Chapter 1 - Zombie Invasion
October 13, 2097,
Texas, USA.
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"There are just too many of these zombies, they are simply overpowering. Is a large-range blast attack going to totally annihilate them?" A young lady dressed in full-body armor and armed with an AK-47 asked.
"I don't know either. We just have to keep shooting. That's why we came here with a lot of ammunition. It's just for this purpose. To exterminate these living dead creatures until none of them are left." Another soldier replied.
Kakakakakaka!!...
Sound of rapid continuous gunfire could be heard in a faraway place in the distance.
A soldier that looked twenty-seven, jumped down from a military pick-up truck with a machine gun in his hand and fearlessly unleashed barrages of armor-piercing bullets at the zombies.
Grrrrrrr!!
The zombies were attracted to this sound and bellowed. Then they rushed towards him. But this soldier equipped with a machine gun and a mini-gun, was unwavering in his determination to slay these otherworldly corpse-like creatures.
Aiming his machine gun at their heads and moving it from left to right, he shattered their heads to countless pieces.
As he shot at the zombies, one of the thousands of winged, emaciated zombie creatures in the sky, suddenly swooped down towards him. It then clasped the soldier in its claws and carried him off, where it flew really high into the air and was going to possibly tear him apart.
Since the soldier wasn't expecting this course of action, he lost his heavy firing guns to the ground when he was suddenly lifted off into the air.
While airborne at a great height in the air, grasped by the winged undead creature that flew away at a really fast speed, he quickly activated a blade-shooting mechanical system installed in the chest armor that he wore.
Swish! Swish! Swish!...
Once activated, a dense greyish cloud of explosively propelled, armor-slicing saw-teeth nanoblades, instantly bursted out in all directions from the mechanical system's numerous discharge ports and slashed at the body of the flying undead creature an innumerable number of times, immediately reducing it to bits that dispersed in the sky some moments later.
Suddenly plunging from a height of about sixty feet to the ground, he quickly brought out a pneumatic-powered cable grapple gun and decisively aimed at an abandoned tall building that he caught sight of.
Shua!
The grapple shot out and pierced through the wall of the building before hooking it. Then he swung to the ground using the grapple gun. And since he came with a lot of speed, he performed a slickly-executed forward roll immediately he landed and used that momentum to get back up on his feet.
But the moment he stood and looked around, he saw that he had landed in a pretty horrible place. He was flanked by seemingly raging zombies on all sides.
Immediately recalling that he wore arm-length gloves that had long retractable blades, he triggered the gloves' blade ejection mechanisms which caused coldly gleaming sharp blades to immediately project out from their ejection ports.
Although his face was solemn, he however didn't think of hiding or running from the zombies. Instead, he rushed towards them without fear and wariness in his heart.
Once he got close to them, he instantly slid on the ground and began to aim the twelve-inch titanium composite blades projected from the gloves at their feet. So, he sliced their legs off one after the other to create an opening where he would leave their midst, as he was in a heavily disadvantaged position.
The moment his sliding motion halted, he immediately kicked his left leg around which caused him to spin in a clockwise motion on his back. He then rolled backward onto his head and into a headstand before pushing himself onto his feet using his arms.
Then when the blades automatically retracted into their ports, he quickly produced two custom-made triple-barrel pistols that fired contact-explosive shells. Therefore, with thunderously loud shots, the upper bodies of the zombies scattered apart like tomatoes that were stomped on by a vicious barbaric brute.
Vrooom!!
An armored military jeep suddenly came over from a far distance, ruthlessly smashing the zombies in its path away. Then it arrived in front of the fearlessly warring, battle-seasoned soldier.
"Maxmillan, jump in!!" One of the three soldiers in the jeep shouted. They had to come to rescue him once they noticed he was being carried away by a winged zombie creature that suddenly targeted him.
Maxmillan appreciatively nodded at them, then he pulled out a wide-area frag-burst destroyer grenade which he unhooked and threw at the zombies. Then he immediately ran into the jeep and closed the door behind him.
Vroom!
The jeep instantly drove away to leave the area that would be terribly ruined by a destructive cloud of energized solid-matter particle projectiles, and super-heated kinetic blast waves which would erupt from the large-area devastation grenade that Maxmillan threw at the zombies.
Boom!!
The instant the vehicle drove forward by twelve meters, a deafening explosive sound immediately rang out and was accompanied by a violently churning, gigantic cloud of searing hot blue flame that bellowed in a seemingly raging manner towards the sky. While the devastating shockwave produced by the powerful blast, caused the jeep to lift a few feet above the ground at the rear, before lowering back to the ground with force as it drove away.
"The zombies are extremely overwhelming. We are leaving here because air support has been requested for. Bomber planes should arrive anytime soon and assist us in reducing these dreadful unearthly things to shreds." One of them hurriedly said to Maxmillan.
Just as they continued driving at a furious speed, a massive zombie that was surprisingly taller than a four storey building, and possessed enormous eyes that shone with slight intelligence, suddenly appeared in front of them from a long-distance jump executed from more than thirty meters away.
Grrrrrrr!!!
The moment it appeared in front of them, it roared in a rageful manner that caused the sky to seemingly shake. Then it looked at the armored jeep in front of it and produced another sky-shaking roar before clenching its massive right hand into a fist and smashed it at the jeep with a tremendous amount of force.
But before it carried out that action, everyone in the jeep who were initially thrown into a daze at the sight of the terrifying skeletal monstrosity in front of them, were quickly brought out of their dazed states by Maxmillan who recovered the quickest and shouted at them.
"Get out of the vehicle, now!"
Then the door swung open with Maxmillan diving out of his seat to the ground. The rest who quickly recovered from their dazed states too, also did the same.
Bang!
The jeep was smashed so hard by the huge zombie's fist that it instantly flattened to the ground. However, due to the massive flattening force that suddenly pressed down upon the jeep, one of its heavy tyres blasted out with a tremendous amount of force and smashed really hard into one of the soldiers, immediately resulting in his death. While the others including Maxmillan, were pierced through by strewn metal splinters and glass shards that shot out like actual projectiles towards them once the zombie's colossal fist smashed really hard at the jeep.
The enormously-sized bony zombie which thought it had smashed them to pastes, walked away and roared in triumph as it did so. Then as it walked further into the distance to smash another resistance assembly comprised of human soldiers into pastes or countless bits of flesh, it indifferently stomped on both zombies and soldiers.
Maxmillan gnashed his teeth so hard that they could shatter, as pain racked his senses and whole body because of a really long fragment of glass that pierced through his thigh.
Immediately, he tore off a piece of his shirt and brought out a long cylindrical plastic tube that contained methylated spirit from the multipurpose military belt that he wore around his waist which had numerous cylindrical storage chambers and square-shaped storage boxes where first-aid items and other useful, advanced self-treating devices where kept.
With a muffled scream of highly agonizing pain, he pulled out the long glass shard that had pierced really deep into his right thigh. Then he opened the lid of the plastic tube and poured its alcoholic liquid content into the grievous wound inflicted upon him by the glass shard.
Suddenly, he felt like millions of flesh-eating ants had appeared in the wound sustained by his thigh, since the intense stinging pain that arose from that part of his body, totally enshrouded his senses and filled him with unbearable painful sensations.
So, due to the pain that he was experiencing, large green veins bulged out from the sides of his face, at the temple region precisely. Also, his eyes became red and his breath, completely irregular.
When the pain lessened sometimes later, he wrapped the piece of cloth held in his hand tightly around his thigh. He then stood to his feet after a lot of struggle and limped to where his colleagues where to help them tend to their wounds.
But when he got there, he could see them on the ground, lying in a partially dried pool of their own blood with hundreds of pieces of glass jutting out from their entire bodies.
They had been viciously killed off by the zombie's crushing attack. He was only lucky that he wasn't pelted through with glass shards like the rest of his colleagues.
Immediately, his eyes began to glisten as tears rapidly welled up in them, since these were some of the really good friends that he made at the National Elite Defense Academy (N.E.D.A), Texas.
Grrrrrrrrrr!!....
He immediately looked towards the source of that alarming direful sound and saw that more enormous zombies had incomprehensibly appeared out of nowhere. And these were even more towering in size than the one that attacked them moments ago.
Where were these things coming out from? He figured he would never be able to find out as he realized the city was losing the war.
But just as he was lost in depression, a supersonic bomber jet suddenly flew over and dropped a missile. Then it flew away immediately, returning back to the base that it took off from.
BOOM!!!
A tremendously loud explosion that shook the sky and invoked the feeling that it would collapse and leave behind a pitch-black void, instantly occurred when the missile warhead impacted the solid ground.
Then what happened next was a rapidly expanding sphere of strongly dazzling white light appearing which was immediately accompanied by a tall, city-leveling wave of highly destructive energy that swept out with an incomparable devastating force and vaporized absolutely everything in its path, ultimately clearing out the entire city and leaving an unfathomably deep, ten thousand meter-wide crater in the earth.