Fanfic: Zombies, Zombies, ALWAYS ZOMBIES! 🧟 Ep. 7: Lightning and Thunder (and Cake)

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by Magic Kid. Enjoy!

Okay, okay, okay, and we’re back again! (Catch up with the previous chapter here, or start from the beginning here.)

We now know something much more dark and serious is going on, and a new Poptropican has joined the team. They have just escaped from a zombie invasion that paraded the last remaining survivors… and Bosko (I’m so sorry, guys!). But do not fear, because CJ (Shrink Ray Island) gave Jazzy Hawk an idea that could save them all. At least, it could save them all unless the zombies get them first. Prepare for adventure!

Warning: I am not a safety expert (quite the opposite, in fact)! So do not try any of this stuff IRL, because quite frankly, the result will not be satisfactory.

Over and Out!

ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES, ALWAYS ZOMBIES!

A Zomberry Series

Episode Seven: Lightning and Thunder (and Cake) 

Going to Time Tangled Island is a piece of cake. That is, if the cake rains hard sprinkles of rain and brings winds.

And if you put the cake in the freezer. And some thunder booms loudly. Oh, and the lightning striking dangerously close to the blimp. 

It is not a very pleasant slice of cake, metaphorically speaking. And anyway, I should stop comparing the weather to cake.

Jazzy Hawk

Time Tangled Island should be due south! And anyway, we should be there soon!

Witty Toothpick

I sure do hope soon!

Icy Stone

What do you even want at Time Tangled?

Toothpick glances at Hawk, silently asking if they should share their (well, CJ’s) plan with an outsider.

Hawk isn’t sure. Icy Stone doesn’t exactly give off “I’m A Bad Guy Ready To Turn You To The Zombies” vibes, but doesn’t exactly seem like someone they should trust immediately. 

A split second after Icy Stone asked the question, Hawk does the smallest shake of his head, and Toothpick notices.

Toothpick

Oh, well, we need to stop by Leonardo’s Workshop to, uh, pick up some supplies.

If Icy Stone finds this suspicious, she doesn’t show it. 

Thunder booms again, louder than before.

Clumsy Bird

Uhhh, we should probably land soon.

Hawk

Oh, what the ocean? We can make it to the island! We can make it!

He says “we can make it” twice as though to will the storm to let them make it. They are now shouting over the rain, which is thundering down and down and then—

Birdy

OW!

A large chunk of hail hits her head.

Birdy (continued)

Hail?! Are you kidding me?!

Hawk is at the wheel keeping it from spinning, drenched.

Hawk

HAIL THE HAIL!

Pick

THAT’S NOT FUNNY RIGHT NOW— OH CRUD!

Icy Stone

What?

Hawk turns around and he sees it too. There is a massive dark gray storm cloud with forks of lighting shooting out of it. And they are heading right towards it.

Birdy

CRICKEY! Down down down! 

Hawk is at the wheel, which starts spinning uncontrollably, violently. 

Hawk 

That’s what I’m trying! Birdy, you get that rope and pull it down. Pick, let the air out of the blimp balloon part thingy. And—

Pick

WHAT?! YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT?!

Hawk

Just do it, we’re right above Time Tangled, alright? 

Birdy pulls the rope, and it turns the motor off. Pick unscrews a secured cap, and slowly the yellow blimp begins to deflate. They’re going down, down, slowly at first, but getting faster and faster.

Toothpick is as pale as the moon. 

Hawk grabs some things from the secret compartment and hands one to each person.

Hawk

Parachutes! Get your stuff, put them on! This is our stop!

Toothpick looks on the verge of a nervous collapse.

Icy Stone

What the heck? What are you doing?

Hawk

The storm is too strong… we’ll repair the blimp when we get there, if the blimp is repairable… Everyone got the parachutes on?

They all nod.

Hawk

Okay, only release your parachutes when I say, okay? We can’t release them too high or the storm will blow us away. Ready?

They are 100 feet from the ground.

Toothpick

Ready.

75 feet.

Clumsy Bird

YEAH! LET’S DO THIS!

50 feet.

Icy Stone

Yep. Let’s go.

20 feet.

Hawk
NOW JUMP AND GO!

They all jump off the crashing blimp and open the parachutes just in time. But despite their parachutes, they thunder to the ground, not noticing what is wrong with Time Tangled Island. Not noticing the ashes around them.

And not noticing the helicopter fly over them, a grin flashing through the tinted glass window.

But at least they are safe… for now.

TO BE CONTINUED

(Wasn’t that a piece of cake?)

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