A technomancer's journey in an apocalyptic world

Chapter 29: The Village (Part-4)

"Come in Roost, Come in, code Whiskey Alfa Romeo November, Come in Roost, Come in, code Whiskey Alfa Romeo November."

The radio crackled as a voice came from the other side, "Roost here, confirm Alpha Raven."

"Roost be advised to stay out of the dark, unknown swarm took out a couple of Tier seven during night time."

~crackle~ ~~crackle~

"Alpha Raven please repeat."

"Bat like creatures took out a couple of Tier Seven creatures, and are active only during night time."

~crackle~ ~~crackle~

"Alpha wolf here, message received loud and clear, Alpha Raven ready for flight."

"Alpha Raven ready for flight, over and out, be advised we will be out of range."

"Alpha Raven, have a safe and cautious flight, over and out."

Michalina placed down her microphone before she stood up and made her way towards her tied up a prisoner who looked at her with a pleading look on his face.

"I hope you will behave now Ryan."

Ryan nodded furiously as Jessica untied the ropes and removed the gag from his mouth.

Upon being freed, Ryan did not waste any time as he made a mad dash towards the bathroom.

As he relieved himself his mind went back to how he was put into such a position,

The entire trailer seemed to have been covered by the bat-like creatures their chirping was driving him mad, he knew he had to make a run for it, as he had no wish to test the power of the teeth that tore the hide of a Tier seven beast against his trailer.

He changed the gear as his foot stepped on the accelerator, his trailer shot forward like a cheetah.

The light shone the way as the speed rose fast and soon it was reaching the hundred and thirtieth mark, the highest speed achievable by the trailer.

'Damn it if I had proper road it would have run much smoother.'

The trailer took a small jump as he heard someone fall with a groan and lot of cursing, but he did not pay any heed to him, as he looked through the side view mirror he saw the swarm trying to catch up to the trailer hard.

'Maybe I should try to make a flame thrower, after all, any creature could be dealt with flames and I hope that is something that has not changed at all, though what are these creatures they could...shit'

He was distracted by them and as such failed to see another creature that looked like a cow running and he had almost hit it but he saved his trailer by turning it to the right slightly, his mother had taught him that it was okay to curse the hell out of their forefathers up to the hundredth generation for not looking at the road and coming in front of the vehicle but it was not to time.

What he failed to realize that his slight turn had caused the trailer to have its left side of the wheel dangling up in the air.

While he drove the trailer under the guidance of Ryan did various acrobatic stance the passengers were of a different mind, Angela and Nikita had decided to simply clasp their hand and pray to any god that would listen to them and rescue even Cthulhu was not spared from their prayers.

Jason Keevan was a man of forty years, he had a happy life with his beloved wife of ten years and two lovely daughters of five years of age, he had a roof on his head, a stable income and according to him what else a man would want, unfortunately, that his happy life came to an end when the world changed and his daughter died squashed under the very rubble, that day he felt as if a part of him had died with his daughter, when all of a sudden she came to life, he was astonished and elated, only for it to turn into horror as she took a bite off him.

Now Jason Keevan, a zombie part of the horde that unfortunately stood in Ryan's path, a roar of the engine drew the horde's attention than a flash of light, and that was all Zombie Jason saw before he collided head-on with the snowplough.

The swarm had long since given up on trying to feed on the trailer since they had begun chasing it they had received an overabundance of food because of the trailer and the only reason they followed it was because of the food.

It had been a little over an hour when Ryan had begun driving his trailer and sun was seen rising beyond the horizon, the swarm did not like sunlight even a little as it was a bane to its existence as such with a heavy heart it left the trailer.

Even if the swarm retreated Ryan did not stop he drove for another quarter of an hour more and only when he was sure that the swarm was no longer following them did he applied the brakes if the trailer, every occupant of the trailer whose name was not Ryan felt as if their skeleton would live their body.

As the trailer screeched to halt as Ryan applied the brake with a frown on his face, "I made a mistake I should have gone with normal steering wheels, thus making the trailer diff.ack."

Ryan's monologue was cut off when he found himself held in a chokehold hard as his vision turned black.

"Wakey wakey.", a voice came to his ears as he groggily awoke and found himself bound and gagged on a chair.

"Now since the sleeping beauty has wakened what does want to say? I expressly forbid you to drive so why did you disobey me, hmmm.", the gag was then removed from his mouth.

Ryan scowled at her as he spoke with a snarl, "I saved all of your lives and this is how you all repay me."

Smoke seemed to have appeared from their noses as their anger rose zenith, 'Must not kill, must not kill.', was the mantra that the group repeated in their head trying to reign in their anger.

"I see baby brother I failed to appreciate how great of help you had been as such I think we should reward as such.", the smile on her face sent chills down his spine, he looked around to see the anger in everyone's eyes and 'Eehh, Jessica's left cheek is swollen did she put a potato inside her mouth.'

"Hey, Jessica why have you stuffed a potato inside your mouth, are you alright."

It was the quick action of others that saved him from getting mauled at by frothing and foaming Jessica, as Michalina glowered at him, "Since you have performed so excellently I believe you should be awarded as such until and unless we allow you to, you would be tied up to this chair and gagged as well."

It had been a few hours since then and it had been a torturous affair for Ryan he was hungry and tired and they finished their breakfast and lunch in front of him, yet he was tied up like some criminal, 'And I bothered to save them, I doubt they could have driven like me, we are retracing back to our previous campsite so that they can contact the base but they are driving for hours and they have yet to reach.'

'Hmm, I would like to see them drive in such poor road at such a high speed, idiots the lot of them.'

Seeing Michalina acting like that made him sad, it was like she had reverted to her old self when she had first met her she thought he would take Ciara away from her and was incredibly hostile to him until his aunt intervened.

He still remembered how she once told him she preferred death than accepting him as her brother, it had been many years since then, her outlooks have changed and he had hoped so but today's incident planted a seed of doubt in him.

'Damn the hunger is making me depressed, oh well like I care as soon as I hit the Tier Four I will be gone, only because of my mom I decided to humour them but they are already getting on my nerves.'

'Hmm, maybe I should start working on some project.'

"Hmmm, Michalina is he sleeping?"

Michalina looked at Ryan as she went and checked him before speaking with a shrug, "It seems so, please pass the cup for me.", with that, she went back to playing cards while the trailer rumbled on slowly.

Unknown to any of them Ryan was not sleeping, during his stay within the Fort he learned something that made his mind spin for a bit, he could control his creations as long as he was within a certain distance of it, the base, the trailer, everything that was created by him was controllable to him to the point, the trailer would not move, it would not open its doors without his permission.

Ryan had closed his eyes as he interacted with his trailer, putting every bit of scraps to good use as the outer part of the trailer repaired itself from any damage that was dealt during the assault of the swarm.

As he finished with the repairs he went into the deep recess of his mind as he began to work on the design of his new vehicle that he planned to use sometime in the future.

Soft crackling of radio was what came to his ears as he opened his eyes he heard the message that was being sent back to the base.

'So they finally came back to yesterday's campsite and if I am not wrong it is nearing the time for the sun to set if today we get swarmed I swear I will not drive consequences to be damned.'

Ryan came out of the bathroom after he had finished relieving himself as he swore inwardly, 'Next time I will pee on their belongings if they try something similar I thought my bladder would burst.'

'Well since the pantry is under lock and key and even if I can open them I will refrain, I so do not wish to alert them of my powers to control.'

'So, what should I do now? I feel so hungry, but I would die before asking them to give me something to eat.'

'Maybe I should check the top, the more I spend time with the likes of them the chances of losing myself to anger is even more.'

With that, he swiftly climbed up using the ladder and found himself standing on top of the trailer that has begun to move.

He then closed the hatch as he lay down on top of the trailer as he watched the clouds passing lazily as his stomach growled.

'tch annoying, I feel so annoyed if only I did not have to feel the pangs of hunger anymore it would have been nice.'

The chirping of the bird drew his attention as his face broke into a smile.

"Hey, where is Ryan?"

Jessica spoke curiously as she searched the trailer high and low for Ryan as Nikita frowned as she spoke, "What are you saying?"

"He should be here, where else he would go, search for him I made something for him to eat he has not eaten anything since yesterday."

Nigella frowned before she perked up and quickly sat in the control seat of the turret, "He is eating something."

A few minutes ago Ryan's attention fell on a flying bird that has chosen him as its prey and had attacked him.

The chirping bird in question was a giant bird which looked like a cross between a turkey and a chicken that could fly, not to mention it was ugly, seeing Ryan it had attacked him and promptly ended up becoming wingless.

"You should have tried not to attack me like a fool now, and you will be my dummy and then my food."

The bird was a Tier 2 creature as such it failed to withstand the onslaught and promptly ended up dead in his hand.

Ryan did not hesitate skin it and then remove its innards, he then placed his hand on top of the roof of the trailer as the bird meat disappeared, he waited for a moment as it reappeared in front of him, on top of a plate, in its perfectly roasted form.