Immediately five of the dead rushed down the hallway that the couple was looking at. Akane and Logan put those down before moving fast down the hallway. Gerry, Segan, and the Doctor were in a mad dash with the doctor leading. As they ran a few dead creeped out from intersections in the hallways they were running down, each one taken down with a gunshot. "This way!" The doctor shouted as they came to a split path with two stairwells. Seeing the split and the loss of sight from the dead Logan and Akane made the decision and watched as the three took the right way while they took the offshoot.
"No, come on!" Gerry shouted but Logan waved him off with a stern glare. Gerry paused before grumping out in rage as he ran with the three others while Akane and Logan ran up the stairs on the other path. They waited banging the metal support bars of the stairs with the butt of their rifles. It didn't take long as a stream of the dead ran into the view and clocked the two.
"Come in get this sweet ass you fucks" Akane shouted out with a slap to her ass before booking it with Logan.
"Insulting the dead, while funny, is kind of pointless," Logan said, drawing his sidearm and taking pot shots into the hoard of twenty following them.
"It's a movie babe, one liners, jokes, and all around badass moves are what the people want to see" she answered back. She then moved to the wall, pressed her foot onto it, and started a parkour wall run while gunning down a few dead that ran in front of them. Logan saw the move she just pulled and thought about what she said as it was true they were in a movie technically. Running he smirked and saw some blood on the ground and remembered a rather fun scene in a show he enjoyed. With Precision thanks to years of training, strength and durability he obtained from his movie snack, and movie magic logic, Logan knee dived into the slick blood.
His speed didn't slow at all and with a jerk of his waist he spun 180 degrees and was now facing the horde. With a calm face he aimed down his rifle's red dot sight and started dropping the dead with perfect headshots. As each round left the gun Logan noticed the world slowing down as if to extend the action moves time on screen. It was then that he realized something his new friends forgot to tell him in the Cineplex. Not because they forgot, but because it was an obvious understanding.
"Were in a fucking movie" Logan whispered out as he sent his last round before flicking the empty clip out of his gun, and jerked to spin back around before hopping to his feet to keep running. Akane was giving him "fuck me eye" as they ran to a closed door. Akane turned as Logan wrenched it open, putting a few more dead down before following him to the next area. Thankfully the heavy door slammed shut leaving the dead unable to follow them any farther.
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Gerry breathed hard as he ran with the other two, his injury burning at the strain he was putting it through. Still he ran hard and managed to finally make it to the vault with the doctor, but came up short as the dead were crowding it. one took notice immediately and Segan pulled the side arm she still had. The bangs rang out as she took down three, but the ten that ran followed showed how ineffective that was. The doctor pulled on her as she wanted to get to the vault, but started to run with the two men away from the next challenge.
The three doubled back to the innersection and down to the open braced door. Gerry took the Axe to hopefully close the door yet found the dead to close on their tail. His move cost him distance with his two allies and when they ran across the dead filled Lab 123, the dead broke through the glass and separated them. Gerry, seeing the dead in front and behind him, made the choice to take a different path. He broke off as Segan and the doc ran back to the sky bridge, a horde following him relentlessly as he ran. He was tired and his wound was making it worse, but he didn't give up.
He thought of his family and their faces at never seeing him again. No, he wasn't going to die here now matter what was thrown at him. Gerry ran hard and started to get tricky as he weaved out of labs, and took sharp turns to slow the barreling dead down. It worked rather well and he eventually made it to his own heavy door. He pulled hard and managed to open it enough for him to run through.
One dead made it pass but the rest were blocked, and seeing the opening he ran to the end of a lab and stood firm at the entrance, hidden from his lone pursuer. WIth ax in hand Gerry drove right through the things neck, the momentum of both the dead run and his blow caused a clean cut and now headless corpse. Gerry breathed out in victory and pain as he held his wound for a second. He was safe for now but needed to get to that vault no matter what. With a final breath of stress he grabbed the ax and started his slow walk to where the vault should be.
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Logan and Akane doubled back around to head back to the sky bridge as their job was done, and the path to the vault was now blocked by the dead. In slow steps they passed empty hallways and quiet labs that held no dead. Still they kept their guard up checking every hallway intersection they passed to see if they needed to run again. Amazingly they found no threat to deal with until they entered the hall to the cafeteria. The panicked feet of Segan and The Doctor came down the hall and the couple whipped their rifles to see down the hallway.
Behind the two was the clear mass of the remaining dead, that must have picked up from their dash back to safety. The two noticed Gerry missing and wondered if the main character had perished, but that didn't matter too much right now. With focused aim the two started to drop the dead closest to the two running as they came down the hall. They went for both head and leg shots to cause the dead to trip and stumble. This lasted until the two had passed the couple, and that caused them to run with them.
Thankfully the shots did some work and the horde was left behind while they ran in the sky bridge. The Brit and another male doctor were waiting with desperation on his face.
"Run! Come on!" he shouted while his fellow colleague shouted with him. The four made it in with time to spare as they re-braced the door when the dead finally struck it. The metal ground held firm as the dead banged against the door. Breathing heavy Segan and the lead doctor started to walk back to the security room.
"We got separated from Gerry, we need to find him" The lead doctor said while walking with a stitch in his side. The rest followed after locking the top and bottom of the doors as well.
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Gerry had doubled back to the vault on quiet feet and fear of every corner. Thankfully he found not a single dead in his way as he came upon the storage area. As he walked towards it the secondary entrance door opened automatically, and he looked behind him to make sure it wasn't heard. Seeing no response he walked through and flinched when the door closed behind him. Again he looked around and threw it to see if any dead showed up.
Still seeing nothing he looked to the vault and walked over. With a small deal of effort he tried to shift the door open with an arm, yet found the thing stuck tight and locked. Walking away he looked around before hosting up his ax. With a breath he raised it firmly and started to bring it down on the glass of the door, when the phone to his right rang out. Gerry paused and walked over to answer it, his head on a swivel as the noise scared him. Picking it up he heard Dr. Kelly on the other end.
"56964, 56964," She said twice as she watched him from the intercom. Gerry looked up at the camera and nodded before hanging up. Walking back to the vault Gerry put down his axe before punching in the code. The door opened and he walked into the cold storage that was the vault. As he did the vault closed behind him and he started to look around. As he did the others came into the security room and saw Dr. Kelly watching Gerry.
As they did they saw him look at the two containers and shake his head. He didn't know which was good or bad, and that meant he just would have to take them all. Grabbing a bin he dumped the contents out and started to shovel all the vials he could.
"Not that one, not that one!" one of the doctors said seeing Gerry grab the most lethal diseases. Yet Gerry couldn't hear him and as such continued to fill the container with a mix match of everything he could find. When he was done he sealed it and then picked it up to head out. He gazed one last time at the camera with a smirk before meeting his final roadblock. A dead man had found its way into the vault and was banging on the glass.
It glared at Gerry and snapped its teeth at the living locked away to it. Gerry paused in disbelief at his luck and how it would go from great to fuck you in a second the past few days. Looking at the dead he blinked and then looked to the container. He wanted to test the damn thing himself anyway right? Might as well do it now he supposed. He dropped the container on the counter and popped it back open.
As he did the people in the security room looked on in their own disbelief as they grew wide at his actions.
"Jesus, He's going to inject himself" The Brit said looking at Gerry walk over to the draws in the vault. He opened each one looking for a syringe and found one in the third drawer.
"We have no idea which one is going to work," Dr. Kelly said as Gerry walked back over to the viles.
"We don't know if any of them will work" The lead Doctor said looking at the madman on the screen.
"If he uses anything he took from that left case, He's already dead" the other male doctor said. Gerry breathed out in fear as he went through the vials not knowing which one would kill him or not. Hell, this might not work at all and he would be dead anyway. Sighing out he just held onto his family's faces as he looked up at the camera. He then got up and grabbed a pad he saw in the room. taking a pen as well he started to write.
"What is he doing?" Dr. Kelly said as Gerry wrote a simple note. Holding it up it read "Tell my Family I love them." The doctors in the room looked away at the possible final words of the man before he grabbed a vile and filled it. Looking at the dead he breathed in and jabbed himself, injecting the random sickness into his body, and then pulled out the syringe. Throwing it away he looked at the dead as he walked back over to a table to wait.
"How long does he have to wait?" Segan asked as she looked at the man risking his life.
"Before he's infected? Not long, but that's not the question we're really asking, is it?" The lead doctor said before looking at the others in the room.
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Gerry shivered in the room as the dead watched him. He had sat down waiting for the sickness to take hold and hoped it was soon as he was starting to freeze. A crash at the door made Gerry look up at the dead and saw that it looked like it was losing interest. Yet it stayed at the door and he wasn't sure if his idea had worked. Looking at his watch he saw that it had been an hour now and he was done waiting. Either he died, or he would be going home to his family.
Getting up he grabbed the container and stared at the dead on the other side of the door. The others in the security room were watching Akane and Logan in the back with popcorn they found in a break room. Akane was sitting with Logans armed wrapped around as they watched one of the best scenes in the movie taking place. The others were too wrapped up in the tension of seeing a possible death happening to notice the couple's casual nature.
Gerry walked slowly to the door, his body tense as he stared at the dead in front of him. it seemed to not really look at him anymore and so he wondered if this really would work. With a final breath to muster his courage he slammed the open button on the door and let the final defense against the dead move to the side. As it did the dead rushed to him but paused as it got a whiff of the man. with groans and small screeches it neared but didn't bite.
Gerry moved back as the dead moved forward and calmly moved to the side as it walked into the room. The door closed behind it and now the two were both in the room. The dead snapped its teeth as it looked in the room for something to bite, but found nothing viable in its eyes. Gerry, seeing this, walked to the door and hit the button, never leaving the dead from his eyes. as the door opened he walked out, and the dead looked back at the noise. It looked at Gerry and lunged again but stopped as the door closed.
The security room was crying in relife as the man had just shown he was right. The lead hugged his male colleague while the Brit laughed at the scene.
"He just walked right past him!" he said. Akane and Logan were clapping in the background, feeling the joy in the room, and seeing Gerry smirking like the cat that caught the cannery. They watched the man walk through B-Wing like he owned the place, everyone still in disbelief at the man not even being seen by the dead. Gerry stopped in the cafeteria by the soda machine and grabbed a can.
"Product placement," Akane said as she ate more popcorn, while Gerry chugged the soda. Logan threw popcorn at her before getting up.
"Come on, we got to open the door for him" He said as the others had left a second ago. Akane got up as she watched Gerry tap the release button for the can, sending them to bang on the ground as he walked to the sky bridge. As the man walked into the bridge, he saw the horde in front of him and was ready for the final test. With a firm stride he walked as the horde stared him down, before running his way. Yet, the dead didn't attack as they ran to him and instead were reacting to the noise behind him.
Gerry marveled at the sight as the dead ran right past him, each one looking at him for a moment before ignoring his sickened body and hoping to find prey behind him. The horde moved fast and soon he was completely out of it and untouched as he walked to the opening doors of A-Wing. Logan and Gerry watched the man walk up with smiles as they let him in. The next few hours were him getting a shot to cure him, Fassbach getting news of the weapon against the dead, and Gerry getting ready to head back to his family.
As these final moments happened The Couple felt the world growing darker and Brad Pitt's voice telling them that the fight will go on, and him coming home to his family. Finally the credits rolled and the couple found themselves back in the Cineplex, waiting for the next viewing.