Zombies and Shit (58 page)

Dr. Chan’s eyes can’t leave the monitor as he sees Specimen #5’s brains splattered across the pavement.

“Invincible, huh?” Wayne says, then he laughs.

Dr. Chan straightens his tie and stands up. Then he leaves the room.

Scavy blasts his way into the waiting room to find Junko and Rainbow Cat fighting in the middle of a circle of zombies.

Rainbow slashes twice at Junko, but the Japanese girl dodges. Then the hippy roundhouse kicks her in the face. Junko staggers back.

“Junko!” Scavy says.

The Japanese woman looks back at him.

“Kick her ass!” he yells, pumping his fist.

Rainbow Cat runs at Junko with the machete while her attention is turned. As the machete lowers down toward her head, Junko drop-kicks the hippy, sending her flying back into the zombie crowd.

“Wait!” Rainbow cries, as the zombies grab her by the arms.

The living corpses bite down into Rainbow’s flesh. She shrieks.

“You can’t,” she screams. “No!”

Junko grabs the gnome and runs toward Scavy, leaving the hippy completely unprotected. The zombies close in on her.

“You fucking bitch!” Rainbow screams, as muscles peel out of her skin between zombie teeth.

Junko gets to Scavy, bringing him into the circle of protection. He grabs her up into his arms.

“That was awesome,” he says.

Junko pushes him away.

“Don’t touch me,” she says. “I’m infected.”

Scavy steps away.

“Now,” she says, “we need to get you to the helicopter. Let’s go.”

They take off down the hallway.

As the zombies sink their teeth into her flesh, Rainbow Cat fights back. She elbows them in the face, chops off their arms, and thrashes out of their grips.

After she gets free, she slashes her way through their bodies until she breaks out of the crowd and runs down a hallway. She grabs a floating camera ball and charges down the corridor.

“It’s not over yet,” she says. “I can still do it. I can still make the world love Charles Hudson again.”

Junko and Scavy exit the hospital, out into the pouring rain. They see the helicopter on the other side of the parking lot and run toward it.

“Come on!” Junko yells at Scavy as he limps too far behind. “We’re almost there!”

Scavy picks up the pace.

As the zombies separate out of their way, Gogo emerges from the crowd.

“Brains!” Gogo shrieks.

She pukes green vomit at them. It sprays across the barrier protected by the gnome, and splashes Scavy in the face.

Scavy cries out and falls to the ground. The vomit burns through his neck and cheek, melting into his bloodstream. He can taste it in his mouth. Junko doesn’t see it happen. She keeps moving with the lawn gnome in her hands. As Scavy’s legs leave the barrier, zombies grab him by the feet.

Junko stops when she hears his screams. She turns back to see Gogo biting into the backs of his knees, tearing into the nervous tissue. Other zombies try to get a bite, but Gogo pushes them back.

“Mine!” Gogo says. Then she gorges on Scavy’s flesh, savoring every nerve ending against the tip of her tongue, too gluttonous to share with the other zombies.

Popcorn breaks through the crowd and kicks Gogo away from him.

“What the fuck, Gogo!” she yells.

She blocks all other zombies as Scavy crawls back into the circle, falling into Junko’s lap as she bends down to him. At the edge of the circle, Popcorn punches Gogo until her conscience comes back. Gogo sees Scavy lying there with bloody legs, the flesh on his face and neck burning red.

“I’m sorry…” Gogo says to Scavy.

Scavy doesn’t even look at her. She looks over at Popcorn.

“I didn’t mean to…” she says to Popcorn.

Then Gogo runs away, out of the crowd, toward the hospital.

Popcorn looks at Scavy as if it’s her fault. She wants to hold him, make him feel better, but the noise filling her head when she gets too close to the perimeter of the circle is too much for her to bear. It’s like thousands of needles stabbing her in the brain.

Junko holds Scavy in her arms, looking down on his burnt face. With all the rain pouring down on them, Scavy doesn’t notice the tears rolling out of her eyes.

“So does Laurence get the seat on the helicopter now?” Scavy asks.

Junko scans the parking lot until she sees Mr. T, smashing his way through the horde. When she gets a look into his empty white eyes, she can tell he is no longer among the living.

“No,” she tells Scavy, shaking her head. “He’s infected, too.”

Scavy looks over at the T-2000. The cyborg zombie smashes everything that moves, rumbling the earth beneath his feet.

“Fuck…” Scavy says. “Zombie Mr. T…”

Then he looks up at Junko. “So now what?”

Junko looks back at the helicopter. Then looks around to make sure none of the camera balls are close enough to hear.

“Plan B,” she says. “One of us will still get to that helicopter. We’ll get back to the island of Neo New York. Then unleash the virus on those fat cats in the Platinum Quadrant, starting with that motherfucker Wayne Rizla.”

Scavy smiles. “That would be punk as fuck. Sounds like a plan.”

Junko lifts him to his feet, but he screams and drops down to the ground.

“I’m not going to get anywhere like this,” Scavy says. “You go. I know you can do it.”

Junko nods at him.

“Okay,” she says. “But I’ll leave the gnome with you.”

“Take the shotgun,” Scavy says. “This thing is awesome.”

She pushes back the barrel of the gun.

“No, keep it,” she says. “You can cover me.”

“Okay.” He nods, then smiles. “Give them hell and shit.”

She stands up.

“I will,” she says. “…and shit.”

She smiles brightly as she revs her chainsaw, then runs into the crowd toward the helicopter.

Scavy looks back at Popcorn and says, “I love that woman!” Then he turns back to Junko, firing his shotgun at the zombies in her path.