Read The Adventures of Steve and Terry: The Zombie Chronicles for Free Online Page A

greeted
them. The leader checked the hallway out before looking back at Steve and
Terry. “You two go first.”
    “No way!” Steve said. “We’re not
trained mercenaries.”
    “Making you the most expendable
members of the group.”
    “We’re not going in that creepy
hallway unless—” the leader pointed his gun at Steve. “You force us to at
gunpoint,” Steve finished quietly. “Damn.”
    Steve and Terry looked into the
mirrored hallway hesitantly. With a nudge from a mercenary’s gun they stepped
into the hallway. Both looked at each other, then to the far side where a
second door stood. Steve nodded at Terry, who gave a confirming nod. With girly
roars and arms flailing over their heads they charged down the hallway. They
reached the second door and nothing happened. Both stood by the door, hands on
knees, breathing heavily.
    “Well,” Terry yelled back. “It’s
safe for you pussies to come in.”
    The leader led the way with three
others behind him. The leader placed something over the keypad of the second
door. Steve and Terry made their way out of the hallway. Steve had just stepped
out into the other room when the vault door closed. He spun around, but Terry
had been trapped on the other side.
    Terry stopped dead as the vault
door closed in his face. He turned back to the mercenaries in the hallway with
him, but they hadn’t noticed. “Hey, guys, the door closed.”
    The leader’s head snapped around.
“Dammit.” The soldiers rushed to the door, trying to open it, but it wouldn’t
budge. Two of the mercenaries started back to the other door when two saw-blade-like
projectiles launched from the walls, cutting both men almost completely in
half.
    “Holy crap!” Terry cried, dropping
to the floor in the fetal position.
    The leader and the remaining mercenary
were in the center of the hallway when a laser beam connected between two
mirror points. It raced across the hallway, cutting the first man in half. The
leader did a flip over the laser, saving himself. The laser reappeared,
shooting toward the leader at blinding speed. At the last second it turned into
a vast net. The leader swore in defeat as the net cut him into a hundred
pieces.
    Back outside the vault, the
remaining men were yelling at Collins to get the door open. Finally Collins
overrode the security protocol and the door reopened with the release of the
airlock. Terry fell out of the opening door to his back, breathing heavily.
    “Oh thank heavens!” he cried.
    The rest looked into the hallway
to see the dead men, including the leader who was lying in cubed pieces. Angela
looked down at the almost hyperventilating fat man. “How did you survive?”
    “The mirrors only extended to
about two feet in front of the vault door,” Terry said. “I just took two steps
back and the laser missed me completely. I’m actually surprised the others
didn’t do it. That leader guy just stood there and let himself get cut to
bits.”
    “Follow me,” Collins said,
stepping into the hallway and proceeding to the second door. He opened it and
they entered a completely white room. A small egg shaped piece of metal sat in
the center of the room. Collins stepped to the egg and hit an almost invisible
button on its side. A small electronics board slid out and Collins connected to
it. Suddenly a small holographic image appeared above the egg. It showed the
Nest full of people walking through hallways, in labs, in the cafeteria,
everywhere. And then the image showed an elevator door open and two zombies
stumble off. They quickly attacked people, and it slowly spread from there.
    “How did two zombies get in an
elevator?” Steve asked.
    “Let’s find out,” Collins said. He
hit some keys and the holographic image changed to a leprechaun.
    “What the hell is that?” Terry
asked.
    “The Egg,” Collins said.
    The leprechaun looked at everyone
before speaking. “Hello, what can I do for ya?” it asked in an Irish accent.
    “Don’t play dumb