"That's very fair... These things take some getting used to..." He said quietly as the two quickly made their way out of the motel. On the way out, he covered his mouth and nose with the inner part of his elbow, still holding his weapon up. Even with the slight protection from the fire's smoke, he coughed just slightly as he scanned for Brandon, groaning a little with frustration as he did so. Horace was gone, and now he couldn't even locate the firebug. "Yes, we should find Horace." Carter replied evenly, hacking a little as for just a moment, he wished he'd smoked... Might make this situation a little easier...
The two advanced further from the building, still unable to locate their fleeing comrade though they'd certainly found his small trail of destruction. A small group of zombies lay dead about twenty yards from where they'd exited, and a large number of the rest were milling about in the crackle of the fire, moaning and grabbing at the air as if a meal would pop out of thin air. "Where the hell did he g-..." *BANG*
When the barrel exploded, it sent the older of the soldiers to the ground with a surprised grunt. "Fuck... That's why you always coordinate with explosives..." He complained half heartedly, running his hands over himself to check for injury as he slowly rose to his feet. A small splinter of what used to be a barrel had punctured into the left side of his armor and the kevlar was already beginning to soak with blood. "Son of a bitch..." The colonel said quietly, clenching his teeth before his pistol came up, pointed at a small building that housed the motel's bacup generator. It was on fire, though a fireball of moderate size blazed just outside of an alley, and if that wasn't enough to tell them where the explosion had come from, debris were scattered away from the source. "That's the only way he could have gone without us being able to see him... Captain, I'm injured... This is your show now. Do we go through the fire or go around to find him?"