The quiet drive through the neighborhood continued. There was absolutely no presence of any of the dead walking through the streets...All they could hear was the gentle wind, the motor of the engine, and the cherry blossom leaves flying through the air in the empty area.

As strange as it was, no people, no dead people, and no military planes flying overhead like the previous day, it gave everyone a simple, strong, peace in mind.

Peace in mind however...May not last very long.

"IT'S THEM!" Kohta shouted.

The rest of the group looked ahead…There were the zombies that they had not been delighted to meet once more. Shizuka made a quick turn around the corner, as guided by Saya, but ended up driving towards more of them. Another turn…EVEN MORE.

Shizuka kept the vehicle accelerating in the same path, and sped it up, coming through a road with surrounding apartment complexes in the surrounding areas above.

"HANG ON!" Takashi shouted.

Takashi, Rei, and Akio held on with all of their strength while they plowed through every zombie and increased the speed further as the hoard became larger in mass as they made their way down the street. Akio squinted his eyes forward and saw a great potential threat to the vehicle and his friends.

"STOP THE VEHICLE!" Akio yelled.

Takashi, Rei, and the rest of the group focused their sights further out to the front.

"SHIT!" Takashi exclaimed. "THERE'S A WIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!"

Underneath in the shelter of the vehicle, Saeko leaned forward and had also seen the wire.

"Turn the car to the side!" She ordered.

Before the car could crash directly into the front of the vehicle, potentially injuring their friends above, Shizuka was able to steer the car so that the side of the vehicle may collide with the wired fence instead. A couple of zombies were caught in the middle of the vehicle and fence, and bursts of blood were sprayed as the zombies were unable to endure the sandwiching pressure, which was no pretty sight for anyone.

"Don't look." Kohta told Arisu, covering her from the gory sights.

Unable to control her actions while panicking, Shizuka instinctively drove the vehicle forward and was now heading for the brick wall. She was able to push her foot against the break but the momentum caused the vehicle's back to jerk upwards. Takashi was able to get enough grip despite the speed and momentum the vehicle was being subject to, but Rei and Akio did not have something as durable to hold onto, and were sent flying forward.

Rei had landed on her back first on the frontal hood of the vehicle, while Akio had gained more air and speed and was sent vigorously rolling on the concrete road and collided with the wall, head first, knocking him out of his consciousness.

"…A…A…" Rei grunted, attempting to call to her downed ally.

She then heard the sound of the Itacha shotgun slide being pulled, and saw Takashi jump down to begin the repelling attack on any approaching zombie, while listening to Takashi mumble himself about a reminder.

"Okay…Pull the slide…Aim for the head…FIRE."

Takashi fired one shot but to his disappointment, he was only able to kill one of out dozens, while seeing some effects of the shot were felt by the zombies, but not enough to put them down.

"You don't know what you're doing!" Kohta yelled, sticking himself out through the Humvee's turret ring. "The recoil is causing the muzzle to shot off target! Lean into the gun more with your shoulder, aim around the chest!" He then recommended.

So…Takashi repeated the instructions to himself then fired a single shot from the shotgun, only this time, the shot managed to push down a good number of them.

"Awesome…" Takashi gasped.

He looked and saw that even more of them were gathering to try and pursue them…He slightly shook, looking back at the injured Rei, and the unconscious Akio, then the zombies again.

"…Shit…" Takashi quivered.

Kohta began to pitch into the fight and used the AR-10 to snipe a couple of them nearby.

"After the shot, pull the slide again, and shift the muzzle a bit." He said.

After listening to Kohta's advice once more, he fired four more times, and continued to self-praise himself from the success he had for the first time he had ever used the weapon.

"ALRIGHT!"

He attempted to fire one more shot but then when he heard a click, he realised that he was out of ammo. He reached into his jacket pocket but accidentally, dropped them to the ground, closer to the zombies.

"KOMURO!"

Takashi heard Saeko exit the vehicle having her wooden Bokeen in her hands.

"Take this opportunity to help Miyomoto and Akio!" She exclaimed.

"NO WAY! There's too much for you to fight with just a wooden sword!" Takashi protested.

"…Just protect them…" She growled.

Saeko began her attack and put more strength into her sword so she may be able to bash into the un-dead's heads to cause enough physical trauma to die. She stood with her sword up and briefly to attempt to find an opening and continue fighting them.

Takashi, with no way to retrieve the bullets, dropped the shotgun, held Rei up as he wrapped her arms around her, almost sounding like he was just ready to die with her, then grabbed the strap for her M1A1 rifle unexpectedly.

"…Sorry."

He placed the rifle over Rei's upper chest and made sure the muzzle was pointed in the direction of the many gathering zombies.

"Hirano! How do I use this?"

"Push the lever in front of the trigger guard, disengage the safety, and then SHOOT!"

While he began to fire, and Rei began to cry out as the gun's power was shocking her body, he heard Akio's grunting, and him standing back on his feet, and heard the sound of the ignition of his lightsaber. Akio appeared to be struggling and appeared to be pushing himself to stay on his feet despite any nausea or shakiness that may have come from the shock of the impact.

He slowly limped forward and with rather improper style of walking, he held his lightsaber high in the air and proceeded to in a rather unorthodox, sloppy manner, sweep his saber side to side, cutting through any of them that made contact with the blade.

"Akio!" Saeko shouted to him.

With each passing slash, his vision began to become more darkened with red, and the ringing that most resided in his head began to relentlessly continue. Even with his tremendous effort, he couldn't entirely handle the pressure of whatever wound he had sustained, and retreated back towards the front of the Humvee and sat himself down while deactivating his weapon, closing his eyes as he could almost feel defeat draw near.

"…I can't die…I…" Akio gulped.

As he almost succumb to the pain and nearly passed out, and the sounds of gunfire continuing to rupture the air, his pain increased, while he couldn't really gather the strength to gather to stand up, something else was building up within in…It was his strength begging him to continue fighting…

"I CAN'T DIE."

The pain in a flash suddenly numbed down while his vision remained completely shaded in blood shot red. The energy and blood flow throughout his entire body allowed him to give him the strength to continue fighting for his friends.

Every single aggressive slash he wasted without moments of hesitation was a lot of zombies to die at his hand and the amount of burnt body parts that lay across the road to increase, which stunned his friends from even firing another shot from their guns.

What surprised his friends the most that, he appeared to be conducting electricity through his arms, and that lay waste to a good chunk of the zombie crowd, causing them to be finished off with the burn and shock that Akio was giving off.

Akio stood there motionless for a second, dropping his lightsaber on the ground, noticing how he had already taken care of most of the problem already, but his pain hit him all at once, causing him to break out of his consciousness. He was down once again, and didn't appear to be able to stand again.

Saeko ran over to him and bent down to slightly lift him up to check his condition, holding his head up in her left palm while her right arm gave his upper body leverage, while everyone else was recovering from the marvelous sight that they had just come to witness through what someone like Akio was able to do. It may have appeared to be victory for them, with only having the task to clear out a little bit of them, but it appeared that more zombies from the nearby neighborhoods were drawn towards them from the uproar of Force powers being unleashed, as if Akio's attempts were frowned upon.

"We need to draw them away…" Saeko said, resting Akio down.

"I'll come with you." Takashi volunteered.

Takashi and Saeko charged through whatever got in their way, Saeko with her Bokken, and Takashi using his shotgun as a club. They used whatever was at their disposal, walls nearby or lampposts, they struck them to make an echo for the zombies to follow them and not their friends.

"Komuro, this way!" Saeko gestured towards some stairs.

They climbed the stairs closer towards the apartments around, and continued…

"COME THIS WAY!" Takashi shouted as he struck an iron handle with the shotgun.