"Rise and shine people. Today's another good day to die." says Dugger as he walks among the group and wakes them up from their slumber. "How's it looking up there?" he shouted to the snipers who were watching over the group as they slept.
"I've got plenty of kills while the rest of y'all slept. But I left y'all some. Couldn't have all the fun." said Sven as he lay prone on top of the wrecked remains of the military truck.
"I kept them at bay, but they just keep coming. We're going to have to move to a better spot soon." said Kyon from his position behind the concrete barricade.
"Morning already?" said Storm groggily.
"Yep." said Dugger
"While y'all have been slumbering, I have scouted out ahead. Surprisingly enough, we aren't the only ones still fighting. There are others, I can hear the gunfire. I suggest we pick them up on our way to your safe house", said Dave as he walks to the barricade.
"Sounds like a good idea", said Dugger.
"Ready and waiting!" said Meiko.
"I'm itching for a fight," said Najee as rises from his sleeping spot.
"Shogou, what's the situation looking like?" said Dugger looking over to Shogou who was operating his radio.
"Not good. The city has been over run. There are Dead walking everywhere. My helicopter is at bingo fuel, they'll have to go and refuel before it will be able to scout again", he said.
"Looks like we're hoofing it from here", said Kanade as she checks and loads her rifle. She fits a sound suppressor to the barrel.
"Keeping things quiet, huh, Kanade?" said Dugger observing the attachment to her gun. "I prefer to get go loud, but that may come in handy later."
"Never know when you need to infiltrate something", she said with a grin.
"True enough", he said with a smirk. He opens the breech of his gun and feeds a belt into the gun. He pulls back the lever and charges the gun. The gun responds with a loud clack. "Alright, first plan of action. We will proceed to our safe house and pick up any survivors who may still be fighting. Once we get to the house, we'll plan our next move. Let's move. Sven and Kyon, you two stay back at a distance and cover us with your sniper rifles. Save your rounds though until we really need them. Use your side arms for close range fighting and shout if you need help. Kanade and Meiko, you'll be watching our flanks as we move. Keep your eyes peeled. Najee, Storm, and Shogou, you'll be up front with me. I'll watch our front with my SAW. Dave, you do your thing. Everybody understand?"
Dave moved off and vanished into the shadows.
Meiko nodded.
Kanade chambered a round moved into position.
Sven tapped Dugger's shoulder and went to his position.
Kyon rapped a fist on his frying pan. "I can't wait to fight!" He went with Sven and took up his postion.
Storm checked her bandoleer and moved beside Dugger.
Najee cycled his cylinder and locked it in place. He nodded.
Shogou pulled out his sword and the blade gleamed keenly in the light. "Let's do it."
"Alright, let's move!" shouted Dugger eagerly and with that the group proceeded down the street.
The main street was unerringly quiet. The sniper work from the previous night had cleared the street. Nothing moved. Dead or alive. The flames had died down, and there was rubble everywhere. The group proceeded along cautiously for two hours fighting off the undead who wandered the side roads and passage ways when the loud report of gunfire could be heard. The group had made it to a bridge. On the other side was the safe house, only a short distance from the bridge. Cars from the people fleeing the bridge were everywhere. The Dead were walking toward the center... Toward the gun fire. There were zombies with in some of the cars, banging on windows attempting to get out, others had taken notice of the new group and began walking toward them. The others proceed to go to the center.
The group stopped.
"What's the plan?" said Storm to Dugger.
"We take this bridge. The safe house isn't that far on the other side. There are survivors fighting on the center of the bridge, I don't know how much longer they will hold out. Their gun fire is beginning to sound sporadic. They need our help, now! Sven, Kyon, take the cat walks on the side and get a view of the scene. We'll meet on the other side. Watch our backs and watch yourselves.", he said.
They moved into potions and immediately opened up fire on the zombies closest to the group.
"As for the rest of us, let's charge. But watch yourselves. Our snipers can only handle so much.", said Dugger.
Meiko slung her rifle on her back and pulled out her swords. She laughed evily.
Kanade also slung her rifle and pulled out her CZ 75 pistol and combat knfie. She chambered a round.
The rest of the group pulled out their close quarter combat weapons and awaited the command.
"I'll see you all at the center!" said Dugger
"Banzai!" shouted Shogou loudly as he charged through the cars.
The rest of the group followed suit.
The Bridge of Death
Sniper fire rained down from above and covered the groups advance. Kyon and Sven fired shot after shot and with each pull of a trigger, a zombie fell to the ground with out it's head. Upon seeing that the group was too close to assist them with gunfire, they moved up and prepared to secure the end of the bridge. Kyon and Sven nodded to each other and also pulled out their hand to hand combat weapons. Kyon hefted his fying pan happily and Sven slung his rifle and pulled out his katana. "Let's ride!" He shouted and charged the zombies that had begun to close in.
Meanwhile the rest of the group engaged with the Dead closest to them. Gunfire can still be heard from the survivors in the center so the group can only guess that they were holding strong.
Meiko danced around gracefully with her swords. Each strike she dealt was a fatal one. Fountains of blood erupted from the limbs she severed. Her blades moved in a blur and all before her fell.
Kanade jumped on top of a car, crouched and with practiced precision pulled off head shot after head shot. She dropped a magazine and quickly reloaded with her speed reloaders. One zombie managed to come up behind her, but she caught hint of it just in time, and with a swipe of her leg, tripped it up , and drilled a bullet through it's head with her pistol. "Better luck next time", she said with a smirk. She jumped off the car and proceeded through to the center with her pistol blazing.
Dave, who was operating as a scout ran into trouble himself. He was watching the rear of the group to make sure that they weren't flanked. While he had his back turned, he didn't notice the creatures that had crawled up the building behind him. One of them jumped on top of his chest, but all of a sudden a shot rang out from the distance and the creatures heads dissolved from the impact of the round. Dave turned around suddenly. He was surrounded. "Hmm..." he said. With his MAC-10 in hand and his sword in his other, he engaged the creatures, all the while, some of the creatures were taken down by the unseen sniper. Soon enough he cleared the threat. He reloaded his sub-machine gun and pulled his sword out of the back of the last creature. "That was quite interesting. I'll go see who saved my life." Dave climbed down from his scouting perch and went off to find the sniper.
Meanwhile back on the bridge the group had almost broken through to the survivors holding out at the center.
Storm and Najee had separated from the group. They soon became surrounded by zombies. Najee had his revolver and Storm had her twin Glocks. For a while they held off the advance of the zombies untill Najee ran out of ammo. In the confusion of the battle, he also separated from Storm. All alone and ammoless he stood his ground. "I guess this is it for me. I won't call for help. I'll die as I lived. A beast." He charged the first zombie and took his head and broke it's neck. He turned around and kicked one zombie over the bridge. He jabbed at the next one, but it dodged his blow and bit into his neck. He yelled out, and with a mighty punch knocked the zombie back. They continued to swarm him. He fought valiantly until his strength gave out. He soon accepted his fate and fell victim to the horde. Storm on the other hand heard his cry but by the time she realized who it was, it was too late. Najee was gone. Realizing that if she didn't fight harder, she too would fall. With this resolve, her efforts doubled. Twin Glocks in hand, she spin around in a circle and fired all her remaining ammo. She tossed them at the nearest zombie and knocked it off it's feet. She pulled out the bowie knife that Dugger gave her and ran into the fray.
The Suriviors
On the other side of the bridge Shogou and Dugger broke their way to the survivors in the center. With their blades dripping with the blood of the damned, they approached the group. The others ignored them and held their ground firing relentlessly into the approaching horde. Dugger noticed one of the survivors. He appeared to be larger than the others. Almost the size of Dugger. He wore the armor of a special forces solider. In one hand he held a zombie by the neck and had him in the air, in his other hand he had an abnormally large pistol. On his hip was a similar pistol and on his back he carried an longsword covered in runes that few would be able to understand. It was already covered in blood. He put the barrel of the pistol in its mouth and blew off it's head. He shoved a grenade down the remains of its neck and tossed the now truly dead corpse into the crowed where it knocked over three other zombies, and with the detonation of the grenade, killed at least 8 others.
"Steel!" yelled Dugger to the survivor.
The pistol and machete wielding survivor turned to Dugger and said, "Dugger. Good to see you, man. We'll catch up once we break out of here. My group has been fighting for sometime. Glad to see you come to our rescue."
"Understood." said Dugger.
He walked to each of the survivors and see how they were fairing. He introduced himself. The survivors go as follows. Ashley, wearing to colors of her Southern pride, Old Dixie, wielded a sawed off shot gun. Around her position lay dozens of shells and even more dead corpses. She had a bloody cleaver by her side. It was evident that she had put in a lot of work.
The next survivor was an old accomplice of Dugger. His name was Shawn. He wielded a M-16 and a bloody katana. Spent shell casings littered the ground around his feet. The limbs of zombies who had got too close surrounded him. "Dugger D!" he said , "I told you I'd be ready when the time comes. Let's break out of here and set up shop."
"Good to see you too. Sven's here too, we'll meet up and the end of the bridge. Get ready to move out."
The next holding position was Carlton. His weapon was a shotgun, and judging from his blood spattered appearance and the amount of bodies surrounding him, he had been quite busy.
Khalid was next in line. He was the guard of the group. He had a makeshift spear. In a former life it was used to cut tree limbs, but in his hand, it became a deadly weapon.
The last surviving survivor was Joe. He had an old fashioned crossbow. On his back he had a quiver, and from the amount of bolts in it, it was evident that he was running low.
By this time, Dugger's group had broken through to the second group.
Storm was covered in blood and had a dark gleam in her eyes. He bowie knife was caked in gore.
Meiko had run out of ammo in her assault rifle and from the state of the blood dripping off of her swords, she saw a lot of action.
Kanade who had opted to stick with her pistol was fine. Although her combat knife that she kept she kept sheathed on her combat vest gave word that the fighting had been intense.
At that moment one zombie in particular broke through the line behind Storm. She turned ashen and backed up. It was Najee. He had been zombieified. Storm tripped over herself and the zombie pounced on her. Dugger who was observing the scene, jumped and delivered a crushing flying kick to the zombie. He stepped on it's neck. "It be like that sometimes, man." And with that, Dugger put a bullet into his head, and with a single swipe of his blade, severed the neck.
His comlink cracked. It was Dave.
"Duggernaut, I've tracked a lead on the cause of this mess. I'm with somebody named Yuki. She's a skilled sniper and she says that she may know how this outbreak occurred. We will meet you at the safehouse after we confirm this lead. Try and save me some zombies while you're at it."
"Acknowledged. Try not and get yourself killed. I don't feel like putting a bullet in your head at the moment. And I hope that Yuki girl has a good weapon."
"Ha. The same goes for you. She has a bolt action rifle, but she's very skilled at it. She's almost as skilled as I am. I'm off. Good luck. Dave out." The comlink went dead.
"Alright everyone, get ready for a final assualt, we're breaking through the bridge. Let's go!"
The group charged en mass and the made short work of the remaining zombies. When they reached the end of the bridge, they were met with the sight of dozens of dead zombies. Leaning against the side of the bridge were Sven and Kyon. Sven had just finished snapping the neck out of one zombie and pull his sword out of another. Kyon was brushing the blood off of his frying man. It was heavily dented and covered in blood.
"What took y'all so long?" said Sven.
"This was awesome!" said Kyon.
"We've been busy, and we lost Najee. But we rescued the survivors. Now we're on the way to our safehouse."
At that moment a 24-wheeled trucker stormed the bridge and flipped. It exploded and knocked the group off it's feet. From the flames emerged creatures that pounced with in a few feet of the group.
"Hunters!" yelled Kyon.
A lone figure emerged from the flames. He walked up to the group.
Dugger, Meiko, Shogou, and Steel took a step backwards.
"Told you I'd be back", said the figure.
