Some time in the future...
She swung and caught him in the nose, a satisfying crunch filled her ears as she connected. Naka didn't even seem affected by it. He grabbed his nose and forcefully moved it back into place, the sound of the bone crunching filled the room again. Sam almost gagged from the noise. Vinz was dead, he had to be. He was her superman, Alex and James' superman, hell, even Paige had a brother-sister relationship with him. But she couldn't lie to herself. If he wanted Vinz dead, that's how it was. She would find out soon, anyway...
Back in the present
''So, you shot the right guy this time?'' It wasn't so much as a joke, but more of a ''this doesn't make us even, you fuck''. ''I was actually aiming at you, I really need to work on my aim I guess.'' I looked over at Norma's slumped over body, blood leaking out of the bullet wound in her back. ''Why'd you come with her? I could've killed you!'' Zachary hated Norma and Randall, but mutiny was a bit far. We sprinted out of the house, the floorboards above us, collapsing from the fire. Sam, sitting outside, looked over and saw me. She ran up to me and probably would've jumped in my arms if not for the bullet wound. ''Oh thank god! You had us worried fucking sick, running back into a burning fucking house?! What's wrong with you?!'' She slapped me in the face. Hard. ''You could've got hurt! How could you do this to me?'' I smiled. I let my neck relax, our foreheads connected softly. She looked me in the eyes with concern, but that quickly went away. We just stared into each other's eyes again, bringing me back to our time in her room.
I closed my eyes and sighed. Now was not the time for this. I lifted my head up, didn't let her go, but enough to scan our surroundings. I looked over at Paige. We exchanged eye contact and looked at me with a ''We're fucked aren't we?'' look. Alex and James just stood there watching the house burn down. I turned to Zachary. ''Why did you come back?'' I growled. I had a feeling he didn't come back to help me, or make amends. Zach sighed and said, ''Jonas and I have a separate radio channel. Almost Immediately after Randall came after you, a war party showed up. I wasn't there, I was gearing up to come after you, but Jonas was. The fire was under control, but a lot of people were lost, thank you very much. He asked some of our lieutenants, or at least the ones not putting out your fucking fire, about a man going by the name Vinz.''
1 year ago...
''So, what's it going to be then?'' I was getting impatient. When the world fell, groups I like to call ''Urban Superpowers'' rose. These fuckers had mad loads of food, guns and especially women. If there was anything close to a civilization in this world, this was it. I would've felt honored to be talking to this guy, if not for the circumstance. ''Mr. Ariadne this is a very serious offence. A punishment will be in store, you know?" I knew all too well. Those, fucking, raiders. What were the chances. ''Like I said, it was se-'' ''I understand, but trust me, Mr. Tirano won't. I think you know what needs to happen. This power was to smaller groups like Norma's like The chairman was to the Mafia. If they wanted me killed, it would happen. If they wanted to find me, they could. The next 20 seconds were a blur. The two guards behind me were on the ground in a pool of their own blood, while the lap dog I was talking to had a new eye, if you now what I mean. Lucky for me, the building we were talking in was at the corner of the fence in the 'community'. My arm was limp at my side, one of the main reasons I knew how to stitch Sam up. The bullet hurt like hell as I jumped out of the window and limped into the forest. I knew this would catch up to me at some point.
In the present...
''And if anybody caught him, they would get, heh, 'refuge', in their 'deluxe', homes.'' He grinned, but I saw through it. He could've killed me in the house if he wanted to, so something didn't add up, or he wasn't telling me something else. ''However, if he found out who helped him escape the docks, obviously Jonas and yours truly, they would share the same fate.'' Well, this explains it. We can't stay here then. We need to get to somewhere rural, the groups are mostly based in urban communities so it would be harder for them to travel there. ''I need to go pick up and Jonas and get him here. I know a place with a car, we can use that to escape them.'' The group was looking for us, not Zach or Jonas so it should be safe for him to go. ''I'll see you guys back here then.'' And with that he took off.
''I don't like it.'' I looked at Paige. ''If she thinks something's fishy, then she's right. Trust me.'' Sam spoke, but was mostly muffled from my chest. Then I realized. ''The superpowers wouldn't have someone go after them to kill them. They would get the location and they THEMSELVES would do it. I'm pretty fucking positive Jonas is just as good a fighter as he is a field medic, so it would be incredibly stupid for Norma not bring him along...'' As dumb as Zach's plan is, there were 23 people in Norma's war party, all dead except for Zach so what the fuck is Zach thinking. Wait... ''Fuck! Sam, James, Alex, Paige-'' There was something approaching, I could feel it. ''We need to scale the wall, far east!'' We all scrambled over to the east wall. ''What the hell is going on Vinz?!" I looked at Sam, panic in both of our eyes. ''Zach is-''
''THERE! FAR EASTERN WALL!'' Shit.
Sorry if the story got convoluted at the end. Trust me, this twist is going somewhere. The flashback scene was gonna be WAY LONGER but, yep, crash. I'll provide more details next chap.