[Play The Walking Dead's theme]
The intro of the story first starts with a quick view of the spot on the stairs that Takashi and Jack would meet at, before showing the gates of the school as they moved, but there's no one to move it.
We then switch to showing the hallways of the school. Bloodied and with the bodies of the students that didn't make it. But still no zombies. The scene is then cut to a dead person's watch, which was a Smart Watch as it glowed. Besides the watch was the name Jack Recker.
A boken is stabbed into a grass field, with the camera focused on it, and the background blurred out. Saeko Busujima is spelled on the wooden sword's blade. The camera then focuses on the background, showing that it was the city.
A gas station was then shown from afar with only the light shining it into view. Cutting quickly to a view of a bloodied handle baseball bat, the viewer sees the name Takashi Komuro next to it. Cutting quickly away from it, Rei Miyamoto is spelled next to her makeshift spear, that was leaning against the outside of the bus.
After a few shots of the city, we cut to a lone pistol on the ground with Kohta Hirano spelled next to it. The camera shifts and moves up to show that it was laying right in front of the gates of the Takagi house. With Saya Takagi appearing above it.
A lone medical bag with the name Shizuka Marikawa near it is seen in an empty room. A teddy bear is seen on the road with the names of Alice Maerasto and Zero near it.
As the intro was about to come to a close, it's final shot was on a wall that had the symbol of the Division spray-painted on it. Then the words Cowboy Alchemist presents appeared on screen, before it cuts to black, and the title is shown.
"The Living Dead"
Act 6: Battle against the Living Dead
"Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream~ merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream~" Kohta and Alice sang together, as the young girl sat on his lap. They were both sitting on top of the Humvee. Above them was Jack's old shirt that was now clean, Takashi's pants and Alice's underwear was hanging on the antenna of the Humvee. "Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream~ merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream~"
As the morning came the next day, Shizuka was driving the Humvee through the water of the river to get to the other side. Luckily the vehicle was more than capable of handling the trek across. The only one awake with Kohta, Alice, and Shizuka was Saya. Meanwhile, in the backseat of the Humvee, Rei, Takashi, Jack, and Saeko were still asleep together.
The pinkette was standing up and had her upper body through the hold in the roof, searching around for danger. "Come on, let's sing it again!" Alice said.
"Okay," said Kohta. The two began to sing again. "Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream~ merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream~" Normally, Saya would get really annoyed by their singing. However, she didn't mind, as long as Alice didn't bug her. "Alright, now the filth version."
"Okay."
Kohta grinned and sang. "Shoot, shoot, shoot your gun, kill them all right now~ Bang, bang, bang, bang, life is but a scream~
Alice laughed despite the crude song lyrics. "That's great, Kohta!" she exclaimed, while Saya was having none of it.
So, when Kohta grinned with the sun reflecting off his lenses, she slammed her hand on the car and glared. "Hey, fatass, don't teach a little kid a filth song like that! GOT IT! Don't bastardize mother goose!"
Kohta smiled sheepishly and said nervously, "okay."
Shizuka then looked behind her seat at the sleeping teens. "Wake up, everyone!" she called, waking Rei up as she opened her eyes. "We'll get to the other side soon!"
Rei sat up and looked at Takashi. She had been sleeping on his chest the night and he'd held her by placing a hand on her side. Blushing as she remembered it, Rei's attention was then caught by something that made her smirk.
Jack was sound asleep with his head resting on the back of his sleep. After a long night of surviving and rescuing Alice, he was knocked out the moment he sat back. However, at some time during the night, Saeko had moved in her sleep and was now lying on her side, with her head on his lap, drooling on his leg while Jack unknowing had his left hand on her head.
Then Takashi had woken up and groaned. "What's going on," he asked, shaking his head.
"Oh, just Jack enjoying himself," Rei said, pointing at the two sleeping teens beside them. When Takashi saw it too, he grew a smirk as well.
While it was funny to see their friends in that position, the former couple was happy to see Jack and Saeko and it was kind of adorable to see them like that. Even Rei wasn't blind to Saeko's harsh treatment of the agent and how depressed he was because of it. She often wondered why he was still in love with her despite it all but decided to let him figure it out on his own. But then, ever since they got back to the bus after going to Jack's apartment, the two have not only gotten along really well but have gotten exceptionally close to one another.
Shizuka drove the Humvee up onto the riverbank, with a steep embankment in front of them that they'll have to drive up. Saya looked around for any signs of the Dead. They were now on the upper-class side of the Onbetsu River. They didn't cross the bridge because they didn't want to risk an encounter with the LMB or the police. Luckily the water was shallow in this area, and the private military wasn't watching the area.
But as she looked around for the Dead or any signs of life, she was met with nothing. "That's weird," she said to Kohta, as he had out his SCAR-H ready. "There's no one. Living or Dead."
Jack woke up with a loud yawn. "Morning," he said in a groggy voice and rubbed his eyes with his right hand.
"Must be nice, buddy," Takashi said with a teasing grin.
"What're you talking…about…?" Jack asked, but then he looked down saw Saeko's head suggestively on his lap and his face lit up like a Christmas tree.
That's when Saeko woke up, moaning as she lifted her head off Jack's lap and looked around. Not having realized where she was sleeping. With some drool still on her chin, she looked up at Jack.
"Ah, Saeko, um…" Jack struggled to put words into a sentence as he stared at her with wide eyes and a blush on his checks.
"Comfortable?" Rei teasingly asked.
After a moment, Saeko realized the position she was in and her eyes widened with her face turning red with embarrassment. She gasped and shot up moved as far away for him as possible, having been more embarrassed than she's ever been, while her heart was beating rapidly, and her face flushed.
Jack had also tried to move away, but Takashi simply stopped him and was gently pushing the agent towards Saeko. "Come on, I know you two want to be close to each other," he said, trying not to laugh.
"Knock it off!" the agent exclaimed in anger and embarrassment, push back Takashi. Saeko tried her best to calm herself but couldn't. Not just because of the situation, she woke up in, but also because it was Jack. She couldn't explain it, but something about the fact it was Jack made it so harder to calm her embarrassment. "Let's get out."
Takashi stopped and nodded. "You're right."
"Why?" asked Rei.
"We're on the other side of the river, plus…" Jack looked over Rei's attire, before glancing Saeko, who looked away with a blush on her face. "We're going to the Base of Operations, and do you really want to look like you came out of your bedroom?"
The group out of the Humvee and walked around the vehicle for a moment. With all his gear brought out to the front of it and his Honey Badger in hand, Jack jumped up onto the hood of the Humvee and radioed Watanabe.
"Watanabe? This is Recker. We're across the river and are on the embankment."
"Copy, Recker. Any trouble getting across?"
"None. The Humvee we used was about to get us across. What's the situation at the Base?"
"The situation is good but be careful on your way to the base. We've been getting reports of multiple hordes of Dead on the road."
"Roger that. Recker out," Jack said and ended the call.
"Hey, Komuro. Give me a hand," said Kohta from the roof, as Alice was sitting on the edge. "I'll let Alice down."
Takashi reached up for Alice as Kohta picked her up and was about to hand her to him. But the girl pushed her skirt down to cover what was underneath. "Don't look! Don't look!" She stammered.
Jack looked at the antenna that had her underwear still hanging for it like a flag and immediately understood. "I'll take her," he said, putting the PDW down and walking towards the roof. Kohta placed her back down on the Humvee, before Jack took her hand with a smile. "I'll get you down."
As Saeko watched Jack help down the young girl step down onto the hood of the Humvee, a smile formed on her face. With her mind was no longer clouded by her aggression and realizing that she never truly hated him, Saeko finally was able to see the kind man that he really was. Having a true chance to know him, she found out that Jack never deserved the pain and hatred that she's given him in the past.
He was kind to kids, was brave when he needed to be, skilled with guns, was able to confront a problem, and was tendered to his friends. Not to mention that he was very handsome.
Saeko's eyes widened when she thought of that last part, and again, her face went red. 'Where'd that come from?!'
Jack jumped down from the Humvee with Alice piggyback on him. After setting her, Rei walked over to the young girl and placed a hand on her shoulder. "We're going to get dressed, so don't you dare look," she said firmly.
"Lady, I'm ready to die young, but we don't have a death wish," Jack said, as Takashi walked over and Kohta getting off the car. The brown-haired boy was with Jack, while the chubby one gave a devilish grin.
"So, what did you learn about Alice," Jack of the girls walked to the back the Humvee, where Rei slipped Alice's now clean underwear on the little girl.
"Alice?" asked Takashi.
"That's her name, Alice Maresato," Kohta said. "Her father's that newspaper reporter…" Kohta paused for a moment. Looking away and down at the ground with a grim expression. "He was a newspaper reporter." Jack sighed as he was sitting on the hood of the Humvee, remembering last night when he stared at the corpse of the father.
"What about her mother," asked Takashi.
"She said that her father told her she'd see her later." Jack stared down at the ground after hearing that. That response could only mean one thing. Suddenly they heard the girls giggle.
At the back of the Humvee, Shizuka had opened the duffle bag that had all the clean clothes and spilled them onto the ground. "I brought my girlfriend's clothes," she said with a wink, "so pick the ones you like."
"Hey, can I wear this jacket?" Saya asked as she bent over to pick it up. Unintentionally giving whoever was looking—Kohta—a view of her ass as the low-rise short nearly fell off.
"Sure!" Shizuka giggled.
"Is this the only skirt you've got?" asked Saeko, immediately catching Jack's attention, as he looked over his should. But couldn't see anything, from where he was sitting.
"Pretty sexy, right?" Now Jack really wanted to see that skirt but willed himself to not look any further.
Suddenly Kohta clasped a hand on Takashi's shoulder and gave him a thumbs up with stars in his eyes. "Well, Komuro, a man's gotta do what man's gotta do!"
Takashi pushed his hand away. "I don't wanna die just yet," he said.
"Yeah, Rei would kill him, Saeko would kill me, and Saya would mutilate and castrate you," Jack said. Suddenly there was a bark in front him on the ground. When Jack looked down, he said the white dog that he rescued standing there. Wagging his tail and panting. "Hey there, little guy." Being the dog-person he was, Jack reached down and picked him up and placed the puppy on his lap and started scratching his head.
"But don't bark too much, Zero," Kohta said.
Jack and Takashi glanced at him. "Zero," asked the brown-haired boy, as Saeko took a moment to listen in on their conversation as she untied her apron.
"Yeah, you know, like the plane. You now, the fighter we used when we got our asses handed to us during the Pacific War."
"You damn right," Jack said jokingly, making Saeko smile at a bit as she started to pull off her apron. "And he's talking about Mitsubishi A6M Zero. Small and fast, just like this little guy." Zero barked. Jack placed him down on the ground and grabbed the shotgun. He then turned to Takashi and handed it back to his friend. "Here, an Italian classic jut for you. All you have to do is aim for the head and you'll hit them."
"But like I said, I don't know how to use it," Takashi said. "A baseball bat's better for me."
Jack sighed in annoyance. "You really think a bat's going to get you out of every situation? What about if we're up against human enemies? You're going to need this shotgun to get you out of a pinch."
Takashi sighed. "Fine, so how do you use this thing?"
Jack handed the shotgun off to Kohta, who took it the Super 90 and pulled back the charging handle. Behind of the Humvee, Saya took off her shorts to put on a miniskirt and Shizuka stripped completely down. "You lock the bolt by pushing this little button up while pulling it back. You then place in the chamber one of these shells before pushing this button," Kohta said, pulling out a shell, loading it, and sending the bolt forward. "You only have to adjust your sight, find your target, and pulled the trigger. And since its semi-auto, you're able to fire faster than you would a normal pump-action."
"Wait, I can only use one shell?"
Kohta pulled the charging handle back and the shell few out. "No, when you run out of ammo, you put a shell in the chamber like before," he explained, loading the chamber and sending it forward. Kohta then flipped the gun upside down to show Takashi the gate and began to load it. "Then you're able to load 7 more shells in here, since this is a military model. One in the chamber, and then 7 in the tube, that's it!"
"I'll get confused if you tell me too many things at once," Takashi said, as Kohta handed him the Super 90.
As Rei was taking off her pink tank top with no bra underneath and Saeko slipped on a stocking on her leg, Jack told Takashi, "But if you're going to shot this, even though it doesn't kick too hard, this shotgun will still buck."
"Well, in the worst case, I'll just use it as a club," Takashi said.
Jack sighed and grabbed his Honey Badger. "You break anything on that Super 90, then you're replacing it," he warned his friend and started to walk away. He really was hopeless sometimes.
"Jack!" Jack turned his head when he heard the cheery voice and gasped at the sight he was met with. The other two boys looked and saw that the girls had changed.
Rei was back in her clean school uniform, but had stopped wearing the black, thigh-high socks she had on and replaced them with knee pads, in addition to elbow pads. She wore a different green skirt and removed the bow from her shirt. She also added white fingerless gloves and combat webbing to hang her new weapon, the M1A SOCOM 16 rifle on.
Saya changed into an outfit that was similar to the school uniform, but it was now consisting of a white jacket with the zipper positioned below her breasts and underneath a black tank top, and a green mini skirt.
Shizuka had changed into a pair of checkered brown hot pants along with her white shirt. Alice, who was standing next to her, had on the same clothing.
And finally, there was Saeko, and Jack couldn't turn away from how beautiful she looked. She looked like a cross between a high school girl and a samurai. The purple-haired girl wore female battle boots with heels, long lace purple stockings, her school uniform top, and the sexy skirt that showed off the string of her thong and her entire right thigh.
Jack continued to stare at the girls, but his eyes were still glued to Saeko. She noticed and looked away with a blush on her face. Takashi stared at the girls too, but mainly at Rei and admired her beauty, while Kohta had…well, an expression that you would expect a pervert to have. Zero barked in approval.
Rei lifted her M1A a little, which slightly made her boobs jiggle, as she smirked and raised an eyebrow. "What? Got a problem?"
"No. You look good with it," Takashi said, before pointing at the M1A. "But can you use it?"
"I'll ask Hirano or Jack to teach me," she said. "Worse comes to worst, I'll just hit 'em with it."
"What is it with you two and hitting the zombies instead of shooting them," Jack asked, before Kohta raised his hand.
"Oh, I'd be delighted to teach you. Have you noticed that standard-issue bayonet at the end?" he asked, before Jack pulled out said bayonet from his plate carrier. He handed it to her, and Rei put it on the end of the barrel.
With their battle preparations complete, it was time to move. "Get your weapons ready guys," Jack said, picking up his backpack and ACR. "The boys and I are going to head up the embankment and clear out the Dead. We'll signal for you all to bring up the Humvee."
Jack, Kohta, and Takashi climbed up the steep embankment with their respective weapons, as the girls stay behind with the Humvee. They stopped just a few feet from the top. Jack looked at each of the two and shared a nod. Switching the safety off the ACR, they rushed forward and onto the road. The agent faced forward, Takashi to the left, and Kohta faced right.
But there was no one. Not a single person, living or dead. It was devoid of any life at all. Jack sent out a pulse to detect anyone but picked up nothing. "I'm picking up nothing on the pulse," he told the boys, before turning around and waving down at the girls, with Zero standing next to him. "All clear! There's fuckin' no one!"
Rei turned to Shizuka, who was in the driver's seat. "Ms. Shizuka!"
Shizuka nodded with a smirk and started the engine. "Here we go!" She yelled and drove it up the hill at full speed. When he saw the Humvee coming, Jack grabbed Zero and ran out of the way.
"GET CLEAR!" He yelled and Takashi moved out of the way. However, Kohta remained still, as the Humvee practically flew over the top of the embankment.
"Crowd patrol," Kohta utter, before yelling and jumping out of the way as the vehicle nearly landed on him. Shizuka landed the vehicle in the middle of the road, and it turned and came to a screeching stop. As the girls came walking up the hill, Kohta stayed on the ground, cowering for a moment. "All the zombies in the world and I'm gonna be killed by an Asian woman driver."
Saya didn't pay attention to him and looked around the area with a pair of binoculars. She saw abandoned buildings with signs that people were still living there and damaged vehicles on the road and splatters of blood. "I guess the river didn't stop the Dead, huh?" The pink-haired girl sighed.
"I don't know why any of us thought it would've been different on the other side," Saeko said. Jack nodded.
"All it takes is just one of those things to infect the entire population," he said.
"But if the police are still on the job, then maybe…" Rei said, but stopped when Saya turned towards her.
Saya then unexpectedly smile. "Yeah you're right," she said, and for a second Jack was sure that she was going to show a bit of kindness. "And maybe curbside recycling is still happening too."
"You literally can't give a person five seconds of kindness, can you?" Jack sighed in irritation.
"What're you looking at me for? She the one that needs the reality check every three seconds."
Shizuka poked her head out the Humvee's window and asked, "So then what are we going to do now?"
Takashi approached Saya. "Your house is on the second block of the Higashi Saka district, right?"
Saya nodded. "That's right."
"That's where the Division has its HQ, and it's the closest one." Takashi turned his head to look at Jack.
Jack glanced to Saya and nodded. "Your parents are safe," he told her with a kind smile. "You'll see them again." Saya then smiled back with hope and relief in her eyes. The group all piled back into the Humvee and drove off. With limited room inside, Takashi and Rei volunteered to sit on the roof this time. Saya was in the front passenger seat, Kohta and Alice sat together, and Jack and Saeko were next to each other in the back-back.
The Humvee pasted by multiple houses and stores that were deserted by the outbreak. Alice was looking out the window with a big smile. "Wow! Look at all the motorcycle!" She said cheerfully.
"They sell imported buggies and stuffed like that too," Kohta told her, and Alice looked at him in wonder. "Sometimes military equipment too."
"Really," she asked, as Saya bend down and mumbled as she mocked the gun-geek.
Saeko and Jack were sitting with their backs against the seats in front of them, so as Jack looked over it, he looked at the small girl. "How're you feeling, Alice," he asked, a bit worried about her since the night before. She had to watch her father die in her arms and that was something someone so young should ever have to see. "You all good?"
Alice nodded with a big smile. "Don't worry, Jack, I think I'll be okay," she said as Zero gave her cheeks a lick.
Jack chuckled before reaching over to pet Zero's head. "You really like Zero, huh?" he asked before placing his hand back on his ACR, which sat on his lap.
"Yeah! He's adorable," she said, and the puppy gave her a lick. Jack chuckled and ruffled her hair a little, before sitting back down and letting out a deep breath.
With a small smile on her face, Saeko asked, "You're quite good of kids, aren't you?"
"What can I say, I'm fond of kids," Jack said with a lopsided smile. "I'm not positively 100% sure why, but I'm sure it's because of my…" Jack immediately stopped himself before saying the last word of that sentence. "Forget it." He leaned back and looked up at the ceiling. Mentally kicking himself for almost spilling out the truth. Ever since the night he and she were on the streets, they've been getting closer and getting along so well. Now here he was, almost about to tell Saeko the truth about his childhood. 'Did I really truth her that much?'
When Jack went silent, Saeko became concerned and she placed a hand on his should. She's only ever seen him get this tense, and that was back on the bus when Shizuka mention his uncle. Then she remembered the scars he had on his arms, and it didn't take her long to get an idea on what he's done to the agent. She was worried about him, but Saeko knew that it had to be him to bring out the truth.
So, she brought her hand up to his cheek and turned his head so that they made eye contact. "You know you can talk to me if you want," she told him. "I want to help you, Jack, if you'll let me." And at that moment, Jack was really considering telling her everything at that moment. To share with her the unspoken pain he'd suffered during the worst years of his life
Her face was so close, and he took in every detail of her beautiful face.
"The Dead!" They both snapped back into reality when Kohta yelled. He was looking ahead with a pair of binoculars. "Distance, 300 meters!" Jack looked back to see that in front of them down the road was a large hoard of zombies.
Saya looked to Shizuka and said, "Go to the right!"
"O..Okay!" Shizuka replied and turned sharply to the right. Drifting around a corner. But down the road, another hoard of zombies was waiting for them. "They're here too! Oh no!"
Saya seethed. "Turn left there! Turn left!" She ordered, and the Humvee went left and started speeding down the other road.
"What's going on?" Jack asked. "The further we go inland, the more of them there are."
The Humvee turned onto a large road and found an even larger crowd in front of them. "Just keep going. Don't slow down," Saya said. Shizuka did as she was told and proceeded forward. Crushing any and all Dead under its wheels and splattering the windshield and front put of the Humvee.
Takashi and Rei still on top of the roof of the Humvee, with the boy shielding his ex's head and face with his arms. But then Rei saw something that made her eyes widened with fear. "Oh no...Oh no!" She then yelled to the people in the Humvee. "STOP THE CAR! STOP THE CAR!"
Saeko and Jack turned around and looked forward to seeing what Rei was worried about. Jack grabbed his ACR and aimed it forward, flipping up the magnifier of the Hybrid Sight.
That's when he saw it.
"Jesus Christ, there's a wire! Turned the car to the side! Do it NOW!" He yelled and Shizuka turned the car hard and violently to the left. The people inside were flung against the right-hand side of the car. Jack reached over the seat and held on to Alice. Keeping her in her seat as shielding her eyes from the blood and gore that spattered onto the windows from some zombies that they hit. Slicing them in pieces against the wire.
The Humvee was still moving and Shizuka was pressing down on the brakes to stop the vehicle. But nothing was happening. "How come it won't stop?!"
Kohta looked out the window and saw the blood all over the road. "The tires are locked!"
Jack turned to Shizuka and shouted, "You need to take off the brakes and push the gas a little!"
"The what?! What's that?!" She started pressing randomly on the pedals. One of them was the gas and the Humvee accelerated faster. Heading straight for a wall.
"Brace yourself!" Jack yelled.
"Hold on!" Shizuka slammed on the brake.
The Humvee came to a sudden came to a stop, tipping on its front wheel.
Time slowed down as Rei flew off the roof as Takashi reached out a hand to grab hers. However, he was only an inch too short of her hand. The brown-haired girl's back slammed against the hood of the Humvee, bouncing off to land onto the pavement. Yelling in pain as she rolled a bit before stopping.
Rei laid on the ground for a moment in pain. Opening her eyes, she gasped in fear upon seeing that the Dead were shuffling towards her. Rei tried to get up, but that just set pain through her spin. Takashi jumped off the roof of the Humvee, mumbling to himself as he landed on the group in front of his ex. He aimed down the sights of the Super 90 at the horde. "Fire!" He yelled.
The shotgun bucked hard into his shoulder, making him stumble back a bit. He was only able to get one of them in the head.
After the shell automatically ejected from the chamber and bounced off the ground, Takashi was able to regain his footing. He looked frustrated and confused. "Man, what the hell? I aimed at the head and only killed one of them?"
"You don't know what you're doing!" Yelled Kohta as he climbed up to the roof through the hole with his SCAR-H. "Because of the recoil, the muzzle moves off target! And the pattern shoots high!"
Realizing that he had to get out here and help, Jack loaded a mag into the ACR. He then looked at Alice and paused. He didn't want her to be in this situation, but now that she was, he had to protect her. He released his grip on her and faced her. "Alice, you listen now," he said tenderly as he could. "You stay here with Ms. Shizuka and Saya as we go fight. Everything's going to be okay, alright?"
Alice was shaking but hesitantly nodded. "Okay."
Jack nodded and kissed her head. The back of the Humvee opened and Jack jumped out. "Hold it as firm as you can and aim for the chest instead!" He instructed Takashi and started shooting at the Dead. Taking down a zombie with one or two shots to the head with great precision. Takashi does as he was told, and shot down two of the Walkers. Jack then shoots down one into the wall, and then Kohta shot another one. "After the shot, keep the aim and shift the muzzle just a tiny bit!"
Takashi followed his advice and fired again. Aiming slightly lower and carefully, before pulling the trigger and killed around four of the Dead. He repeated again and fired. Killing three. Takashi fired and took out more.
"Cool! Fuckin' A!" He yelled.
Jack fired three more rounds before placing two fingers on his headpiece. "Watanabe, this is Agent Recker! Our vehicle was blocked by a wire barrier and we've got Walkers cornering us!" He yelled into the radio. "Request immediate assistance!"
"Roger that, but advised, our armed forces are already at the moment fighting against a group of bandits. It's not likely that they'll get to you any time soon."
"I don't care if you send the fire department, just get us help!" Jack exclaimed in frustration.
Takashi tried to fire again, but nothing came out. He was empty. So he reached into his pocket and pulled out another shell. He put it into the chamber and sent the bolt forward. Reaching into his pocket again, Takashi pulled out more shells, but ended up spilling them on the ground. Clattering against the road at the approaching zombies' feet.
That's when Saeko got out of the car with her boken sword. "Komuro! Go get her, we'll cover you! But you better move like you've got a fucking purpose!"
"You can't! There's way too many of them to fight with a wooden sword!" Takashi yelled back at her.
"She's not going to alone!" Jack said, shooting another zombie in the head. He then turned to Takashi and Saeko. "Just get your girl and hold your position! You ready to do this, Saeko?"
Saeko smirked. "Let's rock," she replied. Then quickly smashed the head of another Walker that was about to take a bit out of her. She danced around, bashing in the skulls of the Dead around her. Jack continued shooting at the zombies with Kohta. However, he made sure that Saeko didn't get any that she missed too close and took them down.
He reloaded the ACR with a fresh mag, before sending out the drone to add more cover fire. Taking off the turret from his backpack, he set it on the roof of the Humvee next to Kohta. It deployed and started shooting too. Killing more of the Dead with pinpoint accuracy. But the situation was getting chaotic, and the agent found himself having to be very careful with his aiming. Sense Saeko was reading as a friend to the Division gadgets, they shot targets a good few feet away from her. But Jack had to make sure that he didn't hit her when covering her. She was moving so rapidly that one wrong aim could hit her.
But even with the number of Dead getting killed, more showed up. If they didn't get help fast, they were going to be up to their necks in zombies.
"Guys! What about this?!" Jack heard Takashi and turned to him. He was laying on the ground near Rei and was using the M1A rifle. Aiming it across her chest due to it still being strapped to her back and chest.
Jack ignored that and focused on fighting and instructing his friend. "Push the lever in front of the trigger guard to release the safety! Then pull the charging handle on the side and fire!"
Takashi pulled the charging handle, aimed, and fired. Rei yelled out as the battle rifle fired a 7.62×51mm NATO round. He continued to shoot, with made Rei yelp in pain and her boobs to painfully jiggle. Jack shot another bullet at a Walker. The 5.56×45mm NATO round sailed through the air as Saeko jumped over it. Spreading her legs out a little as the bullet pasted underneath. Only a few inched from her black thongs. Saeko then bent backward as Jack fired again. In something that could've only come out of The Matrix, her breasts jiggled so much that the bullet was able to go pass through them without even being able to touch the fabric over her uniform.
As Takashi started to miss his shouts, Kohta's SCAR-H stopped firing when he pulled the trigger. He hit the mag release and looked at the mag. Then the turret stopped firing as it ran out of ammo. Kohta quickly reached with his left hand to pull out another mag from his tactical vest, but found that he was out of the mags that he was carrying. "I'm out of mags!" He yelled. Inside the Humvee, Alice was sitting in her seat crying silently the whole time. "Somebody hand me an FN SCAR-H and P-90 magazines!"
Alice looked up at him. "Kohta?" she asked, seeing him holding down two mags. One for his SCAR and the other for the torrent.
"Like these!" He exclaimed.
"Okay," Alice said before getting out of her seat and crawled into the back to look for the magazines. Zero barked, gaining Alice's attention and saw him standing in front of a duffle bag that contained the magazines. Grabbing two of each mag in each hand, she looked up at Kohta. "Kohta!" The otaku looked down to see her holding out the mags to him with a teary smile. "Here's some."
With Kohta back in the fight and the turret reloaded, Jack walked on the roof to front. He was halfway through his mags for the ACR, but there were still so many coming. "We need to get out of here!" Takashi yelled as he reloaded the M1A.
"No shit!" Jack yelled back before hitting the roof with his boot. "Miss Shizuka, get that vehicle running!"
Shizuka quickly grabbed the keys and turned them in the ignition. But all that happened was that it sputtered. "I can't get the stupid engine to turn over," she yelled.
"What?! Shit!" He yelled in frustration before turning to Saeko as she whacked a few zombies away. "Saeko! Fall back! I'm using the explosive bolts!" Setting his ACR down, he grabbed the crossbow and loaded the explosive bolt.
"Takagi!" He heard Shizuka cry out and looked down to see Saya jumping out of the jeep before picking up the Super 90 and a few of the shells off the ground.
"Shells are by your foot. Don't you know how to use it?!" Kohta yelled at her.
Before answering him, she loaded a shell into the chamber and sent the bolt forward. "I'm a genius!"
"Saya, get back!" Jack said, aiming his crossbow at the walking dead.
"Relax. I know what I'm doing," she said as she loaded the shotgun and turned back around...
Only to come face to face with a Walker.
She gasped while recoiling from the shock of being that close to one of them. Saeko then came in a saved her by smashing the thing in the head with her boken. Splattering brains and blood all over Saya's clothing and hair. This enraged the young woman as she turned back to the horde and glared at the Walkers with a face of rage. "I'M NO WUSS! I'M NOT GONNA DIE!" She screamed, before she started shooting into the cluster. "NOBODY'S GONNA MAKE ME DIE! MY HOUSE IS RIGHT OVER THERE!, YOU WALKING DEAD DEADBEATS!"
"Everyone, get back! Fire in the hole!" Jack pulled the trigger and sent the bot flying. Landing a headshot into the skull of a Walker that was in the middle of the horde. As the Dead fell over, Saeko jumped back, Saya ran over and got down on the ground with Takashi, as he used his body to cover Rei.
The resulting explosion was bigger than expected as it took out multiple zombies and sent more flying in all directions. Killing them on impact. But it wasn't enough. There were zombies that had survived the blast coming towards them. Saeko continued to fight them off, but was getting grabbed by the Dead a lot more than she was before and Jack did his best to keep them off her, as did Takashi and Kohta as they fired into the crowd. Saya blasted at the Dead, before using the Super 90 as a club. They were going to be running out of ammo soon, and Jack needed to think of a plan.
He then noticed some stairs that were a few feet behind the horde and knew what he had to do. The agent jumped down from the Humvee and put away his rifle to swap it out for his pistol and tomahawk. "Takashi, get everyone out of here," he ordered his friend. "Have Saya help you get Rei pass the wires and to the other side."
"Wait, what are you going to do?" Takashi asked as Rei and Saya looked at the agent with wide eyes.
"I'll do whatever I have to do," he said.
Jack then charged towards the crowd of Dead with a warcry. Going through the crowd of zombies by hacking their heads or shooting them. Saeko saw this and ran towards Jack. Kicking one zombie in the chest, before shooting three more with her pistol. "Jack, go! I'll be right behind you." She exclaimed. And so the two battled their way toward the crowd as Jack ran over to the wall of the street.
"OVER HERE, MOTHERFUCKERS!" He yelled scrapping the blade of his tomahawk across the wall. The sound that it made got the attention of some of the zombies and they turned towards the two teenagers.
"COME THIS WAY!" Saeko yelled, pulling out her handgun and shooting it at some of the zombies. The loud bangs of each shot echoed throughout the area. To get more of them to pay attention to her, she slammed her boken into a metal pole of a street light.
"Let's keep going! We need to buy them as much time as we can!" Jack pointed to the top of the stairs. Saeko followed him as they went up to the high ground. Jumping over a gap before turning back towards some railings to look back at the street. Some of the Walkers had completely ignored them as were still going towards the Humvee.
"They just keep coming," Saeko said.
Jack got out his crossbow and loaded another bolt. "It's not over yet!" He exclaimed and aimed the bow on the railing for more stability. "GUYS, GET DOWN!"
The bolt flew towards the crow coming towards the others, and landed in the ground. A second later, it exploded. Taking out the small group that was getting too close and knocking Saya on her ass next to Takashi and Rei. "Takagi, come on!" Takashi exclaimed as Jack shot another explosive bolt that took out more zombies. The dark-haired boy got up, unclipped the rifle from Rei, threw it through the wires, and then took off one of his shoes to put it on his hand. He then used his other foot and the shoe on his hand to separate the wires to make an opening.
Shizuka saw this and got out of the car to help Saya get Rei through as Jack and Saeko used their guns to give them some cover. Kohta reached down and grabbed Alice, lifting her out of the Humvee. But then, another sound was heard coming from behind the horde. It sounded similar to a blazing fire. Jack and Saeko turned their heads to the right and were a little stunned and confused by what they saw.
Walking through the Dead was a large group of what appeared to be construction and sanitation workers like garbage men, janitors, custodians that were wearing fuel tanks and full gas masks and were armed with AK-Ms with home-made flamethrowers attached to them. They were walking through the horde of zombies, burning them away with fire as a yellow-colored garbage truck drove behind them.
"Who are these guys," Jack asked.
"Don't know. Maybe they're here to help," Saeko said as they watched the sanitation men approach the other students and teachers. Stoping a few feet from them.
Takashi stared at the men as they started talking to one another. Their voices muffled by their masks as they talked to one of them that had on a baseball cap, radio headsets, and was armed with an M870 Express Shotgun. It seemed as though they were arguing about what to do with them, as one of them said something about them being just kids.
"Hey! Can you help us?" He asked, raising his hands up to show them he wasn't a threat as the others stared warily at the men. "We're just trying to get to the Takagi Estate."
The men looked at him for a moment before the one with the ball cap told the others. "You all know what must be done. These streets must be cleansed," he said in an unfeeling and cold voice. "To save our city, we must burn away this disease. Every trace of it. Only through the power of fire can we be free." He then nodded to the others and then stepped back as the other sanitation workers stepped forward and raised their weapons.
Pointing the flamethrowers at the students, teacher, young girl, and barking dog as they stared at the men in total fear. Suddenly, Jack fired a round into the tank of one of the men. A small flame ignited, and the workers around him quickly got away as he tried to take off the tank. But he ended up exploding.
"Get out of there!" Jack yelled before he and Saeko started shooting at the workers. The sanitation workers opened fire on the two teenagers above them. Forming them to duck down to avoid the bullets. All of the shooting what starting to attract the attention of even more Walkers and they started stumbling down the road towards all of them.
The one leading the workers pointed to the Takashi and the others as they gained tried to escape over the wire. "Burn them, and then get those two fuckers!"
BANG!
Then, out of nowhere, he was given a third eye right in the center of his forehead by a bullet. As he fell to the ground, a female voice called out. "Get the ladder! Get them out of there now!"
Just then, several armed individuals in fire-fighting gear rushed towards the group on the other side of the wire barrier. They ran over to the wire barrier and started shooting down the workers as they fired back. But they all were killed in a matter of seconds. One of the firefighters then bright a ladder and propped it against the side of the Humvee on the opposite side of the wire to help Kohta and Alice get down.
Then one of the firefighters and another man came over to where Takashi, Rei, Saya, and Shizuka were at. The man was Japanese and looked to be in his late twenties to early thirties with black eyes, a shaved head, and a bread wearing tactical gear just like Jack had on and was aimed with an Mk 18 Mod 0 and had a Glock 17 in his holster.
The firefighter opened the wire to let the kids and teacher through. "Come this way now, we'll get the car later," she said. As Saya helped Takashi with Rei, she looked at the firefighter. She sounded so familiar.
Shizuka was the next to come through, and the man helped her through, making her blush a little. "Are any of you bitten," he asked.
"No, but who are you?" Takashi asked after setting his ex down on the ground.
"I'm Agent Touji Watanabe, I'm with the Division," said Agent Watanabe. That's when the others saw the watch he was wearing and saw that it was the same as the one that Jack had. The smiled in relief. They made it to the B.O.! "Which one of you is Agent Recker?"
"Jack's over there!" Kohta pointed to where Jack and Saeko were standing, watching the firefighters and the Agent save their friends.
Watanabe pushed the button on his push-and-talk radio and spoke into his earpiece. "Agent Jack Recker?"
Jack gasped when he heard the other Agent on his communicator as Saeko listened. "Watanabe? It'll be good to meet you. When we come over there, of course," he said, in which the young woman with him giggled. But with the zombie already refilling the streets down below. There would be no way to get back to them without going through that crowd. With only his ACR, and the Honey Badger still in the Humvee, he was down to one full magazine of bullets. "If we can get to you."
"The feeling's mutual, but some new development just popped up," he said as the others looked at Watanabe. "We've just gotten distress signals from three Divison Agents' Smart Watches. I hate to ask you to do this, but we need to verify whether or not those agents are still alive. I'll get the civilians home if you go out and track down those signals. After that, come on home to the B.O."
Jack looked to Saeko, who had heard everything. "Roger that, Watanabe. Just make sure to get them out of there."
"Roger that. Sending you the pinpoints to their locations."
The young man then turned to Saeko and said, "Saeko, you don't have to..."
"I'm staying with you, Jack," Saeko said, with a voice that said she was not going to take 'no' for an answer. Jack sighed and agreed for her to stay with him with a nod of his head.
He looked over at the group again and could see them all staring at him with looks of concern. Worried about the two as they were about to head off on their side mission together. Jack gave them a two-figure salute before he and Saeko turned and started running away. Saya ran towards them, but stopped just in front of the wire barrier. "I'LL BE WAITING! I'LL BE WAITING! COME TO MY HOUSE ON THE HILL!"
As he and Saeko ran through the streets and killed the Dead that got in their way, a new feeling started to form inside of him. It was a strange feeling, but even when the world turned into the hell they were in, he felt great. Empowered somehow. It seemed as though they were invisible.
The Living Dead Will Continue…
Narrator: "On the next episode of Cowboy Alchemist's The Living Dead…"
Saeko: "I really like your style."
Jack: "Let's go back! One of the signals in on the way we came!"
Jack: "Saeko, get down!"
Narrator: "The Living Dead. Updates coming soon."
Saeko: "Even though I almost killed someone?"
Narrator: "Only on Fanfiction."
The battle scene pretty much sums up High School of the Dead in the nutshell. Zombies, guns, and tits and ass. The perfect combination! I'm joking! Don't take it seriously.
Anyway, after about a year, I'm finally back with another chapter for this story. We've seen the characters growing closer and fighting off the dead. But we're also introduced to the Cleaners, are perhaps the most iconic characters in The Division and Agent Touji Watanabe is finally introduced into the story. If you didn't catch that John Wick: Chapter 2 line when Jack handed Takashi the shotgun, well, now you know. Next chapter I'll be switching out Jack's weapons for new weapons that he'll find. Just like in the games. You pick up better guns and gear to replace your old weaker guns and gear.
Also, the next chapter is the shrine chapter, and things are definitely going to get SPICY! Just giving you all a warning.
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