God DAMMIT Hails.

WE GOT A LOTTA WORK TO DO FORE WE RAID THAT BASE. LET'S GET TO IT!

THE 15TH DAY

SUNDAY

7TH OF FEBUARY

DAYS IN GAME: 13

Tyler woke the next morning alone in his bed and he sighed at this.

"Weird. Once upon a time I slept alone 366 days a year. Now i sleep along twice in two weeks...and it bothers me. Weird."

He sat up with a shrug and went to check on the RV. The first bunk he found made him smile as he saw Tulip comfortably snuggled into Angel's heavenly bosom with the blankets around their waists. Tyler smiled as he noted Tulip was a natrual brunette with VERY perky nips indeed as he pulled the blanket up over them and Angel smiled.

"Every morning."

Tulip giggled.

"He's so cute! and sweet!"

Tyler smiled as he patted the naked cutie.

"I gotta look after the girls, don't I?"

"Yup! And your Angel!"

The trio chuckled at that cuteness and Angel smiled.

"She's Bi as well."

"I think we can make that work."

The trio made breakfast for the RV and Tyler smirked at the sight of Ben snuggled up with Kora. He looked at Angel as she tied her long bonde hair up and Tulip scowled.

"don't be a dick."

"Cute."

"YES I AM!"

Angel smiled and she hugged the man at the stove.

"I know you're lonely, Gore."

He smiled at her quiet whisper.

"Kinda. And that's weird in it's own right."

"Not really. just shows you're ALIVE. And snuggles ARE nice."

"Thanks Angel."

She snuggled into him with a smile.

"And Tulip has a crush."

"Both of you tonight?"

"Uh YEAH!"

"Alright. I'm glad we tried to kill each other, Angel."

"Me too."

Tulip giggled and wriggled between them for a hug.

"I'm glad he's freaking nosy!"

The friends laughed at her unending sweetness as the english muffins and coffee was readied. The rest of the friends came to life with Kora wincing as he sat up.

"damn dude. My ass hurts. We're getting lube next time."

Ben was seen to chuckled.

"I warned you."

"dammit."

Tyler smirked and Kora pulled a gun.

"Say ONE joke you fuckin asshole....SHIT. I can't win!"

The friends laughed at the trap and Tyler merely smirked.

"Just be sure to clean the mess."

"I hate you so fucking much, Gore."

The food was readied and the showers taken before Tyler and the group all sat at the table. The survivor nodded out the window to the Osprey.

"That thing's landing gear SHOULD still be intact. I'd like us to get it resting on it's wheels before we try to repair the damage. I saw a forklift in a hardware store backlot."

Ben sipped his coffee.

"I'll take a few and see if I can find a proper crane. Forklift'll just tip right over."

Kora looked at him.

"Block and tackle, Ben?"

"we'd need something hardcore to mount it to and some good chain."

"The roof of the gas station? We could make it into a giant winch."

"Huh. We'd need to be VERY cause a the tension but you knew that. we'll do both."

Tyler looked at Alexis.

"I'll take you an Angel were we left off killing and continue our circuit. Dublin's crew should arrive by noon and we'll go from there."

The black haired biker chivk smirked as she looked at him.

"Sure. And nice."

"Ha. Tulip. You build a party and loot behind us. Basically doing exactly what we did yesterday...today. Minus the Osprey since they're kinda rare."

Ben looked at him.

"Anything else like that, Gore?"

"Oh yeah. We shot down a C-5 Super Galaxy in the beta and that was where we got our nukes for the fight with Skalroc from. And my GOD was that a pain in the ass to do. We had to first find a fighter jet that could reach the C-5's height, rebuild it. arm it. FUEL IT. PRACTICE on it. And yeah. we did it. And yeah. Got TEN nuclear warheads from it."

Ben and Kora whistled at that one and Tyler sat back.

"we shot down a C-47 skytrain and got a mass of world war 2 weapons and ammo. THAT was a cool find. Um. Once we took out a chinook transport chopper and got a supply of grenades and other throwables, a Boeing 747 netted us clothes, and yeah. anything that's used as a transport in the real world can be found flying around in here. Still no clue on who's doing the flying but if you see something in the sky call it out. Odds are it'll give something good."

Kora crossed his arms.

"Stratofortress?"

"We saw ONE in the beta. we TRIED to shoot it down using SAMS and a fighter jet, but then we got attacked by a Skorca. Sky. ORCA. An UNDEAD orca. Why they are up there I DO NOT know. But my GPD did we shit ourselves!"

Tulip giggled.

"Like in that one anime! Spirited Away?"

"I know the one you mean and I adore you a lot more, Tulip."

"Yay!"

Tyler chuckled as he patted her and the pretty girl beamed at the affection before he looked at the group.

"Any other questions?"

They shook heads and Sarah appeared on the screen now.

"We're live with the Goreleech camp and this morning we have a special treat for you, ladies and gentlemen."

Tyler frowned now and Sarah smiled.

"We have an exclusive intervieiw with Goreleech of the Lord of the Dead experiement and Archbishop Cartigan Lindedorn of the Roman Catholic church."

Tyler smirked and he looked at a laughing Angel.

"This one is gonna be funny."

"Do it, Gore. Oh my GOD do it!"

Alexis looked at her friend beside her.

"Hey Rng, mind throwing in a few bags of popcorn?"

"Ha. Sure."

An older man in a black robe trimmed by red appeared and looked at Tyler as he spoke in a wizened voice.

"The blessings of God upon you, Goreleech."

"YES we removed all the little boys from the premises."

Tyler's cheery yet cautionary tone made his friends laugh and the Archbishop sigh.

"I see. Your remarks regarding Almighty God have left many a member in the Church concerned. Are you saying there is no God?"

"That is EXACTLY what i am saying. Not in this world."

"where is your proof?"

"HOW many times has your organization been GUTTED over child molesting and sex abuse? FIVE times? That I've been alive for? BONe cancer in kids, humanity's MISERY, ahh lessee what's another good one...the Holocaust, the fact some peoples in the world have to LITERALLY use fire heated stones to destroy their breasts to prevent rape, hmm, crime, I mentioned misery, I can keep going if you really want me to."

Ben smirked as he munched on the popcorn.

"This is fun."

The Archbishop sighed.

"Your remarks are offensive. and inflamatory."

"Okay? I should care WHY?"

The man looked at him.

"If you do not hold yourself to God...who DO you hold yourself accountable to?"

Angel smirked.

"Oh shit. Here we go."

Tyler smiled.

"Are you asking who i worship?"

"I merely asked who you hold your-"

"Yes or NO."

"NO I-"

"Good. I hold myself accountable to Hestia. The goddess of Hearth and Home and anime goddess of Is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon? Danmachi. And I am not kidding. That's legit what it's called. THAT goddess may be a human creation...but she has taught me more lessons then your evil and sadistic bastard of a god could ever. YOUR god is a freakin contradiction. SHE merely preaches a family we can be a part of and be PROUD we can be a part of it. Her sect is NOT a sect..it'd FAMILIA. or HER FAMILY. And ANY religion that allows so many of it's members to abuse the weakest of us all so LIBERALLY...has NO PLACE in GORELEECH'S WORLD."

This stance made the man huff.

"God is NOT a contradicition. I dare you to prove it."

"Okay. God is all knowing right? He knows EVERYTHING?"

"He does. He knows past, present, and future."

"Okay. God CREATED, everything, right?"

"He did. everything we could ever imagine, God created."

"Okay. God, NEVER makes mistakes, right?"

"exactly. God is perfect. He DOES not make mistakes."

Tyler smiled and Angel nudged a very curious Tulip beside her.

"watch this."

"Kay! Yummmy popcorn!"

they chuckled and Tyler looked at the Archbishop.

"Sooo, going off your reasoning, God WILLINGLY created Lucifer, KNOWING he was going to betray him, KNOWING h7e was going to start a war, KNOWING he was going to create evil. So, by extension, GOD, a BEING OF GOOD, created EVIL....WILLFULLY. is THAT what I am to understand?"

The archbishop went red in the FACE at this logical question and Tyler pressed him.

"God WILLINGLY created suffering and is WATCHING his so-called BELOVED children go through horrors every day...all the while being the REASON they are suffering in the first place? If he never makes mistakes...doesn't this make him a sadistic dictator?"

The archbishop ended the interview without replying and Tyler busted up laughing as Sarah was left scrambling.

"Yeah that;s fine. Run away to avoid your problems. RUN AWAY FROM THE TRUTH. It's still here."

Angel busted up laughing as Tulip rubbed her head/

"Owwie."

"That bastard talked him into a cage! Ha!"

Sarah smiled professionally.

"This was Goreleech of the Lord of the Dead experiment."

She faded out and a smirking Mylissia appeared now.

"Gore that was fucking brillant. People are PISSED and yet are watching regardless. They WANT to see you fail now."

Tyler chuckled.

"And all I did was ask a SIMPLE question."

"And that question locked him a freakin logical box. Okay. You got a spike in views but no more then the usual streamer when they do something stupid. Now I have a fresh sponsership I think you'll appreciate."

He smiled.

"Hit me."

"I have a sponsership from Cougar. The brand of Mobile Home designers your current RV is from. They want you to keep your current RV and use it in your travels while cutting promos and the like. Your upgrades can't obscure the Cougar logo. Other then that, only stip. Pay is 250,000 for the two week campaign."

Tyler smiled.

"Sure. Sign the line."

"Will do. I have one for YOU now, Angel."

The blonde blinked and Mylissa smiled.

"I have a sponsership from London Girl for you. They want you to do a few promos with their makeup as a model and do stuff WEARING it."

Angel smiled.

"I'mma model now?"

"MAKEUP model but yup. Pay would be 275,000 for the two weeks."

"Sure! I don't HAVE any of their makeup though."

Tyler smiled.

"There's a pharmacy down the street, Angel. Should be able to find SOMETHING of theirs you can use."

"Ooooh I'll be a model!"

"With a VERY scary bodyguard."

"Thanks Gore."

Mylissia smiled and Kora was next to be looked at.

"Yo no shit?"

"Since you're Gore's friends you've gotten you own following. YOU have a sponsership from Nike, Kora."

"...I feel stereotyped and I do not like it."

The friends laughed at the guy's irritation as he signed the deal. Tyler then looked at Mylissa.

"So the bundles."

"They come online day after tomorrow and from what I understand will be delivered via airdrop you'll get a special code to use. You cannot steal other player's crates as that'd be considered IRL robbery."

"Cool."

Angel got a message.

"Dublin's rolling up the hill, Gore. half an hour."

"Let's get to it ladies and rejects."

The friends split with Tyler, Alexis, and Angel heading to the pharmacy for the blonde's new carreer and she had a new excitement to her as she bounced along the aisle.

"Me! a model! ME!"

Tyler patted her and she blushed.

"Rein in it Angel. Okay?"

"Sorry."

"don't let it go to your head? Please?"

She smiled sheepishly at that.

"Sorry. I got it."

Alexis chuckled as she looked at the options.

"So we're best friends with a makeup model. I like this game."

Tyler chuckled as he spotted some London Girl nail polish.

"Hey Angel. Got some polish here."

"I got some eyeliner."

The friends gathered a healthy supply and Alexis helped the busty blonde apply some color to her eyes and Tyler ran a comb through her hair, making them smile. Once done Angel smirked as she looked in a mirror. Her beautiful blue eyes had been lined by a light shadow that gave her eyes more pop and her lips were now a striking blood red. Her nails had been painted a bright blue with the middle finger a neon yellow that made Tyler chuckle as her hair hung in thick waves.

"Thanks guys."

They hugged their friend.

"I gotchyer back, Angel."

"What he said."

The trio then got moving on their hunt to clear out the houses and Angel made sure to sport her new look and Tyler had his Colt M1911 out per his sponsership and was moving towards a larger house with a tall front gate of steel and Tyler smirked as he pushed it open...getting a long creak of rusting hinges.

"Great. here we go again."

He put the M1911 up and pulled his M870 as Angel and Alexis swapped to shotguns as well. Tyler pumped the shotgun onehandedly.

"Let's go to hell together."

The ladies smirked at the catchphrase as Tyler walked up to the front door of the house and hefted the gun. Angel readied at the door and Alexis backed him up. The door was pushed open and the group moved in with guns up...only to be faced with an open concept home that made Tyler smirked.

"This is the house from The Ring. The first one when she came out of the TV."

The door slammed shut behind them and Tyler sighed as a sound of TV static was heard.

"Annnnd fuck. Alright."

The trio moved to the living room that had the well from the iconic movie appearing and disappearing and Tyler rubbed his eyes.

"Alright. aim for the torso this time. You'll NEVER hit her in the head. Likes to leap and is UNGODLY fast. it's a sally's bigger sister. Called a Samara. Yes THAT samara. GET OUT HERE toots. we got shit to do."

A girl appeared from the well and Tyler held his hand up.

"We can't touch her till she crawls outta the TV. Soon as she DOES blast her."

Angel nodded as she hefted her gun as the white skinned undead girl walked towards the screen.

"Those movies always did freak me out."

Alexis shrugged as she aimmed her shotgun.

"I was more Exorcist."

"SAME! Ugh."

"THAT actually happened you know."

The two girls looked at him in horror and he smirked as he hefted his gun.

"Yup."

Angel and Alexis looked at each other in shock.

"I am now terrified of sleeping."

"We'll barge in on him. BAm. Safety blanket enough."

The girls smiled as they took aim at the crawling out of the TV zombie girl.

"Sister I LOVE the way you think. For now...BLAST ER!"

The three shotguns opened up and the girl took the blasts right in the chest as she screeched in pain and Tyler smirked.

"FUCK YOU SAM!"

His last blast took her in the face and her head exploded. The girl dropped to the floor with a sound of a hollow drum before being sucked screeching back into the TV and back into the well as she clawed at the ground and Tv in a desperate attempt to prevent such a horror. The lid slammed shut and the TV went out. Angel frowned as the TV shattered.

"Noooow I kinda feel bad."

"We CAN save her, Angel. we just need to find the original videotape and throw into THAT well. She'd appear and someone would have to crawl inside to toss the tape into the well and close the thing. THEN escape BEFORE the TV went out. Don't make it...you're stuck in there until you do. Annnnd yeah it's a pain in the ass. SUCCEED and Samera is cured of her undead affliction and is restored to normal life as an NPC you can then take with you as an ingame companion."

They looked at him in shock and Tyler smiled as he took the duffel bag of loot.

"Remember that girl everyone thought was my girlfriend in the beta?"

Alexis smirked.

"YOU fucked Samera?"

"A LOT. She is like...REALLLLLY good in bed once you break her curse. And yeah. Should try her you'd love her."

"ONCE we break her curse."

The friends chuckled at that as they searched the house and came out with another rifle case. Tyler opened it...and smiled.

"M14 bitch. 7.62 varient with modern raider chassis and semi-auto only. But for what I want it for? That's okay. We got the 20 round magazines and bout 4 of them. we got plenty of 7.62s for it so that's a plus."

The friends returned to the RV to unload and update the group on the discovery of the new enemy type. Tyler was then pleasently surprised to see the Osprey resting on it's landing gear on an undamaged section of the station's parkinglot while the engine was being worked on by Ben and Kora. Alexis whistled.

"The hull isn't too badly damaged, Gore."

He nodded as he saw the lack of real damage to the nose even though it's collided with a house and slammed into concrete.

"Yeah. That frame is a lot tougher then I thought. hey Ben! How bad?"

The burly guy chuckled as the raiders returned.

"Like a bird hit her in the engine, Gore. It's okay. I can fix it. She took a LOT less damage then I thought."

"Yeah. They SUPPOSED to be that tough?"

"Well kinda. It only dropped from like...30 feet. And that house was wood. Hell the CEMENT did more damage then the bullets.'

"Huh. Weird."

"Eh go with it, Gore. We've seen weirder."

"ABOUT THAT."

"Oh shit."

"Yeeeah we found something."

Kora smirked.

"Conneticut?"

"The Ring. We just shot Samera to death with a SHOTGUN."

"Jesus CHRIST."

"Has LEFT the chat."

They shivered and Tyler smiled as he looked at the RV.

"Tulip?"

Ben answered as he had a wrench in the engine.

"IS still looting. Dublin's crew arrived and are currently split among the raiders and looters."

Kora sighed.

"Hailfyre's with em, Gore. And....she's fine. Not hurt. And apparantly had been running her mouth saying you raped her when you two slept together. And THAT was why she stabbed you. We have firmly her NO. That is NOT what happened. Dublin was NOT happy."

Tyler shrugged and Alexis looked at him.

"Gore? I like...REEEEEALLLY wanna meet this chick now."

"Sure. Where they at, Kora?"

"West side bro."

"I never saw that movie. Not a fan a musicals."

He shrugged and the group chuckled as they followed the Survivor. Angel smirked.

"Not a fan eh? Is that true or a gay jab?"

"True. Never got the point."

"Ha. Fair."

"I don't JUST roast the guy."

"Shocker."

Alexis chuckled as she looked her shotgun over.

"So this Hailfyre, Gore. what's the history?"

"Childhoon friend."

He told the tale and the black haired biker nodded.

"And you're STILL hung up on her."

"I....THOUGHT I'd gotten over her. But....guess not."

"do you love her?"

"I love her to death."

The girls smiled at the reflex reply. Angel looked at Alexis with a smile.

"He's confessed to her several times....and she still stabbed him."

"I'm jealous. Girl has a guy pining for her even after she tries to KILL him....and he STILL believes she's a good person."

"She IS a good person, Alexis. Just...I dunno WHAT her problem is. I love her dearly and I've told her. I dunno WHY she fights it so freakin much since she loves me too."

"wow. Ha. You SURE not in a romcom?"

"Oh I sincerely fuckin hope not. This be a pretty fuckin weird romcom with rapy zombies and an undead dragon."

The friends chuckled at that one as a gunshot rang out from a house up the street. Angel sighed.

"Type99 Arisaka. Guess she DID get her gear back."

A group of people was then seen fleeing from a house up the street before a 8 foot tall creature in full riot gear was seen exploding from the same house like king kong! Tyler sighed as he saw it and pulled the WA2000.

"Seriously? There was an Armored Hulk in there? i got em."

He took aim and fired the powerful .300 sniper rifle. The round took the roaring beast in the eye and it's bellow of fury was cut off before it dropped to the ground with a slam and Tyler snorted.

"Tch. INSECT. CLEAR!"

Dublin came trotting up with a smirk.

"Helluva way to make an entrance, Gore."

"Ha. Nice to see ya agin, Dubby. How ya been?"

The copper haired lady chuckled as she fistbumped the sniper.

"Been good, Gore. we found this sick humvee with 28 inch wheels. Thing is a MONSTER."

"Ha. Nice. Ya know you can mount MACHINEGUNS on the ROOF?"

"I do now. And we will."

Tyler chuckled before looking at the Armored Hulk.

"So where'd big guy come from?"

Dublin sighed.

"An underground lab in that house. Was a METHLAB with dead riot police everywhere."

"We'll take a look. odds are there's more to it."

"You da expert."

Tyler then spotted a familar burnette at the back of the group clutching her Arisaka type 99 in a shaking grasp and Dublin sighed.

"We found her."

"Hails."

The girl jumped and looked over.

"What?"

"Glad you're okay."

She glared at him.

"YOU raped me-"

"NO. I DIDN'T. Why'd I even bother? I LOVE YOU. DEAL with it. Come on. i wanna check out that lab."

Angel nodded and Alexis looked the shaking Hailey over with a lifted eyebrow.

"really? YOU? YOU'RE the one THAT guy is PINING for? Oh he could do SO much better."

Hailey shivered.

"He's a disgusting freak. Did you know he jerks off to MONSTERGIRL RAPE HENTAI?"

Tyler smirked.

"How did YOU know about that, Hails? I never ONCE told nor showed my collections."

Alexis chuckled.

"MY particular flavor is oni-san on Shota."

"OOoh a lady of culture."

Hailey was red in the face as Tyler looked at her now.

"Your sister was yelling it in the hall."

"NO. She was yelling about my LESBIAN MOTHER DAUGHTER fetish. She doesn't know about my hentai. NO ONE does. Hails. HOW DID YOU KNOW?"

She gulped.

"I...looked through your screen while you were sleeping?"

He opened his screen and went to his collections and found they were indeed still present.

"even IF you had deleted everything, Hails, i still have backups in my gauntlets."

"I wasn't going to delete them...was curious what you had."

"Oh?"

He noted something in the collection.

"Date accessed is....the nights we spent together. Hails? Just come on. enough. Please. we do this all the time."

Hailey slumped.

"I try to KILL YOU...and you're STILL no giving up?"

"I'll never give up on my best friend, Hails. Until the day you stop with this nasty act and let that loveable firecracker I ADORE out, I'll keep poking you. and I REALLY wanna see your rally racer skills."

The brunette jumped/

"You still remember that?"

"Course I do. Sadly, I haven't found any rally cars or anything you could actually DO anything with."

She smiled smally at this news and Tyler walked over and hugged her.

"I haven't forgotten."

She shivered at the hug.

"Let me go."

He let her go and she sighed.

"Now go away."

"I'll keep coming back, Hails."

"I don't want you to."

"Look me in the eye and say that."

Hailey looked him in the eye and opened her mouth,

"I want to stay with you."

Only for the impulse confession to come out instead. She went red in the face with humilation and Tyler smiled.

"Why is that so bad?"

"I've told you why. I HATE YOU! I hate everything about you. And yet....."

She slumped over her rifle and He patted her.

"I want you with me too, Hails. But you'd HAVE to stop this flipflop and commit."

The girl was shaking violently as he let her go and the Survivor smiled.

"I'll unblock you."

She jumped and watched in shock as he did unblock her....and he got a mass of messages ranging from begging for help and forgiveness to love confessions and pleading for him to forgive her for the murder attempt. He smiled.

"Why can't you be as sweet NOW as you are in these letters, Hails? Why is so freakin hard to BE HAPPY?"

"I WANT TO! It's....my family."

"Are they contacting you?"

She nodded at his sudden question.

"They've told me they'll pull my plug if I keep seeing you."

"Really?"

Hailey jumped at his mild tone and looked to see him opening his screen.

"what are you doing?"

"Calling in a favor."

Mylissia appeared with a smirk.

"A FAVOR huh?"

"Yeah. Get Hailfyre under YOUR preview. Seems SOMEONE is interfering in an EXPERIEMENTAL DIVE. and UNLESS i am MISTAKEN...that's a felony."

"I'll get right on that....2 hours tops."

"Thanks, Mylissia."

The screen went out and Tyler looked t a VERY confused Hailey.

"We'll go look then house over properly and go from there."

The still confused girl nodded.

"Okay."

Tyler led the way to the busted up house and swept the Armored Hulk's duffel bag onto his back as Angel fell in by Hailey.

"So you know? He's been MOPING the entire time you've been gone."

"Tch. And HOW much have you two slept together?"

"Not ONCE since you been gone. And he's LONELY now."

"He's always alone."

Alexis came over now and Hailey looked at the tough girl with a lifted eyebrow.

"Who're you?"

"I'm the other girl he tried to kill. YOU are one lucky lady, Hailfyre. That guy has you on a pedestal....even in the face of MY crew. Some of which ARE cheerleaders that make HER look bad."

Hailfrye sighed.

"Why do you care? He's not YOUR kid."

Alexis grabbed her by the colar now.

"I CARE because he is one of the sweetest guys I have ever met. And one of the COOLEST too. annda...HI? He told me everything on how you BEGGED him to help you. He has been helping ALL OF US play this game to the best of his ability. All of us. And ya know something? It's AWESOME."

Tyler looked into the house as the girls ranted and he noted something in the basement.

"Hey i got a weapons locker here people."

Dublin came over and Tyler pointed to a large steel cage in the back of the basement.

"Oh we didn't open it. Didn't know how."

"I do. I'll get it open if you all wanna cover me."

"Sure."

Tyler dropped to the battered basement that had indeed once been a methlab and went to the locker with the rest all watching as he set a knife to the thing and picked the lock in thirty seconds. A feat that made Alexis smirk.

"Tyler."

"NO I WON'T break into your stuff."

"Thank you. weird toolbox."

"I play a lotta games."

She chuckled as he opened the locker....and whistled.

"Wow."

He hefted a lone rifle with a smirk.

"RPK-74 with 45 round magazine. 5.45 russian rounds. It's a support AK-47 and basically the same."

He passed the weapon to Angel and she chuckled.

"Thing is MEAN I like it."

"Well yo gonna love this."

He pulled a beefy, 12 gauge shotgun form the case with a long smirk on his face.

"Allow me to introduce my old friend. SPAZ12 combat shotgun. folding stock, extended 12 slug tube and most importantly.....it's got the folding stock."

Tyler smiled as he looked at the girls...and pumped it.

"Clever Girl."

Even HAILEY whistled at the image he cut with the imposing shotgun.

"DAMN dude."

"Hails who was the biggest Jurrassic park buff you knew?"

"THAT is a VERY good point. I want my own PPSH41."

"I know. Come on."

The locker had nothing else and so the friends returned to the RV where Tyler led the conflicted Hailey into the thing and to the weapons' cabinet.

"We've had luck since you been gone. I shit you not we found a tunnel into the Underdark inside a police station."

"JEsus."

"I secured it and sent up a quarantine alert. It'll be leveled when we got the means."

"Still JESUS."

He pulled a sub machinegun from the cabinet and passed Hailey the iconic weapon in question.

"I found this. Here."

She just looked at the weapon with huge tears in her eyes.

"I got the Elly bundle."

"I see her switchblade."

"Why?"

"I love you, Hails."

"WHY DO YOU LOVE ME? I HATE YOU!"

He smiled.

"Because you're sweet, kind, FUN TO BE AROUND, GORGEOUS, tough as nails, and is one of the strongest chicks I know. You don't NEED anyone to protect you and are just...amazing to me. I dunno what else to say. I love you and love just how freakin....MUCH you are."

Hailey sniffed as the tears fell from her eyes like bullets and hung her head in the face of the awe-filled gushing. Mylissa appeared then with a smirk.

"Well. It's official. Hailfyre is now undr my purview. seems her family had been abusing the chat feature that allowed them to send typed messages over her vision that we couldn't see. They were arrested for tampering with Diver Equipment and Hailfyre's body was locked inside a better hospital."

Hailey looked at the manager in shock.

"The messages...will STOP?"

"Oh yeah. The features were RIPPED outta your helmet."

She deflated from relief.

"Oh thank god. They were trying to boost my ratings with bullshit...and I listened."

Tyler smiled.

"Hails? Come home. Please."

She shivered and put the SMG on the table....before she pounced on the survivor for a VERY intense kiss that saw her nearly THROTTELING him as they got into a WILD makeout session with Hailey wearing a new smile of ecstatic relief before they came up for air.

"I'm sorry! I love you, Tyler!"

"I love you too, Hailey!"

She smiled and he held her tightly.

"They started when Angel tried to kill us."

"Makes sense. And...are we REALLY done playing this game, Hails?"

"Yes."

She sniffed.

"Yes dammit. I am sorry."

She broke down crying and he held her tightly as the girl snuggled into his chest bawling her eyes out and repeating her apology over and over again while he stroked her soft brown hair soothingly. She sobbed for an hour before her sobs faded to saddened whimpers and then she smiled.

"So a dryspell?"

"Why is the knife on my neck, Hails?"

She froze. Tyler looked at her curiously as the marine KABAR was pressed on the back of his neck with her hand holding it and she looked up wide eyed....and the knife was withdrawn.

"I was going....to stab you again?"

"Before or after Mylissa called?"

"....After?"

"why?"

"Because....you're unkillable and you're infuriating sometimes?"

He just looked at her as she blushed like a child caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"So your answer...is to STAB me?"

"Well I stabbed you in the chest and it didn't do anything. So yeah kinda. I mean we ARE inside a videogame so."

"Hails that freakin hurt."

"Wait really?"

"How would you feel if I shoved a 6 inch knife into your CHEST?"

She looked at him in shock.

"But....you didn't even BLINK! HOW could it have hurt like that...and you just NOT BLINK?"

"Beeecauuuuse I have an INSANE PAIN TOLERANCE. Remember?"

".....Jesus Christ. I am so sorry."

She gave him the knife and he put it in the cabinet.

"I...sorry. You looked like Captain America to me."

He kissed her and she sighed at the contact and he smiled in relief.

"Oh thank god. Yeah there's no way to fake THAT kinda smile. I have my girlfriend back."

"...wait we DIDN'T break up?"

"Oh god no. I KNEW I'd get through to you, Hails. Just a matter of keep trying."

She smiled and hugged him.

"I'm sorry."

"I know."

"....You're not gonna apologize are you?"

"Nope. I AM sorry I drowned you in a lake. THAT was a MITE extreme."

"....I have NIGHTMARES because of that now you dick. And it WAS realistic."

"Your body is still out there."

"I KNOW. Same with the one you shot. THAT was FUCKING WEIRD man. And then it chased me down the street as a zombie I then had to shoot. Ya MIGHTVE told me that."

"I coulda...but surprise."

She slugged him in the chest with a hard thunk.

"Idiot."

"Love you too, Hails."

She smiled and he looked at her.

"Are we good?"

She kissed him.

"NOw we are. And my GOD do i feel better."

They got off the floor and she put her SMG in his bedroom and he hugged her.

"Hey Hails"

"Hm?"

He smiled.

"Welcome home."

She smiled.

"Thanks Gore. Anything interesting since I been gone? YES I know the reference."

"We killed the Ring girl and found the haunting in connecticut house."

"Jesus I am GLAD I didn;t come."

"Ha. ya will now."

She smiled.

"Kissing and screwing around is one thing. Sex is not. NOT so easily."

"Oh fine. I'll romance you out of your panties then."

"I will kick you in the dick you raunchy fuck."

"Love you too, Hails."

Hailey smiled.

"I love you too, Gore."

He held her tightly and smiled as she hugged him back.

"Come on, Hails. we got a lotta work to do."

"Sure....and do you mind telling HOW THE FUCK you got into the irradiated zone? The Underdark is a hellscape."

"I'll show you."

"....god dammit."

The Survivor chuckled at the slump before the pair walked out of the RV hand in hand and Angel smirked as they came out.

"Okay. YOU. The GIRLS. NOW."

Hailey was dragged away by the camp girls as Kora and Ben came up to Tyler. Ben chuckled.

"You DO know it's not gonna end well, right?"

Tyler sighed as he leaned on the RV.

"Most likely, Ben."

Kora slapped him on the back.

"YOU are a HOPLESS romantic, Gore. And the girls will tear her apart for this."

"Thanks guys. How we lookin?"

Ben chuckled.

"It'll be a few days fore I can get the Osprey in the air. Town's halfway cleared and looted nd we're looking good for supplies."

Tyler nodded and Kora looked at him.

"So what'll you do the next time she tries to fuck us over?"

He sighed.

"Her family got thrown out, Kora. If she STILL tries to fuck me over even NOW.....I dunno what'll do but it won't be pretty."

Ben smiled.

"Be careful."

"Will do, Ben."

Angel came back wih the girls and the busty blonde sighed as she walked up to him.

"So you know? She just said you forced her to kiss you in the RV."

Tyler blinked.

"She did WHAT now?"

Alexis nodded as she came over.

"Yup. And said you tried to rape her again inside the RV at knife point. Gore? She's a lost cause."

The survivor sighed and looked over to where the brunette in question was walking over all smiles.

"Hails? Seriously?"

She blinked and Angel looked at her.

"We told him."

"WHY?"

Alexis glared at her for this shocked outrage.

"Because he deserves better then YOU."

Hailey looked at Tyler with desperation in her eyes.

"What did they tell you?"

"That I forced you to kiss me and tried to rape you at knifepoint."

"Jesus. NO! I didn't say that! i SAID I tried to stab you as a JOKE....and you shut it down."

Alexis pulled her Screen up and hit play on a recording taken not even 15 minutes prior.

"So you guys know? Gore just tried to rape me at knifepoint. And he stole my first kiss too."

HAiley's voice was heard on the playback and Tyler looked at her.

"Your defense?"

Hailey's hand flew to her hip where a luger was strapped and Tyler watched as she gripped the thing with a shaking hand. Then she released it with a forceful slowness and hung her head.

"I'm sorry."

"Hails? what the hell?"

She walked over and hugged the taller guy and he held her tightly.

"I'm sorry."

He smiled at her heartbroken sob.

"Just CUT the shit. And you'll LOVE this game."

She sniffed and smiled smally.

"It's....a habit."

"Yeah I kinda figured when you pulled the knife on me midhug. You always WERE bad with your habits, Hails. And it was always a task of the gods to get you to kick habits. I gotchya."

She smiled happily at this and Angel sighed.

"So she has a HABIT of trying to fuck you over, Gore?"

"eh pretty much. She's a hardcore Tsundere-Yandere mix."

Alexis whistled as Hailey smiled sheepishly.

"Damn girl. I see it now."

"Yeeeeeah. I'm....working on it."

Tyler patted her and she smirked.

"I STILL have a knife you jackass."

"Love you too, Hails. Alright."

He looked at the group.

"Where'd we leave off?"

Dublin smiled.

"Hulk's house is empty. we're still workin on the rest of the town."

"Alright, let's get to it. Hails with me."

The black haired scrapper smiled as the pair headed off to a fresh part of the town. Once the others were out of sight Hailey looked at him.

"Sooo, mind explaining to me WHY you were so freakin hung up on me, Tyler? Sorry I don't buy the whole I'm in love thing."

He chuckled as he looked at her.

"Well with my family I couldn't really go around hittin on chicks, now could I?"

"...You have a point. So how long has that been a thing?"

"2 years."

"YIKES. Ha. This is the WIERDEST romcom I've EVER seen. deepdive videogame, rapy zombies, more guns then a military flex, and an undead dragon."

Tyler chuckled at that fact.

"A horror story's leading man and the angry tsundere-yandere from your usual slice of life romcom anime. Yeah. SOMEONE has issues."

Hailey chuckled and snuggled under his arm.

"I'm sorry, Tyler."

He held her tightly.

"I'm sorry too. For a lot. And I am DAMN glad I have my girlfriend back."

She smiled and he kissed her. The pair got into a makeout session in the street and the girl smirked as she got her lips back.

"We have WORK to do you idiot."

"Love you too, Hails."

She beamed nd they went into one of the fresh houses. The place was home to a Sally-type zombie Tyler gunned down with his M16A1. Hailey shivered as she saw the little girl zombie.

"Yup. Those things STILL freak me out."

"Ha."

The house was searched and then they were moving on to the next house. And the next after that. For the next few hours Tyler and Hailey cleared several dozen houses between them of zombies while Tulip's retrieval team collected loot for the gas station. The pair returned to the station and Tyler smiled as he saw the Osprey's busted engine taking shape while the fuselage was already looking good. Once the group had regrouped inside the RV Ben smiled.

"The engine will be ready for testing in the morning, Gore. wasn't too bad all things considered."

The Survivor nodded as Hailey snuggled under his arm like a bird.

"Good. I know how to fly it actually. spent a good portion of time aboard them since we'd use em for raiding warships at sea. Say an aircraft carrier we couldn't reach with a boat we'd fly an Osprey up to it and bam. Top deck invasion."

Angel looked at him.

"So we'll be scouting the base?"

Tyler nodded and he slid the picture of the Zombotron over.

"Yup. We HAVE to figure out if there's only ONE of these or MORE. I've encountered bases that had up to five at one time. ONE is enouh to wipe us all, INCLUDING ME, if we go in underprepared. So we'll do four full orbits around the entire base. since the Zombotron is a passive enemy it doesn't attack on sight. The lower tier zombies DO however so we'll be able to see just how many of them there are since the rotorwash will drag everyone of them out."

Kora looked at him.

"If there's more then one Zombotron?"

"Two we can handle. It'd be a SLOG but we can. Three or more we turn around and pretend we didn;t see anything. Two Zombotrons have a firing intervial due to the reload of the single shot cannons. THREE never stop firing due to the oddly syncronized reloads they do. Like a well-trained artillery unit but the size of mighty joe young."

Hailey chuckled.

"THERE'S a name I haven't heard in a few years."

The friends chuckled at that truth and Tyler settled in his seat.

"Thankfully we got the bullets and rockets to pull this off. We'll need to get the Javelin in position for a lockon but that's no biggee."

Ben nodded.

"I'll do that, Gore. I've used the Javelin-7 in training."

"Good. All we need is to get the chest cavity blown open on the Zombotron. we do THAT it's heart is exposed and a single shotgun blast will drop it."

Alexis chuckled.

"This'll either be HIDEOUSLY easy....oooor we're gonna die horribly."

Hailey nodded sagely.

"With Gore's ideas and plans, Alexis? Always plan for a horrible death. that way you can act surprised for him when it works. Guy likes to be the big badass in the room."

Tulip giggled.

"did ya FORGIT, Hails? He IS the big badass in the room!"

They chuckled at her cute squeak and Hailey sighed.

"FINE. You can call me that too."

"Yay! Hails is CUTE when she's being nice!"

"Hey!"

Tyler kissed his girlfriend with a smile.

"She can be like REAAAALLLY freakin adorable when she wants to be, Tulip."

"I will be sleeping with you Gore. Do you REALLY want me to destroy your precious balls?"

"Love you too, Hails."

"Yeah, yeah. Still an infuriating prick. Love you too."

Angel chuckled at that sigh.

"So THAT'S her when she's being real? I kinda like it."

Tyler smiled.

"Told ya."

Hailey jabbed him with a fork.

"DON'T get smug."

"Yes, Hails."

"GOOD. Keep doing that."

"Ha."

Sarah appeared on the screen now with a lesser smile then usual and Hailey smirked.

"So you know, Gore? I saw that interview with the bishop. Alls I'll say? NICE ONE."

"You know how I love fuckin with religion."

"Yup."

Sarah sighed as she looked at Goreleech.

"Goreleech, have you gotten back with your toxic girlfriend, Hailfyre?"

"Hails had some personal stuff to see to."

"How are you handling the fact she has been accusing you of assaulting her and other such heinous crimes?"

Hailey glared at her.

"I LIED. I am SORRY I said those things. And I love this idiot."

Tyler smiled as he held her.

"Handlin it JUST fine, Sarah."

Sarah looked at her paper.

"Your recent inflammatory remarks regarding the Catholic church has resulted in a petition to have you removed from the streaming services of Twitch and Discord. How do you respond to this motion?"

"Deal with it. I'm American. I am ALLOWED to disagree. I am ALLOWED to trash your religion. and I am ALLOWED to point out flaws. First amendment people....or are you being...UNAMERICAN?"

The group snorted at that one and Ben smirked.

"Dude you are having a field day fucking with these people! And I love it!"

Hailey chuckled.

"It weird I can suddenly see Gore as that idiot on a streetcorner with a megaphone screaming about how the government is corrupt and how god is evil?"

Alexis smirked as she lit a cigerate.

"I can too actually. Idiot."

Sarah looked at her paper.

"You are an outspoken anti-catholic, Goreleech, yet-"

"I am NOT anti-catholic.I am ANTI-CHILD MOLESTER. And if hating child molesters is the same as hating an entire religion....then that religion has SERIOUS issues. if the first thing that comes to mind is abusing kids when you hear the word, catholic, then SOMETHING is VERY wrong here. Equating the two pieces like that ALSO raises some VERY serious concerns. Is FOX now ADVOCATING for those that sexually abuse children, Sarah? is that it?"

Sarah closed the window and the group busted up laughing at the reaction. Hailey just kissed her boyfriend.

"my GOD this shouldn't be as entertaining as it is watching you DESTROY these people!"

"I can't wait for some dumbass feminist to come on the air and call me sexist!"

Kora busted up laughing.

"Bro you'd have a field day tearin em a new asshole! Or some homophobe?"

"HA. I'mma have some fun with this."

Mylissa appeared with a smirk.

"YOU market yourself VERY well, Gore. i am adverting you as a rebel with a shotgun...and an open trigger policy. It is WORKING. People HATE YOU and ADORE you too! Okay. So....why ARE you lasering the catholic faith so much?"

"Low hanging fruit."

she lost it. Like lost it to the point the friends were worried she'd laugh herself to death. Hailey sighed as she panted.

"Wasn;t that funny."

TYler patted her fondly.

"Mylissa has a very....SIMPLE...sense of humor, Hails."

"eh go with it."

"What I do."

The manager chuckled as she recovered.

"Low hanging fruit. Oh my god that is funny. Do that when they ask what your problem with catholics is."

"Will do."

"Alright. I got a weird one for you, Gore."

"Hit me."

The manager smiled.

"You've been approached to tune into Monday Night Raw of the WWE company."

Tyler smirked.

"With live commentary?"

She nodded.

"Pretty much. Like your feed will be put up on a second jumbotron. Seems ole Vince wants to open a door for us."

"Hm. what's today?"

She looked.

"Today is Sunday and we can plug you in on the drop of a hat."

Tyler smiled and looked at his friends.

"Tomorrow we can take a break in that mansion over there and have an easy night."

The friends smiled at this and Angel chuckled.

"So long as we stock up on the good stuff, Gore."

"Ice cream, brownies, pizza, soda, and we can't forget cake."

The heads nodded and Tulip sighed longingly.

"Ahhhh, ICE CREAM!"

They chuckled at her longful sigh and the brown haired cutie got many a pat for her cuteness, makng her smile. Tyler smiled.

"We'll tune in."

Mylissa smiled.

"Good. They'll give you a heads up an hour prior to prevent them tuning in....annnd fid you being attacked by a horde or something."

Angel smirked.

"OR fuckin his new girlfriend."

Hailey jumped at that one as the room laughed and Tyler patted her reasurringly.

"Your pace, Hails."

"Phew. I forgot you're not the monster everyone thinks you are. well. To PEOPLE you're not."

He smiled and then Mylissa looked at her paper.

"The bundles will be arriving physically ingame tomorrow. So try not to get crushed by the crate?"

TYler looked at Hailey and she smiled.

"I found an ingame replica of the room you first meet Elly. her knife was stuck in a wall."

The group blinked and Tyler smiled.

"You can either BUY it outright get lucky with a find. THAT is how you do microtransactions. NOw you got two, Hails."

"Alright! Thank you!"

He kissed her and she smiled warmly before resting her head on his chest. Mylissa smiled.

"That'll be very cute to watch. especially since the teen viewers are finding this especially engrossing."

"They do love their star-crossed lovers bullshit."

"They do indeed."

The screen faded out and Tyler looked at the group.

"Tomorrow we'll put in a few hours loot around town before we set the RV up for a night's relaxing. Since it DOES have a working stove and oven an yeah."

Tulip smiled.

"we have plenty of good food, Gore. And that geny you found. we can hook up more grills to some propane tanks for a bar-be-cue."

The Survivor chuckled.

"Atta girl, Tulip! NOW you're thinkin the LoD way! we'll figure it out. we got the room in here for it. Just a matter of setup."

The heads nodded and they made frozen nuggets and patties for dinner sent down with some good chocolate milk Tulip had found. Tyler and Hailey went to the back room and she smiled as he shut the door.

"I bet you looked all over for a hidden letter too."

"Twice."

"I'm not that tropey."

HE kissed her and held her tightly.

"Are you really done with these games, Hailey?"

She shivered at that plea and nodded as she held him.

"I am. I promise you I am."

"Okay. I love you."

"I love you too."

They laid in bed and the Survivor smiled as she snuggled right up to him.

"I dream about that time in the house."

She smiled with a blush in the dark."

"I jerk off to it."

He kissed her.

"I wanna."

"I do too. We'll do it right."

"And with a bed that WON'T bounce the entire trailer?"

"exactly."

She kissed him again.

"Good night, Gore."

"Good night, Hails. I love you."

"I love you too."