"How?"
"I used to play with my kids with Lego's all the time and build all sorts of-"
"We're not using Lego's," Juan pointed out.
Now the Mayor, Curtis, his Mom, Tobias and Peggy and her kid were pooling around them.
"Yeah, I know that!" Jenni stomped her foot. "I'm saying that I know how to make plans to make things work a certain way. My kids and I built entire cities with Lego's"
"Me, too," Cody said.
Juan looked at both of them.
The Mayor was still twisting his pen in his hands. "Listen to what they have to say. It won't hurt. "
Juan hesitated. Well, he actually wasn't sure how he would build a corral, was he?
"Okay, fine. "
"I have some Lego's!" Cody ran down the hall.
"It won't hurt," Peggy said to Juan.
Juan looked at everyone gathered around him. They were all loco, he decided. Hell, the world was loco. And for some reason, this made him smile.
"Fine, fine, the kid has a good idea. "
An hour later, on a conference table, Jenni and Cody had constructed the fort with its wall and its buildings and the surrounding streets. The older kid with the hair hanging in his face had come in with the dog and started to help out. Juan just sat there, flipping through a magazine, not really paying attention.
"So the zombies are all here," Jenni said and put tiny little Lego men in front of the wall and into the street the truck had run out of gas on.
Curtis wandered in and looked it over. "They are all in the front, spread across from here to here. "
"It's like they feel that is our weakest point," the older kid said and the dog whined.
Cody, looking more like a little kid than a scared rabbit now, picked up several blocks of Lego's that he had attached together and made a big noise as he dropped it down between two buildings. He made very effective sound effects of the zombies being crushed. Now that he was playing, he was having as much fun as a little boy can with his toys.
Juan leaned forward watching the kid, then glanced up at Curtis. Curtis lifted his eyebrows.
Cody picked up another stack of Lego's and dropped it down between two other buildings. Now all the fake little zombies were trapped between the first line of defense and two large barriers hemming them into a t-shaped area.
Jenni clapped her hands and high-fived the little boy as Juan and Curtis leaned over to look at the configuration a little more closely.
Cody now commenced to have a plastic Godzilla from his bag of toys stomp the zombies into the ground, but an idea was already in Juan's mind.
Jenni looked up at the men. "We can do this, can't we?"
"Travis can come in from another direction. We can have the zombies all hemmed in here," Curtis decided. "They can come in from over here where there won't be any. "
"But how do we get them in?" Jenni frowned at the tiny colored town.
Cody laughed and picked up one of his matchbox trucks. "Like this. " He swung his arm like it was a crane and set the truck down in the fort.
Juan grabbed the kid and hugged him. "You've been watching us set up the site. It's the crane he's talking about. Maybe we can't lift the truck in, but if they load everything onto a pallet, we can lift the load and them over the wall to safety with the crane. "
Jenni leaned over and snuggled the kid and kissed him. "You're a genius!"
"I just like big trucks," Cody answered and plowed the zombies down with one of his toy trucks.