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Chapter 5
"Well, we're screwed." Eddie said while chocking dramatically on the outside air, "If I would've known they had done that I would prepared. The five of them were perched on the roof of the farmhouse. Below them were dozens of the undead and even further around was a broken gate with more and more creatures crawling in by the second.
"How can you take this so lightly?" Robert asked angrily.
"It's called passive aggression and I'm not taking it lightly. I'm just running the scenarios of how I'm going to tell the girls." Eddie said.
"Not well?" Alison said, studying the expressions on Eddie's head.
"Of course not." Eddie said sitting down, cross legged, and folding his arms.
"We've worked so hard," Vincent said.
"Right, five years and we haven't got a single thing to show. The livestock is eaten. The plants are trampled."
"Maybe we should be worrying more about the zombies and how we have no weapons than about your little accomplishments," Robert chimed in.
"You're such a buzz-kill…" Eddie said, "You're right though. If we can get into the down on the first floor we'd have enough fire power to take down this group and salvage what we can."
"What's our plan Eddie?" Alison asked.
"Well," Eddie said, reaching into his jeans. There was a slight snapping sound and Eddie pulled out a large knife. He then walked to a window right below the roof and jumped in, "I plan on killing them with this knife."
Eddie gripped the knife tightly and the cut his finger. He opened the small door under him, he was in the attic, and let the blood from his finger drip over the heads of the infected. The bait was perfect. Soon after the other four climbed in through the window and watched.
"Do we have anything of use?" Eddie asked.
"Are you insane?" Robert said furiously, "We're all going to die if we don't have a solid plan. GET IT! You have to know. Scavenging means luck. We need a plan!"
"I found some rope," Alison said, completely ignoring Robert's rant just like everyone else.
"I found a leaf blower." Derek added.
"I found some wires and gadgets. I think they might be of some use." Vincent said.
They collected the items into a small pile and marveled at Eddie who was studying the items intensely.
"I got it!" Eddie said while snapping his finger, "We can make some sort of rocket launcher or something out of the parts. Anyone know anything about engineering?"
"Ridiculous!" Robert chanted while pacing around the small attic.
"I took a couple years of engineering classes with my dad when I was ten," Derek said, "It was mostly small stuff, toy cars, toy planes, but I'm sure I could make something."
"Worth a shot, right?" Eddie said.
After several minutes of watching Derek break down the blower and reattaching it with the other parts he finally settled on something we could stamp on.
"I call it the super blower!" Derek said happily. His smile suddenly to back down when he saw the snickering and laughter of everyone besides him except Robert.
"Super Blower?" Eddie said with a full smile.
"Whatever," Derek said, also smiling while also lifting the 'Super Blower' onto his two hands and shoulders.
It was a great and creative invention. The way it worked was using some of the conductors from the electric junk pile he was able to amplify the sucking and blowing of the leaf blower. Inside the barrel was the rope attached to the knife. When turned on it launched the weapon attached to the rope, in this case Eddie's knife, and launched it the enemy. It was pretty novice, but it was the only piece of weaponry they had so it was heavenly.
Derek took the first shot while Eddie poured more of his blood over the hungry infected. Derek pulled the trigger and the knife launched through one of the infected heads. It went straight through. Eddie grabbed the rope and pulled it back safely so Derek could fasten into the barrel of the Super Blower.
He repeated this several more times until no more infected where there… only corpses, but this time they wouldn't reanimate. Derek ran over to the den and pulled the trigger once again and the knife went straight through the wood blockade covering the weapons. He kept doing this while the others pulled out the wooden planks with their hands. Inside the den was a large stash of weapons. Eddie oulled out the first weapon he could reach his hand in to get. It was a machete. Unluckily, however, Eddie pulled the machete out by grabbing the blade end. The cut was fairly large, but the adrenaline in his body matched the pain. He ran to the kitchen and covered his wound with a rag and went outside of the house.
It was a mess. The animals were all dead, but made a distraction so not all zombies would enter the house. Soon after the rest of the group walked out.
"It looks like we might be able to salvage the farm. With some wire and some magic we could fix the fence up. It doesn't seem like any zombies went into the zombies so we still have our power," Eddie said with a slight smile.
"Exterminate!" Robert cried put as he threw grenades all over the land.
"YOU IDIOT!" Everyone else cried out before the large explosion.
"Did you check in the store?" Tati asked.
"For a fifth time," Kylee answered, "Its pointless… he's gone now…"
"I'm not going to accept that," Tati said, "He's child. I'm sure he's just afraid and still doesn't trust us."
"Trust?" Natalie said, "This isn't about trust. It's about survival. Even a kid his age would know that."
"She's right," Giovanna added, "He does know, but there's a chance he's startled and still doesn't feel it's safe to go outside. Everyone's right and there's no point in arguing."
"You're right," Kylee said.
"Sorry," Natalie said with a worried expression, "Still, why do we need to find him?"
"To find Sami of course," Tati answered.
"Okay… but, even if we do find Sami what if she acts hostile towards us too? You can't call me crazy, it already happened once."
"I'm sure Sami will recognize us," Giovanna replied.
"Maybe she's like gone rogue or something?" Natalie said weakly, "Five years… alone. That's code for huge trust issues."
"She must've seen someone…" Tati said.
"Exactly!" Natalie said, "The person or people I guess must've messed her up bad. Eddie's her friends and so are we, but even then she might have switched her priorities. Attack first; ask questions later, but in this case it's more of rummaging through the corpse for supplies. I'm just saying we should have our guard up."
"That sounds like it makes sense," Kylee said, "How do we know though?"
"We set up bait…" Natalie said.
"What do you mean?" Gio asked.
"We find Aaron and ask him around the time when she comes by. If we pretend like we have him captive and if she really likes him we can get her to reveal herself."
"Quite the plan."
"I know! What a rush."
And so it was set. Stage of the plan was still needed to be completed. Kylee and Giovanna handled the east side of the block while Natalie and Tatiana handled the west. To the north and west were just buildings. Tati heard some sort of rummaging noise east of her position. It was the pizza place. Without telling Natalie she decided to check it out. If it where one or two infected she could handle them easily, however, what was really in store for her was much stronger.
Upon walking into the store a foot flew straight to her face and knocked her to the floor. It was the hooded figure. The figure picked up Tati's shock-paralyzed body and laid it onto one of the tables. The figure raised its hand to the sky and slashed down at Tati with a nicely crafted sword. Quickly Tati intercepted the sword with her hand. She screamed in pain and agony. It was enough to alert the other three girls. It also alerted someone else.
"Stop!" Aaron cried out from behind a booth. He was crying and seemed a little puzzled as to what was happening. Tati didn't fully understand either, but she did understand the pain she was in. The sword cut deep and definitely hit bone. If she hadn't intercepted it, however, her head would be the one cut to the bone. The hooded figure looked back at Aaron and placed its sword back into its sheath. She immediately jumped for Aaron, but was stopped by a bullet that if she were an inch closer, would have cut off her nose.
She held Aaron in her hands and now understood her demise. All three had surrounded her and were aiming at her head.
"Pull of the hood!" Kylee commanded.
"As you say," The hooded figure said before removing HER hood.
The woman definitely wasn't Sami. She was much older, maybe mid to late thirties.
"Mommy?" Aaron confusedly asked.
"Yes, baby, yes" The woman said as she embraced her child.
"You have a lot of explaining to do," Giovanna said.
Moments later the group was seated at a booth. Giovanna was stitching up Tati's injury while Kylee did the talking.
"So you're Aaron's mom?" Kylee asked.
"And a crazed assassin." Natalie chimed in.
The woman's eyes were filled with sorrow. She looked like she was… ashamed.
"I guess it is time to say the truth. If you don't mind… can I escort Aaron to a different room?"
"I'll be the on," Giovanna said reaching her hand towards Aaron.
"Thank you," The woman said, "I'm Aaron's mother."
"Yes, we got that," Tati said in a pissy tone.
"I am also an assassin for camp Claire Field. It wasn't the profession of choice, but my husband was a hunter and well, he taught me how to be good at it. At the camp they told me to sever ties with all family. Assassins were supposed to be loyal to only the camp. When I refused they killed my husband. I told them I would kill my son myself. I told them I needed a few days first. They didn't like it, but they agreed. One night I escaped and went back to our old camp. I left Aaron there and was his 'guardian angel' ever since. I just couldn't face telling him about his farther. Even kids like you could understand that. Aside from that I was assigned to a task. By now you might now about the things Derek did and why I had to kill him."
"Why can't you say you killed him?" Tati asked.
"No… this mission was personal to Adam, our leader, we wants his head."
"Are there other camps?" Natalie asked.
"Of course," the woman answered, "Gangs, groups, all sorts. The most common are the National Republic of America, or the NRA, and the Sequoia Devils. The NRA is kind, and usually does things that benefit the last of the people. They, however, are very unorganized and take no initiative, at least, here in California. The Sequoia Devils are like a gang, but much bigger. They control almost all of the Mojave Desert and various parts of both Nevada and Colorado. Their leader is still unknown and is a cold bastard. He is known to enslave and kill people. Camp Claire Field used to be run by the NRA, but several, I guess, rebels decided to attack that camp and won without much a fight. They elected Adam as a leader. He's sick and disgusting. He even worked with the Sequoia Devils."
"This is a lot to process…" Kylee said, "Why don't you just leave Claire Field and go to some sort of NRA camp?"
"It isn't that easy. The NRA is disorganized, but will follow orders, blindly. If Claire Field law dictates me as an outlaw NRA has no choice, but to capture me and Aaron as my accomplice. Then, under Adam's law I would be a traitor and sent to death. He has some authority and if you know history… you know that land gets you power and he has just that."
"Doesn't the NRA know that Adam is with the Sequoia's?" Natalie asked.
"Who's going to stop him?" The woman answered, "The NRA has all the right troops in all the wrong places. With Adam's team of mercenaries he could take down a squad. Plus, if anyone did tip off the NRA of him being in cahoots with the Sequoia's, they would be killed for treason."
"How could Adam kill anyone within an NRA camp?" Natalie asked.
"He doesn't have to. The Sequoias' can do it for him. They may be bad, but they have way better organization skill's than the NRA and everyone knows it. He could rally a troop to attack. "
"What if we killed Adam?" Tati asked, "What then?"
"Well, it's not impossible and if you can get the NRA to take the place afterwards you would be in excellent standing with the NRA. There are great perks to being a part of the NRA. If you think you really can do this I have the know-how to get you in and out of the base without being noticed by anyone. An easy kill."
"Why can't you kill him?" Tati asked.
"Haha, you think they would ever let me within ten feet of this guy. Even so, he has his guards. It's not an easy task."
"What do you propose?"
"The clever art of seduction. If there's anything a sick creep would like its young girls. I don't mean sex, but if you could get him alone it's a prime opportunity."
"What makes you think we could do this?"
"I can see it in your eyes. The same passion for vengeance. Like when my husband was killed. I vowed I would get my revenge, but was never able to with my son. I had to keep him safe, even if it mean I had to work under the orders of the man who killed my husband."
"Alright then," Kylee said, "What do we do first."