Chapter 7
She landed on top of the red SUV she'd pulled up in earlier. She was on her feet, and had landed with ease. People in the street nearby ran at her and growled, jumping and grabbing at the red vehicle.
A series of balconies ran up the middle of the building. She jumped and grabbed the first above the doorway, quickly scrambling up to avoid the hands that jumped up to grab her legs as the dangled freely.
A glass door separated the apartment and the balcony that belonged to bit, inside there was a young boy, looked about 16. His arm was bandaged and bloody. His eyes glowed with delight when he saw her, and he ran full pelt towards the glass.
Sam quickly back flipped off the balcony and back onto the car with ease, which showed she had had much training, helping her to deal with most situations.
The Boy smashed through the cheap glass, rammed into the railings and fell headfirst over the side. Sam quickly jumped onto the Balcony again, this time landing on the railing. Being careful not to lose balance she grabbed the Balcony above, climbing onto it and doing the same once more.
She finally jumped up and pulled herself onto the roof.
613 and Steve were at the Roof Access door, leaning against it to keep it from flinging open; the lock lay broken on the roof nearby.
"So glad you could join us" 613 said to Sam through gritted teeth.
"Need help?" she asked.
"Nah, were fine" 613 replied.
"You ok?" Steve asked her.
"Fine… we've got to get off this roof"
"No shit" 613 replied. Sam jogged the perimeter of the roof quickly, checking for other roofs they could get to.
"If you want to live, when I say go, run and jump onto the next roof" Sam ordered, pointing to the roof on the left. "Go!" she yelled unexpectedly.
Suddenly Steve and 613 ran towards the roof, Sam had already gone and jumped clean across in a few seconds flat, 613 was also just jumping across the gap. Both could be incredibly fast when they wanted.
The Zombies burst through the door at speed, one ran straight of the roof and fell 4 stories down. The others quickly turned and saw their prey escaping, they gave chase, about 12 in total.
Steve didn't even bother to look back, he just jumped as high and as far as he could, even though he feared he'd fall short. Luckily he didn't and managed to land close to the edge.
The other two grabbed him and quickly ran for the next roof, which was about 2 metres higher, and with a similar sized gap.
The Zombies behind them seemed to know they had to jumped, although most of them made bad attempts and fell short, a couple managed to get across.
Sam and 613 jumped together, each grabbing Steve with one hand they pulled him with them, and the three cleared the gap easily. This jump though the other zombies couldn't make, two of them hit the next building and fell, a third stopped and didn't jump.
They waited a few seconds to get their breath when the spotted her.
" My my, what a intelligence piece of meat we are" Sam mocked, holding up her gun, she fired. The unsuspecting zombie, fell over the side.
"Oh damn, I left my weapons" 613 cursed.
"It doesn't matter, they'd only slow you down" Sam replied.
"I'm real lucky to have been kidnapped by a Transgenic" Steve said aloud.
"I didn't kidnap you, I saved your life, many many times" Sam added with a mock strict voice.
"Just goes to show how usele…vulnerable normal people are" 613 added.
"Where do we go next" Steve asked.
"We could stick to the roofs" 613 suggested.
"We wouldn't get far, or get anywhere fast" Steve replied.
"Any better ideas?"
"Yeah, we could go back to the car, it had plenty of gas, it's big, its…"
"Completely surrounded by shambling corpses who'd just love a tasty mouthful of your arm." 613 added. Suddenly Sam realised something. 613 had a bandaged arm, she couldn't see before because he had a coat on, but he'd taken it off.
"Your bitten" Sam said, eyeing 613 up carefully.
"Duh!" he replied waving his arm at her.
In an instant she blurred across to him and pushed him to the ground. He was taken by surprise and couldn't react fast enough to stop her. She drew out her gun and placed it under his chin.
Quickly he smacked her hard in the face with his left arm and pushed her off him with his leg. She fell hard and the gun slipped from her hand. Instantly she got up, 613 threw a punch at her, then another she blocked it, and kicked him hard.
He kicked her back, but she grabbed his leg and lifted him of the ground. He rolled away and using his legs and the rest of his body he jumped up off the roof in an instant. Landing on his feet.
They became locked in combat throwing and blocking each other's punches, so fast all movement seemed blurry.
Steve grabbed the gun, and fired into the air, getting their attention.
"Stop it!" he yelled at them, and they did. Sam and 613 glared into each other's eyes for a few moments.
"Your bitten, you'll turn into one of those things" Sam explained.
"188, I was bitten by next doors fucking dog last week, how could you forget that!" 613 snarled at her, trying his best to not hit her once more.
"Oh" Sam replied, realisation hitting her. How could I have forgotten that, I even laughed about how he wanted to show everyone back at Manticore his 'battle scars'. I almost killed him. Tears formed in her eyes and she turned and sat on the edge of the roof.
613 turned to Steve and he quickly dropped the gun.
Sam stared down at the road below, a few people ambled around below her, although none of them looked up. 613 moved over to her sitting down next to her.
"You ok?" he asked.
"Am I ok, I almost killed you, that's how ok I am" Sam snapped back.
"Yeah right, you couldn't have killed me, I'd have thrown you off this roof first" he joked.
"I'm sorry, I just saw the bite, panicked, I lost it"
"It's ok"
"Maybe, I've just seen and experienced so much today, I'm just so on edge" Sam explained, he head was in her hands and her blonde hair dangled in the wind.
"As we were saying, how are we going to get to the car" Steve called to them.
"We'll wait for night, and sneak up to it" Sam replied.
"Sneak, how can he sneak?" 613 replied, throwing his hand in Steve's direction.
"We could leave him at the end of the street, and pick him up when we have the car" Sam said.
"No-way, I'm not waiting out there on my own, forget it"
"Your not as quiet as we are, you'd just let them know were we are" 613 replied.
"Quiet 613, look if were quick, we'll have the car before any of them notice were there" Sam said, which cheered Steve up loads. "There's not many zombies around the SUV anyway, and none are all that close to it, it'll be a piece of cake" Sam said with a sly grin.
"Piece a cake" he mocked, which gained him a punch to the arm.
"One thing I don't get is, why are you 613, and she's Sam" Steve asked, eying the two up.
"Her name isn't Sam, she doesn't have a name, her Designation is X5-188" 613 snapped.
"Then how come you told me it was Sam, Sam?"
"Because that's what it is," she replied irritably.
"Were soldiers, we don't have names 188" 613 said, glaring at her.
"I do, I'm not just some fucking number, I'm a god damn person, my names SAM and it's been SAM for years, and it's always going to be SAM" she snapped at him, which shocked 613 a bit, she was a soldier but she was more than just that..
"Ok, don't over-react, your lucky Manticore doesn't find out though" 613 replied as he sat down on the roof.
"Why would they find out" Sam asked, stalking closer to him, a cautious glint in her eye.
"No reason, you know what they might do though, if they did find out, they might not trust you, they might…"
"Reindoctrinate me, I know" she replied sadly.
"Don't worry, it aint like I'd tell, it's no big deal, it's just like a secret identity for a mission, but a permanent one" 613 replied, assuring her she could trust him.
"You should have one to" Sam added, chirping up.
"One what?" 613 asked.
"A name"
"Why? Can't I stick with 613?" he replied, almost childlike.
"It doesn't suit you"
"Ok, I guess, I'll try and think of one, I'm picking it myself though " he added.
"Please yourself, I'm going to try and get some sleep, I don't think we need someone on watch though, with us being on top of a roof and all" Sam replied with a smirk and she went off to look for someplace almost comfortable to lie on.
"When we get this car, where are we going?" Steve whispered.
"We're going home, and if you come with us they might kill you" 613 replied quietly.
"Why, I haven't done anything"
"Manticore's just bad like that, you where part of our mission, but now all this happened, missions don't matter no more, you don't matter" 613 eyed up Steve, and quickly looked away when Steve looked at him".
"I'm still coming, I'm no good on my own, and I'd prefer a bullet in the head any time than that" Steve replied. He didn't need to explain what 'that' meant.