A Time to Die by Mark Wandrey

Author:Mark Wandrey
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Henchman Press
Published: 2016-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

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The inside of the hangar was bedlam as the survivors all ran around making sure there was no way out. It didn’t help that the space was fairly dark. It only took a few minutes for someone to trip and hurt themselves in the gloom. The light let in by the skylights just didn’t add up to much.

“Great job,” Andrew said and clapped Chris on the shoulder.

“Thanks,” Chris said and grinned. “You have a plan bringing us in here?”

“Well, for one we’re out of the fallout…”

Chris looked concerned. “So that was a nuclear bomb that destroyed Monterrey?”

“The biggest FAE wouldn’t do a tenth of that,” Andrew told him, then saw his look of confusion. “Fuel Air Explosive, sort of a poor man’s nuke, without the radiation.” Chris just nodded. “I can only assume they did it to stop this… pandemic.”

“You mean zombie apocalypse,” someone said. Andrew turned and saw a young, twenty-something there in cargo jeans and a Portal shirt. “Well, technically a nombie apocalypse.”

“First,” Andrew said, “Those aren’t zombies. They were only passengers on my plane. Everyone got sick during the flight and a bunch went nuts and starting trying to eat everyone else.” The man nodded and gave him a ‘Isn’t that what I said?’ look. Andrew narrowed his eyes. He didn’t like this guy one bit. “Look… what’s your name?”

“Wade Watts,” the man said.

“Look, Wade, some disease isn’t the same thing. They aren’t zombies, you can shoot them and they die. And what the fuck is a nombie?”

“That’s why I said nombie apocalypse. Nombies aren’t dead, zombies are.” Chris who was more or less behind Wade gave Andrew a ‘what the fuck’ look. Andrew rolled his eyes.

“Did you have a plan when we almost got our asses eaten to get in here?” Chris asked Andrew. Both of them were now trying to ignore Wade who had begun explaining the difference between nombies and zombies to a couple of shell shocked women who looked like twins.

“That,” Andrew said and pointed to what dominated the hangar.

“Are you kidding? What are we doing to do with that thing? I mean, we don’t know the first…” Chris trailed off as he took in Andrew’s uniform for the first time, from the multi-pocketed flight suite to the black embroidered wings stitched above his left breast. “Oh.” Andrew winked. “So you’ve flown one of those?”

“Well, not exactly,” Andrew admitted and looked up at the craft.

“What did you fly?”

“Fighters.”

“Seems a tad bit different.”

“I landed that A380 out there,” Andrew told him.

“The one on the end of the runway?” Chris asked. Andrew nodded. “We saw that when our pilot set down. It looked like you skidded off the end of the runway and almost flipped.”

Andrew grunted. “There were extenuating circumstances.”

Chris nodded. “That plane looked pretty extenuated to me.”

Andrew made a face and walked over to the office, finding the file for the plane. Chris tagged along as Andrew began the ground check. He was surprised to see it was a US Army plane, and as he came around the side he stopped in complete surprise.

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