Planet Undead (Book 2)

Four - Connective Tissue

Cameron is bleeding on the floor as Anton lays on the ground as his son BJ knocks him out to stop him from injuring anyone else. Anna's spine is injured and Margo helps her stand up. Finn asks the group what they should do with Anton and Anna immediately says to kick him out of the gas station. Tiffany and BJ love that idea but Marcy thinks that the idea is inhumane and brutal. Finn tries to tell Marcy that the idea can ensure that Anton backs down but Marcy says that the world doesn't need to be like that. Finn bickers back by saying that the world has turned into that now and Marcy steps down as Margo takes her husband Cameron in the back room of the gas station. Cameron starts to breathe again and Margo gives him a kiss. Margo remembers that Emmett and Lorenzo died so someone has to break the news to Kimberly. Cameron wants to so he gets up and he goes to find Kimberly. Finn drags Anton outside the gas station and Finn decides to put Anton's unconscious body away from the gas station so he wouldn't try anything. Finn lays his body beside a tree and Finn ties Anton's hand to the tree so he can't escape, but the cannibalistic Brotherhood start surrounding the distracted Finn. Finn sees the Brotherhood's strategy of covering yourself in roamer guts so you can walk through hordes without getting eaten. Finn sees this and starts to making witty remarks so he can buy time for the gun he's reloading behind his back. Finn's gun finally reloads and Finn shoots three Brotherhood members and dodges their attacks so he could hold a member hostage. Finn puts a knife to the hostage's throat and tells the rest of the Brotherhood to never mess with him again, and the rest of the Brotherhood members leave. Finn takes the hostage back to the gas station so he can interrogate him and get some answers about the Brotherhood. Finn looks at Anton as an abusive piece of shit so Finn shoots his gun four times in the air so the roamers will come to Anton's area and eventually eat him alive. Anton begged for mercy but Finn tells him that he didn't give mercy back so Finn goes back to the gas station with the hostage as Anton is tied to a tree with roamers closing in on him. Cameron find Kimberly and Kimberly signs to him "Hi" Cameron is crushed that he has to give the news about Emmett and Lorenzo but Cameron decides that he has to so he muster up the courage to sign to Kimberly "Your dad and uncle, they- they didn't make it." and Kimberly signs "What?" and she starts to cry. Kimberly falls into Cameron's arms as Margo hugs her. Finn barges into the gas station with the hostage and Tiffany immediately grabs a chair and rope. Tiffany ties up the hostage and the hostage begs to be let go but Finn punches the hostage in the face. Finn puts a knife to the hostage's throat as Finn demands answers about the Brotherhood. The hostage says his name is Nelson and he winks at Finn and tells him "The Brotherhood is the new start" and Nelson kills himself by leaning back in the chair and hitting his head on the ground. Finn winces as Nelson bleeds on the floor. Anna is still limping from her spine injury and she asks Finn if Anton is dead and Finn says yes to him being dead. Anton is still tied to the tree as roamers close in on him. Anton thinks about breaking his own hand so he can get away but he can't muster up the strength to do it. Anton is about to die until a guy comes over with an axe and cuts the rope. The guy helps Anton up and the guy leads Anton to his house. The guy introduces himself as Franklin Harkfield and the guy says that he saved Anton because a nice woman named Linda saved him when he was in danger so Franklin was trying to continue the cycle of saving people in need. Anton appreciates how naive Franklin is and shakes his hand. They both make it to Franklin's house and Anton thinks about killing Franklin and taking everything he has. Franklin shows Anton to his room and Anton thanks him for saving him. Franklin says Anton can stay for however long he wants but Anton quickly says "Yeah, that was never up for debate." and Anton grabs a kitchen knife as Franklin dodges his attack and body slams Anton into a glass table. Anton is on the ground as Franklin says "It was too good to be true." Franklin pulls out a shotgun but before he can shoot, Anton grabs a shard of the broken glass table and stabs Franklin with it. Anton stabs Franklin seven more times as Anton enjoys it even more with every stab. Franklin dies due to blood loss as Anton grows more bloodthirsty every second. Finn and his group is devising a plan of how to take down the Brotherhood when all of a sudden, Marcy's water breaks.