Apocalypse Gate Full Trilogy (Portal Zero, Worlds Merge, Ruin Prevails): An EMP End of the World S-H-T-F Survival Series with Monsters, Cosmic Horror, and Interdimensional Portals by Eddie Patin

Author:Eddie Patin [Patin, Eddie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Lost Woods Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

44 - Arthur Kline

Colorado Springs, CO

“Here ya go,” Gill said, his face lit up in the darkness by the little plastic LED lantern.

Arthur was standing behind his neighbor in what he might best call his ‘gun room’, an area of the man’s basement dedicated to reloading ammunition, gunsmithing, and organizing all of his weapons and tactical gear.

Gill held a small metal cylinder out to Arthur in the dim light of the room. He could just barely hear the groan of a wandering zombie outside, through the front wall of the house next to him. One of those creatures was meandering in his neighbor’s xeriscaped front lawn...

Arthur took the object. A flashlight. It was cool, black metal—aluminum probably—with a push button on the rear.

“Thanks. It works?”

Pressing the button, the light suddenly flooded the room with white brightness. As soon as Arthur let up, the blackness returned.

“Yeah,” Gill said. “It’s a momentary switch. It’s a good light. I had it on my AR up until a couple of years ago when I got something with a Xenon bulb, so in the box it went...”

It was a tactical light, just like the dead flashlight Arthur left on his nightstand. Easy to use in hand and able to be connected to a gun rail with the proper mount, if desired. Arthur would be able to use it to quickly flash an area with just a little pressure from his thumb to have light for a moment without pressing the button all the way in, or, he could turn the light on for good by pressing the switch it until it clicked.

“Thanks,” Arthur said. “I never thought of how crazy things would be without just basic battery-powered stuff. Why’d everything get fried anyway?”

“I don’t fully know,” Gill said. “An electromagnetic pulse sends a blast through anything conductive, and would obviously overload anything wired into the power grid. I’m frankly surprised it killed all of the phones and flashlights and radios and everything else, too. But that’s why preppers have these...”

He patted one thin hand on the shiny metal top of an old-fashioned trashcan sitting next to his workbench. A variety of flashlights, weapon scopes and red dots, a couple of phones, two wrist watches, car parts and electronics that Arthur didn’t recognize, were all stacked up neatly on the desk above the can.

“I take it that thing was supposed to shield the stuff inside from an EMP?”

“Yep. In so many words.”

Arthur stuffed his new flashlight into a cargo pocket and sidled up on one of the stools Gill had near his workbench.

“Gill,” he said. “I gotta ask—with you intentionally ... isolating yourself from the rest of the neighborhood ... why are you being so nice to me?”

Arthur’s neighbor pulled up the other stool, sat, and started idly stacking and rearranging his gear.

“Well, Arthur, you helped me do a lot of the landscaping here last year, and I remember how good you are on machines. And yesterday, I saw how you handled yourself with those zeds outside.

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