Gunslinger Girl Shadows of war ch. 22: 5404
A/N: I do not own gunslinger girl and this will have the OCs from another story I have so any reviews will be nice
Looking out at the sunrise Chris looked at petra and muttered to no one in particular
"I wouldn't mind going home cause I have been there in 10 years so maybe Jean will let me go if not Ill blow his balls off" and Petra laughed as Trice popped up and yelled as loud as she could
"Run run and tell your momma shit I've got some plastic" and Petra and Rico, who had just walked up to the group, said in a shocked look
"Oh my god SHUT UP!" and then Trice ran off with the group screaming
"KILL YOURSELF!" and Claes appeared quietly almost like a ghost saying "breakfast is ready then we go to the range for the day and maybe have a sword making competition" as they had the forge and would damn sure make a use of it. As they started to walk into class Chris looked at Richard and started to chat with him as Jean showed up and started to demand their homework when Richard said
"A dick waffle is talking to us, Vegeta." Chris claimed, as Richard unleashed a sigh.
"I can see him, Nappa." And as Jean went to open his mouth Richard saw rico walk by in a bathing suit and said
"Time to get laid cause boner power" and as he took of chris yelled
"NO DICK!" and Richard replied
"Yes dick because that keeps getting me in these situations" and Jean demanded the homework and Chris yelled
"Kill yourself!" before running to petra who trying to be a stereotypical Italian girl was sunbathing with no top and as Chris came across Rico and Richard arguing he heard
"Just because I wear this doesn't mean its time to fuck all the time" and Chris laughed hearing Richard look down at his dick which was lusting after Rico and said
"damn it boner is there any situations you wont get me into and why the fuck do you deceive me damn it?!" and then Chris snuck up behind petra and covering her eyes whispered
"Guess who baby" only to go cross eyed as petra responded with
"Mr fat man?" and then squeezed his dick. As he moaned she laughed then blew a kiss before saying
"Ill meet you at the forge and kick your ass as well as the others in making swords" and they laughed before heading out there. As the group showed up into the forge Chris and Richard saw the girls walk out in tight fitting clothes with Rico wearing a white top and Chris and Richard both yelled in unison
"Damn it boner we are going to win" and Richard looked down and said
"My boner says it will please him to screw the girls right here" and Petra said
"After we kick your ass in the competition" and they started to make crusader swords just like assassins creed one and as Jean came by they were doing a kill test on a dummy and Richard saw the head of the dummy fall off and said in a fake Korean accent
"It'll kill now let's see what she will do to a living dummy" as all 4 swords passed the test with Richards being declared the loser and Chris said
"That is not what we were to make" as it was a sword launcher and Richard spat back
"Yeah I took what you told me to make and made it better" with Rico being declared the winner and Jean had cleared out for his own safety and called down to the forge saying
"If you all are done screwing around head out to the range now and because I know Richard will ask this yes you can keep the swords and no you cannot bring them to the range now move your asses" and Richard being a smartass said
"I looked around but I haven't found a single god damn donkey yet but I found a lot of elephants" and they all laughed before heading out to the range. Upon arriving Jean said
"Took you all long enough to get out here and before anyone says anything BREACH!" and Richard yelled
"Hope you wanna hear some damn good offers cause we about to break into a health insurance office" and they all groaned at what he said and then slaughtered the dummies which Richard said
"Looked better than Jean and could potentially do more work than him" and they all laughed before heading off to sleep before the newest mission which was a trip down memory lane for all the wrong reasons. As the boys had a dream of their old house torn up and Covered in blood Chris in his combat gear said
"Breach and send them to hell and as they walked past a metal door Chris saw a rifle swing up at him but he woke up before he found what the fuck happened. As they all woke up the director called them to his office and looking at Chris and Richard said
"You two will like this because you two are going home" and as Chris left the office with Richard and grabbed his combat gear said
"Fucked up dream" as they had the same dream and then hopped in a truck to advance to the operation zone.
As the group pulled into their old neighborhood, they couldn't help but notice how run down the place had become… er, more so than it was when they lived there.
"Wow, who firebombed the shit out of this place?" Petra exclaimed, looking out the window to see bodies piled up en masse, rubble all around the neighborhood, and… wait, the fuck is that?
"Uh, does anyone else see what I see?" Petra exclaimed, as Chris and Richard stared at the single, undamaged building sitting amongst the charred remains of the city.
"Was that place fucking nuke-proof!?" Richard shouted, slowly looking at the entrance to the building as Special Forces officers gathered near it with a ram.
"Alright, on my mark, we break down this door!"
"Wait! Captain, something's wrong!" A shout came from near the mailbox, as the scout shouted to his commanding officer.
"Fuck it, we breach now!" The commander shouted, as they slammed the ram into the door repeatedly.
Richard's eyes widened, as he slammed the vehicle in reverse.
"Shit, everybody hold on!" The vehicle veered backwards as a sadistic laugh rang out throughout the ruins, and the Special Forces were pulled into the building by an unknown force, and their mobile command center was stuck in the entrance. The driver barely had time to mutter the words "Shit, I should've rode my donkey" as the vehicle was crushed into a small metal ball the size of a marble, and the building erupted in a plume of blue fire.
"… Ok, can somebody tell me what the FUCK that was!?" Chris shouted, as the address plate from the house slammed into the windshield, reading "5404".
"Heh, error 404, Demon House not found." Richard snickered, as they drove deeper into the ruins.
"If I never see that sight again, it will be too damn soon." Rico claimed, sighing as she stared at the ruined city. "I remember this place was always bad, but I don't remember it being this damaged…"
Petra sighed, remembering a flashback of a market stall that she stole bread from as a kid to feed herself and her close-knit "family", of sorts. Now, that very stall sits in a pile of rubble, the ghastly, mangled skeleton of a body poking out from the rubble in a damaged heap. As she covered her mouth and choked back a tear and Chris held her from behind and said
"I just might find I'm killing time for eternity" and as she turned around Chris looked at her and said
"I can't believe that we used to live here with the family and it has fallen apart so fast and… what the fuck was that?" as he swung his rifle at the pile that was once the arcade, where he had spent in his own estimation enough to buy a Mercedes-Benz, and in an attempt to lighten the mood he said
"well someone must love these games and this put a new meaning to the term rage quit" and then started sweeping the area of threats when Chris and Richard came across their old home and with a bit of sorrow Chris asked
"Hey brother do you think that petra and I could have gotten married here?" and as he had forgotten that the unit could hear what he said and so was shocked when he heard over the radio
"Maybe we could have boy but we will discuss that later because we have to keep focused on our current goal so watch yourself" and all Chris would do as he approached his old house was two clicks on the radio signaling "understood" and as the boys slid up to the door of their old house the rest of the unit arrived and Richard looked at them and said
"Well we are home and Ill go first" and he kicked in the door and yelled
"Hi mom we're home!" and they all laughed as the weapons were swung around the room and as they then lowered chris asked in a voice like frieza with annoyance
"Have we been here before I feel like we have" and as Richard started to show Rico his old room he yelled
"Oh MY GOD WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE I WILL FUCKING MURDER YOU!" then Petra laughed before kissing him asking
"Wanna show me your room and your game room that you hyped up all the way over here" so he kissed her and nodded before picking her up and as they made it to the hall way which was torn up and the wallpaper was fading and peeling from the wall in a number of spots making it look like a horror movie and Rico remarked looking at Richard
"Please dear god do not tell me you have dead bodies hidden in the freezer or your mothers skin somewhere" and both boys cringed as they had a flashback of getting the news that their mother had died from breast cancer and he shuddered and stared off before yelling
"Hey dumbass you may want to call Katy and Taylor and tell them to come home because we are going to need all hands on deck for sweeping the house and the beach" and he walked into the living room, which despite the broken furniture and peeling paint looked the same as when they had lived there with the relatives and Chris hugged Petra from behind and said
"People always called us the Manson family but I prefer the Addams family" and Richard snapped his fingers which got Rico laughing looking at Richard
"You are cousin it!" and the others showed up and laughed and Katy teased her little brother by asking
"Did you show her your room" and gave a mock glare when Petra said
"Yes he showed me and it was dirty but given the length of time he says he hasn't been home in that's not surprising" and as Rico heard the group was going to the beach she smiled and said
"I always wanted to go to the beach" and as they ran out to the water's edge Etta saw and voiced the question on everyone's mind asking
"Why the fuck is the beached mined?!" and Richard replied forlorn expression plastered over his face
"That was the last sight we had of our childhood was the mines going in because everyone else left and the incursions were coming more and more frequently" then he dropped a cigarette onto the midnight black sands of the beach. As the rest of the group all started filing in they heard a 'clack' of a hammer being thumbed back and Chris started to push Petra down and laughed as Taylor smiled and thumbed the hammer safe saying
"You will never guess what I found and brother I'm glad that shows you are protective of your girlfriend and Richard you may want to tell Rico that swimming here isn't advised" and to prove her point she took the old peacemaker, that was starting to show signs of age as the barrel was starting to have patina and the grips were falling apart, and she fired one round and as Richard started to say something about a waste of time when the water started to rise and then splash and Taylor looked at the younger girls and said
"This beach has been mined so swimming is out of the question unless you feel like playing Russian roulette with a bomb" and seeing Etta's sad face she said
"Oh don't worry squirt we still have a large pool so you will get to go swimming" and she freaked out as she had looked forward to swimming all day. As she hopped into the pool Chris looked past them then said
"Im going to check my old room because I think I may have left something there" and as Rico went to say something Petra shot her a look that stunned her into silence and then Petra looked and said
"He seemed different on the way over and usually he would be the first one into the water but not this time and he was listening to the most depressed shit on the radio and it really pissed me off" then walked into Chris' old room and found him holding a shotgun that had been sawed down and he was singing
"It was always the love songs every time made everybody feel something inside" and she looked and saw he was holding a broken guitar neck with a tear in his eye and the pistol he had was loaded and the slide was slid back showing that he had loaded and contemplated the unthinkable. As he looked up seeing her there Chris said
"Oh shit my attempt to hide my emotions backfired" and petra laughed and said
"Oh big time so let's go back outside and have a couple beers and try and forget your crying and more" with the last part being said with a smile. As he reached back and smacked her ass and said
"We will talk in more detail later so don't worry" then Chris turned and grabbed his gas mask as the house was old and he explained
"The floors that will be above my head should be a cluster fuck so why take a risk" and went to the metal door with his combat gear strapped tight to prevent rattling and getting snagged up on the old material that held the wood together. The first thing that wracked the crew was the foreboding stench; the strong, impaling stench of rotting flesh, melted bodies, and general bodily waste from years of being pent up in a locked room. Even through the gas masks, the scent of rotting decay made Triela gag, and run back outside to vomit. Through the flickering light, and the green hazy fog, the group saw a horrific sight, much worse than anything they had seen before. A small boy, with mangled limbs sat before them, his breath like a raspy animal on the verge of death, his legs blue and rotting away, the meat stripped from them by the rats that dwelled in the walls. His arms were a mangled mess, his hands so broken, he only had three fingers in total. The most horrifying thing was the child's face; a metal mask had been melted onto the right side of his face, scorch marks clearly evident upon his face. The left side was much worse for wear, as his skin was rotting away from the bone, his eye thoroughly stabbed out, and pouring down onto his clothes in a blackish blue cesspool. His hand slowly raised, his three-fingered hand shaking like a leaf as he reached out to Chris, who slowly extended his hand.
"Fuck that shit!" Freddy shouted, smashing the lightbulb with a scatter round, as the boy on the ground snarled, a group of herbal lights turning on to reveal a blood red eye and gnarled face where his mask once was. The boy lunged at Chris, and vomited a putrid black sludge onto his face, before kicking off of him, and lunging at Freddy. Freddy fired another shot, knocking it back with a hiss, as Enid came down with a LMG, and tore into the creature, as its body was filled full of holes. As it snarled, and attempted to crawl up to attack again, its arm bones snapping and mangling into a contorted mess, as Richard smashed through the ceiling, slamming the writhing creature to the ground with a heavy boot.
"Chris! Shotgun!" Richard shouted, as Chris managed to get the substance off of his now slightly melted mask, and put the shotgun to its neck, and fired a quick burst into it, breaking the neck slightly, but merely stunning it.
"Thank god, we put that nasty thing down." Triela sighed, wiping her mouth as she came back down, Etta following behind her, weapon drawn.
"I doubt we're out of the woods yet," Claimed Enid, as they slowly climbed back up the stairs. As they backed out, Etta unleashed a soft gasp.
"What is it, Etta?" Triela slowly asked, before her eyes widened to two children, bleeding and broken, staring at her with dead eyes.
"Chris…" She stammered, as he walked up slowly, flicking his hidden blades in and out.
"Hush, Triela." He stated flatly, as the child gasped for air for a short second, then stared down in soft terror as blood flooded from her torso. "Their fate was sealed long before we came here."
Etta cringed as the boy slowly lunged towards Chris, his neck bubbling up with a bubble of blood before he dropped to his knees, and beginning to spasm before his body fell limp at their feet. A screeching growl from the basement snapped them out of their funk, as Richard handed Chris a Molotov, and went back down towards the damaged basement.
"If I don't come back up in five minutes," Richard claimed, sliding his face mask back down over his face; "Lob this fucker in there. Leave me behind." Chris nodded slowly, watching him slide down the banister into the basement.
"We're not really gonna leave him behind, are we…?" Rico asked, with a worried look on her face. Chris smiled softly.
"C'mon, Rico, you know him better than that. He won't die here so easily."
Rico smiled softly, nodding as two bright flashes went off in the basement, and blood painted the walls outside in the stairwell. Suddenly, a large explosion shook the basement, as the room supports collapsed in on themselves, and the room was buried under flaming rubble. Rico began to run to the rubble to dig out the body, as she heard a groan from under the steel door, and saw it go flying into the air.
"Fuck that really hurt…" Richard cringed, his face mask melted on the right side, and his arm singed from a blast.
"You always were one reckless bastard, weren't you?" Chris laughed, pulling him up from the rubble.
"Yeah, you know me…" He laughed though the pain, standing up; "Always a flashy motherfucker."
Freddy laughed, starting the vehicle and getting ready to haul ass.
"So, ya gonna sit there and make out all day, or are ya gonna level this shithole to the ground?"
"Shut up, Freddy." Enid smacked him out of the driver's seat, and out onto the street with a loud thud.
"Shit, Enid, are ya trying to attract more trouble!?"
"Nah, man." Michael chimed up from the roof, sliding another roll of ammo into the mounted gun on the roof. "If anything heard that, I doubt they'd be dumb enough to attack us, now. That explosion should put them off our trail for a few weeks, at least."
"Oh, we're nowhere near done with this place." Chris smiled, lighting the Molotov, and lobbing it into the room with torn, curled wallpaper, watching it flare up into a large orb of angry flame.
"Well, that went up in smoke rather quickly, didn't it?" Etta laughed, as the group groaned loudly.
"Good lord, Etta…" Chris muttered, hopping into the truck. "C'mon, everyone in. The Red Brigade's gonna be here any second to see what lit this place up in flames." The crew packed up their gear, and hopped into the truck driving to a small abandoned café on the edge of the Green Zone, and Michael noticed the patches that adorned Chris and the crew's arms.
"Hey, you never did explain the patches to us." Freddy mentioned, Chris looking up at him curiously.
"Oh, didn't we? I could've sworn we went over this already."
Wow, I think this may have been the most serious and descriptively gory thing I have added since the paint chip glass moment.
"Yeah, I suppose it is. Say, what was the kid in the mask referring to, anyways?"
Oh, Nightmare? That was a reference from an old enemy that made appearances in Metroid games.
"Shit, that thing must have been freaky as hell."
Considering that it controlled gravity, had six eyes, and a face melting through a metal faceplate, oh yeah.
"Shit, now I know why we are so screwed up."
Creepy childhood inspirations.
"Creepy as shit."
Indeed.
As he pulled the dual unit patches of the US and Italian patches Chris said
"We are joint US/Italian operatives and we had seen some of the USS operatives running around so we dealt with them as we always do" with the last part being said with a smile as he cracked his knuckles. Right as he finished saying that a round tore into his melted NVGs and he tore them off yelling
"God damn it get down we have a sniper engaging us so kill that son of a bitch!" and Freddy dropped to his gut and Michael dropped to a knee with a SR-25SD rifle and with one shot dropped the sniper giving her a black eye as the bullet shattered her scope sending dust and fragmentation flying. As soon as the sniper scope exploded the SEALs moved in using a slow heel-to-toe step called a Groucho step leading them to getting in hand to hand with the agency had the upper hand and Chris yelled
"We are like you now settle down!" as he snapped the wrist of his attacker with an audible snap getting him smiling like the sadist they all knew he was. As soon as the troopers wrist shattered the unit of navy seals instantly heard their commander yelling
"They are friendly now lower your weapons" and they all complied with the medic running over to the trooper with the shattered wrist who was now crying as the pain was so bad and grabbing her wrist doc apologized and started to set the wrist and remarked
"Its surprising he targeted the wrist but left the fingers still mobile" and Chris said
"I was trained in the military and also taught myself hand to hand combat and I am damn good at it if I do say so myself" and kind of smiled before hearing a ungodly moan and Chris looked up and said
"This a second coming this is our call to arms our finest hour won't be wasted" and he slid the rifle aiming for a head shot and heard Petra laugh and say
"We've got our hell together and know it could be worse a self-inflicted murder maybe baby" and then she saw Chris calmly squeeze of a round and smile as they all heard the crack as the round slammed into the zombies head right between the eyes and he saw the bullet tear into the putrid skin and then the skull caved in showing a flash of grey skull then it exploded out the back throwing rotten brain and molted skin out alongside black skull fragments and he calmly swung and repeated the process two more times with one or two rounds apiece before they started to fall back and the commander of the seals Romeo company started to give the order of
"get onto the roof of the city hall and if we don't finish the job right the world maybe in jeopardy" and Chris roughly grabbed Etta and Rico and tossed them toward the roof before getting jumped on by Triela and Katy and Taylor jumped off his shoulders and Petra blew him a kiss before saying
"Elevator going up!" and she jumped into his arms and was thrown onto the roof before Chris jumped up on the roof and grabbed a ladder that was rusted and starting to fall apart and looked to be like it had come from the late 40s but the seals weren't in the mood to complain as the youngest, a girl they called dead eye for her sharpshooting abilities who wore her blonde hair in a ponytail and her Grey eyes shimmering in the fire light she yelled
"all right boys get the fuck up here and then we have to remove the ladder as soon as fucking possible" and they all understood what she meant and her best friend Jack smiled and had grabbed the bag of explosives that had been dropped during the units escape up the ladder and he spat back through gritted teeth as his tanned skin was bloodied and his brown hair a mess from being up for 4 days straight
"Damn it Annabeth I know and would you mind laying down fire for me while I get up here" and they all knew the book he got it form and why he called her that and they all laughed as they heard
"No shit Percy now get the fuck up here!" and as he stepped on the ladder that had the paint chipping off and as eh stepped on it the ladder broke and he dropped with a metal bar sliding and burying itself in his leg and as he screamed the zombies all started to close it on him the rest of the group all started pouring fire down to drop the zombies forming a morbid wall that Chris called the 'line of demarcation' and he activated the active camo and pulling the skull bandana over his nose and a black cardinals ball cap. Looking at the groups stunned look he said
"Annabeth isn't the only one with a magical ball cap" and then dropped down and grabbed Jack before passing him up the ladder and jumping up and grabbing Richards hand and swinging up out of the way of the zombies who had been waiting for dinner to be dropped down and Chris said
"Damn I don't want to be chop suey!" and as his combat boots landed on the roof he heard the roar of jet engines and Freddy Came in with Bianca on his six and he said
"Your map was subject to change and I guess you found one of the red zones boys" then they started to help the seals and the agency leave the roof and they saw Richard jump off the roof and as they yelled
"Get back here god damn it!" only to hear
"I know what I need to do so back off for a while boy" and then tossed back most of his tactical gear traveling light with a assault rifle,4 frag grenades and an equal number of white phosphorus and 9-banger grenades as well alongside his body armor and pistol. As his boots cracked the street tiles Richard kicked in the door and was greeted with a burst of automatic fire which slammed him to the wall. As he slowed his breathing he slipped the grenade of his vest he snapped the spoon sending it flying with a audible 'KLAAAANG' which was only heard by him as the sound of the fire was deafening. Throwing the grenade overhand he said to himself
"Frag out motherfucker!" and as the blast rang out he heard screams and a yell of
"I don't wanna die god damn it" and he swung around he saw the UBCG and USS team that he had ambushed and he saw the zombies tearing the men and women to pieces and Richard dropped the zombies to make sure it was safe for him to proceed. As soon as he cleared the room and then kept searching for more evidence of what caused the outbreak and he crashed, rather literally, into the demo unit trying to breach the server room and the armory right next door to it. As he kicked in the door he found Beltway standing there and he sensed that chris had slid onto the roof and proved it calling out
"Boy I told you not to follow me but as long as you are here might as well provide over watch but fat ass is mine" and Chris saw the metal door bend in and then break as Richard slammed his fist into Beltways jaw then stopped as his leg shattered due to a point blank range shotgun blast. As he started to drop down to his knees Chris dropped in and slammed his foot into Beltways mask and then yelled
"Asshole we are on your side but-" and he was silenced with a shotgun blast that didn't kill him. As he shook off the effect of the blast Chris spat back
"You know what fuck it I am going to kill you and I'm going to enjoy doing it so please just keel over and die" only for beltway to throw a solid punch at him which sent him into the wall and dented the wall in and Chris then dropped down and spat up blood. Looking up Chris said
"Well damn you are just a bag of surprises aren't you asshole" and heard a shot ring out and almost hit him and as he hit the ground he heard a M21 ring out and he heard Lexi yell
"Damn it freddy why the fuck don't you help the boys because this fat ass may not go down" and she dropped another round forcing the sniper to hit the ground and as she got up Lexi smiled and muttered
"time to take a nap you dumb bitch" and slowly squeezed off the round sending a dove tail 7.62x51mm round into her chest and in rapid succession she fired 3 more rounds hitting the lungs and the last round scoring right between the eyes fragmenting the skull and brain matter sailing through the air as her body dropped like a ton of bricks sending her rifle clattering to the floor 3 stories below shattering the scope and what was left of her rifle into a million pieces. As the medic started to move in not sure if his partner was dead and a poison/fire bomb in a Molotov cocktail shattered and the medic released a CS bomb. As claes started to gag she muttered
"god damn it that sucks but at least that motherfucker is dead" as the acrid scent of burning flesh filled the air and the medic screamed
"OH GOD HELP ME" and a knife that looked like bronze punched through his chest killing him instantly finishing the job Claes had started. As the second medic started to make his presence known with a gas bomb. As Claes and the rest of the group started to pull gas masks on to avoid the tear gas and even the posion gas bomb that was deployed at the same time. As Taylor and Rico got ready to storm and secure the armory to ensure that the Umbrella security service or the Raccoon City Police, well what was left other than the STARS unit wouldn't get slaughtered trying to defend the area when everyone had a feeling it wouldn't last the fight or its aftermath. As Triela closed the distance and started a knife fight with the USS speed demon she muttered
"God damn it why don't you die" then he buried his knife in the wall allowing Triela to stab him through the brainstem and she started to smell gas and ran grabbing the rest of the unit as freddy unloaded his light machine gun causing the explosives to detonate and the medic to catch fire sending the unit flying through windows and they started to run as strike fighters screamed through the air and Rico and Etta yelled at the same time as Chris and Katy
"Damn it we have to run now!" and they all took off at a dead run as Raccoon city started to burn and as soon as they cleared the city and they watched it burn Rico said
"God damn it I never thought the government would do that to the city" and as they walked away Lexi said
"I always knew you Liberions and even you Romagnians were great allies to fight with" before taking off with the rest of the 161st JFW and sticking to Nueroi of which raccoon city had contained a small group of them.