Hi readers! I thought I would mix it up a bit this chapter - time for some new characters! Enjoy!
California 2019
Zone 6
"SHOW PONY! Where the hell is that boy?" Dr. Death Defying wheeled himself back to his desk and started sorting through cables and wires. Missile Kid walked through the makeshift door from outside.
"He went out to find killjoys yesterday, so he could start giving out transmitters." She answered calmly.
"Oh, that's right. Damn, I'm getting old. Thanks, Missile." Dr. D smiled at the little girl. She smiled back.
"So, Kid, what're you up to today?" He asked her.
"Nothing." She answered a little too quickly, and blushed. He knew she was lying.
"Oh really? You wouldn't be messing around with one of those old missile launchers, would you?"
"No. Not at all." She said
"Really? So if i went into your room right now, there wouldn't be a gun or something in there? Is that what you're saying?" The corner of her mouth twitched, and she answered.
"Messing around is different than fixing." She bolted through the door, and Dr. D heard her door close down the hall.
"Just don't blow yourself up, okay Kid?" He called out after her
"OKAY!" Missile yelled back enthusiastically.
Dr. D turned back to his desk and continued sorting through the wires. Any day now, his radio transmission would be launched through the Zones, to any killjoy Show Pony had been able to give a transmitter to.
California, 2011
The Way household
Gerard was having trouble sleeping. He had just awoken from a nightmare where his family was in danger. Bombs had been going off, and he had awoken after he was jolted awake by a scream. At first he had thought it was a part of his night terror, but it turned out to be his baby daughter, Bandit. He smiled, knowing that she was safe only a few rooms away. He turned to his wife, who was lying next to him.
"Do you want me to go get her?" Gerard asked Lynz.
"No, she's probably just hungry. I'll go." Lynz sat up, wiped the sleep from her eyes, and got up. Gerard suddenly felt as though he wouldn't see her soon – but that was impossible. He was just tired. He listened as his wife padded down the hall in her slippers, and he heard the light switch in their daughter's room click on. Gerard turned to the alarm clock on his bed side table. 3:36 am.
"Urrgh." He groaned. Just then, he noticed a light coming through his window. It was a reddish colour, so he was sure it wasn't a streetlight. He rolled out of bed and walked to the window to investigate.
As he looked out his window, he noticed that the light was coming from... nowhere? It was just a big, red, ball of light, floating in front of his house outside his window. As he stared at it, it seemed to grow larger.
"Umm, Lynz, you might want to see this." He called quietly
"What?" She called back. Gerard tried to answer her, but a strange sensation had come over him. He couldn't move his mouth, and he noticed that he was unable to move anything. He tried to fight it, but the light overcame him and he instantly blacked out.
Little did he know, the same thing had just happened in three other places in the neighbourhood. His brother and friends – Mikey Way, Frank Iero, and Ray Toro – were also travelling through the red light at the same time.
They were leaving their families, with no choice and no idea where they were headed.