Sorry this chapter is so long. The next one should be shorter. :)
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The other two classes were much easier than the first. Capturing techniques taught me how to make a snap trap from a tree. The idea was to make a loop of rope of the ground and Ty it to a branch and when someone steps in the loop that will pull the branch, releasing a net on top of that person. Easy for me, not so much for Abby. Elliot was starting to get it by the time class was over. The last class was stupid. All it did was teach us the different sectors of BLI and how each of us can help with the growth of the system. I slept through most of it. After that was an assembly where any kid who misbehaved that day was brought into the stage and shocked three times or until they passed out. It was horrible. The simple idea was to embarrass that person along with hurting them do they didn't do whatever it was that got them in trouble again and for the rest of us it was never wanting to end up on that stage.
Once all of that was over we are allowed to go home. Finally. School started at 9 the next morning and would be over by 1, as long as you didn't get in trouble. Then you had to stay for something that no one would tell me.
“Izzabella? Where do you live?” Abby asked me while we walked out the door
“About 20 minutes away from here. I’m house 296. What about you guys?” I asked
“We’re house 106. So we can walk to your house then me and Elliot can walk home.” Abby beamed at me.
“Elliot is that okay?” she called back to her brother.
Elliot was lagging behind. A greenish look on his face. I stopped to wait for him
“Abby, your bro doesn’t look to good.”
“Huh?” she turned and walked over to us “Elliot what’s up?”
"I think it's whatever that crap was that was for lunch." he hunched over, hugging his stomach
"Do you think you can make it to my house?" I asked
He nodded so we kept walking. We had to keep stopping so he could rest, he was deteriorating fast.
I walked up to the does and pushed it open, waving far Abby and Elliot to come in. Elliot took off toward the downstairs bathroom. Me and Abby walked into the living room and plopped down on the couch.
"How come he got sick and I didn't?" Abby asked me, pulling back her faded blue hair.
"The food reacts differently with everyone. I was sick the first day I got here. It’s just something you have to get used to I guess.” I shrugged
Mom walked through the kitchen door, bringing the smell of cooking food with her.
“And who is this?” she questioned
“Oh, hi mom.” I frowned “This is Abby. I met her today at school. Her brother…” I started to motion to the bathroom
“Stop there. I know who they are. Korse sent me a message saying that you, Abigail, and Elliot are going to be part of a new branch of the police force.” She was smiling ear to ear
“What?!” a simultaneous response came from me and Abby
“Yes, it’s it wonderful? Apparently you all get to help stop the growing number of rebels that are living outside of the city.” Mom smiled again and went back to the kitchen, leaving us sitting there, astonished.
“Oh no.” my heart fell
The guys! They had just gone out into the desert. What if they’re part of this whole rebel thing? How can Korse train me to hunt my own brothers!
“Izzy what’s wrong?” Abby sounded concerned
“I have to tell you something but you have to promise not to say anything, okay?” I pleaded with my eyes, a skill I learned from Frank
“Of course. I would never rat any one out.” So nodded her head
I grabbed her hand and dragged her upstairs to my room. I grabbed the walkie from under my bed and handed to her.
“What’s this?” she pressed the on button.
Static erupted from the speaker on it. It beeped and words started to come through the line.
“Iz? I thought you were gonna talk to Frank later.” Silence
“Iz, is that you?” Gerard said
“Press the yellow button on the top.” I told Abby, she did
“Yea, it’s me Gee. Um there’s some one here that I needed to tell about you guys.” I said
“Take your finger off” I told Abby
“I know how to work it” she snapped
“Izzy, you told some one?!” He sounded angry
“Actually you’re telling her. All I did was hand her the walkie.” I said
“Uhh who are you.” Abby asked
“Uhhh whoever you are, I’m Gerard way, Izzy’s older brother.” Gee said
“Wait?! You’re Gerard way?! Like the My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way?” Abby’s voice shot up ten octaves, she let go of the button “Your Gerard Way’s Sister?!” she yelled at me
I nodded, a small smile spreading across my face as her freak out continued.
"Yea the My Chemical Romance Gerard Way. Glad to hear that some of our fans are still alive. So Izzy why am I talking to this chick?" he continued, un-phased by her reaction
"My name is Abigail Ryder, thank you very much." her feisty attitude came to the surface, her freak out ended
"Fine. Why am I talking to Abigail Ryder?" gee asked
"You’re talking to her because she's on my team. We're being trained along with her Brother Elliot to hunt down and kill any rebels in the desert." I said, anger forcing my voice to sound harsh
"You’re kidding right?" Gerard’s voice was tinted with anxiety
"No, I wish I was." I continued
"God damn they work fast. Okay well I have to go talk to the guys. I'll have Frank call you tonight. Love you Iz, Stay Safe"
The line went dead. Abby’s turned the walkie off.
"So you expect me to believe that you're Gerard Way's younger sister and now we have to hunt them because my favorite band on what remains of the earth are rebels?" Abby asked me
"Yea, I don’t believe it either"
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I waved by to Abby and Elliot, our plan figured out, and walked back into the house.
"Izzabella? Do you have any homework?" mom asked, walking out of the kitchen....again
"I can’t have homework on learning how to kill someone." I shuddered at the thought of what tomorrow might bring "I'm just gonna go get in the shower. Call me when dinner is ready." I called from the stairs
The bathroom was hot from the window being open all day, guess I'm gonna take a cold shower. I'm already tired of the heat.
The water felt amazing on my hot skin. I quickly scrubbed my hair, purple water going down the drain, looks like I’ll have to re-dye it soon. I washed everywhere else and stepped out of the shower. I wrapped myself in a plain white towel and walked to my room. A plain grey pair of sweats and a black t-shirt was what I had left, besides my school uniform. I put those of and jumped on my bed. I desperately needed sleep.
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Franks pov:
“Gee! Do you see that?” I yelled to him from the back of the car
Ray punched my arm, smiling, his epic fro curling around his head from the wind.
The Trans Am that we found was awesome. It went so freakin’ fast. We got to the store pretty fast. It looked like some old worn out Wal-Mart. Sweet. Finally we can get out of these stupid clothes.
Gerard parked the Trans right in front of the dirty glass door. Him and Mikey climbed out and pulled the front seats forward to let me and Ray out. We had to bust through the door, no power to open by themselves. My old green converse hit the old tile with an echoing slap. This place had to have been abandoned long before World War III. Gerard walked up next to me.
“Thank god someone was stupid enough to build this in the middle of nowhere.” He smirked at me and walked away.
I walked off in another direction, wondering aimlessly around. I spotted the men’s clothes, finally. Everything was kinda an older style, but it would work.
“Hey Frankie? You remember the concept we came up with for the new songs?” Gerard showed up right behind me.
“Yea, we decided that we were gonna try to take down this awful govern…..Holy crap!” I realized what he was hinting at. “Gee, we get to live our own idea! Ah this is awesome! I didn’t think we would ever get to do it! What was my character again…fun something?” I couldn’t think, this was way to cool
“Fun Ghoul Frankie.” Gee shook his head.
“That’s right! And you were Party Poison, Ray was Jet Star, and Mikey was Kobra Kid! We totally need to find stuff that matches our characters!” I started walking around, looking for anything that would match the character I had always wanted to be.
I eventually found everything. Two yellow and black shirts, one was diagonally striped and long-sleeved, the other a short sleeve shirt with black as the body part of the shirt and yellow sleeves with black stripes on the edges. A cool looking green zip up jacket was next, and a pair of black skinny jeans. A Frankenstein mask completed my costume.
“Geeeee!” I called
Gerard walked up in a blue leather jacket with white and red stripes on it, a plain black t-shirt underneath, acid washed jeans, and a pair of leather fingerless gloves.
“Nice. That looks cool Party Poison.” I winked
“Yours too.” He smiled, something rare nowadays “I wonder what’s taking Jet and Kobra so long.” I smiled at the nicknames
Jet and Kobra walked toward us. Kobra had on a red leather jacket with black and white stripes, a yellow zebra striped shirt, black pants, and the same gloves as Poison. Jet was the most normal looking out of all of us. He had on a simple black leather jacket, a black shirt under it, dark jeans, and gloves.
“Nice outfits guys.” I smiled
We all knew what was happening and I was more than excited. It was childish at the same time that it was dangerous; making a rebel gang based off our music to fight in the real world that is.
“Okay so you all know what’s going on now.” Gerard interrupted my thoughts “We all go by our fake names and we have to make some sort of masks to keep our identity hidden, got it? Spread out and see if you can find anything, except for ghoul ‘cause he already has one." he pointed to me "Just come with me.” We all separated
“Gee how are we gonna get Izzy? I can’t leave her there.” I asked while we walked down some sort of party supply isle.
“I’ll be honest with you Frank. I don’t think I want to get her.” He said, picking up some mouse looking piñata head.
“This’ll work” Gee grinned.
“What are you talking about Gerard? We have to get her!” now I was pissed.
“No we don’t!” he yelled, turning toward me. “She’s safe there. I don’t want Izzy out here. I don’t want her hurt!”
“Gerard think about what you’re saying! Izzy has done nothing but fight for most of her life. What about the other night, huh?! She took on the guard that grabbed me, and she would have won if it hadn’t been for that damn stick! She knows how to fight, she knows how to survive! What are you so afraid of?!” I yelled at him
“I’m afraid of losing her too.” His voice was eerily quiet. “After Dad walked out, Mom disappeared into her own mind. She tried to help us but she was different, not herself. Now she doesn’t even think for herself, those pills took that from her. I can’t lose Izzy too.” He didn’t even look at me.
I walked closure to him. He lifted his eyes to meet mine, those amazing hazel eyes that I fell in love with before I met Izzy.
“Gee if you keep her in there you’ll use her in a worse way. If she knew that you didn’t want her out here she would hate you forever. But if you get her the fuck out of that hell hole and let her fight and be the amazing girl she is then you would be with her, be able to keep her safe. If you cant protect her...if there is ever any chance that she will get hurt I will be standing in front of her, willing to die if it comes to that.” I pleaded, my eyes voicing the feelings I couldn’t put into words.
“Really? You would be willing to die for her?”
“I promise.” I said without hesitation
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Izzy’s pov:
“IIIIIIIzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyy? You there?” Frank’s voice came over the walkie just as the clock struck twelve.
“Of course I’m here.” I smiled
“Yay! So how was your day?”
“Uhh….interesting. Did Gee tell you what I’m being trained for?”
“Yea. I can’t believe that you are gonna try to kill us” he chuckled. “you should see everything we found out here. There’s this diner that we’re staying in, it looks like maybe BLI was using it for something, but it’s abandoned now, we also got some of those ray guns from this cool little vending machine that was outside of the diner, Mikey hacked into it. We also found this old Wal-Mart store that had a bunch of clothes and stuff, I think you know about the car, we found spray paint so we’re gonna dec everything out.” He stopped to take a breath. I shook my head at his excitedness. “Oh! And there are these two guys who were chilling at the diner. They run this pirate radio that they started a few days after BLI took over. They have nicknames just like us. One of them is Doctor Death-defy. He’s the one who talks on the radio, informing any other rebel of any danger in the desert. He said he might start playing some of our new songs over the radio. The other is Show Pony; he’s kinda like a messenger. He delivers info to a camp way far away that has bomb survivors in it. It’s so cool out here. I wish you could see it.” He finally stopped long enough for me to talk
“I miss you.” He said before I could say anything
“Aww hun I miss you too.”
“We’re working on a plan right now on how to get you out of there. I promise we’ll be together soon.” He said
“That’s great. I bet it’ll be soon” I smiled knowing my own plan
“Yea. Okay well I have to go. Dr. D wants us to record some songs for the radio. I’ll talk to you tomorrow night. Love you.” Frank said
“Love you too Frankie” I responded and the line fell silent.
