A day earlier
(In the cave)(11pm)(Saturday)
In the cave where Bradley and Katia fortified and secured, Katia is sleeping on Bradley's chest. There were some chatter that made Bradley wake up.
"Katia, wake up, I think someone's out there." Bradley said quietly to Katia.
"What?" Katia said quietly as she get off from Bradley's chest.
"Get ready, They know we're here." Bradley said as he crouches and readies the rifle they took from the mercenaries. The mercenaries enters the cave, Bradley and Katia fires their rifles at them. They heard a radio chatter on the mercenaries' walkie talkie.
"What should I say?" Bradley asked Katia as he picks up the walkie talkie.
"Grab their helmets, so you could sound like them." Katia said to Bradley. Bradley took a helmet and wore it.
"Sierra 4, what's your status?" A voice from the radio said.
"Two dead and burned." Bradley responds as he removes the helmet.
"Why did you say that?" Katia asked with hands on her waists.
"Well, if I say something else, they'll know we alive, and they'll send more guys after us." Bradley explained to Katia.
"Hmm, good point, we'll still rescue my family right?" Katia asked Bradley.
"Yeah, we have to prepare some stuff, then we're ready to go. For now, we need some rest." Bradley said as he lies back down on the mat. Katia slept next to him in peace.
*7 hours later(6am)*(Sunday)
Katia woke up first, she looked around and she sees Bradley's wallet on the floor. She picked it and opened it, she found a guitar pick, $130, a picture of Emma, a picture of him and his family, and a condom that Carbon gave him.
'Why does he have a condom? Is he gonna use this on my sister?' Katia thought. Bradley starts to wake up as Katia puts down his wallet.
"Good morning." Katia greeted him.
"Hey, good morning." Bradley said as sat up, stretching and yawning.
"Let's go look for some food." Katia said as she stood up.
"Alright, let's go." Bradley agrees as he stood up, grabs his rifle and a bag. They walked out in the forest looking for something to eat.
"Hey, I found some berries." Katia found a bush full of berries.
"I found some apples." Bradley said as he sees a tree filling with apples. "The problem is, I don't know how to climb a tree."
"I do, give me a boost." Katia said as Bradley gives her a boost and she hangs on the branch of the tree.
"I see you're hanging around, up there." Bradley said as Katia starts getting the apples and the branch is about to break.
"Bradley, the branch is breaking." Katia said in fear.
"Oh shit." Bradley said as Katia falls on top of him.
"Sorry." Katia apologized.
"I'm good, at least we got some apples." Bradley said as Katia got off him and he stood up.
"Come on, let's get these back to camp." Katia said as she and Bradley carries the apples back to the cave. They started eating the apples and berries by the campfire.
"Hey I'll give myself a bath first." Bradley said as he goes to the stream inside the cave, he took off his clothes jumps into the stream.
"Hey." Katia said to Bradley as she kneels down by the stream.
"Yeah?" Bradley said as he is scrubbing his ear.
"Mind if I join?" Katia asked him nervously.
"Well, if you're fine with it, then it's fine by me." Bradley responds. Katia took off her clothes leaving only with her bra and panties on as she went to the water.
"This water is quite warm." Katia feeling relaxed.
"Yeah, it is." Bradley said.
"Thanks for catching me back there though." Katia thanked him while blushing.
"I wouldn't let you hurt yourself." Bradley said.
"I would like to say that, I love you." Katia said while blushing.
"Katia, you're a sweet girl but if Emma-." Bradley is cut off by Katia as she kisses Bradley.
"You were saying?" Katia said seductively.
"I guess few minutes wouldn't hurt." Bradley said with a smile. They made out on the water and exits as they go to the mat and continues kissing there.
*2 hours later*(10am)
Bradley woke up from the sound of gunfire in a mile away. He sat up and he notices Katia is still asleep, naked. He removed the condom off him and throws it in the fire, Bradley wore a mask and a body armor, he grabs a rifle and investigate the gunfire. He walked in the woods and he sees a group of people wearing identical helmets and armor.
"Take another step, then bullets will rain." Bradley said behind the tree.
"Says who?" One of the people asked.
"I said it, damn it." Bradley walked out and points his rifle towards the group.
"I see you're not one of the mercenaries." One of the people said.
"Hell no, I see you all are one of them." Bradley responded as he looks into his sights.
"No we're not, do you live out here?" The masked figure responds and asks Bradley.
"Yeah, why?" Bradley asked in confusion.
"Because we just set up camp by the creek." The masked figure responds with full details.
"Who's your people?" Bradley asked.
"You don't know them." The masked figure said.
"Whatever, I'll just go back to my hunting." Bradley said as he walks away.
"Are you alone out here?" One of the masked people with a female voice asked the hunter.
"No." Bradley responds.
"Who are you with?" Another female asked.
"You don't know her." Bradley responds.
"Do you have like a phone or a map?" Another female asked Bradley.
"Just a map, I'm planning to go back to the city." Bradley responds to the girl.
"Come on let's tell the others." A masked man said to his friend.
"Gumdrop, can we check the cave first?" The girl said to a masked figure.
"Gumdrop?" Bradley said in shock.
"Yeah, that's me. Who are you?" Gumdrop asked Bradley as he removes his mask.
"Its me, man." Bradley said as Emma rans towards him.
"Bradley!" Emma hugs Bradley tightly while crying.
"We thought you're dead." Marmalade said as she removes her helmet.
"Yeah, I just said that so me and Katia will get some time to plan to rescue you guys." Bradley explained.
"I love you." Emma said to Bradley as she kisses him.
"I love you too." Bradley said to her.
"Aww, how touching." Marmalade said with a smile.
"Where's Katia anyways?" Gummie asked.
"She's in the cave, resting." Bradley responds.
"Okay, I'll call the others." Carbon said as he ran to the group.
*an hour later*
The whole group moved to the cave.
"Bradley." Kylie and Harper said as they hug their brother.
"Hey, I won't die on you two." Bradley said as he lets go.
(In the Goldbrooke house)(2pm)
Deejay is in the living room sitting on the couch and tried calling Marmalade.
'Where could Marmalade be? She and her family don't leave the house together that often' Deejay thought.
"Hey bro, is Gumdrop around?" Alice asked Deejay. Alice is Deejay's sister which looks like her father, Damien Goldbrooke.
"No one's answering the phone." Deejay said.
"Oh okay." Alice said as she went back to her room. Deejay thought of going to the park which is quite near his house, he went there and saw some of his friends which are Charcoal, Sophie, Lyon, Leon, Bubbles, Katy and Alex.
"Hey guys." Deejay said to them.
"Hey Deejay, have you seen Gumdrop around? We haven't heard from him." Lyon asked Deejay.
"No one is answering their phone." Deejay responds. A rooster walked up to them.
"Hey guys, have anyone seen Skye." John asked them. John is Skye's boyfriend, he is a rooster.
"No, we haven't heard from them." Leon responds while sitting on the railing.
"Charcoal, they're your cousins, how would you not know where they went." John said to Charcoal.
"They never told me anything." Charcoal said as he raises his arms in the air.
"I haven't heard from Bradley and Harper either." Deejay said.
"Who's that?" Sophie asked.
"They're the new ones, they're one of my friends too." Deejay responds to Sophie.
"Okay." Sophie said.
"I saw their cars are still by their house." Alex said to them.
"This is getting strange." Deejay said while rubbing his chin.
"I honestly didn't see Bradley yet, but I know Harper since his my classmate." Sophie said to them.
"Bradley is Emma's boyfriend, he kinda looks like Harper but a bit hairier." Deejay described Bradley for Sophie.
"He played along Gumdrop in the rookie game." Alex said as she shows a picture of Gumdrop, Bradley, Harper, Charcoal, and Tyrone Martin.
"Oh that's him, I got to say that Bradley and Harper are cool together." Sophie said as she returns the picture to Alex.
"Yeah, I guess." Alex said in an awkward tone.
(Back at the cave)(3pm)
Gumball, Dante, Blast and Lexy are outside the cave trying to fix the van used by the mercenaries to hunt down Bradley and Katia. There is also another van which is already in good shape.
"Wrench, please." Blast said underneath the van. Lexy lends him a wrench.
"Well good thing this has some fuel." Gumball said as he fixes the engine.
"Yeah, that's the good thing and at least there's a toolbox at the back." Dante said as he carries a toolbox.
"Hey dad is this gonna be done soon?" Skye asked her father along with Marissa.
"Almost." Gumball said.
"Done." Blast said as he slide off the van.
"Skye, start the engine." Gumball said to Skye as she sits on the driver's seat and starts the engine. The engine turned on as Skye exits the van.
"Yes!" Lexy said in joy.
"Van's ready to go!" Gumball called the others.
"Woohoo!" Ranae said in happiness.
"Hell yeah!" Carbon said as he enters the van.
"We're ready to go." Carrie said to Gumball as everyone entered the vans. Gumball drives the van, while Blast drives the other van.
"Dad, how long will we get back to Elmore?" Gumdrop asked his father since Gumdrop is on the front seat.
"A four hour drive, catch a nap if you like." Gumball said to Gumdrop.
"Okay then." Gumdrop said as leans at the window and take nap.
"So mom, what are going to do with these guns?" Marmalade asked her mother.
"Your father said that we would keep them, just in case." Carrie said to Marmalade.
*4 hours later*(7pm)
Gumball dropped off Dante, Jamie, Lexy and Blast to their homes as they went back to their home.
"Hey Mr. Watterson thanks for the lift, we got to go now." Harper said to Gumball along with Bradley, Kylie, Emma, and Gummie.
"Take care, make sure you watch over my daughters." Gumball said to Harper.
"Bye." Samantha said to Harper with a kiss.
"See you tomorrow." Harper said as they went back to their house.