Justin
Just as Justin was gonna ask the unanswerable question, Evan took off down the hall, toting his chaingun and yet somehow moving very quickly.
"Wait up!" yelled Justin.
"We've got some distance until we reach the battery stash," said Evan. "Go faster."
Geez Evan, Justin thought to himself, I'm not a superfreak who can run forty miles per hour.
Evan obviously could see that Justin was struggling to keep up (I would be too!), so he stopped.
"Ima make a sled," said Evan. "I'll pull the sled, you ride it."
"Uh, sure," said Justin.
"Which means I'm gonna have to leave Old Bess behind," said Evan, "but we'll move a lot faster."
"Works for me," said Justin.
Evan ripped out part of the wall, then tore a wire out of a socket. He strapped the wire around his waist, and tied it off to the piece of wall. Justin climbed on, and Evan took off, as he yelled "Hold on!"
Exhilaration set it, as Evan whipped around corners and Justin nearly flew off. Very exciting! Very fun!
Many soldiers were standing guard, but Evan just whipped past them and paid them no heed. Many of them looked confused, and Justin took many mental photos of their hilarious expressions. Ha ha ha! You're confused, Mr. Soldier!
All of a sudden, Evan quit running. Inertia carried Justin and his sled forward, slamming under Evan. Justin rolled to the side, as Evan fell down right on top of the sled.
"Up," said Evan. Justin jumped to his feet to see a massive pile of batteries. Evan reached in and grabbed a battery. Justin did the same.
"Twenty items, my man!" said Justin. "You choose ten, I choose ten."
Justin popped in the battery. "I want five alien bombs and five packs of pillsbury crescent rolls!" and it was done.
Evan grabbed the changer and said, "I want ten batteries!"
And it was done.
Evan then popped in the ten batteries. "I want a hundred alien bombs!" he yelled. And then, they had one hundred and five alien bombs.
"We're gonna blast this place to itsy bitsies!" said Evan. He triggered the countdown on the bombs.
"Alright, we need to head up the maintenance shaft to reach HQ and get the escape pod," said Evan.
"Kay…." said Justin, But first he grabbed 10 more batteries and put them in his pants. Evan dashed to the wall and pulled open a secret door that no one knew about. He scrambled up a chimney-looking thing. Justin followed, shutting the door behind him.
Up and up they went, never stopping for a break. They climbed for about four minutes straight (may not sound like a long time, but it is if you're going straight up in pitch blackness). Finally, though, we reached command.
Evan popped out quickly, and Justin followed close behind. Three soldiers in the room were surprised and taken down quickly. Two more dived behind a console.
"Don't worry about them," Evan yelled. "We need to get out of here!"
The first blast sounded. [censored]. Evan ran around a corner, and Justin barreled after him. A bullet struck Justin in the back, but it didn't matter to him. He turned and fired his TAC-45s at two approaching soldiers. However, these ones did not go down quickly. Instead, they absorbed his bullets and flew at him firing like mad. Justin hit the ground and rolled into a corner, emptying the rest of his clip into one's side. It dropped dead.
Meanwhile, the other soldier grabbed Justin and twisted him into a full nelson. Justin yelped, and the soldier slammed him into the ground.
Justin looked up to see the soldier above him, arm raised for the killing blow. All of a sudden, his head was blasted apart by Evan's bullet from down the hall.
"Come on!" yelled Evan, and Justin got up to follow him. They dived into an escape pod. "Justin, which way are we launching?" asked Evan.
"As far to the west as you can get," said Justin. "Try to clear Dayton."
Evan punched it, and just in time too! Another bomb went off, plunging HQ into the earth.
The pod flew through the air, arcing over the base. Camp Haven was being sucked into the ground, into a vortex of death that pulled all the ground into it. Justin could just see the humvee that he was supposed to be riding driving into the woods. The pod flew overhead.
After about an hour of awkwardly sitting in the cramped pod with Evan, the pod finally reached max distance. It had blown a little of course, and the parachute deployed while the pod was about three miles to the North West of Dayton. The pod landed with a soft plunk! Good, no malfunctions.
Justin and Evan spilled out of the craft onto the ground, exhausted.
"Whaddya say we camp here for a day?" said Evan.
"Good idea," Justin replied, and immediately fell asleep.
When Justin opened his eyes, it seemed like he had never slept. The moon was in the exact same place in the sky, and the air was around the same temperature. Evan was up however, and bustling about.
Justin sat up and asked drowsily, "How long did I sleep?"
"About twenty-four hours," said Evan. That explains it.
"How long did you sleep, Evan?" Justin asked.
"Almost twenty-four hours," he said. "We need to get moving. But first, we need food."
Evan grabbed a pack of pillsbury crescents (one of the ones that Justin summoned), and started a campfire. While Justin stretched and stuff, Evan fashioned a homemade pan and put the crescents on.
Evan and Justin sat for about twenty minutes, talking about random [censored], while the crescents cooked. Justin learned that most of Evan's family had been killed by the plague, and that he used to live on a farm. Interesting.
When the crescents were done, Evan melted down a couple cheese sticks to be butter. They ate their crescents and gained all the energy they needed for the long walk.
"At your pace, it should be about a day's going before we reach the rendezvous," said Justin. "We can get another sled, ya know, and do that."
Evan nodded, before ripping off a large piece of metal from the pod. Justin strapped in, using some random wires from the pod, and Evan tied down the four packages of crescents before he took off.
ENGAGE EPIC TRAVEL MONTAGE 4000!
(One Day Later)
"Alright Evan," yelled Justin from his seat. "Stop running, we're at the rendezvous!"
"We are?" said Evan, stopping.
"Yes," Justin replied. He got up and walked through the trees to the hill that was the rendezvous. But… wait. On the hill was… a log cabin?
Morpheus
Morpheus walked into Zhantov's hospital room, where the aforementioned Vice President was sitting up in bed playing Geometry Dash on a 240Hz tablet.
"Uh, Zhantov?" said Morpheus. Zhantov held up a finger.
About thirty seconds later, Zhantov screamed "YES! I BEAT BLOODBATH! HOLY [ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeensoooooooooooooooooooooooreeeeeeeeeeed]!"
"Zhantov!" said Morpheus. "How did you get a 240Hz tablet?"
"AHA!" yelled a voice. A dutch guy ran in, waving a gopro.
"Ha ha ha! MiGhosti, today is the day you get exposed!" yelled the dutch guy again, running up for a close-up of Zhantov's face.
"Um… Zhantov?" asked Morpheus, "who is this?"
"It's my archnemesis, Knobbelboy," said Zhantov.
"First of all Bloodbath is impossible on 240Hz, there's a bug, so you must be a haxxor!" yelled Knobbelboy.
"Knobbelboy, listen-"
"Second of all, they don't sell 240Hz tablets, so that's just Clickbait BS!" yelled Knobbelboy again.
"Knobbelboy, Knobbelboy-"
"AAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!" Knobbelboy screamed, "this exposing video is gonna get more views than my Bloodlust verification!"
"Knobbelboy, can you please shut-"
"I'm gonna make a ridiculously disgusting amount of money!" he yelled euphorically. "WOOOO-"
"KNOBBELBOY, EVERYONE KNOWS I'M A HACKER!"
Knobbelboy froze mid-yell of excitement, and his face fell. "Oh ya…. Forgot about that…" said Knobbelboy. "Well, I guess I'd better go beat Niflheim now…." Knobbelboy ran out of the room.
"Seriously, Zhantov," said Morpheus, "how'd you get a 240Hz tablet?"
"I bought it," said Zhantov, putting it away, back to business. "What is it, Morpheus?"
"We need to hire a new Head of Security," said Morpheus.
"Ah, yes," said Zhantov. "I've been thinking about that, and I found two possible choices."
"And those are?"
Zhantov held up two names on pieces of paper: General Bakhtov, a member of the Tov Dynasty like Zhantov; and Captain Soulreach.
"Take Bakhtov," said Morpheus, "I trust any man in the Tov Dynasty more than anyone else."
"Okay," said Zhantov. "I'm walking in two days, we can like, do something in two days."
"I think I should convene a meeting of the Morpheus Administration in two days," said Morpheus, "and we can do stuff."
"Kay," said Zhantov. "See you then."
(Two days later)
Morpheus was sitting at a mahogany table (how they got mahogany in a world with no trees, I will never know.), along with the rest of his administration. There was Vice President Zhantov to his immediate right, and the new Head of Security Bakhtov to his immediate left. Around the circle in this order, starting from Bakhtov, were the other members of the cabinet: Head of Intelligence Maelstrom, Head of Law Enforcement Crikey, Head of the Military Ophinius, and Head of Civil Existence Pintar.
"I officially convene a meeting of the administration," said Morpheus.
"Why are we meeting?" asked Ophinius.
"We are here to do two things: inaugurate General Bakhtov and arrange a Rescue Mission in the Matrix," Morpheus replied.
"Well, let's get inaugurating then!" said Ephintar.
Morpheus turned on his favorite song (The Maze of Mayonnaise), and everyone did the Dance of Inauguration. Then, after that, they made Bakhtov say the totally cringe Oath of Oathiness.
I pledge on the face of Morpheus,
To uphold my position,
To dance with Maelstrom,
To play poker with Ophinius,
And to do whatever Zhantov tells me to do.
Yay said all them people.
"Now," said Zhantov, "let's plan the mission."
"Yes," said Morpheus. "I need two volunteers to go with me and Zhantov into the Matrix."
"Um…" said Maelstrom. "I volunteer!"
"And I volunteer," said Bakhtov.
"Good," said Morpheus. "Let's go."
Lena
Lena had sat in the passenger seat, and slept and ate and drank there for the past three days. The humvee had been making its way to Dayton for that long, and Cassie, Poundcake, Ben, and Dumbo had all taken a turn driving. Soon, however, they would arrive at Dayton, where they would camp for a day, and then walk to the rendezvous. It wasn't very fun though, Dumbo threw up like every hour, he must have car sickness. Ahe wish though, that she had the changer, so that way they could get an enormous cake, chocolate. Another large bump startled her out of her vision.
"Look out!" Lena yelled to Ben, who was about to try to jump a cliff.
"Ben, what are you doing!" Dumbo and Lena asked in unison.
"We're almost out of gas, and we need some excitement!" Ben yelled as they ran over the jump.
Lena's heart was beating rapidly and they jumped across.
"We're all gonna die!" Dumbo said
"Nonsense," Ben assured, and they landed and crashed on the other side. The 2 front wheels popped, and a bunch of the paint scratched.
"Now," Ben said, "Wasn't that fun!"
"If you call fun being close to death, then yeah, but I've been closer," Lena confirmed
"Now what?" Dumbo asked.
"We're only half a mile from Dayton, we should get there in about 7 minutes if we walk, run, probably less," said Ben.
"Yeah, but now we have to carry six large tents," said Dumbo, "As well as sleeping bags and food and stuff."
"We take two tents," said Ben. "Some people can share. That'll lighten the load a bit."
"Man," said Cassie, "if Evan were here, he could probably just carry the humvee."
"Uh, probably not," said Lena. "Mike could."
"Believe me," said Cassie. "You don't know what you're talking about when it comes to Evan."
"I'm sure I don't," said Lena. "Look, the boys are already walking. Let's catch up."
Cassie and Lena both took off, before Cassie suddenly stopped.
"We're forgetting Sammy," she said.
"Don't worry," said Sammy, "I'm right here."
Lena and Cassie both yelped and started sprinting as fast as they could, with Sammy right behind. The streaked past the boys, who gave them confused looks, before they finally stopped running.
"Sammy," said Lena, "you scared us half to death."
"I'm not Sammy," said Sammy, "I'm Nugget!"
"Listen, Sams," said Cassie, "that's the name the Others gave you. It's a very mean name. You are Sammy!"
"Fine!" said Sammy.
Dumbo and Pound Cake came puffing and steaming up the way, followed by Ben.
"What are you guys doing?" said Ben.
"Sammy here scared our pants off," said Lena. Ben raised an eyebrow.
"Now, that's not very nice," said Ben.
"I didn't mean to! Stop being such a meanie!" Sam fired back, (Then did the floss super fast, cos he felt like it.)
Ben took this as an insult, and did it as fast as he could to. Soon enough, they were all doing it, but no one could keep up with Sam, he was doing it as almost 1000 miles per hour. Ben was trying to do it so hard, that he fell down, gasping for breath.
"You are to fast, and a show off!" Ben implied
"You're just jealous, because you can't do anything cool!" Sammy fired back.
"Oh yeah, watch this," he said and did a backflip, but tripped on a rock and fell on his face.
"Ha! I told you!" Sammy said
"C'mon guys, stop this nice rivally and let's get a move on!" Cassie said. They all started off again, but Sam and Ben, made a solemn vow, to be better at everything than the other.
"WHO YOUR DADDY?!" Ben suddenly yelled after about five minutes of jogging.
"What was that?" Lena asked, confused.
"I just felt like it, ya know?" Ben replied
"WHO'S YOUR MOMMY!?" Yelled Sammy after another thirty seconds of jogging.
"Not you too!" Cassie complained.
"It's fun to say," Sammy replied; "And you are just jealous, because It doesn't sound as cool when you say it, plus you can't floss."
"Whatever," Cassie responded, "let's set up camp. Then, we probably need to hunt down the town silencer."
"Why?" asked Lena.
"Make it safe to camp," said Cassie. "That silencer will kill us while we sleep in any other case."
Dumbo and Ben pulled out the two tents and started pitching. Poundcake and Cassie stood guard. Lena and Sammy started making a fire.
"Hey, Lena?" said Sammy .
"Hey what?" Lena responded.
"I can't wait to kill a silencer."
After pitching the tent, the group moved out. The silencer would probably be located in the center of town, which would take about three hours to reach. Poundcake took point and Ben took the rear, while everyone else stayed in the middle. Poundcake had his gun pointed forward at all time, ready to fire.
After about two hours, it happened.
KA-BLAM! Poundcake jumped to the side, and a chunk of concrete was blasted out of the wall in front of him. Everyone else ducked down, while Poundcake poked his head over the side and fired.
Pop-pop-pop! KA-BLAM!
"Take him out, Cake!" Ben yelled. Poundcake continued to fire.
"Upstart, Dumbo!" he said.
"Name's Lena," said Lena "don't call em Upstart. That's a stupid name."
"Fine!" said Ben, "you and Dumbo need to come with me. Into the sewers, take him from behind."
Pop-pop-pop! KA-BLAM!
Ben ripped off a manhole near the group. "Dumbo, in!"
Dumbo slid down the tunnel and disappeared. Ben followed shortly after. Lena looked around her, while Poundcake fired another shot. She steeled her nerves, and jumped in.
Sammy
"Sammy!" yelled Cassie, "get to that building!"
Cassie fired a shot in the general direction of the alien.
"I wanna kill him, though!" said Sammy.
"Too bad!" said Cassie. She grabbed his hand and yanked him along, making sure to stay under cover.
Pop-pop-pop! KA-BLAM!
"Lemme go!" said Sammy. Cassie ignored him, pulling him through a door. They dashed into a lobby, and Cassie tucked him in between a desk and a wall.
"Lemme go!" said Sammy.
"Stay here!" said Cassie. "Understand?"
"I wanna fight!" said Sammy.
"Stay here, it's what mother would've wanted!" Cassie's voice cracked.
Sammy paused for a second. "Fine!"
Cassie's First Person POV
I sprinted to the window, after leaving Sammy in the nook. When I reached the window, I grabbed my trusty M16. Flip off the safety. Load the mag. Head on the stock.
Pop-pop-pop! KA-BLAM!
I let off a round in the general direction of the silencer. My three bullets slammed into the glass across the street at the same time Poundcake's did. There was silence for a moment.
Suddenly, a blow slammed into the back of my head. I fell to the ground reeling, while a middle-aged man stood above me with a sniper rifle. I screamed, and he raised a blow…
Then three shots rang out, and the silencer fell on me. I rolled him off, to see Sammy with an M16 in his hands.
"Cassie, I killed him," he said.
Lena
Lena dashed through the sewers after Ben. A leftright beat drop happened, and they arrived at a ladder. Dumbo immediately started climbing the ladder, followed by Ben. Lena grasped the rungs and started ascending.
After about three minutes of climbing, light broke through the tunnel. Lena covered her eyes for a moment, before she adjusted. Dumbo poked his head through the exit, then jumped out. Ben came after. Finally, Lena entered the world.
"Hello!" said Dumbo.
"Silencer's dead!" said Cassie. "Sammy killed him."
"Really?" said Lena. Wow, he actually did it, she thought to herself. All of a sudden, they heard a chop-chop-chop! Sound.
"Uh oh," said Dumbo, "choppers."
Two Black Hawks were over the city, most likely loaded with squads.
"Great…" said Cassie. "First a silencer, and now Vosch's goons."
"Get to cover," said Zombie. "Two squads verses one half of a squad. This is siege warfare."
"I say we clear out," said Dumbo, "there's no hope of fighting them off."
"Agreed," said Cassie. "We hide, no one needs to find us."
"To the rendezvous?" said Ben.
"To the rendezvous," said Lena.
Squad
The Black Hawks touched down, and Squad 79 disembarked. The sergeant knew that whoever she shot would die. She was one of the best in Camp Haven, after all.
"Sergeant," said Blocky, the squad medic, "I'm not getting anything on my eyepiece."
"They must either be survivors or out of range," the sergeant responded. She got on the headset with the chopper pilot.
"They're gone," the sergeant said.
"Get back on the chopper," said the pilot, "we'll get 'em next time, Ringer."
Lena
"Ya'll come right in" Mike said in a terrible western accent as they opened the door.
Lena couldn't believe it, two beds, a couch and chair, and, to top all that off, a fireplace. While they were risking their lives, jumping a cliff, him and Teacup were living the life here. While he was talking it up for the others, she walked over and punched him, HARD.
"Ow, what the crap was that for?"
"While you've been living the life, we have been fighting aliens and driving off cliffs, so, if you want to help a little, then you go ahead!"
"Hey girlfriend, chill, you all made it to the rendezvous, and so now, we can discuss the next phase of the plan," Mike announced. Easier said than done though.
"So I say, we try to find some batteries, and use the changer to get an entire army," Mike suggested.
"But the only batteries were in the base, and we blew it up," Even said
"Plus, if we didn't destroy it, each of us could still only get one battery," Justin added.
"Why?" Dumbo asked.
"You can't know."
"Why?"
"Because Because I said," Justin confirmed
"How about we wait here for them to make the first move, in the movies, that seems to work better," Cassie implied
"Or, we could use the element of surprise, and take them when they least expect it, besides, maybe Vosch is still around," Ben said.
"As much as I hate to admit this, you're correct," Justin responded; "But we need at least a few days of planning."
"Logic states that fighting the Others is nearly impossible," said Evan. "I would know. I'm one of them."
"Whaaa? Oh, wait," Dumbo said
Suddenly, every gun in the room (except Cassie's) was pointed at him. Evan sheepishly raised his hands in surrender.
"What. The. [censored]," said Ben.
"Doesn't surprise me," said Justin. "You should have seen what he did back there to the… other Others."
"Evan didn't kill you," said Cassie, "he killed them. He's on our side."
"I agree," said Teacup and Lena at the same time. They both also lowered their weapons.
"What makes you think so?" said Mike.
"I dunno," said Lena.
"Feminine intuition, I guess," said Teacup.
"How do you know about feminine intuition?" asked Cassie, "you're only seven."
"I have my sources, I spent at least twelve hours a day on my laptop before the Others arrived," she responded.
"I bet you just played video games that whole time," Cassie said
"Maybe true, but I also got more educated with that learning experience."
"Ok, now back on track," Lena said, "We still need to defeat the Others, and us 3 need to get back to the real world."
"I thought you said this was the real world?" Cassie said
"The Matrix is still a program, but turned real, once we destroy the Others, it might turn back, but you could choose to come back with us if you wanted," Lena inferred.
"Um," said Evan, "what did I tell you?"
"The Others are impossible to defeat," said Lena.
"Exactly," said Evan. "there is no defeating the Others. They are immortal."
"There must be some way to weaken them, there always is," Mike chimed in; "Then, we can destroy them!"
"Well," said Evan, "There is one way."
"And that is?" said Justin.
"I have a neural connection to the Mothership," said Evan.
"What does that mean? I'm confused again," Dumbo said.
"Lemme finish!" Evan snapped. "Once the 5th Wave launches, the Others will drop bombs to wipe out every city on Earth."
"Why?" asked Cassie.
"Because it's what they do," said Evan. "They destroy. Get used to it."
"Continue," said Mike.
"Before they do that, they launch a pod to the dwelling of every silencer," said Evan. "The silencers use the pods to travel to the Mothership. That's one way to blow it up."
"Which implies that there is another," said Cassie.
"Yes," said Evan. "Vosch possesses a Core of Annihilation, which is connected to the Mothership. If the Core is destroyed, so is the ship."
"So he is still alive!" Teacup inferred.
"Why does he have it?" said Dumbo.
"I do not know the inner machinations of his mind!" said Evan. "Anyways, it's pretty much impossible to get to it."
"So… you're saying that when the pods come, one of us rides up and blows up the ship?" said Justin.
"Pretty much, we just need a big bomb, and that will be very very very difficult," Evan stated
"So what are you saying, it's over?" Cassie asked angrily
"Nothing is over!" Justin yelled, and everyone looked at him like he was going mad.
"Um, it's a Rocky IV reference," Justin said embarrassed.
Lena sighed, than went back to work, "I know how we can do it, if we get inside, we don't have to blow the ship up, we only need some…"
"BATTERIES!" interrupted Mike, "Lena, you're a genius!"
"What do batteries have to do with- ohhh," Cassie suddenly realized
"I don't follow," Teacup said.
"If we get a bunch of batteries, we can come back down, build a massive indestructible fortress, get an entire army plus us, and a bunch of plasma miniguns, then, and only then, will the Others be weakened," Mike planned
"Ok, I like it, but then what?" Evan asked; "We still need to destroy them."
"I don't know, let's just go with what we have right now though," Cassie stated.
"Now this is a plan!" Dumbo said, "not one bit confusing at all, but I do have one little question, where do we find one of these pods, there not just like gonna drop one for us."
"Yea, but they have one of these silencers every 5 miles, so there should be one close by, so If we find a silencer, we can find the pod," Cassie stated
"But there is a problem to this, how are we supposed to take down one of these without dying?" Teacup asked
"Well, we'll need a whole new plan for that," Justin said; "And It will be the best takedown ever!"
2 hours later
"So we can't create a distraction, then go in, because they have super fast reflexes, and can take tons of damage," Lena stated.
"How about we just snipe it down?" Dumbo suggested, "that will be quick and easy."
"Here's the thing," Cassie said, "Apparently they can take lots of damage, so it will take many shots to kill it, also, we don't have any snipers I think."
"True, true," Evan agreed; "We'll just have to keep brainstorming."
"Also," said Lena, "you might wanna know that there are at least two squads hunting us."
"Ah," said Teacup.
"In the meantime, how about a famous cup of MIke's hot chocolate?" he asked
"Oh yes please!" everyone said.
"With a fire, it's easy, and for later, I have some chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers, and hopefully someone bought hot dogs?" he said looking at Lena.
"Oh yeah, I got all that stuff," Lena said, and handed it over.
"Thank you," Mike said, "So while we are planning, we will be cooking and eating hot dogs!"
They ate hot dogs, and Dumbo asked Cassie a question.
"Hey Cassie?" said Dumbo, "what happened to your leg?"
"I got shot by a shark," said Cassie.
Dumbo looked bewildered, as well as everyone else.
"How'd you get shot by a shark?" asked Teacup.
"Don't tell them," said Evan, giving Cassie puppy-dog eyes.
"Did Evan shoot you?" asked Dumbo.
"Uh…. yes," said Cassie.
"It's a long story," said Evan.
Everyone kept having conversations, ya know, before Mike made an excellent suggestion.
"How 'bout we just hang 'round here for a week?" he said.
"Good idea," said Lena. "We've been on the move for the past four or five days. We need a break."
"I concur," said Evan.
Throughout the rest of the meal, the team organized schedules of watches, and cooking shifts, and such and such and such. Afterwards, everyone went down the halls and started claiming rooms.
The youngest kids, Sam and Teacup, were put in the secure basement. Poundcake and Dumbo were closest to the living room. Across the hall from them were Cassie and Evan. Next to Dumbo and Poundcake were Ben and Justin (no idea why they put them in the same room). Next to Cassie and Evan were Mike and Lena.
Everyone settled their watch schedules (Sammy was mad that he wasn't allowed to go on watch).
Cassie Sullivan's POV
We spent the rest of the night hanging out and playing board games until bedtime. I was first on watch, so I shouldered my trusty M16 and went out to the roof perch.
I didn't really do much for a couple hours, except shoot a pheasant for future food. I also pondered some random stuff.
I had worked out that our little team was like a wolf pack. You've got your alpha males- Evan and Justin- and your alpha females, me and Lena. Then there's the rest of the pack, with Mike, Ben, and Poundcake as hunters, Dumbo as medicine man, and Teacup and Sam for cubs. And cubs must be protected.
Knock. Evan wants to come in, I thought to myself. I knocked back an affirmative. The hatch opened, and Evan came out and onto the roof with his rifle. He smiled.
"Hey," he said.
"Hi," I replied.
"I heard you shooting," he remarked.
"Just a pheasant."
"Ah."
Silence. I started plucking the feathers of the pheasant
"Justin's coming out to watch soon," said Evan.
"Is he?" I asked.
"Well, it's his shift at midnight, and it's eleven-thirty right now."
I nodded. Not tired.
"Don't kill each other, alpha males," I said. Evan nodded.
We sat there, him doing nothing, me gutting the pheasant with my bowie knife, for the next half hour. The hatch popped open, and Justin appeared.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked suspiciously.
"Watching," Evan and I replied in unison.
"Together?" asked Justin.
"Ya, is that a problem?" Cassie asked.
"Are you jealous?" asked Evan.
"Uh, ya, a little bit," said Justin.
"About what?" I asked.
"Nothing, now go to bed!" said Justin.
"Sure," I said, and went down the hatch. Evan followed. We went to bed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
Ben's POV
Rest of the week was relaxing (despite being a bit boring). Though some will disagree, I found it to be pretty enjoyable. Eating homemade food, playing board games, shooting birds, it was the good life.
On the seventh day, we reconvened in the living room to figure out what to do next.