Universe (Part 10) (FINALE): Final

Chapter 100

Days passed and they continued walking through the road and there was still the endless desert ahead, and they began sweating as the heat prevailed on and on. It never seemed to get cooler and there was nothing wet but everything was dry except for their faces which were now set and getting onto their clothes. They were now burnt and running low on water, as their hopes had all died down as well a while ago, altogether they had been defeated. They than saw a small wooden checkpoint, large and built over the road which they'd have to pass. They prepared themselves, as they approached the checkpoint almost knowing what would come.

Gunfire erupted as they approached the checkpoint, they both hid behind the rusty old cars as bullets rained down on them. Brick gets up, taking numerous bullets directly to his body, but still remaining up and he runs towards the inside of the checkpoint. There were numerous people all inside the checkpoint waiting while holding their guns, they looked surprised as Brick walked into the checkpoint. He grabbed one of the men and smashed their head into the window and grabbed his gun. He was shot multiple times all by the people in the room but he managed to still grab the gun and fire back at them. He took them down and immediately rushed to the second floor of the checkpoint and all the rest of the men would posted up there. Within a span of a minute all the men were dead, laying on their backs with blood pooling on the floor and they walk by the sticky crimson red pools, leaving behind a red mark underneath their footstep. The mark would be a sign of that they once were, that the blood follows where they go.

Their shoes were off and they had walked several miles forward, only to be met with yet another of the large encampments, however this time it was larger and more fully built up. Marilyn hid behind the car and Brick walked out, waving his arms for them to fire and they began to shoot him. He shot back at them and one by one the men fell all to the same exact demise, with blood dripping down their heads and onto the ground and some of them completely falling off of a small bridge that lead between the wooden buildings a the side of the long traffic heavy road. Brick would turn around and wave for Marilyn to come out of cover once they were all gone.

Again there was another encampment that was also bigger than the last, and they'd repeat the steps again and have the men fire on him as he sacrificed himself but yet came out without a scratch. After he had tooken down around a hundred men he finally turned towards Marilyn to wave her to come out. However this time there was no response, he began to walk towards the car she was hiding behind. He walked over and there he saw a man strangling her, pinning her to the ground. He raised his gun but the man quickly turned and drags Marilyn, holding her hostage with a gun, "You shoot I shoot!" He says. The man's face was ugly and dirty, clearly the man had some attempts of cleanliness in the past but those attempts were long gone, as he had patches of hair missing completely or parts of his hair were uneven with some parts being longer than the other. The man stinked, but they all did just as much, and he had his dirty hands that smelled like fecal matter over her mouth and his hands looked like they had been drenched in the disgusting liquid.

"Let her go and I spare you."

"Kill you, I kill." He pointed the gun at a Brick.

"You know it won't work." He says, before the gun fired at him and two gunshots blast off. One hitting Brick in the arm and the other hitting the man right on the face, as he collapsed with blood spewing out and his eyes crosseyed and dead, "Come on, let's go." He tells her, she releases herself from the stinking sweated arms of the man, and gets up and walks alongside Brick.

"It smells terrible."

"Doesn't it always?"

"Yeah, but now it's a new kind of terrible smell." They walked a bit down the road before stopping. Brick turns around to the encampment. He grabbed a match and lit it on fire, the fire blazes outward of the buildings and it spreads.