http://shotbillmurray.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] shotbillmurray.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2011-05-11 12:01 am

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse: Wednesday Period 1 - Class 1

When the students entered the dangershop today, they would see that it had been turned into a deserted sports arena, complete with a track encircling a football field.

Well it wasn’t completely deserted. First there was the teacher who was standing in front of his students looking somewhat awkward and nervous holding a shotgun. Honestly if a bunny had been transformed into a human being and given a weapon, he’d look a lot like Columbus Ohio.

Also? There was a zombified football team standing behind him. They were all frozen much as if someone had hit a pause button in the middle of a horror movie while they went out o get a bucket of popcorn.

But we’ll get to them later.

“Hi,” Columbus said with a nervous wave. “My name is Columbus Ohio and I’m your teacher.”

There was a slight clearing of his throat. “So if you’re here it means you want to learn something about surviving a zombie apocalypse. Or something about zombies. If you look at the literature involving zombies, they are typically living undead under the control of some sort of magic or source of evil.”

Columbus then gestured at the frozen zombies standing behind him. “However there are variations. For instance these zombies are from my own world and don’t fall into a magic type of category. These people were transformed into zombies from a mutated version of the mad cow virus. Yes, technically they are still alive however one bite from these guys and within hours you’d be one of them. However no matter where you might have these types of monsters, the rules for survival will always apply. This of course brings us to the first rule.”

Columbus fumbled with the dangershop remote for a moment or two until words in giant block letters appeared behind him:



“Cardio. That’s the first rule of surviving Zombieland. When the outbreak first hit, the first to go were the f-”

Columbus coughed for a second there before continuing.

“Were the people who were out of shape. For obvious reasons. Your homework for the rest of this summer session will be to go for a run at least three times a week and keep a log of how far and how long you were able to go. Don’t laugh. It may not be the most manly of skills but it’ll serve you well in the long run. Uh. No pun intended. As for your classroom activity today-”

Columbus punched off the pause button the remote.

“Let’s see how in shape you are.”

[Please note that this is a class about zombies. If you are squeamish or don't like violence this might not be the post to be reading. OCD is up!]

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[identity profile] showmetheproof.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Alexandria, Virginia

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[identity profile] showmetheproof.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Scully was giving those football players a deeply dubious look. Because if they weren't already dead, they looked like they would be soon, and this did not bode well.

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[identity profile] annieadderall.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Greendale, Colorado
not_tylerdurden: (Calvin: leaning w/ crossed arms)

Re: The TA's

[personal profile] not_tylerdurden 2011-05-11 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Calvin was actually in surprisingly good shape for someone so lanky, it's what happened when your best friend thought it was hilarious to pounce on you and start wrestling when you least expected it. And when you did expect it.

Re: The TA's

[identity profile] stylin-wizard.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Alex was in good enough shape to run. It helped that she lived in a city where everything was in walking distance. She didn't own a pair of running shoes but she did own flat heeled boots. She was used to running in those, so it all worked out.

Re: RUN!

[identity profile] showmetheproof.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Holy crap."

Running! Running very fast! Running very fast and picking up a weed whacker in case any of those guys got too close!

Even knowing it was Danger Shop didn't help with the skin-crawling feeling of euuuch that the threat of having her brain eaten imparted to Scully.

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[identity profile] annieadderall.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Annie hadn't signed up for a single class on her schedule. Not one. If she had, she would not have signed up for the zombies class. Her eyes were wide and she kept watching the football players warily, inching backwards and hoping no one noticed.

Re: RUN!

[identity profile] annieadderall.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
WHY HAD TRY NOT TO DIE!! CLASS NOT PREPARED HER FOR THIS.

As far as Annie knew, you didn't really have to be able to kill zombies as much as you just had to outrun everyone else and stay away from windows. Which may have been why she was all-out sprinting somewhere that was just not towards the zombie football players, screaming like a person being chased by zombies the whole time.

For some reason.
godofxbox: ([comic] Alex says you're creepy)

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[personal profile] godofxbox 2011-05-11 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
New York, New York
godofxbox: ([comic] on the run)

Re: RUN!

[personal profile] godofxbox 2011-05-11 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Alex took off at a run, looking for something to use as a weapon. He was Fear son of War. He wasn't going to just run like a wuss, he was going to fight back.
godofxbox: ([comic] bzuh?)

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[personal profile] godofxbox 2011-05-11 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Running, seriously? Put one foot in front of the other, that was their first lesson? Alex gave their teacher a dubious look.

...granted, some people didn't really have the hang of that.

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[identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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[identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if nothing else, Dave was going to be able to mark down another square on his bingo card. This teacher was insane and was going to send computer zombies after them.
onlymistaken: (snark - seriously?)

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[personal profile] onlymistaken 2011-05-11 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
...Auron.
onlymistaken: (conversation - listening - skeptical)

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[personal profile] onlymistaken 2011-05-11 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
The only zombies Cally had ever seen were the ones at the bar in town, but the class had the words 'survive' and 'apocalypse' in the title; how could it not be useful?

Now she was eying the teacher, but only a little dubiously. Not for the zombies. For the name thing. What if there were more than one person from the same place?
Edited 2011-05-11 05:45 (UTC)
onlymistaken: (action - running)

Re: RUN!

[personal profile] onlymistaken 2011-05-11 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
Cally had no pop-culture-induced feelings about the shambling creatures, but there was still something intrinsically flight-inducing about the way they moved. Running was not something she had to work up the motivation for.

Or something she was unused to; she was a hundred pound girl with a two hundred pound dog. You do the maths.

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[identity profile] forhisfriends.livejournal.com 2011-05-11 09:37 am (UTC)(link)
Thamesmead, London, England, UK

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