Plagued: The Battle Creek Zombie Rectification Experiment by Army Better Hero

Author:Army, Better Hero [Army, Better Hero]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Storyteller Press
Published: 2017-06-15T05:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Nine

Wendy felt even more concerned about her situation after witnessing the kind of power Momma held over everyone, including Troy. Did they believe she planned on somehow finding their loved ones out in the wrecked wasteland of the Plagued States, and then miraculously curing them? Or worse, were they holding them all someplace inside the zoo?

Everyone remained silent. Half of the people in the room got up and turned around to face the television. Wendy turned with them. The man who had opened the windows earlier brought out a clicker and pressed the power button. The television woke to a hockey game. There were groans and cat calls. “Come on,” someone called out. The man waved his hands at them and tapped buttons, bringing up a menu of channels. He scrolled through it and pressed one.

The hockey game was replaced with an unfamiliar news channel. There were two scrolls along the bottom, a big call-out with BREAKING NEWS in bold lettering, a small video-in-video window showing some chaotic scene with smoke rising, and a larger than life anchorwoman babbling in French so quickly Wendy hardly recognized it. The closed caption in English began to scroll and she read it to the tune of gasps all around her.

CONFIRMATION THAT THE

NUMBER OF DEAD IN THIS

INCIDENT HAS GROWN TO

OVER TWENTY AMERICAN

SERVICE-MEN AND WOMEN

WHILE POLICE DON’T KNOW

WHAT CAUSED THE EXPLOSION

MANY SOURCES INDICATE THE

SAME TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

DESTRUCTION AT ROCK ISLAND

AND THE OUTPOST GRIMLY KNOWN

AS BITER’S HILL NEAR CHARLESTON

MISSOURI—

“What the fuck,” Troy breathed in astonishment.

The picture-in-picture switched, bringing forward the footage of a drone flying over a smoky, partly collapsed five-story building where fire raged unhindered on one side, spilling out the shattered windows and leaping high into the air.

—ICONIC BUILDING WAS THE LAST

OF THREE STATE SANCTIONED

HUNTING OUTPOSTS INSIDE THE

QUARANTINE ZONE ON THE

AMERICAN SIDE PERMITTING—

The drone circled toward the channel—the wide river separating the Quarantine Zone from the safer parts of the United States—capturing an image of the partially collapsed building, the rubble that had tumbled and splashed into the water at the river’s edge, partly consuming the docks and burying all the hunting rigs that normally parked beneath it.

—RESCUE CREWS HAVE BEEN UNABLE

TO LAND EXCEPT BY AIR, BUT

SURVIVORS OF THE BLAST HAVE

BEEN WORKING CEASELESSLY

FOR HOURS TO REACH THOSE—

The drone circled the building, showing its collapsed roof and the toppled crane laying across the field, partially trapped in the trees hundreds of feet away. Then she saw the train cars, all knocked on their sides. Only the massive iron engines still stood, their massive weight somehow absorbing the shockwave of the explosion that had hit the building.

—NO WORD YET ON WHETHER

THE DAUGHTER OF AMERICAN

SENATOR WILLIAM JEFFERSON

WAS STILL AT THE STATION AFTER

HER RECENT RESCUE FROM—

The drone cruised over the length of the train, slowing to focus on a lone woman standing on top of one of the toppled cars, a hand cupped above her eyes as she looked up curiously at the camera. Wendy gasped.

Penelope!

She was sure of it. Even as distant and distorted as the

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