Zombie Theorem (Book 1): The Culling (32 page)

I drop my eyesight and look over our soldiers. I see another fall, grabbing his arm off the ground and looking around as gunfire erupts around him. I stand a little taller, replace my magazine again, and pour out rounds after rounds toward the Ridder troops who are firing on the soldier. I crouch lower but keep up my firing, replacing magazines as needed and duck walk toward the hurt soldier. I make it to him and kneel over him, keeping up my rifle fire. Suddenly another rifle is firing on my targets and allowing me to help the fallen soldier. I grab him and pull him back stopping every couple of feet to fire, trying to keep the murderous gunfire away from us. The other rifle starts up again and gives me the breathing space I need, I grab the man’s straps again and pull with all I have. I drag him back and two medics come up to take over the dragging. I bring my rifle back onto the targets and start firing again. I make it back and find Apache had been covering me. I know we had only been in the gunfight for less than five minutes but already I feel like it had been hours. Suddenly the .50 cal APC shows up and starts unloading in our direction. Boulders are being pulverized, and the ground around us is being ripped up.

Our forces start to collapse backward, looking for cover from the deadly .50 firing at us. The Ridder soldiers seem to be recovering quickly and now they start moving out of their cover. Coming up on the hill and taking better shots at us. The other team being led by the First Sergeant hadn’t fired any shots for what seems like forever. I pray they are still alive and just finding a better position. Suddenly a very loud gun opens up from across the highway hitting the APC with the M240 on it. Holes magically appear in the armor. The APC with the .50 on it shifts its fire, to the same position the big gun was firing from and rains death down on it. I hear a sound from above and look up seeing two Blackhawks that aren’t ours, show up and pour their metal hell down on us from their door gunners. We are being pounded on and eliminated fast from the air and the APCs out in front. I feel hopelessness and dread pouring out of me. I watch as Senshi is hit in the chest and knocked down to the ground. I scream and start firing again from my M4. I have no idea when I had stopped firing. I look around me and see that everyone is down, covering themselves from the fire. I watch as the Ridder force moves forward on our hill.

A hatred I had never felt before, blows through my mind and body, I start taking shots at the Ridder troops and slowly start making my way to Senshi. He is family, I must help him, that is what we do. We take care of each other even in the face of certain death. I make it halfway when my rifle runs dry and I have no more magazines or ammo. I drop it to the ground and bring my shotgun around to my front. I take aim and let off two quick shots taking a man down. I make it to Senshi and fire off the rest of my ammo. I reach down into my bag and frantically search for more shells. I find 6 more, and load the gun as fast as I can. I drop one but my hands have gone on automatic. I kneel over Senshi and kept firing until the gun runs dry. I reach into my messenger bag but don’t find anymore shells. I drop the gun onto its sling and pull my side arm and blow through the magazine as fast as I can pull the trigger. I drop the mag, pull another from my vest pouches and reload and start firing again. Suddenly the entire air is hot and the ground rocks and rolls and I am thrown into the air. I collapse on top of Senshi and something flies through the air and slams into my head. As my vision slowly starts to dim, I think of Angel and how I am breaking my promise to protect her. I hear someone screaming, not sure who, could it be me?  I try to fight back, but the darkness covers my eyes, something hits my arm and back, I feel intense heat and pain flooding through me. I try again to fight back against this darkness and climb out of it bit by bit, only to be thrown into the air again and landing hard on Senshi. This time the darkness grabs me and pulls on me harder dragging me down into a hole, then I felt nothing.

THE END

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