The trajectory lines that I always imagine when shooting were extremely vivid. With the cage between me and my targets it was quite a bit more complicated than normal to.

It was a chaotic spiderweb of dotted lines that came to my mind as fast as I put them to use. Bolts nicked the security gate and spiraled into explosive headshots on the charging heart-spawn.

My HUD read 20 bolts left when I heard the most brutal roaring trumpet I've ever heard.

Benny stubbled back out of Metalheads Paradise and flung Jessica across the main lobby, but her guitar remained lodged in the elephant's skull.

His health bar was lowered significantly, but he flashed red with the rage ability. All of my trajectory lines were now curved through the gate and into Benny's weak points. I pumped the remaining bolts into his trunk and bellowed, "RELOADING!"

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The walls were covered in colorful posters of cartoon characters and Lego settings. In one corner was a buildable-plushy-stand and the rest of the store was just shelf after shelf full of toys and children's card games.

In between the shelves were zombies too stupid to go around and to weak to knock over the shelves, all effectively trapped. Three in the first isle all turned to face Nicole.

She pointed her Bo staff at the three and made a series of simple circles against their outstretched arms. The way they crashed into the shelves of toys and fell over was almost a slap stick comedy, except for the loud cracking of skulls when she spun in wide arcs and punished them with her staff.

The smell of human flesh made zombies in the back of the store wizen up and move around behind Nicole, trapping her in return.

She slid her staff across a rack of pokèballs and emptied a bunch of board games onto the floor. She even pegged a zombie with an Ultra-pokèball. It cracked open against the undead's head and made a little activating noise, however the zombie was too powerful for even an ultra-ball, but it did slip and crack its head against the shelf.

She slammed the end of her staff into the downed zombie's skull and used it to pole-vault herself at one shuffling towards Fifi. She kicked it into the buildable-plushy-stand and crammed a wad of stuffing into its mouth. Then she spun with her weapon like a helicopter cracking skulls left and right.

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Benny the elephant turned it's attention to the toy store across the way where more tasty meat was putting little sticks into his unphased trunk.

Jackie Doug stood before the tank of a creature with the determination of a man who had already died. He raised one leg and snapped his arms out in front of him in a peaceful yet intimidating stance.

Benny towered over him with a dead stare and swept him aside with his trunk. He disappeared back into the smoke he had come from and Benny turned to charge.

The cage breaks all of the way in the first strike, even with broken legs. Tusks scrape the ground as me and Pogo are caught up in the gate being shoved our way.

Before we could be squished between the security gate and a toy shelf Nicole reaches over and grabs us both by the scruff of the neck. We all huddle helplessly against the wall as it crushes the thin metal gate with each angry swing of its head.

All I saw was the point of a tusk and a spray of nearly a hundred torn playing cards. It's trunk wrapped around me and everything began to blur, but I heard the gunshot. Everyone heard the gunshot.

A 500 magnum revolver pounded an elephant killer round into Benny's back. It dropped me and stumbled out of the store to face its new prey. Edwardo stood there with gun-smoke shrouding his face and rolling around his cowboy hat.

"Hasta luego muchacho, hora de derribarte."

He pumped five more bullets out of its sleek barrel and into the elephants skull. With that last shot it slid to a full stop inches from Edwardo.

It took a while for everyone to gather themselves. Nicole sat me down in front of a T.V. in the movie room as I was still a little baked. Honestly, My Little Pony was pretty good.

Everyone else left standing gathered around and discussed how they would distribute the cure. Luckily cat blood of any kind did the trick and we pulled off The Great Mall Curing before anyone else became a nest for Satan's flies.

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P.S. There is one more chapter.

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*Hasta luego muchacho, hora de derribarte.=See ya later pal, time to put you down.