CRACK!
A sharp snap echoed through the air—then came the searing pain, shooting through every nerve in Frank's body. His mind went completely blank.
A blood-curdling scream tore from his throat, raw and hysterical, shattering the chaos around him.
"Frank!" his second-in-command shouted, wincing hard at the sight.
"Gotcha!" Leah lunged forward, her hand reaching for him.
Frank's lieutenant recoiled instinctively, fear flashing in his eyes as he scrambled backward.
All around them, the battlefield was a brutal mess. Genesis Biotech's Awakeners were locked in savage combat with the swarming undead. The air was thick with the guttural snarls of zombies and the agonized cries of the dying.
One of the more terrifying zombies—Fear—had just tackled an Awakener to the ground. His jagged fangs sank into the man's neck, then yanked back with a vicious jerk, tearing open the artery in a spray of blood that shot several feet into the air.
