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United States of America, Pennsylvania

Planet Earth

10:35 pm EST

8 hours and 25 minutes left in the Experiment

Party In the USA

Jordan began to awaken from his daze. questioning what in the living hell is going on? All he could remember was this:

He was in a fit of rage like usual when he's having an episode. But as he was about to shoot another one of those traitors to his event, he was lunged at by some unknown force. Then, he saw-

RATCHET!

Wait a minute? How in the hell did he even get here? Shouldn't he be at Veldin with Sophia and Clank...ooooh. So that's who lunged at him. And I take it Clank's the one who injected that fluid into his neck. Jesus the Human hated that stuff, he still couldn't feel his tongue.

"He's waking up!" Sophia yelled as she saw the Human wake up from his slumber. Ratchet however wasn't surprised at all and immediately begun with the "Interrogation". "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT OUT THERE!" he yelled.

"Can you please not be so loud?!" the Human yelled back, due to the fact that his audio wasn't exactly tuned clearly. But they slowly begun to become crystal clear and he could finally hear everyone clear as the black night.

"Jordan what the heck is going on?" Sophia asked.

Jordan sighed in frustration. "If I tell you, can you all please remain calm and stop yelling at me?"

"Agreed." Ratchet and Sophia said in unison.

*Fine. Here I go." Jordan begun to talk about the NFFA's rise to power, and their way to rid of all evil in this country tonight. Simply called...

"THE PURGE"

He talked about it being staged in his town and the reason he had to leave in such a hurry when they were talking on the phone. Despite his Type-In being special, it doesn't give him a reason to do these horrible things on a night where all crime is legal. At least, that's what the Lombax's and Robot thought. Nevertheless, the Human had a job he still had to do, and couldn't be with them. Jordan opened the passenger door open and tried to step out from the car. But Ratchet quickly pulled the Human in and closed the door using an automatic button. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?! " Ratchet yelled once again.

"I gotta get back out there." Jordan calmly said.

"Oh no! You're not going anywhere! We're sending you straight home and we're waiting out the rest of this fucking night."

"Don't you think you should put your seatbelt on first?"

"What's that have to do with anything?"

Ratchet was about to eat those words as Jordan grabbed the wheel and begun jerking it to the right. Ratchet however begun to counteract his action by jerking the wheel to the left and they began swerving from one side of the road to the other. "LET GO OF THE WHEEL!" Ratchet commanded.

"NO!" Jordan yelled back.

"NOW!"

"NOOO!"

"JORDAN!"

"NOOOOO!" through all of the fighting, Sophia quickly put her seatbelt on to make sure she doesn't sustain any in injuries the case they crash. OH! and speaking of that, Sophia saw that they were about to run head first into a telephone pole. She yelled in terror, causing the whole group to look at the windshield and follow her gaze. They all began to yell in terror as well as they speeded directly towards the pole and...

CRASH!

Luckily for the Human and the younger Lombax, their seatbelts helped cushion the impact and they came out unseathed. The Robot and older Lombax however...

Not so much.

They both ended up flying through the windshield when it impacted. Jordan quickly got out from the car and checked up on Ratchet first. Other than a few scrapes and bruises, he was in 100% working order. Jordan then checked up on Clank. "You okay buddy?" Jordan said to his robotic friend.

Clank started moving various parts of his metallic appendages and concluded that he was alright as well. "fully operational," he said.

"Good." he replied.

"Now look what you did." Ratchet moaned out, still recovering from the crash.

*Don't act so surprised, what I did was bound to happen."

"Can we just focus." Sophia said. "We need to get outta here before any more people try to kill us."

"I agree." Ratchet said.

"Please. We'll be fine. There's no one's actually stupid enough to mess with us." Jordan said.

"How can you be so sure. You don't know what kind ve psychos come out tonight."

"Trust me. This is the town of brotherly love. The chances of us finding a killer out there are about-"

"Five thousand three hundred and ninety five to one." Clank said.

*Uh...yeah. Now c'mon, we better get moving if we're going to get home." Jordan and the group begun to walk down street after street, block after block, and walk by house after house until they find civilization.

0.5 miles later..

"See? What did I tell you?" Jordan said as they walked for almost a mile and found the whole town to be in complete silence. That is, until Ratchet heard something with his enhanced audio nerves.

"SH!" Ratchet hushed the Human. "Listen." he said. the whole group went quiet as they started to hear loud thumping music come from the distance. And from the sound of it, it sounded like dubstep. Jordan and the group quickly rushed towards the sound of the music, and what they saw made their jaws drop. What they saw looked truly like a sorority party. All of the glowsticks, the millions of colors, and the crazy and psychotic costumes that everyone wore. It truly was a party in the U.S. of A. Jordan and the group slowly walked through the crowd and asked one of the civilians what the heck was going on. "You have any idea what's going on dude?" Jordan said to the man over the loud music.

"Its the purge man! Come and celebrate!" the man replied. Somehow or another, the voice to

the Human sounded too familiar. In fact, it almost sounded like... "Nic? is that you?" Jordan said.

"I thought you would recognize me sooner or later."

"How ya doing man!?" Jordan said as he hugged the figure.

"Living the dream!"

"You know this guy?" Ratchet asked the Human.

"I work with him at my job."

"Oh."

Jordan talked with his co-worker for a few more seconds and approached his Lombox friend to talk with him about their next move. "So what should we do?" Ratchet asked.

"We're staying here of course." Jordan said.

"What!? Jordan we can't stay here. We need to get you home."

"Why? There's no murderers out tonight. What's the worse that can happen." Jordan was about to eat those words as well as he saw a few figures in the distance, armed to the teeth with armor and weaponry. Ratchet however was speaking to the Human, but he was of course ignoring him as he saw one of the figures raise his gun towards the crowd of people. "Get down ! *Jordan yelled as he tackled the older Lombax.

BANG!

The bullet ended up landing directly in the Human's friends head, killing him instantly. The whole crowd began to scream as they ran for their lives away from the group of purgers. Jordan and the group however stayed put as the Human equipped his rifle and begun to fight back. Jordan fired on the first purge scum and riddled his chest with four bullets. The fighters quickly saw the Human and begun to open fire on him. Jordan hid behind the base of a tree and Ratchet begun to retaliate with the Human. He equipped a nine millimeter pistol and begun to fire on the group. With both sides exchanging fire for a minute straight, Jordan was able to take out three more of the men, leaving only one left. Ratchet shot the man in both of his legs, causing him to drop his gun. Jordan and Ratchet quickly rushed towards the Human before he could grab his gun again and kicked him straight in the gut. Jordan then held a pistol to the mans head and asked him what he was doing. "What the hell's your problem man!? You better answer before I blow your fucking head off!"

The man replied by spitting a glob of blood directly in the Human's face. "You think you're a hero?" the man chuckled. This caused the Human to load his gun and...

BANG!

Once Jordan blew the man's brains out, the whole area was clear of people. Suddenly. one of the purgers walkie-talkies went off, indicating that there was more to the group than just these four. "Three? What's your status on Third and Brian?"

"..." the group stayed silent.

"Three come in,"

*These guys definitely spent a lot on money for some heavy duty purging." Jordan said. "Just look at their uniforms and guns."

"Jordan, you might want to look at this," Ratchet said to the Human. Jordan saw that he was inspecting one of the bodies of the so called "soldiers" and saw him pointing to a tattoo on his arm. Jordan looked closely at the tattoo and saw that it was a skull with a knife driven straight through it. Jordan knew exactly what this was. He saw images of it online from a mercenary group that was resided in Ohio. But how in the hell did they get here?! All roads and airports were blocked off for this event. Why would they be even killing people here anyways, they didn't do anything to anyone in this town. Whatever the case, they had to move. Jordan and the group quickly tracked down the vehicle they had and they quickly got into the car and drove off.

2 miles later...

Jordan drove the car as they arrived at his dead co-workers house where is family resided. While Jordan commanded Sophia and Clank to stay in the car, Jordan and Ratchet stepped out of the vehicle and had their guns at the ready.

They slowly approached the house and Jordan carefully opened the door, which happened to be unlocked. That was of course strange, but the duo stayed silenced as they entered the building. Jordan gestured to Ratchet to check the basement while he covered the upstairs. The living room appeared to be clear and they both went their separate ways.

Jordan slowly walked up the stairs and checked the bathroom first, Jordan slowly opened the door and the room appeared to be clear. He then checked the first bedroom. And since the whole place looked like fifty shades of Gray, he knew this must've been his co-workers brothers room. And despite the fact that the Human really wanted to throw up right about now. The whole room was clear. All that was left now was the Master Bedroom. Jordan however saw that it was locked from the inside, so he would have to kick it down with force. Jordan did just that and quickly equipped his Pistol for this kind of close quarters. The room was however clear. That is, until he heard some scuffoling in one of the closets. Jordan held his pistol up and quickly opened the closet door. And what he saw were the entire Reich family hiding from these mercenaries. Jordan lowered his weapon. "You all okay?" he said, with all of the family members nodding to the question.

Once everyone gathered from both downstairs and upstairs into the living room, they all sat down except for the Human and older lombax. That is until-

BANG! BANG!

Two shots went off on the wall beside the Human and he saw a Mercenary enter the house with a shotgun in hand. Jordan quickly equipped his pistol and shot the figure both times in the legs. He then took his machete and rammed it through the skull of the Human. After everyone was okay, Ratchet made sure that his friend was okay, which he was. This stil? however didn't explain why all these mercenaries were here in this town murdering innocent people for no reason. That is, until the walkie-talkie of the soldier went ofl. "We gotta move guys. We ain't getting paid until we kill enough of these low lives." the device rang out. This gave the Human his famous thousand yard stare. It all made perfect sense to him now. The NFFA were using these people to do their dirty work by wiping out all that deemed too poor to live in this society. I guess this is what the purge is all about to them. This must be their annual spring cleaning of the world. Declaring war on the poor and wiping them out to not only make profit off of them, but to also decrease the surplus population. It's almost like they ruined the Type-In for the Human on purpose. They do in fact reside in the more wealthy areas of the town after all. Now wasn't the time to purge. Now was the time to fight back! Jordan approached the family and told them what they had to do now. "Alright! I need all of you to find somewhere safe you understand? These fuckers are going to go anywhere they can find people like you and kill anyone they see. You find somewhere to hide and you stay there for the rest of the night you understand?" Jordan then turned to Ratchet. "Lets go." he said. But as they were about to walk out the front door, Michaela got up and spoke to the Human. "We're going with you." she said with confidence.

"No. You two need to stay here and-"

"We are involved in this as much as you are." the male co-worker said.

"Even if that were true. You don't have the necessary know-how to-"

"Jordan?" Ratchet interrupted as he tapped the Human on the shoulder. The duo_Sathered a couple feet away from the two and watchet told the Human that these people might be op use to them after all. "I think they should come with us * Ratchet said.

"Really? And why is that?"

"If we're going to stand any chance against these mercenaries. We'll have to form a resistance to combat these guys, know what I mean."

Jordan sighed and thought about it for a few seconds. His mind was made up as he turned to his co-workers. "Lets go." he said. Once everyone got into the large SUV, they quickly drove off into the distance, ready to fight back and find any sign of life to form a resistance with.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter of Good night, Good Luck. And guess what...3 MORE CHAPTERS IN ONE FOR ALL (REDUX)! I know its sad, but you guys know what should happen next in the story:

SPOILER: BEGINNING OF THE END!

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