air.
“Where are we headed?” Kingsley asked.
“I say we find a carwash and spray this bitch out,” I
answered.
It didn’t take long to find one. Those self-serve carwashes
are just about everywhere. As soon as I pulled up, all of us bailed out of the
vehicle. Georgie did the cleaning and the rest of us took up defensive
positions.
When he was done, Georgie was in shock that there wasn’t a
single dent on the Jeep. I started laughing.
“What part of armored did you not understand?” I asked him.
“I thought it was some sort of code word for you being an
ass-hat, to be honest with you. I didn’t think it would actually work.”
“I’m just glad you stopped screaming,” Kingsley added. “My
ears are still ringing.”
By this time, we were all laughing.
“My favorite was Javie,” I added. “He’s all quiet and frozen
then all of a sudden he belts out this loud MOTHER FUCKER.”
“That’s so you bitches know I’m serious,” Javie said.
I could barely breathe I was laughing so hard.
Hardin must have thought we were having a little too much
fun. He was suddenly in my ear once again.
“You boys having a good time?” Hardin asked.
“Hey nice job with the extraction,” I replied. “Could you
have picked a worse fucking place? You almost got us all killed.”
“My mistake,” Hardin said. “The area looked clear enough. I
didn’t expect all of them to run out of the nearby buildings. It won’t happen
again, and you guys all got through it. How’s Georgie? Has he stopped
screaming?”
“Barely,” I answered. “So what do you need? I think we might
be done for the night.”
“We found another survivor,” Hardin said. “I think you guys
might want to take this one.”
“Is he in any immediate danger? We still don’t have Jaxon
with us, and since you haven’t brought him up, I’m assuming that he’s still
missing.”
“Yes, Dudley, we have not had any contact from Jaxon, and
no, this survivor is not in any immediate danger. However, I was thinking that
you might still want to jump on this now instead of tomorrow.”
“Why is that?”
“This guy is rather disagreeable so it might be that he’s
telling the truth, but I have no way to tell since he won’t give us his name.
Anyway, he says that he knows you guys and he’s stuck inside your old Safe
Zone. According to him, he arrived not long after Jaxon led all the survivors
out of the city, and he’s been there ever since.”
We left for the Safe Zone immediately.
Hardin said that the guy was disagreeable. That’s what got
me thinking he might actually be a pal. Jaxon has a lot of friends that are
sort of rough around the edges. Most of them don’t have criminal records that I
know of, but I don’t keep up with all of them.
The other thing that had me jumping was that he was at our
old Safe Zone. That place has a special meaning to those of us that were
fortunate enough to have been there. If this guy went looking for us and
somehow wasn’t able to make it in time for our departure, he deserved our help,
and he deserved it immediately. Also, it would give us a pretty decent place to
spend the day if it was still secure.
We were there inside of about ten minutes. I let Georgie
drive after he promised not to start screaming again if he saw a zombie. The
front gate was locked up tight. I took that as a positive sign and leaned out
of the Jeep with my mp7 and started taking shots at the ten shamblers gathered
around it.
It didn’t take long to bring them all down, but we made
noise. It wasn’t a lot of noise, but it was noise nonetheless. I was worried
that we were going to have more company so I wanted to get inside as fast as
possible.
“Georgie, go hop the fence and open the gate.”
“But I’m driving,” Georgie said.
“I’ll drive, just go do it. I never paid attention to how
you guys rigged everything up.”
Watching Georgie climb over the fence would have been pretty
damn amusing if I hadn’t had to
“Where are we headed?” Kingsley asked.
“I say we find a carwash and spray this bitch out,” I
answered.
It didn’t take long to find one. Those self-serve carwashes
are just about everywhere. As soon as I pulled up, all of us bailed out of the
vehicle. Georgie did the cleaning and the rest of us took up defensive
positions.
When he was done, Georgie was in shock that there wasn’t a
single dent on the Jeep. I started laughing.
“What part of armored did you not understand?” I asked him.
“I thought it was some sort of code word for you being an
ass-hat, to be honest with you. I didn’t think it would actually work.”
“I’m just glad you stopped screaming,” Kingsley added. “My
ears are still ringing.”
By this time, we were all laughing.
“My favorite was Javie,” I added. “He’s all quiet and frozen
then all of a sudden he belts out this loud MOTHER FUCKER.”
“That’s so you bitches know I’m serious,” Javie said.
I could barely breathe I was laughing so hard.
Hardin must have thought we were having a little too much
fun. He was suddenly in my ear once again.
“You boys having a good time?” Hardin asked.
“Hey nice job with the extraction,” I replied. “Could you
have picked a worse fucking place? You almost got us all killed.”
“My mistake,” Hardin said. “The area looked clear enough. I
didn’t expect all of them to run out of the nearby buildings. It won’t happen
again, and you guys all got through it. How’s Georgie? Has he stopped
screaming?”
“Barely,” I answered. “So what do you need? I think we might
be done for the night.”
“We found another survivor,” Hardin said. “I think you guys
might want to take this one.”
“Is he in any immediate danger? We still don’t have Jaxon
with us, and since you haven’t brought him up, I’m assuming that he’s still
missing.”
“Yes, Dudley, we have not had any contact from Jaxon, and
no, this survivor is not in any immediate danger. However, I was thinking that
you might still want to jump on this now instead of tomorrow.”
“Why is that?”
“This guy is rather disagreeable so it might be that he’s
telling the truth, but I have no way to tell since he won’t give us his name.
Anyway, he says that he knows you guys and he’s stuck inside your old Safe
Zone. According to him, he arrived not long after Jaxon led all the survivors
out of the city, and he’s been there ever since.”
We left for the Safe Zone immediately.
Hardin said that the guy was disagreeable. That’s what got
me thinking he might actually be a pal. Jaxon has a lot of friends that are
sort of rough around the edges. Most of them don’t have criminal records that I
know of, but I don’t keep up with all of them.
The other thing that had me jumping was that he was at our
old Safe Zone. That place has a special meaning to those of us that were
fortunate enough to have been there. If this guy went looking for us and
somehow wasn’t able to make it in time for our departure, he deserved our help,
and he deserved it immediately. Also, it would give us a pretty decent place to
spend the day if it was still secure.
We were there inside of about ten minutes. I let Georgie
drive after he promised not to start screaming again if he saw a zombie. The
front gate was locked up tight. I took that as a positive sign and leaned out
of the Jeep with my mp7 and started taking shots at the ten shamblers gathered
around it.
It didn’t take long to bring them all down, but we made
noise. It wasn’t a lot of noise, but it was noise nonetheless. I was worried
that we were going to have more company so I wanted to get inside as fast as
possible.
“Georgie, go hop the fence and open the gate.”
“But I’m driving,” Georgie said.
“I’ll drive, just go do it. I never paid attention to how
you guys rigged everything up.”
Watching Georgie climb over the fence would have been pretty
damn amusing if I hadn’t had to
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