As the sound of motorcycles reving in the distance quickly approaches, a boy, dark hair and dressed with old raggedy military equipment that had not been used in years yells "Jacob! In here! Quickly!".
Jacob, who has a greyish hair color, also dressed in old military equipment followed his friend, Rowen, into the old run down bunker, which's entrance was so broken down that he had to get pulled into it with all of the heavy gear he was wearing.
"You idiot! You almost got us both killed again!" Rowen whispered,
"Its not my fault that you made me carry the gear! And besides, what kind of run down shit hole is this?" replied jacob,
"look, you arent going to find much in an abandoned city like this" Said Rowen,
"Then whats this?" Jacob said as he pulled out a briefcase from under the rubble,
"Its actually kind of heavy" Jacob said,
As the sounds of reving engines approached once again, both Rowen and Jacob ran to the far wall from the small entrance, in a corner, knowing that the raiders will attempt to shoot into the bunker.
To both of the children's surprise, the raiders seemed to think that the bunker was too old to even be seen as a shelter and entered other buildings instead,
"Oh thank goodness, they left" Rowed whispered, hand on his chest clenching his heart,
"Oh come on it wasnt that bad" Jacob said, enthusiastically,
" Listen here shit-for-brains, those guys will stop at nothing to get a quick buck, hell, I've heard that they even sell their own children for money" Said Rowan.
"Damn alright i get it, i just want to see whats in the case" Jacob stated
"Alright then, open it" replied Rowan
Before he could even unlatch the case, they were inerupted by the raiders passing bye again, the two boys.
" We will set up camp here" said one of the raiders , Rowan, hearing this gets frightened thinking they will be found and killed told Jacob in a very low but fast tone,
"Open the case very quietly and tell me if there is a weapon inside, i might be able to get us out of this"
As Jacob opened the case, the very dim glow of 4 slightly purple substances in syringes illuminated the inside of the case.
Underneath the purple syringes were 4 more syringes that had no colour to the liquid inside, along with a note above it, the note read the words:
"The purple syringes are a drug known as C-50x and are extremely dangerous if used incorrectly, the steps to correctly use it includes injecting the liquid directly into the bloodstream from any major vein or artery, once all of the serum is injected into the body, you will have 30 seconds to use the drug, any longer will be fatal, once in the body you will have your perception of time slowed down to 1/30th, as in one second will feel like 30 and the full 30 seconds will feel like 15 minutes, i recommend you count that time up to around the 6:30 mark before you continue Any further, at about this time you will have to use the second syringe, the Quell, the Quell is arguably even more dangerous than the C-50x if used incorrectly, but if you use it correctly, the C-50x will be suppressed and will be completely gone by the end of the 30 second timer. I hope you use it well, good luck."
"Dude what the fuck, this hardly helps at all" said Rowan,
"I could give it a try" Jacob replied as he picked up one of the purple syringes,
"inject me" he said,
"Are you insane? What if something goes wrong?" Rowan whispered loudly,
"Yeah but what if it goes right? For all we know we could be gods dude!" Jacob stated,
"I mean.. if we do it correctly then we should be able to get us out of this place" Rowan replied.
"Alright, don't move, and stick out your hand, I will inject it into the vein in your elbow" he said,
Jacob then extended his hand towards the light near the entrance, slightly shivering out of the slight fear that something goes wrong.
He felt a prick, looked away before feeling the most intense sensation of his life, he started to vibrate erratically before running through the wall, destroying it.
"Holy shit dude that was awsome"
Exclaimed Rowan, who before even started a new sentence, witnessed Jacob seemingly teleport around the raider's camp, knocking them all out and ramsacking their camp all in 5 seconds,
Seeing as both of them were counting the time, Rowan ran back to the briefcase to grab one of the Quell and called to Jacob,
"Hey Jacob come on its almost time!"
Jacob, who was going at such a fast speed was already behind Rowan as soon as he finished half of his sentence, trying to say something,
"hey it's almost time to use the Quell dude, hurry up"
Rowan ,trying to communicate, knowing that he is too slow and Jacob is too fast, tried to gesture as fast as he could for his friend to stick out his hand, to which he did.
However, due to the erratic movements of Jacob's body, Rowan made a mistake and both injected too little of an amount and also injected the wrong place, to which Jacob's movements became more erratic, as his skin started to turn an ugly shade of red, along with his eyes that burst not long after, as his blood boiled through his skin , the only words he could muster up were,
"…ch….check…..tent…." before Rowan heard the sound of tendons snapping in his body, killing Jacob.
In such a state of shock, Rowan could not do anything but just stand in silence as his friend's body was practically rotting before his eyes, he was not able to even shed a tear with how dehydrated he was, he couldn't scream from how much shock he was in, all he could do, was check the tent.
Inside the tent was a young girl who looked to be about 4 years old, tied up, and in a corner, conscious but terrified as the tent was open throughout the whole 30 seconds, meaning she saw my friend knock out everyone ,and then die a horrible death.
As per his friend's request, he did indeed check the tent, but now does not know what to do.
The only thing he could think his friend meant was to take her and run away.
As the night came closer, he took an open bag and put the little girl inside of the bag, and then on one of the bikes, as he was going to drive to safety with the girl, but of course he also took food and water along with him
Rowan, beginning his journey to safety with the young girl he found, ran out of gas, the one thing he didn't bring along with him, therefore leaving the children stranded in the middle of a wasteland,
But he didn't give up, he grabbed a good amount of both food and water, and since he had 2 bags, he put the young, sleeping child in one of them, with the top open so she could breath, with one bag on his back and another covering his chest and stomach,
Rowan began to walk ,and walk and walk and walk and walk for what seemed like forever, both he and the child making occasional stops to eat and drink were finally found by some people, when they were found, the young girl was crying and Rowan was on the floor, dehydrated and hugging the bag with the child in it, he tried to protect the child before realizing that the people meant no harm and were trying to help him, before he could reach out his hand, he blacked out.
One of the men, modern military gear picks up his communication device and called someone
"Connor to base, Connor to base, uhh.. we found two children, one seems to be roughly… 14 and the other seems to be about… four or five."
A female voice responded on the other end,
"Are they alive?" She asked,
Connor replies "Yes, the boy seems to be just barely hanging on but it seemed like he was taking better care of the girl than himself, it also looks like he is wearing some sort of old military equipment and he was also carrying a pistol."
The woman then says "Connor, I need you to tell the rest of the people in the truck to bring the children with you, if they have any wounds, patch them up and I also want you to give them food and water to make sure they don't die on the journey, finding people that could help in the war is hard and we need all the help we could get."
"Rodger that, we will bring them to base, but may i ask, what are you going to do with the girl? The boy seems to care about her but they dont look related." Connor replied,
"Don't worry about it I will make arrangements to have her educated until she is of age to start training, we won't do anything to make the boy suspicious of us." Replied the woman, who then turned off the call.
"Oh man, alright" Connor whispered to himself,
He followed up with "Alright, Everyone load up the children, tend to their wounds and give them food and water, these are direct orders from base, they are coming home with us"
Inside of the truck, Connor sits the girl down and asks her how she knows the boy, to which she responded,
"He took me out of bad people place after his friend turned red and fell asleep."
"His friend turned red?" replied Connor,
"Yes his friend turned red then fall down, then his friend started to make popping sounds on the floor" the young girl replied,
"oh god" Connor whispered to himself,
Before the young girl's attention drifted outside, Connor asked her,
"Excuse me young girl but may I ask for your name?"
"My name is Emily." She replied before yawning and slowly drifting asleep, her unusually vibrant, orange hair fell over her face as she leaned onto Rowan, who was still unconscious.
Connor knew he had to ask what happened to the boy's friend when he woke up, but in reality he knew exactly what happened, he and everyone at base knew about C-50x and Quell, what Connor really wanted to know was where they found the drugs.
Rowan, just waking up, noticed the unfamiliar feeling, laying down on a bed, under a blanket, comfortable but the questions in his head practically flowing out like a river, as he said out loud,
"Huh? Where am I?"