We weren´t that far away from Arlington’s perimeter, but we still had one mile and a half to go, we were coming in from the south and the horde from the south-east and we knew we´d find a bit of resistance, Helena switched back to channel twenty-three and Dominique’s voice came right in.

- Rescue one control thirteen here, artillery is on the way guys so sit back, enjoy the fireworks and try not to die out there, have fun, Over and out. –

- This is your captain again, if you look to your right you´ll soon see how the horde is being torn apart by artillery fire. – Harry said joking again.

- Harry enough! Just get us there safely. – Helena barked, obviously stressed out.

We were about 500 meters away, harry ran over some infected that were getting in the way, the artillery rounds were brutally pummeling the ground, there were bodies and limbs flying all over the place and the infected were getting in our way, we had to slow down and take evasive action.

- Miller, get on the thirty cal and cut us a path. – Harry said.

I opened the roof hatch, stood up and opened fire at whatever stood in front of us, the machine gun clattered loudly and shaked violently with every shot, we were a mere hundred meters away from the gate but then the machine gun jammed.

- Why did you stopped shooting Miller!? – Liam asked.

- The fucking thing Jammed! – I yelled.

I tried to cock it again and pulled the trigger but it just clicked and wouldn´t fire, suddenly an artillery round hit the ground right beside us and caused the truck to flip sideways, I bumped my head with something hard and fell unconscious for a moment.

- Miller! Are you alright? – I heard Harry say.

My vision was all blurry and my senses were slowly coming back to me, I felt a sharp pain coming from my right side below the rib, I touched with my hand and felt blood… a lot of blood, I looked down and saw how a chunk of metal had gone through my whole right side entering from the back, I tried to say something but coughed blood instead.

Marcus! – Harry yelled coming out of the truck.

The infected turned their attention back to us, I took the M1911 from its holster and began shooting.

- Harry, get Liam and Helena out of here, I´ll keep ´em busy. – I Told him.

Harry went back inside the truck, I was lying on the ground a couple of feet from the truck, I propped up with my left arm and tried to pull out the piece of metal with the other one, the pain was so awful it almost made me pass out again but a crazy came running towards me only to have his head blown off before it could get too close.

- Harry is everyone out? – I asked but no one responded.

More infected were running in my direction, I dragged myself up to the truck which was flipped sideways on it´s left side and sat down against the roof of it and I managed to pull the piece of metal out of my body but I was losing even more blood now, I used my hand to apply some pressure and stop the bleeding a bit but blood gushed out of my mouth and I choked a bit with it… this was bad, I got a fresh magazine in the gun and kept shooting to whatever got close, the artillery fire had stopped but there were still too many infected around, a few minutes later I ran out of ammo and I was feeling very weak, I faded out a bit.

- Miller I´m back! – Harry yelled while running towards me. – Let´s get you the fuck out of here son, can you walk? – He grumbled, I was still conscious but somehow I couldn´t talk.

Harry tried to get me on my feet but my body was not responding, he picked me up on his shoulders but after a few steps he had to drop me as he noticed a thin long metal piece sticking out of his right thigh, he just flinched a bit and cursed between teeth, I just laid down on the floor looking up to the sky.

- Harry, just go. - I muttered and pulled out a grenade.

- Don´t you even fucking think about it you cheeky bastard. – He said, took the grenade off my hand and reached back to his holster.

- Here son, six shots make ´em count, I´ll have to drag you in while you cover both our arses. – He smirked.

Harry grabbed my vest strap and pulled to drag me, I had his hand cannon in my hands.

- Bloodhound! To your left! – He yelled.

Making an effort I lifted the heavy gun and fired, the bullet went in and right out cleanly through the beast´s skull, it fell limp on the ground.

- Nice shot, come on almost there, don´t you fucking die on me now Marcus. – Harry said, panting.

Three infected were making a sprint towards us, I lifted the cannon and fired twice, I got two of them in the chest making a huge hole on them in the process and taking them down, I fired again and got the third one in the leg and he fell to the ground but kept coming, I shot it again to finish it off and the bullet went in through his right eye making a disgusting gushing and splattering sound.

- Hang in there Lieutenant it´s just a few more meters, stay with me. – I barely heard him as I was drifting into unconsciousness again from the loss of blood.

- Harry, I´m… - I muttered but I noticed that a bloodhound was charging us from the left, I shot it but only managed to hit the leg, it stumbled briefly and roared in pain but kept charging, I pulled the trigger again but the gun only clicked and that thing kept coming for us, everything around me slowed to a crawl again, I felt tired and I closed my eyes for a moment but it felt like an eternity, I gathered the strength I had left in my body and opened my eyes once more to saw that the beast was stopped dead in it´s tracks by a wall of machinegun fire and torn to pieces shot by shot, the head and torso caved in, chunks of dark flesh flied off and black blood splattered the ground.

I looked up and saw Ray picking me up and taking me inside the walls, the gate closed before my eyes and I felt relief, Alexandria jumped off the wall´s cat walk and ran desperately towards us. The last drop of strength left my body and the revolver fell off my hands, everything went dark as I faded to black…