Urban Dead: The Price of the Oath

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:27 pm

Sherry stood beside Mike, eyeing the doorway they'd come through just in case anything unfriendly decided to show its face. She kept her hand on the axe, then turned to him:

"There isn't anything other than regular zombies, is there? No supercharged death weapon mutants or anything, right?"

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:27 pm

"Never mind!" he called out cheerfully as he stepped up and swept down with the machete, decapitating the zombie.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:30 pm

"No, these are all originals, so to speak. They've been isolated, without food. In hibernation, really." He said, answering Petro's now-redundant question at the same time.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:32 pm

"Okay," she said with a tiny sigh of relief. Normally she wasn't quite that paranoid, but being an environment she knew absolutely nothing about was having quite the affect. Especially considering the fact that until just recently, it was the two of them, so she'd been in guard dog mode.

The sounds of combat that normally made her anxious were now a comfort: they weren't alone.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:32 pm

"Okay, that doesn't change anything," Petro. "They're still fucking dangerous. Stay sharp, anybody slacks and I'll smack your ass. Let's keep moving here."

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:34 pm

Mike patted her on the shoulder, pausing as they moved further in and the former scientist came into view.

"That could've been me, so easily." He said softly, pulling the axe from his belt.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:36 pm

Another zombie shuffled mindlessly through the doorway.

"But it ain't you," Sherry said sharply, yanking her axe free and waiting for the thing to clear the doorway. "It's this poor bastard."

He was right about the hibernation or whatever-the-fuck-it-was: the zombie was staggering slowly; it seemed almost disoriented. Or as disoriented as something without consciousness could be.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:41 pm

Mike took this one, kicking its legs out from under it and bringing the axe down hard, the head coming off with a disgusting snap.

"I'm still on the job." He reassured her.

"Okay, the next room's got stuff in it we need." He said to the rest. "Be careful, etcetera."

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:46 pm

He continued on, machete cautiously at the ready. For all they knew, the next one would be fully active. Next one or more.

They were close to achieving their objective, but not quite there. No sense in slacking off.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:49 pm

Sherry brought up the rear, subconsciously protecting Mike from whatever she was certain was going to leap from the shadows to get him. She looked at the rest of the 1st, as well. Assorted scrapes and bruises, but nothing looked too bad. Tough kids, she thought admiringly.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:50 pm

Suddenly, another one stumbled out of the darkened room, crashing into Petro clumsily. It moaned, and several more moans echoed down the corridor in response.

"Okay, more than three." Mike muttered, ready to help Petro.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:53 pm

He pivoted, jamming his fist into the side of the zombie's head, the weakened skull collapsing under his fist like an eggshell. The zombie dropped as if axed, sliding off his fist.

He looked at his gory, zombie-sludge covered hand.

"Ew. Fuck."

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:57 pm

There was a gigantic crash from the room at the end of the corridor, and a great deal of rattling. Something inside moaned angrily, and other voices started up as well. A lot of voices.

"Fuck!" Mike yelled, barging into the doors as a rotting hand reached around them.

"A little help here?" He asked as faces pushed themselves against the glass. At least four, probably more.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:57 pm

At that point she shifted, moving toward the hallway to catch whatever was headed their way. As the first zombie pushed itself through the doors, she caught it by surprise and neatly cleaved its head into coronal halves.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:06 pm

"Let 'em come through," Petro said, waving everone to stand back so they could put their numerical advantage to use. "Three on each, pick your target and take it down!"

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:07 pm

"All twenty of them?" Asked Mike breathlessly, holding the doors closed with difficulty.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:09 pm

Sherry thought for a moment, then said, "If we can funnel 'em through, twenty will be a piece of cake, Mike!" Her eyes glittered. Perhaps this was the 'piece of hell' Jared had mentioned to Petro. While she'd had an inflated sense of preservation before, she was almos reckless now.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:21 pm

Petro sidestepped as the next one entered, slashing his machete into it's back and slamming it toward the others, before bringing the blade back up to parry the next one coming through.

As Petro caught it through the chest, Sherry made quick work of the head, cleaving it off straight through the zombie's mouth.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:24 pm

Mike cursed as the Zombies finally bashed the doors open, flinging him into the wall.

You gung-ho idiots, we could've just locked the fucking inch thick metal door! He thought to himself, scrambling to his feet to find himself surrounded.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:31 pm

Sherry looked to her side to see Mike as the doors burst open. She swung her axe to and fro, lobbing off limbs and the occasional head until she was back-to-back to the doctor.

"Hello there!" she said cheerily, glancing over her shoulder at him with a gore-splattered smile.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:35 pm

"You're nuts!" He said affectionately, kicking a Zombie away while pulling his axe from another's neck.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:37 pm

Flashing blades descended as the Irregulars tore into the small horde of zombies, slashing and chopping. Every kill was finished with a decapitation, as time allowed, hacking and chopping like a merry pirate band.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:44 pm

Sherry cried out triumphantly as she buried her axe's blade into a zombie's skull, then not so triumphantly as it proceeded to wander off to attack someone else, her axe still embedded in its head. But she had the machete as a fallback, no fear, and soon put it to good use.

The hallway was beginning to smell godawful and was quite literally filling up with hacked-off parts. Not whole bodies. Just parts.

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:47 pm

Mike finally got the axe out of the Zombie's chest, the recoil swinging the back of the blade into a Zombie's face. The Zombie staggered a bit, then lunged forward and clamped down on Mike's hand. He yelled.

Meanwhile, another ten Zombies staggered out of the darkened room, taking the Irregulars by surprise.

Petro slammed into the door, attempting to swing it closed. "Finish these fuckers off!" he yelled.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:00 pm

Sherry heard Mike cry out and went into defense mode, swinging at everything in the room that lacked a pulse. When she finally made her way back to him, she was covered in congealing blood, her eyes wild and her breath coming in ragged gasps.

Upon looking him over and deciding that could wait a moment, she turned back toward the door and kicked a zombie in the chest, sending it bowling into the ones behind it for the Irregulars to set upon like hyenas.

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