Chapter 4: Phone Call
Cory clutched the rare gun hybrid in her arms, shaking slightly. Estell could see her in the rare-view mirror and Rev turned with a sigh. "Can't you put that thing down for a second, before you accidently blow us up?" Cory scowled and glared at him.
"You're just grumpy cus we passed McD's without getting you a happy meal."
"I wanted a hamburger; it just so happens it comes with a toy." Rev shot back looking embarrassed.
Cory's mouth opened but before she could argue back, Estell cut her off. "The both of you shut up and stop barking like a pair of menopausal bitches." Rev grumbled and shifted on his side in the passenger seat to get some shut-eye. Cory blinked; about to say one more thing and Estell glared at her and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I know, dogs don't go through menopause, smartass."
Cory smiled, feeling fulfilled, before glancing to the side at the desert-like land that surrounded them. "Hey…where are we?" Estell shrugged and looked down at the navigation.
"It says it's taking us to Gotham." The both of them peered around until they saw a sign that read 'To Gotham City.' They smiled and entered through the passage. As they passed the sign they didn't read the tiny printed words, that some idiot sign-maker wrote micro-small, 'turn around and make a right at Benx Farms.'
The Angel rumbled and bumped as it rolled its way up the rocky road. "Are you sure we're going the right way?" Rev, who had been woken from his quick catnap, asked timidly. There was something about driving through dark mountainous trails that rubbed him the wrong way. Estell gulped biting her lip.
"I hope so…" Cory sighed and twirled a lock of her curled hair. Just then the car stopped making, a sick dry coughing sound. "What the Mcfudge?" Estell exclaimed, slamming her hands to the stirring wheel. She turned to Rev, annoyed. "What gives?"
"I dunno," He answered ejecting from the passenger seat. He brought up the hood and fanned away the jet of gray gasoline-smelling gas that greeted him. "Damn, something popped."
"Well, can ya fix it?" Cory asked. Rev didn't say anything, just stared at the engine with a grim look.
"Yeah, but it'll be a while…"
"Great! We're stuck in the middle of freaking no where with a busted car. Oh god, we're gonna get jumped!" Estell yelled squeezing her head between her hands. Cory scowled at her rolling her eyes. When Estell went into worry-wart mode she started to sprout out stupid nonsense. If some idiots tried to jump them she'd do the rational thing and pop a round down their throats.
"Calm down, we should just look around for a place to stay awhile, I bet you that there'll be some nice flat ground to rest on." She tried to sound comforting. Estell looked up to her a second, took a deep breath and sighed with a faint nod.
"Okay, let's go look." Cory grabbed her bag with her shotgun/rocket launcher tucked inside and they stalked off away from Rev and the Angel and down the rest of the rocky trail. "You know…Rev looks kind of hot when he works on a car…" Estell murmured softly and Cory cocked an eyebrow with a smug grin, elbowing her in the rib.
"I told you he was your type, but noooo, no, no, 'Rev's just a good friend is all.' Dude I know bullshit the minute I hears it." Estell's face turned pink and she gazed down. "So when you gonna snag 'em?"
"I can't do that…he'll just reject me…" Cory slapped her arm hard and Estell glared at her. "What the hell was that for?"
"Being such a dumper, Rev has a thing for you. Did you see the way he looked at you when we asked him to join us, plus he stuttered and blushed and when a guy does that they're in deep." Estell shrugged with a small smile. Cory tapped her shoulder and pointed at a mass of nice wooden houses. "Awesome, lookie there,"
"It looks like an Amish village." Estell chimed. An elderly man, dressed in a plain while shirt, dark vest and pair of pants, peered at them with beady dark eyes. Then a brief, serpent grin crept on his face.
"Hello there," He called to them friendly-like. "You two young ladies lost?" Cory and Estell exchanged looks before nodding. "Well, you can stay here a bit. We were all about to have our dinners."
"Okay," Estell answered pulling forward but Cory tugged at her sleeve.
"I got Rev-alerts, Stell. Sometin ain't right."
"It's fine, we're both armed, right?" Cory nodded. She always carried at least ten weapons just in case someone tried to mug her, which surprisingly a lot of people did. "Okay then let's go." Cory followed Estell meekly, feeling like they should just take off. She patted her bag, keeping herself calmed.
They followed the man into the little settlement, and a young man hacking down a tree for fire wood caught Estell's eyes. He was cute, with his buff frame and dream-bo curled brown hair. He took a breath and gazed at her, a grin on his handsome face as he waved at her. She blinked and waved back making Cory turn a bit to see who she was giving the eye.
"Who is that?" she asked giving Estell a devious look.
"That's Bart, good boy, works hard round here." The man answered their question. "You two can go around and look through the village."
Cory shot Estell another look and shrugged. "I'ma go see how they cook round here, why don't you go give Bart-men a hand." She walked away and Estell approached Bart quietly. The elderly man watched them with that snaky grin, licking his lips…
Estell and Bart chatted carefree and every now and then he skid closer to her. Eventually, their arms brushed against one another. Estell blushed and glanced down at her lap. "T-this place is very quiet." She said pointlessly. Bart nodded drawing closer to her. A small squeak escaped her mouth as he kissed her and laid her back.
This guy is a stud…she thought with a mindless giggle. Bart's hand came down against her thigh and she pressed him closer. And thank god he's not a traditionalist…then she stopped. Wasn't this an Amish village? Then how come this guy is trying to get laid… She looked up at him just in time to evade the ax that had been swung at her. She let out an eep as Bart swung at her again and she ducked.
"What the fuck," she glared and pulled her swish army knife out of the left cup of her bra. She threw it at his forehead and it sunk into his flesh like a dart in a target. Bart growled as he stumbled back, dropping his ax. Estell snatched it up and slashed him across the chest. He fell back and lay there in the dirt bleeding, his dark eyes staring up at her with a hollow feeling. "Damn, I wanted to get frisky too." She removed her favorite knife from the dead man's forhead and stomped off to find Cory.
Cory was having a fun time. The women in the cook house had been teaching her how to make a casserole. They had prepared everything all that was needed was the meat. "So what you gonna use, chicken, turkey, you guys don't eat pork righ-" One girl tried to stab her with a tongued fork, that came within inches of her head. Cory gawked at them and jammed her hand into her pocket to bring out her pistol. "Oh, hell to the no." she shot the weapons out of the other women's hands and they dog-piled her.
"We're going to use you and your friend as the entre!" one cackled and Cory shoved the heel of her hand into her nose. It bled and the others looked at her, before attacking both her and Cory. What is this, Cory demanded kicking and biting her way out of the pile. The freak'in Donner Party, She jack kicked an old lady, whose teeth strangely looked a lot like picket fence, in the chest, sending her flying. Sorry granny…
She opened the house door only to see that old man again. He grabbed her and she prepared to fight back when there was a loud bang and he dropped to his knees. She blinked, seeing Estell huffing with a long hefty piece of wood. "I think we should leave before some other psychos come,"
Cory studied her before murmuring quietly, "I think I see me one already," Estell glared at her and they ran out onto the trail. "What happened to Mr. Stud-muffin?" Cory asked and Estell grumbled in response.
"I'll tell you some other time." Cory shrugged, just as her cell phone started to ring, the song 'Do You like Pina Coladas,' filling the air. She pressed it to her ear and pushed the talk button.
"Hello?" she asked as Estell shot her a displeased look, mouthing for her to make it quick.
"Hey, it's Dick, from the party," Dick Grayson's voice murmured in her ear and Cory felt her heart thump.
"Oh, Dick, hey." She panted trying to seem as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
"Is…this a bad time?" He asked none the less and Cory heard the mob of angry cannibals behind them. They sprinted faster and Cory sucked her teeth annoyed.
"Oh no, it's a good time, so what's up?"
"I just wanted to know if you wanted to go out to dinner tonight, at the Rockway Bridge, you know the place?"
"Ye-yeah, damn it," A man grabbed her leg and she shook him off. Dick asked what was wrong and she fake laughed. "Nothing, some guy just knifed me on Black Ops is all…yeah, I'll diffidently be there…eight-thirty? Okay see you tonight…" she said in a flirty voice and hung up. "If I'm not eaten,"
Cory dug into her bag and pulled out the sawn off shot gun/ rocket launcher and Estell gawked at her. "What the hell are you doing?" Cory shot her a grime slightly irritated look.
"Saving our asses,' with that she shot a rocket behind them. It soared and hit two men before exploding. The force of the explosion expelled the girls forward into the dirt, while the rest shot backwards and burned down the village and foliage surrounding it. Cory and Estell rolled on there sides and gasped in awe at the beauty of the flames engulfing their enemies. Cory turned to Estell with a smirk. "That was fun." Estell giggled, nodding her head.
"Yeah, now let's go see if Rev, finished fixing the car…"
The girls turned on the TV in their living room. They were finally home and Cory was about to jump into the shower when the news caught her eye. "Just in a local village in the Getty Mountains was burned down today. Evidence shows human remains also buried around the area. The Gotham church claims that this is God's punishment on the sins of the village, which they believed consisted of cannibals. More on this story will be discussed tomorrow." The girls laughed and Cory continued up the stairs. If only they knew…