“Solomon
went out with a hunting party of his elite soldiers,” said Coltin Grover, the
zombie Omega leader. “After turning his men, we took him.” Fate was captured
later, when her effort to save Solomon failed.
In
anticipation of a large-scale rescue effort of humans, the zombies rallied
their forces.
“There
will be blood spilt tonight,” said Zac Stewart, an outbreak observer for the
League of Supernatural Nations. “Humans will be meeting with the largest zombie
forces they have ever seen.”
The
confrontation between the opposing sides held different significance for each
faction.
“The
purpose of it was to lure the humans in,” said Christopher Johnson, a zombie
death captain.
Rescue,
not retaliation, was the goal for the human resistance.
“The
humans are trying to get their human partners back who have been captured by
these ferocious zombies,” Stewart said. “The zombies want to prevent this and
turn them onto their own side.”
With
the screeches of zombies chanting “never shall we die” in the distance, the
humans prepared to rescue their imprisoned leaders.
According
to Stewart, the zombies chose to hold Fate at the engineering building and
Solomon at the Living Learning Center on USU’s campus. “We felt like the
engineering quad would be a good place for us to square off with the humans,”
Stewart said of the area directly outside the engineering building.
The
rescue mission was a triumph for the humans. Both of their captured leaders
were liberated from their respective internment sites due to “a lot of
miscommunication and confusion left and right” on the zombie side, Grover said.
“It was a little bit of a rough night for everybody.”
UnDeadline
reporters Rachel Lewis, Chase Christensen, Tasia Briggs, Madison Stone and
Kelsie Davis contributed to this report.
