Laura looked around. This was certainly not how the Most Brilliant Medic in the Universe should be spending her free time.

Whatever was going on was not nice and deserved to be shot, if only because she didn't like it. Laura got out and dashed towards the mall and the Styrling shop.

Hearing Henry telling something to get away from him as well as a gunshot, Sawyer turned from hunting for explosives and drew his pistol, taking careful aim at the "zombie" he fired a round attempting to aim for its head.

Poor zombie was rather apuzzled as what happened. Firs the saw nice lunch, then lunch hit him in the face. Zombie/Parasite's mind was too young to process all this as her was sent to the ground. Henry just stepped away and readied his rifle. When Zombie sat up, he was met face to muzzle with Henry's rifle.

"Gruugh?" grunted zombie as something came throuh his mind. Said thing was of course high-velocity bullet fired from the rifle. Before the zombie even fell to the ground, two other bullet hit it. Sawyers fire was devastating too as one bullet struck zombies shoulder and other hit its neck. With so much damage done to it the zombie was surely undone.

Meanwhile in the shuttle, LT finally stumbled from the cockpit into passenger area. It seemed that 'bump' on her face was a little more severe as half of her face was covered in blood.

"You!" She said and pointed at very unarmed Chad. "Take this, I am half-blind!" She said handing him her Silver Special and extra mag.

She then turned to private blackfoot who clearly freezed in her seat. LT raised her arm and swinged it, slapping poor girl right across the face in a wake-up slap.

"You, get hold of yourself! These are no longer people! Everyone out of the shuttle. I want some perimeter or some shit, get your butts moving." She then said, pointing outside the shuttle.

Sawyer, Henry and Rita meanwhile got outside seeing that they were indeed in very large mall. It appeared that they landed on large balcony and over the railing it could be seen that there was only one storey under them and one above them. Downstairs was full of zombies who were now all looking up. Apparently firing a rifle was something can bring attention of even zombies. Luckily for the team, there were no stairs neaby, only elevator and zombies were too dumb to use those. That said zombies migh have been dead but they were surely not idle, as they turned away and started stumbling away to nearest escalator, which was about 200 meters away.

Unfortunately not all zombies were downstairs, which could be seen as ten or so stumbled their way along the shops lining both sides of the mall.

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Laura found herself in new predicament. Parasites were gone, that was surely good new. Bad news was where they gone. Dead bloodied peopel around her started slowly getting up on their legs as she ran by them and there were quite many. Luckily they were dispersed enough for Laura to run by them and move. Mall was not very after all.

After few minutes of running she got there. It was large two storey builiing which seemed likde two boxes joined by glassed corridor in the middle. There were still zombies about, but not so many. Problem was when Laura looked over her shoulder, she saw large pile of dead-walkers slowly following her. It would take them some ten minutes to reach the mall she calculated.

Suddenly she heard a rifle being shot from inside. Not wasting time, Laura ran inside the mall through main entrance. There was a lot of blood, broken glass and shopping bags lying around. She also noticed about hundred zombies right in front of her, all turned back to her, stomping away to the escalotor. They did not noticed them, but there was also no way around them, except for open elevator doors nearby.

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20 minutes ago

Busy day was busy. Paul Broman had a shift and there was ferry after ferry. This kep going on and on. Poor fellow fellt human urges at the end of the shift. Urges that everyone has sometimes. He needed to use that room that even Yamataian empress uses alone.

Luckil for Paul, there was mall nearby so he did not have to relieve himself in stinky alley. Parking in front of it he soon found himself rushing inside the and to the toilets. Two minutes later he was the happiest man of the moment. Just as he was washing his hands he heard some trouble from outside.

He poked walked out of the toilets only to see many people runnign and screaming deeper into the Mall. Turning his head to the entrance made entirely from glass he could see a wave of small little twitchy bodies of NMX parasites headin right at the mall.

"Arrrghhh!" he heard a shriek of young woman stand next to him. He also knew that there were toilets right behind him and doorst looked sturdy. Young woman apparently knew that too. Soon after they were inside the rather large tiled room with glasses and could hear bangs of small bodies on the doors.

"What are we gonna do?" asked the obviously scared woman. Waiting was only answer of course so they waited.

Now

"You think it is safe to go out?" WOman whispered. She was covertin in the corner of the room. While they waited Paul had time to looke at her seeing twenty-something young woman, with large breasts, dressed in under-knee pants, t-shirt, jacker and sneakers. She wore her ginger hair in bobcut hairdo and freclkes sprinkled her face.

Before he got chance to answer they both heard rifle going out outside and above. It must have been from first storey. It also meant that someone up there must be alive. Sparkle of hope was there, but unfortunetly doors opened. Man with big bloody hole in his chest walked in looking at both survives inside.

"gruuuhuugh?" He said which probably meant something along the lines of 'breakfast?'.

Sawyer noticed the small army of zombies coming for them and rather calmly pulled his DSR off of his back and took careful aim at one of the zombies through his scope figuring that a shot through the brain followed by a shot to the pelvic plate would incapacitate a zombie and even if it was still able to move it would only be able to crawl and would be simpler to kill at a later point, he also dropped his survival bag and told everyone "hey ya'll if you don't have a gun there's 2 pistols fully loaded in here so you'd better kit yourselves up."

"OW!" as the pain of the slap unfroze her, picking up her weapon and followed the rest of the team out of the shuttle. Seeing the Zombies down below and heading towards the escalator, Miranda got in a good spot and began picking off the Zombies.

Bang! A zombie head exploded and dropped and so did the one behind it inline with the first.

It was to easy to just shoot the undead that was soon begining to pile up at the foot of the escalators.

Seeing one breaking for the elevator, she sent a shot that way, hopefully to discourage it from using it as cover.

Chat accepted the pistol with an enthusiastic "Yes, ma'am!" and quickly checked it while stuffing the spare mag into a convenient pocket. He made sure the safety was on before shunting the pistol into the front of his belt and leaning down to open up the survival kit.

His mouth twisted in an unamused fashion as he surveyed the EMP pistol in the bag, he reached back in for something more useful, pulling out the .45 this time, this one received much greater approval.

"Hey, lady!" he said, trying to get Rita's attention as he offered her the .45, plus two spare mags from the bag.

He then fetched the prybar, one of the survival axes and a knife for himself, each going into separate sections of he belt before closing the bag up and hoisting it onto his back as a backpack.

He looked over to the outside and tried to make out the signs above the shops. "We need to find a gunstore or something to get armed and maybe take shelter in for a while, shouldn't be to hard!" he shouted to the others.

Paul knew that his scratched and burly appearance from serving a tour of duty in the (then) SAoY looked naturally intimidating, so he always as in this case, spoke in a low but firm voice. He offered his hand to the obviously scared girl. "Come on young miss, trust me we have to go. It isn't safe here with our backs to the wall."

Before she could respond however, the zombie burst into the room. Paul turned quickly to face the intruder, somewhat eager square it out and set things right again in his neighbourhood, but was slightly taken aback by what he saw. He had encountered Zombies before back on the Kennewes Campaign, where desperation had forced the Red Army to pump its soldiers with re-animation drugs, making them fight even after taking mortal damage. Fortunately he had not seen one up close then... Until now.

This 'person' was obviously gone beyond too far. But the strong armed Nepleslian could not make simply dispatching the man impersonal, the Civil War was supposed to be over, Nepleslians should never have to kill Nepleslians again, especially at home. He showed the Zombie the contents of his palms as a sign of trust, his right hand was empty and his left had a small metal ball. Despite this apparent vulnerabilty, he was quite ready for the zombie to try something and justify a counter-attack. "Man, we don't want any trouble. Please."

"Shit yeah. And give me that axe, too, buddy." Rita took the gun and checked the magazine before shoving it into the holster that was normally reserved for her HHG. Then, she reached into the bag and took out the axe that was in it. Chad handed her his axe, and with both in a tight grip, she leapt off the precipice, flying into the zombie horde like an asteroid striking the surface of a moon. "WOOHOOOOOO!", she screamed as she fell.

The force behind her fall was so excessive that she went right through a zombie, squashing it like a bug into the floor, which cratered beneath her. The force distributed through the ground was so strong that it created a shockwave, knocking zombies around the point of impact off their feet. In a flash, Rita went to work, swinging her axe into the neck of a nearby zombie that hadn't fallen, kicking it back with enough force to send it literally flying into the air, and landing another hack with the axe in her opposite hand into the head of one of the zombies she'd knocked over. "Let's tango, fellas! I warn you, I'm a CLUMSY dancer! AHAHAHAHA!" Her booming laughter could be heard easily from the roof.

Chad handed over the axe without comment, if the big nearly-a-foot-taller-than-him psychotic combat cyborg lady wanted something not even he was crazy enough to be a jackass. As she jumped off the balcony he made as if to stop her, but instead ended up just looking over as she lay into the horde.

He swallowed "Well, at least we know what would happen if she went to a moshpit." his mouth twisted in distaste as he watched an arm fly up to his eye level before falling back down into the melee. He turned to the others, pistol up. "I dunno about you guys, but this'd currently be a good place not to be."

"Well, seems like Berserkergang is off to a good start," Henry lamented as Rita carved up the zombies like some maniac barbarian woman from a comic book. He wondered if he should've bought a grenade or two with him, thanks to his good throwing arm, "HE Grenades would've sufficed, but I suppose this is just as entertaining."

He peeked out from cover and watched a dismembered limb fly in his direction, landing beside him and twitching in undeath throes, "A gunstore would be our obvious bet, if it hasn't already been ransacked."

He noticed that there were Zombies advancing on where he and the others had landed from outside of the mall, and started picking them off one by one with the Henry Rifle. He was aiming for the head rather than the centre of gravity, since the 30-30 calibre rounds were small, but made up for it with punch and precision.