Max came down the stairs from the blockbuster storeroom. He sipped his cup of coffee as David nailed boards up to the wall. Max sighed as David was about to go on one of his weird flights of fancy again.

"David, what are you doing?" Max asked as he sipped his coffee in annoyance.

"I'm getting our store ready for the invasion!" David said with a smile. "It's always best to be prepared when under siege!"

"So...." Max looked around. "When's school starting?"

"It's been canceled for the apocalypse," David said with a smile.

"Okay...." Max said as he walked back up the stairs. He stopped when he noticed Preston and Dolph standing outside knocking on the door. He walked over and opened the shittly nailed down door and stared at them. "What?"

"We're here for school," Preston said.

"Schools cancelled." Max replied. "Get lost."

"That's not what mein parents said," Dolph said. "They said that they received a prank phone call about diabetics, but assumed it was a joke."

"Oh dear," David said as he looked at his new charges. "I don't know If I have enough supplies for all of you....." David thought about it for a moment and came to a conclusion. "I'm gonna go out for some supplies. I'll be right back."

"Well, today might be mildly interesting." Max mused as he sipped his coffee. He figured David would spend the whole day jumping at his own shadow, I mean, what moron actually thinks diabetics are going to cause an apocalypse?

***

A small sign next to the clinic showed that it was open for business. The small clinic mall was where everyone got their medicine, even Max visited once to see how much getting Max caught up on his shots was. It was still out of Davids price range, but he got the really serious ones out of the way so at least Max won't get polio.

The sign also talked about a new drug trial that supposed to completely regulate diabetic blood sugar, and theoretically allow them to get a better sense of when their blood sugar is high or low by making it so they can feel it. It had several side effects.....

"Hungry!" the door suddenly slammed open as several people came out with salivating mouths and hunger in their eyes. They came out into the food court pushing people out of the way and eating their food even as other people protested.

"What's happening?" A fast food employee asked.

"Close the door!" The manager said as he quickly ripped down the metal grate as all the diabetics approached.

"Do you have anything that's sugar-free?" One of the diabetics asked. "I'm watching my weight, and I'm so hungry!"

"Oh no they're gonna eat me!" The employee said as she ran into the back room. She suddenly stopped when she saw one of the cooks eating some fries straight out of one of the fryers.

"Billy....are you..."

"Hungry!" the man said as he suddenly.

"Oh god it's spreading!" the woman screamed as she ran out of the back room.

***

Max opened the door and allowed Eird and space kid into the blockbuster. Clearly, none of the parents actually listened to Davids call, as all the campers had already arrived.

"Hey Erid, hey space kid," Max said. "Everyone's in the theater, oh and Davids having another breakdown."

"Cool." Erid said as they walked into the theater. Neil had his whole desk set up and perfectly organized, ready for another school day. He even measured the optimum distance his pencils should be away from his paper for maximum efficiency. He then looked over several of the books and placed them in the optimum places for each subject and the order Gwen commonly taught them. Nikki then flipped his table.

"What the fuck Nikki!?" Neil asked.

"Chaos!" Nikki yelled.

"Where the fuck is Gwen?" Max asked.

"You broke my pencil," Neil complained as he picked it up off the ground.

"Agent of chaos!" Nikki said again.

"No seriously, wheres Gwen?" Max asked again.

"I don't know," Nikki said. "Maybe she's late."

"Or crying in the bathroom again," Neil suggested.

"Has anyone seen her?" Max asked the larger group.

"No." the group replied.

"Maybe she's sick," Dolph suggested.

"She cant afford to be sick." Max reminded him. "I'm gonna go check the bathroom." He stood up and walked down the theater when suddenly a hand burst through the wall. It was some guy from the china wok next door.

"Hungry!" the man suddenly yelled as he tried to rip through the soundproof foam of the wall.

"What the fuck, that's expensive!" Max yelled, he suddenly groaned when he realized he actually cared about David's finances.

"Let's get out of here!" Neil yelled.

"Gross, is he sick?" Erid asked.

"Let's move," Neil said as he grabbed Max and Nikki and dragged him out of the room. All the campers left the room and barricaded the door behind them.

***

"Are you sure these emergency rations will be enough to keep a ten kids fed for a few days?" David asked as he looked over the large box. He was standing in the military surplus store Darren was currently running.

"David, what's this about?" Darren asked as he thumbed through a business magazine.

"Well there's this diabetic drug trial in the clinic, and I wanna make sure that Max and I are safe when it lets out!" David said matter of factly.

"Huh, I'd have thought you'd be pissing your pants right about now, considering how irrational that fear is," Darren said as he flipped through the magazine.

"Well I have a son to take care of now, I don't have time to be afraid for my own safety!"

"Good for you," Darren said.

"That drug there trying.....It's something called Zombaprax." David said as he recalled it from the flyer. He wanted to be sure that he had all the information for the coming apocalypse.

"Did you just say Zombaprax?" Darren said as his eyes widened.

"Yes," David said slightly meekly, as he's never actually seen Darren give a shit before.

"That bastard," Darren said as he jumped up from his chair. He quickly went to his safe and entered the combination.

"What?" David asked as Darren pulled out a gun.

"That drug wasn't ready, and he knew it!" Darren said frustrated as he yanked out the bullets and loaded it with tranquilizer darts.

"Uhh, context?" David asked as Darren's reaction was starting to scare him a little.

"Zombaprax is an experimental drug my father had created as a potential cure for diabetes, the only problem is, it doesn't cure it," Darren said as he closed his gun. "Not even close."

"What does it do?" David asked.

"It creates an overactive state of the id or hindbrain, utterly eliminating self-control," Darren said. "And it spreads like a virus through skin to skin contact."

"That sounds awful," David said getting fearful, brave David only lasted about as long as his fears weren't real.

"It also sounds like exactly something my father would do to mess with me," Darren said. "He's an asshole, but at least he cares.....in his own way." Darren cocked the gun.

"I have to go save Max!" David said as he ran out and of the store.

"David, come back here!" Darren yelled.

David ran out into the middle of the mall and looked at a massive group of people utterly destroying the churro stand. That poor attendant, probably thought they were trying to eat them, now he's completely unhinged and making out with the girl from the fast food restaurant.

David mused about how good they were together, at least the apocalypse helped those two finally get together, everyone was really rooting for them. They've had a crush on each other for so long, but those two have never had the courage to do something about it. At least they get to spend a little time together before the diabetics run out of candy and develop a taste for human flesh that is.

"Uh oh," David said as he realized he was surrounded. He really shouldn't have spent so much time feeling happy for them. I mean they're great together, but an apocalypse really isn't a time to be focusing on such things, and David should really stop thinking about this while he's surrounded by a ton of infected zombies.

"Get on!" Paul suddenly came crashing through a large group of the infected. He came to stop next to David and David climbed on and held onto the back of the segway as he raced away, slightly faster than the infected.

"I'll meet up with you later!" Darren yelled as he slammed down a metal grate in front of his store, blocking the infected from busting through.

***

Max helped Nerf hold the door shut, as Neil grabbed a broom and slid it through the door handles. Max and Nurf stepped away as the infect tried to bash the door down all over again.

"What the fuck is going on?" Max asked. "And how the fuck did that guy punch through a wall?" Max said confused at how one guy was suddenly so strong.

"I really wanted to see a movie!" He heard someone yell from the other side. Max facepalmed at the incredibly ridiculous explanation.

"Should we like.....call the police?" Erid asked.

"What about Mall security?" Neil suggested.

"Let's go with that, there closer," Max said, he walked over to the counter and grabbed the phone from the storage room next to the trash bag.

***

Jon stood in the corner of his room with everything he managed to save from his desk. The lack of inhibitions allowed several employees to terminate their employment in quite spectacular ways. Including quite literally pissing on his desk. Like actually, he just whipped his dick out and did it, Jon still didn't know what was going on at the time so it was quite a shock.

Jon looked over the security cameras at all the chaos going on all around the mall. It was complete insanity like everyone completely forgot how to act like human beings. He suddenly froze when he heard the phone ringing.

"Great, another dick joke," Jon said as he walked over to the phone. No inhibitions, meaning absolutely no fear of consequences, meaning a fuck ton of crank calls. "If this is the one about the refrigerator, at least try to make it original."

"Jon?" Max asked on the line.

"Oh it's you, have you called to tell me what you really think of me?" Jon said as he looked over the cameras and looked around for the blockbuster feed. He was surprised when he saw a lot less destruction, and sex everywhere, people are fucking heathens.

"Someone busted through the wall in the theater, and now they're trying to eat out flesh!" Max said. "So do your job and send someone," Max said more demandingly, he does not like Jon.

"I'd love to if my officers didn't just quit their jobs and start stealing shit," Jon said. "Do you have any idea what's going on out there? People have completely lost control."

"So?" Max asked.

"So, somethings wrong, no one is responding."

"That's because of the virus!" Jon stopped when one of the walkie talkies came online.

"Let me put you on speakerphone," Jon said as he patched the walkie talkie through to the other mall.

"The virus deletes all your inhibitions and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do," Darren said over the walkie talkie.

"Where are you, I don't see you?" Jon asked.

***

Darren crawled through the vent as he made his way toward the security room. Luckily they had the wall repaired last week, so Jon was actually pretty safe.

"I'm headed your way through the vents," Darren said. "Best to stay out of sight for now."

"How are we going to stop this?" Max asked.

"Easy, we just have to get to the clinic and find the cure."

"That's supposed to be easy?" Max asked annoyed. "This mall is fucking huge, and there are fifteen hundred people just outside my door."

"Well I think that if we just work together, we can accomplish this task," David said over the line.

"David is that you?" Max asked.

***

"Yes, it is Max," David said with a grin as he spoke into the walkie talkie. They were currently moving on a segway that was running out of battery, so it was only going like five miles an hour, luckily the infected are really stupid and slowed down with them.

"Good I need you for health insurance." Max said to hide his concern.

"That's so sweet!" David said with sparkly eyes.

"Shut up David, and listen to the plan." Max snapped.

***

"If you're on the segway, then all you have to do is drive it past the blockbuster and draw them away, then we'll head over to the clinic," Max said. "With Jon showing us the way."

"I feel like we've done this before," Neil said.

"Yeah but not in a mall." Erid said. "That's like......a whole different thing."

"I feel like it's still plagiarism," Neil said.

"Shut up Neil." Max snapped. "This is fanfiction, so if you really think about it it's just plagiarism with extra steps."

***

David and Paul stopped at the segway station and quickly switched out the batteries, as their pursuers followed them at a snail's pace. Seriously, there was nothing wrong with them, but they didn't know how to take down a segway, so they just kept slowing down when Paul did.

"Hurry, they're getting closer," Paul said as David switched out the battery.

"I know," David said as he looked fearfully at the large group of people patiently waiting for them to switch out the battery. Honestly, at this point they don't even remember why there chasing them, they just think it's kinda fun.

"I got it," Paul said. "Get back on." David jumped on the back as they sped off to the blockbuster.

***

Several infected people were trying to break down the door, probably looking to buy a movie, or bitch about late fees. Mostly bitch about late fees, this store is never that lucky. Preston, Nerris, and Nurf were all pressed against the door to prevent it from breaking down. Suddenly a large hand burst through one of the windows.

"Take me off your fucking call list, or I will destroy your fucking store!" A man yelled as he reached around and wrapped a hand around Preston's throat.

"Help me!" Preston choked out. Max grabbed a large plank of wood and bashed the man in the face with it, making him let go.

"Don't let your dreams be dreams." Another man said. "Now eat my spit!" He suddenly spat into the room straight in Harrison's face. Harrison fell back as he tried to use his gloves to wipe it out his eyes. Nerf grabbed another plank of wood and slammed it over the breach.

"This is escalating quickly," Max said as he tried to think of a plan. David was really late, and that is incredibly annoying. That and he's pretty sure Harrison was just infected.

"Where's David, and why do these people care so much about late fees?" Max asked annoyed.

"We have a bigger problem," Neil said as he pointed at Harrison.

"I will kill you all!" Harrison yelled as he floated over the ground.

"Goddammit," Max said slightly annoyed.

"You will die in the flames of eternal...." Nikki suddenly bashed him over the head with a stick and knocked him unconscious.

"Cool." Erid said as Nikki fangirled over her approval.

"Look there moving away!" Neris said as she pointed at the invading infected.

"Let's go," Max said as he gestured for the others to follow him.

***

Max and the gang had to take a detour through a woman's clothing store because a large group of infected were fighting over the cotton candy stand. Max lead the way through the various clothing racks as they made their way to the other entrance. Luckily he knew this stupid mall like the back of his hand.

"Eww, panties," Nikki said as they stopped.

"Shut up, the attendants are still here," Max said as he looked over some of the racks. There where several employees all crowding around the changing rooms. They were in the middle of trying on different clothes and seeing how they fit and burning anything that was too small. Turns out even shopping has its triggers.

"Burn this stupid fucking dress!" one of the women said. "I'll show you a size too small! I'm skinny dammit!" suddenly a pair of panties came flying through the air and landed on space kids helmet.

"I have a hat." Space kid said as he looked at it. The attendants suddenly turned and looked at the small children sneaking through women's underwear section unattended.

"Shit," Max said. "Run." The campers took off running following Max out of the room.

"Fucking pervert brats!" The attendants yelled as they ran after them.

"I got this little dude." Erid said as she hopped on her skateboard. She circled back around and popped her gum signaling for them to stop.

"What?" the attendants asked.

"Losers." Erid said loudly and took off in a different direction, enraging the attendants and successfully diverting them.

***

The group stopped to catch there breath as the attendants finally lost sight of them. They suddenly froze when a fast food worker carrying free samples approached.

"Fuck," Max said as they approached and held out the tray.

"Free samples." The worker said as he held them out.

"Uhh, no thank you," Max said.

"Fucking eat them and love them!" the worker yelled. "I did not waste forty minutes making up a tray for them to go bad again."

"Okay!" Max said as he stuffed what looked like a tiny sandwich in his mouth. The attendant walked away as Max spit it out in the trash.

"Well that was weird," Neil said.

"Yeah, what kinda person doesn't wear a hairnet when they make food?" Nikki added in.

"Focus," Max said. "The clinic is just over there." Max and the gang flinched as space kid was suddenly slammed through the wall by an attendant.

"And stay out!" They yelled.

"I'm okay." Space Kid said, despite having just been shoved through a brick wall.

"Focus people, we've already lost Erid, Space Kid, and Harrison," Max said. He was pretty sure that getting space kid out of that wall was going to be next to impossible at this point.

"We also lost Nerris." Neil pointed out.

"What?" Max asked as he looked around and realized Nerris was gone too. "Goddammit."

***

Darren dropped down from the ceiling into the mall security room. He took one whiff of the room and his whole nose crinkled.

"It smells like piss in here." He said as he covered his nose.

"Yeah, turns out a lot of people hate my guts," Jon said as he typed on the computer to check the cameras.

"What's our status?" Darren asked as he stood next to the monitor station.

"It looks like pretty much everyone is infected except the kids, and David and Paul," Jon said. "They ran over someone's foot, so there pretty preoccupied trying to get away from someone whos trying to break their legs."

"What about the cure?"