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Chapter Five: Retribution
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The Gunslinger smokes a cigarette, not responding externally. He says to Apollo, “Is that a threat?” He whistles, and everyone in the entire diner becomes nervous, some placing their guns on the tables and gripping them. The Second Gunman goes on, “You’re in Goldus Kux territory, boy. Everyone here will kill you. So o suggest you walk out nice and easy. Besides, I was hired to get you alive… And I’m not done with my cigarette.” The Gunslinger puffs on his cigarette, unbuttoning his holster but not attacking.
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Apollo looks intensely at the gunslinger, his eyes turning white. “Get me alive? I’m not supposed to get you in any way, so it wouldn’t matter if you were dead.” Apollo finally snapped and a flash of white buzzed infront of the gunslinger’s eyes. By the time his vision returned, Apollo was gone.
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Andaluza turned to Apollo, who just mirrored back. “Hey, how did it go? Does it turn out he’s an easy emu and you one-hit straight up killed him?” Andaluza quickly looked around, looking for stray bullets.
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Faye glares at Odysseus, “After what you did to me you’re going to beg for my help!?” She shakes her head at him, looking at the photo of her family as she slowly filled with rage.
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Vineera walked along the crowded street looking for any signs of wrongdoing. She’d been a policewoman for about three year now and she thinks she’s seen it all. She glances at her wristwatch. “Damn..” She had a little over an hour until she was done patrolling the streets and the day just seemed to be never ending.
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<i>Odysseus looks at Faye, pausing again. </i>”I’m not begging. I would never beg. And I am not the one who ordered the destruction of those worlds. You don’t understand. Ozymandias did these things, not me. I tried to stop him and… I failed. I never wanted to become this.” Odysseus walks to a nearby vase, tenderly touching a white tulip’s petals and contemplating it. “I swore that I never would become him…”
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Faye shakes her head and keeps him in her sights, listening to his speech. “Trust me. I know who it was.” She lets a few tears fall, “And believe me… I didn’t want to become this either… I actually believed in what they preached and lived it!” Faye lets out a sigh and slowly leans back into the chair, “Now look at me… Probably wanted in every known galaxy… Branded as the vigilante I sought to defeat…”
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The Second Gunman stands erect, half of his external she’ll cracked and deformed, but he still functions properly. He spits out a synthetic tooth and a black liquid on the ground, and lifts up his flamethrower, briefly sending the fire into Jack’s eyes and temporarily blinding him. When Jack’s sight is restored, the Second Gunman is gone.
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Jack screamed in agony, holding his face and curling into the fetal position on the concrete, his eyes burning. He blinked rapidly, the damaged soft flesh slowly restoring, getting up and looking around. He was gone.
“Dammit!”
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Odysseus turns to Faye, and looks at her questioningly and yet with an odd air of hope in his voice, not entirely placed in the question but what would come next. “Why do you… Did you… believe in the OGA?”
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Faye nods a few times, “I honestly did… It was my dream to work with them once I learned of what they could do…” She holds a hand out, moving it as if showing off a sign to someone, “The Organization of Genetic Enhancement… The first step in a new era of technology and medicine…”
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*Pandora and her dark self walked around the trees until they herd some one yell, “its that Mathew!”, before they herd a series of thwacks and punching noise, Pandora ran down the all it was in with her dark self following her annoyingly*”Hahahaaha i bet their murdering him now!”, Dark Pandora said devilishly.”Stop talked Coal Brain”, Pandora said to her, before seeing a bunch of gangs from the bad clan (forgot name) beating up a guy that she assumed was Mathew. She unsheathed her sword and set it on fire swinging it at the guys, and beating the crap out of them before they scampered off, screaming from their scorched flesh wounds and bruises.”hahaha your not half bad for a hippy”, Dark Pandora said laughing and pointing at her, Pandora frowned at her.”Stop! I am not a hippy!”, she said sheathing her sword, and turning to the fellow on the ground that was a little confused as to why she was talking to air(Dark Pandora can only be seen by Pandora).”Are you Mathew?”, she asked crossing her arms.
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Hearing screams in the distance, Vineera’s head shot up and she ran into the direction it came from. She smoke and knew that had to be where the screams came from. She saw a man who was covered in flames. “Holy shit..” She quickly ran into a shop and grabbed a fire extinguisher. “Sir! Try to hold your breath,” she tried to scream load enough for him to hear. She quickly twisted off the tiny piece of metal that kept it locked, aimed, and relieved the man of the flames that engulfed him.
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Cy lurches after where the cyborg was disappearing off to until Jack wailed something, causing her to skid to a stop. Oh yeah, he’s burned? She looked over her shoulder, the machete arm of hers reverting back to a normal hand and forearm in a flurry of silver. He appeared to be in a fetal position, but his skin where he had been burned was already regenerating itself like a starfish might. Good. “I’m guessing you know who sent the machine after you?” She asks, her systems reverting back to their standards. “Do you need medical treatment?”
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“I’m fine!” Jack shouted, flailing slightly as the Ascendii police officer blasted him with a fire extinguisher, waving her off.
“Ozymandias. OGA. I’m guessing. Who knows, I’ve got a lot of bounties on me right now.”
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