Listening to Danny, Cybil bit her cheek. This couldn't be some sort of prank... Looking to the door, she shuddered a bit before she heard a loud screaming outside from one of the police men that had been left behind. "This isn't some joke... This isn't... I think those people really are zombies!" Cybil whimpered, looking to the door before the screaming was ceased. Slowly, she backed up against the bat before she held her head, shaking before falling to her knees. "We can't just stay here. We all can't last on alcohol..." She murmured, her fingers trailing on the ground. "We just wait these guys out or someone got an idea to get them away?"

sonik nodded at danielle's reply. he backaway slightly so he had room to work with "stay down fucker" he said but it was lost on the man who proceeded to attack ben who retaliated. he to got the idea the guy was out of his face and back off more as he saw the gun being aimed and blinked at the first shot fired. as the body hit the floor sonik frowned as he thought this wasnt the type of thing for kids to see. he walked over and checked the man as ben did. all clean shots this guy aint right he thought as he remembered the human anatomy and figured where each shot might be. he should of dropped on the second shot as it looked to be close to the heart. "yeah cops are a good option" he muttered with the others. sonik shook his head "dont own one" he answerd and looked strangely at cybil's comment then he thought on it, it fitted well but there were other more rashonal reasons. as ben went outside sonik heard more gunshots and looked out the door seeing the cops shooting and slipped back inside before he saw...

there fate and regretted not bringing his gun as ben dived back in and thumping started on the door "this aint no prank like she says." he said as he looked at ben and his sister and cybil against the bar. he walked back to his table n downed his drink to steady his nerves. "well seeing as they want our flesh we'd need live bait to lure them away but i doubt anyone including myself would volunteer for a suicide run. what about the back door we could get out that way" he put in as he eye'd up potential weapons around him.

Yukari was dumbfounded by the scene that took place. Ben hitting the man, then slicing the man then shooting the man repeatedly. She never thought of him as that type of person. She didnt move from behind the counter either and study the body either like everyone else. Everyone's words came to her like a blur. She closed her eyes and sighed softly, trying to get everyhting together. "Z-zombies.." The only word she would say for a while. Those idndt exist... Well she ahted her parents now for telling her those bullshit stories with the happy endings. At that very moment she wanted to scream that they were all going to die, but she didnt want to shake anyone else up. Or attract any of those things int he bar. "WE cant just rush out everyone. "Yukari announced now looking over at Ben. "We have to make a plan of some sort." After that the young woman began rambling. Going over past zombie movies she had watched.

Ben sat there, his head pounding and he felt that he almost blacked out for a second. He shook his head and looked at his sister. And then he knew what he must do. And it was the same reason he shook himself out of depression when his parents died. His sister. He stood up, and turned back to the door, and began to place in some of the larger locking bolts, making the door that much more sturdy. He pushed his sister along gently, letting her know to stay away from the door. He passed the dead body and his customers. He went to Yukari, and put his hand on her shoulder, giving her a light shake to shake her out of her rant, "I think we can all agree, that this isn't a movie, we can't depend on very much from them," he said. He went behind his counter, and took out the sawed off shotgun, "Sonik," he called, tossing the gun to him. "I think we can all agree that staying here won't help us for very long," he said, going to his knife and handgun, putting them away. "Zombies, or whatever they are, the only thing we can depend on is taking out their head." He looked to everyone else in the room, "we'll check the back exit, if it's clear, we'll try using that to get out," he said.

sonik followed ben with his eyes and caught the sawn-off with one hand. he cocked it back and caught the discharged shell mid air and gave it a quick look over and nodded approvingly of it while he reloaded it "i suggest everybody grab something as a weapon, you know table and chair legs, that type of stuff. the harder the better" he added as he propped the shotgun over one shoulder

"Zombies... Heh... how fucking ironic." Bastian said, though didn't really seem all that scared or shaken after he let himself calm down. He collected himself easily. He had looked outside when Ben did, heard what they all did. He'd seen the girl panic, and Ben nearly break down. Quietly, in his head, be began to assess the situation. He walked over and knelt down before the corpse on the floor. "The brain... why does it kill them if nothing else does?" He asked himself, beneath his breath. He then stood up, shrugging a small bit and walking over to the bar, looking through the whiskey, rum, vodka, and other drinks that were high in alcohol content. "Severing the nervous system from the rest of the body causes a near-immediate spasm and incapacitation. Strikes to anything else don't. So fire won't kill them..." He said, pulling out probably the strongest alcohol Ben had. "But what if it attracts them?" Bastian asked himself, his voice a low mutter, not really meant to be heard. He picked up a dry cloth from the bar, soaked it in the foul-smelling beverage, and stuck it in the bottle, putting a cork on it to close it completely.

"Your pretty smart." Cybil looked up, smiling at Bastian before she looked at the different bottles of alcohol. "Maybe the fire can slow them down, Plus, I don't think they would be able to see with the fire engulfing them so it might distract them and give us enough time to slip by." Nodding, Cybil went behind the bar before she rummaged through the  bottles. Finding another bottle, she did the same thing as Bastian did and set it on the bar. "Let's just hope we can make it through this. I don't want to end up as zombie food." Shuddering at the thought, Cybil went over to her bag, putting the bottle inside before grabbing her taser from it so the cloth wouldn't catch fire. She also took her cellphone off the bar, just in case a signal could go through somewhere.

"I doubt it'll do anything at all. However, it may attract them. I want to see what senses they're based off of. Sight, smell, sound, or even heat. If we know any of those, we know how to misdirect or even avoid them. Now, I'll go off on a limb here and say that this won't kill them. That would be too easy. And flaming zombies... not the best of ideas." Bastian said, rolling his eyes a small bit. This was surprisingly laughable to him. Maybe he was in shock, or maybe just insane. Maybe he was waiting for someone to yell Scare Tactics. Or maybe, somewhere in his mind, this made sense. Whatever the case, he walked over and began to pick up the dead man, setting it over his shoulder. "Any way onto the roof?"

Danielle stood up as her brother did, feeling safest when he was near her.  Quickly, she did what his hands wished, and shyed away from the front door, not wanting to imagine if a zombie broke through.  Upon hearing Ben talk of going out the back exit, his younger sister grew extremely nervous, shown through her biting her lip.  "And if one of us gets injured?  Will we stop and help them, or will we just keep running our moving along?"  Danielle inquired, the answer seemed obvious, but once you were in the moment, it might turn into a race against each other.  The thirteen year old then remained silent as she heeded Sonik's advice and turned a chair onto its side, stepping down and removing a wooden limb with her smooth hands.  She then leaned up against a wall next to the back exit, watching everything pass by her.  A smile played on her face as Bastian quietly discussed zombie's weaknesses and Cybil called him smart.  Maybe there was something between them, she thought, smirking before trying to see through a small crack in the wall, if anything was lurking outside.  "Attic,"  she aswered the question Ben was most likely to answer.  "Back in the store room, there is a small wooden door and a metal ladder nearby."  

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Ben just looked at his sister and Bastion, and shook his head, "no, to do that we would need better supplies, the roof isn't going to get us anywhere," he said. "We don't have the weapons or ammunition to fight off zombies that may come after us, and we don't have the food or water to live up there for more then a few days." He looked to Sonik, "those are the only two shells we have for it, so don't waste them," he said. He wen't back to the back door. And listened carefully, hearing nothing he slowely opened it, and looked about. The alleyway was clear. He looked back to everyone, "okay, once we're outside, no one make a noise unless it's a real emergency, we're going to moving carefully, and make our way to Danielle and my house, I have some weapons and ammunition and plenty of food and water, we should be able to make a plan while we're there too," he said, checking his own gun's ammo. "I think it's best we avoid any conflict," he added.

"I was more thinking of causing a distraction with this guy, and conducting a small experiment. Waiting on the roof of a bar... not really all to intelligent. We don't yet know what they can see or hear. For all we know, they could be blind and deaf, running off smell. If something such as that is the case, why don't they currently smell us? Sight is another option, and very likely, though they don't seem to retain much cognition. I'll go off on a limb and say that they rely on motion and some sound to track their victims, maybe a slight amount of smell. But smell would require breathing. You shot the guy in the chest a few times, implying that their lungs aren't needed all that much, if at all." Bastian said, breaking down his entire thought process in a nutshell and shrugging a small bit and looking around. He then looked back a Cybil, shrugging a small bit at her comment. He then looked back at Ben. "Though, it is true that the best way to fight an unknown enemy is without blatant conflict. We know that taking out the brain kills them, but not why. We know they want to kill us, but again, we don't know why. And apparently they have no rationality, making them even more feral than an animal."

Danielle just stood back, not being able to handle herself and formulate ideas as well as the others.  She listened to Ben, and nodded in agreement.  Their house might not be a military base, but it had all they needed to live for weeks, and it gave the young girl a sense of comfort being there.  "All right, let's go."  She said, stepping through the back door, not able to stand being motionless for so long.  Their house was about a half mile away, and probably would take about three minutes to get their at a sprint.  Turning back, Danny addressed her brother, unable to keep her voice from cracking, "How are we going to do this, stealthy and quiet, or fast?"

sonik had walked over to the bar leaning against it as bastian examined the corpse and made some molitove cocktails with cybil. he was waiting till they had to move out before he did anything till he heard danielle and waitdd till she had broke the chair to make a weapon and talking with the pair "dont worry i wont leave anyone behind danielle" he told her. as ben informed im of the ammo situation he gave a small frown not liking it one bit. he like the kid bastian he had a good head on him and seemed to know what was what. he went to the back door after taking a wooden table leg for himself and looked at danielle when she questioned how they would do this. "id say stealth's our best option. if we run we could attract them to us which we dont want. id recommended ben on point and me at the back as defence"

Ben sighed, and looked to Bastian, while it was a good idea, it was far from appropriate at this time. "This could be a difficult situation, while running will get alot of unwanted attention, going slowely could end with us getting boxed in if we don't go fast enough. I think if we keep thinks at a brisk walk we could make good time and not get caught, while still keeping from running into trouble, but the formation does seem best," he said, at Sonik's suggestion for the formation.

"If we stick to walls and back alleys, we'll avoid the mainstream flow. But be careful. There are these things running around, but they're not the most dangerous things. Stupid people with guns are still more dangerous, and the chaos theory seems to be an appropriate way to assess the situation." He said, looking outside through a small clear bit of glass. "The cops will shoot at anything that moves. Expect the same out of every other human you come into contact with. Assume that a group is hostile, though don't blatantly engage anyone. We also don't know if these things function in the way ants do. Killing one could call an entire army, if such is the case, so it's best to move out quickly." Bastian said, getting a broom handle, breaking the broom off the end. He checked the back of his belt loop for something, and then placed his backpack and laptop back on. He took the chains off his pants, a possible hindrance, and wrapped them around his arms, just in case, making them into a very crude chain armor.

"I don't assume their is any way we could imitate them, attempt to blend in among them..."  Danielle murmured, more to herself than anyone, "We look to well dressed and healthy for that."  She cursed herself for even thinking that as possiblity.  She listened to them, prefering to sprint rather than slowly make her way, but liking a brisk walk even better.  She looked to Ben, Yukari, and Sonik, having seen them so often they were very important to her, and what would happen if they died.  Then her eyes rested upon Bastian and Cybil, two people she hardly knew, but liked and would be sad if they could not make it.  "Let's go,"  She said, wanting to make it back to her house quickly.  

Yukari simply stayed quiet after Ben had brought her back to reality. She needed to be strong. If not for herself. Then atleast for him and Danielle. She had felt the need to pass out. But instead listened intently on ehat everyone had been saying. She couldnt put her two cents in... She wasnt the best with making formation plans. But it didnt matter because it seemed as if Ben, Sonik and Bastian had everything covered. She just hoped nothing would go wrong. So far Yukari was going along with the plan and not protest. She knew Ben wouldnt allow anything to happen to anyone.

Ben thought for a while, "Everyone, find and pick up something to use as a weapon, these guys don't seem to stand very well on there own, so just push them over if it's only one," he said. "If we can avoid spending too much time killing them it would be best," he added, looking at the corpse in the middle of his bar. He sighed, "I doubt everyone will shoot at us just because we're moving, but it would be best not to try and imitate the zombies, one, I doubt it would work, and two it will certainly make us targets for whoever has a gun," he told Danny gently. He sighed once more, "alright everyone, follow me, don't waste time, don't set things on fire, Sonik is the last one out," he said. He quickly opened the door, and took a look both ways before exiting, waiting for them to follow him before he continued his pace.

Yukari was hell bent on finding something to use as a weapon. She had a feeling that this adventure would change her as a person. Fuck it she thought to herself before turning a chair over. She needed to be strong fro herself. Using the love you have for a person can reach but so far. Using her foot to hold the chair down shebegan pulling at one of it's legs. Within seconds she had broken the chair. And was very happy with the way t broke. One end was very easy to hold and the other sharp enough to go through another without much effort. As Ben opened the door she moved towards the door along with Ben.