That was fast. I never written a prologue before so I didn't want it to stay up for weeks with out getting the actual first chapter done. So here it is
Lincoln was rudely awakened by what seemed to be an explosion. He peeked out his window to see a large mushroom cloud in the distance and a ring of dust and shrapnel rapidly making its way towards him. Before he could even tell his body to move he was thrown backwards into his door and everything went black.
Lincoln woke up in his bed, and looked around. He was in his room, had that all been a dream? He got to his feet shakily before looking at his window. The sky was bloody orange and he could see some thick fog that blanketed the area around his house. He didn't want to know what that was.
'What the hell happened?' He thought 'the last thing I remember was a …giant mushroom cloud, and th-that shockwave. Shit! Is everyone okay!?" Lincoln had begun to panic. He tore himself from his thoughts and threw on some clothes and rushed out the room. The house didn't really seem that odd. He treaded carefully though until he got to the top of the stairs where he heard his sisters down stairs in what sounded like a family meeting.
"And down to the first order of business" he heard his little sister Lisa say "Supply team you are to go out and gather the usual. Luan since the" Lisa choked up a bit and Lincoln could just feel the resonating sorrow that would soon come with the next words " the death of our sister Lucy , you will be taking her spot on the supply team" Lincoln did a sharp intake of air. Lucy was dead? How long had he been out? Lincoln began to cave. If only he could have been there. He started to cry but then stopped. He had to be strong for the rest of his sisters. He promised himself no one else would die, not if he could help it. He decided to listen in on the rest of the meeting. "Lola you will be now in charge of cataloging. Now moving on to Lincoln" Lincoln perked up at the mention of his name
"Come on Lisa give him one more day" He heard Lynn argue
"It's already been 1 year Lynn and you know this. At this point he's been more of a nuisance to our survival than he has been helpful" Lisa said sighing. "All right well put it to a vote all in favor of letting Lincoln live say I" there were roughly 2 I's if he even heard it correctly
"All those in favor in euthanizing Lincoln" To Lincoln it sounded like the whole downstairs. He was taken back at the amount of sisters willing to off him but he didn't hold that against him. They had probably lost hope. He was out for a year after all. Then he went wide eyed as he realized he was out for a whole year.
'Holy fuck' he thought ' A whole year? How was I out for that long?' his thought were interrupted when heard a clink and stuttering.
"Li-li-lincoln?" Lori stuttered. The look of pure shock spread across her face as tears began to well up in her eyes. He nodded and Lori sprinted upstairs into her little brothers embrace. She was sobbing on her shoulder going on about how she was sorry for giving up on him and how she would never do it again. Lincoln was going to interrupt her but he saw she was really stressed and needed to get this all out of her systems. So he continued to let her cry on her shoulder.
Once the sobs subsided she looked up, her eyes red from crying.
"I am so sorry Lincoln" said managed to choke out.
"Hey its okay I don't blame you or anyone in this house for that matter" he said trying to pull her out of her sorrow and grief. She looked at him and that's when he realized they were standing up… and he was looking her right in the eye.
"Woah!" Lincoln said as he backed up a little
"What!?" Lori said as she assumed a defensive position
"I'M almost taller than you" Lincoln said in a scared voice.
"Huh, I guess you are" Lori said visibly relaxing a bit "We'll we should get down stairs and let the others know you're up and walking around"
"yeah lets go" Lincoln said as he began to wonder just how the others had changed as well. While he was walking downstairs deep in thought he failed to notice the multiple shocked expression coming from all the girls in the room.
"LINCOLN!" The twins rushed him. He was too busy with his owns thoughts to even realize he was at the bottom of the stairs.
"Hey you guys" kneeling down to hug them. "What did I miss?" He asked in a playful tone that got a chuckle from the two.
"Well I'm really good at reinforcing things and repairing things" Lana said pointing to the front window which was now a reinforced with translucent sheet metal.
"You did that?" Lincoln asked in disbelief.
"Yep. Lola help from time to time with the measurements though." Lola said gesturing to Lola.
"I also help you put it up" she added
"Well good job both of you, I'm very proud of you both" he said giving them both another hug. Lincoln stood back up to greet the rest of his family.
"Hey guys" Lincoln smiled and waved. The rest of his sisters rushed him and hugged him . Hard. No like soul crushing hard. The kind of hard hugging that you afraid to let go because if you did you'd lose them again.
" Getting Kind of hard to Breathe here guys" he said
"Oh, Sorry Lincoln" Lisa said "girls give him some space" The 4 were slow to respond but eventually backed off and gave him breathing room.
"Lincoln we missed you soo much, here Me Luna and-" her voice faltered "Lucy got you these comics we found while out getting supplies" Lynn took off upstairs to get them.
"Dude we were super worried" Luna said
"we thought you would never wake up" Leni said
"Ya even Luan stopped making puns" Luna added. Lincoln looked mildly surprised at this . His sister the prank queen, the pun master, the female Equivalent of the Joker stopped making puns? This couldn't be, "Luan" Lincoln got her attention "I would like to here a joke" he said
"Are you sure Lincoln? I'm a bit rusty" She deadpan
"Yes please, I would have asked early but I forgot to set my alarm clock" Lincoln said with a hint of sarcasm. Luan chuckled at this and agreed
"Let me think, hmmmm, I got it! What's a frog's favorite drink?" Luan asked Lincoln shrugged and the others followed in suit.
"Croak-a-cola" Lincoln giggled ever so slightly at this
"I got another one, Why shouldn't you make fun of a paleontologist? Because you'll got JURASSKICKED" Luan emphasized the last part. Lincoln and the others were now laughing pretty hard at that one and Luan felt some pride swell up in her chest. At this time Lynn was on her way back down stairs holding a box of comics. She gave them to Lincoln and he flipped through them. His eyes widened at the sight of a particular comic (A/N: I don't know any of the comics in the LH universe so I'm just going to use the marvel universe or Dc universe and put limited edition on it lol)
"NO WAY THIS IS THE NEW 52 RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS VOL 3 LIMITED EDITION. This should even be out yet!(A/N: lies it came out 3 years ago bear with me on this) Thank you so much guys." Lincoln said
"Ahem yes, now that were done with the reunion we have to brief Lincoln on our current situation." Every moved back to the living room area. "Now Lincoln what's the last thing you remember?"
"We'll I remember waking up to an explosion, So I looked out my window to see a mushroom cloud in the distance. I remember the shockwave that knocked me back against my door. Next thing I know I'm waking up here." He finished
"We'll at Least I don't have to explain the reason behind all of this. Lincoln the Civilized world as we know it is gone. What's left is a barren waste land home to raiders , psychotics, murders, rapists and just the worst people imaginable. We have been able to pull together and set up a base with functioning plumbing system ,electricity, and heating thanks to our renewable energy source and Lana uncanny ability to understand mechanics and plumbing rather quickly. She was able to re install all the pipes in the house with her own style of plumbing with seems to be working even better than our previous system. I was able to take the gas outside and use it to power my generator. I would explain to use how my generator works but it would only give you an aneurism. Over time with the help of the supply team we were able to expand the generator to draw more power. With the power expansion Leni could then use the extra energy to use the sewing machine which in turn was used to make better suits to be more durable outside. Lola was able to decorate the suits to be more Identifiable to us to avoid the possibility of friendly fire. This brings us to the next topic. You will be a part of the supply team Luan your back to cataloging. The Supply team has standard issued M16 rifles of my custom modification, a headset, single filter gas mask, flashlight and backpack. You have a standard list for basic needs that you need to always look for as well as another list for what we may need at said time. But the standard list is always mandatory. While you out there maintain radio silence for 1 of 2 reasons. 1 people can pick up on this frequency, 2 the head sets have a certain battery life. Once they die there dead until you can charge them. The last place you want to be is out there with no radio. Be wary of anyone you encounter out there, theres no telling what there intentions are. If you can avoid people at all cost and avoid a fire fight at all cost. It is very time consuming to make hallow points. Sometimes you can't avoid a fight, if this happens you shoot to kill because they won't show you mercy. Anyway that concludes todays briefing, is there anything that I forgot?" Lisa asked. Lincoln raised his hand.
"Lincoln"
"Where's mom dad and Lily?" Lincoln asked , but as soon as he did he regretted it. He could just feel the room get depressed.
"Lisa looked down "They are no longer with us. They were out when the blast hit. We found their bodies 10 days into this new world . We buried them at the park." Lisa finished tears welling up before she wiped them.
"I see" Lincoln said. He couldn't his parents were dead and his baby sister was dead. She hadn't even been 1 year old. This world was truly cruel and unfair to the wrong people. Leni then stood up
"Lincoln whenever your ready I can take your measurements so I can refit Lucy's suit to fit you" Leni told him. Lincoln nodded and followed her upstairs to her and Lori's room. There roomed seemed unchanged for the most part accepted for the giant table littered with fabrics and such in the middle of their room. Leni took a tape measure and began to measure Lincoln . Nodding she mumbled to herself like "mhm" and " I can work with this".
"Alright Lincoln I'll have your suit ready by tomorrow, hey could you do me a favor and get Lucy's from her room?"
"Sure no problem" Lincoln said as he watched her begin to draw up designs for his suit. He made his way to Lynn and Lucy's room to find it unlocked and the door wide open. Inside was Lynn crying on her bed clutching Lucy's poem book in her hand.
"Hey Lynn" Lincoln said softly
"Huh? Oh hey Lincoln" She said rubbing her eyes
"How you holding up?" Lincoln asked sitting down next to his sister
"I'm fine" she said closing the book and getting up to leave.
"Lynn please" he said "You can't bottle up your emotions like this, its not healthy"
"AND WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW!?" Lynn raged
"YOU BEEN A COMA FOR A YEAR! YOU WEREN'T THERE WHEN LOLA WAS TAKEN AND RAPED! YOU WEREN'T THERE WHEN WE HAD TO GET HER BACK. YOU WERENT THERE AND NOW LUCY IS DEAD! LUCY'S dead" She said breaking down. Lincoln got up and embraced her as she cried softly on his shoulder.
"I didn't know" Lincoln said quietly "I'm sorry that I wasn't there, but the past is the past there's nothing we can do but move on. It's what Lucy would have wanted." Lynn acknowledged him by nodding. She sniffled a bit rubbing her nose.
"Hey Linc?"
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry for that I was just so angry" she said closing her fist, fingers digging into her palms "I had no right to blame you, it wasn't your fault you fell into a coma" Lincoln nodded and she sighed
"Better Lynn?"
"Yeah" she smiled weakly "I'm feeling better" She stood and walked out of the room, Leaving Lincoln to his original plan of getting Lucy's suit. Lucy's suit was hanging up next to her bed. Not wanting to bring any more emotional pain he grabbed the suit and left heading back to Leni's and Lori's room. He dropped the suit off and headed back down stairs to grab a snack. Upon entering the kitchen he saw Luan checking things off a list as she scanned the cabinets.
"Hey Luan" Lincoln
"Hey Lincoln" She said peeking over but then looking back to resume her work
"Is there anything to eat?" Asked Lincoln now realizing he hasn't eaten since he awoke.
"Umm , Here I think it's the last one" she said tossing him some canned beans.
Lincoln knowing their current situation didn't complain "thanks Luan" He said before looking for a can opener and spoon. After finding to appropriate items he sat in the living room and started to eat the beans.
"Man I don't know what it is about being hungry but these beans taste so much better than I remember them." Lincoln managed to get out without spilling the beans. Literally. After that what seemed to be the most amazing meal of his life Lincoln looked at the clock it was only 4:00pm. He sighed 'maybe I could read that new comic' he thought to himself. Lincoln dead set on his decision made his way to his room where he was pretty sure he had set the comics. But upon entering his room he found the comics to be not there. He searched back downstairs only to find the box had disappeared. He decided to check the basement. He opened the door and headed downstairs. He wasn't ready for the stench of rotting flesh as it kicked him in the nose. He fumbled for the light only to almost hurl at the sight of what he discovered. The was a table with straps for the neck ,arms , and legs. Dried blood stained the table and the floor around it. The was a rack lined with knives that were also stained with blood, as well as pliers , and sickles. There was a bucket of which seemed to be the original source of the smell. He looked over and peeked in the bucket even though in his mind he was screaming at him to just leave. He leaned over and in the bucket were multiple severed dicks. He upchucked the 'best can of beans he ever had' and completely forgot about the comics as bolted from the bloody scene all the way back up to his room.
What the Hell did he just find?
WOAH WTF!? What were the loud girls doing while he was out? Man I feel bad for him, those were some good beans. Too bad he spilled them, I guess in the end everyone spills the beans. Anyways HAPPY THANKSGIVING. And good luck trying to eat after that, man I'm one sick fuck. Any ways this is the first chapter in the SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
Until the next hotbox
THExPOTxHEAD over&out