Left 4 Dead: Gemini Strain

Chapter XXXVIII: Simple. A Fucking Tank! - Robert

Robert slammed into the door at the base of the radio tower, he quickly spun around and fired three shots from his pistol.
The sounds of thunder filled the air as three zombies fell to the ground, Robert quickly looked around, he knew that those were just the start of the horde coming for them.
Robert turned around and banged on the door, "Theo!" Robert yelled, there was a click and the door swung open, Theo quickly moved outside, he handed Robert a backpack, "It's a backup radio" Robert nodded and swung it over his shoulder.
Theo cocked his shotgun and swung it over his shoulder and pulled out his pistol, "Lets find Russ".

Russ cursed to himself as he fired his assault rifle towards a horde of zombies, that were rushing towards him.
He dipped inside of a metal covered building, Russ slammed the door closed and locked it, "God Dammit" Russ' words had only left his mouth when he utter, "shit".
Russ turned around and his eyes couldn't believe what he saw.
Russ was standing within the Outpost's military laboratory, they had caged up different zombies, some had been tied down to tables and worked on.
Russ held his assault rifle tightly, as he walked pasted the cages, zombie arms reaching out to him, they opened their rotted jaws as moans of the undead filled the room.
Russ looked around, he found a empty cage and many human bodies that had been crushed to almost nothing, "...Looks like that fucking Tank has been in-" Russ stopped speaking as a thought entered into his mind, he walked over to a desk and picked up some of the paperwork that was laying on top of it, ".....No" Russ put the paperwork into his bag and shouldered his assault rifle, ".....you poor souls" Russ looked around the room at the caged zombies, he spotted a pistol in the hand of one of the crushed humans, he grabbed it and shook his head, ".....No rest for the wicked" Russ looked up and fired at the closet zombie, and then the next, then the next.

Robert and Theo held their ground as they fired into a group of zombies, they had just passed a warehouse and noticed that a group of zombies were beating on a metal covered building.
Theo dropped the clip from his pistol and loaded another, "We're running low on ammo, we need to find that some more or we're fucked" the door opened from the metal building and Russ walked outside, he quickly spotted Theo and Robert, "Hey guys" Russ said with a small wave of his hand.
Robert walked over to him, "I'm guessing no luck with the weapons?" Russ replied with a shake of his head, "Nothing....there are a few other buildings" Russ turned and pointed passed the metal building, "I haven't been there yet" Theo turned and fired his pistol, "Seems like a good time to go and check it out" Theo replied as his fired into a horde of zombies rushing them, Robert and Russ agreed as they also started firing.
The rain started to pour down again, almost drowning out the sound of the loud music playing, "Dammit, Theo isn't there a way to stop the music?" Russ yelled as they made a ran for the buildings" Theo shook his head, "I tried....I'd have to blow up that fucking radio tower to do it" Robert ran passed them both, "Maybe we can.....if this place does have weapons, it would make sense for them to have some type of rocket or something" he looked back and fired at a zombie that was closing in.
The three stopped and turned around, firing into the thinning horde, "....can't we get a break" Russ said as the last zombie fell down dead.
The noise of the undead filled the air again, they quickly turned around and saw a horde of zombies trying to get inside one of the buildings, "....what could be inside of their-" Russ quickly cut himself off as he read the painted words on the other building, "Fuck Yeah!" Russ made a, almost crazed dash towards the building, Theo and Robert were lagging behind, "Weapons!" Russ yelled out.
Robert continued to look towards the other building, the two buildings had about 100 yards between them, when they reached the doors of the building, Robert noticed that the other building has a massive hole in the side of it, the zombies hadn't noticed it yet.
Robert looked at his two friends and made a ran for the building, "What are you doing?" Russ yelled out, "You two get the weapons and be ready, that tank is inside of that building and so is Lucy" Robert continued to ran as Theo and Russ entered into the building.

Robert had made it to the hole without any of the zombies seeing him, he took several deep breaths and then peeked through the hole, he didn't see or hear the tank.
Robert stayed close to the ground, creeping along the metal containers, Robert looked around and finally saw her.
Lucy was sitting on the edge of a rail which was apart of a walkway, which was just short of a story high, "Lucy!" Robert yelled out as he walked into the open, Lucy looked down at him, "Hide..." Robert looked confused by her words but then suddenly he heard a deep roar, he quickly ran towards a latter and made his way up onto the same walkway as Lucy, he started to make his way over towards her when she shook her head, telling him no.
Robert looked confused but quickly aimed his pistol as a few zombies entered through the hole but before firing a shot, the tank stormed in, it swung it's massive arm and knocked the zombies away.
Robert stood frozen, the beast struck fear into his soul as it made it's way over to Lucy.
Robert aimed his pistol as Tank reached up towards Lucy but it didn't attack, "What..." Robert said to himself as he watched the Tank, carefully pat Lucy on the head.
Robert stood confused by it's attacks when suddenly there was a loud explosion that knocked him off of his feet and Lucy off of the railing.
The Tank grabbed her and set her down on the ground and then rushed out of the building.
Robert quickly stood up and made his way down the latter, it wasn't until he was about halfway down when he noticed that the music had stopped, "Good job guys" He said out loud as he made his way over to Lucy.
Robert picked her up in his arms and hugged her, "We didn't know if you were alive or not" Robert set her down and was shocked, her eyes had turned gray, "Lucy....whats happening to you?" Lucy took a few steps backwards then fell to his knees crying, "...i can....i can hear them" Lucy said, tears running down her face, "...i can hear all of their thoughts....most of them are driven by their hunger...they think nothing but to kill and eat...." Lucy started to shake more and more, "....i...i think i am turning into one of them..." Robert shook his head, tears formed in the corners of his eyes, "no...no...your going to be okay....i'll get you out of here..." Robert picked up Lucy and started to run.

Theo and Russ smiled to themselves as the rocket they had fired had hit the radio tower, "Damn we're good" Russ said, giving Theo a pat on the back, "...yep....now we just have to see if every fucking zombie in the city shows up or not" Russ sadly nodded to what Theo had just said.
Suddenly they heard the sounds of a helicopter, they looked around and spotted it.
Theo and Russ started to wave their hands, it flew towards them, "This is Randy....i'm going to land over-" the helicopter quickly pulled up as a large rock flew towards it, it had dodged the rock, Russ and Theo looked over and saw that the Tank was running towards the helicopter, "Dammit...you guys have got to get him off my back" the helicopter started to fly away with the Tank following behind it.
Russ kicked the ground, "Dammit....how in the fuck are we going to deal with that thing!?" Robert ran up to them, he set Lucy down, "Was that the helicopter?" Theo nodded, "yeah but he can't land with that Tank down here" Robert shook his head.
Robert looked around, "What toys did you two find?" Russ smirked and handed Robert a sniper rifle and a newer model of his assault rifle, "Nice..." Russ held up his assault rifle, which he was carrying two of and Theo had an auto-shotgun and an assault rifle.
"Looks like we got some bang to bring to this party...." Robert loaded a clip into his sniper rifle and took aim at the Tank and fired.
The bullet flew through the air and hit the Tank in the shoulder, it roared out in pain and turned towards them.
Robert lowered his sniper, "...hehe...thought i could get a headshot....guess i missed" Russ smacked Robert on the back, "no shit!".