The Nation 01. The Nation, #1

Zombie fiction: The Nation comes together person by person to fight the dead and survive the Zombie Apocalypse... He was up the ladder faster than he would have thought possible. Billy, Mac and Dell were up next, but the firing was over. It had not come from Beth, except at the very end. There were half dozen dead laying in the roadway a hundred yards from the bus. Directly below, as Bear walked to the edge and looked down, two frightened young kids stared up at him.
Teens, maybe, he told himself, not much past that, and they were both carrying machine pistols, yet they had somehow allowed the dead to get as close to them as they had - a girl and a boy. The girl had a gash on one side of her face and looked pretty bad off. He glanced back up at the dead in the road, and then let his eyes fall on the other houses on both sides of the road. Nothing and nothing. He looked to Beth"Three?""Dead got her...
Dragged her off in back of the houses... She was dead already I think... Bitten..." she lowered her voice. "Same with these two."He looked back down at the two."How did you get injured?" he asked the girl. Beth stepped up beside him. "Dead girl had her pinned to the ground. She wasn't hurt before that. Had the boy too."