The Colony: Renegades (The Colony, Vol. 2) 50 The sound of the monsters was so loud, so deafening, so nearly complete, that Ken almost didn’t hear… the other signals.Almost didn’t hear the low thud.Almost didn’t hear the wrenching crack.Almost didn’t hear the whistle.But he must have heard them all. Must have, at least on some subliminal level.He looked up.Something was falling.Something big.Huge.His first thought was that something new was happening. And new was bad. New was always bad, new was just this world’s way of trying to kill them with more variety. Evolution was speeding up, and had focused on one task: the complete eradication of humanity.They’re growing. They’re already invincible and spewing acid and they climb walls and now they’re growing, dammit!The thing fell from above, plummeting through the shaft like a piece of the night sky.Invincible. Acid-puke. Stick to walls. Growing. What next?And then a voice forced itself into his fragmented, panicked thoughts. Christopher: “Timmmberrrrr!”Ken’s fingers clenched even tighter around the cable, his arm pulled Hope so close to his chest that he wouldn’t have been surprised to hear her bones creak and crack.The whistling increased in intensity. So did the growling.Then….BOOM.The falling mass hit the fleshy bridge that had built itself across the shaft above Ken and Dorcas. The zombies screeched and then seemed to shatter into ten thousand fragments. Bodies and body parts exploded in every direction. They fell past Ken.He saw a disembodied hand, fingers still opening and closing, and he tried to convince himself that it wasn’t reaching for him. That it wasn’t trying to grab Hope as it passed her.But he failed. Because he was certain that the hand was doing just that. No brain, completely disconnected. But still reaching. Still trying to kill.Then in the next instant he saw a huge piece of what looked like rock – the mass that had plowed through the bridge above them – rocket past.It hit the zombie with the growths covering its eyes. The thing had time for a single abortive shriek before the gray block went right through it. Then the massive chunk continued through the bridge, tearing it apart as violently as any explosive could have done.“Look out below!”
