Episode 7- Rodeo Racers

I'm Ashley Volkov, and I'm the leader of the 'Rodeo Racers' bandit group. I started it 7 years ago when I was 17. I had a little brother to take care of named Andy, he was only 10. It's me, my friend Miranda- who goes by Sally Shotgun-, and Bruce. Now I go by Hot Wheels, that's because I get around on Roller skates. I'm the fourth fastest bandit in all of Trap City. That's behind Red Eye Mistress, Punk, and Gold Runner. The red-eye children. All of them are weird, but they're very skilled. I've worked with Red Eye Mistress a few times.

She's very cocky and didn't even need me for the plan. Then we got caught and she sold me out and I got thrown in jail. I was in there until Sally got enough money to bail me out. Now I'm 24 and my brother Andy is 17. He decided not to join my group and joined another named 'Freaks'. The group is filled with people who should be dead but...aren't. One is a drowned kid named 'Marine', he fell off the bridge and drowned when he was 12. The group leader brought him back to life.

Now he's a human-fish hybrid and can't survive without his water tank mask. The other teammate is a girl who got into an explosion when she was 14 and is now a robot. She goes by Mechanic and has her brain placed in a replica of her body. No one has ever seen the leader of Freaks. But one Thursday morning, tragedy struck us all. My brother Andy was outside fighting with some street guy who had an ax. All Andy had was his bare hands. Everyone had gathered around to watch the fight. "Ashley, Andy is outside fighting some guy with an ax", Sally shouted.

I ran outside and pushed past everyone to see the fight. "Andy", I shouted. Andy punched the guy in the face and he raised his ax in the air. "No", I shouted, running towards him. It was too late, the guy had cut Andy's head clean off. Some people started running, crying, and going back to their homes. Bruce and Sally stayed right there with me. "Andy", I sobbed. I looked up and the guy who had done it and Bruce and Sally knew the plan. We gathered in a triangle around him. "What is this? I ain't got no money on me". "You just killed my brother", I shouted at him.

"Well your brother swung at me first"! Bruce punched him in the face and he fell over towards me. I kicked him in the head with my skate, causing him to bleed. He fell over to Sally and she shot him twice in the back with her shotgun. "Yee-haw, you're done", she said, southern accent as strong as ever. He fell to the ground and Bruce started to punch him over and over. Last, I came up to him and slammed my skate onto his head, he was dead. I turned back to my brother's lifeless body. I started to cry and Bruce and Sally took me home.

In the middle of the night, we went back to collect his remains. I sat down next to him and looked at him. In the distance, I heard footsteps. I looked up and saw two figures in the distance. It was the Freaks. People had only claimed to see them, but never with their own eyes. Now Sally, Bruce, and I were. They looked down at his body, then at me. "I'm Silvia Jimenez, this is Marine Cater, we're the group known to you as Freaks", Mechanic said.

"Your brother talked about you a lot, he was a very special member of this group". Mechanic picked up his head and Marine grabbed his body. "We will do our best to honor him", they said, walking away.