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[font size=1" color="#FF0000]LAST EDITED ON Jun-22-00 AT 05:46AM (GMT)[p]The firefight erupted without warning. Quinch leaped off his bike and shot out a few rounds from his '44 as he sprinted towards the nearby boulder.
"Seems your car is a real bullet magnet!" he yelled, and peering obove the boulder shot one knifed highwaysman that was charging at him.
"It isn't even mine!" Ratcatcher shouted back, sounding almost amused, as another of the raiders before him screamed and fell in a cloud of dust.
"Run for that cave!" the highwayman leader called to his men, realizing this was this was a lost fight. As he and his men ran towards the cave, Quinch aimed carefully and took another of them down before slowly emerging from behind the rock, his gun still trained toward the cave.
"Wanna go after them?" he heard Ratcatcher say.
"Nah," came the Caesar's voice. "They're not worth..."
"AAAAAA-" A scream came from inside the cave, not a battle cry, but a desperate scream or someone who rounded a familiar corner to see Death swing its scythe at him.
One of the surviving raiders staggered out of the cave...
"Who..." Quinch thought.
... blood gushing from his arm, almost severed from his body....
"No, what..."
... as shapes moved in the darkness of the cave, low, almost unearthly growls, mixed with sounds that few of those who have ever heard somebody's flesh and bones torn from their bodies ever forget...
"Here...?"
...and moved into the light, the fading light outlining squat figures, creatures from someone's nightmare, one of them carrying what might've once been a human body impaled on its giant claws...
"Oh no..." he heard someone's voice whisper as he popped another clip in his gun, almost numb. And he wasn't sure the voice wasn't his own.
...throwing it away almost with disgust, and looking at him, razor-edged teeth on its small head red from the dripping blood...
"Deathclaws."
"Seems your car is a real bullet magnet!" he yelled, and peering obove the boulder shot one knifed highwaysman that was charging at him.
"It isn't even mine!" Ratcatcher shouted back, sounding almost amused, as another of the raiders before him screamed and fell in a cloud of dust.
"Run for that cave!" the highwayman leader called to his men, realizing this was this was a lost fight. As he and his men ran towards the cave, Quinch aimed carefully and took another of them down before slowly emerging from behind the rock, his gun still trained toward the cave.
"Wanna go after them?" he heard Ratcatcher say.
"Nah," came the Caesar's voice. "They're not worth..."
"AAAAAA-" A scream came from inside the cave, not a battle cry, but a desperate scream or someone who rounded a familiar corner to see Death swing its scythe at him.
One of the surviving raiders staggered out of the cave...
"Who..." Quinch thought.
... blood gushing from his arm, almost severed from his body....
"No, what..."
... as shapes moved in the darkness of the cave, low, almost unearthly growls, mixed with sounds that few of those who have ever heard somebody's flesh and bones torn from their bodies ever forget...
"Here...?"
...and moved into the light, the fading light outlining squat figures, creatures from someone's nightmare, one of them carrying what might've once been a human body impaled on its giant claws...
"Oh no..." he heard someone's voice whisper as he popped another clip in his gun, almost numb. And he wasn't sure the voice wasn't his own.
...throwing it away almost with disgust, and looking at him, razor-edged teeth on its small head red from the dripping blood...
"Deathclaws."