Stronghold In The Apocalypse

Chapter 58: First Meeting

"Caleb, get some of the men and get them to help these newcomers and make sure to have them help around the camp" Leo said to Caleb while both of them are walking off from the Pelican.

Caleb nodded then looked at the new addition to the group and then looked over at Leo, "What about this group?"

"Later, you can train them how to fight like the rest and after that gather the rest of the men and have them integrate in the army before resuming your duties. Mom except for those on training, gather the other women and meet me at the Hall" Leo told Caleb and he went over to Amanda, Michelle and her sister are and chatted with them for a bit before he strode towards the Hall with Alex and Davis following behind him.

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"Alright! As you guys can see we have new addition to the group, help them around the camp and assign them task to do around here. Treat them well and Aria, I'll leave them to your hands, is that okay?" Caleb said to Aria who's among the crowd in front of him, curiously looking at the newcomers.

Aria looked at Caleb and nodded with a smile, "No worries, it's the least I could do around here"

"Uhmmm, have Amanda and Michelle help you with that" Caleb said casually and strode off towards the training and Austin followed behind after he finished chatting with his family.

Caleb was really constrained at ordering Leo's girls even including his sister, after all everybody had to contribute especially that the camp is still small in size. Of course, that doesn't mean he could order anyone just like that except probably for Rachel, Henry, Alex, Zabu, David and Alastair and if he does, he would probably get a lot of scolding and maybe even a beat down.

"Austin, can you go call Henry and Rachel for me and tell that the Boss ordered for a meeting at the hall?" Caleb said to Austin just behind while walking.

"Sure thing" Austin nodded and walked off towards the top of the wall where Henry is always at while Caleb went and ordered Jones and Edward to patrol around the wall and had the rest continue their combat training like firing guns and being able to properly wield melee weapons.

10 minutes later.

Everyone finally gathered in the hall with Henry, Rachel, Caleb, Alastair, David and Alex who's standing just beside Leo who is sitting on the Lord's seat with a rectangular square in front of them with the others sitting on their own seats.

"So, why did you gathered all of us son? You know that your mom here is busy running the camp when you are always away from here" Rachel looked at Leo as she leaned towards the table with her hands clasped together.

Leo smiled awkwardly at his mother, "Yes and I thank you for that mom"

"I gathered all of you here today for something important. Alex, can you bring that 'thing' here?'

"Yes sir" Alex nodded as he walked out of the room and came half a minute later carrying what looks like a huge body bag on his arm while floor creaks so hard every time he takes a step forward.

Everyone scrunched up their noses, the moment that Alex walked back inside as the smell something nasty like a rotten corpse or something.

Rachel scowled while looking at the thing under the arm of Alex "What the heck is that?"

"The smells gross" Henry was scrunching his face while his hand was covering his nose.

Thud~!

Alex threw the body bag at an open space in the room and except for the people who came with Leo from the US, the rest stood up from their seats and walked over where the body bag is.

Leo looked at Alex and gestured with his head to open it up.

Alex crouched down and unzip the body bag, revealing the a huge red mutated zombie inside with no skin.

When they saw it, the people around it stepped back in shock as they started a commotion the moment they saw it.

"Ooh~ the heck is that?"

"Is that a goddamn zombie?"

"Damn, that is some big ass zombie"

Rachel scowled and looked intently at Leo, "Son, why are you bringing a dead mutated zombie in here?"

"It's only been over two weeks since the start of the epidemic around the world. The zombie in front of you is a mutated zombie that has evolved and you can those big muscles on it which makes this the most powerful zombie I've face so far. This thing would have devastated the entire camp where the US president is, if we didn't arrived in time for me to kill this thing. When I saw this thing, I was alarmed as I wasn't expecting to meet this level of a zombie. I always thought that something like this would only appear after 4 - 5 months but I was wrong. You guys need to know that this thing right here could massacre an entire regiment of armed soldiers alone mostly because 'it's' impervious from most caliber of bullets" Leo was pacing back and forth in front of them, talking while pointing at the dead zombie on the floor from time to time.

"So what's its name then?" Henry asked out of curiosity.

" I call it 'The Big One'. You know cause it's so huge"

Rachel snorted, "Alright, Alright. Enough with all this trivia. Just tell us why you gathered us all here son?"

"Well, this time I finally decided to start rescuing survivors. That's the reason why I want to create two convoys to do that with Caleb" Leo said as he looked at Caleb from which the latter nodded.

"I want you to form a team along with David and start rescuing survivors around Greater Manchester and the leader for the second convoy would be Alex along with Austin and a team of your choice. Alex, I want you guys to scour the entire Liverpool towards Leeds, rescue anyone that you can rescue while scouring resources along the way, got it?"

"Yes sir!"

"Mom, I love you but I would still love it if you keep helping me managed the camp while I'm absent and Dad, you can take the men from the new survivors that we had today and have them train then get them to patrol atop the wall and the perimeter outside the camp. After we rescued enough survivors. I plan have them accompany me to retake the capital and make it our own base of operations"

"Alright, that's all. Alastair, you stay"

Everyone saluted except for his parents and started exiting the room, Leo's parents walked over to him.

Rachel rested her hands on Leo's cheeks and smiled at him gently, "Don't work to hard. I know that it's a big responsibility for you with all these happening around you, rescuing survivors, scouring food supplies in dangerous infested with zombies or what not. You're still young don't stress yourself too much, maybe take a day off and enjoy yourself. Why don't you go accompany Amanda or Michelle, their great women I tell you that. I just want you to know that me and you father supports you with everything you do, good or bad, Okay?" she said as she kiss his cheeks.

"Thanks mom. I will" Leo smiled.

"You're doing something great son and we love you, remember that" Henry patted his shoulders smiling before he and his wife walked out of the room.

Leo smiled looking at their backs, 'It feels great having a family indeed. Mom is right, maybe I should a day off and have fun with the girls before going out again'

Alastair was just silently standing there looking at Leo. Leo noticed him and finally remembered that he had something to ask him.

"*Cough* What's the current progress of the thing I asked you to do?"

"I finally assembled a small radio station from the things you have provided and with it. We can finally start sending messages around a distance of a 100 miles, sir" Alastair was proud of his work.

"Well, that was fast"

"You're looking at the greatest automation engineer so creating a radio is a piece of cake sir"

"Hmm..that's good then, thanks. What about Zabu? Any news from him?"

"The last time I talked to him, he managed to forged exactly 50 machetes and 10 katanas"

"Damn, that's great. Alright, you can go now" Leo said with a face full of joy.

Leo was finally alone in the room, he lazily laid back on his chair and muttered,

"I need at least 500 fully armed and battle ready soldiers to execute my plan of retaking the capital. It seems it gonna get more busier from here on out"