((Okay, here comes City Hall))
City Hall stood in the southern end of the New Downtown district, on the border of old downtown. It was built at the same time as the other buildings in downtown, and looked the same as well. Red Bricks, about 8 stories tall, a nice large parking lot with shrubberies on the front end of the building and edges of the parking lot. Its windows were now boarded up pretty well, with frightened eyes peering out through the gaps.
Ben drove into sight of this building, sticking out like a sore thumb amongst the new downtowns concrete high rises, and began to assess the situation. Ben could see the parking lot, and it was plainly thrown upon him why the cops were in such hot water. The parking lot, and surrounding streets, were completely covered with stalkers, this massive pack was about the same size as the one in the strip-mall back in the suburbs, and in one foul swoop it had returned a whole slew of bad memories. Ben drove up, stopped a good distance away, and got out of the Jag, rifle on his back, shotgun in his hand, and the Uzi from the ganbanger at Peter's house in his jacket.
"Hey, who's that?" asked one of the cops. There were two cops on the roof, armed with a couple of SWAT sniper rifles, they had set up a good position facing out over the parking lot. The one who had asked the question, a Mr. Darrel Jones, had just noticed Ben pulling up and quietly getting out of his car.
"Hell if I know Jones, but keep your scope on him just in case," replied the other cop, Hank Wagner, now standing up from the lawn chair he had dragged up to the roof, taking his rifle, and getting in position.
"Whoever that guy is, he's got a rifle like us." said Darrel. Ben indeed had a rifle and had taken it off of his back.
Ben put the rifle onto the hood of his car and looked through the scope into the throng of stalkers out in front of City Hall. "Shit" he whispered. The stalkers were trying to rip the boards off of the front windows and doors, stumbling over each other to get to the front. Ben noticed that about one in every twenty of these 1000 or so stalkers could work his hands almost as well as a human being. They were mostly using them to try and pry off the boards nailed to the entrances. [The leaders maybe?] Ben thought as he took out a clip of hollow-points and stuck it into the rifle. Ben pulled the bolt back, up, down, and forward loading a round into the barrel. Then he picked out a target, a rather large and ripped stalker beginning to make progress on one of the boards at one of the windows. Ben aimed carefully for the things swaying head, held until it stumbled backwards a bit from losign its grip on the board, clicked off the safety and pulled the trigger. PKEEEW, the things face spewed off onto the board in a bloody explosion. Ben picked another target, pulled again, and got similar results.
"Is he, trying to save us?" Hank asked with doubt in his voice.
"I heard the chief say something about getting in radio contact with some dude, maybe this is him."
"Well if he manages to single handedly kill every last one of these, things, then I don't know what."
"Oh shit!" cried Darrel. He noticed something that caused both his and Hank's blood run cold.
"OH SHIT!" Ben screamed. One of those more intelligent stalkers had heard the gunshots and had been looking around to see where it was coming from, and had found Ben. He had worked his way to the back of the mob. The stalker let out a fierce growl and about 20 other stalkers suddenly turned to him, and then to Ben. "Mother Fucker," cursed Ben under his breath as he began to change the clip. The pack of stalkers were now advancing on him, shambling towards him hungrily. "Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit," whispered Ben with each step they took towards him. His hands were shaking now, making it especially difficult to reload, and the pack were only about 25 feet away now, rounding a five car pileup. Then, out of the blue, Ben heard a rifle shot and saw one of the stalkers now moving on him's head explode. Then another shot and another kill. Ben's head jerked up, and he saw a flash from the roof of City Hall, then another bang and another dead stalker. He shook it off and grabbed his prized shotgun, which had three buck-shells in it, clicked off the safety and shot the closest stalker in the chest. It nearly split into two from the shell, leaving it sprawled out about 10 feet from Ben, its entrails in a bloody pile where its torso used to be.
"Got another one Darrel, just admit it, you can't keep up," joked hank as he took another shot, "no one can keep up with the master fool. Shit, I must be the motherfucking chosen one."
"Stow it, we got more company," said Darrel, looking off to the left as two men came running down the street, totting SMG's.
"Wha-, where did they come from?" asked Hank. "Shit they must of been hiding behind one of those pileups, damn, what do we do now? Who do we cover?"
"Well Mr. Chosen one you keep our friend out there by the Jag safe, and I'll help these new guys."
Hank said absently, "Isn't that . . ."
"Shut up and keep shooting!"
Ben had taken down about five of them now, and his mysterious friend had gotten rid of about eight of them, as far as Ben could see, as he reloaded his shotgun, he had the situation under control. Then there was a rattle from behind him, he looked and saw a diet coke can roll past him, and the stalker who had set these damn blood hounds on him in the first place chasing after it. Ben tried to get his gun up, got about halfway, and then got knocked to the ground with the stalker on top of him. Ben held it up by the neck, trying to keep the damn things mouth off of him while it scratched at him with its hands. He managed to toss it off of him to the right side and then struggled to get up, shaking furiously. [Oh shit, oh shit, goddammit, Christ, shit!] he thought as he stumbled backwards away from it, now rising to its feet. Ben heard more rifle shots, and then saw in the corner of his eye one of the remaining stalkers drop. [Dammit what do I do?] Ben thought as he slowly began to back away from the thing, now slowly approaching him. Then it flung itself at him, causing them to lock their arms together, beginning to dance the deadly dance of a wrestler.
"Fuck, I can't get a clear shot!" Hank yelled. Ben was now trying to shake the thing off of him while the stalker was trying to get close enough to bite him.
"Well what the fuck are you telling me for. Screw him for now and help me over here!" Darrel shouted.
Ben and the stalker were spinning around, locked together for about five minutes when Ben finally managed to get a hand free. The stalker jerked forward trying to bit in the shoulder when Ben brought his knee up into the creatures chin. It flew backward, landed on its back and slid about 6 inches before it began to struggle to it's feet. Ben quickly reached into his coat, grabbed the Uzi, sprinted up to it, brought the Uzi down to its face and fired 4 times. The stalker went made the last jerks of life, soiled itself, and then went limp. Ben was panting fiercly, and stood there for about a minute trying to get his breath under control. [I am alive, I am alive, I AM ALIVE!] he keep told himself. After getting the pant down a bit he noticed that there was machine gun fire in the distance. He took one more look at the stalker and then returned to the Jag.
Through the rifle scope Ben could see two men with SMGs hosing down the right side of the legion of stalkers. Ben saw the flashes on the roof as well. "Fuck it," he sighed out and tossed the rifle into the back seat of his car. Then he picked up his prized, ornamental shotgun, stowed the Uzi in his coat once more, and got into the driver seat.
"What's that noi-, Holy Shit!" shouted Hank. "Is He, HOLY SHIT!" Ben was driving through the crowd of stalkers toward the two men with the SMGs, leaving a small path behind him, slowly disappearing in the anxious throng of stalkers chasing after his car.
"No fucking way," whispered Darrel. Even the two men with the SMGs stopped for a moment. The crowd of stalkers was reduced to about half now, thanks to the combined eff-