The Zombie Principle by David R. Vosburgh

Author:David R. Vosburgh [Vosburgh, David R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
ISBN: 9780991339303
Publisher: Number Five Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

It was getting to be late afternoon as the convoy neared Columbus, Ohio. Major Bradley had stopped gazing out his window to study his map again. They were several miles from I-270, the route they would be using to skirt around Columbus. With the speed in which cities had become infected Major Bradley did not want to find out how many of those things were in Columbus. He was just about to inform Private Sinclair about the upcoming exit when his comm came to life.

“Um, Major we have a problem with the fuel truck.”

“What’s wrong McCutchen?”

“I am pretty sure we have a bad axle here.”

“Alright hold on, we’ll stop and come have a look.”

“Stop the convoy son,” said Major Bradley to Sinclair.

The convoy came to a stop as Major Bradley jumped out and walked back to the fuel truck. As he did his soldiers began setting up their security perimeter. As he passed the truck holding the civilians, Chester jumped down and gave him a nod.

“I’m gonna go have a look around Major.”

“If you insist Mr. Boone but I don’t need to remind you to be back when we are ready to go.”

As Chester jumped the guard rail and disappeared into the woods near the highway, Major Bradley reached the fuel truck and found Captain Morris watching two of his men working under the front axle of the truck.

“What’s going on Captain?” asked Major Bradley.

“Looks like the front axle is broken sir.”

“Can they fix it?”

“No sir, there is no fix for it. They are telling me they would need a replacement axle rod.”

“I am going to go out on a limb and say we didn’t bring one of those along?”

“No sir.”

“That was rhetorical Captain. Well, I’d rather not leave the fuel truck. I hate to say it but if there is nothing in Dayton then we will need all the fuel we can get our hands on.” Looking at the Captain he added, “So what are our options?”

“Well, we can leave it but like you said that’s not viable. We could continue to drive it but very slowly and it will eventually completely fail. The final option is letting the boys here swap the front axle out with the second deuce and a half but then we have to leave that behind.”

“You can just switch out the axles like that?” asked the Major.

“That’s what the boys tell me. The fuel truck and deuce and a half are the same truck body with a different bed mounted on them.”

“That makes sense. I guess we don’t need the second truck if it’s just holding supplies and sucking down diesel. We’ll make it all fit in the other vehicles. So how long will this take Captain?”

“The boys say a couple hours minimum, sir, and it will take at least three of them.”

“Well, it will start getting dark by then. I don’t think we’ll make it to Dayton tonight.”

Looking around the Major continued, “We’re too exposed to change it out here. I think I saw some signs for hotels at the next exit.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.