Colin was handed the walkie talkie by the officer.
"Can you get this working? Something's wrong with it."
Colin looked it over, "I'll try to."
The woman nodded. "I'll check and see if I can find anybody else around here."
Officer Hemendez went into the nearby gast station store with her gun raised. All was quiet. In fact... it was too quiet; there wasn't a single soul to be found in the building, as though the people within had vanished into thin air. Colin, meanwhile, was fiddling with the nob on the side of the walkie talkie on an effort to find someone out there. He hadn't worked with anything like this at all.
Tension built with both the officer and the gamer as they both felt like someone was watching them. Colin had one of the pistols locked and loaded in case a bimbo tried to jump him. Likewise, Officer Hemendez had her pistol held tight and steady, as she opened up doors to the chilled drinks and such, making sure there were no bimbos behind it. It was so quiet, so empty.... in all of the madness the town was enduring no less! It made no sense....
Outside, a thump could be heard as a tire rolled across the ground. Colin looked behind him with his pistol ready to fire, spotting movement underneath a nearby car. Colin slowly approached, and tossed a nearby piece of gravel under the car; he'd be shooting to kill if a bimbo came out. A hand emerged from underneath, as Colin squatted down and shot the figure underneath the car.
The officer had found the area clear of people when the gunshot went off. She ran outside to see that the guy she put in charge of the walkie talkie had just shot someone underneath a car, blood pooling out from underneath. She helped push it out of the way, and both gasped at what they found. It was a man in a boiler suit that had the gas station's logo.
"Holy shit!" Colin said.
"What were you thinking?! He was a worker here, we might have figured out what happened!" the officer yelled.
"I PANICKED, OKAY?!" Colin yelled as he threw his hands up, sending the walkie talkie flying and hitting the side of the car.
The officer nearly punched him when a muffled voice came through the speaker. They both ran over and stabilized the signal, revealing it as...