Marlton was starting to get rather bored from sitting up in that cabin, he did however have some thoughts about the shadow of the city in the distance, he wondered how big it was? Like the size of a small metropolis, or the size of something like LA or San Francisco?, he had been to those cities before the missiles hit, mostly on science tours which had to do with his line of work, "hey Takeo, what do you think…" he tried to say something about the city, but Takeo just stuck his hand up as he was looking through his scope, stopping Marlton's sentence in its tracks, "what is it?" he asked confused, "the dishonoured, they are here" the warrior replied coldly, Marlton looked at the same area through his scope and saw exactly what it was.
A large horde of yellow eyes were walking up the plane straight towards them from the river, Marlton could identify what the zombies were also wearing, some were wearing Nazi uniforms, some of them where in civilian clothing, but others were in futuristic military dress, with an ominous logo in the shape of an A on their shoulders, however in the sea of yellow eyes there was some red and even some green, the red eyed zombies seemed to have weird metal looking devices on their backs and limbs, he had overheard something from Lennox talking about an exo-suit, maybe that's what that metal device was?, he looked at the green eyed zombies and what he saw kind of disgusted him, they had huge, infected, yellowish-green boils growing on their bodies, by their size he guessed they would be rather explosive in nature if they were shot, but Takeo then tapped him and took him out of his studying mentality, then it hit him, they were coming straight towards them.
"Guys! Zombies inbound from the front gates!" Marlton shouted down to the compound grounds, Dempsey looked out to where Marlton was mentioning and saw the faint yellow light as everyone else was in a frenzy, "fucking shitballs" he cursed to himself as he got his Thompson ready, "damn it! Can't they have come later?" Russman whined, he had disassembled his MP5 and now was trying frantically to put it back together, at the same time Decker and Lilith came running out of the factory, "what's going on?" she asked Stuhlinger who was next to Russman, "oh now you come back? those fuckers are coming!" he quickly said back as ran off with his AN-94, the new couple then looked at each other and ran to a wall which had their weapons leaned against, Decker grabbed his ASM-1 while Lilith grabbed her HBRa3, Misty who was also nearby noticed Nikolai sitting down drunk, "get the fuck up you drunkie! Zombies are here!" she shouted across to him, "ninety-nine shots of vodka! Ninety-nine shots of… wait what? Oh yeah zombies!" Nikolai snapped out of his drunken trance, putting his vodka bottle away and pulling out his PPSh, most of everyone were now on the battlements, with Russman lagging a bit behind due to his old frame, "where the hell are those bastards coming from?" he said as he pulled himself onto the edge, Richtofen then came up and pushed Russman out of the way a bit, "yes, where are they?" he reiterated Russman's statement, with a slight bit of excitement in his voice, "over from the city" Dempsey answered him, Richtofen saw the horde coming and a smile formed on his face, "are you smiling?" Misty asked him confused by his expression, "well it seems my little children are here to play" he grinned, pulling up his MP40, everyone was kinda unnerved that this guy seemed to want to fight zombies, "just don't ask" Dempsey just said out to the group, "yes my children, come to me, und die!" he laughed his joy off and turned to see all of the group were looking at him weirdly, especially Lilith who had a shocked look plastered on her face, she thought Decker had too much fun, but Richtofen? He was a new league entirely, "shall we defend?" Richtofen just calmly said, "err yeah?" Kahn just replied now totally creeped out by the German's persona.
Marlton and Takeo had already got their rifles ready, the horde had now come closer, they were only moving at a slow speed, so it gave everyone time to get into defensive positions, Takeo knew however that as soon as someone shot, the horde would be thrown into a frenzy and they would start really trying to kill them, Takeo brought up his Arisaka and looked down the scope, he placed the crosshairs on the rotten face of one of the yellow eyed, Nazi dressed zombies, he slowly breathed through his nose to steady his shot and after an agonizing second, he pulled the trigger, the bullet cracked through the night air and hit its mark, the zombie's head exploding into smaller chunks as its body fell to the ground a second time, all the other zombies flinched from the sudden sound and some of them screamed in anger, they started to run towards the sound which happened to be the compound, but they were met by a huge cacophony of gunfire emitting from the battlements, everyone was firing their guns at the horde and not letting up, with all of them covering each other when they needed to reload, Dempsey was currently pulling an empty mag out of his Thompson as he looked out to his right, seeing Nikolai pinning the trigger on his PPSh, and Richtofen was just beside him, with a large grin on his face firing away with his MP40, Dempsey then looked to his left and saw Decker and Lilith, firing away with their weapons and keeping close to each other, he saw Misty just nearby, just as a red-eyed exo zombie jumped up onto the section of battlement next to her, she just grimaced and shoved the barrel of her shotgun straight into its chest and pulled the trigger, the point-blank blast opening its chest up and sending it falling backwards over the wall, "fuck off!" she yelled at the dead corpse as it fell, Dempsey smiled as he turned back to now fire off his newly loaded magazine.
Lennox meanwhile was just pressing the magazine tube of his IMR into its reload position in the gun, watching as the bullets from the guns internal 'factory' ran into the magazine, he looked to see Stuhlinger just randomly spraying his AN-94 at the horde, with a large panicked look on his face, "hey conspiracy theorist!" Lennox shouted at him, Stuhlinger just looked at him with panic still frozen on his face, "chill" the paratrooper advised, however his sight was pulled away by Kahn who was below him on the dirt floor, behind some barrels with his Pytaek, "I think they're about to break through the gate's guys!" he shouted up to them, Lennox jumped off the ledge and landed in the dirt, the springed boots of his uniform taking the force out of the fall, he looked at the arch in the outer wall and saw the metal gate separating the compound from the outside being bashed repeatedly from the other side, "you may wanna come down here guys!" he called out to everyone who was on the battlements, Russman came rushing down to see the situation, "what the hell is happening down here!?" he shouted, as he finished his sentence, the gate came off its hinges, and the horde started to come through the opening, "oh fucking doo-hicky!" the old man grimaced as he pulled out his War Machine, managing to hold the horde back with his explosives just as everyone repositioned.
Takeo had decided that his Arisaka had done as much as it could as he finished his last magazine of rounds, "I'm going down there to fight" he said to Marlton, "wait, what are you…" the nerd tried to say, but was too slow to catch Takeo sliding down the ladder like some action hero, with his feet hitting the floor, he pulled out his Type 100 and unsheathed his katana and darted straight towards a small confrontation nearby, seeing that Richtofen was in a bit of bother he charged forward at the approaching zombies, firing away with his Type 100, when he got in melee distance he started to slash with his sword, dismembering limbs and heads with surgical precision, he continued with his actions like a madman, all the adrenaline and spirit going through his system keeping him fuelled, "from my great warriors hand you die!" he shrieked at the top of his voice, with a few more slashes and with the odd brain falling out of a de-scalped zombies head, Richtofen was free of the burden, with Takeo standing next to him, blood dripping from the cold steel of his blade, "danke Takeo" the German congratulated his comrade, however another zombie slowly came up on them, the two turned around to see that it was a green-eyed zombie, with its putrid green boils emanating a foul miasma, and with small green flames coming out of its exo suit, Richtofen brought up his MP40, but it clicked as he pulled the trigger, "scheisse!" he cursed as he forgot to reload, the zombie shrieked as it prepared to attack, but suddenly, its head exploded in a shower of green goo as it was hit from behind, the body went limp and fell in front of them, continuing to leak a ominous green fluid on the floor, the two men saw Lilith standing there in front of them, with a smoking HBR in hand, "you can thank my beautiful ass later" she welcomed, Takeo just smiled, "I see honour in this woman's soul" he thought in his mind, just then, Decker came walking in to Lilith's side, "everyone's fighting over there, come on!" he ordered, pointing to the direction in question, the others soon followed him back into the main fight.
Misty was busy wrestling with a zombie on the stairs which had managed to grab onto her arms, after pushing it away, she brought her Remington up and atomized its head with a point blank blast, "look but don't touch!" she taunted, but she noticed two more coming down the stairs for her, she pointed her shotgun and squeezed, but only got a click from the trigger as a response, she pumped the action and tried again, but still only got a click, she was out, "aww fuck!" she cursed as she tried to pull out her Executioner, just as Dempsey came in and riddled the group full of holes with his Thompson, "thanks" Misty replied turning her head, "no probs" the marine replied, "where's that drunk Russian?" she continued to ask, but some gunfire on the battlements answered her question, Nikolai was dealing with his own group, firing away with his SMG, "you were dead now, but you were dead before!..." he was saying, just as a click interrupted him mid-sentence, looking down he realized his PPSh was now dry, "ahh fuck you!" he finished what he was saying, pulling out a TT-33 to defend himself, Misty looked around and then caught Marlton running towards them, "Marley, what are you doing down here?" she asked him, "I'm out of ammo for my sniper, I'm just down to this" he replied, showing his Five-SeveN sidearm, Misty had noticed as she continued to fight with her Executioner, people were starting to run out of ammo, Takeo was down to his Type 100, Stuhlinger was using a KAP-40, Decker and Lilith a PDW and Atlas-45 respectively, and Kahn a MP443 Grach, but they didn't stop fighting, they continued on, hoping that the hordes would slowly thin out.
But they didn't.
Lilith was the first to run out, her gun locked open on its final mag, "I'm dry fuck!" she said in anger, Decker tried to protect her, but his PDW ran out not too long later, he turned and pushed her along away from the horde, Dempsey who was back to back with Nikolai and Russman was using the last mag in his M1911, Nikolai had already ran his TT-33 dry and had just broke one of his empty bottles into a sharp weapon, "don't make me fight with broken vodka bottle!" he taunted at the hordes, but Russman then dragged them away as his MP5 ran out on its last mag, all of the survivors had now congregated towards the factory building their backs up to the wall, Misty ran out of shotgun shells as her Executioner went silent, then Marlton's Five-SeveN, Lennox seeing the large wall of undead just kept firing, "Fuck you!" he shouted until his IMR finally ran out, clicking as its tube was dry, most of them where panicking, Nikolai was having his last shot of vodka, Takeo was considering his ritual and Lilith was hugging Decker rather tightly, however Stuhlinger then noticed that Richtofen had a grin on his face, "why are you fucking smiling?!" the conspiracy theorist spat out, "oh ja, you know what happens now?" he asked them all, "what we get fucking ripped to shreds you madman!?" Decker just grimaced back, Richtofen didn't reply, instead, taking the golden looking device off his back, and pointing it towards the horde, "oh my children, you don't learn don't you?" he said gently, the Tranzit and Atlas crew soon realized that the device was actually a gun, "wait, what the fuck is that?" Misty asked him in shock, "ahaha, you will see my creation, in action!" Richtofen just cheered, he flipped a switch on the weapon and it whirred with an electronic sound and lit up in a bright light, with three electric tubes being a major source of the brightness, he pointed the prongs towards the zombies which were now in touching distance and pulled the large trigger, a bolt of light shooting out of the front and planting itself in the chest of one of the lead corpses, the light burst out of its eye sockets and its body shook violently, with it holding its head in its hands in panic, then the energy burst out and travelled to the zombies right next to the target, and repeated it's shocking treatment and expansion, chaining along the entire horde, the burnt out bodies then fell down to the ground lifeless, with some wisps of electricity still emanating from their skin, Richtofen couldn't contain his joy as he laughed like a maniac, Dempsey just rolled his eyes, "oh good Richtofen your wonder waffle just saved us all" he said sarcastically, the other looked at him weirdly, "wonder waffle?" Lilith perplexed raising a brow, "its Wunderwaffe!, the DG-2 model may I add on, my glorious creation which I can always rely on with dispatching my demons" the German preached, "but why did you use it now? I promised that would be last shot I have" Nikolai said a bit annoyed, sitting down and hypocritically taking another swig from a fresh bottle, "oh, I just wanted them all to be in the same spot so I could show you its magnificence" Richtofen beamed, the others however just groaned in displeasure as they thought their lives were over, "come on, I did save you all did I?" Richtofen defended himself, "whatever you crazy bastard" Russman jeered, however they then noticed a weird sight, above where the corpses were laid, was a floating, glowing green box, it looked like some kind of ammo can with a belt coming out of the side, all surrounded by a green aura, "what the fuck is that?" Decker marvelled, Dempsey just walked forward and held his hand out to it, it suddenly disappeared in a puff of green light as he touched it, then everyone noticed they felt heavier, they checked their once empty mags and found them full to the brim, the Atlas group were really creeped out and confused, "wait, how did?" Lilith gasped, "don't ask" Misty just replied, pulling out some shells out of her now full pouch and thumbing them back into her Remington, "it's like a full reload" Kahn murmured to himself, "or more like magic shit" Lennox overheard his comment, "well we have ammo again, let's get ourselves prepared for the next wave" Russman ordered, "wait, they're all dead" Decker said confused, "remember, these things come in waves?" Misty reminded, "oh yeah right" Decker then stumbled and they all moved back towards their positions, except for Nikolai who had sat down with vodka bottle in hand, "what? I have to fight again?" he whined, "yes you do you drunkie" Misty barked back at him, "uurgh all right, all right, god this is more pain in ass than fourth wife" the Russian mumbled to himself as he pulled himself back up onto his feet.
But even though they waited for five, ten, thirty minutes and even up to an hour, there was no second wave, some members had given up on waiting and went back to doing what they were doing before, while others cleaned up some of the bodies of the firefight, Decker who was still on the battlements, was still looking out across the land, Dempsey then walked up and sat next to him, "that was a tough fight" he started a conversation, "you can say that again" Decker replied to him, then there was a bit of silence between the two, "you know, i always wanted to join the army" Decker then noted, "yeah, it's difficult but so kickass being a marine, taking it to enemy and pulling yourself though all the shit they and the world can throw at you, you are reborn as a god among men as I was told in my training" Dempsey told, Decker nodded in response, "so what stopped you from joining up?" the marine then queried, "well I tried to join up for Atlas' paramilitary division but I failed a goddamn drugs test, so I had to become a security guard instead, but after all the crap I've been through, Lennox did promise to make me a Sentinel soldier, but instead were all now in this fucked up dimension Oz and that girl put us in" Decker spoke, "what sort of drugs?" Dempsey probed, Decker just sighed, "I'd rather not talk about it, it makes me feel weak and Lilith already had forced it out of me" he confessed, Dempsey then looked over Decker's shoulder and smiled a bit, "speaking of her" he said amused, pointing in the direction he was looking, Decker turned around and saw what he meant, Lilith was also their sitting against the battlement walls, however she had fallen asleep, slumped over her HBR which was held loosely in her hands, Decker turned back to Dempsey and smiled, "I'll go put my new girlfriend to sleep" he decided, that being the first time he mentioned that they were together, he walked over to her and pulled away her HBR, leaning it against the wall, he then put one arm under her knees and another on her back and lifter her up bridal style, she ended up shaking a bit, "no mom I wanna just lay in bed all day" she slurred in her sleep, which made Decker smile, "I wish I could as well, with you" he gently said, he brought her back down to the ground area and walked other to some of the soft, white tarps, he laid her in some of them and then pulled a sheet over her body like a duvet, she subconsciously pulled the sheet close to her and wriggled a bit to get a good position as she slept like a child, Decker satisfied by his work however let out a yawn, he couldn't remember the last time him and the others had slept, it must've been on the plane on their way to Poland, he walked back over to the battlements to see Lennox standing there with Dempsey, "I think I'm gonna get some sleep now" Decker admitted, "you know what, I think I'm getting a nap as well" Lennox replied, rubbing his eyes, he then looked up to see Misty looking out in the distance on the battlements, with her Remington on her shoulder, "you guys still not tired?" he asked her, "nah, we can keep watch through the night" she replied, "ok, I'm kicking my legs up and getting some z's" Lennox continued, Decker nodded and they both went off and left Misty alone, she looked back out to the shadow of the city as a breath of wind blew her hair slightly, "what could be in those buildings?" she thought to herself, she decided she would tell Russman about it in the morning.
And unveil the big mystery in this new world.
Real life had to come in and delay this part, sorry about that, also I feel like the fight scene was a bit rushed, as I kind of struggle to fit in content in such a chaotic atmosphere, but anyways, the group will soon be going into the mysterious city and here is where they meet some new people, anyways hope you enjoyed and keep up your continued support, any comments/reviews which are left I do read and give me motivations, see you in the next chapter.
