Oops silly me, I forgot to tell you what ETCU meant, though I'm hoping that someone has worked it out
ETCU=Emergency Terrorist Control Unit
Chapter 4
in our daily lives it is extremely difficult for us to imagine complete silence, the constant roar of traffic, Ipods, Itunes, other people, almost everything we use makes a noise of some form. it's basic, the need for sound, something that has floated around our heads for millennia, the need to be surrounded, enveloped, to know that other people are there. Complete silence has lead to various sayings, the most prominent and most oxymoronic being 'a deafening silence'. Silence is like a pane of glass, it isn't there but touch or break it and it most certainly is . Obviously this has no bearing on you so that example is the best that I can provide.
When the 4x4 started up the silence was most certainly not deafening, the groans of hundreds of zombies made there way over the dull groan of the 4x4 telling them that.
"come on, come on" the driver, Void 2, did a 3 point turn, mowing down as many zombies as he could while spectre 4 smashed the window, knocking a zombie back and mowing it down with a quick burst of high powered gun fire, he then proceeded to open fire on the approaching zombies, many moving slower than usual due to the stiff business suits they wore, as the 4x4 struggled to get a grip on the zombie blood stained floor, due in part to the civilian tires on it. Eventually the tires got a grip and the car shot forward with unexpected acceleration, throwing them all back into their seats. By then other zombies were shambling towards the car, most of whom were quickly driven over or mown down by either Void 2 or Spectre 4, respectively.
The roads were eerily deserted, a complete opposite to the various car parks, crammed full car parked in any arrangement of strange positions, not that any of the occupants of the 4x4 were inclined to look a the car parks as they sped by, trying to reach the motorway, or the highway as a rather annoying American technician insisted it be called, and trying to avoid hitting a zombie, at the speeds the 4x4 was miraculously achieving, hitting a zombie would probably flip the 4x4, so Echo 1 had taken up the duty of leaning out the window and taking care of any zombies in front while Spectre 4, who was the support and logistics officer for the mission, as denoted by his Spectre status, tried to use the map to find out where they were going to go, unfortunately the map itself was at least 5 years old and for some reason he couldn't be sure about, had large blood stains running down the Manchester area of the map, rendering it useless, so he had to do it by feel, which was not the best idea he had ever had and so they ended up in a tiny village just off junction 17 of the M62, the Tesco's and the TGI Friday's being they only notable landmarks, so they headed back onto the motorway, driving around until they all saw what looked like an abandoned industrial complex, Void 2 yanked the steering wheel and the entire car lurched uncomfortably to the side, the metal chassis groaning uncomfortably from the G-force of the stunt, but it did the job and they found themselves driving up what appeared to be a farmers track, used to move sheep and cattle from one piece of land to another, of course, it wasn't, and it didn't, eventually the bracken and various other plants began closing in, forcing the 4x4 to slow down considerably, until they reached what looked to be a border check point, they sped up, completely ignoring the 'stop' and 'warning, trespassers will be prosecuted' signs they made their way back to HQ. Out of habit Void 2 looked for the wireless transmission sticker on the windscreen that deactivated the various defences around the base, when he didn't find one he panicked
"Spectre 4, this is an ETCU issue car, right"
"naw, I 'borrowed' it of the local SAS command, why?" then he realised what he had just said
"oh, SHI..." then a proximity anti-vehicle landmine exploded right under the 4x4 and it was thrown forward, all of them closed there eyes and waited for the inevitable
AN just in case you didn't notice, I am British, so I don't know, or care about what you Americans call a motorway, in Germany they're called autobahns, but it was a toss up between freeway and highway, if someone could tell me it would be greatly appreciated!
And yes that was a cliffhanger, but it's something stupid in the morning, my flatmate will probably come in all annoyed and stuff so I won't write any more for a couple of days
quick question: would anybody like a sequel, a little early I know, but it would be set just after HL2 EP2 so it would be my (improved) take on HL2 EP3
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