Fall of the Pentagon

"I feel like I should be doing something," Miko said, standing next to a couple of Joe agents and regular military in the Pentagon subway station.

"You are just a consultant," Flint said, "Our zombie expert."

"Yeah, yeah… just make sure you don't let anyone in who has been bitten," she huffed.

A subway train pulled into the station, filled beyond capacity with refugees from Washington DC, people who had been displaced by the sudden zombie incursion. Many of the residential areas were completely unsafe now.

"Ok. Lets get these people processed and moved into the Pentagon," Flint said, "Trip Wire, get ready to blow the subway tunnels. We don't want any zombies following on the tracks."

Tripwire waved an OK, and set to work laying explosives.

"We have protocols in place," Flint said, "we are suppose to be able to stop these zombie outbreaks before they get this bad. Especially in DC."

"They got lost," Lady Jay said, "in the politics of government and big business."

"I wonder which of those is worse," Flint said.

Civilian refugees filed by Flint and the others, as military doctors gave each of them a quick once over looking for wounds.

"Not like it would have really mattered," Miko chimed in with her unwanted opinion. "We know this isn't a natural occurrence, and while these outbreaks may seem random, these zombies are being used like tactical weapons. Surely you've noticed that."

"Yeah, we've noticed," Flint said, "but the politicians refuse to acknowledge it. I think I figured out which is worse."

"Then you've never worked retail," Lady Jay said.

"Another train coming in!" Tripwire shouted.

"Were we expecting another train?" Miko asked.

"No, we weren't," Flint said. "What's it look like?"

"It looks full from here," Tripwire said.

"Get the first train out of here," Lady Jay ordered, "and these people out of the way."

"You can't rush the screening, getting the people moved is going to take time," Miko said, wondering when she became the one to slow things down. Jack must be rubbing off on her. Or the Ninja training.

The first train pulled out of the way just in time, as the second one screeched to a halt right behind it. It was definitely full, standing room only.

The doors opened, and the figures began filing out, but they weren't civilians. They each wore a green Cobra uniform, and wore a face concealing helmet with tubes that ran from it down to canisters mounted on their back of what could only be the infamous Compound Z.

"What he hell is going on?" Flint asked.

"Take defensive firing positions, damn it!" Miko said.

"Take firing positions," Lady Jay ordered.

The regular military, their guns already ready, moved into position to protect the escaping civilians from the new uniformed arrivals that were still exiting their train.

All at once, the helmets snapped apart and fell to the ground spraying Compound Z on the ground, and revealing grotesque half decomposed faces. Free of their restraints, and the constant flow of Compound Z, the freshly delivered zombie horde quickly became feral and with snarling growls, they began to charge the troops and civilians at high speed.

"Fast zombies? When did they get fast zombies?" Miko said.

The troops opened fire, but the bullets did little to stop the rushing horde. Lady Jay threw her a javelin, which impaled two zombies, but only served to trip them up.

"Oh, come on!" Miko exclaimed.

Flint fired a shotgun blast at close range, blowing the head of one zombie completely off. "Aim for the legs or heads."

As the soldiers adjusted their aim, zombies started falling, either being slowed by broken or missing legs, or falling from shots to their heads. It still wasn't enough. The horde started catching up to the straggling civilians, and the soldiers who misjudged the reach of the onrushing zombies.

"Tripwire, forget the tunnels, wire the entrance while we slow them down." Flint took aim and took down another three zombies, but he rushing horde was still gaining ground.

"On it!"

"Ill help slow them down," Miko declared.

"No, wait," Lady Jay was waging a delicate dance with the horde, rushing forward with one of her javelins, delivering a few lethal head strikes, then backing off again.

The civilians panicked, entering a full run for the stairs up. Some of the less seasoned soldiers followed them. The defenders were nearly overrun, when Miko activated the Apex Armor she wore on her chest.

The Autobot relic encased Miko from head to toe in an impenetrable suit of armor that more than tripled her size. She leapt up and crashed into the charging zombies. She waded through the horde, throwing them back across the tracks, and into the far walls as she went.

The zombies still saw Miko as a target, grabbing and climbing on her legs, trying fruitlessly to bite into the armor. Eventually more zombies built up on her legs than she could throw off, tripping her. Once she was on the ground, they swarmed her. Before she knew it, Miko was pinned, and unable to move, forced to watch as grotesque faces drooled and snapped against the transparent aluminum of the Apex Armor's helmet. Decaying boney hands clawed at the seams of the helmet. Panic began to set in; Miko screamed.

Miko heard gunfire being directed in her direction. Finally the horde climbing on top of her Apex Armor had thinned out enough for her to be able to move. She stood up shakily, and ripped the last few off of her face covering. The zombie's boney hands had dug in so much, that her helmet was pulled off along with the last few zombies.

"We've got to go!" Flint shouted, his back was back against the exit, barely holding the zombies back.

"Explosives are ready… ish" Tripwire said.

Miko ran for the exit, deactivating the Apex as she passed by Flint and Lady Jay.

"Let's go!" Flint shouted, running out of the subway along with Lady Jay and Tripwire. They found cover as soon as they were clear of the tunnel.

The fast running zombie horde did not pause to notice them, as it tore after the panicked civilians trying to run from them.

Tripwire detonated the exit to the subway, sealing the few zombies that remained down in the subway tunnels away, but the majority of the zombies had made it out, and followed the panicked civilians and soldiers into the Pentagon building itself.

"Well, damn," Flint said, listening to the echoes of gunfire that came from within the Pentagon itself. "Zombies as a tactical weapon indeed."