Ch. 28 Beast

Looking at the makeshift house burning in front of him, Carter seemed expressionless, but if you look closely, you can see the suppressed anger in her beautiful green eyes.

"-rter...Ms Carter!" A swat member yelled several times, and finally gave her a little push, and Carter came back to his senses and turned back suddenly.

"W-we have to continue on... Theres a cave nearby that they used to house me and my family..."

The swat member who had awoke her was startled, for just a moment, he swore he saw wrath and contempt in the womans eyes as she looked at him but it instantly went away the moment he noticed.

"Y-yeah okay..." The swat member lowered his eyes as he rejoined the group of swat members, strangely feeling safer away from the woman named Carter.

"Quickly lead us to this cave, we don't have time to stare at these disgusting dead freaks" The leading Special Agent said harshfully.

As he said this, both Agents trained their eyes on the woman face, noticing the minute twitches on her face when the Agent insulted the dead mutants.

"Y-your right... Let's go..." The woman's said, giving the burning house one last glance before running to this cave she talked about.

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Arriving at the RV, Nick saw the red eyed Doug working on the tire but quickly stopped as he heard the ever crying Catherine getting closer.

"Cathy!"

Without a moment of hesitation, Doug scoop Catherine out of Nick's hand and began careful checking her for injuries. It was only after seeing that she was fine, that he saw Bobby's terrible state.

"What they hell happened to him?! What did they do!" Doug said with anger springing forth from his voice.

"You don't want to know... I saw that you were working on the tire? Is I fixable?" Nick said as he walked into the RV, put Bobby next to the unconscious Lynn and began searching through the drawers.

"I found a tire repair kit in that junkyard I found earlier, I never got around to using it before they... But it's somewhat fixed! I doubt the repair will last long, but long enough to reach civilization!"

As he was saying this, Nick had found some Neosporin in the medicine drawer and began to generously applying it to his and bobbys wounds It was a topical antibiotic that would help the wound from getting infected and alleviated the pain, although John doubted it did much for pain when it came to Bobby's dismembered hand.

"Great make sure the engine is running, I'll need to get Brenda and b-" *Bang!* *Bang!* *Bang!**Bang!*

"Fuck! Get the RV ready, we're leaving the moment I'm back" Running in the directions of the gun shots, Nick charged head first into the darkness as Beast ran ahead of him!

'Its one thing after another, I can't catch a damn break!' Nick might have absorbed multiple things by now, but they didn't help whatsoever with mental fatigue and stress.

Following the sound of the gunshots, John began to realize that the direction was coming exactly from where he left Brenda and Bobby, that's when he realized these gunshots sounded a lot like the AR-15 he lent to Bob!

Following after Beast footprints in the sand and the gunshots, John finally saw the flashing lights of gunfire that immediately stopped the moment he saw them and could begin to hear the loud screams.

As he arrived at the scene, he saw a half dozen mutants fatally injured but still alive on the floor as Beast stood infront of Brenda, who continued to desperately squeezed the trigger of her empty AR-15.

The German shepherd bared its blood stained teeth as it growled a malevolent noise that gave the mutants cold sweats and pause, but it was only when they heard Nick barreling towards them and saw his blood covered face with snake eyes did they decide to retreat.

Firing his gun at the fleeing Mutants and hitting a few, Nick's turned his attention to the shellshocked Brenda who still continued to squeeze the trigger of the gun even after Nick's arrival.

Kneeling down, Nick pushed her empty gun to the side and had to dodge the scratches of the hysterical girl who thinks she about to be killed or worse.

"Brenda it's fine! Look!" Brenda's eyes refocused as her fear slightly withdrew.

"NICK! Your bac-" with her calmed down, Nick picked her up with one arm and somehow managed to do the same with Bob's massive build and began running.

"Yeah im back! No time to talk right now, we need to evacuate and let the military handle the rest!"

Nick felt like he gained all he could from this experience and decided to immediately retreat, as he heavily feared his Danger Attraction Curse. Nick could only imagine how danger it would be if while fight a mutant, his curse manages to attract a chupacabra or some other creature.

Following his own tracks in the sand, Nick quickly ran back to the RV with both Carters in hand as he as nearly ripped the door off the RV opening it and placed the two on the floor of the vehicle.

Nick noticed that Lynn Carter was now conscious and holding her baby, both mother and daughter crying.

Looking back and seeing Nick placing Brenda and Bob on the floor, Doug didn't dare dilly dally as immediately put the car in drive and floored it.

"Hold on, where's beast!" Nick yelled out as he looked out the moving RV door and saw nothing.

"The Dog?! Forget it, we got to get the hell out of here!" Doug yelled out as he stepped on the accelerate until the pedal hit the floor.

"...." A look of anger washed over Nick's face as his fists clenched together tightly.

Without Beasts help, Bobby would've definitely died and have been turned into stew while Brenda and Bob would've been mauled to death by the mutants after her gun was emptied.

With clenched teeth, Nick looked over at Brenda crying over the gravely injured Bobby who was missing an arm and Bob who's leg looked absolutely terrible, then over at Lynn quietly sobbing in the back and desperately clutching onto Catherine, that was when his anger receeded.

These people had been through so much and would do anything to get away from the situation, even if it meant leaving their pet and savior behind.

Nick understood these peoples desperation, but it still didn't sit right with him as he looked down at his bandaged arm that was stained red with blood.

When that mutant was on him and seconds away from stabbing him, it was beast that saved him!

'They might be willing to leave their savior behind, but I sure as shit cant!'

Loading up his guns, Nick silently walked to the door of the Moving RV and jumped!