Morning: Day 1: It's a Disease
Morning: Day 1: It's a Disease!!
After about ten minutes of frantic driving around dead…and undead, Zach, Tom, and Andrew pulled into Williamette Mall's parking lot. Looking for an entrance into the mall, they drove carefully around the main entrance as it was being mobbed by the undead horde. The three boys found an alleyway that led into the mall's outdoor area known as Leisure Park. They got out of the New Yorker, with Zach watching the back as they crept up the alleyway into the park. Tom peeked around the corner using his cell phone's camera after removing the belt clip with his keys on it so there wouldn't be any noise.
"All clear…for now," he said to the others and motioned to go into the open area. Andrew sprinted around the corner and ducked behind the nearby trashcan; followed by Zach and then Tom taking cover behind the trees bench next to Andrew's trashcan.
"Ok. We're here…so what do we do now?" asked Andrew nervously.
"I say we go to that gun shop in the North Plaza where that one guy was and get some snipers and shottys," Zach said and Andrew nodded in agreement.
"Yeah…that's a great idea! Let's barge in the gun store unarmed while that psychotic drunk owner has a shotgun pointed right at us! Excellent idea guys!" Tom jeered sarcastically. "I'll have to remember that when we're all dead or undead!"
Andrew grumbled and Zach grimaced as he rethought over their current situation.
"Tom, you played the game more often than me and you're the game expert anyway out of all three of us," Zach said as they walked towards the middle of the park. This statement was true as Tom played video games the most out of the other two and as such lacked the athleticism of Zach or Andrew.
"This is true, but I don't see any life bar or inventory or skill meter floating above our heads, so I don't think we have the same chance of survival as we did in the game…one bite and it could be all over," Tom replied, "I think the best thing to do would to go into Paradise Plaza, and if this is like the game, we should be able to find some weapons in easy grasp there. You know, the katana, uzi, and some other things. Oh break any trashcans we pass and see if we can't find anything useful."
Zach nodded, but Andrew wasn't close to them. They exchanged worried glances, and turned around and seeing Andrew running up to them with two bats and a hunting knife in his hands, which relaxed the other boys.
"Here guys, and lets move quickly, I think I heard some of those creepy zombies moving down the alleyway," he said as he handed the knife to Tom, and one of the bats to Zach.
"Ah fu-," Zach muttered. "Let's go now!" he then hollered to Tom and Andrew.
They nodded, and then broke into a full sprint towards the entrance that was to Paradise Plaza.
Tom glanced back towards the alleyway, and sure enough there those undead bastards were, and they just kept coming. Just water, the zombies poured out of the alleyway and began to spread over the park. He almost ran into the glass door that was shutting in front of him as Zach and Andrew slipped in already, being that they were naturally faster than he was. Once inside the plaza, Tom said, "Alright, let me get the katana, Zach try and give Andrew a boost onto the blue wall thing over there. Andrew carefully climb over to the other end to get the uzi and climb back, be safe but be quick cause those damn zombies are spreading like a disease!!" The others nodded and walked towards the other side of the plaza, while Tom went upstairs to the Colombian Roastmasters café, where the katana in the game was supposed to be on the orange awning outside of one of the windows while stowing the knife in his on the little loop on one of his pant legs.
Tom got to the window and looked over the edge, and sure enough there was the katana lying conveniently on the awning. Tom climbed over the railing and looked to the stairwell where Zach and Andrew were, and he saw that Andrew was already coming back towards Zach with something in his hand that had to be the uzi. Zach looked over at Tom on the awning and grinned seeing his friend in such a silly spot.
Tom picked up the katana and waved it at Zach who sent a 'Woohoo!' back, and then turned to Andrew who was trying to get down off the blue wall decoration. Tom walked to the edge of the awning and looked over the edge.
'Hmph…its about ten feet down I think…I'll just-' his thought was cut short as there was the sound of fabric ripping. Tom felt his weight being pulled down to the ground all of the sudden, and he clamored for something to grab onto. He managed to grab a hold of the fabric of the awning as the orange fabric began to rip, due to his weight being too great for the fabric, he fell through the awning, ripping the rest of the fabric off, and landing on the hardwood bridge with a 'thud'. Zach and Andrew ran over to him uzi and bats in their hands and then started laughing at him.
"I told you! You are so fat!" cried Andrew doubled over in laughter. Zach was laughing as well while holding out his hand to help him up.
"That never happened in the game!" Tom exclaimed as he took the helping hand, and looked up at the tattered awning. Then he looked around for the katana, which was wedged into one of the wooden boards slightly. He pulled it out and brushed himself off.
"Alrighty then. What's next?" Zach asked. Andrew was fiddling with the uzi while the three walked around Paradise Plaza. Tom walked towards the barred gate, which he knew led to the Entrance Plaza, and he looked at his phone with the time saying 11:30 A.M.
'Well if this really is the game. Then Frank West should be arriving now and just meeting up with those first group of people who die.' And soon enough he heard a lady screaming "MADONNA! Have you seen my baby! Oh I can't live without my poor little baby sweetie doggie!"
"What was that?" Andrew called to him as he walked towards the one end of the gate trying to get a better view towards the main door.
"Well I do believe the zombies are about to be let into the mall in a couple of minutes," he called back.
"Well let's stop that from happening!" Zach shouted in complete disregard of the gate right in front of them.
"If this truly is a real-life version of Dead Rising then I should be able to see Frank and that old guy in 3…2…1- YEP!" Tom exclaimed as he saw an old man with a cane poking it through the other gate at a man in a leather jacket and khaki pants, who had a buzz cut and a camera in his hand.
"Yeah guys that is definitely Frank and the Dr. guy. And in a moment the dog lady is going to break down the barricade and let the zombies into the mall. Nobody is going to survive except Frank, and soon Brad and then Frank should be coming through that door," Tom narrated the action like a script. The boys heard screams, cries, and moans come from the Entrance Plaza not long after he finished. Tom turned around shaking his head, while Andrew and Zach sat on the little island/planter thing in the middle of the floor. Tom looked up behind his friends and his eyes widened. Slowly encroaching on them were a few zombies.
"GUYS ZOMBIES BEHIND YOU!!" he screamed. Andrew and Zach jumped forward, nearly dropping their weapons. The boys raised their bats and katana to defend against the undead attackers.
One lunged at Zach who swung the bat and connected with the head sending a spray of blood all over and launching the body into another zombie, and then he fired one uzi bullet into the head of the one. Tom stood with his katana like an ancient samurai and lunged at the zombies and decapitated one, and spun around sweeping the ground slicing off the legs off another other zombie and then stomped on its head as it crawled towards him. He neglected the fifth one as he laughed, "I think I've played too much Soul Calibur." The fifth zombie limped closer to him and was about to strike at Tom from behind, as Andrew dove to the ground sliding between the zombie's legs with his bat ready. The zombie looked down at him and Andrew stared right back yelling a battle cry, "HAAAA!" as he brought the bat vertically across the zombie's body knocking it backward to the ground. Andrew then stood on the side of the zombie as it writhed on the ground and brought down his bat on the face crushing the head into a bloody splatter.
"Well now, I thought you hated the sight of blood Andrew?" Zach asked him.
"If it comes down to it, I'll do whatever it takes to stay alive, and to save you guys," he replied. Tom punched him in the arm lightly saying, "I'm glad you are man, 'cause I probably wouldn't be OK right now."
The boys laughed together briefly before Tom pointed to a nearby door and said, "Guys lets head towards the security room from the warehouse through that door." They nodded and went into the warehouse and took the elevator to the rooftop. They exited the elevator and walked around the rooftop looking for anybody. Then they ran into three all too familiar people.