Get your motor running

They had gotten twenty two empty beer bottles. "Now what Country?" Doc ask him.

Listen up the Old man and Amanda made this stuff up, and it can be really dangerous if it's done wrong, Cappy you got the battery, wood grain alcohol?"

 "Yep its all over there", Country turned to his head where Cappy was pointing.

"Mom did you get the fertilizer? Becca you got the water,"?

They both answered yes.

"Heres what got, we are going to make home percussion dynamite, each of us will need to very careful, you spill any of this we will be in trouble got me?"

No one spoke a word they all knew that the job at hand would have to be done and done fast! It had taken about twenty minutes to brew up all the materials. "Okay two more things we need, Doc , go get some of that cat litter five pounds will do the trick, Cappy I need you to do something for me lets talk", Country pulled Cappy aside. Doc went after the cat litter, They didn't have any cats, they used the litter in the clay pots that Carla grew herbs in.

  "Cappy what I need is a remote of sorts that will reach out lets say hundred yards, so I can set off each one, using the same remote, can you do that?"

   "Cappy thought for a moment, "Yeah I can do that a T.V. remote will do it"

"You read my mind Cappy".

   "Okay will do my best to make it happen before the sun comes up", He turned and hurried away.

Country stood there, scanning the eastern side of the mesa. Amanda had walked up to him and grabbed his hand. "You know these people can more dangerous than those zombies".

"I know, thats why when I go set them charges I need ya'll up here watching my back, need to keep any distraction off my back", He turned and looked in her eyes. smiled and kissed her.

  "Scumbag of  a man, to shot that woman like that, it just down right pisses me off, think I'm gonna kill that man Woof, what you think?"

    Woof had bellied up and was laying next to Sarge, He just gave him that look that all dogs do when someone speaks to them.

   "Wish you talk buddy".

 Woof could talk, but not like his people, and if he could he would agree with Sarge, in the time before this time, people like that man down there was best avoided by animals, they knew that smell all to well the smell of cruelty and fear mixed together, people who fought dogs before this time, had that smell, he remember from being a pup when his father had been killed in a dogfight, he hated humans like that.

  Woof turned his head and saw the men approaching, Sarge knew who it was, by Woof's reaction.

""Sarge what do you have?" Josiah ask him.

"Take a look for your self".

The Old man took the binoc's and peered through them, he saw the dead woman, and he knew she wasn't a zombie. He saw men getting ready to pull out of the encampment.

                                                          What they couldn't hear

"All right boys shut up and listen up. From what our scouts told me, there seems to be people upon a mesa about five miles south of us. Jimmy you take the jeeps, and fifteen men with you, I want them heavily armed, We'll come in from the west, while your hold there attention we will sneak up the west wall, and taken them, I don't want any of the women killed, just take the men out, do you understand me?"

  Jimmy nodded his head, "Yes sir"

"Good, and seeing that our lead scout found the place, I think it's only fitting that he gets his first choice of the women".

  The man smiled, "Hey boos can do as I please with her?"

"You can, but this time don't kill her when you're done with her, after she is shared then you can have her to finish you're perverted pleasure". he said with a laugh.

 "You four stay here, guard these vans, I don't want no fucking around you here me".

The men nodded, they knew that if they didn't listen to him, they would be strung out for zombie food, thats one fate they didn't want to have. They all have seen what happen to people that were strung out, the pain and agony they went through while being eaten alive. They didn't want any of that.

   "I want to be at least twenty meters apart from each other, take them down one shot, don't really care where you hit them but we need to bring them down, we'll have the rising sun to the left of us, so that shouldn't be a problem", The men look at the Old man, and moved into position and waited.

   The men below them began leaving, some to the east and what he counted five the west. He look at his watch, another twenty minutes the morning sun will be breaking the horizon. They all waited in silence,

     Amanda, Cappy, Gail, Linda, and the Doc all had weapons scanning the area around Country as he moved from place to place setting  the homemade explosives. Rebecca was holding the remote. Cappy had rigged an old T.V. remote so that each button would set off each explosive, it was simple, to use, press one once number one went off, press it twice number twenty went off. He had enhanced the infrared to reach about 100 yards from the top of the mesa, that was cutting it close, but that was the best he could do with the time he had. . Country had told them that he set off twenty first, that would bring the assault team at the base of the Mesa, it should drive them back about twenty yards and he would set off the rest.

He continued the zig zag pattern he had started, once he had set the last one he began to make his way back, that's when trouble began, damn zombies had started to gather near the base of the mesa, they hadn't seen him, heard him, or smelled him, they were clawing at the edge of the mesa, Cappy had seen this, and made his way down into the mesa,

Country looked behind him the sun had started to break the morning sky, he was going to be in the middle of this shit storm if he didn't figure a way out, thats when he spotted Cappy, he had exited the mesa, on the south side, carrying an extra rifle, and ammo, Country made his way over to him. Cappy smiled and handed him a rifle, and pointed to  the south east to small mound, Country knew what to do , Amanda had seen this happen as did the others, Country waved and pointed, the ones on mesa knew. Amanda was worried about him, Rebecca, began to tear up.

  "let me have that Rebecca, this will work", Amanda said in calm voice as she took the remote.

"Alright spread out take aim I know the sun will be in your eyes, so aim low, you don't have to kill them, just shot for the legs that will slow them down, got it".

The others nodded their heads.

   The sun had cleared the horizon, shots rang out form the above the encampment the four men went down. the men moved, By the time they had gotten down to it three of the men were dead, one was wounded.

   "So what do we have here?" Josiah said as look down at the wounded man. He could see the fear in the mans eyes.

   "You got to help me please" the man beg.

"I don't think so" Sarge said as he stepped on the mans wounded arm, causing extreme pain, the man cried out in agony.

 "Maybe if you talk we just might, but that depends on what you tell us, got it!"

The man nodded his head. Dave had stood over the and put his foot on his leg, pulled out his knife and brought it down to the calf, the mans eye's widen in terror  and applied pressure, "think this will keep him, dont you guys agree?"

 The man smiled, " I think so, why not give it try, I figure the zombies will be around in twenty minutes or so, they will enjoy this lunch, especially a live one".

Dave applied more press the man began to cry,"I'll tell you everything just don't take my leg pleaseee".

 "Good now talk" Josiah ask the man.

It didn't take long for the man to tell them the plans.

  Dave still held the knife to the mans leg, J.L. had walk over to vans. he saw they were lock down, looking around he found a crowbar, and busted the look apart, and pulled open the doors, what he saw stunned hi. in the van were women and children maybe ten all together. They ahd huddle back, the women stood in front of the children. "Hey Josih you better come see this".

 Josiah walked over to the back of the van. "J.L. open the other one".

One of the ladies stepped forward, "Take me, leave the others I will do anything and everything you want".

He stood quite, he knew now what type of people these men were, "any thing and everything?"
 he said.

"Yes".

  "Good, whats your name and why are you here, thats anything and everything I want".

"I'm Gloria, we were taken from a small encampment about a month ago, these men killed everyone, but the women, and girls"

  "Where was the encampment at?"

"Up near Colorado springs, we were on way to a place that we had made contact with a man named George we were talking to, ", Josiah knew who she was talking about they had been in contact with George for months now, as a matter of fact they were in the process of setting up some trade with George and his group. "Go on please"

  "Anyway we were a day out when they hit us, in the middle of the night, it took no time for the massacre to end, we were totally unprepared for this, I know the damn zombies were a problem but people like these were worse, never made to see George". she hung her head.

  "What about the dead woman?"

 The lady held back her tears, "when they are done with us, and tire of us, they shoot us, I heard them talking about killing all the adult women, and turning the children into sex slaves".

   That pissed Josiah off, Dave, Sarge "bring that scumbag of human over here".

Dave and Sarge took the man by the arms and dragged him to the back of the van, the man look up at the woman.

   "How does it feel?" she sneered at him. the man said nothing.

The lady stepped down out of the, and got in the mans face and spit at him.

Josiah pulled his long knife out and handed it to the woman. with out a word she looked the man again. "No pleaseeee don't let her do it" he pleads with the men.

 She look at Josiah, he shook his head, and then she plunged the knife into the man's crotch, the man yelled out Dave and Sarge let him go as dropped to ground and withered in pain.

  "Damn" Doug said.

"Mommy, is it okay? came the little voice out of the van.

"Yes honey it is,".

Thats when they heard the first explosion, Damn it was loud.

"We need to move", Josiah said.

"What about us?" The woman said.

"You can drive follow us, give us five minute head start". Another blast permeated the morning.

Amanda had set off the first charge, what they didn't expect was how loud and powerful it was, she had waited until the men had got with twenty five yards of the mesa, she figured that  would draw the zombies to the men, and distract them, she was right, as soon as the zombies began to move she set off another one. They had made percussion explosives, the way they would kill you is if you were on top of them when they went off, They were all far enough away so the noisy wouldn't disorientate them, but being down there in the middle of it all, that was another story, she pressed one, then five Bang, . Country and Cappy opened up on the confused men, take shots at their legs to bring them down. Amanda and the rest had taken aim at the jeeps with the fifty cals mounted on then they shot out the tires first then the drivers, then the gunners. If the attacking force had been better organized the picks wouldn't of been as easy as they were. within twenty minutes the melee had subsided a bit, another half hour the zombies were having on the wounded men below. Doc got up and went down into the mesa to let Country and Cappy in.

  "Think that will do it", Carla said.

"You think so?" came the voice of the man behind them, "weapons down ladies easy now".

   Carla and the rest turned and say five men, she knew they had scaled the western slope of the mesa.

"I want that one first" one of the men said pointing to Ellie.

 " In a bit but first the men folk need to be dealt with don't think ladies" the man said with a laugh.

Doc was about to reenter the the top of the mesa to grab his med bag when he saw and heard what the men said. He bolted the door from the inside and went as fast as he could to COuntry and Cappy.