Hey Yo! NerdRyuu here and here is the 18th chapter of The Last Loud!
Last time our future trio met a group of 4 odd survivors!
I also want to announce that I soon I'll be posting a speriment of a fic, it'll be the first for a lot of things for me, the first fic I do for a cartoon that it's not TLH, also my first fic for a cartoon that already has ended by the time I wrote it! Amphibia.
Yeah! I wrote this new fic as a experiment to see if I could write as close as possible to the writing of the show, and that'll be the result. It'll be a AU, although I plan (If the idea sticks) to redo the entirety of the major plot points of the series with the alterations that the AU make. I'll not spoil the plot just yet, but I'll give you the name:
The Fourth One
For this week's question, we had one, let's go to it!
Dimitri Gomez: Are they (the new characters) be recurring characters or will they join with the trio?
Well... okay, I'll spoil just this one, they will :)
Now let's start the chapter!
I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing on the cameras. Men in a convoy abduct my sisters. I felt like I was going to faint. I don't know what to do. What to feel. Lori, Leni, Luan, Lana, Lola… and Luna…
"Lincoln!" I heard Lisa calling, I looked at her, she must have been calling me for some time. "Deep breaths Lincoln, you're having a anxiety attack."
I looked Lisa, I was hyperventilating, my nerves were so tense that made my entire body shake, the sweat dripping from my forehead was ice cold. Lisa lifted her hand, offering a single white pill.
I took it from her hand and gulped it down, hoping that would actually make me calm down. "I need to do something!" I said nervously. "I need to help them!" I said.
"We're in luck Lincoln." Lucy spoke. Lisa nodded and spoke.
"By pure chance, Lori brought her IPhone with her to the outside today, and it was also abducted, along side our sisters. I can sync the position of her IPhone on my iPad, making a way to trace-" I grabbed Lisa's shoulder hastily.
"Do it now." I said.
I wanted to die. I felt like I would smile never more. That man… That putrid man… I never felt so much anger, fear and disgust for a single human being before. He and his star tattoo on the wrist… I want to kill him.
As I laid cuffed in that jeep, with my sisters near me, that desire was a unreachable dream. The others were crying, bruised, bleeding. Lori was unconscious and Luna. She was agonizing in the floor, holding her belly, her pants were damp on the crotch, she was bleeding from there. Our situation was hopeless.
We didn't die on Day Zero just to suffer a worse fate. God made us survive long enough to give us hope and then…
Why did God abandoned us?
I closed my eyes, wishing for death when I heard something coming from outside the jeep. I made my best to sit up withy hands tied back, and looked through the window.
A group of the men that kidnapped us were fighting a person wearing the armor Lisa made. I instantly recognized the body frame from that person, it was undoubtedly Lincoln.
The group of six had the total advantage though, Lincoln was making his best to fend off the six men, that still were holding their rifles, but due the close range, they used them instead as clubs to beat him down. I looked at the other jeeps, the rest of the men, a group of roughly 8 people, looked the brawl, with their weapons ready to shoot.
They probably didn't shoot yet because of their comrades being in the way, but just one slip up of Lincoln and they would shoot him dead.
I couldn't keep standing still while he died for us. I looked at the rest of us, they also we're admiring the combat.
I mumbled loudly, as my gag didn't allowed me to speak, grabbing the attention of Lori. I motioned to Leni, Lori nudged her and Leni looked at me. I used all the flexibility I had to pass my cuffed hands from below my legs and motioned to them.
Leni nodded, making a hair clip fall from her hair and she also passed her hands from below her legs, I oddly noted that she did it far more effortless. She grabbed the hair clip and I extended my hand cuffs and she gently prickled the clip into the tiny key hole and with a few gently pushes and pulls, my cuffs clanked up, falling on the floor.
I immediately ungagged myself and grabbed the hairpin and started opening Leni's cuffs.
"Leni, you need to untie and uncuff them. We need to help Lincoln, those men are ready to shoot." Leni, with her hands free, ungagged herself and freed Lori, who also ungagged herself and spoke as Leni continued to uncuff the others
"And how do you expect us to help? They got guns! All we have is a hurt pregnant woman!" She motioned to Luna, who was still in agony.
"Shit, we need to keep her safe… Twins, can you two protect her while we fend off the shooters?"
"Sure can." The twins said united with a nod.
"Good, but how do you expect us to take on armed men?" Lori said again.
"All we need is… A opportunity!" I said out the blue, without being able to actually come up with something.
"Cool. For what?!" Lori spoke. I was about to speak when we heard a shot.
We all looked to the fight, fearing for the worse. But Lincoln had a gun on his hand, and was holding a man by the collar, he had a chunk of his head missing. I thought I was going to throw up, brain matter was spewing from his head to the ground.
The other men grabbed their guns and aimed at Lincoln, he used the body of the man as meat shield as he ducked behind it. I panicked, but the men didn't shot him yet, as I shifted my hands while crawling to the window, I felt my hand hitting something. It was a handgun.
I grabbed it, and to my surprise, it was funny loaded. Those men must been very stupid to let a fully loaded gun near their captives while they were alone.
"Let's get behind the ones with rifles and tackle them down." I said, looking at my gun. "And pray for the best."
Me, Lori and Leni silently got out the jeeps and sneaked behind the convoy to get behind three of the men with the rifle. We got on our positions and with nods, we tried to make a synchronized takedown.
We did it and the three men fell to the ground, the other five turned to us and in a split second before they shoot us dead, two of them had their heads blown with shots to the head, the remaining three turned back to our brother, Lincoln used the distraction we made, but by this, the men started to shoot him nonstop. His meat shield protected him the best it could.
Lori and Leni grabbed the rifles from the fallen men, but had trouble shooting, we had to dive behind the jeeps to protect ourselves from the bullets some of the men fired at us.
The Loud clanking of metal as the bullets hit the jeep was absurd, I looked to my sides, Lori and Leni were looking on the gun how to shoot it, just to Leni almost shoot Lori in the leg.
"Sorry." She said, holding the rifle up. Some seconds later, the two of them peaked their heads and shoot.
I also got up and shoot, this shooting, that could be part of an action movie continued for some minutes, in this time, Lori got shot in the arm and I got shot in the leg.
By a miracle, Lincoln was alive, after the meat shield was destroyed, he got shot several times in several places, including the head, but luckily, Lisa had made the armor so resistant that it was completely bullet proof, leaving only little indentations on the plates.
All the men were dead, and we were exhausted. With the adrenaline starting to fade out, I fell on the ground with my leg injury. Lori and Leni helped me to get on the other side of the jeep. Lincoln approached the jeeps, coming near us.
He sat on the ground as he approached. I looked back, the jeep we were behind in the shooting was mowed with bullets, with even gas spieling on the dirt from a gallon. Great God that nobody shot that, or it would result in a very big light show.
I also sat, on his side, sighing. "He…" I made a laugh as I thought about a pun. "You know… those guys looked like they would pop anyways… he…" I heard Lincoln laughing.
"Where… is… Luna and the twins?" Lincoln said between breaths.
"They're in that jeep." I said, pointing to the jeep, it was the last jeep of the convoy, and the twins waving to us.
"Let's go there. We can use a ride." He said, getting back to his feet. We agreed and started walking to the jeep.
I was the last one, and as I was entering the jeep, I surprise attack from behind knocked me to the ground. A last man was alive, he was on top of me with a combat knife, I struggled with him in the ground and saw Lincoln getting off the jeep.
I then, noticed where I was laying on. The leaking gas. I saw in his wrist. A star tattoo. That man. That man.
It was that man. Anger took over me and I grabbed my gun that had fallen on the ground.
The man lifted his knife up, giving me a clear shot.
I aimed at the gallon.
I looked at Lincoln he was running on our direction, with his hand extended, reaching for me.
I smiled, and closed my eyes.
I was loved.
I am loved.
I pulled the trigger, and with the span of microseconds, everything got bright and loud, and then, darkness and silence.
N/A: So... there is. The second Loud to fall is Luan. Yeah, as I said, things are about to ger very dark, and the M rating will be put in service.
Well, from notes I think that's all, I'll see you soon, of you like Amphibia, check out the new fic I'll be posting soon, If you want some updates on the fics, go toy Twitter @ryuu_baku, if you want to ask anything, go ahead and make a comment, your comments are always a treat :)
I'm NerdRyuu, until next week,
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