01.Dredd VS Death by Gordon Rennie

Author:Gordon Rennie
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Published: 2011-04-05T23:00:00+00:00

"Say that again, Giant?"

"It's happening all over the prison, Dredd. Corpses are coming back to life again. Anyone who was killed by the vampires' bite is getting back up again as a zombie."

Grud almighty, that's all we need, Dredd cursed to himself. Vampires, Death-worshipping freaks, the Dark Judges and now the walking dead. This case was turning into a real late-night vidshow horrorfest.

"You able to handle things at your end?"

There was a pause on the radio link. Dredd could hear screams and Lawgiver fire in the background. Giant's riot squads had touched down a few minutes ago, and were methodically working their way down through the iso-block from its uppermost levels, rounding up escaped perps and gunning down any of the vampire things still on the loose. More h-wagons full of reinforcements were on their way, and it was confidently expected that Nixon Penitentiary would be back under full Justice Department control before dawn the next day.

Of course, that was before they had found out about the zombies, Dredd grimly reminded himself, listening to the dead air over the radio link with Giant.

"Giant?"

He heard a chorus of snarling sounds over the radio link, coming from somewhere close to Giant, followed by a series of rapid-fire Lawgiver shots. A moment later, the Judge came back on the radio.

"Sorry, Dredd. For a moment, a couple of the things got closer than they were supposed to. Yeah, no problems here. Zombies I can handle. I was there with you for Judgement Day, remember? It's Death and those other three creeps I'm worried about."

"Same here," answered Dredd. "Everything else they're throwing at us is just a distraction to keep us busy while they make their next move."

He was in the elevator now, travelling up from the Tomb to rejoin the effort to take back the prison. Might as well make himself useful, he thought, until they got a fix on the Dark Judges' position. To do that, of course, they really needed...

"What about Anderson?" he asked, knowing that Giant would easily pick up on the note of anger in his voice.

"Your guess as good as mine, Dredd. No one's been able to track her down since she broke out of med-bay and boosted that Lawmaster."

"Wilco, Giant. I'm coming out the elevator now. I'll do what I can down here, until your squads can make it down to meet up with me. You hear anything about Anderson, let me know. Dredd out."

He exited the elevator and marched along the corridor, the security doors obediently rumbling open in front of him. Sharkey McCann's three accomplice perps were exactly where he had left them and had cuffed themselves to the wall as ordered. They quaked visibly when they saw Dredd coming back towards them again.

"That's the idea, creeps," he warned them as he strode past. "Just make sure you keep it like that."

Out in the stairwell, he could hear the snarling and moaning sounds echoing from the levels above. He recognised it from Judgement Day. Zombies, lots of them.

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