Chapter 17

Who Wants to Deny the World Forever?

"When we gaze into the blackest oblivion, all we see is ourselves. People on Carnate are fixated on that void, but I try my best to look away." RT

As the group left the death house, they heard a commotion going on nearby. "It's not safe out here, Harley! It's not safe!" Said one voice. "Don't try to stop me, I'm gonna cleanse the motherfucking Earth!" Shouted a second voice, that clearly belong to the one named Harley. They then heard gunfire going off as they went to investigate. "Harley, get back here!" Shouted the first voice. To which only Harley said, "Suck my cock you rodent fucks!" The group then saw that the two people that were shooting were CO's. And they were firing at a couple of Fester's.

Without hesitation the group decided to help the two officers out. Yang fired off explosive rounds from her shotgun gauntlets hitting the first Fester in its bloated stomach, the round made the creature stumble back a few steps, to which Ruby began slashing the creature with her scythe. After enough damage the fester fell to the ground and its stomach split open and the exploding rats came out. Only to be destroyed by Harley. Weiss set the second Fester on fire while Blake began to cut through the creature with her swords. The Fester then fell to the ground dead and like its comrade its stomach burst open and the loading rats came out. However, the Fester's corpse was still on fire and so the rats exploded instantly.

When the creatures were gone, the first CO spoke to the group. "Thanks for helpin' us. You're all lucky Harley's obsessed with those rats; he didn't used to like inmates neither."

"No problem." Replied Ruby then continued, "So what are you going to do now?" She asked. "Well, me and Harley are going to be staying inside that tower where it's safe." Then Harley spoke up, "I'm going back out there to kill the rest of those motherfucking bastards!" To which the first CO said, "No Harley, no! Stay here. We're gonna stay inside this tower until it's safe outside." He then looked at the group and asked, "It's gonna be safe again, right?" Blake then said, "I don't know, but hopefully it will." Torque then responded by saying, "But right now we have to get going. You two stay safe all right." The first CO then said, "Yeah, I guess. The five you should get going anyway, there's not enough room for all of us in the tower."

Without talking any further, the group parted ways with the COs and moved on. Going through the various courtyards the group found the radio building again but saw that it was on fire. Without thinking Torque spoke out loud and said, "Oh god Luther." The group quickly rushed to the radio building and when inside, and found Luther who was leading across the wall and on the floor. Torque slowly walked up to him and placed a hand his shoulder. The instant he did with her sprung up with a coughing fit. This cost the entire group to jump from shock. When Luther's coughing fit went away, he looked at the group and began to speak. "Your back." He said. That's when they heard the radio. "Coast Guard Prometheus calling Carnate one, Carate one do you read, over. Anyone on Carnate, respond, over. Received distress signal. Wish to send vessel to assess situation. Lighthouse is out. Repeat, lighthouse is out. Anyone read?"

Upon hearing this the group was relieved that help was arriving. However, Luther spoke up, "It's been doing that for a while now. I was able to send out the distress signal. But I've been unable to reply, but what now needs to happen is that you have to get the lighthouse working again." Ruby then turned to him and asked, "And how do we do that?" Luther then responded by saying, "It's on the road leading to the prison. If you can get to it and get it running again. You'll be able to escape this place and send help."

The group considered this for a moment and agreed that this was the only way. "Alright Luther, thanks for the help. But right now, you need to find a new safe place. Because the radio building is on fire, but there is a prison tower with two other COs in it." Torque responded. Without any further Luther said his welcomes to the group and headed to the tower. And the group moved on. Making their way to another section of the prison the group came across a swarm of Slayers and upon spotting the group the creatures began to attack. Fortunately for the group there was a machine gun standing on a tripod in the corner. Without hesitation Torque quickly got behind the weapon and began to open fire.

With lightning speed, the machine gun began firing off its rounds cutting the Slayer's apart, cutting off their arms and legs and even sometimes cutting them in half at the waist soon the Slayer's stopped coming and when they did the group move forward. Finding the door that led to the entrance of the prison the group went through it and continued on.