The Squad

Land Of The Dead 2 Stories (Living Amongst The Dead)
Locked
User avatar Great Britain
cosmo
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Posts: 2574
Joined: 11 Sep 2009, 11:42

The Squad

Post by cosmo »

“ The Squad “


The guys were sitting in the bar unwinding, it had been a long day and tomorrow was shaping up to be much the same. During weapons drill, Radzinsky had noticed a light reflecting from the rooftop of one of the buildings outside the compound, no-one remembered seeing it before, was someone trying to signal them? Another survivor? It was unlikely but possible. They would find out soon enough, Captain Woods was going to lead a patrol out at day break to investigate.

Chell collected the orders and wandered off to the bar to replenish their drinks, Lefler was regaling them with more of his stories. As usual, Dalton sat quietly immersed in his own thoughts, laughing only occasionally at one of Lefler’s comments. It all seemed like a normal night. Then all hell broke loose.

By the time the sound of the first shot had died away Dalton was already out of his chair and running to the door, the others weren’t that far behind. They instinctively ran toward the armoury were they saw Major Belkin fumbling with the locks, he finally got it open and swung the door wide and stood back to allow the men to grab their weapons. As Dalton finished equipping himself, he heard Belkin order the men to form up outside the armoury, “ what a pointless waste of time “ Dalton thought to himself, they should just head straight to the trouble spot and reinforce those on the front line, but he did as he was ordered.

When they had formed ranks, Belkin ordered them to double time to the barricades, as they ran Chell wondered aloud why the Major wasn’t leading them himself. Patel commented “it didn’t matter, he probably wouldn’t have been much use anyway“, this brought some muted laughter from the others. As they ran, the squad’s formation loosened until it became a disparate group racing for the front line, as they approached it was a scene of chaos that greeted them. There must have been hundreds of stenchies, tearing their way through the fences.
They took their positions while Captain Woods barked out orders. Amid the noise, screams and gunfire no-one noticed when the orders stopped

The stenchies overran the barricades and began advancing along the road heading towards them, the squad took aim and opened fire, the first line of stenchies dropped, their heads riddled with bullets. As they continued firing the bodies started to pile up, but still the stenchies advanced.
They didn’t even see the ones that came at them from the right flank. The stenchies tore through the squad, Osmond, Brennan and Patel didn’t stand a chance, the mass of clawing hands pulled them to the ground and tore them to pieces. Dalton saw radzinsky go down, then Lefler and Chell were swamped by the sea of rotting bodies. Dalton was slowly being pushed back along the street, but he fought on furiously, his weapon spat forth a constant stream of death, stopping only when he had to slam in another clip, when he ran out of ammunition he dropped his weapon and grabbed another from the floor and continued firing until eventually, he killed all the stenchies around him and bought a moment’s breathing space.

He looked around and was horrified to see that he was the only one left, “god dammit” he thought, there must have been almost forty guys here, they were all gone. Were they all dead already?
He was the last man standing and he knew he didn’t have much time left……….
Download
Image
Locked