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?'.
