Outbreak: A Zombie Transference Short Story Prequel by Tom Germann

Author:Tom Germann [Germann, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Germann
Published: 2016-06-07T22:00:00+00:00

IRON GUARD BASE ‘RIGHTEOUS HAMMER’, ONE MONTH LATER

It was the same conference room that the last fateful meeting had been held in. Today was like a twisted mirror image. Almost half of the members who had been in the last meeting were not there today. Nor would they ever be again. The shots to the back of the head when it became obvious that they were infected and turning guaranteed that.

The chairman leaned back and looked around, noting the empty seats. He smiled as his eyes finally settled on the large, well-padded general in the seat next to him. “Grigori, it must have happened that a bear like you would not catch this sickness, and if you did, you would sniffle and then be done with it. Everyone else may fall by the side, but you, my old friend, will continue.”

The general nodded. “Comrade Chairman, if more of our countrymen simply drank enough vodka, then no simple sickness would have any effect on them. It is the weakness of their thirst and other appetites that leaves them open to these things. I have no problems with that, and so even though I became sick, I am better almost immediately and back to work for the people.”

There were appreciative chuckles from around the table. The far secured door opened and the security around the room had not only their eyes but their weapons trained on the door and the figure that walked through. It was a major of the Iron Guard. He stopped within the door and saluted crisply, then moved to a spot by a lectern where he put a folio down. He nodded at the opening on the back wall where the projection room was. The background hum of the projector being turned on was audible.

The major looked at the chairman. “Comrade Chairman, whenever you are ready I can begin my briefing?”

The chairman looked around the room and gestured for the major to begin.

The major stood rigid at the front in front of the committee and began talking. He spoke in a monotone, and behind him, slides with numbers and pictures started regularly passing across the screen.

The information was all the same. Cities overrun with the infected. Military bases hunkering down and fighting off waves of attackers. Some bases even with hastily erected walls had fallen when the infection broke out inside. Every base with a sizeable Iron Guard detachment had quickly executed the infected and stopped the spread of the infection. The regular army was not having as much luck, but they were starting to turn toward what hopefully would be victory.

In the cities the military had left small arms in bulk, and local militias were trying to hold off the infected.

No one at the table looked upset or as if this was unheard of. They simply accepted it and were planning for the survival of the people and the party.

At the end of the presentation, the major updated the numbers expected to survive the infection. “Comrade Chairman, the new estimates are that forty million of the people will survive this infection.

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