CHAPTER 5: Lone Wolves
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or the song London Calling
AN1: Also here Jinx has 18 years
The red van was crossing the bridge that separated the T tower from Jump City. Beast Boy didn't speed up because it was difficult to drive with the road covered with "snow" and he had to dodge from time to time some care accidents. Meanwhile Raven turned on the radio, she expected to find only silence since the local stations couldn't broadcast because of the black out. But when she pressed the "ON" button only a loud interference sound appeared, she change the station, but it was the same interference in the entire FM band, she switched to the AM band, but the result was the same, frustrated she turned it off. By that time they reached the city
"So where to now?" Beast Boy asked, they look each other not knowing what to answer. Until Jinx said "I think we should take a turn to the left" but that choice was basically a random one
"Ok we go in that way" and in the next corner Beast Boy turned to the left. They where travelling by a residential area, and they saw another alien ship descending over the horizon, but they where getting used to that.
The van was about to cross another block. Suddenly Jinx screamed "Beast Boy, stop", and he pressed the brake. In the silence they heard the most unexpected of the sounds, it was the voice of Joe Strummer singing "London calling to the faraway towns Now war is declared and battle come down"
"It's the song London Calling form The Clash" Raven said, and then she added "It must be a record since there are no radio stations on air"
"Better if we check, they maybe other survivors, but lest bring the guns, just in case" and Beast Boy came of the van, the girls do the same
"Maybe we should consider this a trap" Jinx said and continued "I mean, they just put a cassette on a walkman and wait for someone to came, and kill it with a gun"
"That's quite reasonable" "And that's why we bring the guns" Beast Boy added
"It came from the other block" Raven said
"Yeah from that house with the big windo-"Beast Boy couldn't finish the sentence because a bottle broke one of the windows and ended broken on the street
in that moment the voice was louder "The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in"
"Something is happening there, let's go"
"They are survivors, that for sure and they are in trouble" Beast Boy said
The three of them run to the corner of the block of the house and saw a figure who threw a walkman with a built in speaker "London calling to the zo-" and the record abruptly ended
"Stay back Beast Boy, there is someone there and he is armed"
Sudenly that person jumped from the window to the street screaming "IM SICK OF THIS, IM SICK, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANY MORE"
"ENOUGH OF LIGHTS, ENOUGH OF THIS SNOWFALL" and he fired hid revolver to the air "looks like a mad man" Beast Boy lowly said
"We should help him"
"Wait Jinx, look" and Raven pointed to the window where another man was, the one on the street kept screaming " I want to wake up, I want to wake up" the next thing that happened was to fast for them to do something
"I want to wa-" The man on the window shoot the other on the back, quickly he jumped to the street and take the protection suit from the dead
"What shall we do Raven, I mean he is also a survivor, we don't know why he do that"
"That's precisely, the kind of survivor that we should avoid, the other one was freaked out, but because he was sacred, like anyone of us could be, better if we leave him alone"
"Yeah Raven is right" Jinx added "we should get back to the van". And Beast Boy nodded
While they were returning to the van they read a gun fight some blocks ahead, and the speed up, also they saw on a adjacent street a house in flames
"We can't imagine what happened there" Raven said lowly
But what they can imagine is that without someone who tired to organized the survivors, they were all lone wolves, only interested in protect themselves
And in that moment Beast Boy was terrified, but not with human terror, he fell the same terror when he transformed into animals, and the only thing he tough in that moment it was to get the hell out of there with Raven and Jinx, the tough of going south, to Mexico or even Guatemala, but what Jinx said snapped him of his thoughts
"Hey guys hear" It was the sound of engines, they where surprised by this, since they get used to the silence
"Sounds like an truck" Beast Boy said
"There are more than one, and they came from the avenue" Raven added
"Let's cover behind the van" Beast Boy suggested, and both girls nodded
But the noise has stopped, the trucks stopped in the avenue near them, but the main question among them was: Who drive those trucks? A group of survivors or the invaders already captured some vehicles
For now the only thing they can do was to cover behind the van and wait to see if someone or something appeared