CHAPTER FOUR: RUDE AWAKENING!
Linda slowly opened her eyes to the sight of the interior of some sort of hut; the walls were lined with old, rusty sheet metal and rusty red rebar wires tied together as if they were straw. there was no floor, save for the warm, tan sand indicative of the desert. Linda was tied up, leaned against the far wall of the hut...and was surrounded by tied up, sawed off arms and legs, dripping with blood and all.
"The fuck...?" Linda whispered as she trembled at the sight of the severed human limbs. They were not mutant limbs; they were too normal, natural, and tumor-less looking to belong to any member of this village. She bolted her head upwards and saw the Lowee Twins tied together, still unconcious upon a rusty iron table placed against another part of the hut wall. Linda sighed, seeing that they seemed unharmed before she broke into a cold sweat.
Where's Warechu? Linda thought as her eyes darted about the room, He hasn't snarked at me yet. Did...did they eat him already? The metal on the far end of the hut began to scuffle, causing Linda to jerk off. She shuttered as a menacing, two-headded shadow emerged from the far end of the hut. Linda closed her eyes and whimpered slightly, biting her bottom lip.
"Scary?" Asked a strange, high-pitched yet gruff voice from the shadow's direction, "Not scary! Friends!" Linda slowly opened her eyes to meet the stranger's...or rather, the strangers' gaze.
They were the twins who had grabbed Warechu earlier; they were actually two seperate, sentient heads attached to the same little girl's body. Both heads had extremely messy, somewhat meingy charred black hair with several patches missing. They both had fairly normal looking faces, but their noses were pretty large, and they had massive overbites with very crooked buck teeth. Although the girls had the same sunburnt-looking extremely-pale slightly-reddish skin, the left head had orange eyes that literally glowed, while the right head had dull blue eyes that had green spots on them. They were wearing a ratty-looking robe made from rags that went down to the fused girls' knobby knees, revealing their scruffy little feet beneath. The poor girls looked like they had not gotten enough to eat, as their body looked dangerously emaciated.
Linda blinked a few times as she stared at the mutant twins.
"Who are you?" Linda asked, "And what have you done with Warechu?"
"Me Bit." The right head replied with a wide, crooked toothed smile.
"Me Torrent," The left head responded with a more serious look on her face, "What Warry-choo?" The earlier voice must have been Nit's, for Torrent's voice sounded older, and less scratchy, as if she were a teenager while Bit was still a pre-pubescent child.
"He's a mouse," Linda said with a quiet sigh, "he's about as tall as my shin, he has black fur, and he wears girly little red stockings. He also has a tattoo of ASIC's logo on his belly."
"Oh! Mousey!" Bit chirped loudly. Torrent held a finger to Bit's mouth to hush her.
"Me want eat mousey. No want eat people." Torrent shamefully admitted, "Bit want mousey pet. Coin toss, and mousey pet."
"Well, that's a relief," Linda whispered harshly, "but where IS he?" Both heads looked at each other in confusion.
"She's he?" Bit asked, scratching her head. Linda's eyes widened slightly as her mouth opened a bit.
"Wait...you thought Warechu was a...?" Linda began to ask, but she couldn't finish asking her question. She blushed and smirked at the same time, instead. She saw his familiar mouse ears poking out from the entrance of the hut.
"Warechu!" Linda piped up. Bit and Torrent slapped their hands over Linda's mouth after she shouted.
"No!" Bit hissed with a frown.
"Quiet." Torrent whispered. Torrent looked back towards the hut's entrance just in time to see Warechu's ears poking around the corner. The twin mutants dashed towards the entrance, and grabbed Warechu by his hears before he could get away. Torrent put her hand over Warechu's mouth, muffling his screams and protests as they brought him into the hut.
Warechu was now wearing a curly strawberry-blonde mid-length wig that let his ears poke through. He also wore a pink-red plaid lolita dress with a poofy balloon skirt that had girly little frills around the edges. Finally, he wore dark red high heels, complimenting his already effeminite high heel socks. Linda smirked as she stared right at Warechu, who looked away.
"It suits you," Linda giggled, "You're honestly really cute now."
"Shut the fuck up, chu." Warechu grumbled as he glared at Linda.
"C'mon, it could be worse," Linda whispered, "They could've decided to eat you instead."
"I almost wish they had." Warechu mumbled as he shook his head.
"Or maybe that broad you like so much could see you in drag like this," Linda hummed, "What was her name?"
"C...Compa..." Warechu gasped gravely as the color drained from his face, "I'd rather die than let her see me like this."
"Really?" Linda asked as she rolled her eyes, "She seems like the sort of girl who would-"
"Can we just shut up about it, chu?" Warechu snapped quietly, "We need to get ourselves and the brats outta here." Linda glanced over at Rom and Ram, then back towards Bit and Torrent.
"I don't suppose you could help us, could you?" Linda asked the mutant twins. Bit and Torrent looked at each other, and scowled confusedly for a second. After what felt like a full minute, The twins turned back to her.
"Keep mousey pet?" Bit asked, a puppyish look on her face.
"No." Linda sighed, "He's my friend. I can't just leave him here." Warechu's eyes sparkled as his tense face relaxed, but the mutant twins both looked disappointed.
"No." Bit growled, "Want mousey pet."
"C'mon." Linda groaned in an exaspirated voice, "He's not happy here with you anyway." The two girls frowned at this statement, and Torrent shook her head.
"Want mousey pet, want deal." She said bluntly, with a stoic, almost expressionless face, "What give for mousey pet?" Torrent's eyes peered over at the Lowee twins, who were still tied up with crude, fiborous ropes, and still clad in their sleepwear. Linda shook her head.
"Not them either." Linda said sternly. Torrent pouted, her cheeks puffing out, as she shot a disapproving glare.
"What give then?" Torrent asked in a frustrated tone. Linda felt something round and hard in her hoodie, then smiled.
"I have a shiny ball," Linda said, a hint of excitement in her voice, "It's in my jacket, so you'll have to untie me."
"Why want ball?" Bit asked as she tilted her head curiously, "Plenty ball in village."
"This is a special ball," Linda replied, "It can protect you from CPUs." Warechu's eyes widened, but the twin mutants continued to stare strangely at Linda.
"Why protect from CPU?" Torrent asked with suspicion in her voice, "CPU no care about us. No threat. Just annoy."
"Because it's very shiny and pretty, too," Linda said, a hint of desperation in her voice, "You can sell it for food if you don't like it."
"Food?" Both sisters said as they salivated, "Yummy food? Yummy meat?"
"Yes!" Linda said loudly, "Just take it and cut me and the kids free!" The twins looked around with worried winces, but they nodded towards Linda. They bore their razor sharp nails on their bumpy hands, and slowly cut the ropes off. Linda smiled as she groped the ball in her hoodie, silently thanking the radiation that addled the mutants' brains that they did not take it yet.
"Don't..." Warechu whispered as he shook his head. Linda pulled the anti-HDD device from her hoodie, and showed it to the twins.
"See?" Linda whispered with a wide, almost frantic smile, "See how shiny it is?"
"Ooooooh!" Bit cried out loudly, "Shiiinyyyy!" Bit seized the odd ball from Linda without hesitation.
"The fuck is in there?!" A gruff, gravely voice called from outside the hut, causing Linda to break into a cold sweat. The twins twitched around nervously as they turned to the hut's entrance.
"Nothing!" Torrent squealed frantically, "No people food here! Go away!" Lime smashed her way into the hut, glaring down at the twin mutants and Linda with a furious, light-vanquishing scowl.
"'Nothing,' huh?" Lime barked at the trio, "Then why is Linda no tied, huh?!" The twin mutants opened their moths to speak, but they yelped when Lime shoved them out of the way into a pile of dismembered limbs. The Lowee twins woke up just in time to see Lime grab Linda's throat, and lift her menacingly into the air.
"Miss Linda!" Rom cried out. Linda stared over at Rom and Ram with a small twinkle in her eye.
"Hey! Let us go, you big jerk!" Ram screamed at Lime. Lime smirked like a hungry shark at the Lowee twins, licking her lips.
"You're all gonna be food," Lime growled sadistically, "Food for warlord." Lime grabbed the Lowee twins under her left arm, and grabbed Linda's right leg with her right. She walked outside the hut as she dragged Linda on the ground behind her. Linda kicked, thrashed, and shouted along with the twins, but to no avail.