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that held me. I took the scalpel from her and freed Apocalypse Girl, Valkyrie and Viking.
“ Kill me.” Sister begged me. I held the scalpel up to my face, seeing the remains of Archers brain still attached. I told her no. “If you don't, I'll...” She started sobbing. Apocalypse Girl slapped her, hard.
    “ He died for the same reason we're all here. We've been injected with a potential vaccine, remember. Besides, we need you to get out of here.” Apocalypse Girl told her, flatly. The sounds of gunfire emanated from without. “Let me patch you up.” Sister relented, allowing Apocalypse Girl to clean and bandage her bite wound, wiping tears of terror from her cheeks.
    The Smart Couple entered the lab, followed by the guards that Archer had befriended. They took one look at his corpse, sighed, and offered us their aid anyway. One held out a bundle in our direction, the hilt of my katana sticking out, beckoning my hand. I reached out, drew it and felt complete once more.
    “ Anything else from The Colonel?” Asked Apocalypse Girl of Smart Girl, who replied in the negative. “Shit.” She turned to me and clarified. “Apparently they've gone and run into a bunch of Dead, more than The Colonel thinks they can break through easily, so they're going to hang about and take them out first. Basically, we're on our own here.” Shit.
    evening
The pair of guards took us through the hallways at breakneck pace, saying that a bunch of Dead had seemed to rise up from the lower levels, The Major was currently hard at work trying to fend them off and barricade their path, but seemed to not be having a great deal of luck at present. We would need to fight our way through the Dead, but we would at the very least not get shot at by his men.
    Turning a corner, we came face to ugly, fucked up face with several Dead. They seemed to just be standing there, ignoring everything, at least until they scented the blood from Sister's arm. My blade sliced through one head, Viking's hammer crushed another, our escort gunned down the remainder.
    The guards blasted our way through a couple more groups of Dead before we reached a stairwell leading downwards. I led the way, slicing apart the odd Dead one on the way down, Apocalypse Girl on my heels. My only concern was getting her to safety, now.
When we hit bottom, Apocalypse Girl pulled on my arm, saying that she needed to rest a while. I asked the guards if there was anywhere nearby that we might be able to hole up in overnight. She wasn't the only one exhausted by our ordeal. “There are a few rooms down here, yeah, we can arrange something easily enough.” Sure enough, we found some empty, darkened rooms, a series of them, leading into another part of The Facility. The best part was, the doors were not only solid fucking steel, they were easily sealed.
    “ Is it just me, or is it getting hot down here?” Sister asked of nobody in particular. Smart Guy reminded her that The Facility was built into the caldera of a volcano. “Yeah, well, so it isn't me then. Good.” She sounded worried. That was good, far better than terrified. “So, who's keeping an eye on me? Making sure I don't turn into one of ...”
    “ For fuck's sake, woman, if it comes to that I'll do it myself, but I don't think it will now,” Apocalypse Girl told her. “I've seen plenty of people bit before, by now you should have a really fucking nasty fever and the infection should be visibly crawling up your arm. You don't and it isn't. Get over it, you're going to live!”
    “ What if all that running was helping to stave it off?” Sister argued. Apocalypse Girl sighed in exasperation. “No, seriously, wouldn't that affect it, too? My heart beating faster?”
“ Based on everything we've seen, and we've seen more than I care to admit, physical exertion will only serve to help spread the infection. Amputation would work, at least theoretically, provided you manage to remove the affected area swiftly enough.” Smart Guy