Authors notes: Lets get into the subways now
Chapter 3: The Subway
Zoey followed the three men out into the darkness of what looked to be an area leading into the subway, in front of them the floor had caved in showing a staircase below going down to what must've been the main lobby area of the subway, Bill dropped down to the floor below looking around and yelling in shock as an infected man charged at him from a dark area behind him, he gunned him down as three more infected emerged charging for him, "mother humpers... was hoping there would be less zombies down here" he grunted pushing down the stairs in front of him and groaning annoyed at the sight of many commons littering the ticket booth area dead ahead of them. "Red line north will take us straight to the hospital" he said lighting the last pipe bomb and pressing the alarm button before tossing it down the stairs into the horde of infected which mindlessly gathered round it until it exploded and sent their body parts flying all around in a large cloud of blood mist as glass from the ticket gates shattered and went everywhere, "last grenade... we will have to do some searching where we can from here on out, definitely gonna need more then that to get through the bastards on route to Mercy" he finished walking through the lobby area amongst the splattered body parts everywhere.
He looked around luckily managing to find a pipe bomb inside one of the ticket gates, he then looked ahead to the stairs leading up to the platform's spotting the sign for the red line north, "this way people" he said marching up the stairs and quickly gunning down several infected mindlessly stumbling around the platform before ejecting his spent magazine before taking a good long look around at the platform... his heart sunk as he saw nothing but destruction, fires and bodies soaked in their own blood at every angle, "looks like we really are the last one's alive in this city" he said sadly as the others came up to join him also saddened by the graveyard they were now walking through. "Come on down onto the tracks let's just get through this as quickly as we can" Francis said quietly jumping down and switching on his flashlight as he began to by pass a derailed train filled with corpses and further into a dark tunnel beyond the subway platform, the others took another moment more to mourn the dead before jumping down and joining him as well looking all around them as they were almost sure infected were down here with them. "Once we get up to the roof of the hospital what are we going to do about signalling the pilot?" Louis asked as they continued walking through the dark tunnel, "there will most likely be some kind of radio set up on the roof if it is some kind of evac sight, but chances are the hospital itself is gonna be swarming with the bastards by this point" Bill replied never taking his gaze from the path ahead as they passed more turned over trains burning furiously as bodies were mangled up in between them.
They suddenly froze as angry screams and shouts could be heard echoing off the walls around them as suddenly to their horror right in front of them a large herd came charging out the darkness right for them as they immediately opened fire, the pistols and Uzi filling bodies with small but noticeable bloody holes while the bigger rifle and shotgun boomed loudly blowing chunks and limbs off of infected and mangling anything stupid enough to be caught in their path, the horde dying quickly and messily as the group took the sudden silence as an indicator to reload and move on. The tunnel ahead was dark with only the occasional flame from some smashed up train car or broken wall or celling, stepping over the bodies they had just killed in self defence the four of them advanced onwards determined not to let the darkness of the tunnel put them off moving forward, Bill knew better then anyone that the helicopter was not going to be around forever sooner rather then later he was going to have to abandon the city entirely and leave anyone who was still alive for dead, Bill couldn't blame him though, why should he keep risking his life at the odd chance he would make contact with someone still alive and well.
Whatever happened he was at least going to try and lead them out of this shithole and not just lay down and wait for the nearest infected to come tear him apart and devour what was left for lunch, he survived Vietnam and he would be damned if he would let down all the men he was forced to leave behind in that hell hole, he owed it to them that he was still alive and thus had something to life for and stand by, his gaze glancing over the three people under his watch, his face saddened slightly as he could see the looks of despair on their faces, even the grizzled biker did not look happy in the slightest... not that he ever was happy, they had lost everything and he knew that for a fact, when he met Zoey he remembered her breaking down in tears screaming her parents were dead and that she had to kill her father... that he was bitten by her mum. "You call this a zombie apocalypse, heh don't hold a candle to the great zombie attack of 57" he said trying to lighten the mood ever so slightly, "what?" Zoey asked genuinely concerned he was about to tell them he had fought zombies in the past, "nah I'm horeshitten ya" he said with a chuckle which earned a small laugh from Louis and Zoey and a grin and a head shake from Francis... at least it worked for a moment... he thought to himself moving on right behind the grizzled biker who currently lead the expedition seeing nothing ahead of them for the time being as the tunnel stretched on for quite some time.
Up ahead the tunnel opened up showing both sets of track, the group was on high alert as they passed another derailed train currently burning furiously as bodies littered it from all angles, the tunnel up ahead was shown by the lights to split up ahead, with the left track going down a blocked off tunnel far to the left while the right tunnel went off to the right along a long thin tunnel which a train currently occupied, luckily the train had not derailed meaning it was possible to walk through to get to the next area of the tunnel, Louis suddenly yelled out loud as a hooded infected suddenly lunged from the roof of the train they were next to and landed on him. "God damnit another Hunter!" Francis yelled kicking the infected in the gut causing it to yelp and backflip off of the man before it could start trying to claw his insides out like the first one had done, he fired his shotgun twice which to everyone's shock the creature side stepped both shots and lunged for Bill... but the old man was not a pushover, he ducked swiping with his knife and gutting the infected in the left shoulder as a clawed hand had stretched to try and tear his throat out, drawing blood and causing it to crash into a wall yelping in pain and rolling back onto his front quickly. "Hold still you sweatshirt wearing little wuss!" Francis barked firing again as the creature lunged sideways round a column before appearing round the other side at great speed gut punching the biker and causing him to hit the floor with a groan of pain as the wind was knocked out of him, Bill and Zoey now also fired... but the infected surprised everyone as it used its surroundings and its insane agility to its advantage and swerved and leapt hanging off the walls and jumping between them as they attempted in vain to kill it.
"Damnit hold still you punk ass bitch!" Louis yelled as it took a bullet from his Uzi to the stomach causing it to crumple to the ground, Bill wasted no time and marched forward stamping his boot down on its stomach and raising his rifle as the creature hissed at him, he could see deep orange eyes hidden underneath the hood staring back at him with infinite anger that could never be cured, "there will never be a cure for you, you freakish son of a bitch, nothing except a good bullet in your ugly head" he said going to squeeze the trigger when suddenly Zoey and Francis yelled as a boomer had taken advantage of the distraction of his hunter comrade. He burped loudly before throwing up the green liquid all over Francis and Zoey, Louis shoot the creature which caused Zoey to be stumbled away by the blast as Francis groggily got to his feet both of them cursing at the foul liquid that clouded their vision and marked their clothes, "god damnit now this is some shit!" Francis growled as Bill looked back in horror his eyes widening as a solid wave of infected came charging down the tunnel from behind them screaming bloody murder.
"Shit look out behind us here they come!" he said before crying in pain as the hunter swiped hitting his shoulder before kicking him off and jumping back up screaming angrily before jumping off into the darkness of the left tunnel and disappearing like a shadow never to be seen again as Louis and Francis began to open fire on the horde, Zoey grunting and cursing a storm as she wiped the bile from her eyes focusing on Bill crumpled on the floor holding his bleeding shoulder, she pulled the med kit off his back and began applying disinfectant to his wound before putting a bandage over it as the other two men held the infected at bay. Once Bill had been tended too he nodded his thanks to the young woman as they both stood to help hold back the infected alerted by the boomer and hunter, the liquid that covered the two survivors began to evaporate as the gas also dissipated leaving them mostly free of the horrid fluid as the last infected fell, "god damn that hunter was quite the lucky fucker" Bill muttered as took some pills for his shoulder as Zoey grumbled about the stains now on her clothes courtesy of the boomer, "at least the smell appears to have gone and so has the bile of you guys, guess it only lasts a small amount of time" Louis theorised as the group reloaded their weapons and looked around them. "Yeah but I wouldn't want to keep getting thrown up on, chances are some of that stuff lingers on your clothes and if you get it too much the smell and effect it has on the infected would probably linger permanently, we want to keep away from those fat fucks as best we can" Bill said as the rest of them nodding as he began to lead them down to the train car ahead wanting to leave the area without anymore complications.
Once they were through the train they emerged in a still lit platform area but were presented with a problem, "god damnit the lines blocked!" Bill muttered as they looked around them for a way out, "alright no problem now we just got to get back out of the subway and up to the streets again" Louis said as Francis checked a dark room to the right, got a couple of Molotov's here!" he said loudly as Louis and himself took one each, Bill looking to their left at a door that seemed to lead up a flight of stairs, "going to mercy on the streets is not going to be the best choice for the whole journey but for now we don't have a choice let's head up here and see where we can go to continue to the hospital next" he said climbing up onto the platform area and holding his rifle tightly as he pushed halfway up the stairs. Looking back to the rest of his team he nodded the all clear once at the top looking into a dark room beyond as they quickly made their way up to him, "where in god's name are we in anyway" Francis grumbled, "underneath a office building off some sorts where freight worked come down here to work on the tracks at night when the lines off" Louis explained as they pushed through the dark room seeing another stairwell at the other end of the room as graffiti littered the walls as they pushed for the stairs ahead, Zoey nervously following the men as she dreaded what lied on the path ahead...
End Chapter
Authors notes: sorry everyone I know I said this one would be soon after the last but sometimes it is difficult to find the concentration to get these finished sometimes, I hope you will continue to bear with me as I promise I have not given up on this at all and more is coming, for now I just wish to thank you all for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you all in the next one soon.
Have a great day