{~love formation in z nation~}

⚔️Full Metal Zombie.⚔️

Roses' p.o.v.

We were now in Pennsylvania I believe. The Amish country. We had stopped on the side of the road. 10k put one of his screws into his sling shot, angled it correctly and sent the thing flying. It hit an Amish Z straight in the head. He did it again, and it hit another Amish Z. "Amish Zombies." Addy said, as we watched 10k. "Really?" She finished. "Really?!" She said again. I sniggered a little. "They tried to quarantine themselves from the rest of society. Keep the Z's from spreading the infection." Garnett told us. Mack said something but I couldn't quite catch it because he was up at the front fixing the engine.

"Night of the living dead. Great movie, sucky reality." Addy said. "You know what I don't get, if the Z's didn't spread the virus, how did we all get infected?" Addy questioned turning to Mack and Garnett. "Best guess I heard, was it was spread by birds." I told her. "Yeah some kind of parasite piggybacked on the bird flu." Garnett finished. "Stays dormant til you die." He added. Murphy became annoyed. "You know, take it from somebody who knows first hand. Other than the fact that they find brains delicious, when it comes to zombies nobody knows nothing." he said and pulled his coat more around him.

"I'll tell ya, there ain't nothing there. No thoughts, no memories, no soul. Nothin." Doc said, as me, Cassandra and 10k listened; as we sat in the back of the truck section. "Well they're not dead." I said. "They want something." I said and looked at Doc. "Yeah. Brains." He told me. "You can't want something if you're not conscious, if you don't have a soul." Cassandra said. It was silent for a few seconds. "When my Pa was wounded, he told me to tie him up before he turned." 10k spoke, as he fiddled with his knife. We looked at him.

"Made me promise to show him mercy when he died." He said and looked at Cassandra. "Kill the brain, you know?" He spoke and looked down at the ground. "I couldn't do it. I couldn't hurt my Pa, no matter what he'd become." He said, as he continued looking down. "I stared into his eyes for the longest time, just...looking for some sign he was still in there." He looked at Doc. "Did you see anything?" I questioned softly, from next to him. He looked at me, a cold blank stare, as he shook his head no. "What did you do?" Doc asked him. He looked at Doc. "I killed it." He said, a little annoyed.

"Damn, kid." Doc let out. "You had to put down your own dad?" I asked. "Didn't kill him." He snapped at me, and looked at me. "Killed it." He said. "But if it's not alive how did you kill it?" I questioned, I'm playing with fire here. "Piked it." He snapped again. "Right here." He said and showed us with the knife. "My first kill." He finished. I swallowed hard and frowned in concern. I looked at Cassandra and her eyes were watering too. It was sad, and unfair and wrong. "I always wish he knew, you know." 10k said whilst looking down again. "Somehow..knew that I kept my promise." He gulped then looked away out into the fields.

None of us knew what to say, so I looked down, Cassandra did the same, but doc nodded to 10k. I know Doc will find the right words to say, whether it be now, or in the future. Doc will know.

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The car finally started up again, and we were off. The four of us stayed in our seats as the car began to move. Doc suddenly banged on the window to Warren. "Human. Six o'clock." He called out. I turned and saw an orange beetle car following behind us. "I see them." Warren yelled back. "Is that more of your cannibals friends?" Doc asked Cassandra. She shook her head. "No. Something else." She replied. "Up ahead." I called out. It was a bunch of Z's in the middle of our path. "Great. Now what?" I mumbled. It looked like some of them were chained to the ground or chained to something.

We watched as 10k jumped out of the back of the truck. "Where's he going?" Doc asked, confused. "Hey! Kid!" Doc shouted to him but he took off running and settled behind a tree. This isn't going to end well. Again. I grabbed my gun from my holster and gripped onto it, and pulled my bandana over my mouth and pulled my hood up. Our car stopped and everyone got out of the car. I jumped down too, gripping onto my gun. Warren used her sword to cut off the head of one of the Z's. "Wait, wait,  wait, wait, wait." I said as we all came to a stop.  "Somethings wrong." I said, as I looked at their feet.