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Shiloe swerved to avoid the abandoned cars and occasional zombie on the road as he headed into downtown. He felt sick to his stomach as he slowed to take a corner and then sped up again. 'How is it possible that this is happenign again?' he thought. he mumbled before the bike's engine began to sputter. "s**t" he cursed "No no no no, not now you piece of junk" His pleading proved futile as the bike slowed and rolled to a stop. Shiloe hung his head and sighed as he stepped off. "Looks like we're walking" he said as he drew his 'Samurai Edge' and combat knife and walked towards Kendo's gun shop.

Kylana was fortunate. She saw the van coming towards them, and braced her feet against the back of Shiloe's seat while shouting out a warning, but was a little late with the warning. Their car and the van collided head on, and the car crunched like an empty soda can, shoving Shiloe's seat closer back to her, and she heard something pop. She gasped, not actually able to get any air into her lungs. She pulled her legs down from the seat while still trying to get a breath. Her vision was dark and spotted with green and red dots, the kind you get after staring into a light then closing your eyes. She heard Lilith moving, and that was a good sign. She reached around Shiloe's seat, her eyes full of tears from the pain. She pressed a finger against his throat, and nodded to herself when she felt his pulse there.

She tried the door, and it opened with just a little extra effort. She climbed out woozily, checking the area. She held her gun at the ready, checking for movement from the SWAT van, and near the car. There were a couple of the infected nearby, and though she didn't want to give away their location to the rest of them, those 3 were already oriented on them. It took a couple of shots to down the first one, but by some miracle she hit the other two on her first shot. She put her gun back in her holster, and reached through Shiloe's window to pull the cord for the trunk. She found just what she needed, and grabbed the crowbar and worked on Lilith's door first. Shiloe was unconscious, and she had to save whoever had the highest chance of survival, first. She got the door open fairly quickly, but she felt the critical seconds being eaten away, just like the dead here. She made her way to the other side of the car, and got Shiloe's door open in an even quicker time this round, and wrapped her arms around his bicep to pull him out of the car. She had to jam the steering wheel back up to get him out, but eventually she had an arm under each of his, and pulled him to the cement next to the car. She didn't know if Lilith had crawled out of the car yet, but she hoped that the woman had her back. She rested Shiloe's head on her hand, kneeling by him, but with her body pointed out towards the street so she could still watch for danger. She ripped open a packet of smelling salt, and hesitated for a moment. She didn't know how hard he had hit his head, or if this would help. And she wasn't supposed to use it for accident victims, but it was pretty damn urgent that he got his a** up if he wanted to survive. She held it under his nose for a minute, preparing to drag him if it didn't work.

Lilith saw that they were okay and she shook her head. She climbed out of the car and while wiping her nose and took out her Medical kit. "Anyone need anything out of this..." She whispered but her ears rang so she didn't know if it came out as a whisper.

As the first shot eang out Shiloe dove from the open street and behind the wreckage. Quickly he grabbed his 'Samurai Edge' and tried to spot the shooter. A quick survey of the area reveiled no information on the sniper's location. Shiloe looked towards an alleyway and then back to the others. "Come on, let's get out of the open!" he called out before running into the alley. As he entered Shiloe dropped a few of the shambling dead with well placed shots before continuing onward, around a corner and disappearing.

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Kylana had thought of the shots around them as more of a blessing than a possible threat, and hadn't ran after Shiloe. Though she did take cover from possible ricochets. By the time she lifted her head, he was gone. She cursed, and looked in the direction that a few of the infected were heading in, randomly. That was most likely the way that Shiloe had gone. She followed after them, downing the already dead in her way.
She traveled around for awhile, and her heart almost jumped out of her chest when Shiloe spoke from beside her.
"Where the....? Why the change of....? ...I don't even care." She pointed a block over, towards where they crashed. She had weaved through blocks to try to find Shiloe, but she had kept close to the survivor.
"Now that I know where you are, we can try to get the person possibly trapped in those buildings. I'm sure I know the building he's in."

Kylana thought back to the man she had encountered early in the day. She had almost shot him, when she found him pawing at the corpse of his young girlfriend. He was human, with no scratches or bites. He wouldn't let Kylana or either of her survivors kill the dead girl before she got up, and even shot one of Kylana's survivors dead, for getting too close, always screaming at the others. Kylana had taken herself and the other survivor away from the...couple, and they watched as the girl got up. The man tried to reason with the girl. It failed. He tried to act as if he was like her. She knew. And as a last resort, the man had offered himself to the girl willingly. After she took a bite out of him though, he changed his mind.

Kylana closed her eyes for a second and shook her head, letting out out a cough of breath, trying not to remember the screams. Trying not to think about how many people she watched die, how many people she failed.
She took a steady breath and held it for a moment, then looked at Shiloe again. She was so tired. "Let's go."

They crossed the alley, to come up behind their target building. Quite a few of the infected were in the streets around them. Kylana looked across the parking lot to the door to the building they wanted, to see a few of the infected already crowded there. "This is ******** suicide." She muttered. She raised her voice so that Shiloe could hear her. "They know he's through that door somehow. What do you think about going into that building next to our target building? See how the roof is about level with the windows to our building? At least doing it Spiderman's way has options, eh?"

Kylana looked at Shiloe with a hopelessness in her eyes. She wanted nothing more than them to stay together, but with Shiloe's idea, they could hopefully be lured away from the block as a whole, instead of just looking in a different direction. She sighed and glared at him. "I'll lure them away, damn it. You were probably a better S.T.A.R.S member than I'd ever be. But don't you dare get shot by some random crazy creep, you hear me? I'll be back in 10."
She darted off toward the crowd before Shiloe could disagree. She raised her gun and downed an infected that roamed the street to her right, then to her left she downed 2 more that crowded the door they needed. She watched as all of the infected turned their bodies toward her direction without even first looking at her. She shuddered, and sprinted across the parking lot, stopping to make sure all were following her and not into the alley after Shiloe. Luckily none of them were heading toward him at the moment, and Kylana took a quick moment to change magazines in her gun when she thought about it, then sprinted again, disappearing around the block.