End of Days 6 - picking up the pieces
End of Days 6 - To kill or to be killed, that is the question.
Hours of doom loomed in the horizon. Smoke and fire burned, strange mists surrounded the whole island of Singapore. Apparently the magnetic impulse had caused the earth to split, and natural gas released beneath the island began to burst forth. Ordinarily, this would be a much-welcomed miracle, a natural resource hidden within our packed island, a new source of income! Yet now, the natural gas released quickly caught fire and spread round the island, making the whole landscape seem like a nightmarish lake of fire - it was like being in hell. Fire fighters were busy trying to put out the fiercest fires at the kallang gas works, where huge explosions and ripped out chunks of roads and destroyed several buildings. The police and army were mobilised to try to keep the peace and maintain order in the midst of all these chaos, which seemed an impossible task. Angry and panicky mobs rampaged through the streets, pillaging and stealing and destroying at will, and few were actually subdued by the authorities. Dead bodies lay in the dozens all around, a terrible stench filling the air as the sun beat down on the remaining survivors. Electricity and water for half of the island was cut off. But all this is unimportant, as we now look at how Vash, Swen, Wendy and the Hongkong Triad gang Inertia react to the worst consequence of all - dealing with the undead.
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Lance and his band of breakers-turned-vigilantes-with-awesome-weapons got off their vehicles and gathered round Vash to decide what to do.
"Vash! The police and army can't even deal with the general population, they can't do a thing about these zombies! They probably don't even know about it!!" Jiacholate exclaimed.
"Yeah man! Let's just shoot them all up! Hahahaha!" Tosh and Nic raised their rifles, obviously bursting with excitement at having the chance to fire some serious hardware.
Wendy was flabbergasted and replied, "No! How do you know there isn't a cure for this? You can't just go about murdering people!"
"Oh come on! Look at them!" Jiacholate stepped on a severed arm, which was still twitching and crushed it under her boot. Half a face lay splattered near the arm, and the eyeballs still turned! "You call this a sickness?? They're monsters! And we gotta get them before they get us!"
"Calm down, all of you." Vash spoke finally.Right now, all he wanted to do was to get back to church to check on Meryl. "Let's just head back to church and re-group and plan what to do."
"WHat?? You're all just gonna do nothing and sit and talk?? You useless chicken !@#$! We should fight!!" Death-Huade spurted out fiery words, angered by inaction.
"Yeah! Let's kick some butt!!" Tosh and Nic echoed, grinning savagely.
"No! I'm heading back to church. You all decide if you want to follow!" Vash was firm. Swen and Wendy headed with him back to the black Spyder. Vash looked back and see who would join them.
Jordan seemed uncertain, but then reeved up his bike and steered toward Vash. Jiacholate appeared to be arguing with Dome and Lance, while the rest simply sneered and turned away. Jaws looked back with a glint of doubt, but then had decided to follow the majority. Jiacholate stepped out of the rover angrily, GPMG slung over her shoulder with a few hundred rounds of bullets, and ran toward Vash. "Wait guys! I'm coming with you!"
A hint of a smile formed on Vash's face. He had badly wanted Jiacholate to follow them, she was a good friend of his. "So here's where we part company yet again.." his gaze followed the triad of Inertia and he muttered a silent prayer for them. Swen asked "so where we're going now?" Vash answered,"i don't know why, but i feel that we really ought to go..."
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"...wake up! C'mon!" Bourne gently shook Mikki, and she finally began to stir. Still a little dazed by the deafening demolition, but otherwise alright. She looked at Bourne, and realized he wasn't in good shape at all, despite the smile on his face. A shard had pierced his right hip, and it was bleeding profusely. "Mikki, can you cycle? I can't carry you on my bike in this condition.." he mumbled apologetically. "what? then what about you??" mikki asked. Bourne just shrugged and replied "maybe i'll walk to the nearest hospital.."
Mikki sighed. She pulled out her roller blades from her backpack and started to put them on to the amazement of Bourne.
"C'mon! We've got to find Vash and the rest! They're probably at church already.." Mikki gestured to Bourne to keep up with her, as she zoomed past him on her blades. "Oh.. and thanks for saving my life."
"Mikki! Watch OUT!!" Bourne yelled.
As if by instinct, Mikki breaked hard and came to a stop, inches before crashing into a passerby. He looked at her blankly, obviously in shock. She began to apologise when suddenly the man roared and grabbed her shoulder!
"Let go of me!" Mikki struggled, but the man just snorted and grabbed on tighter, opened his mouth and then..
SLAM!!
Mikki had thrown him to the ground with an expert judo throw. She dusted her shoulder and said," That'll teach you to mess with a girl!"
Bourne took no chances and cycled past, his bike wheels crushing the legs of the man, and Mikki grabbed onto his bike, and they zoomed off toward Jurong West street 91. It would be a long journey. And they didn't even suspect anything about the zombies yet.
"Woah!!" Bourne breaked again and this time almost crashed into a lamp post that fell down suddenly in front of him, blocking their way. "Let's go onto the road," he and Mikki turned to the right and went about 50 meters before coming across a burning gasoline truck, overturned and blocking the main road as well. "Erm, ok, we'll cut thru the HDB blocks then." They weaved back and forth thru the void decks of the HDB blocks, when suddenly noticed people surrounding them from all sides. People who were burnt or injured or hideously mangled. Who couldn't possibly be alive!! thought Mikki. They're trying to get us!
"Oh man, this doesn't look good.."Bourne started to perspire cold sweat. More and more of them groaned and surrounded them. Mikki kicked into action, using her heavy blades to strike at the ankles of the nearest "people", causing them to tumble and fall. "Jump!" Mikki commanded and lept over the fallen ones. Bourne followed closely behind on his bike. "This way!" Bourne saw Mikki point to an alley and went in. "Noo! Not there!! Its a dead end!!" Bourne shouted, but too late. He went in after her, and they came to face a 5 meter high brick wall about 20 meters ahead. They turned around, only to face another horde of monsters blocking their path entirely!
Each minute passed agonizingly, as they backed up against the wall. "Any plans?" Bourne asked. "Go down fighting." Mikki put up her clenched fists. Bourne had never fought anyone in his life, but this was really too much for him to handle. He closed his eyes and grimaced.
KABOOM!!!
The wall collasped behind them, flooding the alley in a blinding flash of sunlight!
"Cover me!!" Vash dashed forward, Dessert Eagle in each hand, while Jiacholate laid down covering fire, taking off not a few zombie heads, sending them drowning in a splash of blood. Vash took down the nearest 2 zombies, then grabbed Mikki and Bourne by their collars and forced them towards the car. Jiacholate's machine gun had jammed and 1 tough looking muscular zombie had somehow made its way toward the car! Vash was trying to reverse while Swen and Wendy were tending to Mikki's and Bourne's wounds, nobody noticed the zombie until it climbed on the car and almost attacked Jiacholate, when POW!! It exploded into a mass of flesh and flew all over the alley.
Jiacholate was stunned. She had been too busy unjamming her gun to realise she was almost caught in the jaws of death. Jordan lowered his shotgun and turned his harley davidson around, and Vashed stepped on the accelerator. They sped off, while the alley became filled with more of the undead, crying out in anguish as their food got away.
Hours of doom loomed in the horizon. Smoke and fire burned, strange mists surrounded the whole island of Singapore. Apparently the magnetic impulse had caused the earth to split, and natural gas released beneath the island began to burst forth. Ordinarily, this would be a much-welcomed miracle, a natural resource hidden within our packed island, a new source of income! Yet now, the natural gas released quickly caught fire and spread round the island, making the whole landscape seem like a nightmarish lake of fire - it was like being in hell. Fire fighters were busy trying to put out the fiercest fires at the kallang gas works, where huge explosions and ripped out chunks of roads and destroyed several buildings. The police and army were mobilised to try to keep the peace and maintain order in the midst of all these chaos, which seemed an impossible task. Angry and panicky mobs rampaged through the streets, pillaging and stealing and destroying at will, and few were actually subdued by the authorities. Dead bodies lay in the dozens all around, a terrible stench filling the air as the sun beat down on the remaining survivors. Electricity and water for half of the island was cut off. But all this is unimportant, as we now look at how Vash, Swen, Wendy and the Hongkong Triad gang Inertia react to the worst consequence of all - dealing with the undead.
---
Lance and his band of breakers-turned-vigilantes-with-awesome-weapons got off their vehicles and gathered round Vash to decide what to do.
"Vash! The police and army can't even deal with the general population, they can't do a thing about these zombies! They probably don't even know about it!!" Jiacholate exclaimed.
"Yeah man! Let's just shoot them all up! Hahahaha!" Tosh and Nic raised their rifles, obviously bursting with excitement at having the chance to fire some serious hardware.
Wendy was flabbergasted and replied, "No! How do you know there isn't a cure for this? You can't just go about murdering people!"
"Oh come on! Look at them!" Jiacholate stepped on a severed arm, which was still twitching and crushed it under her boot. Half a face lay splattered near the arm, and the eyeballs still turned! "You call this a sickness?? They're monsters! And we gotta get them before they get us!"
"Calm down, all of you." Vash spoke finally.Right now, all he wanted to do was to get back to church to check on Meryl. "Let's just head back to church and re-group and plan what to do."
"WHat?? You're all just gonna do nothing and sit and talk?? You useless chicken !@#$! We should fight!!" Death-Huade spurted out fiery words, angered by inaction.
"Yeah! Let's kick some butt!!" Tosh and Nic echoed, grinning savagely.
"No! I'm heading back to church. You all decide if you want to follow!" Vash was firm. Swen and Wendy headed with him back to the black Spyder. Vash looked back and see who would join them.
Jordan seemed uncertain, but then reeved up his bike and steered toward Vash. Jiacholate appeared to be arguing with Dome and Lance, while the rest simply sneered and turned away. Jaws looked back with a glint of doubt, but then had decided to follow the majority. Jiacholate stepped out of the rover angrily, GPMG slung over her shoulder with a few hundred rounds of bullets, and ran toward Vash. "Wait guys! I'm coming with you!"
A hint of a smile formed on Vash's face. He had badly wanted Jiacholate to follow them, she was a good friend of his. "So here's where we part company yet again.." his gaze followed the triad of Inertia and he muttered a silent prayer for them. Swen asked "so where we're going now?" Vash answered,"i don't know why, but i feel that we really ought to go..."
---
"...wake up! C'mon!" Bourne gently shook Mikki, and she finally began to stir. Still a little dazed by the deafening demolition, but otherwise alright. She looked at Bourne, and realized he wasn't in good shape at all, despite the smile on his face. A shard had pierced his right hip, and it was bleeding profusely. "Mikki, can you cycle? I can't carry you on my bike in this condition.." he mumbled apologetically. "what? then what about you??" mikki asked. Bourne just shrugged and replied "maybe i'll walk to the nearest hospital.."
Mikki sighed. She pulled out her roller blades from her backpack and started to put them on to the amazement of Bourne.
"C'mon! We've got to find Vash and the rest! They're probably at church already.." Mikki gestured to Bourne to keep up with her, as she zoomed past him on her blades. "Oh.. and thanks for saving my life."
"Mikki! Watch OUT!!" Bourne yelled.
As if by instinct, Mikki breaked hard and came to a stop, inches before crashing into a passerby. He looked at her blankly, obviously in shock. She began to apologise when suddenly the man roared and grabbed her shoulder!
"Let go of me!" Mikki struggled, but the man just snorted and grabbed on tighter, opened his mouth and then..
SLAM!!
Mikki had thrown him to the ground with an expert judo throw. She dusted her shoulder and said," That'll teach you to mess with a girl!"
Bourne took no chances and cycled past, his bike wheels crushing the legs of the man, and Mikki grabbed onto his bike, and they zoomed off toward Jurong West street 91. It would be a long journey. And they didn't even suspect anything about the zombies yet.
"Woah!!" Bourne breaked again and this time almost crashed into a lamp post that fell down suddenly in front of him, blocking their way. "Let's go onto the road," he and Mikki turned to the right and went about 50 meters before coming across a burning gasoline truck, overturned and blocking the main road as well. "Erm, ok, we'll cut thru the HDB blocks then." They weaved back and forth thru the void decks of the HDB blocks, when suddenly noticed people surrounding them from all sides. People who were burnt or injured or hideously mangled. Who couldn't possibly be alive!! thought Mikki. They're trying to get us!
"Oh man, this doesn't look good.."Bourne started to perspire cold sweat. More and more of them groaned and surrounded them. Mikki kicked into action, using her heavy blades to strike at the ankles of the nearest "people", causing them to tumble and fall. "Jump!" Mikki commanded and lept over the fallen ones. Bourne followed closely behind on his bike. "This way!" Bourne saw Mikki point to an alley and went in. "Noo! Not there!! Its a dead end!!" Bourne shouted, but too late. He went in after her, and they came to face a 5 meter high brick wall about 20 meters ahead. They turned around, only to face another horde of monsters blocking their path entirely!
Each minute passed agonizingly, as they backed up against the wall. "Any plans?" Bourne asked. "Go down fighting." Mikki put up her clenched fists. Bourne had never fought anyone in his life, but this was really too much for him to handle. He closed his eyes and grimaced.
KABOOM!!!
The wall collasped behind them, flooding the alley in a blinding flash of sunlight!
"Cover me!!" Vash dashed forward, Dessert Eagle in each hand, while Jiacholate laid down covering fire, taking off not a few zombie heads, sending them drowning in a splash of blood. Vash took down the nearest 2 zombies, then grabbed Mikki and Bourne by their collars and forced them towards the car. Jiacholate's machine gun had jammed and 1 tough looking muscular zombie had somehow made its way toward the car! Vash was trying to reverse while Swen and Wendy were tending to Mikki's and Bourne's wounds, nobody noticed the zombie until it climbed on the car and almost attacked Jiacholate, when POW!! It exploded into a mass of flesh and flew all over the alley.
Jiacholate was stunned. She had been too busy unjamming her gun to realise she was almost caught in the jaws of death. Jordan lowered his shotgun and turned his harley davidson around, and Vashed stepped on the accelerator. They sped off, while the alley became filled with more of the undead, crying out in anguish as their food got away.
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