[Gene was without his gun and he was just as powerless.]

That makes two of us. I don't come from a world where people simply vanish and turn into monsters. The monsters live among the population. Okay...let's think this through.

There's the two of us and some great big black monster thing just over there. There's no telling how many of them are there but maybe working together could stop them. Let's try that and see if it works. Since death isn't permanent, if we fail we know where we went wrong.