Canon Fodder

CHAPTER 133 RATTLING CAGES

I woke up to the girls snuggling up to me. Saeko had been able to last 4 rounds, but she was a blubbering mess by the end. Almost asleep as I fucked her. Too relaxed as her body sent pleasurable signals through her body. Saya hadn’t woken up for another so I left them there to look through the neighborhood. I was surprised by all the people I found. So I changed my plans for the day.

The sun was peeking over the horizon so I began squeezing the girl’s asses. Not gentle with it as I enjoyed their firmness and elasticity. 

“Do you ever get tired?” Saya mumbled. 

“I do not,” I admitted. “I stayed up for 5 days straight once. I have a skill to keep going. I just sleep because I like it.” 

“Seriously?” 

“Yep.” I had used Kame Mode once to make sure it worked in this world. It had so I left it alone. I planned to start using it when the real killing of zombies started.

“What else can you do?” Saya asked. 

“I can change the temperature.” I began pulling in heat, making the area cold. Then pushed it out making it warm. “And a bunch of other stuff.” 

“And you do it with chakra?” 

“Mostly,” I said. “But it took a lot of training. Don’t expect to be super strong right away.” 

Saya frowned but nodded. Looking at Saeko she asked, “What are we doing today?” 

“Saving lives,” I decided. She asked for clarification, but I didn’t give it to her. I soon had them up. It was quite simple to get them going. I just had to grope and play with them. They would let out a pleasurable moan, then get reminded the other girl was there, then pushed me away. Neither felt comfortable being with me at the same time. 

We got out and headed back to the Miyamoto household. The mother and a few others were up. Shizuoka gave me an all knowing blush. 

“Where were you?” Rei’s mom asked. 

“Patrolling,” I said. “Change of plans for today. The elementary school is only a few miles away. We are going to start saving people.” I had a quest to save as many as possible. I wanted the reward to upgrade. So I would grab as many as possible. 

“How?” Rei asked, walking up. 

“Get everyone up, you’ll see,” I said. I was out the door as the others began to eat breakfast. I headed 5 houses down and kicked in the door. The lone woman screamed as I walked in. 

“You are leaving,” I ordered the stranger. 

“What? Who are you? Please don’t touch me!” She yelled, backing away. 

“I’m not. But gather all of your stuff. We are leaving.”

“No I can’t. My husband could be-” 

“Could be where we are going,” I told her. “The government is evacuating people. Grab your things. We will be heading there.” 

“Do you mean it?” She asked, hope in her voice. I nodded and waited for her to pack a bag. It wasn’t long until she was following me to the Miyamoto house. The others were surprised I had someone with me. 

“There are about 20 houses in the area, holding people. We will be getting all of them. Once we have them all we will make our way to the school,” I told the others. They nodded and I sent out assignments to streets. In the Gantz suits they were confident and ran about it. I handled the biggest groups. Those homes with 2 or 3 people would be easier to talk into leaving. It was the bigger groups that were an issue. Number meant safety for some reason. 

“We won’t let you-” A guy tried to say, I backhanded him. He cried out falling to the floor. 

“You will be leaving,” I told him. “All of you. I will protect you from the zombies. All you have to do is walk. Grab your shit. We are going somewhere safe.” The others in the household looked at me, scared beyond belief since I had kicked in the door easily. 

“I don’t care that you kicked Miyamoto out. But I will be damned if I let you all wait here to die!” I said angrily. “I am done not saving those I can.” They shook in fear from the strength in my voice. I picked up the guy from the ground. “Move your ass. Grab your crap. We leave in 3 minutes. We will be discarding everything you don’t take.” 

They didn’t like it. None of the groups did. But by the time we were done we had close to 100 people. All shivering, whimpering, and genuinely scared as they gathered up. There were children, older people, and teens, middle aged people. All had fought not to go, but I wasn’t going to risk it. 

“Time to go!” I ordered. “My group. Surround them like a clock’s numbers. Takashi, you are the lead. Show the way. Call out when more than one zombie shows up.” 

We were soon on our way to Shitoko Third Elementary School. The people were like sheep. Huddling together as they looked fearfully to the streets ahead. I was a whirlwind of movement. Moving between my team in their Gantz suits. Every alley we walked by had zombies stumbling our way. We took them all on. Dispatching them easily. 

The first few zombies that appeared the large group tried to bolt. I was soon in their way daring them to make a run for it. I could almost feel my Conqueror’s Haki react to knock them out if needed. But I still hadn’t done the trick. After the 3rd group of zombies the citizens stopped trying to run, more confident as we killed expertly. Rei’s mom even joined in, pushing some zombies back with her spear. 

We got into a nice groove. Killing and pushing the people further. I knew something would go wrong though. We were about half way to the school when Takashi yelled, “Zomay!” 

The name didn’t register for a moment, but then I remembered. I was by him almost instantly. I noticed the pitch black skinned zomay right away. Red veins bulging out of it’s skin it stared at us angrily. Breathing in and out heavily, it glared at us like we had run over it’s dog. This one didn’t have 2 faces, but 3. Instead of right next to each other, the extra heads were on the shoulders. 

The group cried out in fear, ready to escape at any moment. I began to spin my Jitte as the zomay yelled. It began to charge at us, concrete breaking with its footfalls with each powerful step. I met it head on. Powering up my own run as my Jitte spun in my hand. 

We closed the distance and a few paces away I took the Jitte in 2 hands. Extending the water out in a large wave I slashed/splashed up, from crotch to head. The zomay split in half. Screeching as the 2 sides continued on with momentum alone as the halves shot passed me on my sides. 

They skidded to a halt a few feet away. I noticed that the heads on the shoulders were still alive. Each shoulder began to move as the remaining heads took control of each side. In 2 quick slashes I beaded the 2 halves. They stopped moving then. It was a surreal thing to see such a strong zombie.

No one had seen any over the week zombies had been out and about. They were either evolving, some people were unlucky to be sucked together into the same zombie, or something else was going on. I guessed I would have to find out. 

“This is not good,” I said as the others came up. I looked up to Takashi. “I don’t know if you guys could take it on without the suits. And even then…” 

“I agree,” Takashi said. “Look what he did to the road.” We all turned to see the footprints in the concrete. “It’s…another thing to worry about.” I frowned but nodded. Soon another zombie attacked the group and we were surrounding them again. Pushing them forward as we inched our way to the school. 

All in all it only took an hour to get there. It felt longer, but we killed a lot of zombies. Fighting always made time drag on. People began to get excited when they noticed the police cars and metal gate closed around the school. I ran ahead to get their attention. 

“Hello!” I yelled. Some people perked up behind the gate. “We were told to gather here for evacuation!” The guards spoke to one another. Soon someone was running into the school. I waited patiently as the large group walked up behind me. It wasn’t long until someone walked out of the school. It surprised me that they weren’t a police officer. 

“We are closed!” The man yelled as he walked up to the gate. The people coming up behind me gasped and began to mumble. The man was older, he was balding and had gray hair around his head, but not on the top. He wore glasses and an old gray suit.

“We were told that the army was heading here to extract people!” I yelled and began to walk closer to the line of police cruisers. 

“That’s right, but we are already at capacity. We can’t accept anymore people. You are more than welcome to wait outside until they come!” The man yelled. It was no longer needed to yell, I could hear him just fine. 

“And the police?” I asked. 

“The police aren’t in charge here! As the principal, it is my duty to make sure those under my care are safe,” the man said. 

I looked around. The area looked rather safe. But the school behind the man was big. There was a wall around the entire campus, ready to protect whoever was inside. I could see why it was chosen as an extraction point. Turning back to those behind me they all had scared looks on their faces. 

I jumped up to the cruiser's hoods and kept walking. “That’s not going to work,” I said. “These people are in my charge. I won’t feel like they’re safe until they’re inside.” 

“That is too bad!” The man yelled. “People are scared enou-” He stopped talking as I began climbing up the metal gate. “Stop that! Someone shoot this man!” I looked down. They had guns, but they were scared. No one wanted to shoot a person. I made it over the 10 foot high gate. 

Jumping down I stared at the principal then ignored him. Walking to one of the guards I noticed a key around his neck. Moving to him I grabbed it before he could react. Ripping it off I moved to the gate.

“Stop!” The principal yelled. I moved back, punching him in the gut. He doubled over easily. Walking to the gate I unlocked the padlock and pulled the chains off. Opening the gate I waved the others over. 

“They found space for us!” I said with a big smile. “Come on. Everyone. Let’s go.” They didn’t hesitate. Moving around the cars they began to pour in as the police officer’s showed up. They walked around the school toward us. 

I was about to chew them out but stopped when Rei yelled, “Dad!”  She was soon running from the group with her mom. Both went to an older man at the front of the police group. Crying happily as they were reunited. 

I tossed the key to the lock to the guy I took it from and headed inside. Ready to hear an explanation on why some principal was in charge during the time of crisis. 

—

“My men are stationed at the other 3 gates around the school,” Tadashi Miyamoto said. We were inside the school with the small group of police. There were only about 12 of them, which was a far cry lower than what I expected. “The principal offered to station people at the main one. We have been working it for a few days, working in shifts. I had no idea he was turning people away. I only heard because of the yelling.” 

“Yeah, not cool,” I said. “But we made it.” The dozens of people we brought were quickly brought into the fold. Some reunited with others they knew. Others had seen some bad things so they stuck to themselves. 

“How did you know to come here?” Tadashi Miyamoto asked. 

“We went to the police station,” Rei said. She still hung on the old guy. “We saw the announcement about the extraction.” 

“And the other’s there?” Tadashi asked. 

“Others?” 

“Yeah, I was part of the first group to come when we got the message. The others at the station were supposed to get here today,” he said. 

“There wasn’t anyone…alive when we were there,” Rei said. The dad appeared to take the news badly. He frowned, fighting whatever emotions he had. He must have been holding out hope they would join up. But they should have stuck together. 

“What about this place? Besides the principal, is it safe?” Kohta asked. 

“Yes,” Tadashi said. “Despite how the principal treated you. He did lock the place down as soon as the outbreak started. There wasn’t a single zombie here. He has been taking in people, at least that’s what I was told. But yesterday…a refugee came in and told him that they saw the principal’s wife get killed.” 

“She was in another group house, but a zombie broke in,” Tadashi admitted. “I didn’t think it affected him in such a way.” I frowned, feeling a little bad for treating the guy that way. But if it was going to make you turn away survivors, maybe you shouldn’t be in charge. 

“I found her!” Takashi said happily as he walked in. A very beautiful buxom woman walked in behind him. 

“Your sister?” I asked excitedly. 

He frowned at me. “My mom,” he said. His mother blushed as she followed him in. 

“Oh, sorry, easy mistake,” I said, reaching out my hand. She would give Shizuoka a run for her money in the chest department. Long black hair she was exactly my type. 

“I hear you all are to thank for helping Takashi get here,” his mother said with a bow. 

“Yes, if he had told us his mother was so-” I was about to say beautiful but Takashi glared at me. I laughed loudly. It had been a while since I had. The depressing air was annoying, it was good to laugh again. 

“So what?” His mother asked, knowing what I was going to say. 

“Vibrant,” I decided. I looked around, Saeko and Saya were glaring at me. I missed My Hero Academia and Toru. “Fine, so when are these helicopters coming?” 

“They should be here at 6,” Tadashi said. “That was the last bit of information we got. I assume you all want to rest.” 

“I would like to go out and look for people,” I admitted. I wanted more for the quest.

“Are you sure, it’s dangerous,” Tadashi said. 

“He can take care of himself,” Rei assured. 

“Yeah, what’s around here?” I asked. 

“There is the grocery store that way. Park that way. And the bank that way,” Tadashi said. 

“Bank?” I asked with a much bigger smile. “Finally.” I was used to America where they were everywhere. It was time to reap the apocalyptic world’s rewards.