Scouting Log: Day 15
August 30th, 2020
Time: 3:50 PM EST
Location: Royal Woods, Michigan
It was another slow day at work, and the rebellious young teens of Royal Woods were scouting for weapons, technology, ammo, survivors, and more of those sorts. Among the scouting group you have a tall, red headed geek with glasses and some grey alien earrings donning some casual purple and green clothing with a fanny pack around her waist, a bowl cut haired, small redhead with a small submachine gun wearing a small red jumpsuit. The last member is the leader, a tall, gloomy, black haired goth with a chain necklace resting between the chest area of her purple dress. They're just casually wandering the cemetery, looking for both ammo and survivors to bring back to homebase. "Haiku," the tall redhead starts, "I'm getting really tired and hungry. Can we get back to base sometime soon?" she innocently asks. "Yeah, I'm achin' for some grub, too, boss!" the southern-twanged, short redhead adds. With a deep sigh, she turns to her two comrades and responds with a terse "No." before continuing to walk around the dank, dark graveyard.
"But boss!" The submachine gun toting young man whines. "Liam, unless you want to have your rations cut, I'd advise you shut up. Same with you, Penelope." she quickly responds. "We're in here looking for more people to help for our cause. I can't give up potentially finding someone because you two are hungry and wanting some Z's. You'll get your Z's when I say you will, now-"
A digitized screech is heard, causing the goth to cover her ears mid sentence.
"Haiku, are you OK?" Penelope asks.
Haiku quickly gets back up and scouts the area, with Liam loading a clip into his weapon. "I'm on high alert, boss! Tell me when to fire and I'll do as ya say!" Haiku nods in response to Liam's alertness, and they continue wandering. Liam has his gun in a resting position, awaiting to put some lead into whatever thing made that horrifying sound. Haiku quickly makes her way around the yard, kneeling and pulling a scope from her black pockets under her dress. She lets out a "Hm…" as she begins to scrutinize each and every detail of the area. Aside from the looming trees, sea of tombstones, and a few bits of ammunition boxes lying around. Haiku then finds a man tall, white male with red hair, a buttoned trench coat, and a pair of combat boots lying next to one of the stones.
With her objective of retrieving the man in mind, she gives her goons the go to pick up the ammo boxes, and goes over to the man. She quickly checks his pulse, and whispers, "He's still living. We have a chance." before picking him up. After examining his body, that god awful noise starts up again. She quickly looks around, and finally realizes it's from the man's body. A message quickly flashes on his eye, reading "VITAL SYSTEMS: 20%" and it flashes repeatedly. Penelope and Liam quickly return, holding the ammo crates, and Haiku turns around to them.
"You guys! This was where that awful noise was coming from. He's still attached to this world, AND on top of that, his unusual demeanor is something I think we can convince David to take a look at!" Haiku cheers, before her short celebration is met with another round of screeching. After a session of Haiku, Penelope, and Liam covering their ears, they pick the body up and begin to wander out of the graveyard.
Haiku quickly looks at the grave, which reads,
"Carol Pingrey
1999 - 2020
Loving sister, friend, and rival of Lori Loud."
Haiku walks away, putting the man in her scouting van's back seat, to which Liam and Penelope sit in the back with the man.