Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

I opened the gate and I drew my katana. With a simple flick of the wrist, I started to dispose of them one by one. Part of their heads plopped on the pavement when I slashed towards them. When it was the last zombie, I had a thought. Instead of killing it immediately, I placed it in the middle of the street. Its eyes were going wild when it scanned around everyone present.     

"Hey bro, what are you doing with it?" Nicole asked.     

"Just had an idea. Jared, cover me yeah?" I said as I let it face the truck and it was now looking at them while its eye twitches when scanning each one but it stopped on the nearest one.     

"Weird..." Lois said.     

"Good naming them sentries bro. It's like the statues on the main quest of what you're playing before." Jared said.     

"Unc, can you stand about 15 feet in front of it? Keep the shield up though." I said as I went the other way.     

"What are we doing?" Unc Zardon asked.     

"Wait a moment, I'll attract a few." I said.     

I came back after a few moments with five deadheads following from behind. I started going diagonally and I avoided the sentry's line of sight but I'm far closer to it than my uncle. When the zombies got a few feet near the sentry, it happened.     

"Woah." my uncle said.     

I was 8-10 feet from the sentry but the zombies approaching me suddenly took a detour and then they started on straddling towards my uncle. I slowly sidestepped to get to the line of sight of the sentry and then its eyes split up between me and my uncle. The zombies coming from the back were now splitting between us. When I went back to its blind spot, its eyes went back to my uncle but the zombies that split up still went after me while the last zombie I attracted went to my uncle.     

"This is vital information. Should definitely tell this to everyone. Well, this is just partial information, not the whole scope of what it could do. I can't even explain the exact distance its abilities could affect the others." I thought to myself.     

I brandished my katana and got rid of the ones I attracted while my group did the same on their end. The group was just looking at me and then I sliced the head off of the sentry cleanly.     

The blade entered its neck.     

It exited like it was butter.     

The head fell to the ground but its eyes were still staring at me. I wrapped the head in cloth and I placed it in the truck.     

"We're taking that?!" Nicole exclaimed.     

"Yeah, this is something we might have a use in the compound. We might need to find an aquarium or a jar. Too bad I've killed the other six. This is something really vital, let's get everything from this place first and we check a few of the houses near here before we go back. We took a lot of time here since the house is too big." I replied but they have a mix of seriousness and worry in their expressions.     

We started hauling the supplies inside while I went back to the 3rd floor to get the revolver and the box of .357 rounds. After that, I went to the other room where they came from and I inspected the place. This seemed to be the master bedroom and it was similar to the rooms on the second floor but bigger. I checked for any hidden doors but I found nothing. There were a lot of fancy clothes and jewelry here but there was not much gear we could use for zombies.     

"She must've taken the important ones. Where did she go then?" I thought to myself.     

Aside from the essentials, I took the electronic gadgets from their rooms. Rummaging the nightstand in the master bedroom, I found a bag of Marijuana with an empty medicine container.     

"This does not look prescribed by a doctor. Wait, this bottle for sleeping pills, overdosed?" I thought to myself.     

I remembered the seven figures earlier and one of them didn't have any bite marks.     

"Did the last one overdosed on this? Why is Karen the only one left alive?" I thought to myself.     

I just placed the bag of Marijuana on my bag and figured I might have use for them later on for trading or any medical issue. There was also another wine rack here with more bottles than in the kitchen and they were much more expensive. I also checked each bathroom for any pills or any other things I might find. In one of the cabinets in the bathrooms, I found a very... phallic object. I left it alone and I shook my head.     

"That thing could be used as a bludgeoning weapon. It's like a Barbarian with Brutal Critical if it hits you. Well, if that makes you happy... I'm not gonna bring that home though." I said to myself.     

We finished loading the truck and the head was placed carefully in a corner. Half of the truck was full so we went inside a few more houses near it. Surprisingly, one of them had a few solar panels installed and we unhooked them with the inverters and the battery for our compound. We grabbed a few containers for the gas at home and 20 empty ones filled the rest of the truck along with a few essentials that we found from the other houses.     

There were still more zombies past the gas station since it was in the highway. In this place, we would encounter 7-9 zombies every time we make a stop and we were not even using our firearms. We would only need to kite them in a proper line before we would start dispatching them. After that, a few trickles would pop out randomly depending on the noise that we made.     

We headed back and we saw that there were a few new people inside the fence and a few of them were familiar faces. A guy saw me and he smiled and waved at me but I disregarded him.     

"Where's Kaley and the rest?" I asked Allan on top of the catwalk.     

"Oh, they're making one more trip before they take a rest. Oscar told the people below to stay at the fence here first and wait for you. They might be back in a few minutes though." Allan replied.     

"Sky! Sky! Dude! My Man! Remember me?! It's me! It's me!" one of them shouted. It was a guy wearing ragged clothing but had an expensive watch on his wrist. He had gold teeth and had an air of arrogance surrounding him.     

"The fuck is this guy doing here? Out of all the people that stayed at their homes, this guy actually survived?" I thought to myself.     

"Hey man! Hey!" the guy shouted.     

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" I bellowed.     

The man stopped calling me and the few were taken aback.     

"You know that guy Sky? He keeps on saying that you were bros, he never stopped talking since he got here." Allan said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.     

"I know that guy but we're not close." I replied.     

"C'mon man! We've known each other for years I-" he looked at the fence and he stopped.     

Kaley and the group came back and her eyes brightened when she saw us back. I waved at her and she waved back at me. I jumped down the truck and opened the first fence for them.     

*roll* *roll* *roll* *roll* *roll*     

I checked her body for any signs of scars or wounds. I even checked the magazine of her AR-15 and her CZ P-09 if it was used but it wasn't.     

"Hey, it's embarrassing, stop doing that here! We never fired a shot; we just used our melee weapons and I killed a few using your wakizashi." Kaley said with a proud look.     

We approached the group they found and I looked at each one of them. There were seven of them all in all and they were looking at me with varying expressions. However, the guy shouting at me earlier had the same bullshit expression as always.     

"Hey! Hey! Hey! C'mon man! Talk to me! I-" he tried to get my attention.     

"You checked them for weapons?" I asked Tatiana.     

"Yeah, we did. I found 2 pistols from the woman there with a cap, her name is Aubrey and she complied in surrendering them to us. The others have nothing on them and we let them all in after Kaley talked with them." Tatiana reported.     

"That's good. Hey Anthony, good to see your family here." I turned to a guy with a large forehead carrying his daughter with his wife by his side.     

"Huh? You know me?" he replied.     

I laughed and said, "Anthony Del Mundo, we're classmates in the elementary school here. We used to play online games every afternoon after school. Remember Gunbound X?"     

"Hold on, wait he doesn't look like you at all. Are you... Sky?" he said with a confused expression.     

His eyebrows were scrunched at first then it shot up in realization.     

"What's up man?" I said then he gave his daughter to his wife then he gave me a handshake.     

"Holy shit man. Is that really you? Didn't even recognize you!" he exclaimed.     

"Well, it's been 2 decades more or less and I haven't been attending our reunions. Is this all of you?" I asked.     

"Yeah, we decided to hole up in my house. This is my wife Laura, my daughter Bailey, my cousin Benjie, and my dad Roy." Anthony introduced some of the group.     

I looked at the other two and they introduced themselves as well. The other female was Aubrey, she was the person with the pistols earlier, she was a security guard at a bank. The last one… the last one was an asshole; his name was Diego.