As we left the Nazi-mobile behind peddling furiously on bikes more suited to children I was at least thankful that it was a clear blue day and so far no rain clouds on the horizon. Dr. Jividen had her knives strapped across her back and looked completely relaxed as usual. I peddled awkwardly my gear on one side of the bike throwing my balance off, carefully I was guarding the eggs I had brought from New Portland. If they broke before I had a chance to eat one...tragedy.
I wasn't one for small talk so we quietly peddled, I tried to keep up. Dr. Jividen made effortless time. I wondered if my tires were fully aired up. She was making me work hard to keep up. I kept my eyes peeled for zombs. The weather was so nice that we had a good chance of making it without a single shambler depending on the terrain.
We crossed the Skipanon River via the bridge and there were at least twenty zombies underneath it but it's a steep crawl up the slope and a warm sunny day so we traversed it quickly and without fear of attack.
We were almost through town proper when we were ambushed.
Humans. Survivors. They had holed up at the Rescue. They weren't reputable prior apocalypse and refused to join any encampment for a wide assortment of paranoid reasons. There were three men, armed with baseball bat, tire iron and an axe. They had a barricade across the road of old tin and torn up debris.
"This here is a toll road" one drawled drunkenly.
Jividen looked at me meaningfully. "You better cover your ears" she said. Then she pulled out a gun. It was um....BIG and heavy.
"You're carrying a glock?" I asked. She snorted in response. Okay I don't know much about guns.
She then effortlessly took aim and shot the first man who had spoken and was wielding an axe in the leg. It was loud. It would draw zombies. But then she aimed for the second guy with the tire iron.
"YOU'RE FUCKING CRAZY" one of them shouted as they scrambled to get away. She shot him in the arm. She smiled at the third guy he started to run but she said very clearly...
"Don't move." Dr. Jividen cocked the gun. "I hurt them, I'll kill you. I'm a good shot. You're going to clear the path through that barricade before every zombie in a three mile radius descends upon us. Got me?" He nodded and started clearing the rubble. "FASTER" she yelled at him and waved the gun in a dangerous looking manner. Watching her on her school girl bike with her pretty curls, wave a gun was surreal to say the least. He made a path for us to ride through single file. By then the zombs were coming in every direction. The gun shots had drawn them right to us. We road fast and hard away but for the people at the Rescue -- I have no idea if they escaped what had to be the mother of all zombie attacks.
We peddled for what felt like an hour, "I hate guns. Prefer knives." She commented once again stoic and unemotional.
"You shot those two men back there" I mentioned still in total shock. I was trembling and trying to hide it. "I really thought we were done for, you know, being women and all in this day and age and out in the open. It was a tough spot."
"I guess" she said. "Do you have some 9mm rounds back at Fort Stevens? I hate to waste ammunition."
"Yeah I think so, we don't use too many guns honestly." I said feeling sheepish and less confident in my survival skills by the moment.
"Good" she said.
"You're going with me to harvest organ tissue and samples from both animals and zombs. We're going to have to make sure you have a sustainable survival pack that includes a weapon." She said conversationally. "Your Commander will teach you a few things I'm sure. We were going with this fellow .... Hero 13 I think he was called. That was good. A tall fellow can really take off the head of a zombie. But you'll have to do Runner 5."
When I got back I unpacked and gave the Commander his packages, it contained some old game cartridges including, "Earthbound" which made him almost giddy. The Commander was working on setting up an arcade and game recreational room for the members of the Fort and piecing it together one bit at a time.
I found out that my bunkies now included Dr. Jividen and Dr. Crow. The doctors didn't get along arguing over medical ideas I had never heard of so I tuned them out.
Morning:
I was furious.
I yelled at them until they started laughing at me and the Commander promised me that soon my chickens would start to lay. "So who took care of Henny Penny while I was gone?" I demanded. Everyone looked around the room. No one had bothered to let my girls out of their coup. I went and took care of them, thankfully they were okay. The smallest hen I hadn't named yet had laid an egg about the size of a modest marble.
Until Monday Readers have a good weekend -------------------------------------------------------------
Below is a video one of my friends made for Zombies Run! Also I have a 5K tomorrow! I'll try to have a photo of me at the race taken so I can post :-)
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| Getting ready for Halloween - I'm going as Runner 5 |
