The Mondo-A-Go-Go amusement park was once a fun and mostly family friendly place. It was typically open from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. during the late spring-early summer season. The memory of the events of the Big Picture Show reemerged as they traversed the now run down amusement park.
The helicopter that had been hit by the RPG had crashed into one of the roller coasters, destroying the track, which then toppled over a ferris wheel. There were several people that were camping out in the amusement park, using what was left of the park's shacks and stands as shelters.
"Yum!" Ed called out in joy as he found a chili dog shack that still had running electricity and heat, some chili dogs still in their glass container being heated by the slightly dimming light. The boy grabbed the junk food and wolfed it down heartily.
"Ed!" Double D and Eddy called, Ed hurried over to everyone. They stood in front Eddy's Brother's whale shaped trailer. Everyone was silent as the Peach Creek teens stood in silence, they all looked anxious while the Lemon Brook teens were confused as to why the others the others were mostly staying still.
"Well?" Lenore asked.
"After what happened to these kids durong the movie way back when, I wouldn't blame them for being hesitant to go near my son." Eddy's dad saod solemnly before turning to Eddy. "You know we have to do this."
"Yeah... I know." Eddy sighed. He slowly took a few steps forward he heard another pair of footsteps follow him. Eddy turned around and saw Ed and Double D right behind him. Ed's normally goofy smile was now serious but confident. Double D still looked nervous but he stood his ground as well. The best friends smiled at each other for a second before they approached the trailer together. Eddy knocked on the door, the world itself seemed to stand still as everyone didn't really know what to expect.
The door slammed open, two people stepped out of the shadows of the trailer, a man and a woman. The man was immediately recognized as Eddy's brother. He looked more or less the same as the last time everyone saw him but instead of just a little bit of chin hair, he now had a goatee. He was wearing a green buttoned down shirt with a white tank top underneath and cargo shorts, he still had the same hat as the movie.
The woman was a rather attractive blond woman, the boys from the cul-de-sac couldn't help but compare her to Nazz in a way. She wore the yellow sports jersey that Eddy's brother had when he was originally seen, it was clearly too big for her as the woman was the same height as Double D. Aside from the jersey she wore jean shorts and had blue sneakers.
The two were carrying guns as the jumped out with Eddy's brother holding a MAC 10 machine pistol while to woman held a Glock 19.
"Hands up!" Eddy's brother shouted before lowering his gun in shock. The woman saw him lowering his gun and followed suit.
"Dad...?" The man said.
"Hello Terry." Eddy's dad sighed in relief, a smile on his face.
"So the old cul-de-sac got taken over too?" Eddy's brother, Terry, questioned.
"Yeah, Lemon Brook too." Kevin replied, he gulped, still not sure if the man he feared could be trusted.
"Alright... Dad, I need to talk to Eddy and his friends for a sec, you and the others can rest inside." Terry said.
"No, Terry, its best if we all hear this."
Terry knew there was no way he could argue against his father, especially given the circumstances.
"Well, first things first." Terry said, taking a breath before speaking. "For those who don't know me, the name's Terry. I'm Eddy's older brother, this angel right here with me is my fiance, Rachel. Rachel, babe, this is my little brother and his friends, that's my dad over there."
"I'd say its a pleasure but we're literally living in he'll right now. Still, its really nice to meet you guys." Rachel joked, giving everyone a friendly wave and going over to shake Eddy's dad's hands. "It's especially an honor to meet you Mr. McGee."
"Hehe, you didn't tell me you found yourself a girl!" Eddy's dad laughed. Terry tried to hide his embarrassment, moving on to what happened to the amusement park.
"Anyway, I'm sure you guys know about how these zombies fucked up pretty much everything in Canada in the span of just a few days. Two days ago this place was normal, there were a few zombies roaming around here but some of my coworkers just thought it was another employee in one of our zombie costumes, advertising our new zombie themed ride but when the zombies attacked a family and their two kids, everything turned to shit. People paniced and ran like crazy. People turned into zombies like its a virus, once you get bit, you're fucked. Some of our guards tried stopping them but they went down fast so the poliece had to be called. That stopped them for a while but eventually more zombies came and for some reason bullets wouldn't always work on them. Like... Like they had rocks for skin in some places! Police went down after that. Eventually some of the Canadian Armed Forces came, we thought we'd be safe but... My buddy John tried telling them about our situation. He didn't get a word out before they shot him dead." Terry explained, mentioning his now deceased friend made him choke up a bit, the Peach Creek teens were rather shocked to see the man that many of then were intimidated by years ago now on the verge of tears.
"After John was killed everyone still alive in the park scattered." Rachel continued, as she held Terry's hand to console him. "Some of us park employees decided that the best thing to do would be to try to sneak attack some of them and take their guns."
"But that's essentially suicide!" Double D chimed in.
"Yeah. We were hopeless at the time. But eventually we snuck around and found a truck full of their guns and ammunition. We used that to take most of them out. The power went out just this morning for most of the park, we're running on backup generators amd batteries now. We have food and running water but it'll unforunately run out eventually."
"Look." Terry sighed. "It's unsafe to just stand around here, why don't you guys come inside."
The inside of Terry's trailer was similar to his room back home, for a rather small looking exterior, the inside of the trailer was actually rather massive, various knick knacks were literred all around the trailer, a sofa was in front of everyone when they stepped inside, a stairway going to an upper floor, a kitchen, and bathroom.
"Honestly, having you all here is pretty lucky, we have a radio here that we might be able to use to communicate with someone... somehow. I'm not a technician so..."
"I may be able to help!" Double D said eagerly.
"As am I!" Kathy added.
"Actually, Sockhead, I need to talk to you and everyone else from the cul-re-sac for a sec." Terry said.
"Not to worry, I'm sure I can handle it on my own for the time being. If anything comes up I will notify you." Kathy said as she went with Rachel. The only people in the living room now were all from Peach Creek...
"Alright, I'm sure all you kids still remember what happened back then." Terry began, sighing deeply. Seeing him with made all the teens feel lile they were holding their breath for a while. They all silently exhaled, when they breathed in the air of the trailer, they were pleasantly surprised that the trailer smelled like fresh herbs. The pleasant aroma made them less tense as they continued to listen to Eddy's brother.
"I think it goes without saying that I'm sorry about what happened, especially to you Eddy. I acted lile a complete fucktard to you for damn near your entire love. Everyone feared md, wanted to be on my good side, and then I pissed off mom and dad one too many times." Terry explained. Speaking of which, where is mom?"
Eddy and his father looked depressed at the mention of the woman that they held dearest to them. Terry understood without a word being spoken.
"Point is, I can understand if you all can't forgive me for what I've done. But I want to help you if it means we can all survive."
Everyone was rather suspicious of Terry, Rolf's parents huddled together and whispered to each other in their native language, soon everyone from the neighborhood huddled up.
"You sure we can trust him?" Sarah asked.
"I don't know, I think it only matters if Eddy and his dad trust him." Kevin replied.
"I know Terry was caused a lot of trouble but he's still my son."
"We got ripped off by Armando, and I don't want history to repeat, but I do think we should give him one chance. Just one chance though, he has to work to gain our trust!" Eddy replied.
"Just please don't beat me up again if he does something bad." Jonny pleaded.
"Bro, we decided, we'll get through this together but we still don't completely trust you. If you try to pull anything then you're through!" Eddy said sternly but calmly.
"I can live with that." Terry responded, a wave of relief washed over him like a splash of warm water.
"Hey guys!"
Everyone turned and saw Janyse and Matt standing in the kitchen doorway (they don't live in the cul-de-sac, so they weren't I volved in the conversation).
"Kathy managed to get something." Matt announced.
Everyone hurried to the kitchen and saw Kathy using a set of headphones and an antique radio to try to get a signal to contact anyone. The radio was emitting static for the most part but everyone could faintly hear disruptions in the static that sounded like a voice.
"Double D, just in time, I'm trying to find the find the right frequency but I'm not very accustomed to antiques such as this. Do you think you could help me?"
"Of course, Kathy!" Double D replied eagerly. The thought of working on an antique radio excited him. Marie felt jealous, upset, and angry that Double D seemed excited.
Double D turned a knob on the radio while pressing one of the buttons. Tje radio static faded and the voice began to hecone cleared.
"Hello? Is anyone out there? Can you hear me?"
"Yes! Hello? I can hear you!" Kathy replied to the voice, the gender of the person on the other end was indistinguishable but they could all hear panic in the voice, it was clearly a person that was around Sarah and Jimmy's age at most.
"Oh thank God! I wasn't sure how many survivors had a working radio setup, you're the first people I've been able to contact!"
"Are you currently in a safe location?" Kathy asked.
"Yes, I'm currently at a militia compound that has been converted into a safe haven for any survivors."
"Where is this compound?"
Everyone listening in slowly had their hopes raised, smiles were on faces that were wider than they had ever been in the last few days. But the answer made these smiles turn into nervous frowns.
"It's in the mountains of Montana."
"M-Montana... As in the United States of America?" Kathy said, her voice cracking.
"Yes. Why?"
"W-we live in Canada..." Kathy sighed in dread.
"It would take weeks to get to that compound. Not to mention that the military of both countries could be carefully observing the Canadian-American border!" Double D lamented.
The air in the room became dark and dreary, despite the sweet scents in the air.
"It doesn't matter where you come from. Our compound will take you, at least that's what the boss here says. Unfortunately there's no way we can help you get here aside from giving you oir coordinates."
"That's perfect, thank you!"
As Kathy and Double D wrote down the coordinates, the others planned their next action.
"So what do we do now?" Jonny asked.
"I guess we're going into America." Nazz replied. "We should get a good night's sleep, we're going to need all the energy we need for tomorrow."
Morning soon came without any zombie attacks or military counterattack, Kevin woke up to a girl cuddling up to him. He thought it was Nazz until he rubbed his eyes and saw Erin holding him. He couldn't help but blush until she began to wake up. Erin almost jumped off of him in embarrassment.
"S-sorry." She stammered, blushing as she turned away from him. Erin's dog, Coco, had still been with them all this time and now suddenly hurried in front of Erin to protect her.
"Huh, I forgot your dog was still here." Kevin said, his blush fading.
"Oh, yeah, Coco is a pretty quiet girl. I guess this whole situation just made her not want to draw attention to us. She is pretty smart."
Everyone else slowly began to wake up as well, remebering they were still in Terry's trailer. They began to pack up for the journey across the border when they suddenly realized something... They were already moving...
Jimmy and Sarah began to panic, thinking they had been abducted by aliens or the military.
"I was going to say good morning but now I think we should've told you last night."
Rachel stood in the doorway to another room past the kitchen, nobody mentioned it because they assumed it was a closet. Inside the room was Terry, sitting in a chair...and driving the trailer.
"Are you telling me this trailer is mobile?!" Janyse called out, half shocked and half impressed.
"Dude! This is wicked!" Matt said, he poked his head out if the window and saw the whale shaped trailer being driven alongside a woodland road with wheels that were similar to an RV.
"Thanks!" Terry called from the driver's seat. "My friends and I fixed it up when his RV broke down years back. Didn't think I'd ever need to use it."
Originally the group would have arrived at the border by nightfall if they went by foot. But with the mobile trailer they arrived there at around midday. Terry parked the trailer about a mile away from the border and locked the door as he turned to Rachel.
"A lot of good times in there." He sighed.
"Yeah." Rachel agreed as the couple embraced. The Kankers couldn't help but imagine themselves being so happy with their respective Ed. Everyone armed themselves with a weapon or tool if they had any and made their way to the border. As expected, it was swarming with the military personnel.
"Alright guys." Kevin began, the group hidden aming the trees and vegetation. "The way I see it, there are two ways we can try getting past those guys. Either we try to get through by sneaking past them, which could be the smarter choice but is also the riskier play. Or we could try going back to the trailer and smashing our way through."
"My trailer can take a few bullets without a problem, we just have to hope they don't have any explosives or rockets." Terry chimed in.
"So what's it gonna be everyone? Stealth or Smash?" Kevin asked.
How should everyone get through the border?
Option A: Stealth
Option B: Power their way through using the mobile trailer.
The choice is yours...
Hours earlier, James had gathered the various chunks of the zombified animal remains left when the military helicopter stopped the confrontation James had with the survivors. Je amputated his own hand and replaced it with a bear's claw. James had already now lacked a nose but replaced it with that of a bear as well. He then proceeded to rebuild his zombie battalion, James spit some sort of acid on some of the rocks of the cliff and use it to replace the skin of the zombies. The rocks seemed to fuse with the zombies' skin, making the body of the entire zombie rock solid.
Using his enhanced sense of smell, James and his army followed the direction of the Eds and their allies...