Finn POV
I dropped Adira. "Finn that still hurts." she said. "Good." the girl with the sword said. She raised her sword, she was about to behead me. 'No, no, no please don't.' I thought. I took one last look at Phoebe, Fionna, Brandon and Aiden. The four of them being restrained by three people in similar armour as Fionna. "Wait!" I heard another girl behind me say. The swordswoman sighed, "What do you want, Pax?" she said. 'Pax' the name sounded familiar, my mind went back, to Fionna's armour.
She pulled off a chunk of meat from the armour and looked at it, "I think it's a kidney." "No, not that, the symbol on your shoulder." I told her. She looked down, "Oh, it says R1."
I looked at all their armour, all said R1 on the shoulder. "We can't just kill them." Pax told the swordswoman, who I think is Gladii. "Why not? Look at them, three of them are mutants, I don't know what's wrong with the other two though, but we should kill them just in case. That's why we got resurrected to get rid of the zombies and mutants in Canada." Pax thought for a while, then she groaned, "Fine then, but no point getting your fancy sword all dirty." She picked up Adira and aimed her at the back of my head. She pulled back the hammer.
"Finn! Don't worry, I'm here." Adira said. Pax squeezed the trigger, no bullet came out. Adira started glowing a bright pale yellow, the pistol turned back, the barrel facing Pax. From the yellow a silhouette of a woman started to appear. Then a blinding light happened, Pax let go of the pistol and fell back. Adira turned into a human holding an inanimate Jericho 941 FR. Ever since the restoration, Adira's armour changed. Still the Lorica Segmentata that the Romans wore but now she has brown leather on her torso and copper shoulder segments. It was topped off with copper arm and leg guards and a copper Galea helmet with a tungsten face mask which covered half her face.
Adira took a shooters stance and shot Pax's helmet on the visor, she turned and shot Gladii on the side of the helmet. They both fell. She then raised the pistol and aimed at the three unarmed men restraining my friends, "Let them go." she said. With no trouble they let them go, Phoebe ran to me sitting beside me while the rest stood behind me. Adira unsheathed two Kopides from her back. She charged at the three men, hooking ones leg with the curved sword she made him fall on his neck then moved on to next, hilt smashing his helmet.
She then looked at the last man who was on the ground. "Adira?" he asked, voice muffled by the visor. She sheathed the Kopides and crouched down to him. Slowly she lifted his visor. "Ignis?" she asked starting to sob, they looked at each other's faces longer. "Is it really you?" Adira asked, "Hundred percent me and back from the dead." he said with a smile mixed in with tears of joy. He removed his helmet to reveal, his black, oily hair. Adira removed her helmet too, letting her long brown hair flow in the wind. "You're human now?" he asked. She nodded as he pulled her in for a hug. It lasted for so long. "You think they're in love?" Phoebe whispered to me. Then they broke the hug and went into a deep, passionate kiss, for them it would last for a long time. "I think it's obvious." I replied.
I looked over to the right to see Gladii picking up her sword. She stood up and held the sword up high, "Traitors, helping the mutants." she whispered. With a battle cry she charged at Adira and Ignis, they looked up at the enraged mercenary running at them. Ignis pushed Adira back and took the stab to the gut. He grunted, the sword in his gut, he couldn't help but laugh "Heh, heh, you sometimes forget that this Type VI armour stops 50 cals." Pax stood up without her helmet and walked over to the two, "Gladii, you really are a special kind of stupid aren't you." she said, "You're the traitor, attacking your own team." Pax raised her Five-SeveN and shot Gladii, through the head. I was shocked at what just happened. I thought after all they'd been through they would be great friends, I guess not. "Um, Pax, can you help me get this sword out?" Ignis asked. On his armour a sword stuck in the segmented plates of Kevlar composite. She pulled the sword out, knocking Ignis to the ground, "Thanks." he muttered
"Well, Verec, Rilis take her armour and weapons and used it for parts." Pax ordered. Adira chuckled at them, "I must've really hit them hard, eh?" Pax looked over to Verec and Rilis, knocked out cold from the beating they received. "Oh yeah, sorry about shooting you Pax." Adira added. "No, no it's okay, just a scratch." she said picking up her helmet and wiping the bullet off the visor, "So you're human now? Lukas did the same thing a few months ago." Pax said. "Really? Where is he?" Adira questioned. She just sighed at the question, "He did it to save us from a grenade." It went silent for a while, the silence only broken by Adira's apology. She then looked over at us. "Well, you five must be shocked right now." she said to us, "Pax, that's Finn, Phoebe, her brother and Fionna." she pointed at Aiden, "Although I don't know your name." Aiden introduced himself to her, very basic with no specifics.
We heard groans come from Verec and Rilis. Rilis sat up holding his head. He took off his helmet and looked around, "Oh hey Ignis, this the girl that you were talking about? Adira Jericho. Got to tell her, she's a great fighter!" He looked over at us, "And who are those five?" I introduced the group, who we are and where we come from. I finished off with why we're here. Pax started talking "So, you're here chasing down a killer," she pointed at Fionna, "who you think is her but you don't have enough evidence to prove it. So you have to get back to this Ooo place to finish investigations, but not all of you can fly." I nodded at her summary of what just happened for the past few days. "Well, that sure is one hell of a story. Easy answer, take the MRAP." she said. "MRAP?" Adira asked, "Where did you find an MRAP?" Pax raised her hands and brought them down making an exploding noise. "Literally fell out of the sky, probably a gift from Death for accepting to clear out zombies. Only problem is we've killed more people from our own group than zombies, right now it's at two mercs to zero zombs. I'm really doubting that there's zombies round here. But really, take it, we don't need it."
We walked out of the dome tent, outside was still as quiet as ever. "So, are you guys unarmed?" Brandon asked, "Because it seems stupid to fight zombies unarmed." We all looked at Brandon, it seems after his first shot of Absinthe he's been lacking common sense. "Pffft, of course we're armed." Rilis said, "We've got all our weapons in the truck." The truck was kept in the tree line under shrubs, Verec kept the keys, he unlocked the truck from the back and we all entered in. Large TV's on the sides gave the illusion of windows, even though there we're none outside. The back had 12 seats and a weapons rack. On the rack were 6 groups of weapons. The first group belonging to Verec, a Walther PPX, a Barrett XM109 and an AUG Para. Second was belonged to Rilis, a Beretta 93R, a SPAS 15 and a large backpack, containing ammo for all the guns. Pax walked up to the rack putting two FN Five-SeveNs on it one looking older than the other, it was beside and AUG A3 and a backpack with a medic's symbol. Fourth was Rudy's group, it only had an AUG A3 on it. Fionna walked up to the rack, "Umm, I guess this is his." she said pulling out a black and red Beretta 92A1. Verec went beside Fionna, "Is Rudy dead?" he asked. Fionna nodded yes. "Then the pistol is attached to you." he said walking to the driver's cockpit. Fionna then re-holstered the pistol, she now had a Beretta 92FS Inox, A cursed Beretta 92A1 and a Glock 39 as well as the AR-15 we picked up from that skeleton. Fifth was Gladii's, with an Magnum Research Desert Eagle XIX, an AUG A3 and her short sword. Rilis saw me looking at the Desert Eagle, "Don't touch it lad, you'll get cursed with two pistols then. Hang on wait," he looked back, "Adira's already a real person, touch whatever you want." I then proceeded to the last group which belonged to Ignis. Adira was right, he is a pyro. He had an AUG A3 HBAR to accommodate for the 5.56x45mm incendiary rounds. Mounted under it was a KAC Keymaster, an under barrel shotgun loaded with Dragon's Breath 12 gauge shells. Beside the rifle was an FMG-148 Javelin rocket launcher with white phosphorus rockets. Adira walked up beside me putting her and Ignis' Jericho 941 FRs on it. "Told you." she whispered.
Verec was driving to a city called Hamilton to drop them off. "So any of you know how to drive?" Pax asked us. I raised my hand. "Good, because once we get there you guys, and gals are on your own." We entered the city through the Queen Elizabeth Way, according to the map. We drove deeper into the city and we spotted where the nuke landed, just to the south was a massive crater. The truck stopped at "Alright, everybody off!" Verec announced, he himself went off taking his batch of weapons. "Hey, Ignis you coming?" Rilis asked. "I sorta want to stay here, with Adira and her friends." Ignis replied. "Fine suit yourself." he said, "Pax! Ignis is staying here!" he yelled to which she replied, "Fine with me. We've already lost two we can do it with three."
Verec gave us the keys to the truck, I put it in and turned the key. The engine turned on, it was followed by a loud slap noise. Verec popped his head into the truck, "Well, something snapped. Pop the hood." I did as he asked and he looked into the engine bay. "Holy shit!" he screamed as a long black object flew out, "Kill the engine!" I did as asked as Pax and Rilis came back. "Sit Rep Verec." Pax said as she slung the AUG over her shoulder. "Well, the fanbelt nearly took my eye out." Pax sighed, thinking of a solution to the problem, "Alright, help the civvies take those cars." she pointed at a nearby exotic car dealership, "And take the guns from the truck and offload them in another car."
As Pax and Rilis cleared out the obviously empty, Verec and I picked out cars while the rest were having lunch. "So, Finn you said Ooo was on an island. Around where New York used to be." I nodded, but I didn't know what New York was, "Yeah, don't bother picking special cars, we're just gonna dump them for a boat anyway." He looked disappointed, obviously Verec was a car enthusiast, he looked around some more we passed some very expensive cars until something caught his eye, "You won't dump these cars for a boat." He went in between two cars, and held up the tags "Blue tags signify amphibious cars," he put his hands on the two cars, "How about a pair of Prototype Lamborghini Estoques." He had a big smile on his face.
"Hey Finn, picked a car to dump yet?" Brandon asked chewing on a stick. "Two, to drive home." I said as the garage door behind me raised, two pairs of light turned on. A high pitched whine coming from the Hydrogen Engines. I ran back to drive out one of the cars at the same time Verec and I drove out the Lamborghinis. We parked them outside to show everyone and exited the cars. "What is that ungodly noise?" Rilis asked walking out of the office with a sandwich, "Verec, if that noise doesn't wake up these zombies I don't know what will." A laugh was heard from Pax as she walked out, "What zombies? I've seen zilch. By the way, where's Adira and Ignis?" "Few minutes ago, they went to the toilet." Aiden answered, now suspicious of where they are. Pax chuckled as she walked to the door, we could see her and inside the toilet from the car park. She turned the knob slowly, still smiling. It was locked. In an instant she kicked down the door. There, inside was Adira and Ignis half naked, making out. They both looked at us, all of us. "Well, I see you two are enjoying each other's company." Pax said, she closed the door, "I'll leave you two to it."
We were waiting outside for Adira and Ignis to 'finish'. "Hey Finn," Phoebe called, "how about we continue the investigation now." "That's a great idea Phoebe!" I said as I recalled more memories. "Alright, after LSP, Marcy, who was it? Oh yeah, Slime Princess."