"You would think that it'd be easy to find a zombie we can do testing on since I have magic." Marvin remarked as his black cape fluttered out behind him, the magician absent mindlessly twirling his wand in his hand.

"I don't think finding them is the problem." Jackaboy spoke up as he trailed after Marvin with his fingers curled into fists, his eyes constantly scanning the empty horizon.

"True, all of zhe zombies ve have found have either been too dangerous or too brain dead to be much help." Schneep chimed in, a black drawstring bag of medical supplies slung over his shoulder as he walked alongside the magician.

"Maybe we'll find Robbie eventually." Jackaboy added hopefully, glancing behind his shoulder at Jack.

"I can only imagine how Robbie's been doing out here for so long with all of this going on." Jack sighed as he adjusted the grip on his pistol in hand.

"He's probably having the time of his life, eating people left and right." Anti scowled bitterly as he strode behind Jack with JJ at his side.

"Look, Robbie didn't mean to hurt that guy on the street or Chase!" Jackaboy protested fiercely, JJ stepping in between the two to prevent him and Jackaboy from fighting.

"Hey, why don't we look in this house for supplies?" Marvin interjected to change the subject, leading the others to a house that had a pool in the backyard.

Anti stormed ahead of the group with his knife in hand, Jackaboy jogging in after him with Marvin following after the hero and JJ and Jack behind them.

"Looks pretty empty." Anti commented as he searched each of the rooms with Jackaboy, Schneep taking medical supplies from the bathroom while Jack helped JJ and Marvin grab food as well as other supplies.

"Well, unless you wanna count the dead guy in the living room." Anti added wryly as he walked down the hall of the house, Jack shaking his head as he kept from looking at the corpse.

"All clear!" Anti announced as he left the bedroom, Jackaboy flashing the group a thumbs up as he exited the guest bedroom.

"We got enough stuff, lets get out of here before zombies find us." Marvin advised, JJ nodding in agreement.

"C'mon Schneep, we gotta go!" Jack yelled to Schneep, the German hastily leaving the bathroom with his bag slightly fuller than before.

"I don't like it, there's gotta be zombies hiding around here somewhere." Anti grumbled sourly as he carved a smiley face into the wall.

"You're just saying that because you wanna stab some zombies." Jackaboy retorted, Anti shrugging as he left the house.

The others followed the demon outside just in time to see zombies burst out of the pool after them, their bodies bloated and eyes wild with hunger.

"Zhey are becoming smarter." Schneep breathed in disbelief, his eyes wide in fear as he watched the zombies march towards them.

"Go!" Jackaboy barked sternly as Jack and JJ took off at a sprint with Anti, Schneep, and Marvin, the hero staying behind to fight off the zombies.

Jack fired off a couple of shots as he ran that missed completely before Marvin dragged the Irishman along, causing him to drop his gun.

"Leave my fucking family alone you bastards!" Jackaboy snarled furiously as he punched the zombies hard enough in the head to kill them, his eyes blazing with rage.

"Get Jack, Schneep, and JJ back to the hospital!" Anti directed Marvin in a shout as he turned to help Jackaboy, the magician hesitating as he looked over at the fighting hero.

"We can't risk teleporting, they might follow us through!" Anti insisted impatiently, Marvin nodding reluctantly as he took off at a run with JJ, Schneep, and Jack despite their protests

"I need help!" Jackaboy cried out desperately, Anti turning to see a handful of zombies tackle him to the ground and drag him towards the pool.

Anti gripped his knife handle tighter as he ran towards the fray, decapitating zombies left and right to reach the hero.

"An-"

Jackaboy broke off as a zombie attempted to bite down on Jackaboy's neck, the hero holding their head away inches from him with his hands as he was pulled into the pool by his hair with a splash.

"Jackaboy!" Anti screamed, shoving past zombies before diving into the crimson colored water.

Anti flailed around blindly until he felt Jackaboy's hood while zombie fingers brushed against him, the demon grabbing the hood before dragging the hero up to the surface while fighting off zombies.

"Hold on Jackaboy." Anti muttered under his breath to the male as he slung the hero over his shoulder, scrambling out of the pool and running as fast as he could away from the zombies.

The water from Jackaboy soaked into Anti's clothes, causing the demon to shiver slightly as he ran and tried to ignore how fragile the hero looked in his arms.

The demon didn't dare to slow down until he was certain that he was far enough away from the horde of zombies, Anti's lungs burning as he staggered to his knees and fell to the ground outside of the hospital with water dripping down his face from his hair.

"Anti, what happened?!" Jack demanded as he ran up to the demon, kneeling by the pair and lifting Anti's chin up so he could look into his pitch black eyes.

"I...I couldn't...he..." Anti panted, struggling to regain his breath as he looked down at Jackaboy's face.

The hero's eyes were closed and his chest was still, his skin paler than usual and his blue mask stained with blood while his jumpsuit was torn in various places.

"Out of zhe vay!" Schneep snapped as he roughly shoved past Jack, carefully moving Jackaboy off of Anti's shoulder to lay the hero on the ground.

Jack was uncharacteristically silent as he watched Schneep preform CPR on Jackaboy, JJ attempting to soothe Anti as the demon began pacing frantically.

"I wasn't fast enough." Anti muttered bitterly under his breath as he kicked a piece of debris across the street, his head bowed in shame while JJ hugged him tight.

"Vake up Jackaboy, ve need you." Schneep muttered under his breath as he pushed down on the hero's chest for the sixth time, Jackaboy's eyes flying open as he abruptly sat up.

"Ow!" Schneep hissed in pain as Jackaboy's head collided with the German's, the hero coughing up water while Jack patted him on the back.

"Velcome back." Schneep breathed in relief, rubbing his sore forehead before standing up and offering Jackaboy a hand.

The hero accepted the help with a weary nod of appreciation, JJ allowing Jackaboy to sling an arm over the mute's shoulder so he could walk.

"Did you get bit?" Jack questioned Jackaboy quietly, the hero pausing as he checked each of his limbs.

"No, I'm good." Jackaboy assured him, Jack relaxing slightly as he walked into the hospital with the others.

"Well, we didn't find a zombie we could use to find a cure, but at least we got-"

Jack broke off as he entered Chase's room to find Robbie curled up asleep on the bed of the bed, Chase's eyes closed as his chest rose and fell with each shallow breath he took.

"Vell," Schneep spoke up softly as he stepped towards Robbie, the zombie snuggling against Chase's blanketed feet.

"I guess now ve have a zombie ve can test on."