Zombie Rush 2

by Hansen, Joseph

  “Hi, I’m Kodiak.”

  “Lisa Reynolds, Hot Springs PD. Kodiak, huh? Is that your real name?”

  “Real enough for the world we are now in. I figure if I could die at any given moment, I’m at least going to be called what I want to be called. You look familiar,” she said to Skit, who was still working on Lisa, trying to pull the skin so the guardsman could get a stitch in her side.

  “Oh, hey, you worked at Bernie’s, right? I was a great admirer of your work there.”

  “Oh yeah, I remember. I quit Bernie’s over a year ago and was dancing at the Emporium ever since.”

  “Dancer? You were an exotic dancer?” Lisa asked, trying not to show how stereotypically she had typecast dancers.

  “Still am—or would be if we figure out what replaces cash. Canned goods won’t fit into a garter, if you know what I mean,” Kodiak said in an obvious attempt at a joke.

  “We could use you all in Hot Springs when we are done with this run to Little Rock.”

  “Hot Springs! What the hell am I gonna do in Hot Springs or Little Rock?” Solomon interrupted. “We fought for this and we’re staying here.”

  “Sorry, not gonna happen. We’re trying to hang on to what’s left of society, and I need you with me,” Lisa said. Instead of reciting her typical mantra, she approached it more casually. “I know you have been out of the loop for a while, so we’ll let some things slide but you all have just been brought under the protection of the US Military.”

  “Military? But you’re just a cop who’s trapped here just like us,” Solomon replied, knowing that they didn’t have enough soldiers to break free of the zombies that now surrounded them.

  “Only until morning, my friend. Then we’ll clear out this field and be on our way. I’m grateful that you brought most of the zombies from Benton out here to a nice, open area where we can take care of them. The recovery effort is going to require the assistance of everyone who has survived. We might leave a few here to guard whatever is here, but for the most part, you have all been drafted into the service. Welcome to the Army,” Lisa said and waited for the backlash. None came and everyone just stared at her, stunned by her words. Her radio came to life.

  “Reynolds, what’s your twenty?” Krupp’s voice came through the speaker.

  “We are inside the acclimatized security storage center. The gang of marauders turned out to be most of the surviving populace of Benton, and the non-surviving populace has us surrounded. Over.”

  “Are you safe for twelve? Over.”

  “Roger that. We’ll get everyone out of sight, and the Z’s should calm down for the night. Over.”

  “We lost a few taking over the National Guard Armory. Any potential fighters in the group of survivors you found? Over.”

  “We lost two of Tim’s men too. Affirmative on the fighters. They have been beating them to death with clubs up to this point, so it will be a nice change for them to get a new M4 to replace their Louisville’s. Do you have some showers and a chow line set they can use? Over.”

  “Yeah, we have a couple at the armory and more in the housing development. You should have enough rations with you to get through the night. Over.”

  “Roger that. I’ll touch base at O six hundred. Out.”

  “Out.”

  She stowed the radio away and looked back to Kodiak and Solomon. She could tell that the mention of a shower had her salivating, but Solomon not so much.

  “You can’t just come in here telling us what to do!” Solomon yelled, causing Lisa to put a hand up and turn her head to the side for a second before answering.

  “Whoa, Dean. You’re going to have to stand a little bit closer to a toothbrush before you get in my face like that again, I mean … seriously.”

  Solomon stepped back, amazed by her casual, cocky nature and looked at Kodiak.

  “She’s kind of right, Dean. I mean, we all are in need of some hygiene, but those garlic-stuffed olives you hoarded are not going to win you any close friends, if you know what I mean,” Kodiak said, much to Lisa’s delight.

  “Seriously, Dean. I would love to explain things to you in detail when we have time and can tolerate each other’s fragrance. We have some inside info that has let us know that this is more than just your state or country needing you. This is humanity itself who needs you. To our knowledge, you can go two states in any direction and we in Hot Springs are the only sizable force of survivors. I can’t let you go. If you’re not with us, then you are against us. You can guess what happens then, can’t you?” Lisa held his eye the whole time. She never wavered or showed self-doubt, she couldn’t afford to.

  “That’s not right!” Solomon couldn’t help but shout.

  “No, it isn’t. Nothing is right; it’s all very, very wrong, and I hate myself for being this way, but I have no choice.” Lisa stood and pulled the Rhino out of its holster and pointed it right at Dean’s head. “Make your decision, Dean. I don’t have all night.

  Rustling to the side caught her attention, and Lisa found herself staring into the sawed off barrels of an over/under twelve-gauge shotgun. Dean started to laugh loudly.

  “Have you met my son, Charlie?” he asked. “You’re a good son, Charlie, I appreciate that. Stand down now though, son. We’re going to hook up with them for a bit.”

  Kodiak smiled and Charlie lowered his shotgun.

  “Well played, kid. I mean that … good job with everything you did today,” Lisa said with a smile. “Now let’s go find that guard and see what we have here in this facility …”

  Thank you for taking the time to read Zombie Rush. I am almost done with ZR3 and hope to have it out in January 2016. If you want more of this story, you can go to my H.J. Harry alter ego and pick up Splinter. Splinter is where this all started and it is also where it will all end if there is such a thing as an ending.

  I would like to contact you on a regular basis when I or my friends are releasing new work so if you could join my email mailing list I would greatly appreciate it zombierushjoe@gmail.com I always find some way to make it worth your while and if you haven’t read Splinter yet I will send you a free e copy for joining. I never sell or give away your email address and treat it with the strictest confidentiality.

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  About the author:

  Not much to say really. I am a guy who goes to work every day and has been married to an incredible woman for over thirty years and has always had a passion for the written word. I love to fish and shoot guns as well as work with wood and build things. I was a certified Architectural Technologist but would have gone insane working in an office so I sacrificed the good pay for work that would keep me outside as much as possible. If you wish to know more about me, join me on Facebook at hjharry@facebook.com . Until we meet again, thanks for reading as much as you are possibly able to and if you read something really good by another author I want to know about it. Friends always recommend the best books.

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  Here you will find some incredible indie authors who have worked very hard to put out the best product they possibly could. I have read them all and suggest that you do too.

  W.J. Lundy: is not only one of my favorite authors of all time but he is one of my favorite people. His Whiskey Tango Foxtrot series is second to none and written from the heart for his own personal reasons. His new series Darkness is also absolutely brilliant. Here is the link to his fan page.

  http://www.amazon.com/W.-J.-Lundy/e/B00BW2DMGO

  Darren Wearmouth who is a retired soldier from the British army also has some brilliant skills as an author. He has teamed up with a friend of mine named Carl Sinclair to bring you Sixth Cycle. A futuristic dystopian story set in the North American Mi
dwest. Darren has several titles for you to check out and Carl will be having his own available soon. Here is the link to Sixth Cycle.

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  Owen Baillie is someone else I think that you should give a read to. He is a great guy in spite of all of the blood rushing to his head from living down under. His series is brilliant and one of the first that I read in this genre. It got me hooked. His series is called the invasion of the dead and consists of three books at this point, you can find it here.

  http://www.amazon.com/Owen-Baillie/e/B00CW1BIJ2

  Allen Gamboa is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and he has two fun zombie novels out now. Dead Island and Dead Island Dos. Give them a try I don’t think that you will be disappointed.

  http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Gamboa/e/B00NRIEH3S

  Michael Robertson, I don’t know anyone who works harder at writing than he does and he has helped me on numerous occasions. There is no one on this planet that can destroy London better than he can. His Crash series had me hooked and then he came out with Alpha Plague, I am a friend and fan to several of my favorite authors and Michael is definitely one of them.

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  SIXTH CYCLE

  Nuclear war has destroyed human civilization.

  Captain Jake Phillips wakes into a dangerous new world, where he finds the remaining fragments of the population living in a series of strongholds, connected across the country. Uneasy alliances have maintained their safety, but things are about to change. -- Discovery leads to danger. -- Skye Reed, a tracker from the Omega stronghold, uncovers a threat that could spell the end for their fragile society. With friends and enemies revealing truths about the past, she will need to decide who to trust. -- Sixth Cycle is a gritty post-apocalyptic story of survival and adventure.

  Darren Wearmouth ~ Carl Sinclair

  DEAD ISLAND: Operation Zulu

  Ten years after the world was nearly brought to its knees by a zombie Armageddon, there is a race for the antidote! On a remote Caribbean island, surrounded by a horde of hungry living dead, a team of American and Australian commandos must rescue the Antidotes' scientist. Filled with zombies, guns, Russian bad guys, shady government types, serial killers and elevator muzak. Dead Island is an action packed blood soaked horror adventure.

  Allen Gamboa

  INVASION OF THE DEAD SERIES

  This is the first book in a series of nine, about an ordinary bunch of friends, and their plight to survive an apocalypse in Australia. -- Deep beneath defense headquarters in the Australian Capital Territory, the last ranking Army chief and a brilliant scientist struggle with answers to the collapse of the world, and the aftermath of an unprecedented virus. Is it a natural mutation, or does the infection contain -- more sinister roots? -- One hundred and fifty miles away, five friends returning from a month-long camping trip slowly discover that death has swept through the country. What greets them in a gradual revelation is an enemy beyond compare. -- Armed with dwindling ammunition, the friends must overcome their disagreements, utilize their individual skills, and face unimaginable horrors as they battle to reach their hometown...

  Owen Ballie

  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

  Alone in a foreign land. The radio goes quiet while on convoy in Afghanistan, a lost patrol alone in the desert. With his unit and his home base destroyed, Staff Sergeant Brad Thompson suddenly finds himself isolated and in command of a small group of men trying to survive in the Afghan wasteland. Every turn leads to danger

  The local population has been afflicted with an illness that turns them into rabid animals. They pursue him and his men at every corner and stop. Struggling to hold his team together and unite survivors, he must fight and evade his way to safety. A fast paced zombie war story like no other.

  W.J. Lundy

  ZOMBIE RUSH

  New to the Hot Springs PD Lisa Reynolds was not all that welcomed by her coworkers especially those who were passed over for the position. It didn’t matter, her thirty days probation ended on the same day of the Z-poc’s arrival. Overnight the world goes from bad to worse as thousands die in the initial onslaught. National Guard and regular military unit deployed the day before to the north leaves the city in mayhem. All directions lead to death until one unlikely candidate steps forward with a plan. A plan that became an avalanche raging down the mountain culminating in the salvation or destruction of them all.

  Joseph Hansen

  THE ALPHA PLAGUE

  Rhys is an average guy who works an average job in Summit City—a purpose built government complex on the outskirts of London. The Alpha Tower stands in the centre of the city. An enigma, nobody knows what happens behind its dark glass. Rhys is about to find out. At ground zero and with chaos spilling out into the street, Rhys has the slightest of head starts. If he can remain ahead of the pandemonium, then maybe he can get to his loved ones before the plague does. The Alpha Plague is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller.

  Michael Robertson

  THE GATHERING HORDE

  The most ambitious terrorist plot ever undertaken is about to be put into motion, releasing an unstoppable force against humanity. Ordinary people – A group of students celebrating the end of the semester, suburban and rural families – are about to themselves in the center of something that threatens the survival of the human species. As they battle the dead – and the living – it’s going to take every bit of skill, knowledge and luck for them to survive in Zed’s World.

  Rich Baker

  THE FORGOTTEN LAND

  Sergeant Steve Golburn, an Australian Special Air Service veteran, is tasked with a dangerous mission in Iraq, deep behind enemy lines. When Steve’s five man SAS patrol inadvertently spark a time portal, they find themselves in 10th century Viking Denmark. A place far more dangerous and lawless than modern Iraq. Join the SAS patrol on this action adventure into the depths of not only a hostile land, far away from the support of the Allied front line, but into another world…another time.

  Keith McArdle