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to handle.
    “Pied Piper?” Chrysalis said through the minder to Amanda.
    “Pied Piper,” Amanda acknowledged.
    All round the two of them, and up into the stand, was a mixture of zombies, people who had been freed and were sitting around vacantly, and people who had not yet been turned and were frantically trying to get out of the stand, except that all of the aisles were full of zombies and so mostly they were cowering up the back or scrambling across the seats and screaming lots. The problem was that her new resources could not discriminate between the different types of humans or simply destroyed everything in sight.
    One of their new tactics to deal with this issue was Pied Piper. Amanda hurled fireballs flat out, clearing a bigger space than normal around Chrysalis. A significant chunk of the zombies were targeting herself so she turned away from Chrysalis and cut a path through the zombies to the grassy open space in front of the stand. Many of the zombies turned to follow her.
    “Focusing here,” Chrysalis said. This was to warn Amanda that she would now concentrate only on the aliens in front of her so that Amanda was on her own with the zombies that were following her to the grass at the front of the stand.
    “Okay,” Amanda responded.
    Having put some distance between herself and the people who had been freed, or not yet turned, Amanda released the bomb. This was a powerful new resource. A wave of energy pulsed out from her in a circle, disintegrating anything in its path. She could control the distance it travelled from her, and there didn’t seem to be any limit on how far that could be. She stopped it before it reached the stand, a few metres away. About 40 zombies in the circle around her all but turned to ash.
    “Help,” Chrysalis said.
    Amanda flicked her eyes back to Chrysalis. She was surrounded by a tightly packed, seething mass of zombies, pressing in so close that Chrysalis had resorted to clawing at their physical bodies to try and keep them off as well as trying to kill the aliens wrapped around them. Amanda sent a barrage of fireballs, clearing a space around her and then continued the barrage as she fought her way back to help dragon girl.
    When Amanda felt that Chrysalis had the situation under control she said, “Repeat Pied Piper?”
    “Sure,” Chrysalis responded.
    Amanda repeated the tactic again. So far the aliens hadn’t come up with a way to counter this and Amanda hadn’t figured out, in this and other interactions with the aliens, whether they weren’t very bright, or more likely, were being alien and unknowable. It didn’t matter. It was a handy tactic. They kept working the tactic until they felt that the aliens had become distracted from the people still up in the back of the stand who hadn’t yet been turned. Now it was time for another tactic.
    “Cavalry?” Chrysalis said.
    “I’m on it,” Amanda said. She fought her way up the aisles and across the seats to a shocked and terrified group of about 400 people in the top back of the stand.
    “Follow me,” she yelled to them. She cleared a path for them back down the aisle through the zombies and kept it open until those who made it down, ran screaming from the stand. Although it was good to save their lives, it also meant less ammunition for the aliens.
    By now the whole of the Sutherland track was in an uproar. The events on the track had come to an uncertain stop, if only because hundreds of people, desperate to get away from the smaller stand, had climbed the fences and were all over the track.
    A wave of uncertainty went through the main stand. Many of them had been staring open-mouthed at the attack on the smaller stand and to even the most hardened densest monster trucker it was now blindingly obvious that something was seriously amiss.
    When people in the main stand started to turn to zombies, the stand quickly descended into total chaos. Many people died under the crush of feet as people scrambled to get