macxcheeseSydney was so caught up in beating the crap out of the chompers that she didn’t notice how far away Mace had gotten. She snapped her head up for a moment before whacking a nearby dead head. Without thinking she called back, “One moment!” She ran back a few feet to give her enough space to come up with a path to Mace. A second later she was running through a row of chairs, only to vault over the row in front of her. She came out into the same aisle Mace was in and handed off the stick, receiving the gun in return. She turned on her heel to shoot a chomper that had decided to follow her and squeezed her eyes shut as specks of blood hit her face.
Candyleptic
Mace tossed the gun and grabbed the stick- wasn't field hockey a woman's sport anyway- and started to tear through the line. Closing the door was his main priority- that would stop them from getting in! He whacked three hard, but as he hit one another would just get back up. Syd shot one down though thankfully, and it was enough that he could slam himself into the door to close it. Then everything was dark. Pitch black. "I'm a fucking idiot!!" He screamed! They couldn't see the ones that were left in the room! He felt something grab him and slammed his back into the door several times until whatever it was stopped moving! "HEY" he called out for Syd and reached for her- they needed to run towards the back and fast!!!
macxcheeseSyd shot left and right, all the while trying not to shoot Mace in the process. She turned her back to the door to shoot a chomper in front of her, but her gun just clicked. “SHIT,” she yelled as she scrambled backwards. Her opponent swung at her and she leaned back, and then whipped the gun as hard as she could. It burrowed into the side of the chomper’s head and she made a flighty attempt to pull it out. Then everything went black.
She almost screamed at the shock and half wondered if she’d died. Hearing Mace swear through the darkness reassured her that she hadn’t- and that he hadn’t abandon her. Nevertheless, she was still left weaponless and in the middle of a zombie hoard.
Her first thought was to pull her jacket as much around her skin as possible, since denim was a tough material. Then she began to follow Mace’s voice as quietly as possible. It seemed to work- that is until she felt a something grab her shoulder. She gasped and ripped herself away from it, then swung her jacket covered fist at its head. She hoped the two metal buttons would do some good damage as she desperately punched again. Feeling the thing fall away from her Syd retreated to the door as quickly as she could. The adrenaline made the blood in her ears rush so loud that she couldn’t hear Mace anymore and she whirled around in fright, feeling utterly alone.
Candyyleptic
"WHAT THE FUCK" he coughed up before running into her, runningback style, and nearly hauling her the hell out of there; "YOU THINK MY FACE NEEDS MORE SHIT, DO YOU," he scoffed as he led her to the stage. He was a little ahead though, and he ran straight into the concrete!! He tried to be quiet but the swearing that followed surely gave away their position. He did manage to find the stage though and hop up, and in the dark felt for Syd to do the same. There were no stairs to get the stage from the front, and hopefully the deadfucks wouldn't catch on soon enough.
macxcheeseSyd heard swearing from the chomper she’d just decked and realized that it was Mace! /”Oh my god”/, she whispered yelled, actually feeling pretty bad! Her thoughts quickly turned to “OH HOLY SHIT” as she felt herself be lifted into the air. She managed to grab her field hockey stick from him before being thrown forward. Her feet hit the ground running and she felt really cool! Then Mace ran into the freakin /stage/ and she almost face palmed.
“Get up, go!” she hissed, practically pushing him on the stage. She felt him grab her arms and yank her up as well, and she successfully smacked both her shins on the stage’s corner. She rolled onto the wood top and held her shins, tears pricking her eyes. “Frickkkk,” she whined while scooting from the arriving zombie arms.
Candyyleptic
"'Fricks' the fucking word of the day," he muttered quickly and felt for his lighter. "Oh my God," he stopped, startled for a moment. "I have another box of cigs." Hell fucking yes."Uh?? Were you looking for SOMETHING?" "Oh shit, right," he searched for a split second before quickly getting his lighter ready and fumbling the lever. The light hurt i
mmensely and he had to look away for a moment. There were so many of them. Oh dear God, maybe six left. How did they miss SIX?? He breathed for a moment. He felt a gust of wind. There was another exit. There had to be. Was it behind them then?? He looked around frantically but moved too fast and the light went out. He flicked the lighter again quickly and started to look off stage for anything that could be of use. "Fuckwit, will you hold this?" He waited for her before handing it to her carefully and digging through the wares. "Oh ho ho," he mumbled as he pulled out a pair of heavy duty chains. "Now we're speaking my language!!"
macxcheeseSydney stared in horror at the chompers well, /chomping/ at the bit for them. She scuttled back even faster and clutched her stick to her chest. The only time she looked away from them was when Mace asked her to hold his lighter, which she did with the utmost carefulness. She vaguely heard the man mutter something behind her and decided to turn her head for just a second. Her brow furrowed when she did and she could only ask, “What the hell do you plan to do with those? Tie them up?”
Candyyleptic
He started to pick them up, but they were heavier than he expected! "Its like you've never seen any movies," he started, "at least not the dude ones..." and , with his right hand, tied them around his left. He struggled to do the same thing with his opposite hand before perking his head up in the air, suddenly offended. "What the fuck is Mason Dixon?" he contiuned tying before adding "I might be a dick but I'm not dixon," and adding a few immature laughs before he was ready. He backed up Syd a bit and gave one strand of chains a hard swing before hearing it smash into the wall mercilessly. He was pretty dang satisfied!!
macxcheeseSydney rolled her eyes. “I’m sure the ‘dude ones’ you speak of involve a ton of misogynist bullcrap, so no. I haven’t.” His next joke sent her eyes practically rolling into the back of her head and she sighed heavily as she moved to the back of the stage. She sat against the wall and leaned her head back, watching the dumbass swing some chains around. She secretly hoped he would smack himself in the face, but so far no dice.
Syd nudged her head to the side and scraped it against something. She whipped it to face the wall and realized it had been a door hinge. Scooting back, her fingers traced around a line in the wall and she soon knew she’d found a door. She turned back to the amazing chain swinger and yelled, “Hey shitface! Did you even look for a door back here?” She smirked and relished in how fun swearing was when you were doing it at someone else!
Candyyleptic
Mace didn't hear though, he was having too good of a time /finally/ being in charge. It was all him and it was frickin' fantastic. One arm raised to him from the stage and the figure behind it got met with such a pounding he almost felt a little sorry. Almost! But he yelled and swung again, and after the got the hang of it, he found he could maneuver the chains well enough to knock 'em back a bit. That was all he was hoping for!! The light went out though, so it was fairly hard to tell where they were REALLY going, but he could feel them coming in contact with something, and that was enough for him. He called and laughed at the figures before turning to see light; real light, not from the l
ighter? "Hey what the fu-" he was cut off by his own chain whipping him in the face, and he could feel his own teeth start to loosen. Two of them. "Gah dahmmit," he mumbled as he started to follow her out, "Stahp lahgung..!"
macxcheeseSydney frowned when she was ignored, but didn’t dare go towards him. She decided that he would follow her one way or another and opened the door. A muted light shown through it, yet it was enough to blind her. She shielded her eyes from the glare for a moment, letting them adjust. She jumped at the loud whack behind her and twisted back around just in time to see Mace’s chain leaving his face. She guffawed loudly, slapping a hand over her mouth while he followed her out. They entered a small backstage area with a few windows above letting light through. To their right was an emergency exit, and Syd headed right for it.
Candyyleptic
He tried to roll up the chains the best he could but failed miserably. Instead he let them drag behind him as he followed her quickly. "Wahit," he called out and squeezed between her and the door. "Meh first!" Should something be out there he wanted to test the chains somemore! That and if zombies followed they'd probably go for her first. Sorry kid!
macxcheese“Be my guest,” Syd said while gesturing to the door. “Just don’t hit me with those chains!” She let him step outside and waited in the room while he did his thing. She watched from a small window in the door, making sure he didn’t leave without her. When all was clear, he came back and Sydney genuinely smiled.
Candyleptc
"I got them!" He said, excitedly. Actually it was one zombie and he hit it so many times it stopped moving so that probably counted. He also hit himself. He ALSO realized how terrible of a weapon these were- when they got infected with the zombie blood and he hit himself, he ended up covered in it too. Which was really not fucking cool. But they still looked pretty badass, if that meant anything! He was pretty lucky that it was still raining though, because at least that left him pretty clean. The duo ran out into the rain quickly, and Mace immediately started to run for the Monster Mash. Sweet baby he was clearing the zombshits from his precious, precious RV if it killed him. He ran under a tree that provided ample coverage from the rain to catch his breath and to just get out of the beating rain for a second. "So boyscout, where are you heading?"
macxcheeseSydney noticed Mace’s “them” and smirked. “Yeah okay,” she offered sarcastically. Syd followed closely behind, her eyes flitting around every few seconds. She almost ran into Mace when he stopped and her eyebrows furrowed together at his question. “I-I don’t know. I’m looking for my family, but I’m not sure where they’ve gone?” She shuffled her feet and finally said, “South maybe? There’s warmer weather.”