Dead Frontier/Issue 93

This is a preview for Issue #93 of Dead Frontier, titled ''Even The Score. This is the third issue in 'Volume 16. '''The entire issue is planned to be posted the week of May 15, 2013.

Issue 93 - Even The Score (Preview)
"Yeah, it's risky, but do any of you really think it's not worth it?" Alec asks as he and a small group of others--Lienne, Luke, Billie, Alec, and Tora--are gathered around the counter in his suite.

"I don't think it is, to be honest with you," Lienne says, not convinced by the flimsy plan Alec has concocted to deal with Roxie. The traditional ambush: attack her camp when they least expect it and take out as many of them as they can.

Alec sighs at her response, hoping that this time he would be able to get through to her. "Lienne, I really need you to listen to me. We can't sit back and do nothing forever. I don't want to do this, either, but if I have to, I will. Because I love this place, and if we get rid of her--the problem--maybe we can go back to living normally again."

"Look, Alec, I know you're acting on emotion and everything, but you really need to think straight."

"No one's acting on emotion; I'm just thinking about the hotel and what's best for everyone."

"What you're thinking about is Devon," she says, words that bring a heavy silence over the room. "I know you want to...to get revenge or something, but putting everyone else in danger to do it...I don't like that. I'm sorry, Alec, but it's true and you know it...We don't even know anything about them. There could be hundreds of them, with guns and bombs and trucks...whatever. You really need to think this through."

"I have thought it through, and I know this is the only way," Alec says harshly.

"It isn't. Tora, back me up. Please."

"Uhh..." Tora hesitates. "I kind of agree with him."

Lienne sighs and looks back and forth between all five of them. "So I'm alone on this? That we shouldn't go in and massacre a ton of people?"

Luke raises his hands up defensively and says, "I kinda just got here so..."

"You said it yourself when we let you in. If we needed some capable hands to fight, you'd be for it," Alec reminds him.

"Okay...I did say that. Alright, whatever, man. I'm with you."

"Adam, Billie?" Lienne says, and she silently hopes at least one of them is on her side.

"I'm with Alec. Sorry. She killed almost twenty of us," Billie says. "And she's the reason we don't know where the hell Hiro and Duke even are. The sooner we end it, the better."

Expecting that response, Lienne turns to Adam, who replies with a simple "Sorry, Lienne."

"That's just great," Lienne says, walking to the door. "But if you're gonna do this, try and think of a plan that probably won't get half you killed."

As soon as Roxie releases the infected's leash, it lunges at Hiro, but his reflexes kick in and he pushes it away harshly. He jumps to his feet, ready to fight back against it, and even Roxie, but he ends up face to face with the barrel of the pistol held in Roxie's hand. But with the infected stumbling to its feet again, he has to decide to deal with the psycho with a gun or the corpse ready to devour him.

But he can't choose because Roxie fires two shots into his chest that knock him to the ground. She quickly grabs for the infected’s leash again before it can attack her, and turns it on Hiro, who is now easy fodder. He clutches at his chest as he begins to bleed out and, knowing it’s no use attempting to fight back in this state, he prepares for the feeling of teeth sinking into his flesh. Of being eaten alive.

As soon as Roxie exits the building after her chat with Hiro, Walter and Sterling jog after her, immediately noticing she no longer has the leashed infected in her grasp.

"Didn't crack, did he?" Walter asks.

"Nope. Corpse food now, unfortunately. Send someone to get his body in about...twenty minutes."

“Shit...did you even give him a chance?” Sterling asks.

“Why would I waste my time?”