Judgment Day: A Zombie Novel (Judgment Day Series Book 1) by JE Gurley

Author:JE Gurley [Gurley, JE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2013-11-28T07:00:00+00:00

15

Vince awoke with the alarm howling. He stumbled out of his bunk in the dark and opened his door. Dave Lindsay raced up to him, his face a mask of anguish.

“It’s the pilots. I pulled up a monitor view of the hangar. The hangar door is partially open. They broke the seal!”

Vince tried to clear the sleep from his head and think. “No. The hangar and pilot area is sealed separately so the base would be safe when they launch the Raptors. If the base seal was breached, all hell would be breaking loose.”

Why would the pilots break their seal? With Lindsay following, Vince brushed off the frantic inquiries of the others he passed and went directly to the video control panel. Lindsay had left the image of the hangar up on the screen. Flashing red light bathed the interior of the hangar, except for a small swath of late evening light entering from the partially opened hangar door. Movement in the corner of the building caught his eye.

“Pan the camera to the right.”

“My God!” Lindsay cried out as the camera revealed one of the pilots, now a zombie, gnawing on a second pilot’s arm. The hapless pilot’s corpse lay in a pool of blood. “What the hell is going on?”

“One of the pilots must have been infected and turned. The others opened the hangar door to escape.”

“But they’ve been sealed in here as long as we have,” Anderson reminded him. He looked around the control room at everyone gathered there. “One of us could be next.”

“Yeah, right,” Conyers agreed. “We’re not safe in here.”

Vince looked at the fear in all their eyes. “We’re not safe out there.”

“I’m tired of this crap,” Higgins growled. “If I’m going to die, I want to do it out there. Not here in this damn metal box.”

Vince knew he was losing them. He had kept them inside the base only through the fear that outside was deadly. If death stalked the corridors of Red Rock, then who among them could feel safe. He had one piece of knowledge he had been dreading telling them.

“Only Evers had the code for the main door.”

They stared at him in silence, but Higgins recovered quickly. “You’ve trapped us here, you damned bastard.” Higgins clenched his fists and leaped at Vince. The first blow caught him by surprise, staggering him, but he had not made Technical Sergeant simply on service time. One of the many classes he had taken for merit points had been one in self-defense. He blocked Higgins’ second blow and countered with a solid uppercut to Higgins’ jaw. Higgins fell backwards into Anderson’s arms, who then shoved him back at Vince. This time, Higgins’ anger exploded. He pelted Vince’s head with his fists, yelling incoherently. Vince backed away to make room to maneuver. Instead of using his height advantage, Higgins rushed at Vince blindly, allowing Vince to knee him in the stomach, followed by a heavy double-fisted blow to the back of his neck. Higgins folded like a limp cloth.

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