5 Soup

A metal giant flew along the tracks with a screech that you could hear from miles away. The metal wheels on the tracks caused small metal sparks to light up the night. A faint smokey odor could be smelt in the air and the moon reflected on the metallic glow of the train.

A person too small to be an adult but too tall to be a teenager sat inside of the front of the train. His feet were up and he looked onto a strange pad that he had floating in front of his wrist. Nova had been doing a bit more research into the device and after hours of research and hard work he had found out that... It was in his arm and it wouldn't get out, not that he wanted it out anyway.

That hadn't been the only thing he had done though. Obviously, they couldn't rely on gas masks forever. For one they would need to constantly find canisters for them which would require more space. Luckily if he was to go onto upgrades and clicked the top right a blueprint of the train would come up. Nova could select an air filtration system for a single room which he could increase on the upgrade tree.

Mum took an even more stupefied look. ally operated there was no need to have filtration in the driver's room. He decided to add it to the canteen where most people who would join Nova's train would likely spend most of their time. He could add it to the bedrooms however he could just move the pillows into the canteen.

Nova tapped the canteen on his blueprint and the previously red color the room was filled with slowly filtered out and it lit up in a nice green color. Now that he did all he could Nova moved into the canteen pulled off his mask with one clean stroke.

Mum suddenly began worrying and flailing her arms about. "Don't worry mum, the air here is filtered" Her arms fell down with relief and she pulled off her gas mask. "Don't scare me as that" Nova stared at his mother with an annoyed look. "You do realize the situation we are in right?"

Mum took an even more stupefied look. "Uh let me think, NO, You took me out the house before even explaining what the HELL is going on" Nova took a step back "Yeah" He muttered. Nova stood up straight and began to talk "Basically, when you breathe in a chemical that was exposed to the air you become, well, a zombie"

Mum looked at Nova with a dumbfounded expression "A zombie?" "Yeah". It took a long while of explaining until she finally understood the situation and by the time she understood the train had come to a stop. Nova put on his mask and walked out of the train and grabbed the ladder to climb down them. The train station was oddly deserted and only the whining of the wind could be heard.

A light smell of blood could be smelt in the air and Nova crept around. A door creaked open and a rough beast like grunting could be heard. It sounded like a beast from hell and its snorting matched its grunting all throughout the station.

Nova took cover behind a counter and pulled out his flimsy knife, the heavy steps of the zombie got closer and closer to the counter. Nova could feel its breath over him and as it looked over the counter Nova stood up and pierced the zombie from underneath its jaw. The knife and Nova were too weak to pierce the skull and so he only alerted the zombie of his presence.

The zombie roared with rage and Nova jumped over the hard counter and kicked the zombie-causing it to fall on the ground. Nova took a step back and kicked the zombie's head, again, again and again. Eventually, the zombie stopped moving and not even a squeak could be heard out of him.

On the floor a bloody mess of brain and flesh that was turned into a soup of gore. Nova leaned on the counter and took a quick rest and walked towards the security room. He kicked down the door with one swift motion and started beating up the one zombie inside until it was nothing more than a stain in the floor.

Nova pulled out a baton from the zombie guard's belt and he extended it out. Nova walked down the station and hit his baton against the wall creating a deep thudding sound that echoed around the station. Soon enough three zombies began tumbling down the hallway and Nova walked up to them. They staggered through the hallway and he raised his baton.

He brought it down and one fell to the floor. Nova raised his leg and kicked the other zombie before whacking the last one with the baton again. Nova stood above the zombies and began smacking them with his baton as their heads became one with the ground.

He panted heavily and stood up straight before giving an unlucky corpse a kick. Nova looked around and headed back towards his train. On his arm, the number 5 was shown and the upgrades section had a red outline.

Nova climbed up the trains ladder and entered the canteen while pulling off his mask. He greeted his mum before going to sit in a corner and looking at his upgrades. Nova clicked on the manual turret and a blueprint of the train came up with places he could place the turret. Nova could place them on the sides of the train or on the roof and each carriage had 2 places for turrets.

Nova's train currently had 5 carriages and so he placed one turret in the middle of the train on the 3rd carriage so he could look around the whole train. Nova confirmed his placement and he was kicked out of the blueprint menu, on his arm where it had previously said 5 its turned into a 0.