THE LIVING DEAD

Escaping The Airport

[Sun City Airport]

"I'm sorry for trying to send you guys out, I have to take precautions in order to safely protect 

others". The policeman apologize to Henry in a low tone. 

Henry replied "I understand. You don't have to be sorry…. I'm Henry by the way, and this 

here is Ava". 

"I'm Ben". The policeman said. "So what is it like on the ground floor?". 

"It's been overrun by the infected. I don't think it's possible to make it out that easily". Henry 

answered. "And I don't think they have any weaknesses either". He added. 

Ben sighed deeply before he said "I emptied 12 rounds of bullet on one, and yet it kept on 

coming". Everyone in the room became more frightened than before after they heard what 

Ben had said. 

One out of the people in the room added "For what I noticed, it seems they're attracted to 

noise and they are cannibal, hence also attracted to blood". 

Henry stood up from where he was as though he had an idea, and said "Then let's use that 

to our advantage and get the hell out of this hell hole". 

Ben replied "I don't understand, how?". 

Henry started explaining the plan to them. "Since they are attracted to sounds, let's use the 

emergency alarm to draw their attention to the place we want them to be instead…. We will

also control where we want the alarm to go off, and we have just the right equipment to do 

that". 

He turned and stared at the computer, which was at the corner of the room. Everyone saw it as a great 

plan, except the man who was previously yelling at Ben to kick Henry and Ava out. He said 

"We should just sit tight and wait for the police or calvary to come. You see, I'm a 

businessman, and I've got lots of connections, let me make a call and they will come save us''. 

Ben said to the man "Look here Mr…. (Staring at the man to tell him his name). "Ethan". The 

man replied. 

"Ok, look here Mr Ethan", Ben continued "Firstly I don't think if the police team would come 

here, I myself have lost contact with them. And second of all, we can't stay in this room for 

long, because there's is no supplies and we're going to starve. You can stay here if you don't want to come with us, 

because this is the best option we have so far". He turned to everyone in the room and continued 

"If you know you can't follow through with the plan, you can stay here, it's your choice. When 

we get out, we will send help, but if you're willing to follow us, then you have to stick with us and with the plan.

and do what we do". 

Ben nodded at Henry to continue. 

"We will send off the emergency alarm at the takeoff zone. Then we will wait for a few minutes for 

the infected to take the bait. Then we rush to the ground floor, head to the parking lot, there 

will be an ambulance truck there, we will take it and get the hell out of here". 

They all nodded in agreement to the plan, Henry went ahead to set the computer up for the 

plan. 

He activated the alarm of the take off zone, and they waited as planned. They heard rapid 

footsteps and growling of the infected, heading towards the direction of the alarm. 

From the window of the room, they could see the infected already at the take off zone. "It's 

time to move". Henry said. 

They removed the barricades quietly and opened the door. Henry held Ava by her hand and 

whispered to her, "Stay close to me". She nodded. Before they came out of the room, Ben 

checked to see whether the coast was clear, which it was. 

So they proceeded to the ground floor. 

At the ground floor, they saw some infected, but the infected paid no affection to them, 

instead it was trying to get to where the sound of the alarm was coming from.

So they sneaked past all the infected they saw quietly, and headed to the parking lot. 

At the parking lot, they saw the ambulance, on getting to the ambulance, there was a power 

outage at the airport which made the alarm stop. 

Everyone who was at the parking lot began to panic as their plans were falling apart. 

Mr Ethan then selfishly rushed towards the ambulance, Ben tried to stop him, saying in a low tone 

"Stop, let's stay together ". But he neglected Ben's warning. 

He opened the driver's door. In an attempt to look for the ambulance key he mistakenly 

flipped the ambulance siren on. 

"Look what you've done, you moron!... Turn it off! Turn it off right now!!?". This time Henry 

yelled. 

Ben rushed and switched the siren off. For a moment, there was silence. And everybody 

gave out a sigh of relief. 

But that wasn't for long because the ground began to shake, footsteps were heard heading 

towards their direction. Henry then asked "Where is the key!! Where is the key!!!". 

Ben looked for the key, then replied "I couldn't find it". They saw the infected gaining on 

them. 

"Run!!!. Run!!. Run!". Henry shouted, pulling Ava with him as he ran. 

They all began to run… 

Mr Ethan tripped and fell to the ground, one of them went back to help him up, Mr Ethan 

seeing how close the infected are to them, instead of him dying, he pushed his helper 

towards the infected, and this made him have more time to escape. 

The infected caught up with most of them, Henry and Ava busted out from the airport and 

continued running on the exposed road. 

Soon they were surrounded, they stopped. Henry, still holding Ava, turned to her and said. 

"It's okay, we tried our best…. Just close your eyes''. Which they both did, while waiting for 

the worst.