Title: Zombie Apocalypse AU Starring Fem!USA- Chapter 5 & 6
Genre: Humor
Characters/Pairings: No pairings. Fem!USA(Amelia), France(Francis), Fem!China (Chun-Yan), U.K. (Arthur)
Rating: K+
Warnings: Zombie Apocalypse AU
Summary: The gang “heroically” raid a distribution center and maybe a new character.
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Chapter 5
About a day later, the trio ran into an abandoned distribution center for a huge chain of superstores. Since it was the apocalypse, they “heroically” broke in and spent the rest of the day going through boxes to load on to their truck.
“Just focus on necessary survival items for now,” Chun-Yan ordered, “And don’t forget the batteries!”
Francis pushed his utility dolly down the trailer ramp and entered. “Are you going to help or just stand there and watch us do everything?”
Chun-Yan scoffed. “Oh quit whining! I’m not just sitting on my ass. The oxen have to eat, you know! I was also doing some other things.”
“What other things?”
“Never mind… Just keep filling up the truck. We’ll come back for the rest later.”
“I’m not coming back here for the second trip.”
“You don’t have to come back, you know. Once we get to my place, you can stay there and crush grapes from my vineyard all day. I’m planning on bringing “Miss Hero” with me. I’m sure she’ll love to help me “save” everyone by coming back here to load more supplies. As long as it’s “hero” work, she’ll do it.”
Francis rolled his eyes as he loaded more boxes onto his dolly. “I feel so bad for her,” he muttered as he rolled his dolly back to the truck.
“What did you say?”
“Nothing.”
As he left, Amelia came from the back of the store with more boxes. “I found tons of tampons and pads. We’re definitely going to need these,” Amelia said as she dropped the boxes on the ground.
“Yes… Very good!” Chun-Yan smiled. “Oh Amelia, I have a surprise for you!”
Amelia’s eyes widened. “Oooooo!”
“I found you a small trailer that you can use to store your items in. I also upgraded your wagon!”
“Upgraded?”
“Yes! I waterproofed it, used sleeping bags for padding, and then modified a tent over it. Now you don’t have to sleep on the ground and you have shelter when it rains. I don’t want my most valuable employee getting sick. It’ll make doing your “hero” stuff a whole lot easier.”
Amelia shrieked with delight as she ran over and hugged her boss. “OH THIS IS SO AWESOME! THANK YOU! WOW!”
“Yes, yes… I know I am the best boss ever! I’m so great that I’ll give you two of my oxen to pull it. I believe I’ll still have enough of them to pull my truck.”
“Oh that’s OK, I can pull it myself.”
“WHAT?!”
“Ladies,” Francis shouted with a worried look on his face as he ran back inside, “Do you smell that? I think something burning!”
“Oh no!” Chun-Yan shrieked, “Hurry! We have to put out the fire! We can’t lose this place!”
Amelia grabbed a nearby fire extinguisher off the wall and the three of them ran to the back of the building.
“It’s coming from the employee breakroom!” Francis shouted.
“Who went in there?” Chun-Yan asked.
“Not me,” Amelia replied.
They burst into the room and saw a man using another fire extinguisher on a metal firepit.
“Sorry,” the man replied apologetically, “I was told you were coming so I wanted to make dinner for you all. But as you can see, it accidentally fell into the fire. Oh well… At least the flames are out now. My name’s Arthur, by the way. Pleasure to meet you all!”
Chapter 6
Once everything settled down, everyone went outside. Francis started cooking dinner while the others sat around nearby.
Chun-Yan turned to Arthur, “How long have you been here?”
“I found this place just few days ago,” he replied, “My friends told me to leave the last place I was at when it wasn’t going to stay safe much longer.”
“Where are your friends?” Amelia asked.
Arthur chuckled. “My friends are right here.”
“I don’t see anyone.”
“You can’t see them? Well, maybe because they’re magical. They go around and scout areas for me!”
Amelia and Francis just stared silently at him.
Chun-Yan rubbed her temple and stood up. “I guess if the voices in your head warn you of danger then I suppose I can give you a security job. Come on, Amelia! I’ll show you your new wagon as dinner’s cooking.”
“Okie dokey!” Amelia sprang up and followed behind her.
Arthur waited until they went around the building and were out of sight before he turned towards Francis. “Job? What did she mean by that “security job” comment of hers?”
“It means you’ll be working on her farm for the rest of your life unless you want fend for yourself,” Francis replied, “In other words, Welcome to Hell.”
“I see. There isn’t a better choice at the moment, I take it.”
“The way things are right now, I wouldn’t go off on my own without Amelia. She’s a bit crazy and completely oblivious but she’s quite useful around zombie hordes.”
“She’s crazy? She didn’t seem crazy to me.”
“That’s because you haven’t seen her in action yet. She saved me… and yet I almost died.”
Arthur got up. “I think I should go see if they need me for anything.”
“Probably not,” Francis said with a hint of disappointment.
Arthur ignored him and walked around the building to where the trailers were parked. Chun-Yan was nowhere in sight but he noticed Amelia hanging out in her new tent-wagon.
“Hello!” Arthur stood outside the tent. “So do you like your new tent?”
“Oh yes I do! It’s so comfy!”
“That’s good,” Arthur had no idea what Francis was talking about. Amelia didn’t seem crazy to him so far. He continued, “I heard you were the zombie exterminator of our group.”
Amelia zipped the tent and poked her head out. “Yep, I’m the hero! I hope to get some hero sidekicks together and together we’ll do some hero-type stuff. Miss Chun-Yan said she’d help me!”
“That’s wonderful! So how did you all meet?”
“I was supposed to travel with my sister Maddie but I couldn’t find her.”
“Oh no, how awful!”
Amelia shook her head. “Nah, she’s fine. She has a hockey stick.”
“What?”
“It’s a stick used to play hockey.”
“I know tha…”
“She uses it to bash zombies’ heads in. It’s signed by a famous hockey player but I don’t know which one because I don’t care about hockey. I like baseball better. I brought a baseball bat with me so I don’t waste bullets. If there are only a few zombies, I use my bat out and whack them repeatedly over the head until they stop moving. It works pretty well.”
“Oh… I see.”
“So anyway, I decided to look for her while I went around fighting zombies. I ran into Francis when I burnt down a zombie donut shop. Burnt zombie flesh smells horrible. Yuck!”
“Uh… Interesting! Ha… Well… I have to go… that way now. I will see you later.”
“OK!” Amelia waved at him while he hurried off.
Arthur made his way back to Francis and sat down. “So… Is dinner ready yet?”