After Ed collected two bats from the gymnasium he handed one to Eddy who ordered Ed to take the dead blocking their path out. Kevin made a humorous comment to Eddy, betting him five bucks that with Eddy's puny size, the shortest Ed was prevented from being able to terminate any one of their enemies. During this time everyone else watched in awe as Ed courageously fan forward and smacked the wooden bat across the head of one of the zombies. The contact the bat made with its head left a bloody gash and as blood sept from its mouth it timbered over and smacked hard against the ground. It moaned out, leading the smartest Ed to believe that they felt.

Ed continued to move onto to the next one, smashing the bat against its face with enough force to knock into the ground. As it seized across the asphalt in an apparent violent fit of nerve-reaction Eddy burst into a cackle. Blood spilt from its head and rushed from its neck and onto the dark blue ground. Ed did his job of clearing a safe walkway to the truck for his friends, he gained adrenaline as he continued on.

Once at the truck, Eddy pulled the set of keys from the pocket of his dickies and pressed his thumb to the button that soon after unlocked all four doors of his vehicle. He stepped into the truck and relaxed into the seat before he locked the door. Kevin opened the back door with one hand while the other supported Double D who held on, his arms latched around the neck of the redhead who was leaned back to prevent Double D from sliding forward and out of his grasp.

Once the door was open enough, Kevin collected the intellectual in his arms and moved him through the empty space before slowly lowering him onto the seat beside Nazz with ease. Edd scooted over as Kevin slid his back against the seat. Double D relaxed his back against Kevin's chest, causing the redhead's heart to flutter.

Thinking back to the day's previous events, Kevin shook his head back and forth before turning to see his dork gazing into his eyes.

Double D took Kevin's face into his soft, smooth hands as he watched him with love-filled navy orbs.

"My hero," he said before smooching his boyfriend's lips. Kevin's face reddened.

Sage orbs stared into navy blue. Marie, who was in the tailgate with her sister vividly glared daggers into the back of Kevin's capped head.

"I just had to keep you safe," Kevin whispered, shyly, as his thumb gently caressed Edd's flawless cheek. Edd encircled Kevin's torso with his thin arms before he rested his head into Kevin's warm chest. Kevin wrapped his arms around the ravenette's form, holding him protectively as tears spread down his own cheeks.

He had been so scared for Double D's life, more scared for his sake than he was his own. Kevin held him more firmly and closer to him after thinking back to the recent close-calls they'd just faced.

"We're gonna do a drive by," Eddy said, remembering his promise to Ed, "We'll find Sarah, maybe Jimmy, and pick up my weed-stash. Sockhead, any idea how this all got started?"

Double D subtly nodded, the day's excitement, it seemed, had been a bit too much and had exhausted him, "I do have a few theories as to how this came to be, Eddy," Double D replied.

Eddy nodded, displaying his understanding, "Well, share it with me later. I need to get some of this stuff of my mind right now."

"Understandable, Eddy," the ravenette commented before he drifted his head back downward until his cheek made contact with Kevin's chest.

Eddy sighed, thanking whatever possessed him to work for more than a year to buy his dad's old work truck from him. He was so thankful he had it for his own sake and his friends' as well.

..

Approximately fifteen minutes later Eddy slowed the truck to a stop before he parked the white chevy in the driveway of the property he resided in. Double D lifted his head away from the sleeping Kevin's chest while Eddy shook Ed's shoulder to wake him up. While Eddy explained to Ed where they were and to go in his home and gather Sarah and whoever else she had as company the ravenette wriggled from Kevin's arms and quietly exited the truck. From the look of things it seemed as though their little neighborhood had yet to be hit.

Eddy instructed Nazz to maneuver to the front seat and to drive if she saw anyone who'd exited the vehicle in any sort of trouble. Nazz nodded while Eddy made his exit. Double D wandered into his home after unlocking the front door and after taking a moment to listen he warily walked up the stairs and into his room. At his bed he bent down and slid out his labeled first aid kit and his dissection kit from under his neat single bed.

The ravenette stood, eyes looming over to his window. Thanks to the streetlight he was able to detect that Ed had safely acquired Jimmy and Sarah. Edd couldn't help but smile as he watched Ed open the back door of Eddy's truck before picking each of the youths up before he placed them inside of the truck. Double D then grabbed his cactus from his window sill and walked over to his desk. There, at his desk, he gathered his ant farm and the food they needed to survive. The intellectual made sure to collect his laptop, too. At his door he reached for the big, grey bag he'd hung on the hook just five weeks prior. After removing it from the hook he slid the ant farm, the ant food, the first aid kit, his laptop, and his other kit into the bag.

Ambling from his room Double D's mind wandered to his parents. He wondered if they were undergoing a similar situation overseas. Shrugging it off after making a mental note to contact them in the morning Edd walked out of his home. Across the street, Eddy was exiting his own residence, a full bag of vividly green weed and a glass bong in his hand.

After Eddy entered the vehicle and Nazz moved out of the front seat, the door of the truck slammed and beside it stood a perplexed looking Kevin. The redhead looked around, checked the back of the truck and wound up disappointed to see three girls positioned on the surface of Eddy's tailgate. Edd started to walk over to the truck, soon he gained Kevin's attention. He watched as Kevin couldn't help but smile at his latest discovery.

While Edd continued to walk to the vehicle Kevin hurried over, stopping in front of his boyfriend and taking the heavy-weight off the nerd's more delegate shoulder.

"Why, thank you, Kevin," Edd stated appreciatively while Ed, in the background behind the two, reentered his home, "That heavy bag was causing quite the inconvenience which was dissatisfying me to some extent."

Kevin nodded before leaning down and kissing the dark haired teen's cheek, "No problem," he said before he stepped to the side and waited for Edd to walk forward.

After he did Kevin put his arm around the small of Edd's back before he pulled him closer and started to guide him over to the truck.

Ed walked out of the house with a sizeable stack of pillows and blankets blocking his view of what was in front of him. It seemed like the cider-haired Ed had gathered up every blanket within his home. Seeing this, Kevin carefully situated Ed's things in the back of the truck before he walked over and took the stack of pillows from Ed's hands.

"Thanks, Kevin," Ed enthused.

"No problem, big guy," Kevin responded, "I'll get these to the truck for ya."

Ed nodded and continued on over to their transportation. Kevin took the duty of handing everyone a pillow. Ed had only been able to supply them all eight pillows. Kevin made sure that everyone aside from himself got a pillow. He decided it became necessary enough for him to have a pillow he'd just share with Double D.

Sarah and a cowering Jimmy smiled at him when Kevin held out a pillow for them.

While Ed passed out light blankets and comforters to his friends, Edd, out of interest on the subject willed himself to ask Sarah whether or not anyone or anything out of the ordinary had been by their house earlier that day.

As Kevin took the blanket Ed provided to him, Sarah answered the ravenette.

Kevin spread the blanket over Double D's body and placed the pillow he'd gotten from Ed on his lap.

"No, none of those things came by today, Double D," she said, denying his idea of an encounter, "We were watching Happy King Boy when suddenly the channel was switched over to the news station and because Jimmy heard what they were wanting us to be warned about Jimmy got scared."

The shaking tow-blond boy nodded as he shook. Kevin slid his boyfriend to the side before wrapping his arms around him and pulling him back to his chest.

The young girl with burnt sienna hair and umber eyes that matched her elder brother nodded after the ravenette conversed his understanding. Sarah went back to comforting Jimmy who stared outside, watching the two Kanker sisters cry and talk amongst themselves.

After Eddy grinded his weed into fluffy little chunks he punched some of the bud between his pointed finger and his thumb before dropping it all into the funnel-like glass structure he'd fitted into the small empty compartment of his bong. Then, the short driver moved the bong from the top of his thigh to in between the next to his inner thighs and lowered his mouth into the airhole of the glass cylinder.

Lighting the weed, Eddy inhaled, pacing himself correctly and shortly after, drank down all the smoke that entered the bong. He released the breath he was holding into the air before he sat the bong inbetween Ed's long and sturdy legs and leaned back into the pillow he'd accepted.

"So, Double D, what's your calculation on sealed store-bought items," Eddy asked, smile on his face.

The intellectual shook his head, "I'm not sure. I can't even correctly predict whether or not there's a store that's opened right now."

..

Not too much time after Eddy and Ed finished smoking the bowl the shorter of the two had packed Eddy started his truck up again and drove off. All he told the others was that he was taking them out to get food. The brunette drove into walmart's parking lot around a time period of thirty minutes later. He was a bit surprised to see the bloodstains that were coating some of the areas surrounding the supercenter. Outside stood a janitorial staff member. Next to the bearded man was a large boxcart which contained unmoving bodies.

It kinda wigged Kevin and the girls occupying the tailgate out. Eddy rolled down his window and turned to view the man with the identification pin pinned onto his chest. In blue letters the name Fred was displayed.

"What's the deal with the food, man," Kevin asked, holding his boyfriend as he leaned forward.

"Not one of these things have gotten through those doors," Fred said, smile present on his face, "We've managed," he filled in the final detail.

Eddy nodded before turning to face Fred, "Is it good to eat?"

"All of its still sealed and the stores still got power so I assume everything's okay with it," Fred responded.

"I mean, it's nothing that could make us the way they are, right?"

"I highly doubt it," Fred said to Eddy, giving him the serious eye, "I bought my lunch from the store earlier this evening, back when all this shit started; I think you'll be alright."

Eddy looked into the mirror, giving Double D a questioning look.

"I trust that if we purchase food from here and provide it for our systems that we will all have a positive outcome that will result us without any conflict," Double D stated.

Eddy nodded, "Make sure none of those dead come toward my truck, alright," Eddy asked with his head cocked to the side a bit.

"Anyone else comin' in," Eddy asked as he pulled the keys from the ignition.

Everyone then started shouting their requests to the grey-eyed Ed.

The intellectual calmly shut everyone up before suggesting to Eddy that he'll text him everyone's orders. Five minutes later Ed and Eddy had entered the supermarket and Edd had listed the items Eddy was now required to buy. The driver returned some ten minutes after with a grocery cart of bagged goods.

Ed took hold of each of the bags and held them out to their correct destination. Double D retrieved a twenty dollar bill from his wallet and made the attempt to hand it to Eddy after he was handed his treats.

Eddy put his palm up as a refusal, "It's no problem, sockhead, I got it for free, anyhow," Eddy said prior to explaining that with what happened that day whatever was in the store a consumer was free to walk away with.

Everyone was elated thanks to the news.

"I even got everyone soda," Eddy said before he passed the bag towards the back seat, "Cheers!"

"Cheers," a few of the others said in unison.