Star Trek - Zombies

Chapter 03: Onslaught

Kirk moved to the open doorway and surveyed the city with his eyes. At first, he saw nothing except the supposedly empty buildings of the colony. Gradually, shadowy figures began to stumble out into the streets and stagger toward the security building where the away team was located. The figures jerked and spasmed, their movements uncoordinated and barely enough to keep them standing and moving in the same direction.

"I'm detecting an increase in electromagnetic flux levels," Spock reported while looking at his tricorder. "But, there are still no life signs."

"Hurry up with the barricade," Kirk ordered.

The doors were lifted back into position and braced. Phasers were used to melt the pieces together, but only a few connections were made before the staggering inhabitants of the colony fell against the door. As more and more put their weight against the door, the new welds began to strain.

"It's going to break!" shouted a security man.

"Fall back," Kirk instructed.

The away team abandoned their defense of the doors and retreated into the next room. Once more, phasers were used to weld the two panels of the door together.

The barricade collapsed under the ever increasing weight of the lifeless bodies pressing against it. Within moments, they slammed against the next door, pounding on the partitions separating them from the away team.

"This way," Spock said, directing everyone toward a storage room. The door refused to open.

"What's wrong?" Kirk asked, his eyes constantly shifting back to check on the condition of the door behind them.

"Damage to the power systems affected everything in the building, Captain," Spock answered. He flipped open an access panel and attempted a manual bypass. "My efforts to reactivate the main computer only affected the systems in the front room. Everywhere else remains offline."

While the science officer worked, the welded door began to bulge ominously inward. Spock flipped an internal relay, and the entrance to the storage area opened partly. Taking a hold of the half open doors, Spock stepped between them and pushed them out to either side, wide enough for a person to step through if they turned sideways.

"Inside!" Kirk shouted to his people.

Spock paused a moment to fire his phaser into the manual controls for the door. A burst of white hot sparks spewed from the access port in the wall, followed by a thick cloud of smoke.

McCoy, Spock, Kirk, and one of the security teams entered the storage room before the door being attacked broke inward. A dozen bodies spilled into the room. Some were dressed in Starfleet uniforms while others were clothed as civilian colonists in single color jumpsuits.  The clothes of the colonists were ragged, and a nauseous green tint colored their skin.

The defending security team fired with their phasers on stun, but the lifeless people staggering through the now open doorway didn't seem bothered by it. The weapons' fire shoved them back but nothing else.

Reaching out, one of the dead snared a hold of a security man's red shirt, pulling him close before biting him hard on the neck. The man screamed, his teammates trying in vain to pry the horrid thing off their comrade. While the security men expended their efforts, others were attacked, dragged screaming to the ground where they were covered by the mass of incoming bodies.

Kirk increased his phaser to maximum and fired from the storage room. One of the attackers flashed out of existence in a supernova of blue light. He fired again and again, but the attackers seemed to be replaced faster than he could vaporize them.