The Zombie Tournament

Act 18 : Zombie with Guns

 (bam-bam)

“Graaa!”

It is another petrifying roar from the colossal beast in a distance. He was engulfed in dribbles of blood from many unfortunate contestants in its path. Many of them has fought the beast down to capture the prize for themselves. However, most of the small group was nowhere close to the fiend’s neck, and they have their own heads to sacrifice.

(boom!)

A petty vertical jump of the beast could stomp numerous human survivors in more than a hundred meters range. Its four arms are quick enough to punch regular speedster zombies and squashed them to bits. Nearby buildings in his zone of attack are also instantly pulverized by the shockwave.

No wonder, there are no other contender for the colossal beast’s head a moment after. They were afraid of its inevitable outcome, irrespective to the handsome gift that they could achieve.

The colossal zombie’s abilities are never meant to be overlooked. Other than his four-arm brutal strength, one other issues has concerned Tonado’s warrior in the meantime. In an hour of its emergence, Welodge’s central department has been unearthed across the military quadrant of Minopia. Of its latest method for doing so, the beast scanned its surroundings for better cohesion of the city landscape. His beaming laser-eye penetrated layers of earths and submerged underneath.

Indeed, its massive vigor has astounded the city’s Generals and became their pride, yet the colossal zombie’s resolution to make their team as the first victim has made them upset regardless.

For every groups in the game, they always have at least one obscured homebase to manage. That place mainly stamped to be their last domicile if there are none within the four quadrants of the city. The game organizer has permitted such action to be made, considering of how volatile the survival game would be in a week.

(kriek-kriek)

Their homebase’s main engine has running. Its line of soil-crusher on the outside wall of the spa has tunnelled its surroundings to locate a perfect position for a change. A homebase was functioned to break away underground’s earth by its own digging claws in four-ways of a trip. As a result, Its users could drive their entire house by using the control cabin in every rooms to make out of a tight situation quick.

Undeniably, the game architect has built such technology in handful of size to pick. For those small companies in the game, they had invented a tiny ball of compartment for convenient travel. On the opposite, mansion-like homebase are available for purchase, as well.

As for Tonado’s own group, their current 12-players have two of those expensive manor to use. Two others within office and housing quadrants are mostly medium-sized, sufficient for emergency circumstances of their stranded occupants out there.

“I’ve moving the base out from that beast’s reach for the time being. Let’s hope for the best, everyone!”

Juno Rumondor pushed the northern and western lever of the soil-crusher to carry them northwest, while Tony Simmons prepared himself to go outside with Zeno Gunnar to drive the beast away from their house. On the other hand, Tanya Rushdi was obliged to assist their captain in spite of her desire to gaze upon the almighty beast, so she has to be home for awhile.

(pat-pat)

“Gunnar, You wanna bring them out? I’ve finished Deino’s repair, you know.” Juno Rumondor said in his cheerful attitude and playing with his eyebrows a bit,” You can try on Damon’s wristwatch, too, if you wish.”

In return to the offer, Zeno Gunnar indicated his reluctance by a slight shook on his head,“Nah, I’ll pass on that. Maybe Simmons would be perfect for him.”

“Why me?”

“A collector like you could handle a beast properly, right?” The young knight stared deep into Damon’s both eyes, before glancing towards the dumb-founded Tony Simmons of the reason,”I’ll smite him out if that half-blood dares to do something fishy in my control.”

Damon’s red pupils glistened against the quivering light of the mansion. He gazed towards Zeno Gunnar a little bit before continuing to devour a rotten leg on his plate. The caped assassin has understood of the young knight’s anger. It knows for the cause, and rejected himself to bargain on the solution with him at the moment.

Yet, his plate should never be empty, so Damon placed his platter at the front.

“Another?”

----

(zuuu-zuuu-zuuuu)

Tonado’s homebase mansion dropped Zeno Gunnar and Tony Simmons before the front-yard of Minopia’s city hall. It drills into the ground afterwards, parting ways to go for the far-north areas of the government’s quadrant.

(beep-beep)

“Grrrr....”

Deino and Sanna Gunnar bawled a bit to its encircling proximity. Their owner has restrained both of them to follow him out for the search strategy on such humongous beast in their vicinity. The digging speed of Tonado’s mansion has pulled them away from such harm, but its overwhelming stretch of jumps would shorten their distance instantly.

Being the current captain of their mission, Tony Simmons displays of their scribbled-up approach on the wristwatch for review. On the map, Zeno Gunnar could perceive of how close they have been to the colossal zombie. Ten kilometers straight across many public amenities, it says, so it would be difficult for the sluggishly-moving beast to stomp on them in immediate fashion.

Tony Simmons pointed at one of the tallest building on their area. It is located fairly out of bounds for the beast’s powerful jump, while it is positioned in rather-strategic location of the Government’s quadrant, “Right. Let’s go to this building first. We have to gain information of that slouch before doing a heist.”

“Agreed. Do I have to put Sanna on surveillance?”

His captain pressed his finger to the chin, then slightly shook his head in response,“Nah, we have to cling on this together, Gunnar. We don’t know much of him, and I don’t want to lose too much firepower that easy.”

For their current objective, Tony Simmons brings two of his bountiful gunner zombies to the battle. For the first, the beast attained an automatic shotgun to decimate its enemies in close contact. He puts him under the code name of “Lucky-seven” to describe the beast’s spotless positioning and immediate reactions on the battlefield. Whenever he feels threatened, the shotgun zombie will surely be appeared on his stead to save the day, pulverized their enemies by a short-beating of the weapon in its hand.

As to the second, Tony Simmons has applied a long-barrel machine gun to decimate hordes of stray zombies along their way. He called her as “Deva state” due to her adept skills in using such mass-killing weaponry. It could vanish a deformed living dead in fifty-rounds of the shots, and she never missed on counting the bullet anyhow.

(rumble-rumble)

‘Many intruders appeared. Please be advised.’

(beep-beep)

Their automatic detector rings on the upcoming threat from the north. It is quite crowded to be spelled a simple warning on their table. As they put on a stare to the road, it finally showed themselves up front. A wave of metallic-arm zombie were getting close, and they carried none other than their bare  steel-hands to the battle.

“Oh my, Deva state....”

(beep-beep)

‘Roger that.’

(ratatatatatatata)

The female gunner stood before them and aiming towards the metallic zombie’s group. Without much delay, she loaded rounds of long-caliber bullets onto their head, laying waste across them in an instant. In exactly fifty sequences of shots, she could vanquish all of the attackers simultaneously.

‘Reloading.’

Juno Rumondor has installed an adept artificial intelligence on the female zombie’s throat. It makes her capable on speaking in rather-humane way than the common input from their wristwatch does. He had asked Zeno Gunnar for such modification to his zombies, but the young knight responded on the offer by a blatant “no” as an answer.

(grumble-grumble)

The second wave of metallic zombie has arrived. For now, some of them carried the rumored carbine rifle on their hand.

“Oh no! We have to hide!” Tony Simmons yelled, pulling Zeno Gunnar to get out from the metallic zombie’s range of attack.

‘ready to shoot. Please back away, papa.’

(ratatatatatatata)

She unloads her second row of damage to the metallic beast. It goes in the opposite for the rifle-armed living dead, as much, since they put out their rounds to her body at once. As a result, the female gunner zombie has to suffer on many instances of injury across her vest, regardless of many opponents she had devastated beforehand.

‘Self-defense mode initiated.’

Its automated instructions beckoned. Her eyes shows a stint of pink notes on the pupils before spreading through all of them steadily. In such mode, the female gunner zombie replenished her injured parts and restoring them all with a new one in matter of seconds.  

“Really? There’s a pink mode, too?” Zeno Gunnar asked,”How could you have that installed?”

“It’s my experiment with growth hormone. I found that even though they’re deceased, a small deposit of those fluid is still exist within their brain.”

(ratatatata)

The female zombie gunner cleared out the fifty-rounds structure of her weaponry. Every single one of them has been completely outgunned by her machine-gun assault. Its injuries were fully healed after continuous restoration from the growth hormone factor, leaving her with none of such spots upon the skin.

(tap-tap-tap)

After being assured of no other waves left behind, they approached her immediately to check on flaws across her means of assault. Despite “Deva-state” enormous capabilities on self-healing, the weapon would have no way to restore themselves out from scratch or damage.

(pat-pat)

“No bullet hole on the barrel...”

(pat-pat)

“The weapon magazine is unblemished, no further damage on board.” Tony Simmons concluded after peeking at the machine-gun’s trigger,”Now, we can go rendezvous to the next objective.”

Their destination is three blocks away from the city hall. A number of human’s entrails and leftovers of a zombie’s feeding ground were scattered on the road. Zeno Gunnar’s wealthy experience on seeing such agonizing panorama in yesterday’s battle has made him no longer have to puke onwards. He runs beyond them carelessly, even treading on a number of organs without a need to dismiss.