Dead Man's Party by Robert Fox

Author:Robert Fox [Fox, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2018-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Highway to Hell

Forty miles and an hour ago, the cadet convoy had headed East toward Carlsbad Caverns and away from Mike and Joseph and their merry crew who kicked West along 380. It came as no real surprise that their bus was the only vehicle traveling on the road. Nor was it news they frequently passed abandoned vehicles, not all of them clean. For the entire forty miles, nothing alive nor undead moved anywhere close to the road. It should have been a relaxing, sigh of relief moment with newly acquired music playing.

It wasn't.

Short of having something trying to eat him, it might have been one of the more tense hours Joseph experienced. Mike, having been shot at for six years of his life, found the situation intolerably familiar. The two of them and Walter had grown fairly close in the last three days; constantly risking your lives together and depending on each other for survival tends to have that affect on people. But the three men they picked up on their way out of Roswell they didn't trust. The feeling was mutual. Weapons weren't aimed, but they were ready.

One of these days, we—I'll learn and quit picking people up.

During the brief conversation after the bus was no longer in immediate danger of being rolled by a horde of hungry rotters, Sergeant Boyd introduced himself. The sergeant and his soldiers found themselves running and gunning through the streets after the undead overran the rescue station at Roswell High School. A citizen hid a bite and got through the screening; of course he turned inside the fence. He bit six people, two fatally. Panic and chaos ensued, even after soldiers shot the zombie. With a panicking crowd and several infected inside and a good chunk of the city's infected population outside, it didn't take much for the station to fall, just a few more hours. Boyd started his escape with a squad of fifteen. They dropped gear to cut weight and several soldiers still fell out. By the time they'd run into the huge horde on the south side of town, they didn't have the ammo to shoot their way through. Of the ten who made it that far, only five survived long enough to see the cadets' convoy. And only the three of them: Boyd, Templeton and Hammersmith made it aboard the bus.

Mike didn't and wouldn't trust Templeton. He struck Mike as the kind of guy that was like a half wolf—keep a tight leash on him and he might never turn on you, relax just a fraction, get comfortable, make one misstep and the wolf would go for blood. Hammersmith seemed shocked and timid for the moment. Boyd had a head on his shoulders. He called Templeton to heel and kept his men alive on a nearly suicidal trek through a city out to eat them.

“Damn. Mike, you'll want to see this,” Joseph said, keeping his eyes on the road.

A mile up the road, he could just make out a rest area, packed with vehicles.

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