CHAPTER 6. HUNTING.
Cold that was the one thought that ran though the ed boys minds as they left the once abadane vault. All three know what they needed to do. Double d and ed needed to head back home and start working on turning the place in to a fortress, hopefully their want be anyone there but if they are then the welcome home trap they had set up will help. Eddy on the other hand needed to start tracing the number cult down and end this problem at the source.
-eddy couple hour latter.-
eddy was currently using the information rolf told him about which way the so called traders came to his farm from. That and from what he could tell from the junkyard, not too mention it was way easier to use the old burned up roads to travel by especially if you are with a big group. Or at lest that was what he was hopping.
For the most part the tracing was straight forward as the road was for the most part unchanging, no two, three or even four ways. Matter of fact peach creak use to have the name one-way drive because of it, which was a insult that those bastered [pumpkins] came up with. Not like it mattered as most of them along with every one else in this world is dead now.
As eddy contenuade this train of thought he had to stop it as he came to the end of the straight road. He now stood at the three way. 'ok I could head east to the [pumpkins] or I could head west to the city and tords the school.' in truth eddy didn't wan to head tords the city, as that was where the nuke dropped and he didn't have a rad suit. The only thing he did have was his armored vault and a gas mask, sure they could help agence small amount of radiation but that was not just a no but a hell no.
eddy then looked closely at the road, he could tell that the road heading east was mostly untooch as it still had burn marks and dust covering it, What markings was there seemed to be from animals. While the one heading to the city was heavily used and it was clear as day it was done by humans, by the foot prints that was there.
'shit, well my dads old saying is true. "hope bad things don't happen, then fate will shove them up your ass!".' eddy thought as he pulled up his pitboy and switch out his clothing for that of his vault suit that had the number removed from it and his gas mask for a better one.
As the vault suit covered him eddy had to take a deep breath. It was always hard for not just him but every one to put on the the vault suits from that hell hole. It was nothing more than a reminder of that place, if it wasn't for the fact it was so useful he would have burned it just like ed did to his.
With his cursed passed in his mind, eddy moved on ward to where the number could was hold up at.
-few more hours latter.-
eddy didn't like this not one bit! Now why is that? Well for one him and the other eds didn't leave until 7AM, as to give it enough time for the sun to fully rise so they weren't traveiling in the dark. From then to about 9AM he traveled until he got to the divide in the road, then for the next five hours he traveled this same road.
Now why is this bad? Well for about the last two hours he had been in the open, the once green forest is now just a barrion flat land. If the tree and plants didn't get knocked down by the blast then they got burned up by the heat or killed by the radiation. This wasn't his only problem no, shelter was his next one. Sure it was only 2:30PM but it was already too late to turn back. Even if he did try that right now it would be 10PM, meaning it would already be night by the time he got back. His only hope was the school up ahead, hopefully it's still standing.
Eddy kelp heading down the road looking left to his right as much as possible, along with watching his feat. The resin for this while it is true the forest was gone didn't mean there wasn't places for a ambush, or for a landmine or two. Eddy stopped as he heard a gun shot in the distance, it sounded like it was coming from the long sense abandon school.
'OK from what I can tell the road has had a lot of traffic and from the sound of that shot that was probable a shot gun, they probably using the school as a base like I thought... wait numbers letters a school are they nerd that lost their minds!?' eddy's dumb-ass theory was cut short as he heard another shot.
Eddy sneaked up to the school by way of the dead forest and rocky hills, when he got up to the school he pooled out a pare of benoklers that double d modified to not put out a glare. What he seen was more than enough too surprised him to say the least.
The windows were borded up, the doors had been barracated. Out side people with some kine of collar on were being ordered by the numbers to bould a wall aroung the school from old cars, truck and busses. Non of this came close to the biggest shock, one of them had on a almost full set of power armor with a very clear number yellow 1 painted on it.
'This was not good at all! There is 5 fuckers and one asshole in power armor and no telling how many inside. So ether I head back home and tell everyone, well if I can get back home that is as it's about too be dark. But they might have this place done by then or I could get my self killed right now by attacking.'
eddy's train of though came short as he realized some thing. 'wait how many slaves do they got down there?' he started counting and got up to 15. he then gain a devilish smile one that he hadn't had sense he was scamming kids for their money. He just hoped his talent in this apartment hadn't completely died out yet.
-that night.-
eddy was able to sneak in from the back during the day thanks to a stealth boy. Durring that time he was able to see where the slaved sleeped and where the numbers kelped their shit. Also in that time he was able to make some fake collares thanks to some leather and scrapmetal that was laying around. He also had got in touched with a few of the slaves. It turned out that they where from [pumpkins] and they got there by some kine of self made path the numbers had.
To say eddy was slacked jawed by this, as the amount of work it would take to do this was no joke. To make a path good enough and big enough to transport the 18 troops (counting the one that was inside.) and 35 slaves (also counting what slaves that was inside.) not to mention to supplies and all the shitheads that attacked them the other night. This was turning in to a nightmare.
For that in tire night eddy spent undoing to collares that he origenaly though was shock collers, that turned out to be a exspose type than that. As he didn't wan't to acsadently alert any by blowing some poor fools head off. then with what little time he had left he planted the bombs around the place that he stoled one of the exstra controllers for. But there was one thing that worred him. The laping that was in the air.
-the next night.-
the day was sent with eddy sleeping out side far enough away from the school to not get cought, As he didn't wan't to aleart any of them to his snoring. After that he came back to the school thanks to the face double d made this stealth boy able to deactivate and even recharge in sunlight. He was still scarred about to night as the flapping was still in the air.
You see ever sense everyone came out of the vault, they found the birds have mutated and was named the hunger. Now their beeks opened four ways with razor sharp teeth, they had three eyes blood red eyes, they were smollar but they traveled by the hundreds and thing out side while they where around was going to be their mill.
Eddy couldn't think about that right now as it was about time for every thing to kick off. Every one was in the gym right now for mill time. First one of them stood up then another and another and another, then they all began to stomp the guards looked to one anther.
The leader got up and came forwared and said. "OK YOU WORTHLES SLAVES IF YOU DON'..." his screaming was cut short as heady used his hunting rifle to blow his brains out.
The rest of the guards pulled out there detanators. At seeing this eddy reactivated the steath boy and ran like hell out of the gym in to the halls and so did every one else. The guards laugh at this, or at least that did until they pulled the triger, right after which the roof came down on them. Any one that didn't kill was eaten by the hunger.
-the next morning.-
eddy had told the former slaves good by. After he looted the power armor of the number leader and found some thing on him. It turned out they were going to re bould this place to protect them. Eddy wasn't so sure about this, but whished them luck.
As eddy got down the road thanks to his new but dented power armor, he pulled out what he found. "oh man I can't belive I found this, after so long... jawbreakers!"
A/N.
Q. will eddy be able to fine the number cult?
A. Yes and now he knows where too look next time.
Q. is the junkyard still safe to go back too?
A. that will be next chapter.
Q. will there be any one showing up next chapter?
A. a bunch of no named slaves.
Yeah i'm going to stop making these Q/A. Mostly becouse they don't matter, as by the time you see the first chapter i'm already done with this one and probably more than that. Not to mention it's destracting me from making these.
So not much action in this one, as I was runing out of space. You see I have a three too four page limmit on this story to make it easer to read. Not to mention I didn't want the next chapter to just be EDDY VS THE SLAVERS. As that would have been just as boring as reading one long chapter.
So I hope you liked it, peace I'm out.
