Vroom, Vroom. As the skulldem ride out, Alana looks back at the core but zones in specifically on Ven Javos and Ven Percy with disgust. Dean in silence begins to mumble to himself, but with the speed of the skulldem troops motorbikes, not a single word could be understood from him. Although on different motorbikes, Vince and Chris exchange glances as the motorbikes they are each on pace past the towering trees of the gargantuan forest they are heading out from. The skulldem troops whilst riding, did not utter a single word with each other, as Boz turned they all followed, as he sped up or slowed down, they did the same.
After a few minutes of riding through the forest, Boz makes a big turn left which leads them onto a stretched-out highway. This highway was littered with debris of burnt down vehicles. The stench of blood was sweeping its way through the highway, yet a sight of blood could not be seen. As the skulldem all park up behind Boz, they gaze out onto the highway which they are faced with riding across. Boz then begins to speak, “We are still in enemy territory boys, this is all theirs, ride as fast as you can, move as smooth as you can, and let’s get back home!” he shouts out. The skulldem troops begin to chant “Hoorah, Hoorah!”. As they chant continuously, Dean begins to sense something, “Uhm…guys are those guys part of your troop or…?” As he asked that, not a single person could hear him, so he jumps off the motorbike with his hands tied and begins to make a run for it.
As he runs towards the direction of Boz, one of the skulldem troop members ignites the engine of his motorbike and starts chasing after him. Within fingers reach of grabbing Dean, a sound that resembles the power of thunder strikes. Slowly, brain matter splatters all over the road. As every single member of the skulldem stop chanting and direct their gaze from the road ahead to where the thunderous sound struck from, they see almost 10 armored olive green trucks, and on one of those trucks, is a man holding an exaggerated, almost cartoon like long barreled sniper rifle with a toothpick in his mouth, his left eye had a scar that seemed as if he got scratched by a wild animal. As this man savors the skulldems reaction to one of their troop members dismantled as if he never existed, he aims in again and takes another shot that quickly grazes past Maliks cheeks, causing him to bleed heavily and shout in agony. “RIDE OUT!” Boz yells out “HOW DARE YOU DO THIS!” He yells out again while glancing at the man taking the shots.
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With panic and confusion taking over the skulldem troop, they frantically ride towards the same direction, causing a clog on the east side of the highway. 9 other men with sniper rifles open the top of a circle cutout on the armored trucks and begin to also take aim, but before they could even place their fingers on the trigger, with absolute blistering pace, Boz quickly tags 2 armored trucks making them melt, including all the men in it. The 8 other snipers on the truck then begin to lock their aim onto Boz. Meanwhile, the clog on the highway caused by the skulldem begins to clear up. “What is happening?” Chris says out loud to himself with a shook tone. With Alana right next to him, she begins to speak. “That’s one of the low-level Militias who are a branch of the Motherland, the Sven must have put a bounty on this group. But these Militias don’t pick and choose who to kill, everything and everyone is fodder, so us staying here wont end good for us”. The motorbike that Alana is on rushes forward and seconds after, Chris and Vince’s riders also follow.
As all the skulldem troops rush off the highway, Malik who is grazed and bleeding, keeps looking back at Boz who grows farther away from the whole skulldem group. “Let’s go back and get Boz, you idiots!” Malik shouts out as he continuously bleeds. With all the burnt down cars and debris on the highway, every single skulldem rider manouvers around them, they ride for few seconds and make a sudden hook turn left onto a dirt road. A few meters away is a gate made of the synthetic rubber of car wheels. This gate starts to open as the motorbikes rush in fiercely. Kids, adults and older seniors come out of building made of scarp metal, and they all watch as the skulldem ride in. As the final member of the skulldem rides in the gates begin to shut. As the final rev of the motorbike sounds and echoes, silence falls. The skulldem are surrounded, As the gates continue to shut close, Malik bleeding out from the right side of his face shouts out, “WHERE THE HELL IS MILAN!”.
NEXT CHAPTER – TBD
