A wish to kill

04 – A wish to kill

"You don't seem too well Jenny." Momo shared a cereal bar with Jenny.

"I didn't sleep, I was all night frightened with the idea that guy could raped and killed me, or killed me and raped me."

Momo eat a dry fruit. "You left him alone with your grandma, you know?"

"I know, but he's planning something. He´s taking advantage of people thinking he´s J.J.."

"Let´s just go with the flow until he goes away."

"And kill us all?" Sam the wolf was startled. No way. He knows we know the truth."

"What we can do? He´s trained to fight and is a cyborg. Those people are super strong."

They thought and thought without any idea.

After the lunch in Momo´s house they sat in the old rusty benches of the park.

"We can warn Greedy Eye and he make a trap with his goons."

"If he discover we all die, Jenny. You don't think that guy is stronger than a couple of goons?"

"That is your answer to every idea, if he discovers we are all dead."

"I think we need to come back and play along."

"Hoy Jenny."

They looked at the short Loli girl with an angry expression. "Meilin? What are you doing here at this hour?"

My Grandpa is bothering everybody that your brother appeared and ordered him to fix the old Claw ship.

"The old Claw ship?" Jenny stared at Momo. "Why he wants a ship?" Momo asked.

Meilin rolled her eyes. "To get out of here, what else?"

Momo thought for a moment. "That´s good, he goes away."

"No, that´s not good." Jenny gets up and slapped her pants like was taking dust out.

"Why?" Meilin asked. "You not going with him? I thought your goal was to get out of here."

"And it is." Jenny said frustrated. "But I will do my way."

"You do what you want." She shrugged and went away with a match in the mouth.

They went back to Jenny´s home apprentice, in the ways they found many neighbors complimenting J.J. and talking about their meet with him.

That was more and more scarier. They felt as if they were surrounded by the shadow of doom.

At Jenny´s door they became confused. There´s a match with a smile face. The knob and door seemed new, No rusty, no cracks and a new painting. They exchanged worried stares and opened the door.

The place was different, the carpet, armchairs and coach seemed washed and with bright colors, the green walls were cream, without any cracks and everything made of wood was polished.

"Jenny!" Granny Jia apparead from the kitchen. "Where you went?"

"I was in Momo house. What happened here?"

"Your brother insisted to fix everything. He´s throwing money away like there´s no tomorrow."

"Where is he?"

"In the kitchen with Tracy. He´s doing a thing called 'Lamen' with a pasta maker he brought."

"We going to my room." Jenny opened her room door and was frightened by a droid waxing her floor.

"Hello." The small droid waved at her.

"What´s that?" Jenny pointed.

"That´s Hobbytku. He´s a companion droid your brother brought to help me with my shores." Granny pet the droid. "He´s not sweet?"

Jenny started to feel suffocated. I remember that we are late to go to the waste. We have work to do.

"Take J.J. with you." Grandma Jia said serious. "That place is dangerous and he was once a military."

"Oh dammit." Jenny and Momo changed stares.

"That´s the droid from the tech store." Momo pointed. "It was not for sale. It was the most expensive thing in the whole village."

"I know. I know!"

Tracy and J.J. comes from the kitchen, he was dressing his blue buccaneer outfit. It was weird because everything scarier at him disappeared. He was a handsome and simpatic tall man. If wasn't for the triangle with z´s he will not have anything scary, and only a few selected group of people knew the meaning.

"I´m going with you guys, too." Tracy comes hoping. "Let´s go at my home to take my gun."

Outside the bunker entrance was a wooden cart, that Tracy happily sat down and turn on the floating plugs, making it stand about two feet from the ground. "You two don't come?"

"J.J. is going to push this cart?" Momo pointed. "We are fasting walking."

"No, we are not." Tracy waved and against their will, they sat down.

At Tracy Bunker they wait until she come back with a red shotgun. "What you think?"

J.J. took a look. "A flail line mark I. It´s gave a good damage at close range but is not the best for accuracy."

Tracy crossed her arms with a raised eyebrow. "You know about weapons."

J.J. agreed. He knew a lot about that weapon, but the feell of touching one was surprisingly. It seemed like a toy, made of solid metal and inexplicably his body know exactly how to hold and aim like the character in the game.

"You didn´t brought your gun Momo?" Tracy asked.

Momo shook her head, and.

J.J. started to push the wooden cart and they were hold surprised when he started to run. His basic speed was around twenty two miles per hour or thirty five kilometers per hour, and took them until the waste desert in a couple of minutes.

As a sedentary person, being able to run infinitely, pushing the wooden cart at that speed feel so good that Jin thought he could do it forever.

At the sky Hotwing fly above watching them.

"I have a detector, Jin." Tracy show to him. "Let´s look for some piece we could use."

"You are not tired?" Momo asked holding in the cart fearing to fall.

"No. I think I can run like that forever."

"That is the pile we come yesterday." Momo pointed. "We come fast."

"There´s a lot of things that are working around 90% or more?" Tracy jumped out from the cart.

"How that work?" Jin asked. "How it knows if something is working?"

"No idea." Tracy pointed at a pile. "Dig it."

Jin dig the piles of scraps of metal and equipment like it was taking blankets from a bed. Jenny and Momo gave a step back worried.

"I really found something." He turned holding a gun. "It´s an assault rifle, full loaded."

"You understand about this one too?" Tracy asked.

"A kusarigama thunder mark I, the standard for troopers." Hotwing answered. "Accurate when fired in short bursts, and effective when fired on full auto, the full charge is pretty effective to penetrate shields, armor, and barriers."

"Yo! You could make promotions to sell one of those, no girls?" Tracy winked.

Jenny and Momo only stared with their mouths opened.

"Momo, you said you have a gun." J.J. pointed at her. "You know how to use one of those?"

"Hã… Think so…"

"Good." J.J. put the gun in her hand. "It has forty shoots but I put in burst mode, if some mutant appear, with luck you can end it with just one hit."

"Jin, I think I saw a perfect pack of medi-gel cans around here." Tracy called. "We can sell to the drug store."

"It´s probably expired."

"Off course is expired. They throw away because they cannot sell. You forgot how we got medicaments around here?"

"I forgot that we have drugstores around here. Where it is?"

"It´s the greengrocery, it is impossible to survive only selling medicines around here."

Momo stared confused. "What I do with this gun?"

"Gun?" Jenny hold Momo while Tracy pulled J.J..

"What´s now?" She asked.

"That´s it." Jenny whispered. "You take your shotgun and while he´s pretending to Tracy, you shoot him in the head."

"Me?"

"Yes, you. I don´t have a shotgun. I´m poor. You are the one experiment with those things."

"It´s not like I go training around. You have idea how many each shoot cost?"

"Girls, you aren't coming?" Tracy called. "I found some box of curatives."

"Look there." In the horizon, a ship was discharging waste. It was weird that at that distance the trash should burn in the atmosphere or smash in the ground, but the trash was transported through a blue light and gently put in the ground.

"Fresh garbage, you want to go there?" Tracy smiled. "Farthest from the recycle factory, better is the loot."

Jin point with his head to them enter in the wooden cart, and pushed them around the wasteland while the ship went away.

To his surprise a monster appeared. It was a mix of a cat with a rat tail and head, it had six member and green fur.

"A mutant!" Tracy screamed and couldn´t shoot because loose the balance, Floating things aren´t the more stables.

Jin took a big scrap of metal and throw with all his might in the head of the creature. A hard sound of something broken and a blood stream flow from the wound.

Quickly he got another scrap and throw at the creature, giving time to Tracy jump from the cart and finished the monster.

Jin come closer too see the death of the creature. It was the first time he killed something that wasant a bug. It wasn't like the game with previous animations and were the creature disappeared. He could feel the heat and the smell from the animal, not a monster but a weird animal.

His stomach become upset and he started to shake. He was taken the life of a living being.

"That´s a big one." Trace snugged him with her shoulder. "Are you thinking to eat it?"

"Eat it?" Jin was lost in his thoughts for a second.

"You think is better to sell it for a restaurant´or the baby food factory?"

"Baby food? We are not going to sell a dirt creature that lives from garbage to make baby food."

"You are talking like those spoiled Richie's from the big city. Don´t tell you want to take its core crystal and let the meat to the other mutants to eat?"

"You saw what that guy did?" Momo said shaking in fear.

Jenny agreed with her head and swallowed in fear.

"Another one." Momo pointed at a mutant behind a pile of garbage..

Jin took another piece of spaceship and froze. The first time he made from impulse. At the videogames he could be the most vicious, cruel and ruthless player. But against a real living creature, was different. Everything that people say about violent media bring the worst about people was pure bullshit.

He watched the gruesome movies and played the violent games that ever existed, and he was incapable to kill a living creature, even for self defense.

"Those mutants always walk in groups." Tracy shoot at the creature that was just startled and jump away. "Look there-s more."

Jin started to throw the scraps of metal near the pawns of the creatures hopping to scare them away and the ones who are too brave are grabbed by Hotwing and trow far way.

"Now!" Jenny yelled. "Shoot! Shoot at him."

Momo positioned, aimed, took a long breath and pointed down. "I can´t. I can´t;"

"Gimme that." Jenny took the assault rifle violently and pointed with the stock close to her eye.

"If you shoot in that position you going to lose your eye." Momo corrected her while Tracy and Jin fought the monsters.

"Thank you." Jenny hold the gun properly and pointed at Jin. She hold her breath and started to shake.

"What you are waiting for?" Momo complained. "Pull the trigger."

"The trigger?" Jenny froze. "I… I…"

"Dammit, give me that back." Momo tried to take the rifle back.

"No." They started to fight like two small brats over a toy and ended shooting a blast right in Jin face that fell backwards.

"By the beards of the prophet!" Jenny released the gun.

"We killed him." Momo screamed.

"Jin!" Tracy forgot the monster and run towards him.

J.J. didn´t remembered about his previous life, but he was sure that never felt so much pain in his life. It burned, sting, itch and all kind of unpleasant sensations at the same time.

The girls screamed to see his ravished face showing bones and teeth's, like a character from an horror movie.

Dizzy by the pain was easier to react when the monsters surrounded them and attacked the girls. He took the rifle and started to shoot.

He didn´t intent to kill the creatures, just to make them go away, and even if he wanted could be harder since that was a first level beginner gun and waste mutants were around level 30.

Luck that Space oddity had an advanced skill curve. To kill strong monsters you could grind to level up or be extremely skillful.

That gave two options to the players, spend time grinding to be strong enough to kill a monster with few hits or spend a lot of effort and concentration to kill a monster with raw skills. Hardcore gamers love to enter in epic battles against strong opponents with low level, and Jin was a hardcore gamer and know very well the weak spot of the monsters. With three hits their drop.

Using a gun was much different from the videogame, even with the body automatized to fight it feel like he was a noob and being dizzy with pain was not easy.

Jin hit the neck and the belly to make then drop, judt to have time to ran away. If is like the game is just a matter to get enough distance that and the monster gave up from them.

Thinking that was some kind of strategy the girls advanced with long knives and started to kill them.

Jin wanted to avoid killing, but he wasn't a people´s person. He wanted to shout to the girls not kill, but he can´t shout to people at all.

Unfortunately they weren´t fast enough to kill and some monsters were capable to recover, and Jin had to drop them again until he was without ammunition and started the drop the last two hitting them with the gun as a melee weapon.

He hit the neck of the first one until Tracy stabbed it and the second one could attack and scratch his arm badly.

"Wow, we took eleven of them." Momo forgot all their problems and giggled.

"You don´t need to hit them with the gun, we also found ammunition." Tracy said showing the clip´s they found.

"Ok! I forgot."

"Oh my! Your face." Tracy started to freak out. "Fast, get those medi-gel we saw early."

"If they were expired?"

"Jin!" She shout angry.

Jenny and Momo run until the medigel package and opened with their knifes dirt in blood. Fast as they could they brought the medi-gel.

"I'm going to put the medi-gel now." Tracy applied in Jin face and the pain started to fade away. The girls looked amazed, his body absorbed the medic gell like dry earth absorbs water and the effect was fast.

Jin felt an energy entering his body, a new strength filled his whole being, his breath become lighter, the image from his eyes improved incredible, and a window appeared floating in the air. "Starting process of restoration? Cost 8 pp. S/N"

"Yes." Jin clicked in the switch.

"Yes what?" Tracy asked.

"Yes start the process of restoration."

"I'm already finishing. Just need the hypo spray." Tracy took in her bag.

A new window appeared. "Healing Cost 1 pp. S/N." This time Jin clicked silently.

The skin started to grow with his beard and hair. When the pain was gone he´s face was completely recovered with a full beard and considerable hair.

"Seems that I will need to comb from now." He tried a joke, but no one laugh.

"That's amazing!" Tracy said startled. "I heard that P.C. healed fast, but this looks like magic."

"What happened?"

"You healed without any scar."

"And that's odd?"

"I don't know. You are the first P.C. that I saw in real life Jiwon." Tracy said. "I heard that you guys could heal instantly but I think was just a way of saying."

Jin felt parts of his body connecting and the strength filling his body. "I think I´m ready to go now."

Jenny and Momo where a total mess, their clothes were dirty with the blood of mutants and their faces covered in snot and tears.

Space oddity wasn´t the kindest of the games. The death rate to early stages was high, none problem since in MMORPGs everybody was immortal and just respawn in a save point. But there´s no reason to believe that could happen and the pain was very real. A couple of shoots could kill him, probably permanently.

And the worst part were the NPCs. They couldn´t be evolved, were fragile, and their deaths permanently.

The game had daily gachas to get new NPC helpers and crew. Some characters were rare and people like to collect, but the most commons were just disposable.

"Tracy you heard about respawn?"

"No. What is that?"

"What happens with a P.C. that dies in combat?"

"I don´t know. I heard that some had their valuable pieces ravaged and others just abandoned in the battle field."

"Right." Those girls aren´t disposable girls and he wasn´t immortal. He could think in the terms of a game.

A cheerful started to play with a new window. "All the monster eliminated. Grade C. HP-PP recovered. Level up." Seemed that he was the only one who could hear or see. "Holy Molly, this is a game?"