(ttobba's note) If any of you are wonderin, i named Chuck's wife "Sam" in honour of my awesome fanfic pal: Lil Red Sniper. Check out her work, i requested some of it!

(Solidcal's note) I would once again like to thank ttobba for him teaming up with me and helping me make this story as great as it can be!I would also like to state both me and him put all our effort and creativity in to this.

Upon reaching the door ar the end of the hallway, Chuck opened it and let his family in. They then saw who else was here: The african-american man from before, a blonde woman wearing glasses, and from behind them they could see another african-american man in a mall patrol uniform. As Chuck looked around the room, Sam knelt down to Katey's level and comforted her. She had been crying slightly after what had just happened.

The first man in the yellow shirt spoke to Chuck. "Where are the others?"

Chuck could only shrug his shoulders. "Don't know. But i hope they found a way out". Then the mall patrol man told the Greene's to back away from the door. Once the doorway was free, the man pulled out a small blowtorch from his jacket and used it on the doorway. Chuck was about to ask why he was doing this but the yellow-shirted man spoke for him. "As long as those things are in the mall, we can't use this door". Then the man approached what appeared to be an air duct and opened it.

Chuck questioned him "What are you doing buddy!"

The man replied "The air ducts. They'll get us back into the mall. And apparently, those things aren't smart enough to use the ducts". He then entered the ducts and made his way through, ignoring the "Hey!" from the disbelieving Chuck. Why would anyone want to go back out there with those "zombies"?

Chuck then felt the eyes of the blonde woman on him. "Nice jacket. You some sort of racer?"

"Yeah, but i gave that up. I'm retired" Chuck smiled and extended his hand out to her "Chuck Greene: Motorcross champion, once upon a time..."

The woman looks to Sam and Katey, now smiling her sweet smile again. "You have a nice family Mr. Greene".

Chuck smiles again. "Yeah, i know. I'm real lucky to have them.

Then, Katey moves to her dad and tugs on his arm gently "Dad, can i show you some more of my pictures?"

Now the woman smiles. "That's alright. Maybe i can look too?". Katey nods and happily hums as she shows her father and the woman her pictures on her camera's view-screen. There were pictures of the stores, pictures of the people, even a few pictures of the plants!

Then suddenly the woman speaks up about one picture. "Where did you take that one?". It was the picture of the old man with the cane.

"She took it near the entrance" Chuck answers, now slightly suspicious of the woman for her sudden interest on the man in the picture. "What, did that guy do something wrong?" he asks.

The woman's eyes moved from Chuck, to the photo, to Katey, and back to Chuck. "No" she lied "Thanks for showing me though" she says to Katey, who bounces back to her mother. The woman was about to walk off when Chuck stops her. "Just who are you guys anyway? Why do you care about who's in my daughter's pictures?".

The woman turns to him and replies with a much needed introduction. "I'm Jessie. The man you saw earlier is Brad. That's all i'm authorised to tell you". And with that, she wondered into the CCTV room.

Chuck grins slightly, he had at least gotten their names out of her. Sam came over, a sly smile on her own face. "Mr Playboy!" she playfully calls to her husband "haven't lost your flirtage i see".

A chuckle comes from Chuck. "I don't know, maybe it's my good looks or my skills as a rider that just draw women in" he chuckles again, joined by his wife. "But sadly, for them, I'm taken by the most beautiful woman i'll ever see, whose looks surpass even mine!" he exaggerated, earning laughs from both his wife and his daughter.

Sam then gets serious again. "Chuck, how are we going to get out of here?". Chuck puzzled for a moment, then he came up with an idea. He asked Sam if she had her phone on her. She shook her head, both of them had left their phones at home.

"Who would you call Chuck?" Sam asks.

Chuck grinned. He knew just who to phone up. "I'm gonna call Ed". Ed Dulcia was a pilot who had helped Chuck a few times in his motorcross days.

Sam smiled, if Chuck could call Ed, he'd come to get them and take them away. But then they remembered, phones at home. They sighed, Katey listening in eagerly.

"Well do you have a quarter?"

Sam got confused. "Why would you want a quarter?"

Before he even knew what he was thinking, Chuck blurted out "Maybe i could use a payphone in the mall".

Silence.

Then Katey spoke up on what all three of them were thinking. "You're going to go back out there, Daddy?". Chuck looked to the floor as he responded "i may have to. It's the only way that i can get a call out".

"No Daddy, stay with us!" Katey ran to him "there are bad people out there!"

"I know sweetie, but i'm going to have to" he knelt down "i promise i'll be back, O.K.?"

Katey nodded and returned to Sam. Chuck got up and went towards the open vent door. He turned back to them briefly "i never break a promise to my angels" he told them, reassuring them that he would be alright. Before he got out the mall patrol man, who revealed himself as the janitor, Otis, gave him a map of the mall and a yellow walkie-talkie.

"What is this?" Chuck asked him.

"Communication device" Otis simply said "all mall staff have one. I have one here. I'll radio you if i see something, or if your wife or kid wanna talk to ya".

Chuck smiled and entered the vents, ready to brave the hordes once more to save his family.