Zero hurriedly looked back down at the three, finding they were unsuccessfully trying to boost the girl named Linda up to grab his hand. "Forget her! You two can reach my hand!" The women faltered at his words before falling to the ground and looking at Zero in a daze. "Were not leaving her!" The one to shout was Josh, however Zero was focused on the third man. The man was looking between him and the girl, and Zero could tell he knew what he had suggested was the best course of action.
The man locked eyes with Zero, causing him to feel disgust. 'How can you get yourself killed for such a weakling?' Zero groaned before willing two whips to appear from both pinkies before throwing them out and willing them to only wrap around the three bodies. When the whips did as he instructed and didn't mince meat them all, he quickly yelled. "Climb!" Zero pulled himself off the wall and back onto the garage floor before doing a 180 and rushing forward. As soon as the whips went taught, Zero was yanked backwards, however he already knew it would happen.
Keeping his footing, he started to pull the three up. Zero was pushing so hard that he could feel his face turning purple, however he didn't stop. With a loud cry, Zero made it another five feet forward before he heard voices from behind him. "We all have a grip, come help!" Zero instantly willed his two whips away before turning and rushing towards the edge. The fact that his fingers weren't even a quarter broken didn't escape his attention, however he decided to focus on that after he rescued these three idiots.
With no help from Linda, he quickly pulled her up and over the wall before going to the other two and doing the same. As the last one was pulled over the wall, a large impact was heard from the wall. As Zero looked out, he saw the large eye was actually a large eye and a small mouth connected to four extremally small limbs. However that wasn't what he focused in on, what he focused in on was the fact that its tongue was currently traveling the entirety of the alley before disappearing behind the wall. 'Its tongue is like a frogs.'
"Lead the way to the mall!" Zero tried to shake Linda into action as she was sitting blank faced as they started moving. Zero was close to simply throwing her onto the creatures tongue, however he quickly abolished that thought and threw her instead over his shoulder. Zero had learned that due to the three's overall small bodies, as well as the muscle upgrade tokens, Zero was able to lift each of them with little effort while still having enough room between their legs and the ground to move.
As they ran away, Zero turned around to see if the creature had left, only to find a red tongue soaring towards them. "Dodge!" Zero jumped to the side while trying to throw Linda away so he could attack the tongue, only for Linda to latch onto and cradle his head. The weight plus the loss of vision caused Zero to not be able to get his feet under him, causing the two to fall to the ground with a heavy thud. Zero brain started to scream for him to kill the three, however he quickly calmed himself, only for Linda to start screaming and clawing at his head with her nails.
Zero scrambled on his back for a good three seconds, only able to see slivers of light through Linda covering his eyes. Zero's hand shot out before he even thought about it, the screaming suddenly turning into breathless screams. Zero finally got his feet under him and pushed himself up, Linda's body coming away from his eyes to reveal Linda on her back, and he was choking her with his left hand. Zero told his hand to let go, only it didn't respond. Taking a deep breath even as Linda looked at him through heavy eye lids, Zero willed his hand to let go.
The hand responded and let go, Linda taking a large gasp in, as if she hadn't had air in years. Zero quickly stood to his feet and turned around to stair at the large red tongue that was currently sitting chest level with Zero. He quickly followed the tongue's direction to the left, finding it was currently being held by the large hole it had created in the top of a SUV. Zero looked the other direction, finding he was now making eye contact with the creature. As they stood watching each other for a long moment, the eye suddenly blinked.
Zero took the blink as their starting bell, turning and scooping Linda into his arms before turning once more and rushing towards were the other two had fled too. Zero rounded a corner before shielding Linda with his shoulder as a bat came flying at chest level. The bat quickly came to a stop mere inches from Zero's shoulder. He looked up to find the two standing with there weapons out, one a bat, and the other a hand gun.
Without having to tell them, the smarter of the group turned and told them to follow as he started sprinting away from the tongue. There was a loud scream which Zero now recognized as someone or something trying to scream while its tongue was stuck out from behind them as they ran. After only a couple minutes of taking the service stairs, they finally made it to the level that stated it had a bridge that connected to the mall. Before busting through the door onto what was the 4th floor car garage, Zero set Linda down on the stair before smacking her twice on the cheek, hard.
The impact seemed to stir her out of her stupor as her right hand lashed out, easily caught by Zero as he was expecting it. "Get it together, or I will kill you myself." Linda audible swallowed before vigorously nodding. Zero looked at the smart guy and spoke. "We will rest for a moment before heading in." The man firmly nodded at Zero and they each found some place to rest.