{"sf1_id":192087,"sf2_id":null,"title":"The Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse, Group 5, Concludes","author":"comidacomida","words":1781,"posted_at":"2010-11-05T08:02:00.000Z","tags":["Death","Gore","Lion","Monkey","Sci-Fi","Violence","Wolf","apoc-fur-lypse","zombies"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/192087-the-zombie-apoc-fur-lypse-group-5-concludes","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/192087","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=192087\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"The Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse\n\nGroup 5, Concludes\n\ncopyright 2010 comidacomida\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence casually walked down the hall, occasionally stepping over a dead body, fallen potted\n\nplant and, once, a broken water cooler. Ty followed closely after her, bloody cloth sack held\n\nout a good distance from his body, little curls of lion pain sticking out of the top. \"Remind\n\nme why I'm holding this again?\" he asked quietly.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Because you decided to come along. At this point you're taking the place of my lab\n\nassistant... you get to do all the unpleasant jobs.\" Cadence replied in a matter-of-fact tone.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"If you treat all your lab assistants that way I'd hate to think what happened to your last\n\none.\" Ty offered flatly.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"We stepped over her a few minutes ago.\" Cadence responded. The conversation dwindled quickly\n\nthereafter.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe monkey didn't slow as they turned a corner and encountered a zombie. It was standing in the\n\nmiddle of the hallway facing one of the many automatic doors; the door was not opening and the\n\nzombie didn't bother moving. \"Stay here.\" Cadence stated to Ty.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"That thing's a little close, isn't it? What if it--\" the words stuck in his throat as Cadence\n\nturned aside, pressing her back against the wall; the zombie turned immediately, staring at the\n\nwolf. \"Uh... Cadence?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Stay there.\" the monkey repeated her earlier command. The zombie took a few shaky steps\n\nforward, then began loping toward Ty, drool dribbling out of its lipless maw.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Cadence... Dr VanHousen...?\" Ty took a step backward as the zombie broke into a jog, bloody\n\nclaws reaching out eagerly toward the uncertain wolf. It let out a roar-- and, just then,\n\nCadence's arm shot out, grabbing hold of one of its ears, and rapidly twisting. An audible\n\n\\*snap\\* brought an end to the zombie's charge, and it crumpled, supported only by the monkey's\n\ngrip on its ears.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Yes, Tyler?\" Cadence asked casually. The wolf had no response by that point, and merely\n\nshrugged. The monkey shrugged in return and dropped the body, \"Come... we are nearly where we\n\nwant to be.\" Ty obediently followed, paws tightly gripping his first aid kit.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Why did it come after me?\" he asked once they'd continued down the hall for several meters.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"They have been since as long as I could remember.\" she countered, \"Why would now be any\n\ndifferent?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Well...\" the wolf paused, one ear falling sideways, \"I mean... you were closer, right? Why\n\ndidn't it go after you?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence continued limping along, \"Are you familiar with magnets?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What does that have to do with--\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Answer the question, Tyler.\" she interrupted.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe wolf sighed, \"Yes. I know what magnets are.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"And you know how they work?\" she continued.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"More or less.\" the wolf shrugged.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"More or less?\" she questioned, not bothering to look back at him.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Yea... I know that electrons in some kinds of--\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Actually,\" the macaque interrupted again, \"I was looking for the simple answer.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"You mean... 'opposites attract.'?\" Ty asked.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Precisely.\" Cadence paused, motioning to a door, \"Your brain still functions normally, unlike\n\nmy own and unlike the rest of these walking corpses. Have you not noticed that they do not\n\nattack one another?\" she asked.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"They haven't attacked you either...\" Ty asserted, \"Back on the roof... back in the mall... on\n\nthe street... that's how you've managed to stay alive so long!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"If you would consider this 'alive', then yes.\" Cadence nodded, \"Very good, Tyler.\" she moved\n\ninto the room past the wolf and went to a large section of electronic equipment. Ty moved in\n\nafter her, standing off to the side with the bloody sack still in his paw, watching as she\n\nadjusted the dials.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Hmm... apparently turning the power grid off worked.\" she commented, mostly to herself.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"The power grid?\" Ty questioned.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"It was a back-up plan in the event that the project overstepped its boundary.\" Cadence\n\nexplained, \"The specific energy waves used to resurrect the recently dead are capable of being\n\ntransmitted by any electrical current. The scientists here knew that, if the experimental\n\nenergy wave were to get out into the city...\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Then something like what happened would occur.\" Ty finished for her.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"There was a master override switch controlling the power relay in Ratherbig,\" the monkey noted,\n\n\"if the scientists activated it then the entire power grid would disconnect and remove the\n\nthreat of the electrical signal spreading.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Apparently the kill switch didn't work as well as the thought it would.\" the wolf countered.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Indeed... and, as you could tell, the power came back on within the city several hours ago...\n\nwhich means we have a larger problem.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Other than more zombies rising?\" Ty questioned.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence nodded, \"Yes.\" and she slowly stood up from her kneeling position by the electronic\n\nequipment. She used her left arm, right still hanging limply from her fight with the undead\n\nlion, \"By the time the power was disconnected the signal only got to the edge of Ratherbig. By\n\nnow, the signal might have spread throughout Ratherbigshire.\" she glanced back to Ty, \"Given\n\nlong enough...\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"The whole of England?\" Ty gasped.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Ultimately further than that.\" Cadence acknowledged.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe wolf nodded resolutely, \"How do we stop it?\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence motioned to the large metal structure in the middle of the lab, \"This...\" she turned and\n\nshot him a wry grin, \"And math.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Tell me what I have to do.\" Ty offered.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"First, we need to turn the electrodes on...\" she looked back to the equipment, turned several\n\ndials, and pressed a button. Ty took an involuntary step backward as a large, blue arc of\n\nelectricity bridged the gab between two metal prongs on the metal device near him.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Okay... then?\" Ty questioned.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence paused, leaning against the electronics.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Dr VanHousen?\" Ty asked.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence took several deep breaths then looked up at Ty, \"It needs to charrrrrrruuugggghhhh...\"\n\nshe stumbled, slumping against a table next to her, \"to... charge.\" she finished.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy moved to her aid but she quickly waved him back, \"You do not want to be near me, Tyler...\"\n\nthe monkey continued sitting on the ground, gazing at her feet.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What's happening?\" the wolf asked.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Focus.\" she ordered, \"When the electrodes are charged, I need to put good Dr Lebowitz's head\n\ninto the arc.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy glanced to the machine and the powerful electrical discharge shooting between the metal\n\nprongs, \"THAT much energy?\" he asked, astounded, \"That'll kill you!\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence nodded, \"And that will be the final step.\" she explained.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"You didn't plan on surviving this, did you?\" Ty demanded, \"You weren't looking for a cure for\n\nyourself.\"\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"Of course I was.\" she countered, \"But sometimes the cure people look for is not for their\n\nbody.\" Cadence noted.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\"What's that supposed to mean?\" the wolf asked.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCadence chuckled, \"You still don't pay attention...\" and she let out a deep sigh.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy shook his head, \"I said you were daft when I first saw you... I guess not much has changed.\"\n\nthe wolf rolled his eyes, and went back to look at the instrumentation on the side of the\n\nelectrodes, \"Hmm... 80%.\" he noted.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe room was quiet except for the sound of the electrical arc, popping, snapping, and crackling\n\nas it continued to build in power, \"Eighty five, Dr.\" he noted, glancing to Cadence. \"Dr\n\nVanHousen?\" he asked, moving over to her.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe macaque was laying with her back against the wall, right arm hung limply by her side; a bone\n\nstuck out of her forearm just below the elbow. Cadence's eyes were open, glazed over as they\n\ngazed at her feet. The monkey's left arm was draped across the bloody sack that contained the\n\ndead lion's head.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy shook his head and moved back to the electrodes. He remained watching them until a deep,\n\nraspy growl pulled his attention back to Cadence, who was once again on her feet, a snarl torn\n\nacross her muzzle. The wolf took an immediate step back, but the zombie monkey in front of him\n\nwasn't about to go slow; she pounced.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy let out a scream as he was quickly overpowered. He beat at the monkey with his medical kit,\n\nfighting for his life as she grappled him, pinning his back against the electrodes as she sunk\n\nher teeth into his neck. The wolf's scream dissolved into a wet burbling rasp and he felt his\n\nlifeblood begin to seep out of his flesh.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHis paws searched around for something... anything... but, as his strength started to fade he\n\ncouldn't even manage to hold onto his medical kit. His empty paws continued pushing, shoving,\n\nbrushing, heaving, but to no avail. As his attempts to escape weakened, one of his paws brushed\n\nagainst the sack that contained the lion's head. His brain, already starting to register the\n\nend to his life, still managed to put two and two together. He slipped his paw into the sack,\n\nfingers gripping onto mane.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTy let his head roll back on his shoulders, giving the zombified Cadence better access to his\n\nthroat, but also granting him a better view of the instrument panel, which clearly read 100%.\n\nArm shaking, the wolf reached up to the blazing light of the electrical arc that crackled\n\nbetween the two electrodes. He didn't know a lot about physics, but he knew that electricity\n\nloved to travel through conductive materials... and bodies were very conductive. One paw\n\ngripping the lion's head, Cadence's face buried into his neck, Ty was ready to end the\n\nApoc-Fur-Lypse. He reached for the arc with his free paw... and administered the cure.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\\u003cTHE END\\\u003e\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nGroup 5 is coming to a close.\u0026nbsp; Due to their small party size and low Plot Points, neither is able to survive but they'll finish with a bang.\n\n\u0026nbsp; Thank you, Group 5, for taking part in the Apoc-Fur-Lypse.\u0026nbsp; We now mourn our six survivors:  \nDr Cadence VanHousen (author supplied character)  \nJake Sawyer (supplied by josh the panther)  \nTy (supplied by Forever Wolf)  \nDr Findley Weatherburton (supplied by t-ster)  \nAldo Ruben (supplied by yerkelayh)  \nJared Pret (supplied by Razera)  \n  \nOne final task for the readers as it relates to the Zombie Apoc-Fur-Lypse:  \nRead through both So Furry groups and find one whose ending you do not like.\u0026nbsp; Go to that post and vote.\u0026nbsp; The storyline with the most number of winning votes will be revised and rewritten.\u0026nbsp; Go... do it now!  \n  \n\n","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/191561-the-zombie-apoc-fur-lypse-group-4-concludes.json"}