Welcome, Guest. Please Login.
YaBB - Yet another Bulletin Board
May 12th, 2025, 8:00am
News: Welcome to the Cabin! If you want to register send me an e-mail. you can link to my e-mail under the welcome page.


Pages: 1 ... 257 258 259 260 261 ... 305
After Chaos (Read 187225 times)
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2580 - Jun 3rd, 2018, 11:23pm
 
RPG:
 
Hondo returns from his trip in under an hour of exploring and subsequent return. He has a lot to say but it can’t, limiting his words to “We only have a short amount of time to cross this ravine before it becomes unsafe again.”
 
A few minutes of disorganization leads to a quick crossing of the ravine, including the injured couple with a temporary driver from Jastrey’s forces until they can drive on their own again in a day or two. Fernando’s electric bus was the last one to cross.
 
A meeting point was establishes some 10 miles from the ravine. One thing that bothers Fernando’s mind is the frequency 162.400, to him it is all too familiar. But where? In uploading the pictures from the QuickTake to his PowerBook 1400, he discovers a CD in the CD ROM Drive. It is Compton Encyclopedia on CDROM. For the hell of it, he puts in the frequency 162.400 MHz in the encyclopedia’s search engine to search the articles within. It comes up with the answer of: NOAA Weather Radio.
 
“Who the #$@! would have access to the Weather radio frequency? And on AM or FM? And why?” Fernando thinks to himself.  The Weather Band uses FM for their reports, but walkie-talkies can handle various modulation formats depending on the radio. The Tiny Yeasu’s Fernando and certain members of his party use can access AM, Encoded CW, Wide and Narrow FM, SSB, and Simplex and Trunk Digital. For now things are best alone and not asked.
 
More questions are asked than answered in this second driver’s meeting. The problem is the convoy being as fast as their slowest vehicle on the line. The military will do is best to guard everyone but the roads are not wide enough to make a wagon wheel (A wagon wheel is when the larger/stronger vehicles surround the small weaker ones in a circle to protect them). So everyone has to be vigilant in their safety and the safety of their rolling neighbors. There is nothing more that can be done other than that.
 
“How about we get Motorcycles up ahead?”  James asks.
 
General Jastrey, Hondo, Fernando and the other military leaders look at him in anger or disgust, with the General answering, “We already have five Motorcycles running up ahead. They keep us apprised in the conditions ahead.”
 
“Well, I did not know.” James reply.
 
“You do now.” General Jastrey tells him before any of the others could.
 
“Let’s not argue. We got miles and time to make up. And right now we are wasting time. We go forward or we don’t go at all.” Fernando points out.
 
“General, are there any other oil drilling sites in these areas?” Hondo asks.
 
“There are many, but most are dried up by now. Before the Happening, this area was rich in oil and other resources. During the Chaos, groups moved in and sucked the wells dry. Today there are a few wells that might have something in them but that it scraping the bottom of the barrel.” General Jastrey.
 
“I see...” Hondo replies.
 
“What you know about drilling?” General Jastrey asks.
 
“Let’s say a lot. But for now I won’t be drilling anywhere for no one.” Hondo answers. He adds, “But I can tell you if a well’s plumbing has been has been tampered with and those we ran into back there were tampered with.”
 
“I have a few questions myself, but something tells me to wait, shoot first and ask questions later.” Fernando adds. He glances over to his watch for a second, “We continue with these meetings, we will get to Fight Town very late and be very tired from it. I suggest we remain on the military channels and discuss matters there.”
 
“I agree.” General Jastrey says to the group. She adds, “If anyone has anything to say, say it over the airwaves. Get ready, we’re rolling out.”
 
As everyone start to head to their vehicles, General Jastrey intercepts Fernando and Hondo.
 
“Excuse me, Fernando. Can you explain to me how your system is connected to a research data information node?” General Jastrey asks.
 
“Oh. It is not.” Fernando begins to explain, pressing the CD Eject button on the Mac Powerbook 1400. The draw opens to expose the encyclopedia CDROM inside. “It is an optical data disk with the information on it.”
 
- - -
 
Note:
Microsoft’s Encarta, Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia by Scholastic, Compton encyclopedia by Encyclopedia Britannica, and Collier’s encyclopedia were on CD ROM from 1993 to 2005, before such information could be accessed on websites because the popularity and speed of access to the internet was not there for the average person to access.  Many of these CDs were originally given away like AOL Membership Sign Up Disks through many sources including as freebees on CD ROM Drive Installation Kits for one’s computer. With the Internet access becoming faster, these encyclopedia CD ROMs fell out of favor when people can get the same information from the encyclopedia’s website.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2581 - Sep 21st, 2018, 12:09am
 
General Jastrey looks at the CD for a moment “We got many such of those things but most are useless games and only a few of our machines can use them. I have only seen a tiny few with such information on them.”
 
“Any Libraries around you have access too?” Fernando asks as he closes up his powerbook.
 
“Libraries? Oh, Information Resource Centers. There are not many Information Resource Centers, and what few that are around are small.” General Jastrey explains.  
 
“Information on books and other media, or strictly digital?” Fernando asks.
 
“Information and knowledge comes in many forms, mostly on paper, but there are a few digital disk reserves set aside for information like you have there.” General Jastrey points to his laptop with the CD-ROM, “Only a person of rank or privilege like myself can access them.”
 
“I see…” Fernando says before he starts to turn away. “Let’s get the show on the road. Hondo, meet me upstairs.” He adds as he starts to walk away.
 
Once in his Electric Camper, Fernando sits down at the driver’s seat, listening to his CB Radio set to an Upper Channel past 40. As the convoy begins to slowly roll out, Hondo’s voice gets through the radio speaker.
 
“You wanted me to call, Jefe?” Hondo asks.
 
“A lot to talk about. I feel like we are being set up to fail.” Fernando replies. Silence hits the airways for the moment. Fernando continues “Detours, problems, issues. It’s like it never ends. Now, Hondo, what can you tell me about those wells, and possibly other wells we will be running into along the way?”
 
“Nothing much, other than they were tampered with recently. Looks like they were left open to dry up and go bad. If they would have connected some Gas Lines, they could have collected the residual propane, methane and butane left in the well instead of letting it into the air and go bad.”  Hondo explains.
 
“How recently?” Fernando asks.
 
“This is only a guess – 2, maybe 3 weeks.” Hondo replies.
 
“Alright. We’ll talk about this when it is a more appropriate time. Let’s follow this dogged line of lame reindeers to Santa’s Hide-away. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.” Fernando says.
 
“I hear ya, Jefe.” Hondo replies before his truck lurches forward when the line’s segment of movement catches up to him.
 
Fernando puts his Electric Camper into gear and starts moving as soon as a bit of clearance opens up between the camper and Hondo’s trailer behind his truck. Much of the time is going to be wasted is in doubling back along the other side of the ravine to where the bridge was at and back to the highway. But between here where they were and there remains unknown but open space and the occasional oil drilling rig.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Arik
Newbies
*




Posts: 147
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2582 - Oct 26th, 2018, 12:11pm
 
It was cool, not cold, cloudy but no perpetration as Hikaru stood beside Arik. In front of them, a casket is suspended by straps over a hole, six-foot-deep. Next to the freshly dug grave is a pile of dirt covered with a tarp or similar covering. No tombstone at this time.
 
Arik remained silent as if he was not there.
 
As Arik and Hikaru left he stopped and turned his head as if to look at someone; no one was there.
 
Hikaru woke up from her dream, sitting in the front passenger seat of the gas Camper.
 
Mavis, who is behind the wheel, speaks softly as not to wake anyone else in the Camper. "Oh, you're awake."
 
Hikaru also speaks in a soft tone. "I had a dream about Samantha's funeral."
 
"Who's she?"
 
"Samantha is Arik's youngest sister. She died on October 26, 1993, at the age of thirteen. Every year, on October 26, Arik would play "I Hear Leesha", by Michael W. Smith, for her."
 
"I never heard of it."
 
"Michael W. Smith wrote a song as a tribute to Leesha Heaston after her fatal car accident. Leesha's sister, who was also in the car, survived."
 
http://charis2770.tripod.com/
Back to top
 
 
Email View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2583 - Dec 14th, 2018, 9:39pm
 
RPG:
 
What marvels Fernando is in the passing of burnt out derelicts of various vehicles, indiscriminate of size, shape, function or form though the burnt out shells were spaces far apart. It seems to him that whatever did them in, did them one at a time and not as a whole group. He thinks “Marauders, Highway Gangs, Slavers’ Historical Attacks? If anything, the vehicle is as valuable as those inside it and what valuables they own. It is hard to say how long they may have been there, it could be weeks or years. Momentarily opening the vent window, he can smell the air outside being less offensive than it was at the ravine. The silence of radio chatter also gets to him, as the convoy move, there should be somebody out there having something to say about something and yet nobody was saying anything.
 
Fernando opens the air vents on his electro-camper half way to allow the cold air flow to course through the bus, the propane heater heats it up. He hopes its not Elsa is dreaming about turning the world into a ball of ice. In the very best it should be chilly to above freezing, not below freezing high up in the mountainous terrain. But when has the weather been cooperative with anyone?
 
Radio chatter picks up again as the convoy slows to stop; vehicle break down, a flat tire from the sounds of it. Fernando takes this down time to check on his passengers and take a bit of food and coffee.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Jeanette
Experianced
***




Posts: 1154
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2584 - Dec 28th, 2018, 7:43pm
 
The young snow queen is keeping herself comfortably cool without affecting anyone else.
 
For several timelines, the Texas Spirits debated the use of an unconventional approach in helping Elsa overcome her fears. Since someone else [Wilbur Robinson] was changing the timeline this time around, they figured they have less to lose if they are wrong. It was not until they showed her a Disney movie from an alternate timeline did she understand what Pabbie meant.
 
Despite the many liberties Disney took (such as Anna riding a bike before it was invented), Elsa's encounter with the Spirits in Arendelle is as she remembered.
 
This night Elsa has a pleasant dream in which she is ice skating.
 
Jeanette Isabelle
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2585 - Dec 30th, 2018, 8:52pm
 
Note: The bicycle as been around in some form to the public since at least the 1815+ as a "wooden horse". It had no chain, no pedals and you kick-push it with your feet as you sit on its seat. It was dangerous in that it also had no brakes and it was up tot he rider to figure out how to stop. But since then it has rapidly improved. by 1860, you begin to see cranks and pedals and some kind of braking system.
 
Depending when "Frozen" was supposed have happened, Ana riding a bicycle may have been possible.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Jeanette
Experianced
***




Posts: 1154
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2586 - Dec 31st, 2018, 8:41am
 
Note: Most of the movie takes place in 1816; the scene in which Anna is riding her bike takes place in 1803 or shortly after that.
 
Jeanette Isabelle
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2587 - Jan 1st, 2019, 5:39pm
 
Note: Would sound about right; as Royalty tends to have things before the public would. Leonardo Di Vinci did make plans for a bicycle (a wooden horse) but it was never made in his time. Somebody could have taken those plans and made one hundreds of years later.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2588 - May 14th, 2019, 12:15pm
 
RPG:
 
It has been such a long while in doing the repair that many drivers of the convoy decided to take a bathroom break along the side of the road. Fernando was no exception, sometimes he forgets to go and hours later his body reminds him to go whether he likes it or not. At least it gives him a chance to look out to the stars and what is there in the skies. The slow moving lights tells him that blimps were in the air taking a slow short haul of connecting two points for a straight line. He keeps looking at the skies, noting the placement of the stars and the band of the galaxy, but for some reason, something was not right with the painted skyline above. He slowly heads back to his electric microbus. After 5 minutes he picks up his CB Microphone and dials it to the convoy's main frequency: Channel 14.
 
Quote:
CB Channel 38 would be the Medical & Rescue group's agreed channel, though everyone needs to be on 14 for the main caravan communications - the group needs to switch to 38 as to not to tie up the main channel.

 
“Breaker, Breaker! This is The Prisoner seeking The General. General, you got your ears on?” Fernando says into the microphone, and waits for a reply.
 
A voice answers back, “What is it, Prisoner?”
 
“Just want to know what the set back is?” Fernando asks.
 
“We’re dealing with a minor problem before it becomes a major problem. That is all.” The voice answers back.
 
“I see. Back to monitoring the airways.” Fernando says.
 
“We’ll let everyone know when we are ready to roll.” The voice replies.
 
Though Fernando puts down his microphone, somebody else throws in “Thanks for letting us know.”
 
Fernando turns off half of the lights from his Bus/Ambulance to conserve energy as he waits for the convoy to move again. Being the last car on the line, he looks into his mirrors to see the road behind him before deciding to step out of the bus again. He walks to the rear of his bus and checks on his Dub box trailer, its hitch connection and its windows and doors. Everything is locked tight as it should. Looking at the road behind him there was little to see except for the glowing dome of lights of far away towns that speckle the landscape against the blackness of the night. He wonders why he got the Dub Box but the answer was obvious on many levels. It’s for living inside when not on the move and not when in town. With its reserve of food, water and supplies, he and Macie can hold out in the wild for a few weeks, and its insulated interior gives better protection against the environment than the bus which has minimal insulation. Though it is just in the low 50s in the mountain air, the heater and several blankets are needed to keep Macie and Meeshie warm as they sleep into the night inside the bus. Hunting and fishing equipment and added resources from the ambulance bus will extend their stay to survive months if needed.
 
But what gets to him is why so cheap, why have everyone they met been nice to him and the group. It’s as if the people around him are acting like they know him from before. General Jastrey has stated that they had met before when certain members of the group were older but yet in past years. Perhaps in their past meetings, business and other relationships have been established and continue on to this and knowing things that ‘we’ do not know. There are too many variables to maintain this as simple equation.
 
The convoy starts up again at slow rate. Fernando wonders if he could make the distance at this slow rate though he could flip switches and get the generator running to charge batteries while he is on another battery bank. He has more than enough power to make it but it would mean a longer time to recharge the batteries. He wonders about the liquid fuel vehicles as well, driving on first or second gear at this slow speed will just eat up gas. Though they can refuel and many have extra storage tanks filled with fuel to fill their tanks on, it means buying more fuel when they get to their destination. To converse on power, Fernando turns off the headlights and leaves the parking lights on.
 
Macey has been stirring in her bed more than before.  She’s also talking in her sleep which she never done before in the known observable past. Fernando takes notice of this behavior to talk to her about it in the morning after they get to town. Right now he’ll chalk it up to ‘monsters being under the bed’ while he drives.
 
Radio chatter increases with complaints of the convoy being slow. In truth, the larger tank-track vehicles (the Kharkovchankas) have placed their snow and debris plows down to clear the road. At least they were able to clear out more than two lanes of roadway doing so. But this piles up the debris on what possible junked and abandoned vehicles left of the side of the road.
 
Almost 2 hour had passed and they finally get on the main road where the bridge was destroyed. On this side the bridge’s tower was intact as were the cables on this side and some of the roadway going to it, but it was obvious that after that the road ends to nothingness past the tower. Some cheer, others make their disappointment known over the air. It was still a 2 hour trip to fight Town from there. No way are they going to make up almost 5 hours of lost time even though the Kharkovchankas pick up their snow/debris plows and increase their speed.
 
“Scout Leader to Scouts 2 and 3, follow me! And switch it upstairs!” a voice on the CB says out loud, noting that the motorcycles are going ahead of the convoy to check out road conditions and change the frequency to a secure channel.
 
Fernando looks at his speedometer as they gain speed on the road, shifting into third gear where he thought necessary. He thinks about a lot of things and calculates the time it is going to take for them to get there. He is figuring that it will be well into the daylight hours when they get into town. As far as he knows that poses a problem for at least one driver: Mavis.  He’s seen her wrapped up tighter than a mummy to protect her from the sun but she had time to prepare for that. In the here and now she would have to pull over, stop their part of the convoy and prepare herself for daytime activity before continuing onward with the convoy. But in the end, he figures it does not matter. When they get there, they will get there. The condition they will be in is the main question of concern.
 
Another two hours of driving, and another stop. This time it’s an engine break down of one of the seller’s vehicles. Not a problem for them as another vehicle will act as a tow truck to get them to where they are going but setting this up takes some time to do so. Fernando steps out of his electric camper, looking out down the length of the line of vehicles he can see where they are working on near the very end of the front of the line. Hondo steps out of his truck and steps up to Fernando.
 
“Another effen delay...” Hondo states.
 
“We will get there when we get there. And we got business to take care of when we get there.” Fernando tells him.
 
Hondo growls slightly, holding much if it in as possible. Fernando looks at stars for a moment, positioning them in his mind as per time of day, season, and monthly date. But things do not seem right to him.
 
“This world is so wrong, not even the stars are right.” Fernando says to himself.
 
“How so?” Hondo asks.
 
“Just look.” Fernando points out. “According to the compass, North is that way. But Polaris is over there as are the Two Dippers. The Milky Way is all wrong and where’s Cassiopeia and Pieces. Taurus, Orion, Sirius and Lupus are towards the horizon but they should not be there at all.”
 
Hondo looks at the skies for a moment. “If the poles shifted, that can account for the compass being wrong. Same if this area is high in various metals that can make magnetite, which it is. There are other reasons too; this area is known for where homing pigeons get lost.” He begins to explain, adding, “But for the stars, I cannot explain that. Jefe.”
 
“This time of year one should be able to see the Summer Triangle above the horizon, but it is not there.” Fernando adds. He then points out to a dome of light far in the horizon, “That should be Fight Town.”
 
“That’s still about 100 miles or more.” Hondo complains.
 
“A hundred miles, or about 3 or so hours, I’ll take it.” Fernando points out.
 
‘HMPH-*!” Hondo replies shortly before the blaring sounds of the horns of the caravan signal that it is about to move again.
 
“Hopefully we’ll see each other in town.” Fernando tells him before trotting over to his electric camper.
 
“Yeah...” Hondo mumbles to himself before stepping into his truck.
 
Almost a minute passes before the last vehicles on the line begin to move onward.
Back to top
 
 
View Profile   IP Logged
Fernando
YaBB Administrator
*****
NY City




Posts: 2380
Gender: male
Re: After Chaos
Reply #2589 - Jun 4th, 2019, 6:54am
 
It took over 4 hours to get to Fight Town as several more breakdowns delayed them. It was well past 4AM when they drove through the gates, there is a slight delay because of an issue of “wessens roaming free.” Jeanette leads the way to a Parking and Camping area as Fernando took care of the problem about independent Wessens within the group. With the exception of Teri who ‘belongs’ to Maribelle, the bunny girl “Clover” belonging to the Den mother, and Hondo ‘owning’ Tonya, Zoe, Molly and Jack; Fernando takes charge and ‘ownership’ of the others during the duration of their stay in Fight Town.
 
As everybody hunkered down for the night, Fernando goes to the back of his Electric Bus, shutting down the generator to allow it to cool down.
 
From between their vehicles, Hondo walks up to Fernando as he shuts off his generator inside the engine compartment of his electric camper bus.
 
“Ready to git into town?” Hondo asks in a very solemn tone.
 
“We should rest first before we go in.” Fernando says, adding “Who will take care of the girls while we are gone?”
 
“Tonya will take care of the girls. She’ll git Ruth and Joanna to help out whilst we’re gone.” Hondo explains. Fernando does not seem to agree with this until Hondo says, “We go together or I go alone.”
 
“Then make sure Tonya gets Macey before Macey gets dressed and start exploring the place on her own.” Fernando tells him, “I’ll meet you in the front of your truck in 5 minutes when I’m done securing a few things.”
 
Hondo nods before he starts to walk away. A single motorcycle parks itself in front of Hondo’s truck and somebody is talking with him for a moment before it goes silent.
 
Fernando sighs as he looks over his bus.  
 
“Mr. Fernando?” A female voice calls to him. He sees it is Molly as she steps up to him with James slightly behind her on her left side.
 
“We do not have a place to sleep.” She says.
 
“Come.” Fernando steps up to his Dub Box Camper, opening the side door and stepping inside.
 
They follow him inside as he begins to pull out blankets from one of the under seat storage compartments. He hands them the blankets, “I’m not setting up the full bed, but you can each sleep on a bench. No funny stuff, my daughter can see everything from her window when she wakes up.” He then point to the window in the front of the Dub Box and how they can see the rear window of the electric camper.
 
Molly and James nods.
 
“Ask Tonya about breakfast. Hondo and I have to do a few things.” He tells him before stepping off the Dub Box camper.
 
James puts down his blanket and steps to the door of the camper as Fernando steps away from it. “Wait! Where are you two going?”
 
“Scouting for some information.” Fernando tells him.
 
“I’ll go with you two then.” James tells him.
 
“You need time to recover from breathing in that gas.” Fernando tells him.
 
“I know Fight Town, you ever been to Fight Town?” James says to him.
 
Fernando does not answer.
 
James turns to Molly inside the camper, “I’ll be back after sunrise, Love. Help out with the chores like Mister Hondo said.”
 
Molly just nods as James steps out of the camper and closes the door. James steps up to Fernando.
 
“Let’s go.” James tells him. In a few seconds they meet up with Hondo in the front of his truck.
 
After a discussion, the three of them leave to enter into Fight Town.
 


People around them, both humans and wessens look at the trio.  James goes slightly ahead of them for some head hunting and information retrieval with what little to go by. They are told to go to a gym at the far end of town, but not to go in it but to the alley behind it. They walk there too focused on their goal to take on the sights. Though it being late at night, Fight Town does not sleep, as various activities happen around them. Normally witnessing a crime happen in front of them would get them to take action but in the here and now it is ignored. Both criminal and victim stop to look at them as they walk by, putting a pause in their crime. Of the three, James was the nervous one as he notices everyone stares and what they were staring at.
 
Some 20 minutes later they arrive behind the alley, finding it empty. It angers Hondo as he grabs James but his shirt and lifts him off the ground.
 
“WHERE ARE THEY! WHERE IS VAL! THERE IS NOBODY HERE!!!” Hondo yells at James as he shakes him.
 
But as Hondo unleashes his anger upon James, both ends of the alley go dark as the footsteps of others approach them from both sides. Bright lights from cars light up those coming in from the rear, blocking off the alley from both ends.
 
“Hondo...” Fernando calls to him as they are slowly.
 
Hondo shifts his eyes to Fernando, noticing them approaching from both ends. He tosses James to a nearby wall like one would toss a soiled tissue paper. James crumples to the floor like said soiled tissue paper. He turns and faces them with his back to the wall behind James.
 
Fernando takes to the other wall on the opposite side of the alley. He gives Hondo a slight nod as he gives his cane a slight twist upon its crystal. Hondo gives a slight nod back.
 
A voice on one of vehicle’s PA System echoes across the alley, “If You Want To See The Sun Rise, Hand Over Your Valuables And Your Weapons!” The two groups draw their weapons and stand about waiting for somebody to make their move. Five to one odds, it was unfair to them.
 
Hondo and Fernando move like they blurred into the backgrounds, bullets firing off and hitting their targets in under 3 seconds. It takes longer for the bodies to fall. Then Fernando and Hondo jump onto the hoods of the cars, aiming their weapons to the driver’s faces.
 
A balding fat man in a black suit steps out of the rear of both cars, both of them talk at the same time saying the same thing, “Why You Had To Do That! Good Help Is Hard To Find These Days!”
 
“WHERE’S VAL!!!” Hondo spews at the one on his side of the alley. The fat bald men laugh.
 
“Hondo, I do not think they are real.” Fernando says loud enough to be heard.
 
Before Hondo cab pull the trigger on his guns, a metal gate closes behind the vehicles and the bottom of the alley becomes filled with a fog.
 
“GAS!!!” James yells as he gets up and tries to climb the walls for a fire escape ladder above everyone heads just beyond their reach.
 
Both Hondo and Fernando look at each other, shaking their heads. They jump off their cars and towards James.
 
“We’ll get you up there and you drop down the ladder. Run and we will shoot you.”  Fernando tells him as the both of them grab onto his shirt and pants. Fernando turns to Hondo, “On the count of 3…”
 
“2…” Hondo follows.
 
“3!” Fernando replies before the two of them launch James straight up. James was lucky to be alert enough to gram onto the fire escape as he met up alongside it. He climbs over fenced in area of the fire escape. He looks at the ladder, trying to see how to draw it down.
 
Am arm reaches from behind James and a voice tells him, “Lift up and then let go.” The ladder falls to the just a couple feet above the floor. James turns around to see Hondo behind him.
 
“Let go to the roof...” Fernando says as he steps on the fire escape’s stairway.
 
Hondo reaches down and grabs the top of the ladder, lifting it up in a single arm clean and snatch, throwing it up onto the hook it rested on. He then follows Fernando up the stairs to the roof as Fernando looks over about the edge of the roof. James follows Hondo onto the roof. The alley below is a tub full of fog, but as noticed it does not go over the gates at the alley’s ends. They are only a few floors up but they had a bird’s eye view of their immediate area. Fernando was at the building’s corner from where they entered.
 
“How did you...oomph!*” James started to say before being elbowed in the guy by Hondo.
 
In a loud whisper Hondo tells him, “Learn to be quiet, boy! And listen!”
 
“Hush up and look!” Fernando whispers at them loudly. They gather to the side of him looking down to the street below. They see men gathering at the streets below by the gate from parked cars on the street. Another detail is also seen from above. “Didn’t noticed it when we walked in...” He whispers.
 
“Noticed what?” Hondo whispers back.
 
“Rail tracks on the sidewalk.” Fernando points out as he whispers, “This place is set up like a carnival fun house.”
 
“I git what you mean, Jefe.” Hondo whispers back.
 
“That’s a lot of men...” James says to himself.
 
“Shut up. You knew it was a trap.” Hondo turns to him.
 
“Hondo. Calm down and rearm. We were to set up to empty our guns so these goons could take us out if the gas didn’t.” Fernando steps away from the ledge. He takes his guns out and swaps out the magazines as quietly as possible.
 
Hondo walks away from the ledge emptying out his revolvers and refilling it with a fresh set of rounds into the chambers.
 
Fernando walks over to the front, beside the large signage on the roof and looks down at the roof, taking note of the situation downstairs. James stands alongside him.
 
“What are they waiting for?” James opens his big mouth.
 
“It takes several minutes for a person to pass out on gas though to the person it seems like seconds because they are in a panic.” Fernando tells him, adding “now shut up, listen and then do as we say.” He gives the area one more look before walking away.
 
Hondo gives James a push, “Git going and follow him.”
 
James gives him an annoyed look before following Fernando. Fernando climbs over a few short ledge walls that separated connected buildings. After counting off 4 buildings, he looks for but does not find a fire escape to walk out from. He goes to the roof access and heads down the stairs quietly. Unfortunately the stairs turn into the floor’s main vestibule where several guards standing at several doors. They stand there as they plot out a plan.
 
“Hondo, run James downstairs behind me, I’ll take care of the boys and meet you outside across the street.” Fernando tells him. Hondo nods. Fernando nods before taking action, running down the stairs, “FIRE! FIRE ON THE ROOF!”
 
Hondo runs behind Fernando with James in tow, Fernando yelling when he gets onto the vestibule, “FIRE ON THE ROOF!!!”
 
The guards run up the stairs, a couple of them with a pressure water fire extinguisher in their arms. Guards on lower floors also run up to the roof, prompting Hondo to repeat what Fernando did on the upper floor, “FIRE ON THE ROOF!”
 
The three of them manage to get out of the building, leaving the guards in state of near panic and confused as they check the roof for a fire that is not there. Once on the street, they go across the street and double back to the alley from where they were trapped, observing the activity from their vantage point. The gates go up and the fog like gas pours out onto the street. The men outside go in and search the alley but find nothing. Fernando and Hondo take note of their size and appearances, as well as how they move for hits of weapons and training, as a trained fighter carries himself differently from an untrained person, as does one with hidden weapons compared to an unarmed person. James can only speculate that they are all armed and trained but then he spots somebody he knows and ducks down behind the parked car where they were behind of.
 
“Shit... That’s Lenny the Litch!” James lets out before ducking down to hide.
 
“Lich?” Hondo asks as he lifts up James to stand up again.
 
“Undead immortal created by so-called magical means, but we know what one man’s magic is another man’s technology.” Fernando explains.
 
“I know what a Lich is.” Hondo says.
 
“You do not get it, he’s an undefeated ring fighter, they say he can’t be killed nor does he feel pain. He even survived fighting the Ice Queen..! They say he was a soldier before the happening.” James babbles on.
 
“A Super Solider, that answers everything.” Fernando says loud enough to be heard. He then turns to James, “If you know who he is, you know who his boss is. We’ll pay them a visit later. Let’s go back to camp to check on the others and have some breakfast before we make a few visits.”
 
Not happy with the prospects, Hondo follows him back to camp, but not before giving Lenny the Litch one last long look to get as much information of him as possible.
Back to top
 
« Last Edit: Jun 5th, 2019, 3:25am by Fernando »  
View Profile   IP Logged
Pages: 1 ... 257 258 259 260 261 ... 305