To Be A Hero
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  • Reads 6,410
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  • Parts 66
  • Time 22h 50m
Complete, First published Apr 10, 2019
Book 4 in the To Be A Runner series. If you have not read books 1, 2 or 3, I seriously suggest you do before continuing in order to avoid confusion.


An expectant mother, a shady government worker, an unexpected visitor, and the search for a cure.

Yep, that sounds about right.

It's been almost nine months since the world was saved  from eternal happiness, but the world is still in danger. The dead still walk and we are still far from finding a cure.

But we are still discovering new things. Veronica's hard at work, and with Abel teaming up with the Ministry nothing should be able to stop us. At least, that's what I thought.

But there are things we still don't understand, things I'm not sure I want to understand, like the voices in my head, like the zombies that can almost talk and are what Veronica likes to call 'Sentient Type Zombies'. There are things that I'm facing that I'd rather just forget-things I'd rather not know about...

But I can't be that way. I can't back down-not from the A.M.T.B., not from the voices in my head, and not from the overwhelming feelings that clog my throat and make it almost impossible to breathe whenever I see-

No, feelings are not important now, not when a cure is available, not when he's busy worrying about his baby that's due to arrive and the fact that Paula's getting sicker and...

I'm getting off topic.

It's time for me to step up once again. My job as a runner is never done. Now it's time for me to step up and be a hero.








Disclaimer-I do not own Zombies, Run! Or its characters. I only own the ones I created. This is my Runner Five's version of season four and what I think happened in between missions.
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