Anno Zombus Year 1 (Book 9): September Read Online Free Page B

twenty or more, were all on the ground, remains of their brains leaking from their devastated heads, before the rest of us got anywhere near.
     
    Wiping their blades clean, the three of them watched as Viking and Wall dragged the corpses off two by two and dumped them in a hastily dug pit.  They had been burning the carcasses until now, but a few words to Apocalypse Mum about my theory of cremated Dead causing some or most of the environmental damage we have been seeing prompted a change of standing orders regarding disposal of the Dead.
     
    Once we made it back to town, Giant radioed that we were good for pickup, a few moments later we saw one of The Boss’s choppers almost silently gliding down out of the sky, barely two minutes after that we were airborne once more.  A short while later I could see Uluru appear in the distance, growing closer and closer with each passing second.  My excitement grew, I would soon see Apocalypse Girl once more.  It seemed almost forever since I had last seen her, though in reality it was barely two days.  Knowing that I had a two day on, four days off rotation was small comfort, but small comfort is better than none at all.
     
    The entrance of the AR-18 facility yawned open to admit our chopper, and moments later we landed.  With a clank the hangar door closed high above us.  Moments later I had Apocalypse Girl in my arms, Apocalypse Dog bounding about and barking his welcome, and then I was whisked away for debriefing.
     
    The Boss had already laid out a map for our convenience, all the sightings of Righteous movements pinned out, possible locations of bases marked clearly in red.  Giant was more easily able to pinpoint where we had been, describing the ledge in detail and putting her finger on it almost instantly.  To the north and a little to the east, maybe a hundred kilometres from the ledge was a small red dot, signifying a possible base.  The Boss nodded once, then tapped the red dot.  “So far, this is the most likely spot.  There are one or two more, here,” she indicated another couple of potential hotspots.  “And here as well.  Thank you for the intel, guys, you’re dismissed.”
     
    Apocalypse Girl followed me out, throwing an arm around me as we walked.  The two technicians we were mildly friendly with passed us in the hallway, nodding in greeting as we made our way to our quarters, Apocalypse Dog bounding along behind us.

September 5 th Year 1 A.Z.
    morning
    Just as I was waking, Apocalypse Girl greeted me with a kiss.  She’d been sitting next to the bed, staring at me, waiting for me to wake up.  Times like this I almost forget that the world ended.  After a while, we got dressed and left, heading to the mess hall for breakfast.  Before we got so much as twenty paces down the hall, The Boss intercepted us.  “We need to discuss your extra-terrestrial encounters again, I’m afraid.”  She told us.  The last thing I needed this morning.  “Meet me in my office in an hour, I’ve got a few other things to go over first.”  With that she sauntered off.  Apocalypse Girl rolled her eyes.
     
    I had no idea what I was going to tell her that she didn’t already know.  We encountered Fluffy the schrandfelths shortly after he crashed to Earth, healed him with the aid of his own technology, and spent a short while discussing the situation with him before he was beamed aboard another craft of his species.  Other than that, there was another encounter, when I myself was beamed up.  Neither of these were particularly lengthy, The Boss knew that, and I was pretty damned sure that I had told her everything that I could remember about it.  Oh well, another useless meeting with my mother-out-law. Yay.
     
    The pair of techs were just finishing their meals, nodding at us in greeting once again, and Apocalypse Girl and I took their freshly vacated seats once we had appropriated some food for ourselves.  While we ate, Tiny came to join us, The Twin