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more zombies to our right and on high ground above us.  Mike started shooting at them.
                "What are you doing?"
                "Killing zombies."
                "Stop it."  I gave him an angry look.  "Only shoot the ones that threaten us.  Don't waste ammo.  Ya'll have to understand we cannot waste ammo."
                "Calm down.  We're good," Charlie said.
                "Dude, you're kind of bossy," Mike said, but with a grin.
                I shrugged.  "Staff Sergeant.  That's part of the job description.  Besides, you know I'm right about saving ammo."
                All I saw was how much ammo we'd already expended, and we were barely into the trip.  I'd checked the distance before the EMPs knocked everything out.  It was about fourteen hundred miles, and that was a pretty straight shot.  I doubted we'd be so lucky.  We'd have to take a more roundabout route to avoid major cities and their zombie hordes.  The Google map showed it was about a 20 hour drive, too.  In my dreams.
                I looked in my rearview mirror.  Four Humvees still followed me.
                "Do you think the others will follow us all the way to Georgia?" I asked.
                Gunfire erupted again.  We were being fired upon.
                "What the fuck?" Mike screamed, ducking.
                At first I thought it was one of the other Humvees shooting at us.  It took a moment to realize the shots were coming from higher ground.  It was still dark, so the attackers' tracers helped us locate them.
                All five vehicles opened up on them.  I clenched my jaw and accelerated, trying to get away as fast as possible.  I didn't want to fight other soldiers.  They weren't really bad guys.  We were the deserters, and it didn't matter to anyone but us why we were deserting.
                "Damn, I hate being a deserter," I growled, face super hot.
                "You aren't," Mike said.  He took a few more shots, then sat back down to change magazines.  "None of us were sworn back into the Army.  We're all still civilians in my book."
                I hadn't thought of that.  I liked it, but I didn't think the Army would agree.
                Boom!
                The Humvee behind use blew up.
                "What the hell are they shooting up there?" Charlie asked.
                Suddenly, more zombies were on the road.  I ran over two, and another jumped on the hood.  He grabbed the dead one from earlier, and ended up dragging the corpse off when I swerved around a corner.
                "Shit!" Charlie screamed.
                Rounds hit all around me.  It took a second to realize it was Charlie trying to kill a zombie that jumped into the Humvee.  He was using the SAW.  Mike grabbed the zombie in a headlock, pulled his pistol, and blew its brains out.
                The road took us to another rise.  I hit the brakes so we could check out the situation behind us.  Three Humvees were stuck behind the destroyed one.  The guys in them were charging up the hill.  The soldiers up there must've ran out of ammo, because their weapons went silent a moment before they bugged out.
                "Let's get out of here," Mike said.
                From our position, I could see for miles and miles.  The eastern horizon was getting brighter.  It was early morning twilight.  In the distance I saw fires and columns of smoke.  It looked like a war zone.  Then I spotted three Apache helicopters firing on a convoy.  It was impossible to miss in the dark.
                The US Army was killing US citizens trying to escape the zombies.
                Technically, that was also the 110th Infantry Brigade's mission.  The military was ordered to keep everyone,