[4] The Ghost Town

[Friend or Foe]

Piper
Kaden
Orion


He had lost his hostages.

That was all the steaming Orion could think of as he and his two companions walked past the dusty old sign that greeted them to 'Olde Town.' The town was basically exactly what you would picture as an old western ghost town.

Neither Kaden nor Piper were planning on saying anything to obviously angry man. He had just lost his hostages and his partner-in-crime. The only reason he wasn't lashing out at them was because it was their quick thinking they bought them a temporary escape route from the men who had attacked them.

"Let's recap," Orion said as he peered into the empty houses. "We're ambushed in the middle of a desert, lose our vehicle, our hostages, and one of our own," he notes the missing Ares, "And now we have about ten men, armed to the teeth in energy guns, looking for us in a ghost town in the middle of nowhere."

"You forgot the big black man with the giant blue cannon," Piper offered.

"Oh, yea," Orion said, "The one that vaporized the kid."

"Dimitri," Kaden grunted, "His name, was Dimitri."

Orion didn't respond. He just looked away, and turned around all together. "Well, we need to figure out what to do. We got away, but we lost Ares and the other hostage. Zena. We need to regroup with him."

"What are we going to do about the black guy and the ones with guns?" Piper asked, "I mean, we can fight good, but those guys had some serious firepower in their guns. We're talking machine guns, rifles, a rocket launcher..."

"Grow up," Orion grunted again, "If they come, we fight, and we kill them all. I don't care who shows up or gets in my way, I'm getting to that mansion with my hostage, and anyone wants to die along the way, is more then welcome to."

















(Aaaaand you're in a ghost town. Balrog and his guys with lots of guns will be lookin' for ya.)