CHAPTER 3: Escape to Killington's Tower
James floored the SWAT truck down the street and took a left turn, trying to cut off their followers. Those docks are bad luck thought James as he U-turned down another street. Len leaned out the window with his Colt .45 pistol and shot at the zombies following them. He shot one in the leg, causing it to fall and for others to tumble over it. He cracked shots off rapidly. Len came back into the truck and slapped in another clip, then leaned back out and fired. Phil was gathering up ammo for his gun and loaded it. Dan and Chris were arm wrestling on a mini table stored in the back of the truck. And Greg sat in the passenger seat with James.
" So what happened at the docks?" asked Greg as he cocked the top of his Walther PP7 pistol.
" Don't worry about it." answered James irritated. He stopped the car dead in the street.
" Man what the hell! Them things are coming!" said Chris, him and Greg were african americans with buzz-cuts. He had a scar running across his face, and Greg was the calm guy while Chris was the tough one. The weren't brothers but best friends.
" Hey Phil! Hand me that briefcase in the back." ordered James. Phil was gonna question him about it but didn't. Phil brought up a long black briefcase with a skull stamped on the center of it.
James snapped it open and showed an MPG Rocket Launcher. It was long, narrow, and was loaded already. It packs a BIG punch for whatever challenges it. This time its the zombies coming their way. Len looked out the window and saw that the zombies were about fourty-feet away, and closing in.
" Forty feet... Thirty feet... Hurry up guys... Fifteen feet... C'MON!" yelled Len. He was ready to just run for it. James walked out the side and aimed steadily towards the mob of monsters. Paybacks a bitch James said under his breath. He shot off one rocket. It streamed in a straight line for the mob. It nailed the first one in the chest and digged in, not even a second later the rocket burst itself into a raging fireball and engulfed the zombies around it. One zombie got whiplashed into a windshield of a parked car, others flew through windows of cars. And most were tore up by this rocket blast. Smoke filled almost half of that road for at least a minute. Once it cleared only a few zombies were left, like about seven or eight. The team opened fire into the left overs of the creatures. Now a little were crawling forward with no bottom halfs of their bodies. Greg just tossed a grenade to them. The things blew to pieces sending gore every direction. Now the only thing left was the body parts and blood of what they call zombies.
The SWAT team piled back onto the truck and drove off to their destination of Killington's Tower.
" Why do we have to go there?" asked Len. " To give mayor Killington hell." answered James with a determined look on his face.
" Why though?" asked Len
" Because that bitch sold us out, he has all the snotty rich folks having a party at his building while all of the poor people are stuck being eatin alive." answered James. He showed him a lock cutter with the words " Killington Enterprises" on it.
" See it wasn't the zombies who broke through the fence, it was our damned Mayor." exclaimed James. They all heard a bang on the back doors of the SWAT truck.
Len aimed his Colt .45 forward and slowly opened the door, as they moved, and saw nothing. But stupidly he left the door open.
" Nothing here." said Len. When he looked back forward one of the things swung down and landed right on him. Len put the barral of his pistol into its mouth.
" Eat this asshole!" he yelled as he pulled the trigger. Blood splattered out the back of the truck, followed by the zombie. little bits of blood were on Lens spiked blond hair. James pulled over the car.
" Okay, we'll walk from here to the building. Len and Phil you guys go through and underground sewer route. Chris you're on your own and make your way into the building. Me, Greg, and Dan will post out in a bui;ding around the area and set-up a semi plan." explained James.
" What! Me on my own!" yelled Chris, James handed him a sports bag full of ammo and weapons.
" Now get over it." said James
" I already am." said Chris as he looked over his weapons with a grin on his face.
" Sir yes Sir!" said the opthers as they followed orders. Damn, and I thought this was a mission to kill zombies and NOT the mayor. thought Greg.
" So what do you plan on calling this?" asked Dan. " Just think of it as an escape to the building. Because thats where we will set up a safe area for us and the people." answered James.
Len and Phil walked over to a sewer tunnel entrance about thirty feet from the others. Phil picked up the cover and climbed in from a ladder, Len followed.
The sewer was pitch black so they flicked on their gun-lights attached to their SMG's they had with them. Len kept his Colt .45 in his holster on the left side of his legs. The two swooshed through smelly sewer water and down a passage to what might lead them to the tower. The tower they were going to rises higher than the Sears Tower and was as wide as it too. The building was where only the rich people would go. Not even the cops or SWAT were allowed to enter. This pissed everyone off.
Len spots something move at the end of the passage and fires. The shots light up the whole passage, showing hundreds of zombies curled above them.
" Aw shit." sighed Phil. He fired up at the zombies the bullets ripped through each body of the things and crumble most of the roof above them. Big chunks of concrete debris splashed in the water around them. Len and Phil splashed forward trying to run from the things, and the collapsing roof, to get to safety. If there was such thing as safety in this city that is. They made it to a ladder and took a few breaths, but they still stood in the water. Phil took a canteen from his black vest and chugged it.
" That wasn't so-" he got interupted by being pulled under the water by something. Len went to shoot down but his light went out. It was all darkness and all you could hear was gurgling from Phil struggling to survive by something under the water. Flashes of light would appear from Phil shooting off his gun trying to kill the thing. Finally all silence.
" Phil? You there?" whispered Len into the darkness. He smacked the side of his gun to get the light on. It flashed on, but just to show a zombie right in front of him covered in blood.
" SH-" it went dark again.
" Len? Phil? You there, over." James crackled into his COM radio headset. No answer. He tried again but no luck. James punched the ground and sat against a wall. They were hiding in a beat down old Subway Resturant next to the tower. Greg came back to the group with a Turkey Wrap and a soda. He bit a chunk of the Wrap and chugged half the soda down.
" What is it?" asked Greg
" Len and Phil are... Are... I don't know. They won't answer so they might be dead." answered James.
" Shii man that sucks." said Greg. He took another bite of the Wrap. Dan sat at a table reading an article about the zombie attacks. How typicle. But he turned to a page about the tower. It said ' Anyone welcome to Killington's Tower.' then he read on how it said they except everyone there. He showed James it.
" Hes bullshittin the people now." said James he grabbed the paper and ripped it.
" Hey asshole I was reading that!" said Dan. He stood up.
" Get over it!" said James, he walked away from Dan. They sat around and every three minutes they would use binoculars and look at the tower. James , with the binoculars, spotted Mayor Killington in a room on the 50th floor. James showed the other two. I should take is ass out right now thought James. He went to a table and picked up the briefcase with the MPG in it. He brought it over to the others and clicked it open.
" I'm takin' the shot." said James as he lifted it shoulder's length. He steadied it on the room that the mayor was spotted. He pulled the trigger. The rocket burst forward in a straight line and booked for the mayor. It smashed through the window and went forward more to a wall in the back, it collided with the wall and blew up. Huge chunks of debris went all over as the explosion rippled through the area, making it burn in flames.
Room next to the explosion.
Mayor Killington sat at his desk and read through papers. Suddenly the rocket blew up and half went into his room. The wall blew open completely and sent debris flying everywhere. A chunk almost hit Killington but he ducked under the table. Fire also ripple through the room from the explosion. He slowly rose up just to see debris everywhere, and the whole place in flames.
" Damn rebels." he yelled. He pounded his fist into the table and stood up. " Thats it into a walkie talkie Frankie take down the gates, were setting hell loose in Drango City." he laughed and threw his walkie talkie to the ground.
" I'd like to see them survive this." he grimced and walked off.
Chri ran down the middle of the street and straight for the building.
He pulled out two Uzi's. One for each hand. He swung the bag around his back and made it to the door. He put his hands behind his back and appraoched the security guard.
" I'd like to see an ID." ordered the guard, he put out his hand. Chris grinned showing off his gold teeth on three of his teeth.
" I got it right here." he said. In the same movement he pulled out the guns and poured led into the guard. He gunned him down and turned to see another guard firing shots off at him. He gunned him down to. He ran into the lobby and shot of a round into the air. Everyone scattered but guards ( at least ten) came out and started firing M16's at him. He flipped over a table and hid behind it as bullets flew past, kicking up wood, concrete, and lots of debris. Chris shot randomly into the guards direction. He hit one directly in the chest, the guy shot in the air as he fell. Bullets flew everywhere, but out the door Chris was actually happy to see this. A big group of zombies walked their way. While the guards stared at the zombies, Chris dove behind a doorway and made his way to in elevator. He heard roaring of a zombie as the windows of the building's lobby smash. Then gunfire started up. He went in the elevator when James called him in on his COM headset.
" The mayor is on the 50th floor, I repeat the 50th floor." said James through the headset.
" Copy that." acknowledged Chris. He punched in the 50th floor and the elevator rose up. About 5 minutes later he got there. He walked out the door and looked left then right searching for the Mayor. The lights flickered as he walked down the hallway, at the end he saw fire and pieces of wall in a pile. Behind him the elevator 'dinged' and zombies piled out of it. And a dead, bloody, and chewed up body fell out. He must've tried escaping through thbe elevator to tell the mayor what was happening but was followed. Chris hid behind a door as the zombies walked past. He was clenching a cross on a chain he had on. He rolled through the doorway he was in and stood up. He saw Killington behind a table crouched trying to hide.
" Yo man you ain't fooling nobody." yelled Chris.
The Mayor got up and put his hands in the air. " Alright alright you caught me." he said. But surprisingly he pulled out a pistol and aimed it at Chris's head. The pistol had a red laser attached to it that was dead center on Chris's head. Chris didn't let down his guns, he kept them aimed at the Mayor.
" You sold us out!" yelled Chris. " It wasn't me, it was you." said the Mayor calmly. Chris cocked back the hammer on his weapons. The Mayor calmly stood his ground. They looked at eachother, but were interupted by a pounding on the door. Chris turned to see what it was but when he looked back at the Mayor it was terrible. The Mayor fires, puncturing a hole through Chris's head, blood splatters everywhere. The Mayor puts the gun in his pocket and walks to the window then to the door. He kicks it down and runs to an elevator and dives in. He looks to no zombies luckily he was safe, for now.
