Untoten Kreuzung
Chapter 37
The final chapter of Untoten Kreuzung. Woot! I got this far and I hope you all are willing to continue along with me in the next stories that follow them through two separate journeys, because as Richtofen said he couldn't guarantee where they would end up. So I took the liberty of creating two separate chronicles (More details at the end).
Takeo was left to deal with the replacement zombie and thus start the next round. Everyone rushed to their places and did last minute reparations before the next horde rushed in. This round didn't feature any more of the enhanced zombies, but that didn't make things any less perilous. Bullets flew into the walking corpses they tried to vie their way through the boards.
A few of the ones on the catwalk jumped down onto the ground floor posing a new threat to the five. This horde didn't require a shot from the DG-2 and the round ended normally.
"At this rate we're gonna need those perks." Dempsey warned.
"Okay so this round we'll leave a crawler and get some." Rune concluded.
Round nine came and went although slower than eight had. As planned they left a crawler to wander after them as they all traveled together to go for Juggernog first. The favored perk was in the room before the power room that Dempsey and Nikolai had opened. Dempsey was in front of the group and purchased first, guzzling the whole bottle down.
"Heheh, oorah zombies, let's see ya try to take me down now." He chided. Rune was up next and popped the cap on the bottle. The expression on her face when she first started to drink it was so odd it made the other four chuckle.
"Well, I can't say I love it or hate it, but honestly, I could go without another one." She admitted.
Up next was Speed Cola which was in the next room.
"Ah, ze best drink of zhem all." Richtofen cheered quickly getting first dibs on his favorite perk-a-cola.
"Bah, it ruins my buzz." Nikolai grumbled. Dempsey took his purchase and drank it as quick as he could.
"Oh, I'm very skeptical on this one." Rune admitted eyeing the green bottle. She popped the cap and before she could get the first gulp down an insanely sour taste invaded her taste buds. She retracted from the bottle and held it out like it was a poisonous snake trying to bite at her.
"God damn, that's fucking sour!"
Richtofen suppressed his laughter and had a peculiar facial expression.
"Apparently you don't mind sour in any other vay." He mused. Dempsey shook his head getting the terrible imagery out of his head. Rune turned back to Richtofen and gave him a dangerous look to which he only smiled and turned his gaze in another direction.
With time she got the rest of it down and they all went back to the main room where their crawler was awaiting to tear their shins.
"He's very persistent isn't he?" Richtofen commented twirling the copper wire he needed in his fingers.
"Let's just get the teleporter fixed and get out of here." Dempsey urged as they got to the elevator cart. The crawler made its way to the five as they descended back to the floor.
Richtofen went back to tinkering with the control panel and with a zap of electricity the teleporter came to life.
"Zhere ve are, home is hopefully just a button press avay." He chided. The other four men stood and admired their way home. Rune on the other hand began to have second thoughts and she turned away looking out the high placed window to the outside world.
A calmly placed hand on her shoulder brought her back to reality.
"Is zhere anything you vant to do before ve go?" Richtofen asked gently. Rune closed her eyes and thought for a moment, and then she looked back to the window. She instinctively pulled her phone from her pocket and looked at the time.
Fourteen hundred seventeen hours it read; the day was June 14th of 2012. She unlocked the screen and clicked the icon for her contacts and she skimmed through the list. Rune tapped on her father's number first and called it, knowing that she wouldn't get an answer. The phone rang three times and went to voicemail, so she tapped on her mother's number and the same happened.
She tried every number, but she always knew that no one would answer. The last number rang and went to voicemail completing her list of calls. She went back to the main screen and that's when her phone finally went dead and now she would be unable to charge it ever again.
"It's for the best." She muttered under her breath.
After a brief moment of silence Richtofen patted her shoulder and turned around to the teleporter.
"Come on Rune, zhere's no need to linger on ze past now. It's a new beginning for both of us." He assured calmly. She turned and saw the other three waiting on them to join.
The quiet was abruptly broken by the angered scream of Samantha in her demonic voice.
"No, no, no! You were supposed to play forever! I won't let you leave; I'll never let you leave! Especially not you Edward!" she cried.
Intense bolts of lightning struck through the roof of the building and, ignoring every rule she'd ever made, Samantha summoned hordes of zombies almost instantaneously. They were of every kind, ghouls, 115 zombies, runners, walkers, Nazis, Japanese, engineers, civilians and even children. They all formed in an unyielding mass that vied to tear out the very souls of the survivors.
"Play with me!" Samantha screamed.
The five pulled out their weapons and fired without a care of accuracy or points. Rune blasted them with the DG-2 and electrocuted ten, but a demonic cry reverberated in the room and the weapon was torn from her grasp and dissipated into nothingness. Richtofen pressed madly on the panel trying to confirm their destination and time. Rune threw all her grenades at the undead and they exploded with little effect as it did with the others.
"C'mon Richtofen!" Demspey shouted.
"I'm going as fast as I can!" he replied over the shrieks and groans of the zombies. They shot into the crowd until the last bullet and then they could only pray. A line of zombies was deathly close to them and they were hungry for their flesh and blood.
One grazed Rune's arm and nearly caught her shirt in its skeletal grasp.
"Edward!" she cried desperately. The final keys were pressed and Richtofen slammed the lever down. Sam screamed and the zombies returned with their cries of unholy hunger and terror. Electricity barred the entrance of the machine from the invading undead and they collapsed as they reached into the barrier.
Rune held onto Richtofen with all her strength, afraid to lose him in any way. The zapping and humming of the teleporter drowned everything out and for a moment Rune could hear a call from beyond time. It was a strange voice, but she felt like she had known it for ages.
"Mother, come home."
I hope you all enjoyed this tale, but there is more yet to be told with the five. As I mentioned above, there will be two stories following the five's trek after teleporting. Untoten Kreuzung: The Journey Forward will follow the five where they are still stuck in 2012. Untoten Kreuzung: Aftermath will take place where the five successfully teleport back in time. As for Eisernes Kreuz, well...I won't say anything crucial, but it takes place after Aftermath. Pick which one to read or read both and keep up with the two of them, but know that due to keeping track of one I might upload erractically (helped by my absence of internet at home). But let me just say that it's been awesome having people read and comment on my stories and I hope I shall have many more to join in following this tale.