The Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse, Group 5, Concludes
The Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse
Group 5, Concludes
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Cadence casually walked down the hall, occasionally stepping over a dead body, fallen potted
plant and, once, a broken water cooler. Ty followed closely after her, bloody cloth sack held
out a good distance from his body, little curls of lion pain sticking out of the top. "Remind
me why I'm holding this again?" he asked quietly.
"Because you decided to come along. At this point you're taking the place of my lab
assistant... you get to do all the unpleasant jobs." Cadence replied in a matter-of-fact tone.
"If you treat all your lab assistants that way I'd hate to think what happened to your last
one." Ty offered flatly.
"We stepped over her a few minutes ago." Cadence responded. The conversation dwindled quickly
thereafter.
The monkey didn't slow as they turned a corner and encountered a zombie. It was standing in the
middle of the hallway facing one of the many automatic doors; the door was not opening and the
zombie didn't bother moving. "Stay here." Cadence stated to Ty.
"That thing's a little close, isn't it? What if it--" the words stuck in his throat as Cadence
turned aside, pressing her back against the wall; the zombie turned immediately, staring at the
wolf. "Uh... Cadence?"
"Stay there." the monkey repeated her earlier command. The zombie took a few shaky steps
forward, then began loping toward Ty, drool dribbling out of its lipless maw.
"Cadence... Dr VanHousen...?" Ty took a step backward as the zombie broke into a jog, bloody
claws reaching out eagerly toward the uncertain wolf. It let out a roar-- and, just then,
Cadence's arm shot out, grabbing hold of one of its ears, and rapidly twisting. An audible
*snap* brought an end to the zombie's charge, and it crumpled, supported only by the monkey's
grip on its ears.
"Yes, Tyler?" Cadence asked casually. The wolf had no response by that point, and merely
shrugged. The monkey shrugged in return and dropped the body, "Come... we are nearly where we
want to be." Ty obediently followed, paws tightly gripping his first aid kit.
"Why did it come after me?" he asked once they'd continued down the hall for several meters.
"They have been since as long as I could remember." she countered, "Why would now be any
different?"
"Well..." the wolf paused, one ear falling sideways, "I mean... you were closer, right? Why
didn't it go after you?"
Cadence continued limping along, "Are you familiar with magnets?"
"What does that have to do with--"
"Answer the question, Tyler." she interrupted.
The wolf sighed, "Yes. I know what magnets are."
"And you know how they work?" she continued.
"More or less." the wolf shrugged.
"More or less?" she questioned, not bothering to look back at him.
"Yea... I know that electrons in some kinds of--"
"Actually," the macaque interrupted again, "I was looking for the simple answer."
"You mean... 'opposites attract.'?" Ty asked.
"Precisely." Cadence paused, motioning to a door, "Your brain still functions normally, unlike
my own and unlike the rest of these walking corpses. Have you not noticed that they do not
attack one another?" she asked.
"They haven't attacked you either..." Ty asserted, "Back on the roof... back in the mall... on
the street... that's how you've managed to stay alive so long!"
"If you would consider this 'alive', then yes." Cadence nodded, "Very good, Tyler." she moved
into the room past the wolf and went to a large section of electronic equipment. Ty moved in
after her, standing off to the side with the bloody sack still in his paw, watching as she
adjusted the dials.
"Hmm... apparently turning the power grid off worked." she commented, mostly to herself.
"The power grid?" Ty questioned.
"It was a back-up plan in the event that the project overstepped its boundary." Cadence
explained, "The specific energy waves used to resurrect the recently dead are capable of being
transmitted by any electrical current. The scientists here knew that, if the experimental
energy wave were to get out into the city..."
"Then something like what happened would occur." Ty finished for her.
"There was a master override switch controlling the power relay in Ratherbig," the monkey noted,
"if the scientists activated it then the entire power grid would disconnect and remove the
threat of the electrical signal spreading."
"Apparently the kill switch didn't work as well as the thought it would." the wolf countered.
"Indeed... and, as you could tell, the power came back on within the city several hours ago...
which means we have a larger problem."
"Other than more zombies rising?" Ty questioned.
Cadence nodded, "Yes." and she slowly stood up from her kneeling position by the electronic
equipment. She used her left arm, right still hanging limply from her fight with the undead
lion, "By the time the power was disconnected the signal only got to the edge of Ratherbig. By
now, the signal might have spread throughout Ratherbigshire." she glanced back to Ty, "Given
long enough..."
"The whole of England?" Ty gasped.
"Ultimately further than that." Cadence acknowledged.
The wolf nodded resolutely, "How do we stop it?"
Cadence motioned to the large metal structure in the middle of the lab, "This..." she turned and
shot him a wry grin, "And math."
"Tell me what I have to do." Ty offered.
"First, we need to turn the electrodes on..." she looked back to the equipment, turned several
dials, and pressed a button. Ty took an involuntary step backward as a large, blue arc of
electricity bridged the gab between two metal prongs on the metal device near him.
"Okay... then?" Ty questioned.
Cadence paused, leaning against the electronics.
"Dr VanHousen?" Ty asked.
Cadence took several deep breaths then looked up at Ty, "It needs to charrrrrrruuugggghhhh..."
she stumbled, slumping against a table next to her, "to... charge." she finished.
Ty moved to her aid but she quickly waved him back, "You do not want to be near me, Tyler..."
the monkey continued sitting on the ground, gazing at her feet.
"What's happening?" the wolf asked.
"Focus." she ordered, "When the electrodes are charged, I need to put good Dr Lebowitz's head
into the arc."
Ty glanced to the machine and the powerful electrical discharge shooting between the metal
prongs, "THAT much energy?" he asked, astounded, "That'll kill you!"
Cadence nodded, "And that will be the final step." she explained.
"You didn't plan on surviving this, did you?" Ty demanded, "You weren't looking for a cure for
yourself."
"Of course I was." she countered, "But sometimes the cure people look for is not for their
body." Cadence noted.
"What's that supposed to mean?" the wolf asked.
Cadence chuckled, "You still don't pay attention..." and she let out a deep sigh.
Ty shook his head, "I said you were daft when I first saw you... I guess not much has changed."
the wolf rolled his eyes, and went back to look at the instrumentation on the side of the
electrodes, "Hmm... 80%." he noted.
The room was quiet except for the sound of the electrical arc, popping, snapping, and crackling
as it continued to build in power, "Eighty five, Dr." he noted, glancing to Cadence. "Dr
VanHousen?" he asked, moving over to her.
The macaque was laying with her back against the wall, right arm hung limply by her side; a bone
stuck out of her forearm just below the elbow. Cadence's eyes were open, glazed over as they
gazed at her feet. The monkey's left arm was draped across the bloody sack that contained the
dead lion's head.
Ty shook his head and moved back to the electrodes. He remained watching them until a deep,
raspy growl pulled his attention back to Cadence, who was once again on her feet, a snarl torn
across her muzzle. The wolf took an immediate step back, but the zombie monkey in front of him
wasn't about to go slow; she pounced.
Ty let out a scream as he was quickly overpowered. He beat at the monkey with his medical kit,
fighting for his life as she grappled him, pinning his back against the electrodes as she sunk
her teeth into his neck. The wolf's scream dissolved into a wet burbling rasp and he felt his
lifeblood begin to seep out of his flesh.
His paws searched around for something... anything... but, as his strength started to fade he
couldn't even manage to hold onto his medical kit. His empty paws continued pushing, shoving,
brushing, heaving, but to no avail. As his attempts to escape weakened, one of his paws brushed
against the sack that contained the lion's head. His brain, already starting to register the
end to his life, still managed to put two and two together. He slipped his paw into the sack,
fingers gripping onto mane.
Ty let his head roll back on his shoulders, giving the zombified Cadence better access to his
throat, but also granting him a better view of the instrument panel, which clearly read 100%.
Arm shaking, the wolf reached up to the blazing light of the electrical arc that crackled
between the two electrodes. He didn't know a lot about physics, but he knew that electricity
loved to travel through conductive materials... and bodies were very conductive. One paw
gripping the lion's head, Cadence's face buried into his neck, Ty was ready to end the
Apoc-Fur-Lypse. He reached for the arc with his free paw... and administered the cure.
<THE END>
Group 5 is coming to a close. Due to their small party size and low Plot Points, neither is able to survive but they'll finish with a bang.
Thank you, Group 5, for taking part in the Apoc-Fur-Lypse. We now mourn our six survivors:
Dr Cadence VanHousen (author supplied character)
Jake Sawyer (supplied by josh the panther)
Ty (supplied by Forever Wolf)
Dr Findley Weatherburton (supplied by t-ster)
Aldo Ruben (supplied by yerkelayh)
Jared Pret (supplied by Razera)
One final task for the readers as it relates to the Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse:
Read through both So Furry groups and find one whose ending you do not like. Go to that post and vote. The storyline with the most number of winning votes will be revised and rewritten. Go... do it now!