TRS (The Robot Survivors.)

Chapter 9

Paul woke the next day. He got up , got dressed and walked towards the door , before he left , he looked back at Isabella , he thought of how beautiful she was , then he went out and headed to the training room where you could do target practice and practice your hand to hand combat. He saw Connor on the weightlifting set and Amy was doing target practice. He put on some boxing gloves and started practicing on the punch bag.

He had experience in hand to hand combat as he didn't exactly grow up in the friendliest of neighbourhoods. There was gangs of teenagers and even other adults that would go out looking for a fight. So he started boxing. He was good and he would stand up for himself and others. He remembered the time when he had gotten into a fight and his friend just stood there watching him trying to fight two guys at the same time. Paul never spoke to him again. Then he got into a fight and Paul didn't help him , he walked away.

 He kicked the punch bag in the middle , nearly knocking it of the chain.

"Thats good work!" Paul heard someone say. He turned and saw it was Connor.

"How about a fight?" Connor asked.

Why would Connor want to fight him , he didn't do anything to him , Paul thought.

"A fight?" asked Paul.

"Not a proper one , just an exercise." Connor explained.

"Best out of three to get the other on the ground?" He suggested.

"Sure." said Paul relieved to find out what he was talking about.

He put his gun to the side in case it accidently fired.

Paul stood in front of Connor. Connor boxed him in the stomach and kicked him to the ground.

"One - Nil."

Paul got back up and dodged a kick from Connor and stood up , ducked and hit Connor in the nose. Connor nearly fell to the ground but didn't. He was off balance though. Paul saw his chance and kicked Connor in the chest making him fall over onto the ground.

"One - One."

Connor got up and punched Paul into the side of the face. Paul ran at him , dodged a kick and boxed Connor in the stomach making him double over in pain. Connor stood up and gave Paul a box in the nose. Paul fell over but he managed to land on his hands and knees , so he wasn't out. Paul realised that his nose was bleeding. Connor ran at him and Paul put his foot in the way , he fell to the ground.

"One - Two."

He stood up and dodged a few punches , then he boxed Connor in the stomach. He boxed him on one side of his face and then he gave one final blow into the other side , knocking him over. Connor lay on the ground laughing.

"One - Three."

"You win." he said still laughing. "Good job."

"You're very good." said Paul.

"Well I was a cop."

"Heh."

 During all that , Amy was watching. She was smiling.

"Well done guys." she called over.

 The Mad Man was sitting against the wall in the room he was locked up in. He was drinking a bottle of water. He was just thinking to himself. These people are nice , they took me in. They only locked me up for safety precautions. No , they want to kill me , no , they are just making sure I don't hurt anybody , why would you hurt anybody , because I'm crazy , no you're not , you're not crazy , I am , not , am , not , AM , NOT , AM , NOT , SHUT UP!  Why can't my mind just shut up? I need to get out of here. I need to get out.

 John was in his office , he was making a list of everyone in the bunker. He wrote down all the names of the people who had died.

"Ben , Jade, Gordon, Gerry and now Jim , Jesus Christ!" said John to himself.

"And Anna's more crazy than ever and we have this fucking lunatic to look after!"

John thought about Ryan , he wasn't quite sure if he could trust him. He was one of them , that was for sure , but he seemed to have an element of brutality about him. Revenge. John wasn't sure if Ryan would ever just settle down in the bunker and forget about the people he used to be with. He thought about the cannibals. Ryan had told him about his life with them. He wondered about what he should do with them. He was outnumbered , he probably wouldn't have enough people to take them out. Besides , he wasn't sure if his group could do it , they had only killed robots and animals. Still though , if he didn't attack them , they would attack him if they found out where the bunker even was. He remembered what Ryan said , the cannibals probably weren't bad people , they only started canniballism because they were desperate. It had happend to other people before in situations like being stranded somewhere with no food. John felt somewhat sorry for the cannibals , it must have been terrible being driven to canniballism. He'd never seen the cannibals before , he didn't know what to expect , were they good fighters , how would they act , like savages? Had canniballism driven them insane? It all made his head spin. He didn't want to fight the cannibals. He wondered if attacking them would provoke them , had their lifestyle turned them animalistic? He wondered if he should just kill a few of them to tell the others that he had many men and arms to stop other attacks. He didn't want to do it today , after Jims death , he didn't want another death. When the group were over Jim's death , he would make his move.

  Meanwhile , Ellen was in the lounge with Robert. A while ago , she had managed to take a bottle of scotch that she had found in a petrol station on a scavenging mission. She had hidden it in her room. The bottle was now three quarters empty , she never approved of Johns  " No Alcohol!" rule. She was sharing it with her new so - called boyfriend , Robert. Robert never did like  strong alcohol , but he drank a bit anyway just to impress Ellen. They sat there chatting about unimportant things and ended up arguing about the best way to kill a pig. One thing they vigorously avoided talking about was Ellen's bad dating history. Robert knew deep down that she was a bit of a player. They started gossiping about stupid things such as John having the possibility of being a terrorist. Robert knew it was all complete utter bull shit but she was quite convincing. Sometimes it was interesting to hear her talk but after a while it got stupid and boring and it would sound like nonsense when she got drunk. Robert knew to stay out of her way when she was drunk because she could sometimes be violent. She was one of the reasons why John made the " No Alcohol!" rule.

 Jamie and Shelly were both having a glass of wine in the kitchen.

"I haven't seen Anton since this morning." said Shelly.

"You think he's cheating on you?" said Jamie as he casually took a sip of wine.

"No , God no , at least I hope not." said Shelly.

"He could be." said Jamie.

"He's not that kind of person , you know Anton don't you?"

"Hardly." said Jamie.

"You should talk to him , I think you'd like him."

"He's with you , isn't he?"

"Not like that." laughed Shelly.

Jamie looked slightly embarassed for making that mistake. He too , laughed a bit but mainly to avoid awkwardness.

"Well , if he's with you , he must be okay." joked Jamie.

They both laughed and Shelly spilt her wine , they laughed even more. They kept on laughing , at this point Shelly was just laughing because she was laughing. Eventually , they calmed down , the laughter had loosened the air between them. Shelly the got down and started cleaning up the wine. Jamie got down and helped her.

"Life's never a bore with you , Jamie." said Shelly.

Jamie smiled.

"Thanks , now lets clean this up quick before John finds out that we broke the "No Alcohol" rule!"