Chapter 254: Flashback (5)

A then bullet went through his head before he could even speak

Kenny pulled us for cover in a nearby building leaving his body behind as we saw Benny's body being rapidly fired at till we can't even recognize it anymore and we saw gorgers feast on his body

"No no no no"

"We have to get hi-" Kelly tried to say but got cut off

"We'll come back later, but-" Kenny tried to reply but even he can't stop the tears coming out "We'll need to escape"

In my moment of fury, I released myself from Kenny, got my rifle into single burst mode, ran out and blast the copter down as it came crashing down killing a few gorgers on the ground and with my rage, I went and kill all the surrounding gorgers with my fists.

*****

I passed out after killing all the gorgers alongside Kenny and Kelly due to exhaustion.

I woke up near rubble lying down on a piece of cloth with a camp fire which looks to be recently put out, and I turned to see Kenny and Kelly who were still awake.

But I didn't see Benny...it wasn't a nightmare, but a reality, I just saw my own brother die right before my eyes, my eyes started to tear up as Kenny and Kelly both hugged me also crying.

"No time for tears..." Kenny said as he wiped his face "We were always told to prepare for the unexpected, but-"

"I know, I know"

It took a very long time to calm down, but once we did, we decided to get some rest. Since I got some sleep, I took watch as they took their turn to sleep.

*****

We turned off our signals for the night in case someone will come for us in our sleep and still haven't decide whether to turn it back on.

"With this map, the closest safe zone is here where we can get help, a 1 day walk through more waves of gorgers. We can send another flare to signal a copter for help..." Kenny trailed off and we got the message

"Yeah, we don't know if they are in on it too" Kelly nodded "What about the safe route with no gorgers, how long?"

"3, just enough to last all the food bars and water we have left" Kelly answered "But they'll be expecting us through the safe route, so we'll go here through the semi safe route, 2 days with a few obstacles along the way"

"I suggest we turn on only one of our signals, it can detect close by gorgers and with only one signal, even if those traitors come, they'll underestimate us since they know about only one of us"

"Right, we'll turn my signal on" Kenny agreed "But let's not let our guard down. I can't lose anymore of us, should we turn away help from others till we reach the safe zone? I'll vote on refusing their help"

"Yeah, me 2"

"Well not that you'll need mine but I also agree" Kelly nodded "We don't know how many there are, let's move"

"Befo-before we go" Kenny said as he stopped us "If I die-"

"Kenny-" Kelly tried to stop him

"If I die, promise me that one of us who survive and leave the military, you will donate a portion of your money to help out orphanages," Kenny ignored Kelly "If you don't have money, help out with soup kitchens and stuff, just promise me"

"Dude, not cool" I replied "I don't need anymore of this stupid 'if I die' shit right now, I'm already barely holding it together"

"Look, with enough funding, they can hire attorneys or something in order to pardon them from training and going to the frontlines like us an-"

"Dude, live and do that yourself, because I already lost one brother and I'm not about to lose another. Let's go, I'll hide my presence and trail behind you and Kelly will be up front"

"You can really speak like a cliché protagonist sometimes" Kelly muttered

"Thank you, come on walk and save your tears, We'll honor Benny later, for now, we need safety"

*****

And end of flashback for now, don't worry, it will continue in a few chapters.

Yep, we are now in the ruins that is now Florida, I don't know how deep the worshippers manage to infiltrate the military, so if we kill all the specials and and a large portion of gorgers in the area, this mission would at least be called off changing my fate.

-You're thinking about it aren't you?- Diana asked

-Yeah, just a bit, but it's all in the past now, but I call dibs on the special that cut off Benny's arm and made him lose a lot of blood-

-You can have him, but I want the one with superspeed and shapeshifting ability- Ace requested -If only his superspeed doesn't have a cooldown, he would've been invincible-

-What about the warping one?- Siege asked

-You guys can have it, after all it was mostly Karen who killed...-

And as we trudged through the city of rubble avoiding gorgers since killing them would alert the specials, with my eyes, I can see the would be winged special in the distance discussing something with a soldier.

"Everything is in rubbles" Lia commented "These monsters or whatever are horrible"

"Now's not the time, I'll take you on a date in beautiful one when I manage to travel across worlds, but right now I got a monster that I need to kill "

"Let's split" Damon said with a grin "With magic, no one is this world is stronger than us"

"Go in pairs as a precaution like we planned"

3rd person view

The sky started to rain out of the blue with lightning flashing across the sky and loud thunder booming across the distance.

What was strange was the fact that the temperature around the area started to drop dramatically.

"Strange" the special commented "It's never this cold around here"

Ice started forming around the area freezing everything including the soldiers in place, reacting fast, the special got out his wings and fly to the air and activating his abilities"

"We've been caught" it mumbled "But this ice ability, it's very powerful, I better be cautious"

Lightning from the sky then started striking him several times crashing him to the ground, he ten created a wind barrier of sorts but even that got destroyed killing him multiple times.

His body started to freeze up too and he couldn't escape, so he cause a minor earthquake which killed the frozen soldiers and break his limbs apart. But it allowed him to escape as his regeneration would healed his lost limb.

In the distance is Grace Leven whose disguise is the look of Perseus Silver grinning from ear to ear.