"Stupid dead people. Stop ignoring the rules of physics and biology!" Laura shouted at the zombies. She pulled out her ESG and turned off the safety. Laura held her fire though, since obviously someone else was willing to expend ammunition.

She scrambled into the elevator and hoped the power was on. A press of a button later, hopefully, she would be heading towards higher ground.

Sawyer's aim was true. Zombies were slowly heading towards the elevator and he had time to aim at theirs head, taking them down one by one. His fire was thinning them down, but it was easy to see that down there was more zombies than bullets currently owned by whole squad.

Miranda send few bullets downstairs too, killing few zombies. She also noticed that person running for the elevator was not a zombie but a young, silvery haired young woman in marine uniform.

Laura made it to the elevator with ease. Bullet hit the floor near her, but it was probably just a stray round or something. Not to mention that power was still one and Elevator was soon merrily on its way to first floor. There she could see downed Shuttle, that had to come in through the roof and bunch of marines fighting zombies.

Chad actually found a map of the mall with good old "you are here" sign. After some time of stuyding it he noticed that there was a Styrling gunstore in the mall, it was on this floor too, but they had to go near the escalator to get there.

Henry shouldered his rifle and started firing at the zombies near the shuttly. There were not many and they were luckily still slow. He knew that it won't be like that forever and when parasites assume control of the body properly, they won't be just dumb limping marionettes.

Rita was really enjoying herself. Zombies posed little threat to her mechanical body. Few fell on the ground as she jumped down and few hacks with her axe made her some room to operate. But still she was in middle of few hundreds zombies and about half of them now payed their attention to her. Near her she could see other things she could use as deadly tools. Large potted plants, benches stuff like that.

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Girl shrieked a little when zombie appeared, hiding behind Paul. There were only about five meters between Paul and Zombie, more then enough space to be ready for everything. As Paul talked tot he zombie, the dead man looked at him. He had almost confused look in his pale bloodless face. It soon changed into angry scowl as he raised his arms and made grabby hands of death as he started walking towards the two survivors growling.

Rita continued to hack her way through the zombie horde, swinging her axes too and fro with reckless and wild abandon. She made her way toward one of the benches, and upon reaching it, used on her foot to push it over. Once it was done on the ground, she placed her foot against the flat bottom of the bench and then shoved it as hard she could into the zombie horde, trying to knock them over or backwards like pins at a bowling alley. She looked around while she worked, keeping an eye out for any large pieces of furniture or decorations that could be used as improvised weapons to slow down the zombie horde. She was extremely tough, but it was still going to be a bitch if they managed to force her onto the ground. It was unlikely, of course, because it would require a good ten or more zombies to pile up on top of her at once, but even a minute possibility made it worth it to be sure it wouldn't happen.

"Ya know this's gonna really be a pain in the ass if we can't get anymore ammo" Sawyer said looking at the slowly moving horde while still slowly and carefully taking well aimed shots with his rifle. "Anybody got any ideas for where we can get some more rounds before we get overrun?" He asked somewhat concerned as he thumbed more rounds into the magazine of his rifle.

Miranda couldn't believe this. Here she was in a movie dealing with "Zombies" that was intent on killing them. Herself and her new friends. She lined up her last shot and then it would be hand to hand combat.

>bang<

Watching several heads explode from her weapon and now it was just a club to use.

Paul entered a fighting stance; shoulders squared, legs slightly apart, left foot foward. The Zombie's movements were slow and easy to predict, but the stocky Nepleslian waited until the last moment before bringing the baseball arm in a mighty haymaker, attempting to shove the ball into the Zombie's mouth and down its throat. Hopefully it would stop it from attacking for a while. Try as he might, Paul is simply not prepared to kill just yet, even if victim might already be dead.

When the doors opened, Laura exited the elevator and headed towards the Marines. But quietly. With all the noise they were making, the stupid undead thingies seemed to be attracted towards them. That was to Laura's advantage. However, if they didn't know she was coming and decided to shoot her... well, that was much to Laura's disadvantage.

So Laura set off to find the Styrling weapons store. Its stash of goodies would probably be useful.

Chad smashed the glass case with his knife and yanked out the map by force, rolling it up and shoving it into his belt. "Okay, there's a gun store on this floor, but we're going to have to move fast!" he shouted as he walked back to the shuttle.

"You two, keep covering the rear!" he said, pointing at Henry and Sawyer. He had apparently given up on the LT giving orders, speaking of which he went up to her in the shuttle.

"Can you move? We need to get out of here." he asked, grabbing her shoulder. He turned over to Miranda "Oi, chicky-babe! Check for anything moving by the elevator, that's where we're heading." before he turned back to the LT.

"Chicky-babe?!!" Miranda sputtered, turning to face whom ever called her that, catcing something leaving the elevator, yelling as she turned back to get a better look, "We have alive one! And a Runner!" letting others know that the Runner was still alive and not to be bothered.

But eventually would have to be protected if they run across the Runner.

"I am outta ammo!" She added for the benefit to the others to let them know she was out of ammo.

"Alright Folks, we better get to that gun store to resupply. My ammo won't hold out forever. I'll cover ya'll as we go, but we better run fast as hayl" Sawyer said as let out another set of well aimed shots at oncoming zombies.