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Tombstone looked at Shadow, " It's clear outside for now..and Halon is manning Big B., I think we should...see to Tom."

" Tom" Shadow said " I don't..."

Tombstone interrupted "We can't leave him laying on the kitchen floor...now can we?"

Shadow nodded " I have some..um,body bags...downstairs,I'll go get one."

" Good" Tombstone said nodding " Daisy..I want you to go check on Keira,and get her out of the kitchen so Shadow and I can...see to Tom."

Daisy paused for a moment "What if she won't leave him..I mean..what."

" You can get her to leave..let her say her goodbyes,then take her out of the kitchen,tell her your worried about Bonzo or something." the biker said.

"Ok" Daisy said ,heading into the Kitchen.

Tombstone hung his head for a moment,collecting his thoughts,he sighed and sipped from his flask.

Shadow appeared holding a folded black bag.

"How many people have I put into one of those?" the biker thought shaking his head,for a brief second Tombstone felt as though he was going mad,but he shook his head again..took another belt of whiskey and waited for Daisy and Keira to appear from the kitchen.

" We need to plan my brother" Tombstone said to Shadow as they waited.

" How so?" Shadow asked.

" We need to figure out what we are going to do if those fethers get inside."the biker said.

" We go to ground" Shadow said " Remember the tour I just took you on?"

Tombstone nodded "yes,but...we have to have a back door"

Before Shadow could answer,Daisy and Keira appeared from inside the kitchen,but looked as though they had cried a bit.

Tombstone watched as they passed,going off into the front room,he felt a pang of sadness for Keiras loss.

The two men entered the kitchen,in a few moments they had placed Tom into the body bag and sealed it,they then placed it quickly outside the rear door.

Tombstone shook his head as he stood by the sink washing his hands,he felt as though he just put Toms remains out as one would put out a bag of trash,in a way he supposed he had.

" Ok" the biker said as he walked to the refrigerator and fished out two beers,handing one to Shadow " First you and I are going to drink these..then...we are calling a house meeting"

Shadow nodded and took a swig of his beer.

OOC: Pain thy name is lag.

It was incredibly fun. When else does one have the chance to fire a gatling gun into a horde of undead humans after all? Of course, Halon was smiling, enjoying the adrenalin rush of falling out of a window, running back into a house, and now lighting up zombies and cutting the grass.

He didn't know where, but Tom was lying out there on the lawn maybe dead-dead or just undead and Halon could only think about where he may be underneath all of the new mulch.

Unfortunately, it was all said and done. Halon stood up, still shaking from the vibration of the gatling gun and grinning ear to ear.

"Hey, how do I get this thing to reload properly?" Halon shouted downstairs for Shadow.

He didn't get a reply, but his ears were slightly ringing so he thought that maybe they did answer back. He waited a moment before heading back downstairs to see if anyone had heard him. When he got downstairs he saw most of the group looking out of the windows while Shadow and Tombstone held another meeting of theirs. He looked into the kitchen and saw the permanantly dead Tom and stumbled over a passed out girl.

"My bad" Halon said as he tripped over her "oh wait, that doesn't seem right. She really shouldn't be sleeping."

He looked for Keira and said "Hey, this girl passed out I think she should be looked at.".

Keira turned around and said something, but Halon still couldn't hear so he just gave her a big thumbs up.

In Shadows front room,the large screen television played to empty seats.

" This is Scott Pritchard,once again live from the Mega Dome." The reporter said " It's been several hours since my last broadcast,and despite numerous assurances that help is on the way,no rescue attempts have been made as of yet.

The camera panned about the arena,showing several dozen large groups of people standing about on the playing field,many others could be seen in the stadiums seating.

"As you can clearly see" the reporter continued " Thousands of frighted,desperate citizens have come here looking for protection from the ever growing army of walking dead."

" Many injured have also come,seeking medical attention" The news man went on " But despite the ongoing efforts of the woefully understaffed medical personal on the scene,hundreds of victims seem to have taken a turn for the worse and indeed dozens have died."

The camera swept over towards the end of the field,there one could see fifty to sixty bodies covered by simple white sheets,around the impromptu morgue a dozen or so soldiers stood guard,keeping loved ones at bay and watching.

" I have spoken to Dr. Samuel Wilkes" The reporter said " And according to his findings ,the bite of the walking dead carries a sort of infection,if you will,that..."

A burst of automatic weapons fire,followed by shrill screams cut the reporters statement short.

The camera once again swings to focus on the covered dead,who are now rising shakily to their feet,the sheets falling from their bodies to reveal snarling, hungry faces.

" Bob!!..Bob!! are you getting this" Pritchard shouted into his mic " You can clearly see those who had died earlier...they..they are returning to life and.."

More gun fire,dozens of soldiers rush into view and open fire,attempting to stop the onslaught of living dead.

" It seems as though the military are regaing control" The reporter said " However.."

Another scream,high and warbling,followed by the sounds of a huge crash,and the roar of multiple weapons firing,more screams are heard.

" They're inside!!" a female voice screams.

The audio clearly picks up the hellish moaning of thousands of the hungry dead.

The camera swings towards the commotion,from several stadium entrances they pour in,thousands of the flesh eating ghouls,they over run the small groups of soldiers who attempt to stand and hold them off,men are seen being torn to pieces and devoured as they fire into the ocean of walking dead.

The camera swivels back to focus on Pritchard,who is seen running as fast as he can in the direction of a rapidly mobilizing firing line of Soldiers .

The camera man abandons his post,leaving the camera to spin dizzily on it's mount.

For the next several minutes,anyone watching witnesses a view of hell on earth,thousands of people stampede in an attempt to escape the murderous horde of zombies,but most are pulled down by the ghouls and ripped to pieces,the agonized shrieks filling the air.

The last view from inside the Mega Dome,before the network cuts away back to the newsroom,is that of Scott Pritchard,newsman,being forced to the ground by a group of zombies,two are busy gnawing at his intestines,which they are pulling from a ragged bloody hole in his stomach,another rips a large hunk of flesh out of the news mans arm with its teeth.

Scott Pritchard utters a high horrified scream which becomes a gurgled howl as blood froths from between his curled lips.

I PM'd cereal a few days ago, but he didn't get back to me (or post here).

I'll PM him again later on today.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Looking around, Shadow saw no more zombies.

Anyway, something tells me cereal hasn't been following the story.. almost 20 pages or so catching up/summarizing for him.

Also, his house was much further north, it would be flooded with zombies by now.

Ah woops. This was for page 27. Didn't see page 28 till I'd posted this.

Tombstone sat at the large dinning table sipping a beer and staring at a half eaten sandwich.
The others were all seated about the kitchen,some at the table,others at the counter.
No one seemed to have much appetite,with the exception of Bonzo,who was enjoying alternating between juggling his eggs and eating them.

The biker spoke " Ok people,we need to do some planning"

Shadow stared at Tombstone " what sort of plans ?" he said " We have everything we need here"

Tombstone nodded " And damn lucky you had made such preparations" the biker said " But.."

"But?" Shadow said

" If we get over run" Halon said " What then?"

"We go to ground" Shadow said " We have enough supplies to last for years."

" Yes" Tombstone said " and again,we are damn lucky to have that"

"But?" Shadow said taking a swig from his beer.

" If we can avoid it" Tombstone said " I'd rather not be trapped down there...if those fethers get into the house".

" Stone" Shadow said " I have 5 years or more worth of food stored down there,and you saw how well stocked we are in weapons and ammo...why would you want to even think about running out into all the gaks that's going down out there.?"

Tombstone shook his head " Not running man,escaping if we have to." the biker continued " I'm proposing we get the car and truck into the garage,do any repairs needed...load them with whatever we may need on the road...and if we need to...if we get in real trouble here...we haul ass."

" Haul ass to where exactly?" Halon asked

" To my Father." Jennifer replied

" Possibly" Tombstone answered " If it's viable".

"Viable!?" Jennifer shouted " It's as fething viable as any other destination."

Tombstone raised his eyebrow and gritted his teeth " Right now Princess,we don't know gak about gak...so..I suggest attempting to find any info we can concerning what the feths going on out there...including if your old man is still among the living...or if he's currently stumbling around with some of my good buddies, FETHING EATING PEOPLE!!!"

Jennifer eyed the biker coldly,but said nothing.

" I get what your saying Stone" Shadow said " I guess we could get the vehicles into the garage...and preparing them for emergency travel isn't a bad idea...but."

" But?" Tombstone said,sipping his beer.

" But,as you so calmly pointed out,we need to do some info gathering" Shadow said " So if we do have to make a run for it...we'll have an idea as to where we need to run to."

Tombstone nodded " Sounds like a plan my man...we get the vehicles ready...and start looking for a retreat zone...some where to run to."

" I SaY We Go To ThE CaRnIval" Bonzo said as he popped half an egg into his mouth and juggled some apples....

Shadow wasn't happy. He knew it may well come to it, but when it did, would it split the group up? Would he have to take up arms against his friends to keep his car if he decided to stay? Not nice questions.
"I agree. But we haven't been overrun, have we? We only need to go to ground should the actual house fall, and if we do a good job of staying alive, then it won't. But with the food down there, we'd only be in there for however long it takes for the Ghouls to leave the house. I mean, they'd never get through the trapdoor if you handed them the key and pointed them at the lock."
Tombstone nodded, but there were some confused looks on the faces of the others. Halon had come down, and he piped up, "what trapdoor? Where is this supply of food that will last a year?"
Jennifer stood up.
"I agree. What preperations are we lucky to have?"
Shadow gestured to Tombstone to follow him, and he turned and walked into the living room. He called over his back, "one sec."
The two men sat down on the couch.
"I'm not sure we should introduce them to Mr. bunker yet. We don't need another person going ap3sh1t with a grenade launcher. And lets face it, not everyone's exactly stable at the minute, are they?"

Tombstone sat with Shadow,listening intently to what his friend had to say.

When Shadow had finished speaking,Tombstone nodded.

" I understand what your saying Shadow" The biker said " and your right..everyone isn't exactly stable right now..so ,we can definatlly wait before giving them the grand tour of the bunker."

Shadow nodded " But..you still want to prep the vehichels?"

Tombstone nodded " It's better to have them ready...and not need them...then need them and not have them."

Shadow stared at the biker " Your crazy..but, I see your point...I guess that makes me as crazy as you."

Tombstone laughed " well,at least your in good company."

Before Shadow could respond,there came the sound of loud pounding at the front door.

[deleted]

I'll let you continue then.

Tombstone and Shadow lept to their feet,readying their weapons.

The pounding grew louder,almost frantic.

Daisy and Jennifer appeared in the hallway,Jennifer eyeing the two men questionly " Is it...them?" she said.

Shadow motioned to the two woman to stay back,as he and Tombstone took position by the door.

Halon pushed past the two woman,raising his weapon towards the door,he dropped into a kneeling firing position and spoke " I don't hear that..that moaning."

From outside a pleading voice came " Open up..if anyone's inside..please..help me."

Shadow glanced through the doors view slot.and laughed " It's a cop" he said.

Tombstone rolled his eyes, " Well...that certainly puts a damper on the party." the biker said.

" C'mon" Halon said " let him in."

Shadow stared at Tombstone who nodded , "Might as well let him in man" the biker said " But...keep your guns on him."

Shadow nodded and slid the bolts on the door open.

A young police officer stumbled inside,gasping and obviously terrified " Thank god" he said " Oh thank god..it's it's crazy out there..people are dying every where and.."

" Settle down there Kojak" Tombstone said with some disgust.his pistols never dropping from there position,aimed at the cops head.

" First of all" Shadow continued,pointing his shotgun at the cops chest " Who the feth are you..and second..are any of those things following you.?"

The cop stammered for a moment,caught his breath and then said.." If I could sit for a moment..I'll tell you all every thing I know."..

Oh damn. I guess I was wrong about who it was going to be .

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Oh damn. I guess I was wrong about who it was going to be .

OOC: No doubt you would have preferred a bus load of Playboy models each carrying a case of good beer.

FITZZ wrote:

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Oh damn. I guess I was wrong about who it was going to be .

OOC: No doubt you would have preferred a bus load of Playboy models each carrying a case of good beer.

Now that you mention it..


What I was actually thinking that it was gonna be some hells satans with Jennifers dad - they could have traced the owner/location of the computer or something.

The cop took a seat on the couch,Shadow and Tombstone never lowering their weapons.

Jennifer,Daisy and Halon stepped closer to the two men,each eyeing the officer intently.

Halon was the first to speak " Well officer.."

" Reed" the cop said " Tim Reed",he extended his had in greeting,no one chose to take it.

" Well officer Reed" Halon continued " fill us in...from the insignias on your uniform,your Metro...so obviously you were in the city when all...this happened...what brings you this far out of your ...patrol area?"

The cop rubbed his eyes and spoke," I was stationed on the South side of town,where things seemed to be getting out of hand the fastest, I'm part of control/contain..Riot control that is".

Daisy looked at him with distaste " Yes,myself and some others came across a group of your happy head breakers when all this started,quite a nice bunch...beat the fething hell out of dozens of us."

The cop protested " We had to maintain some sort of order...things were falling apart fast."

" So beating people over the head is maintaining order?" Daisy said with disgust

Tombstone motioned for Daisy to be quite,she listened,but reluctantly.

The cop continued. " By yesterday afternoon we knew we were loosing it...positions had been over run,those things were coming from every were...and our injured...they were ...they were turning ...they ...came back."

" So the what?" Halon asked.

" We tried to hold position" Reed continued " The Guard reinforced us...but by then..the whole south side was a war zone...more and more of those ...zombies...just kept coming"

Tombstone stared at the cop "So you ran?"

" No!" Reed exclaimed " at least not at that point...we fell back...attempted to contain the situation within the Southern perimeters...but...by nightfall we had word that the whole city was becoming infested...we were to pull back..abandon the line and regroup at main command."

The cop shook his head,"Going back through the rest of the city,we saw thousands of people...begging for help,rioting,fighting...trying to find someplace to hide...alot of them were headed to the Mega Dome...I heard latter that that place became a massacre...thousands torn apart inside the structure...more outside."

Daisy shook her head.

The cop continued, " Everything..all squads,have pulled back to the Western side of the city now...it's holding,but for how long.." the cop shrugged " My squad got cut off..on route there...they...those things...they came from nowhere...I was lucky to get out...we...my crew,we stopped for fueling when we thought we ...were in a safe area...the ISBI was running on fumes...we had refueled and were looking for some food...when they came."

" Jackson,Rameriz,Stolle...all dead" The cop said,almost to himself ' I jumped in and took off...I just drove...and drove...until I saw the light from your place...I thought maybe it would be safe here..."

Shadow tilted his head " And you...were you injured?"

The cop said nothing,but placed a hand on his arm.

Tombstone pulled the hammers back on both his pistols.
Shadow aimed his shotgun.

" Wait" Officer Reed begged " It's just a scratch...a little bite..the fether barely bit me...just a scratch."

The two men squeezed the triggers of their weapons and Officer Tim Reeds head vaporized in a furious explosion of blood and bone....

Tombstone noticed Daisy's smile...

"Great. Now the carpet's ruined" Shadow joked.
Tombstone smirked.
"Halon, Tombstone, my bros, lets go see what Mr. Reed here left us outside" he said, motioning to the door with his weapon. As the three men exited, they heard someone from inside say, "I suppose we'll have to clean this up" and "I think I'm going to be sick", and "thAT CoP LoOkS LIkE He CoULd UsE a ClOWn TO chEER hiM UP!"

ISIB?

FM Ninja 048 wrote:ISIB?

An armored riot control vehicle. ...whoops my bad...ISBI, I was typing fast.

http://www.ecplaza.net/tradeleads/seller/6250639/police_and_swat_riot.html

FM Ninja 048 wrote:ISIB?

That's why I was letting Tombstone do the next IC post.

Of course, I could just look it up.

Well, I just did and couldn't find anything :/

FITZZ wrote:

FM Ninja 048 wrote:ISIB?

An armored riot control vehicle.

NINJA

I got our ride.

http://www.ecplaza.net/tradeleads/seller/6250639/police_and_swat_riot.html


I may have the " name wrong" but...this is what I mean.

Or at least a version of that.

Much better, FITZZ. The one I found is slowed looking.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:

Much better, FITZZ. The one I found is slowed looking.

Yes,I belive this one is much better suited to our needs..Bwahahah.

It needs more spikes..

Naw, it has electrified window protectors and can push three tons of stuff, all it needs are some chainsaws and a flamethrower, maby some fireports and we're sorted.

we just need somewhere to go now...

OOC: Ok folks,I'm off to go spend some quality time with the kids.

Our little group of characters now have an "urban tank",and a headless cop in the front room to occupy ourselves with...have fun.

FITZZ wrote: OOC: Ok folks,I'm off to go spend some quality time with the kids.

Our little group of characters now have an "urban tank",and a headless cop in the front room to occupy ourselves with...have fun.

That's sick.

Now, who's got the mop?

also, dibbs on the new carmobiletank.

IC:

"Wow! Guys, you shouldn't have!" Shadow exclaimed when he saw the massive vehicle outside his house. Like a young child on christmas, he ran towards his "present" and climbed in. The keys were still in the ignition. He turned them, and the armoured vehicle roared to life.
"Listen to that sound!"
He drove the vehicle to the front of his garage, and opened it with the remote control he'd had in his pocket this whole time. The vehicle barely fitted in. I'll never think of this garage as too spaceous again Shadow thought, remembering how empty it was with only his car in it. "Damn!" he exclaimed. Looking out of the mirror, he could see the side of his beloved car riveted with large holes.
"DAMN!"
He continued to swear for a few minutes, Halon practically cracking himself up - even Tombstone was laughing.
"Nice shooting you did there!" the biker called.
"Feth you" came the reply.
The two just laughed even more.
Now, what shall I add first Shadow thought gleefully, and he got out of the vehicle, grabbing the keys as he did and pocketed them.

Tombstone smiled and shook his head as Shadow lept from the riot control vehicle and headed back into the house.

"...mount a .50 cal maybe..or perhaps.." Shadow said to himself as he disappeared through the door.

" This should get interesting." Halon said to the biker.

" It won't surprise me if he welds wings onto it and we fly out of here." Tombstone said.

The two men laughed at the image.

" Well,Shadow has a new toy...I guess it's a fair trade for his car getting ...pulverized" Halon said.

" Yea" Tombstone said " The truck didn't look to bad though...near as I could tell all it had was a flat..easy enough to fix."

Halon glanced at the biker " true" he said " But why bother...we have this " he gestured to the riot vehicle.

" Yea" the biker said " but..I'd still like to fix it..for the same reason I carry two pistols...just in case."

Halon nodded " C'mon..we can worry about that later..let's go...check the mess."

The two men entered the house,finding the body of the late Tim Reed wrapped up in several layers of sheets,Bonzo crouched near the body talking to it.

Daisy was scrubbing blood of the floor,and Tombstone walked up to her.

She looked up at him,a smile..a very evil smile crossing her face " I'm glad you killed him" she said " ***holes like him...they did this..there why all this is happening."

Tomstone shook his head " He was just a dumb kid...who got bit..I did what I had to do."

" Don't bullgak me" Daisy said " I'm sure you have no love for the police."

Tombstone laughed " I had a few on payroll...they came in handy from time to time."

Daisy stood and shook her head " Not the same thing."

"Do you really want to discuss a dead cop?" Tombstone said.

" No" Daisy said with a smile " I have other things I'd much rather discuss."

She walked into the bathroom to wash up.

Tombstone grinned, watching her as she moved away.

" C'mon man" Halon said from behind him " I know your enjoying that lovely view..but let's get...him..out of here" Halon pointed at the wrapped body of the cop.

The two men lifted the corpse and carried it outside,dumping it among the numerous zombie bodies littering the yard.

" We're going to have to clean this mess up soon" Halon said " All these rotten bodies...they're going to cause some disease."

Tombstone grinned " I'm sure Shadow has a flame thrower some place in the Fortress...we'll cremate them."

Halon gave Tombstone an odd look " Flame thrower?..really?"

Tombstone smiled " Would it suprise you?"

"No...not really." Halon said.

The two men walked back into the house.

In the distance...the moans of the walking dead grew louder...

-loads gatling(s)/sniper(s)/machine gun(s)/flamethrower(s)/grenade launcher(s)/readies grenade(s)/sharpens blade(s)/loads bazoooooka(s)/pistol(s)/blunderbuss(s)/WMD(s)/scrap launcher-