I suppose these days, shooting a friend was normal, but for me I don’t think that it would ever be easy.
“Hey fellas, you didn’t tell us that you were bringing more friends” I pointed to the zombies that were closing in around them. I tried to sound cocky and confident, but my insides were rolling around like I’d just gotten off the world’s largest and fastest roller coaster.
Watching Amy die and then return as one of those things, a fate that she did not deserve was not something I’d never want to see any of my friends become.
“Good luck with this asshole, we will return. See you in a while, if there’s anything left of you” Richard called. I watched them jump into their cars and reverse, taking out a few zombies on their way but leaving most of them for us to deal with. Then Richard and his crew were gone.
My relief at their retreat was short lived however as it seemed like there were a lot more zombies than Will had estimated.
I heard a small buzz coming up behind me and turned to see Will and Adam coming towards us in a golf cart.
“Nice, we may need that as a getaway soon” I joked. Trying to make myself feel better. It didn’t work.
Before anybody could reply, Ben came running out of Mick’s house and towards us, calling out “Mick had an idea!”
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“Ok, tell us” Will said eagerly, I guess that he was all out of ideas, just like me.
“Mick says there’s a hill about twenty minutes West of here in a truck. On top of that hill is a hut but surrounding that hut is an extremely deep moat. The bridge is activated by remote. It was used for filming” Ben told us excitedly.
“Ok and how does this help us?” I was too tired and too horrified by the nights events to think clearly enough.
“Mick has volunteered to use the back gate to drive out of here and around the front making as much noise as he can to draw the zombies that way. He will cross the bridge and lead the zombies to fall into the moat”
“How did he even know about the zombies?” Adam asked
“He’s been watching out of his bedroom window using a telescope. The plan he’s been thinking about for weeks just in case he ever had to leave here.” Ben explained.
“No not Mick, he’s too ill. I will go.” Will said firmly.
“It’s because he’s not well that he’s chosen to go. In all honesty, he won’t last long here. We don’t have any way to help him. He had stage three lung cancer even before the outbreak and was given six months so he’s living borrowed time. I have to agree with him on this, he would be our best hope.” Ben told us, a grim look on his face.
“How’s John?” Lewis asked looking towards the house from which Ben had just came. As soon as the men had retreated, John had gone back home to sit with his dying friend.
“He argued at first, but he can see the sense of it” Ben replied
“Lewis come in, you there man?” came the voice of Andrew via the radio.
“Yeah, I’m here, what’s up?”
“I have an idea, meet me in the stunt set. First large building you come to” That was all he said, but the excitement in his voice was hard to miss. It had us all intrigued.
“Ok, I’ll stay here with Adam, and keep an eye on them” Will pointed outside of the gate. “G, you go with Lewis and check out what Andrew has found.”
“Ok no worries, I’d wondered where Andrew had gone”
“Ben can you go back in and check on Mick and John?” Lewis asked.
We each nodded and made our way quickly to where we needed to be.
Lewis and I jogged over to the stunt set, although I’d seen it from the exterior on my walk earlier that evening I hadn’t entered any of the buildings. I was going to save that for the next day.
Andrew was already at the door waiting for us. His eyes shone with excitement.
“Come on you two, I have something awesome to show you” and he was gone, back into the darkness.
My eyes met Lewis’s, he just shrugged and disappeared through the door.
I followed quickly knowing that time was of the essence.
The place was huge, with cameras and computers everywhere, there were green screens dotted all over the place in various sizes.
“Wow this place is awesome” I marvelled as I turned around in circles. Soft lights were on in here, I wasn’t sure why, maybe some sort of security measure running on a generator. I made a note to ask Mick about it later.
“You think that’s cool? You should see this” Andrews voice came from somewhere to my right.
I followed the sound of excited voices further into the room and into what looked like a huge storage room.
“Check this out!” now it was Lewis’s turn to sound excited.
I didn’t see what the big deal was, they were stood in front of a Porsche 911. Don’t mistake me, it was a stunning looking car, it had been painted in a deep purple, that seemed to shimmer. But we had bigger, sturdier cars out front that would hold up much better in the horde of zombies that we currently had surrounding the compound.
“And?” I was at a loss.
“Man, it’s a full sized remote-control car. Don’t you see?” Lewis was looking at me as though
