"You look excited to me," snickered Carter before Adam could answer.
A series of clicks from Adam's armor told Carter to shut up. The convoy sped through the ruined capitol city of Washington, D.C. There were no signs of life here, only the twinkling lights above. Suddenly there was a commotion ahead...an explosion! The night was lit up, revealing that the humvee ahead of them had been smashed and pinned to the ground by what looked like a octupus' tentacle....if it was the size of a car and had no end it seemed.
"Jesus! We've been made!" the soldier driving yelled.
There wasn't even a hint of movement as warning before the door on Carter's side was torn away and a arm shot through the glass on Adam's side, grasping for Danica. Carter started shooting at the corpse outside what used to be his door. The shots burned through it's chest as the zombie hung onto the humvee as it sped around it's destroyed fellow. Outside now, a sea of dark humanoid shapes were pouring into the street after the surviving two humvees. The ones that got in the way were mowed down like speed bumps as Carter was thrown screaming from the vehicle.
Shooting off the arm reaching for Danica through the window at the elbow, Adam then opened his door violently again and again till the zombie on his side was dislodged from the Humvee. On Carter's side, there was a glimpse of the hapless Ranger being torn apart by the swarming zombies before the one clinging to the Humvee blocked the view as it moved in front of the open doorway. Lowering it's head, maggots dripped from empty eyesockets as it screamed at Danica.
The zombies were the children of the demon attacking the city, and the demon knew Danica was coming. It had sent it's children to stop her. Another tentacle landed close to them, sending shards of pavement every which way. The humvee swerved back and forth as the driver attempted to regain control of the vehicle. A zombie landed on the hood, causing the Ranger in the front passenger seat to stick his rifle out the window and shoot at it. As the zombie began to come through the open door, more zombies leapt onto the top of the speeding vehicle.
There was no sign of the Humvee following them anymore. Adam turned his rifle around and pulled Danica towards him, letting loose with the lethal bolts of energy into the zombies' limbs. Without limbs, it couldn't hold onto the Humvee and tumbled away. Ahead of them, the partially destroyed buildings gave way to fully destroyed ones, making it possible to see through to the heart of the city where the massive mile wide stalk of the demon rested. It rose up like a sea anemone or skyscraper at least a 100 stories high, it's many tentacles waving about as they shot towards buildings to smash them. It was angry, and more, it hated Danica and wanted her dead. The soldiers around her were bugs to be squashed.