Alex put down his gun and raised his hands.
"Well well if it ain't my lucky day I met two alive people in less than 2 hours," the older man with the cowboy hat said.
"My car ran out of fuel and I was looking for a car with enough fuel and no vehicle here has gas in them," Alex said trying to seem frustrated and angry.
"Where are you going exactly?" the other younger man asked.
"Anywhere other than here," Alex said.
"Can I get a lift?" Alex continued hoping that his excuse works.
" Well I am going to Columbus and he is going to Tallahassee but he will drop me in Texarkana," the younger man said.
" Well I wanted to go to Hollywood so I will appreciate it if you can drop me close by. I am Alex by the way," Alex said.
"Okay, but there are a few rules. First no names you can call me Tallahassee and him Columbus but seeing that you have already told us your name so we will just call you by your name" Tallahassee said.
"Second no annoying me otherwise I might punch your teeth in" Tallahassee continued.
"And lastly no messing around with my Cady"
"Alright no problem," Alex said pretending to stay calm even though he was happy that his plan worked.
"Now that this is done please move out of the way I got a snack to enjoy," Tallahassee said looking towards the truck visibly exited.
As he open the truck door many packets of snoballs started pouring outside. Tallahassee looked at them with shock and then became angry and started to look inside.
"Snoballs," Columbus said and picked up a snoball and started eating.
" They are fresh " he continued.
" There is not a single Twinkie inside," Tallahassee said angrily.
"You are looking for twinkles," Alex asked already knowing the answer.
"Yes but every person in this apocalyptic world decided to eat them," Tallahassee said with frustration.
" I have it," Alex said pulling an id while pretending to pull a box of twinkles from the bag he had on his shoulder.
Tallahassee looked at the book and then snatched it hurriedly and ripped the book open and started eating it with satisfaction.
"Well you, my friend, just became my second favorite person in the world," He said.
"Thanks, I guess," Alex said.
"Can we leave now I do feel safe standing in the middle of the road where we can be attacked by zombies anytime" Alex continued.
All three of them got in the car and Alex sat down in the back seat. Then the conversation went the same way as in the movie i.e Tallahassee asking Columbus when was the last time he had sex in weird terms and Columbus making up stories.
"What about you why are you going to Hollywood?" suddenly Tallahassee asked Alex.
"Well, I want to live in a celebrity house. I mean now that there are zombies everywhere and their houses are most probably empty." Alex made an excuse.
"That is a nice idea I want to see Bill Murray's mansion too," Tallahassee said.
Then Tallahassee and Columbus started thinking and Alex started to think about the plot and he suddenly realized that he fucked up the plot. Tallahassee and Columbus were supposed to stop at a store for Twinkies where they will Wichita and Little rock and now that he has given Tallahassee Twinkies there is a chance that they might not stop at the store. He started panicking and started to think of a way to make them stop at the store.
"Good things never last long," Tallahassee said while throwing out the empty box.
"There is a store on the way that might still have twinkles," Alex said hoping to make him stop at the store.
"There is a chance that the store does not have Twinkies besides you just had a box," Columbus said not wanting to stop at the store.
"Now hold on a minute If there is even a small possibility that there are Twinkies in there then we are stopping and there is no such thing as too many Twinkies in my book," Tallahassee said.
'With that, the plot is back on track' Alex thought as he sighed with relief.
The drive went smoothly for the next hour and with Tallahassee only making 4 stops to kill zombies. Seriously the movie did not do justice to the hate he has for zombies and it is understandable too after all the guy did lose everything he cared for to zombies but this is good for Alex because he was able to kill 15 zombies during his completing almost half of his upgraded mission.
The car stopped again but this time not for killing zombies but in front of a store. Alex was quite excited to meet Wichita. All of them got out of the car and Tallahassee opened the trunk to show many weird weapons and started to select which to use here. After Tallahassee made his choice which was the same as in the movie a gardening sheer. Then they walk into the convenience store and Tallahassee found a banjo and decided to play it to draw out zombies. Two zombies came running toward them Tallahassee smashes the banjo in one zombie's head and Alex shoots the other in the head two times. Another comes out which is again killed by Tallahassee using the gardening sheers.
A woman in her 20s comes out of the storage room looking sad with tears in her eyes.
"Please come with me," she said to them softly with sadness in her voice and walks toward the storage room again. Tallahassee follows her and Columbus follows after checking the exit. Alex who knows what is going on followed last. A young girl was sitting at the table and the woman was holding her.
Tallahassee came towards them and said in a low voice " They are sisters that is Wichita and the girl's name is Little rock. And she is bitten".
"She was bit some time ago and we already made the decision we just did not have a gun. We are just looking for a way out" Wichita said firmly pointing toward the gun in Tallahassee's hand with her eyes.
"Do not talk about me like I am not here. I know what is going on and what is gonna happen. We made a decision and we have already said goodbyes." Little rock said pretending to give up.
If Alex had not watched the movie then even he would have been fooled by their acting after all they have conning people even before all this and have to experience it. Columbus again tried to give her false hope but was turned down.
"Alright since you have already made the decision," Tallahassee said lifting his hand to aim his gun but Alex stopped him.
"Let me do it," Alex said.
"Are you sure?" Tallahassee asked.
"Yes," Alex said while pointing his gun toward Little rock's head. Suddenly Wichita stopped him.
"Give me your gun let me do it," Wichita said. She was quite confident that she had fooled them with her acting.
"No, let me do it," Alex said contrary to what she thought he will say.
"No, It was my decision and I do not want you all to live with the fact that you killed a child," Wichita said trying to persuade Alex to give her the gun.
"But it is better than you having to live with the fact that you killed your sister," Alex said while aiming to the right of her head again and pulling the trigger.
The bullet missed her head and hit the wall behind and Little rock fell to left. She was quite shocked that the gun was fired at her and was stunned for some time.
"No!" Wichita screamed and ran towards her sister. She checked her everywhere and was relieved that she was not shot but just in shock.
She looked towards Alex with anger.
"How did you figure it out?" Wichita asked.
"What is going on?" Columbus asked and Tallahassee aimed his gun at Wichita.
"They are lying to us she is not bitten" Alex answered Columbus's question.
"I watched you two on a petrol pump conning a man so I knew you were a con artist and that wound is too small to be made by the zombies outside so you probably made it yourself," Alex said giving a random reason.
Of course, he only because he watched the movie and knew about it.
"So we tried to help you and you almost screwed us over. What was your plan exactly, take our weapon and shoot us?" Tallahassee said angrily.
"No! We were just going to take your weapon and car we know want to harm yourself. Our car ran out of gas and we do not have any weapons. We just trying to go to Pacific Playland it is the only place free from zombies" Little rock explained hurriedly.
"If you wanted a lift you could have just asked," Columbus said.
"Well we can still give you a lift," Alex said.
"Are you crazy? There is no way I am letting these two in my car they just try to rob us" Tallahassee said.
"What do you want to do then leave them here to die? Killing zombie is one thing but leaving a kid to die is another." Alex said trying to guilt-trip Tallahassee.
Tallahassee appears all tough but he also has a weakness which is his son's death due to zombies and he projected his feeling for his son onto Little rock as shown in the sequel.
Tallahassee looked at Little rock for some time and lowered his gun.
"Fine but they move a step out of line I will shoot them," Tallahassee said.
"So do you want a lift now?" Alex asked again.
"How can we trust you?" Wichita said.
"You can't and besides we were not the ones trying to con the other," Alex said stating a fact.
"We are going out and if you want to come with us come along," Alex said before walking out with Tallahassee and Columbus.
Wichita and Little rock hesitated for some time. Then Little Rock said something to Wichita and they started following them.
And at that time Alex received a notification that he was waiting for.
[ Congratulations to adventurer No:707897 for triggering a special mission]
[Mission B: Help Wichita and Little rock reach Pacific Playland safely and make sure they survive their visit to Pacific Playland
Reward: Hidden, will be awarded after returning to the Tower]
[Do you accept 'yes' or 'no' ]
Alex clicked on 'yes'
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