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Chapter 19: Mayday! Mayday! Requesting Backup Immediately!

They hadn't seen this coming.

How could anyone have seen this coming? Who would have guessed that the inactive-unless provoked zombies would suddenly start tearing up the diner? What could've made them go berserk like this? They were pretty passive until just moments ago. What made them turn so violent all of a sudden? What could've possible made them so… riotous?

It didn't make any sense.

A new zombie behavior, maybe?

Well, its behavior isn't their main issue right now. They'll have time to figure it out later- if they survived until later, that is.

As the zombies broke open the door, screams and shots were heard. Two zombies dropped dead right at the entrance. But some zombies had already made it inside the diner by then; Jeez, they were getting faster too. Merida rushed Hiccup into the kitchen; ignoring his painful cries and winces. She sent him a silent apology. This wasn't the time to be slow and gentle; getting him away from the zombies was top priority. The injuries came later. Hopefully her plan would work. She prayed luck was on her side this time.

Toothless stayed behind, near the table where its master had been resting and pounced at the closet zombie; going straight for its neck. The dog was fighting its own battle now and it was holding his own pretty well against the decayed creatures.

As Merida rushed into the kitchen, pushing Hiccup in front of her she sensed a zombie coming up behind her. She had no weapon on her and virtually kicked herself for forgetting the bow on the bench where she slept. She forcefully pushed Hiccup forward nearly making him trip and swiped a knife off the steel prep table beside her and whirled around to face the zombie. The fact that the cutlet instrument was so close to her was just sheer dumb luck. It was a small knife but it was as good as any at this point. Without any form of hesitation she plunged the knife into the zombie's face; just above its left eye and twice more into its head before yanking it out again. Merida and Hiccup watched as the zombie fell lifelessly near her feet.

(Outside)

"Ariel and I have got the front covered!" Jim yelled to the others, taking aim with his rifle once again and stood behind Ariel; determined to cover her.

Ariel stood at the doorway and it was almost like there was an invisible force field placed on the threshold of the entrance blocking the ravaging creatures. It seemed like a very effective barrier; whatever it was. Ariel breathed a sigh of relief but with shaky hands. She wasn't a hundred percent sure if her plan would work. She had made a gamble with her life but she wasn't all that worried. She knew Jim had her back. They had discussed it earlier. Well, discussed as in, she signed to him and he understood her. They were childhood friends after all.

It was a huge risk to take; one that could have cost her, her life but it didn't. Jim had thought it was a bad idea but Ariel had insisted that they try it. So here they were stopping the zombies with that the most unlikely weapon of all.

A reasonably large group of zombies that were near the doorway were fighting to get inside. This gave Jim the perfect opportunity to shoot all of them off one by one; like shooting fish in a barrel. They were practically getting in line to be killed.

Things seemed controlled for only a moment before all hell broke loose again. Funny how things could take a 180 degree turn in just a second. The unwavering zombies found another way to get in; through the windows. They were breaking it open even with all the boarded up protection against it. To their credit, they chose the right windows, the ones that weren't boarded up as tight. Great! The zombies were getting smarter now too? Just freaking perfect. The weakest windows; the ones in the two corners of the diner broke first.

Flynn and Astrid rushed to the left side of the diner to try and stop the onslaught of the dead-creatures. Unfortunately no one could stop the zombies on the right wing of the diner from getting in.

Everything was happing at once. It was just too chaotic for them to keep track. It was literally becoming an every-man-for-himself scenario.

Some zombies who were already inside the diner dashed into the kitchen after Merida and Hiccup. Astrid saw this and dauntlessly went after them; leaving Flynn to take care of the zombies there. She was confident he could. Astrid knew that Merida didn't have any weapon on her and Hiccup was still too weak to put up a fight. She didn't want any living-human casualties in this battle so she rushed in after them. What was Merida thinking? Cornering herself and her companion like that. When she opened the door of the kitchen and stepped inside she saw that the two were nowhere in sight. What the heck? Where did they go?

What she saw was only the zombies diverting their attention to her. Oh crap! Luckily, there were only two zombies to take off. One was already dead on the floor. She could easily take them on. No problem. She brought her handgun up and shot of some rounds. The first one went wide but the next two met their mark and both zombies fell lifelessly to the ground with a loud thud. She didn't know how to handle guns very well either but at such close range; it was a piece of cake.

"Merida? Hiccup?" She yelled loudly. "You guys in here?"

"In ta freezer!" came a muffled female voice from behind the door of the walk-in cooler.

"Oh," Astrid said stepping closer to the cooler but she had no time to process what Merida said next as her attention shifted to the four zombies that came through the doors of the kitchen; right at her. This is so not good.

Meanwhile-

Jack and Rapunzel had just heard all the commotion and made it to the base of the stairs when they saw all the chaos that was surrounding them. Bullets were being fired from everywhere. It was literally like a war tone region in there.

"Okay, Punzie. Stick close to me an- Rapunzel?!" Jack realized that the girl he was talking to wasn't next to him anymore but instead was already running towards Flynn. "Rapunzel!" He called out to deaf ears.

Flynn was about to get ambushed by a zombie wearing… an apron. It was the zombie-cook he had run over with his car that night. He called out to the golden haired girl but she was determined to help the jock out. Jack was about to go right after her but spun around when he heard a cry for help coming from the kitchen.

"Go help Astrid. She's in trouble!" Jim yelled over all the chaos to Jack. He was still busy fighting a few zombies of his own with Ariel up front.

The snowy haired boy didn't need to be told twice as he ran to the kitchen without any hesitation. He still had his doubts about leaving Rapunzel though. But she wasn't in any immediate-die-without-your-help danger like Astrid was. And if Jack could help save her then that's what he would do; even if it meant leaving Rapunzel unguarded for just a few minutes. What could possibly happen in a few minutes right? Okay…He was better off not answering that question at all.

Jack rammed headlong into the kitchen doors and saw the blonde girl standing on top of one of those metal prep tables the chefs use to cook. She had a long pizza paddle in her hand and was swatting away hard at the ravenous creatures. She was barely holding her own. Was it just her or did the zombies get faster and stronger after they came back from the dead the second time?

Jack just then saw Merida opening the cooler's door and stepping out with the knife in hand. "No! Don't! I've got this," He quickly realized what Merida had done and it was damn clever. He could bet on his life that Hiccup was in there with her. The zombies couldn't sense them if they reduced their body temperature. Good thinking on her part. "Don't come out till I say,"

Merida looked conflicted and gave him a 'you're not the boss of me' look, so he added a bit more. "Hiccup needs you!" Yeah, that's right. Punzie and Red-Bush weren't the only ones who knew how to use the 'guilt-trip' card. "Don't come out till I say it's alright!"

Merida obeyed this time. With a curt nod, she closed the door back up.

Jack wasted no time in picking up the handgun near his feet and firing at the zombies. He guessed Astrid must've dropped the gun sometime during the struggle. He shot at each of them like an expert. He had a lot of practice with guns; thanks to a certain shady ebony haired man. Three bullets for three zombies but only two of them dropped dead.

The third zombie was the un-killable one. It was as disgusting as always. Jack wondered how he hadn't recognized it at first, but then again, they were all pretty disgusting so he supposed it was easy to miss. Speaking of the third zombie, now that all the other zombies were dead, it had more room and freedom to grab at Astrid; and that's exactly what it did. The repulsive zombie grabbed Astrid's ankle and pulled with surprising strength. Even after everything that happened to it last night, it was still going strong. Its broken neck was still broken but it had shocking control over its jaws.

Astrid, who wasn't prepared for the sudden yank, fell to the floor, taking down a number of metal utensils with her. They all clattered around her and she yelled out in pain. The pizza paddle slipped out of her hands and fell just out of her reach. But she was too busy withering in agony to notice. When she fell, her leg had hit the hard metal table's edge in the wrong angle, causing the bone to fracture-Or that's what it felt like to her at least. Sharp pain shot up from her leg to her whole body; almost paralyzing her.

Jack threw away the useless weapon and hurried to where Astrid had fallen. He quickly picked up the frying pan-which had also fallen amongst other things and swung it at the zombie's face. Well, it worked well for Rapunzel. If this was a cartoon show then he was sure it's face would have made an impression on the pan but this wasn't a cartoon show; this was reality. The hit only caused the pan to dent slightly. But that didn't stop Jack; he repeatedly hit the zombie until it fell back away from Astrid near the metal shelf. He stood between the zombie and her.

"You okay?" He threw over his shoulder not taking him eyes off the zombie that was beginning to get up.

"Ask me again after all this crap is over," Astrid grunted a reply; clutching onto her leg for dear life.

Jack didn't allow the zombie enough time to stand up. It seemed a bit dazed and a little out of it. Maybe it was finally losing its life force-or whatever the hell that's keeping it from dying all the time. He skipped over the dead bodies of the other corpses and stood at the side of the shelf. He then used all his strength to pull the heavy metal shelf away from the wall making it fall flat on top of the zombie. The shelf, including all the items in it fell on the indestructible zombie; pinning it to the floor. Only one of its hands, half its torso and its head was peeking out. Despite all the damage it took, the zombie was trying to get up; clawing at the floor with its bloodied gruesome nails.

"Any ideas on how to kill this thing?" Jack said walking over to Astrid to lift her up. Temporarily lowering his guard, the zombie isn't going anywhere…

"Actually, there is one," She smirked and accepted the offered help. "No monster can live without a head,"

"Well, except for the Headless Horseman," Jack smirked back. She had the right idea though. Cutting off the zombie's head might just do the trick. It was definitely worth a shot.

"The Headless Horseman's a fictional character," Astrid said as the snowy haired boy helped her lean against one of the tables. "He ain't real."

"Yeah, neither are zombies," Jack tossed over his shoulder as he dug through the kitchen supplies and searched around for what he was looking for. It was seriously hard to find anything in such a messy kitchen. It looked like it got messed up even before they got here. "And yet, here we are." He deadpanned, turning around; arms stretched out slightly by his sides before resuming his task.

"Touché," She chuckled, wincing a little when she bent to re-grab the pizza paddle, just in case. You can never be too careful around these things. As someone wise once said-always expect the unexpected. For all they knew, the zombie could suddenly Hulk-out and fry them with its laser beam vision.

"Ah-ha!" Jack yelled in triumph, finally finding the chopping instrument he was looking for. He came over to the 'indestructible-robot-zombie-from-the-future' and stood over it. In his hand, he held a cleaver; a rectangular knife, which was normally used to slice through meat and bones. Well, Jack was pretty much gonna be using it for the same purpose today anyways. The zombie was trying to grab Jack's ankle but to no avail.

He shrugged and rolled his shoulders to loosen any knotted kinks. Okay, here goes nothing…

Jack brought the slicing instrument down on its neck with one swift motion and the zombie's decomposed head rolled away from its body; leaving behind a sickening reddish brown oozy trail.

Astrid tried not to flinch or throw up as the other teen finally killed off the un-killable zombie. She was just glad she didn't have to do it. She would have surely puked if she had. Nonetheless, she was elated that they were finally able to find a way to permanently kill the thing. Hopefully it will stay dead and not come alive without a head. Then it would be the most awkward crossover in the history of crossovers. Headless Zombieman… Or the Headless Horsezombie?

Okay… Gross…

"You should probably tell them it's safe to come out," Astrid said, jabbing her thumb behind her at the metal door; using the pizza paddle as a form of crutch.

"Yeah, but you and I both know nothing's ever gonna be safe again," Boy, didn't that sound depressing. The gunshot noises had finally stopped and everything seemed pretty quiet. But that wasn't necessarily a good thing. Just to prove his point, he heard Rapunzel's shrill cry.

"Rapunzel!" Jack yelled as he ran out of the kitchen; leaving behind Astrid to inform Merida and Hiccup.

He had a really bad feeling boiling in big gut.

(A few minutes ago)

Outside the kitchen-

She heard Jack call out to her but if she stopped to respond now, it might be too late to save Flynn. She hurried across the diner with surprising agility.

But when she realized that she wasn't going to make it there in time she picked up the metal tissue container from the closest table and hurled it across the diner. Her aim was true as the rectangular tissue holder hit the zombie's head; which jerked left from the impact. "Flynn! Behind you!"

Flynn turned around sharply and noticed the zombie that was trying to sneak up on him and nearly jammed the rifle into its face before pulling the trigger.

But his small victory was short lived as the temporary distraction caused the remaining zombies to barge their way through the broken window. One of the zombies slammed into Flynn with great force; knocking them both to the ground. His rifle skidded away from him and stopped when it hit one of the legs of a nearby stool.

The zombie was about to bite down and Flynn had little time to react. He grabbed one of the splintered wooden planks; the ones that were used to board up the diner and shoved it right into the zombie's wide open mouth. With the zombie's jaws occupied he now had no trouble delivering a strong sucker punch to it, effectively knocking it off him. He then made a dive for his rifle.

Meanwhile, the other two zombies made Rapunzel their target and ran to reach her; arms dangling and heads lolling. The golden haired girl gasped at the sudden assault and climbed over the counter and landed on the other side. She desperately searched for a weapon she could use. Didn't really think this one through, did you Rapunzel? She asked herself in dismay. She turned around and saw ceramic plates neatly placed on the shelves. She quickly swiped them off the shelf and took them into her hands.

Rapunzel threw the heavy plates one by one at the zombies. That seemed to slow them down but it wasn't enough to stop them. One of the zombies made it to Rapunzel's side of the counter and was charging at her. Rapunzel flung herself to the left to avoid it and almost crashed into the different 'employee of the month' photo frames. She plucked one off the wall and smashed it down on the zombie's head as it came at her again. It fell lifelessly at her feet.

That's one zombie down. The other zombie, the one she threw the plates at rammed at her from behind. She was too late to react and was jammed between the disgusting zombie and the counter. The edge of the counter was digging painfully into her hip. She tried to push the zombie off her but failed. She frantically searched the counter top for something she could use and luckily found a fork sitting idly next to some other table utensils. Her fingers curled around the temporary weapon and she brought her hand up and thrust it at the zombie's face. The sick squishiness that she felt told her that the fork had gone straight into one of its eye sockets and through its milky white eye ball. She felt appalled and was totally grossed out by what she had just done. Never in her life did she once think she would have to do something so repulsive.

The momentary distraction of the zombie provided Rapunzel enough time to hop onto the counter and slide back to the other side. She saw Flynn load the next rounds into his rifle from the corner of her eye. She wanted to call out to him to shoot the zombies but he was already one step ahead of her.

He took aim with his rifle, the zombie with a fork sticking out of its eye socket moaned and growled. Out of pain or hunger she wasn't sure. Flynn fired at the first zombie just as the second one; the one Rapunzel had struck the photo frame with, began to stand up. It didn't even reach its full height before Flynn emptied the remaining round into its nauseating face.

Rapunzel sighed and turned around to say something to Flynn but the words died on her lips as she saw the zombie launch itself at a grinning Flynn from behind. It was the zombie that he had used the splintered wooden plank on. Its mouth was unoccupied now and its jaws were going straight for his neck.

"Flynn!" She yelled in terror and jumped forward to push him out of the way.

She was successful in rescuing him but it came with a dire consequence. The time she took to push Flynn out of the way cost her the time to get away herself. It was too late, there was nothing more she could do but raise her arms to protect herself. The zombie tackled her to the ground and bit down hard on her forearm. Rapunzel shrieked in horror and pain. Its rancid teeth dug deeply into her skin. She tried to dislodge it using her other hand but she couldn't. The zombie held on too tight.

BANG!

The bang reverberated through the dead silence of the diner. Rapunzel saw a bullet hole right between the disfigured zombie's eyes. Its grip on her loosened and she managed to push the dead creature off her.

She breathed heavily and sat on her elbows for a couple of seconds. She turned around to see Jack standing only a few feet away; smoke coming out of the gun he held firmly in front of him. The gun that he despised so much had saved her life.

Well… almost saved her life…

She saw Hiccup, Merida, Astrid, Ariel and Jim come to stand behind Jack, their expressions mirroring the same dreadful anguish in hers.

Dawn had finally greeted them and the warm morning sun light seeped through the windows and illuminated the scene inside the diner but it did nothing to calm the distraught teens who were temporarily residing there.

The rays illuminated everything including the fresh bite marks on her arm…

Zombie bit marks…

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