The Fall of Malton

The Fall of Malton

Blurb: Malton's quarantine has been set up, and the zombies have risen. They have executed over 75% of the population and are advancing towards Malton's few survivors. Captain Jace, a Trooper of the Federation has been ordered to strike Malton and find a weakness in the zombies. When they arrive however, they are shot down and stranded deep in zombie territory. Now they will have to find a way to escape Malton before its too late.

But something is stalking them in the shadows, something neither human or zombie, something which intends to finish them off...

Prologue

Time: Zero Hour, Mission Start Location: Above Malton Date: 1st November, 2007

A Skyhawk chinhook dived through the stormy skies of Malton and into Oblivion, above them was lightning so fierce it could fell even the strongest of sky scrapers, below was a city infested with thousands of zombies, all wanting a taste of meat. From the cockpit, Captain Jace could see them running through the streets, chasing after a lone group of survivors who were outnumbered a hundred to one. Captain Jace intended to save them once they were in position, the first phase involved gunning down an entire area of zombies before parajumping in.

Captain Jace was 32 years old, he had jet black hair, blue eyes and a small nose. A scar across his right cheek was another reminder of his last encounter with the zombies. "Fly low Smith, and prep the guns" he told the pilot, "Roger that, Sir" said Smith the pilot. Jace prepared to exit the cockpit, but decided to take another look at the survivors being chased.

They were a group of four, three men and a woman so it appeared. Jace promised himself again that he would save them, he turned and finally left. In the next room were seven of his squad members, another group led by Captain Shadow was flying to a different area in Malton but they would be up at the end of the mission.

"Alright there sir?" asked the cocky one of his team, Jack (Nicknamed Joker), Joker knew perfectly well that Jace wasn't the keenest flyer and often joked about it. Jace just ignored him and sat back down, waiting for the announcement. "Attention squad, we will initiating phase one in thirty seconds, better get on the guns now." yelled the intercom. As it said this, gun turrets ascended from the floor and the hatch began to open.

"That's our cue team, GO GO GO!" he yelled as the squad moved towards the turrets. Jace hopped on one himself and pulled out a pair of binoculars, he saw the survivors yet again rushing towards a heavily barricaded building. However the zombies were faster and they were about to be mauled. Jace didn't bother waiting for the signal and opened fire at the zombies, shredding them in half a second.

The survivors looked up in awe to see two gunships dive towards the city, they cheered as they passed overhead to the next group.

Chapter 1: Mission Start

As soon as the survivors were safe, Jace set the gun to maximum fire power and began shredding the zombies once again. Beside him, Jace and Serge (The tough one of the team) were gunning down everything in site: Buildings, Zombies, Cars and a statue of Malton's founder. Jace, for once was amused and laughed as an entire group of zombies were crushed by the statue. The zombies, now aware what was happening started to retreat much to Jace's delight.

"Ok boys lets gun these bastards down!" he yelled turning his aim to the largest and newest group of zombies, Bravo's Skyhawk Gunship began turning around to gun down Jace's new group whilst Delta's had taken to the North section of the city. But something caught Jace's eye as they passed around a roof top. "Zeds on the roof!" he yelled taking aim (Zeds was another term for zombies). The zombies dived forward, all twenty of them hoping to grab hold of the chinhook.

Jace and the others eliminated them along with help from the rotors on top of the helicopter, but more zombies were gathering on the rooftops and jumping like the others. Even Jace knew he couldn't shoot them all and after a few seconds he heard metal being scraped on top the helicopter. "Paulson, with me" yelled Jace opening the hatch to the roof." (Paulson was the crackshot of the team).

He climbed up and without looking, pulled out a pistol and shot the nearest zombie in the face. Jace then slipped and would of fallen if Paulson hadn't grabbed him. "Smith, stabilize!" he called out before kicking a zombie off the chopper to his doom. This mean't two things, one Jace and Paulson wouldn't fall off, the second is that more zombies could jump on.

Without thought, Jace pulled out his Assault Rifle and began firing at top speed, cutting through the zombies and sending body parts everywhere. One had the unfortunate encounter of falling into the rotors, his blood spewed all over the helicopter. As Jace took a step towards another zombie, the blood made him slip and he fell over the edge. He had only seconds to spare so he stabbed into the side of the helicopter.

The blade had been reinforced with the toughest of steel so it could penetrate metal, as he dangled over the fatal fall more zombies landed on top of the gunship and began overwhelming Paulson. Pulling out his second knife, he began climbing back up to the top only to slip as the helicopter began spinning around at a high speed.Jace grabbed back on and leapt forward, getting closer to the top but beginning to loose is grip as the helicopter spun round even more.

Jace finally made it back up and saw Paulson being punched through the stomach and thrown over the side. Over twenty zombies were clawing there way through and a couple were attempting to break the glass of the cockpit. Jace showed no mercy, pulling out a shotgun he blew their heads off before kicking another zombie over the edge. The zombies had forgotten about Paulson's dead corpse and so decided to kill Jace, only to meet their end themselves.

As the last of the zombies were slaughtered, the world turned into slow motion. He watched a figure on the rooftop's, something in dark robes aiming an RPG at the gunship. Jace dived through the hatch as the missile was fired, crashing into the tail rotor. "Attention all passengers" said Smith over the intercom as the alarm signal blared. "This is your pilot Smith speaking, we are going down so hold on tight, I repeat we are going down!"

Jace only watched in horor as the ground came closer and closer... then with a wrenching noise he blacked out.

Chapter 2: A turn for the worst

When Jace awoke, all he could feel was pain, he attempted to sit up only to find his legs buried under rubble. How they weren't broken was amazing but Jace was only concerned for his squad. With amazing strength he threw off the rubble and stood up calling out: "Jack! Serge! Hunter!" he yelled digging through the rubble searching for his friends.

The helicopter had crashed into multiple buildings before "Landing" in a nearby building, the wall had been torn apart and had set fire to multiple electronics. Then as Jace began to tire he saw it, a hand poking out of the rubble. He quickly rushed forward and pulled the man out, revealing to be Hunter (The Sharpshooter).

"Thanks boss" he said shaking Jace's hand, "Serge was buried next to me but he is unconscious and I don't think he can breath!". "No problem" replied Jace, "I'll get him out"