Back in Imp City, Luis Sera was fairing better than how he did in life. At least this time was there no one to impale him through the back...yet. He still looked for a way out while fighting though what he described as "Hell's Ganado's". In some did that sounded appropriate, as they acted and sounded exactly like the infected villagers from the time in Spain.
"¡Ahi esta! ¡Mátalo!"
Once more did he unload his Red 9 on those Plaga infected imps, as he then grabs hold of by the head and slam him onto a brick wall.
"I know you're listening through this, Saddler." He spoke to the imp. "Let this be a message. There's no way in hell I'm going back to you. Send as many pendejos as you want. I'll kill every last one."
Coming out of the mouth of the imp was the fully grown plaga parasite, that tried taking a bite of Luis. But not before he shot a bullet through its host's head and watched it explode. With that, he continued to move forward, until he heard a hissing sound coming from around the corner.
Looking to his right, he saw an Imp peeping out from behind a corner of a building, and he looked seemingly normal. No pale red skin, having white hair, wearing a black top hat that went through the long horns on its head and also having a long cartoon-ish mustache that a classic cartoon villain would have.
"Psss. Over here, stranger.", The demon said before going back around the corner, leaving Luis confused.
"I'm getting deja vu here." He said to himself. Heading around the corner, he found himself in an alley way that had what looked like a carnival booth which was displaying all sorts of fire arms. And the demon he saw was on the other side of the counter, wearing a (no pun intended) devilish smile on his face.
"Welcome, stranger!" He said with enthusiasm. "You just stumbled upon Wacky Wally Wackford's Black Market Sellout!"
With an unamused look on his face, Luis only replied, "Oh, have I now?"
"Indeed you have!", Wally said. "See, I've now decided to invest in selling various firearms to any survivors while during this mess we're in! And I say, you, my friend, look like you could lethal killing weapons yourself!"
"I'm doing just fine with this baby right here.", Luis said, holding out the Red 9. "Besides, what could you possibly offer that I would take an interest to?"
"Why, anything that catches it, of course!", The scandalous imp replied. "We have a selection of many guns that I salvaged from the homes, businesses and corpses of many other demons who didn't make it."
Luis can confirm, spotting blood, dirt and a severed hand holding onto a shotgun. He could easily tell Wally here was nothing more than a scam artist, not even hiding it from how he spoke. There was no way he buy any kind of gun from him...
"I don't have time for this." He said, surprising Wally. "I gotta get out of this city. And if you're any smart, you'd do the same!"
"Wait!" Wally yelled, jumping from behind the counter before falling on his face. He soon gets up and runs to Luis, saying "I know what you're thinking, but I'm not planning on scamming you! All of my guns are genuine and already loaded! ... I think. How about this? I sell one gun as of the moment, you test it out and we'll see if your interest gets peaked?"
Scowling, not really wanting to take the offer, but knowing this guy wouldn't take no for an answer, Luis said, "Fine."
"Excellent! And I just so happen to have a special gun in stock, just for you!"
Wally than ran back to his booth, jumped over the counter, started shuffling and throwing gun parts here and there, one being the stock to Luis' Mauser, which he takes for himself. After a minute, Wally pops back up and reveals to Luis what type of gun he had 'ready' for him.
"It is known as the Tactical Machine Pistol.", He began to explain. "Known for its very large magazine coverage and amazing firing speed, this gun can only be the gun of a professional, which is why I bestow it upon you."
Luis knew Wally was milking it with the details, but he wasn't half wrong. He decides to give it a try, as this gun reminds him of an old friend of his.
"How much is it?" He asked.
"$15,000." Wally said with a smile.
In Wally's defense, that was the same amount PTAS it was worth back in Spain. Not that Luis had that kind of money.
"Sorry." He says. "I'm a bit short on that kind of money."
"Well, you can also sell me whatever you come across to equal the value."
"Yep. This is just like Spain."
"So what's it gonna be?" Wally asked, sliding the TMP closer to Luis, who puts his fingers to his chin.
Back in Pentagram City, Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, Steve and the S.T.A.R.S were continuing on through the destroyed roads, dealing with only a handful of the infected. Hardly dealing with any real threats.
"Man! It feels like we've been walking for three weeks!" Angel screamed.
"It's only been four hours." Vaggie stated.
"We caught a lucky brake, Angel." Steve said. "Enjoy it. I know I am."
Richard then responded "It's never too easy though."
"We're bound to run into more monsters soon enough." Edward added.
"The Hotel shouldn't be too far from here." Charlie said. "It should be a little further."
"Oh joy." Angel said, while Vaggie bumped him. As they moved on, they soon found themselves surrounded by more wrecked cars than usual. Something caught Charlie's attention as she saw the silhouette of a man walking alongside the wreckage.
"Wait." She said to everyone. "I saw something."
"You're just being paranoid, Charlie." Angel said to her, to which Steve replied "I wouldn't bet on it. You can't rule anything out."
It was almost like the cars surrounded them as they stopped and heard something scurrying around them. Lifting up their guns, they aimed at all side.
"I don't like this, Captain." Kenneth said.
"...I don't like it either."
"This reminds me of when me and my team went out looking for you guys." Joseph said.
"What happened then?", Richard asked.
"I was mauled alive by zombie dogs."
Charlie, Vaggie, Angel and Steve look at Joseph with curiosity.
"Is that why you hate dogs?" Vaggie asked.
Joseph answered "Yep."
"Stay sharp, guys." Forest said as they continued aiming for whatever was moving around them. But before he could react, Kenneth felt something wrap around his leg and he was then pull off his feet. He screamed as they other turned to where he was being pulled and started firing.
"AAAAHHHHHH!"
Holding on for dear life, Kenneth's fingers ripped through the pavement, and even the metal of the cars as he tried to hold on. Everyone stopped firing when Kenneth disappeared behind some cars. After a moment of silence, something was thrown back to the group, which just so happened to be Kenneth's head.
Charlie screamed. "AAAAHHHHHH!"
"Ow." Kenneth's head said. "Aw man, not again."
And then Charlie screamed again. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"They killed Kenny!" Angel yelled out, but Brad calmed everyone down, saying "Don't worry. This has happened before."
Edward scoped Kenneth's head, looking at him with concern.
"Kenneth! Are you alright?"
"Oh, yeah!" their scout's disembodied head said with sarcasm. "Like it's not the first time I've been decapitated."
"S.T.A.R.S."
"Oh, no..." Brad said, knowing that voice anywhere. Hearing heavy footsteps coming their way, he warns everyone one to-
"TAKE COVER!"
They all dove out of the way as they saw that smashing through the cars was a charging colossus wrapped in leather and having a cenobites' face. Nemesis, and in his hands was Kenneth's body.
"How many times am I gonna have to deal with this shit head?!" Brad yelled out.
Then Angel asked "You know this mutated gimp?!"
"He did me in back on Earth!"
"S.T.A.R.S."
"Why does he keep saying that?!" Vaggie asked.
"Because, he was programed to go after S.T.A.R.S. members." Brad answered. "After he killed me, he went after our college, Jill."
"I'm gonna guess she did him in if he's here now." Steve said.
"Guys! We still have a monster to deal with!" Joseph yelled out as the Nemesis gave out a mighty roar and charged at them once again. They dodged as quickly as they could again before Nemesis turned around and threw Kenneth's body to them. He managed to hit Edward and Richard before turning on the others. Joseph started blasting him with his shotgun, but it barely phased the Nemesis as he gave him a huge right hook. This made Joseph spin in middle air before he fell back down.
Steve started firing with his dual Ingrams and Vaggie with her Beretta as Nemesis turned their attention towards them. First, he walked, but then, he broke into a run and charged at them, and they barely had enough time to dodge out of the way. As they did, they saw that Nemesis was still going, running back the way he came.
"Where's he going?", Vaggie asked.
"I guess he got the message that we're not to be messed with." said Angel.
Brad then said "It's never that simple." And just then, did the Nemesis return and revealed a brand new weapon.
"That's a damn Minigun!" Steve yelled out.
As the cylinder turned at high speed, the crew ran out of the way as Nemesis rained down on them a storm of bullets. Nowhere was safe to hide as the lead went through the cars and windows. As Charlie was running, a bullet grazed her shoulder and made her fall down when she saw the Nemesis towering over her. Though she couldn't see it, through Nemesis' perspective, it recognized Charlie as a primary target and was given it's orders to extract her.
But before he could lay a finger on her, a knife was thrown at his chest.
"Leave her alone!" Vaggie yelled out, bringing out her spear and started spinning it like a bo staff before doing an upper slash on Nemesis' torso, barrel rolling backwards before landing and stabbing the behemoth once again. Nemesis didn't even flinched as he grabbed Vaggie by the face and then threw her at street lamp.
"VAGGIE!" Charlie yelled out, as she turned her attention towards Nemesis. Her eyes were now red and horns grew from her head as fire surrounded her, but the creature was un-phased. Without warning, Charlie grabbed Vaggie's spear from Nemesis' chest, lights the blade on fire and started spinning it left and right, cutting Nemesis in progress. The others saw this and we're surprised.
"Charlie..." said Steve.
"Never a good idea to piss her off." Angel said.
"Good to know." said Enrico.
When that didn't seem to do anything, she then jumps back and throws the spear once more into the creature's chest, but this time, she takes out her revolver and shoots the spear 3 times before the weapons right through Nemesis.
This made the creature actually stumble back a little as he then roars once more before turning it's attention back towards Charlie. Raising it's hand, it shoots a tentacle at the princess. But Charlie dodges swiftly before the two start charging at each other.
"GET OUT OF THERE!" Brad's voice can be heard saying. Charlie looked to see that he was about to fire his rocket launcher and quickly stepped back as the rocket was fired. The explosion was enough to wake Vaggie back up as she felt blood run down her temple and she looks around to see what was going on. She was surprised to watch as Charlie battled the Nemesis, who's leather covering was blown off his chest, revealing its semi-skinless torso with tentacles coming from his right arm and going around his body. Even part of his face was ripped off, showing exposed, but keeping the angry look on it.
Things weren't letting up as the fight didn't seem to being going anywhere. Charlie was deflecting Nemesis' tentacle attacks here and there while the creature continued to walk slowly towards her. Struggling to get up, Vaggie spotted what appeared to be a supply case covered in some kind of black mold. A note was printed on top, spelling out two words.
"USE IT."
Wasting no time, Vaggie opened the case and saw what was inside. It was unlike any weapon she's seen before, a giant cybernetic weapon, no doubt meant to shoot some big laser or something. Holding it up like a rocket launcher, Vaggie couldn't wait to find out what it did.
Charlie was starting to get tired as she couldn't hold Nemesis back any longer. Pretty soon, the creature had her cornered and raised it giant tentacle covered hand.
"S.T.A.R.S."
"Hey! Fuckface!" Vaggie yelled out, pulling the trigger as the monster turned towards her. A ball of lightning came out of the weapon and gave a direct hit towards Nemesis, who was engulfed by its blinding light. It roared in immense pain and tried to walk forward towards Vaggie, but it fell to its knees and then it's whole body exploded into chucks and blood.
Now that it was over, Charlie and Vaggie managed to catch their breath as Vaggie then heard some buzzing and saw that the weapon she held was smoking. Apparently, it was just a one-off as she threw it to the ground and it completely fell apart. Vaggie wasn't prepared, as she then got hugged/tackled by her girlfriend.
"Vaggie!" Charlie yelled with glee. "I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Likewise!" Vaggie replied, returning the hug. "You had me worried for a second."
"Us too." Steve said, coming with the others and interrupting the moment those two had. "Now I know never to piss you off, Charlie."
"Heh, heh. Noted." Charlie giggled.
Then Angel asked "Say Vaggie, where the heck did you get the laser thingy?"
"Honestly, I don't know where it came from." Vaggie answered. "It was inside a case right in front of me."
"A case?" Steve asked. "I guess that's no surprise. My old friend once told that useful items came out of nowhere."
"...Yeah, but the case looked like it was placed in front of me. And the words "USE IT" were printed on top."
"Hmm...sounds like someone's looking out for us.", Enrico said. "In any case, we should keep moving."
Then Forest looked off to the distance with his head at his brow as he said "I think I can see the Hotel from here." And this caught everyone's attention as they could see the building not to far now.
"We're like a half-mile off." Charlie said. "Not too far away now."
"Then let's go." Steve said. "No time to waste."
"Agreed." Enrico said as they all moved forward.
"After what we've been through today, I just wanna crash by the time we make it back." Angel said while stretching out his arms.
"Only for a little while." Vaggie said seriously.
"She's right." Braid added. "We still got plenty to do."
Sighing, Angel replied "At this point, I got nothing else to say..."
Back to where we left Luis, he found himself knee deep in Ganados who were wanting to take his life more and more. He managed to buy the TMP, but he regretted doing so. It's not that the gun was faulty, it's because Wally didn't have any sufficient ammo to go along with it.
"I'm gonna kick that payaso's ass the next time I see him." He said while switching to his Mauser again. But unfortunately, he was running out of room as he found himself at the edge of a freeway and there seemed to hundreds of infected all around him, all with weapons at hand.
"¡Voy a matarte!"
"Lord Saddler quiere su vida."
"¡Lo cortaremos en pedacitos!"
Seeing no other choice, Luis decided to jump off the freeway and onto the road down below. What he wasn't expecting to land on was a moving truck. And guess who happens to be driving.
"Moxxie, something landed on the roof!" Blitzø yelled out while steering. The I.M.P crew managed to commandeer a vehicle so that they can escape the city.
Luis held on for dear life as he fingers grinded into the metal of the roof. "Go take care of it!" The I.M.P. manager order his underling, who reluctantly complied.
"Right." All Moxxie had to say as he opened the sun roof and headed up with a revolver to take care of the problem. He was surprised to be looking into Luis' eyes as the two met face-to-face.
"You!" He yelled out.
"I see you're still alive!" Luis said with an awkward smile on his face. "How about you be a dear and let me in?"
"Yeah, that's not happening." Moxxie said, looking annoyed. "You better hold on! It's gonna be a bumpy ride from here on out!"
As the imp closed the sunroof, Luis looked concern before scream as they managed to make it out of the city. From one town to another, the road they were taking was heading towards Pentagram City...