Sakura, having the best penmanship, scribbled down everything and then prepared a summary.
"Okay, let me see if I've got this down, and if you can add anything - I can put in additional notes." Sakura went to the first page.
There were no arguments.
"Michelle Preston. Age twenty-four. Occupation was accountant. Learned to shoot when you were twelve, so about our age. You prefer your own gun, which is a -" Sakura stopped and then sounded out the unfamiliar term. "-G42. Your hobby besides that was reading?"
"Mainly thrillers and Stephen King sort of things," tried Michelle, sounding unsure of herself.
"Christine Gebhardt," said Sakura, going to the next one. "Age twenty-nine and occupation is waitress."
"Pays the bills," said Christine. "And call me 'Chris' - never really cared for my full name."
"You said your hobby was 'investing'?" asked Sakura.
"Yeah, I did a bit of day-trading and stuff. Lived with my boyfriend. He turned." Chris shrugged. "I didn't use a gun previous to all this."
"Ah, I usually go by 'Mel'," added Michelle.
"Okay," said Sakura, making appropriate notes. "Next up is Douglas Winters. Age nineteen. Security guard?"
"Rent-a-cop," said Douglas. "Was trying to work my way through college."
"You've qualified with a gun," said Sakura. "And you were studying 'computer sciences'?"
"Yeah. Network security mostly," said Douglas.
"Last but not least," said the fourth member of the rescuees.
"Andrea Schultz. Age forty-three. Baker. Hobby is running your own business." Sakura glanced at the woman.
"When you own and run your own business, that pretty much takes all your available time," said Andrea.
"Okay," said Omar. "We still need more food and supplies. There's a Wal-Mart Distribution Center I've been planning to try and reach. It's only been just over a week at this point. If power's out - the refrigerated stuff is likely useless. If the power's on though - we don't have room for that much but it'd make things easier if we go after Edwards."
"Edwards Air Base?" asked Andrea. "Didn't someone survive there? You'd think the military bases would be okay."
"The orders were 'capture not kill' all the way through the end," said Sakura, who'd watched the videos and not understood a lot of what was going on. There were people in those videos who'd been yelling and arguing against even containing the sick despite the danger.
"Yeah, that's why most 'first responders' ended up infected or killed," said Omar. "Up until New York fell, there was a lot of people saying it would all blow over."
"By then it was too late," pointed out Sakura.
Weapons were given out.
Equipment readied. Some of which was questionable.
"A 'boom box'?" asked Andrea.
"Drop it off in an area we aren't going to be in. Hit play and run and hide. Noise draws the zombies to where we aren't unless one of them sees us," said Omar. "Worth a shot at least."
"This plan has NO chance of working," said Chris. "How do we get in there without getting bitten. We also don't have enough people to raid a place like that."
"Shadow Clone No Jutsu!"
Ka-poff!
Twenty Naruto all crossed their arms and glared at the woman who'd expressed doubts.
"How the hell did you do that?!" demanded Chris while most of the others gawked.
"Ninja," said Naruto. "Special technique."
"A ninja? Wearing ORANGE?" asked Chris, staring around her. "Hypnosis maybe?"
"No," said Omar, who'd had this explained to him ahead of time. "He really does that. And Sasuke?"
"Fire Release! Great Fireball!" FWOOOM!
"Okay, that would be easier to fake than the whole copying thing," noted Michelle. "What's the girl do? Grow to giant size? Lengthen her nails into swords? Pull weapons out of hammerspace? Use hair-fu?"
That got the woman stared at.
"I've read some manga and visual novels," said Michelle with a shrug. "Had a cousin who knew how much I read who was into that sort of thing."
"Growing to giant size - I think that's what Choji's family can do," said Sakura thoughtfully.
"Oh yes," said Hinata. "That's an Akimichi clan technique."
"You're kidding," said Douglas. "You're like the 'X-Men'?"
"I don't know that reference," admitted Sakura.
"Something to explore later," said Omar. "If we can get to Edwards or something maybe we can debate 'ninja' versus 'superhero' or 'wizard' - right now we've got damn few medical supplies, no backup air tanks, and we're going through food way too fast."
"Hn," agreed Sasuke.
"Why not simply go to Edwards, or even Area 51 first?" asked Douglas. "I mean - they're in the middle of nowhere and they'll have lots of supplies."
"The fact that they might have a 'shoot first' policy and a blimp can't do evasive manuevers?" asked Omar. "Right now the blimp is a major plus - otherwise we have to use a car and regular roads. OR walk everywhere."
"With swarms of zombies? No thank you," said Michelle.
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