Jed + Eddie - "Zombie bus"

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Jed shot the man halfway between his knee and his ankle. The man's leg
buckled, finding a new place to bend where it never could before. He
screamed.
"It's in a cargo shed on Mars."
"Where?"
"A town called `Argyre Planitia (on-the-Wolds)'"
Jed hit the bucket on the mans head again with a load clang. Deafened,
the man slumped to the floor.
Jed turned to Eddie, pulling a gun on his which was barely necessary.
"Come with me to collect the booty!"
"Do I have to?" Said Eddie.
"Quit yer yammerin'! Ya still owe me fur getting' me sent to prison!"
Eddie put his hands in his pockets and kicked the floor.
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Who: Jed Calvert and Eddie Monsoon
Where: Mars
When: After a short flight
The town of Argyre Planitia (on-the-Wolds) was one of the original
towns to be built on Mars, so it was housed entirely inside a large
glass dome. This meant that Jed and Eddie couldn't fly their Starbug
directly into the town.
Jed dropped the Starbug down outside the domed town and him and Eddie
made their way to a Martian bus station (after a short respite at a
local pub of course).
Absolutely hammered, they staggered out of the pub and into the bus
station.
The Martian busses were double-decker, much like a 20th century bus,
apart from anti-grav engines and even less legroom.
Jed stood at a bus stop and impatiently whistled. One didn't stop so
he drunkenly hurled a bottle of whiskey that he was holding at the
nearest and it came to a dead stop right in front of him.
Jed climbed inside. The bus stank of sick. That was probably because
the pissed Eddie Monsoon behind him had just hurled on the closest
passenger, but he had a feeling that it didn't smell so nice before.
The doors closed behind them, and Jed looked at the bus driver.
Normally the bus driver would have asked to see his busspass, and
normally Jed would have put his pistol under the man's chin and told
him to drive. Today though, the bus driver was a zombie.
Jed saved time and just shot the man in the head and threw his rotted
corpse out of the door. He scraped the skull off the drivers seat and
sat down.
"Alllll abooooard pardners!" he called and started grinding the bus's
gears until it started.
Eddie meanwhile had stopped being viciously ill all over a passenger
and now looked at the inhabitants of the bus. They were sat two by two
down the bus, and were all zombies.
"Jed mate, I know I'm wankered yeah but I'm seeing quite a lot of
zombies on this bus."
Jed never took his eyes off the road ahead but slapped Eddie on the
back. "Ah trust yer'll take care of them all pardner eh?"
Eddie gulped and stood in the aisles between the zombies. "Ah great."
He said. He reached for the bottle of cheap red he kept in his coat
pocket and necked the whole lot before the trouble started.

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