Code Zulu Alpha: Nerd in the Apocalypse!

I was looking at everyone's expressions and I couldn't help but inwardly smile at what I was seeing.

Well, it didn't last for long.

Allan stood up.

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"ALLAN, DON'T YOU FUCKING START THAT SLOW CLAP OR I'LL FUCKING CRUCIFY YOU!!!" Oscar bellowed.

"Wha-" Allan stopped mid-clap.

Bing and Russel were about to follow him but they quickly sat down and Allan followed quickly after.

"Kid, are we gonna hit them tomorrow? No plan?" Oscar calmed down and looked at me.

"What? Afraid now?" I chuckled.

"Bah! YOU'RE telling ME if I'm afraid?! Hah! I-" I cut him off.

"Just kidding, we'll hit that place on Sunday." I was already chuckling.

"KID?!" Oscar was red and huffing.

The serious atmosphere was completely obliterated.

"Wait, hold up. Why Sunday?" Johnny chimed.

"I need a few days to come up with a plan and if we're planning to hit them a lot of them, better bet on the day when they would have their own gatherings. If they're still following their religion which I think they are, even in their own fucked up way, the highest chance of us taking care of them would be on a Sunday." I explained.

"What? Do you want me to come back and check on that place some more? We've been really careful." Darelle said.

"No dude. I think that's enough. Flying your drone that close to that place more or less alerted them that someone's watching them. I don't want you or the rest of your team in that wall as decorations, okay? When you come back there, you wouldn't be shooting them with your cameras anymore." I said.

"Then what could we do while we're waiting then?" Trisha asked.

"Well, you're gonna work with Rin." I replied.

"Hmm? Me?" Rin looked at my direction.

"Yeah. Print out a map of that place on the right scale as I did when I showed the plans for the City Hall. Have them in grids and work with Darelle's team to mark out places around it regarding their situation. Just label them properly whether that place was occupied, clear, infested, and etc. I did most of the work before so you have a reference. Can you guys do it?" I looked at them.

"Yeah, those were not all the footage we recorded. There are some random ones we did when we scanned around and when we're slowly inching towards that spot. We'll replay some of them to refresh our memory." Darelle replied as he looked at Trisha, Rin, and his team.

"Okay, that's all for now. I'll check those as well when I have extra time. Any other questions before we end this meeting?" I looked at everyone.

"Yeah, are the people who're coming with you on Sunday set already?" Lawrence raised his hand.

"Not yet. My other long shooter is in the province now, you want to come?" I replied.

Lawrence just nodded.

"Okay, that's a no." I said with an emotionless expression.

"Hey! Wait! I'm coming!" Lawrence almost lost balance.

"Good. In this day and age, I need verbal confirmation." I said while everyone was shaking their head either in amusement or confusion.

"Anything else?" I looked at the group once more.

"Bro! Are you gonna teach a class today?" Lois raised his hand.

The moment he asked the question, a few people tensed.

"Umm, well I've left my Tavor to Ilya, the guy who we're supposed to take back here but instead took in Nikolas and Alex-" I stopped midway in my sentence because everyone close to Vera took a step away from her.

"Something wrong Vera?" I obliviously asked.

"Nothing. Nothing's wrong." Vera said without emotion.

"Is it Alexei?" I asked obliviously once more.

Then the pencil she was holding cracked into multiple pieces.

"No, why would that fucking son of a bitch bother me? He just straight up decided to stay with that motherfucker who I painstakingly located. No, I hope they have a good time there." Vera said and I finally understood when Lois was staring at me.

"Oh boy. Why didn't I notice it the first time?" I thought to myself.

I chose to avoid that touchy subject for now.

"Bro, as I was asking earlier, now that you're not teaching us, will Tatiana teach us instead? She's been a really good teacher. More straight to the-" then Vera cut him off.

"What? You don't want me teaching you too?! Is that it?!" Vera snapped.

"Um- Ah- that's not-" Lois was put on the spot.

"WHAT?!" Vera stood up.

"N-No, I'm jus-" Vera cut him off again.

"OH! IS THAT IT, RIGHT?! I- MIKHAIL!!! FUCKING LET GO OF ME- AHHHHHHHH!!!" Mikhail intervened and picked Vera by the head with one hand.

"I'm very sorry for her. She's fine this morning but when Alexei called, she did a turn. I'll lock her up in her room until she calms down. Excuse me… yes Vera, I know. He's fucking stupid. Yes, yes… We'll tear him a new one with my brother… yes, yes… we will, trust me..." Mikhail lifted Vera up like it was nothing.

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Lois and the others breathed a sigh of relief. I saw Cynthia asking a few questions to Kaley and Kaley was answering her. Cynthia just nodded a few times before they saw me looking at them. I surmised it was just about the classes every night and I let the matter go. Tatiana decided she would teach a class so I headed up to my room.

I cracked my knuckles and then I picked up the parts of my BCM AR-15.

It was a little different from Kaley's 16-inch AR-15 because what I have is a little shorter and hers was from Palmetto State Armory. Mine only had an 11.5-inch barrel length and the handguard was from an MK18. It still used the upper receiver group from BCM though nothing was done on it yet except for what it came in with when I bought it from BCM.

I saw Kaley and Cynthia hawking at me from behind so I turned my head and also saw Zeus silently watching me.

"What?" I said with a raised eyebrow.

"Woof!" Zeus answered.

"Yes. You're right." I answered back and he went closer to my table.

"You aren't gonna attend the class?" Kaley asked.

"Well, I'm kinda busy. I'm gonna work out after your class though. Aren't you guys running late?" I replied.

"W-Well, I want to see how you add them in." Kaley said.

"You'll have plenty of chances. Look, Cynthia's excited to go up. Come on, Zeus is with me so I'm safe, right?" I looked at Zeus to annoy Kaley even more.

Kaley just glared at me playfully before she took Cynthia upstairs.

I first added the red dot optic with a chevron reticle because I'll be adding in a magnifier at the back of it. However, I added a riser because I'll be placing an IR laser in the 12-o'clock position near the end of the quad rail. The red dot was a little different because it was shaped like an arrow because if I added the magnifier at the back, the dot in a normal reticle would get zoomed in as well, messing up a few things when I'm aiming at someone. That negates the problem though the magnifier could be flipped with a flip mount when I don't need the extra magnification.

I could've added a canted red dot on the side while using a high-powered scope but I abstained this time.

The next thing I added was the IR Laser I've mentioned earlier and a flashlight at the 3-o'clock position after that. Their switches would be behind the IR laser because my thumb wouldn't reach that far and I don't want to change my grip mid-way while I'm inside.

Zeus was curiously watching what I'm doing and he was silent though he would sometimes pant loudly.

Next to the list was angled foregrip, different from the vertical foregrip that Kaley was using on her AR-15. I placed it at the bottom of the quad rail and then I held the gun tucked on my shoulder and placed near my cheek.

"So far, so good." I thought to myself.

I then added a 6-inch suppressor before placing the mounting points for my sling.

I grabbed five empty magazines and filled them with 5.56s though the last magazine was filled with green tips. That meant that these rounds were made to penetrate through armor but not as much to go through anything else. It was made with a steel core though there's some problem with accuracy because it tends to wobble due to weight distribution. I just placed them as a backup just in case I needed something with a little more punch.

Now, I'm equipped with Old Man Kaiseki's Katana as my melee weapon, my favoured Maxim 9 as a secondary weapon, and my new AR-15 from BCM as a primary weapon.

I placed my newly built AR-15 next to Kaley's AR-15 to tick her a bit but my eyes scanned over my Barrett that Oscar gave me. It was imposing as ever even if it was just laying on the table like that.

"Hmm." I thought to myself.