Z stands for Zimbabwe - Part 17

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Next morning, the whole group of sixteen people took out the furniture that is blocking the only entrance and exit from this room. When they were done, they all armed themselves with weapons, and looked at each other. After all of them are ready to face the zombies outside, Brian kicks open the door and the whole group starts blasting the remaining eleven zombies in the hallway.

"Clear." says Brain after they've killed the last zombie.

The entire group and squad are leaving the room, walking toward the exit of this warehouse. Both groups have left the warehouse armed and proceed to shoot the zombies that are walking at fast speed and running to them. As they are shooting the zombies, Brian, the leader of the 1st Army, stops firing and says to his people.

"We have to form a line, people! 1st Army members go in front and the survivors take our backs!"

"Got it," said a person from the 1st Army.

After they've made a line at the back and at the front, the group of sixteen people are going toward the nearest gas station. They are walking at a slow speed, while shooting their guns at the upcoming infected individuals who also jump like five feet in the air. One of the zombies jumped over a car, but it got killed mid-air by a 1st Army squad member who shot his double-barrel shotgun at the chest of the creature, who sent him one foot away, landing on the street. Then the zombie got shot in the head by another member who saw the thing continue to yell. The man who shot the zombie is having his anti-biting zombie armour covered in zombie blood, and is looking worried at Brian.

"You don't get infected if you touch blood!" says Abeni while she shoots with a pistol a zombie that is crawling under a car by two shots. "As long as you don't ingest it."

"How do you know that?" asked Brian to Abeni.

"Saw one of my teammates becoming zombies like this."

"Thank God," said that squad member.

The group advances forward to the gas station that is located one kilometre away from that warehouse.

After a while, the group arrived at a gas station, but upon arriving there, they found out the place has a sign that is written in English language with the phrase: "Out of Gas!", a thing that makes people in this group look disappointed at this.

"This place doesn't have gas," said Quanda.

"Now what?" asked Eze. "We look for another?"

"I saw one yesterday," said Chimola to the group. "Saw one at the entrance to the city. Hopefully there is still some gas in there left."

"Let's check it," said Brain. "You lead the way."

"Me?" asked Quanda surprised.

"You know where it is?"

"I said I saw it."

"Okay. You said at the entrance, right? Then we'll go there."

Brian leads the squad toward the road that leads to the entrance to Chimola. The squad of sixteen people are walking more than two kilometres to the gas station that is located near the highway where the military truck was abandoned yesterday by a group of survivors from Mutare. Their walk was filled with car wreckages, zombies, eaten bodies of humans and animals, traffic lights lying on the road, trash on the streets and a news chopper destroyed in the middle of the street.

"These reporters," said a member of the 1st Army looking at the news chopper.

"I know that chopper," said Akinyi. "Saw it fell on a news segment on YouTube."

"Watch out!" yelled a member of the 1st Squad seeing a zombie running to their left.

Eze is the one who kills that zombie, who is falling head first into the road. The group look around and see many zombies coming toward them. The group of fourteen people reload their guns, and proceed to shoot while they are running to the second gas station in this city.

Minutes later, the group arrives at the other gas station, where they see there is a gas trailer near the shop, parked. The group of fourteen people are looking happy at this sign, but their happiness doesn't last long after they see five people leaving the gas station shop, aiming their weapons at them.

"Get out!" yelled one of the people.

"We need gas, sir!" says Brain while his squad mates and the whole group of survivors aim their weapons at those five people.

"We don't give gas," said the supposed leader of this group. "If you want gas, then you'll have to go past us. This is our territory!"

"Sir," said Brian. "If you do not give us gas, we'll have to shoot."

"Shoot?" asked one of the people. "I'd like to see you try, motherfucker!"

These five individuals are all covered in leather jackets, jeans, boots, wear a bandana over their heads and have some strong firearms. These five people look like a gang of bikers who decided to take this gas station as a hideout for them, and keep the gas for themselves. These five bikers, seeing they are outnumbered by people and guns, decide to do one of the dumbest things. Start the first shoot. One of these five people pulled the trigger of his machine pistol who shot five bullets who were flying towards Chimola. These five bullets hit Chimola on the upper body, making the person fall back and fall on his back on the cold asphalt.

"CHIMOLA!" yelled Chidi, Akinyi, Eze, and many other survivors as they turned around to the group and started to pull their trigger on the guns, together with the 1st Army squad.

The five bikers are all mowed by the numerous amounts of bullets. None of them had the strength to dodge or pull the trigger. It was a fast shootout that ended with a blink of an eye where the group of now thirteen people had won, but at a great cost. Chidi and his people from Harare went to check Chimola's body.

"Chimola!" says Chidi while looking at him, and looking at Akinyi who is trying to do CPR.

"It's too late," said the member of the 1st Army who inspected their body temperature last night. "The wounds have pierced its whole body. There is nothing we can do."

"We have to do something!" says Akinyi while she tries to wake Chimola up.

"There's nothing we can do," says Brian aiming a handgun at Chimola. "All we can do is give this man mercy."

Akinyi walks away from Chimola's body after she notices the skin colour starts to shift into green a lot quicker than it usually does. Brian doesn't shoot and instead looks at how the colour of Chimola's skin shifts from black into darker green. When the eyes open, and Chimola screeches like a zombie, Brian shoots the head of Chimola with a single 9mm bullet from the gun. Then, he looks over the bodies of five bikers who have been killed.

"Double tap them." says Brian to his people.

"Yes, sir!" said the five people from his squad going over to the bodies of five bikers.

"Look," says Brian turning around to see the group of seven people. "That person got multiple shots to the torso. There was no way for it to survive after this. "Two shots were in the zone of the heart." He says pointing his gun at the wounds in the torso of the man's body. "And three shots at the lungs."

The squad of five people shoot the five bikers' heads at the same time, then are turned over to Brian, who orders them to check the inside and be careful while they are doing it. He sees the survivors turning around and seeing a horde of zombies walking to the gas station. Brian tells the survivors.

"You people are shooting the survivors while I and my people are trying to contact Charlie!"

"Okay!" says Chidi, and he looks at his people. "Let's kill these zombies! For Chimola!"

"For Chimola!" yells all six people who are reloading their empty firearms and start shooting the horde of zombies that are approaching the gas station.