Old Navy: A Zombie Story (part 6)

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction. The events that take place are for entertainment purposes ONLY.  This was written very quickly.

And now….

Before Noon Presents

Old Navy: A Zombie Story

Part 6

In the Kids stock room

Andy and Steve are up in the front of the store.  Katie W is ringing out a customer and Alex is folding a table of shirts in the front of boys. Andy and Steve are talking; they are both shivering a little bit because of the cold. 

“So when did they say the Pizza would be here?” Andy says.

“Oh any time now.” Steve says through his chattering teeth.

They stand there, shaking. Over the walkie Brian calls Andy to the Office.

Andy turns to Steve, “Crap its even colder back there.”

“Well man, good luck.”

Steve starts to fold some shirts by the truck.  He looks up just in time to see the pizza guy come in the door.  Steve takes the Pizza to the men’s stock room and starts to set them up.

Danice walks sees Steve setting up the food and can’t believe the amount the pizza that they ordered.

“Ok so how many stores are we feeding tonight?”

“Oh just ours, but we got one heck of a deal, Gosh darn itl.”

Danice sneaks a slice of pizza, she takes a bite. With the food in one cheek she asks, “Do we put the cooler on to the left or the right of the pizza?”

“Well we could do both.”

The wind howls so loudly that Both Danice and Steve glance up hoping that nothing comes crashing down on them.

Andy walks back through. He starts to count the T-stands.

“2,4,6,9,12…”

Steve looks at Andy, “Do we need a count of T Stands for something?”

“Oh, kind of, it is part of a game for the meeting.”

“Oh yeah. Brain said something about that.”

Andy walks back out to the floor.

A few moments pass while Danice and Steve each have a few slices of pizza.  They finish just as Jason and Josh walk through the door.  They say hello.

Jason sees the pizza. As he reaches for a slice he shouts, “Hey, Pizza!”

Danice slaps his hand away. “We are not ready yet. Just wait till every one gets here.”

“Sorry,” Jason lowers his head and walks away in shame.

“Can you believe that guy?” Danice Asks.

A Trains horn is drowned out by another gust of screaming wind.  It sends a shiver down Danice’s spine. Patrice, Nick and Andy come barging through the door to the men’s stock room.   Danice jumps. There is some laughter from the break room.

Danice and Steve leave the food and continue on with their night.  Steve works his way out to the floor.  He makes it to the daily zone chart to see if any one missed a break.  His eye is caught by a well worn and folded up piece of paper.  He opens it up.  Across the top is typed

Zombie Contingency Plan for Old Navy

A few lists follow.

1. Protection

2. Food and Water

3. Communication

4. Security

5. Survival

6. Other

Steve Flips to the next page it is labeled: 6. Other.

Nothing is typed on it but there are about two dozen hand written notes.  He can tell that Andy has written this by the style of the chicken scratch.  He reads a few of the notes:

Heat—if this is going to happen soon then we will need some kind of heat. There are plenty of close in the store…maybe some sort of fire or electric heat?

Need something to cook the food.

Those two thoughts are circled and an arrow is drawn to a word with that has been circled many times in three colors of ink:

Propane

A bang comes form the front doors. Steve snaps his head around and sees a big group of employees come in the front door for the meeting.  He looks at his watch, almost time to lock the doors.

Steve locks the kid’s side doors. Just as he locks shuts them for the last time and gives them a shake. The wind howls and the rain starts to poor out of the sky. It’s a heavy rain like blobs of Jell-O. In a matter of moments Steve can not see Popeye’s from the door.  He walks back into the store and tosses Andy the key so he can lock the Adult side doors.

Steve watches Andy struggle with the door. Brian starts the meeting, then Danice starts with her part.  Steve looks back over and Andy is still struggling with the door, this time with Shawn standing next to him.  The wind gust and slams in to Andy knocking him down. Shawn helps Andy in to the store and slams the door shut but it did not latch on all the way.  Andy looks to be bleeding but people are taking care of it.

Later in the meeting Steve and Danice are going over some Loss Prevention items with one of the groups by the kid’s side doors up around register six.  The group starts to get rowdy. Steve whips his hand in the Air.

 “Hand goes up, Mouths go shut.” He says with a smile.

The group laughs.

All of a sudden a man runs up and bangs on the windows behind Steve and Brian. He looks like he has just come from a meeting with the Devil. Soaked to the bone he has a determined look on his face.  Brian tries to tell the man that they where closed. But the man just yells through the glass.

“I need to get in and call for help! My Wife, My wife was just eaten alive!”

The man runs to the middle of the glass and starts pounding away.

            “Let me in! Hell has been released!” The man stops shouting. He looks to his left and then out into the parking lot. Then he runs away in terror, screaming.

Lani standing next to Jen Ross asks in her northern accent, “What the heck was that about?”

“I have no Idea.” Jen replies, “You would think people would have better thing to do that try and con their way into a store.”

Lani Ask, “you don’t think that, that guy really needed help do you?”

“A rain coat, yes. Help most likely not.”

With a bang and a crash the wind rips the door on the adult side of the store open.  Andy gets up and dashes to the open door.  With the cold rain pound down on him Andy is having trouble closing the door. Then all of a sudden he just stops, then he turns and stairs into the rain. The rain by this point is dripping from his nose and beard. Every one in the store is watching him like it is a movie.  Brian finally makes it over to see what is wrong. He yells something to Andy and Andy replies. Finally they get the door shut.  Brian has a little rain on his shoes and pants but Andy is soaked to the bone.  Shawn brings a mop and some paper towels to clean up the water. The three of them are talking. 

All of a sudden about five people come to the kid's side doors and slam into them.  They smear the windows.

A scream comes from some where. "Is That Blood?"

Every one starts looking at the windows more and more zombies appear and slam them self in to the giant windows that cover the front of the store. A weird greenish substance is mixed in with the blood that is being smeared onto the windows.

The Zombies break through the adult side doors where Andy is standing. They grab him and start to pull him out side.  Brian and Shawn try to pull him back in side. Shawn slips and falls.

Steve starts to run over to help out but he sees Andy getting ripped into four pieces. Then Brian becomes engulfed.

He hears some one shout, "To the back!" Steve starts to get his group to the kid's stock room down kids Main Street. About half of his group tries to cross to get over to the front stock room. While running to the back Steve sees a few people scramble up some ladders to get on top of the booth sets. 

Steve is the last one into the entrance of the fitting room the group that went into the kid's stock room. He looks around before he walks into the stock room and sees ten zombies plodding toward him through the baby section. He doesn't see any other zombies but he can hear them. The hum from the grown of the mass of zombies coming from the other side of the store could put you to sleep. Steve shakes off what he has just seen and slams the door behind him.

He turns around, "Is every one ok in here."

Sherri looks up, "I think so but Larson and Danice both tossed their cookies on the way back here."

Jen Ross points to a set of numbers and some words that are written on the wall above the door.

4 8 15 16 23 42    Find these numbers. They will save your life.

Steve reads them, "Huh? What do you think that means?"

"I don't know," Jen Ross replies. "But we might want to find those numbers."

Be back next week for Part 7 or Numb3rs or the room with a bunch of stuff in it that someone had way too much time on their hands to do……

Old Navy: A Zombie Story (part 5)

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction. The events that take place are for entertainment purposes ONLY.  This was written very quickly.

And now….

Before Noon Presents

Old Navy: A Zombie Story

Part 5

 But Wait, There’s More…Of Them

Austin and Fitz walk in to the back room where Krissy is enjoying some Pizza and a bottle of water. 

Amy and Care are setting out the last of the Pizza for Austin and Fitz. Austin barrels into his few slices.

“Woo, slow down tiger. That is the last of the Pizza.” Care says.

Austin has his mouth full when he replies, “Maorry. M nust nearlly hunnry.”

“What!”

Austin swallows, “Sorry, I’m just really hungry.”

Care looks across the table and Jen Fitz is just sitting there looking down at her Pizza, not touching it.  She did open her bottle of water; she has not taken a drink however she is spinning the cap like a top.

Care sees this and asks, “What’s wrong Jen?”

It takes Jen just a little bit for the question to register but she replies, “Well, I almost died out there. I slipped and fell. If it wasn’t for Austin I, I…”

Austin interrupts, “You where the one that caught your self on the pole. I just helped you up.”

“Well, thank you, any way.”

Care makes sure that the Krissy, Austin, and Fitz are all doing ok before she goes to see if any one else made it. As she walks into the Men’s stock room she sees Alex he looks a little frazzled. She runs up and gives him a big hug. He awkwardly hugs her back. It is quite a funny sight, petite Caroline and extremely tall Alex.  After their quick embrace Care runs back into the break room to get Alex some food and drink.  She comes back and gives Alex the food and bottle of water.

She then asks him, “Did any one else make it?”

“Well Shawn and Aaron did but…”

“But what?”

“well I think that he was bit.”

“Oh!”

“Yeah but Madeline is taking care of him.”

Josh walks in, “Who is taking care of what?”

“Oh Aaron is hurt or something.” Alex replies.

Hearing this Josh runs over to Madeline and Aaron. There is a small pool of blood below Aaron.

Madeline is talking to Aaron, “You’re missing a chunk of you arm. We need to take care of this.”

Aaron falls to the floor.

Josh asks nervously, “What is wrong with him? Was he bitten, by a Zombie? If so we have to kill him”

 “I was going to help him. You are not going to kill him.”

“Yeah, you can’t help him. If some one is bitten by a zombie they become a zombie. Don’t you want to survive? If so no questions ask let me drive this face out through his skull.”

“What!? You just can’t kill some because they are hurt. We can tie him up and see if he will come around.”

“Ok fine we can do it your way.”

They drag Aaron out to Women’s four. The moan of the Zombies seams to be getting louder. The alarm from the door back in baby has been going off hours now.  Josh ties Aaron to a spine of a booth set on the wall away from both the door and the other zombies. Madeline climes up on top of the booths to take a look, she can see that the entire adult main street is covered with Zombies.

Josh yells up to Madeline, “Hey so how many do see?”

“Well, there is about, I don’t know a lot. Main Street is full of Zombies, but just Main Street.” Madeline replies.   She climes down.

“Well?” Josh asks.

“Well, there are no zombies out side. There are a few dead ones out side from what I could see and the only thing left of Martha seems to be, well, pieces of bones.”

“That’s going to haunt my dreams. Lets get back in we’ll check on Aaron later.”

Josh and Madeline walk into the back where Scott, Shawn and Jason are looking through some boxes.

“Are you sure that there is some in these boxes?” Shawn asks.

“Yeah there is no way that we put it all out.” Jason replies

“I thought so too, but all I am finding is socks.” Scott says.

“Well that’s just great but I am not wrapping up my balls in a bunch of socks.” Shawn sneers.

Josh is taken back by this. “What the hell are you guys talking about?”

“We decided that we should all change into some fresh underwear.” Jason replies.

“Oh” Josh leaves them and walks to the break room.

Madeline says nothing and continues into the break room. She passes Patrice as Patrice goes to see what the guys are doing.   As Patrice rounds the corner she sees all of the guys bare butts, as they pull on their new underwear she lets out a “Damn, so I guess that none of us ladies where good enough for you just had to experiment.”

There is a bit of silence.

Patrice continues, “Just kidding.”

Jason gets a little defensive, “Hey it took us a while to find the new underwear. We had to plow though a bunch of socks.”

Shawn replies “Plow though. Bow chick-a Bow.”

Scott tries to explain “We had some trouble finding the right box. It was kinda hard.”

“Bow chick-a Bow wow.”

Patrice by this time is rolling on the floor laughing. All of the guys are standing there with there pants around their ankles in their fresh underwear.

Patrice tries to ask a question why still laughing. “So you…plowed a bunch of boxes…and it was kinda hard.”

“Bow chick-a Bow wow.”

Every one breaks out in a fit of laughter.

It gets to be around three in the after noon. Amy H is fishing though her pockets to find some change to get some food from the vending machine. “Hey, does any one have a dime. I am getting hungry.”

“Uh, Hang on.” Jason says from across the room. He walks to the tables picks up a chair and with a mighty swing cracks the front to the candy machine.  He takes another swing and the glass shatters into about 6 large pieces.

Jason looks at Amy, “Keep the change.”

As the survivors eat some of the last food they have access to there is a group around the table with Scott and a group in the men’s stock room lounging. Scott starts to tell some jokes.

“While traveling thru the Appalachians, a circus lost one of its elephants.
The elephant wound up grazing in a hillbilly garden and the owner spied him.
Not recognizing the type of beast it was the backwoodsman phoned the Sheriff.
The Sheriff asked the man what the animal looked like to which he replied, “Well, he’s big and gray and has a tail on both ends.”
The Sheriff then asked what the animal was doing.
The backwoodsman replied, “He’s standing in my garden pulling cornstalks up with his tail.”
The Sheriff then asked “What is he doing with the cornstalks?”
The backwoodsman said,” Sheriff, if I told you, you wouldn’t believe me!

There is a lot of laughter. Madeline finishing her Fritos, Snickers and Sprite walks into the Men’s stock room giggling. She is going to take a nap. 

Erica looks up at Madeline and asks, “What is every one laughing at.”

Madeline replies, “Oh Scott is telling jokes again.”

“I could use a good laugh can you tell it to me.”

“Ok the Appalachians where going to a circus and found an elephants. No wait. It was a hillbilly. While traveling thru some hills an elephant lost it circus…Damn!”

“Are you ok?”

“Yeah, let me try again. While traveling thru the Appalachians a hillbilly was eating cornstalks. And an elephant was there. CRAP!”

“I could just go ask Scott.”

Scott walks in, “Ask Scott what?”

“Nothing. I was just telling Erica your Elephant joke.”

“Ok lay it on me.”

“While traveling thru some cornstalks a hillbilly sees an elephant and the Sheriff.”

“Are you ok?” Scott asks.

“No I just some times.”

“You can’t tell a joke, can you?”

“No, wait, yes I can.”

“No, no. It’s like a little kid. You get the joke but then when you start to tell it you mess it up.”

“Ok one more try.”

“Ok.”

 “While traveling thru the Appalachians, a Sheriff saw a lost elephant.
The elephant was eating some corn with its butt and…Wait the circus lost the elephant. And it’s the Hillbilly. DAMN IT!”

“Keep working on it. Besides Josh said you where suppose to check on Aaron with him.”

Madeline stomps off in both anger and frustration.

Madeline walks past Jason digging through the boxes on the shelves by the lockers and into the Women’s Stock room.  Josh is in there swing a face out. 

Shawn starts to follow Madeline but stops to see what Jason is doing.

“What are you looking for Jason?”

“Well we are out of food. I was hoping that with all of the Zombie talk the other day that food might have been hidden up here…”

Jason pauses for a second.

Shawn notices the pause, “What did you find.”

“Well,” Jason continues. “There are some numbers written on this panel up here.”

“Numbers, what Numbers?”

“4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42”

“What do you think those numbers mean?”

“I have no idea. It might be in Andy’s hand writing. It is a little sloppy.”

“Josh may know we could go ask him.”

Jason hops down from the ladder and Shawn and he walk in to the Women’s Stock room.  They see Madeline and Josh having a heated argument.

“Josh you just can’t kill Aaron! He is not a zombie! He was just bitten!”

“Yeah, he was bitten! That’s how you become a zombie!”

“Could you just wait till he IS a Zombie! Hell, you know the man for peat sake!”

“Being bitten and being a Zombie are the same thing!

“No they are not.”

“You say potato…”

“Yeah I do, and so does every one else I know.”

“Fine we will just let him turn into a Zombie first.”

After a few beats Jason interrupts the argument.

“Hey Josh, we found some numbers on the hatch/panel thing.”

Katie S. (Josh’s girl friend) and Jen Ross walk in from the door that leads to the fitting room.  Shawn sees them. But no one else, the two ladies are catching there breath.

Josh just asks Jason, “What are the numbers on the hatch?”

Jason replies, “4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.”

“Those are the numbers from the TV show Lost. I would think that Andy or some one would have used them so we look in side of it.”

Katie looks up and says, “Those same numbers where on the hatch in the kids stock room. That is where we found the food and other stuff.”

Katie being there does not faze Josh.

Josh continues, “Ok we should look in the hatch…”

Josh pauses.

Shawn says, “Wait for it.”

There is a short beat. The Josh turns and runs to Katie.

They Hug and share a small kiss. The short passionate kiss that lovers share when one picks up another at the air port.

Jen Ross clears her throat, “So are we all going to go get every one else or what?”

Shawn looks at Jen, “There are more of you?”

“There are 10 of us in the other room. We need to go get them; also Andy left some really nice stuff over there.”

Be here next week for more amazing, fantastic, gory zombie-ness…Part 6

Old Navy: A Zombie Story (part 4)

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction. The events that take place are for entertainment purposes ONLY.  Story written very quickly.

And now….

Before Noon Presents

Old Navy: A Zombie Story

Part 4

The Twelve Footer

Every one is Awake now awake in the Men’s stockroom.   Josh looks up from the couch.  There is some sort of commotion around Shawn.   He sees that Shawn is on the phone and every one is asking questions.  Josh hears a few.  “How many are there?” “Who is dead?”

Josh shouts out “Have you seen Katie?”

The questions continue to fly at Shawn. “Is any one hurt?” “Did any one get bitten?”  “Where did they come from?”

Scott is standing to the left of Josh and shouts out “Are there any Giant Squid out there?”

Josh punches across his body with his right hand and hits Scott in the arm, hard. Scott shuts up and just rubs his arm.

Shawn speaks into the phone again, “Alex repeat what you just said”

“You want what? We’re the ones in trouble here.” Alex Screams into the phone. He looks up to the group, “he wants me to repeat my self.” Alex talks back in to his phone. “We are alive.”

“Ok, you’re where?”

“On top of the booths”

“On top of the booth sets?”

“Yes! Again with the repeating!”

“How many of there are you?”

“Six, well, five but Kendra was bitten or something and we had to toss her on to a t-stand”

“Ok”

“Did you guys hook up with Steve’s group though the fitting room?”

“No, we came in through the first door in women’s?”

“Damn”

“And how many Zombies?”

“Well we have killed three Zombies, so I would say, around two hundred, maybe more.”

“Wow, that’s a lot. Ok man we are going to try to get you down and in here some how.  Just hang in there. We will come to get you soon.”

“Thanks, and hurry up.”

Alex turns to the group, “They are going to come and get us.”

Shawn hangs up the phone and looks up.  Amy H looks at Shawn and ask, “So how are we suppose to go and get them.”

“Well I did say soon.”

No one else says a thing for fifteen minuets while every one thinks.  Nick gets board and starts to play Pac-Man.  Scott is bouncing a high bounce ball off of the wall.  Aaron is walking around the back room pacing.

Shawn snaps up and Grabs the ball from Scott.

Scott snarls, “Hey!”

“Sorry Scott but these are the answer.” Shawn answers. “We get all of those bouncy balls out of the back and roll them under the feet of the Zombies. They will trip and fall all over each other and we can use that time to get the gang down from the top of the booths.”

Patrice looks at Shawn, “So where do we get the ball from?”

“From the Kids Stock…” Shawn trails off.

“Right through the herd of Zombies.”

“Well it’s a start.”

Patrice Shouts, “WE NEED AN END NOT A START!”

Every one is quite. All they hear is the ‘dew, dew, dew’ of Nick Dying on Pac-Man.

Jason snaps his head around, “That is it, Pac-Man!” He runs in to the Men’s stock room and start grabbing empty fixtures and putting them together like MacGyver with an Erector Set.  Every one just stairs at him for a few moments, Aaron and Josh walk over to him concerned.

Aaron starts, “Hey J, what the heck are you doing?”

Jason replies franticly, “Building a maze”

“What?”

Jason stops to catch his breath and then starts to explain. “Ok in Pac-Man the ghosts have to follow the paths though the maze.”

“Jason, we’ve all played Pac-Man.”

Jason is starting to get excited while he is explaining, “Right, well the ghost can’t go through the walls of the maze. That has never made any sense to me they are ghost, they can go though things, like walls.”

“Jason!” Josh shouts. “What are you trying to do, build a maze?”

“Close,” Jason replies. He is now starting to pant from being so excited. “WE are going to build walls, so the Zombies can’t get to us.”

On top of the booths Krissy is just sitting there rocking back and forth with her knees in her chest. She shouts at Alex. “Did he say how long it was going to be?”

Alex shouts back, “No he just said soon.”

“OK, how long has it been?”

“A little more than an hour!”

Fitz, Martha and Austin are looking down at the Zombies.

Martha notices something, “Do you think the Zombies are moving faster now then they where before the sun was all way up?”

Fitz answers, “well it did drop below freezing last night maybe they got cold.”

Austin chimes in, “You mean like a snake?”

“Yeah like a snake. Did Kendra feel cold when you grabbed her?”

“I don’t remember, it all happened so fast.”

Just then out of the door in Women’s four burst Josh, Scott, Patrice and Caroline.  Scott and Josh are carrying an H-fixture that looks more like a fence with as many jet rails that was jammed across it.  They zip tie it to the spine between the first two booths on the non-dom wall and then they flip the tables on their sides and run back into the back room.  As this is happening Patrice has a bakers rack full of boxes full of shoppers, she struggles to place a row behind the H-fixture so it won’t move. Care run over and grabs the floor ladder that is in the shop and jams it next to the non-dom wall. She locks it and runs back in to the back to help Josh and Scott.

Aaron, Jason, Amy H and Shawn come barreling out of the back door of the fitting room. With two more super H-fixtures. Shawn and Amy connect them to the other super H-fixture. Aaron and Jason push the two tipped over tables in to the aisle and zip tie them down to the out side of the accessories cage and the end cap. Amy wheels another ladder in to Shop 4.  Aaron, Jason and Shawn start placing accessories fixtures end to end and zip tying them together and Jason starts securing them to the inside of the Accessories cage. 

As Jason moves to secure the far right side of this new wall in accessories two Zombies round the corner, Martha and Caroline scream. Jason looks up just in time to see Aaron put a t-stand face out in the first one’s head. The hollow thud and splash of blackened blood startle him. This drops the first Zombie. The second Zombie goes after Aaron. With a T-stand face out in each hand Aaron puts one through each temple of the other Zombie.  He helps Jason up.  “Come on man, we need to get out of here.” The two men make it back to women’s four. Shawn, Josh and Scott secure the last of the ‘fence’ that now blocks off the shop.  Every one from the back room jumps up and down in joy. 

Fitz shouts across the building, “That was great. Now what?”

Scott and Shawn are the first up the floor ladder to the top of the booth set.  They see Krissy.

“Krissy get your butt over here and get down the ladder.” Scott shouts.

Krissy bounds over to them on top of the both sets and she makes it over to them with ease. The Zombies are starting to pool around the accessory cage and the front corner of the fence.

Shawn looks at Krissy, “Why the hell did you not get down this way earlier?”

“I, I, I just don’t know. But thank you.” Krissy climbs down.  Care and Erica take her to the back to get some food and water.  Aaron and Jason carry out the first twelve foot ladder, followed by Josh and Patrice with the other one.  They pass the first ladder up to Shawn and Scott; they struggle getting the ladder across the opening and under the lights.  Shawn and Scott pull the ladder up and smash it though a couple of light fixtures. By doing this they knock the track lighting off and it splits a Zombie’s skull with a loud Crack.  Shawn walks over the ladder and using even more zip ties straps it down.  Scott, Madeline and Aaron start sliding shelves across the ladder to Shawn. Shawn places them across the top of the cage to make a little platform. It wobbles a little.

Shawn shouts down at Jason, “It’s a little shaky but it might work.”

Jason walks to the back and grabs a bunch of walkie talkies. He passes some up to Shawn and the group.  Every one puts one on.

Jason talks over the walkie to Shawn, “I am tired of yelling. Toss one over to those guys.”

Shawn tosses a walkie over to the other group and Alex puts it on.

Scott and Madeline walk the other twelve foot ladder across to Shawn. Madeline looks down and sees the Zombies snapping like baby birds that need food. She takes a moment to catch her breath on the platform. With the big inhale that she takes the smell overwhelms here. It smells like a dead animal that was wrapped in old bacon fat and put in a dumpster in the middle of the summer.  The smell makes her vomit. Most of Madeline’s puke hits the Zombies. They don’t flinch. By now Scott and Shawn have placed the other latter across the second span to where Alex and the rest are waiting. Shawn goes to strap down this ladder and fumbles a bit and he drops the Zip ties.

“Shit,” Shawn says under his breath.

Scott hears this and leans down, “What’s up?”

“I dropped the zip ties, the last zip ties.”

“I guess we will have to hold it down then.”

Shawn Shouts “OK let’s go.”

Shawn walks across the ladder to the others and holds it down. He starts to help the others on to the ladder.

“One at a time guys,” Shawn says.  Austin is the first to cross; he then takes Madeline’s place holding down the ladder.  Fitz is next she makes it across with ease. As Martha starts across a Zombie hits the Emergency Exit door in the back corner of baby.

The noise startles everyone. They all snap their heads around and look at the door. Fitz not watching where she is going, steps in the small pool of Madeline’s vomit, slips and falls off of the platform. She catches her self on a cross post of the cage. With her feet dangling Fitz starts to kick the Zombies who are grasping for her legs.  Austin lets go of the ladder and starts to pull Jen up. The entire accessories cage shakes. Martha has frozen in the middle of the ladder. The ladder falls with Martha hanging on like a scene out of and Indiana Jones movie. The ladder smashes down on a bunch of Zombies. A few of their heads squash like Zits. Martha falls off as the ladder hits the floor.

Aaron sees Martha hit the floor and runs to aid with face outs swinging.  Moving like Morpheus, Aaron smashes in the heads of the first two with two t-stand face outs. The Zombies fall like rocks.  He pulls a jet rail out of his back like sword and takes a mighty swing. The swing knocks the heads off of three Zombies. Aaron stumbles over a body, regains his balance and tries to find Martha.

Martha has fought her way to the top of the table in Men’s shop 3.  She has taken a face out from a t-stand with her and is hacking away at the members of the undead who try to use her as a snack. With her focus on the group in front of her Martha does not see the Zombie crawl up behind her, but Aaron does. He takes the long jet rail he is using as a club and chucks it across the store like a spear.  The jet rail zips by Martha’s head and catches the Zombie in the left temple and comes out its right ear. 

With Aaron and Martha both on the table fighting off the Zombie horde and Austin, Madeline, Scott and Fitz getting off the top of the booths into Women’s Shop 4 , Jason Gets on the walkie with Shawn and Alex. “You guys are going to have to jump down and make it in though the fitting room. You should be able to either kill or run by the five Zombies that are banging on the door to the kid’s stock room.”

“Right,” Shawn responds. “How do we get down?”

Aaron hearing thins over his walkie Shouts, “Just jump I don’t know how much longer we can keep this up.” 

Shawn and Alex jump down and start past the Zombies in the fitting room. The last one grabs Alex’s Shirt.  Aaron goes to help.  Martha is there hold her own for about 30 seconds, with a face out in each hand she crushes a skull then another, in that same motion she pulls the first face out of the first zombie and smashes it in to a third then a fourth there is a break she turns to see Aaron body tackle the zombie that had a hold of Alex. Martha turns to run to catch the group but she is over run by mass of undead souls. 

There are no screams from Martha, over the alarm from the emergency door a laugh that can only be described as the laugh of a woman going mad can be made out.  Then it is gone, to be replaced by the sound of snapping bones and ripping flesh.

Aaron is still in a life or death struggle with just one zombie. Shawn and Alex grab a couple of face outs that where just lying on a table in the fitting room. They charge the Zombies to save Aaron. Alex hits the zombie that is struggling with Aaron so hard in the head that the face out blows out of the Zombie on to Aarons body.  Aaron kicks the corps on to the ground. Shawn has missed with his face out but has pinned a Zombie to the wall next to the door by its shirt.  The three young men run to the back of the fitting room where Jason and his group had earlier set up another wall of h-bars. They scale it with ease. Looking back down the fitting room Alex notices that none of the Zombies have followed. They make it back with the others.

Patrice asks, “Are you guys ok?”

“Yeah I think we all are.” Aaron answers as he hides his left arm. Blood drips off of his finger and hits the ground. Madeline sees that Aaron is bleeding and she runs over to him.

“Holy crap! Aaron, you’re bleeding.”

“Oh, Yeah I’m ok, I, I, Just cut my arm on something…” Aaron starts to sway back and forth.  Madeline pulls up his sleeve.

“You’ve been bit.”

Aaron jerks his arm away and starts to roll down his sleeve, “You know you’re not a nurse yet…” Aaron is fading in and out.  Josh runs over.

“You’re missing a chunk of you arm. We need to take care of this.”

Aaron falls to the floor. While fading in and out he can almost make out what is being said. People are yelling.

“…bitten…a Zombie…”

“…help…kill him.”

“Yeah…through his skull.”

“What…”

“Ok…your way.”

Aaron blacks out.  All he can hear is the blood rushing though his body and his heart pounding.  The world is spinning he can’t make it stop. All he can do is scream, “AGHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Soon Part 5 Same Zombie time, Same Zombie channel……

Old Navy: A Zombie Story (part 3)

Disclaimer:  This is a work of fiction. The events that take place are for entertainment purposes ONLY. This written very quickly.

And now….

Before Noon Presents

Old Navy: A Zombie Story

Part 3

On Top of the World

            The rain was beginning to pick up a little. Alex, an extremely tall guy with short black hair, is an Archeology major at the University of Kansas. He was folding some shirts in boys feature. The store was slow today that he had folded this same stack of shirts about 5 times, just so he had something to do. Alex looks up and stretches a bit. He really wishes that he could have a waist high work station so he would not be hunched over as much.

            After he finishes stretching he sees Katie W smile and wave at some one that just came in.  He asks over to ask, “Who was that?”

            Katie W replies, “Josh and Jason.”

            Andy walks over, “What about Josh and Jason?”

            “Oh Katie just waved to them as they came in the door.”

            Andy smirks, “Jason is gunna love this.”

            Andy starts to walk away when Nick and Patrice walk though the door. He waits for them, says something to Patrice them follows them to the back.

Alex walks back over to boys. He scans the shops for any straitening he might have missed. He goes into the fitting room where Krissy, another supervisor, is helping Lindsay process some go backs. Krissy is from Chicago, and sounds like it when she talks, most of the guys find her annoying due to a lack of brain power and hot in that Lois Griffin way. Lindsay is about 6 months from being a 3^rd grade teacher. Martha is back there as well grabbing the last of the running. Alex helps her run the rack. Alex gets along with Martha just great they both like to party but Martha is a little wild for his tastes. After they finish the running Alex goes on his fifteen minute break before the meeting starts. He passes Andy and Jason as he goes to the back. Jason is ranting about something, “…sixteen t-stands! I can’t believe this. Of all the stupid things…” Alex looks at all the food. He asks Danice “so is all this for us?”

            Danice replies, “Yeah but not right now. You can have some Cookies though.” She hands him a package of E.L. Fudges.

            “Thanks,” He takes them and goes to break.

About and hour later the meeting starts. There is a gust of wind that shrieks across the roof of the building. Andy is trying to lock the doors but seems to be having trouble with the left door.

Alex turns to Jen Fitz, “You know we are always having trouble with that door.”

Robin walks over and slips, “Crap.”

“Are you ok Robin?” Alex ask.

“yeah, I got these new shoes and they are just really slick. I have been falling all day.”

“Oh.”

The door slams open. Knocks Andy down and it cuts his face.

Robin covers her mouth to muffle the scream. 

            “Damn, that looks like it hurt.” Jen Fits says.

With Andy on the injured reserves Krissy is now running the game.

Alex is winning the game, with Austin a close second.  Austin is a stereotypical high school jock. Alex is enjoying his lead that he barely notices the rain. Laughter comes from register six after Steve said something.

Just then a guy starts pounding on the windows. He runs away screaming.

            Alex looks at Fitz “what is that guy’s problem.”

            Jen Fitz replies “I don’t know. I think he is on drugs or something.”

            The wind gusts and smashes the left door. Alex hears Andy mumble something as he gets up to close the door. Andy steps outside in the pounding rain. From Alex’s Point of View, Andy just stops, and looks into the sheets of water that are pounding down. He takes a few steps out into the rain.

            Jen turns to Alex, “Why is Andy just standing there?”

            Alex replies, “Maybe he needs a shower?”

Jen snickers. Alex hears Steve say something but he can’t make out what is said over Jen’s Snicker.

Some one from the other group shouts, “Is that blood!?” “Oh my God, There are tons of them!!”

The door shatters and Andy is pulled through. Alex is frozen in fear. Jen pulls him toward a ladder.  They both trip and fall through the forest of t-stands.  As they help each other up Alex turns back and sees a leg in Brian’s hands. Alex turns and vomits.

            “That is gross. We need to get out of here.” Jen says.

Josh and Jason are yelling something. Jen sees Austin and Martha scramble up a ladder in Men’s feature, they try to follow. The front of the store is now teeming with zombies.  Like killer bees they swarm over any one who is in there way.  Alex and Jen just make it up the ladder.  The Zombies try to follow up the ladder. Austin kicks the ladder to the ground.  Alex looks to the kids’ side and sees a group of people lead by Steve and Lani running toward the fitting room.  Alex snaps his head around when he hears the door slam on the Women’s side. Krissy was too late to get into the back room. She pounds her fist on the door.

            “DAMN IT!” She yells.

She turns with her back to the door marked ‘employees only’. She looks up and spots Alex and Austin watching her. She looks to her right and scrambles up the ladder to the upstock in women’s shop two. 

            Austin Yells “Kick the ladder over.”

            Krissy shouts back “What!”

As Austin yells at again Krissy sees a zombie climbing up the ladder toward her. She kicks it in the face. The Zombie falls. Krissy then kicks the ladder over.

Thirty minuets later the Zombies have calmed down.  They are just bumping into the door first door in women’s two.  The zombies stand about three feet back from the walls where people are on top of them. The zombies just kind of sway like wheat in the wind and moan like an obese family leaving all you can eat crab leg night at the Ameristar. In the fitting room about half a dozen zombies that followed the group to the kids stock room. The zombies are just bumping into this door as well. A few Zombies are ‘stuck’ on some fixtures in the baby section.

            Martha shouts across the store to Krissy, “Are you ok?”

            “Yeah, how is everyone over there.” Krissy shouts in reply.

They look around. “Everyone seems ok, except for Kendra,” Austin replies. “She cut her hand climbing into upstock.”

Kendra looks at her arm. The cut is really a bit mark. The flesh around it has started to turn a pail shade with the veins starting to enlarge.  She lies down and falls asleep.

The moans from the zombies put the group to sleep.  Alex awakes to a sound of running water and laughter. He looks over and sees Austin peeing on to the zombies.

            “Ha, ha, Take that you undead crap holes” Austin is whispering as not to awake the others.

            Alex asks him, “What are you doing.”

            “This is great, if you have to go you should try this.”

Alex looks around, every one is asleep. He stands up and starts to urinate on the zombies.

            Alex starts to chuckle, “this is awesome.”

            “Oh yeah, try to hit their eyes it is like a little bulls eye.”

About the time that Austin and Alex run out of pee the ladies start to wake up.  Kendra is coughing now.

Martha looks over, “What the hell are you guys doing?”

They say nothing.  She just glares at them.

            “Oh, I am jealous. That looks like it could be fun.”

Kendra continues to cough.

           

Alex and Austin both just smile. 

Jen wakes up and vomits a little, “What the hell is that smell.”

“If it smells like urine then blame the two knuckle heads here.” Martha replies.

“No,” Jen continues. “It smells like a dumpster on a hot and sticky summer afternoon.”

Alex sarcastically says, “You spend a lot of time around dumpsters in the summer?”

“No,  and your new name is Lex.”

“What?”

“or Lexy.”

“I don’t think that this is the time…”

“Oh Lexy your so sexy.”

Clank, Clank, clank. Every one looks across the store and sees Krissy picking up hanger rods off of the top of the booth sets and chucking them like spears at the Zombies. She is missing badly with every shot. She gets a little closer to hitting the head of one of the zombies. She stops and tries to aim, pointing the rod at a Zombie then pulling it away like she was churning butter. She hits one with a sound that was like an echoing crush of a watermelon.

“Ha, ha! I got him. Take that Target zombie in the red shirt.” Krissy yells with a bit of rage. “I was supposed to at a bar-b-q! I’m gunna get another pole and line all of you friends up besides you. Aaaggghhhhh.”

Martha Shouts across the store, “Hey Krissy. Those used to be humans.”

Krissy pauses a minute, she looks blankly toward the front of the store, sets down the rod, it falls to the floor. She sits down about the same time the rod clanks to the floor.

            “Oh, you’re right.” Krissy just shuts down and weeps a little.

Martha and Alex try to calm down Krissy as Kendra rises up and starts to moan. Now a pasty white color you can see the blue vein through her skin. Her eyes are sunken in and glazed over. Austin notices something is not right. He tries to get Alex’s attention by tapping him on the shoulder.

            “Um, guys.”  Alex and Martha just keep trying to calm down Krissy.

            “Guys I think something is wrong with Kendra.”

Kendra is slowly tripping over the bars and climbing toward the group. Jen turns around and screams.  Krissy looks up just as Austin grabs the back of Zombie Kendra’s shirt and hurls her off of the top or the booths. Zombie Kendra’s undead body soars and becomes impaled on a t-stand in men’s feature. She wiggles around, a lot.

An hour or so goes by when Alex perks up. “I wish we had a way to get some food.”

            Martha replies, “Yeah if we could just get some one to deliver a pizza.”

            Jen sits up. “Or we could just call the guys in the back!”

            Martha, “Yeah and how would we do that? If someone had a cell phone we could have called about 5 hours ago. I mean the damn sun is getting ready to come up.” Jen looks at Alex.

            “What?” Alex says defensively.

Jen just looks at Alex. Then she looks at Martha. Martha nods and they both look back at Alex.  “What?!” Alex once again is defensive.

The two ladies say nothing.

            “Oh,” Alex says bashfully. “I guess I do have my phone in my pocket.” 

            “Alex I swear to God, if I was sure that you where not one of the last men on the planet I would kill you now.” Martha says with a wink.

            “Right,” Alex replies as he pulls out his phone.  He looks down at it.  He chuckles.

            “What is so funny?” Jen asks. 

            “Oh I have a text from Lacero, Beer at the O.C. J”

           

He starts to dial Shawn’s phone. “It’s ringing…Shawn its Alex there are 5 of us alive on top of the booth sets and we are starving and don’t want to be eaten. Did Steve and his group make it back there?”

There is a pause.

“You want what? We’re the ones in trouble here.” He looks up to the group, “he wants me to repeat my self.” Alex talks back in to his phone. “We are alive…on top of the booths…Six, well, five but Kendra was bitten or something and we had to toss her on to a t-stand...did you guys hook up with Steve’s group though the fitting room…Damn…Well we have killed three Zombies, so I would say, around two hundred, maybe more… Thanks, and hurry up.”

Alex turns to the group, “They are going to come and get us.”

Coming soon Part 4…………