Superheroes Kill Zombies by Jeremiah Kleckner

Author:Jeremiah Kleckner [Kleckner, Jeremiah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Mom had introduced Teresa to the thin man once before. Teresa forgot his name and almost didn’t recognize him in his crouched position on the floor.

“We’re all going to die. We’re all going to die,” the thin young man repeated as he rocked back and forth.

Her mom and a bald older man with glasses were trying to calm the thin man down, but they weren’t doing so well.

The thin man swatted them away and screamed, “No! get away from me!”

“Geez, shut up Dave,” the older man said, keeping his voice low. “Those things will hear you. Then we’ll all be dinner.”

“What does it matter, Gary?” Dave replied. “We’re all dead. There’s no way of getting past those things out there. We’re trapped in a locked-down building and we’re going to die!”

“Those things are our co-workers,” Teresa’s mom insisted. “There has to be a way to help them. An antidote or a vaccine.”

“Those things are freaking flesh-eating zombies, Joanne,” Dave’s shrill voice rose again. “They will eat us alive.”

“Pull yourself together,” Gary replied, then pointed at Teresa. “There’s a nine-year-old in here who’s handling this better than you.”

“That’s because she doesn’t know what’s coming,” Dave insisted.

What was coming? Teresa wondered, feeling a pull towards the barricaded door. It was like nothing she had ever felt before. A shiver ran up her spine. Her senses reached beyond the door and down the hall to something that was getting closer. And it wasn’t just the zombies that were milling about. It was freaky, but she could almost visualize it all in her mind.

She was curious, amazed at all these new kind of feelings she was experiencing. It was like when she’d used that… power to knock the bullies away from her. She kind of wanted more.

Should she be afraid of the thing that was getting closer, like they all were afraid of the monsters? For some reason, she wasn’t.

“There is something coming,” she said aloud. “But I don’t know what it is.”

That got her mom’s attention.

“Teresa, honey, what are you talking about?” she asked in a worried voice.

“I don’t know,” she offered honestly, and even a little excitedly. “But it’s coming closer.”

Teresa breathed as the powerful sensation flooded her thoughts.

Suddenly there was a loud banging on the door.

Before anyone could do anything more than turn to look, something was tearing the door off of its hinges, then kicking away the cabinet they had braced against it.

Teresa recognized him instantly as Force, Dover City’s superhero. He was the one that replaced the woman who died a few weeks back. That woman was why her parents were no longer together. She didn’t know the details, but she knew that much. The pull she felt earlier rushed over her, making her want to get away even though there was nowhere to go.

“Which one of you did this?” Force barked. “Who is in control of those zombies out there?”

“In control? No one,” Gary stated. “We’re trapped in here.”

“Who are you then?” he asked.

They all spoke up, except for Teresa.

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