Fandom War

Day 2: Skirmishes begin

As the sun rose up over the many buildings, I yawned and groaned as I sat across from Opalrekt, who was still asleep as he was slumped up against the wall. I was also against a wall and as I slowly got up, my body ached from being in such an awkward position the whole night. I looked outside as I watched the suns rays slowly illuminate the surroundings outside and as I did, I slowly reached over and lightly tapped Opalrekt on his shoulder as I attempted to see if he would just wake up.

He moaned as he rubbed his eyes and as he sat up against the wall, he looked outside to see the world and he asked me, "What are we going to do?"

"I think the plan is to find out what the heck is going on... hopefully we won't die though...." I muttered as we both got up from the ground and got into a low crouch stance.

I slowly opened the door as I looked around. The building was in another block outside of the park and so the streets were surprisingly quiet to my ears. Cars were sitting around where they had been parked and as we slowly eased our way out of the doorway, we kept our eye and ears out for trouble of any sort. We walked alongside the cars with hunched backs as we tried to not be seen by anyone that could be around.

"Maybe we should leave the area completely." Opalrekt said in a hushed tone.

I shook my head. "Remember? We tried it last night but this whole place has been fenced off. Remember everyone else with us?"

The a little bit after we had ran from the convention center, we tried to leave the area but found tall fences blocking us out, topping with barbwire and razor wire. Other people had tried to find a way through but we had been smart and left the area, knowing that whoever wanted us dead would come towards the fences.

"Right...." Opalrekt seemed to be really low on morale so I said to him, "Hey, the one good thing is that we're still alive and breathing. I swear if I find a gun-"

"A gun? Wait, you would wage a war against these guys?" He asked me incredulously.

"Well, call me weird but I consider myself a Warrior Brony... Say the least, my mindset isn't all for peace.... It's mainly geared towards war."

"Warrior Brony?" Opalrekt looked at me like I was some sort of nut job before he thought about it and said, "Tell me, what is a Warrior Brony?"

"Oh, just like a normal Brony but a Warrior Brony would start a fandom war if push came to shove.... and not just with foam weapons but with real ones." I said with a shrug as we stopped at an intersection.

"Thats... just..." Opalrekt looked like he was going to blow a fuse trying to understand me when I told him, "I'm ADD and I have Autism... Do you really want to try and figure me out?"

He gave a sudden, 'Oh!' at that and he nodded his head as we quickly scampered across the way towards the other side of the street. As we did so, I thought I heard the sudden sound of nearby gunfire and we both hit the deck next to a car as we looked around. I almost thought I had seen nothing but then I saw a muzzle flash and after hearing the gun report, I knew someone was shooting at someone else.

But why?

We  both got up very slowly and began to walk towards the figure holding the gun, which is probably one of the dumbest thing's I've ever done to say the least. We kept close to the cars as we approached and as we came to a bench, I peeked over to see a Tribute holding what looked like an M4, firign it sporadically into a nearby window of an apartment.

"What is that Tribute doing?" I whispered the thought out loud and Opalrekt shrugged as the Tribute seemed oblivious to us.

I looked around me for something of a weapon and saw a nearby tire wrench left next to a vehicle and I quieyl slid over and picked it up. I hefted it as I looked at Opalrekt and shrugged as I crept around the car to get behind the Tribute. I stayed as low to the ground as I couldd without crawling as the Tribute reloaded his weapon and as I finally got behind his back, I saw what he had been shooting at.