Maine Street - Part 6

A few minutes have passed, and these eight survivors are still blocked on the bus. The road is roaming with zombies who are now much bigger since they managed to infect these passengers who fled from the bus and landed on the street. Raoul is looking at the windows, and he sees a female zombie banging her head on the window. Soon, other survivors notice this.

"What is she doing?" asks Élan to Clara.

"How should I know?" asks Clara to Élan. "These creatures don't have a behavior like an animal I know."

"They are the predator." says Ludo. "And we are the prey."

"Most likely the opposite." says Sophia to Ludo. She is standing up from her seat. She is heading to the driver seat, there she sees a baseball bat, probably used to hit the rugs to clean them up or for thieves. "If a thing like that." Sophie is pointing with the baseball bat at the zombie who is hitting his head on the window. "Manages to get into the bus. We will have to fight with anything we need."

"Do you think they can be easily killed?" asks Ludo to Sophie.

"Maybe she has a point." responds Raoul to Ludo. "What if these things can work like in the movies? A hit into their head and they drop dead for sure this time?"

"Brain cells." responds Ludo looking at his wife.

"If the brain of these things it is destroyed…"

"… then they will be drop-dead." continues her husband.

"But it will be better if we stay here, alright?" says Raoul getting off from his seat. "The best idea would be to wait for authorities."

"Yes. But if they do not come. What we will do?"

"They will come here." says Raoul.

A few moments later, a few sirens are coming closer to the survivors who are staying on their seats and waits for them to come. As soon as the cops showed and left their heavily armored cars, fire weapons were drawn against those dead bodies. The survivors on the bus are putting their heads down and lay on the bus, because they might be shot by them by blind bullets and confuse them as the zombies from outside.

While shoots were still dealt outside, a few bullets have hit the windows of the bus. Everyone one staying on the ground, laying on the floor of the bus or hiding between the seats. There was also a bullet who hit Frankie as she was panicking because of all of this commotion. Thankfully, the bullet only hit and cut thirty percentage of her right ear. Ludo risks his life by leaving his place and putting Frankie down to safety. His wife leaves the hideout, and she walks in a crouching movement to her husband, to inspect how hurt is poor Frankie and to help the husband of the injured old lady.

"Help!" yells Tim from the bus, and leaving his hideout, running to the window, push it down because the window was now able to be torn down, thanks to the billions of bullets who got through the window. He has done this because he was hoping this will be heard and gather the attention of the cops outside. "We are stuck in the bus! We are not infected!" he said a few times as he signals to the officers to cease fire.

In just a matter of second, a door was broken by a cop who used his assault rifle to break the window of the bus where was the door. He opens the door by sticking his right hand to the opener from the inside, he sees it is blocked and jammed, so, he looks back and calls for help, another officer comes, and he asks the superior why he needs help. He responds to him and he shows the reason. Therefore, the superior and the cop are going to open the door, by using a crowbar to open it. A crowbar found into a damaged car with blood and three zombie bodies on the inside.

"We've got people alive here!" says a cop to the others outside the bus.

After a few seconds, three more cops dressed in heavy armor, all three of them proceed to take out the people, while the fourth one is inspecting Frankie because of her injury. He tells to his colleagues that he requires a first aid kit, and one cop who is escorting Ludo and Clara outside the bus.

Raoul and Tim are leaving the bus while a policeman escorted them. He told them what is the situation after Tim insisted on telling him what is going on in here.

"We don't know what is truly going on. But the higher-ups told us everything has changed, and made us to activate the protocol on zombie apocalypse."

"Does something like this actually exist?!" exclaims Raoul.

"Yes. You will be surprised how many protocols does a police station has nowadays." tries to joke the policeman.

They are walking a few steps to a car, and when they got at the car, the policeman inspects the car to see if there is something there. After some quick lookout, he sees a corpse on the backseat. After the broken windows on this car, you could theorize that there was a monster who managed to crawl from the car and evade into the road. Or it could even be a zombie from outside who managed to grab the poor thing from the car and bite him. The cop didn't have time to investigate this, so he just drags the corpse from the car with Raoul and Tim help, they are putting him into a pile of zombie corpse where three more corpses and with Virgil and Élan. They threw the heavy corpse there and continue to grab the other corpse of zombie lying around.

"What are we going to do with them?" asks Raoul.

"We are ordered to put them in a pile." says the cop from earlier. "Don't know why they wanted to do, but I think it is to free the road."

"Sounds logic to me." says Raoul.

"We have to do it, after all, the cities are also in danger?"

"Really?"

"Yes." Responds the cop after he grabbed a corpse who resembled a woman with half of her body eaten and half of the head cut. "Even the hospitals are in danger of becoming infected."

"Oh no." says Raoul.

"What?"

"I have to go to Saint Malo Hospital. I have a family there."

"It is too risky now, citizen." responds the policeman to Raoul. "The people there have already blocked the entrance of the hospital as I heard from radio station."

"But I have to try." says Raoul to the policeman.

The policeman did not respond, he only looked at him, and he leaves him alone, going to attempt at the other survivors, looking to see how he can help them. Raoul stays there, he doesn't move, because he is put into a critical decision, and he thinks about the options he has on the hands: stay with the police, or risk his life to find the family who is locked on the hospital.

Raoul grunts, and he is walking to a police officer, he looks at him with a serious look, while the officer fells weird:

"Can I leave?"

"Why would you want to do that?" asks the police officer to Raoul. "The city where we left it is already blocked. It is impossible to go anywhere. Even for us, it was hard to leave that city."

"I have to find my family." Says Raoul to the police man. "Please, let me take a ride and I will leave."

The officer is looking around him, he then looks at the closest ride, where it is a zombie body there, killed again with a gunshot from the police officers. The police officer goes to that car, he opens the door, and threw two zombie bodies out of there. As soon as he finished doing his thing, he looks at Raoul and tells him.

"Where are you heading?"

"To Saint Malo Hospital." responds Raoul.

"I understand." says the officer who is handing to Raoul a knife. "Use this knife in case zombies attack you. Using weapons, it will draw the other zombies. Remember, hit their brain zone, this is the only key to stop them once for all."

"Thank you!" says Raoul happy that someone will help him. "I don't know how I can thank you."

"There is one thing." says the officer to Raoul which made him surprised. "I want you to go to the closest radio station, and announce a message."

"I can do it." says Raoul. "I knew one close to Maine. I might be able to arrive there. But what message?"

The officer goes to his ear and he whisper him the message, plus he hands him a note with much more detail. After he finished whispering, he looks at the shocked reaction of Raoul.

"I-I don't believe it."

"It is the truth." says the police officer. "I would do it by myself, but this is secret information by I don't know what kind of army."

"Is it even possible to do that?"

"They've got the technology. And you should be going. Now."

Raoul, puts the paper he got from the police officer on his suitcase, he gets on the vehicle he got cleaned by the police officer and he step on the gas since this one is a vehicle who works without a key, only by pressing a button. He drives on a fast speed to the Saint Malo Hospital, hoping he would be able to rescue his family. As soon as the car drive away from the scene, a few police officers and survivors were looking shocked at him, but then, the police officer, looks at his colleagues, and he asks them.

"Are all immune?"

"Yes, sir." responds one police officer dressed in heavy armor. "All of them aren't bitten, and one lady has just suffered an injury."

"Good." Says the police officer who is apparently the boss. "Load all of them in the cars, and deliver all of them to the evac stations. Move it!"

The police officers, proceed to escort the civilians to their cars to deliver them to the evac station. Some of them were trying to talk to the officers, but it was useless because they weren't even saying a word as he puts all the survivors from the bus into their cars.