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City Ruins
This part of the city is hard to miss. Nearly all the buildings are flat on the ground or are half standing. The streets are littered with ruble and debris. This is a very dangerous part of town where most of the Rebels hide out. Because of all the hazards here, people try to stay out. However, since most of the buildings are broken down or abandoned...pe
ople have wandered in to search the rubble to try and find something worth value.
Ruins-1
Chapter 2: A few months went by and the world was still plummeting into complete and total inhalation. Food was almost impossible to find. And the air that every one was breathing was full of toxins and chemicals. Know one in this city knew about it yet, but the world military was sending out "armed forces" to eliminate all unworthy civilians and gangs.
"Hey Frenchies!" Cheyenne shouted, "Did you two manage to find that one type of cloth that I asked for?" She was sitting on one of the last remaining walls of this side of the city.
Raven sat at a table, one of her sniper rifels laying in several pieces infront of her. She looked up at Chyenne as she shouted to the siblings then returned to her methodical cleaning.
The scar on her back had healed to a pink line, far contrasting from her original look, and was aparent as Maria stretched her arms forwards. She sat on the ground at the base of the side of the only standing wall, her back clearly visible. With a practiced movement, she stood from the cross-legged position and moved over to the table Raven sat at, moving a strangely squared piece of brick towards it. "Mind if I clean these?" she asked, pulling out her twin handguns and holding them. Safety was on and neither fingers were touching either trigger.
"Yeh!" Valentine shouted before dragging herself out of the car and slamming the door shut. She immediately went to the trunk of the car and popped it open, shifting things around taking several small bags out of the vehicle.
Likewise, her brother Alphonse threw a duffle bag on the hood after pulling himself from the car. He took a moment to stretch before throwing a large duffle bag onto the hood of the car, and then grabbed a large plastic jug of water from the floor boards. Valentine threw another bag from the trunk over her shoulders and holstered her gun.
Together they managed to shoulder their parcles and made their way to where Cheyenne sat.
"Food and water too. There's more in the back of the vehicle." Alhponse explained. Valentine grinned, a clear smattering of fresh blood on her clothing telling the others of their travels.
"We found batteries too and a flashlight." She said in her husky accent.
"Among other things that you asked for." Alphonse finished for his twin.
"I've got meat!" Rose shouted suddenly, from around the corner. She was holding five freshly dead squirrels from their tails.
"Perfect." Cheyenne grabbed the cloth and felt it in her fingers, "These will work wonderfully as gas masks....temporarily at least.
Raven Pulled herself from her set at then table to go outside and help the siblings. She grabbed the water and took it inside. She returned to examine the cloth the twins had brought. "Where did you find this?" She asked. There where a dozen different uses ryunning threw her head. Only if she could find more.
Setting down the two 9mms, Maria wandered over to the vehicle. She pulled out two more duffle-bag-like bags and carried them back towards the table. She decided to go back, at least to check if there were anymore. She was one of those easy-to-get-along-with people who tended to do things from logic and common sense rather than rash and irrasional thinking. This made things a bit easier. I wonder what it'd be like... she thought as she reached the vehicle again. ...if there hadn't been a nuclear war...what would I be doing? She often occupied a few sleepless nights thinking up stories about people. So far, she's created three bachelors available to her and she's had several different choices in occupations. Oh, the possibilities of the imagination.
At Raven's question, Valentine snorted and walked back to the car. Alphonse grinned after her and chuckled slightly.
"We snuck into a quarantined(sp?) area just outside of the city. That's where we found much of these things." He motioned to the supplies that he began to pull out of the bags. Clothing, equipment, flashlights, batteries, pre-packaged food, old CD's, bits of rope, tarnished knives and silverware, bits of wire, a sewing kit, old, dried soaps, and a generous supply of other various things. Alphonse grinned at Cheyenne and scratched his head. He still had his domino mask pushed above his forehead.
"Valentine said it was stupid to go there. But it was just too tempting, eh?"
"And stupid." His twin spat behind him, helping Maria bring in the last of the bags and water. "There was military everywhere. They were going to blow it up soon. Tomorrow, I think. That is where we found the water jugs. The millitary has a great supply of such things." She said reasonably.
"But it was fun, no?" Alhponse nudged his sister playfully. To his response she gave him a wicked grin from behind her own mask and held up a few dogtags newly adorning her neck.
Rose had begun skinning her squirrels on a wooden table in the base. She looked over at Alphonse, admiring his smooth, French accent like a young school girl.
"Quarantined area..." Raven said slowly "I think I'm going to go drink some bleach." She dropped the cloth and stepped back. She'd heard and seen things about the quaranteened area. She still wondered if the reports of zombies where true. In this day and ge anything was possible.
Strange sat a little away from the group, turning his hat in his hands and massaging the brim nervously. He glanced at the squirrels. "I'm surprised they aren't mutated."
"Cheyenne says I have to share..." Rose admitted to Strange, tossing the skinned squirrels to the side.
"You didn't get them in the quaranteen area did you?" Raven asked rose
"The wha-wha-whateen?" Rose asked, not knowing what the hell she was talking about. "I found them dead....under my mace."
Raven rolled her eyes She couldn't remember one instance where Rose gave anyone real answer. "Well can I get a few?" She knew that Rose preferred her's raw but Raven hadn't actually cooked in about a year. She suddenly got the itch.
"As thyne declares as it shall be." Rose handed her the skinned squirrels by the tails. She ripped out the lower jaws. The rodents dripped blood onto the dirt.
Raven took the squirrels "Thanks." She went inside to prepare them. She took a bag of food the twins had brought with hem in with her,
"DARLING!" Rose jumped on Alphonse's back joyously, "Won't you tell my a stoooory?" she asked, hopefully. Her legs wrapped around him and locked by her ankles on his gut.
Cheyenne took a bit of cloth and cut it into a few pieces. She took tender care of the rest and put it to the side. "Never a dull moment here..."
Inside raven began cooking. She didn't usualy show this side of her but she picked threw the items the siblings had procured trying to find soemthing that went with squirrel. She managed powdered milk to mixed with butter and potatoes. She found a few cans of condensed food without labels and two provided corn and spinach. Water to drink and flower and a little bit of butter to fry the squirrel in.
Alhponse, after the slight initial shock of having someone jump on his back, let out a husky chuckle. He glidded over Rose's small legs with his calloused hands.
"What kind of story would you like to hear, Mademoiselle?" He asked in his crisp accent. He effortlessly slung Rose around until she was resting comfortably in his arms. He looked up and winked at Valentine.
"Vous êtes un pourri, homme lubrique, Alphonse!" Valentine glared.
"I'm only as bad as you, Amor." He said with a sly grin.
Valentine quickly unholstered her Benelli and cocked it. She fired a single shot without aiming, causing Alphonse to jump back a few feet.
"Valentine!" He swore, letting loose a stream of rather ugly french. A large bullet hole rested directly a centemeter to the left from where Alphonse's foot had been. In the prosses, he had swung Rose down and pushed her away in order to unsheath his machete and take a more fomidable position.
Valentine smirked, holstering her gun and stalked off.
"Oh, yeh! Maybe you're a bit worse, eh? Grenouille!! Shit!"
"Oof!" Rose grunted, having fell on her butt on the ground. "Shrew..." she spat, lifting herself onto her feet. Her hands went to her back and brushed off her now dirty tutu. Rose saw that their was no sign of blood on Alphonse and was slightly saddened by it.
Strange watched the whole proceeding with some amusement. "I guess if you hang out with your sister all the time, you never really get laid," He said, mostly to himself.
Cheyenne took a deep breath and looked to the west, behind the group in the distance. It was dusk now and the sun was barely setting over the horizon.
A whistel came from inside the base followed by a shout from Raven "Ya'll get in here and eat! I don't cook every day!"
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Alhponse looked sideways at Strange and gave him a face-splitting grin that would have made any other's skin crawl. "You'd think so, eh? But you would be wrong, my friend." Alphonse looked off after Valentine who had vanished back to the car. She appeared to be unloading her guns to clean them and check for any damages.
Alhponse let out a whistle and raised an arm to her.
"Don't wander far, eh!" To this Valentine gave a lude gesture in reply. Alphonse turned back to Strange and Rose, chuckling slightly. "Are you alright, mon pitite?"
Just then a high pitched whistle sang through the air; the sound of a large shell zipping through the ruined masses. Alhponse turned abruptly to the sound, following it's direction. When it found its target, Alphonse ran hedlong in a fury.
"VALENTINE!!!!"
Valentine, now doubled over, reached for Alphonse as soon as he slid to her side. By the time he cradled her in his arms, his twin slumped lifeless and pale.
A second shot sang through the air; finding its target as acruately as it found Valetnine's heart. Alphonse, dazed and vision blurry, staired off in the direction he thought the shots came from. Then everything went black.
A last shot rang out and Maria fell lifeless on the cold ground, but she never posted anyways so no one really noticed.
Cheyenne shook her head and went inside the base to eat, "Pity."
Rose watched blankly and sighed, "Well that was a waste of time. Why always the cute ones?"
I thought it was predictable.
"Yea yea..." Rose turned to Raven, "Now about those squirrels."
"Get in here and eat then!" Raven "More for everyone else now that Maria's gone."
"No kidding," Strange said, getting up and coming in for food. "No disrespect to the dead, but Maria ate like a bulimic horse."
"I'll collect the bodies later for storage." Rose explained, sitting down at the main table.
Cheyenne was already sitting. "Smells delicious, Rae." She crossed her legs properly and leaned in with her elbow on the table.
"Elbows off the tabel. " Raven said giving Chey's knuckels a good tap with her spoon. "Just because the world has fallen down around us dosen't mean we can't eat like civilized people. I expect ya'll to use your manners." She sat the mismatched dinner plates infront of everyone and laid the meager meal out infront of them "I had to improvize but everything should taste alright." She sat back waiting to see if her effort would be in vain or not.
Cheyenne brought her elbows off the table right away, "Yes ma'am." she said, teasing a little. "It smells great, Rae."
Eventually all that was happening came to an end and the gang members eventually all went to sleep. Suddenly, SMASH! The ground seemed to shake as the base trembled. A consistent thudding sound can be heard now, as if something...something enormous was heading closer. It was coming from the opposite direction of the park.
Raven Came from her room. Her hair was a mess of tangles and she was only dressed in a black beater and underwear. She had a pistol in hand. She began beating on room doors to wake anyone not yet roused by the noise. Not waiting to see if anyone was awake she ran to the roof to see what the disturbance might have been.
Rose snorted when she heard the noise. She slept in her normal attire, so she was fully clothed in her usual tutu and belly shirt. She had fallen asleep on the kitchen table as usual and hopped off. Scratching her ass, she opened the front door. "This better be good."
Cheyenne woke up and ran to her boarded window. The sounds weren't that of keeper bombs or guns. Using her steel foot, she kicked out the boards. She rubbed her eye and gasped at what she saw, "Oh god-".
Closing in on the building was a 10 story high robotic creature. It had six tentacles that it stood on that were the width of a city buss. It had a large translucent orb on the top of it and was plated in thick steel. Red beams shot out from it's orb on it's 'head' and turned buildings to ruble. Screams in terror and the stench of death filled the air.
Strange had fallen asleep on a lawbook whose pages he was using to feed a dead fire. He jumped with a start, horror dawning on him as he recognised the mechanical rumbles and whines of the monster outside. "Oh......hell," he said, immediately running to Cheyenne's room, not far. He burst into the room. "We have to get out," he said, breathless.
Cheyenne jumped and turned around. She was wearing nothing but a baggy white T-shirt and was hanging off of one shoulder. It only went down to just above the seam of her underwear.
"...D'uhh," Strange breathed, staring at her. He gaped for a few seconds before forcing himself to snap out of it. "I mean, we need to leave NOW." He took her by the arm and ran, dragging her behind him. He pounded on the doors as he passed them, muttering to himself, "It's not safe, how did they get here so fast?---how long has it BEEN? Ohmygod, if they're this far--"
"CAN I PUT SOME PANTS ON?!" Cheyenne asked. She had grabbed a pair before they left the room. Her titanium legs clanked loudly on the floor. Since she was in her panties, you could now see that both legs were fully metal, going all the way up to her upper thighs. From her jeans one would think it was only to the knee.
"NO!" Strange shouted, then had to think of a reason. "NO TIME!" He came up with, rather pleased with himself underneath all of the terror and adrenaline.
Chey jerked her foot back like one would use with roller blades, "Stop! You know about this?! That-...that thing?"
Strange almost lost his balance as he was suddenly stopped. "I'll tell you all about it--later--we have to get OUT NOW. Where's the car?" He asked breathlessly.
Raven Stood in shock on the roof still barefoot and hardly clothed. "Holy mother of fuck." She said slowly then yelled "GUYS! WE HAVE AN ISSUE!" She ran as fast as she could back down stairs and into her room. Shutting the door she emerges less than thirty seconds later fully clothed, her hair free of tangles and her sniper rifle and duffel bag slung around her shoulder. Noticing Chey wasn't shouting orders yet she took it upon herself to began issuing them "GRAB YOUR FUCKING GEAR AND GET IN THE MOTHER FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW!" She took an access door off the kitchen to the garage. The car was a pumped up SUV complete with cattle catch, internal roll cage and a handy gattling machine gun mounted on the passenger side. The only down fall was the doors didn't open but the windows where already down. She opened the rear hatch and tossed in a few tanks of her special fuel. "IN THE GODDAMN CAR NOW!" She repeated. The sound was getting closer. She hoped her baby could out run it. She returned to the kitchen and main room where her Indian was parked. Kicking up the stand she fired up the engine. No way she was leaving it behind.
Cheyenne did something with her legs and they suddenly started to shift. Her robotic feet adjusted to a shiny metallic wheel at her ankle. "I'll be right alongside of the car. You get in with Rose."
"Yes! Come on uncle!" Rose exclaimed, grabbing his arm and yanking him towards the SUV.
Strange realized with a blank stare that Cheyenne was probably the most awesome woman he had ever known. She had just turned her feet into wheels. He felt compelled to throw himself at her feet, but was yanked by Rose into the SUV. He clamored in, turning the monstrous car on and slamming on the gas, driving it out of the building.
The squid-like being was hurling itself towards them. The only place to go now was the park.
Cheyenne hurried along side. When debris got in the way, she rode on the building walls briefly.
Rose unrolled the window. "SHINY...." she starred in awe at the large gun and was attached to the side of the car. Without asking permission, she fired at the creature, but the monster shifted and avoided it.
raven barreled threw behind the SUV and Chey. She idled up to Chey as the y rolled. "I'LL DRAW IT'S ATTENTION!"
"BE CAREFUL! MEET US IN THE PARK ASAP!" Chey shouted, guiding the SUV through and around the ruins.
"GOT IT!" Raven shouted back and her bike veered from their small convoy. She headed back towards the machiene and atempted to draw it's attention.
The squid-like being slashed it's legs at her. It mixed this with an array of laser beams aimed at the machine she was riding on.
Raven Drove toward the menacing creature. she was trying to get it's attention and it seemed that she had succeeded for the beast began following her. It crushed buildings and street in it's wake. Raven knew it was catching up. She began weaving threw streets like a mad person. She wasn't ding this to try and loose the creature she was trying to find the house. She'd hidden weapons all over the city and a specific weapon that she and Chey had created now lay hidden inside one of these buildings. Finally she saw it. A formerly red door in an apartment building. Pulling her 357 she fired a shot. The bullet his the door knob knocking the door forward to swing on it's hinges and topple forward onto what used to be cement steps. Raven veered right, toward the now ramp like door. She drove directly inside the house and maintaining speed with her feet firm on the crash bars she stood and reached for a nylon strap hanging from the celing. She grabbed the strap and brought down by the speed was a large black gun. The back door exploded into splinters and she barreled threw it and landed in the street six feet below. Taking a hard left she swerved and back into the street. The building she'd just been in was quickly vaporized by the metallic monstrosity. She continued threw the streets at full speed, finally gaining some distance between her and the thing. She came upon a four lane street and swerved to a stop in the center. She took aim with the weapon as the machine headed towards her. She began flipping switches on the side and there was the hum of the device charging. "Please let this work." There was a sputter of light from the barrel and suddenly a beam of red light issued forth. It hit the mechanized monster directly in the center of the upper most mast. She held the trigger, keeping the beam on the metallic creature. When she released the trigger the beam flickered out and she looked at the damage she'd caused it. The smoke cleared to reveal only a scorch mark. The thing did not seem fazed. "Shit." Raven cursed and turned around heading the opposite direction as quickly as possible.
The giant creature, after all the gang's failed attempts to take it down, drove them into the city park. The robot seemed to get stuck through all the rubble and building structures, allowing the two gangs to meet face to face. ---> city park
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