Z Nation {Fanfiction}

Chapter 5: Philly Feast

Cassandra pulled her sleeve down as she left her deep thought. "Why are we going this way?" She asked, "Philly's a dead zone."

"Hopefully we can scavenge something without going too deep into the city." Charles told her.

"If we find a working radio, we can try and contact Citizen Z again." Joslin sighed, "Because I really need to talk to him." She mumbled holding her hand over her bite. She has had it for almost a month now. But she hasn't turned. 'Why?' She asked herself.

"Philadelphia." Murphy said as they pulled into the town, "Ah, the city of brotherly love." He watched zombies eat a person.

As they drove up the road they saw a truck holding the Liberty Bell, "Is that what I think it is?" Roberta asked.

Charles was surprised, "No way." He said as they stopped the truck.

"Is that really the Liberty Bell?" Mack asked as they all got out of the truck.

Charles started to read off it, " 'Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof.' Yeah, that's it."

"Three years of zombie apocalypse, you think you've seen everything." Doc walked up to the bell.

"Ya think!" Amber laughed.

"Well when everything went bad, they probably tried to save a little history." Roberta explained.

"Yeah, well they should've known the only thing you can save is yourself." Murphy stuck his head out the window.

"Thank you, Murphy." Joslin actually, genuinely, thanked him. "Lets go!"

"Hang on" Roberta stuck a pump into the gas tank, "If this thing still has fuel, and it does... If we get this thing started, they wont have to ride out in the open like that." She told Charles.

"Well I'm all for that" Doc leaned against the truck.

"I'll grab the jumper cable." Mack went to grab it.

Doc looked at the bell, "God bless the human race. 99% of them dead. But there's still one jackass alive with a spray can." He chuckled.

Roberta went to open the door to the truck but there was a zombie inside. 10K got it, "1,075." He counted. Roberta nodded as a thanks.

They got the truck started and they were off.

Roberta hit a zombie in the road, "You know you could try to miss some of them instead." Charles told her.

"Why? One less zombie to kill." She shot back.

"Leave some for Psycho-Boy Two Thousand." Murphy said.

"Ten Thousand." Roberta, Charles and Joslin corrected him.

Murphy took the last sip from his water bottle, "Take it easy there that's the last of your water." Charles explained to him.

"Actually, it's the last of her water." He pointed to Roberta. "Mine's right here."

"Give me that." Roberta took the water from Murphy, "Just because we got to get you to California alive doesn't mean I cant kick your ass between here and there."

"Look out!" Joslin yelled to Roberta.

There was a car out of control with a zombie on it. Roberta took a sharp turn into an alley, with Doc and the rest following. As she hit the breaks for the truck to stop, the straps holding the bell broke and the bell rolled in the street, hitting and crushing everything in its path. Doc stopped to watch the bell.

"Yeah! I'd pay money to see that again." Doc called out.

"I'll double that!" Amber added.

The axel for the bell truck broke so they all got into the other truck.