3 The Escape
" Run, the back door go, go, go"...
Throughout all the chaos between the shooting, neighborhood destruction, and the dead coming back to life, here we are running for our lives from a group of thugs. You would think people would try to come together in a crisis like this but apparently not. It's taken as an opportunity that gives more of a reason to chaos, only now there aren't many consequences.
"Split up so that we can at least divide them," I said.
"Divide who," said Ace hesitantly.
"I'll tell you later, promise," I said.
"Bro, where do we run to you talking about splitting up? Where do we meet back up" Titus asked?
"The school," said Ace. The same school that just got shot up... Yeah, you tripping tripping", said Titus.
"Just meet up at the first thing that comes to mind, but don't go to the city. We don't know what's there", I said.
3 hours later...
" The Grocery Store, are you all serious? I swear I ... I don't care if you get bit by those things, shot, or kidnapped whatever, like both of you, are real-life drive me crazy, and it's two of you", I said.
"We were hungry, we haven't eaten all morning but, when we got here the store was empty anyway, couple bags of chip, oh and we found these gars... Ahhh, jackpot, make sure you share those. We just need the main ingredient", said Ace and Titus in harmony.
"Where were you expecting us to meet anyway," said Ace.
"I don't know, maybe one of our jobs, an old childhood house, or somewhere we all like," I said.
"We all like food," said Ace.
"Well, why didn't you just say that," said Titus.
"Maybe because we were under attack," I said.
''No, you were under attack. We don't even know what we were running from", said Titus.
"Right, yeah, you need to go ahead and explain yourself, man, you got us out here running like we in the Badwater Ultramarathon," said Ace.
So, we went to the back of the store, and I explained the entire story."He tripping, oh I had a dream head ass," said Ace.
"Yes sir, time for a new leader, a new older brother or something," said Titus
*Sound of a bottle falling to the ground*
"What was that," said Titus
"Hey, who's there? Come out", I said.
* Growl*
"No, no, that's one of those things from the tv," said Ace.
It grew closer and closer; hand extended out from the shadows reaching whoever its fingers could grasp.
"At least this one moves slow. Hey, watch this, watch", said Ace." This Is Sparta!"
Ace kicks the monster with full force to the center of its stomach. What he didn't expect was for his feet to go all the way through its body. The beast didn't budge. Instead, it was still standing with Aces foot stuck in its stomach. It was growling, reaching up Ace's body trying to bite him.
Ace's eyes grew wide, and he immediately started to panic scream to the top of his lungs," Help, Help."
"Titus, grab its arm. Keep him away from grabbing and eating this dude. Ace, continue trying to wiggle your footloose while I find something to hit it with", I said.
* Yelling and screaming continue*
"Bro, you not about to keep screaming in my ear! I'm already standing here holding this thing; the least you can do is try to get loose--
"What you think I'm doing, maybe if you weren't so weak, and pull THAT THING I can get loose--
"Weak, weak boy, I'll leave you right here! Say I won't, say it... Yeah, that's what I thought--
Wham!
In the middle of them arguing, I found a bat hitting the monster in the head.
"I found this inside the store, y'all keep this up, and I'm leaving, I swear," I said.
* Growl*
Titus snatches the bat and turns around after hearing the monster still growing. He beats the monster until its head is bashed in. afterward, he hands the bat to Ace.
"Here, you might need this more than anybody. * Cough* Weak ass boy", Titus whispers under his breath.
Nightfall came closer, and those things were now all over the streets. Besides this bat, we have no other weapons, and not to mention we needed a place to sleep for tonight. I figured maybe we could just climb on the roof of a house. If that's what we decided, we could spend the night there, get a high point of view to find the following route, and besides, I haven't seen one of those things climb something yet. So far, they have just been chasing and mostly bulldozing their way through things. One thing is for sure; they are powerful.
We find a fire exit in the ally of a building across the street from the gun store. I figured we keep an eye on it for a while and make our move inside for a peek, the first sight of daylight. "Get some rest, bro. Tomorrow we'll see what the gun store has to offer," I said.
"We need to go in now," said Titus
"We can't go now! The door is busted in, and it could be anything in there, man or monster", I said.
"Let be real and stop calling them monsters and things. They "Junks," all those people went and got drugged up with that new medicine now they spreading whatever they got," said Ace.
"A Junk, don't ever say that its offensive to some," I said.
"Whatever y' all scary plus we got a bat--
"No, I have a bat; remember *cough* weak ass boy," said Ace.
Titus shoves Ace to the ground and snatches the bat. "I'M THE LEAD--
"Ok and," I said
"See, that's the problem. You always act high and mighty, like you are the best at everything, yet you run around and don't even know what's chasing you because of a stupid dream. We out here alone with a bat and its monsters running arou--"
"I said O...K."
Starring down Titus, I slowly walk toward him as he grips the bat. "I'm not about to argue with nobody. I'm tired of trying to save both of you ass, and you don't listen. The only reason I do this is that you both are my brothers, and I love you. So if you want to go, be my guest and bring me something nice besides if you die, it's a win-win for me because I told you so", I said.
I shoved Titus out the way and found a chair left on the roof, and sat back watching as Titus get angry and storms off.
"Really, man, you going to let him go by himself... I guess I'm going to watch his back. Can you at least look out from the roof" said Ace?
"From Leader to look-out, huh," I said. Ace rushes to Titus' side. Sneaking over to the gun shop, they noticed not only was the glass broken there was blood inside and out the store. Scared out of their mind, they needed to find a light source of some kind. The deeper they went, the more the street lights were useless. Luckily Ace found a flashlight, but it was covered in blood.
"Aye, man, you find something yet," Titus whispered.
"YEAHHHHH!!!!!!"--
"Come on man, why the f*ck you so loud."
"YEAHHHH, I found a flashlight and this nine, Ace whispered."
"For real, let me see the gun," asked Titus as he reaches for the gun, a hand appears from the shadows and grabs his shirt pulling him back. Titus' reaction causes him to squirm and swing in a panic, but the Junk is too strong and aggressive. It was causing Titus to have to use the bat to keep the Junk from tearing him to shreds.
"Help, bro, hand me the gun."
"No, I got it."
"Come on, this not nothing to play around with, Damn! I'm going to die!"
*Growl*
The Junk starts to get more aggressive. "Move your stomach over so I can shoot it in the stomach. It's a bigger target"--
"Who the f*uck says sh*it like that!"
"What, it's a monster they don't understand us... Soo, you going to move or not", said Ace.
Titus uses all his strength to kick off the Junk causing him to flip over the counter, injuring his left knee.
"YEAHHHH" Ace screams extending his arm and holds the gun sideways.
Pop! Pop! Pop! Gunshots fire off continuously until the clip is empty.
*Click, Click, Click*
"Yeah, you came at the wrong time, zombie; we keep it on us. I swear if I didn't leave my phone at home, I would have broken the Internet with that one", said Ace
"I hurt my knee, help"...
"I'm not about to come back there, crawl under the counter," said Ace. Titus begins to crawl, reaching out for Ace. Once helped to his feet, he looks at the Junk, examining the monster.
"I can shoot the stomach; it's a bigger target. Man, only three shots landed to the chest, nothing else. Boy, I tell you, just sorry I would have di--
A hand grabbed Ace, and the Junk bites his ankle, causing him to scream to the top of his lungs. He turns around, striking the Junk in the head multiple times. Breathing heavily, Titus says, "chest shot should have still killed, him ho... How"? Looking at Ace, Titus gets the urge to make sure the Junk is finished this time, "Let me see the gun."
"It's empty", Ace replied knowing he wasted one of their chances of survival.
"Are you serious? You unload a whole clip without spare bullets, and only three shots hit?"
"The store was already empty, and I found this already loaded."
"So we did all this now we back to square one... let's look again to see if we find anything".
Titus and Ace start to search again when they hear a voice in the distance. "You hear that," said Titus.
"I can't hear with you talking so damn much"--
"I just started talk-- You know what, I'll check," said Titus.
"RUN" I scream to the top of my lungs! Pointing in the distance as a group of junks rushed, attracted by the sound of gunshots. Titus calls Ace over to run to the alley behind the street across. Rushing across, pain throbs throughout Titus' leg, causing it to worsen. I rushed down the fire exit as fast as possible to help Titus. That's when something unexpected happened.
Ka! Ka! Ka! Ka!
Rapid gunshots fly past our heads, nearly missing, cutting down the line of junks rushing towards us. With the street light beaming down on them, it seems that angels saved us.
"Males, this is why I decided to go gay! Boys are f*ucking idiots just go running around shooting anything big", said the mysterious woman.
