Little Annie's Gun-Fu

"Quick!"

"Keep moving, don't stop! We're almost there!!"

The Black captain of the commando team was directing the fleeing group forward in an orderly fashion. They were getting closer and closer to the subway station where the train they had ridden in on was waiting. It had only one carriage and two platforms, one at each end.

"Alice!"

"Help Rain along. Don't let her fall behind!"

After giving them a quick morale boost and asking the female guard to help their wounded teammate, he saw that there were no problems and turned around, rushing back to the front to lead the team onward.

In just six hours, Umbrella's enormous secret research facility, the Hive, deep beneath Raccoon City, had fallen completely into the hands of the resurrected monster zombies and the even more terrifying biological weapons. The once-hidden, fully functional underground facility had been transformed into a hellish nightmare!

If that terrible T-virus spread to Raccoon City above, or even farther across North America and the rest of the world, no one could imagine what would happen. Of course, neither the commando team nor the other survivors fleeing with them had the time or energy to think about such complicated questions.

Rat-tat-tat!

Rat-tat-tat!

Click! Click...

Click, clack?!

"!?"

"Crap!"

"Captain! My UMP's out of ammo!!"

At the very back of the group, Chad Kaplan, the commando team's computer expert, was providing covering fire with another teammate. He emptied a burst into the heads of several hideous, pale-faced zombies shambling stubbornly after them. Then, to his horror, he realized he seemed to be completely out of ammunition... As he kept pulling the trigger, all he heard was the useless metallic click of the empty gun's trigger and firing pin.

Clearly,

The last clear plastic straight magazine he'd just loaded—the last one,