One wore Superman
underwear on the outside of his clothes. Another favored a Hawaiian
floral-print shirt. They were all clad in anti-zombie battle gear.
And they were all ready
for death.
Three rebel fighters,
accused of crimes against inhumanity, took a final violent stand outside Utah
State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library on Wednesday. Michael Morgan, Tyler
Ashby and Tyler Simmons said the suicide mission was an attempt to restore
their honor after being wrongfully charged with sniping zombies from a balcony
and disguising themselves as noncombatants.
“They really ticked off
some of the zombie leaders,” said Ryan Wallentine, a human resistance leader. “A
mob of zombies formed to have a showdown.”
But Wallentine said he
admired the trio’s desire “to go out in style.”
The showdown took place on
the engineering quad just before noon.
“I just wanted to kill
some zombies,” Morgan said. “We knew we were going to die anyway.”
The zombies had expected
the humans to be marched out of the library. Instead, the three warriors sprinted
from the engineering building.
And with that, the chaos
of battle began.
The human rebels fired
their weapons in an attempt to requite their mortality, but the zombies
continued to close in.
In the midst of the
bedlam, Morgan turned to fire on a zombie but couldn’t get a shot off quick
enough. The ghoul seized him by the throat and immediately eviscerated him.
Moments later Morgan’s
lifeless corpse reanimated and joined the zombie coalition.
“I think my underwear
slowed me down,” said Morgan, whose bright red and blue underpants were now hidden
by his sagging entrails.
In fewer than 15 minutes
all three of the targeted humans had been taken.
UnDeadline reporters Tasia Briggs, Kelsie Davis,
Chase Christensen, Rachel Lewis and Madison Stone contributed to this report.
