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couldn’t feel
pain, but the nerves were still there. A 200,000 volt blast along
those nerves would cripple their muscles long enough to drop them.
The titan swept her hubcap-sized palms across the mob by the gate
and they dropped at her touch. They were struggling back to their
feet when she marched over them and waved Road Warrior out
behind her. The truck rolled forward and crushed exes beneath its
thick dually tires. She gestured it past her and it rolled up to
the intersection.
    St. George leaped back over the truck,
landing next to Cerberus. From the back, Jarvis tossed a long pike
down to him. “Get going,” the hero said. “I’ll catch up.”
    Road Warrior revved its engines and
turned onto Melrose. Some of the scavengers saluted St. George and
Cerberus as they pulled out, and a few waves came from the guards
walking the walls.
    Behind them, the hero grabbed the pike by one
end and knocked down a wide swath of exes. The armored titan
slammed out a punch that went through an ex’s head and caved in a
skull behind it. They cleared a path back to the gate, where the
guards fended off exes with more pikes.
    An opening appeared and Cerberus strode
through it. The gate clanged shut behind her and Derek and Makana
dropped the bar back into its brackets. St. George nodded to them
through the bars, batting exes away as he did. “Everyone okay?”
    “Piece of cake, boss,” said Derek.
    “Cerberus?”
    The titan turned and looked down at him.
“Burned up about a fifth of my reserves with the stun fields, but
no problems otherwise.” The armored skull shifted, and St. George
knew she was looking at the cross again.
    “Okay, then. See you all tonight. Watch for
flares.”
    A few more salutes were tossed his way and
St. George flew up into the sky. The withered fingers of exes
dropped away from him.
     
     

Chapter 3
     
    NOW
     
    St. George caught up with Road Warrior three
blocks away as they were crossing Vine. Work crews had stacked cars
right down the center line of the street. The Big Wall, as people
called it, was still a few months from being done, but here the
cars were already three high. The rare times Danielle wasn’t in the
Cerberus armor she worked with a few others to figure out how to
build some kind of gate here at Melrose and Vine. For now it was a
large opening two lanes across.
    He soared above the big truck for a while,
watching the road ahead for blockages or crowds of exes. The path
was clear most of the way to Highland. They’d dragged most of the
cars away to use in the Big Wall. A pair of zombies stumbled into
the street at Ivar and Road Warrior plowed over them. The
hero flew a block ahead and landed at a gas station where the two
big streets crossed.
    Highland Avenue was one of the main
thoroughfares of Hollywood. There’d been a lot of fighting here
during the Zombocalypse as people trying to flee choked the street
with cars. They’d been attacked by either exes or other panicked
people trying to escape them. The people of the Mount had come out
here more than a few times on scavenging runs. At different times
he and Cerberus had pushed cars out of the way or even
double-stacked them in places. The way was clear up Highland, but
it was narrow. Very narrow in some places.
    St. George waited for Road Warrior to
catch up, and a minute later the big truck pulled up alongside him.
Luke grinned at him from the cab. “Need a ride, sailor?”
    “I was hoping you were heading my way,” said
the hero. “See anything?”
    The driver shook his head. “Nahh, clean
sailing. You taking point?”
    He nodded and banged the truck’s hood. “How’s
it holding up?”
    “She’s a beast,” said Luke, “but she’s
dependable. She’ll get us over the hill and back.” He shook his
head. “You know, there was a point when I’d make this run once or
twice a day without thinking about it.”
    St. George smiled. “There was a time when all
I worried about were muggers and car thieves.”
    Luke