World of Anarchy/Chapter 9

This is chapter 9 of World of Anarchy entitled: Run Gone Wrong.

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Chapter 9 - Run Gone Wrong
"Did you fuckers come back to finish the job?! Well I ain't gonna go down with out puttin' up a fight!" The wounded man yelled to them.

"We don't know what you're talkin' about asshole." Leo said as he raised his gun.

"You better watch yourself, boy." The man spat back.

David scanned his surroundings for anything that might help. There was nothing but junk and trash scattered across the ground, and he wouldn't be able to grab his gun or hatchet without the man seeing. He thought about someone sneaking around, but the man had already seen all of them. Only one other option left.

"Leo," He said in a calm voice,"Put the gun down." "What? Why?"

"We need to think this through rationally, and not get our heads blown off."

Leo lowered his gun, but he didn't take his eyes off the man.

"We're not going to hurt you. We were just coming to get some supplies for the rest of our group."

The man let out a chuckle after and pointed his gun strait at David.

"You better become better at bullshitin' kid."

A door closing across the store made them all freeze. A few seconds later Amber appeared from behined one of the isles.

"Jerry, I couldn't find--"

She stopped right in her tracks when she saw David and the reast of them. She then ran over and hugged David, which shocked Jerry.

"David! Leo! Riley! What are you guys doing here?"

"Hey, I'm here too." Ben interjected.

"Good for you." Amber replied

"You know them?" Jerry said lowering his gun.

"Yeah, my group I told you about." She said as she released David from the strongest hug ever.

"How do you know him?" Riley asked refering to Jerry.

"I met him a few hours ago on my way back to you guys and, well, he's got some pretty big news."

"News?" Leo asked.

"Yeah...just give me a sec here. I got a fuckin' gunshot wound you know."

Jerry leaned against a check out counter and closed his eyes. He rested like that for a few minutes before Amber walked over to make sure that he was okay, but he waved her away.

"Get on with your story old man." Leo said impatiantly

"I'm from a safe-zone in Phoenix City--"

"A safe-zone?!" Leo interrupted.

"Would you let me finish my goddamn story? Jesus Christ...anyways, I'm from a safe-zone in Phoenix, and I left to find my contact, who lives in this city, to...discuss some things that concerned me about the safe-zone. He told me of a second safe-zone in Rapid City, so I went back to tell my nephew. But when I got there, the Phoenix Safe-Zone was gone...so I decide to head back to my contact and tell him, but when I got here he was dead. I met Amber shortly after and we were ambushed by those goddamn bandits."

David was speechless. Learning abot the safe-zones had completely scrambled his brain. He looked to Leo and Riley, who both looked just as stuned as he did. Finally he looked to Ben, who oddly enough, seemed more dissapointed and angry about it.

"Let--let me get this strait. There's only one safe-zone left and that's in Rapid City? South Dakota?"

"That's what I said."

"David, " Leo said,"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"

David nodded. Leaving the hotel and going to Rapid City.

"The only problem is going to be convincing Sam and Sid." He responded.

"That wont be your only problem." A voice from behined them said.

David turned to see six men standing at the entrance way. They were all wearing bandanas and hoods that hid their faces. The one in the middle was carrying a plank that had nails jutting from one end.

"Kill them." The bandit in the middle commanded.

The bandits pulled out their firearms and began to open fire on them. David dove behined one of the check out counters just in time to avoid the spray of bullets. He spotted Leo, Jerry, Amber, and Riley open fire as they headed toward the back of he store. He lost sight of them as they passed behined the isle, along with four bandits who were chasing them. That left two bandits unaccounted for. David pulled out his gun and listened for the other two bandits. He heard one set of footsteps to his right and another to his left, both of them heading toward the counter he was crouched behined. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to take them both on when he saw Ben hiding in one of the isles on his right. He mouth the word "help" to Ben, but Ben just smiled and retreated down the isle leaving David alone. He didn't have any time to analyze why Ben abandoned him as the first reached him.

The bandit that reached him first was the one with the plank. David attempted to raise his gun, but the bandit kicked it it out of his hands. The bandit raised his board, but David tackled him to the wall before he had a chance to swing it. The board fell to the floor as the second bandit came up from behined and pulled David off the other. David headbutted the second bandit and broke free from his grasp. He then spotted the plank on the floor and grabbed it. He swung the nail-end right into the head of the first one, which killed him instantly. David then turned to the second bandit and swung the plank into his face. The board broke on impacted leaving the bandit to collapse to the floor.

David heard nothing but white noise as he looked down at the bandits. He had killed him. He had never killed another living person before. A sudden urge to vomit began to form in his stomach, but he pushed it down along with whatever else he was feeling. No time for emotions, only time for surviving. He had to in order to get back to Teresa and Chris. He picked up his gun off the floor and ran toward the back of the store. He found a trail of blood leading into the storage room and followed it cautiously. Hopefully it wasn't his any of his friends blood.

The back room was full large crates and shelves that blocked his view of the rest of it.