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the fuck down.  Several Dead skulls burst apart by the time she had to reload, by which time the rest of us had caught up and had begun taking shots at the Dead.  One of the newcomers screamed, and tore away from a Dead one, leaving a good chunk of his arm in its slavering jaws.  His companion handed him a large wrench before he and Foreman fell back to our position to regroup.  To his credit, the bitten man felled a good dozen Dead at least before they overwhelmed him.
     
    Unfortunately, the number of Dead that had found their way into the tunnel appeared endless, the few the newcomer had slain in his dying moments hardly causing them to slow down.  Our bullets, despite every round fired finding its way into the head of a Dead, slowed them only a little.  We fell back, slowly, until we had a decent distance between us and the Dead.  The Colonel and Firecracker between them decided that the only real option was to punch our way through.  Redbeard mentioned that a few grenades will slow them down and separate them enough for a few of us to make it through, but we had no way of knowing just how many lay in the tunnel behind those we had just encountered.  The Colonel issued assault rifles to those of us capable of using them, and we emptied several clips into their ranks, killing many outright, but also shredding the bodies of those left standing.
     
    The Colonel ordered us to keep on firing, in fact to use up all the assault rifle ammo we had with us.    We complied, many of the Dead facing us simply disintegrating under the onslaught.  There were always more to replace them, however, a seemingly unending tide of walking Death that lusted for our Living flesh.
     
    Redbeard tossed grenade after grenade into the oncoming horde, scattering those standing, splattering the walls with a foul-looking, even fouler-smelling glorp.  He ran out of explosives long before the hallway was clear of Dead, however, and finally picked up a spare wrench, and threw it at the leading Dead, knocking its rotting head from its shoulders.
     
    Seeing this, the newcomers among us charged the horde, melee weapons held high.  Firecracker shouted at them not to be stupid, but one by one, they disappeared, making a tunnel through the Dead infesting our exit, and, drawing my sword, I quickly followed suit, Apocalypse Girl at my heels, the rest of our group behind her.
     
    We passed several newcomers that had fallen, The Colonel sparing one round for each of them that she saw to spare them any further pain as they were eaten by the Dead.  My sword sliced through more Dead skulls than I could count, and yet suddenly, there it was before me.  The gate, hanging from one small hinge, the grey gloom of day behind it beckoning me onward.
     
    I burst through the gate, Apocalypse Girl directly behind me, and we fell out into a huge, grey snowdrift, tumbling past still more Dead, the others falling with us, some of them past us.  We picked ourselves up, quick as we were able, and started running to the east, past any Dead, killing those close enough, but not daring to waste any time with it.
     
    Junior was no fool, but nobody knew if he had even heard the plan.  The best we could hope for would be that he waited until the last possible moment before detonating the nuke.  When that last moment occurred, however, remained variable.  We kept moving.
     
    At one point, I heard a scream from behind.  Whirling around, I drew my blade to see Auntie being grabbed by several Dead.  Her screams were drawing other nearby shamblers to her, almost sounding a Dinner Bell of the Dead.  Boy stood, staring at her, mouth wide open, and two nearby Dead fell on him, tearing at his flesh with their teeth.  Girl was nowhere to be seen, though we could easily hear her screams.
     
    Doctor and Nurse flew past me, stopping for nothing, and I turned back around to find Apocalypse Girl reaching for me to drag me along after them.  Redbeard and The Colonel caught