Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

Every time we drove around Manila, almost all of them had the tendency to skydive just from anywhere. The last time we noticed a similar occurrence was when we visited one of the hospitals where we lost Kristoff and I was just happy at this point that they were just coming from one spot.

However, nothing seemed to be going on that spot so I really needed to have eyes over there to see what was going on.

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"Ilana, can you fly there?! Check what's up, please! I'm set here, no need for visuals on myself!"

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[O-Okay!]

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"Just flip the happy button there if you think you need an area to disappear! That's to arm them! Press the happy button again for confirmation! Its range is as far as its normal connection!"

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[What happy button?!]

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"The drones have happy putty on 'em, what else?!"

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[Happy— You mean C4?! We've been driving around with C4?!]

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"The fuck are you so surprised about?! I'm more dangerous than C4!"

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[Enough with the jokes— HOLY FUCK THAT'S A BIG MAMA!]

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"What Big Mama—"

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All of a sudden, I just had an inkling that Ilana had already pressed the happy button once to arm the C4 on her drone—and it didn't take long before we heard an explosion with bits and pieces of rotting flesh as confetti. I would've been a little sad about our run-of-the-mill drones exploding into pieces but if a "Big Mama" were to explode with it, I guess I wouldn't have any qualms. ᚱÀ₦ȰBЁS̩

And right on fucking cue, June's drone flew overhead the expressway and it didn't even take a fucking second before I heard several curses of disgust as June used her drone to divebomb the same spot Ilana did with our drone.

Two explosions at once definitely turned several heads around this area and the one I was about to perform a lobotomy worthy of a malpractice suit turned around to where the explosion was. But yeah, with the sudden explosions came the halt of the dregs on the expressway from jumping to their third deaths but my fucking curiosity was killing me.

June and Ilana were still pairing up our backup drones to their controllers but it took everything from me to make sure that everything was okay on our side first.

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"What's the Big Mama anyway?"

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[Come back here and we'll tell you! Don't come over there! Eugh! It gives me the heeby-jeebys!]

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"I didn't go! I'm still in the same corner aiming for backshots!"

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[Ew. That sounded dirtier than— Nevermind… Just imagine the most morbidly obese zombie that was getting feasted on by the dead— Worse than a resident from McAllen…]

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[No, no, its babies were getting eaten— but it's also eating its c-children too… Fuck, that's disgusting! Why's it so big?!]

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At this point, I could only rely on their testimonies and the footage our departed drones collected, but yeah, if I can't see what was over there the deadheads walking away from me shouldn't either.

Since my TX22 had already ran out of bullets, I just opted to use my katana still with one hand while using a regular K-Bar knife with the other. I would've wished I brought my tanto with me to complete the weeb look but a knife's a knife and as long as it could puncture heads and not break, I'd use it as many times as it takes.

But yeah, I easily cleaved through a few dozen bodies on the street before anyone else from our group caught up to me.

While killing zombies with one slash, I'd sometimes use my knife to dig it deep into a deadhead's chest cavity before dragging it to someplace else where a group needed to huddle up and tumble down. And with their low motor skills, it was already hard for them to get up and I'd easily take care of them with a boot stomp.

And of course, the faster ones had already made their way to the scene of the explosions but I did make sure to snipe some of them with my rifle as their backs were turned against me. Because for some reason, the "Big Mama" was just a feeding zone for the dead even though it was one of their own.

I'm not entirely sure if it was a new thing because we have seen bloated once before but they were almost always in secluded areas where the sun couldn't shine.

Also, we'd always see them getting brought over food—not being the food themselves—and in the most fucked up sense, it was eating part of itself or part of its creation but it seemed like I forgot something crucial:

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"Ilana, how big was it again?"

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[Easily over 800 pounds. It's bloated as shit and it had a ton of babies still stuck in it. Like seven or so still with the umbilical cords attached were crawling around but there could be more inside. It's in this open space where there are signs of buildings demolished. I'm not entirely sure but that's what I saw before I sent the drone in.]

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"Huh."

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[What now?]

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"Nevermind. As long as its gone."

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[With two C4s? Not a chance.]

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"Still check."

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[These ones have happy putty on them too?]

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"Not the backups, no. Still check."

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[I heard you the first time.]

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At this point, I was just feeling uneasy for some reason and this was almost always the tell-tale sign of trouble. But yeah, Ilana and June flew several laps around the area and didn't see shit—but I still kept a larger radius of detection around me. It'll only take a second of carelessness for any of us to warrant a bullet to the head and no one's clocking out unless I fucking said so.

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