(Kana)
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!
I held onto whichever one of the twins this was and ran as fast as I could but also keeping an eye on the troublesome duo on either side of me.
"Mom, look out!" I think Ro cried out and I ducked just in time to avoid getting smacked by a very thick branch.
Okay, just how the hell did I become a mother and have to deal with all this bat-shit crazy crap in the first place you may ask? Well, good question there and I hope you have an answer cuz I sure don't!
Look I don't even knwo how I got myself tangled up in this mess. Let me just start off at the beginning as I run for my life with three preteens and an army of robo tin cans.
But before we get to that point let me just keep myself alive for know.
"What are those things?!" I snapped as I ushered us to move to an alleyway and turned a few corners. My heart was beating inside my chest like a drum and I closed my eyes as we prepared to jump off a cliff. Why does it always have to be a fucking cliff? Why can't we just jump off of something nicer like a trampoline or a bounce house? I fucking hate cliffs, they never turn out to be good for me.
Note to self: avoid cliff at all cost, they cost you your life!
I felt the kids grab onto me and we hit the water with a slap and a splash and I heard the sound of a helicopter. Oh, gods why?
I saw the two rugrats try to surface but I swam over and shook my head signaling for them to follow and hold their breath. Quickly we swam under a bridge and went up for air. One of the twins started to come to while the others were coughing and hacking like crazy as I tried to keep myself afloat.
We moved quietly like water ninjas over to a safe haven under the bridge and hid, using scrap metal to cover us up we held our breaths as whatever was following us ran past taking the helicopter and the other with them.
After a long moment of silence, I turned to the kids.
"Just what the fuuuuuuuuudge were those things?" I hissed catching myself before I swore in front of them.
All three of them shared a look as if they were asking each other mentally 'are we gonna tell her?', 'who's gonna tell her?', and 'should we tell her?'. I sighed and waited running a hand through my wet hair as it dangled before my eyes blocking my already crappy vision more. Ugh, I wish I had a pair of glasses right now.
Look, let m just being with how this all started.
I lumbered down the streets of a not so populated part of the outside of West Port. It's uber quiet here and I like that. I don't think I'll ever see that bakery girl again or that other guy but it was nice knowing them for the time that it lasted. My feet were killing me so I decided to rest under a tree as I bit into some fruit I picked off of someone's tree(they weren't too happy about it) and sighed.
I was getting out of West Port because I felt took stuck in place like I was going nowhere if I stayed so I left the city taking the good memories with me along with the bad.
I rolled onto one side and let myself drift off. I'm pretty sure I'm a thousand miles away from any civilization which is great news(no it's not).
Suddenly I was awoken by the sound of an explosion and tires screeching to a halt. I stood up quickly and took in my surroundings and saw a huge wildfire all around me. The burning hot was moving my way and fast and I saw the car but made no move to go near it and suddenly three tweens jumped out with an old brushy man. I froze realizing I knew this guy. Pepper.
I stayed hidden and watched as Pepper fell to the floor as two very buff men casually walked out and lifted poor Pepper from the floor and punched him I the face. Look I'm not Pepper's numbero uno amigo and all that but these guys were no good and I knew it. One of the little youngins looked up in my general direction and I hid behind my tree heart pounding in my ears.
I heard footsteps approaching and my whole body was inching closer to the side where the footsteps weren't coming from so I could make a better break for it. I looked to my right(where I heard the footsteps) and saw a small girl, only about ten or twelve looks at me with a bloody and swollen face. 'Help' she mouthed to me before blanking out cold. Feeling my blood turn o ice inside of me and looked dead ahead wondering what just happened.
"Thinking you could-Hey?! Who are- get back here-!" One of the men had come around the tree I was at and I almost made a run for it adrenaline burning my senses to a crispt but then I took one more look at the poor kid and I kicked the man in the face sending him reeling. Thank the gods for Gallagher Academy' stupid PE training! The guy was so stunned he didn't even notice he dropped his gun till I shot him. Dead in-between the eyes.
"What the-UGH!" Boom, double kill. Pepper started to slowly rise up when I was stuffing the kids into the car.
"He-hey! Who are-KANA?!" Pepper cried out surprised then looked around and covered his mouth when he saw what had gone down while he was on the floor. "What did you-?"
"What I had to knwo get in the van," I commanded knowing we wouldn't have much time.
"Wha-?"
"I said get inside the fucking van Pepper!" I snapped aiming the gun at him. Pepper raised his hands and got in as I ordered and I felt bad for having to aim this damn thing at him but he would have just questioned me otherwise and we would have been caught by whatever the fuck is chasing us.
I jumped in myself not daring to look back at the lives I just took and slammed down hard on the gas and let this puppy fly.
"I need a report asap Peppy!" I barked and I didn't wait for him to say anything as I roughly turned the wheel with my arm trying not to tip this damn sardine can over.
"B-be-break out, these girls, like you. Running, caught, driven here to be fin-finis-f-fi-"
"Finished off?" I guess and I heard a soft 'yeah'. I cursed under my breath and stopped the car. "Peppy take the wheel I check up on the cums, I've only been able to use one of my noodle arms in case you haven't gotten the memo." Pepper nodded and we switched sides with him behind the wheel and me with the kids in the back.
"What the hell are you doing here?" We both asked and I heard a dry laugh emerge from Pepper.
"I'm here trying to do what's right for these girls." I rolled my eyes.
"Oh so NOW you're the good guy. Gee whiz what gave you such a change of heart?"
"Silva." I froze that the name.
"Oh." Was all I could manage to say. One of the girls looked up at me, there seemed to be two of her with another one at who thank the gods looked nothing like the first duo.
"W-Who are you?" She asked in a rasped voice. I scoffed.
"What Peppy didn't tell you about me? Gods I'm hurt Peps, ya think you'd mention your best failure to you pals huh?" I sarcastically added and Pepper sighed.
"Marcy, meet experiment K_2_0_5, or as she prefers to be called. Kana S. Corduroy." Marcy looked up at me with both admiration and fear.
"So you're the Pirate." I blinked.
"I'm the what now?" I shook my head, "Never mind. Who are your little buds, Marcy?"
"The one that looks like Marcy is her twin Max, the other one is Ro." I nodded.
Suddenly the car lurched forward and I held onto the girls trying to hold them all with my now shorter arm's length.
"Peps!" I bellowed and Pepper looked back.
"Kana I hope you still have that gun with you because you're gonna need to run." Not asking questions I nodded and opened the door holding up I think Max or maybe Marcy on one shoulder as I shoved both Max(Marcy?) and Ro out of the tin can and gave a brief nod with Pepper and kicked the car's rear end.
I turned to the kids.
"I hope you're as good as running as you are at looking cute cuz now, we run," I said and we shoot off like a bullet from a gun.
While we were sprinting to the water through the forest we ran into the robo trouble and the rest you already know.
I looked at the kids and sighed.
"Everyone okay?" I asked hesitantly, I mean these kids are exes like me. Who knows what might send them booming off their rockets. Marcy/Max nodded at each other than me. I looked over at Ro. She seemed to be favoring her left arm and I scooted over. She moved back. I rolled my eyes.
"I'm not going to hurt you, Ro," I promised. Ro glared at me.
"And how do I know that?" I let out a dry laugh.
"Kid I just ran about a mile with one of you on my back with a gun in my back pocket, if I wanted to harm you you'd all be long gone by now." Okay not the most reassuring thing to say but come on! I'm just running off on adrenaline and a prayer here! I paused then check my pocket and cursed noticing it wasn't there anymore. Would it be too much to ask for the one thing that could help us to stay with us?
Suddenly next to my head I heard a click of the said gun and I raised my hand slowly next to my head(since I don't have both of my fucking hands) and I turned to see Max or Marcy(How do I tell which one's which) holding it next to me just millimeters away(gfdi not this shit again). I took in a sadly audible gulp and watched as Max or Marcy held a hand to her mouth and Ro backed away from twin one as they held a shaking finger over the trigger.
"Had a gun." They hissed in a low voice that quivered with fear. I trembled then closed my eyes and slowly opened them again.
"Do it," I challenged.
"What?" Twin one(twin one is the gun twin or is it twin gun wait no that wouldn't make any sense, fuck I've confused myself again) choked out voice cracking.
I looked the kid dead in the eyes and lower my hand.
"Do it, shoot me, shoot me and when those things come running after hearing the gunshot you'll be one bullet down from saving you and your friends." Fear covered Twin one's face as she looked over her shoulder to Twin two and lowered the gun. I stretched out my hand. "Give," I commanded and Twin one did as I told her to. Once I had put the damn thing on safety and kept us all from being discovered and let out a large breath.
Pinching the bridge of my nose I flopped on my back and covered my face.
"This can't be happening, this can't it just...can't."
(no one)
Marcy watched as the Pirate seemed to cry right in front of her muttering how things weren't supposed to go the way they did.
"P-Pirate?" Max asked hesitantly and the Pirate sat up and rubbed her eyes looking at Max with a sad and tired smile.
"Yeah?" Marcy never imagined she would ever meet the real Pirate in the flesh. She was so much more...cooler than Marcy thought she would be. Her voice was strange in a good way but like Pepper's too in a rough sounding way.
"Um, we're you really going to...shoot us?" The Pirate's brows met in the middle then quiet laughter shook the Pirate or as she preferred, Kana's body like crazy. After finally being done with her fit of laughter Kana reached out and ruffled Max's hair then retreated her arm.
"No, I don't know what's going on in that little brain cage of yours but no, I wouldn't shoot any of you. Never." Kana said in a way like she was making a deal with them or something.
(Kana)
I waited a while more before I decided to make a risky move and check to see if the coast was clear. I took a deep breath then let it out as I peeked through a small crack and then ducked down as I saw a figure walk the edge of the river. Twin one almost said something but I covered her mouth and made a shush with my mouth. Taking my hand away I reached behind me and pulled out the gun and got it ready.
I took a deep breath. Gods above Kane! You've already taken two lives, these guys want to hurt these kids! They're bad people! Just...ugh...what would Lexie say if she saw you know? Pathetic, that's what she'd say.
I silently sneaked out of our hiding spot and the figure turned in my direction so I tackled then out of instinct when I should have shot them right then and there. Gods I'm a fucking moron.
The figure squirmed under me like it thought it had some hope of escaping but after jumping off a cliff and swimming with a kid on my shoulders I was tired so they had a bit of a chance. Suddenly they grabbed my stub and I bit my lip hard to top a scream that still muffled out as blood began to fill my mouth and the hand let go.
"Kana, oh good lord I'm so sorry you just attacked and I didn't-" I punched Pepper in the gut as revenge for the arm thing.
"There," I huffed and rolled up my sleeve to see my skin turn red. I groaned it's so gonna bruise tomorrow. "Now we're even."
I signaled for Pepper to follow me and I muttered curses to the winds and sighed.
"Kana look I'm really sorry about your arm," I heard a faint pause between 'your' and 'arm' I knew Pepper meant well, he was just trying to apologize, he was a good man as Momma would say. But my mind just couldn't accept that. I know he had to amputate my arms to save me but the way that ended for me, well it wasn't pretty. "I-I-I I didn't knwo it was you, I'm really sorry Pirate-" Pepper froze mid-pirate. He looked at me with those eyes, the look I got a lot at the lab. The look of pure fear, they were scared of me, Pepper, of all people, was scared of me.
They all heard and saw of what I did in my 'state'. I did horrible things I won't ever forgive myself for. Look I don't want to get too into it but I'll summarize it for you. I went crazy. I hurt people, I, I killed people. One of the reasons I'm called Pirate is because of...
SNAP!
"Ka-Kana?" Pepper questioned in a small voice and I rubbed my temples.
"Huh what? Er, sorry Pepps, you were saying?" Pepper pointed at my foot.
"You lost your shoe and you stepped on something greenish brown." I muffled another scream.
"Aw come on!" I hissed. "Gross, gross, gross, gross, gross, gross." I hopped in a bit of circle till Pepper guided me to the river to wash my foot. I elbowed the old geezer as he burst out into a fit of giggles.
"Oh shut it Pipes, we're gonna get caught with you wheezing like a busted old car." I snapped and I looked over at the small shelter me and the kids were in. I saw a small little eye peak out through a hole and I wondered that if I had looked back when the monsters passed by would they have seen us then?
"Where are the kids?" Pepper asked and I went all bad cop on him.
"Why do you wanna know Pepper?" I snapped back 'crossing' my arms out of habit till I realized it looked stupid and uncrossed then settled with putting my hand on my hip(cause what else am I gonna do with one hand).
"Kana, where are they?" He asked with an edge to his voice like he was telling me to back off. I frowned and said nothing stuffing my hand in my pocket and shrugged. I wasn't backing down. If he wanted his information I would have to get mine. With Pepper involved I was seriously worried about those girls.
(no one)
Pepper sighed as Kana started to get quiet looking down at the floor. He watched as Kana started to shift from foot to foot, her brows knitting together as she thought of something. He knew she was trying to figure out what was happening with the experiments and himself. She would never trust him and he couldn't blame her after what he HAD to do. Pepper sighed giving up.
"They're from the lab, they broke themselves out," Pepper answered the confused teen honestly. Kana raised her head to look at the man in front of her in the eyes. He let her cold watchful eyes study him like he had done to her. Seeing they this was nothing but the blunt and honest truth Kana nodded.
"That's it? No, 'I promised them fake freedom'? None of that 'I'll keep them safe' crap? Why are you here McCarthy?" Pepper flinch at the sound of his last name.
"I...I...I," Kana groaned and began to tap her foot furiously on the ground.
"I...I...I." Kana mocked with a whiny shrill voice. She set her jaw impatiently waiting for her answer. "Spit it out old man, it's not like you have anything left to lose." She snapped.
Those words hurt more than Pepper thought they would. She wasn't wrong it's just...not...the way he would have phrased it.
(Kana)
I saw Pepper visibly finch at my last comment and I bit my lip some more to stop the apology that was dying to escape. I wasn't sorry. I WASN'T sorry. I know it was wrong to say it like that, with such a voice but I couldn't help it. I wasn't wrong about what I said I just, I shouldn't have been so harsh. NO! Suck it up, Kane! You said it and now you can't go back. You can't go back.
"I wanted to help," I scoffed but he kept going. "I...I felt bad." I frowned.
"'Bout what? It's not like-"
"Silva."
SMACK!
(no one)
Marcy covered her mouth as she almost let out a gasp. The Pirate had moved to quickly her watchful young eyes almost missed to swift movement of the Pirate's hand as she punched Pepper in the face so hard he fell down to the ground with a loud THUD.
Max latched onto Marcy watching along with her. Marcy looked back to check on that other girl Max brought along with them on their escape. She was watching too but had no reaction to the sudden event that just occurred.
Marcy frowned and turned back to the Pirate and Pepper.
Pepper, still on the ground move his mouth but Marcy couldn't hear a word he said, or maybe he wasn't saying anything at all. The Pirate on the other had started to walk away from both Pepper and them. But when Pepper called out her name again the Pirate quickly ran over and jumped onto the poor man hitting him.
Marcy watched shocked such a monster could come from such a kind-hearted girl. This...new Pirate, this beast wasn't the same sweet girl she had begged for help at the foot of a tree she was a ruthless beast and she was hurting Pepper!
A new found fear tried to keep Marcy where she was but she moved and ran out of the hiding spot and to the beast fighting Pepper.
"Leave him alone! What did he do wrong anyway?!" When the punching and the kicking didn't stop Marcy began to panic. Her heartbeat was pounding in her ears and before she knew it she raised her hand and brought it down as hard as she could. A loud rinning pain burned her hand as it met the skin of another. "Please, we won't bother you again I swear!"
Suddenly the Beast stopped hitting Pepper and turned to her, eye covered in fresh hot tears.
"What?" She asked in a soft voice. Marcy flinch and took a step back. Then another. Finally, he moved quickly looking back and then to the Pirate as they got off of Pepper and stumbled towards Marcy.
"K-K-Kana, gee-get away from her!" Pepper commanded in a shaking voice from his spot in the dirt.
"Shut up!" The Pirate boomed at the bleeding old man then turned back again to face the small child grabbing her from the shoulders stopping her from going anywhere. "Kid? Say it again."
"Huh?" Marcy looked surprised as she studied the Pirate's face change slowly from wild anger and dead eyes to a sadder expression. One of burning pain, red eyes, giant tears that ran like a river down the Pirate's dirt covered face.
"What you just said. Ab..about leaving me alone. Say just what you said, exactly, please?" It was more of a question in Marcy's ears and she looked over the Pirate's shoulder to see Pepper starting to stand. She had to keep the Pirate distracted. She might release the beast inside her again.
"Please, we won't bother you again..I...I swear." Marcy recited and the Pirate scoffed.
"Just like her." Marcy saw Pepper gesture for her to keep it up. To keep distracting her.
"W...who?" The Pirate looked at her with miserable eyes. A small bitter-sweet smile on her face.
"Just like Lexie." Were the Pirate's last words before Pepper had hit her hard on the head and she passed out cold on the muddy river bank.