Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

I was actually half- hoping that the situation wouldn't be as bad as I'm seeing right now.

If I simply close my eyes and think for a moment, I would be able to remember my time in this place vividly as if I'm still there. The memories I have from this place means a lot to me and seeing this place in such a sorry condition pulled on some heartstrings.

I've already killed a lot of the dead but it's something else seeing a huge number of them wearing the same uniform Kaley and I used to wear. Our uniform for males is a simple beige-green buttoned up shirt with short sleeves and green slacks. There's an embroidered name just above the chest pocket and the school logo in the center of the chest pocket itself. The female's uniform has the same color scheme and style though they're wearing a skirt instead of slacks and there's this little ribbon that they wear like a necktie.

There's several hundred of them wandering around aimlessly and the only ones that were not wearing the same uniform were either civilians or employees of the school.

It was just a depressing sight.

Their bodies are torn up from different sides and flooring and the walls where they are waddling through is a mess.

The group I'm with saw the feed and they gave the normal reaction. Kaley's expression is about the same as mine but I could notice that her breathing is a bit faster than normal.

There's a huge number of them banging at the gate but the problem is that there's still a lot pushing from behind. The gate was so sturdy and it managed to hold off several dead bodies trying to bend the welds of it. The bodies of the ones close to the gate were getting crushed due to the pressure and it almost amalgamated some of them due to the time that they were crushed in the same spot without moving.

Their hands that were raised is the only normal thing I could see from their kind.

If it wasn't for the uniforms that they're wearing, they would've been a huge blob with heads and arms sticking out. I could barely recognize their faces since a few that were close to each other have started eating each other's face off and what's left of their faces were a small part of their forehead and scalp.

One of them got attracted to the noise of our drone so it turned its head back to the direction of the noise. However, it was in the process of chewing off the ears of another student so it ripped its rotting ear clean taking some of the flesh from the back of its head with it. That allowed the other head next to it to partake from its meal and it managed to bite a small chunk off of it. The discolored flesh is just dangling from their mouths and there's several more things like this happening in that mass of almost amalgamated flesh.

"This is one fucked up homecoming." I thought to myself.

"You okay bro?" Jared asked.

"No, I'm Sky." I replied.

Tatiana and Alexei immediately snorted and I saw Kaley pursing her lips to a smile. Jared was shaking his head in disappointment while I saw Nikolas trying his hardest not to give a reaction.

"And my drill joke gets ignored?" I thought to myself.

"Be serious bro!" Jared exclaimed.

"Okay, okay. Hello, I'm Serious Ishiyama..." then Kaley proceeded to attack me.

"Alright I give up! Stop! I'm not gonna say I'm not affected by it but it's not enough to keep me awake at night. I've been through worse." I said after rubbing my shin.

"So, what's the plan?" Nikolas asked.

"Wait a bit, let me fly this thing around this place first. Jared, grab the other one inside and fly it straight to the other entrance where the small chapel is located." I answered.

"Small chapel? There's one inside?" Tatiana asked.

"Yep. There's also a soccer field missing a goal, a separate building for a canteen, a mini gymnasium apart from the normal gymnasium, and a mushroom park aside from the normal ones." I answered.

"Your school has a… lot of funds..." Alexei muttered.

I just smiled then I started to fly my drone further. After the front gate with a mass of meshed up zombies, a driveway is right next to it though there's a walkway and a guard house on the left. The walkway has benches that are made of stone and the whole walkway stretches towards the main building of the school. Right next to that is a basketball court and two volleyball courts next to each other in the open. There's also an elevated stage and a tool shed at the furthest part which marks the end of the school on the left-most side.

The main building has several hallways, small rooms, and it is only up to two floors. It is much wider than it is taller. Almost all of the lessons are held in the main building aside from PE classes. At the side of it is the mushroom park and the mini gymnasium. Further that place is the separate canteen, gymnasium, soccer field, and lastly a separate building that spans five floors which are all classrooms.

The span of the school now turns to the left. The school is like an 'L' shape wherein we flip the letter 'L' horizontally and rotate counter-clockwise 90 degrees. The left turn stretches for a while and last time I was here it was just a wide dirt road covered in weeds and grass. Now, the road has been paved and a large infirmary was built on the left side with ample parking space while the other side became a garden with several plants that had their leaves rotten or dark yellow.

"This makes things a bit easier. At least they've centralised the infirmaries." I thought to myself.

The last part of the whole school is the chapel and what's next to it is the other entrance that leads to a backroad towards another barangay and a gated community. The whole school is swarming with the living dead and the huge gate being open from the other side doesn't help in reducing their numbers at all.

I saw Jared's drone hovering outside the entrance and I saw another terminal for tricycles with a pile of dead bodies in the curb.

"We just need to close off that gate first, right?" Jared asked.

"Yep. What's your estimate?" I replied.

"On the ground, maybe 200-300? I'm not sure about the ones still inside the building but it's safe to assume that there's definitely more." Jared answered.

"Hmm, if we close that gate, we need to either drive around or to kill our way from this side." I added.

"Is there any other way? The road to the other side is much farther driving around than you think." Kaley interjected.

"Well, take a look at the footage first before we make a decision." I replied.

We drove the drones back and they reviewed the footage.

I climbed a wooden utility pole by using the metal pegs on the side without their notice. The view from a drone is great but nothing beats seeing something from your own eyes. I squatted down when I reached the top and I had a better view below of what's happening. I looked at the path where the other utility poles are connected while checking how thick the walls are for proper foothold. I'm slowly forming a plan of approach and I noticed them looking for me. Kaley looked up and saw me and she picked up her radio.

*bzzt*

"Umm, what the fuck are you doing there?!"

*bzzt*

*bzzt*

"I'm doing the pose before I murder my whole clan. Well, I don't have a little brother who would resent me but it's close enough."

*bzzt*

Kaley responded with an exasperated sigh though I could hear Jared laughing. I could see from this height Benjamin and his group, dragging a couple of bodies from the far side and there's no gunshots coming from their side. I started on applying my weight on the dangling wires to test their strength and they could carry me no problem.

*bzzt*

"Are you even safe there, bro?"

*bzzt*

*bzzt*

"Seriously? There's no electricity running in these wires anymore, remember? Anyway, anyone want to follow my lead? If we follow the correct path with a few detours by balancing on the walls, we could reach the other gate without driving around. I could do it myself but nothing beats a backup from above and I don't want to hog all the experience points like the wizard that doesn't want anything to pass. I just need someone looking out when I jump down to close the gate."

*bzzt*

*bzzt*

"Experience points? You don't even have 'The Grey' title bro! You're closing a gate, not fighting a fiery demon with whips and claws!"

*bzzt*

*bzzt*

"Hey! At least doing that prevents the zombies from passing!"

*bzzt*

We kept on bickering and long story short, Kaley got annoyed and Jared was the one to receive the beating.

We decided to just drive around and take the safer approach rather than killing our way in unexplored territory or traipsing from a high place and risk falling. We met with Benjamin's group again and we told them the plan.

We started to drive back to the traffic light we passed before but we noticed a few vehicles coming from behind us.