Some thing woke Ridly just before dawn, a presence in the room that didn't seem right to him. He heard the click of a pistol hammer and grabbed his .44, he shot to a sitting position and blew the head off the raider who had his pistol aimed at him. Rayne woke up dagger in hand, seeing the dead Raider at her door.

"What in hell..." Ridly was up and sliding the clip into his .44.

"Raiders, we ought to leave and take shelter in town." Rayne nodded, sliding out of the hammock, and down to the floor, picking her gun out of the small closet and started out of the trailer, opening the door, and shooting the raider closest to the door point blank. Ridly only stopped to retrieve the raiders gun as he brushed past Rayne and sprinted towards town. Rayne followed after him, shooting the raiders closest to her trailer...that was the best place she'd have left...they'd have hell to pay if they stole or destroyed it. Ridly killed a few raiders but mostly tried to keep them off of Rayne as he made it to the first building. Rayne ran in after him, and closed the door, leaning upon it.

"Were raiders following you when you came through here?" She said angrily, looking outside.

"No, not that I know of but this town would be a good base for them you have to admit."

"Possibly..." She sighed. "Ghost town for a while, and still has supplies."

"And it has been deserted for so long no one will think to look here for raiders."

"Agreed..." Ridly studied the gun he had taken off the dead raider.

"Colt .45, not bad for raiders, I bet some of them have SMGs!"

"That can't be good." She muttered, putting her gun through one of the holes, and taking out another two from behind.

"No, that's great! If I can get my hands on some of that stuff..."

"If you don't get shot first."

"How do you think I got my hands on this shotgun?"

"Luck."

"And surprise!"

"You went in the cave while they were sleeping?"

"No! The guard didn't see the .44 round come at his from around the corner."

"Ah...my bad." Rayne said. "One problem. WE were supposed to get out of here, and HEY GET THE HELL AWAY FROM MY TRAILER!" Ridly aimed his .44 through a window and took the head off of the raider near the trailer.

"Who else do you know who can snipe with a Desert Eagle?"

"Me...I taught you how stupid." Ridly shook his head and motioned Rayne to follow him to the back of the building as the raiders returned fire on the front. Rayne watched, taking another one out from behind, and walked after Ridly, hiding behind a different building. Ridly watched the raiders advance on the building they had just left,

"There! See the two with the funny shaped pistols, those are SMGs!"

"Yeah, I know, not stupid Rids." She said back to him.

"Sorry...we have to get those weapons! If I know enough about raider tactics, those two will be the first into the building and the first to secure others."

"Alright...then let's go in." She said, looking towards him.

"No let's wait until they go to clear the next building, your going to have to move fast to beat these guys but you're good enough."

"Oh thank you master Ridly." She retorted, and looked towards the building. Ridly crouched and waited, he could hear two raiders moving inside the building, he held up five fingers to Rayne and waited. She nodded silently, looking towards the building, ready to go at any time. Ridly saw one of the raiders pass by a broken window, he stiffened, hoping the raider wouldn't see either one of them, he prayed to look like part of the landscape. Rayne's eyes traveled with the raider as it kept walking, muttering back to one of his friends. "Tell me when..." She said softly, looking towards him. Ridly began to count down with his fingers, when he got to three he readied his DEagle and the .45, when he felt the raiders where in the vicinity of the door, he nodded to Rayne and dropped two more of his fingers.

Rayne steadied the gun on the window's ledge, and watched as the first raider came through the door. She easily put a bullet through the man and watched as he fell, shooting the second afterwards. Ridly ran through the door, and was surprised to see two raiders facing him with their guns pointed at the door. He dived under their barrels just as they let rip a wall of lead, he rolled and came up between them, Ridly fired two shots into each mans chest. Ridly took a second to admire his handy work then began to gather up the SMGs as he motioned Rayne to join him. Rayne stood up as well, careful to check for any other raiders hiding in the corners, before walking out to meet him.

"They're gonna be more."

"I know, I know, let's get up stairs," Ridly handed her one of the SMGs. "The both of us made enough noise to wake the dead."

"Yeah, I know." Rayne says, taking a quick glance at the raiders, and then back up to Ridly. "You know...your gun has enough power to kill them with a bullet, so why did you use two?"

"Timing, mostly and some of these suckers are hyped up; it takes a tank round to take them down." He motioned her up the stairs and then followed. Rayne nodded, running up the stairs quickly, her braid bouncing behind her.

"How many raiders are in a group slick?" She said looking out the window as a couple raiders ran by.

"Raiders have their own rules, there can be as many as a hundred," Ridly played with the selector switch on the SMG. "They're going to try and surround the building, we better hide."

"It's stupid to hide if they already know we're here." She said to him. "They'll just blow up the buildings one by one and wait for screams." Her eyes traveled over it. "And I don't feel like dying today."

"I doubt they have much explosives if any." Rayne smirked a bit. "So we wait?" She said, looking towards one right below her. "I don't think that's the best idea in the world..."

"Well would you prefer to surrender or spring an ambush?" Ridly tensed as he watched more raiders rush into the first floor.

"You've known me long enough to answer that question by yourself Rids..." She said softly.

"Wait for it..." Ridly had barely heard her, he was to busy watching the raiders downstairs. "Ok, when I say three, I'm gonna jump the railing and hopefully surprise them, you cover me with the SMG." Ridly slowly put his SMG on the ground and drew his pistols. He positioned himself on the railing. "Ready...Three!" Ridly leapt the railing and plummeted towards the first floor firing.

Rayne fired at every raider that got close to Ridly, her lips pulled up in a small smirk, as a couple at a time, they went down. Ridly shot two in the head on his way down, hit the ground, rolled and came shooting, taking out four more. Raider bodies where everywhere, Ridly ejected his clips to reload when he felt hard metal jam roughly up against the back of his skull.

"Drop you gun over the railing and come on down, sweet thing, before I decide to blow your boyfriend's head off."

"Crap." Ridly said and dropped both pistols. Rayne growled a bit, and sighed, dropping the SMG down below, and then jumping down in front of Ridly. Ridly looked at Rayne with terror in his eyes. The raider wore blood red metal armor and had an ornate Desert Eagle mashed against Ridly's head. Rayne looked towards Ridly, and then to the man behind him.

"If...you let him go, you can do whatever you want to me." She said quickly, her eyes never leaving the raider's.

"Well, well, I don't like you understand you little whore!" the Raider gave her a smirk, "I can just shoot him and then do whatever I want with you anyway." Ridly stared at Rayne, he begged silently for her to run. Rayne's eyes nearly narrowed, before she backed up a bit.

"Don't shoot him."

"Why shouldn't I, Slut! You both killed my men, I think you both deserve to die! But not before me and my men have our way with you." She growled softly, her eyes going to Ridly, basically saying that she wasn't going anywhere.

"You're not doing anything with me."

"Oh really, well just watch as I kill him then we'll see how resistant you are!" The raider began to pull the trigger, Ridly heard the click as the trigger caught the hammer and began to slide back. He knew he was going to die, he panicked and did the only thing he could think of; he backed up. The barrel of the pistol slid off his skull and went off right next to Ridly's right ear. The raider let out a yelp of surprise as he and Ridly got their legs tangled up and they fell. Ridly made a blind grab for the gun as the raider tried to adjust his aim. Ridly and the raider wrestled for a few minutes before the DEagle went off three times.

Rayne's eyes widened as she tried to get closer to them, but she was starting to get dragged away by raiders.

"RIDLY!" She shouted, kicking one off of her. Ridly gagged and rolled off the raider's body, covered in blood. All the raiders stopped and stared. Ridly looked at the gun and hit the clip release switch. He examined the clip and then pulled the slide, "Huh, raiders on a budget, only four rounds in the gun." Ridly slid a fresh clip in the pistol, pulled the slide and shot one of the raiders, holding Rayne.

"Anyone else care to tango!"

"Damn it you scared the hell outta me Rids!" She shouted, kicking one hard in the stomach, she dropped to the ground and came back up with the SMG.

"Easy Rayne," Ridly got to his feet and lowered the pistol. "It's sort of a caste system; he who kills the boss is the boss."

"You want to be the head of a gang of raiders?" Rayne said, putting the gun on one shoulder.

"Not exactly, Everybody that doesn't care to die right now please put down your guns!" The raiders began to slowly put their weapons on the ground, a few kept their weapons and one approached Ridly and opened his mouth, but before he could say anything Ridly smashed the pistol into the opening, breaking several teeth, and emptied the mans skull. Rayne winced a bit as the back of the mans head was sent rolling to the ground, and then looked towards him.

"Then what are you doing?" Ridly gave the armed raiders a cold stare and they dropped their weapons.

"Teaching lessons." Ridly said coldly.

"Ridly." She sighed, walking towards him. "Let's just get out of here." Ridly watched her leave then he followed, when he got to the door he turned.

"If I ever see you harming others again, you will all die!" Rayne looked towards him as he walked out, and then continued walking towards the trailer.

"Damned raiders..."

"Quite, well at least they won't be coming around here anytime soon." Ridly followed her into the trailer.