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his gun held up pointed at Andrew.
    Jack lowered his gun and looked back to the team, “Hesitate, you die,” he said in a cold manner.
    “You... You. Killed him,” Elle stuttered.
    “He was dead the moment that thing took a bite out of him,” he replied.
    “You cannot know that, he may have been OK,” Elle replied. “Michael was bitten and he turned into a Zombie, Andrew was bitten and would have also turned into a Zombie,” Jack shouted.
    Frank let go of Elle, “He’s right,” Frank told everyone.
    The banging from outside got louder, Josh moved towards the front of the shop, “There are more of them now,” he told everyone while looking through the shutter.
    “OK, we need to move,” Jack, told all of them. “Bray, with me,” he told Bray while walking to the back of the shop.
    On the back wall, there was a fire exit. “Come on,” Frank told Josh and Elle.
    They both started to follow Frank to the back of the shop to join Jack and Bray, but took one last look at their two dead friends. “I am going to open this slowly and I will go first, turn the safety of your weapons,” Jack told them.
    Just as Jack was about to open the fire exit, Frank grabbed his arm. “I should go first, I am in command,” Frank told him.
    “Frank, I’m good,” Jack reassured him. Jack pushed the bar; unlocking the door, the door opened and Jack crept out slowly with his weapon raised.
    Emerging from the door, Jack stepped into the darkness. Looking around as he stepped out into a car park, the car park was not empty. Trucks and cars were scattered all round as Jack continued to move forward quickly followed by the rest of the team. The darkness was against them, restricting their view. Frank moved to join Jack at the front, “Anything,” he whispered.
    A crash echoed from behind them, Bray turned with his gun ready. The fire exit door had slammed shut behind them. “SHIT!” Josh shouted.
    Jack and Frank turned to see Josh about to fire his gun, approaching them from the right was a group of zombies. “Run, “Jack told them. “We should fight,” Josh replied.
    “We don’t have the ammo or the numbers to fight them off, now move,” Jack told him.
    Elle grabbed Josh by the arm, “We have to run,” she told him.
    The team started to run from the zombies approaching them. Running between the cars, they reached the edge of the car park. Jumping over a small fence, they found themselves on a road. At the far side of the road more zombies were coming, the team changed direction and carried on running. They approached a turn in the road, in front of them two zombies came into sight; Elle raised her gun and opened fire. She shot one straight in the head with her first shot. Before she took a second shot, another Zombie appeared from behind a parked truck. Catching her off guard the Zombie was about to get hold of her, when Jack appeared from behind Elle, he shot the Zombie directly in the head. Elle was shocked, but only for a moment, she quickly raised her gun and took her second shot at the third Zombie shooting in the head.
    Josh, Bray, and Frank caught up Jack and Elle, “There is too many, everywhere we turn there is just more,” Bray told everyone in a panic.
    Frank looked at their surroundings, “There,” he pointed to an old building surrounded by scaffolding.
    “Do you think these things can climb?” Bray asked.
    “Not faster than us,” Josh replied while starting to run towards the building.
    As they reached the building, Jack turned, “OK, everyone up, I will cover you,” he told them.
    Jack took a knee and held his weapon up, from the darkness more and more zombies emerged. Jack started to lay down cover fire. Elle started the climb with Josh quickly behind her. Jack was shooting ahead not seeing what was approaching from his side. Bray was starting his climb when he looked to the side and noticed a Zombie almost at Jack’s position.
    “JACK!” he shouted.
    Elle looked down to see the same