They were<span style="font-style: italic">not</span>Romero Zombies.<br/><br/>Or at least, they were fresh enough that they could move faster than a shamble. Some of the more pulverized corpses conformed to the walker and crawler archetypes, but for the most part the Exalt's had runners on their hands. Moaning battle cries marked the beginning of mass combat, hungry dead swarming the only living begins in the room.<br/><br/>042 alone was unthreatened by the hordes, and moved to place his Soulsteel bulk as a barrier for his comrades. The Geth herded them back towards the armory, using the doorway as a choke point. It deposited Marina and her turret beside the other Exalts, then turned to face the oncoming horde. Plates expanded off of the front of his body with gouts of pressurized steam, forming a barricade wall complete with murder-holes. Bullets rained from the turret and machine guns, ripping through the zombies but barely slowing their progress.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0080FF">-Necromantic constructs resurrected by void-drawn energies. Highly reliant on their cerebral cortex, but they'll act like animals and feed on any living matter they come across.-</span><br/><br/>"Headshots! You need to get them with a headshot!" Esone yelled, crouching at the nearest murder-hole with his sniper rifle drawn. He opened fire on the horde, switching to the zombies at the rear after several missed shots. Soon enough, however, the fetid horde pressed against 042's hide. Esone yanked his rifle back from grasping hands, switching to an exhalation of Hegra's flensing, burning breath. The murder holes were too small to use Metallica or Black Moon Creeping, even if he'd wanted to arm the Abyssal shotgun.<br/><br/>"Got any ideas boss? Isn't your anima supposed to dissolve corpses, or does that not work on necromantic automata?"<br/><span style="color: #000000">Wait. You, Del Pilar, and Javik are armored beyond belief. Their teeth and nails would never be able to get through. Why, for the love of Metagaos, are you hiding behind the 'Bot?</span>