([CM] Okay, guys. This is my first ever fanfiction, so go easy on me. I am attempting a Humanstuck/Zombiestuck, and I hope you guys like it. Reviews/comments are encouraged, and if enough people like it, I'll keep it going. Thanks for reading~!)

This wasn't how it was supposed to be.

It had been all planned out. Gamzee was the one who'd organized the whole thing; the meet up location, the activities, the invitations. It was supposed to be a big get together. A reunion of old friends. Ever since high school ended, everyone had just gone their separate ways. They'd stayed in touch; texting, e-mailing, IM-ing. A party to get everyone reunited seemed like the best way to catch up and hang out like they'd used to.

Things were going great. Gamzee and Tavros had arrived at the pizza joint just minutes after the set time. And soon after that, the gang was back together again, laughing and slamming Faygos just like old times. It was a possibility things would have stayed that cheerful, had it not been for that one stranger who'd walked in. No one had noticed him at first. Not until he'd taken a chunk out of some poor woman's neck.

And now? Now they were locked up in the restaurant's men's room, trying to form some sort of plan that would allow them to escape without running into anymore rotting people. In their current position, they didn't know how bad things had gotten outside. For all they knew, the walking corpses could be right outside the door.

"What even the hell was that?" Karkat asked from his current spot, leaning against the door as if the lock wasn't enough protection.

"Well, they looked like zombies, bro," Gamzee replied, checking his monochromatic clown face paint in the mirror to make sure nothing had smeared in the rush for a hiding place. "Right out of the movies, you know?"

"Zombies? Gamzee, just how high are you right now? This isn't one of your stupid horror flicks. Things like that just don't happen."

Gamzee shrugged, turning his full attention to Karkat. "People are eating other people, aren't they? Seems pretty clear to me, bro."

"Zombies or not, we have to find a way out of here," Vriska spoke up, tossing her raven black hair over her shoulder before smoothing down the puffy hairstyle. "I suggest finding a weapon and charging out there to show those dead creeps who's boss."

"Uh, how about we not do that and say that we, um, did?" Tavros offered meekly, making an uncomfortable sound and moving closer to Gamzee when the girl glared at him in response. The taller male put an arm around his shoulder, as if to say it was okay, Tavros fidgeting a bit and looking up at him.

"Yeah, that'th not the betht idea," Sollux spoke, his lisp just as troublesome as ever even when he tried to tone it down. "Have you theen what happenth to people who charge into thomething like that? It'th not pretty."

"Those walkers will all up and devour you like some sort of delicious pie or something," Gamzee hummed thoughtfully, "It ain't worth the risk, sis."

"Well then what do you suppose we do? I wouldn't think you have any ideas in that fried mushy object you call a brain." Vriska crossed her arms. Her temper was almost as bad as Karkat's, she just seemed to handle it better.

"For starters, perhaps we could use that window as a source of getting out," Kanaya charmed, motioning to a small window located towards the ceiling.

The muscular brute who had been standing in the corner glanced up at the window, releasing a slightly frustrated sigh. "Are you sure that all of us could manage through that?" He was the tallest in the group, and certainly the strongest, but he was also a tad thicker than anyone else. This was due to his finely-toned muscles.

"Equius, don't worry," the childlike girl beside him giggled, "You'll fit too." Nepeta always seemed to know what was going on inside her best friend's head, probably because she hung around him twenty-four/seven. At the moment, she was sitting at his feet, pawing curiously at a dead fly.

Seeing the small girl's actions, Equius grimaced slightly and picked her up into his arms, a tiny mewl escaping Nepeta. "It would be advised that you remain off of this, um…. disgusting excuse for a floor." His husky voice made just about anything he said seem serious, but he rarely ever 'horsed around' anyway. He wasn't one for foolish behavior, and looked down on it greatly.

"Aw, but Equius!" Nepeta whined, pouting before sticking her tongue out just to annoy him.

"He's right," the other girl sitting on the counter chimed in, "I mean, just look at this place."

Cobwebs laced almost every corner of the fairly large room, and a dead insect lay here and there. The walls had long since lost their color of what seemed to be pale yellow with red stripes, and one of the stalls didn't even have a door connected to it. The place was a dump, just going to show how long it had been since any health inspector had come through.

"I don't think it would be particularly healthy to be sitting on the floor." The girl swung her feet, smiling softly when Sollux came up and kissed her cheek.

"I don't think it would be healthy for anyone jutht to be in thith room," he added, "Which jutht goeth to thaying that we thtill need to get out of here ath quickly ath we can." He didn't want Aradia in this mess, and he didn't just mean the bathroom, taking her hand lightly.

"W-whale then, someone needs to go first," Eridan said. He knew well that whoever crawled out the window first would have the chance of running into another one of those creepy, decaying corpses. "Any takers? Kar?"

The short guy in front of the door immediately shot Eridan an evil look. "Ladies first, fish breath."

Eridan scoffed, "You're the leader here, Kar. W-why don't you grow-w a pair an-"

"Wait, wait, wait," Vriska interrupted, "Who the hell made him leader? I think I'm much more suited to be the leader here, not shorty."

"Hey, I'm not short, fu-!"

"Guy, guys, chill," Gamzee drawled, cutting off Karkat's attempt to curse Vriska out. "I'll go out first and make sure it's all safe and stuff, alright?"

Tavros clenched hold of his friend's sleeve, tugging at Gamzee's purple hoodie as he whimpered. "Gamzee…"

The Capricorn looked down at Tavros, chuckling lightly and ruffling the smaller's fluffy faux hawk. "I'll be okay, Tavbro. Ain't nothing gonna hurt me." With that, he carefully pried away Tavros' fingers and went over to the window. He was tall enough so he could reach it without a problem, pushing it open with next to no trouble. Heaving himself up, he wiggled and inched his way out head-first.

The clumsy man fell the rest of the way out of the window, a soft thud heard from outside when he landed. After a second of silence, Gamzee was heard again. "Aw, hell, man!"

Tavros perked. "Gamzee?"