The Mad Queen
Memento Mori. Unus Anus
The following is a collab between myself, Maj , BloodLightning27 , TheTreForce
Colour code= Ralph, Owen, Brian, Shiona, Warren
Fisher was on his belly now, moving towards Brian as the man had taken a few hits. Then he ordered the Doctor to run upstairs and grab Shiona and her baby. Ralph’s heart sank. Milly and the others would surely need his help too, but it was a question of how he could get them all out.
“I’ll get her and the kids.” He nodded, keeping close to the ground. That was when he saw it, gas filling the room. A smoke bomb? No, this was something worse.
“Tear gas!” He yelled “They’re using tear gas!” He pulled his shirt and coat up in a vain attempt to keep the gas out of his eyes and mouth but he knew it was only a matter of time.
Thankfully, he made it to the bottom of the stairs before the effects started to kick in. He started to cough violently, his eyes and nose starting to burn. He remained low as he tried to climb the stairs.
Warren trudged through the hallway towards Shiona's room, "Michael, get your ass in gear! I'm not carrying you, no matter how much you'd like that." He turned upon reaching the open door to the mother's room, hand over his mouth as he entered the room. "Let's go Shinoa, we need to get you and your baby out now if you want what's best for it." He waited for the woman to grab her baby and took her wrist to lead her out. They exited the room and made their way to the top of the stairs where Ralph was trying to climb up through the smoke and tear gas which was getting thicker by the minute. "You're going the wrong way bub!" He called out to the man as he started leading Shiona down the stairs.
Fisher managed to get a glimpse of Warren and Shiona through the pain in his eyes, still heaving his lungs up due to what he’d breathed in.
“Wait.” He coughed, turning slightly and calling down to Warren “Where the hell is Milly?”
“We can’t stay here!” Owen yelled to his pretty boy companion. The gas seemed to be slowly consuming every crevice of the lodge. Thick burning chemicals floated in through the shot up door and broken windows, making it hard to breath. His arm immediately went up to his nose and mouth, hiding in the crook of his elbow while his irises burned.
The gunfire was getting quieter, it appeared that the other members of the lodge seemed to be doing their best to fell the enemy that had come to take his sister. The window in front of him was almost broken entirely out as it was. He couldn’t see the soldiers in the yard, but hoped that the fog of gas would work both ways and keep them from seeing him as well.
“Let’s move.” Owen tugged on the fabric of Brian’s shirt before jumping over the table and moving toward the window. He grabbed the chair closest to him and swung it through the glass, letting it shatter the rest of the way. Some of the shards scraped his flesh, he could feel the sting of the cuts but it was mostly ignored as he made his way outside, gasping for fresh air.
Brian struggled to breathe as tear gas started filling the room, even with all the windows broken, he doubted that they could get any fresh air in time. He dove through the window after Owen had made his exit. As the gunfire seemed to quiet down, Brian took the chance to continue firing back at the Hazmats. Somehow, some way, they were gonna have to retreat and the group was going to have to find another safe place to hide...or better yet, escape the city. “C’mon you sons of bitches, let’s dance!” He shouted as he reloaded and continued opening fire. Though at this rate, he was mostly spraying and praying. There were plenty of targets, he was bound to hit something.
Owen wasn’t sure what had happened in the span of time between hiding behind the table and exiting the window, but there was nothing but gas and corpses in the yard. Soldier after soldier was left lifeless in the dirt. One was a disgusting smear of gore across the grass from what he assumed was the explosion he had heard earlier. There were plenty of bullet holes both in the lodge and in the people outside of it. The sound of gunfire and pain was thick in the air. His eyes settled on a corpse in front of him, one of Andy’s arrows sticking out of his neck. He wondered where she was, if she was even still alive. Had they lost anyone? There wasn’t time to dwell on it. The fight wasn’t done yet.
Luca had Aderyn in tow, many of the other lodge members seemed to be flooding out, avoiding the gas. He couldn’t see any more of the soldiers, just the pathetic cries of one in the grass, holding his face. Owen took the few steps over to him and looked down at his form, blinded and screaming.
The ginger picked up his rifle, now on the ground, discarded. He should kill him, Owen knew that he should. These people had come to take his sister and kill everyone else. But the man couldn’t bring himself to do it, he was beaten and now unarmed. To kill him now would be needlessly cruel.
"I didn't see anyone else up there." Warren replied to Ralph as he made his way down the flight of stairs, still holding Shinoa's wrist. He could only assume that Michael was still following. They reached the flat of the first floor and the tall man looked around the room, tear gas biting at his eyes. Everything had been neat and nice just hours prior, but now had bullet holes, shattered glass, splintered wood, and a thick cloud of smoke and tear gas filling the lodge to the brim. The broken window that Owen and Brian had jumped out of caught his eye, "Come on!" He hurried across the floor to the window where glass littered the floor. Warren whipped his crowbar out and swept the bottom frame of the opening, removing the jagged edge formed from the glass that still held. His body carefully manoeuvred out and turned to assist Shinoa out, "Here, give me the baby!"
While it was painful, Shinoa was helped out of bed by Warren before they began fleeing, with Shinoa holding Valerie close, keeping her face covered so the poor infant would not inhale the noxious gas. Thankfully, her slippers kept her feet from being shredded by the broken glass that now littered the floor. As they made it to their exit, Shinoa handed Warren the bundled infant before climbing through herself. A broken shard ripped a thread off of her robe, but her safety and that of her daughter’s was much more important. Hopefully now everyone was out of the lodge, but now they were exposed to a large amount of firepower. She heard the unmistakable sound of someone reloading, which frightened her a little.
That ended up being Brian. “Crap, I’m down to my last mag. I’m gonna make it count.” He switched the rifle to Semi-Automatic. “Headshots only, Brian...Headshots only.” He said before opening fire once more.
“What do you mean!?” Ralph yelled at Warren “Where the hell…” It hit him like a tonne of bricks. The hazmats had hostages and using children would be a great way to play on people’s weaknesses. Through the pain in his eyes Fisher kicked the side of a wall, letting out an angry yell.
His first move was to get out of the house and from there he could work on trying to get Milly back. Though as his eyes continued to burn and lungs filled with gas Fisher found it harder and harder to get around. He bumped into part of the banisters on his way downstairs, slightly hitting against one of the walls of the lodge. He fell to his knees, coughing violently as it felt like he was about to pass a lung. Keeping low he started to crawl, making his way to the exit.
Mentioned: Rumble Fish (Milly)