Sorry for the wait, heres another chapter…
'We have met the enemy...and he is us.'
As Jimmy got up, the person smashed into him, tackling him back to the ground. The pipe fell from his hands and a fist collided with Jimmy's face. Jimmy grabbed his hand and kneed him in the groin, he crawled back and the man backed away too.
Jimmy made for the control room, ripping open the door and closing it tightly behind him. He heard the scrape of the pipe on the floor outside the door as the man picked it back up, Jimmy picked up the chair next to him and jammed it under the handle.
"Let me in," a rough voice said through the door.
"Fuck off," Jimmy said backing away from the door.
He sat down on another chair and looked around, there was only one way out of the room, the way he had come in. Behind him were various screens showing other rooms in the building, here and there people were staggering around, but one place was different.
He looked closer at the screen as Eric, the swat guy held on to a door with Mike and a women, behind them on the black and white screen was a man bleeding all over the floor. Eric was clutching his handgun and aiming it at the door, but Jimmy couldn't see what was outside. He flicked the switch on the TV and the picture went to another room, an empty one. Flicking it again it showed the outside of the room where Eric was, there were at least twenty people jammed in the corridor and banging on the door.
"Open this fucking door," the rough voice said," I'll smash in your fucking brains,"
Jimmy ignored the man and looked at the monitor displaying outside the control room. The man was pacing back and forth, trying to find a way into the room now that the door was jammed.
"Hey what-?" the man's voice said.
Jimmy saw as a man came running from the elevator, dressed in swat uniform. He clashed with the man outside the door and ripped a chuck of his neck away as he bit into his flesh. There was a scream from outside and Jimmy watched as the man threw the swat guy across the room, back towards the elevator. He dropped the pipe and ran towards a side room, closing the door behind him, surprise on his face.
Jimmy moved towards the door, taking the chair out and opening it. As he did, the swat guy turned to face him, it was Colin.
"Shit man," Jimmy said," I thought yo-,"
Colin lunged and Jimmy didn't have time to move aside, Colin snapped at Jimmy and he held his neck to keep him away. They fell to the ground and Jimmy grabbed the pipe, putting it against Colin's neck and holding him back as his hands tore at his jacket.
"What's wrong with you?" Jimmy asked, rolling over and pinning him down.
Jimmy heard a clunk as a handgun slipped from its holster on Colin's belt. He felt around for it, letting go of the pipe he scrambled away, Colin discarding the pipe.
Jimmy cocked the gun and aimed it at Colin.
"Don't move," Jimmy said.
Colin looked at him as he rose to his feet slowly, his eyes glancing at the bang on the head Jimmy had taken. He moved again and Jimmy pulled the trigger out of shock of the sudden movement. The bullet struck Colin's shoulder and he turned slightly, but not slowing.
"Body armour," Jimmy thought, aiming low.
Colin's leg gave way as the second shot blew a hole in his lower leg. Jimmy took the time to stand up and wonder what the hell was going on, Colin tried to crawl across the floor at Jimmy, leaving a trail of blood from his leg as he edged forward. Jimmy's eye then caught the sight of blood dripping from the shoulder shot, it had missed his flak jacket and hit his skin, but he hadn't even noticed.
Colin made a swing at Jimmy's leg and took it in both hands, trying to bite it. Jimmy panicked and let loosed another shot, Colin barely noticed as the bullet blew a hole in his arm.
Jimmy pulled the trigger again, and again after that, a volley of cracks rang out as he shot Colin again and again. The hands fell limp and Jimmy kicked Colin in the face, his head landing with a thump.
Back against the wall, Jimmy kept the gun aimed at him, but he didn't move. Quickly, he ejected the magazine and checked it, there was one bullet left inside, meaning one was in the chamber also.
He knelt by Colin and rolled him over, there were two bullet holes in his skull.
"Holy shit," Jimmy said, falling down and thinking about what he had just done.
He had shot a police officer, he couldn't believe it, but he had gone crazy like all the other people. He sat a while, staring into space, the event going over and over in his mind when suddenly the elevator doors opened again, Jimmy jumped to his feet aiming the gun as two people came stumbling out.
"Don't shoot!" the women cried, setting down a man who was injured, his stomach bleeding heavily. She was in her twenties with long brown hair; the man looked much older, maybe forty to fifty years old.
"What happened?" he asked, lowering the gun.
"Those bastards tried to eat him," the women said, her eyes stopping on the swat guy.
"He was like that when I got here," Jimmy lied.
"Come on," she said," help me get him in there,"
Jimmy put the gun in his pants and shouldered the man into the office, laying him down by the screens, half of which showed people running around. From here, he couldn't tell who was crazy and who wasn't.
"You ok?" Jimmy asked the guy, but he didn't reply," how about you?"
"I'm fine," she said," thanks to him they didn't get near me, did no one else make it?"
"Theres a swat guy in a room with some other people," Jimmy pointed at the screens," but those fuckers are outside their room,"
"Hello?" the women said into a speaker.
Jimmy looked up at the screen as Eric spoke into the intercom.
"Good to know someone else is sane out there," he said," where are you?"
"Control room," the women replied," there are at least twenty of those fucks outside your room, we have you on the camera,"
"Well," Eric said," they don't go down easy, I don't think we could make it to you, how many people are with you?"
"Theres three of us," she said," but err….theres a dead cop up here,"
"Ok," Eric said," try to use his radio to get a message out for help, use his gun if you need it, but don't leave that control room until help arrives,"
"Ok," she replied.
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"That the last of it?" she asked him, stacking the chairs against the door.
"Yeah," Jimmy replied, laying the gun on the table.
"I'm Cassie by the way," she said," just call me Cass,"
Jimmy introduced himself and they sat in silence for a moment, the injured man moaning as he turned over. He hadn't spoken since he had arrived, and Jimmy didn't know how long he would last with a wound like that. Jimmy stood up and took a look at the screens while Cass moved off to do something else.
Jimmy jumped as Cass turned on the TV, the last user had left the volume up loud.
"….are these things?" a women asked a man looking like some kind of professor.
"I'm not sure," the man replied," they seem to need to feed on warm flesh and are clearly insane, attacking everyone not like them with homicidal aggression,"
"I understand the police are having trouble killing these things," the women said," even the National Guard are overwhelmed."
"According to the LAPD, they do not feel any pain and are almost impossible to take down," the man replied," however, a bullet to the head has so far proved to put them down permanently,"
"There are also reports that these people are not alive, can you comment on this?" the TV women asked.
"Technically," the man said," all primary life functions have stopped, so yes they are technically deceased,"
"There have been reports in Europe and Asia of similar outbreaks of violence," the women said," is this in any way related to the incident over here?"
"We have no reason to believe that those reports are linked in any way….,"
"Sounds like bullshit to me," Jimmy said.
"Well it explains some things," Cass said," should we tell the Officer that you need to shoot them in the head to stop them?"
"Go ahead," Jimmy said thinking about when he shot Colin in the head and if it would really work," but I'll believe it when I see it,"
"Hello?" Cass said into the intercom," the TV says you need to shoot them in the head,"
Jimmy watched the screen, but Eric didn't move. Cass tried again, but something wasn't right. The lights flickered and went off and the screens went blank, the TV switching off as well. On the control board a red flashing light with Emergency Power Shut Down next to it was flashing along with a second light reading: Backup Generator Failure, obviously it wasn't working too well with no one running the backup generator. After a few seconds, the lights and alarms went dead.
"This cant be good," Jimmy said," Cass?"
He looked up just in time to see the injured man stand up, his insides hanging down to the ground as he looked hungrily at both of them. Jimmy stood up quickly and looked for the gun; it was laying behind the man on the table……