Bloop

Episode 1

    It was a Tuesday afternoon. Boring old Tuesday. It was meant to be the first day back at school after summer. That was if you’d lived 10 years previously. School only existed for those who were rich enough. And out in the middle of the Sahara desert, no one was ever rich enough to go to school. Everyone here was either a merchant with a bounty on their head, a rebel with a bounty on their head or a murderer with a bounty on their head. Will was all three. And the bounty for catching him was huge.

So there he sat in a bar that had only been built a few years previously but already looked like it was a few centuries old. The wallpaper was worn thin and you had to be careful where you stepped or the floor would fall in and you would be eaten alive by the man-eating crocodiles that took home in the villages underground water supply.

The village was nothing more than a few houses spread through about a 5-mile radius with a bar and water source. They had been struck broke for nearly three years ever since the war. At first, after the war, it seemed that they were the good guys. Then it really began. Of course, Will had been long gone before anything started. He knew these people well enough to know they weren’t gonna play nice forever. And so he ran. And now here he sat ordering another drink from the bartender that looked like he should have retired years before now.

Outside a crash sounded, followed by multiple screams. At first, this didn’t seem to bother Will much as he thought it was just another raid by one of the local crime families. But when another crash sounded followed by the screams his curiosity was aroused. Standing from the stool by the side of the bar, Will stepped out onto the porch and immediately regretted it.

Ten white SUV’s were pulled into the middle of the road and one black one. A symbol of a cross with an infinity symbol at the bottom decorated the sides of all the cars. Standing next to the vehicles were dozens of men dressed in black armour. A mask of a heavy-looking sleek material covered their faces and in their hands were blow torches. They were going to burn down the village. At first, Will had no idea why then out of the black SUV a man dressed in the same armour as his colleagues but in red stepped out.

The man’s black hair was cleanly cut and smoothed back, his eyes were a dark brown that seemed to be searching the crowd for something or someone. Will knew exactly what he was looking for. Will’s brain was screaming at him to move but he couldn’t make his legs move. Ryder hadn’t changed a bit.

As if sensing Will’s eyes on him the man’s eyes met Wills and the corner of his lips twitched up revealing a satisfied smirk. Only when the man began to take quick strides towards him through the chaos did Will's feet begin to move. He began to stumble back trying to escape.