Authors Note
I have made a reference to an AK-47 which if you don't know is a fully-automatic assault rifle, fully automatic meaning it is a machine gun. I'm about to make a reference to a bolt-action and an MP5.
A bolt-action rifle is a gun action that requires the user to remove an empty shell from the gun before it can be fired again. An MP5 is a sub-machine gun that is REALLY common across the world. So that's just a little explanation. Enjoy!
They emerged form he pitch dark tunnel into the harsh light of midday.
Soon they wished they had stayed in the only slightly more forgiving cave.
What they saw was a disturbing valley, darkened by dead trees and a smoggy overcast.
Only a rusted factory stood out in the uninviting forest.
Kagura stood and stared at the deathly terrain before her.
"This doesn't look good."
"Not even a little." Yomi said. "Let's get the weapons and leave as soon as we can."
"No shit." said Kagura as she followed Yomi towards the hulking structure.
1 year prior. Okinawa, Japan.
In her usual fashion of never wanting to hold still, Tomo had left to explore the city.
It was late and after several hours of wandering the city, she decided to finally return to the hotel that her and her friends were assigned to for their trip.
Half way back when she noticed a small shop with barred windows and a burnt-out neon light.
"What the hell? It might be kinda cool." She thought.
She opened the door and the place reeked of cheap cigars and the distinct smell of old, ignored wood.
The walls were filled with random objects from guitars to machetes.
It became obvious to her that it was a pawn shop.
A knife stood out in her mind as she walked around the store.
It had a leather handle and a dull steel blade that bent back and forth in shallow grooves maybe 6 times.
Soon she walked up the counter with it.
Behind a pane of glass and what looked like chain link fencing stood a man in a gray suit and sunglasses.
"Hey how much for this thing?" She asked.
Not looking up from the magazine he said "4,000,000 yen."
"What?!" Tomo said without thinking.
"You heard me." Looking her in the face now. "4,000,000 yen or you can leave."
"But, It's just a knife"
"Listen that thing is old and I mean old. I'm bein' nice letting you have it for that much now take it or leave it."
"Fine I'll put it back." She said.
At the shelf where it sat she noticed the man had left his caged booth.
She thought for a moment before retracting her hand, sliding the knife into pocket in her jacket and walking out the door.
Present Day. Chernobyl, Ukraine.
The factory, behind a 7 foot tall concrete with a guarded wrought iron gate in front was now only a few trees and a road away.
"We need a new way in." Kagura said.
"Yeah." Yomi said staring at the fortress.
"Let's try the back."
Yomi nodded.
As hoped for a piece of the wall had fallen out of position and a large space was now in the wall near the ground.
Kagura looked through the hole "Nothin' go ahead."
Yomi crawled through followed shortly by Kagura.
A guard stood at the corner of the factory taking a break for a cigarette.
He had a sub-machine gun leaned against the building.
Kagura and Yomi looked at each other and realized the same thing.
They crept up to the guard silently.
Within arms reach now Yomi grabbed the man and covered his mouth.
They dragged him back to a dark corner behind the factory.
"How many of you are there here." Yomi asked.
"About 8 including me." The bandit told her without a fight.
"Okay, someone told me you guys have a big stash of weapons around here, where are they?"
He pointed to the corner they had just snatched the man from. "Over there and on the right there's a fire escape. If you go up there you should see a ladder on the left. Go down that and they should be right there."
"Any guards on the way?"
"Just Sidorovich on the roof and he's usually asleep."
Yomi pushed the man away and drove the heel of her palm into the base of the guards neck.
He fell to the pavement, unconscious in a pile of useless limbs.
"I got you something." Kagura said before throwing Yomi her new MP5.
"Nice." Said Yomi.
They put their guns into their shoulders and crept towards the stairs the bandit mentioned.
They slowly and quietly ascended the stairs, weapons at-ready.
Kagura peaked over the roof and saw a another guard, curled up with a sniper rifle.
They quietly moved past him and to the ladder right where it was supposed to be.
At the bottom was a room of rusted old machines and a few open crates filled with rifles and machine guns.
"Do we need to take all of this?" Kagura asked gaping at the weaponry.
"They can't expect us to bring them this whole stash." Yomi said.
"Yeah so lets just fill our packs and lets go."
"Sounds good."
Quietly they stuffed the guns into the backpacks until both where full.
"Who are you?" came from the door way.
Both the girls looked up.
A puzzled bandit stood in the door staring.
"Well? Who are you?" he asked slowly reaching for his gun.
Finally Kagura unslung her AK-47 and pulled the trigger.
The gun shook in time with loud, dull bangs.
The man flinched as minor clouds of blood came from the bullet wounds.
He hit the floor.
The two stared at the slain guard for a moment before a siren blared through the structure.
"Damn" Yomi said before swing the pack full of weapons over her shoulder.
They got their guns ready as they ran for the ladder at the top of the ladder the once sleeping rifleman had awoken and now scanned the courtyard below.
Ignoring him the two ran down the fire escape.
As they hit the ground they where greeted by a hail of gunfire from an angry bandit.
Yomi put the gun in her shoulder and shot back as the stepped backwards.
Neither of two hitting their target Yomi and Kagura got around the corner of the building and crawled back through the open wall.
They sprinted back to the cave already across the road from where they came when a bullet narrowly missed Kagura and made a high pitched whine as it tore past her ear.
"Run faster damn it!" She yelled.
Finally they behind a rock to catch their breath.
But now the sniper knew exactly where they where and the two had very little room to move.
"What now?" Kagura asked.
"I- I dunno." Yomi said panting.
The two thought.
"Just run?" Kagura asked.
"No we'd get shot in a second."
"I got it!" Kagura said with an idea.
Before the escape she noticed the guards gun and saw the rifle had a bolt action.
She ran from the cover of the rock and suddenly stopped, and as she thought the sniper fired and needed a moment to load another round in his rifle.
"Go!" She called as Yomi jumped to her feet and bolted into the cave.