CHAPTER 4

NEMESIS

CJ and Alex walked out of Zombotech with Gavin and Steven and into the streets of San Fierro. "Excuse me but why aren't we staying in there?" Alex asked in confusion.

"Stay in there if you like, you wont live long" Gavin said without looking at him. "There's a car there, let's take it"

So, Gavin walked up to the car, smashed the window in and unlocked the doors, he opened the door and got in, getting a pocketknife out. Everybody else got inside the car, Alex and CJ in the back, Steven in the passenger seat. After a couple minutes Gavin had hotwired the car and was now charging down the street, knocking down several zombies that were staggering in the road. He took a quick left and continued driving, almost casually through this city of the dead. Everybody was quiet in the car until Steven spoke up, "So, how did you manage to survive this long?"

"I woke up a couple of hours ago, in a hospital in the desert" CJ said, slightly distracted.

"I own the Ammunation store near where he woke up" Alex replied.

Steven looked behind, very curiously at CJ. "What type of hospital?" He asked.

"I don't know, it was very clean and white." CJ replied, confused at the question.

Steven turned to Gavin; "Él podría sea peligroso" He said.

CJ was completely confused at this, he thought it could be Spanish, but he wasn't sure.

"I vea qué tú medio" Gavin replied, also in the language.

CJ decided to ignore them and stared out the window to his right, he noticed Alex was rather relaxed but it was probably the best way to be right now.

Zombies flew past the car and over it as the drove down the street slowly, taking their time as zombies staggered towards the car in vain as Gavin avoided the burning and crashed cars, up ahead was Wang Cars that CJ owned, but there was lots of gunfire going on, they slowed down and looked on in awe.

Inside Wang Cars there were 20 odd men with guns, they looked well organised and well armed. Most of them were following orders but there was an obvious leader. He appeared to be 5ft 11 and had blonde hair, he wore a dark blue tracksuit and blue jeans. He had a shotgun in his muscled arms and was shouting orders to the other men who appeared very worried.

Across from Wang Cars there was zombie bodies everywhere and after a while the team in the car noticed a sniper on the roof, obviously picking them off one at a time for fun from his safe perch. As they looked at him he stared through the telescope towards the construction site and pulled his head back in shock and confusion. He had obviously seen something but they couldn't see it yet because of the fog. All the men at Wang Cars and in the car with Gavin, Steven, CJ and Alex looked into the fog, waiting for something to appear out of the fog, there was the odd zombie but far less than usual. Suddenly a huge, 7ft shape came through the fog, whatever it was it wasn't just tall but it was also big with muscle. The sniper shot at it but it kept coming, unaffected. He shot it again and got the same result as it closed in, it got to the edge of the hill when the sniper went to shoot it again, this time standing up when a rocket flew from the creature and destroyed the sniper and his perch. Everybody gasped in horror as the thing walked onto the road, knocking zombies into the air with its powerful fists. It jumped onto the parking area of Wang Cars as all the men shot at it, using all their ammo to kill this creature. The bullets had less of an effect on the creature than the sniper; it raised a powerful machine gun that looked like something from a helicopter. CJ gasped in memory, he had seen that when he went after the jetpack and he had also seen this creature when he went in for the chemicals. It was all coming back as the creature opened fire on the poor men inside the building, the glass smashed as the bullets flew into the windows and through the men on the other side, killing them instantly in a bloody display of glass, blood and sparks.

"Holy fuck!" CJ shouted in amazement and then fear when the creature turned towards them.

For the first time they saw what it looked like. It had large black boots, large black trousers and a large black jacket. The creature had huge teeth and was bald. It had a scar down its face and only appeared to have one eye. It growled loudly, the type of growl that you didn't hear but you felt in your chest. It began walking towards the car but there were too many other cars in the way for them to get away.

The creature began walking towards them in a menacing manner and all they could do was sit and watch in absolute fear of this monster in front of them. You could hear its footsteps on the ground because it was so large.

"What the fuck we gonna do?" CJ asked in desperation.

"Pray!" Gavin shouted back.

The creature readied its gun and was about to fire when a shotgun shot rung out in the area as the monster turned, a little blood seeping from its back.

"HEY!" The man who fired the shot shouted. "COME ON OVER AND DIE!"

He began to do some kind of dance as the creature walked over to him angrily, at this, the man started firing round after round at the creature to no avail. Once he had run out of ammo he ran at the creature, shotgun in hand, and started hitting the creature who dropped its weapons and grabbed the man by the head. The man screamed in terror as the large hand closed in on him tightly, he felt light headed and weak as the creature growled in malicious triumph.

"Turn the car around and be waiting for me" Gavin said to Steven and got out the car and began running towards the creature.

The creature saw him coming and went for a kick that Gavin used to place his foot on for a jump, it worked, he knocked the man out of the creatures grip and as he dropped back to the ground he used two 9mm to shoot at the creature, his legs outstretched. The creature grabbed his leg and through him into the air and into the front end of a car. By this time the man had ran over to their car so Gavin followed him, bleeding. The creature walked back to get its weapons and aimed the rocket launcher at the car as it drove off, he fired, sending a rocket towards the speeding car, the rocket exploded on the ground causing the car to turn onto its roof and slide down the tunnel.

The car stopped at the intersection, lying on its roof. Everybody inside lay in the car, unmoving, frightened that a single movement would attract a horde of zombies and doom them all. Nobody dared breathe as they listened outside, looking for any signs of zombies, there surprisingly weren't any in noticeable sight. So, CJ was the first to crawl out from under the car, he took out his desert eagle and looked around and then whispered to the others that it was clear. One by one they crawled out from the wreckage, breathing deeply to calm them down, knowing that they were completely exposed. And that's when it happened. They came from everywhere it seemed.

There were zombies everywhere, hundreds of them had surrounded the group causing them to run, as some zombies got near the overturned car Steven shot at the car, blowing it to smithereens. This affected some zombies but most of them were indifferent to the flaming car as they closed in on the group. The leader of the group at Wang Cars pointed to the road up to the motorway, the group followed him but he hanged back to let everyone past before he got out a grenade, took out the pin and threw it down to the advancing undead. There was an explosion and zombies flew through the air while others just fell down due to the shockwave as the group ran up onto the motorway. The zombies still followed them up so Alex got a car and blocked the way onto the motorway, it would only hold for a little while but it would be long enough.

CJ found a car and hotwired it, getting them all in and began to drive off into the deserted motorway, as he went he noticed a zombie so he sped up shouting, "DTA motherfucker!" as he hit it, sending it spinning into the air and landing on the ground. "Yeah!" CJ shouted. "Ten points!"

Everybody looked at CJ in confusion and surprise as their eyes twitched at his "fun". As they were driving along it was time to ask questions to the leader of the armed group. Steven was the first, "So, who are you anyway?" he asked.

"My name is Kevin," The man said in an Italian accent. "I was leader of the police force in San Fierro"

Steven nodded as he turned around and looked at Gavin, their eyes met but they said nothing.

As they drove along the now quiet motorway a large black helicopter appeared over the ridge of the motorway and flew over them, almost targeting them it seemed. Everybody was curious at this as the helicopter kept up with them and suddenly there was an explosion behind them. "Holy shit!" Shouted Kevin looking through his binoculars. "It's the creature!"

Everybody gasped at this as CJ drove a lot faster to avoid the oncoming rockets that destroyed the road in a fiery explosion of power behind them. Alex was jumping in his seat with fear to tell CJ to go faster, he kept repeating those words, "faster CJ!" as they did indeed get faster but so did the helicopter. Suddenly, one rocket came down that would hit them but CJ took a sharp turn onto a country road and managed to loose the helicopter in some trees where he thought it was safe to stop and rest his head as all the fear and anxiety hit his body now that the adrenaline rush had ended.

They all sat in the car for several minutes that felt like hours. Nobody said anything except for Gavin and Steven who exchanged the odd sentence in Spanish to each other. Deeming it safe enough Alex rolled down the window beside him and lit a cigarette for a relaxing smoke, as he dropped the ash out of the window a zombie came out from behind the car quickly and bit Alex in the arm, he screamed out in terrible pain as the zombie tore a chunk out of his arm and tried for more but was stopped by the window sliding back up. Suddenly the car was surrounded by zombies who tried to smash the glass as CJ drove off along a distant road towards Los Santos, he was taking them home, and he needed to find Sweet. As they drove Kevin took off his shirt and rapped it around Alex's bleeding arm.

"Don't worry mate," Kevin said with a smile, "You'll live"

It was a shame that at the time he didn't realise he would live to regret those words as they drove towards Los Santos. Steven and Gavin had a rather long conversation with each other that was completely in Spanish so nobody else could understand them. As they drove on the sun began to rise up on the horizon.

This was my longest chapter so I hope you all enjoyed it. R/R