Seventeen Zombie Apocalypse AU

🧪Nine🦠

As reference:
Supply team🟢: Soonyoung, Jihoon, Seokmin, Mingyu, Vernon, possibly Y/n
Technological team🔵: Junhui, Wonwoo, Chan
Medical/First Aid team🟣: Minghao, Seungkwan

"Why are you mad at me?" Vernon asked as Y/n walked away from him, trying her best to ignore him. He grabbed her arm and stood in front of her,
"Y/n what's wrong?" he asked, continuing to hold her arm, not letting her walk away.
"You could have defended me, you took the side of strangers over me" she finally said, yanking her arm out of his grasp.
"I'm just trying to protect you" Vernon defended, causing Y/n to roll her eyes.
"I don't need you to protect me, I need to find my brother and I can't do that if i stay here!" she argued, raising her voice which caught the attention of a few of the boys nearby. Vernon gave up trying to argue with her, he knew he couldn't win if she brought up her brother.

Around an hour later, after discussing their plan and looking over the map, the supply team were ready to head out. "Mingyu and I will be at the front, Seokmin and Jihoon at the back and both of you will be in the middle so you don't get lost, don't wander from the group and don't do anything stupid that will get us all into trouble, got it?" Soonyoung said as he looked between Vernon and Y/n. The pair nodded in understanding and Soonyoung smiled,
"Alright let's go".

The group had been running for around ten minutes, managing to avoid seeing any zombies on their route.
"In about 5 minutes if we take a left then keep going straight there should be a big shopping mall at the end of the street" Seokmin said from the back of the group with the map in his hands. They stopped running and started walking as they got closer to their destination. The closer they got, the more zombies they would see, they were clearly walking into a populated area of the city. Well now it was populated by the undead instead of the living.

Although they seemed calm, the groups nerves spiked as they tried to avoid being noticed. Vernon held the baseball bat he took from Y/n's house tightly between his hands, while Y/n had her brothers pistol in her right hand.
"it's right up ahead" Seokmin alerted. They started jogging again towards the entrance of the mall which was free of zombies. Soonyoung stood in front of the doors which slowly opened as it sensed him in front of them. He stood in the door way and ushered everyone else inside.

Soonyoung scanned the area briefly before turning to the group,
"we'll split into three groups to cover more ground, it's a big mall so try and get as much as you can, let's meet back here once you've searched everywhere you can, Jihoon you take Vernon with you, Seokmin you go with Y/n." Vernon gave Y/n an uncertain glance, not wanting to be separated from her. Seokmin noticed how they hesitated to leave one another,
"you'll be fine, it's best that you get paired with one of us because we know what we're doing, you're safe with me" he smiled as he gave a friendly nudge to Y/n's shoulder.

Y/n looked over at Vernon one last time before following Seokmin further into the mall.

"The mall is surprisingly empty, usually a place like this would be crawling with zombies" Seokmin said while heading into a store nearby. Y/n followed him inside and noticed it was a clothing store.
"I thought we were supposed to be looking for stuff that's actually useful" she scoffed as she watched him hold up a sparkly shirt to his body.
"Looking good is still important during an apocalypse" he said, pretending to be offended. She laughed at his response.

"Wow I didn't know you had the ability to smile" he joked, putting the shirt back where he found it. She ignored his comment and looked around noticing clothing that would actually fit her.
"While we're here I may as well change out of this uniform.." she mumbled as she walked around the store picking up items to change into. She walked to the back of the store and into one of the change rooms that still had the door attached. Seokmin sat down on a stool outside the door.

He hesitated before speaking,
"you know... I overheard what you said to your friend before..about finding your brother. Do you really think he's still alive?" he asked. The change room went silent for a few seconds before the door creaked open. She had changed into green cargo pants, paired with a black long sleeve shirt. She kept the baseball jacket on to remind her of Seungcheol.
"Of course I do, I'm not going to stop looking for him until I know where he is, I know he's alive...I just know it."