Chapter 54 The Sacrifice
Authors notes: the time has come
Bill banged his thumb down on the button powering up the generator as it roared to live after several seconds of trying and failing, he then nodded his satisfaction as he ran back to his colleagues tossing a bile bomb as the bridge began to loudly lower from its raised position. The infected being distracted as the bridge fully lowered the span crashing down allowing them onto the bridge, "get to the bridge people!" He shouted providing covering fire as his 3 colleagues ran to the bridge firing as they fell back onto the safe haven. Finally he jumped on climbing up to the second floor of the bridge and activating the bridges control panel as it began to lift once again, however something horrible happened, half way up the bridge stopped dead. "What the hell happened why haven't we gone all the way up" Bill asked as he jumped back down to his colleagues, "that generator by the bridge has stalled its gone off again" Francis said realising the closest generator had gone off again draining the power from the bridge. "God damnit we can't give up now if we just hold of em off a little longer we might be able to wait it out" Zoey said as another horde began to charge there way from up the street screaming in fury as they did so.
"Someone needs to restart the generator" Francis said simply, as suddenly a loud roar occurred and they looked down the road ahead all absolutely terrified, coming their way was not one but three thanks all roaring in anger as they charged down the street towards the bridge. "This can't be how it ends for us surely" Zoey said tears filling her eyes as it seemed all their efforts had come to nothing bill closing his eyes deep in thought as Francis and Louis tried in vain to keep the horde back. "Guys I just want you to know if worst comes to worst I want you to shoot me before one of them gets me" Louis said looking down at the ground before suddenly Bill sprang into action tossing a pipe bomb. "Save it give me some cover" he said as he jumped from the bridge and began to run towards the generator, "Bill what the hell are you doing... Bill...NOOO!" Zoey cried in shock as the old man blasted away at incoming infected on his way to the generator. "You heard the man cover him" Francis simply said tossing a Molotov to deny the infected area as the old man made his way to the generator. He spun around as a hunter leapt for him a she caught it by the throat pointing his magnum at its snarling face, "not today you ugly fuck" he said blasting its head off and proceeding to the generator as the ground began to shake around him.
He banged his thumb down on the power button looking at the bridge with a somber look, "you guys are the only family I got, take care of each other, be safe get to the keys" he said as the generator came back on and the bridge lifted all the way keeping the infected from being able to climb after the other 3. "Have at me you bastards" he said as a meaty fist collided with his midsection sending him crashing painfully into a generator in a dark room the tanks standing before him roaring as he coughed up blood the generator impaling his midsection. "Hang on you sons of bitches I'll be right with ya" he said coughing as he lit another cigarette, looking up at the tanks with a grim look on his face, "you always tried didn't you, always came to try and kill them but you can't, they're safe now and there's nothing you dumb fucks can do about it" he said taking a long drawn out puff a the tanks simply watched him growling. The tanks then roared as they began to charge forward intent to finish the old man off for good, "I'll see peace back on earth... if I've gotta murder every one of you bastards with my bare god damn hands" he managed before laughing as the tanks fist came down on him punching the air out of him as he gave a final wheeze before succumbing to his injuries and joining the many infected that and died at his hands in the afterlife.
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"That's it I'm going down there for him" Francis said pumping his shotgun before Zoey put her hand out to stop him, "no Francis you can't do that, if you did he died for nothing" she said wrapping her arms around him. "No, he's down there and he needs us, he's the toughest old buzzard I know and he's in trouble..." Francis protested as Zoey pulled him into a hug. "Francis it's ok he did this for us, if you go down there he did this for nothing" she said as the man sighed defeated, resting his head on her shoulder as Louis simply watched with a sad expression on his face. "What the hell do we do now?" Francis asked as grim look appeared on Zoey's face, "we do what Bill told us to do, we rest up here for a while we watch out for smokers, but otherwise we should be fine, the horde will disperse, then we get the hell out of here, we get Louis to the boat and go... we look after our own" she said surprising the others but nodding their agreement none the less...
End chapter
Authors notes: and that my friends concludes the life of one of my favourite soldiers in all of fiction, I hope you've enjoyed the story as we have a few more chapters before we are done. Thanks for reading and I will see you all in the next one.
Goodbye