Fanfic: Zombies, Zombies, ALWAYS ZOMBIES! 🧟 Ep. 17: A Friend?

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

Wazzup? I’m back with episode seventeen of my fanfiction, Zombies, Zombies, ALWAYS ZOMBIES! If you missed the last episode catch it here, or if you’re new here, you can start from the beginning! 

I hope you guys have been having a great time reading this, because I sure am having a great time writing this! After the last ending, I thought I’d type this next one up so you can find out what happens next. So, here you go. Have fun!

ZOMBIES, ZOMBIES, ALWAYS ZOMBIES!

A Zomberry Series

Episode Seventeen: A Friend?

Clumsy Bird, Icy Stone, and Jazzy Hawk were terrified.

It wasn’t the kind of terror they had felt previously — when the play got crashed by an apocalypse, when they got stuck on Time Tangled, and when they had been taken from their balloon and thrown in prison — it was nothing, NOTHING compared to the horror that they had just witnessed.

After days and days of restless and dangerous searching, they had found Toothpick. Except it wasn’t Toothpick. He was working for the bad guys, he wasn’t fidgeting at all, there was no emotion in his eyes, and he was wearing a suit, for crying out loud! (This was particularly odd, because the three friends were used to see him in a casual hoodie.)

But nevertheless, there was no mistaking that IT WAS TOOTHPICK. He stared at them coldly.

Toothpick

No. I don’t know you! Behave yourselves.

Birdy

Pick, but— but—

The Other Guard

This cell is clear. Let’s move on.

The Other Guard unlocked the handcuffs that they had put on the three.

Hawk

Dude, come on! Snap outta this.

Toothpick and The Other Guard began to march out of the cell, but Hawk grabbed Toothpick’s sleeve in an attempt to stop him. In an uncharacteristic response, Toothpick swiftly brought out a taser and zapped Hawk’s wrist!

Hawk
OUCH! 

Hawk rubbed the spot on his wrist as Pick put the taser back in his belt.

Hawk

Oww…

Toothpick

That should be a reminder to keep in your place.

Birdy took a step forward. She thrust the Rubik’s cube into Pick’s hand, in a last attempt to bring him back. Toothpick looked at the cube and clutched it in his fingers.

Pick

What this— that’s IT! I’m going to report you three to my leading officer!

Birdy

Just please, remember?

Without another word, Toothpick and The Other Guard marched out of the cell, and started on the next cell, then went back up the concrete steps.

Not a word was spoken.

The only sounds were the muffled footfalls coming from the floor above them.

Magic

S—sorry guys.

The Chaos Trio in the cell across from them were still for a few more moments, until it was too much to bear. Then they began quietly shuffling through songs on their radio, trying to find a good one for the mood.

Hawk (shaking)

So— so we found Pick?

Stone

That wasn’t Toothpick.

Clumsy Bird (tearfully)

It was! I saw him!

Hawk

Either that’s Toothpick, or he has an evil twin.

Stone

I didn’t know Pick long, but that’s not him. Well, it is him, but not really. 

Birdy

What do you mean?

Stone

I’m not sure. I don’t like this place. Something’s up. I want answers.

Hawk

I don’t like this place either. We’re being kept in the dark, literally and figuratively.

They were silent for a long time after that. Meanwhile, the melody of Taps was being played, slowly. When evening was nearing (they couldn’t tell the time of day, and the cell stayed slightly dim throughout the day), a group of guards came down, bearing dinner.

Birdy and Hawk didn’t want to look out and see Toothpick among the drove, so they kept their heads down. Stone, however, kept hers up. Toothpick wasn’t in this group, but that wasn’t the reason she had looked up.

Stone looked around at the guards. She watched their orderly movements and the glaze over their eyes. Beside the fact that they hadn’t turned indigo and they said many other things than “bleh” and “merg”,  Stone would assume that they were zombies!

She kept her theories to herself, however, and took the three take-out boxes silently. Stone passed a box each to her friends as the guards marched back upstairs.

Stone

It’s fine, they’re all gone. Toothpick wasn’t with them anyway.

Hawk opened his box and began to eat his sandwich, ignoring the blueberry muffin (that looked like it was his same muffin from breakfast).

Hawk

Thanks.

Stone nodded in reply and opened her box. She made a small gasp that the others didn’t hear. There was no muffin in her box. Instead, there was a note with spidery writing on it:

DO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS WANT ANSWERS?

TONIGHT.

BE READY.

TO BE CONTINUED…

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