BULLET TO THE BRAIN
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A/N: Ok few changes I change Effrie's name to Laffrety she is that soldier that has a mole on her head I just barely found her name. I also change Charles name to Thomas.
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"JT where is Vincent?" Catherine repeated the question. Everyone stopped talking to hear what would be said. "Where's Vincent why, isn't he with you? Where's Vincent, JT"
"I-I don't know," answered JT
"You don't know. What the hell do you mean you don't know?"
"I don't know Catherine!" JT shouted, "We waited for him, we waited for hours and he didn't show. We called him in the walkie-talkie and he never answered. That thing that answered us after hours of trying was the hungry growl of infected."
There were gasps, and of 'oh no', and 'oh my God, and a few shouts of 'what'. They had lost some of their own out there throughout the months since the plague. But never before had they lost a Guardian. Every survivor living in the warehouse from the youngest five-year-old to the oldest adult knew who and what Vincent and the other guardians are. They are men and women that had enlisted in the Army to protect their country after 9/11. The government experimented on them in order to create an army of super soldiers. Something had gone wrong in the government give the orders to kill the all. Out of the 40 soldiers that were in the program only 15 were still alive. 10 of them are living in the warehouse the other five they lost contact with when the plague hit. These soldiers were called 'The Guardians' by the survivors, but Vincent wasn't just a Guardian he was the leader of everyone here and Catherine his second in command.
"What happened?" Catherine asked
"It's my fault. It's my entire fault" Jake Riley answered. Jake Riley is a 17-year-old survivor who has two younger brothers and a younger sister (triplets) to look after. The first time that Catherine and Tess had made Jake was two years ago when they were investigating who was trying to kill him. "You told me… You told me to tie my shoes before we left and I did not listen… Vincent is dead because of me." Jake began to cry
"What? No, no" Catherine covered her mouth with her hands or eyes bright with unchecked tears.
"I'm sorry," Jake said
Catherine felt a hand on her shoulder turning around she found her father standing behind her. Thomas Chandler held his oldest child as she cried he gave glare at Jake before leading his daughter away. Thomas had met Vincent in the hospital the day after he had married Brooke. Vincent had saved him, his wife, and youngest daughter from being eaten by the infected bringing them here to the warehouse where Catherine had been anxiously waiting. Vincent had risked his life many times to save those that Catherine knew and their families; Tess and three of her brothers with their families, Joe's wife and kids, Iris with her two sisters Mina and Zina, Jake and his triplets siblings. Thomas knew why Vincent had done it. It was so that Catherine wouldn't go through the pain everyone in the warehouse went through at losing their friends and family members. But even though Vincent had done his best he hadn't been able to save everyone. Joe hadn't been home when his family was rescued, and Vincent didn't know where Evan lived, and Tess two other brothers had decided to stay after showing them the bite marks they received. Thomas let Catherine up the third floor and into the small room that Heather and Brooke shared.
Catherine sat on the bed with Brooke and Heather on each side and her father sitting in the chair in front of her. 'Vincent couldn't be dead, he just couldn't be' were the words that went through her mind over and over again. Laffrety knock likely on the door getting the attention of the four chandlers in the room. "They're ready," was all she said before leaving. The four Chandlers left the small room making their way down to the first floor. Already waiting on the first floor was JT and his team, Laffrety and the guardians, Vincent's parents and his brother and two sisters. Also on the floor were Tess and few the survivors. Leaning on the rails or standing on the stairs were the survivors who wanted to know what happened today? There was silence in the warehouse for a brief moment before it was broken by JT.
"It wasn't Jake's fault," said JT
"Yes it was," Jake said
"No it wasn't"-JT
"Both of you shut up and tell me what happened today."
"As you know last night we, that is Vincent and my team, Laffrety' team, and Jordan's team, decided last night to go further out than we usually do"
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Warehouse 4:15 a.m.
The three white U-Haul trucks were on and ready to go all that they needed were the drivers and their passengers. The team members were with the families and/or friends saying their goodbyes knowing very well that this mission could be their last. As soon as the last truck left the warehouse the large metal rollup doors were lowered and locked. By 4:30 the three trucks were making their way through the streets of New York one behind the other with their lights off. They went their separate ways once they reach Manhattan keeping in touch with each other with their radios and walkie-talkies.
Vincent and JT's team found a neighborhood that didn't have an infected in the streets. Finding no infected in the streets meant two things wrong with the people had left their homes to get away from the plague or they haven't been so lucky. But either way each house was searched and tagged it's one of two symbols; the first was of a circle with the S inside which meant that the property had been searched, and the second symbol was of a circle with the X inside which meant that there was at least one infected in the building. Most of the houses were empty most probably search but other survivors not their own but some had few can goods that had been forgotten. The team drove away once the houses were searched and marked hoping that the next stop they would have better luck. They stayed away from neighborhoods that had more than one infected in the streets they too stayed away from major food stores and apartment buildings. It had been around noon when they found a forgotten food bank. The drove around the block twice to make sure there were no zombies around. They cursed at the loud sound that the lock made when they broke it knowing well that the loud noise will attract any of infected that happened to be nearby. With a weapon at ready the open the rollup doors ready to run back to the truck case there were zombies inside. What they found was food jackpot. There were rows of steel utility shelves (like the ones that you see in the Home Depot) bolted to the floor and on the shelves were pallets full of imperishable foods.
"Oh men look at all this food," Santiago a member their team said. "We won't have to worry about looking for food for a while."
"We can finally eat a full meal," Jake said
"Here's the plan," Vincent said giving JT an open box of 55 gallon black heavy duty trash bags. "JT, you and Jake take the left while Santiago and I take the right. We'll load as much as we can before the infected start showing up. Tomorrow, if we're able, we'll bring the rest of the teams."
They radio Roger who was in the truck keeping watch for any zombies. With the help of the shopping carts they had loaded several sacks of rice and beans, several trash bags full of canned goods, boxes of powder milk and baby formula. Vincent and Santiago were loading a cart with some sacks of flour when Santiago notices the back door that had been closed when they had arrived wide open. A minute after their discovery they heard Jake scream closely followed by a gun being fired and a growl of an infected. Santiago and Vincent ran towards the sound of their friends hoping that they weren't late.
They were two aisles away from where they had last seen their friends when they saw an infected shuffling out of an aisle in front of them. The zombie had once been a woman with red hair that now hung limp on her gray rotten face; the whites of her eyes were now red with the iris a dark shade of gray. Both men came to a sudden stop hoping that they had not gotten the attention of the undead woman but it was too late. The woman running towards them her bones creaking and popping with every step she took. Both men ran back the way they came from turning right at the nearest aisle with the jawless woman behind them.
The infected, zombies, undead, freaks, undead bastards, or whatever you would like to call them were slower and weaker than the living. This could possibly be due to the state of partial rigor mortise. You are able to out run one or two of the infected but the thing was that these things don't hunt alone and at the moment no one knows why. They grab you slow you down and if the bite you then bye-bye you'll soon be dead. Vincent fired his weapon at the dead woman blowing of one of her legs. The woman didn't wince, didn't cried out in pain she fell on the floor motionless for a second or two before began to use her arms to drag herself towards them. An infected with no legs was the difference between life and death.
With the zombie "taken care of" Santiago and Vincent ran towards their friends help. They found Jake and JT each fighting of an infected that were trying to bite them and most likely unaware of the two infected that were slowly making their way towards them or of the five other that were several yard behind the two that were fighting off. Santiago fired his riffle shooting at the leg of one of infected near their friends getting their attention. Dark black red blood thickly oozes from the wound. Vincent roared and ran grabbing the zombie using his beastly strength and the momentum of the run throw the 200lb man against the wall. There was the sound of skull cracking and the snap of a neck and before the man was able to get up Santiago brought down his ax separating the dead man's head from its body. The body stills move and the head, even though it had roll few feet away, still open its mouth to bite. Vincent grabbed the second zombie, this one a woman, twisting her neck 180degrees and throwing her toward Santiago who immediately decapitates her.
JT was scare, he was slowly losing his fight against the dead man that he has on top of him. With every second that pass the dead bastard got closer and closer to his shoulder with its mouth wide open ready to bite. ¼ away from his shoulder JT close his eyes waiting painful bite that would end his life as a human. He was trying not to gag from the rotting stench coming from the man. A second pass then another and two more and the bite never came. JT open his eyes to find the dead man no longer on top of him. Vincent grabbed his hand and helped him to stand.
"Thanks" JT said
"Guys come on let's go, let's go come on!" Santiago shouted. The men began to run as fast as they could hoping to make it out of there and into the safety of the truck. The undead seem to coming from everywhere and for a brief moment they wonder why Roger didn't call them to let them know about the walking danger. There were more of the infected both behind and in front of them that were starting to block their only exit.
"Faster!" one of the guys shouted, "run faster!"
JT and Santiago made it to the truck without getting caught or bitten. There were more of the infected in the parking lot. Jake tripped on his untied shoelace falling hard on the concrete floor. HE was helped up by Vincent who had stop to help him when they turn to leave they found their only exit block. They saw JT getting into the passenger side and Santiago on the trailer looking scared. The two looked around for a way to escape. In front of them were six zombies and behind the two friends were ten more. On their left and right there were shelves full of packed pallets of food. The only way to get away from this dead bastards was to climb the shelves to the top knowing that the infected wouldn't be able to climb them do to their stiff joints. Vincent could easily jump to the top shelf do to his super soldier abilities but Jake on the other hand couldn't. Jake would need to climb in order to get away from the infected but the pallets were on his way and if by the time he did find a way to climb the shelves it would too late.
"Oh god we're going to die here!" Jake cried out as they heard the sound of the engine starting.
"No, we're not" Vincent said taking out his hunting knife that he always carried with him. "What we're going to do is we're going to run. We're going to run towards them and we're going to push, punch, kick in order to make our way past these freaks and we'll run toward the truck before it leaves. Okay?"
"But…"
"Don't worry they will be distracted." Jake nodded scared for his life and that of his friend. He had been in other scavenges but never had he fought for his life. "On three we will run, ok…1...2...3" they both ran. Jake did as Vincent had said he push kick punch his way pass the infected he didn't stop for a second to catch his breath. He ran after the truck that was starting to leave. He grab Santiago's outstretch hand and was helped in just before the truck picked up speed.
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"Then what happen?" Catherine asked
"I don't know. I thought that Vincent was behind me." Jake answered
"Did he said anything else?"
"Just not to worry that infected would be distracted" Jake said wiping the tears from his face.
"Distracted how?" Thomas asked. He had stayed silent while three of the four men told their story. He could hear the loud whispers of some of the survivors that were listening. He place a hand on his daughter's shoulders as fought back her tears as she tried to find what happen to the man she loves. "Because there are only four ways that I know of that get the attention of those freaks. One is the loud noises which you got when you broke that lock and when you fired your guns. Two and three are the smell of the living and something hitting them. If what Jake said its true then he should have been dead by now if not then at least bitten."
"And there's the fourth," Santiago said "when they smell it they ignore everything for a few moments before following the scent. They start to move faster and more aggressive."
"What makes them that?" Tess asked
Thomas "The scent of freshly spilt blood."
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That is it for today hope you like it.
Is Vincent dead or alive?
Who will look after the survivors?
"Who is the father of Heather's baby? Seriously who because I don't know and I was going to make Darius the father but he got killed in the series unless I bring him back but not a zombie.
Are there other survivors?
And how would you kill these types of zombies
Please leave a review before you go I really want to hear what you think.
Ps: I think that Tess is pregnant
pps: i'll be posting a small preview of the next chapter in a bit