Inspired by the Left 4 Dead games. I don't own the games, its zombie names, and I also don't own Beyblade or its characters. Just my featured OC.
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Tala: 19
Kai: 19
Spencer: 21
Bryan: 20
~*Meeting the Locals*~
"I'm sure all of you know about the virus that has swept the city. Most of the populace has been evacuated, but some weren't able to make it out in time. It's our job to go in, recover what civilians we can, place our charges all over the city, and then get out before those charges go off. Any hostiles that you encounter you are to issue only one warning. One. After that you are to open fire and eliminate them. Try not to waste your ammo. Is that clear?"
"Yes sir!" The men replied as head officer Kai took his seat. He, along with his team, was heading to the recently quarantined city.
A recent epidemic had broken out, a disease that quickly swept through three major cities. In two of the cities they'd managed to contain the disease and rescue many of the people there. But in the third city, the smallest of the three, the disease had spread quickly, wiping out over eighty percent of the population. What few were left was quickly evacuated before the city had been sealed off. Of course, not everyone was able to make out and had been left inside the now blocked off city. Many people had quickly made their way to a phone, radio, whatever they could find to communicate with the outside world and called for help. The calls had kept coming in for a few weeks, becoming more frantic as the weeks passed until they'd finally come to a stop. It was only recently that one team could be spared to help whoever was left inside the city, if anyone was left. The team was young, and not quite as experienced as some of the other soldiers, but they were some of the best at what they did.
"Its looks like a wasteland." Kai turned to look at his second in command Tala who sat beside him, staring out the window.
"You'd never know that people had been living there only a few weeks ago. Now look at it." Kai glanced out the window to look over the destruction as well.
Vehicles were overturned, many bashed in or singed from an explosion. Many buildings had gaping holes in the sides of them. The less damaged ones only had broken glass or doors. Debris covered the road, making it impossible to drive anything through the city for very far. A few fires could still be seen burning in some of the smaller building. And every now and then a lifeless body could be seen lying around somewhere.
"It looks like a war zone down there. I wonder what happened to make those people start fighting amongst each other." Tala said softly as he continued to gaze at the barren city.
"Survival of the fittest. You see how high and thick those steel walls are built. Nothing within that city would be strong enough to bust a hole in them. People probably started to give up hope and began raiding supplies all around. Turf wars probably broke out and thus began the blood bath." Bryan shrugged his shoulders as he slowly moved his gaze away from the window.
"Who knows what we'll find down there." Spencer whispered as he looked at his teammates.
"Remember, be on high alert at all times. Never let your guard down." Kai hollered as they drew closer to the drop off point.
It didn't take long for their pilot to find a clear enough spot on one of the roads to drop them off at. All of them made sure that they had all their gear before jumping off the chopper. It was going to land outside the city and wait for them to signal when they were ready to be picked up. Once the chopper rose back into the air and cleared the city, everything became still. A slight breeze blew through the desolate buildings, creating a howling type sound.
"So where are we gonna start oh great leader?" Bryan smirked as Kai just rolled his eyes.
"The last transmission received was from a nearby bank. We'll start there." Kai replied as he clicked the safety off his gun.
The four slowly made their way down the street, picking their way through the debris as they scouted the area. Despite how eerily quiet and dead the city was, it didn't bother the men. They'd had to inspect the last two cities. Compared what they'd had to do in the two much larger cities, this was nothing to them. Dead bodies, blown up cars, destroyed buildings, it was nothing new to them.
They rounded a corner and eventually spotted the bank. Two stories high, plane grey walls, glass and bits of the structure missing. As they got closer they could see that the doors had been forced in as well. Without a word they split up into two teams. Tala and Bryan taking the upper floors, while Kai and Spencer completed their sweep of the lower floor.
"The vault was tampered with, but hardly anything is missing." Spencer called as he exited the vault.
"Papers are scattered everywhere. Bullet holes in the desks and a few in the walls. Plus some blood splatter every now and then. But nothing to serious." Kai reported as he glanced up to see that Spencer had found the portable radio used to call for help.
"Shit. This thing's totaled. Looks like whoever was hiding out here was either forced out or killed and disposed of." Spencer shook his head as he slowly stood back up.
"Anything to report up there you two?" Kai called as he looked up to see Bryan and Tala still rooting through the upstairs.
"Nothing on my side." Tala called back.
"You guys might want to check this out." Bryan hollered over the railing as the rest hurried to his position. When they reached him, the lavender haired male just pointed to the floor.
There lied a woman and her child. Clothes torn, multiple stab wounds all over, a pool of blood surround the two. But that wasn't the worst of it. Their flesh was an off grey color, sunk into to their bodies and pulled tight across their bones. In certain areas, skin was missing to reveal muscle, bone, sometimes organs. The stench coming from them was gut wrenching, but all of them were able to hold it together. But just barely.
"How does someone degrade that fast? It usually takes months to reach a state like this." Spencer muttered as he looked over the two. Being the medic of the team, he was the only one who could make any sense of it.
"Maybe it was that virus that struck the city. It probably sped up the degrading process, leaving only that." Bryan commented as he looked over the two again.
"Who would do this to them though?" Kai asked softly, referring to the multiple wounds on the two.
"Apparently we're dealing with some really desperate people here." Tala hissed, angered at what he saw now.
"We better move on. There are still other places that we have to check." Kai said as he turned away from the horrific site.
The other four slowly followed him as they headed back downstairs and out of the bank. To the south, a loud explosion could be heard. Shortly after that the radio began to crackle with static. Someone was trying to contact them. Bryan pulled the small radio off his back and began to mess with the dials until he was able to pick up what was going on.
"Hello? Can anyone hear us?" a frantic voice called over the radio. Gunshots could be heard in the background.
"Bryan see if you can reply back to them." Kai asked as Spencer nodded, already working on it.
"This is Blitzkrieg Team. We were sent to help you. Can you tell us your location?" Bryan could hear nothing but static and wondered if the message had even gone through.
"…..We're at the south end of the city! Near a convenience store and office building. Hurry we're being ambushed! Please hu—"
"The signal was lost." Bryan whispered as he looked up at Kai. All of them had heard the urgency in the call.
Without a word the four gathered their gear and began to hurry in the direction that the voice had told them to go. It wouldn't take them long to reach their position since they were on the south side of the city already. They just didn't know if they'd make it in time. The image of the mother and child flashed inside all of their heads at once, only driving them on harder. It wasn't long before they spotted a torn up office building across from a convenience store.
"No…" Tala whispered as he looked at the sight before him.
Bodies were lain out all over the roads. Most face down, blood dripping from wounds in their backs, legs, arms, wherever. The four just walked around, slowly taking in the sight before them. They had been too late to help. Too late to stop the massacre before them. Kai could feel anger rising in him. Blaming himself for what had just happened. Bryan was near a body that lied next to a radio. He knelt down, to try and see the full extent of the damage. Even though he didn't care to see it, he knew that he had to assess the damage.
"Don't move." A male voice hissed from behind him, holding the tip of a gun to his head. "Drop all your weapons now!"
The other three turned to see Bryan being held hostage. One by one all of the 'victims' slowly began to rise, pulling their weapons out from underneath them, wiping the fake blood off their faces so that they could see better. Bryan was pushed to the center with his team as a few of the people stepped forward to strip them of their weapons and packs. All the four could do was watch as they rifled through their bags, looking for something in particular. Kai growled as he watched this, can't believing that he walked into an ambush. Tala kept his eyes trained on the leader looking him over, sizing him up. As he glanced over him, his eyes were drawn to a particular spot on his neck. A dark mark, almost like a bite mark, was oozing and smelled horrible. Much like the corpses of the woman and child in the bank. The surrounding area was a dark grey color and his skin seemed tighter in that area. He looked over the rest of the followers and saw that they all had similar markings. Some in a more advanced state than others.
"Sir, there's nothing here that can help us." A woman called as the guy switched his gaze from the team to her.
"What do you mean there's nothing there? There has to be something!" He hollered as the woman flinched. Without warning, he aimed his gun at her and fired, killing her on the spot.
"What the hell did you do that for?" Someone else yelled. The man just turned and shot him too.
"Anyone else?" He growled. When no one answered he turned his gaze and gun back to the group. "How is it that a damn military team doesn't have a fucking antidote for this shit?" The man hollered as he waved his gun around.
"Antidote for what?" Spencer asked as the man turned his gaze on him.
"For the virus that's what! Why else would you be here?" The man hollered again as he glared at them.
"Our mission was to gather up any survivors and help get them out. We were told of a war breaking out in the city and that's all that we would have to deal with. According to our data, the virus wasn't active anymore. So we weren't sent with an antidote." Kai stated, trying to think of a way out of their current situation.
Meanwhile….
"I see the infection is finally starting to drive him insane. That's what happens when you're not careful." A girl sighed as she lowered her binoculars.
"I have them in my sights. Just tell me when." A smaller boy said as he prepared his gun.
"Tonya, Ian, a small group has just caught wind of the blood of the two killed. They're on their way over now." A voice crackled over the small walkie talkie Tonya held.
"Give me specifics Kenny." Tonya clicked as she watched the leader rant and rave more.
"Mainly a hoard, but I do see a Boomer in the group. That's all. No others in sight." Kenny clicked off as a thought came to Tonya.
"Ian, you thinking what I'm thinking." Tonya grinned down at him as he stood up.
"I'd say it's time for a little pay back." Ian nodded as he packed up his gear.
"Enough! I'm tired of all your lies!" The man hollered again as he shook his head.
"We're telling you the truth! If you just come with us we can get you help!" Spencer hollered as all guns shifted to him.
"No! No more! We're just gonna take your supplies and go. But first." He smirked as he lowered his gun, ready to execute them all.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" A female voice hollered as all eyes shifted to where it'd come from.
The girl moved her long brunette hair behind her as she stood there grinning at them. She was dressed in a torn purple tube top that only covered half her stomach. She wore regular dark jeans that had the bottoms tucked into black shin high boots that gave her about two inches. On her back hung a long range rifle, hanging by holsters strapped around her shoulders were two hand guns. Clips of ammo hung on her waist, as well as a few grenades and knives. In her hands, a fully automatic machine gun.
"Tonya, what are you doing here?" The man hissed as he trained his gun on her.
"Oh you know, just taking a stroll. Figured I'd meet your new friends here and show them around the neighborhood." She smirked as he growled at her.
"You know this is our turf. You're trespassing here." He grinned as he stepped closer towards her.
"Just like you were trespassing on my turf when you attacked and killed mine for no reason. Figured it was time I pay you back in full." She grinned as she raised her own gun.
"It's ten against one! You don't stand a chance in hell." He grinned as his finger tensed, ready to pull the trigger.
"See that's where you're wrong. It's actually two against ten, plus them." Tonya nodded with her head to the area behind them.
Stumbling towards them was about twenty people. All grey, all missing chunks, blood dripping from the various holes in their bodies, looking much like the dead woman and child from earlier. The people seemed to be sniffing the air, looking for something. Like hounds tracking down a fox before the kill. It didn't take long for one of them to smell the coopery metallic blood oozing from the two dead bodies near the group. The leader looked from the swarming horde to the bodies and finally to the smirking Tonya. Most of the followers were too frozen to realize what was going on until it was too late. The swarm fell on them, attacking swiftly without mercy. Tonya easily dove into the group, taking out her fair share with only one shot wasted on one of the zombies. The four guys didn't waste time in retrieving their ammo and taking fire, trying to help out as much as possible.
"You bitch! You led them here! I kill you for this! I kill you!" The boss hollered, raising his gun to Tonya. He just listened as it clicked repeatedly, signaling an empty gun. He'd used up too many rounds on the zombies.
"Hope you enjoy hell. Ian now!" Tonya hollered as she saw a flash out of the corner of her eye.
Ian took aim from atop the roof he was on and shot the boomer in his chest. The bigger zombie began to expand and Tonya wasted no time as she shoved the boss towards the Boomer as it exploded, making sure most of the spray landed on him. When the other zombies smelt the bile on him, they dove on him like a pack of wolves and began tearing him limb from limb as his dying screams rang out in the area, ignoring the other pickings for the time. Tonya waited until the boss finally stopped fighting, signaling that he was dead. She, along with the help of the sniper Ian, easily took out the remaining five zombies. Tonya was covered in the blood of the zombies, but it didn't bother her. She looked around to see that only the military team was left alive. All others had been slaughtered. She just nodded as she walked over to the boss and placed a bullet in his head before moving to the rest of the group and doing the same, salvaging what weapons she could in the process.
"You guys going stand there or help me salvage these weapons?" She glanced back at them as they just stood there looking at her.
"How could you kill him like that? And we're those last few bullets necessary?" Tala finally asked after a few minutes of silence. Tonya stood up, holding as many guns as she could as she turned to face him.
"Simple. One, he killed five of the people I was protecting in cold blood. I owed him. Two, he was about to kill you and I can't let that happen. You're the only ones who can help those I'm protecting. And three, he was bitten. He wouldn't have lasted more than a week before turning into one of those." She motioned to a zombie lying near her feet. She'd said it so matter-of-factly, as if it was no big deal to her. "As for why I put an extra bullet in those people's heads, if the brain is mush then they can't come back and cause us trouble. If the brain isn't in tact, then it can't be restarted."
"Thank you, for helping us." Kai finally said, taking a step towards her. Even if she'd just murdered all those people before them, he was grateful she'd spared their lives.
"These boys act like they've never seen a slaughter before." Ian finally chimed in, taking up his position by Tonya.
"Don't start Ian. Come on, we got work to do." Tonya said as she reloaded her gun and started walking. She handed off some of the guns to Ian who put them in a sack that he was carrying.
"If you boys wanna live, I suggest you tag along." Ian hollered as he hurried to catch up to Tonya.
This is just a preview for a story I'm thinking about continuing. But I want to see what everyone thinks first. So if you can please review after you've read all the preview chapters it would be great.
