Author's Note: Sorry for the two upcoming deaths (one in this chapter, one in the next, and the first is not Tallie), but blame it on the random list generator at that I used. Not my fault who survived, either. Make sure to go to my profile and vote for my next fanfic! Oh, and sorry for the typos in the last chapter. Another note: Minor characters are only for one or two chapters and all they do is help the survivors to safety, often dying themselves. And now for the first minor character!
The Tank yelled, but even if he broke the glass there was no way for him to get in. Tallie and Jackson stumbled back, away from the glass and shelves. Tallie slumped down, her leg feeling like it was on fire.
"You okay?" asked Jackson.
"I don't know." muttered Tallie. The shrapnel was sticking at a sickly angle from her leg. It looked like a piece of the car's fender. Tallie pulled aside the ripped piece of fabric.
Her leg was horrifically mutilated. There was blood all down the side of her leg, staining her pants. The piece of metal was buried halfway into her leg, making a large flesh wound. Jackson gulped. Then he heard a large crash in the back of the store. Jackson straightened up. A girl stumbled out from behind a shelf.
Kara Strait looked up, her vision blurred. Kara was 21 years old, and had black hair and blue eyes. Kara took one glance at Tallie with her injured leg and Jackson with a bewildered look on his face before the shelf above her fell, hitting her on the head and knocking her out cold.
A few hours later, Austin was tending to Tallie's leg. He had managed to remove the shrapnel without too much damage, and had wrapped her leg neatly. Kara was still on the ground, unconscious. Nobody even knew what her name was.
Jackson stood in the corner, a small fire in front of him that he had created with some paper towels and his lighter. Cliff and Ken stood watching the Tank try to tear apart the barricade while more and more Infected gathered. Wolf was searching for edible food on the shelves, while Mila and Max were investigating the rest of the supermarket.
The barricade wasn't holding up to the Tank. He was very slowly tearing it apart. Kara slowly woke up, noticing the fire burning by her head. She screamed and backed up against the wall, and then calmed down. Tallie, Jackson, and Austin stared at her.
Kara looked lazily around her. The others looked back at her.
"Hi." Kara muttered. Then she saw the huge Tank tearing apart the front of the store, and her eyes got wide. "Oh no. Not him again."
"You've seen this Tank?" asked Cliff.
"Yep. And he almost killed me before, too." muttered Kara. Out of nowhere, Wolf appeared next to Kara.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Kara Strait." Kara muttered. "I have a little hideout here. Stocked with grenades and such." Max grinned, coming around the corner.
There was another loud bang, and then part of the shelf blocking the door broke.
"Guys, he's getting through." said Tallie. Austin turned around. The door simply exploded, and then a zombie walked in. It was about medium height, but wore a canvas suit and held a shotgun.
"What the fuck?" yelled Cliff. The zombie fired his gun, the bullets ricocheting off of the metal beams. The whole group ducked.
"It's a Grunt Infected." said Kara as she ran with the others. "Smart enough to wield a gun, dumb enough to kill itself with the gun."
"Doesn't look dumb to me." shouted Cliff. Max tripped over a pile of cereal boxes, and the Grunt Infected fired again, barely missing him. Then shelves started tipping over.
"The safe room is somewhere around here. Follow me!" shouted Kara.
"He's here!" shouted Wolf. Cans and boxes fell off of their shelves, hitting the group in the head. Suddenly, the wall busted open, a Hunter and the Tank running through. The Hunter literally tackled Max, but was quickly killed by Mila. The Tank stumbled through the aisle, angry red blotches dotting his skin. "Look out!" Wolf shouted again, but Kara was too late. As she stabbed the Tank in the head, it picked her up and with one giant RRIPPPP! Kara was torn in two. The halves slid across the floor, creating a wide puddle of blood. Her face was frozen in shock as her last signals to her brain were shut down and the Infected crowded around her, hungry for a good meal.
"Damnit!" yelled Wolf. The Tank swept him off of his feet and he slammed into the wall, hitting his head on a sharp corner.
"Wolf!" shouted Ken. She looked towards the others, and then ran towards Wolf. She managed to grab his arm and pull him through the group of Infected, and into the safe room Kara had been going on about. Wolf tripped over some boxes at the entrance, but barely made it into the safe room before Mila shut the door. Max threw a pipe bomb through the slot and waited, and then came the giant explosion. Max looked out. There was nothing.
"Great, he got away." muttered Max. Tallie cried out in pain. She had been pushed into the safe room by Austin, him being concerned for her safety, but she had landed on her injured leg. Ken pulled the bar across the door and sat down, breathing heavily.
"How are we going to get through this?" asked Tallie.
"We have to do the best we can." muttered Jackson. Just then, everyone heard the roar of the Tank as he tore apart the store, looking if they were hiding somewhere else. Wolf stuck his P90 through the door and fired a few times, but the roaring continued. Then, suddenly, the roaring died down.
"He's waiting for us." muttered Austin. Max stood up and started pacing around the small room. There wasn't much in the safe room, which explained why Kara had been wandering the store: she had been looking for food.
"We killed her." muttered Max.
"No, we didn't." said Mila. "The Tank just happened to follow us. It wasn't our fault."
"If you say so." said Max, sighing. Wolf twiddled his thumbs.
"What do we do now?" asked Wolf. He looked around glumly, but nobody had an answer. There was Tallie and Cliff with their injured legs, Austin (who was perfectly fine), himself, Max and Mila (who were very tired), Jackson (still in shock), and Ken (who had been beat around when she had rescued Wolf). Then Austin got up.
"We're gonna have to run." he said.
Author's Note: Like I said, minor characters only last one or two chapters, but they have vital points in the plot. Until next time, when a major character will die and the rest will escape from the supermarket!