Disclaimer: I don't own Total Drama, Zombieland (which this is not based on anymore), 6teen, or any characters from any other franchise.

I meant to post this on July 4th, but things ran a bit late. Oh well, Happy Birthday America! How should we celebrate? I know, with zombies!

Jen looked at the man and said, "Yeah, this is Galleria Mall. But who are you?"

The man smiled and said, "The name's Frank West. I was hired by a government organization to come here and gather evidence that this zombie apocalypse was caused by a certain corporation. I can't tell you what the corporation is though, that information's classified."

Tyler looked at the man and asked, "Um, okay. But why were you hired? Are you like a detective or something?"

Frank West shook his head and said, "No, I'm a photojournalist."

Jen looked shocked as she asked, "A photojournalist? How will that help you in this situation?"

Frank smirked and said, "Clearly you don't know who I am. Have any of you heard of the Willamette Parkview Mall in Colorado?" Silence met the photojournalist before he responded, "I didn't think so. You see, something like the situation that's happening right now happened there a while back, but on a much smaller scale. I was tasked with gathering evidence that a drug manufacturer had caused the incident. That alone should make me qualified for this job. Oh, and I've covered wars you know. That's a big thing on my resume."

The hum of a golf cart behind the four teens alerted them to my return. Cody, Sierra and Jude got off the cart as I asked, "And who are you?"

Frank smiled and said, "As I just explained to your friends there, I'm Frank West. My partner is busy looking into another building for our mission."

A couple of moans came from the entrance we came from and we saw a couple of zombies approaching. Frank grabbed a baseball bat from his helicopter and said, "Let me handle this." The photojournalist went over to the two zombies and bashed the first one's head in before clubbing the second one on the stomach. The second zombie tumbled to the ground, where Frank West then smashed its skull in.

I looked on in awe and said, "Whoa. That was impressive. None of us are strong enough to do that."

Frank turned back to our group and said, "Well, as I've said, I've kind of done this before."

A single moan sounded to our right and we saw a single zombie approaching us. Frank waved his hands around and said, "Hey! Look over here! A free meal!"The zombie started to wander toward him and he turned to us and said, "Check this out."

Frank faced the zombie again and when it got a couple of feet away from him, he leapt at it, putting his arm under its head so it couldn't move it to bite him. With his other hand, he punched the zombie in the stomach hard. As he pulled his arm back, we saw that he pulled some of the zombie's guts out with him, which he then used to feed the undead creature while he retrieved his baseball bat and bashed its head in.

Tyler looked confused and said, "Did you just make it eat itself?"

Frank chuckled and said, "In all honesty, yeah. You see, these things are dumb as hell. If they see anything that looks like flesh or organs, they'll try to eat it. I had to do that quite a few times in order to survive the last time I did something like this."

I turned to everyone and said, "Well, now what do we do? Should we wait here and see if the others will find us? Or should we try to find them?"

Jen looked worried as she asked, "What if all the zombies come this way? We can't beat all of them!"

Frank took notice of the height and size of the mall and said, "I wouldn't worry too much. They'll easily get lost in there and won't know how to get out. Very few, if any, will actually make it out here."

Jude nodded and said, "Well that takes care of that problem dude. But how are we gonna find the others?"

A voice from behind us said, "No need." We all turned to see that Nikki, Trent, Wyatt and Jonesy approach us.

Jen looked on the verge of tears and said, "Guys? Where's Caitlin?" Wyatt and Jonesy shook their heads to answer her question and Nikki hugged Jen in comfort.

Trent walked over to me and said, "We got swarmed. We tried to make a break for it and she tripped and fell. By the time we noticed she fell, it was already too late."

I shook my head and said, "It's a damn shame. What about you four? No bites or anything?"

Trent shook his head and said, "No, we're fine. Luckily Nikki had a couple extra swords to lend us. Though I think we could all use a change of clothes." I then noticed that the four of them had a fair amount of blood on their clothes. Jen now had blood on her clothes from Nikki's comfort hug.

Frank spoke up, "There was a clothing store close to the building my partner's in. If you want, I can take the helicopter and ask him to wait while I get you some new clothes."

Wyatt nodded and said, "That would be great actually."

The sound of the helicopter starting up alerted all of us and we saw that Heather was sitting in the pilot's seat. Frank shouted, "Hey! That's my helicopter! What about all my stuff?"

Heather pointed to the ground and said, "I left your stuff there. I'm sorry but I can't be around you all. It's too painful to be reminded that Alejandro is gone."

The helicopter started to gain altitude and I shouted, "Running away from us isn't going to make you forget he's gone! Heather!" It was too late though as she had already started to fly away, in a generic direction toward the United States.

Frank put a hand on my shoulder and said, "I wished she hadn't done that, but let her go. She seems to know what she's doing and maybe she'll realize that you're right."

I muttered, "Yeah, right before she gets killed."

Lindsay bit the bottom of her lip and said, "So now what do we do?"

Frank pointed into the heart of the city and said, "Well, my partner will wait for me in the tallest building over there. It's about a mile from here. But we're going to have to take a longer route."

Cody asked in shock, "What? Why?"

Frank raised an eyebrow and said, "You don't know how herds work?"

Sierra asked, "What's a herd?"

Frank West shook his head and said, "I can't believe you haven't run into a herd. Basically, these things are attracted to sound. When you do something as simple as shoot a gun, any zombie that could've heard the gunshot wanders off in the general direction of the shot. Eventually small groups of the zombies will join up with other groups and those groups will join up with other groups. Over time you have a giant crowd of zombies all going in the same direction. There may not even be anything that way anymore, but they don't know that. That's a herd."

Jonesy shouted, "And let me guess, your helicopter will lead them to here, won't they?"

Frank nodded and said, "Some, yes. Since the helicopter just left, many of them will follow it that way. But for now, let's assume that a large number is heading this way. We need to be able to go around them. If we can get to where my partner is, we'll be fine. We each have a large armored truck that you guys can catch a ride in while we return to our temporary base just outside Montreal. If my partner got enough evidence from his building then our small strike force can head back to America."

I cocked an eyebrow and asked, "How many people are in your group?"

Frank West smiled and said, "Counting me, there are five of us."

Tyler glanced back at the entrance and said, "Well, if we're going to go, let's go already. I'm not exactly comfortable with who knows how many zombies inside there."

Lindsay nodded and said, Me too."

Nikki tapped the flat side of her sword on her shoulder and said, "So which way should we go, seeing as you know what you're doing?"

Frank West walked over to his belongings, which consisted of various weapons and tools, and pulled out a pair of binoculars. As he peered through the vision amplification device, he muttered to himself, "Hmm. It appears as if there are a few dozen zombies trying to climb up this cliff. The rest of the herd that was attracted by the helicopter are either heading South or noticed what the others were doing and started trying to climb the cliff themselves."

I noted, "Well then, gather up whatever we're going to bring and lets start heading north."

Trent approached me and asked, "Are we going to get either of the vehicles we were using before?"

I shook my head and said, "Sorry Trent. We can't go and get them. It'd be too dangerous. And even if we wanted to, we siphoned the gas from them for the generator."

Trent nodded and said, "That's right, I remember now."

Frank grabbed all of his stuff and said, "From the looks of it, we're all gonna have to walk it, except for whoever takes the golf cart. That's assuming you want to bring it, which I would recommend as we could carry our stuff with us that way."

I nodded and said, "That sounds like a plan. I'll drive the golf cart to wherever it is that we're going." Frank addressed the group, "Okay you guys, let's get moving! We have to make it there in a few hours or else it'll be too dark to leave."

As Frank led the way, the teens started to make their way to wherever Frank was leading us. Tyler, Trent and Lindsay were immediately behind Frank, with Jen, Jude, Wyatt, Jonesy and Nikki behind them. Cody and Sierra were behind them and I brought up the rear.

As we walked there were several conversations going on. Tyler sighed and said, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but why did Heather just decide to leave us behind? We may not have liked her too much but it can't be denied that having the extra person around would be helpful."

Trent shrugged and replied, "I don't know dude. She's got some personal problems to work out I guess. And if our paths ever cross again, maybe she'll be willing to stay with us next time."

Lindsay looked saddened and said, "Yeah, but we need her. With Caitlin gone and now Heather, it feels like I don't have any friends here."

Tyler hugged his girlfriend and said, "You've got me Lindsay."

Trent gave a very slight smile and said, "You've got all of us, even if we aren't acting friendly. It's not you, it's just what we have to deal with, believe me, it's stressful."

Lindsay nodded and said, "I know, right? I'm afraid that my skin's starting to like, break out in pimples because of the stress. And we never find any creams or anything when we look in stores so I can't stop it if it ever happens!"

Tyler kissed his girlfriend's cheek and said, "No matter what, I'll always think you're beautiful Linds."

Lindsay squealed and said, "Aw, that's so sweet!"

Behind them, the residents of Galleria Mall were busy talking. Jen sighed and said, "I can't believe that she's really gone. I think it's safe to say that I was closest to Caitlin and while I'm certain you're all sad, I'm so sad right now."

Jonesy pat his step-sister's back and said, "Yeah, I know. We're all going to miss how optimistic she was. And to be honest, I think we all might miss how naïve she was at times too."

Nikki grumbled to herself, "If only I had been more careful. If only I had made sure she wasn't going to trip."

Wyatt shook his head and retorted, "There was no way of knowing if she was going to trip or not. And with how quickly those zombies ambushed us, it's miraculous we only lost one person. Don't get me wrong, I'm sad too, but I'm also glad that you saved all of those that you did."

Jude nodded and said, "Yeah Nikki dudette, you need to think about this differently. Instead of blaming yourself for Caitlin's death, think about how you managed to save three other people."

Nikki shook her purple-haired head and said, "Yeah, I know I saved three people, but I still can't help but feel guilty that Caitlin's dead."

Jonesy hugged his girlfriend and said, "It's survivor's guilt. Since you made it, you can't help but feel like the death of Caitlin is your fault."

Jen sniffed a little, as she was getting a bit teary-eyed, and said, "That's true. I don't know if I could deal with two or more of you dying."

In front of me, Cody and Sierra also had a bit of a discussion. Cody had appeared to be deep in thought and Sierra asked, "Cody? What are you thinking about?"

Cody looked up from the ground and said, "Hm? Oh, I was just thinking about how to make defenses if we needed to."

Sierra raised an eyebrow and asked, "You mean like a wall?"

Cody shrugged and said, "Something like that. I'm just trying to think about what we would need if we ever had to hole up somewhere for an extended period of time. For example, we would need a wall. We would also need at least one sentry tower, maybe more, to keep an eye on things from above. And we would need a constant supply of food, especially with our group."

Sierra bit her lip and said, "Hopefully things won't have to come to that."

Cody gave a very slight smile and stated, "Even if they do, we'll be fine."

We had been walking for about an hour, and we were getting closer to the inner city. We came across a few zombies, but it wasn't anything that we couldn't handle. I had to abandon the golf cart as we got closer, as the noise would draw unwanted attention our way.

Frank stood in front of all of us and quietly said, "Alright, to put things bluntly, there's a metric ass ton of zombies between us and our destination. In order to get us to safety, I advise we split up into groups of two and take different streets to where we're going."

Jude raised his hand and asked, "Where is that, exactly?"

Frank pointed behind him and said, "Do you see that one really tall building? The tallest one in the city? That's where we're going."

Cody nervously tapped his fingers together and asked, "And why are we splitting up? If one pair gets overwhelmed, they're done for."

Frank shook his head and said, "That's a risk we'll have to take. The way I see it, if we split up and make roughly the same amount of noise, then we can keep the number of zombies attacking us about the same. Now when we get in there, remember, we don't want to attract too many of these freaks, so avoid using firearms unless it is absolutely necessary. Stick with whatever melee weapons you have and if you need to, improvise. That's saved me too many times to count."

I thought of something and asked, "Since we're several blocks away, how are we going to know when everyone is accounted for? What if we're missing two people and we try to wait for them not knowing they've already been killed?"

Frank tapped his chin and said, "I'll give everyone three hours. Any later than that and we won't be able to get on the road tonight. That should be more than enough time anyways." We all got into our separate groups and moved out.

Jude and Jen were wandering down the street assigned to them, Jen still shaken by the fact that Caitlin was dead. Jen still had her lacrosse stick from when they fled the mall and Jude had a crowbar as well as a pistol. Jude looked to his brunette friend and asked, "Hey, are you going to be okay bra?"

Jen sighed and said, "Someday I will be, but not right now. When we took shelter in the mall, I knew that our families were dead but I was able to deal with that because we were all still surviving. Now that one of us is gone, I don't know what I'm going to do."

Jude pat her shoulder and said, "You could keep on fighting. I'm sure that's what Caitlin would've wanted you to do."

Jen sighed before giving the smallest of smiles and saying, "Thanks Jude, you always know what to say."

The skater's eyes widened in shock as he said, "I do? Whoa, that's awesome!"

Jen smiled a little more at her friend before she looked ahead and said, "Uh oh, we've got company."

Ahead of them were half a dozen zombies, including one that looked familiar to the two. Jude squinted and asked, "Is that Darth?"

Jen nodded and said, "Looks like it." The two were referring to a short zombie that had some broken braces on its teeth. It was wearing a broken pair of glasses and it had a tattered black cape on. It noticed the two and uttered a moan as it limped toward them, the other five zombies passing it.

Jude reached for his gun but Jen said, "No! Don't use your gun yet." Shrugging, Jude reached for his crowbar and used that to bash the brain in of a nearby zombie.

Jen was striking the zombies that came to her with her lacrosse stick, taking a couple out in the process. The two swung their weapons a few more times until all the zombies were dead, except for Zombie Darth. The former nerd was still grunting and moaning as it moved ever closer to the two teens.

Jen looked at it and said, "I can't do it. I can't kill him."

Jude took his pistol and said, "Let me." He fired a single round and Zombie Darth fell to the ground, silent. It was silent as Jude put his gun away, before loud moaning could be heard from a nearby building.

Jen and Jude looked on in shock as zombies piled up against the glass doors, putting a lot of stress on it. Jude grabbed Jen's hand and said, "C'mon Jen, we have to get away from here!" The skater started to run down the street, pulling his friend with him as the doors gave way and zombies spilled into the street.

Tyler and Trent were walking down another street. Tyler had given his hockey stick to Trent and instead took a signpost that was lying on the ground to use as his weapon. The pair also carried a rifle and a shotgun. Tyler looked to the musician and asked, "Are you sure Lindsay's going to be fine with Wyatt?"

Trent nodded and said, "Definitely. He knows what he's doing. I know you wanted to be with Lindsay but you have to understand our concern. We don't want you two to start making out and getting attacked."

Tyler sighed and said, "I know. I just can't help but feel anxious that something's going to happen to her."

Trent raised an eyebrow and asked, "You care about her that much?"

Tyler looked at Trent with one of the most serious looks the musician had ever seen and said, "Dude, I love her. I don't know what I would do if something happened to her."

Trent saw the worry in Tyler's eyes though and said, "Don't worry about it, she's going to be fine."

A single gunshot rang out and a few zombies stumbled out of the nearby alley. Tyler and Trent noticed this before they leapt into action, using hockey stick and signpost to smash the heads of the dead. While the two were taking care of the zombies that emerged from the alley, they were unaware of the one that snuck up on them from behind.

Trent felt the undead creature grab onto his shoulders and he began to freak out, trying to shake it off. As the zombie reached its head toward Trent's neck, a gunshot rang out as Tyler blew the monster's brains out. Trent panted and said, "Thanks man, I owe you one."

Tyler looked around him in all directions as he said, "Don't thank me yet, I don't think we're out of the woods yet."

Frank and I took the most zombie-filled street, so we didn't have much time for talking. Frank brought his baseball bat down on a zombie's head before picking the dead creature and spinning him around, throwing him into a pair of zombies. I used the sword that Nikki gave me to slice and stab the heads of any zombies unfortunate enough to wander my way.

I sliced the upper part of the head off of one zombie before whistling and remarking, "Damn, this blade is sharp!"

Frank finished off another zombie with his baseball bat and said, "This isn't the time to be fawning over how sharp your sword is! Right now we have other problems to worry about!"

I nodded and said, "Right, sorry about that."

I decapitated another of the undead and stabbed the fallen head before looking ahead of me and seeing at least two dozen more zombies. Frank finished off a trio of the dead surrounding him with a wrestling move where he spun around with his arms outstretched, the Double Lariat. I groaned and said, "Just great, more of these freaks."

Frank smirked and said, "At least there isn't a herd. We would be screwed it there was a herd." We heard a gunshot shortly followed by another gunshot.

Frank looked at the zombies, which were torn between attacking us and following either gunshot, and said, "We should take care of these freaks. Come on Chris!" I followed, getting ready for the fight to begin anew.

Cody and Sierra were still equipped with their katana blades from the mall, though now they also had pistols in case anything happened. They were just finishing off a group of zombies that attacked when they passed by an alley. Cody sliced one head horizontally just above the eyes, taking it down before turning around and stabbing his blade through the back of the head of a ghoul moving toward Sierra.

Cody's girlfriend was keeping busy, slicing arms and heads off of any zombie that dared to get too close. Once all of the zombies were finished, Cody wiped some sweat from his brow and asked, "How close do you think we are?"

Sierra turned around and looked at Cody and said, "To the building? I dunno, only a couple of blocks. Don't worry Codykins, I'll protect you."

Cody facepalmed and said, "I know you like to call me that Sierra, but could you please try to stop? It's embarrassing."

Sierra giggled and replied, "Whoops, sorry Cody. I forgot how you don't like that."

Cody sighed and hugged Sierra, saying, "I can't stay mad at you."

A pair of gunshots rang out in the distance and the two broke their embrace, readying their katanas. Moans were heard from the nearby alleys as close to a dozen zombies stumbled out of them. Cody looked at his girlfriend and remarked, "I hope you're ready to fight Sierra, because we've got one hell of a fight coming up!"

Lindsay was nervously fiddling with the large branch that she had while Wyatt had one of Nikki's Katana blades. Wyatt noticed the unease of his current partner and said, "Lindsay, relax. As long as we don't make too much noise we'll be fine. Besides, I have a shotgun and you have a pistol just in case."

Lindsay nodded though it was obvious she was still nervous and said, "I know, but I'm so scared that Tyler's not going to be okay."

Wyatt pat the blonde-haired girl on the back and said, "Hey, don't worry about it. He's strong, he'll be fine." A little bit of moaning was heard and several zombies stumbled out of an alley.

Wyatt turned to Lindsay and said, "Let me handle this." The coffee addict quickly used his katana to slice and dice the zombies that dared to attack. He sliced the heads off of most of the zombies, letting their bodies fall onto the ground.

Another zombie exited the alley when Wyatt wasn't looking and Lindsay drew her pistol and fired on instinct, felling the creature. Wyatt turned to see the dead zombie and said, "Thanks for saving me Lindsay. But did you really have to use your gun?"

Lindsay nodded and said, "It was instinct mostly. Why? Is that bad?"

Wyatt looked all around him and said, "It might be. Remember what Frank said about herds? I'm hoping one doesn't attack."

Lindsay looked down at the ground and said, "I'm sorry. I forgot."

Wyatt faced his partner and said, "It's alright. It looks fine for now."

A few moments after Wyatt finished his sentence, the sound of a window breaking was heard and zombies started to fall out of a ten-story window onto the street below. The first few died upon impact, but it was not known how long that would last. Wyatt quirked an eyebrow at the sight and said, "Though I'm not sure how much longer we'll be safe."

Another window broke on a different building and zombies started falling to the pavement below. Wyatt grabbed Lindsay's arm and said, "Come on, let's get out of here!"

Nikki and Jonesy rounded out the final group and they were on their toes. Nikki had the final katana while Jonesy wielded his chainsaw from the mall. Nikki stabbed the last of the zombies nearby and asked, "Do you have to use that chainsaw? It's too loud and it's going to attract too much attention."

Jonesy shrugged and asked, "Would you rather I use my rifle?"

Nikki sighed and said, "Either way, you're making too much noise."

Jonesy threw his arms up into the air and asked, "Well, what do you want me to do? Hit the zombies with my chainsaw?"

Nikki turned and glared at her boyfriend for a few seconds before saying, "Look, do what you want. Let's just hurry up. If we can get to the building soon, we'll be in the clear."

Moans came from behind them and in front of them as several zombies moved in from the front and back. Nikki smirked as she saw three of the zombies in front of her had roughly the same figure as well as little bits of blonde hair left. The thing that really made her happy though was seeing that they all had tattered remains of the same clothes: red shirts and blue skirts.

Nikki ran forward shouting, "I've always wanted to kill you clones! Now I finally get the chance!" The gothic teen quickly beheaded the three zombies she wished to kill before dispatching the other four zombies nearby.

A series of gunshots were heard from behind her as Jonesy used his rifle to take out the six zombies approaching from behind. Nikki grinned at the corpses of her former co-workers and said, "Alright Jonesy, lets get going before this good mood wears off."

The gunshots that had rang out over the course of the first few encounters in the city were louder than the survivors anticipated and it brought a lot of unwanted attention their way. Outside the city, the large numbers of zombies that had heard the helicopter heard the gunshots and moved into the city toward the source. Other zombies that had not heard the helicopter headed inward as well. As more ghouls moved inward, the collective moan got louder and became more audible to the groups.

Frank and I, who were closest to our destination at the time, despite the number of zombies we had taken down, were among the first to react. Frank looked to where we had come and said, "Oh crap. That much moaning must mean there's a herd coming this way. We gotta haul ass and get to my partner, then split up and save as many of the others as possible."

I looked at him and started heading to our destination, saying, "You don't have to tell me twice!"

We thankfully didn't run into any more zombies and reached our destination within five minutes. The truck that Frank and his partner had used was a monster. There was more than enough room in the back for everyone in our group as well as our supplies. There sides of it were about ten feet tall so we would be protected from any zombies that attacked if we stopped. Frank tossed a key to me and said, "Get in the truck. No matter what, get ready to get people out of here. I'm getting my partner and then we're saving your friends."

I caught the keys and said, "Alright. Good luck out there." Frank simply nodded as he entered the building while I got into the truck.

Lindsay and Wyatt were backed against a wall, striking at zombies with their melee weapons. While not many zombies survived the fall out of the buildings, at least two dozen did, and they were currently trying to fight them off.

Lindsay used the sharp end of her branch to stab one of the ghouls in the eye, striking the brain. Wyatt was keeping busy trying to stab and slice as many of the zombies in the brain as possible.

He then grabbed his shotgun and said, "Enough of this." He fired the shotgun, taking down a few zombies to the left of the pair, giving them enough room to escape. Wyatt ran through the gap, shouting, "Lindsay, come on!"

Lindsay tried her best to escape, but zombies tried grabbing her, wrestling her to the ground. The blonde cried out, "Wayne, help me!"

Wyatt turned around and saw the swarm beginning to attack. Without hesitating, he fired his shotgun at the zombies, taking them out as they tried to eat Lindsay. Wyatt kept the majority of the zombies off of Lindsay, but he failed to notice a part of the herd that came up behind him and tackled him.

From a nearby rooftop, Cody saw these events transpire and he shouted out, "No!"

Sierra grabbed him and said, "There's nothing we can do Cody! There's too many of them!"

Cody nodded glumly and said, "I know. I just wish we could save them."

Sierra nodded and said, "Me too. Though I am glad we found that fire escape after killing those zombies. Now we just have to hurry across these rooftops and make it to the truck before those freaks do."

Cody nodded and said, "Yeah, if we got attacked there we would be screwed."

Nikki finished off two more zombies as she and Jonesy were almost to their destination. They saw the truck and walked toward it. I saw the two approach in the rear-view mirror and exited the vehicle. I walked up to them and said, "Guys, you made it."

Nikki nodded and said, "Yeah, we did. We were pretty far up the street when we heard that giant moaning. Where's Frank?"

I pointed to the building and said, "He got his friend and they're rescuing the others. And that giant moaning was a herd. We gotta get everyone back here pronto or else we're gonna be in a world of hurt."

Jonesy looked shocked as he said, "Seriously? A herd? Well if that's the case we need to protect ourselves here!"

I nodded and said, "I couldn't agree more. I'm thinking we wait by the truck and get ready to attack if any zombies come our way."

Jen and Jude were pushed against a wall like Lindsay and Wyatt were. They were fighting back a little bit better than Lindsay and Wyatt were simply due to there being less zombies and their weapons were better. Jude smashed a skull with his crowbar and asked, "So you think these are the last of them?"

Jen smacked a zombie with her lacrosse stick and said, "Just so long as no more than a few extra zombies head this way. With that colossal moan though, I'm not so sure that'll happen."

A few smacks later from lacrosse stick and crowbar and the remaining zombies were dead. The two prepared to exit the corner they were backed into but a large number of zombies, about thirty, appeared from around a corner fifty feet away and were heading their way.

Jen looked to her skater friend and said, "Jude?"

The skater looked at Jen and asked, "Yeah Jen?"

The red-headed teen asked, "This looks like the end doesn't it?"

Jude nodded and said, "Yeah, that's a bummer."

The zombies kept approaching and were about twenty-five feet away.

Jen bit her lip and said, "Before we die, I have to tell you something."

Jude looked at Jen again and said, "What is it bra?"

Jen sighed and said, "I've always had a bit of a crush on you."

Jude's eyes widened and he asked, "Whoa, seriously?"

The zombies were really close to the two now, only about ten feet away.

Jen nodded and said, "Yes." In the heat of the moment she kissed Jude and he kissed back as the zombies got even closer.

Just as the two separated their kiss and accepted their fate, a volley of gunshots went off, taking most of the zombies down. A few well-timed knife stabs later and the rest were gone. Standing in the zombie's place was a man with short, dark hair. He was dressed for combat, as we wore a pack with all of his supplies, and was dressed in an army green shirt and black pants. He also wore combat boots. He put his knife back in its holder and drew his pistol, looking around for any other zombies.

Jude was the first to speak, "Who are you?"

The man looked at the pair and said, "My name's Chris Redfield and I'm working with your friend Frank West. Come on, let's get back to the truck."Chris started walking toward the truck and Jen and Jude quickly followed.

Trent and Tyler had to fight off a significantly fewer number of zombies, but that was only due to them continually pushing forward. Their effectiveness was less than other groups however as Trent's hockey stick broke and he had to resort to using a random briefcase lying in the street. Trent was unable to kill the zombies, but that's where Tyler came in with his street sign.

Three more zombies stumbled out an alley and Tyler said, "Alright, you knock them down, and then I'll kill them."

Trent nodded and said, "Right." The two rushed forward as Tyler brought his signpost down on top of one of the ghouls, taking it out. Trent meanwhile hit one of the two zombies in the head with his briefcase, sending it falling to the street.

The musician then slammed his briefcase into the other zombie, knocking it to the ground as well. This gave Tyler time to drive his signpost into their skulls, destroying the brain.

The two gathered their breath for a few seconds before they kept on going, glancing behind them to see how many of the undead were on their tail. Tyler huffed, "I count ten, maybe a dozen of them coming this way."

Trent looked back and said, "You think we can take them?"

Tyler shook his head and said, "If we keep up this pace, we won't have to." The two went to turn a corner when Tyler slipped and fell on the ground while Trent swerved to avoid stepping on Tyler and ended up running into a street sign.

The musician fell to the ground, unconscious. Tyler got up and started to drag Trent down the road to a safe spot and stood there to guard him as the zombies slowly got closer. He couldn't see them now, but Tyler knew he was in for a hell of a fight.

I was on top of the truck, keeping a lookout for any zombies when I saw Jen, Jude and another man come towards the truck. I let out a sigh of relief and said, "Jen, Jude, you guys made it. Who's this?"

The other man shook my hand and said, "I'm Chris Redfield. I'm working with Frank."

I nodded and said, "So you're this partner he kept on mentioning. I'm Chris McLean, I hosted a reality show a couple of months ago."

Chris Redfield nodded and said, "Having two Chris' around at the same time, that'll get confusing. Anyways, I presume these two are with you?"

I nodded again and replied, "Yeah, they were letting us stay with them for a while. Jonesy and Nikki are here too guys. Where's Frank?"

As Jen and Jude went to go meet up with their friends, Chris answered, "He's trying to find the rest of your friends. He'll be back in time, don't you worry."

Tyler stabbed another zombie in the head as they all slowly got closer to him. The dead zombie collapsed to the ground in front of the other one that Tyler killed while trying to protect Trent. These two seemed to be a bit faster than the others as they made it to the jock first.

As the rest of them came closer, Tyler wielded his signpost in a defensive fashion, trying to keep them all at bay. The corpses reached out for him and Tyler tried to push them back while singling out one to kill. This worked the first time, as he pushed the majority of them back before impaling the one he didn't push back.

His plan backfired on him however, when the signpost became imbedded in the ghoul's skull. Tyler held his fists up in a defensive fashion and said, "Well Trent, it looks like we're done for. At least when you die, you probably won't feel them eating you."

A loud humming was soon heard, not unlike a chainsaw, and somebody yelled, "Hey losers! How about you take me on?"

Tyler looked to see who showed up and saw Frank West wielding an odd weapon that looked like a double-paddled canoe oar with chainsaws taped to the paddles. Frank charged forward with his weapon and started to chop the zombies up into pieces.

Frank was swinging the dual-bladed weapon like it didn't weigh anything, slicing through the bone marrow and muscles of the deceased humans. When all of the zombies were dead, Frank turned the chainsaws off and said, "You alright Tyler? What happened to Trent?"

Tyler hoisted Trent onto his back and said, "He ran into a street sign and fell unconscious. He's always been a bit of a pain magnet."

Frank nodded and said, "Gotcha. Well, we need to get back to the truck. Let's hurry up!"

I tapped my foot impatiently as I waited for anyone else to show up and said, "Come on, where is everybody?"

Chris looked up from his position on the ground and remarked, "You mean besides those four that went to that clothing store? I don't know to be honest. If they're not back within an hour though, we'll have to leave. As it stands we're not getting to our base until two days from now. We're going to have to make it far away enough from the city tonight though. Just far enough so if the herd follows us, we'll lose them."

I nodded as I used the scope of the sniper rifle kept in the large vehicle to see if any zombies or survivors were coming. Somebody came into view but I couldn't see who it was. Based on their speed, I could tell it wasn't a zombie.

I looked to Chris and said, "Hey, some people are coming from the left. You want to check it out?"

Chris Redfield nodded and said, "Yeah, you keep an eye out for any of those undead monsters." He ran off toward where I noticed the people coming from.

About two minutes later, Jen, Jude, Jonesy and Nikki returned from the clothing store with their new clothes in bags. Jen asked, "So is anyone else back yet?"

I shook my head and said, "Afraid not. Chris went to go help out some people I saw, but they may not even be with us."

About three or four minutes after that, Chris returned with Frank, Tyler and an unconscious Trent. I quirked an eyebrow and asked, "What happened to Trent?"

Tyler and Frank helped Trent into the truck before Tyler responded, "He ran into a street sign and fell unconscious. Is Lindsay here yet? Is she okay?"

Jen shook her head and said, "She's not back and neither is Wyatt."

I quickly scanned who was here before remarking, "Cody and Sierra aren't here yet either."

Just then a few moans alerted us to some zombies coming from where Nikki and Jonesy had come from. Chris snarled, "Damn it. All right, somebody come help me out."

Nikki, Frank and Jude all followed Chris Redfield as they attacked the zombies. Chris thrust his knee into the chest of one, causing it to double over, where he then drove his combat knife into the back of the ghoul's head. Nikki horizontally swung her sword, taking part of one zombie's head off, destroying the brain. Frank used his baseball bat to smash one of them sideways into the concrete, where he then took out the brain. Jude took his crow bar and thrust it into the eye socket of one zombie, destroying the brain. The four zombies fell to the ground, dead once more.

The four regrouped with us where we again proceeded to wait for the others. Our waiting period was short-lived however, as more of the undead stumbled our way.

I took the katana sitting next to me and said, "I'll take one of them. Anyone else care to get the other two?" As some people went to gather their weapons, somebody jumped down from the roof of a short, nearby building, slicing the head of one zombie in two.

Another person jumped down from the roof of the same building and cut another ghoul's head diagonally. I stabbed the final one in the head before looking up and saying, "Cody, Sierra! You guys are here!"

Tyler intently stared in the direction Lindsay and Wyatt were scheduled to come from and said, "Now we just need to wait for Lindsay and Wyatt."

Cody nervously wrung his hands and said, "Yeah, about that."

Tyler looked over at Cody and said, "What is it? Is it bad? I bet it's bad based on your tone. Please tell me it isn't bad!"

Sierra sat Tyler down on the truck and sat down next to him and said, "I'm sorry Tyler. She's gone."

Tyler got up and grabbed Sierra's sword before saying, "She can't be gone! I'll go and rescue her!"

Cody put his hands up and said, "Dude, I saw her and Wyatt get swarmed. There was nothing we could do."

Tyler pushed Cody aside and ran to where Lindsay was supposed to be coming from, saying, "You're lying!"

Chris looked at Tyler and said, "Dammit! Frank and blue-haired kid, come with me. We have to stop him before he gets himself killed. If they did get swarmed I'm betting there are a ton of these monsters that way."

Frank West and Jonesy ran after Tyler while Chris stayed behind to say, "McLean, get everyone in that truck and be prepared to get the hell out of here. Wait until we get back before you leave though."

Chris ran off while I nodded and said, "Got it."

I turned to the others and said, "Alright guys, you heard him. Get in the truck." Everyone nearby got into the back of the truck, where they got comfortable. I got into the front of the truck and started it up.

Chris, Frank and Jonesy chased after Tyler as he went to turn down the street Lindsay was supposed to walk down. Chris called out, "Tyler, was it? Don't go down there! There's too many zombies!"

Tyler turned the corner anyways and stopped. He looked in shock and said, "Guys, there aren't any zombies!"

Frank asked, "Wait, what? No zombies?"

Chris, Frank and Jonesy reached Tyler and saw that he was telling the truth and that there weren't any zombies. At least, not any nearby. A few could be seen milling about at the very end of the street, but they failed to notice the humans.

Frank kneeled down in front of a few corpses and said, "The hell? Look at this, these zombies have these weird gashes in them."

Chris inspected the bodies and said, "I've seen people killed by creatures that attacked with long claws, but there aren't any here. We would've encountered them by now."

Tyler looked at the bodies as well and said, "I saw some zombies killed like this at the mall!"

Jonesy looked at a different pile of bodies and said, "Hey, these look like that too."

Tyler looked at a third pile and said, "Oh no. Oh God no." He sunk to the ground and begun to cry. Frank, Chris and Jonesy walked over and saw what it was that Tyler noticed.

It was Lindsay, or at least what was left of her. She had chunks of her face bitten off, as well as many smaller bites all along her skinny body. A trio of large gashes went across her skull, and her brain had been hit. Blood caked her body and her clothes were ripped.

Jonesy stomped on a dead zombie and said, "Damn it all! This means Wyatt must be dead too!"

Frank and Chris picked Tyler up off the ground and started to walk him back to the truck, which was now parked at the intersection of the street they were on and the street the truck was on.

Chris went over to Jonesy and said, "Come on man, your friends need you."

As they walked back, Frank said, "I'm sorry for you Tyler, I really am."

A series of gunshots went off and Chris said, "Damn, we need to get back to the truck!" The four broke into a sprint, despite the despair two of them felt.

I leaned my head out the window and said, "Come on guys, hold out just a little longer!"

Cody fired the pistol he had acquired and shouted back, "We're trying our hardest!"

Sierra shot the sniper rifle and said, "Yeah! Another one down! I'm on a roll!"

Nikki shot Jonesy's rifle several times, striking numerous zombies.

I looked toward where Tyler ran off to and saw the people we were waiting for. I shouted, "Guys hurry up!"

I opened the passenger side door just as Chris, who was the most physically fit, jumped in. I waited until Jonesy, Tyler and Frank were in the back and Cody gave me a thumbs up before I hit the gas pedal and drove out of the city where we lost so much.

As we headed out of the city, I asked Chris, "So where do we go?"

Chris sat back into the chair and said, "Our base is just outside Montreal, so for now just drive toward Montreal."

I nodded and said, "All right." In my mind there was some doubt though. If we lost so much in one city, would going to another be a good idea?

So now Chris Redfield of Resident Evil fame joins the group. Anyone want to hazard a guess as to who the other people in Frank and Chris' group are? And I'm downright brutal, killing off Caitlin, Lindsay and Wyatt all in one chapter. This story will be winding down soon, but before we can get to the end, we have to see Noah's group arrive in Toronto! That will be up after I update all of my other stories. Speaking of which...

I've been lacking in updates recently, and that's because I usually write when I'm doing homework. Since I'm now on summer vacation, I'm not writing. But when I get to college this coming fall and get my laptop, I'll be able to write a lot more frequently. In fact, I'm having a New Chapter Week! Each day, from September 4th to September 7th, I will publish a new chapter of all of my stories except this one. First will be my Smash Bros story The Second Coming, followed by a new chapter of Scott Pilgrim vs The Island, then my other Smash Bros story The Copy Killer and then finally the next chapter of Total Drama High School! After that, I'll work on the next chapter of this, which I hope to have done by Halloween at the latest.

Also, if anyone has any artistic talent and wishes to create a cover image for this story, PM me. I'll be sure to give you credit. That's all I have to say for now, aside from my usual generic "Please Review" and all that nonsense. Anyways, Until Next Time!