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Guardian: Negative, uh, Yankee, the fence appears to be intact

Yankee Seven-Nine: Okay I need clarification, Guardian, I thought you said it had been breached by a vehicle--

Guardian: Affirmative, there is a vehicle inside the fence, the driver has exited

Yankee Seven-Nine: Then how is the fence still intact, Guardian?

Guardian: It, uh, appears he went over

Yankee Seven-Nine: He what?

Guardian: Yankee, I think he ramped it There’s a … some kind of truck with a platform on the back and I think he used it as a raht, did you say you had a clear shot at the driver?

2 Hours, 5 Minutes Until the Aerial Borabbed my shoulders and screamed into my face "DAVE! ARE YOU IN THERE? IT’S ME JOHN I AM YOUR FRIEND CAN YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"

"Why are you talking like that?"

I looked inside the Caddie John had come alone

"Where’s Amy?"

"I don’t know! Outside town I think"

"Oh Thank God"

"Or not I actually don’t know"

Owen strode up and kicked aside a sun Their eyes met

John said, "Owen? What the hell are you doin’ here?"

"You are one crazy son of a bitch, John"

To me, John said, "Is he infected?"

"I don’t think so"

Owen said, "Ain’t none of us infected"

I said, "We … don’t know that"

John said, "Well, whatever Everybody needs to get the hell out of here! By lunchtionna be a crater Did you hear the announcement out there, Owen?"

I said, "Wait, do you two know each other?"

"Yeah, re setup for hiht you’d be out there on Daryl’s far out"

"I was Went into town on a beer run and got scooped up by the feds I punched one of those guys in the space suits and I guess they took that as a sign of infection"

I noticed the rest of the in at us, shell-shocked, as we held this conversation next to the crashed Caddie and a human remains It finally occurred toif they were zeroing in on our skulls right now I had a vague thought that we should run for cover, but the entrance to the hospital was a hundred feet away It’d be a nice, leisurely couple of shots for so at a console out in the desert We could duck in the car, but the drone was also equipped with the kind of rockets that could turn it into two tons of burning steel confetti

Actually, why hasn’t he shot us already?

Dr Marconi walked up and John glanced at him "Doc? You been here the whole ti but I fear you would actually tell et in onna drive a Caddie-shaped hole in that fence over there The rest of you can walk right out behind us Once out, you will owe me a case of beer Each of you"

Owen said, "You didn’t see the big fuckin’ guns lined up outside? They’ll turn you into chunks in two seconds"

"I didn’t see any big fuckin’ guns, I saw a bunch of little fuckin’ guns I don’t think they were anticipating Cadillac-driving zombies But either way, you need to find a way outta here, before they bomb the place"

John ducked into the Caddie and said, "Oh, Owen, did paychecks go out last week before this all happened?"

Owen glanced at me, then John, and said, "How the fuck did you two ever find each other?"

To er seat The Caddie see fro, so that was good

John said, "Marconi! There’s room in the backseat"