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"So what's it gonna be everyone? Stealth or Smash?"
The group took a moment to ponder Kevin's question. Stealth seemed like the safer option at the moment, but if they were to be caught, someone was sure to be killed.
"While I do believe that revealing ourselves to the military is a foolish move, if we were to use the added protection of the trailer to our advantage, it would potentially minimize the casualties and injuries we may experience if we were to use stealth." Double D explained.
"That was precisely what I was thinking." Kathy added. "Though we may need some firepower if we are to do this, the weapons we have at the moment are only useful at close range."
"So we need guns?" Matt asked.
"As much as I dislike the use of firearms, that is correct." Double D replied.
"We do have a few guns back at the trailer, they're too big to bring with us normally. But if we're gonna bust into the states, they could he useful." Rachel noted.
With this information, the gang retreated back in the direction of Terry's trailer.
"Is everyone ready?" Eddy asked. Terry gripped the wheel of his trailer so tightly that his knuckles turned pink. Everyone except for Sarah, Jimmy, Erin, Double D, and Kathy held either a gun (or in the case of Rolf and his family, harpoon guns) or some other kind of projectile like a rock or some useless knick knack that Terry and Rachel didn't mind parting with. With their weapons in hand, Terry slammed his foot on the gas, the trailer rocketing forward, for a mobile home, it moved rather quickly as it currently broke forty miles per hour.
"We're coming up onto the border!" Terry announced, everyone wielding a weapon got ready for action, those that didn't ducked under cover. "Eddy!"
Eddy went over to his brother, answering his call.
"What's up?"
"When I say so, I need you to push that yellow button."
"Uh, sure, but what is it?"
"Something that'll save our asses if we need it. But once we use it we'll have to dump this trailer afterwards. IS EVERYONE READY?!"
"READY!" Everyone responded.
"Alright then... LET'S ROCK!" Terry shouted as he floored it at the R.C.M.P and U.S. soldiers guarding the border into the United States.
"What the hell is that?!" One soldier asked in a mixture of shock, horror, and confusion as the whale shaped vehicle sped towards them.
"Who cares!" Anither soldier responded. "Shoot it!"
The soldiers opened fire on the trailer, prompting the gang to return fire. The ammunition either completely kissed the moving vehicle or graved its sides. Terry, Eddy, and Rachel ducked down to avoid the glass shards or the windshield as it had been shattered by bullets.
As the trailer was being shot at at all sides, those that hid under cover began getting exposed to the light of the outside by hullets that hit the side of the trailer. Nobody had been hit yet but the side of the vehicle that Jimmy was hiding at had part of its side completely destroyed by gunfire, leaving a gaping hole that exposed Jimmy to the soldiers' gunfire.
The timid boy screamed as everything seemed to slow down for him. He saw soldiers aiming their rifles at him, he swiftly jumped away to the side to avoid getting hit. A stray bullet hit the submachine gun that Janyse had in her hands, knocking it over to where Jimmy was. Acting on pure instinct, Jimmy reached for the gun, an Uzi, and went back to the hole. He saw the soldiers that almost shot him, his hands trembling as he aimed the gun at them. Sarah saw Jimmy with the gun and headed over to him, horrified about what might happen.
Jimmy closed his eyes and shouted as he pulled the trigger, Sarah watched as he took down the soldiers that blasted the hole into the trailer, there had to be seven at least, or rather" there were seven soldiers.
Sarah wasn't sure if Jimmy realized what he did. Jimmy himself felt another surge of adrenaline rush through him, he didn't need to see the fallen soldiers, the fact that he pulled a gun and opened fire on people was more than enough to get his blood pumping.
"We need the RPG!" One of the soldiers shouted. Two more soldiers rushed over, one carrying an RPG with the other holding additional rockets.
"Holy shit" Kevin and Matt shouted simultaneously upon seeing the heavy artillery. Rolf looked at the weapon in confusion and fear, he didn't know what it was and he didn't want to find out.
"PUNCH IT EDDY!" Terry screamed. Eddy pressed the yellow button right when the soldier fired the rocket.
The trailer blasted forward, nitrous oxide bursting from the exhaust pipes. The RPG sped towards the trailer but barely missed as soon as the vehicle reached its top speed. Everyone in the trailer watched as the rocket zipped slyward and exploded. Rolf and his family paniced in their native language about the rocket launcher, Kevin, Matt, and the Kanker family tried calming them down.
The sdiers reloaded quickly and launched another rocket, though the trailer had already entered the U.S. and was hidden behind the trees, which were hit by the rocket.
Now having little control over the vehicle due to its speed and velocity, Terry tried to manuever the trailer past the trees as the fuel rapidly burned up.
Eventually the trailer stopped moving before it slammed into a tree. The engine died and went silent, they all appeared to lose the military, and it didn't appear as if they had any current interest in tracking them. This peace allowed the group to rest and calm themselves down after their ordeal.
"Ugh, my back hurts too, Buddy." Jonny groaned as he and Plank stepped out of the trailer. The rest of the group slowly stepping out of the now useless vehicle.
"So this is the States?" Lenore Kanker pondered, looking around the wilderness they found themselves in.
"Think if we walk for five minutes we'll find one of thise fast food places that are aupposed to be everywhere?" Lee jokingly asked, garnering a laugh out of most of the group.
Jimmy sat underneath a tree, still holding the gun. Sarah was by his side, listening to what he said...
"I'm a monster, Sarah! I'm no better than the brutes in those violent movies who abuse women and tear families apart!" He cried.
Sarah was going to respond but Tony beat her to it.
"You're not a monster, I think you're a hero!" He said.
"A hero?" Jimmy asked.
"Yeah!"
Tony explained what happened to him in the traer as the chaos took place...
The military had just blasted a hole into the side of the trailer, Jimmy was immediately able to he seen, but when he jumped out of the way, Tony was now visible and in the line of fire.
Noticing the daylight behind him, Tony turned around and saw Jimmy pick up the gun that Janyse had dropped. In Jimmy's point of view, he closed his eyes out of fear. He didn't want to see what would happen when he started firing.
It was just a split second, but before Jimmy started shooting, Tony saw a flash of red light in his left eye, it was a flash of light reflecting off of the scope of the gun one if the soldiers had. Jimmy prevented the soldier from shooting Tony in the head, a hit that certainly would habe killed the large boy.
Jimmy didn't know what to say after listening to Tony's explanation. He saw himself as a barbarian, but someone much older and larger than he was, someone who looked like he could launch Jimmy fifty feet skyward with little effort was telling Jimmy that he was a hero.
Before Jimmy could respond, the Eds, Kathy, and Terry brought everyone over to them.
"Attention please! Do I habe everybody's attention?... Very well then, we have successfully crossed the Canadian-American border and we are now currently on the Rocky Mountains. Specifically in the portion of the mountains located within the state of Idaho." Double D announced.
"Now the militia compound where we were directed to go to is located within the section if the mountains located in Montana, which neighbors Idaho. However we are by no means close to the compound. While the trailer was able to give us a good amount of distance towards the compound, it will still take us several days, if not a week or two to arrive there." Kathy added.
"Plus my retailer's completely empty. We won't be able to use it to get there quicker and bringing it with us will draw too much attention." Terry stated.
"So we're walking the rest of the way?" Nazz asked.
"I'm afraid so."
"Um, I know this is going to sound corny but..." Erin stated. "This isn't so bad, right? I mean we all made it through the border okay, and we have somewhere to go. I mean it'll take a while to get there but it isn't hopeless, right?"
"Now see, an attitude like that is one we need right now!" Keenan added, trying to make the situation more hopeful.
"That is correct, and I must commend you for staying positive, but we must stick together and be more wary than we have been since this tragedy began." Double D noted. "This outbreak began off tje coast of California and it has spread very quickly in just a short time. We've also seen that animals can also be affected, we must proceed with the utmost caution!"
"Don't forget that the zombies habe been growing stronger!" Ed added.
"He's right. You saw what happened back at the cliffs!" Nazz stated, shuddering as she the image of the Deerhaunters emerging from the woods came back to her.
"If we must face this danger..." Rolf said, removing his shirt and placing a Davy Crockett style hat on his head, his parents adorning similar clothes made if sheep's wool and various other furs. "Then we shall face it head onwards as warriors!"
This proclamation stirred everyone's confidence and got everyone motivated.
"So, what are we waiting for?!" Eddy asked, "Let's find this place!"
The shortest Ed began to walk Eastward, a confident atride in his step that made Lee swoon a bit at how her crush appeared to have the attitude that made her fall for him in the first place. The others except for Kathy and Double D followed him.
"Eddy, the compound is to the West, you all are going the wrong way!"
Eddy stayed silent as everyone turned around, he still had the confident demeanor though now he also blushed a bit in embarrassment and sweated a bit at his mistake.
"Dork." Kevin chuckled playfully as he lightly punched Eddy's arm.
The large plane that Double D and Kathy's parents were currently in was now landing at an airfield at some sort of military base.
"The scientists have all been transported into the labs, Terry." The agent known as David stated.
"Good, but... I haven't exactly been honest with you, my name is not Terry."
"I'm disappointed, but not surprised." David said flatly.
"Anyway, the scientists are cooperating. It'll take a few months but once everything is done maybe society can return to normal... Also, Dave, call me Russ."
"Very well... Russ." David said as he left his superior alone. The government agent, now known as Russ took out some sort of schematic showing the design if sone sort of titanic robot...
Meanwhile Double D's parents and Kathy's father were brought to a large factory alongside several dozen other scientists from Canada ans the U.S.
Most if them were terrified about being brought to this strange area. Thise that weren't were already scientists of the base, and the heads if the construction and development of whatever was being produced.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you may he wondering why you have all been brought here. With the recent plague devastating the Americas, we have been gathered to develop something that will bring an end to this horror and all of us shall be producing it." One if the lead scientists said, several agents wearing black suits or uniforms sinilar to the military stood beside them.
"I refuse to take part in this! You have forced me away from my family and-"
The scientist that had refused to cooperate with the demands of the heads was immediately shot dead by the agents with no hesitation.
"Let that he a lesson to you." The head scientist continued. "If you don't cooperate, you will be terminated. Simple as that."
Mrs. Drummond cried silently as she kept a firm grip on her husband's hand. The fear for their lives as the lives of their child and his friends was torturing them. Mr. Drummond looked over to Mr. Barr, they had never really known each other they had been taken out of Canada, but he was the only ally that he had right now.
No choices for this chapter but there will be one in the chapters to come.