Life Will End/Chapter 5

This is a preview for Chapter 5 of Life Will End. The Full Chapter is expected to be out between January 7-10, 2014.

Chapter 5 (Preview)
                 Chapter 5

 

                                                                 

                                 Mick picked up his revolver off of his nightstand, quickly checking how many bullets he had in it. He had five, since he managed to get more when he first got to the lab. He darted back out the door where everyone else was scrambling to get their weapons and find cover, being careful not to come in front of the metal door that was currently being shot at.

“Stay behind everyone else, okay?” Jeff said softly to Daisy as she nodded, doing what he said. She had a loaded pistol in her hand. Jeff watched her go as he got into position, looking over at Mick. Mick nodded at him, but Jeff just looked back towards the door, ignoring him.

“I’ll take her into the medical room. It’s not safe for her to be up here, I’ll start working on something like a peg leg for her with the supplies I have.” Larry told Vlad as he nodded back. Larry helped Melanie walk towards the medical room. Vlad took notice that Zach looked scared like he always did in these kinds of situations, but it also looked like he was more confident than normal.

Crash! The metal door started to open as the bandit’s truck continued shooting and ramming it’s front into the door. It was only a matter of time until they got in now.

“Preserve ammo!” Mick attempted to shout to the others, but was interrupted when the metal door finally came crashing down, revealing the four bandits who started to shoot their heavily loaded machine guns everywhere.

Jeff ducked down behind a table as bullets erupted from the top of it. Zach was shooting wildly, hoping to hit one of them. Riley jumped in and immediately ducked for cover as Carl followed him in. Terrance and the other man provided cover fire as they moved through.

“Spence, cover me!” Terrance yelled to the other man, apparently named Spence, who nodded. When Terrance ran in, he took note of Zach and Vlad, who were the most uneasy ones in this shootout. Mick and Jeff seemed to be the good shooters. Terrance shot at Zach until his cover was torn apart, but Zach was still running and gunning.

As Riley rounded another corner split up from Carl, Jeff came from behind him and tried to choke him, but saw Carl taking notice of them. Jeff ducked down, the bullet nearly hitting him and Riley. Riley tried to run towards Carl to get to safety, but Jeff grabbed his pistol and fired five shots into Riley’s back, his body going limp and slumping to the floor, a pool of blood underneath him. “Fuck!” He heard Carl shout.

Mick noticed Terrance as he pointed his revolver at him, ready to take him out once and for all. Terrance ducked for cover just when Mick shot. Terrance shot furiously at Mick’s cover, hoping to get a shot at him. But then a shot from the other side of the room came, Grazing Terrance’s neck. It stunned him, but it wasn’t enough to kill him. Mick looked over and saw that it was Vlad who fired the shot.

Mick ran towards Terrance as fast as he good while Terrance struggled to get over the pain.

“Do it, Spence!” Terrance yelled before Mick hit him in the head with the butt of his revolver, knocking him out.

Spence got into the driver’s seat of the truck and backed it up, driving around the entire lab.

“What the fuck?!” Jeff yelled. He lost sight of Carl, that wasn’t good.

<p class="MsoNormal">They all started to recover from that brief but intense fight. Zach stood up, revealing a gunshot wound in his should.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Agh, Jesus fuck!” Zach said. Mick noticed that he had tears in his eyes.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Is it over?!” Larry yelled from the medical room.

<p class="MsoNormal">“For now, we knocked one out and don’t know where the other two are though!” Vlad shouted back.

<p class="MsoNormal">“Shit.” Larry said to himself as he walked back into the medical room. Melanie was on the metal table, a peg leg currently being worked on for her. “I’ll be right back.” Larry said to her as she nodded. Larry ran up the staircase, taking note of Zach’s wound. He also saw Daisy hugging Jeff and crying a bit.

<p class="MsoNormal">He went into the big study room and turned on the security cameras on the screen. He scanned them until he found the one that saw the bandit’s truck being driven by Spence, and he was collecting and releasing hundreds of infected into the hidden lower floor of the lab. Larry sighed and straightened out his lab coat.

<p class="MsoNormal">It was best not to tell the group about this now, the blood testing for all of them would be more important.