Although the alley was very remote, several infected were still wandering around it. But nonetheless, it was very easy for the Flesh bags to handle them.
BANG BANG BANG
From what Thomas saw, this was a group of three survivors. Three males who were all armed with guns. Against the stumbling infected, it was like shooting fish in a barrel in the confined alley.
"Go, go, go! We need to raid the pharmacy quickly!"
The noises from their weapons were starting to attract the nearby zombie's attention. Even the one who followed Thomas was starting to get a little agitated.
"Roaaugh!"
Thomas was holding back the struggling infected as best he could, he could not let the Flesh bags suspect an attack from above until the last minute.
The sounds of fighting slowly crept closer and closer to the middle of the alley. Once they were halfway, that was where Thomas and his traps were.
He was counting on his kin to slow or otherwise kill them when they overestimated their own abilities. Numbers were their strength and there were many more people to replenish their numbers from.
When the time came, Thomas once more threw his new companion aside and rushed to the edge of the building. He peered over the edge and nearly fell into the same frenzy as his fellow kin below. The hunger for the goodness contained within those hard shells atop the Flesh bags was gnawing away at Thomas.
With great effort Thomas resisted and with shaking hands he pushed the first appliance over the edge.
"Augh!"
As luck would have it, the broken microwave scored a direct hit on one of the Flesh bags. He crumpled to the ground like a puppet with cut strings.
"Jim!"
CRASH
In the brief moment they stood to call out their fallen comrade's name, a broken grill landed near them and bounced into their back.
"Augh! Damn it! My hip! Bill, help me!"
At that moment in time, Bill hesitated. The zombies were closing in from both sides and Jim was down. Helping out Tony could result in both of them dying, but if he left Tony behind…
But while Bill was weighing his choices, Thomas made a choice in the spur of the moment.
"Ruaaghh!"
Two were down and the last was uncertain, so Thomas went all out and leaped off the roof at him. With a piece of broken concrete, he smashed it perfectly onto Bill's head as he fell on him.
"Aaahhhh!" Tony started to scream out as he was being bitten everywhere.
"Raauuugh!"
Thomas growled at his fellow undead and shoved them away from his prize. If they turned, then their brains wouldn't sustain him anymore.
He stumbled over to the dead and went to work separating their heads. Since he had no blade or fine motor control, Thomas had to smash at their spinal cords. With two heads in hand, Thomas turned towards the third.
When he got to "Jim", his head already had a hole from where the microwave hit it. Thomas reached his hand past the broken pieces of skull and grabbed the food below.
Thomas dropped "Bill" and "Tony" down as he ate. It had been a while since he had food, it was also a fresh kill too!
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When Thomas finally finished, he stood and found a Flesh bag staring at him. The other kin were distracted by eating the bodies, so this Flesh bag was able to point a gun at Thomas.
The woman's eyes were full of tears and rage as the weapon shook in her hand.
BANG
"Raugh!" Thomas was shot in the shoulder and ran behind a bin to hide.
"What the hell!? They're treating us like prey!" The woman was horrified that these "creatures" were turning into predators so soon.
Thomas leaped out and hurled a rock at her. But she was faster at aiming and Thomas' aim wasn't exactly on point.
BANG BANG
"Ruaaa!"
Thomas was shot twice in the chest and the woman started to slowly approach him. That's when he noticed something in the corner of his eye.
"This is for my friends." The woman said as she aimed for Thomas' head.
"Ruaahh!"
"Aaahhh!"
It was the zombie that was following Thomas from before! He had noticed a Flesh bag was fighting Thomas and had decided to help!
Following Thomas's example, he leaped from the roof and onto the woman with the gun.
When he landed on her, the weapon was knocked from her hand.
"Damn you!" The woman tried to reach for her gun as the zombie tried repeatedly to bite her. He got a few good bites on her forearm before she felt the hand of the pistol again.
"Ruuaghhh!"
It was all for nothing though, in retaliation Thomas had taken a good bite out of her neck.
She clutched the hole in her neck in vain as blood rapidly pooled around her. It didn't take long until she finally stopped moving.
Thomas kept bashing until the skull was out of the way and scooped up a handful to eat. That's when he noticed the zombie stare curiously at him as he ate.
At that moment in time, on a spur of the moment whim, Thomas scooped up another handful and placed it in the zombie's mouth.
"…"
"…"
He stared at Thomas with a confused look, and Thomas also blankly stared back.
Thomas moved his hands and haphazardly made the friendly zombie move his jaws up and down.
"Waugh!?"
It was like a light bulb turned on in his brain, a new tenant had come to live upstairs!
Thomas motioned towards the remaining brains and the zombie complied readily. He had helped Thomas out, so at the very least he could give him what he had earned.
That's when Thomas turned towards his meal, the other two brains Thomas was dragging around.
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"..A..E..I..Ouargh!" Thomas had managed to sound out some letters before going back into zombie garble.