Yes, I'm alive. This is what I was talking about in the second chapter of Old Rivalry for my apocalyptic series. Other stories are going to be updated soon, but right now I'll take my time and upload this.
Ch. 1: Operation San Francisco
The sickening crunch of bone could be heard as the wails of pain are cut off. A man stands over, his greenish brown eyes looks over the still body lying there. His K-BAR knife in his left hand are still dripping with the blood of the fallen victim. "Commander, is the infected dead yet?" A little girl comes out, her blue eyes staring at the body as she holds a sniper rifle in her arms. "Yeah, it is probably already gone to hell, Erwin. Go get Noel and we'll head back into the bunker." The man replied. Sheathing his knife, he stands up. "Just another ordinary day in the apocalypse." he mutters. The date is June 5, 2020, three months after the initial start of the apocalypse. His name is Leon Henderson, Captain of the Delta Force. Standing at around 6'8 he was one of the 50 people to begin the project known as RECONSTRUCT.
The heavy thunk of the bunker door seals the gap from reality to the inside of a safe and electrified, which to the rest of the world, this is unknown to the rest of what used to be known as the States. "Did we get any new messages from Briggs?" Leon asks unsurely. Erwin shakes her head. "We haven't received anything new. Anyways, we already broke the rules of Constitution by going out of the bunker." she pouts. Leon just laughs. "I need some fresh air and something better to do than staying in this shit hole you guys call home." Taking his M4 off of his shoulders, he took it apart to clean thoroughly. He feels a small prod against his shoulder blades. Looking up, he sees Noel holding up her G22 rifle. "Please, commander, could you teach me how to clean this gun again? I forgot how to…" she says silently. "Sure thing, but just hold on a sec. I need to wipe this down of all the blood those things splattered on this." Leon says as he grabs a cleaning rag and wipes the assault rifle. "Give me that G22, Noel. I'll re-teach you how to clean it."
Erwin and Noel are two special weapons created to help eradicate the infected given to the personnel in the Project RECONSTRUCT. They represent tanks that were used in the Second World War.
Panzerkampfwagen VI "Erwin": She is one of those happy-go-lucky girls that like to complete the missions. She wields a sniper rifle that represents a 8.8 cm KwK 36 turret. She is around 4'0 in height. Her blond hair reaches around her shoulders and her electric blue eyes sometimes spark depending on if she is curious, happy, or concentrating. She wears a dark grey shirt with an armored skirt (Leon always wonders sometimes how she is able to wear it without getting fatigue). Her gear include two removable tracks that could be put onto her shoes when she is in combat. A medium sized gear box sits on the back of her back that would generate AP and HE shells for her sniper rifle. She has an iron helmet that represents her pre-war tank turret.
Panzerkampfwagen IV H "Noel": Unlike Erwin, Noel is more of the shy type of girl. Armed with a G22 sniper, this gun represents the 7.5 cm KwK 40 turret of her WWII tank counterpart. She is around 3'5. Her grey hair reaches around the bottom of her shoulders. Having almost the same type of gear as Erwin, the only difference is that she carries an iron shield. She usually wears a white shirt and a red shirt underneath her polo shirt. Her grey, furly iron skirt could be more described as cotton unlike Erwin's skirt. Her helmet has some extra iron platings on it that somewhat describes her pre-war counterpart.
After teaching Noel how to clean her G22, Leon sighs and sits down on the couch and turns on his X-box 1. The pause menu from Black ops II appears on the 50 inch tv. "Multiplayer, Erwin?" he calls as watches her sit down beside him. She flashes a grin at him, her electric eyes spark blue a bit. "I'll beat you this time, commander." But just before he presses the start button, Noel enters the room. "There is someone at the bunker door. He is calling out something, but I can't seem to catch what he is saying." Leon stares at her. Getting up and walking out of the room, he looks into the security film to see two people outside of the bunker door, a man and a girl, somewhat taller than Erwin. He peers over at the screen and notices the man's features. "Jesus Fukin Christ, Henderson, open up the damn bunker. I'm running low on ammo here." The man seemed to shout. The consistent blast of the M249 SAW in his arm, firing at some enemy that he couldn't see. "Who is that, commander?" Erwin asks as she looks at the screen. "An old friend of mine. Only other person who knows about this bunker." Leon smiles as he takes his M4 carbine.
"So gonna kill ya Henderson." The man says as he loads in another clip of tracer ammo. "Shit, last mag." He looks over at the bunker. It's still closed. "Commander, I'm running low on the M16 carbine you handed me. Shall I start using my rifle?" a voice came through his earpiece. Across from there three more infected lumbered towards them. "Ahh… Fuck it, on my mark." he says, rubbing at his brows. As the infected drew closer, he could see the visual shape of a knife in it's hands. "NOW" he shouts as the the infected with the knife started to swing at him. Feeling the HE shot zoom by him, he watches as two of the infected fall down, missing limbs and a head. Raising the M249, the man sprayed bullets into the zombie's face. It shrieked in pain as it swung its knife wildly, blinded in one eye.
"Commander, I'm picking up an unknown signature." the voice came into his earpiece. "Track it. I'll take care of this bastard first." The man gritted his teeth as he goes hand-to-hand combat with the infected." Knocking the knife out of its hand, he kicks it in the leg causing it to fall to the ground. The thing roars in pain as it tries to grab his face. "Die motherfucker." the man shouts as he throws his fist at its face. The infected miraculously grabs his arm and starts to twist his arm, breaking some of the skin. "Shit!" the man shouts out loud as he tries to loosen the iron grip of the infected. He heard several bursts from a rifle he memorized was an M4 and felt the grip of the infected loosen. Looking up, he saw Leon Henderson.
"It seems to be a shame that a member of the navy SEALs can not even fight one zombie." Henderson says with a smile. "Welcome to my bunker, Tomlin." Tomlin smiles back. "So much salt that I remember from a friend who decided to join the DELTA force." he says. "Valeriya, it's fine to climb off that tree now. You've done well enough." As if on cue, Leon hears a sharp crack and a thud as a girl lands on the ground in front of him. "Alright, introductions will come in later. Right now, it's getting dark, so let's get inside first." Leon ushers as he opens up the bunker doors.
"So why have you decided to come find me right now?" Leon asks as he opens up a can of beer. "I can mention that Briggs has sent the message that we can begin RECONSTRUCT now." Tomlin says as he takes out a cigarette from a pocket in his vest. "How long has he announced this?" Taking a puff out of his cigar, Tomlin thinks for a while. "Probably three days or so now." "Anything else?" "Information about the disease…" "Sure, why the fuck not." Looking out of the window in the room the two men are in, Leon sees the three girls playing on the X-BOX. "What we know from the CDC right now is that the disease is a bacteria. Unlike viruses, it can't be spread by air." Tomlin starts.
"We call it ABYSS or Acute Bronchiectasis Yersinia Systematic Syndrome. It is basically an evolved version of the disease Yersinia Pestis that ravaged the world two or three centuries ago. From what we know, the first stages you know that you're catching the disease is that your hair would turn white, which as a fact some doctors early on thought it was only albinism, you'll have immense hunger, loss of motor skills, projectile vomiting, and the difficulty of speaking,."
Tomlin clears his throat while he stomps on the cigar.
"The second stage is more disturbing. Signs include hallucinations, uncontrollable screaming, uncontrollable hunger, which makes the infected patients want to lunge at anything within arms reach, and complete loss in speaking sentences resulting in grumbling most of the time." "The third and final stage is when you start to change into one of them. The brain eventually corrodes down to the point when it looks like swiss cheese. The infected would register no pain sensations and have a strong sense of smell, x2 better than that of a dog. It would try to kill anyone around it, but it would usually act clumsy. There are a few times you will meet up with a smarter infected, and that would be tougher to take down. As we got from the local police and as we have known, the infected could receive mortal wounds that would usually be fatal to a human, but they just keep attacking you like nothing happened." Tomlin sighs.
"That's all I have right now, so yeah."
Leon nods his head.
"Tomorrow in the morning, we should head out and scout out the place. All I have seen is around 300 yards away from the bunker and I have already killed like 3 infected. I know you on the other hand have killed way more."
"15 because of you fucker."
" Whatever. Just make sure your gun still has enough ammo, and we're about done."
"Hah… Tough motherfucker just like the usual."
"Shut the hell up man, I was only asking you about this crap, that's all. you don't have to come if you don't want to. By the way, what tank girl did you get? I'm just curious that you have one." "She's a ruskie just for you to know. Uh… I think her model is T-34-76? Or it's T-34-85. I forgot, but you can ask her. The thing is though, she is less armored than your girls, that is for sure, so don't bother asking her to spar with those two." "No shit, Sherlock."
Walking out the room, Leon sighs and chucks the empty bottle into the trash can, not giving two shits if it made or not.
"Commander, what are you going? Aren't you going t with me?" Erwin asks. "Not now… I need to think some stuff through." "But it's boring hanging out with Noel and the other girl because they don't talk so much at all."
Leon places his hand on her head, surprising the small girl.
"ehh? C-commander, what are you doing?" she asks as she feels a blush going up her face.
"Don't mind me. I'm going to go target practicing for a while. You can join me if you'd like. I just need to relieve some of this stress I'm feeling." He says as he picks up his M4 out of his case.
Commander looks tired. I should let him alone for a while. Erwin thinks to herself as she walks away.
Leon woke up to the sounds of the piano playing. "Who…?" He freezes as he hears it. The soft music drones through the bunker and a soft voice could be heard singing along with the music.
"Тихо вокруг, сопки покрыты мглой,
Вот из-за туч блеснула луна,
Могилы хранят покой.
Белеют кресты - это герои спят.
Прошлого тени кружат давно,
О жертвах боёв твердят.
Плачет, плачет мать родная,
Плачет молодая жена,
Плачут все, как один человек,
Злой рок и судьбу кляня!"
"Tomlin's girl must be playing the piano." Leon mutters as he gets out of the bed. He heads into the music room where the piano was being played. His eyes widened and he snaps out of the morning daze. There, he sees Noel and Valeriya sitting together on the piano bench, Valeriya the one playing. But the thing is that Noel has changed personalities and has switched nationalities which catches Leon off guard.
"Good morning, Commander." Noel says, smiling while holding down on her tanker's cap which had turned into a russian fit helm.
"Uhh… What happened to you, Noel? I have never seen you like this." Leon says pointing at the uniform she's wearing.
"I have a protocol which allows me to have switch personalities. In the great war, I was both captured by Russians, the British, The US, and many other countries, but I prefer to use this one. Sorry for not telling you earlier." "Cool, what else can you do?" "Start protocol: Personality split"
Suddenly a blinding light and a blast of steam engulf the room. As the steam clear, there were four of the same girls standing in front of him.
"This is one of the more passive protocols I could do. Though, they have a mind of their own and would only disappear if I want them to" the german Noel said casually.
"Yo, Commander, What are we doin' today?" one of them, probably the American on asked.
"Chavez, you're too loud. Calm down and have some tea." The British Noel said.
Leon clears his throat silencing everyone in the room. "Since you guys are currently in the room, I think it should be ok to debrief you on the first mission you girls are going to fight in."
Both Noel and Valeriya look up, the clones disappearing.
"Since you two are medium tanks, you'll be our scouts. It is possible that we'll encounter the infected on the way, so be prepared for the worst." Leon says. "Because you guys are going to scout, you'll need good weapons that could bring them down with couple shots. "
Valeriya raises her hand slowly.
"Don't we already have our gun turrets that could kill things with one shot?"
"To be honest, it's really difficult to fight close quarter with a sniper rifle, so unless you want to try a no scope on these infected, I think it be better to take a secondary weapon from the bunker." Leon says.
Nodding, the two girls follow Leon to the weapon arsenal. Erwin, who happens to pass by, asks, "Commander, what are you doing with those two? Also, you look like you're having some problems."
"Don't mind me, I need to get these two geared for today's mission. You should come if you want, but I guess you're fine as you are currently."
Erwin nods giving him a sly smile. "If you say so, commander!"
"Also, after your done doing your stuff, could you prep the humvee in the garage? We'll be using it for the mission." ".50 caliber ammo or 40mm grenades?" "Take both. Also take the two gun types as well just in case."
Walking to the weapon arsenal, Leon quickly types in the passcode, causing the metal door to slide open.
"Take what you want, but just don't take too much, cause I ain't gonna be taking care of the weapons if y'all start complaining that you're going to slow."
The girls walk around the large array of the guns, trying their best to choose one that suits them well. Walking over to the rifle section, Valeriya picks up a FN SCAR and inspects it. "I'll go with this one, sir." she says quietly, feeling her cheek warming up a little. Only Noel notices this though. "I'll be taking this one, commander." she says as she held up a HK416 Rifle.
"Okay, then. I'll go get you girls a vest and some ammo, so why don't you two plan out some stuff for right now" Leon announces as he walks out of the weapon arsenal.
"What's wrong, Valeriya? Is something bothering you?" Noel whispers in Russian, hoping that her commander doesn't understand.
"No, It's just that I'm worried about my sisters right now. Unlike you, you have Erwin, who is a close friend of yours even if you two are not closely related in type." She says.
"I know how you feel, but who knows. I also worry about some of my sisters. Remember, I too have some younger and older sisters that I want to meet such as sister *Conradina."
"Even still, we are not too sure whether they are okay or they have been picked up by the wrong people. I just want Koramel* with me like how you have Erwin."
The sound of a throat clearing interrupts both girls. Leon is standing there with two vests filled with ammunition clips. "Sorry to interrupt your conversation girls, but we really have to know what to expect here in the apocalypse." Leon frowns. "Also,Valer- however you say your name, I got some ammo for your M-16 I saw you carrying yesterday." Leon hands over the vest to the little girl. "Oh yeah, What tank type model are you, Valer… screw it, I'm going to call you Valery from now on." he says.
"Alright then," she replied.
T-34-76 Model 1941 "Valeriya": A bit tall for her class. Standing at around 3'7, she somewhat surpasses Noel just a little. Armed with a SV-98 Sniper rifle, it would somewhat look like the gun that she used as the tank itself. She wears a russian tank crew uniform, which makes her stand out from the two German girls Leon has. She is pretty silent, probably because of the absence of other russian tank girls. Her long brown-ish blond hair reaches around the middle of her gear box. The small gearbox sits on her back, which produces a variety of shell types and normal ammunition. She has golden colored eyes, which seems cool to Leon especially when they glow at random times. To Leon, she seems to be really quiet, but does have a badass way of taking out the enemy.
"So we're ready to take care of some recon right?" Leon asks. Both girls nod.
"Good, so I'll debrief you two one more time about what's going to happen for the rest of the day and probably for a long time."
Time: 900 hours Area: 2 miles outside of San Francisco Weather: Fairly Cloudy, no rain.
The humvee drove along the deserted highways. Abandoned cars littered the highway either turned over or flipped to one side.
"Jesus Christ, this place does look fucked up." Leon says, pointing at one of the tipped over Ford F-150s. "Wonder how Francisco would look." The drive continues until they get near the Golden Gate Bridge.
"Everyone get out of the humvee. We'll be camouflaging this car in those trees right there." Leon says pointing at the dense underbrush. "Yo, Tomlin, where is that net you said we brought?"
"I'm on it, Jeez…" He takes out the large net and throws it over the Humvee. It takes around three minutes to hide the humvee in the bush.
"As we planned out guys. We're going to explore that military base, if it still has some stuff in it." All three girls nod. "Then off we go. Let's get this party started." The clanking sounds of tracks being installed could be heard as the Noel and Valeriya put the tracks on their shoes.
"Do I go with them, Commander? You never told me what to do." Erwin asks unsurely as she watches the two drive off.
"Well, the thing is, those two are Medium tanks, so they have a speed advantage and could escape more easily. If you were to be caught, than you probably would have a more difficult time running." Leon replies as he swings his M4 carbine across his back. Suddenly, a crack made them freeze.
"What was that?" Erwin asks, terrified about the noise.
Then the headset comes online.
"Sorry, I stepped on a shard of glass" Tomlin says.
"It's fine then, Commander Tomlin." Erwin says through the headset. Leon on the other hand was thinking of ways to bash Tomlin's skull.
The two medium tanks return to Leon.
"Anything you two see on the other side of the Bridge?" He asks the two. They nod, which turns the mood dark.
"We saw around 15 infected on the other side along with faint gun fire in the distance. From our calculations, the gun fire should be about one mile in or so. the infected are crowded along the bridge as well, probably going to cross this bridge, so if we advance a bit, we should be able to kill them, and then advance into the city." Valeriya says. "If we are to move up a little ahead to the middle of the bridge, we probably could take them out."
"If you say so then… Let's move, go,go, go!
The little squad move up and take position behind two upturned cars. "You girls can use your snipers to pick off them, but don't use HE or AP shells. Use normal ones. We don't need any rouges or any other infected to come in while we're killing these things." Leon says, checking his scope here and there to make sure any infected have came poking around yet.
"Tomlin, you got that suppressor for that SAW?"
"The FA556MG?"
"Yah, that one."
"Ready to go."
Five minutes later, the first of the small horde start to appear on the scope. Slowly whispering, Leon says, "On my mark. Pick your target and I'll give you your count to fire."
Everyone nods. The horde slowly moves in slowly.
"Five..."
The humanoid figures get closer, you could see their thin figures from a distance.
"Four…"
Earlier wounds could now be seen, some have a caved in skull, others have some bullet holes in areas. One zombie is missing it's lower jaw and is still spewing blood.
"Three…"
Their eerie growls and screeches could be heard, some more distinct than that of others.
"Two…"
The smell of rotting flesh could now fill the air as they draw closer and closer to the small group of fighters causing them to cough silently from the odor.
"One…"
Everyone's muscles tense up. Both Erwin and Valeryia's eyes spark with electricity as they target the lead two infected with both their sniper rifles. Noel aims her HK416 at the straggling infected with the most wounds affecting it.
"FIRE AT WILL!" Leon shouts.
The entire highway erupts in an explosion of bullets as all hell breaks loose. Blood is flying everywhere as bullets hit their mark. The shrieks of the infected are drowned out by the sounds of sub-machine guns and rifles. In less than 4 minutes, the horde is mowed down to a few crawlers.
"I think that's the last of them." Tomlin says as he knifes a crawler trying to grab him. Getting up, out of his position, Leon looks across the rest of the bridge. Abandoned cars still litter the bridge, but not as many as on the streets. "I'll be retrieving the Humvee… I don't feel like we should continue to hide it." He announces as he beckons to Valeriya
"Erwin, If you could, could you push these cars away to make a path? I think we could retrieve the humvee and drive it across the bridge if there is a cleared path." he says.
"But what about the bodies? I'm not going to pick those up. They're just… eww." Erwin says, shivering.
"Don't worry. The body burners would pick them up probably soon or something like that. Or you could have Tomlin throw them over the bridge into the bay." Leon laughs.
Suddenly they hear Noel scream. Looking over, the two see Noel getting attacked by another infected. It grabs ahold of her gun arm and yanks the HK416 out of her hand.
"H...HELP SOMEONE… P..please." She cries out in panic as she tries to twist her arm around to loosen the grip.
Drawing his MK-23 out of his holster, he fires two bullets into the back of the zombie's neck, shattering the spinal cord. The infected slowly turns around, hissing at Leon.
"Youu…" It hissed slowly as it slowly releases its grip on Noel. Noel freezes, watching the infected look at her commander.
"Yeah that's right you motherfucker, come at me." Leon taunts as he reaches his left hand for his M4 carbine. A small gout of blood sprays out of the neck wound of the infected.
" You know what, I'm going to do something no one has done before." Leon says as he puts down the carbine. Jumping over the car at the infected, he punches it in the chest, causing to to jolt.
"Youu…." it continues to hiss as it runs at him, lounging at him. Dodging the attack, Leon instinctively turns around and swings his legs over in a quick, fluid motion causing the infected to lose balance and fall over. As it tries to get back up, he kicks it's back, causing it to fall back on the ground. The neck wound is now gushing out blood, spraying Leon's pants a crimson red.
"Jesus fukin Christ, you're going to really die now." he says as he stomps on the spinal cord on it's back adding pressure. A large crack could be heard, and the body slowly stops moving.
"And that, guys, is how not to take them out." He laughs as he kicks the dead body. The hand suddenly grabs a hold of his boot and the body stares menacingly at leon. "Die….youu….Bastard…" it says as it's mouth widens into a smile. It takes a small item out of its pocket.
Looks like a fragmentation grenade… Leon thinks as he feels time slow down. Looking around, he could see The pin slowly being slid out from the hands of the infected. Looking over at the girls. Both Noel and Erwin have tears streaming down their faces, trying to scream something.
I have no regrets…
He immediately kicks the grenade out of the zombie's hand, catching it off guard. He backflips, and kick the infected with a strong kick. The infected is sent flying 6 feet away, and it hits a turned over van. It hisses and tries to run at him, blood now trailing off it's mouth. Expecting this, Leon charges at it, punching it with all his strength, impaling it with his bare hands. His hands come out on the other side of the infected, clutching the heart, still beating as if it were still in the body. The infected stands there, about to fall over onto the ground.
"This is the part where the game would shout FINISH HIM you little shit." Leon shouted as he drop kicked the body off the bridge, into the San Francisco Bay. Looking at the heart in his hand, he chucks up into the air and shoots it three times with his MK-23, the .45 caliber bullets shredding the heart. Blood rains down on him, pointing his hair and shirt a dark red. Looking back at his girls, he sees them staring wide eyed in disbelief. Realizing that he accidentally brutally slaughtered an enemy in front of them, he tries to apologize to them.
"I'm so sorry you girls had to see that. Hehe… I got carried away." He smiles and laughs awkwardly.
Erwin, being the one who shakes out of her shock, shouts at Leon, "That was sooo cool, commander! Where did you learn to do that?"
Noel stares blankly, having no comment to say. Tomlin drives up to them, waving at them.
"Hey, I found the Humvee in one piece and woah… What did you do to yourself, Leon? Did you get dumb enough to squeeze pomegranate all over you?"
"Boy, shut the fuck up and drive… I'll explain while we're driving." Leon says as they get into the vehicle.
"Oh my god, this place is more fucked up than the bridge…" Tomlin gasps as they enter the city.
Bullet holes are left in some boarded up stores, cracked traffic signals, broken glass, and a lot of dead bodies. The vehicle bumps up and down as it rolls over parts of car and dead bodies. After hearing the third crunch of bone from a body below them, Tomlin says, "I'm sorry to bring this up, but this reminds me so much of that scene in Hotel Rwanda." Leon looks at him. "What part? A lot of parts look like this right now." The car jolts and another crack could be heard.
"The one where Paul Rusesabagina and his friend took the other route just to find out that they were driving over dead bodies."
"Really? Christ, this is an apocalypse, not a genocide. Get your facts straight."
Looking at the back seat of the vehicle, Leon sees Erwin and Valeriya trying to comfort Noel. He notices her shaking and hears couple sniffs here and there. Turning back to the driver's view, he says, "Later, we'll take a rest break and search this town for any survivors. I heard there was supposedly a survivor camp here… Probably check on Hunter's Port for anything useful."
Thirty minutes later. Time: 1239 hours, Weather: Fairly warm with the wind blowing in from the north.
"We're near Bayview, probably ten more minutes before getting into Hunter Port. We'll stop here, refuel the Humvee, and rest a bit." Leon says as he pulls up to the avenue between 3rd st. and Bayview. Getting out, Leon takes out one of the backpacks and take out 6 MREs.
"We should eat these to get carbs. We'll be splitting into groups to explore what hasn't been touched yet in the base. Tomlin, you go with Valeriya, and I'll go with Noel and Erwin. We'll rendezvous here probably in three hours if we find anything." Leon announces as he tears open his MRE and starts to prepare the food. Chewing on some chicken, Tomlin looks over into the distance and spots something.
"Hey, Valeria, can I borrow your sniper really quickly?" He asks the small girl. She nods and hands him the sniper rifle with a suppressor attached. Looking down into the scope, he sees a lone infected hobbling around with a look of confusion on its face.
"Is this loaded?" He asks Valeriya. She nods with a slight smile. "Two shots," she says quietly as she holds up two fingers.
"Make them count commander."
Tomlin looks at her funnily. "I swear, something is wrong with you…. You're never like this, and now all of a sudden you're acting funny."
"It's nothing~." She giggles softly as she continues to eat the MRE.
Tomlin rolls his eyes and looks through the scope, aiming the gun at the thing's head. Pulling the trigger, the gun recoils as the bullet is lobbed out of the barrel, into the zombie's head six yards away. Peeking over a turned over Toyoda, Erwin looks at the remains of the infected.
"Confirmed Oberst Tomlin! A fine headshot!" She smiles and laughs.
Leon gets up off the ground. "Alright. Break's now over, let's head into the base. Tomlin, you'll have to guard the Humvee like the usual, but if we run into trouble, I'll headset you." He says as all the girls gear up.
"Roger that, my amigo…" Tomlin laughs and waves him off.
"Ahh… Jokes aside, I'll tell you if I run into any problems." He says.
Saluting him, Leon and the other girls run/drive/ride towards the naval base.
"I hope they come back safe…" Tomlin thinks to himself.
I have a feeling something bad is going to happen to them. He thinks to himself.
1300 hours 20 minutes into the search for anything useful in the base
"Looters taken most of the shit here…" Leon hisses as he steps over a crate of broken .50 caliber machine gun bullets. He leans on a door panel as he takes out a headset.
"Girls what did you guys find?" He asks into the headset. The sound of static fills his ears. Then three voices come in all at once.
"Nothing"
"Empty boxes"
"A FN P90 with 2 magazines"
Leon feels his anger levels rising rapidly.
"Whoever found that P90, keep it. That's probably the best thing we have by now."
"Roger, commander."
Cutting the signal, Leon punches the door panel in rage.
"ALL THIS WASTED EFFORT TO FIND SOME CRAP THAT NEVER EXISTS!" Leon shouts, at no one particular, while he hits the control box.
"D.N.A Recognized, access has been granted" A robotic voice seemed to kick in. Looking up at the door, it seemed to have disappear and what replaced that was a room dimly lit with red lights.
"What the fuck?" Leon asks, dumbstruck at the sudden discovery of a hidden room.
"Hey girls, finish what you are doing right now and come over here… I think I might have accidentally found something." He announces through the headset as he walks into the room. Another door had a finger print access code on it, which he promptly did, and the sound of heavy metal thunks could be heard. A vault like door contraption opens in front of him, and he walks into the room. On the floor lay 2 large boxes with three medium sized boxes behind them.
"The hell is this?" Leon wonders aloud as he touches one of the large boxes.
"Identification required." A robotic voice said.
Sighing, Leon speaks his code. "ECAP-8761"
"Identification success. . . Activation in progress" The voice said. Leon stares blankly at the boxes. Suddenly they burst open, letting loose steam, causing Leon to jump out of instinct. Waving off the smoke Leon looks up and notices two middle-school looking girls standing in front of him.
"Admiral. . . Henderson?" One of them ask as she rubs her eyes.
As Leon opened his mouth to speak, a flash of blond hits him and he finds himself on the floor.
"Yuudachi is here for admiral, poi!"
Leon looks down and sees a blond girl hugging his torso. The other two girls stand there with blank faces, not expecting what to do. Then the pink haired girl walks up to her and gently nudges her off Leon.
"Yuudachi-onee san, he's our new admiral! You can't give him a bad impression right now!"
"But, Harusame-san, I can hug him as much as I want, poi."
Leon tries to get the blond girl's arm off his torso, but she holds onto him like her life depends on it.
"Since you girls are awake now, could you tell me who you are?" Leon asks.
The pink haired girl speaks first
"My name is Harusame, Fifth of the Shiratsuyu-class destroyers. It's good to meet you, Admiral Henderson!" She says as she bows down to him.
"She's my older sister ship Yuudachi, fourth ship of the Shiratsuyu-class destroyers. As you can see, she is... well, clingy and really enthusiastic."
Fifth shiratsuyu-class destroyer "Harusame": About 5'2 in Leon's P.O.V. She has semi-pink hair that makes him think about strawberry sherbert for some reason. She is kind of shy around strangers as he figured. She wears a black uniform that reminds him of an anime he watched so many years ago. Gets embarrassed really easily as he found out.
Fourth shiratsuyu-class destroyer "Yuudachi": About 5'5 in Leon's P.O.V. A really energetic blonde. Her green eyes are somewhat remind him of a childhood friend he had with the same emerald green eyes. Her uniform is the same as Harusames which signifies that they are somewhat part of the same seems to say "poi" a lot which thanks to his early knowledge of Japanese translates to "ish". Funny.
"Umm...Commander, y..your covered in blood. What happened?" Harusame stammers as she spots some specs of blood on his clothes and his hair.
"Well, uhh…. This is what you'd expect from an apocalypse. Zombies is what I'll say." Leon laughs as he pats some flaky blood off his hair. Harusame has the look of horror stuck on her face. "Z..Zombies? I thought it was combat against terrorists. The year is 2015 right?" She gasped.
"2020."
E..Eh? We've been asleep for so long… I don't even remember much about previous activations…"
Leon opens his mouth to speak, but gets interrupted as he hears the door behind him explodes. Erwin stands there smiling as she holds a smoking sniper rifle. "See Noel, Valeriya. Told ya that he didn't somehow teleport into a wall and suffocate. It was a hidden door." Then she notices Yuudachi still latched on him on the floor with a confused looking Harusame beside them. Pointing a finger at him, Erwin shouts, "Are you trying to hit on someone in front of the two most important people you know? Who are they anyways?!"
"Supposedly something I just learned called ship girls. I need further explanation later. Let's get out of here." He says. " Admiral, where is our gear, poi?" Yuudachi asks getting off of him. "I think those medium sized boxes there are your gear." Leon points to the large boxes with his index finger. His headset blares out suddenly. "Hello?" He asks into the set.
"Leon, hurry outside! There is no time to explain! Fuc-" The transmission suddenly fills with shrieks of infected and the sound of the M2 browning machine gun. "JUST HURRY THE FUCK UP GODDAMMIT, LEON!" The transmission cuts.
"Everyone get your gears ready and load HE." Leon shouts as he picks up his M4 carbine and slips on the grenade launcher. He loads in a 40mm grenade and turns towards his girls. The two ship girls had just finished putting on their gear and Leon notices the small 12.7 cm/50 Type three naval guns they hold. The loud click of the guns loaded signals him that the ship girls have finished reloading. He turns towards his tank girls and sees them inserting a fresh magazine filled with HE rounds.
"Erwin don't you have a better weapon than simply using a sniper?" Leon asks looking down at the shorter blond girl.
"Huh? Which one?"
"The one that you tell me that is saved for emergencies."
She gives Leon a wide smile.
"I thought you'd never ask." She said. "Launch Protocol Sturmmörserwagen!" She shouts as she throws her rifle into the air. A shimmering light flashes and momentarily blinds everyone in the room. When the light dies down, she wields a Panzerfaust 3 RPG.
"I wish we had the power to do something cool like that, poi…" Yuudachi pouts as she stares at Erwin. Harusame laughs at her expression. "Soon, Yuudachi-onee. Very soon" she sighs.
Leon looks at his small group.
"ALL UNITS" he shouted. "MOVE OUT! OBJECTIVE: ELIMINATE ALL HOSTILES AT ALL COSTS!"
"ROGER!" Everyone shouts as they storm out of the abandoned naval base and towards the ruined city of San Francisco.
A/N: I hope that sparks your interests as readers. If there is anything that you guys want me to fix or include, please tell me in the comments. Please no harsh criticism. If you guys hate this, then I'm probably going to remove it. Thanks,
Lenju II
*= OCs probably would show up in later chapters.