Ignavus : City of Blood

Act 22 : Alive and Well

The leader wakes up under a portable cold compress on the forehead. She was reclining upon the green linen specified for medical treatment in the personal pod that the bearded man has deployed. Next to her, John and his wife laid down unconscious. It is Gads Gilmore’s individual work in a whole as Shanice found Natasha Gastano was lying across the right, as well, looking tired and expression-less on the figure.

”Hey, have you done all of this for us, Gads?” She squirmed a little after attempting to roll sideways, facing the bearded man’s whereabouts. He has applied a number of bandages around his arms and chest all by himself. That is her prior thoughts, indeed, yet it was nothing but mere assumption when her eyes met a number of mini-drones flying across,”Oh, you’ve used them in full force for treating us, huh?” She asked, sprinkled by a little spark of jest within.

Diverting from his little notes for awhile, Gads Gilmore appeared ecstatic after stumbled across his sister’s awakening, “You’ve come to, sis, good grief.” He massaged her arms a little once arrived, passing through the petty traffic of the flying robot beforehand,” What do you mean? Oh, if you meant these guys above me, they insisted to support me up instead of me making them to be.” The bearded man hailed one of them with respect by posing a military salute towards them.

‘zuuuu...zuuuu.’

The mini drone hovers in mid-air and maintained its altitude seconds after receiving such gesture. Below the cubicle-shaped physique, its two all-purpose claws under the belly acted as the limbs for showing off various expressions and responses alike. To corresponds over the amicable gesture that the bearded man has adorned, Its front was facing Gads Gilmore in slightly-bent fashion and does the similar before him in return. The left hand does its part to be placed before the windshield-like structure on the upper side of its body and mimicking the bearded man in flawless similarity.

“I’m not a manchild like John, sweety-boy. A plaything in that form will never make me en-“

She paused her statement. Someone adjacent to her bed has been wriggling in excitement towards the short display of intelligence that the bearded man was having. Subsequently, an intense clapping noises emerged from the right side of the bed at once,”Marvelous, Gads! I am your fans, now.” He yelled.

Without even having to take a second thought, the curly-haired woman smirks,”Yes, that manchild has awake, it seems. How’s it going, pretty boy?” Asked Shanice directly onto seemingly-idle blanket across the left side. His black-colored hair was the sole reason for her blatant identification of the man she was referred to earlier. So far, the curly-haired woman finds no visible movements upon the head.

~smack~

Shanice lands a perfect mark onto his head,”Oww! You’re a monster, Shanice. That hurts!” John growled in agony. The leader has thrown her pillow towards the man and hitting his crown in one fell swoop. The base structure of the pillow makes it viable for her to secure a perfect score onto the target. It has a solid compound rather than cottony-built inner side within, so her accuracy has increased ten-fold despite her stamina deprivation at the moment.

“No, John, the monster here is Aldo Meridic.” She boasted herself in pride,” I’m just kidding with you, John. Don’t tell me you wanted to cancel me because of that.”

John Straverman rises up from the bed. His bandage pattern were analogous to the bearded man with regards to injury, complemented to additional damage on both palms as one part of his deal in front of the steering wheel. He was an explosive and unpredictable personality in their initial introduction of the game. Jovial in nature, the black-haired man has been stirred in utmost excitement despite utter shock they felt against,” Mind if I try it like you, Gads?” questioned him towards the strongest member of their survival club.

Indubitably, the bearded man will never reject anyone whose interest was acclaimed onto his prolific amount of electronic device. He rested his palm upwards and pointed across one of the calm-fashioned drones over the south,” Be my guest, John. I have changed them to their harmless state by disarming the mini-missiles and a few gatling guns under the belly.” He expounded thoroughly.

“A genius in the making will always be prepared. Thanks, Gaddy-o!”

Shanice yawned.

For the two men on board, automated technology will always become a leisure to die for. She was never understood the crave of advanced machinery or extravagant hobby related to robotic appliances. Most high-end technology resides at the industrial part of Axeport City, Darte and Estel, whilst the profound study regarding advancement of such properties located at education sub-city state of Glenna. Their residential house at Neatol have no collectible part of such luxury. For them to purchase it, the robot will cost them a year of profit from their gun-making business, so the woman has a little speck of interest towards them at the most.

And now, the curly-haired woman has no sort of entertainment to kill some time. Her bored self look around for one sort of amenities that will brought her interest to settle. Gads Gilmore has installed a number of screen in the room. None of those resembled a television of some kind to meddle about. It will be useful for them to browse one news channel and overviewed the last four days that elapsed, but the curly-haired woman found none of her desire at the moment, thus her visible dissent on the face,”Have you installed anything worth-watching? This pod of yours lack happiness if you ask me.” She rested both arms before her chest.

“You want to watch movie, perhaps?”

Gads Gilmore placed his forefinger across the screen with black frame around it. He uttered no words of wisdom, but the mini-drones could somewhat capture his desire and goes quickening themselves to fulfill his order,”Look at that, John. I’ve programmed them to detect my interest just by picking up the cue from my finger. Neat as hell, right?” He jumped once to suppress his own sparks of enjoyment,”I will plant them your motion to ensure they will answer you straight on, John. Their assistance should be useful for our group.”

“You sure? tell me about it, Gads!”

~click~

Shanice ignored the pair of chirping birds and roams around many channels that she felt the most importance to watch from. An emergency broadcast should be playing twenty-four hours and working on its own electricity. The Governor of Axeport herself stated them in one of her many public speeches. Pertaining to the amount of outer space threat that they often heard on the global television programme, their Governor exclaimed an automated 24 hours emergency broadcast for directing Axeport city occupant to the nearest shelter available from their location.

~blitz~

‘This is twenty-four hours news flash designed by Diane Archimeda, our last Governor of Axeport City.  My name is Lilianne Gutson and I will inform you of the closest shelter to choose from.‘

The news anchor’s announcement made her eyes squinted,”Last Governor? Who would be clever enough to murder the only child of our city’s founder?” mumbled the curly-haired woman in front of the screen. Gads Gilmore got his interest directed to the news broadcast, at last,” What’s the hustle? Diane Archimeda, you mean-“

Shanice nodded towards his brief query,” No other person in this new world permitted to obtain that last name in the register, Gads. It’s our sole Governor, indeed. Who would be having such ways to our leader?”

~bzzt-bzzt~

Now, the screen got exchanged with the map of Axeport city. Near the projector situated across the left side from her desk, Lilianne Gutson stood by with pride. She flicks a silver tube in her left palm for its pointing feature and started to nail down a figure on the map. It is the bastion sub-city of Brathe that their small group has left behind.

’ We’ll start with Brathe, one of the most safest place in our city after alien attacks. There are a number of establishments for refugees to rest until further notice. You can see it on the map for the coordinates as I pin them down.’

Once the female host sank her stick onto the map projection, an exact address and its location materialised on the screen afterwards. Any flat screen with one-touch capacity could display them in a single click of the finger. Without further ado, the mini-drones read their owner’s mind and immediately press the sole option on the monitor as requested.

~zoom~

“Oh, so PangaeaMart has built a safe refugee center underground, huh? Interesting.” Gads Gilmore muttered,”We’re lucky to leave their city that early. The flood of people will hinder our escape if we departed in later fashion than what we were today.”

Shanice laid a glance towards the bearded man, then returned back to the television screen again,”I suppose so. We’ve been trespassing and took a bunch of merchandise in it, so I’d think we’re not be so welcome to leave if we were getting caught by the queue.”

~bzzt~

It requires ten entire minutes for the news anchor to showcase the whole vacant evacuation spot around the city. Within the nine regions that divides the authority of Axeport, there are fifteen of them in total to accomodate the entire citizen with adequate shelter in front of the man-made disaster that occurred. Each one is able to contain a hundred thousand residents of the respective sub-city and provided them with infinite amount of supplies that were distributed throughout the pipes assembled within.

“So, it means that we’ll gonna have to compete against the citizen of Axeport that were rescued within the shelter? That’s unfair!” John Straverman pouted,” Aldo Meridic should have his own cruel ways to navigate around the matter, and I know it would always be a mad one in our experience so far.”

Shanice affirmed the black-haired man’s opinion with a single nod,“Yeah, the evacuation shelter should be considered the most dangerous exhibit to date. That sick-man would deploy his best arsenal to obliterate most ‘participant’ inside. Could be most of the Caedes, too, I think.”

The news appeared still in its run for another report as Lilianne Gutson strolls back to the desk where she was once belong. She wrapped up the paper in front of her and folded them into one bundle to subsequently putting them away across the side. Her eyes fixated upon the camera for expressions of guilt and remorse to be displayed, as the news anchor applied her stern appearance into practice.

‘Next, It is about the unfortunate news report from our capital sub-city of Contis. Our Governor has been murdered by an unknown figure. The local Police Officer esteemed that It was resulted from law-less region that has been enacted by the maniac abroad.’

~rustle-rustle~

Shanice noticed a subtle movement that emerged from the left. Natasha Gastano got herself up from the bed and sitting down with the blanket covered her legs against the cold temperature of their surroundings,” Hello, fellas. What’s crackin’ you up these days?” She murmured in slightly exhausted note across the face. Elisa Straverman has become the last awakened member of their group, rubbing her eyes against the bright illumination above before then gazing around in confused look.

“Where am I?”

Her husband immediately goes away from his bed and hugged Elisa tightly afterwards,”We’ve been rescued by Gads, babe. We’re lucky to have him with us.” He stated. Gads Gilmore goes flustered a little before such unsuspected compliment and scratched his hair in response,” I’m glad you two are awake, Elisa, Natasha. My Drones lifted both of you to the bed, if that’s a query you seek from my action.”

His concern derived from suspicious gaze of the auburn-haired lady. Natasha Gastano should be the one to complain once knowing of Gads Gilmore’s involvement in their rescue. The bearded man advises himself to give he an early explanation, yet her warm expression settled up the contrary.

“Don’t be so afraid, Gads. I’m thankful for your action. Sorry if I’m being too livid towards you lately.”

Natasha Gastano laid a wide smile before the bearded man. It is the most beautiful one that Gads Gilmore has ever received, therefore his freeze towards the courteous gesture of the woman instead,”Don’t mention it, Natasha. It’s my duty, after all.”