Eight months after the
last zombie outbreak at Utah State University, human resistance fighters are
back in training.
Human resistance leader
Lady Harbinger, along with Fatalis and fellow chief captain Solomon Razorbane
Ruhe gathered volunteers on the Quad on Monday to prepare for battle.
Capt. Jon Kuhl, an expert
counter-zombie strategist, oversaw the training.
“There's a lot of strategy
involved,” Kuhl said. “The zombies have too much strategy and as it turns out
we have too little. So we're trying to flip that around.”
The six regiments
practiced formation tactics as captains shared strategies. But the volunteers
were unprepared for the reality of an outbreak. They struggled with their
weapons and were slow to follow their captains' orders.
“The scariest part of
zombies charging you is when the rest of your squad breaks and runs away,” Kuhl
said. “It's the worst when your gun is jammed or you're alone. Especially since
they tend to happen together.”
Kuhl is one of the more
seasoned captains in the resistance. He has survived seven outbreaks and fought
in the battle where Lazarus, the original zombie, was killed.
“Now there is a Lazara
running around, a female zombie who's really bad,” Kuhl said. “She's brutal,
she's already turned 15 of our finest.”
Lazara, known by many as
the Harbinger of Death, said she hungers not only for brains, but also fear.
“I love seeing the look in
humans' eyes because they get scared,” Lazara said. “It's fun to strike fear
into peoples' hearts.”
UnDeadline reporters Matt Walker, Chris Larsen,
Kelsy Ensign, Summer Taylor and Skylar Christensen contributed to this report.
