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woman’s arms pinwheeled as she fell backwards into Jose but Kim and Trey were there to keep them from falling down the rest of the embankment.
    “What the hell was that?”
    The words had barely left Janet’s mouth when it seemed that the entire world erupted in chaos. The sharp staccato of automatic gunfire filled the air followed quickly by terrified screams of the people on the highway. Janet scrambled over to her children who were cowering beside the car, eyes wide and fearful as they clung to one another.
    “Mom, what’s happening?” Matthew asked, his bottom lip trembling. She knelt down and put her arms around them.
    “It’s okay, babies. There’s just a problem down on the highway. That’s why we climbed up here. When Uncle Malcolm gets up here, we’re going to take a walk down that road, away from the problem. Now cover your ears so it isn’t so loud, okay?”
    They did as she told them, hands clamped over their ears and she gave them a reassuring smile. She stood up and saw that the others had made it up onto the road and had gone to the edge of the overpass to look down on the highway. An explosion ripped through the air and a ball of fire rolled upwards a mile down the road, followed by two more loud booms as the night sky began to glow orange in the distance.
    “What’s happening?” she yelled to the others as the gunfire continued down below. Ana came rushing over, tears streaming down her cheeks.
    “The soldiers are killing all of them,” Ana told her before kneeling down beside the children and pulling them into her arms for comfort.
    Panic rose up as Malcolm’s earlier words echoed through Janet’s mind. He was right. It was happening. But where the hell was he?
    “Watch them please,” Janet said to Ana before dashing over to the guardrail.
    She expected to see him already climbing up the embankment but the grassy knoll was empty. People were running between the maze of cars, fleeing the carnage that was raging down the highway towards them. She struggled to spot his familiar form among those lit up by the headlights.
    “Alan!”
    The high pitched scream got her attention and she spotted Jenny laying on the pavement in front of her car. The woman was trying to get up but kept getting knocked back by the people running past her. If she didn’t get to her feet soon, she was going to get trampled.
    Suddenly Travis appeared from around the other side of the car, circling the front end and hip checking a man that came too close to Jenny. He hefted her up in his arms and ran with her across the pavement towards the embankment.
    As he began his ascent, Janet saw a soldier emerge from underneath the overpass and watched as he saw Travis and Jenny, and aimed his rifle at them. Before she could yell at them to look out, the soldier’s head was flung back and blood sprayed into the air. She followed the trajectory and found Malcolm standing with his gun still raised, his other arm supporting Alan who was slumped against him. He only waited long enough to make sure there was no one else taking aim before he hustled Alan up the embankment behind Travis and Jenny.
    Janet helped them over the guardrail, seeing that at some point Alan taken a hit to the head, blood covering his face and neck from the gash in his forehead.
    “Everyone make it up okay?” Malcolm gasped, his shoulders and chest heaving from the exertion and Janet nodded. “Good. We gotta keep moving down the road. They’ll sweep up here soon enough.”
    There was no one questioning him this time, not with the sound of gunshots and the screams of the dying echoing below their feet. They moved as quickly as possible past the cars that had been abandoned along the side of the road that exited onto the highway. If only those poor souls had remained with their cars instead of searching for a place closer to the base on foot.
    The further out they got, the fainter the screams and gunfire became, but despite the distance, the group remained