The Undead
A Radio Call In WalMart?
It’s been almost a month after all these people came into our home and we had 4 more people come in. Paul and Edie Sutherland with their twin boys Phoenix and Nyck are their names. Edie had told us how they barely escaped a huge Pack of almost 200. In all my time, I’ve never even heard of a Pack being that large. Now with all these people living in the house, I think it would be a great time to get out and go to the Wal-Mart a few miles out of town. They had things that the stores around here don’t have and it would be good to find some more things as well. I had gotten up early in the morning and started on the last of the breakfast food we had so there’s one thing I needed to put down on a list. I took the pad and pen I always kept with me and checked throughout the whole kitchen and even the house and writing down things I would hopefully find.
When I had finished my list and everyone had eaten their fill, we piled into the vehicles and they all followed me. We passed through the town with speed and soon we pulled up the parking lot that was riddled with a few deserted cars and trucks. We got out of the vehicles with our weapons and made our way into the store. I grabbed 2 shopping carts leaning my shot gun into the part where a child would sit and walked with my sister and Dante. I picked up some more food along with snacks that would last a long time and some more canned food. I was very surprised to see that a lot of stuff wasn’t taken from the store. The only thing that was really taken was bread and milk. What the hell can you do with bread and Milk? Felicity went off on her own as I kept looking through the isles for anything that would be good and then I remembered Felicity’s birthday is coming up in a week. I need to find something she would like.
I pushed the carts through the store and over to the jewelry department where I got behind the counter and grabbed a set of keys and unlocked the glass doors. I picked up a cross necklace that I knew she would love along with a matching bracelet and I stuck it into my pocket. I grabbed a few rings for myself and slipped them onto my fingers before pushing the carts away and going over to the clothes. I picked up a few t-shirts for myself and for Felicity before moving over to the sporting goods area. I picked up some new camo, coolers, Ice packs, and fishing equipment. Then I rolled over to the gun and picked up anything that would be of use along with bullets and scopes for the rifles. I strolled over to where the stock room entrance was and left my cart sitting there and took my shotgun with me as I headed back there to check it out. I found a wooden crate with more rifles and some shotguns in there and I placed the guns into the cart with the others and I spotted some ammo and took that as well. I think when we all leave here, we should hit up the gun shop that’s just across the street.
I think I’ll take Dante with me since he was in the service. I found boxes and boxed of other vegetables and even some soups that weren’t even put out on the shelves so I grabbed those up and put them into the cart as well. I left the stockroom and walked around to the other places before meeting up with everyone. All the people including my sister had at least 2 carts full of things either for personal gain or for everyone. I looked around for Dante seeing that he wasn’t with the group and I spotted him over at the electronics. I walked over towards him as he picked up a CD.
“Pantera…They’re pretty good.” I said smiling and making him jump almost out of his skin.
“Sorry I didn’t mean to scare you.” I said laughing.
“It’s alright. I was just looking through some of these. Most of which I have.”
“I’ve taken all the Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Slipknot, Bullet For My Valentine, Three Days Grace, Black Veil Brides, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Godsmack, and a few other albums.” I said picking up a random CD and looking at it.
“How do you manage to listen to all of them?”
“I used to listen to them a lot when Felicity and I had to leave our home and we traveled all these miles to get here. Now I listen to them only when I have to take out a Pack.” I explained putting the CD back.
“So basically hardly ever?”
“Not necessarily but I don’t listen to them much in the wintertime because of the Strays and Packs being so scarce.” I said shaking my head.
“Oh I think I get it now. So where are we off too after this?”
“There’s a gun shop across the road and I think we could find something to add to the arsenal we have.” I said as we walked back over to the others.
“Sounds good to me. Are the others coming with us?”
“No. We need to be in and out.” I said shaking my head no as we joined the group.
“In and out of where?”
“The gun shop across the road. Dante and I are going to see if there’s anything we could use.” I said putting the gun over my shoulder.
“What are we supposed to do?”
“Get all the gas cans you can get a hold of and siphon those cars and trucks out there for fuel.” I said and the CB began to crackle like someone was trying to get a hold of us. I went over and picked up the mike.
“Is someone trying to reach the Guardians?” I asked pushing the button on the side.
“God I can’t believe I finally got a hold of someone!”
“Do you need a place to stay?” I asked smiling at the man’s voice.
“Yes we do.”
“We? How many people are with you?” I questioned.
“There are 5 of us plus 5 children and 10 dogs.”
“Do you have any food or weapons? Clothing?” I asked looking over at my sister.
“We have enough food to probably make it to where you are, we have several hand guns, ammo, and clothing. We also have 60 gallons of fuel.”
“Wow…so what is your current location so I can give you some directions?” I asked leaning against the shopping cart.
“We are currently in Las Vegas Nevada.”
“Do you have enough food and fuel to get to Tennessee?”
“Yeah I think so.”
“Alright now listen carefully. If you can write this information down, please do so. Leave Nevada and come into Tennessee towards Nashville. Go through that city and straight to Knoxville. It’s not hard to find just follow the road signs. Anyways, go out of Knoxville and follow the green and black markers. The Markers are broken fishing poles with the green and black checkered bandanas attached to the top. It’s not hard to miss. If the markers are on a different road you take it. You’ll know it’s my home when you see those markers all the way up my driveway. Now this is very important…do not, I repeat, do not enter my driveway until I motion you in. I will explain when you get here. Do you understand?” I said explaining the directions. I hope these people don’t want to know why to keep their cars on the road until they get here.
“We understand and I’ve written everything you said down. We’ll see you in a couple of days.”
“Alright and pick anyone else up that needs our help. We need all the people we can get here.” I said and he said he understood and there was silence. I attached the mike back to the top of the CB.
“Who were they?”
“We’ll know when they get here. Let’s get what we need to get done and head back to the house. I need to set up some new sleeping places for the people that are coming.” I said pushing my carts away and going to the bedding isle. I picked up 9 pillows and some bed sets along with some other blankets. I pushed my carts back with the others where they were waiting with the gas cans and their shopping carts full of things.
We left the store and loaded everything before Dante and I ran across the street to the gun shop. I broke each glass that covered the guns and pulled them out and handing them to Dante. I grabbed box after box of ammunition and more scopes and silencers for the rifles. We both went to the back where there were more guns but we wouldn’t be able to carry them all. I picked up the radio on my belt.
“Felicity come in.” I said radioing for her.
“What’s up Serenity?”
“Have everyone get back into the cars and drive over to the gun shop across the road. There are more weapons than we can carry.” I said looking at the boxes.
“Ammo too?”
“Yeah. Just get everyone over here.” I said as Dante opened one of the boxes.
“We’ll be right over.”
“10-4” I said before clipping my radio back onto my belt. I watched as Dante went through one of the boxes.
“What’s in there?” I asked bending down and looking in the box.
“Garand Rifles, Machine guns, pistols, and hand-held explosives like potato mashers and pineapple grenades. This is military weaponry.”
“I’ll go out and see if they’re here.” I said leaving him and going to the front where they pulled up. I walked out the door and showed them where the weapons are and we loaded all of them into the cars and trucks. We got every last bullet belt or single bullet box and put them into the bed of the truck. I got into the truck with everyone else and headed back to the house.
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After loading all the supplies and weapons into the house, I put a box of belts next to the machine gun in my room and the rest were put in the basement. I took the pillows, bed sets, and extra blankets I had gotten and I placed them accordingly on the floor of the living room. I didn’t want anyone staying in the bedrooms upstairs because of the lack of heat there was. I made the makeshift beds look presentable.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~M. SHADOWS’ POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat around watching the children play with the dogs and just being as happy as they could be after losing so many people.
“Matt!” I looked towards Johnny as he ran over towards me with a paper in his hand. I stood to my feet and towered over the short man.
“What is it Short Shit?” I said smiling.
“I got someone on the radio and they offered us a place to have shelter.” He handed me the paper and I read over it.
“Tennessee? That’s a 2 day drive from here.” I said looking back at him.
“I know but they are expecting us. They call themselves The Guardians. I think it’s the best chance we have to find other people and not be alone out here. Soon we’ll run out of ammo and food. Maybe they have some kind of store near them where we can get up supplies.”
“That’s the first intelligible thing you’ve said in a long time Johnny. Round up the others and get everything packed into the cars. We’re leaving in a few minutes.” I said and Johnny ran off towards Jimmy who was chasing some animal. I got the children and our dogs put into the cars and helped the guys load up everything and soon we headed out. I know we have a lot of gas but we may have to siphon a few abandoned cars to get there and have a little extra to give to them as a thanks.
When I had finished my list and everyone had eaten their fill, we piled into the vehicles and they all followed me. We passed through the town with speed and soon we pulled up the parking lot that was riddled with a few deserted cars and trucks. We got out of the vehicles with our weapons and made our way into the store. I grabbed 2 shopping carts leaning my shot gun into the part where a child would sit and walked with my sister and Dante. I picked up some more food along with snacks that would last a long time and some more canned food. I was very surprised to see that a lot of stuff wasn’t taken from the store. The only thing that was really taken was bread and milk. What the hell can you do with bread and Milk? Felicity went off on her own as I kept looking through the isles for anything that would be good and then I remembered Felicity’s birthday is coming up in a week. I need to find something she would like.
I pushed the carts through the store and over to the jewelry department where I got behind the counter and grabbed a set of keys and unlocked the glass doors. I picked up a cross necklace that I knew she would love along with a matching bracelet and I stuck it into my pocket. I grabbed a few rings for myself and slipped them onto my fingers before pushing the carts away and going over to the clothes. I picked up a few t-shirts for myself and for Felicity before moving over to the sporting goods area. I picked up some new camo, coolers, Ice packs, and fishing equipment. Then I rolled over to the gun and picked up anything that would be of use along with bullets and scopes for the rifles. I strolled over to where the stock room entrance was and left my cart sitting there and took my shotgun with me as I headed back there to check it out. I found a wooden crate with more rifles and some shotguns in there and I placed the guns into the cart with the others and I spotted some ammo and took that as well. I think when we all leave here, we should hit up the gun shop that’s just across the street.
I think I’ll take Dante with me since he was in the service. I found boxes and boxed of other vegetables and even some soups that weren’t even put out on the shelves so I grabbed those up and put them into the cart as well. I left the stockroom and walked around to the other places before meeting up with everyone. All the people including my sister had at least 2 carts full of things either for personal gain or for everyone. I looked around for Dante seeing that he wasn’t with the group and I spotted him over at the electronics. I walked over towards him as he picked up a CD.
“Pantera…They’re pretty good.” I said smiling and making him jump almost out of his skin.
“Sorry I didn’t mean to scare you.” I said laughing.
“It’s alright. I was just looking through some of these. Most of which I have.”
“I’ve taken all the Avenged Sevenfold, Five Finger Death Punch, Disturbed, Slipknot, Bullet For My Valentine, Three Days Grace, Black Veil Brides, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Godsmack, and a few other albums.” I said picking up a random CD and looking at it.
“How do you manage to listen to all of them?”
“I used to listen to them a lot when Felicity and I had to leave our home and we traveled all these miles to get here. Now I listen to them only when I have to take out a Pack.” I explained putting the CD back.
“So basically hardly ever?”
“Not necessarily but I don’t listen to them much in the wintertime because of the Strays and Packs being so scarce.” I said shaking my head.
“Oh I think I get it now. So where are we off too after this?”
“There’s a gun shop across the road and I think we could find something to add to the arsenal we have.” I said as we walked back over to the others.
“Sounds good to me. Are the others coming with us?”
“No. We need to be in and out.” I said shaking my head no as we joined the group.
“In and out of where?”
“The gun shop across the road. Dante and I are going to see if there’s anything we could use.” I said putting the gun over my shoulder.
“What are we supposed to do?”
“Get all the gas cans you can get a hold of and siphon those cars and trucks out there for fuel.” I said and the CB began to crackle like someone was trying to get a hold of us. I went over and picked up the mike.
“Is someone trying to reach the Guardians?” I asked pushing the button on the side.
“God I can’t believe I finally got a hold of someone!”
“Do you need a place to stay?” I asked smiling at the man’s voice.
“Yes we do.”
“We? How many people are with you?” I questioned.
“There are 5 of us plus 5 children and 10 dogs.”
“Do you have any food or weapons? Clothing?” I asked looking over at my sister.
“We have enough food to probably make it to where you are, we have several hand guns, ammo, and clothing. We also have 60 gallons of fuel.”
“Wow…so what is your current location so I can give you some directions?” I asked leaning against the shopping cart.
“We are currently in Las Vegas Nevada.”
“Do you have enough food and fuel to get to Tennessee?”
“Yeah I think so.”
“Alright now listen carefully. If you can write this information down, please do so. Leave Nevada and come into Tennessee towards Nashville. Go through that city and straight to Knoxville. It’s not hard to find just follow the road signs. Anyways, go out of Knoxville and follow the green and black markers. The Markers are broken fishing poles with the green and black checkered bandanas attached to the top. It’s not hard to miss. If the markers are on a different road you take it. You’ll know it’s my home when you see those markers all the way up my driveway. Now this is very important…do not, I repeat, do not enter my driveway until I motion you in. I will explain when you get here. Do you understand?” I said explaining the directions. I hope these people don’t want to know why to keep their cars on the road until they get here.
“We understand and I’ve written everything you said down. We’ll see you in a couple of days.”
“Alright and pick anyone else up that needs our help. We need all the people we can get here.” I said and he said he understood and there was silence. I attached the mike back to the top of the CB.
“Who were they?”
“We’ll know when they get here. Let’s get what we need to get done and head back to the house. I need to set up some new sleeping places for the people that are coming.” I said pushing my carts away and going to the bedding isle. I picked up 9 pillows and some bed sets along with some other blankets. I pushed my carts back with the others where they were waiting with the gas cans and their shopping carts full of things.
We left the store and loaded everything before Dante and I ran across the street to the gun shop. I broke each glass that covered the guns and pulled them out and handing them to Dante. I grabbed box after box of ammunition and more scopes and silencers for the rifles. We both went to the back where there were more guns but we wouldn’t be able to carry them all. I picked up the radio on my belt.
“Felicity come in.” I said radioing for her.
“What’s up Serenity?”
“Have everyone get back into the cars and drive over to the gun shop across the road. There are more weapons than we can carry.” I said looking at the boxes.
“Ammo too?”
“Yeah. Just get everyone over here.” I said as Dante opened one of the boxes.
“We’ll be right over.”
“10-4” I said before clipping my radio back onto my belt. I watched as Dante went through one of the boxes.
“What’s in there?” I asked bending down and looking in the box.
“Garand Rifles, Machine guns, pistols, and hand-held explosives like potato mashers and pineapple grenades. This is military weaponry.”
“I’ll go out and see if they’re here.” I said leaving him and going to the front where they pulled up. I walked out the door and showed them where the weapons are and we loaded all of them into the cars and trucks. We got every last bullet belt or single bullet box and put them into the bed of the truck. I got into the truck with everyone else and headed back to the house.
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After loading all the supplies and weapons into the house, I put a box of belts next to the machine gun in my room and the rest were put in the basement. I took the pillows, bed sets, and extra blankets I had gotten and I placed them accordingly on the floor of the living room. I didn’t want anyone staying in the bedrooms upstairs because of the lack of heat there was. I made the makeshift beds look presentable.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~M. SHADOWS’ POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I sat around watching the children play with the dogs and just being as happy as they could be after losing so many people.
“Matt!” I looked towards Johnny as he ran over towards me with a paper in his hand. I stood to my feet and towered over the short man.
“What is it Short Shit?” I said smiling.
“I got someone on the radio and they offered us a place to have shelter.” He handed me the paper and I read over it.
“Tennessee? That’s a 2 day drive from here.” I said looking back at him.
“I know but they are expecting us. They call themselves The Guardians. I think it’s the best chance we have to find other people and not be alone out here. Soon we’ll run out of ammo and food. Maybe they have some kind of store near them where we can get up supplies.”
“That’s the first intelligible thing you’ve said in a long time Johnny. Round up the others and get everything packed into the cars. We’re leaving in a few minutes.” I said and Johnny ran off towards Jimmy who was chasing some animal. I got the children and our dogs put into the cars and helped the guys load up everything and soon we headed out. I know we have a lot of gas but we may have to siphon a few abandoned cars to get there and have a little extra to give to them as a thanks.
Notes
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