Zan 2: The zombie queen charged and I followed 2
by: Causalien

Zan dashed into cover behind a rock when he managed to catch up with Ani. He saw a glimpse of a huge deformed arm swiping towards the zombie queen. Zan's not about to risk his life to fulfill his curiosity in order to see what can actually stop the queen in her carefree sword slashing frenzy. Hiding behind rocks has saved him numerous times in the past when grenades went off, Ani went berserk, Ani got into a shotgun shelling frenzy, Ani needs to feed on brains. Ani did the last one just to drive home the term Zombie Queen in everyone's head. She didn't really need to live off brains, because if that were the case, secret forces would conclude that her maintenance cost too high and terminated her project before she woke.

With the survival rate of 1%, I say they should terminate her anyway.

Gunfire interrupted Zan's thought, a sign that the rest of the squad has caught up with Ani too. What's left of the squad anyway.

"What happened to the rest of you?" Zan shouted over the chaos.
"Flash banged!" Ted shouted back between carefully aimed rifle shots.
"Flash banged?" Zan asked incredulously.
"Jimmy threw a flash bang at some imagined monster and blinded the rest of the squad."

A deep howl interrupted the conversation as the squad coordinated their shots for a concentrated attack at the monster. Cheering, they moved closer into the opening where Ani is dueling with the monster to get better aim at the unknown enemy.

Zan grabbed Ted before he can follow and asked the million dollars question:
"How did a flash bang manage to kill half of the squad?"

It didn't, apparently the bats didn't like it and started flying around, and some of the blinded started shooting aimlessly thinking they were being attacked.

Ted made the motion to move and Zan stopped him, shacking his head and signaled for him to listen. The cave has become deadly silent compared to the fiery firefight before. Something is not right, even if all the squad members dead, there's always Ani's cursing and swearing. Zan peeked slowly from the edge of his rock...