Apocalypse Fighter

Chapter 50: Between A Rock And A Hard Place

       Richard grinned. “Kevin,” he said. “Tell me about the second villa. Will you do that?”

       “Sure, sure,” Kevin replied. His first instinct had been to lie, but there was something about Richard that compelled him to tell the truth. While standing in front of the man, he felt naked. “It’s no problem,” he continued. “There is a rich businessman living there. The place had been empty, but when he found out that the outsiders had moved into the other villa, he moved in with his family right away. Yesterday, though, I saw Todd with a few of his thugs. They were walking around that house, and it looked as if they were preparing for an invasion.”

       Richard nodded, thanked Kevin, and handed him a few cans from his bag.

       Kevin: “Is that it?”

       Richard: “I plan to take over the island. Tell your men that if they want food, they will have to come with me. Once the job is done, I will give each of them enough food to last their family for a week, or the opportunity to join my group. If they want to join, though, now is the time to prepare. I want to leave in thirty minutes.”

       Kevin sighed and nodded his head. He did not like the arrangement, but he was stuck between a rock and a hard place. He had no food, and everyone in his building was in the same predicament. Todd had stolen all their food. Thus, even if they had not come across Richard, they would have had to eventually cross over to the island. After all, that was where the food was.

       The day before, Kevin had led a team to search for Nichole. At that time, he had happened to see the hoodlums moving lots of food into the houses with shopping carts. Apparently, they had robbed one of the local supermarkets. The situation seemed hopeless.

       The hoodlums had once been upstanding citizens, but in less than twenty-four hours, they’d become rioters, looters, rapists, murderers, pedophiles, and home invaders. Every time Kevin thought about this, he wanted to break into the villas with rifles and kill them all. Unfortunately, he was not as young as he had been when he was in the army, and he lacked adequate resources. When he looked at Richard, though, he found hope.

       Kevin knew that Richard was trying to use him and his men, but as long as the arrangement was mutually beneficial, he didn’t care. That being said, Richard made him uncomfortable. The man-made him feel inferior somehow, and he would have felt better about the whole thing if he was the one with the guns.

       Richard: “Are we in agreement?”

       “We are.” Kevin nodded and said, “We’ll be ready in thirty minutes. Let’s drive these assholes out of here.”

***

Jacky O’Brian was lying naked on the bed with a cigar in his mouth. His body was like a perfectly sculpted Adonis. He turned to look out of the window. Beside him, there was a naked underage girl lying on her stomach. She was asleep, and there was an emerald skirt under her legs. It was torn to pieces, so it was unable to cover her smooth baby-white body. Between her legs, the bedsheets were stained with blood, and they were crusty.

       Jacky scowled and said, “s**t! Now that Todd has a gun, I can’t help but think that this is not going to end well.”

       The girl stirred, and as her eyes slowly opened, he felt ‘the urge’ come upon him again. Her eyes were red and blotchy. She had fallen asleep crying. He had never thought that he would get the opportunity to sleep with a girl-child, but when it had happened, when he’d broken her hymen, it had felt more invigorating than anything he’d ever experience prior to that. Unfortunately, he had things to do, and even a quickie was out of the question. He told the girl to go back to sleep, and then he went downstairs.

       I need to kill Todd – Jacky thought as he hit the landing. For a long time, he had lived at the bottom of society, and he had a lot of experience to draw wisdom from. Thus, when he first saw Todd, he knew that he was a coward at heart. He was a man with a gun, and without the pistol, he was nothing.

       The first time he had seen Todd, though, Jacky had been afraid. The man’s gun was a police-issued pistol, and he’d assumed that Todd was an officer of the law. Thus, as a rapist, pedophile, murderous, home invader, he had a good reason to be skittish. Luckily for him, Todd was not a policeman, so he could kill him at his leisure.

         Jacky’s body tingled as his qi came to life. It crawled straight up from his belly, and it made the hair on his chest stand up and grow thick. It looked terrible, like a boar’s back, but he didn’t care. He felt like he was getting a comfortable electric shock. The qi spread through his arms. His muscles twitched and grew until they were twice the size that they’d been. “This is amazing!” he exclaimed. “With these arms, I don’t have to be afraid of Todd, or his gun!”

       Shortly after the meteor came to Earth, something had happened to Jacky. He had been delivering sand to his clients, just minding his own business, when all of the sudden he began to sweat profusely. He covered his head with his arms, and when his temperature came down, he discovered that his body had been infused with qi. The first thing he did after that was pick up a 200 pound sandbag, and he threw it more than 20 meters.

       Somehow, Jacky had been gifted with super strength. He wondered if he had any other powers, so he used a knife to stab himself. Much to his surprise, the knife was ruined, and there was barely a scratch on his skin.

       The next day, while Jacky was taking a walk, an old woman ran up to him. There was a mutant cat chasing her, and when it caught up to her, it bit her heel. He grabbed it and beat it to death.  

       The old woman’s name was Mrs. Hughes. She was a nanny in a villa in the Villa Zone. She asked Jacky to help her get home safely, and he agreed. On the way, he killed three mutant dogs and injured a young man who was robbing an elderly man. Up until then, he had only used his powers for good, but when he saw where the nanny lived, his heart turned black and he put the old lady in the basement. “I am the owner now!” he told her. Then, once the house was secure, he called his friends and they got together to do some bad things like looting, raping, and murdering.

***

       There was a young man in the kitchen. His name was William, but he preferred to be called Bill or Billy. Billy was in his twenties, and he was Jacky’s nephew. He had a machete in his hand, and when he saw his uncle, he asked if he had enjoyed the virgin girl. Billy had a vested interest in the answer because he had been promised the second turn with the child. Jacky did not answer his question, though, and that made him feel slightly uncomfortable.

       When Billy came to Washington, his intention had been to only stay for a year, and he’d hoped to get laid in that time. To date, though, he had not touched a single girl.

       Jacky went into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and his Nephew followed him.

Billy forced himself to smile and he said, “Uncle, are you worrying about Todd? I wouldn’t be. He has a gun, but maybe he doesn’t know how to use it. Even if he does, we outnumber him!”

       Jacky: “Well if you aren’t afraid of him, you can kill him when he comes here.”

       Billy’s face turned white and his mouth hung open like an imbecile. Could he possibly be mine? – Jacky wondered absently.  

       Jacky was in his forties and he had no children. When he was young, though, he and Billy’s Mother had frequently fooled around. It had been good s*x, and he had even offered to marry her once, but because he was poor, she had refused him. Years later, he heard that she had given birth to a baby. Coincidentally, the kid looked more like Jacky than he did his own Father.  The reason that he had come to Washington was to get a paternity test. Before that could happen, though, the meteor had appeared.

       Meanwhile, all the poor kid could think about was s*x, even if it was his Uncle’s sloppy seconds.