February 24, 2078

Since most of the time we're driving around in the Corvega, Tatiana and I have a lot of time to talk. But that's fine with me as I get to learn more about her.

It turns out that Tatiana had been living in Red Wood for her whole life and she's always wanted to leave to pursue her dreams but off course the world ending prevented that.

"What job did you want Tatiana?" I asked her as we were driving close to 70 miles an hour.

"Well promise not to laugh?" she asked me.

"Sure"

"I wanted to be… an actress you know like on the pictures?"

"Yeah I know."

"Sounds a little silly doesn't it?"

"Not at all, I can see you in a movie"

"Thanks, so what about you?"

"Well I wanted to be a doctor but we couldn't afford the tuition for me to keep going"

"Oh that's bad, why'd you want to become a doctor?"

"Well ever since I was little I thought about all those people who were injured in the wars and well I wanted to help them." I explained.

"How humble. You see what I mean about you being a good person?" She asked me.

"I suppose" I told her though I still didn't see myself like that.

"Yeah but anyways I was wondering-WATCH OUT!" She yelled suddenly.

I quickly looked back at the road and saw and animal crossing it. I swerved the wheel to the other direction and we crashed into a ditch.

CRASH

"Ah, shit." I groaned.

I heard a whimper of pain next to me. It was Tatiana. "Oh fuck, Tatiana are you ok?" I looked over to her, she nodded her head but I could clearly see that she was not ok. The car had bent over where she was sitting with the result that her leg was trapped underneath some metal.

"Oh let me help you out of there" I said. I grabbed her arms and tried to pull her out but she let out a yell of pain. I immediately stopped.

"It- it hurts a lot" she gasped.

"Alright I'll get you out of there just let me see where we are."

With a little effort I climbed out of the ditch and looked around. The car had fallen inside of a ditch near the road. There was farmland all around. The sky was turning dark and then I heard a cow mooing.

I turned around and saw it. This was the creature that I almost narrowly hit but it didn't look like a regular cow. It looked a little large and there was a large lump growing right next to its head. It mooed again.

"What the hell?" I whispered.

Then I heard a large boom. Thunder. That was impossible, I had never heard it out here and then I saw a crack of lightning in the distance. It struck the floor and I saw pieces of road flying up. Thunder shook again.

"What-what is it?" I could hear Tatiana's voice coming from the ditch.

Lightning came down again, this time about a mile away from us.

"Tatiana we have to get out of here!" I yelled at her.

"I'm still stuck!" she yelled in a voice of panic.

I heard thunder again. Lightning would be coming down again in a second, a while later it struck the farmland next to us and the field struck fire. We had to get out of here now. I ran back to the ditch just as rain started to fall. But there was something wrong with the rain, I saw it hit the ground and then I heard the ground sizzling. Some of the soil was starting to disintegrate. It was acid rain.

"Tatiana I'm going to get you out of there!" I yelled at her.

"Hurry!" She yelled back. The ditch started to fill with water. I was trying to figure out how to get her out of there. I had to tear the metal off of her and then pull her up to safety but how? Then I thought, check the bag! I reached inside the car and pulled out my bag from the back seat. The front hood of the car was already being engulfed by the rain.

"Come on! Hurry please!" she shouted desperately.

I was searching in the bag madly but I couldn't find anything that could possibly help then I felt a small plastic bottle. I pulled it out. It read:

BUFFOUT: QUICK AND EASY STRENGTH IN A PILL!

WARNING: TAKE 1 PILL AT A TIME, RESULTS MAY VARY. SIDE EFFECTS INCLUDE ADDICTION.

I read the label quickly. I didn't care about the 1 pill part or side effects; I needed to save Tatiana now! I pulled open the lid and chugged down all of the pills. Then I felt a pain like fire in my chest, arms and legs. I looked at my arms and saw that they were now as thick as a wrestler's arms. The Buffout had worked. Then I heard Tatiana's voice.

"Help me! It burns!" she yelled in agony.

I saw that the water had gone up to where she was and was across her feet. I jumped down into the car and felt it shake with my impact. I placed my arms to where the steel was on Tatiana and bended it over so easily it seemed like it was made out of butter. I grabbed her and the bag and I climbed out of there.

"Come on we have to run!" I yelled at her.

"I- I can't, my leg!" She said.

Her leg was obviously hurt and she was limping. Then lighting came down in a flash and hit the ditch where the car was.

"TATIANA, MOVE!" I shouted.

Then with the force of a small atomic bomb, the car blew up and Tatiana was thrown forward and she hit the road face first.

"NO!" I yelled and I ran towards her. I moved her body and saw that she was still breathing but she was singed across some of her body. But it didn't matter to me; all that mattered now was getting us somewhere safe. With the bag across my shoulder I picked her up and carried her on my arms and I started to run. The acidic rain was still coming down hard everywhere and lightning was striking down near us. I could actually feel the heat of the lightning as it blasted the road apart.

It was as if all of God's forces were hell-bent on trying to kill us. I kept on running but even with the Buffout I could feel myself getting weaker by the second. I wanted nothing more than to collapse. Soon I ran away from the road and was running across the fields heading towards what looked like a large ranch. I felt my eyes closing and then I collapsed on the floor, Tatiana fell by me. Perhaps it was my imagination but I thought I saw 2 figures coming towards me. As they get closer I tried to talk to them.

"Please, help us" I croaked.

One of the figures was Anita and I saw her smile.

"You're so close; just accept your fate and you'll forget all of this." She smiled again.

"Anita" I said weakly.

Then the other figure got closer. It was Jack.

"Come on kiddo, do me a favor and die will ya?" He said in his raspy voice.

Then my eyes closed.