Stay Alive

Day 4 (Part 3)

Time: 12 AM

Setting: In the parking lot of a mall that's in the middle of the desert...?

(Calen has crashed the truck into a wall while he was trying to speed into the underground parking lot. The truck is in shambles, and it has crashed in the lowest level of the parking lot. There are no zombies around at the moment.)

Calen: . . .

Lia: Wow, nice job.

Liona: This is horrible...

Koelle: Jeez, if I had a nickel for every car crash I've been in with all of you-

Trisha: YOU'D HAVE A DIME!

Koelle: Rrrrrright.

(Everyone makes their way out of the truck and Calen is the last one to get out.)

Calen: *jumps out of the truck* Huh. I guess I'm alrigh-

(Everyone hears a loud "CRACK" come from Calen's left leg.)

Calen: *falls to the ground and goes into a fetal position* . . .aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAH!!!

Hannah: Omigosh, Calen are you okay!

Calen: DO I LOOK LIKE I'M OKAY?!

Marit: Oooo! Oooo! I can help you!

(Marit asks for materials from the others and makes a splint for Calen's leg.)

Marit: Make sure you don't put too much pressure on it.

Calen: Yeah, cause I'm totally gonna run a marathon now.

Hannah: Okay, let's try to get out of here now *points to an sign that has a picture of stairs and the word "exit" on it*

(Hunter helps Calen up and everyone begins to make their way to the stairwell. On the way, the group runs into a few zombies, but they just hurry past them.)

Marit: OK! We're here.

(They've come upon the door to the stairwell that goes to the upper levels. Koelle opens the door and sees only a few steps before everything else fades into darkness.)

Hunter: Oh...

Kelly: That's dark.

Trisha: KELLY! Don't be racist!

(Many footsteps and loud groaning can be heard in the distance.)

Calen: Come on! We've gotta go...NOW!

(Koelle enters the stairwell first and is then followed by everyone else. When they get inside Lia slams the door shut. And then...it's completely dark.)

Lia: So uh...what now?

Trisha: Okay, let's all hold hands.

(They all find someone to hold on to and begin their ascent. Everyone walks in silence for a while.)

Kelly: Uhg! It's too dark down here!

Koelle: Please tell me someone has a flashlight.

Trisha: Someone has a flashlight!

Koelle: OOO! Really? Who?

Trisha: Juuuust kidding.

Koelle:...seriously?

Lia: Wait a sec...do any of you hear that...?

(Everyone stops and a crushing silence surrounds the group for a few moments...)

(Then...BOOM! A gigantic explosion rocks the whole building.)

Lia: WOAH!

Junette: OH JEEZ!

Liona:...oh.

Marit: We have to keep moving!!

(The whole group stumbles up the stairs as a the explosions keep going off.)

Koelle: *bumps into a door* AHHH! Dead end?!

Marit: Um-

(Another explosion. BOOOOM!!)

Marit: It might be a door...?

Koelle: *finds a handle* Oh.

(Koelle pushes the door open and reveal a scene that looks like it came from some sort of outlandish apocalypse war movie that takes place in a mall. Since it was in the middle of the night, the moonlight flooded through the skylights. A bunch a men, who looked like bikers, were fending off hordes of zombies. They were hiding behind toppled over carts that would usually stand in the middle of the mall. The explosions were coming from  gas tanks that were located in a fast-food restaurant. They were being shot by the bikers guns.)

(The group watches the scene in awe.)

Calen: Holy...

Trisha: Ok then.

???: Koelle?! Is that you?

(Koelle is the only one who stepped out of the doorway.)

Koelle: *looks toward the source of the voice*...MADDIE?!

(Maddie is a girl who went to their school. She starts running toward Koelle.)

(Everyone else pours out of the doorway to see Maddie.)

Lia: *gasp* MADDIE!! *sees someone else running alongside her*...and LUKE?!

(Luke is also someone who went to the same school as the others.)

(Maddie and Luke run up to everyone.)

Maddie: *hugs Lia* Oh my gosh...I can't believe you're all...*begins to tear up*

Lia:*pats Maddie's back* I'm so happy you're alive!

Calen: I think we all know what this calls for...

Koelle: GROUP HUG!!!

(Everyone participates in a group hug as the bikers shoot zombies in the background...what a lovely sight.)

Ben:*comes out nowhere and joins the hug*OMG! This is so touching!*wipes a tear away*

Calen: AH! NO! *hops away from the group hug with his one good leg*

Ben: *sees Calen's splint* Ooooooo! Nice legwear, Calen!

Junette: So uh...*turns to all of the chaos going on behind them* What's happening here?

Maddie: Well...

Hannah: And how did you two get here?

Luke: Ok, so here's what happened-

(Before Luke could say anything, an assortment of screams and shouts sounded from the battle going on right in front of the group of kids. What they didn't notice was that the number of bikers who were defending themselves was dwindling.The screams were coming from bikers who were being torn to shreds by advancing zombies. There were two bikers left, and hundreds of zombies on the move. But before long, the two survivors were overpowered and zombies came crashing through the toppled carts and stalls, and straight toward the kids.)

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Author's Note:

Sheesh. The zombies are so rude -_-