Day One: Afternoon

[Burter]

Face to Face

Paragus, Talys, Uno, Warako

Downtown USA.

Okay, not quite.

Warako didn't really grasp the concept of 'downtown.' The advertisements laying around told him he could get a facial for only 10 bucks. He didn't know what a facial was, but it sounded like a damn good deal.

The namekian waltzed into the courtyard of the downtown mall, looking around the area at the many closed shops. It looked like the area had been raided, as many of the windows were shattered and the ground was burned from flames. Behind him were stairs leading up to an outside bar, while in front of him was a movie theatre. Surrounding him were shops, all pillaged.

He didn't like the situation of being put in a game of death, but he had to make the most of it. As he moved to the left to go into a store, he paused, hearing footsteps. In front of him was a familiar sight: the one-eyed saiyan warrior he had just saved the universe with. "Paragus," he said, almost relieved. The man was holding a small device in his hand, but his survival bag was nowhere.

Behind him came another figure. This time he didn't recognize the short-haired man standing in a martial arts outfit. He didn't have anything in his hand, just kept his fists balled up as he stared at the namekian.

Finally, a third figure appeared. Another one of Warako's previous comrades, Uno stood with a shotgun up over the back of his neck, pointed towards the sky. In his free hand was a small white rodent with cute, pointed ears. "What's going on?" Warako asked, as if he needed to. He backed up towards the stairs, now closed on three sides. "Uno? Para?"

"We're traveling together," Paragus said. "We saw you down the street and followed you."

"Does that mean..." Warako began to say, looking at the three of them. "You arn't playing?"

The man the namek didn't recognize, Talys, spoke up. "Not play?" He asked, surprised. "You can't just not play. This is a game, bro. You don't walk into the Abyss and say 'I'm just gonna camp out for a weeks.'"

The clicking sound of a shotgun being pumped came from the left. Warako spun to see Uno now aiming the shotgun with the arm opposite of the one cradling his bunny. "You're either with us, or against us," he said.

Warako backed up again till one foot landed on the first step of the stairway to the bar. "Killing isn't a game!" He shouted at the trio, "I'm not with anybody, but I'm not against you either. So...just leave."

"Sorry, Warako," Uno said, "Wrong answer."

The shotgun erupted just next to the namekians skull, breaking off a piece of the stairway. Warako immediately bounded upwards to the top of the staircase, flinging his pack with him. Talys and Paragus lept after him, moving up the steps as again, Uno fired the shotgun and missed.

Once at the top of the stairs, Warako assessed the area. There was nowhere to run from here, so he spun around, throwing a foot down at the chest of Talys. It was easy enough to knock the man backwards down the steps, into the rail.

Paragus lept into the, defying gravity as it moved higher then Warako, throwing a kick. The namekian used the leverage on the stair to grab the saiyan foot and push against it, sending Paragus slamming onto the stairs and rolling down before catching himself.

Seeing no escape route, Warako grabbed one of the orbs on his belt and released the top of it. Immediately, he dropped the object and ran for it.

"Grenade!" Talys shouted, eyes lighting up.

The explosion was small, but pressurized. Both Paragus and Talys lept off of the stairs in opposite directions, while Warako took the full brunt on his back. He fell forward, stumbling out of the explosion and to the other end of the bar. Thinking quick, he lept over the rail, grabbing it, and releasing.

He wanted to turn around and talk to his former friends about the situation, but his legs wouldn't let him. He didn't want to fight them again...he didn't want to kill anyone.

Killing wasn't a game to it.

But he was a player, whether he liked it or not.

26 Remain

Warako used a grenade. He has second degree burns on his body. Minor injury.