Chapter 2: Lovely Sightseeing
The blades whirled around the air, causing a wind draft within the chopper. Two choppers flew towards the supercity, where the flames and smoke could be seen clearly as it rises up to cover the blue skies with it’s gray and black smokes. Landford looked at the crew that was with him in the chopper and the two pilots that was driving it. Briefly making eye contact and gave a short fistpump. The squad simply watched with unchanged faces, only Corporal Ivan smiled a little at the short attempt. Then the pilot in the front suddenly said something, and Captain Landford looked at him.
“Sir, we are arriving to our location. This is the best we can do for the landing zone, since it provides a large flat area for the troops to drop down upon. We will also provide any air support if needed sir.”
“Alright”
Landford looked down below and saw the countless of figures scattered around lying down dead, there was no indications of the living. The cars were burning, stains of blood were everywhere, while the stores and shops were practically untouched, with exceptions that the windows were broken and the insides were still packed with items.
“Aren’t there supposed to be looting whenever a crisis occurred?” Cody from the back of the chopper commented.
“Sir we’ve arrived to our location.”
Landford looked at the pilot then back at his squad. His head nodded towards them. Davis and Cody started to rapple downwards, towards the ground. Landford followed through after everyone got off the chopper. Releasing the grapple hook his boots hit the asphalt ground, creating a crunching sound. He looked around and saw the dead bodies, only the destruction of the town where the cars collided with the shops, scattering glass shards everywhere. The other chopper came in and Landford merely looked up and gave a thumbs up to signal the pilot.
Captain Linus and his squad started to rappel down. Landford signaled the squad to prep their weapons, Most of the members held M4s and a couple of them held Remington 870 shotguns. Captain Linus had his special sharpened Machete that he always called good luck charm.
“ Alright squads, let’s get a move on.” ordered Landford
Landford used a hand gesture towards the choppers, as soon as he finished the hand gesture the choppers started to fly off. Landford’s face turned serious as he grabbed the map out.
“Alrig- *Kaboom* What?”
“Sir the Choppers!”
>>Mayday M- *explosion* -xxxxxx-<<
>>Engaging the unidentified target, Chopper Raven A1 have gone down I repeat Over<<
The squad saw the helicopters, explode to a large object. Landford immediately shut off the radio and ordered everyone.
“Come on guys, we have our orders. Let’s go.” Landford’s face grimaced at the turn of event.
The squad followed while Private Cody looked back with a last glance and saw the last chopper going down by the large unidentified object.
“Hulk?.... no” Cody turned around and followed the squad
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“Alright, we’ll be going through Squad Alpha’s crash sight when we go to our primary mission of obtaining the lab records and data for the cause of this.”
“Yes sir.”
As they closed into the crash sight of Squad Alpha they could see the smoke, the smell of burnt bodies, and the wrecked buildings. Broken pieces of concretes were everywhere, the stores were shattered by burning bodies or cars.
“Seems like the explosions mainly came from the cars…. causing most of the buildings to collapse or so.” stated Cody
“Movement!” yelled Private Omar
Everyone stiffened with their weapons on the ready, the movement quickly ran back into the alley way. They saw a red light dress move away from their sights.
“It could be a little girl, Davis, Ivan go check it out, if you don’t see her in the alley way just return to us. Don’t give pursuit, we’ll be heading over to the crash site.”
“Roger.” Davis and Ivan started to head over to the alleyway. The trash within it was ripped apart, bloodstains was everywhere within the alleyway coloring the red bricks of the walls, and the concrete.
“What…. there’s no way that girl is going to be sane after walking past all of this blood.” stated Davis
“There’s the girl.” Ivan pointed
The girl was simply standing at the end of the alley way. Kneeling down, with her head down. Letting gravity pull her long hair to cover her face, her arms were covered with bloodstains.The fingernails of hers were sharp and discolored, while her feet was covered with dirt and blood.
“Umm, any chance we don’t have to walk towards that girl?” questioned Davis
“Right, let’s try calling out to her, instead of walking through all that… also I can’t help but feel that this is similar to the horror movies that I watch.” said Ivan
Davis knelt down and had his left hand forward just a little and called to her.
“Hey… little girl?” called Davis
The girl simply nodded at the calling, and slowly stood up. She quietly walked over towards them. Ivan readied his remington 870 shotgun and aimed downwards afraid to accidently kill an innocent, while Davis stood back up and waited for the girl to come over. As the girl walked forward, she suddenly stopped a couple paces away from them, between the dead bodies that were there. Her hands shook, and trembled. A whine was slowly increasing it’s volume. Davis shook at the sound and attempted to discover the issue.
“Eh, little girl are you okay? You’re moderately safe now… Us big soldiers are here to rescue you?” questioned Davis
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As if reacting to his question, the girl flipped her hair out and screamed, a deadly scream echoed through the alleyway, tearing Davis's and Ivan’s ears and echoing into the Orange tinted sky. The scream was sounded throughout the block, Davis and Ivan cringed at the sound, their ears felt like they were going to pop.
“Shit! She’s a damn heavy metal rock lead singer!” Yelled Ivan
“What? I can’t hear you!” stated Davis
Landford turned around as soon as he heard the scream and called from his position to Ivan and Davis.
“Hey what’s going on over there? Are you scaring the target?” yelled Landford.
“What???” yelled Ivan
Davis immediately tapped on Ivan’s shoulder, when Ivan turned around he saw several bodies getting up within the alleyways surrounding the little girl. The bodies that stood up were all in tattered clothings, stab wounds are apparent and the bite marks upon their arms were visible.
“They’re supposed to be dead aren’t they?” yelled Davis
“What? I still can’t hear anything.” Ivan asked again as he held onto the remington.
The two of them readied their weapons and took a couple steps back. Gunshots occurred when they were stepping back. Ivan’s ear started to work better during the past few seconds. He looked at Landford’s squad and found out that they were engaging at the people who ran at them, with blood gurgling from their mouths, and each one of them having their own stories to tell of how they lost a body part, clothes, and the lost of their own physical minds that they once had.
“Shit!” Ivan cocked his shotgun and aimed it at the dead bodies in the alleyway, letting forth a blast that knocked the first one down creating a dominoes effect.
Ivan grabbed Davis’ hand and ran back towards the group. Davis quickly followed step and aimed his m4 at the people in the alleyway. The one who was shot by Ivan quickly stood back up, as it’s stomach was blasted open and it’s bile steadily pouring out into the open, and it’s intestines slowly creeping out of its cavity. The dead corpse stared at them with soulless eyes. The girl behind them screamed once again, as if it was a war banner. The dead people within the alleyway, groaned as loud as they can and started to run towards the group. As if it was a game of deadly cat and mouse.
“Shit! I should’ve killed that bitch when I shot…” cursed Ivan
“It’s a damn siren Ivan! She screwed us up!” yelled Davis
As the two neared the group, Landford looked at them.
“What did you guys do? Everyone is attacking us! It’s good that the first one was slow, but it seems like they aren’t going to stop unless we shoot them till they stop! Everyone! These people are now monsters! They are dead! The shots that we gave should stop a normal human being by now but they are relentless! Shoot them in the head!” Landford turned about and with his Desert Eagle he headshotted a fat corpse that was slowly walking towards them.
“Sir, the girl just screamed when she got closer to us… she’s a trap.” answered Ivan
“*Snickers, trap hehe…” mutters Cody
“I understand that, come on Squad move towards the crash site, and hold off these abominations. Give headshots, make every damn bullet count.” Ordered Landford
Landford held onto his Desert Eagle, and ran towards the crash site. The others followed through with the order, by following him.
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Current Situation: Raven Squad
Captain: Landford (m4, Desert Eagle Mark XIX (Deagle), bowie knife, radio, frag grenades)
Sergeant: Cody (m4, beretta tomcat, bowie knife, radio, frag grenades)
Corporal: Ivan (Remington 870 shotgun , beretta tomcat, bowie knife, frag grenades, breach clear equipments)
Private: Dan (Radioman) (m4 , beretta tomcat , bowie knife, satellite radio, frag grenades)
Private: Davis (m4, beretta tomcat, bowie knife, frag grenades, c4,)
Captain: Linus (m4, Desert Eagle Mark XIX machete , radio, frag grenades)
Sergeant: Jake (m4,Desert Eagle Mark XIX bowie knife, radio, frag grenades)
Corporal: Lucas (m4, beretta tomcat, bowie knife, frag grenades, breach clear equipments )
Private: Zack (Radioman)(Remington 870 shotgun,beretta tomcat bowie knife, satellite radio, frag grenades)
Private: Omar (m4, beretta tomcat bowie knife, frag grenades, c4 )
Mission: 1st: Retrieve Lab data and find a cure for this disease
2nd: Locate and rescue any survivors of Squad Alpha and Beta,
* Go to last known locations