Shaun of the Dead (Part 2)
standing in a backyard and looking through the binoculars, Logan watched two idiots tossing records at slow moving dead. Next to him were Akane and Leah getting used to the melee weapons he grabbed from the store the other day.
"So this is the challenge for today, no guns, only melee" Akane said while swinging a brush ax left to right. Leah was getting the feel of the wood cutting ax while nodding along. The three had already carved a small path to the backyard to keep track of the story.
"The two have taken notice of the dead, and are reacting like idiots' ' Logan says watching Shaun get annoyed and ram into the shed door. The thing breaks and Ed runs in to grab a weapon himself. "They just got into the shed...now their armed finally...Oh that new!" Logan says making the women look over. "Pete just ran out to the noise and is freaking out like a little girl."
"Ha! is he pissing himself?" Akane said and Logan shook his head.
"He's wearing black slacks babe, not gonna see a damn thing from this distance" Logan said and kept watching. Shaun and Ed walked back out and rushed the two as Pete backed away before falling on his ass. The two burnouts bashed the dead's heads in before looking at Pete. "Kay, we should probably move to the next spot soon seeing as they're done with the house scenes soon, Ha! Ed's holding his nose looking at Pete."
"Ha ha ha! I'll take shitting himself over pissing his pants" Akane said while Leah snickered. Logan put away his binoculars and the three headed out. They had already located everything they needed to about the key locations for the movie and simply moved to them. Hopping out of the back yard and into the street that was filled with a well sized group of dead, they moved slowly to their car. Shaun didn't need help at Liz's place and his mom would be fine for the most part other than the bathrobe zombie the group gets jumping fences.
"Seven!" Akane said as her brush ax cleaved though another undead that were slowly moving towards them.
"Ten!" Leah said driving the ax through a dead's chin and out the top of their head in an uppercut motion.
"Five" Logan said calmly as he caved the head in of a suit wearing dead with his sledgehammer. "six, seven, eight, nine, and ten!" he shouted out as he moved into a flow of the next dead's head. Leah and Akane were right there with him hacking and slashing their way through to the car they borrowed. With a final splatter of brains and blood the three cleared the car and hopped in. Logan started it and took off to Shaun's mom's house.
As they did, both Akane and Leah leaned out of the car to crack the occasional dead in the head, as if they were smashing mail boxes. Logan assisted by slowing and swerving the car to get the best angle for the kills. The two girls were laughing at the fun they were having and thanks to Akane, were also blasting some 2000's pop punk as they killed.
"35!, is this MCR?" Leah said, sending the head off of another undead.
"39!, Yeah, pop punk really was my anthem growing up" Akane said as she sent her own head flying.
"Huh, would have pegged you as a metal girl!" Leah shouted over the music and wind.
"Nah, never really got into it, 40!, just found it a bit too much you know?" Akane said, catching another dead with her brush ax. Logan rammed a few dead with his car as they pulled into the front of a back path between houses. hopping out they were left relatively alone as no dead had grouped up yet.
"Okay, this should be the path that followed the groups if I planned right" Logan said. After finding his mom's place and where the Winchester was located from it, Logan had guessed where Ed would extend driving the Jag before burning out. That let him find the backpath that matched up his memory of the movie. "We clear this out and kill off the dead that infect Shaun's mom; we can then head to the Winchester to really have some final fun." The two women nod and hoist up their weapons and start clearing houses.
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Shaun grunted with effort as climbed Liz's apartment building after being swarmed by the dead. Liz and her flatmates looked worried that a dead had found them when Shaun's normal pallor and clear eyes greeted them. Liz breathed a sigh of relief but held a firm conviction as she did want this to be some sort of make up. Just because the world looked to be ending didn't mean she would go back on her words. Still, she walked over and opened the door for the man she still loved for now.
Shaun flopped into the room and quickly shut the window behind him before looking at Liz with desperate eyes. Liz for her part looked confused as she waited for him to speak, yet Shaun just kept staring while breathing raggedly.
"Sorry, what are you doing?" Liz asked and Shaun finally broke his silence.
"I've come to take you somewhere safe!" He said.
"Why, we were perfectly safe here, until you showed up!" David said.
"You don't know that!" Shaun fought back. "listen! don't listen to the telly cause it will just end with them coming up to her and tearing you apart. I've got a plan that will keep us alive!"
"Oh you've got a plan?" Liz says with a raised brow at her fool hearted ex. Shaun looked desperate as he held her shoulders and tried to get her to come along.
"Liz, this isn't about you and me, alright! This is about survival..." he says, making Liz look at him seriously.
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"Um...Hello?" came the quiet voice of Yvonne as she and her group came upon three people in overalls that were covered in blood. Akane looked over as Logan was cleaning off the brain matter from the pickaxe he was using, and Leah was walking out of the house with a bottle of Gatorade she had nicked from the fridge.
"Oh hey, good morning to you" the petite Japanese woman said as she eyed the scared group. checking the new watch she nicked from the clothing store she saw that it was about midday and likely Shaun's group would be about here. "We're just doing a little neighborhood clean up from the dead."
"Oh? didn't know the sanitation department had a protocol for this" she said and Leah nodded her head.
"Oh of course, every government office has plans in place for everything" Leah said and Yvonne nodded a little too long before smiling.
"Right, well, we're headed out of town so... keep up the good work!" she said and the three nodded as the group moved on. After they left, Logan stood up and stretched a bit.
"Alright, we've pretty much cleared out the dead in the neighborhood, killed the bathrobe dead, and made it a pretty clean cut path for the group" he said while walking over chainsaws he bought. "Let's finish up at the pub and head to the next film. Leah and Akane nodded as the two grabbed their own saws and started walking into the main street.
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Shaun and his group had just passed Yvonne and her group who were headed out of town, Pete ditching them and heading with his friend, when he finally found the outline of the pub. After a quick minute of making a fool of himself by hopping a broken fence, he and his group moved yard over yard to get to the Winchester. They passed a lot of corpses as they did.
"Jesus, what psychopath ran though here?" David said walking around a bathrobed body.
"Meh, better for us ye" Ed said behind him as he checked his phone while smoking a cig.
Soon enough the six of them walked to the end of the fences and Shaun took a second to breath before looking at everyone.
"Alright, let me just see what's happening on the street and then we will be off," he said. Then using a child's slide he climbed to the top of it like a step ladder and looked out to the street. He whined silently as he saw just a monstrous amount of dead in the street and knew his plan was just rubbish. Climbing back down he looked to everyone and gave the bad news.
"Are they there?" Liz asked and Shaun nodded. "Are there lots of them?"
"Lots" Shaun said and whispered loudly before everyone looked through the fence at what they were going to have to deal with.
"Oh it's this just wonderful" David said looking at the hoard and knowing they were fucked. He knew this plan was already fucked but no one would listen to him, and now here they were in the middle of town, it was already mid-day, and they were blocked from heading to the lackluster stronghold Shaun wanted to bring them to. "We should have just stayed at the flat!" he said and Liz broke in to argue for Shaun's benefit.
Meanwhile Shaun was doing his best to find the silver lining and plan on how they were going to get to the pub without the hoard eating them. It was at that point that they all heard the sound of an engine in the distance. Everyone looked at one another before moving back over to the fence and seeing what was going on.
"Oh Fuck!" Ed said with a laugh as a large truck drove through the dead with two bloody overalled wearing women sitting in the back holding firm to the sides. The truck carved a path and then spun to maximize the damage it could do before the bodies brought it to a stop. The women, one Native American and another Japanese, held on as the car stopped before reaching inside and pulling out two chainsaws. With a leap out of the truck the two yanked the starter cords of their weapons and the hum of death soon started. As they did that the driver side popped open and a tall man walked out yanking his own Chainsaw on.
"Aren't those the yanks from the pub two nights ago?" Shaun said as the three started to tear into the crowd. like surgeons the three moved through the hoard slicing off limbs and heads as they went. The sight had David and Dianne looking away at the carnage the three were causing.
"Oh Fuck they are! the big fuck beat my score, and now he's being a badass right in front of me!" Ed said with a frown as he saw the three dance around the slow death and killing without mercy. "Shits are pretty good at it as well for fuck sake." Akane got grabbed by a dead man but whipped her chainsaw blade up and to the side of her head, killing the dead grabbing on to her. Leah was close enough to carve another trying to latch on to the small woman, and Logan swept his saw to kill three behind Leah.
"Well this is good right?" Liz said looking at Shaun, "they are clearing up the problem easy peasy for us." Shaun nodded as the three were mowing down the dead, only ditching the saws after they had either jammed up or ran out of gas. They then went back to their melee weapons to finish off the last of the crowd. Breathing heavily, the three took a second to catch their breath while Akane walked back to the truck and handed the two some water bottles.
"Right, well let's go say hello I suppose?" Shaun said and the group left the garden. With a click Akane unlocked the pub's front door and smirked as she tossed the kit back to Logan. opening the pub they were stopped by a "hello there" that made the three look to the street of bodies. Shaun's group of survivors were looking a little ragged but nonetheless doing fine enough. "Don't suppose we could join you inside for a pint or two?" Shaun asked and the three looked at eachother.
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"Listen, you should just give it another go" Leah said as she drank a pint with Shaun and Liz. "My aunt and uncle looked like crap on paper but they had each other's backs. Shaun, you need to set boundaries with Ed and Liz, you need to be willing to push for the things you want instead of being passive about the relationship." Shaun and Liz looked at one another and frowned but nodded all the same.
"I guess I could have scheduled the dinner myself and dragged you there on my own terms" Liz said and Shaun laughed as he nodded along.
"Yeah, and today really showed me how much shit I take from Ed just because we're best buds" Shaun said.
"How about when this all blows over I grab us a table at the place that serves fish, and pick you up at eight?" Liz said and Shaun smiled with a nod.
"I'll make sure I wear my best dress" he quipped and Liz laughed at the man she still loved.
"Shaun! Shaun," Ed said walking up with Logan from the pinball machine.
"Ed, wait!" Shaun said and stopped Ed from talking. "Listen, I've got a life I need to live and that means days I can't hang out at the pub with you every night. You're gonna have to fly solo more often alright?" Ed looked at his friend and nodded before waving to Logan holding the Winchester.
"Alright mate, I hear you loud and clear, Jeez" Ed said before looking excited. "But Big Al was right, it's a real Winchester!" Logan nodded his head and then racked the lever sending a round flying into the air before he caught with a flick of his hand. "Oh shit, you're a regular action star! Hey, are all Americans as good with guns as they say?"
"Ed!" Liz and Shaun said at the same time.
"What, it's an honest question?" He said and Logan shook his head and walked away with Ed following him. "Hey, can you show me how you got that score at pinball?" he badgered on making Logan sigh. Akane was with the other couple mixing drinks behind the bar letting the two calm down. Like that the day went and the night brought nothing to bad, other than the owner, and his wife's dead body wandering in from upstairs. Logan pulled up the Winchester and sent a round through both of their heads.
"You're out!" Akane said and Logan frowned as he shook his head.
"It was a fucking reflex" he mumbled but still nodded to his wife's calling. Finally the Military showed up and the three found their world go black as the prologue and credits played for them.
A/N: Short right? Honestly the few I choose are going to go by fast as they really only last a day and are pretty well contained. Sorry if that makes people upset but I wanted to flesh out the land of the dead arc a bit more before moving on to some action horror that didn't involve zombies. I'll finish strong with Zombie Land though because those are my favorite Z flicks.