Magnolia looked up from her copy of Guns & Ammo when she heard the stack of books fall over for the fourth time. ‘Mer, stop doing that.’ The boy lifted his goggles up onto the top of his head. ‘They will stack, I know it.’ ‘Are you even allowed to do that?’ ‘Sure!’ he said, […]
‘You do realise,’ Stef said, ‘this makes us bad action movie heroes, right?’ ‘How so?’ ‘Elevator shafts, ventilation ducts, all that kind of stuff, it’s so…tropey. It isn’t supposed to happen in real life.’ He chuckled. ‘We’re lucky that we have those. Some Agencies…they completely seal up during a blackout. It’s more those involved in […]
‘Agent?’ Taylor was vaguely aware of not being dead. Not that there was any reason to think that he would have been dead. It would take more than a point-blank shotgun blast to keep him down. It would take…a lot more than that. He grunted in reply, and more sensation returned to his body, the […]
As his dead right arm hit the floor, Taylor spun, hitting his attacker with his loosely swinging left. The Solstice in the orange-tinted gas mask simply laughed and swung the sword again. He ducked this time, the lack of an arm throwing his balance into an unfamiliar place – the loss of an arm had […]
Meanwhile. Taylor woke with a grunt, found that most of his gym had collapsed around him, and in fact both of his arms had been crushed. He grunted again and at up, ignoring the blood running down with his face. He shook himself, his dead arms flopping uselessly. ‘Hm. Good. Get to practice killing things […]
Stef looked around the destroyed hallway, hearing the recruits’ cries of pain and confusion. ‘Can’t worry about them right now,’ she said, ‘we-’ ‘They’re hurt,’ Ryan argued. ‘Are you even carrying a gun?’ ‘…how hard did you get hit on the head?’ She turned back to him and managed a smile. ‘I’m paranoid,’ she said, […]
‘Stef!’ She opened her eyes, and all she could see was darkness. ‘Stef!’ ‘…what the hell happened?’ She felt him pat her down. ‘Are you all right?’ ‘General ouchies,’ she replied. ‘What happened?’ She felt him moving around, and suddenly the darkness disappeared, the light of the office flooding into what had been their hiding […]
‘So explain it to me again.’ Stef stared at Ryan, wondering what it was that he didn’t understand, then she said as much. ‘What is it that you don’t understand?’ ‘Why you’re sitting on my desk for one.’ She grinned. ‘It makes you pay attention to me.’ He reached around her for his keyboard, but […]