Chapter 1: Shi No Numa
Dr. Edward Richtofen cocked his Gewehr 43. He was here to find something, a man. The doctor was a German Nazi, on a mission to hunt down his betrayer. His location was the Swamp of Death, Shi No Numa in Japanese.
Why did it have this name? Well, first off it was in the swamps of Southeastern Russia. More importantly, Tunguska, Russia. This was one of the sources of the undead that he had been fighting for quite some time now.
Now, you might understand the "of Death" part in Shi No Numa. It was early in Richtofen's mission and he hadn't attracted any of the zombies. That definitely wasn't what he wanted.
"Shoot ve haven't seen any patients to… cure…" he muttered to himself. The doctor inched towards a window. It had two wooden boards across horizontally and two vertically. "Peter has already come through! But vhere is he?"
The view out the window was a bridge. It was covered with trees and vines. A glimmer of light appeared in the brush. "Ha-ha! Ve have a target!" Richtofen screamed, "Come to us!"
The zombie moaned in its demonic voice as if it replied to Richtofen. The dead spoke in a normal voice that seemed to be infused with that of a demon. The zombie clenched the wooden barricades and screamed. Richtofen was face to face with the enemy.
The zombie's mouth opened wider than the regular human body could handle. Phlegm and blood covered Richtofen's face. He stabbed his knife into the zombie's face, pouring more blood on him. The dead died again and fell into the swamp.
"Peter!" the doctor sung, "Ve're looking for you!" He wiped the blood off his face and screamed into the sky. He noticed a hole in the ceiling. A body hung above Richtofen's head. It was missing and arm. "Ha-ha! Zere you are!"
Takeo Masaki stood on a bridge and meditated. He was a Japanese officer, last of his kind. The entire imperial army had been infected with the undead virus. He didn't feel at peace with himself killing the Japanese zombies. A zombie appeared down the bridge. It wore a similar helmet to Takeo's.
The officer unsheathed his katana, or longsword, and braced himself for battle. He charged towards the dead and bounced into the air. His sword rose above his head and fell. He actually landed behind the zombie. It fell to its knees, head rolling past Takeo. He looked up and saw about three more zombies ahead of him.
"AHHHHHHHH!" he screamed while running towards the undead. The sword swung itself along and entered one zombie's ribcage and out another's. Takeo began to cry out when suddenly he saw the roof of the building ahead of him bulging.
A head emerged from a hole in the roof. About as fast as it appeared, it disappeared. Takeo ran down the bridge and found a window. A gun barrel shot from the window. In surprise, Takeo slashed the gun. A small piece of the barrel rolled on Takeo's feet. He sidestepped and looked at his opponent.
A German wearing formal officer clothes stared at his gun. "Great, a sawed off Gewehr. How original." The German said in his strange accent. "Vho are you!"
"Takeo Masaki, and you?" Takeo answered.
"Ve are Edward Richtofen." The German stated. "I mean, I am Edward Richtofen.
Takeo's face stayed calm as he said, "May I come in, Edward?"
Dr. Richtofen nodded, a universal term for yes. Takeo walked to the door of the building and kicked it down. "What an entrance…" Richtofen whispered.
"The zombies have found where we are!" Takeo silently yelled. "We must get out of here."
"Not quite yet my Axis friend…" the doctor commented. His finger aimed at the body on the ceiling. "I must get what I came here for!"
Takeo's face churned, "Is that a friend of yours?"
Dr. Richtofen laughed, "Ha-ha! More like an old colleague." His face then turned more serious. "Pity he met his fate."
"We must properly bury him for him to reach the afterlife." Takeo calmly said.
"I HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR JAPANESE AFTERLIFE CRAP!" Richtofen boomed. "BUILD THE BARRICADES, NOW!" Takeo raised his sword in defense. Richtofen took a deep breath.
"I'm sorry for your loss, It must be hard on you." Takeo comforted.
Richtofen smiled, "Great, we have some kind of power puff girl on our team." He laughed, "Only this one is Asian."
Takeo grunted and reached for the body. "Suicide, I've always believed it was a poor way to leave Earth." The rope around the cadaver's neck came loose and allowed it to fall into Takeo's arm.
A faint buzzing sound came from the body. "A bomb!" Takeo yelled.
"No! It is just a radio transmitter." Richtofen replied. He reached for the body's pockets and pulled out a transmitter. He pressed a button, and the transmission began playing.
"R-4808n 27 14 06 115 48 40." It said in a very low voice. It suddenly turned into a normal American voice, "I hope you're receiving this transmission Peter, if you are not, then all hope is lost. You must know by now that we failed to contain the asylum that we had to move the experiment here. Location. The numbers will guide you. The giant must remain safe at all costs, repeat,Der Riese must be contained at all costs. The DG-2 experiments continue. You'll be our only advantage now. Find Doctor Richtofen and Doctor Maxis, they may know what's going on. The use of (element) 115 is dangerous at best. I'm not sure if we can continue here. We've lost most of our best men. I hope you get this. I hope it hasn't happened there too, but I'm almost out of hope.60 54 06.96 101 55 44.94."
"It said Richtofen! That is you!" Takeo exclaimed.
"Yes, I vas looking for Peter, Peter vas looking for me."
"You must know something about all this." Takeo added, "How the zombies got here."
Richtofen smirked, "I do know multiple things about this transmission. But what I don't know is what ve need to figure out!"
Tank Dempsey marched down the bridge, carrying his Arisaka rifle. He needed to find Peter and stop these zombies. Speaking of zombies, two of them appeared in the swamp underneath him. BANG! Headshot. BANG! Another headshot.
Dempsey was an American soldier, given the job of taking on these zombies. He then came across a large building. He could hear talking inside. Dempsey slowly walked up to a window and looked in. A Nazi and an Imperial Army officer stood in the room huddling over a dead body.
"Great, this is just great." Dempsey said in his war-torn American voice. He raised his Arisaka to the window and shot at the Nazi. He missed his enemy. The two Axis soldiers stood up and looked at the window. They saw Dempsey and raised their weapons.
The Nazi had Gewehr and the Japanese officer had a sword. Easy for Dempsey to win. He ran around to the entrance of the building. He shot once, hitting a radio. Strange music began to play on the radio. Dempsey shot again, hitting the floor by the Nazi.
Now the Nazi began firing his weapon. The Gewehr was much faster than the Arisaka, giving the Nazi somewhat of an advantage. Dempsey dodged the shots and hid behind a crate. The American fired another shot at his enemies. Then, he felt his shoulder being grabbed. Immediately he turned his head to see a zombie biting at him.
Dempsey always had a knife on hand and slashed the zombie down. Three more zombies were behind the now dead one. One zombie's head exploded with a gunshot from the Nazi. Dempsey fired at another one, taking off it's arm. He could see the Japanese man coming into view and slicing the last zombie's head off.
The Nazi pointed out that more zombies were coming in. Dempsey pushed the crate he hid behind in front of the door. The Japanese officer lifted another crate and set that one on top of the door. The crates began to move. The Nazi moved a larger crate in front of the others.
A hand instantly burst through the large crate. Everybody raised their weapons. Another hand came, just in time for Takeo to cut both off. Dempsey looked up at his enemies. "Well, I hate to say this, but we need to work together." He advised.
Dr. Richtofen frowned, "Nor will I, but it must happen if ve are to survive."
Dempsey looked over at Peter's dead body. "You killed him!" he yelled.
"No! He committed suicide." Takeo replied. "We will bury him." Dempsey searched Peter's pockets. "Do you know about the transmission?" Takeo asked.
"Ya, I know about it. I… heard it on my way in." Dempsey said. "You must be Dr. Richtofen." He pointed at the doctor. "It said the numbers will guide you."
"What does that mean?" Takeo asked.
"Coordinates, they have to be. In the beginning and end of the transmission was coordinates." Dempsey suggested. He pressed the button on the radio. Again the transmission played.
"I don't understand the first set of numbers, but the second set, zey ring a bell." Richtofen added. "Tunguska, Russia, that is what they are."
"That's where we are!" Takeo exclaimed. "Why are we all here?"
"I was just sent on a mission to find Pe… survivors of the zombie apocalypse." Dempsey said.
Richtofen declared, "I'm here because of the Tunguska event." He took a deep breath and resumed. "Many years ago a meteorite exploded over this swamp. It had the power of a hydrogen bomb, but did not kill anybody because it was in the sky. The remains of the meteorite were said to bring people back to life."
"That explains the zombies. We need to destroy the meteorite!" Takeo decided. Richtofen thought, now zat ve told zem about ze meteorite, ve must kill zem! No, ze need zem to torture our patients! Fine, ve kill zem afterwards.
"Now that we have a goal, we need to get to that meteorite." Dempsey said. "This means we need to get past a lot of zombies!" He grabbed a crate and moved it away from the door.
That revealed the largest number of zombies they had ever seen. It was about twenty of them. Dempsey immediately killed two with a powerful blast from his Arisaka. The next two in the mob of zombies attempted to get in. Takeo stabbed one with his katana. The other one close to him grabbed his shoulder.
Dr. Richtofen shot that zombie's arm off, leaving it stuck to Takeo. The Japanese officer ripped the arm off and stabbed the rest of that zombie's body. "You really need a gun." Dempsey yelled to Takeo as he shoved the barrel of his gun into a zombie's chest.
Dempsey pulled the trigger, blowing the zombie away. Takeo was surrounded by three zombies that all huddled around the door. One of their head burst, leaving brains on Takeo. The next zombie fell to the ground. Takeo looked up and saw Richtofen aiming his gun at the last zombie by Takeo. He shot again, destroying it's chest. "Whoa! Look at that flesh fly!" Dempsey yelled.
Takeo came back to his senses and stabbed the next zombie. "Blood shall rain!" he yelled. Now the door was cleared but more zombies came down the bridge. "For the Emperor!" Takeo screamed as he charged for the zombies.
"Where is that samurai thing going?" Dempsey asked.
Richtofen's eyes widened, "Ha-ha! Samurai! I like it. I called him a power puff girl." Takeo reached the zombies, stabbing one straight through the stomach. After he pulled his sword out he slashed one to the left across the chest. Dempsey and Richtofen ran to Takeo, firing their weapons at one zombie each.
Now the bridge was clear. "What's that down there?" Dempsey asked.
"More children!" Richtofen yelled.
Dempsey declared, "No, the bridge stops and there's some tower."
"Oh yes, that is the zip line!" Richtofen added.
Takeo wondered, "You have been here doctor?"
Richtofen gained a worried face and said, "Um, yes I came here for research."
"Of the meteorite?" Dempsey asked. Richtofen didn't say anything and continued down the bridge.
"Dempsey! Bring the zip line to me!" he finally commanded. Dempsey grunted and began cranking the pulley, bringing the platform to the zombie fighters.
"Well, lets go." Takeo muttered. "Where does this zip line take us?"
"My office!" Richtofen exclaimed. "Maybe ve vill find ze Vundervaffle DG-2!"
"Wundervaffle? Really? You Nazi's are freaks." Dempsey laughed.
"Talk back again and I vill pop a cap in your…" Richtofen tried to say.
"Calm down before we kill each other!" Takeo commanded. "What about this Wundervaffle?"
"It is ze greatest weapon I've ever created! It shoots death straight from ze barrel!" Richtofen exclaimed.
"We might want that." Takeo said. He stepped on the zip line's platform. "Let's get on with this." The other two stepped onto the platform. Richtofen cranked the pulley, causing it to go down.
"It's starting to smell fishy…" Dempsey said as they descended into the swamp. The platform stopped in front of another building. They were right in the middle of dirty water.
"Let's get that gun." Takeo commented. Richtofen pushed the door open to reveal the inside of the building. It was like the first building, only there was a desk covered in papers. Right next to it was a soda machine.
"Soda? Is this a joke?" Dempsey said. "What does it say, Speed Cola?"
"Yes, it is quite good." Richtofen reluctantly said. He reached into the machine and pulled out a green soda bottle. He took a sip and gagged. "Mmmmm, death flavored." The doctor walked towards the others at intense speed.
"Whoa! Your legs barely moved!" Dempsey yelled. "Give me a sip!" He took the bottle out of Richtofen's hands. He put it up to his mouth, but the bottle disappeared. "What the…"
"You can't do that!" a demonic voice called out. The soda machine instantly disappeared.
"Who said that?" Dempsey demanded to know.
"Ze voices are back!" Richtofen cried.
Takeo's eyes widened. "This is getting scary." They all turned around to find the owner of the voice.
"Let's just leave, and find the Vundervaffle…" Richtofen said as he moved down the room. In the next room there was a box. "Here, one of my cases." He opened it up. Inside was a gun. It looked like a regular rifle, bit it had a strange barrel that looked like a claw. On its side is a battery like box.
The gun began to rise into the air. Richtofen's eyes widened. "No not again!" The Wundervaffle turned into and Arisaka, then a Gewehr, then a type 100, and then a teddy bear took the place of all the guns. The teddy bear was torn up, missing an ear. It had blood all over it's face.
"Hehehe…" a little girl's voice echoed. "HAHAHAH!" it repeated in a demonic voice, "BYE BYE!" The teddy bear disappeared along with the guns.
"Challenged by a teddy bear. I accept." Takeo whispered. The room was quiet again.
"So much for the Wundervaffle, eh." Dempsey muttered.
"Ze meteorite must be destroyed!" Richtofen whispered. "No, ze Giant must continue!" he said in an angry voice. "But we vill all die!" he replied in a concerned voice.
"I told ya Nazi's were freaks…" Dempsey laughed.
They were quiet again, when suddenly a window burst. Richtofen stood up and stabbed the zombie that broke it. "There shouldn't be very many zombies they probably think we are still in the other building." Takeo said.
"Ve need to keep moving so that the zombies can't find us." Richtofen suggested. "Ze flogger!"
"What?" Dempsey asked.
"It spins around and around, dealing death to ze zombies." Richtofen informed. "We could use it to survive!"
"If that's what it takes, we must use it!" Takeo demanded.
"Okay, I still don't understand. It spins?" Dempsey wondered.
Richtofen grunted, "Yes, it is a little trap so that nobody, escapes."
"It's almost like you knew there were zombies here…" Takeo added.
Dempsey didn't question, but had a suspicious face. "Alright, Richtofen, lead the way." Richtofen smiled widely and giggled as he skipped down the swamp. Outside the building, the trio could see the first building and where the bridge was. A countless number of zombies stood around that building.
Richtofen turned around to Takeo and Dempsey and brought his finger up to his mouth indicating to be quiet. They could barely see the swamp in front of them. The Nazi led them to another bridge on the lower part of the swamp.
Takeo and Dempsey closely followed Richtofen since they didn't want to get lost, especially with all the zombies. The bridge led to a small tunnel. "Finally I can see!" Takeo said.
"Wow, I dint know you Japs could see anything." Dempsey laughed.
Takeo muttered, "Do not drive my patience!" Richtofen kept moving, and the others followed back towards him. They stepped out of the tunnel to where the bridge ended. Now they were at the base of the first building, where the fog cleared.
Dempsey suddenly fell to the ground. "Don't lose your footing American, that's how you'll die." Richtofen said. Dempsey tried getting up but fell again. "No really, get up!"
"I can't I'm stuck!" Dempsey yelled. In the distance, they could hear zombies moaning. The sound got louder and louder. Suddenly, Takeo saw the moldy hand attached to Dempsey's foot.
"Theres a hand on you!" Takeo said franticly.
"Oh my! The flogger is just down there, Takeo, get that hand off Dempsey, I'll activate the flogger." Richtofen yelled.
Richtofen ran as fast as he could. They could see the hundreds of zombies running down the stairs of the building. Richtofen shot some, making the ones behind them fall. Meanwhile, Takeo precisely cut the zombie hand off of Dempsey's foot.
There was a gate ahead of Dempsey. On the opening of the gate were some boards with barbed wire around them. Richtofen reached the gate, when the flogger began spinning. The zombies reached the bottom of the stairs. "What in ze..." Richtofen muttered.
Just beyond the gate, Richtofen could see a man. The man had a stubby beard and a broad face. He wore a coat and a small fluffy hat, obviously Russian. He stepped back, leading a couple zombies away. "You are ugly! Like first wife!" the man yelled to the dead.
"He could help us!" Takeo pointed out. The left over zombies weren't smart enough to not run into the flogger. It spun really fast, knocking them on the ground, severed.
The Russian man walked into the first building backwards. The seemingly endless amount of zombies suddenly ended. Richtofen found a small box by the flogger and pressed a button. The flogger stopped, allowing Richtofen and the others to go past the gate.
The Nazi led them into the building. "Do you thing this guy could help us?" Takeo asked.
"If Nazi's and Americans can work together, a drunken Russian definitely could." Dempsey mumbled.
They got into the building where it was eerily quiet. The room was large and empty. The only thing in it was blood covered barricades, obviously some death happened here.
Around the corner of this room were light footsteps. As they got closer, Richtofen and Dempsey raised their guns. A zombie came around the corner, bullets flying, the undead fell. Another gunshot went off, louder than the others. The men turned around to see a headless zombie falling inches behind them.
They tried to find who fired the weapon. Sitting in the lofts above them was the Russian man, holding a sniper rifle and smiling. He pulled a flask up to his