Red tucked herself up into a call in the back of the van, resting her head on her knees. Silently sobbing and clutching Syn's locket. Bulletproof dove squeezed her shoulder lightly, 'It'll be alright, you'll see,' she whispered smiling slightly. words couldn't form out of Red's mouth, so she thought to herself for a while 'How? how could Syn die?' Bulletproof dove sighed and turned away from Red, and pulled an absent strand from her hair and started curling it absently minded. The van sped up, as did the spider car and motorbikes behind and beside them.
"I think I'm going insane," Syn said aloud to herself, chuckling. ' I know you have,' said her mind. Syn found this hysterical, she was talking to herself. 'I have to find a car or something,' she thought. Her feet started to rub against her boots. Syn reached the mouth of the tunnel, the sun shone brightly on her, sinking into her skin. It felt good. Syn opened her eyes and let them adjust to the surroundings. Well, there was sand, sky, more sand and some cactus's. Great, the left without me. She thought to herself.
Syn had been walking for a while, the sun had started to go down. The sky took Syn's breath away. It reminded her of the time, Red had saved her and they'd gone back to Syn's old town to look for her brother. They'd found him of course, in the park he used to play in under a oak tree. The sky looked like this when they found him. It sounded cheesy and not to mention weird, but this gave Syn hope that she'd get back to them and everyone would be fine. Syn's stomach grumbled, "Yes stomach, I know your hungry, but do you see I diner anywhere?" she said aloud. Her stomach grumbled again. Syn looked up and saw a diner not to far from where they are. 'Great, not only am I insane but my stomach is now physic,' she thought to herself running to the diner. The lights of the diner flickered on and off. It semmed like this was going to be a bad zombie/horror movie when a hoard of something comes along. Syn had her gun raised creeping in slowly. "Hello," said a timid voice behind her. Syn spun round her gun still raised. The small girl raised both her hands and backed away slowly. she had longish brown hair, a pale purple shirt, brown cargo pants, a fuzzy dark purple jacket, black suede boots, and a brown suede purse, Syn wasn't taking any chances, "name?" ordered Syn. "In..I..Indigo Rose," she stuttered, Syn lowered her gun and put it back in a holster. "Synthestetic Flame, nice to meet you," said Syn offering her hand, smiling. Indigo shook it, "Synthestetic Flame, Hmm.. I've heard of you," Indigo murmered. "I'm guessing that's bad then," Syn said chckling slightly "No, no," Indigo said, "It's just nice to hear a friendly name," she continued. "So are you alone?" Syn asked concerned. Indigo looked really young to be in this war. "Yeah," Indigo said dropping her gaze to the floor and shuffling her feet. "Okay, well there's no doubt about it, you're coming back with me." Syn said. "There's more of you?" Indigo asked. "Of course, we're killjoys. Loads of people have rebelled against BetterLiving." Syn replied. Indigo nodded. "So.. er, how did you get here?" asked Syn. "I hotwired a car and drove here," Indigo said. "wow! where is it now?" asked Syn. "Hmm? Oh round the back," Indigo replied. "Well what are we waiting for?" Syn asked "Let's go!" "We should probably pack some supplies," said Indigo. 'God that kid's smart' thought Syn.
Red raised her head from the van floor. She'd obviously fallen alseep. Everyone else was still asleep, apart from Blood-stained bullet of course, she was driving. Red sat up and rubbed her sore red eyes. What time was it? Red jumped into the seat next to Blood. It was dark. Red watched the headlights and the road. "You okay?" whispered Blood. "Fine," Red murmured. "I just.. I just can't believe it," said Red. Blood nodded, not knowing what to say. Blood spotted a a gang of killjoys at their checkpoint, but more than what they'd arranged. Something had gone wrong. Red saw the worry on Blood's eyes as she slowly stopped the van. They both got out the van and walked over to the killjoys. Party and Fun Ghoul got out their car and walked over to the killjoys. DJ Hot chimp introduced a few new faces that had been called in. Chemical Soul, Static Sunshine, SourStar and Chemical Sharpie. "Red," nodded Dj alknowlegding her. "Where's Syn? you guys are never apart," He asked laughing. Red lifted her gaze from the floor looking at Dj. "She's dead," she replied emotionless. Dj's face saddened, "we live in a fucked up world," he said touching his head, then chest, then his left shoulder and right. Crossing himself. Dj swallowed loudly. "The plan's changed,they're dracs too close to the safe point, so we head back and the rest will come back in smaller groups over to us. Then we replan what we're going to do," Dj finished. "Okay let's go," he said clapping to get everyone into action. The killjoys all walked back to their cars, vans and bikes. Red hung back, staring at the floor. Party walked over to her. "Red?" he asked softly touching her arm. Red looked at Party's eyes. They were a soft hazel. "I'm sorry, about Syn. She was a brave girl, I promise you I didn't realise she was going to turn back, I would've stopped her. No one should risk their lives for us." he babbled. Red let him continue babbling, taking none of it in. "I'm sorry Red," he said finishing. Red glanced at Blood, who was turning the car around and waiting for Red to get in the van. "Better her than you," she said, her throat raspy. Red hurried over to the van.
Tins of beans, soups and other foods in tins were shoved into a random backpack that they'd found in the storage cupboard. They came back out to the diner, Syn glanced around and saw a black dot on the counter. It moved and inch. Without hesitating she slapped the black dot and looked at the remains. A fly camera. Nasty things. "come on," Indigo called, holding the door for Syn. Syn ran after Indigo. Standing before her was a shiny red cadillac from 1967. Syn smiled, a car she was famillar with. "I'll drive?" Syn offered. "Sure, I'm kinda tired anyway," Indigo said throwing the keys to her. They'd been drving for a while now. Indigo had fallen asleep and was softly snoring in the back seats. Syn smiled at the child in the back seat. Syn switched on the radio. She recognised the song immediately, her mother used to sing this to her to get her to sleep, her mother was also a big fan of Extreme too. Syn started to sing softly along with the song too. "Saying I love you is not the words I want to hear from you, it's not that I don't want you not to say but if you only knew, how easy it would be to show me how you feel, more than words, is all you have to do to make it real, then you wouldn't have to say that you love me, cos I'd already know.." A single tear rolled down her cheek. She missed her parents so much. But she had to be strong for her younger brother, Lithium Extract. She switched off the radio and concentrated on the road. She saw two people lying on the floor. They were brightly clothed one. "Indigo," Syn hissed. "INDGIO!". Indigo raised her head "Huh?" clearly she was not a morning person. Syn slowed the car down. They're two people outside on the floor. "what?" said Indigo climbing into the passenger seat. "there," syn said pointing her head in the direction. Syn took the keys out of ignition and got out of the car. Syn raised her gun and aimed at them fingers off of the trigger. She knocked one of their foots. The one with the blue badanna stirred, waking up the other one. "wake up," ordered Syn. They raised both their gazes to Syn and caught the sight of the gun. Their faces froze. Syn put her gun down. "come on then," she said helping them to their feet. Syn opened the car door to the back seats, "coming?" she asked. The two killjoys looked at each other, and decided to get in the car. Syn started up the car and continued driving. "Thank you," said the one with the blue bandanna. Indigo turned to look at them, "so what are your names?" she asked. "I'm Vinilla Freak," said the one with the blue bandanna, "and that's Valentine Venom," said said pointing to the other one. She was very quiet. "I'm Indigo Rose," said Indigo. "Synthestetic Flame," Syn said nodding, glancing at the two in the back seat from the mirror. "why did you pick us up?" asked Venom. Indigo looked at Syn too, also wanting an answer. "Well, your obviously killjoys, and in this war, we help each other out. Well, so I'd like to think. And the more the merrier eh?" Syn said. They drove silently into the night.
Syn was the first to wake that morning. The sun was high in the sky. Syn got out the car silently. She leaned against the door and breathed in deeply. Cold wind blew in her face gently. Syn pulled a slightly squished box of Marlboro Reds' from her holster. She took out a ciggerette and sparked it up. She breathed in the scent. Syn closed her eyes. She heard gasping. She opened her eyes and a drac without it's mask launched at her gasping for breath. "Help me," the drac wheezed, holding onto its' throat and Syn's shoulder. The drac fell to the floor , still clutching it's throat and gasping for breath while Syn was frozen. Syn kneeled next to the dying drac and pulled the test tube out of her boot, and poured a few drop into it's mouth. The drac closed its' eyes and brethed out. Syn rested her hand on its' neck, checking the dracs' pulse. The drac was still breathing, it's body cold. 'God, I hope it'll live,' she said talking to herself. 'why?' asked her brain, 'they've killed people you've known and loved, why should you save them?' it continued. 'They're people too, no one deserves to die, no one. They didn't know they were doing it. They're brainwashed, from Korse!' Syn answered. 'Okay, but don't tell me you neve thought about letting it die,' her brain retorted. Syn sucked in a shocked breathe. 'No, I didn't! Why do I bother talking to you anyway..' 'because you're lonely...' her brain said trailing off and showing her the images of her being loenly and friendless. Syn didn't answer back because she knew that her brain was right. The drac started to stir. The drac opened it's eyes "Hey," said Syn quietly. "who..who are you?" asked the drac. "Im Synthestetic Flame, what's your name?" "er.. Pepsi Pirate.. where am I .. I don't remember.." she answered uneasy. "It's okay, don't worry." Syn replied softly. "I remember being kidnapped.. I tasted chlorofoam but I couldn't move.." Pirate trailed off. "You were a drac, I don't know what happened. You came here, hurt.. so I helped you," Syn answered. Pirate hugged Syn tightly. "Thank you," she repeated quietly. Syn hugged her back. After a few minutes they broke away. "I'm guna take you with me," said Syn getting to her feet and brushing the sand off. "Where?" asked Pirate still on the floor. "With the other Killjoys," smiled Syn. "Come on," she said pulling Pirate to her feet. They both leaned against the car waiting for the other three to wake up.
"Wakey wakey sunshines," said Syn gently, waking them up. "this is Pepsi Pirate, ask no questions," Syn said hopping into the drivers seat. Pirate smiled at the others who introduced themselves. Pirate sat behind Syn. "we need a plan," said Venom. They all agreed thinking. "where have we got to go?" asked Indigo. "Zones 4-6" answered Syn. "Okay, then we take shifts driving there?" Vinilla said. Syn spotted a colourful blur in the distance "wait, guys.." she said. "what?" asked Pirate turning to see what Syn was looking at. "what the hell is that?" asked Venom. "Killjoys," answered Syn getting out of the car.
The Killjoys stopped by Syn and the cadillac. "Jellybeans," said Syn beofre anyone could ask her. "Good to see you guys," she said. Venom, Pirate, Indigo and Vinilla got out of the car and stood by Syn. Syn introduced Pirate, Vinilla, Venom and Indigo to the large group. "Guys, this is Death Bullet, Exploding wave, Static Sunshine, Emerald Envy, October Obliteration and Intense Revenge," Syn told them pointing each of them out. "So where are you guys heading?" Syn asked. "Didn't you hear? dracs found out about our little hideout in zone 2 so we had a change of plan." answered Intense. "Really?" asked Syn. "Yeah, we're heading out in groups, another group will be out soon and the Grace and Dr D," said Sunshine. "God," sighed Indigo. Syn chewed on her bottom lip. "Wave, wana do me a favour?" asked Syn. "Sure, anything." she answered. "Give me your bike, I'll go meet with Grace and Dr D. You can drive the cadillac," Syn said jerking her thumb behind her at the car. "Okay, yeah" Wave answered, confused. Wave headed to the car and got i the drivers seat. "Be good kids," Syn joked at Venom, Vinilla, Indigo and Pirate as they got in the car with Wave. Syn jumped on the motor bike and started it up. They others drove off towards zones 4-6. Syn smiled and headed for Zone 2.
Red paced in the safe house. Everyone else was resting. But it filled her emptiness after loosing Syn. "would you sit down?" asked Sharpie. Red glared at Sharpie and continued to pace. A distant sound of cars started to come closer and eventually cut off. Red snapped her head up to see who had returned. She saw a few new faces. group 3 had obviously picked them up along the way. Red sighed and sat down not bothering with new introductions. She rested her head against the wall and closed her eyes.
"Group four, get ready to go," said Dr D loudly. Lithium got up from the set of chairs. Him and Grace had been getting along well. "See you on the toherside then," he said to Grace, "will do Lithium," answered Grace. Lithium joined the crowd. 'Note to self Grace, stop falling in love, we're in a war. But he is cute..' Grace sighed. Lithium took one last look back at Grace and waved smiling. Grace returned the wave. 'Okay, Peroxide Princess, Cyanide Avenger, Poisoned Sky, Spider Venom, ElexTRIX, Psychotic Zombie and Lithium Extract. Time to go. Good luck Killjoys!" Dr D called. "Ready Grace, we're soon." he said to her. Someone bursted through the back door. "Guess who?" called a voice.
The fourth group had arrived yesterday. The Killjoys were just waiting for Grace and Dr D. Party was anxious and nervous adn had offered a million times to meet them halfway. Of course, no one wanted to hear it. Red was still sitting next to the wall. "They should've been here an hour ago!" Party said, worried of course. Red pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes. "Calm down Party, have some fucking Jellbeans," she said. Party looked at Red. He could see that the death of Syn was tearing her apart. He shouldn't of let Syn go back. But Red was right, as much to his dislike. Better her than him. Party sighed and paced the floor.
The door burst open, causing Party to stop in his footsteps. The killjoys all lifted their gaze to the door. Dr D ran in the Grace in his arms. Grace jumped down, and turned around "PARTY!" She yelled hugging him. "Grace, Oh, I have missed you so much," Party said hugging her patting her hair. "are we late?" Dr D joked. Red was happy for Party, she really was. She closed her eyes again. "Whoa, what a rush," a tall girl dressed in white said, entering the building. She turned and locked the door. Reds' eyes snapped open to the familliar voice, The girl turned to face the group. He hair was short around her face and had red tips, like a flame. She wore a dirty white dress, with puffy sleeves, From the waist down she had a spider pattened cape. She had black fishnet tights in with a few holes. On her leopard print belt were 2 ninja stars, shining in the dim light. Her eyes were outlined thinkly with black eyeliner. Her black studded boots were battered. She wore a red guitar pick around her neck. She put her gun back in her silver holster aroung her thigh. "Syn?" said Red.
Before Syn could answer Red threw herself at Syn hugging her tightly, scared to let her go. Syn hugged her back "Hey Red," she said. Tears dropped onto Syn's dress. "eh, why are you crying?" Syn asked pulling away from the hug. "I.. I thought you were dead," stuttered Red, sobbing. "Me? Dead? Ha, I'd love to see the day," laughed Syn. Syn smiled and wiped away Reds' tears with her thumb. "You look incomplete," said Red handing Syn a small silver object. Syn, looking confused, took the object from Reds' hand and looked. It was her locket. Syn laughed and put her locket back on. The two girls smiled at each and hugged again.