Epilogue

X X X

Zeke and Julie frantically opened fire on the approaching monster.

"Keep it up, we got this!" Zeke assured Julie.

It wasn't long afterwards, however, before one of the monster's zombie minions slipped through and bit Julie.

"Crap..." she said, "I think those were the last of my tokens."

"Oh... well, hang on..." Zeke responded, reaching into his pocket, "I think I've still-... aw! They got me too."

Zeke just barely managed to fish out his last two tokens, enough for one continue, before he wound up taking one too many hits himself. He looked at the tokens, then back at the game screen.

"Aw, what the hell, it's your birthday."

He then inserted the tokens into Julie's coin slot and pressed her player start button, before telling her, "Good luck."

Julie smiled and resumed the assault on the game boss, while Zeke picked up his drink and went back to quenching his thirst. After his straw signaled that the cup was empty, he went to a nearby trash can and tossed it in. Soon afterwards, he heard Julie cray out, "Oh my God!"

Zeke ran back to the game and watched in amazement, as the boss monster winced and roared in pain, before falling dead on the ground.

"You got him!" Zeke cried back, "You got him!"

The two of them hugged each other, before turning to watch the end cutscene. When the hall of fame prompt came up afterwards, with Julie's spot at number one, Zeke pointed at the game gun and said, "It's all you, Julie."

With that, Julie picked up the gun and shot the letter J. Then, after a brief moment's thought, she added the & symbol and the letter Z. J&Z.

"Couldn't have done it without you, after all." she said, putting the gun away and kissing his cheek.

Zeke smiled. Even though he wasn't present at the time, Zeke could already hear Trevor congratulating him on a job well done.

X X X

Trevor yawned as he flipped the sign on the door and locked it.

"What a day!" he muttered, "Can't remember last time we had that many customers."

As he started walking home, Trevor suddenly noticed a young woman screaming and running his way.

"Help!" she cried, "Somebody help us!"

"What's wrong?" Trevor called to her, "Are you alright?"

The woman looked his way, then ran up to him.

"There!" she cried, pointing towards the nearby cemetary, "Over there! The graveyard! My friends... they're after my friends!"

Trevor looked towards the graveyard.

'Oh my God... you've gotta be kidding me!' he thought.

"Can you help them?" the woman asked.

Trevor thought about it for a moment, then said, "Well, I can't, but I know someone who can."

X X X

"You know, Julie," Zeke said, as they walked to Zeke's car, "I've been thinking..."

"Uh-oh..." Julie replied jokingly.

"Strange as it may sound," he continued, "I think this whole monster infestation was the best thing to happen to us. It brought us closer together, your mom and your uncle both got promoted, and we even got the key to the city from the mayor."

"Oh yeah, that reminds me," Julie responded, "I forgot to tell you something about that. I saw Ms. Crabtree in the audience at the ceremony, while you were giving that dull speech, and... get this: I saw her hold up an A plus after you finished!"

"Really? Gosh, that's... the nicest thing I've ever heard from her. Looks like things really are starting to change around here. I wonder if..."

Zeke stopped, when his phone started to ring. According to the screen, it was Trevor.

"Hey, what's up, Trevor?" Zeke answered, "Whoa... uh... hang on, let me put you on speaker."

He pressed the speaker phone button.

"Okay, repeat that."

"There's one last horde of zombies, still lurking around in the cemetery!" Trevor's voice responded, "And this girl here tells me that six of her friends are in there too."

Zeke and Julie looked at each other.

"How many zombies are there?" Julie asked.

"I counted like twenty of them. And unless I'm mistaken, about six or seven... walking dolls? Looks like they're carrying butcher's knives or meat cleavers, or something. And I think I see a... green... fish creature?"

"That it?" Zeke asked.

"Yeah, looks like it."

Zeke looked up at Julie.

"Twenty zombies, six or seven dolls, and one of those fish monsters." he said, "Graveyard's not far from here. What do you think?"

Julie thought about it briefly, then replied, "We can take 'em."

Zeke nodded, then told Trevor, "We're on the way!"

He hung up the phone and ran with Julie to his car. Hastily fishing out his keys, he unlocked and opened the trunk. Inside were the two water guns, a few vials of holy water- that Zeke purchased in case of such an occasion-, his 3D glasses, and Julie's baseball cap. After grabbing and filling their water guns, Julie donned her baseball cap while Zeke put on his glasses and closed the trunk.

"Hey, Zeke..."

"Yeah?"

Julie then surprised him, by giving him a kiss on the lips.

"Was that for luck?" he asked.

"No," Julie replied, with a smile, "that was for truly giving me the best birthday ever. Now, let's do this!"

Zeke smiled back and said, "Yes, Ma'am!"

And off they went.

THE END