Chapter 11: Labyrinth of Death
Josef helped his filly the ladder down.
It was an underground facility.
But even there, the Zombies waited for them.
At the Engineer office, a man could be heard. “…We are all lost…”
Fighting through groups of Zombies, they found a small office with a body on a chair in it.
Schwaiger saw a map and took it. The man they heard earlier was on the radio.
“I will hang for saying this but I’m dead anyway. Hitler is insane! Plan Z should never have been instigated without the fail-safe manuscript: The Book of Souls. It is still in the Berlin Central Library but there’s no way to get to it now. The irreversible opening of a Hellmouth is inevitable at this point.”
“What’s a Hellmouth?”
"I don’t know kid, but it can’t be good. Anyway, according to this map, there is a way outside. Let’s go,” Schwaiger said to her.
An alert sounded and a gate opened. Josef used the MG to fight the Zombies while his daughter stayed in the office.
After fighting them and some Skeletons that came out of a burning train wreck, they reached the safe room.
Outside in a corridor, a Zombie was beating a damaged V2 rocket. The engine malfunctioned and killed him.
At the end was another gate. “Diamond my dear, would you be so nice and activate the manual door override?”
“With pleasure!”
Music started as the gate opened and a horde of Zombies and Skeletons came out.
The darkness in the tunnels made them difficult to see, but the glowing eyes and hearts were enough to spot them.
Dealing with that, they moved on. Parts of the facility were on fire, there were bodies of Germans everywhere, rare, there bodies of Russians too.
At another gate, a Zombie ambushed the group and was after Tiara. Josef killed him with a shot to the head from his Luger pistol. “You have to get through me if you want her!”
Moving on, Tiara stopped in a corridor to catch her breath. Out of nowhere, a bomber appeared from the ground right next to her.
Josef grabbed her by the tail so that she didn’t get caught in the blast radius. Still, her ears were ringing for a few seconds.
After this, the group reached the next safe room.
Outside, Tiara had to throw up, as she saw bodies on a cart and another one hanged on a hook.
“Sorry everyone. It’s just; I can’t see something like this.”
“It’s alright.”
Karl killed a Zombie that jumped out of a locomotive.
Schwaiger got her to cover, as several Snipers attacked.
Not able to bear the sounds of the Zombies, she covered her ears as good as she could. Josef gave her a smile. “I know it’s hard but how about some ice scream when this is all over?” She nodded with a smile.
In the Factory, Josef switched to his MP40 as the Zombies were summoned from the ground.
Despite this obstacle, they reached the safe room.
Boris switched the radio on to send a S.O.S. signal. “Just in case, that someone can get us out of Berlin.”
This time, Tiara opened the door, only to be greeted by Zombies. They were quickly defeated.
“Watch out that they don’t bite you. I would hate it to end your life.” Schwaiger reloaded his revolver.
“I will.”
On the premises was a truck, next to him were dead soldiers that tried to escape with him but had failed.
“It has no fuel. But there must be fuel here somewhere.” “Yes Josef. But’s its better if we stay together.
Fighting off an Elite and several Snipers, they found the fuel they needed.
However, back at the truck, green fog appeared. “Here we go again. Get in the truck, quick,” Josef complained.
Together, fighting this horde was no problem. After a short break, even more Zombies appeared.
Josef was near the truck when he heard a scared voice from the back of the truck, “Why…why are there so many of them?”
Then, he saw how many Zombies were attacking. It was hundreds of them if not thousands.
“I don’t know.” He replied before Boris fired a panzerfaust.
Then Josef fired his K98 at a Gasmask Zombie. The bullet went through his head and through at least 5 more Zombies that were behind him.
Almost overwhelmed, they managed to survive this siege.
Getting in the back, he patted her and hummed a lullaby as the truck moved to the library to find the Book of Souls.