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bother you, if I turned on the news? Las Vegas can’t be the only city still affected.”
The idea had merit. I pushed the radio button and spun it until the search function found the next AM radio station. The newswoman’s voice lacked the emotional attachment of the one in Vegas, but this one most likely wasn’t worried about a zombie breaking into her booth and eating chunks of her flesh. “…Spokane and surrounding areas are coming under attack. The local authorities are verifying quarantine plausibility before placing one on the area. If you have somewhere you need to be, I would get there now. Once the sun sets tonight, martial law will spread across the state of Nevada and into southern California. Salt Lake City is considering the addition of the National Guard, but unfortunately no one knows the exact way to stop the attackers.”
Damn, I had told them. I’d given them the exact way to destroy us. Stupid humans couldn’t pull their heads out of their asses long enough to figure out how to save their species.
She continued, irritating me further. “The President of the United States has declared this a state of emergency. He is considering the command to detonate a nuclear warhead over the Las Vegas area as well as any other major metropolis area affected by the attacks.” Nuke? Wow. Pretty serious step. It’d take care of the problem in those immediate areas but not provide much of a resolution. I stored the plan away for a possibility, if Dominic took too much control.
James pointed to the bridge overhead. A group of approximately ten to twenty people held neon colored signs printed with welcome and take me . I’d heard of these freaks – the kind of people who welcomed an alien invasion. I wasn’t an alien, but I was tempted. I rolled my eyes. If they wanted me to come eat their asses, a bright sign might be the one way to market the muscle.
The radio announcer moved on to the National Center of Disease Control’s protocol for the passing of viruses into the community. Yeah, the Center had a survival plan for a Zombie attack, but we weren’t the Hollywood-brain-eating-moaning-stumbling-around-without-ability-to-think-for-ourselves kind. We had twelve weeks to figure out how to die gracefully or we’d end up stuck in our brains while our bodies deteriorated around us. Who knows how long we could exist that way?
I’d never gotten a straight answer from Dominic.
He might not even know.
“Where do you think they are?” James turned on the headlights. Dusk would fall in minutes and my brother was anal about safety. So annoying.
“I don’t know. It’s been about an hour since her call. They can’t be that far ahead of us. Brian wouldn’t speed because he’d draw more attention to himself than he wants.” Just like us. Oh, wait, we weren’t speeding because my brother, Anus McMasters, couldn’t get his ass to driver faster than one mile over the speed limit. Add another reason to why my sanity continued trying to jump out the window.
James turned the heat up. “I haven’t been this cold since we drove up. If I wasn’t in this car with heat, there is no way I’d come up here. No matter what Dominic pulled with my head.” He held his hand in front of the vent. “Did you see the way Travis just shut down when he’d been in the cold for a few minutes? I couldn’t believe it. But I’ve been there. I understand. I feel like a lizard or a dinosaur.”
“Dinosaurs are extinct, James.” Note to self, James didn’t know how to shut up. Figure out a way to shut him up without hurting him.
“I know. I’m just saying the whole cold-blooded thing makes sense. Your metabolism skyrockets until you hold completely still and try to make your systems more efficient. When I was shot? It was all I could do not to scream with the biting cold. But I withdrew, didn’t want to move or think. I actually felt like I was freezing.” He passed a pale blue car cautiously.
I would’ve passed the
The idea had merit. I pushed the radio button and spun it until the search function found the next AM radio station. The newswoman’s voice lacked the emotional attachment of the one in Vegas, but this one most likely wasn’t worried about a zombie breaking into her booth and eating chunks of her flesh. “…Spokane and surrounding areas are coming under attack. The local authorities are verifying quarantine plausibility before placing one on the area. If you have somewhere you need to be, I would get there now. Once the sun sets tonight, martial law will spread across the state of Nevada and into southern California. Salt Lake City is considering the addition of the National Guard, but unfortunately no one knows the exact way to stop the attackers.”
Damn, I had told them. I’d given them the exact way to destroy us. Stupid humans couldn’t pull their heads out of their asses long enough to figure out how to save their species.
She continued, irritating me further. “The President of the United States has declared this a state of emergency. He is considering the command to detonate a nuclear warhead over the Las Vegas area as well as any other major metropolis area affected by the attacks.” Nuke? Wow. Pretty serious step. It’d take care of the problem in those immediate areas but not provide much of a resolution. I stored the plan away for a possibility, if Dominic took too much control.
James pointed to the bridge overhead. A group of approximately ten to twenty people held neon colored signs printed with welcome and take me . I’d heard of these freaks – the kind of people who welcomed an alien invasion. I wasn’t an alien, but I was tempted. I rolled my eyes. If they wanted me to come eat their asses, a bright sign might be the one way to market the muscle.
The radio announcer moved on to the National Center of Disease Control’s protocol for the passing of viruses into the community. Yeah, the Center had a survival plan for a Zombie attack, but we weren’t the Hollywood-brain-eating-moaning-stumbling-around-without-ability-to-think-for-ourselves kind. We had twelve weeks to figure out how to die gracefully or we’d end up stuck in our brains while our bodies deteriorated around us. Who knows how long we could exist that way?
I’d never gotten a straight answer from Dominic.
He might not even know.
“Where do you think they are?” James turned on the headlights. Dusk would fall in minutes and my brother was anal about safety. So annoying.
“I don’t know. It’s been about an hour since her call. They can’t be that far ahead of us. Brian wouldn’t speed because he’d draw more attention to himself than he wants.” Just like us. Oh, wait, we weren’t speeding because my brother, Anus McMasters, couldn’t get his ass to driver faster than one mile over the speed limit. Add another reason to why my sanity continued trying to jump out the window.
James turned the heat up. “I haven’t been this cold since we drove up. If I wasn’t in this car with heat, there is no way I’d come up here. No matter what Dominic pulled with my head.” He held his hand in front of the vent. “Did you see the way Travis just shut down when he’d been in the cold for a few minutes? I couldn’t believe it. But I’ve been there. I understand. I feel like a lizard or a dinosaur.”
“Dinosaurs are extinct, James.” Note to self, James didn’t know how to shut up. Figure out a way to shut him up without hurting him.
“I know. I’m just saying the whole cold-blooded thing makes sense. Your metabolism skyrockets until you hold completely still and try to make your systems more efficient. When I was shot? It was all I could do not to scream with the biting cold. But I withdrew, didn’t want to move or think. I actually felt like I was freezing.” He passed a pale blue car cautiously.
I would’ve passed the
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