Survivors: A Walking Dead Story
Chapter 25: War
Ben and Achilles disappeared inside the building leaving Connor and Morgan outside. Connor peeked out from behind cover. A hail of relentless gunfire hit near his face. Connor moved back behind cover.
"we're pinned down not gonna get much of an angle" said Connor.
"I'm gonna shuffle down a bit see if I can divert the gunfire" said Morgan.
"careful man, Alannah will have my head if you get shot" said Connor.
"don't worry about me" said Morgan.
Morgan carefully moved further down from cover; Morgan kept a close eye on the people behind the gate. The gunfire had ceased momentarily. Morgan reached the other end and eyed a car. He ran out of cover and dived to the protection of the car. Paul's people started opening fire again but luckily Morgan was safely behind the car.
The bullets pinged off the car leaving dents. Morgan aimed his handgun and squeezed off a few shots sending the soldiers scrambling for cover. Connor peeked out and fired off a shot hitting a male soldier in the side. The man was sent scrambling behind the RV.
Connor heard a door open. Connor turned to see Luke and Jane come running out to his side. They ducked behind the cover to see Connor. Jane and Luke pulled out their sidearms.
"Ben and Achilles gave us the run down they've gone to the armoury to gather guns for everyone, we thought you guys might need help" said Jane.
"thanks, Morgan's over there trying to divert their attention we need to hold them off till Ben and Achilles get back" said Connor.
"okay I'm gonna move down a little" said Jane.
Jane shuffled down to further divert their bullets. Jane managed to squeeze off some shots but was quickly forced back behind cover as the bullets came flying at her. Morgan managed to shoot a second soldier this one a male. The bullet struck him right through the neck. He grasped at his neck trying to staunch the bleeding, but his life quickly snuffed out. Paul turned and fired off a single shot into the man's head. Jane popped her head out to fire off another shot but only met a bullet in the shoulder.
"Agghh" shouted Jane ducking back behind cover.
"fuck you okay" said Luke.
Jane applied pressure to her bullet wound and tried to fire off more shots with her other hand.
"We're running out of bullets Ben and Achilles need to get back here soon" said Connor.
Inside the Factory
Ali was rounding up the innocent woman and children and ushering them into the cafeteria. Ben and Achilles reached the door to the armoury. Ben turned the door handle and pushed the door wouldn't budge.
"Hank you in there, the door's locked" said Ben.
There was no reply.
"we need to get in there we need the guns" said Achilles.
Ben stepped back and tried to ram the door in. He threw all his weight at the door; the door still didn't budge. Ben tried again the door still didn't budge and his shoulder was starting to hurt.
"move over man I'll show you how to kick a door in" said Achilles slightly pushing Ben out of the way.
Achilles kicked at the door using all his mighty strength. The power of his monstrous kick shattered the legs of the chair and pushed the door open.
"that's how you open a door" said Achilles.
"yeah, yeah, lookout" said Ben pushing Achilles away from the door a bullet whizzed passed their heads missing by mere inches.
"what the shit" said Achilles.
Ben peered around and into the room. He caught a glimpse of Hank unconscious on the floor. A tall brutish man stood in the corner clutching a rifle. A woman in the other corner holding a handgun with shaky hands. Ben quickly moved away from the door.
"two in the room, man and a woman Hank is down" said Ben.
"shit we need to get in there" said Achilles.
Just then Ali came running up to them with Bo and Jacqui, Bo was clutching his bow and arrow.
"what's going on" said Ali.
"two assholes in the armoury the new people, they took out Hank and took over the armoury" said Ben.
"shit what do we do" said Ali.
"any of you fuckers come in here and your buddy Hank is dead" threatened Michael.
"alright we got to save Hank and get the guns, Ali go and get a table from another room" said Ben.
"I'll be quick" said Ali.
Ali raced off to find a table and returned in under a minute it wasn't a particularly big table, but it was enough. Ben held the table in front of him.
"when I run in his aim will be divided to me Bo you take the chance and shoot him" whispered Ben.
"okay" signed Bo.
Ben took a deep breath before charging into the room. Michael raised the rifle in his hands and fired off a single shot Jennifer didn't fire at all. The bullet toe through the table but luckily missed any of Ben's body parts. With his attention drawn Bo quickly swung round into the room and lined up a shot, he released a single arrow striking Michael right between the eyes. His lifeless corpse fell the floor right next to Hank. Jennifer dropped the gun and surrendered.
"I'm sorry I didn't want this to happen" said Jennifer.
Jacqui stormed into the room and punched Jennifer with all her might knocking her to the floor.
"shut the fuck up, you could have opened you mouth and said something" said Jacqui.
"I'm, I'm sorry" said Jennifer.
She curled up in the corner not wanting to talk to anyone.
"Jacqui, you and Ali help get Hank back to the others see if Doc can check on him, me and Achilles will take the guns outside" said Ben.
Ben and Achilles started to fill up a duffel bag with rifles and shotguns, Ali managed to pick Hank up and swing him over his shoulder carrying him fireman style.
"I'll get him back to Doc and come meet you guys outside" said Ali.
Ben and Achilles raced outside they passed Tina was with Kaylee and Mary, they were making sure everyone was in the cafeteria.
"we need all hands-on deck you three come with us" said Ben. The three followed Ben Achilles and Bo outside.
The six of them came outside quickly running to cover.
"there you guys are, we're out of ammo but they've been too wary to move closer" said Connor.
Ben plopped the gun bag down everyone hastily grabbed a gun each.
Luke grabbed a second shotgun.
"I'll run this over to Morgan and help him" said Luke.
"alright we'll give you cover and buy you time to run" said Connor.
"okay go when we start shooting" said Ben.
The eight of them started to fire off a few shots sending Paul's people hiding behind the RV's. Luke sprinted out from cover and in no time at all was behind the car and handed the shotgun to Morgan.
"thanks' man I needed that" said Morgan.
"god damn it" said Paul.
"we need a backup plan, they're a lot more of them than we thought" said Daniel.
"god fuck sake, Daniel get in RV one with 4 soldiers and ram that fucking fence down" said Paul.
"alright boss" said Daniel.
Daniel soon scrambled away into the RV taking Alex and three other soldiers with him. He kicked the RV into life and accelerated crashing through the fence with a loud smash, the sound of metal hitting metal could be heard. The fence soon crashed down to the earth and the RV flew into the factory grounds sending Connor and his people scrambling away.
"shit everyone get inside now" shouted Connor.
They ran for cover Achilles helped Jane by letting her lean on his shoulder. A bullet ripped through the air striking her in the back. She collapsed to the floor gasping for breath. Achilles grabbed her shoulders and dragged her inside. Achilles leaned her against the wall. Blood stained the wall behind her.
"we need to move you get you to Doc" said Achilles.
"forget about me, get the others to safety" said Jane, she handed something to Achilles. It was a set of keys.
"these are the back-door keys to the factory, get everyone out of here, there's too many for us to fight off, I'll hold them off" said Jane clutching her handgun.
"I got some ammo for that" said Achilles handing her a clip.
"thanks, now go get out of here, a pretty face like you needs to live to fight another day" said Jane.
Achilles slowly nodded in agreement and left her leaning against the wall. Jane raised her gun to the doorway. After a few seconds a skinny person entered, it was Alex. Jane fired off single shot before he could react, the bullet pierced through the bottom of his jaw and out the top of his head. The young boy was dead. As soon as his body hit the floor Andrew entered the room and fired off a shot finishing off Jane and blowing her brains out.
Behind Andrew Paul, Daniel and their Jane entered all wielding guns. They slowly stalked the corridors eyes peeled open for any survivors.
Connor and his people tried to run for the cafeteria they needed to all get together. They finally reached the cafeteria and burst in through the doors.
"everyone gather everything up we need to get out of here" said Connor.
"we can't leave this place" said Kaylee.
"we have too there's too many of them, and they have better guns, we've already got wounded, I was stupid to think we could take them" said Connor.
Behind them they could hear more gunfire erupting out and the scream of a woman could be heard before abruptly being cut short.
"oh, shit Daniel and her little boy Sam, we must have missed them, fuck" said Tina.
Just then Achilles finally reached the cafeteria.
"guys I got the keys for the back door out of the factory" said Achilles.
"okay, Luke you and Doc get the others out of here, we'll stay here and buy you guys some time to get away" said Connor.
"I'm not leaving you Connor" said Jacqui.
"mom go okay I'll be fine; I'll find you again I find you twice already" said Connor.
"please stay safe" said Jacqui.
"I will I love you" said Connor.
They hugged tearfully as she left with Luke and Doc.
Hank had recovered and walked over to them.
"I'm staying to help" said Hank.
"okay you go with Mary and Tina work in a three" said Connor.
Connor and the others flipped the table over and prepared themselves for a fight. They loaded their guns. The small force of eleven versus Paul's people of nearly thirty. This would be the fight of their life.
Paul's people arrived at the cafeteria and started to fire off bullets inside. Paul, Andrew, Daniel and Jane kept to the back. Connor lined up a shot and fired taking out one of their people. They soon burst into the cafeteria in superior numbers they moved towards the tables and got into cover firing off more bullets. Ben managed to kill another soldier with a headshot. Mary killed another soldier; they had lost 4 so far only about 23 more to go. Jim was sat behind cover, but he didn't know what to do, he had been with these people for a long time, but at the same time they were killing innocent people, he was torn. Jim didn't want anyone to die.
"why aren't you shooting" said Paul.
"I know them I can't shoot them" said Jim.
"your fucking pathetic shoot at them or you're against us" said Paul.
"then I guess I'm against you" said Jim lowering his rifle.
Paul stepped forward to shoot at him but had to retreat due to a series of gunfire from Morgan and Achilles. He recovered and looked towards Jim he was gone he disappeared around another corner.
Outside the factory Doc and Luke were ushering people outside the back door, they ran around to the front of the factory where all the vehicles were. They saw three people stood outside an RV. Luke quickly dispatched the three of them and opened the door to the RV's.
"everyone on board, we're getting away from here" said Luke.
The innocent people quickly piled into the RV, Luke put the RV into motion and drove away from the factory, he didn't want to go too far.
Back inside the factory Connor's group dispatched another 8 people. Leaving just fourteen more to go. Paul, Daniel and Andrew had moved inside now. Mary tried to move to get another angle, but Paul was quicker, he whipped out from cover and unleashed a barrage of bullets from his automatic rifle, she took 6 bullets right to the chest and fell to the floor dead.
"shit Mary" said Connor.
A few of Paul's men were starting to retreat.
"get back in there we are not retreating this day, we kill all of them" said Paul.
"agreed" said Andrew.
They didn't listen most of the remaining soldiers fled. This left only Daniel, Paul, Jane and Andrew.
Connor ran out of ammo.
"shit I'm out" said Connor.
Most of them were almost out of ammo. Hank tried to get some ammo over to Connor but almost ran into a few bullets from Paul.
"shit they got the guns now" said Hank.
"we need to find a way to get Hank over here with the ammo" said Connor.
Suddenly Kaylee run out of cover with her handgun drawing all her fire towards her, Hank took the chance and ran towards them but the distraction wasn't enough, Paul saw it coming and fired a single shot striking the large man right through the side of the head killing him instantly and spraying brain bits and fragments of skull everywhere. His large body hit the floor dropping the box of ammo, it slide across the floor. It was just close enough for Connor to grab it without leaving cover. Connor reloaded his revolver. The box only had six bullets in it. Connor needed to be careful.
On Paul's side his people were also running out of ammo. They needed more but all the soldiers were in the cafeteria.
"Daniel, I need you to go in and get our fallen comrades guns" said Paul.
"alright boss" said Daniel.
Daniel came out from cover and moved towards the tables where his people died. But Connor was quicker he lined up his revolver and fired off a shot hitting Daniel in the leg. He was sent to the floor screaming pain at the bullet wound in his leg.
Paul was desperate he was about to lose his right-hand man. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small object. A grenade he only wanted to use this in a desperate situation. I guess this was a good time as any. He pulled the pin and threw it into the cafeteria.
"shit everyone get down grenade" shouted Connor.
Everyone dived for cover, but Kaylee was too unlucky she was too close. The explosion hit her with the force of a truck. Her body was flung backwards into the wall her body shattered; she was killed instantly. The explosion also killed Daniel his body was damaged just like Kaylee. Two lives snuffed out in an instant. Paul saw Daniel lying dead on the floor.
"shit I killed him" said Paul.
He looked around the cafeteria and saw the superior numbers.
"oh, fuck it Jane, Andrew we need to retreat" said Paul.
"what you're the one saying no retreat" said Andrew.
"that was before they all left us, now its just us against all of them" said Paul.
"well you can fuck off I'm staying" said Andrew.
"fine you were a loose end anyway" said Paul before taking off with Jane in tow.
Andrew continued to try and fight he had few bullets left.
"I told you I'd come back to find you people and take everything you loved all these gunshots gonna bring a ton of those fuckers down on us, in no time at all your gonna be up to your knees in shit" said Andrew.
"and I told you your gonna die" said Connor.
Achilles inched closer he wanted to try and get him. Andrew pointed his gun round and he pounced, he grabbed the rifle and pulled it away before shoving Andrew away. Achilles aimed the gun and pulled the trigger, the gun clicked empty. Andrew tried to charge Achilles, but he was too strong. He dropped the rifle and put his hands-on Andrew's shoulders shoving him up against the wall and ramming his head off it. He moved his right hand and wrapped it round Andrew's neck pulling him into the cafeteria.
"fuck all you people, you should have just left us alone, we could have been peaceful" shouted Andrew.
Connor stepped forward readying the revolver.
"this time you stay dead" said Connor.
He pressed the barrel of the gun against Andrew's forehead.
"see you in hell" said Andrew.
Connor stone cold gaze didn't falter he pulled the trigger firing a bullet through his skull finally killing Andrew and ending his reign of terror.
"we need to get out of here and find the others" said Connor.
The group quickly exited the factory and walked down the roads.
"how far away do you think they are" said Achilles.
"I have no idea, hopefully not to far" said Tina.
"fuck this day man, just shit, how did it go so wrong" said Morgan his hands were tense and clenched into fists.
"it'll be alright buddy; we'll find the others and move on" said Connor.
"I hope so" said Morgan.
An Hour Later
The group looked down the road and saw an RV like one of the ones at the factory.
"oh, fuck how do we do this" said Ben.
"there's a lot of blood maybe that means they're dead or Walkers" said Connor.
They nervously approached the RV blood soaked the side of the RV and the road around it.
A series of heavy breathing could be heard. They looked up into a nearby tree to see Alannah sitting on a branch.
"babe your okay" said Morgan.
"yeah I'm fine" said Alannah.
Achilles and Morgan helped her down.
"what happened?" asked Connor.
"we were driving when we ran out of fuel, the undead came from every side, we tried to escape but everyone was dying left and right, Connor your mum helped me up into the tree and then tried to lure them all away I heard her scream a little up the road, I don't think she made it, I'm sorry" said Alannah.
Connor didn't listen his eyes filled with tears as he teared off down the road the see for himself, he ran down the road to see a mangled corpse it was eaten beyond recognition. Connor fell to his knees in despair tears were flowing from his eyes.
"no, no, no" said Connor.
Morgan followed him and patted him on the shoulder.
"I'm so sorry buddy" said Morgan.
Connor didn't reply he just sat there in silence.
"we need to keep moving what weapons have we got?" said Ben.
Bo lifted his bow and arrows to show he had them. Ben and Achilles were carrying rifles. They were in such a rush they forgot to grab guns off Paul's men. The factory would be overrun now. Morgan lifted his short sword to show his weapon. The others were all carrying sidearms and knives.
"we need to keep moving" said Ben.
The group packed everything up and slowly made their way north. Ben leading the charge and Connor slowly bringing up the rear he hadn't breathed a word to anyone. They were off to parts unknown they needed a new home.
End of Chapter 25