BRENT GREEN
The entire town of Hollowville seems twisted and deformed. No humans in sight. Some buildings have also been renovated and corrupted. Others are abandoned wrecks. And monsters roam. Even City Hall looks like an evil twisted castle and fortress!
A bunch of them are in a diner, munching down on roaches and some other stuff that's alive. Zombies roam the streets, with robots acting as police. Even more monsters have occupied the old tavern, with more in the surrounding woods.
I feel completely safe. As long as I remain invisible, none of these monsters will see me.
Suddenly, I see something and duck behind a wall. I hear a werewolf sniff the air. I hold my breath.
I completely forgot! Some of these monsters can sense me! They can see right THROUGH my invisibility!
The attention ends up attracting a drone. It hovers towards me, starting to scan the area with a red grid. I hug the wall as tightly as I can, trying to blend in perfectly. Meanwhile, I can hear the werewolf come closer. I see it grip the side of the wall with a snarl…
Before a white figure decloaks and slams down on the wolf, making it yelp!
The drone sees this and begins blaring an alarm, but the small white figure fires a pistol it conjures to shoot the drone down. It twirls it before making it vanish.
"That…was too close." Dylan stated.
"Yeah…" I state. "Remind me WHY we're doing this again?"
"I was spying on Slappy the other day. He was finishing torturing Jimmy." Dylan says. "Then he began reading and writing on something. A diary. There's a chance that the diary has the incantation we need. The complete one! If not, there's gotta be SOMETHING useful in there! So, you and I will distract the monsters. Meanwhile, Dr. Griffin will sneak his way into City Hall and steal the diary!"
"Sounds risky, isn't it?" I add.
"Hey, didn't Slappy end up sending you and Sammy to this time and greatly alter the future to destroy your home period?"
I think back. Yeah, we WERE sent through a rift in time. And when we came back, our future was…ruined. I can't even BEGIN to describe that horrible chaos…
"Yeah." I say. "Time to get some revenge…"
That's when more zombies growl as robot cops stomp forward with skeleton gangsters. Apparently that drone managed to send out a signal in its final moments.
"Halt." The robots say. "You are under arrest for resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, treason, out past curfew, and disobeying the law. You are coming with us. You have the right to remain silent. Forever."
"Silence this."
Dylan begins opening fire on the robots and zombies as the horde charges. I manage to punch one zombie across the face, but when it tries to grab me, I'm not there anymore. It becomes open for more blows before I trip it to the ground.
"OW! Hey, who did that?!" A skeleton punk asks after I slap him across the face before knocking the head off. They can't hit or bite what they can't see. All the monsters hit is thin air.
Dylan easily downs the squad as I continue to catch the bone crew off-guard. Eventually, however, they catch on.
"He's invisible! GET 'IM!"
I begin to take off, darting down an alley. Dylan can hold his own, I've seen him do it before. I only throw down several debris, like trash cans and dumpsters. I hear some thugs yell "OOF!", "HEY!", and "WATCH IT!" before I climb a steel chain link fence and continue running.
"Which way did he go?!"
"Split up! Don't let 'em get away!"
A skeleton with a green mohawk goes left. Another with a gold tooth goes left. The punk metal one leaps the fence after me. I only kick a spare tire his way, and he yelps before dodging it. I pick up some spare items and throw them as I continue to run.
"Get BACK here!"
I keep running through the alley, making sharp turns as often as I can. But he keeps following me! That's when I see why.
Dirt! I'm making footsteps! I gotta get on something solid, like a road!
I get out of the alley and throw down a vending machine before rushing off. I hear the skeleton yell "UNGH!" as he trips on it.
I skid down a crosswalk and turn onto another street to try and lose him. And once I make another turn…
Uh oh…
At one barricade, there's an alien sniper, a cyborg soldier, and a copy of the Abominable Snowman with a lamppost for a weapon! No WAY can I get past them!
I turn around, and I see the bone crew gang up behind me.
"Nowhere to run, kid! We gotcha now!"
Suddenly, when the leader says now, a drone flies by up ahead and ends up dropping some explosives! They're enchanted, as I see the fuses light and the timers arm once the drone drops them! The dynamite, bombs, and C4s fall right on top of the guard, making them roar as they're caught in the explosion!
That doesn't look like a monster drone…hold on, that's Weather's drone!
"What the-OWCH!"
A firework is launched at the gang, blowing them into bony bits with only the skulls remaining! That's when I see resistance members hiding out in the buildings. They've begun to fight back!
Silently thanking them, I take off. At least survival's helped me with running!
I managed to make it even further into town, going by the old pawn shop where Sader used to work. He's now with us back in Dark Falls, running a mobile shop called Sader's Secrets (which is a food truck), filled with a bunch of gear and weapons he's managed to scavenge. He's our supplier. Whether we like it or not.
With Dylan and his resistance distracting the majority of the monsters, I meet up with Dr. Griffin and we head to City Hall. And when we get there…
We see that it's STILL heavily guarded. Magic eyes float around like detecting eyes.
"Might not be able to make it in." Jack says. "There's a chance they can still see us. See if you can find a way to bring them offline."
"I might…"
Time to use some classic trickery. I spot a nearby food cart near a market, so I grab one of the rotten tomatoes. I throw it hard at one of the eyes, and it splats against it, blotting out its view! The eye ends up floating wildly, attracting the attention of the others. The blind eye flies away, stunned, while the others follow. Perfect! The distraction worked!
"I'll distract whatever monster may be inside." I say. "Get that diary!"
We race inside City Hall, where we narrowly avoid alien soldiers charging out. I manage to trip some to cause further chaos, buying more time.
"Hey! Stop right there!"
Jack makes a break for it. The aliens manage to see me through their scanners, but I manage to evade their fire. Good thing I borrowed some of Sammy's weapons to return fire! I even sliced a blaster rifle apart with my saber!
I cause as many tricks as I can for the minions, even tricking them into shooting at each other with those freeze rays! Like I said, hard to hit what can't be seen! If we play this right, we might be able to make this work!
Alright…it's all up to you now, doc. Don't let us down!
