KG: Man that last chapter was pretty sucky I was disappointed in myself that I killed Kasumi so fast. I made it seem like they were going to have some sort of relationship but it was just an attraction and they killed her. Anyway I still don't own Scryed or the characters so boo yeah
DAD: Go to bed damnit
KG: No thanks now on with the story!
Zero-Two K got up but rigidly. His muscles were aching and his head was spinning from the blast. After, getting up and watching Kazuma beat Zero-Three K; he opened the door of the truck to his right and pulled the driver out. He then drove full speed westward, passing Kazuma by and hitting and old man who was unlucky enough to not be fast enough to move out of the way.
The men that were in the back of the truck stumbled out while the Zero-Two K kicked the passenger out of the truck, his boot striking the man in the face, tearing the cartilage in his nose as he was flung out the door.
One of the men that fell grabbed a child and told Kazuma to give up or the town would be dead. Kazuma however was so blind with rage; he didn't hear a word the man said. The soldier then put four rounds into the child's back. All the other men followed his example and put shot at the children.
Kenji pulled out a pistol and shot two of the men before a soldier came up behind him with an identical knife to the one Kazuma found and slit the man's throat from behind.
Kazuma rushed the man that killed Kenji and shoved his fist into the man's throat, crushing his esophagus and any arteries in his neck. He dodged the second truck that drove at him but it cost the lives of four more people as the truck purposely swerved for them.
The men hopped out of the truck and started to fire at Kazuma but he darted for the nearest house and dove through what would have been the door. This gave him some spare time to catch his breath and focus but the adrenaline was too high and his anger was too overwhelming. He propped himself up against a wall and breathed in deeply then slowly exhaled. After he exhaled he pumped his arms and pushed off the ground into the street again to see they had massacred the rest of the town.
"Exterminating Second Bullet!" he roared and slammed his hand against the ground, watching rocks crumble and the Earth shatter, swallowing the men and the some of the dead bodies.
Kazuma dropped to his knees and laid in the dirt, exhausted and perspiring. He left the alter form and picked himself up off the ground. Walking sadly over to the body of Kasumi. Her head was swollen with blood and her brains littered the ground however he picked up the body and hugged it tightly, feeling a sense of grief wash over him. His bottom lip trembled and his eyes became moist. He felt her cheeks, cold as ice and in the dark he couldn't tell how much blood and brains he had gotten on his pants but was to sad to really care.
Before he could cry, he got up and walked over to Kenji, he took out the only remaining item he had from his home, a necklace from Kanami. That she had bought from the city. A tear, another of the many he had shed before, fell against Kenji's chest as he placed the necklace in Kenji's hands. Kazuma looked up and around for the old man but couldn't find him. Best guess was he fell in the whole with the rest of the men.
The sun had set a few minutes after Kasumi was killed and he figured walking west wasn't the best idea. He decided to scavenge any food that was left in the houses since nobody was left of the town. No money was found but food was there which he ate in the house of Kasumi. She had a picture of her and her (probably her father or grandfather) the sat alone on a table next to her bed. Kazuma watched the picture as he ate the food that was left behind.After finishing, he slept in the bed and said a prayer for their spirits to pass happily to the afterworld.
Zero-Two K had been driving for close to an hour at full speed (60 mph) before the gas ran out and the car abruptly stopped. At the horizon, a city was visible as its light shone in the dark sky. He climbed out of the truck and walked to the back to salvage equipment. Lots of water and food, blankets, and a coat which he could use a pillow. Thinking about what had happened just a little more than an hour ago, he felt a sense of loneliness he hadn't experienced before. Sure he'd been alone many of times just not like… this. His brothers were dead and he wouldn't be aloud to come back until he killed Kazuma. Not to mention he'd have to work his ass off for enough money for transportation back home. A short moment later he fell asleep to the howl of wild dogs.
Kazuma awoke in the afternoon to the heat of day. This time as he walked outside the house, he had a clearer view of the road. Bodies still littered the street and a truck was tipping into the whole. Before it could Kazama pulled it out with his alter power to help him and checked if it worked. Everything was normal but gas was halfway gone. Enough to get him to the city though.
He started it up and drove it westward after he filled his canteen with ice cold water and took his last look at the people of the town. Instead of waiting his time, he held his foot on the accelerator so that it reached full speed and drove west. Only after an hour did he see a truck in his view. Kazuma switched to the brake and pulled up next to the back of the truck, seeing that it was empty except blankets and a coat. He drove a little more to pull up next to the passenger's seat and looked in to see that nobody was there.
Again he pushed the accelerator and drove to the skyscrapers in the distance. Less than thirty minutes later, he reached the start of green grass and even with a quarter tank left; he jumped out of the hydrogen-powered car and walked on the grass, damp and lush. He reached concrete sooner than he expected and stopped, facing the city. If he didn't kill the man that got away, he wouldn't live a peaceful life in this city either.
Zero-Two K woke up at the crack of dawn, only obtaining a few hours of sleep. He got out of the truck and took a pack of food and a canteen with him, then made his way to the city. After reaching the first building of the city he could find, he had asked the clerk of a restaurant where the nearest gun shop was.
"It's near the uh…middle of the um…city," he paused then stuttered to get his sentence started again, "W-w-why?"
"I'm part of the soldiers dispatched to apprehend a criminal that traveled this way and he's on he loose. He killed all my men so I plan to kill him." Zero-Two answered.
"Oh…well the gun shop is in the middle of the city ask around there; they should point you in the right direction," he finished and went back to cleaning a table he was working on but had been clearly clean from the lack of customers.
"Thank you have a nice day."
After a short bus ride and walking a couple blocks, he was in downtown Nishi City. Without the help of a citizen he found the market on his own and walked in, his hand already reaching for the leather wallet he owned.
"Hi sir how are you today?" the clerk asked. He obviously had his hand on the gun underneath the cash register.
"Oh I'd be much better if my squad didn't die today," he told the clerk.
"W-w-what?" the unsteady voice questioned.
"A criminal killed my squad and I plan on killing him so I can return to Azuma City," he replied.
"You live in the east huh? Okay well what do you need?" the clerk said, finally taking his hand off the gun and placing them on the counter.
"Two pistols, 45. Caliber, armor piercing rounds."
" Be right back…I'll check my inventory"
A few moments later he came out with two brand new pistols and six boxes of armor piercing rounds.
"I'll need about thirty more of those boxes."
"Yeah okay sure," and left to the back once again. After returning he gave Zero-Two the price of the weapons.
"Here you go," he said paying him in full cash then left with the two pistols in both hands, locked and loaded.
Kazuma reached the nearest building, a restaurant. He walked in and heard the bell ring as the door swung open. The only person that occupied this restaurant was the manager at one of the tables cleaning it. The man paused and looked at Kazuma in awkward silence.
"W-w-what are you doing back?" he stuttered.
"I've never been here I don't know what you're talking about," he replied, he had a strange feeling that the man that ran away from his came in here. That would mean there was more than one look-a-like. "For al I know there could be an army of them," he said to himself. "Where did that man that looked like me go?"
"To a g-gun store in the middle of the city."
Kazuma left without saying another word to the man and hopped onto a bus that was stopping at a bus stop at the corner of the street. He climbed in and put in the only money he had found from all the houses and people he scavenged, forty-two cents. The bus driver looked at him in awe and stupor as he sat down three seats away from the front.
"Weren't you just here!" he yelled eccentrically.
"Yeah I need to stop back down to the middle of the city again sorry."
The bus started after two more hesitations from the bus driver and made its way to the downtown city again. It stopped a couple minutes later and Kazuma stood up nodding at the driver while he was leaving.
On his way out he spotted a women that was walking with her daughter. The daughter was going on about how she couldn't wait to see the fountain that occupied a large part of the city's center.
"Excuse me can you tell me where a gun store might be?" he asked them
The women obviously startled paused and looked at Kazuma determining whether to answer his question or not.
"Mommy," the daughter nagged at her dress, pleading for her to keep walking until they reached the fountain.
"Hold on Yuri," she hushed her daughter, "It's over there," she pointed to a building with only one window and the only building with a manual door.
Kazuma bowed his head politely and crossed the busy street to reach the building, he opened the door and did the same to his mouth to ask the clerk a question when he pointed a pump-action shotgun at him. Kazuma froze and instinctively raised his hands in the air. The man looked awestruck.
"Where are y-y-your guns and why is your hair like that?" he asked furiously.
"I don't own any guns and my hair has been like this for a while…have you seen a man that looks just like me with shorter hair though?" he asked soothingly.
"What kind of j-j-joke is this?" the clerk screamed at Kazuma.
"It's not a joke just calm down that man wants to kill me for something I didn't do. I'm just here to ask where he went," trying to ease the man's paranoia.
"I don't know, he walked to the fountain and that's all I saw before the door closed! He's carrying powerful guns! You'll die!" he screamed.
"Can I buy some?" Kazuma asked.
"Y-y-yeah what do you w-w-want?"
"It doesn't matter just strong ones," he said as he lowered his hands to his sides slowly. He watched the man cease to point the gun at him.
"I'll give you the s-same ones I gave to him," for the second time today he walked into the back to bring out two 45. Caliber guns with thirty boxes of armor piercing rounds.
"That will be three-hundred kinsen," he told Kazuma.
Kazuma stood there knowing full well he had nothing near that amount of money. "I'll need a few more boxes of these before you ring me up," he told the clerk.
The man reluctantly left to the back and Kazuma made his move, grabbing both guns and ammo then running full speed out of the store, kicking the door down and running into a few middle age men on accident.
Three blocks down and ten minutes of running, he spotted multiple apartments. He walked to the parking section when a guard spotted him.
"Back again? I thought you left already," the guard said from afar.
"Yeah I came back to take a shower it's been a tiring day you know."
The guard chuckled and went back to his work. Kazuma walked behind a sporty car and loaded the weapons, then placing them in his belt and concealing them with his jacket that he kept for the cold nights in the plains. He stored the clips in his pockets and walked over to the guard.
"Have a nice shower Mr.Kazuma!" he told him.
"Thank you very much," and entered the front lobby.
A clerk at a nearby desk noticed him, "Mr.Kazuma are you already back from Nishi Garden?"
"Oh that's where I was going to go! I forgot on my way out thank you," he told her, scratching his head and walking out again.
"Done already?" the guard asked.
"No change of plans," he laughed steadily.
He walked to the first busy street he came to and asked a teenager where Nishi Garden was. The kid told him it was two blocks east on Niwa Street. Kazuma thanked him and walked to Niwa Street.
After he reached the road, he instantly noticed the only person that accompanied the street's gardens, his look-a-like. The road had orange signs blocking off each end of them.
"That's been enough running Kazuma. Now it's time to start dying," he told Kazuma. He stood up slowly and armed himself with the two pistols he had bought earlier that day.
"I won't run," Kazuma assured him and took out his two pistols. Aiming them at the look-a-like. "So what's your name so I can tell them to put it on your grave?"
"Zero-Two K, you killed both my brothers you're going to die for that and I'm going to happily spill your blood to feed this garden."
"We'll see about that."
Zero-Two bum rushed Kazuma pumping round after round. Kazuma, startled by the sudden burst of fire ran to the alleyway that he came through to get there. He looked back the way he came and saw his assailant and shot at him with both pistols. None of them hit the mark but instead painted the wall with bullet holes. He loaded another clip into both guns and put his back against the wall, easing over to look for Zero-Two K.
"I'm going to fucking kill you," Zero-Two told Kazuma.
Another round of bullets from Zero-Two's right-handed pistol was shot at Kazuma but kept his left hand steady in case of Kazuma trying to take a run for it.
"What to do…" Kazuma said to himself.
He aimed his right handed weapon to Zero-Two K and shot all nine rounds in the pistol, taking off a good load of concrete out of the wall. After the last bullet, he ran for the next alleyway, almost being hit by three of the nine bullets shot at him.
Instead of having to take time in reloading both weapons, he threw the one in his right hand where Zero-Two K stayed protected. The gun landed almost right next to Zero-Two. It startled him and he blasted four rounds into it before I realized it was one of the guns.
"I got one thing you don't buddy," Kazuma told Zero-Two. "That's my alter form."
"I dare you to use it, I'll shoot your fucking arm off."
Kazuma waited and then came out from cover, easing his way down the wall he had shot earlier, Zero-Two K wasn't paying all that much attention to him. However, halfway there, he stepped on a rock and slipped. Zero-Two K ditched his cover and aimed at Kazuma but before he could shoot, Kazuma had pulled the trigger and blown off 3 fingers from his right hand, the other 2 remaining by threads of skin and flesh.
He rolled to the side to avoid the gunshots from Zero-Two's remaining hand. Kazuma raised his gun to shoot but Zero-Two ran and kicked it out of his hand. Kazuma was then pummeled by a numerous amount of blows from Zero-Two's left hand. To defend himself, he drew the knife he took and stabbed Zero-Two in the leg then kicked the knife in harder with the soles of his boots. Zero-Two toppled over cursing and trying to pull out the knife with his right hand, forgetting that three fingers were missing from that hand.
Zero-Two got up, not worrying about the knife anymore and looked for Kazuma but before he could blink, Kazuma's alter formed arm was slammed into his face, making him double-over again. He got up and took out the knife then threw it at Kazuma. Reluctantly, Kazuma blocked it with his arm and followed up with his left punching Zero-Two in the face. Zero-Two smiled and took out a grenade. The pin was pulled and he kicked Kazuma with his good leg, knocking the wind out of Kazuma and putting him a good distance away from Zero-Two. Zero-Two then proceeded to throw the grenade at Kazuma. He dove into the alleyway and waited to hear the blood curling screams of Kazuma.
The grenade detonated only long enough to give Kazuma a head start to run for it but the time wasn't enough, he felt his legs being charred by the grenade as he was propelled to the top of the street. From the gunshots and the grenade, somebody had called the police. Sirens were blaring and an ambulance pulled up next to Kazuma. He guessed Zero-Two was long gone.
KG: Yes you're reading a tragedy and his legs are gone. Don't worry I'll make up for it trust me.
DAD: I've been reading your story and it sucks
MOM: Yeah it bites dick weed I hope you die in a car accident.
KG: Thank youuuuu give me some reviews yo. Flames or nice ones I don't care.
