Zero Lives Remaining by Adam Cesare

Author:Adam Cesare [Adam Cesare]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Horror, Paranormal Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Dark Fiction
ISBN: 9780988272392
Google: SmHwoAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 22600474
Publisher: Shock Totem Publications
Published: 2014-08-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Everything had gone so far, so fast.

Death. Death by the truckload. Uncontrollable, unexplainable, but all of it Robby’s fault. Chris had poisoned him, turned his own network against him.

No, that wasn’t it—he wasn’t entirely blameless in the massacre. There was no Chris anymore, just like there hadn’t really been a Robby Asaro since he’d taken a trip through the pizza oven in eighty-nine. There were just feelings and electricity, and now those feelings were predominately hate, pain and confusion.

He wished he could dissipate into nothing and take the memory of Chris Murphy with him. An object in motion would remain in motion, though. And besides, he felt so damn weak.

The hate dispersed throughout the arcade while Robby wasn’t looking. Some of it had jumped into Hank McKenzie before anything could be done to stop it. Now the two most stalwart patrons of the arcade were dead, one with his blood and brains dashed all over Tapper and the other with his neck sawed in half by his own hand.

What he’d been trying to do with the gates was contain the situation, lock Chris Murphy’s body out so matters didn’t get any worse, but even that had backfired with deadly consequences. Breaking the gate hadn’t been an accident, but he also didn’t think that the results would be so bloody. At least, he thought that was true. It was impossible to be sure where the murderer ended and began, everything was so confusing right now.

Robby watched as Dan handed over the keys to Jason. They weren’t calm, but they were taking action.

All of them, from Cal with his baggy shorts to Kate with her spray tan, had put aside their differences and were banding together to help. Robby was rooting for them, wanted to do something to help.

He spun the motor in the gate, thinking for a moment that he might be able to catch the latch and raise it back up, but he was only able to lift it less than an inch before it spun, nothing to hold on to.

The little victory had heartened the would-be rescuers, Cal and David got their fingers under the gate for a final push.

Please, Robby pleaded, he moved away from the motor to observe them from a better angle, hoping that in a few seconds he would watch them hold the gate triumphantly above their heads while everyone in the arcade scrambled out to the safety of the parking lot. This place is damned, escape while you can.

The lightning rippled across the beveled metal gate like blue spider webs.

Cal had placed one hand under the lip of the gate and the other hand flat against its side, so he was able to disentangle himself from the full force of the blast. David had squatted with both hands under, trying to pry the gate up the way an Olympic weightlifter would approach a dumbbell.

Cal shot back from the gate, the skin of his palms staying on the metal, blackening at crackling, all five fingers still distinguishable as the lightning dissipated.

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