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voice.
    Colt
spun around, as he backed out into a large hanger.
    The
hanger had several parked armoured vehicles inside. A quick glance
confirmed that this place was zombie free.
    ‘ You
are all going to die.’
    ‘ What
are you?’ asked Colt.
    Suddenly,
the ceiling collapsed in a shower of dust and brick. Colt stumbled
backwards, falling to his arse. Wide eyes looked up at the alien
creature walking out of the cloud of dust. A cold shiver ran down his
spine. It felt like his heart had stopped beating for one long moment
in time. ‘I am the bringer of death.’ Only now did Colt
realise that the alien wasn’t talking to him. It was, but it
wasn’t. At no point did it move its mouth. The alien’s
voice was speaking directly into his mind. This creature of insanity
was inside his head.
    ***
    ‘ Give
him some time,’ said Andy, as he fired up the mini-gun in the
back of the helicopter. Levi was sitting in the pilot’s seat,
as the metal helicopter rotors came into life. The noise of the
helicopter engines appeared to be firing up the zombies. The dead
were rushing the platform with speed and madness. They were charging
across the roof like a pack of wild dogs. Lisa, Shelly and Sheridan
stood near the steps of the raised helicopter pads. They picked their
shots, taking out the zombies, as they came up the stairs. The
mini-gun roared into life, as tracers flickered across the rooftop,
cutting through the horde approaching on the other side.
    ‘ Look
out!’ Lisa yelled.
    Zombies
were climbing up the side of the helicopter pad.
    They
were climbing up the sides all around them.
    ‘ Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck,’ chanted Shelly, as she rushed to the edge,
shooting down into their foreheads.
    ‘ I
need help here,’ said Sheridan, backing away from the stairs.
She slapped the last magazine into her handgun and opened fired, but
there were too many of them.
    ‘ Into
the chopper,’ ordered Lisa, but they were too late. The
helicopter was already going up into the air. Andy’s agonising
scream reached their ears, as two zombies pounced on the gunner. The
three women ducked down, as the helicopter lurched to the right,
knocking down the zombies that had made it onto the platform.
Gunshots boomed out of the helicopter interior. Shouting and swearing
could be heard, as the helicopter did a complete three hundred and
sixty-degree rotation in the air.
    ‘ No!’
Shelly screamed out, as teeth ripped into her Achilles tendon.
    Decaying
hands grabbed her leg, pulling her over the edge of the platform.
    Her
fingernails dug into the tarmac for purchase, but the wet conditions
were working against her.
    Lisa
slammed the butt of her gun into a zombies face, as they rushed at
her. She threw the empty weapon at another zombie. Sheridan turned
and ran. Lisa glanced at Shelly. The beautiful young woman was
dangling on the edge of the helicopter platform, as a zombie chewed
on her leg, dragging her off as it ate her. A fireball of destruction
illuminated the rooftop, as the helicopter dropped down sideways. The
explosion was so large that it wiped out all zombies in a thirty-foot
radius. The entire building shook. Part of the rotor slashed through
the air, decapitating everything in its path. Lisa pulled her handgun
from her trousers and put down several zombies, they were coming at
her from all sides.
    ‘ This
way,’ called Sheridan, running towards the edge of the rooftop.
    Lisa
ran after her, shooting anything that moved too close.
    They
both got to the edge of the roof.
    It
was a five-story drop.
    A
ladder led from the roof back down to the tarmac below.
    ‘ You
go first,’ ordered Lisa, as she turned to face the incoming
horde. Rotting faces fuelled with the lustful drive to eat their
flesh rushed at them.
    ***
    The
assault rifle kicked into life, but the alien was so quick. It used
the space in the hanger to sprint in a big circle around Colt. The
thing was so fast that it moved like a blur. Colt aimed slightly in
front of the alien and