Ben slipped into a deep sleep. Gwen shhed them and they walked to their respective dorms. The next morning, Ben woke up. Ulrich helped him find the cafeteria.

He lead him to the table were everyone (except for Bandage and Séance who were sitting across the room, and Peter whom everyone assumed is still sleeping). They finished breakfast. They didn't notice anything weird until lunch.

This time everyone sat at the same table. "You guys seen Peter?" Séance asked. "No, not all day." Gwen answered. "We'll check later." Odd said trying to take Ulrich's food.

After lunch, they went to Peter's dorm. Bandage knocked the door. "Hey man you ok?"

Yumi kicked the door. Nothing.

Alieta tried to pick the lock. Apparently Peter upgraded the lock when he taught them to lock pick.

Ben turned into Grey Matter and tried to get through. Didn't help.

Gwen used a spell to unlock the door, but couldn't get it to budge.

Ulrich punched it, it moved not even a millimeter.

Séance palmed it. It moved a little more.

Odd stabbed it with a fork. "Did you really think that would help?" Ben asked "No."

Jeremie blew a blow horn. Not a soul moved the door. Gwen leaned on it and it opened. "Ow." She muttered. Everyone laughed at the fact the door opened. They walked in the dorm. On his desk was a note. It said:

Max, Xylene, and I have gone to America to see if we can get you home, via ship.

See you soon,

Peter

PS, Ben I borrowed some Omnitrix energy for the ship, so if it doesn't work, it's my fault.

"So what do we do now?" Aleita asked. Everyone shrugged. "Want to go to the mall?" Yumi suggested. "Better then nothing." Jeremie said.

Bandage (For some reason' had a drivers license) drove them to the mall.

Strangely the people were inattentive, not paying mind the small group of teens.

They wandered around. Bandage and Séance looked at their hands and asked, "Is this place made of iron?"

"Yeah, why?" Jeremie asked. "Well kind of like Peter, our powers don't work well with iron. Since we touched it we don't have our supernatural powers."

Ben turned around and saw a rotting corpse.

The body was standing. Most of the skin on its face was gone, leaving a skull. The top portion of the skull was gone, revealing a brain. Its right arm was just bone.

The corpse then said, "BRAINS!"

Bandage and Séance heard it. "Run!" Bandage yelled.

And just like that everyone was running. Séance was so far way, she was on her own.

"How fast does that chick go?" Odd asked.

"That 'chick', is faster then Peter and has even more energy then him." Bandage said.

Gwen tried to use a spell but for some reason it didn't work.

"It's the iron; it's negating your magic Gwen." Séance yelled back.

More corpses joined, yelling, "BRIANS!" while chasing them down.

Jeremie tripped. Alieta skid to a stop and ran towards Jeremie. She picked him up. They both started to run again. "Up here!" Ulrich yelled finally remotely close to Séance. They ran to an escalator. The corpses stopped, observed their prey.

Ben then tried to use the Omnitrix. Nothing happened. "Oh yeah that's right."

"Over here!" Alieta yelled from a store, jumping the reach the metal door that the employees use to close the store.

They got there and Bandage gave Alieta a boost up.

The device closed with a click. The corpses, grabbed at it, trying to open it. They were close but no cigar. The team moved towards the end of the store.

Séance then said, "These creatures are zombies." "But they're fast, and smart." Yumi stated. "These are zombies created by a gas called 'Trioxin.'" Bandage explained.

Ben looked back to make sure no zombies have entered. They were trying to use a make shift crowbar.

Jeremie then remembered something. "Wait. There's a way out and we can't get detected."

They ran to the left part of the store. Jeremie started rapping the wall. There was a hallow thump. Jeremie pushed the wall and it was a secret passage.

"We found secret passages, that lead anywhere in the city, a while ago. But this specific passage was found by Peter." Jeremie explained

"We can use that to get resource!" Ulrich said.

Gwen then screamed.

Zombies began to enter the store through the main door.

"Or to escape." Bandage said, in a hurry. They all ran into the secret passage.

Jeremie poked his eye through the crack.

The zombies ransacked the place. He silently closed the door.

Gwen made sure it was closed shut.

Ben opened another door. They were in a Wal-Mart. They team closed the gate.

Séance felt a hand grab her ankle as they closed it. She screamed. A zombie grabbed her and tried pulling her out. "BRIANS!" Ben quickly got a knife and cut the arm off. And they closed the gate completely.

To Ben's surprise the hand was still on Séance, but it couldn't turn her into a zombie. Bandage grabbed a hand. It was still grabby. Bandage had a slight struggle keeping it still.

They found lighter fluid. "Grab that, will you Ben?" Séance asked, assisting her older brother. Ben grabbed the light fluid and gave it to Jeremie. Bandage found a grill.

"Awesome!" Bandage said throwing the hand in the grill. Jeremie tossed the whole contents of the bottle in. Ben always carried matches; he lit one and threw it in there.

"Cover the sides and the cylinder that the smoke comes out of." Séance commanded. Bandage ripped parts of his bandages that were on his face off to cover the cylinder.

To everyone (except for Séance) surprise Bandage had medium black skin and tan colored hair.

"Uhhh." Everyone said. "African-American dad." Séance explained. They then heard a metallic ripping. A zombie pointed at them and yelled, "BRAINS!"

Alieta opened a tile. They jumped down.

They opened a door that lead to a sporting goods. They grabbed bats and golf clubs.

Ulrich lead them to the next door. Ironically, a group of zombies ran from the door. They hit them in the heads.

The heads flew off. But the head and body were both alive.

Yumi then took the beheaded corpses down in one hit.

This passage leads to a closed shop. No zombie in site. Yumi checks her watch. "Yikes. It's 9:00 p.m."

"We should sleep; second leading cause of death during zombie outbreaks is sleep deprivation." Bandage said.

Everyone was surprised that Jeremie didn't say it. Jeremie chuckled and said, "Jerk beat to it."

They grabbed a sleeping bag for each of them. Ben placed his behind a rack. Gwen walked to Ben and asked, "Can I sleep over here too Ben, so neither of us can get eaten?"

Ben smiled and blushed. She cared, he thought. "Sure."

Gwen put her bag next to Ben.

Bandage, who was spying, walked to his friends and said, "You know, if we didn't know Gwen's abnormal DNA, I'd might separate them."

"Yeah, but knowing about the DNA differences makes that scene kidda cute." Yumi said.

An hour later, Alieta and Séance were the only ones awake. Still no zombies.

"How old are you Alieta?" Séance asked. "13." "Really, I thought you were 24."

Alieta was shocked. "How did…"

"Bandage and I accidently read Peter's journal. We told your friends about it through out the day."

"How come you don't hate me Séance?" Alieta asked. "What, oh the whole thing about the first three episodes. Well I'm not a stereotype, and I'm too shy to deal with it."

The girls yawned and fell asleep.

Everyone woke up at 6:30 from the screams of Alieta and Séance. A zombie managed to enter.

It grabbed Alieta and was about to put its teeth in Alieta's skull…

They heard electricity crackling the zombie fell dead again.

It was Max shooting lightning from a gun. "Grandpa, Xylene!" Ben and Gwen cried running towards the two elders. A few feet away, Peter finished the last zombie there.

Everyone ran down stairs and welcomed their allies. "Let's go home." Peter said.

Teleporting to Kadic.