cross the road?" Bonzo asked.
" Why did the..wha..?" The biker said " I have no fething idea why the zombie crossed the road Bonzo."
" Neither do I" Bonzo said " But...he is." the clown pointed over Tombstones shoulder.
The biker saw it, a zombie stepping into the path of the truck.
Tombstone attempted to swerve around the walking corpse,but he was moving to fast,the trucks reinforced bumper clipped the ghoul, sending it pinwheeling into the air.
"Hang on" The biker yelled as the truck skidded to the side.
Tombstone deftly turned into the skid,allowing the truck to fish tale,eventually turning 180 degrees and halting.
The biker watched the Battle Bus come to a stop several yards away.
" Feth me." Tombstone yelled
Daisy,who had been awakened by the impact of the ghoul, looked around, " What did we hit?" she asked.
" A pizza delivery guy named Bob." Tombstone said " He left an extra large pepperoni and cheese right before he went over the truck."
" Good" Daisy said " I could use a decent meal" she laughed.
Tombstone chuckled.
" Hey Stone" came Shadows voice over the CB " That was some pretty nifty driving buddy."
The biker lifted the mic and spoke " Yes..I thought so myself..you see where Bob went after we hit him."
" Bob?...oh the Zombie..yes,he went under the Battle Bus..I think he's about a half mile back resting." Shadow replied.
" Good for him." the biker laughed.
" So.." Shadow said " Do you plan on driving backwards to Cape City..or are you going to turn the truck around?"
Tombstone flipped Shadow his middle finger and laughed " I thought I'd sit here and stare at your pretty face for a while" The biker said.
Shadows laughter came over the CB speaker.
The biker started the engine and was preparing to turn the truck around when Shadows voice came over the speaker again.
" Tombstone! Watch your six!" Shadow shouted.
The biker glanced into the rear view mirror,a dozen or more ghouls were advancing on the rear of the truck.
Tombstone punched the engine,whirling the truck around.
Now,with the truck facing the zombies,Tombstone noticed more of the walking corpses appearing from the woods.
" Guess where getting close to some town." the biker muttered.
" Drive Tombstone!" Keira shouted.
From behind the truck,the roar of the Gatling erupted.
Jennifer drew her pistol and reached to roll down the window.
"Whoa princess!" the biker said " don't open that window..we ain't sticking around to play shoot 'em up..we're making tracks."
In front of the truck,several zombies were blasted apart by the onslaught of the Gatling Gun.
Tombstone yelled into the CB " C'mon Shadow..let's get the feth out of here!"
The biker hit the gas,and the truck sped up, rushing past the grasping ghouls....
The Huge Man sat in the front seat of the lead Hummer,behind him the Rat Faced man talked endlessly.
The Rat Faced man was becoming quite annoying to The Huge Man,when they had retrieved Mr.Phoenix's daughter,The Huge Man planned to show the Rat faced man just how annoying he thought he was.
" Couldn't we simply locate a safe area overlooking the roadways and keep watch for them?" the Rat faced man asked.
The Huge Man said nothing.
" I mean..getting ourselves killed driving around..with all those things around..what good will that do any one." Rat Face continued.
The Huge Man said nothing.
" Feth..we don't even know where she is...this is madness." Rat Face said.
The Huge Man continued staring out at the horizon,but spoke " Would you care to inform Mr. Phoenix that you believe retrieving his daughter is a foolish endeavour?"
The Rat Faced man shut his mouth with a snap.
" No" The Huge Man said " I didn't think that you would."
The Hummers moved on,continuing to the city limits,and headed North.
...And there was much rejoicing.. 
, I mean she is stealing the only other mode of transport
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i've seen this in a movie before....
