Chapter 15: Saving the General
Rebecca, Billy and the elder man walked down the empty hall way of the police department quietly as they all kept their eyes open for anything moving, whether it was dead or alive. They formed a small line, Billy was in front since he had a shotgun while the older patient was in the middle with Rebecca covering from behind. Suddenly they saw someone turning a corner, he was dressed in a military uniform and was mumbling to himself. The three sped up to catch up with him but when they turned a corner they stopped in their tracks as they heard a gunshot go off. The man in the military uniform was standing over a dead police officer, he was holding a handgun in his hand.
"Hey, are you ok? What happened?" Rebecca asked stepping forward, the man stepped away from the dead cop and let Rebecca inspect the dead officer.
"He was infected, he had bites on his leg and arm, he was starting to act funny and then he tried to bite me." Rebecca saw the bloody seeping from the cop's shirt and pant where he'd been bitten, he was just about infected when he was killed.
"You're military, are there other soldiers?" Billy said.
"I don't know...a lot of them were killed and turned into those monsters out there...and Delta team just contacted me...they're held up in a Wal-Mart about a few blocks from this location."
"Have you seen any survivors in here?"
"I was with a couple officers about a half an hour ago but they got wiped out by some red monster with a long tongue and sharp claws...I haven't seen anyone else who was still alive since."
"What's your name?" Billy asked taking the officer's handgun and putting it in his belt.
"General Rodgers, if we can get to the store where Delta Team is, we might be s-" Rodgers was cut off as a long tongue wrapped around his throat and began pulling him toward the ceiling, above them was a Licker. Billy and Rebecca fired at the creature forcing it to let go of the General who dropped to the floor gasping for breath. The Licker leapt off the wall and lunged at Billy but was sent flying back with a shotgun blast to the stomach, guts and organs splattered the floor as the Licker collapsed and screeched in pain before dying. While Billy went to make sure the Licker was dead, Rebecca helped Rodgers to his feet who was rubbing his neck while regaining his breath.
"You ok?" Rebecca asked handing Rodgers one of her pistols, Rodgers nodded and took it. After Billy blew off the Licker's head with a shotgun blast, he turned to the 3 and said,
"Let's get to Delta Team then...My name is Billy Colon and this is Rebecca Chambers."
General Rodgers makes his way back into the story and is nearly strangled by a licker...good thing Billy and Rebecca showed up...I couldn't help but see J.K Simmons in my head when I wrote this chapter...I could somehow see him playing this character if it was a movie...anyways...Read and Review...