by thedoctor
Monroeville, Pennsylvania:
Debris clouded the air as an explosion destroyed the stairs in the courthouse. "How are we supposed to get down from here?" Jason Hill asked.
"Do you really want to go downstairs?" Dirk Bell responded.
"Um..." Hill began as he saw a horde of zombies pouring into the courthouse, "...not really."
"Priest is still down there," Tayden spoke up. "What are we going to do about him?"
"Kill him if he gets near us," Dirk said as he examined the surroundings.
"You can't mean that. He's one of us."
"I can and do mean it. And he's not one of us anymore. I'm not so sure he ever was." The gunslinger looked out of a window across the parking lot. "There. That's what we need." He pointed to a van with the sheriff department's shield on the side. "We've got to get out of here, and that's our best bet. It should be too heavy for them to tip over and powerful enough to smear them across the pavement if they get in our way."
"You want us to jump out of a second-floor window, run across a zombie-infested parking lot, and steal a paddy wagon?" Hill stood with a look like he had just finished a gas station burrito that was still frozen on the inside. "You've got to be fucking nuts."
"Seriously introverted with unrefined social skills and homicidal tendencies. At least that's what my old psychiatrist told me right before that nasty suicide business." Dirk went to the side wall and began to uncoil the fire hose. He pulled it to the window and, after breaking the glass with his boot, tossed that end out the window.
He then took off his coat and tossed it at Hill, who stumbled back a bit under the surprising weight. The young man made a reach for the gunslinger's hat. Dirk just turned and headed for the window.
"You're not going," Tayden's voice took Dirk by surprise. "I had better go. They can't hurt me."
"Can you even drive a car, Angelboy?"
"Well, I've never actually tried..."
"I thought so. You stay here and make sure that no one shits their pants or anything while I take care of business."
"No. I still insist that I'm the one who should go. So, it is quite obvious that we need to come up with a fair way to settle this."
"I thought that you'd say something like that," Dirk said a second before snatching his coat from Hill and in the same fluid motion draped it over Tayden's head. A quick kick to the sternum knocked the breath out of the angel and sent him skidding across the floor as Dirk made his way to and out the window.
"He made it down and is now sprinting across the parking lot," Jason Hill said from his view from the window. "The zombies know he's out there. They're going for him. He pulled out his katana from his back. How many weapons does that dude have anyway? He's slicing zombies in half as he passes them. Holy Christ, limbs are flying everywhere. The ground is just littered with body parts. Damn! I think he just decapitated my ex-girlfriend."
Tayden, still regaining his breath, slightly gasped, "I'm sorry to hear that. It must be hard for you to take."
"Not as bad as you'd think," Hill replied. "We didn't part on the best of terms. Hey! I think he made it to the van."
Dirk opened the door to the van. "God, I love small towns," he said as he entered the vehicle and locked the doors. He began to look for the keys as zombies encircled him. "Son of a bitch!"
"Why isn't he moving?" Hill asked. "He's just sitting there. Why isn't he coming for us?"
"He'll come. Don't worry," Tayden said while rubbing the sore spot on his chest. Sometimes being human could really suck.
"Mother of God!" Jason Hill yelled while pointing down to the ground below the window. A zombie had found the fire hose and had begun to climb up it. "Zombies can climb? Since when can zombies climb? I've seen hundreds of movies, and zombies never climbed! Never! They are unclimbers! Climbing is strictly forbidden! I call foul!"
Tayden grabbed and pulled Hill away from the window before the zombie, who had now reached the window, had a chance to strike at his prey. The former angel then jumped up and began to pound his fist into the head of the animated corpse. It finally caved in and released a blue energy.
As the body fell, Tayden could see more zombies making their way to the hose. He ran and turned the water valve on. The hose sprang to life like a gigantic snake. The two unfortunate zombies who happened to be on the hose at the time were tossed and slammed against the wall. High-pressure water struck and catapulted bodies across the yard of the courthouse.
Tayden sat down next to Jason Hill, who had regained his composure. "I'm sorry about that. It's just... I've been trapped here so long that..."
"You're doing exceptionally well considering the circumstances," the angel reassured him.