Now it was an ice age a world ending event, people don't place nice, and our D-team had grown enough to know this to protect the earth ship Minmi lived in, that kept them safe warm, feed and sheltered, with power and everything. They knew someone would want to take it. Outside a group of nomads were watching the earthship, they traveled by dog sled, Wooden ones, in primitive fabric clothes. The group was down bad. they had failed had hunting with the make shift spears they made out of sharpened scrap metal tape and roped to poles and hunks of looted metal. They had no edible planets but they could smell food from the shelter. The no mads had hoods and scarfs on, along with goggles hiding their faces, making them all look the same.
Remember now they had a farm in their, And Max knew how to gather thanks to his grandma, and Rex apparently knew how to hunt by way of traps. They also had more modern tools something this group didn't have. One used a telescope made form half a set of binoculars. he looked inside seeing electric energy warm light and he drooled not just over the food he saw but Aki and Minmi enjoying it, "power, good, water,...beautiful women..." the group fought over it to see the earth ship, inside the window spying on the group.
Our no mads growled heading to charge, maybe they were once good people, who went mad, Maybe they were always evil and just followed the law, which no longer exists, and maybe they were just at the point were they gave up on being good to survive. The reason for this nameless no mad groups new adventure does not really matter they are doing it.
They charged with the dogs only to scream as the dogs howled and pain and fell over , as did the people not on sleds. The pain had a reason, their was blood on snow for buried spike boards were all over the place. A simple trap made by hammering nails through a wood chunk and leaving it to be covered by Snow. It keeps dangerous animals away and The most dangerous beast is always man. Best part the trap is reusable. You just need to clean it, a bit. The people jumped back bleeding and gasping in horror having lost their dogs.
The sleds abandoned and it was too dangerous to get back. some of the group fell over in pain, the nails were reused and rusted. Rust leads to infection, while it's cold the body remains warm for the infection to happen. It was defensive, now eating poisoned so this wasn't a hunting tool it was defense. The leader a woman growled as she looked at her group it was horrible, those who stepped fell onto more. This wasn't impressive it was a basic home defense, a basic trap, a simple basic thing anyone could think to do in the snow. She should have saw it coming, if they have power they have all they need to protect themselves. She gagged green as she reached into a bag for a pipe bomb, "The last bomb!" She lit it with the last match, "Take this!" she throw it and it exploded sending snow and the traps flying. She ran to duck for cover behind a tree with others. They couldn't find food the only way for them to live was to take this earth ship they needed to get through.
She smirked the path clear holding her make shift spear She pointed, "The path is open move." A young man said, " Mother the dogs are dead we can just eat them, it's no more dangerous then the rusted metal hunting spear kills." The woman whacked him, "Shut your trap you waste of space." The woman ordered the charge to continue through the clear spot slowly and using there weapons to feel for more boards later one.
they made it closer before someone gasped in horror a rope snare went off bring him up in the air hanging by a tree leaving him stuck, other's ended in nets hunting traps. Those trapped tried to cut themselves free with their spears only to fall and suffer fall damage, by landing on arms or legs taking them out of the fight. Again nothing special a simple basic trap anyone could make, if they have the stuff and know how all things the D-team have access to unlike this people.
The woman leader gasped in horror as more traps went off. She remembered the Deer in the area. They were hunting deer, the deer would learn to avoid the spike area and come through this path now laid with snares. A combo. She chuckled at this holding her head, "What kind of monsters are in there?" she looked to see a group of kids together, " Kids...no way kids could..." That's when She saw it her eye widening as Max was teaching Lily how to make a snare rope. "...it is the kids..." She shivered at that not from the cold but form how well the kids adjusted to dooms day. She was shaking, she ordered the advance as they came this far and lost there dogs, some men, and others were now dead wait fated to die as they couldn't care for the sick or wounded.
While continuing she was on guard waiting for another primitive hunting tactic tapping the ground for anything, only for someone to fall and trip breaking a leg, a small hole was dug to trip animals running, another primitive tactic. She was gasping saying, "Thsoe brats...Who are they?" She was shaking as she continued more careful then ever, more of her people were falling to these traps.
Each step brought about more traps. One guy screamed in pain blood on snow, he cried looking down, it was a spike, a chunk of metal sharpened and stuck in the ground a shive buried as a spike. he cried it was rusted, he would get an infection. "...I don't want to die..." he cried they didn't have meds, meaning a cut was death, an infected cut quicker death. It was dooms day.
The woman gasped in horror, "WHAT THE FUCK?" She said horrified at this, shaking pale, they had to continue they were doomed if they didn't and they where losing people left and right. The son pointed saying, 'I told you we shouldn't have done this mother. I am leaving, I know I will probably die alone in the cold, but at least I will live longer then you." he said running through the clear path even if it meant stepping on wounded or those already dead to get away from the earhtship , this cursed place.
The woman continued with those who wanted it talking about the pretty women they saw to motivate them. The woman in question held her weapon shaking. She wondered what those kids would throw at them next. Other's screaming this was a "CURSED PLACE OF DOOM!" Shaking and shivering as they were forced continue as most who wanted to run weren't willing to do what the fleeing son did.
As they continued to get closer more traps were found. Some lost to a trip wire and fell down in the snow on buried metal and wooden sheets to break noses and crack goggles. Those who got up had to remove their cracked goggles to see, while bleeding. with our Goggles the light off the snow blinded them making them fall into more traps.
The woman was shaking as more and more of her people fell, by time she made it to touch the wall of the earth ship she looked around gasping, She was alone now. The others were injuried or gone She banged on the wall screaming. She didn't have numbers on her side, they would out number her and leave her dead, She was doomed. Doomed. That's when she noticed Barbie walk out she held her spear out only for Barbie to slash a card summoning her dinosaur Irry. The woman's eyes widened at the predator dinosaur that roared. She fell over shaking and backing up to the wall. "No No no That's not possible it's not possible!" She said shaking as the Dinosaur got closer sniffing her.
If they had monsters why did they need the traps? Why have those traps if you commanded Monsters? Did they do it as they didn't view things as worth breaking out the monster? Was that it? was her tribe and her nothing but bugs to them? Bugs that didn't deserve there focus? That didn't deserve their attention? Was this some kind of sick honor? was this woman who now raised her hand out, saying, " You made it so have the honor of facing the monster." ? That's when Barbie pointed and our woman was grabbed in the beasts jaws by the leg she screamed as she was thrown back, into the traps area screaming. She was in the air and looked up seeing nothing but the cloud covered sky with some cracking through it. She had one final thought. "My son was smarter then me, he should have lead us." She thought as it went dark.
The ice age wasn't nice and those in it couldn't be nice, If this people had wanted to trade they would have, if they wanted to be good they would have got it. Yet many people through away morality when civilization breaks down. If civilization and fear of punishment is all that makes man act good what does that say about our nature as humans.
Now with the fleeing Son, he ran as far as he could as fast as he could panting as he heard the monster's roar in the distance. he panted coming to the smell of a fire, he headed to it out of instinct for warmth, where he came to what looked like another nomadic tribe. This one had turned a container into a sled and added a sail to make it a land ship. The tribe were by the fire when they noticed him, His eyes widened as they were all women. They seemed happy to see him and got close, their leader, " Oh hello Sir, We were at an all girls engineering school when this happened, We haven't seen a boy in a year, some of us are happy with that but they don't speak for the group." two women holding hands said, "hay even we know we need a guy to keep the tribe going, We don't like him that way but we know we need his help."
The woman in charge held a much better made metal spear with a triangle point that couldn't be stitched closed, " We have a nurse so how about this Sir, you be the man of the tribe?" She winked and the son nodded and said, "yes Madame." he said being lead off. the Son of the attacking tribe's leader would live happily ever after rewarded for doing the right thing and leaving the earth ship alone big time, he would die happy at least, happy and warm.
Now a few weeks later In the spare room in the earthship well made spare room, as it was a shed frame put together to be a new d-lab with the stuff made, and the recycled earth ship walls around it to keep it warm , and uneaten, the power came from extension cords. However it was running and warm. Minmi who had figured out how to work the machines said this, "Well if we get a wild creature we can teleport now...Also what happened out back?" they had just noticed the nomad tribe as they started to smell.
Rose who sat on a desk said this, "I honestly think they tried to rob us. My wife says they just fell victim while trying to still the deer on the spikes around them, but the deer aren't dead long enough, and they kept going forward, plus barbie said she flung a woman who held a spear at her into the area."
The only other person in the room Lily said this, "...So when the world ends people become poo poo?" Both women her mother and Aunt said one thing, "pretty much most people are poo poo to begin with just good at tricking people into thinking they aren't." Lily nodded as she imagined that learning star thing happening.