Chapter 0.5: WANTED: DEAD

-3 Years Before The Return of the "Iron Wolves"-

From the hampered view of a camera which did not have audio a group of soldiers stood by some sealed cases and boxes, suddenly they raised their guns and aimed at someone, they seemed to be yelling but it was completely silent, an hatchet attached to an incredibly thin wire only noticeable by the glint of it in the light flew into the head of one of the soldiers and whoever had a hold of the string ripped the soldier's corpse down to the floor violently as the others began shooting it seemed to no avail, as a short sword attached to the same string flew into the chest of another followed by the last soldier being shot multiple times in the chest causing him to fall back onto the floor as the second soldier was ripped back out of the view of the camera, blood splattered violently on the wall. Everything paused as the camera had turned stopped recording.

"So…. What do you think?" A man asked, he had green and red hair however his appearance was mostly defined by a thin but long scaly tail swinging around on the floor

"Well clearly whoever this is not looking to be friends, not with us at least. Then again what else is new." A man replied, this man was referred to as the Doctor, he was covered up in black clothing with blue accents of blue.

"There's more than just that you know." The man with the snake-like tail said

The Doctor exhaled "Serpent, what is the importance of this?" He asked with slight frustration

"Like I said he's not the only one going for our shipments, if each one uses different weapons I count there's about 4 of them. A sniper, that dual-wielding one, one with an enormous axe who always causes quite the scene, and one with some heavy-weaponry. We've only actually caught 2 on camera, the one with the axe and that heavy-weapons guy. I want permission to have a team to help me figure out why they are doing this and find them." Serpent said

"No. That's insane, thank god you didn't go to Kal because she would have said yes." The Doctor said

"Insane? Far from it, at this point they've each one has practically killed a small militia, either without a trace or with a bright red target on their head. If I could find them and negotiate with them in some way maybe instead of stealing from us, we can give them what they need and they might help us, after all they seem like a for-" Serpent said before he was interrupted by the crackling of a radio

—1 Month Later, At a Mine Site of an Undisclosed Location—

A young man in a trench coat walked down a large Mineshaft, he stepped in puddles of blood as he walked past, a hatchet dangling from his sleeve, in the other hand he held a device that was tracking something.

"Yo, Pandora you still there?" A boy asked from the phone

"Yeah I'm here but it looks like someone made a mess far before I ever got here, I mean seriously the bottoms of my shoes are covered in blood." The young man, his name was Pandora which was surely an odd name, as Pandora continued down the mine shaft he walked up to a soldier bleeding out on the ground with his back against a wall.

Pandora walked up the man and kneeled down in front of him, the soldier held his neck, he cowered in fear, but could not speak. Pandora let out a sigh, he stood up and reached into his trench coat, he pulled out a large silver revolver with something written on the side, he pointed it at the soldier, before the soldier could even realize what he was going to do Pandora pulled the trigger, some blood splattered back onto Pandora's face due to the high-caliber round.

"Poor guy…" Pandora said as he wiped his face, he looked back at a gate that looked like it was sealed at one point, but now it was wide open.

"Pandora, what the hell was that?" Another young man asked over the phone with a concerned tone

"Bingo… I'll be right back." Pandora said

"Hey wait! Don't hang up you motherfu-!" The young man said before being cut off by Pandora hanging up, Pandora put his phone in his pocket

Pandora walked into the room behind the gate, the room was completely silent and the lights flickered in random intervals, a box rattled breaking the silence, Pandora immediately after without such as even a second long gap drew his revolver and fired at the box without looking. He holstered his revolver and walked over to the box, he peered over it. A high-pitched scream could be heard, it startled Pandora so much he fell back onto the ground.

"The hell was that?" Pandora asked himself, he stood up and walked around to the other side of the box.

There was a young caprinae girl no younger than 8 cowering in fear, she tightly held stuffed bear in her arms.

"Shit… It's just a kid?" Pandora thought to himself, he kneeled down in front of the girl "Hey it's alright I'm not gonna hurt you." Pandora said

The girl looked a little more calm but still afraid of Pandora.

"I'm not dangerous, I'm not gonna hurt you. Did you do that to those people?" Pandora asked with a calming tone

Before the girl could give a response to Pandora, she had gave a startled look and raised her hand outwards

"Huh?" Pandora wondered as he turned around and stood up

As soon as Pandora turned around a soldier's knife clashed with a blue shield made of some type of energy, the soldier backed up holding his knife ready to kill Pandora

Pandora grabbed the hatchet that was dangling next to his right arm "Hey can you do me a favor, pull that shield down and close your eyes okay?" Pandora asked

The Girl didn't respond she just nodded her head. When the shield came down the soldier went to stab Pandora, but Pandora snatched the soldier's arm and rolled him over the box, Pandora shortly after jumped over the box and landed on top of the soldier, the swift tearing off flesh, cracking of bones, and splatter of blood could be heard as Pandora sunk his hatchet into the soldier's skull, when Pandora ripped it out the thud of the man's head falling back to the ground could be heard.

Pandora walked back around the crate to the little girl. His face and part of his upper body was now covered in blood from the soldier. "See? It's not safe here. You should come with me, after all I did just save you." Pandora said

The girl uncovered her eyes and looked at Pandora, she sat there for a second before hesitantly holding her hand out to Pandora.

-Some Time Later-

A group of 7 people of varying ages sat down at a table in a café, one of these people happened to be the little girl who was sitting on the outermost seat next to Pandora

"So let me get this straight you found a little girl in place of the thing that the tracker was supposed." A young man wearing a white and green suit said as he pointed at the little girl

"That's not even what we were looking for you jackass." Another young man pointed out

"Shut up Winter." Pandora and the young man in the white and green suit said

"Look we don't have much of a choice but to watch her right? I mean who else is going to." A boy who appeared to be no younger than 14 asked

"He's not wrong, but listen before we start arguing about it just let me introduce her to all of you." Pandora said

"Keeping her with us is the dumbest idea we've ever had yet." A young man wearing a black leather jacket said

"Okay well let's start with him, the grumpy one in the leather jacket is Black." Pandora said "The one in the fancy suit is Lucky." He continued "Him, in the black jacket, we call him Zero he's not much of a talker." He continued on "The one in the T-Shirt with weird symbols on it, is Winter. That one with the symbols on his arm is my brother, Barbatos." Pandora said

The girl didn't say much she just nodded

"Okay, now we can argue." Pandora said

"Why do we tell everyone our nicknames?" Barbatos asked

"Secrecy Dumbass." Black replied

"Watch your mouth before I come over there and jab this plastic fork in your fucking eye." Pandora said

"Whatever." Black said

"I'm still confused as to how my tracker led you to a child instead of what we needed." Lucky said

"Because Pandora's an idiot." Winter said

"Still smarter than you, besides how the hell does that make any sense I literally just had to walk up to the dot on my phone and find the object, it's the easiest thing possible." Pandora replied

"And you still failed to do that." Black interrupted

"Okay but wait, there has to be a reason he didn't find what we were looking for." Lucky said

"Yeah, he's a dumbass!" Black yelled

Barbatos looked outside the window of the café and saw Police blocking off the roads around it, the others continued to argue.

"Uhmmm… Guys, you should really look outside." Barbatos said

"What the hell do you w-? Oh shit…" Black said

"That's very bad." Winter said

"Calm down, maybe they aren't looking for us." Barbatos

"Lucky, They're scanning your car… And my bike." Pandora said

"They better not do anything to my-" Lucky said before yelling because the police officers broke the driver side window "I'm about to kill someone." Lucky said with an angry tone, he pulled un-holstered a pistol but kept it at his side

"They are definitely looking for us, we're all over feeds." Zero said

"We didn't even do anything though." Barbatos said

"We are literally wanted dead." Pandora replied "I've got an idea me Lucky, and Winter will get in Lucky's car and we'll divert them. Pretty much try to make as much noise as we can. Zero, Barbatos, Black you take Sheen and get as far as possible while we make as much noise as possible." Pandora said

"Wait her name is Sheen?" Barbatos asked

"That doesn't matter just grab her and go. Come back for my bike if you need it, looks like they're leaving it alone." Pandora answered

"Alright." Barbatos said as he got up and took Sheen, Black got up and followed behind him, Zero jumped up onto the table since he was on the inside seat and walked off to follow behind Barbatos.

"You ready?" Pandora asked

"Hell yeah." Lucky answered

"Uhm my stuff is in Lucky's car so actually no but alright." Winter said

Lucky pointed his pistol a cop behind the window and fired, breaking the glass and killing the officer, the three jumped out the café window. Lucky shot at the cops surrounding his car. Pandora jumped over the hood of the car and drop kicked the cop guarding it, he then got up, and jumped in the back of the car. Lucky opened the passenger door and got into the driver's seat from there, Winter jumped into the passenger seat after Lucky.

"GO! GO! GO!" Winter yelled

The tires of the car squealed just before it took off and accelerated down the street at a great speed.

-Meanwhile-

"Yeah we're totally not suspicious or anything you know leaving through the back door of a café, a group of all guys with a little girl." Black said

"Calm down, feeds say they're hard-focused on Pandora and Lucky." Zero said

"Yeah, let's hope so." Black replied

Black's phone began to ring as they walked into an alleyway, Black answered the phone.

"We need Zero to find us a safe place for us stop! A moving city only has so much area to drive and with how fast we're going we are covering a lot of ground very fast!" Lucky yelled

"Jesus! No need to yell." Black replied "Hey Zero, can you find them a place to stop? Someplace we can all group up." Black asked

"Yeah, but at this rate the only way we're getting outta this one is by somehow getting out of the city. That's unlikely for any of us to do, we'll have to sneak out, even with how often we do it. That will be hard with everyone being on alert." Zero answered

"It doesn't matter find us a way out! I'm not letting this happen again!" Barbatos yelled

Black and Zero gave a surprised look as Barbatos wasn't one who yelled or got mad often

"If you have to leave us behind that's fine but you at the very least have to get the hell out!" Pandora yelled butting in on the call

"What kinda drugs are you smoking! I'm not getting caught!" Lucky yelled

Black sat there in silence, he didn't know what to do. Suddenly the call ended without another word from either side.

"They hung up." Black said

"What!?" Barbatos yelled

"Look, we need to get out of here." Black said

"He's right, we don't have time to go out of our way and help them." Zero said

"But they're our friends and that was my brot-." Barbatos said before he was interrupted

"Look Pandora said we should leave them, so let's just go we need to lay low for a bit." Black said

-Meanwhile-

Winter leaned out the passenger window with a rocket launcher, he fired and blew up a couple of the cars chasing, he got back in the car. Pandora shot a sniper rifle at the driver's of the police vehicles through the back window of Lucky's car.

"Do you guys have any idea how illegal this is!?" Lucky yelled

"I think we're far past the point of return so we may as well get a little more illegal!" Winter said as he leaned out the window once again and fired an assault rifle at the police cars.

"No that's the best part though!" Lucky yelled before nervously laughing

"I'm out!" Pandora yelled and he threw the sniper rifle down next to him and sat down to look in front of him

"Same here!" Winter said getting back in the car. "Actually, I've got one rocket left." Winter continued

"Oh good. You can use it on the wall in front of us!" Lucky yelled

"Holy fuck! I've got it!" Winter replied as he grabbed the rocket launcher, loaded the rocket into it and then leaned out the window

"This is such a dumb fucking idea!" Pandora yelled

Winter fired the rocket, then quickly threw it on the road and got back in the car

"You better pray to god there's no wall past that smoke anymore!" Pandora yelled

As the smoke cleared it revealed an opening where the wall for the edge of the city used to be.

"Everyone better hold on onto something!" Lucky yelled

The car went through the hole, everyone began screaming as the car began to fall to the desert ground below. The car hit the ground and flipped a couple times before landing upside down.

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