British Zombie Breakout: Part Three Read Free

us
rather than hand over the virus.'
    'Albert, you
did the right thing. We're going to need you to sort this one
out.'
    'Listen, how
did you know they'd been here?'
    'The fugitives
we've got at the hotel had visitors, too.'
    'Don't tell me
something's happened to them?'
    'Taken two of
the kids.'
    'No! Why'd they
do that?'
    'Fallback
position. If you hadn't given up the virus at Breathdeep, it would
have been a hostage situation.'
    'Would
have?'
    'I hate to say
it but your giving up the virus probably stopped a very ugly result
over here.'
    'Where are we
at now?'
    'A stolen
helicopter took off from a rooftop six blocks from the hotel, then
dropped under the London radar. As you've just told me they got
what they were after, I can't imagine they'd be keen to take a
couple of teenagers with them.'
    'But you don't
know that for sure!'
    'You're
correct.' The commander sighed. 'Albert, can you give me a quick
summary of what happened?'
    'I'm going back
through the surveillance camera records now. Chopper dropped on the
roof of the holding pens. They hacked the main computer somehow,
then popped all the doors on the bunker. I was on my own in the lab
with my assistant.'
    'You're not
hurt?'
    'No. I can't
tell if they expected to find us here but they were armed. They
fired a shot and I thought they'd killed my assistant.'
    'See them?'
    'No, they all
wore black masks and flight suits. Scared us witless with the guns
and barely said a word.'
    'They must have
said something.'
    'Oh, yes,
"Zombie virus", several times. Heavy accent but I couldn't say from
where.'
    'Well a
chopper's not going to take them far. They've probably met up with
a plane between London and your lab. There are a couple of old
airfields near the coast.'
    'I expect
that's how they got in undetected.'
    'They took the
only phial there was?'
    'Doug, they
have no idea what they've done. This… this is going to end very
badly.'
    'More than just
for them, I suspect,' Hodgeson said in a grave tone.
    'And you've got
to find those kids before that ends badly.'
     
    Having lifted
off from Breathdeep in the helicopter, the intruders flew the phial
of zombie virus thirty miles northeast. It was confirmed later that
the helicopter had made a rendez-vous with another helicopter
shortly arrived from London. At an abandoned airfield, the agents
boarded a long range cargo plane. While all the men in the
helicopters had been completing their tasks, two stayed behind to
replenish the plane's fuel from stolen stocks. With all the men and
the virus aboard, the plane then flew below radar height, heading
out beyond the Atlantic coast. Needless to say, they succeeded in
concealing the plane's eventual destination.

Chapter 4: Baggage
    In the hotel
bar, Janet and the others tried to piece together what had
happened.
    'Sergeant, how
did they get into Breathdeep?'
    'Another
helicopter, apparently.'
    'So, these
people wanted the virus?'
    'That's what
they took. If they'd had trouble at Breathdeep, Steve and Alex
would have been in reserve.'
    Janet dropped
into a chair, her hands were shaking and her voice cracked when she
replied, 'They got all they wanted?'
    'They only took
the virus, not the vaccine or a ZDT. They probably didn't even know
about those because they're so new. They hacked the electronic
systems, knew exactly what they were doing.'
    'Wait, wait,'
Janet said confronting the sergeant directly, 'how do you know they
haven't taken my son with them?'
    'Excess
baggage.'
    'How dare you
call my son…'
    'I'm sorry,
ma'am. I mean it was a very slick operation. Fast in and out, no
hanging around, no unnecessary cargo.'
    'You mean they
might not have taken Steven and Alex with them?'
    'We hope to
recover the kids soon.'
    There was a
moment of tense silence. Rachel and Maisie were huddled together,
looking very pale.
    Bill had been
sitting on a corner sofa, holding his wife's hand. 'What about the
tasered guy?' he said.
    'The medics are
with him now,' the sergeant said. 'We hope to have