Author's Note (Monster): Hello, our lovelies! After finishing up Riddle Me This, I thought it would be nice to upload the songfic requests. The reason this story won from Supernatural AU, is mainly because I've written three one-shots for it already. I received about 6 requests from HU4LIFEBITCHES (if you don't remember, look at your review on Songfics) of which I've finished No Light No Light by Florence and The Machine and Numb by Linkin Park. So from now on, you may request ANY song, any artist, instrumental or not as you wish. Please enjoy.

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Chorus of Born For Greatness:

It doesn't matter if the world has gone mad
if we just hold on, if we just hold on yeah
The sky is falling and the world has gone mad
And we sing our songs and we just hold on yeah
So if you're running, stop running
One life, one chance, start living
Sing it louder just to let the world know
No, we're not nameless, we're not faceless
We were born for greatness.

I strongly advise to listen to the song while reading it.


Born For Greatness by Papa Roach (Post-apocalyptic AU)

We're not nameless.

Everyone has a name. A way to be called when people needed them. Why else would we have names? Not like we would call ourselves? Referring to someone by their name to someone else was technically needing them too.

I sighed, back against the wall, holding my breath to prevent another sigh from coming out. I had to be quiet. An unseen shape in the shadows. I held my arm up, gun resting in my fingers as my elbow was locked in the angle.

I closed my eyes as I heard the footsteps nearing me. Don't breathe. Don't make a sound. Even the droplet of sweat dripping down my forehead wasn't allowed to hit the floor. I was afraid they'd hear it and I'd get caught.

Getting caught was the least favourable option. Death would be nicer. As the footsteps faded into the distance I dared to exhale, quickly sucking up air again, almost choking on the smoke. Short breaths. Avoid toxic smoke.

I opened my eyes and dared to move my head, the friction of my head against the wall making a soft scraping sound as I removed myself and stepped out into the light of the devastated building. I peeked from around the corner.

Coast clear.

I let out a breathy chuckle before bolting towards headquarters. Fucking Johnny would skin me alive if I didn't get back soon. As I rounded the corner and saw the secret hideout, my feet scraped against the gravel in an attempt to stand still, swiftly turning around and hiding behind a dumpster.

A grin formed on my lips. "Why hello, Daniel", I whispered wordlessly.

Before I knew it, a gun was pressed against my temples. "Hey Charlie."

In defeat, I closed my eyes before gazing up into the visor of Danny Murillo, head of the Guard Legion. "I shouldn't have said hi, huh?"

"You guessed it. You know we hear your every sound."

He jumped from on top of the wall and landed in front of me in a smooth turn. He kept his gun pointed at my head. "What you got there, Charlie?" he asked, nodding towards my backpack. I licked my lips, dropping the bag in front of me. "You know damn well what it is. Food since you won't give us any."

"We don't pick the system, we serve it", Danny said, almost like an apology. He opened the bag, spotting a single bread. He raised an eyebrow. "You stole one bread? You risked your life in the kitchen of the council only to steal BREAD?"

He kicked the backpack almost disappointed. "Take it. I wouldn't want to kill you over something so petty. Not since we're making quite a history together."

I smirked. "Are we? Head of the guard, a savage scavenger. It sounds a bit like Wall-E if you ask me."

"Don't flatter yourself, Charlie", Danny commented, stepping closer until he was close in his face. "I'd be careful if I were you. The other guards aren't as nice as I am."

"I've grown on you", I mocked him. "You can call me names, try to take anything from me but you know I'll come back to you."

Danny shook his head. "Next time you sneak into the kitchen, at least steal an egg or a steak. It would be reason enough to slaughter you slow and painfully."

With that the guard turned his back to me. "Go before I change my mind."

I swung the bag over my shoulder, trying to keep the smug off my face but it was hard not to show just how happy I was with myself. Danny never liked to admit how much of a soft spot he had for me.

We'd been at it since the resistance broke out. Ever since he was trying to find our secret hideout but even circling around it still left him clueless. Danny was far from nice to me but whenever he had the opportunity to let me get away with something, he would. In his own stubborn way not to show just how much he cared about me but he would still let me get away with things like stealing food, credits or killing guards. I'd go as far as saying he liked me. But we were men at war. No such feelings harboured our minds. We were set on survival. Serve or fight the system. It's as easy as it is.

Or hide and die of starvation or thirst.

Looking around carefully, I found the hidden door to headquarters and made my way down into the darkness, dropping down the stairs with a satisfying thud. "Johnny, I'm home!"

"Keep it down!" the man hissed from the main room, looking up from his computer. "I'm trying to eavesdrop."

"Right, spy-shit", I mocked. "I ran into Danny on the way."

Johnny tensed. "Did he… see the goods?"

"Nah, he looked at the top, saw bread and seemed almost insulted I didn't try to steal more", I chuckled, emptying my backpack and dropping a dozen eggs, a bread and five chicken legs on the table. "I think he's into me."

"He's a Servant…"

"And I'm a Savage. We could be Romeo and Juliet."

"Sure", Johnny replied carelessly. I walked towards the hallway, pressing the intercom. "Guys, dinner is served."

The door to the mechanic door opened as Jay stepped through, eyeing the table of good. "That's not serving dinner. That's offering ingredients."

"I know. I'm not your mother so get your own fucking dinner", I grinned. Johnny put down the machinery he was working on to hear whatever they had to say upstairs. "You're gonna get killed one day if you keep dancing around Danny like that."

"Danny let you off the hook again?" Funny Man asked, walking in next to Da Kurlzz. "I'm starting to think you guys are flirting in a fucked up way."

"Yeah, me too", I admitted with a smirk. "But it's awesome, isn't it? I get away with food for us. Maybe we could get Danny on our side!"

"Keep dreaming", Johnny scoffed. "Anyway, I think we're clear for tonight. I didn't hear them talk about our hideout down here, they're just randomly searching around the area."

Jay held up a dozen eggs and opened his mouth when a different voice spoke up. "Maybe we weren't talking about the hideout because we already found it."

I turned around, facing the barrel of Danny's gun against my forehead. "What? How?!"

"You were so loud I heard you enter the lair", Danny smirked at me, guards emerging from behind him as they dropped down the hole into our headquarters. I closed my eyes, they surely spotted the supplies on the table. For months Danny and his guards had been looking for our hideout. Now that they were here, we'd surely get punished for stealing food, weaponry and other equipment. It was unfair.

Why should the council get to defend themselves while the people out here were getting killed? Civil war's no joke.

"You've been so careful, Charlie. I'm almost disappointed to find your place rather… quickly", the head of the guard grinned at me. He nodded towards the entrance of the place. "Move. You're all arrested for stealing council property and sneaking food. And lying. I knew you didn't take just a piece of bread."

"Feel betrayed because I lied?" I asked with a smile but Danny knocked his gun against my temples. "Games are over, Charlie. You're meeting your fate next week. Council's alerted of the arrest of their dear 'resistance'."

"You're so full of shit", Da Kurlzz called out. "You serve your system but it's rotten to the core. The people out here are dying!"

"There will always be underdogs, no matter what", Danny replied but Jay reacted this time. "Underdogs? There are millions of underdogs out here. The system should try to keep the underdogs to a minority if not make sure there aren't any people left out!"

"I've had it", Danny said. "Get them", he ordered the guards who cuffed us and took us out into the open air. This was the end of our movement? Really? We were trying to fight for the people but instead of going down fighting, we were just taken to the council as thieves? God, fucking…

"Why would you end our little thing so quickly, Danny? You're gonna grow bored without me", I teased as Danny was the one who held my arms to guide me through the wasteland. He pointed his visor at me, eyes shielded but I could practically feel him rolling his eyes. "There is no thing."

"You're hurting my feelings, dude. I thought we had a bond."

"A guard-prisoner bond", Danny replied agitated. "Now shut up before I tell the headmaster you were a foul mouth to a superior."

"So I can't make you change your mind? You could always join me. We'd be one hell of a power couple. It would be more interesting than our Romeo & Juliet performance from earlier today", I chuckled but Danny pursed his lips, keeping his mouth shut as he pushed me further. Johnny walked besides me and elbowed me. "Quit making things worse, Charlie."

"Quiet!" Danny called out, zapping both of us with his gloves. I jolted. "New feature on your little costume?"

Danny wrinkled his nose angrily as he zapped me again. "Next time, I'll set it to 'stun' so watch it."

Surprisingly I kept my mouth shut for the remainder of the time, walking slowly towards the towering castle conflicting with the empty lands surrounding it. It sickened me. People were dying of thirst, hunger, slaughtered by the Servants but the council was happily celebrating their reign.

Danny guided us all to the cellar and locked us up, each one of us in a separate cell to keep us from working together to escape. It had happened before when Jay and Funny got arrested together. It's one of the reasons I always had to go find us some food by myself. Jay and Funny were fugitives, Da Kurlzz had a bounty on his head, Johnny's knowledge could be used against our movements. I was the only safe choice, well… that and the fact that Danny was into me and let me off the hook a few times… I think but being in these restraints, I wasn't so certain of that anymore.

"You've let me go so many times and now you're locking me up?" I asked as he undid my cuffs in the cell. "I wonder if the headmaster would be interested to hear about your loyalty when you've let me go so many times before?"

"Good luck making your case", he scoffed before stepping back and locking me in. He left the hallway and turned off the lights before going upstairs.

"You guys have the strangest relationship", Funny Man murmured. "I thought he'd let us go for you?"

"I think he can't risk his position over us", I sighed but Johnny rolled his eyes. "When will you wake up, Charlie? Danny was never interested in you in the first place. He pitied you so he let you go a few times but he does NOT fancy you! A guy like that has a comfortable spot in the rich neighbourhoods with a wife and kids!"

"I'm sure he's not married. No ring", I scoffed but Johnny hid his face in his hands. "Just wake the fuck up, Charlie. We're done for. Next week we'll be executed for treason, burglary and murdering over a hundred guards. There is no way out."

I guess he was right.

We were truly fucked this time. We could barely see a thing in the darkness. Another thing to keep us from escaping. If we can't see, we can't make plans, right?

I stepped back until my back hit the wall and slid down against it. "Is this really the end of our quest to free the people from the system?"

"It is. We didn't even get past gathering supplies. That's like… dying at level 1 of a game."

"Except you can't hit 'respawn' or 'try again' on this one", Da Kurlzz added. "We are truly fucked."

Silence passed over us and it remained that way for a long time.

Days.

We didn't say a thing for days. We didn't want to waste our energy on futile words, not since we were imprisoned and wouldn't be fed for a while. Courtesy of the council. Selfish bastards.

What day was it? No idea. It had been a while since we had seen the light of day. No one to visit us, no one to come check up on us. If we died out here, good for them. Our problem.

At one point, the door to the corridor opened but there was no light in the hallways so there was no way for us to see who would've entered. We only heard the door open. The person didn't bother turning on the lights either. Who would enter the cellar and not turn on the lights?

Strange.

I heard rattling chains, a lock shifting and the familiar creaking of the door to a cell. Was it another prisoner brought inside? Then the same sounds again. And again. Five times. Five guys. Us. Someone was freeing us.

I got up, not daring to say a word, slowly stepping closer to the bars of my cell, pushing against the door and feeling it budge. "Guys…"

I felt a hand cover my mouth, breath close to my ears. "Beware of security microphones. Whisper. They can't record it", came the soft muffled voice of whoever was standing behind me. I kept my voice low. "Guys, the doors are open. Whisper, we must not alert guards."

"THAT was the sound we just heard?" Funny Man asked.

"Yeah", I replied, hand reaching out behind me to grasp the person who freed us but he was already gone. I raised an eyebrow, stepped outside. "Is everyone out?"

"Yeah, fuck it's pitch black out here. I can't see shit."

"If you can't, they can't either", the muffled voice spoke.

"Who are you?"

"Someone willing to risk everything to rescue you. You were right, the system is rotten", the voice sighed.

I smirked. "Danny?"

"Keep your voice down. If they hear you, you're dead. Beyond this cellar, there are a few blind spots to the cameras. I will guide you through but you must follow my moves exactly. One inch to the left could make the difference between invisible and caught on camera", he replied.

It was Danny, I knew it was Danny. Who else would tell us we were right and try to help us escape?

He opened the door, the hallway equally as dark as the cellar as we slowly made our way upstairs.

"How'd you find out the council's unfair?" I asked, not knowing if he was standing behind me or in front of me.

"Wouldn't you like to know?" he replied, standing directly in front of me from the sound of it. "Danny, come on."

"Fine."

He didn't say anything, he just moved on in silence but I didn't ask. Soon we stepped into dimly lit hallways and he stepped everywhere except for the lit spots. We followed. I could see it was indeed Danny rescuing us.

He stopped. "After I brought you all here, I went to see the council. They wanted me to step down from my position as my mission was accomplished. I didn't want to because I earned this position through hard work. The legion was loyal to me and only me. The headmaster called me a fool", he took off his visor guarding his eyes, revealing a horribly swollen black eye. "He told the council guard, which is a section beyond my command, to beat some sense into me and throw me into the isolation cells. A place reserved for the biggest threats to the system."

He continued onward and I noticed he was slightly limping. They really hurt him. "How did you get out?" J-Dog asked.

Danny continued to avoid the light. "My guards heard what happened. They only obey me, not the headmaster, not his council guards, not the stuck-up fuck ups sitting on their fake thrones. Me. They came to free me as guards always have access to all cells."

"And the first thing you decided to do, was to free me? Awe, Danny, you truly missed me", I joked, a small smile tugging on his lips as well. "I certainly didn't miss those comments."

"I'm sure you didn't", I said. We rounded a corner when Danny cussed and rushed to the dark walls, disappearing into darkness. We did the same. "Council guards", he murmured.

At the end of the hallway, two armed men were talking quietly.

"Scary motherfuckers", Funny Man breathed.

I couldn't agree more.

Council guards weren't human. It was like they were raised to kill on sight. I suppose it was meant to defend the council members personally. Selfish bastards, again.

Out of nowhere, the lights switched on. We were taken aback by the bright light of the hallways. Both council guards stepped towards us. "Danny, you will be executed for treason."

"Go fuck yourself", Danny growled, running towards them but taking the turn before he reached them. We were quick to follow, Da Kurlzz the last and barely reaching the turn before getting caught as they were charging their weapons. Slow weapon guards. Some were meant to take action quickly, others had heavy weaponry needing more charge than a normal weapon. Speaking of luck.

"Where to, captain?" Johnny asked Danny who could barely keep up with the taller man. "Right turn", he called out, taking the turn and leaving Johnny behind clueless as he wasn't quick enough to follow. I passed him with a grin while he glared at me. A gunshot made us duck as guards were on our tail. "Fuck, Danny, you've got any of your fancy weapons with you?"

"No, headmaster took it all away."

"Oh crap."

Another gunshot.

"GOD FUCKING!"

I turned to see Funny Man limping, almost crouching. "That motherfucker hit me in the calf!"

"Go faster", Jay said but Funny shook his head. "Do you have any idea how fucking bad that shit hurts? You're lucky I'm able to limp!"

Jay supported his bad side and tried to run together with him but it ended up slowing them both down.

"Danny, we need weapons asap or we're dead meat."

"I know", he replied. He skidded until he stopped before a door with a security code. "Please don't let the headmaster be smart enough to change the code."

He punched the numbers and put both hands in the air as the code was accepted, opening the door to the weapon supply. "YES!"

"You were running towards this? Instead of the exit?"

"We'd never get out alive without weapons", Danny explained, tossing us all a gun for quick aiming. By now a few guards had caught up with us but Johnny managed to shoot them before they could charge for another attack.

"Now lead us out of here!"

Danny nodded, running off again as we could now defend ourselves, shooting any council guard we encountered.

"Where are your guards anyway? Shouldn't they help you?"

"No, they can't risk their position. I refuse to take down all of those men and women with me."

We finally reached the door to the outer world, all of us worn out from shooting anyone who dared to follow us. So many fucking guards! God.

Even when we were already outside, we just kept running. Jay and Funny falling behind but they would make it. We would all make it. No man left behind. Danny remained with us as well.

Far away from the council's reach with no more council guards in sight, we finally took the opportunity to stop running and catch our breath. By now we were sure Danny would side with us. It would be nice to have the entire guard legion on our side.

"Danny, will you stay?" Da Kurlzz asked, watching as Jay treated Funny's wound on his calf. There wasn't much treating about it as he had simply torn off a piece of his sleeve to wrap it around his leg.

"If I may. The council would execute me anyway."

"Will you fight for the people like we do?"

"You mean go back?!"

"Yeah, we can't let people die like this", I said.

Danny shook his head. "I don't know how you guys do it. Fight for the people. They are just so… faceless. We don't know them."

"We are the people and we're not nameless, we're not faceless, we were born for greatness."

"How hopeful" Danny commented and a silence washed over us as he smiled to the ground. I watched him, feeling the urge to ask him and I couldn't help myself. "Hey, Danny?"

"Yeah?"

"Please tell Johnny you've totally been flirting with me since we met."

The entire team groaned.

Johnny sighed and rolled his eyes. "For the love of… Charlie!"

Danny chuckled. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Johnny looked at me dumbfounded and I shrugged with a smirk. "Romeo and Juliet, bro. The alternative ending."


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