THE DAY AFTER ...

PART:3

the sun has set, the darkness began to swallow the ruin of the dying world. the only light sources currently awake are from the killer machines watching, waiting for their prey. the little lamb inside the protection vehicle with only one pistol to defend himself from death at every corner.

the pod slowed down and parked inside the building, the computer told Jake its battery needed to be recharged. about 8 hours of waiting until it is done.

Jake now snapped out of it, and the sudden realization hit him hard, "What am I doing?! Why did I... am I going insane?!" he leaned back at the seat, hands holding his head with his eyes wide open at the roof of the pod "dammit... John, Cornie, I might die"

"The pod is still on with its cloaking camo. I can't even return, god..." he takes out the supplies in his backpack and has a small snack while looking around outside the vehicle, there's nothing besides ruins and the light from night vision. Sometimes he will see H.rC passing by, and sometimes he sees Hunter. with their giant canon head, the red light from them, and their height far more than any person and common machines. terrific and menacing, like a sniper with an anti-warship weapon.

"Death-stare, heh funny" Jake was still somehow being quite positive, despite how he had just experienced a near-death situation a time ago. 

silence went by just like that, and the morning came, light from the sun shining through the dark field. the vehicle unit began to move on again. passing through the city, maybe he will find someone to befriend with. 

"God, the coordination is so far from the bunker, I just make about 1/3 of this road trip" *sigh* Jake takes a look at his phone, even tho there's no signal, for some reason, there's a bar he can connect to one device.

"What the..." Tap on the bar, the phone went black and then showed a bar of red line. still doesn't know what is this, Jake just taps the screen, but nothing...

the bar began to shake like a sonic wave after a little time, Jake carefully looked at it, and then he recognized what this was. "Radar..." Jake looks outside the moving pod, and just like he expected, there's a machine outside that's flying from afar. "Woah, this is useful, but, when did my phone do this?". he controlled the pod to move closer to the H.rC, the closer the vehicle got the radar kept shaking move violently, at one point there was a red arrow on the screen, pointing at the direction where the human core at.

"Cool" he took a picture of him outside the base, then continued to wait until he was at the location. the road was long and so was his future.

hours and hours passed.

Jake has made over half of the trip, but at some point, he needs to stop to rest. going outside is not safe, but staying inside is boring, Jake stopped the pod to have a break outside, he took a long breath and then let it out, smelling the metal taste air. 

danger lurked at every corner, at the moment when he was about to go back to the car, a charged shot was fired at it, making the pod explode, Jake jumped back from the sudden attack, and the red energy trail of the blast came from one of the Human Hunter, it slowly walking out at the broken house at the second floor, looking straight at Jake with it cannon head.

"Oh shet!" he began to run, gun ready, the hunter jumped out of the building, it load in another round, and aimed straight at Jake then fired. The speed bullet will surely pierce and blow up his skull, luckily, Jake trips over and falls into the sewer, and the round hits the nearby destroyed truck. Jake began to run into the sewer system, escaping the hunter, but it wouldn't let it sly that easily, the machine followed Jake's footsteps, pursuing him. 

"crab crab crab crab!!!" he tried to shoot it, but the bullets ricocheted by its thick armor, the machine fired back its cannon, devastating shot caused the sewer to almost collapse Jake found a way up, so he couldn't miss the chance, climbing up from the ladder, the machine almost slashed his leg if he slowed down just a bit.