And now that the toxic chick is out of the WAY....

ANOTHER DAY IN THE LORD OF THE DEAD.

THE 14TH DAY

SATURDAY

6TH OF FEBUARY

DAYS IN GAME: 12

Tyler woke the next morning alone in hs bed. He got out of bed and walked out of the room to find Angel asleep on her back in her bed with her blanket around her thighs with a lovely view of her body. He smiled as he pulled it back up over her and she smiled.

"And I FUCKING adore this too."

"Mornin Angel."

"Mornin Gore."

Kora was sitting up in his bunk too.

"Morning. I guess."

They chuckled and Tyler went to the cab, Kora the kitchen, and Angel her gun. The friends had breakfast together and did their morning interview before they got moving. Tyler looked at the gas gauge.

"3 quarters of the first tank. Alright. Shes lighter on fuel an I feared."

Angel was running a file over her fingernails as she looked at him.

"What'd you use in the beta, Gore?"

"A long nose V16 chopper."

"Why'd I even bother? Ghost rider?"

"Just minus the flames."

"Niiiice."

Kora chuckled as he cleaned his Krag.

"And as for fucking usual it just fits you, Gore."

"I work at it."

"Ha."

The friends rolled along the road at a steady speed of 25 miles an hour and Tyler smiled as the town came into view in the distance.

"Sack up. Town in sight."

The two riders loaded guns and pulled pants on as tyler brought speed from 25 to 10 miles fr a cautious approach. Tyler had the RV rolling up the center of the road as he entered the city and nearly instantly he noted something.

"eyes wide you two. There's players in here."

His keen and experienced eye had spotted shell casing in the dozen littering the ground with piles of dead zombies here and there. Tyler slowed the RV even more as he looked at the carnage.

"Noobs with guns and plenty of ammo. Hey Angel, think you can snag me a few shell casings?"

"On it."

Kora had his Greweher at the ready as the blonde retreived a handful of shells. Tyler took one look at the .45 ACP rounds,

"Someone with a thompson. I'd peg the model as the M1928. or Gangster model."

Kora whistled.

"That thing is an icon."

"I want one."

Tyler chuckled at that as he looked at the casings.

"Thompson's solid, Angel. And a damn good gun. Even IF that recoil is fucking mean."

The friends kept careful watch as they rolled the RV through the town and Tyler noted the casings and bodies of zombies thinned out after a bit and as they rolled along a line of houses, he noted a curtain move.

"Movement second floor red house."

"Got em, Boss. What do we do?"

Tyler stopped the RV.

"Kora on the V, Angel an I'll see what's up."

"I hate how you said that."

"I do too. But sure."

Tyler loaded the 8 shell M1014 shotgun and Angel put a magazine in the MP5K with a powerslap.

"Awesome."

"Ha."

He pumped his shotgun with one hand and a smirk.

"Let's knock."

Kora and Angel whistled.

"HeLLLO mister badass."

"What he said."

"Thanks i work at it."

The duo left the RV and Tyler had the long shotgun at the ready as he looked at he large house.

"Hm. well it's not a victorian."

Angel chuckled as they went for the front door.

"HOPEFULLY there's no sallys in there."

"I for one don't want to find another clicker."

"UGH those SUCK."

"Testify."

"I am so glad you stopped there."

"Be kinda weird calling the girl I like sleeping with sister."

"VERY weird. And also NO."

"Yes Angel."

"GOOD boy,"

He chuckled as he reached the front door and she opened it. he swung the gun in on a pivot and she went the oppositte direction. The house had a single stairway leading up and Tyler smiled as he took it and Angel followed.

"I never get tired a this."

"KInda feels like we're action stars."

"Only with a hotter blonde."

"Damn fucking right."

He chuckled at that as they went up the stairs guns first. The survivor had the tac light on his gun and he smirked as the light engulfed the entire hall.

"Cool bit is we can change the lights om these for different colors."

Angel smirked as she watched their rear.

"I want-"

"Hot pink?"

"I will shoot you in the ASS. I WANT A BLACKLIGHT."

"As COOL as that would BE, Angel? Blood glows under a blacklight."

"So?"

"Think about the type a game we're in. You walk into some places....you'd light it up like a disco."

"EEEEEK."

"Yeah. And not to mention the OTHER bodily fluids highlighted by a blacklight."

"EEEEEW. Okay. NOW I regret my choice. YOUR choice?"

"Either blue or red."

"Classics."

Tyler chuckled at that one as he reached the last door along the hallway.

"This is the master."

"Set."

He turned the knob and shoved it open. They were faced by a lavish master bedroom with a canopy bed and large closet door that was shut but the window was wide open. Tyler chuckled as he saw this.

"They're in the closet."

"Uh-huh."

Tyler looked at the door to said closet as Angel closed te door.

"Look. we're no Pkers. Come on out."

There was a low gasp from the closet and Tyler smiled.

"Come on out. We wanted to you'd be dead already."

The sliding door was cracked open a smidge and someone peeked out and Tyler waved.

"Hiya! Mind comin outta the closet?"

Angel sighed.

"seriously?"

"If ONLY Kora had been here."

"FUCK YOU GORE."

The friends laughed at the far off voice of their friend. The closet door opened more and a girl poked her head out.

"Gore? LIke...GoreLEECH?"

Tyler waved.

"In the MESS!"

The girl gasped and the door was pushed open to revea another beauty. She was a head shorter then Tyler with ankle length hair the color of chocolate while her skin was lightly browned. her eyes were bright green and had a slight slant to them that added an exotic look to her face. Her bust was large in her pink blouse while her frame over all was slender. She had capri jeans on with sneakers on her feet as she looked at Goreleech in shock. Her voice a soft, airy soprano.

"Goreleech? LIke THE Goreleech? The one that's supposed to be unkillable and the legend of the betabase?"

"Yup. Nice to meetchya."

The girl had stars appear in her green eyes and she looked to the closet.

"Ben. GORELEECH is RIGHT THERE!"

Another shape came out now and this time it was a guy. He stood at 6 feet tall even with the same green eyes and brown skin as the girl while his hair was dirty blonde. His frame was muscular like he spent more time in the gym then anything and his voice was a hard snap as he looked at the shorter Goreleech.

"YOU'RE Goreleech? wow. I expected a 6 foot monster. Benson6667. Ben."

"Nice to meet you two. This is Angel."

The blonde waved and Ben whistled.

"damn."

"Oh I KNOW."

Ben fistbumped Tyler with a smirk.

"She yours?"

"At times. Likes it from a girl more."

"Dude I am LOVING that image."

"Me too bro. MEEEE TOO. So who're you?"

The green eyed girl smiled sweetly.

"I'm Tulip6845! Tulip to my friends!"

"Adorable."

Ben chuckled as he ruffled the beauty's hair, making her bawl.

"She;s my younger sister."

"Nice. So you guys runnin together?"

Ben nodded and looked out the window.

"we've been laying low in town since a gang of Pkers came through last night. Lit up everything in sight with fucking tommyguns like it was the 20s. Tul an i just laid low since she IS fucking gorgeous."

"NO arguements here. You see which way they went?"

"Headed north. But that road is one way."

Tyler smirked.

"wanna lay a trap?"

Ben smirked.

"I'm in bootcamp to be a Marine. Whaddya you think?"

"we need more grenades?"

"HA! Damn straight. it cool if we stay with you, Gore? Tul's KINDA.....yeah."

"Sure. Angel would a cuddleflower."

"Ha!"

"Hey.....I like a cuddleangel."

They chuckled at Tulip's squeak and Tyler looked at Ben.

"You guys got kit?"

The bigger man shrugged.

"Few guns and some bullets. noting too crazy."

"We'll head to the RV. See bout an ambush."

They nodded and the Survivor lifted the mattress of the grandbed....

"I figured. I got another rifle case."

Angel pulled a set of keys from a drawer.

"I got the keys."

"Let's move people."

Tulip pulled a tiny little luger and Benson hefted a sawed off pumpaction shotgun that Tyler smirked at.

"Nice bastard."

"Thanks. I found an old M77. Needed a touchup."

"Gunsmith?"

"Marine Engineer."

"I like where this is going."

The group headed for the RV and Kora was waiting with his Karg.

"Gore I got headlights on that hill up ahead."

"I got you your bear."

Ben slugged him.

"I know that means you prick."

Kora chuckled as Tyler rubbed a sore jaw.

"He does that. Kora."

"Ben.....it ever stop?"

"Not really. He TRIES to be funny."

"Ouch."

"Hit or miss. USUALLY a miss."

"DON'T YOU FUCKING SAY IT."

Tyler had opened his mouth and then both guys spoke in unison. The Survivor chuckled.

"Nice sync up."

They slumped as Tulip and Angel went to the weapons locker. The blonde looked at the more experienced player.

"So, Gore, how we playin this?"

"Kora get the RV off the main street. Ben, catch."

He tossed him the AK74U and the big man smirked.

"Nice."

Tyler lifted the Stoner.

"I hate you."

"we got lucky. POLICE STATION."

"BULLSHIT."

"Yeah. Hey, Tulip."

He passed her the Kar98K and she smiled.

"I know how to use this."

He patted her and she smiled.

"You're super nice for being a monster!"

"Ha. i'm only a monster to zombies, Tulip."

"Yay!"

Ben chuckled.

"You're KINDA her hero. Why, I got no idea. She watched the livestream of the beta....and yeah. Remember that fight with the Tyrannataur?"

"That was one of my best fights."

"She's got it recorded....and watches it a lot. she's 15...and yeah. Obsessed."

Tyler smiled as he patted the brown haired beauty.

"I'll teach ya how I do it, Tulip."

She smiled widely.

"Alright!"

Angel smiled as she took the girl.

"I'll keep YOU close."

"Yay! Sexy blonde angel!"

"she is so fucking cute."

Ben smirked as he hefted the 74U.

"She's ALSO a proud lesbian, Angel...."

"Niiiiice."

"Greeat."

"Yup."

"Alright. I got a rager that is KILLING me now....and we got people to kill. Moving on."

The RV was moved off the mainstreet and Tyler opened the map on the table. He tapped the military base.

"This is the only thing of interest up there. Odds are the attacked it....and are now running for their lives. if they pissed off the wrong thing, it's STILL chasin their bitchasses even if they're on bikes. The road leads right passed us. Since they're showoffs, they'll stick to the straight away."

Kora smirked.

"what EXACTLY are we after, Gore?"

"Their stuff. I want that gun."

"Ha. Zombie roadblock?"

"On a blindturn."

Ben whistled.

"Scary. Alright where do yuo want me?"

"If you climb onto the RV,"

Tyler passed him the WA2000.

"That's got a 6.5X scope on it. You'll JUST poke over the roof in a perfect scouting location. Tulip'll be with us as we build the roadblock."

"On it."

"Count on me, Gore."

"Alright let's get this done."

The friends moved with a will. Ben climbed onto the roof with the police sniper rifle to keep overwatch while Tyler, Kora and the girls piled bodies in a barricade across a sharp turn before the main straight away of the town. Tulip proving her good looks weren't her only traits as she carried bodies of grown zombies like a pro. The barricade stretched across the road and rose to a solid 4 feet high and Tyler smiled as he looked at it.

"Alright. Now we set one up behind the RV in a way they can't sneak up on us."

Kora chuckled as the roadblock was set up.

"I can't help but feel like we've seen this somewhere before in a movie or something. Dunno. Just a feeling."

They smiled at that one before Ben was heard.

"I got riders entering the town, Gore!"

"Alright. Load the other rifle and we'll see what happens."

Ben vaulted off the roof and Tyler pulled his M1014 as the sound of gunfire and roaring bike engines were heard. The Survivor smirked as he leaned on a wall.

"I know those engines. Typical police bikes."

The roar and gunfire was followed by a screech of tires before the riders slammed directly into the wall of zombies with their riders getting thrown off onto the asphalt. Tyler chuckled as he pumped the gun.

"Alright. We got em."

The 5 friends moved to the execution of the 6 player gang. The stunned other players saw them approaching and pulled guns to fight back...but were far too woozy from the crash to do anything as they were pinned by gunpoint. Tyler smiled as he walked up to a rugged chick in a leather croptop jacket and put the gun in her face.

"YOU the leader here?"

She smirked and spoke in a warm yet hard breath.

"Yup. Ya got us."

"Ha. You Pkers?"

"At times. YOU suck. Ya know how long it'll take us to fix those bikes?"

"I'm Goreleech."

"Explains it. Alexisflare668. Alexis to my crew."

Tyler lowered the gun and Alexis dusted her top off.

"So you're not Pkers?"

"we are if you take a shot at us. USUALLY don't miss."

"fair. Your bikes are fine. Just a few dents."

"Cool. So."

She pulled a model 27 revolver.

"we doin this....or are we done with he pissing contest?"

Tyler chuckled.

"we're good. was told you were Pkers."

Ben sighed as the gang looked at him.

"My bad."

Tulip smiled sweetly.

"Alexis intimidated him.....and he don't like that from a hot girl!"

They laughed at that one as Tyler looked at Alexis. She was a VERY hot girl. She stood his height with long, silky smooth black hair the dropped toher lower back in a curtain while her frame was well cut from whatever she did for fun. Her skin was pale and her bust was large in her croptop. Her eyes were grey and rather pretty while her frame was slender overall. Her attire was a croptop leather jacket, croptop undershirt with booty shorts and sneakers. She smirked as Tyler looked at her.

"I see that."

"Always DID like the tougher girls."

"I do boxing."

"Nice. Pick your bikes up, we'll chat."

"Oh no WAY we turnin that down."

Alexis and her friends collected their bikes and stood them up by the RV and Tyler smiled as they all gathered around the table.

"Together we have 11 players. That many we secure this town and establish a tempeoray base."

Alexis sat back.

"Ultimate goal?"

"Can you all keep a secret?"

They nodded and the feeds were turned off to prove it. Tyler smiled.

"MY base from the beta, is STILL IN GAME. And CAN be reclaimed. MY ultimate goal is to do so."

Outside Kora and Angel, everyone blinked and then wide smiles broke out on their faces. Alexis looked at him with lit up grey eyes.

"Your BOMBER?"

"THAT I DON'T know. It's a SOLID maybe, Alexis. if NOT....we simply rebuild it."

"I wanna fly in a B17. My Clan will join yours for that promise."

"I'll do ya one better. Wanna drop the Fat Man from a B29 on Seattle?"

EVERYONE'S eyes lit up like lights and Alexis looked at him with STARS in her eyes.

"I think i love you. YES I DO."

"Welcome to the Clan. Cause I was ALMOST done rebuilding that B29."

The feeds were turned back on and Alexis smiled.

"we're in."

Her friends nodded with smiles and Tyler added them to his Clan.

"we need a Clan Name now. we have over ten players so are recognized as a nomad clan now."

Angel smiled.

"YOU pick it, Gore."

He thought for a moment. The smirked.

"We're the Ghosts."

"LAME."

He got a near en mass panning for that one and he shrugged.

"Oh fine. We'll be the Wolves?"

They shrugged and Alexis smiled.

"GOOD enough. So the town."

Tyler nodded.

"We'll upgrade the RV with armor and weaponry. Build a trailer for your bikes and a means to reach em from inside the RV."

"Okay. And military base? We raided it....annnnd were nearly wiped out. They got this HUUUGE fucking thing with a damn TANK CANNON for an arm."

Tyler blinked.

"Someone got a screenshot?"

One of the bikers passed him the image and he slumped.

"Oh FUCK man. A Zombotron. Legit what it's called. It's basically Megatron as a zombie. 15 feet tall, is a mutated zombie tank and we'd need antitank weapons to crack it. Same time. It's one of the minibosses of the game and once it spawns in it doesn't despawn until SOMETHING kills it. We'd be able to take that tank arm though. I used the one I killed for the defensive cannon on the base. 120mmm howitzer."

Kora whistled.

"So how DO we kill it, Gore?"

"for NOW we DON'T. Not unless I can find some materials and craft an antitank rifle. Or some hydrochlor."

Ben looked at him.

"Demo charges?"

"You'd need to make em sticky."

"I found some raw explosives in a handware store downtown. Bout 30 pounds too."

Tyler smirked.

"Still got it?"

"Oh yeah."

"I can craft it into C4. ALL we'd need to do is PRY open the chest. It's weakpoint is the heart. It takes a bullet to the heart it drops. Tungsten piercers drop it in one hit. and if the rumor is TRUE you get the title Tank Piercer."

Alexis smiled.

"So THIS is what it's what it's like to hang with a pro? Ha. we're in. So whaddya we do first, Gore?"

"Build the base. We'll set the town up and go from there. House by house and room by rookm search for zombies. Kill em all in a set town and then they won;t respawn and instead WANDER back in. Once the last one is dead we'll take EVERY. SINGLE. PIECE. OF. LOOT. In the town and stack it in our chosen house for the time being. Loot will keep respawning inside a town we claim but it does so once per week. Same time the entire town is loot. So we'll use a lot of recycling and repurposing."

Angel smirked.

"This is gonna be fun, Gore. Mount a tank turret on the RV?"

"Oh absolutely."

The group smiled and Tyler looked at Alexis.

"We'll get to it. we gotta a LOTTA work ahead a us."

She nodded with a smile.

"We DAMN sure do. Let's get it done."

Tyler looked at the group of leather jacket clad bikers.

"Anyone here good wirh tools or skilled with a blowtorch?"

Alexis smirked.

"HarryDaBest222 is in our school's automotive club, Rnggirl555 there is in our wood shop class, my dad's a mechanic, and yeah."

Ben smirked.

"MArine engineer trainee on the verge of completion."

TYler nodded.

"Alright. I'll take Angel and Kora and we'll start clearing houses. Tulip and Ben team up with that other cutie there and start looting in our wake. Alexis, pick two more and use the dead zombies to wall off these streets leading in."

He puleld a pen and drew small Vs on the roads of the tac map.

"This shape. Do it right and it'll make it seem the walls are further ahead then they are to anything approaching. The RV we'll park in the gas station lot for the project."

The heads nodded and the Survivor smiled.

"Let's get started. Break."

The group emptied out their packs in teh RV for maximum space and Tyler smiled as he, Kora and Angel headed off with their weapons for the sanitizing of the town. Kora smirked as the RV was parked in the town gas station lot by the garage.

"Gore, you sure bout them?"

"Oh yeah, Kora. I can tell bout other players since I KINDA need to know who to shoot and who to drown in a lake."

They chuckled at the reference and Angel smirked.

"I gpt a message from her. BEGGING me to get you to unblock her and I told her no. You wasted FAR too many chances."

TYler smiled at this.

"I DO miss her an all. But yeah. Not getting stabbed to death over emotional instability."

Kora nodded as he smashed a zombie over the head in a garage with his bat.

"Tru dat. I HATE girls that play those kinda games. My brother was nearly arrested when his girlfriend's best friend cried rape on a sleepover while his girl went to the bathroom. Thank GOD she;d forgotten to turn her little brother's nannycam off or he WOULDA been arrested."

Tyler shrugged as he snapped another zombie's neck.

"Girls suck, guys suck, people suck. We know."

The friends chuckled at that truth as they explored a nearby grocery store. Tyler smiled as he spotted Tulip, Ben and another girl moving behind them loading packs and bags with anything that could be stuffed in there before they unloaded the stuff in the RV's building lot for further use. Tyler and his two friends made good progress through the town clearing zombies before they eturned to the RV as the sun went down. There they found a pile of loot with the more organized members of the newly forged clan sorting it into pile types with a clipboard carrying Alexis writting everything down. The tough biker smiled as Tyler walked up.

"How we lookin Alexis?"

She passed the clipboard over.

"Pretty freakin good actually. Food and medical are stored on the RV while anything crafting wise is being loaded into the garage. we're staying in a house, right?"

He nodded as he noted the cans of propane and kerosine.

"That's the plan. We've got sleeping bags to turn a fully finished basement into a rather cozy snugglefest."

"NO truth or dare or spin the bottle first night."

"Agreed. You single, Alexis?"

She smiled.

"I'm not actually. I got me a boyfriend. He's with his own crew and we message to make sure we're astill alive an all."

"Nice."

The girl chuckled as he smiled.

"I can SEE that, Gore."

"I'm not lonely. Just JEALOUS I'm missing out on the hot biker chick sex and snuggles."

She chuckled at the halftruth before he looked at the RV.

"we'll say a two week job. The Zombotron won't leave the base unless something else attacks it and kills it."

"And we'll-hm?"

A sound of whirring was heard overhead and the group looked up to see an Osprey tilted rotor assault carrier flying overhead. Tyler chuckled as he saw it and the others looked at him curiously.

"That's one of the scout birds that'll fly over from time to time. If you shoot em down you can loot em for a MASS of REALLY good freakn loot. If you DON'T down it in one hit it'll come about for an attack run. and tey are HEAVILY armored in the front and sides. we'd need to take out one of the rotars before it flew off and that's a bitch."

Ben smirked as he looked at the bird.

"Actually, Gore?? Just put a medium caliber round into the airintake and it'll wreak HAVOC on the internals. Are they tougher ingame?"

Tyler blinked.

"No. It's SUPPOSED to be a one to one replica of the real world. Ben?"

"Bird in the engine."

"Jesus. Okay. YOU just taught ME something. we'll try it."

They nodded and Tyler took the WA2000 as the Osprey was gaining altitude to clear a building....and he pulled the trigger. The .300 round slammed into the paneling of the Osprey and it was seen to veer off firing flares and Ben smiled.

"Deploy flares in case of missle, ascertain direction of fire, and retaliate. It's coming about."

"Use the Kar."

"On it."

The two snipers took aim and Tyler smirked.

"Be ready to bolt.....FIRE."

The snipers fired and they put both rounds into the air intake of the jet engine of the left wing....and there was an IMMEDIATE sparking as they made impact. Tyler smirked as the Osprey lurched and they emptied their magazines into the thing. The engine exploded into a fireball and the thing started dropping into a tailspin.

"GET DOWN!"

everyone dropped to the ground as the bird slammed into a large manor and into the cement with an explosion heard for miles. Tyler was standing in front of it as the bird skidded aross the grount towards him and he smirked as he held the Stoner.

"I said....STOP."

The bird stopped skidding and he chuckled.

"Welcome to earth. Clear!"

Angel looked at him with a smirk.

"Dude. YOU are TOO freakin badass for your own good."

The friends chuckled and Tyler smirked.

"wanna know somethin cool?"

They looked at him.

"We COULD fix it."

They blinked and Ben smiled widely.

"Let's do that, Gore. Use it to assault the base. It takes usual fuel right?"

"Yup. Since again, making individual fuel types ofor every vehicle is just not possible. So we can fill her tanks from that pump there. We'll loot it ad go from there. Nicely done, Ben. Ya taught ME something new on the game."

"WOW do I feel fulfilled."

The friends went to the access ramp in the back of the downed twin rotor osprey and Tyler smirked as he saw it had come open in the crash.

"All crates in the light people."

They nodded and got to work unloading the warbird of it's cargo until all fifteen crates were lined up in the yard of the gas station. Tyler took a crowbar and tore the lid off the first and looked inside.

"JESUS. i got a Javelin-7 Lockon Missle launcher."

Ben whistled as he took the thing out.

"Now THAT'S gnarly. How many rockets?"

"About....4."

"That makes sense."

"We'll use em on the Zombotron and other Ospreys."

The next crate was torn open.

"Wow. MREs, people. A full pallate. Sooo several hundred."

Angel nodded as she wrote it on the clipboard.

"we're set on food."

The next crate.

"Ammo. Several hundred thousand rounds of 5.56, 7.62 NATO, 12-gauge, and 9mm parabellum rounds."

Ben nodded.

"Standard US issue ammunition."

The crate after that was opened and Tyler smiled.

"Medic packs. FULL backpacks issued to the CSAR teams. I am LOVING this spread right now."

Kora took charge of the crate.

"dad's CSAR and I'm in training to be an EMT."

The next crate was opened and Tyler chuckled.

"THAT'S more like it. M16A1s. About 20 of them. we got our new main battle rifles."

The rifles were issued and Ben chuckled as he hefted his.

"MUCH better."

The friends smiled as Tyler went to the next crate and tore it open.

"BOOM. M2 browning buildkit. we got a 50. heavy machinegun to place everyone."

Angel whistled.

"ONe osprey....and we got all this?"

Kora and Ben chuckled.

"It was a single bird. so makes sense."

"This were a PROPER convoy you'd expect everything from bullets and knives, to food to medical, to resupply MISSILES for FIGHTER JETS."

Tyler tore open the next crate.....

"Oh damn. We got FULL harnesses for spec ops loadouts. JESUS."

The next three crates were ammo and then Tyler reached the last one and tore it open.

"Ha. M60E3. 6 of them with about 20 boxes of 7.62 NATO rounds. Wow. We gotta LOOOOTTA bullets."

They chuckled at that as the hardware was secured inside the gas station before reconvening aboard the RV. They sat at the table with a rootbeer apiece for a new planning meeting. Tyler tapped the miitary base.

"We're still hitting the military base. we can get upgrades and attachments form a good raid. Nothing has changed even though we're better equipped then most units today."

They nodded and Angel looked at him.

"How well equipped were YOU when you went into the Underdark, Gore?"

He sighed,

"I had upgraded a Pancor Jackhammer with a 30 round drum of dragon's breath fire shotgun shells, an M249 SAW with tungsten piercers, a pair of deagles kitted to the nines, NIGHTVISION, SLIENCED BOOTS, ALL MY SKILLS, and like forty grenades. I didn't last two hours."

They shivered and Angel frowned...and turned her feed off. The rest saw this and turned their feeds off as well and the blonde looked at him.

"The Underdark is the subway system right?"

He nodded, confused.

"It is."

"Sooo HOW did you get into the iradiated zone, Gore? You said you went through the subway....yeeet. The UNDERDARK is the SUBWAY."

Tyler chuckled.

"I am amazed you caught that Angel. I LIED. Remember who was with us?"

She frowned hard....then blinked.

"JESUS. A BACKUP plan for HAILFYRE?"

"Yup. THAT base is MY lair. NO ONE elses. Hails knows this. So. if she plays evil rat.....well. A LOTTA people are gonna get hurt. MY base? ISN'T IN THE IRRADIATED ZONE. It's somewhere else entirely. I was GOING to show you what I meant when we added the offroad tires to the RV. I DO have a base in the irradiated zone but it's a mere outpost for forays into it."

Tyler smiled.

"MY base....is built onto the side of a mountain facing the city of Seattle. Like I built a sideways skyscraper up the side of the mountain."

They whistled and Kora looked at their tac map.

"So....where are we then. Gore?"

"We're in a sectio of California. The main city here, San Bereno, is spanish. California."

They chuckled and Angel frowned.

"But....the BETA was in the SOUTH...RIGHT?"

"It was. and was a custom game world."

"OOOOH. Oh I see how they did it. They built a small crosscut of the entire world and made it the betabase level."

"Pretty much. it was still the size of Alaska but yeah."

He shrugged and the group chuckled at that one before they turned the feeds back on. Then the friends switched to planning the raid on the base. Alexis placed an upside down whiskey glass on the spot.

"That zombotron is the de facto leader of the base. Aside from the big fucker there's the usual spattering of regular walkers, stregors, these insect lookin fucks that scare the shit outta me, and a bunch otherwise. Rnggirl has a few screenshots, Gore."

The girl in question had the same appearance as Samara from the ring as she climbed out of the well but with longer, healthier and thicker black hair while her skin was briht white. Her eyes were bright blue and her bust was massive inside her white gown. She passed Tyler a bunch of screenshots of the base as she spoke in her soft breath.

"we scouted the base best we could from the front gate before we raided it. Didn't end well."

Tyler nodded as he looked at the images.

"Stregors, a few banshees, a mass of clickers, several hundred walkers, some armored hulks."

He passed the image of 8 foot tall masses of muscle covered in thick body armor.

"Armored Hulks. Basically think Hulk but black, a zombie, covered in military body armor....and it likes to throw concrete at you. FAce is it's only weakness and you need a large caliber to drop it in one hit. Thinks are less common eiltes and are REAL freakin pains in the ass."

Ben noted the armor.

"Set it on fire?"

"Is the other accepted method to bring it down. It's TERRIFIED of flames for some odd freakin reason."

Angel crossed her arms thoughtfully as she looked at him.

"How many people would it take to man that Osprey the right way, Gore?"

He sat back.

"About 6. Since we'd mount machinegunners in the rear and could use it to transport supplies. You have an idea?"

"We COULD always call up Dublin and her crew to help raid the base. She's got 10 with her. And we WOULD need the extra hands to carry everything and shoot guns."

TYler frowned.

"Hails would be with her, Angel."

"True. Same time she's not with US."

He sighed.

"No she would not. Just seems a good way to open an unneeded can of worms. And screaming drama is NOT something we need right now."

Kora smiled.

"Man's got a point, Angel. A good idea an all. But yeah. Hailfyre is just bad news."

Alexis smirked as she looked at Tyler.

"My thought is to bring her in. Let her see you're doin just fine without her and if she tries or starts anything we can ditch her somewhere. Plus I kinda wanna put a face to the name of GORELEECH'S flame."

That got a few chuckles and Tyler sighed with a smile.

"I guess, we kinda DO need the extra shooters. Alright Angel. Call up yo girl."

"Alright!"

The busty blonde got right on calling up her girl and Tyler looked at the location of the base as Ben looked at him.

"My thought?"

"Shoot."

"Funny. Repair the Osprey before we do the RV. We can use the bird to scout the base properly and then launch our assault from the air. the zombotron doesn't have antiair capabilities does it?"

Tyler smirked.

"It DOES...but only in the form of that smoothbore 120mm abrams cannon on it's arm. 7 foot long barrel."

"The muzzle velocity on them things is surprisingly atrocious. They're more used for indirect fire depending on the configuration of the tank it came from. Going off the picture, I'd say it was a self-propelled gun platform rather then a main battle tank."

Tyler smirked.

"And those are lobers. NOT snipers."

Ben chuckled as Angel got a reply.

"She and her crew'll be here in the morning. They scored a large hummer."

"NICE. How many crew?"

"About...8. Hailfyre too. She's.....been rough to have around apparently."

"Makes sense."

Tyler sat back on the couch now as Sarah appeared on the floatmng screen.

"we're live with camp Goreleech as they discuss the upcoming raid on the military base. Goreleech, how are discussions progressing?"

Tyler smiled.

"we're at the preperation phase, Sarah. In the morning we'll be securing the town as our HQ for the sector and the repair work on the Osprey and the RV. Once they're set we'll be scouting out the base."

The reporter nodded.

"You have extended a line to Dublin's Clan?"

"We need shooters and hands for the project. We'd have about 19 people we can hit this with. And the base will have a LOT of good loot."

Sarah smiled.

"Are you excited to see Hailfyre again, Goreleech?"

"NOT really."

He shrugged and the reporter wisely took the hint. The rest of the party got their interview before his manager, Mylissa, appeared when with a smirk.

"So I got something for you, Gore."

"Hit me."

"I got a call from the U.S. Army after you downed the Osprey as you're right. They ARE one to one representations of the real thing. The General that contacted me asked how many of them you've shot down in your carreer."

"Oh I hunt them since you're GARANTEED mass amounts of ammo and good loot. So I've dropped several dozen."

She nodded.

"They want you to hunt them down now and test out the same trick with different caliber weapons. Pistols, antiair guns, shotguns, you get the idea. Seems they think you found an achillies heel in the engine design."

"Sure. How much?"

"About 250,000 per bird."

"Wow. They're rare so it won';t be often."

"I figured. And my GOD did you look like a badass with the Stoner and the sliding bird. Okay. I have a sponserhip propesition from Colt Firearms manufacturer. They'll pay you 50,000 a week for a 2 week ad campaign for ther firearms. YOU'D be required to use Colt Made weaponry during this time."

Tyler sat back.

"Hm. Oh. Ha. We got M16A1s. And my go to sidearms are Colt M1911s. My ENTIRE preferred loadout for heavy long range assaults are colt weapons. Sure."

He looked at Mylissia.

"Sure. I'll take it since we'll be using M16s a lot now."

"excellent! Those are the A1s, right?"

"Yup. Pretty decent and will provide the stopping power we'll ned for the range. Though we get backed into a corner I will be using shotguns and other such stuff."

"They understand. Since if you die it'd make them look bad for backing you. The next piece is the first set of bundles from the Zombie Store."

He got a set of imagery for the upcoming bundles and he smirked.

"An Ash Cambell pack? Ha. Bye-bye mister nastyface."

She chuckled.

"You'll have a field day with the quips. The bundle includes the outfit, a chainsaw skin, a set of quips you can say in Ash's voice, and a deadite keychain."

"Ha. Next?"

The next bundle was put up and Tyler shrugged.

"Half Life. Never played it and wasn't all that interested in it. Heard great things about it though."

Mylssia smirked as she passed the next bundle over.

"I don't think you'll go for this."

He looked at it

"An Elly pack from the Last of Us? Hm. Switchblade skin, Barrette F92S skin, her outfit, backpack, hm."

He smiled warmly.

"Can we GIFT bundles, Mylssia?"

She nodded.

"You can."

"I'll pick it up and have it sent to Hails....descretely. She LOVED Elly in the Last of Us."

The manager smiled warmly.

"You are such a SUCKER for her it's ADORABLE. I'll do that."

"Thanks."

Angel smirked.

"I THOUGHT you weren't clingy?"

"I'm NOT. I DO want my friend back though and once she gets OVER this drama bullshit....you'd LOVE her."

"Ha. He is SO fucking hung up on her it's CUTE."

Alexis chuckled at that.

"I wish MY boyfriend was so freakin fixated. She tries to STAB him and yet he is STILL trying to get her to be nice. Lucky girl."

Mylissa passed the next bundle over....

"BUFFY THE VAMPYRE SLAYER?"

Tyler's mild surprise made Mylissa chuckle.

"Yup."

"Same gimmick....but ya know. Heavenly."

"OOOh slick! will do!"

Angel smirked.

"I missed that and think you're talking about me. Speak up."

"Nope."

"NOW I am WORRIED."

"Ha."

Tyler looked at the bundles and Mylssia smiled.

"No celebrity requests yet so you're still smalltime."

"I can fix that in one raid."

"Do so. We need to get the eyes of the bigger names."

He nodded and smiled.

"I'll get on it, Mylissa."

"So will I."

The screen went out and Tyler looked at the group.

"Alright we got a lotta work to do and the time to do it right. The osprey we'll start with since we need to empty the fuel tanks fore it explodes."

The friends nodded.

"Good. Break."

Kora and Angel took Ben and Alexis to finish looting and securing the town, Tyler and the rest syphoned the fuel out of the downed bird's engines before the survivor swapped out for Ben on the town wide hunt while the Marine Engineer helped with securing the RV and Osprey to prevent a spark. The efficient friends worked hard for a few hours before they gathered back in the RV and Tyler nodded.

"Not bad for a two hour clean up. In the morning we hit it like we give a fuck. We got room for you all in here....soooo Tulip?"

The pretty burnette squeaked at the sudden callout and looked over with HUGE pink eyes.

"Yeah?"

He patted her.

"Enjoy the snuggleangel."

"I will!"

Angel sighed as the group chuckled.

"Damned cocky idiot. I'll enjoy the cuddleflower too but dammit."

TYler chuckled at that. The friends made some pizzas in the oven before they all claimed their flopspots for the night. Tyler was in his room, Alexis was snuggled up with one of her girls, Ben and Kora shared the futon couch, Angel and Tulip were playing around in the busty blonde's bunk, and the rest had split between the different spots. Tyler sighed as he settled into his large bed and looked at the ceiling.

"Yeah. I miss you, Hails."