The Queen Unchained by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith [Meredith, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2019-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

The Marin Headlands, San Francisco

The back side of the hill was a mere thirty yards away. It was thirty yards of barren rock covered by loose sand, some patchy weeds and two dozen bodies.

Down the front side of the hill were a thousand Corsairs, half were shrouded in smoke, which left five hundred, each with a weapon trained on the little built-up berm of dirt where Mike Gunter and four others huddled. The call to “Take as many as you can with you!” had been met with contorted looks of outright terror.

“Come on!” Mike cried, his voice almost lost under the thunder of gunfire. He jumped up, pulling his trigger as fast as he could. There was no time to aim and in the brief couple of seconds he was exposed, two dozen bullets ripped all around him. Although he wasn’t hit, his M4 was smacked twice. The first round skipped off the forward sight with a high whining noise that reminded Mike of a tuning fork. The second bullet struck the upper receiver an inch from his cheek, making an awful tin clank sound and sent a sharp vibration through the weapon and up into his face.

It felt a little like he had been punched, and he dropped back down holding his cheek.

As he was blinking the world back into focus, Jeff Battaglia casually asked, “You ever see Butch Cassidy?” His big brown puppy dog eyes looked sadder than ever.

“Was that a movie? I don’t remember too many. I was really small back then.”

Jeff had been eleven when the apocalypse started and by then he had seen hundreds of movies, many that his parents didn’t approve of. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was one of the few his dad had watched with him and that had made it special. He could remember every scene and most of the lines. Just then, it was the very end that he could picture with amazing clarity.

“At the end the two are surrounded like fifty to one, but they’re still making jokes, like it was nothing. I remember wondering how they were going to get away, because they always got away. You know?” Mike humored him with a nod. “But they didn’t get away. They decided to try to fight their way out even though they were surrounded. They rush out and…they stop the movie like right before they get lit up. I always wondered if….if they felt it. You know, getting shot like that. Getting shot like fifty times all at once.”

The other three with them were staring at Jeff in horror. Two were ex-slaves from Sacramento and the third was a gambler from Santa Rosa with a ridiculous handlebar mustache. For the life of him, Mike couldn’t remember his name.

Mike saw their fear spike. “I don’t think they felt a thing,” he said. “It would be a quick way to go. Quicker than getting picked apart here. They’re going to flank us any second.” There was too much truth

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