Extinction Cycle (Kindle Worlds Novella): Resistance by D.C. Maxwell

Author:D.C. Maxwell [Maxwell, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Infected
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

FIVE

May 8th, 2015

THEY GATHERED IN the security room after supper. Stephan and Damien had carried a table into the room and set it up with chairs on either side. They’d set Grace’s chair at one end and Luke’s at the other.

“Neal, Sherry and Sabrina saw Jefferson with Rogers yesterday so now we know he’s alive and also collaborating with the monsters,” Luke said, his contempt for the other cadet rang clear in his voice.

“None of us has seen Maggie on any of the cameras. Even though she was always rude to me it still makes me sad to think she’s dead,” Megan said.

“You didn’t answer the text that night so Jefferson doesn’t know you made it to the shelter which is a good thing now that we know he’s a traitor,” Damien reminded them.

“What about the cadets who refused to come with us the night of the attack?” Sherry asked. “Where are they?”

“None of us wants to say it but we have to face facts,” Stephan said. “They were either killed or infected by the creatures. If they were infected, they might be dead from the poison the military dropped. If they survived the poison, then they’re one of the evolved monsters.”

“Or they’re stuck to the wall in the Main Dorm basement,” Damien said.

“That’s so sickening,” Sabrina said.

“Yes it is, but it also means Jefferson can’t be sure any of us made it to the shelter because he can’t identify bodies that have been eaten or who these new creatures used to be.”

“When they were just creatures if you looked close enough you could almost see who they used to be but now that they’ve evolved I can’t identify any of them,” Neal said. “Even though they move around in the open now.”

“Rogers can’t be sure I’m alive either,” Grace said. “We saw him find my car but there’s dried blood all over the back of it and my purse and phone are on the front floorboard.”

“Where did the blood come from?” Sherry asked.

Grace told them about the creature she’d almost hit on the road, how it had attacked her car, and about the second one in the garage.

“Even if Rogers thinks you made it out of the garage alive, he can’t be sure you made it back to the cafeteria,” Luke said.

“Exactly,” Grace said. “There’s one thing I’m worried about though. If we rescue people what if we bring another collaborator into the shelter?”

“First we rescue people who appear to have been hiding since the night of the attack,” Stephan said. “Then, we rescue smaller groups of prisoners in buildings other than the main dorm.”

“I agree,” Neal said. “We don’t tell them the secrets of the shelter until we know we can trust them,” Neal said, then added, “And, we don’t tell them any of the door codes.”

Luke nodded. “After a mission we secure our weapons in the armory and only Grace, Stephan, Damien, Mark and I will carry pistols in the shelter.”

Once we increase our numbers with rescued cadets, then we go after the nest in the main dorm,” Damien said.

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