Defense-tenoke - Zombie Tower

TENOKE wasn’t supposed to fall. It was the tower — twenty-six floors of reinforced panic rooms, automated turret grids, and blast-proof shutters rated for siege-class swarms. The architect called it “Zombie Tower Defense certified.” We laughed back then. Called him paranoid.

The walls hum with a low, dying frequency. Three fusion cores left. Maybe four, if we cannibalize the backup relays in Sector 7. The last supply runner didn’t come back. No body. No static on the comms. Just silence — the kind that follows a horde. Zombie Tower Defense-TENOKE

Twelve minutes. I can hear them scratching now. A wet, rhythmic scrape against the blast doors. TENOKE wasn’t supposed to fall