Turned World (On Hiatus)

10 - 4th

  There was a loud, deep chuckle. The lumbering figure of the turned started stooping down. Soon his head was a few score feet off the ground. The three held their breath.

 “I…wasn’t…”

  The voice, the head being so close, caused their insides to quake.

 “...Joking… about… smelling…you.”

  Trein, Riverich and Jada’s head’s shot up. Right above them was the Turned’s cold, dead, gray eye, staring right down at them.

 “RUN!” Riverich screamed as he saw a huge object coming towards the side of the piled up rubble.

  The three barely made it out of the place with the MSD, before they heard a loud crash and steel and blocks crumbling. Jada glanced back to see what had caused it.

  A huge middle finger was a little lower than the other finders which were outstretched and a curled thumb, showing that the turned had simply flicked its finger and managed to oblitherate the entire ground where the building’s rubble was.

  The three leapt into the truck, the scientists in the front and Trein in the trunk, and sped off. Riverich looked back and swore before making a violent drift to the side just in time to dodge a huge slab of earth which the turned had most likely hurled at them.

  Trien looked back, trying to get a good look at the turned and his eyes opened wide. He felt a looming presence and swung his head to the vehicle's right.

  He was just in time to see what looked like the Turned’s toe touching the ground and lifting up just as quickly. Trein jerked his head forward as Riverich made a sharp brake and U-turn as the turned was already in front of them.

 “You cannot escape.”

 Trein looked back as the looming figure stretched forth its huge arm.

  Suddenly the ground around and ahead of them began to crumble and break open as what seemed like hundreds of turned emerged from underground, leaping towards them. A few of them latched onto the sides of the vehicle but were quickly dealt with as Jada produced a plasma blade from one of her pouches and slashed through their arms furiously.

“Keep running then.”

  The huge turned moved off again and this time Trein watched as its huge, muscular legs seemed to defy physics and speed up to over 90mph and quickly pass the truck. Without missing a beat, it spun and raised a foot before smashing the ground with its heel, creating a huge crater, the shockwave of which knocked the truck across.

  Riverich swore and locked the controls to the side as Jada quickly aimed the rifle at the ground on the side they were tipping towards and fired a different shot. One that seemed more like air than a bullet.

  The shockwave, from the blast hitting the ground, vaulted the truck the other way, just enough for it to land somewhat upright for Riverich to reactivate the controls and turn again to avoid more Turned.

 “Hey! Guys! What should I do?” Trein shouted at them over the chaotic screeching and roaring of the turned.

 “Hold on!” Jada shouted as she aimed at the huge Turned and fired an entire battery’s worth of shots at it..

  The shots seemed to have no effect as they seem to just implode under their own force after coming into contact with its muscular, but, surprisingly, tough skin.

 “Get the Plasma Bolt Cannon!” Riverich shouted at Jada and he swerved to dodge another slab of earth that came from the sky.

  Jada leapt into the trunk with Trein and threw everything out before opening a section that was directly under them. Under it was a cylindrically shaped object with wires all over it. On its side were 5 buttons.