The Undead

Chapter 61: Boom

--Britni's Point of View--

Andrew is about halfway through picking out the spread of the shotgun shell Cole fired into him when the gunshots start. I just watched two people on a motorcycle fly into the hospital and then walkers start to maul at a group there. Gunshot flashes were  flashing and lighting up the night sky. Now this alarm is going off and walkers have the hospital surrounded.

"Andrew, how fast do you think you can finish that?" I ask him.

"About thirteen more minutes..why?" He asks back.

"Walkers....mercenaries....both of them on their way" I answer quietly.

His facial expression twists into a vile frown. He starts to pick his pace up and Ryan looks at me from across the room. "I wasn't going to do it" He says quietly. He steps up and runs over to me in a full embrace. "I knew you wouldn't...what did Cole tell you?" I ask him seriously. Ryan looks into my eyes, "He said you guys were bad and that you wanted to hurt me. He told me you were working with the monsters"

I get angry at the fact someone tried lying to a four year old and tricking him into killing three people. I get so mad in fact, that I run towards the door and kick it open. I look to my left and see two people I'd thought to be dead. But here they were running at full speed if not faster. "Britni!" One screams. He throws me his gun and I catch it by the barrel. They both run into the room we're in and I spot the militia turn the corner firing over their shoulders. Walkers also piling up behind them taking the bullets as if they were pebbles being thrown at them.

I start to shoot the people in the front before I am pulled into the room and the door is locked. I help move a shelf infront of the door so nobody could get in here.

"How in the hell are you two even alive?" I ask Stevie and Phillip. They turn to me and give me this look signaling I wouldn't believe them. "We took some sort of regeneration serum. It only works once though because I can still feel the tiny stings of the glass wounds." Phillip explains. Stevie nods his head in agreement as the door starts to get beat upon by militia men trying to find safety from the ever-growing horde of flesh-starving walkers. I watch as the first guy beating on the door gets mauled down by a group of six walkers. The other guy looks at him before jumping out of the glass wall in the hall. I run to the window to watch as his body hits a light pole, breaking it. The pole falls into a large horde of walkers and beasts where it is torn up along with the body.

"Holy fuck man...what happened to Kaleb?" Stevie shouts out as he turns to see Andrew. "Cole happened....he fucking shot him with a spread shot slug. Then he flew off the building and miraculously grabbed hold of a windowsill. Andrew, I'm pretty sure, killed Cole..he beat the piss out of him with the butt of a revolver." I tell them. They kind of sit in shock and Phillip seems to get an idea.

"If they have regen serum..maybe we can find some and bring it here...that way we can have Kaleb up and running and we can make an escape." He spits out. "Let's go" I say to him instantly. Phillip and I climb out of the window and start to shuffle around to make it into the hallway opening where the guy just jumped from. I make it first and secure Phillip's jump. Walkers are at every corner so we stick close and travel through the rooms. "What color is it?" I ask him. "Mine was orange...but Stevies was blue...so let's look for both of them" He replies as we move into another operating room. I start to search the duffel bags on the counters but they contain only ammo. "I found some explosives!" Phillip exclaims. I turn to see him holding M67 frag grenades. "Keep them...how many?" I say to him in a rush as I stuff ammo into my pockets. "Eleven..theirs three belts they attatch too. They can each hold four...so I'll take seven and you take four?" He spits out rapidly. I find an answer quickly, "Yeah..give'em here"  I run over and grab a belt and throw it around my shoulders and tighten it up.

We move over to another room and kick the door in and begin to search crates. "Holy shit... I found a small pack....blue kind. There is six total....Other than that its all ammunition." Phillip calls out from the other side of me. I turn to him.

"There is exactly six of us....that's perfect...let's head back"

 We exit the room and back into the hallway where walkers all tilt their heads at us. "Oh shit" Phillip whispers as he grabs my hand and turns me around to run away. The walkers all start to trip over themselves as they start to give chase to their newly spotted meals. Phillip and I run down the hall and up some stairs where we make an immediate left into a slightly narrower hall. The lights are flickering and I spot two people at the end of the hallway guarding a door. Phillip looks at me and holds his gun to my head. He walks up to them. "What do you want?" They ask. "I have one of the people from Op Mega Death sir" He answers sternly.

Luckily they buy it and let us into the room. I notice Melanie right away. She is against the wall holding a pistol and reading some old magazine. The door slams behind us and the men cover the window up.

"Melanie" I say coldly, letting her know I exist and that I am right before her.

Part of me wants to claw her eyes out, yet part of me, the friend part of me, wants to hug her and say that I have missed her.

"Help! Someone kill them! They killed our leader!" She instantly cries out. Phillip reacts faster than ever and he slaps her with his rifle. She falls onto the floor dropping her pistol. I run over and kick it away from her and then she trips me. The door starts to open as Phillip pulls the second grenade belt from his waistline and pulls the pins. He slips the grenades out and tosses two at Melanie and she cries in horror. He tosses me the last one and I grab it. I chuck it at the door as Phillip grabs me and jumps through a window.

We hit the ground outside the window and its just gravel. We are on the roof of the floor below us.

I look at the window as it erupts in flames. Blood,bricks,glass,wood,and body parts go flying as part of the wall gives way and flies out towards the sky. Another explosion goes off breaking off more of the walls. Phillip rolls over to protect me from anything. I don't notice much land by us and once everything settles he still sits there. "Phillip?"

I stare at his blank expression. I push him off and he snaps back into reality. "What happened?" I ask him. "I froze up...I thought of protecting you..then I lost all thought process.....that was weird..anyways we need to get back to the others...let's go"

We climb back into the room where Melanie once was. It takes me a second before I actually comprehend the fact that one of my closest girl friends..if not the only one..is dead...after all this time.

"Rest..in peace Mel, I'll miss you" I say calmly. I let a few tears form up and blur my vision. Phillip wipes them from my eyes and gives me a much needed hug. He lets go and we turn to see walkers trying to crawl into the room through the hole in the wall. We both just take off down the hall, where we run into another wall of walkers.