Crossed: Issue 9

Crossed: Issue 9 is the tenth and final issue in Crossed (Volume One), as well as the tenth issue overall.

The previous issue was Crossed: Issue 8.

## Plot

After making it back to Patrick's body, Stan wraps up his body inside of a sleeping bag, and then helps Cindy bury his body on the ridge overlooking the river. After giving her time to mourn, Stan and Cindy spend the night inside of a church where they find a priest who was crucified on a decorative cross by The Crossed so long ago, he's almost entirely a skeleton. Cindy tells Stan he was right in having to bury her son and thanks him for coming along with her, then buries the priest in the morning.

Meanwhile, it's been an entire month since Kitrick, Kelly, and Thomas have seen Stan and Cindy, and Thomas is worried about how they haven't met them in any of the places they said they would be. Kitrick then emotionlessly tells both Kelly and Thomas that Horsecock's group is right behind them and that he's going to stay behind to make it look like he's given up to give them both a chance to escape, being tired of living at this point. Briefly into their shootout, Face chops off Kitrick's hand and then pulls his pants down to try and rape him, but Horsecock tells him to just kill him since the others are still close by. When Face argues with Horsecock, he mercilessly beats Face with his signature weapon, all while the other Crossed mutilate Kitrick's body.

The Crossed chase down Thomas and Kelly through the woods and they briefly believe they've escaped until Horsecock suddenly ambushes them, and he breaks Thomas' glasses. As a last ditch effort to save Kelly before she's violated by Horsecock, Thomas lunges at the large monster and rips his throat out with his teeth, infecting himself in the process. Thomas helps Kelly shoot Stump to try and not alert the others, but it's too late and rather than suffer at their hands, Thomas and Kelly both commit suicide by jumping off of a cliff together. Stan and Cindy look on at the last of their friends dying.

Now knowing that their "alarm system" is dead, Cindy tells Stan that they can now kill the rest of what is now Face's crew so that none of them will ever be able to teach other Crossed how to be organized like they are and make life even more difficult for the uninfected. After following them to a field, Stan shoots Face in the chest to begin their extermination, and every remaining member of the Crossed group is shot down without issue. Face laments that what they were going to do was going to be "beautiful" before Stan shoots him in the head to finish off the last of the group. Together now with their dog, Stan and Cindy walk to Alaska.

## Deaths

* *Unnamed Priest* - Nailed to a cross by the Crossed off-panel, skeleton shown.
* **Crossed Man** - Shot to death by Kitrick.
* *Kitrick* - Arm chopped off with a machete by Face and then stabbed to death by several of the Crossed.
* "**Horsecock**" - Neck bitten out by Thomas.
* "**Stump**" - Shot in the head by Kelly with the help of Thomas, shared kill.
* *Thomas* - Committed suicide by jumping off of a cliff.
* *Kelly* - Committed suicide by jumping off of a cliff.
* "**Face**" - Shot to death by Stan.
* **Eight Crossed** - Shot to death by Stan and Cindy, shared kills.
* *Nine People* - Murdered by a Crossed woman off-panel, evidenced by a collection of wedding rings around her neck.
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