Free Z-Burbia 7: Sisters of the Apocalypse by Jake Bible Page B

coming?"
    "What?" Froggy Girl asks. "I don't know."
    "How many Doyles are there?" Audrey snaps, her rifle pointed at Froggy Girl.
    "Lots," Froggy Girl says. "More than I can count. There's always Doyles around. Can't ever get away from the Doyles."
    "Fucking useless," Audrey says.
    I think she's gonna shoot Froggy Girl, but she lowers her rifle and looks over at the rest of us.
    "We gonna leave her here?" Audrey asks.
    "Please don't!" Froggy Girl says. "You killed all the Inezes! If you leave me—!"
    "Shut up!" Audrey shouts. "I'm not talking about you!"
    I stop what I'm doing, which is stabbing Doyles in the brains. Just in case, you know. I look at the other sisters then we all look up at the ceiling. Up at Steph.
    "If there are a ton more Doyles then her body will only slow us down," Marcie says.
    "But it's Steph," Antoinette says.
    "It's Steph," I say.
    "It's Steph," Marcie agrees and nods at Audrey.
    "Antoinette? You and Marcie go up and get her. Take the kid along," Audrey says.
    She's taken over for Steph. None of us argue because it's how things work for us. One falls and another steps up. No questions. No egos. We ain't dumb guys. We don't measure dicks and puff up our chests. Shit needs to be done so shit gets done. Audrey is getting shit done.
    "El? You're with me," Audrey says. "We make sure these Doyles stay down and cover the ways in and out of this floor."
    Antoinette, Marcie, and a reluctant Froggy Girl, head back upstairs to get Steph's body as I continue stabbing the shit out of some Doyle skulls. Audrey falls in behind me.
    "I don't like the idea of going back down into that tunnel," Audrey says.
    I look up at her after jamming my blade through a Doyle's left eye and nod.
    "They're waiting," I say and tap my nose. "I can feel it."
    "Me too," Audrey says, her eyes locked onto the hallway that leads to the basement door. "We step one foot through there and they'll tear us apart."
    "Maybe not," I say and point my blade at the bodies around us. "We're pretty good at tearing too."
    "They'll have position and I'm guessing they'll have numbers," Audrey says.
    "One way to find out," I say and smile. It's my Elsbeth Has Gone Crazy smile.
    "El, no," Audrey says as I start walking down the hallway. "El!"
    "Just gonna have a looksee," I reply and put fresh magazines in my .45s. "Not gonna start anything, just a little looksee."
    "Shit," Audrey growls and follows me.
    We get to the basement door and listen, each of us on one side of the door. No way we're putting our ears right to the door. That's how dumbasses get shot. Make too much noise and anyone on the other side starts in with the bang bang bang.
    Audrey frowns at me and shakes her head. I don't hear shit either. I tap the butt of one of my .45s against the door and we both cringe back, ducking and covering our heads, ready for the bang bang bang. Nothing happens.
    My turn to frown and shake my head. I reach for the doorknob, but Audrey grunts and I pull my hand back. She smacks the door as hard as she can with the butt of her rifle.
    Oh, here comes the bang bang bang.
    The door is shredded by automatic gunfire. Shredded. Shred. Ed.
    We run.
    The door is nothing but splinters behind us and we sprint into the lobby, getting around the corner as fast as possible as the bullets coming through the door keep on flying and tear up the hallway. I start picking up as many weapons as possible and piling them next to me as Audrey drags bodies to the head of the hallway, tossing them on top of each other like a dead flesh barricade.
    A bullet whizzes past her and she cries out. Not in pain, but in rage. Audrey can get really pissed off if she wants to. It looks like she wants to.
    The door to the stairwell opens and we glance over to see Antoinette giving us a What The Fuck Is Going On look.
    "We knocked!" I shout at her over the gunfire. "I think they are coming in!"
    She hits the ground and drags Steph's body out of the stairwell with Marcie and Froggy Girl on the ground