ch. 24 Rescue
Standing face to Face with the grotesque man, Ethel opened her mouth to scream but was cut off before she could even exhale.
The mutant man's fist moved at near superhuman speed and smashed into the old woman's face, shattering her front orbital bone and thankfully knocking her out cold.
As Ethel's body hit the floor of the RV, Lynn who was taking care of her daughter let out a shriek of horror. She had been too busy taking care of her own daughter to help with to her brother as Lynn's daughter still needed to be breastfeed, she couldn't risk also getting lost and leaving her daughter without any food in the desert.
What she didn't expect was to see her elderly mother to get sent flying to the floor in a pool of blood.
The freak with a tumor on his forehead chuckled at Lynn who was screaming frantically, before reaching down and taking a bite out of Ethel's forearm and eating it.
Frozen in horror of the situation, Lynn couldn't react to the other mutant who slammed themselves through the window and on top of Lynn.
As two more mutants entered the now cramped RV, Brenda who had been asleep was now full awake and screaming at what she saw.
A group disgusting and horrific looking men biting her mothers arm and pinning her sister to the floor would cause anyone to scream in fear, and this immediately activating her flight instinct.
So wearing only a nightdress, Brenda ran pass the mutant pinning her sister and jumped out of the broken window, cutting herselft badly from the broken glass but disregarded it as she immediately began running barefoot on the sand.
The two new freaks in the RV we're stumbling after her and we're about to give chase when they suddenly heard it.
*WAAAHH! WAAAHH!*
The loud and hysterical crying of Lynn's one year old baby, Catherine, attracted their attention.
Brenda could only gritted her teeth and run forward, crying as she listened to her screaming sister and crying niece. Despite the pain in her legs from the cuts and the pain of running barefoot on sand, she did not dare to stop at all.
Just one look Made her realize they weren't desert bandits, but instead a group of cannibalistic monsters that wanted to eat her flesh as she saw first hand what they were doing to her mothers arm.
Brenda didn't know how long he ran, but the side of her stomach was screaming in pain and the adrenaline was wearing off, giving way to the searing pain in her leg from the injuries she sustained.
Brenda was sobbing and tried to stand up and continue walking but after struggling a few times, she fell to the ground weakly. Just when she was about to give up, a slightly familiar looking tall figure appeared in front of her.
"Dad?" She said, her tear stricken eyes full of hope.
As the man stepped forward and the moonlight peaked through the clouds, a two headed man with jagged black teeth was revealed.
With terror filling her entire being, Brenda desperately turned around to begin crawling away before coming to a complete stop.
The newfound moonlight had also revealed a large man with a pair of demonic looking snake eyes staring down at her analytical, determining if she was a threat or not.
Brenda simply froze and gave up, collapsing down on the cold Sandy floor In despair. She had already given everything she could running away and it wasn't enough, she was sandwiched between two monsters and she could do nothing.
As the two headed man lifted up a rusty metal pipe, Brenda closed her eyes and sobbed quietly
*Boom*
Opening her eyes in bewilderedment, Brenda saw the two headed man collapse to the floor as the other man stepped passed her.
The snake eyed man coldy stepped his boot on the creatures chest, shooting each head once, making sure it was dead and wouldn't sneak up on him.
Looking over at her, Brenda saw the man's eyes change from vertical slits back to a pair of green eyes.
"I assume your one of Bob Carter's many children? My name is Nick Valentine" The man said as he gave her a hand up.
"Y-yes...my name's Brenda" not too sure of the situation, Brenda look at Nick warrily
With a nod, Nick walked into the darkness for over ten seconds before coming back easily carrying Bobs overweight body on his shoulder.
"Your father was injured but don't worry he's fine, I am an NIA agent that was investigating these mutants when I found him. I heard you have other family member, do you know of their status."
Brenda's began to fill with tears "They are back at the RV with those things! I left them for dead when I ran away..."
"I understand..... Look kid, Im going to have to leave Doug here and run to the RV but don-" "Please don't leave me! I don't want to be killed by those things!!" Brenda said hysterically, clinging onto Nicks leg.
"It's alrighty, it's alright..Here take this. This is a satellite phone with a GPS, so help will know exactly where to find you. Now I need to go save your family, but I'll have to take you to a safer spot."
With Bob on one shoulder and the injured Brenda on the other, Nick quickly ran over a hundred feet away from the dead two headed mutants and found a slight ditch to put the two in.
"I'm goin to save your family, now please be quite and tell Bob that if he wakes up. Can you do that?" Nick asked gently.
With an unsure nod from Brenda, Nick began sprint to the RV following Brenda bloody footprints.
As he arrived at the RV, Nick saw a half eaten old woman laying at the front of the doorsteps, patches of meat had been ripped off of her body and was unceremoniously tossed onto the sand attracting insects.
Passing by the dead body, Nick walked into the RV and saw a bloody and broken man silently sobbing next to a battered and bruised woman, her clothes torn and appeared to be unconscious.
As he looked up and saw Nick, Rage filled his eyes but he turned his head and sobbed even harder.
"Please no more!! Just let us live! Please....." Doug's voice sounded hoarse and desperate.
"I'm an NIA agent, Bob sent me to help his family. Tell me what happened to those freaks that did this!" Nick tried to sound calming, but he was urgent as he didn't see the boy or baby that Bob had told Nick about.
"I heard a child's voice calling me from a distance and chased after it, thinking that it was Bobby who had been missing but instead it was a strange little girl asking me to follow her. Something didnt feel right about this situation so I ran back, only to see a hairy freak chewing on poor Ethel's body like a god-damned snack!" Rage could be seen filling his eyes recalling the situation.
"I immediately tried attacking the man eating Ethel with my pocket knife but it did nothing to that freak, they lifted me with one hand and threw me into the RV before beating and stabbing me with a broken pipe. He was about to bash my brains in with the pipe when a gunshot was fired nearby, causing the hairy man eating ethel to use his radio but he got no response after trying multiple times. The hairy fucker and those freaks took catherine before running off into the night..." Doug said, despair driving from every word.
'So Bobby and Catherine are the only ones missing at this point, if I'm quick I could save them and end these mutant freaks.'
"Do you know where they whe-" spinning around with his gun at the ready, a small shadow suddenly burst into the RV and revealed a German shepherd holding a blood shoe.
"Beast...This is Bobby's shoes!" Doug exclaimed with the little energy he had left.
"Beast is a retired K9 unit, he used to work in the same department as Bob! He helped solve dozens of missing persons reports with just his nose! Beast, you'll lead him to Bobby won't you boy!"
The shepherd dog barked loudly, his teethed bare like he too was furious at these mutant and ran straight into darkness, giving Doug and Lynn a once over to make sure they didn't have too bad of injuries, Nick raced after the canine to keep up.
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No joke, the original chinese version of this chapter had to have been written by an Incel.
They said stuff like Ethel's only special skill was screaming and that when her throat was ripped out, was the first time in her life that she shut up.
Then they make Brenda a complete b*tch and have her tell John that her entire family was dead in the RV so that Chinese Nick could focus on getting her to safety.
They literally make every single women in this story a straight up b*tch with no redeeming qualities, even Holly at some points.
Not to mention they had the Chinese mc was just an overall POS