Korrasami 88: You don't know?
I am a burglar: You know...
Al Drin Hoshizora: Let's move on to the interesting reviews...
MrScourch: Bill isn't there. Now that you mention it, the zombies were creepier early on; I guess humanizing them in the form of Yellowjacket and co. took away the fear factor.
Antha1: Yellowjacket has other plans.
The Batista: Oh, really?
Gloyd Orangeboar: Uh, I think there's other things to worry about at the moment.
"Oh, crap!" George shouted as the men in trucks drove down the street through the hordes of zombies. "This is bad! There are more Freaks!"
"I knew we shouldn't have left the forest," Shelley whispered to herself. Pale Girl crept past the zombies and stared out at the window, and watched what was transpiring down below. The men were currently firing their guns as the zombies swarmed at them. Upon recognizing the trucks, Pale Girl growled, and spun around to head to the door.
"Is Bill down there?" Jill asked, pushing through the zombies to get a look. Yellowjacket, who was squeezed in between her mother and Mary, couldn't see her father in between them.
"We have to get down there, mother," Yellowjacket said, and began to rush towards the door.
"Mother?" Jill asked, in disbelief. Yellowjacket rushed towards the door after Pale Girl, the other zombies following suit. Jill just stood in the room, in shock.
"She called me mother?" She whispered in shock. Then, she snapped back to attention and shouted, "Riley, wait!" She then dashed out after her.
"Why do we always have to take the dangerous missions?" One of the gunners asked as he aimed his gun at the masses of zombies crawling onto the streets. He shot one zombie in the arm, knocking him over.
"We have to find Patient Zero," One of the other men said, shooting a zombie in the head. "You know what the Boss said. Shoot as many as it takes to get her!"
"Yeah, I guess. . ." The first man mumbled, unsure. Suddenly, one zombie pounced onto the truck and grabbed hold of the screaming man, knocking him back on the truck.
The trucks came to a stop, the zombies starting to crawl atop it. Then, the doors burst open, and a group of armed men rushed out. They started shooting off into the crowd randomly to beat the zombies back.
Suddenly, the doors to the building burst open, and Pale Girl and Yellowjacket rushed out the door. Yellowjacket stopped running when she was on the sidewalk while Pale Girl rushed, on all fours, towards the nearest truck.
"It's her!" One man shouted when he noticed her. "It's Patient Zero! Get her!"
Pale Girl pounced into the air and tackled the man to the ground, sinking her teeth into the man's shoulder. The man let out a cry of pain as he collapsed onto the ground. A group of zombies swarmed him.
Yellowjacket watched as the Others and Freaks rushed at each other.
"Shoot," She whispered to herself, wondering what she should do. It was then that she remembered that she had a gun in her hands.
". . . Shoot," She repeated, and held the gun up. She aimed it at one of the Freaks standing near the truck. She took a deep breath, and put her finger on the trigger, and prepared to fire.
Then, she hesitated. The gun began to wobble in her arms.
"Come on, you've shot before. . ." She said to herself, recalling the incident in the apartment. She remembered the way she'd seen the blood spray on the ground. However, the memory only caused her grip on the gun to worsen.
Taking a deep breath, Yellowjacket lowered the gun. She couldn't shoot it.
Suddenly, the four Others took off past her, charging off into the crowd of zombies. Yellowjacket was knocked off her feet, and landed on her face on the pavement.
"Zuul, mother-fu-" Rob shouted as he rammed past a group of Freaks and into the truck, tipping it over. George slammed into the truck as well, causing it to full topple onto its side. A group of Freaks were flung out of the truck and descended upon by zombies.
One man began to get up, and Mary tackled him to the ground, putting him in a headlock. The man struggled to get to his feet, Mary on his back.
"Heads up!" George said, and headbutted the man in the gut, causing him to double over in pain. Mary then bit the man on the shoulder.
Yellowjacket scrambled to her feet just as the former members of her parent's group slowly walked out of the building.
"Come on!" She shouted, and started to rush onto the streets. She then stopped, and turned around to see the group standing on the sidewalk, iffy.
"Should we. . ." Bob said to himself.
"Bob!" Jill shouted irritably as she stormed out of the building. She wasn't really advocating infecting the Freaks; she was just in disbelief that, even as the undead, Bob's laziness hadn't vanished.
"Okay!" Bob said, putting up his arms in defense. The group then rushed out onto the streets to ward off the Freaks.
Yellowjacket jumped on one man's back as he aimed a gun at Mary, pulling on his hair.
"Get off me!" The man cried repeatedly as he rushed around, trying to pry the girl off his back. Pale Girl, who was crawling on all fours underneath everyone's legs, crawled to the man and sank her fangs into his ankles. The man let out a high-pitched scream, and promptly kicked Pale Girl in the face, knocking her back.
Yellowjacket, seeing her blood sister in danger, threw back her head, before sinking her teeth in the man's shoulder. The man let out a loud, agonizing scream, one that pierced Yellowjacket's ears.
Yellowjacket jumped off the man's back, her teeth aching. Covering her mouth, she pulled her hand away, and was surprised to see blood on it. She'd never noticed blood when she'd bitten people before.
Clenching her bloody hand, she reluctantly continued her assault.
Meanwhile, the doors to one building opened, and Ghoul and Noose walked outside. Ghoul was wiping tears out of her eyes as she observed what was transpiring.
"W-What's going on?" She asked through watery eyes.
"Duck!" Noose shouted, and pulled Ghoul to the ground as a hail of bullets rained in their direction.
The zombies swarmed on the Freaks in the trucks. Most of them had been overwhelmed and infected by the zombies.
"Retreat!" One Freak shouted, and the few remaining Freaks dove into their truck and drove off down the street where they came. The zombies briefly pursued them, but Yellowjacket rushed out in front of them and shouted, "Stop!"
The zombies immediately halted their advance. Yellowjacket shook her head silently, warning them not to go any further.
"Hey, we did it!" George shouted, trying to invigorate the zombies. The zombies just stared at him in confusion with lifeless eyes, and George shrunk down in embarrassment.
Jill walked through the crowd of zombies. As she did, her eyes landed on Ghoul and Noose, who were still lying on the ground, unaware that the bullets had stopped. She gasped, remembering them.
Jill rushed to Yellowjacket and took her by the hand, pulling her away from the crowd of zombies.
"Look," She whispered, pointing at Ghoul and Noose. Yellowjacket's eyes widened in shock.
'Hey, that's-" She started, but Jill clasped a hand over her mouth, and silently led her back to the building.
"Mom, that's Ghoul and Noose," Yellowjacket whispered to her, but Jill ushered her inside the building. She looked back out, making sure Ghoul and Noose hadn't seen her daughter. They hadn't.
Jill then breathed a sigh of relief, and shut the door.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Yellowjacket asked once they were inside. "Those are my friends."
"They tried to kill me and Bill," Jill said to her. "They are not your friends. They're the ones who've been keeping you. . . zombie-like all this time. Stay away from them!"
"But, mother-"
Jill held up her hand. "We have to figure out a way to get to Bill," She told her. "You can talk with George and Mary, and their two friends. Blackjacket, too. But stay far away from those Ghoul and Noose people."
Yellowjacket's took a step back, a little hurt. "I can cure them," She said to her mother. "I can make them. . . normal. I've been doing it with Blackjacket. Patient Zero listens to me. They listen to me. I don't know why, but they do."
"Not now, Riley," Jill said. "You don't know that for sure."
"Ghoul and Noose protected me," Yellowjacket mumbled lowly, and turned and walked up the stairs. Jill watched her go up, and vanish into the darkness.
Jill sighed, and turned back to the door.
She had to find Bill. Fast.
Bill and Margaret walked past the crowd of people in the Freak building. Bill's eyes were narrowed as he headed towards the steel doors leading to upstairs.
"Where are we going?" Margaret whispered to him. "That's where the Boss stays. Nobody goes up unless he tells us to."
"You can stay behind, but there's something funny going on with that man," Bill told her. "I don't know what, but he's hiding something. He knows Patient Zero, I know it. I'm going to find out what's the cause of this."
Bill then pushed through the steel doors, and started walking up the steel stairs.
"Yellowjacket's father, wait," Margaret said, and she dashed through the steel doors right before they closed.
With a clanging sound, the doors closed, Bill and Margaret shut inside. The two looked up at the long flight of stairs in front of them.
There was no going back now. Now, all that was left was up.
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