Free Dead Ahead by Grant Park Page B

from the front of the barn which leads to the loading bay, this should leave quite enough space between the undead and ourselves to escape comfortably, but also alert them to the entrance of the complex.
    “Upon our leaving we will activate the fire alarm, though it sounds exactly the same as the alarm Major Michaels uses, which it is in fact, but the alarm used by Michaels is a fire drill , a test alarm, when the fire alarm is truly activated all doors in the complex are opened and locked in the open position. When the soldiers hear this unexpected alarm they will instinctively all head towards the conference room thinking that Michaels has some form of important declaration to make, as he likes to do, and I am sure Michaels and his lap dog will be there too. This will bring all of the unwanted inhabitants of this facility quite safely to the south wing, keeping them a comfortable distance from all of us, who will be in the north of the complex, and the control centre in the east wing.
    As we make our escape, Michaels and the others should still be waiting on our arrival in the conference room, when greeted by a horde of the undead they will make their way out the back of the conference hall to the exit through the farm house above. I am quite confident they have enough fire power and army know how to survive outside, in fact, some of them may quite enjoy it.”
    Throughout everything her father had been saying Cassie had felt the smile bloom across her face, she was more than proud of her father and what seemed to her to be an immeasurable intelligence contained within him. As she was about to express her feelings in a burst of squeals and praise that would no doubt leave her feeling vastly lower in intelligence later in the night, she was cut short.
    “Tada!” shouted Greg from the computer “All done here.” he said raising a small something up in his hand for all to see.
    “Is that it?” asked James the caretaker, “That little doofer is what you’ve been working on all this time?”
    “Is that it? Is that it, he asks! This little ‘doofer’ is a dongle my good man, a memory stick, and it is nothing short of a work of genius on my part might I add. All you have to do is plug this dongle into the mainframe at Sellafield and hit return. Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your auntie, you save the world!”
    “That’s amazing, Greg,” Cassie said as she delicately took it from his open palm, “This little dongle can really do everything we need it to?”
    “Yup, and you don’t need to be so dainty with it neither, its good and hardy, I don’t go buying none of that cheap rubbish you get in Curry’s you know, but don’t go playing football with it or nothing either mind.”
    Cassie handed the dongle to her father and stood from her chair, she paced the room for a moment or two while the others ‘oooh’d’ and ‘aaah’d’ over the dongle and the massive significance surrounding it. She worked through every detail of the plan, it was remarkably simple, the leaving of the complex, slowly she was building more confident that they would truly manage to pull it off.
    She had no idea what to expect when she left though, none of them did, each one of them had been stuck down there since the pandemic had started, they had no idea of the atrocities being performed above their heads, but tomorrow they would find out.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

Chapter
    6
    This Quiet Earth
     
     
    ‘This is where it all begins.’ Frank was stood upon the battlements with his eyes closed, arms outstretched, feeling the cold night air wisp around his ears. The angels had been whispering gently to him all day, slowly building up to this point.
    ‘ This is where it begins.’ Frank slowly allowed his eyes to open to the bright moonlight night, slowly he dropped his vision to look at the thousands of dead, pawing and mewing at the walls of the castle entrance, they had been there for days now, scraping their rotting fingers