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Rocky: "……What's the plan?" He asked

Cliff: "Before we get into that, I think it's best we all know each other. I just have a gut feeling that we'll all be in this one for the long haul. My name is Cliff Mason. I've been a police officer here for 7 years, and this lady with me here is…"

Meg: "Megan Fields, but everyone calls me Meg for short. I'm a 4 year paramedic for the city." She added

Rocky: "Nice to meet you two. My name is Sam, but I go by Rocky. This is my younger brother Michael who goes by Tum Tum, and this is…"

Colt: "Just call me Colt." He interrupted

Rocky rolled his eyes at Colt's sudden rudeness.

Rocky: "His real name is Jeffery." He blandly stated

Colt: "Hey!"

Lita: "And I'm Jeffery's…I mean Colt's…(laughs) best friend Lita."

Colt glared at her and she couldn't help but give a teasing smile. That was the first time in this whole ordeal the two acted normal as if nothing was wrong…

Gracy: "My name is Gracy, and I'm pleased to meet you both."

Meg: "Same here." She smiled

Rocky soon got back on the important objective.

Rocky: "So you have some kind of plan to get us out of here?" He hopefully asked

Cliff: "Well no…not quite yet."

Colt: "What do you mean not yet? Aren't you the cop here?" He blurted out

Rocky turned around towards Colt.

Rocky: "Colt. Chill. We'll find a way out." He said calmly towards his brother

Colt took in a deep breath.

Colt: "Okay. Alright. I'm sorry."

Cliff: "Hey don't sweat it kid. I can't blame you if you're a bit on edge right now. Heck we all are a bit to be truthful."

Colt nodded as Lita stepped up next to him and Rocky.

Lita: "Um. Mister Officer sir…I mean Cliff. How are we supposed to get out of here though?"

Cliff began to scratch the back of his neck as he regained some of his memory.

Cliff: "Well I did have a plan at first…"

Rocky: "And…?"

Cliff suddenly punched his hand into his palm in anger.

Cliff: "All of the damn main roads that lead out of the city have been barricaded! It's almost like there's no way out of here."

Tum Tum: "Barricaded?"

Lita: "But can't we just move them out of the way?"

Rocky: "That wouldn't be wise."

Tum Tum: "Huh? Why not?"

Rocky: "Because those barricades are there for a reason. We're taking a risk by taking down more boundaries. What if those barricaded roads are flooded with those monsters?"

Tum and Lita looked down as if they lost all hope.

Lita & Tum: "Oh yeah…" They sadly said in unison

Meg walked up beside Cliff.

Meg: "With most of the city's roads blocked off, it's very difficult to travel without avoiding some sort of danger. Traveling on foot seems to be our only option for now."

Rocky soon began to realize something.

Rocky: "So you're saying that we wouldn't have made it out of the city even if we still had the taxi cab with us?"

Cliff: "Exactly." He nodded

Rocky: "Then it all would have been hopeless…"

Cliff: "Huh? What are you trying to get at anyway?"

Rocky soon became silent as he fell to his knees with a look of defeat on his face.

Colt: "Rocky!" He said worried

Colt and Gracy dropped down next to him to see what was wrong. Meg soon became concerned as well.

Meg: "Are you alright?" She said walking towards Rocky to help, but Cliff stopped her.

Cliff: "Let him be Meg."

Meg turned around.

Meg: "But Cliff…"

Cliff shook his head.

Cliff: "Give them so more time alone. In the mean time we'll think up a solid game plan to get out of here okay?"

Meg looked at Rocky who was still on the ground and then back at Cliff and nodded.

Meg: "Affirmative."

They both left the bar and went into the back owner's office to strategize leaving the kids by themselves.

Colt: "Rocky? Rocky get up!" He urged

Lita: "What's wrong Rocky? Are you hurt?"

He remained silent as he continued to blankly stare at the floor.

Tum Tum: "Colt. Why isn't he saying anything?" He asked with worry

Colt: "I don't know Tum. Come on Rock. Say something!"

Gracy: "Please Rocky…Please talk to us." She pleaded

There was silence until they finally heard him say…

Rocky: '…I'm a failure…' He whispered to himself

The others barely heard a word of what he had said.

Colt: "What did you say?" He asked

Rocky looked up at Colt.

Rocky: "I'm a failure Colt. A failure."

Colt: "What?!" He said surprised

Tum Tum: "Rocky what are you talking about?"

Rocky began to bitterly laugh to himself.

Rocky: "I'm so useless."

Gracy: "Rocky I don't understand. What exactly do you mean?"

Everyone stared at him until he began to speak again.

Rocky: "…I…can't protect anyone that needs my help, or the people that mean the most to me…I've failed at that more than enough times."

They could not believe what they were hearing.

Colt: "But Rocky that's-"

Rocky cut him off.

Rocky: "First I left Tum at the house all by himself when he was first attacked after this whole thing started, then I couldn't save the injured man that we found, and then I almost got all of you killed by flipping the car over because I couldn't control my fear. I'm supposed to be calm, collected,…solid. I'm…I'm completely useless."

Gracy began to frantically shake her head as she disagreed with him.

Gracy: "No. No Rocky. You're wrong. You can only do so much. You're only one person. Besides, don't forget that you saved me."

Rocky: "Yeah…after I left you alone on the pier only to ambushed by more of them."

Gracy: "But Rocky…you-"

Lita dropped down and firmly moved Gracy to the side. She then took everyone by surprised when she slapped Rocky hard across the right side of his face. Everyone else watched in shock at what Lita just did as an uncomfortable silence began to spread throughout the room. Lita had a very serious look on her face as Rocky held his red cheek while giving her a surprising look. He remained silent.

Lita: "Enough of this." She said sternly

Colt: "Lita?!"

She ignored Colt.

Lita: "Do you think I'm just going to sit here and listen to you mope about your past regrets and mistakes…? No of course not! You've got to find some way to move on because this isn't helping any of us at all!"

Rocky continued to stare at her, and Lita's voice began to calm down.

Lita: "Listen. It's true that in someway we're all depending on you…, but that doesn't mean when something goes wrong you should be the one to have to carry all of the blame! That isn't fair to you, so stop punishing yourself. You have to stop living in the past!"

Gracy went next Rocky again and put both of her hands on his shoulders.

Gracy: "Lita's absolutely right Rocky."

Rocky: "She is…isn't she?"

Colt: "Yeah. We're all in this together, and we all need each other to get through this." He added

Rocky: "…Guys…"

Rocky didn't know what to say to them.

Gracy: "Rocky. Don't you remember that you were the one who saved my life when we first met? I wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for you…, so please…please don't ever call yourself a failure. Because…that's not what I fell in love with…"

Rocky thought about what everyone had said and began to snap out of it.

Rocky: "You guys…are right. I'm sorry."

Colt patted his other shoulder and smiled.

Colt: "And no apologizing either" He added

Rocky laughed as Gracy began to hug him. Suddenly, Colt noticed something that he didn't want to see.

Colt: "Guys get down!" He said as he tackled almost all of them to the floor.

Everybody was taken by surprise by Colt's sudden action.

Tum Tum: "Hey! What's the big ide-"

Colt quickly covered Tum's mouth as he looked up at the window from the floor. Rocky tried to see what Colt was looking at. When he finally noticed, he soon understood what was going on. He gave Lita and Gracy a cautious look.

Rocky: "Listen. We're going to have to stay quiet." He whispered

Gracy: "R-Rocky." She whispered scared as she pointed at the window.

Everyone became quiet and looked in that direction as one of the creatures suddenly stopped in front of the window. They froze as it continued to observe the bar through the window looking for possible traces of human life to feed upon. Luckily Rocky and the others were right under the window and out of its direct view, but how long until this one person starts to grab the attention of the others that were still wandering the streets outside?

Rocky: "Stay completely still…Don't move a muscle."

They didn't have a problem doing that until…

The door to the manager's office flew open with Cliff walking in as if nothing was happening.

Cliff: "Alright kids. I think we might have a way out of here."

Everyone turned around and shot Cliff a surprisingly scared look.

(Quick Note: Okay. I'm so tired of calling them "creatures", "people", "flesh-eaters", etc. From now on I'll just call them zombies…for now. There I said it. Okay back to story! ^.^)

Cliff: "What?" (See's the zombie standing in the window) "Oh…crap."

It heard Cliff enter the room and went ballistic! It's head started to dart in two directions making growling noises as more of them gathered around him. Next thing you know…

*SMASH!*

The zombie's hand broke through the window along with a few others. Even a few heads broke through! Gracy screamed until they started hearing gun shots. They turned around to see cliff firing at the window. He ceased firing for a moment.

Cliff: "Hurry! Get away from the window!" he said still aiming

Rocky: "Right! Come on Grace! Colt! Grab Tum's hand!"

Colt grabbed both Tum Tum and Lita's hands and made a break for it away from the window behind Cliff. Rocky pulled out his gun and aimed, but Cliff put his hand on Rocky's gun and slowly yet firmly pushed it down so it pointed towards the floor.

Cliff: "Don't waste any ammo kid."

Meg soon entered the room to investigate the commotion.

Meg: "Hey…What's going on?! Oh my God!"

Cliff heard Meg come in.

Cliff: "Meg! Get them out of here, and go for the back door! Hurry!"

Meg: "But what about you?!"

He shot off 5 more rounds and turned his head slightly.

Cliff: "I'll hold them here a bit longer."

Meg: "But…!"

Cliff: "That isn't an option. Now move! I'll catch up soon. Don't worry."

Meg began to stare at Cliff with somewhat of a sad expression on her face.

Meg: "Cliff…"

Suddenly more and more hands bursted through the windows and there was now loud banging on the door along with more vicious growls and moans. Cliff noticed that she was still standing behind him.

Cliff: "Why are you still here?! Get going!"

Meg: "…Okay. We'll wait up for you."

Cliff shot off 4 more rounds. 2 bullets hit the body of one zombie and the 2 other bullets nailed 2 other zombies in the forehead…The two died instantly!

Cliff: "That's fine! Just go!" He urged

Meg nodded.

Meg: "Come on kids! Hurry this way!"

They all followed Meg out through the back entrance of the bar and came into a spacious alleyway. They looked forward and noticed the opening of where the alley led to the street. The street seemed to be lighter with zombies than in the bar.

Meg: "Come on! We have to hurry while Cliff has them all distracted."

Tum Tum: "But where will we go?"

Meg: "Any place where those things aren't. Come on."

They ran out of the alleyway and then saw to their left all of the zombies crowded around the windows and door of the bar. Some even managed to crawl through! They heard more gunshots.

Meg: "Cliff…"

She soon shook herself out of it.

Meg: "Um…come on…we need to get away."

They quickly tried to make their way to safety…

End of Chapter!

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