Free The Horror Squad 2 by TJ Weeks Page A

bars and all of
the batteries that were left on their hangers
when a loud boom came from one of the aisles.
“What the hell was that guys?” I asked
loudly.
“Wasn’t me.” Bo stated.
“Gizmo, where you at fucker?” I hollered
out.
    I side stepped in front of the six aisles of the
small store and found him at the end with a
rotter pushed up against a shelf.
“Right here, I’m okay.” He called out.
    He slid his knife into the top of the small
apron clad man and back out. He dropped to the
floor and landed on a crate of cans Gizmo had
collected.
“Found some help?” I laughed.
    “The little fucker almost had me, I didn’t
even hear him, I turned and he was standing
right in my face wearing his cute little apron.”
    “Let’s go, I think we have collected plenty, I
don’t think we can fit much more in the back
anyway with the gas cans.” I told Gizmo.
Bo rounded the corner as Gizmo pushed the
runt of a rotter off of the crate.
    “Did he at least ask if you needed help
finding anything before he tried to eat you?” Bo
joked.
I patted Bo on the back and made our way
back to the front door.
    “A few coming through the parking lot, but
headed to the side, we are good.” Howard said
as he still stood guard to let us exit.
    I made the turn off for Lowe’s and drove
through the parking lot. There was no sign of
the girls. Assuming they had already been there
and probably had headed to the mall. The sun
was past mid sky now and we needed to head
back to the first small gas station that was our
meeting point, and hit all of the cars up for gas
on our way back.
    Every car that we came to that had been left,
I would stop. We would all get out, three of us
would take guard and two would syphon any
gas into our gas cans and put it back.
“Done.” Whoever would yell that got the joy
of sucking out the gas and on to the next one.
    It had been at least an hour and we arrived at
the ‘mom and pop’ gas station. The girls sat in
the parking lot. I pulled up next to them and
peered across the passenger side at Kris who
still sat in the driver’s seat. She smiled and held
up a t-shirt with a popular metal band smeared
across it. I smiled back and shook my head.
    “Is that what you got, really?” I asked.
“No, I got other stuff. I’ll show you when we
get back. I have a couple of bags.” She hollered
over the arguments between Gizmo and Tina
about what she got.
    “Hey man, it’s not like she bought the shit
and it’s not like it’s all for her, everyone back
home needs new clothes!” I told Gizmo.
“I don’t think we should head home yet.”
Karen suggested.
“Why?” I queried.
    “There’s cars all around he
re and there is still
a lot of stuff that we could have got, but didn’t
have the room in the truck for. We could easily
convoy vehicles back.” She suggested further.
I turned and looked at the guys.
“It’s not like we haven’t done this shit
before.” Howard stated.
“Okay, we’ll have to find a place to stay for
the night.” I stated.
    “Follow us back to the mall, we can sleep in
one of the stores and just pull down their caged
door.” Karen stated.
“Sounds good.” I answered.
     

CHAPTER TEN
PULLING UP to the front doors of the
mall, we came to a stop. Everyone started piling
out.
“I’ve got a better idea.” I stated.
Everyone stopped from going in and turned
around to hear what I had to say.
    “We can open the bay doors up from the
back and drive the vehicles inside. Then no one
can drive by to steal our shit while we’re
looking for stuff and we can drive one of the
vehicles out to find others and bring them back,
also won’t have to carry shit so far.” I
suggested.
“Sounds fucking brilliant, I’ll get the bay
doors.” Lisa stated.
    “I’ll
help.” Howard and Donald informed.
Gizmo followed them inside.
    Bo jumped in the passenger side of the
Tahoe with me and Karen jumped in the truck
with Kris. We pulled around