It was creepy how the similarities between Zee Lieutenant and Captain are; both have a German lisp, trench coat, similar masks, I think they are the same height too. But holy crap was creepy looking with an ashy look to his trench coat, almost as if he just came from the epicenter of an nuclear explosion.
Apparently this 'Keys' person was another girl, she hung back with Rosie, it looked like they were arguing but I couldn't hear it with Zee Lieutenant rambling in my ear.
"It's been so long since I've home! Have the citizen's thrown Captain an appreciation parade yet? Have we missed zee Opposite Bath Day yet? Is that annoying machine gone yet? Do we have a flying machine?" He just kept on going on and on, how can anyone talk so damn much! Oh wait a minute that's right, he's Captains cousin! I hate my life!
Snippy sighed leaning his head back staring at the radioactive sky in defeat, "Please… just ask him yourself because I can't keep up with what you're saying."
Zee Lieutenant nodded gripping his chin as if he was… reasoning? "Ya I see, the icing on the cake doesn't tell as much as the creamy middle!"
What?
"Yeah sure…" Snippy pinched the bridge of his mask sighing, "This is the rest of my life, fuck."
Rosie chuckled from behind, "I know what you mean. How many people are we supposed to be expecting?"
Weird, she wasn't threatening him or anything, "All in all, three. Captain, Engineer, and… Pilot, that prick." The mere thought of Pilot and what he'll do seeing new faces was already giving him a headache.
"What makes him a prick?" This time it was Keys asking the question.
"The little aviator suited prick is nuttier than Captain, in fact he worships him, and has been pulling pranks and has almost killed me plenty a time."
Rosie paced up a little beside him, "Like how?"
"Feeding me to a radioactive whale, hiding my stuff, throwing empty cans at me. Oh and calling me a shoe."
"What?" Both women asked.
"You'll see. Why are you called Keys?"
The girl with the yellow goggles sighed, "Lieutenant found me beating a mutant with a keyboard and I was also using this big key to hit things."
Snippy looked at the big key hanging from a chain, 'Weird I hadn't noticed that before.'
"Why are you called Rosie?"
She too sighed, "My name is rose and that weirdo found me bunked in a digital flower shop." She pattered her fingers against her arm, "Why are you called Snippy?"
"Oh boy." He stepped over a frozen toaster on the pier and crossed his arms, "My name is Charles Snippy, Snippy being my last name made me the team's sniper."
"Are you actually a sniper?"
"I was a tour guide in the Dead Zone so yeah; I know how to shoot properly. Better than anyone else in the group really." Snippy stopped seeing Rosie and Keys looking at something, he followed their gaze and sighed seeing Pilot balancing on his fingertips on top of a beach gymnasium for kids, "Not again."
Rosie nudged him, "Should we?"
"No, he'll be fine, that twit." Snippy glowered at pilot knowing that this is another 'draw me like one of your French girls' pose.
They were about to turn the corner just when Engie turned, causing Snippy and Engie to slam into each other.
"Ow."
"Damn it. Engie did you seriously just let him go up their again?"
"No I…" Gromov stopped seeing two new individuals, the third he unfortunally knew, "shit."
"Dr.!" Zee Lieutenant wrapped his arms around his waist and squeezed like a stuffed teddy bear, "It's been so long since mein last check up, do you think you could squeeze me into your schedule?"
"Y-ye-yes!"
Zee lieutenant dropped him on his feet, holding him with his finger to keep Gromov from falling over, "Gut! We must catch up later herr Doctor!"
Just like that the German left them in the dust, Engie catches his breathe and takes notice of the other two Snippy brought, "Who?"
"Rosie, Keys. I present to you Dr. Alexander Gromov, or Engie, or the asshole whose bitch of a computer destroyed the world!"
Rosie crossed her arms at the Russian whilst Keys jumped up and down squealing pulling her hood down, "You're joking right!? THE Dr. Gromov! Of all of the people to meet at the end of the world!"
Snippy looked between Keys and a very confused looking Engie, "Bwah?"
"OhmygodI'msuchabigfanandIreadallofyourpapersand…" The small girl just kept on babbling while shaking his hand to the point of breaking it off.
"Slow down please." Gromov pleaded as the girl kept on talking and talking about his past successes, in all honesty he didn't know that there was actually somebody that liked him at all, and this much.
Keys started babbling and talking faster than Snippy could keep up with, and obviously Rosie couldn't handle it any longer either, "We'll just leave you two to… this." Snippy moved around the two and motioned for Rosie to follow him, she nodded carefully stepping around Keys and her fangirling over Gromov.
They were alone now and Snippy could feel an uncomfortable amount of awkwardness between him and Rosie, "Say, I'm sorry about the whole almost shoot out thing…"
Rosie scratches the back of her head, "Yeah… that was my bad too, I kinda panicked with the pistol."
"I just figured since Captain and Lieutenant have similar personalities I have a feeling we're going to be busy doing some stupid tasks together."
"Ugh! He makes you do that shit too? Damn it." Snippy chuckled patting her on the back as she slouches.
Finally, he has somebody to watch his back out in the wastes of Eureka! Somebody that has experienced the same crap he's had to put up and will be able to back him in a conversation!
"Mr. Snippy! Ms. Rosie!"
Shit.
Zee Captain and Lieutenant called them over to a little coffee shop they sat themselves down in, its ingredients long gone bad and paint bleached to mere stains, "We have a mission for you two!"
Both of them sighed resisting the urge to face palm or spontaneously combust, "What?"
This chapter was just a quick meet the cast thing and ugh it was a bit rushed. But you know what? Screw it I need to show this story more love because the Walking Death Korps has well over ten thousand views now and damn it I will try getting people to write more Romantically Apocalyptic fanfictions because I just have a lot of time during the summer! I may start up a zombie survival guide fanfic that takes some elements from my own book to see how people like the elements. Bye for now!