Zombies Ate My Neighbors Chapter 6, a misc. games fanfic

Chapter 6

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"They're all over the place!" one soldier cried, "We can't stop 'em! They just keep coming!"

"Whoa, whoa, easy there." Julie told him, "What's going on?"

"We were sent here to search for survivors." the other soldier explained, "Everything was quiet, until we came near the store room; where there was this terrible smell. We went in to investigate, and then... they came!"

Zeke nodded.

"Well, have no fear, soldiers." he reassured the two of them, "The Cavalry has arrived. We'll make those zombies wish they'd never crawled out of their graves!"

"Zombies? We didn't say anything about zombies."

Zeke and Julie stared at the soldiers in confusion.

"You... didn't see any zombies in here?" Julie asked, as Zeke suddenly turned his head and stared in another direction, "Then... what did you..."

Julie was interrupted as Zeke began tugging on her jacket and pointed in the direction he was staring.

"There's another one!" one of the soldiers cried.

There was a baby doll walking towards them. It was smiling at them, with one hand behind its back, as it got closer.

"A Fun Baby doll?" Julie queried.

Suddenly, the doll's face turned from friendly to fearsome, as it pulled a hatchet out from behind its back and started to laugh maniacally at them.

"Yikes!"

Zeke, Julie, and the two soldiers all dove out of the way as the doll leapt towards them, swinging its weapon.

"How on Earth..." Julie started to say, as she picked herself up.

"Who cares? Just blast it!" Zeke cut her off with.

Just as the doll turned around to attack his targets again, he was struck by two streams of holy water. Suddenly, he began to shake uncontrollably as sparks started to shoot out. Then he started spinning, as his laughter got even faster and much higher-pitched. Then finally, the doll exploded. After watching this, Zeke and Julie looked back at the soldiers in disbelief.

"You mean to tell us that you guys were attacked by a bunch of toys?" Zeke blustered.

"We tried to fight them, but there were just so many! And they just kept coming!"

Julie took out the hand computer and activated its radar.

"Hmm... well, if this radar is accurate," she said, "there are still some live humans here. Could be the rest of your squad, or it could be other survivors. In either case..."

Suddenly, there was the sound of more laughter as another living doll approached. Zeke and Julie quickly opened fire on him. After watching this doll short-circuit, just like the last one, they observed his body bursting into two pieces.

"Good thing those dolls come with batteries." Zeke commented, "We better get these guys outta here, while we still can."

Julie nodded and, after making sure the coordinates were set back to Fort Wilhelm, she activated the transport door.

"Go through that door." she said, "It'll take you back to base."

The soldiers stood up and stared at the door. Then one of them sighed.

"First we're attacked by dolls with axes," he muttered, "and now we're being saved by a couple of kids with squirt guns. Now I *know* I'm losing my mind."

"Hey, look at it this way." Zeke told him, "At least now you won't lose your life!"

The soldier started to speak again, but then just shrugged in agreement and the two of them grudgingly walked through the door.

"Better just leave it here and direct the others to it." Julie said, "Now let's get to work finding them."

Zeke nodded and they headed for the escalator. As they neared it, Zeke suddenly lifted his 3D glasses and gasped. He then ran all the way up to the upper level, just in time to pick up a baby girl; who was crawling towards it.

"That was close!" he muttered, lowering his glasses again, "You could've been eviscerated by that thing!"

Julie caught up to him not long afterward, with a smile on her face.

"Nice save." she complimented.

"Help!" a voice suddenly cried out nearby.

Zeke and Julie ran to the aisle where the voice came from. There, they found a tourist couple hastily backing away from a doll that was running at them with a hatchet. Julie quickly opened fire on the doll and Zeke joined the assault, carefully holding on to the child with his other arm. The couple stopped moving as the doll began to short out. They watched as the doll's bottom half exploded, its torso shooting up into the air and falling with a thud. The couple then looked up at their rescuers.

"Oh, my baby!" the woman shouted.

Zeke glanced at the baby he was holding, then smiled and sighed with relief. He walked up to them and handed the baby to her.

"Here." he said, "She's okay. Head downstairs. There's a door that'll take you somewhere safe."

"Thanks, kid." the man replied, then whispered to his wife, "Told ya we should've gone to Vegas."

As the teens watched the tourists leave with their baby, Julie shook her water gun; which was now nearly empty.

"I'm running low." she said, reaching into her jacket pocket for a refill of holy water, "We're wasting too much of this stuff on those dolls. There must be..."

Julie stopped when she observed Zeke taking a small plastic soda bottle off the shelf and unscrewing the cap.

"...What are you doing?"

"I'm thirsty." Zeke replied, taking a drink.

Julie shot him a stern look of disapproval.

"Hey, I wouldn't normally steal, but who's gonna take my money at a time like this? Besides, I'm pretty sure the Police and the store workers have more important problems to worry about right now, than shoplifters."

Realizing he had a point, Julie's expression faded.

"Well... I guess since you put it that way..." she said, taking a soda can off the shelf for herself, "I just hope we don't have to get used to this for too... Zeke, behind you!"

Zeke spun around, just to see another doll right in front of him, raising its weapon.

"Gyah!" he cried, as he stumbled backwards, involuntarily squeezing the bottle and spilling soda all over the doll.

As he picked himself up off the floor, Zeke noticed the doll starting to short circuit, just like the ones they'd sprayed with their guns. He and Julie quickly backed a safe distance away from the doll as its head exploded. The now-headless doll fell over backwards on to the floor. As Julie noticed another doll coming their way, she looked at the soda can in her hand thought, 'Hmmm!'

"Get back, Zeke!" she said, shaking up the can.

Zeke looked at her questioningly, as she popped the can open and threw it at the incoming doll. The can hit the floor in front of the doll and an explosion of soda enveloped him. As the liquid fizzed and steamed, this doll began to short-circuit as well. Soon afterwards, its body exploded, leaving its head to fall onto the floor where its body once stood. Upon observing this, Zeke and Julie looked at each other and smiled.

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The cheerleader watched in amazement as the doll that had threatened her began to short-circuit after the thrown soda can 'detonated.' Soon afterwards, the doll lifted its hatchet arm to attack, only to have it fall right off. Then its body fell off its legs and lay there, continuing to laugh until the sound slowly died away.

"Wow!" she said, "I wish I'd thought of that. Thanks. Umm... why are you wearing...?"

"These glasses?" Zeke responded, "Just thought they looked cool."

He then lowered them, to take a good look at the cheerleader.

"So... I notice you're the second cheerleader in uniform, that we've seen today. Did you have some kind of dress rehearsal, or something?"

"Yeah... we were practicing for the school basketball game this friday, when those zombies came at us. We all split up to try and escape, but... I think I may have jumped from the frying pan into the fire!"

"Well, if it makes you feel any better, Tina's okay." Julie told her, "She's at the Fort Wilhelm Military base. There's um... a magic door over at the store entrance that'll take you there."

The cheerleader nodded.

"Any other day, I would've thought you two were crazy." she said, "But after the things I've seen today, I'll never doubt you again."

With that, she made a break for the door. Julie took a look at the hand computer's radar screen.

"According to this, there's just one more-..."

Suddenly, another voice from the nearby store room shouted, "Stay back! Don't come anywhere near me, you... walking... piece of junk!"

Julie motioned for Zeke to follow, and they ran to the store room. There, they found another soldier, the last member of the missing squad, backed into a corner with his pistol pointed nervously at an incoming doll.

"I mean it!" he cried, "I'll blow your head off! Don't you take another step!"

"We got your back, Soldier!" Zeke called, pulling a can from a six-pack, that was tied to his belt.

The soldier turned his head and watched as Zeke shook the can, popped the tab and shouted, "Fire in the hole!" before tossing the 'grenade' towards the doll. Following the explosion of soda, the doll started to short-circuit. Then to the teens' surprise, it burst into flames and started to run around on fire.

"Whoops..." Zeke muttered, "That was unexpected."

They frantically scanned around the room until Julie finally spotted a fire extinguisher on the wall. Tucking her water gun under her arm, she ran up to the extinguisher and pulled it free. She then yanked out the pin, readied the hose, and squeezed the handle as she ran up to the flaming doll. Within seconds, the flames went out and the doll's charred remains fell motionless on the floor. Julie sighed with relief as she replaced the pin and put the extinguisher down. The soldier got onto his feet and holstered his gun.

"Well, nice work, you two." he commended them, "I'm glad you showed up, cause... I was out of bullets. You haven't seen the rest of my squad, have you?"

"Actually, yes." Zeke replied, "We sent them, and all the other survivors here, back to base. I know it's kinda funny, but there's a glowing door over by the store entrance that'll take you there."

"Okay... say, aren't you two a little young to be fighting monsters and rescuing people?"

"Umm... yes, we are?"

The soldier thought about it for a brief second, then shrugged and said, "Whatever, I'm outta here."

As the soldier left, Zeke stopped and sniffed the air.

"You smell something?" he asked Julie.

"Yeah... yeah, I do." she replied, gradually moving towards source of the funny smell, "It smells like..."

Julie then jumped back as she finally found it.

"Toxic waste!"

"Really? How do you figure?" Zeke asked.

Then after noticing the toxic waste barrels himself, he simply uttered, "Oh."

Julie then noticed two crates near the toxic waste spillage; one of which had been broken open and was empty.

"Hey, Zeke... you think maybe this is what caused those dolls... and the zombies..."

She stopped when she heard a pounding noise coming from the inside of a crate nearby. In addition to that, there was the muffled sounds of maniacal laughter inside.

"Hold that thought." Zeke told her, "I'd get back here, if I were you. The natives are getting restless."

Julie glanced his way and was shocked to see him pick up one of two rockets off the floor and load it into a bazooka. With eyes wide open, she quickly ran to his side.

"A bazooka?" she cried, "Where did you find... nevermind. Just hurry and blast that crate!"

After raising the weapon onto his shoulder, Zeke looked at it in confusion.

"Umm... how do I fire this thing?" he asked.

"The trigger's right there on top."

"This one? ...Oops..."

When Zeke hit the trigger, he realized too late that he was holding the weapon backwards. He turned his head to see the rocket shoot the other way and hit another crate on the other side of the room. As the crate exploded, the teens observed several colored pieces of plastic fly all over the place.

"Err... sorry."

Julie ran to the exploded crate and surveyed the destruction.

"And you just destroyed a shipment of My Little Pony toys." she said.

"Oh, good. Then I didn't waste that rocket."

Zeke picked up another rocket and quickly reloaded the weapon. Then after making sure it was facing the right way, he pointed it at the Fun Baby doll crate.

"Okay, trying this again..." he muttered.

Zeke fired the rocket at the crate, just as one of the dolls broke through the side facing him. The doll only had a split-second to show a look of surprise, before the rocket made contact and the resulting explosion shut them all up for good. The two teens sighed with relief as baby doll parts fell everywhere.

"Glad that's over with." Julie commented shielding her face with her jacket sleeve, "Now lets get back to base. That toxic waste smell is getting annoying."

Zeke nodded in agreement, as he put the bazooka down, then they headed to the exit. Just as they made it downstairs, however, they noticed one last doll jumping around the room and laughing hysterically as he swung his hatchet around.

"Looks like we missed one." Julie told Zeke.

"Yep. You know, it's funny. So far, we've seen those things explode, fall apart, get decapitated, torn in half, blown up, and burst into flames. I wonder what this last one'll do when we kill it."

"Well, let's find out."

Julie took her last soda can, gave it a good shake, waited for the right moment, then quickly popped the top and threw it towards the doll. After the soda explosion enveloped him, the teens watched him shake as sparks shot out of him. Then he started to spin and continue laughing uncontrollably. After a while, he finally stopped moving and then fell forward onto the floor. Then... nothing.

"Wha... that's it?" Zeke cried, "No explosion, no nothing?"

Julie cautiously approached the doll, her water gun at the ready, and nudged him with her foot.

"I guess not." she replied with a shrug, "Sorry."

Zeke sighed in disappointment, then uttered, "Oh well. Let's go."

As they headed towards the transport door, Zeke untied the six-pack holder from his belt; which now had two sodas left. He took one off and offered the other to Julie; who took it, before tossing the empty holder over his shoulder. Little did either of them know that the doll they thought was out of commission had gotten right back up again. Picking up his hatchet, he started to creep up on the two unsuspecting teenagers with a soft giggle. But before he could catch up to them, one last spark caused his head and all of his appendages to fall off. As his disembodied head watched Zeke and Julie pass through the door; which vanished behind them, he let out one last "Aw..." before his voice finally gave out for good.

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To be Continued