Chapter 5: Survivors
The group had been driving for a whole day in Bucky's truck until they reached Amity Park. Danny frowned at the state of his home town. The stores looked ransacked, cars parked in the middle of the road, and the streets were completely deserted. They drove into the middle of town when the truck suddenly sputtered to a slow stop.
"Well, this is as far as we're going." Bucky glared.
"Then it's far enough," Danny said and everyone got out of the truck and walked down the empty street. As they looked around, Danny briefly stopped in front of a large clinic on the corner, where he thought he could see shadows inside. Chester gasped suddenly and pointed to what appeared to be a person near a turned over car in the distance and Bucky waved his arms to try to get their attention.
"Hey there! You friendly?" He called out. "Truck's run out of gas!"
The person looked up, revealing that it was actually an infected human eating a dead survivor. Due to all the noise, many infected started approaching the group, surrounding them.
"We're TRAPPED!" Timmy cried.
Suddenly a zombie knocked Danny over and tried to attack him. As the teen desperately tried to avoid being bitten someone shot the infected, who collapsed on Danny as it dissolved. Danny, now covered in goo, returned to the group and was hugged by Jimmy and Timmy. They looked over to the clinic and saw a man and a woman around Danny's age.
"RUN!" The woman who saved him shouted.
As she continued to shoot the infected, everyone ran into the building behind the man. He closed and padlocked the metal gate in front of the building and joined the others inside as zombies pound on the gate. Inside the clinic, there were four additional survivors.
"We can't take risks like this!" A teenage girl snarled as she paced around.
"And we can't just let people die out there, either." The girl who saved them snapped.
"When I SAY 'that door stays shut no matter what' I fucking MEAN it." The first girl shouted. "We don't know who these people are; they could be dangerous!"
"Where the hell is your humanity?! They would've died out there!"
"Then we let 'em!"
"We have kids with us." Danny quickly said, causing the survivors to look at them, and when the pacing girl saw Timmy and Jimmy she froze.
"V-Vicky?" Timmy whispered in shock.
"How the fuck are you twerps alive!?" She screamed as she backed away from them. "I thought you were dead!"
"We thought you were dead!" Jimmy argued.
"You said that the monsters got them!" Another voice said and everyone turned to a boy around Chester and Timmy's age.
"AJ?!" Both boys exclaimed.
"Who are all these people?" Jimmy asked confusion.
"Alright, let's all just calm down." A young man said. "I'm Bob, but my friends call me SpongeBob and you've already know Vicky and AJ; the others are Kwan Sie, Valerie Gray, and that's Vicky mom and sister Nicky and Tootie." He explained.
Danny looked around and got a good look at every one. Vicky had red hair with a ponytail, pink eyes, faded pink lipstick, and she was wearing a short green midriff T-shirt that showed her stomach, and black pants and shoes. Tootie had black hair in two pigtails and dark eyes. She wore purple framed glasses had a cracked lensed and braces on her teeth. She was around Timmy's height and age and wore a black vest over a white short-sleeved shirt, and a gray plaid skirt over black tights along with black boots.
Nicky wore thick dark round frame glasses and had dark hair, resembling Tootie, but with pink eyes like Vicky.
Valerie Gray was an African-American girl, with long, curly hair and dark green eyes. She was a little curvy and wore a yellow sleeveless shirt, orange skirt with white tennis shoes, and an orange headband. Kwan Sie was of Asian descent with short black hair and seafoam green eyes. He was very muscular and fit. He wore the standard uniform of the jocks: a red-and-white letterman jacket, with a black t-shirt underneath and light blue jeans and white shoes.
SpongeBob was a young man with light yellow hair, with large light blue eyes, a long, slightly curved nose, a large mouth with two prominent front buck teeth, and dimples with three freckles on each cheek.
He wore a white shirt, black leather shoes with white shoelaces, white socks with blue and red stripes, and brown rectangular pants with a black belt. AJ was a bald boy who wore a light blue sweater vest over a white shirt. He also had gray pants with black shoes and his eyes were colored blue and he was holding a small PDA scanner kind of gadget that he was pointing at all the newcomers. Danny immediately recognized Kwan and Valerie from his class before he left town, but thankfully it seemed that they didn't recognize him.
"My name's Danny, this is Timmy, Jimmy, Chester, Bucky, and Mr. and Mrs. Dinkleberg."
Suddenly the scanner in AJ's hand started going crazy when he pointed it at Danny. As soon as that happened the people from Vicky's group started to become hysterical as they backed up and Valerie pulled out a gun and pointed it at him.
"Son of a bitch, he's infected!" Vicky screamed.
"I'm not infected!" Danny exclaimed
"The hell your not!" Kwan shouted. "Why else would the kid's ecto scanning thingy go off?"
"I'm covered in goo from killing those things, I'll clean up and you'll see there's no bite!" Danny said and quickly took his shirt off and Valerie tried to wipe away the muck off him, searching for a bite or any sign of infection.
"Don't you fucking people get it?" Vicky hissed. "We've already SEEN this happen before, we let someone with a bite stay and WE all end up dead!"
"Shut up." Bucky glared.
"We gotta throw him out! Or smash his head in! Or better yet destroy his heart!" She snarled and grabbed a large shard of broken glass off the ground.
"Somebody stop her!" Mrs. Dinkleberg cried as she held onto her husband.
"Vicky, please, let's just wait to see if Miss Gray-"
"I'll handle this, Mom!" She shouted.
"You need to calm down," SpongeBob said with a shaking voice.
"Not while my life's in danger!" She screamed.
"Everyone CHILL THE FUCK OUT!" Valerie shouted.
"Nobody is doing anything!" Kwan shouted.
"Shut up, Kwan! And YOU shut the fuck up!" Vicky said to Val before turning back to the group. "They will find us and they will get in here, and none of this will fucking matter, but right now we're about to be TRAPPED in here with one of those things!"
"What are you talking about?" Mr. Dinkleburg asked.
"He's bitten! That's how you become infected." Nicky explained.
"Vicky, we get it, it's a big deal," AJ said.
"Do you really? You're not fucking acting like it!" She snapped.
"Are you just gonna let your daughter do this?!" Bucky glared at Nicky.
"Hey, I'm not the bad guy here, I'm just looking out for my family!" Vicky quickly defended.
"No, you're just the one arguing for killing a kid!" Mr. Dinkleburg exclaimed.
"He ain't a kid! She'll find the bite and when she does the first thing he'll do is sink his teeth into Val's face; then once she's dead, he'll probably pounce on YOUR little boy!" She said to Bucky.
"NO! Don't hurt him!" Timmy shouted as he and Jimmy ran in between her and Danny.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Danny finally shouted before taking a deep breath. "I've got two kids I'm trying to protect in here too, do you seriously think I would endanger them like that?" He asked. Before anyone could answer him, however, AJ's device started beeping again. Seconds later, Tootie and her mother started screaming as a ghost emerged through the wall, trying to attack them. Danny instantly shot forward with his sword drawn and stabbed into the green figure before it could get to the small family.
"You okay?" Valeria asked.
"Just great, thanks." He replied as he stood up, but everyone went quiet when they heard the infected growling and pounded on the door.
"Everybody down! Stay quiet!" Kwan whispered. Bucky, Chester, AJ, and the Dinklebergs huddle together, Timmy and Jimmy hid behind Danny, and everyone else knelt down behind the shelves.
"They're gonna get in!" Nicky whimpered as she held Tootie tighter.
"Shut up." Vicky hissed as noises and gunfire were heard outside.
"Is that the military?" Danny asked but no one replied. Thankfully, whatever it was, had driven the infected off towards the sounds. Once they were sure the coast was clear, Vicky got up and marched across the room towards Danny and the boys as everyone left their hiding positions.
"We almost died because of this bastard and his crying brats!" She exclaimed.
Danny was about to bite back when Nicky suddenly groaned in pain and grabbed her chest, falling to the floor.
"MOM!" Tootie cried as she rushed to her mother's side.
"What's wrong with her?!" Danny asked.
"It's her heart!" SpongeBob gasped.
"My pills..." Nicky moaned in agony.
"Um... Nitroglycerin pills?" Jimmy asked.
"Yes, we're out." Vicky huffed.
"We've been trying to get into the pharmacy since we got here! Please, try to get in there where the pills are!" Tootie pleaded, close to tears.
"We'll get in there somehow." The black and white-haired teen promised and the little girl gave him a grateful, teary smile.
"Everyone else should get comfy and look for anything useful, we could be in here a while." Bucky sighed.
"I'm starting to think this drugstore isn't a permanent solution." Mr. Dinkleberg pointed out.
"You're right, this ain't exactly Fort Knox," Kwan added.
"We need as much gas as possible so we can all get out of downtown Amity Park; fast," Danny said. "There was a mini-bus parked outside the clinic that would be big enough for all of us."
"Then I'll head out and get gas," Kwan suggested. "There's a car sale lot not too far from here, I'll work my way towards it and then loop back around, siphoning what I can."
"You're insane." Vicky scoffed
"Well, it's gotta get done, plus, I'm quick and I know Amity Park." He explained.
"If you're gonna do that, here's a walkie-talkie if you get in a tight spot," Danny said and handed the small radio to Kwan. "Hopefully you won't need it; Timmy's got the other one, check in with him and get back here as soon as you can." He explained before turning to the Dinklebergs and pointed to Tootie and her mother. "Keep a good eye on them while we work on getting the medicine."
"Of course." The couple nodded and knelt beside the woman.
"And you, you keep an eye on that front door." He said to SpongeBob. "You're our lookout."
"You got it." He smiled and ran to the door.
"Okay, Valerie, you'll shift in with SpongeBob when he needs it, for now, get some rest, you're a good shot and I'd like to keep it that way."
"You got it, boss." She smirked and started working on an old radio, waiting for SpongeBob to come back. Danny smiled before frowning as he tried to think of a way to get into the pharmacy before it was too late...
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Guest: Well she is a principle of a school of little kids, I'd imagine that it would be in her nature to fear for the boys' safety, especially in the supposed apocalypse and I really liked Crocker's mother in the show too, she and almost every other character always make me laugh. I'm really happy you liked the last chapter! :)
