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Adrian sat quietly on the couch in the living room of the house he was staying at reading "The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy" with the news playing in the background. He finished the chapter and got up to get himself a snack. As he poured himself a bowl of cereal, he heard a report that caught his attention.
"An undisclosed number of patients recently disappeared from a south-land hospital this morning. Reports claim many of the patients running around the Costa Mesa, Newport Beach area accosting pedestrians, clawing and biting the civilians with no explainable cause. Residents are advised to stay in their homes, and lock the doors to any unfamiliar people. The only connecting factor of the few people who were identified as missing is that they were all flat-lined and pronounced dead about five minutes before they went missing. Sightings of people fitting the descriptions have said that they all seem to have a greenish tint to their skin and will not respond to any form of communication."
Adrian left the dry bowl of cereal on the counter top and began donning his checkered tie, and vest as well as his fedora. He didn't need to hear any more to know that the news was describing a zombie out break, and he had been waiting for this day for years. He figured his first order of business would be to stock up on food. He strapped on his backpack and slung his checkered side bag before collecting his scooter and heading for the door. He hopped on the scooter and began pushing as hard as he could down the street towards the local grocery store he worked at.
He realized the news must be spreading slowly because everything outside seemed normal to him, until one being rounded the corner ahead of him at a full sprint. Adrian took note of the hospital gown and green skin and knew that he was in trouble. This feeling was enhanced when the man made eye contact and began sprinting directly at him. He gauged the distance between them, pushed twice more as hard as he could, and then bent his knees. As the zombie closed in, Adrian lept off the scooter, hit the lever to fold it up, planted and pivoted and swung the scooter as hard as he could at what he hoped was the zombies head level. His momentum carried Adrian through a full spin that allowed him a brief moment to see the zombies head hit the ground before its feet. He ran two more steps as he unfolded his scooter again and turned into the parking lot of his work.
Nate wakes up to a deserted house. As empty as the small house was it wasn't out of the ordinary. Nate yawned as he dressed himself for the day ahead. He turned on the T.V. to many of his fave stations only to be met with several emergency brodcast signals. "No suprise, must be that time of the month again..."
He sighs to himself, as the ringing continues before the T.V. is switched. It was the silence that caught his attention; his community was usualy so noisey. Where were the horns of the vending trucks, the laughter of kids, and the barking of small punt-able dogs?... Not that I'd be the one to punt them.... He thought to himself as he went to grab his mid. lenth coat, keys and hat.
After grabing his cell he heads out to the front of the house, however there was still no sign of anyone. Using his cell Nate tries calling his family; receving no answer, he begins to worry and goes to his garage where he opens it and scrounges around for a couple of his wooden swords. A gruff kind of animalistic "Rrrrr!!!" comes from behind our hero.
Nate spins around at the sound to find a decomosing person in his face. Freaked out Nate stands there stunned by fear. The monster reaching out, laying its hands upon the morsle. Nate, almost gaging on the stench of its breath, shuts his eyes and swings the wooden sword at the ribs of the creature. The corps falls to the ground in a semi-squishy thud.
After looking at the thing for a bit (includes various poking and proding with his wooden weapen after the 'dubbel tap' ofcoarse, because poking a dead body is always fun) he finds that it's safe to say that theese are infact zombies. Upon this desision he gathers himself and takes off towards his friends, they'd have the perfect stratagy for this outbreak.
Adrian folded up his scooter and walked into the store which seemed to be functioning normally. He rounded up as many canned fruits and veggies as he could carry, and then added a few bags of sunflower seeds and large bottles of water. He stood in the slow moving line, thinking about how many of the people around him were about to find out about the zombie outbreak by being blindsided by the walking dead. He paid for the food with his credit card, which he knew didn't actually have the money. The way Adrian saw it, overdraft fees wouldn't matter in a few hours. He walked out into the parking lot just in time to see a zombie round the far corner of the parking lot and tackle one of the more annoying regular customers. "Serves her right. How's your coffee mate original now." He thought as he headed out again. He sent out a text to anyone he thought could help him in the zombie apocolypse telling them all to meet him on the roof of triangle square, and if there is any particular gun they wanted from the gun store. Adrian figured he had just enough time to get there before people started losing their minds.
Feeling his phone buzz Nate stops. "What now?" he ask himself as he opens his crappy phone. "Adrian?"
He looks through the text and nods. "Right I know just what I need...." he says to himself as he texts back the kind of weapon he'd like, feeling that the issue of a pistol and a longer ranged rifle would be great.
closeing his phone he heads to the nearest bus stop to head to the meeting area. Med supplies would be his next high priority item. However one should stay away from hospitals in this situation. Maybe a police station would be great to hold up in and thats if he's sighting the "Zombie Survival Guid" correctly but for now the roof top would have to do till he found out who and what all was going on.
Fist things first; the bus which by now was careening through the fairview intesection. It smashes through trafic turns hard right and ends up flipping onto its side mear feet away from Nate. He can only assume that there was a zombie on board.
keeping his wooden sword close he decides that walking or running to the designated area would be the best idea, after all, not only is it healthy it also ensures that wone wont be driving/riding with an unwanted passenger.
Adrain walked into the gun store, which again, seemed pretty normal, especially considering a small horde of zombies had just ran across newport blvd... with traffic... He checked his messages and began asking the strange redneck of a man running the store for the weapons Nathan requested. He got a scoped rifle, with a carrying case to start. He followed up by picking up three colt .45 pistols and two hip holsters for himself. He finished with a pump action shotgun with shoulder sling and as much ammo for each as he could carry in his side bag. He slid his card again and didn't even let the price cross his mind. As Adrian left the store, a zombie charged through the door past him. The red neck pulled two desert eagles from under the counter and unloaded both clips into the zombie. "What do you think, zombie kill of the week?" He asked. "To early to tell." Adrian responded as he left, and replied to Nathan, reminding him to meet him on the roof of triangle square.
"OK, ok" he thought as his phone just buzzed again wanting to shut it off so he doesn't draw a bigger crwoud than what was currently about. People stare, point, laugh; calling him a weirdo and an odd ball as Nate ran down the street with his only protection. The on lookers totally oblivious to the predator that stocked them. Though that didn't stop Nate from trying to tell people he passed by that a zombie out break has happened, though many were ill prepared to handle such an event.
Nate had been on the move for about two hrs, now regretting not going to the workout sessions with his fiance, and was just arriving at his place of work Staters. Seeing bodies in the parking lot he could tell that the outbreak is spreding and fast. The silence that had been in his part of town had now givin way to sirens and gunshots.
Nate begins to walk down newport not wanting to stop just yet when he relises that the sirens were getting closer. He turns to see a police S.U.V. comming toward him and slows as it gets near. "Put down your weapons and back away slowly" said the voice from the S.U.V.
Nate stops now unsure of what to do. Does he do as johnny law tells him or does he add to the chaos already exists. He sighs and drops both wooden swords raises his hands and backs away from them. "Hmmmm.... I wonder what would Louis do in this situation..." He thinks to himself, "Well I guess get pounced by a hunter would be the correct answer..."
Justs as that thought crosses his mind, an infected tackles the cop that had exited his vehicle. "Crap!" Nate thought as the zombie begain tearing into the cop. Nate takes off without his weapons. The zombie takes note and begins to try and chace Nate down.
Adrian scooted, slowly, across Newport Blvd and down to Triangle square. He finally ditched the scooter when he pulled into the parking structure. He began jogging up the parking lot, hefting the weapons. He got about halfway up the third story before he stopped for a short breather thinking"Man, glad I got a couple weeks in with the football team." He stood up straight to get some more air, then lifted the weapons again and jogged up the rest of the parking structure. He climbed to the highest place he could find and looked out around the city. He could already see smoke and hear some distance gunshots coming from the beach area. If he had to guess, the outbreak started at Hoag and was making its way inland very quickly since he didn't figure zombies could swim to well. While he waited, he dissassembled and reassembled his pistols as many times as he had time for to get it down. He didn't want to get taken by a zombie because he needed to reload, or the gun jammed.
As Nate runs from the zombie, the meeting place grows nearer and nearer. He takes his phone out and begins to text. The gist of this text to Adrian was, "SHOOT THE b*****d BEHIND ME!"
After the text sent he tossed his phone aside, the phone being the least of his worries right now.
Adrian saw his phone light up and holstered his pistols to check the message. He breathed a sigh and put the phone back in his pocket, then unlatched the case containing Nathans rifle. He looked at the pieces, and then pulled the manual out to try and assemble it. He thumbed through it, paused at a couple of pictures, tilted the book to try and understand it better. He eventually tossed it aside [******** ikea instructions. I'll figure it out." He thought. He managed to piece together the stock, body, barrel, sight, and even screwed the silencer on. The was he saw it, the last thing he wanted was gunshots attracting zombies to his meeting place. He found a spot that gave him a view down Newport Blvd and laid down with the scope to his eye. Once he spotted Nathan, he did his best to level his sights on the zombie. Adrian pulled the trigger and was caught slightly off guard by the recoil of the weapon. Once he spotted Nathan again, he saw the zombie still close behind. Adrian took a deep breath and fired again. This time he managed to not have to make a major correction to see, but he still failed to eliminate the threat. As Nathan approached the intersection of 19th and Newport, Adrian raised his aim and counted quickly to three and fired at the hanging street sign. He saw it spark, wobble, and then fall just in time to hit the zombie and if nothing else, at least render him motionless.
Once Nate heared the sighn, he skids to a halt and watches the sighn fall on the zombie. "Damn.... that's got to be part of the highlight reel.... zombie kill of the week potencial..." he says to himself. He looks up to the roof. "Took your sweet time" he says to himself as he continues into the parking garage. Making it to the top he promptly starts the reunion with his friend with, "Your aim sucks, but your timing is impeckable!" he tosses his jacket aside, "but at least you took it down." He makes his hand into a gun shape and fires it off in Adrian's direction. "Just lucky that falling sign didn't call any attention to our living dead problem"
"I'm pretty sure the whole roaming zombies thing will call attention to itself. I don't figure we have to much longer before we have to sail into a s**t hurricane, so we gotta baton down the jib before it gets covered in s**t." Adrian said as he passed off the rifle and the backpack with the food to Nathan. Adrian had already figured on some places they needed to get too, and hopefully it would be a while before those places got hit to hard. "First things first, its not gonna do us any good to pick up anything we can't carry, so I figure we should hit the T-shirt warehouse and get some more bags." He passed Nathan two spare clips of rifle ammo as well as two spare clips of pistol ammo. He began loading his shotgun as he continued to think through his plan. "The liquor store is on the way, hopefully we can get in and out of there before anyone else does cause they're gonna get hard and fast. Other than that, i figure we just gotta keep moving. We've got two choices, towards the beach or away. Towards the beach we are swimming up stream, but the water should be pretty safe, away from the beach, less zombie resistance, but its bound to catch up. most importantly though," He paused here to rack his shotgun, creating a very dramatic effect, "Kill all sons of bitches." With this he started heading back down the parking structure, not waiting for Nathan to follow. He sent another mass text telling anyone who might still be looking to try and meet them at the T-shirt warehouse in about a half an hour.
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Heather relaxes in her room, video chatting with her boyfriend in Arizona after getting home form class. Headset on and ready to play some Left for dead on Steam, she hears Blake's phone beep over skype.

"Ooh, a text from Fubu, I wonder what he has to say..." Blake is then silent for a moment before stuttering " oh...oh my god. Is he serious? heather, check out the news. s**t just hit the fan."

Heather open up the internet on her laptop and goes to the first news site that she can think of. The headline makes her heart skip a beat. Rise of the undead in Newport effing Beach. She finally tells blake to start prepping and go to his parents house in the middle of the desert a few hours away. She wanted him to be safe and out of mind, because from here on out, it is a game of survival. She tells Blake a quick plan and to text back Fubu so she and him can meet up. Because going solo meant certain death. She then gives him a frantic goodbye and jumps up to begin her mad prep.

Food, weapons, water, first aid, shelter....ideas fly through her head faster then she can operate. She runs down to the garage and grabs the army style duffel bags that she inherited form her mother. Growing up, her family were huge camping buffs, but once her mom moved away, she left all the stuff with Heather. She starts packing a few sleeping bags, a tent, the camping stove, lantern, and the huge empty water jugs. After a half hour of frantic packing, she head upstairs with the last bag to pack anything else she can find. She clears out the cabinets of food, grabs first aid, soaps, and the case full of her mother's guns. She has never been more grateful for her crazy mother in her life...

Her father is out fishing for the day, and left his truck. She grabs the keys and runs downstairs to load up her father's ford pickup truck. She couldn't give two shits if she had a license to drive or not. She was not going to get stuck anywhere.

After packing up the truck, she runs back upstairs to pour the 20 lb bag of catfood out in her room and fill the bathtub with water. Her cats would survive the zombies, they just need their food and water. taking a last sweep through her house, she sees her katana mounted on the wall, the one she bought while in Kyoto. Heather grabs it off the wall and grabs a belt to carry it. She also takes her sister's phone for good measure. tiffany left it at home; all is fair in love and war, and this was a mother ******** war.

With her goodbyes said, and survival gear packed and ready to go, heather jumps in the cab of her fathers Blue pickup and pulls out onto orange ave. Destination: triangle square. "Oh god, I hope I am not too late...."

(Sorry it took so long sweatdrop )

Nate shrugs at Adrian's offer on what goes down now. Nate catches the rifle, ammo, and pistol after shouldering the bag of food. Nate places the ammo and hand gun into the bag and checks to make sure the rifle is loaded, safty on ofcoarse. After Adrian asks his opinion he clearly opens his mouth to talk but before a sound could be muttered Adrian dashes off. "You know for not watching alot of anime you sure act like alot of them!" he yells after Adrian, as he follows. He imagins this is where Adrian may respond with '********' fairy people.' Nate chuckles at this because it brings up fond memories of D&D and his character, though I'll not go into that less we have a huge naruto flash back where it takes three episodes to explain things. "And we may want to hit the bag store first!" adding in his two pence, trying not to let Adrian get too far ahead.
((Zombie apocolypse back on))

Adrian walked on, only half hearing what Nathan said, not that he didn't care what he had to say, but he was already forming plans for how to get what he needed from the liquor store without much hassle. As Nathan yelled something about anime, Adrian could only stop to think [********' fairy boy." before he went back to his memory of a movie called "Skills Like This." He emerged from the parking lot to the intersection of Newport and Broadway, and frantically pushed the crosswalk button three or four times before looking both ways and jogging briskly across the street. He weighed his options of staying on Newport or taking side streets to the liquor store, and then remembered that he wanted to avoid residential areas where possible, and turned left down Newport. He got around the Boarders on the corner and B-lined for the door of the liquor store, and as he walked in the door, he pulled one of his pistols, checked to make sure the safety was on, and the pressed the barrel to his own temple. "Just give me what I need and no one needs to get hurt."
After following Adrian to the liquir store Nate can only arive to see his friend placeing his gun to his head. Nate slowly walks in from behinde keeping a 'safe' distance from Adrian, ofcoarse with zombies scattered about here and there he decides to focus on other things than Adrian. Adrian or Fubu as others know him told Nate of a movie where a guy robs a bank by placeing a gun to his head, Nate can only guess that this is pretty much the same thing. The only thing that Nate didn't get is if this is the beginning of a zombie out break; and it is, why would the store clerks and other prople in the store care what Fubu did with his life. I mean it's only one person throwing his life away... in the greater scheam of things it would ultemently mean that Fubu didn't have the will to live in a world like this and a prey for Darwinisum. In the end Nate could only conclude that Fubu does this to proclaim that he's got skills like thease. [********' Fubu" Nate mutters under his breath, as he snaps back to reality; now watching their back for zombies.

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