In the Deafening Silence [ BELLDOM AU ] [ COMPLETED ]

There's None Left

Our small group of people walked through the dense woods with our backs to the rising sun and the destroyed city in our line of sight. I walk in step with Tom as I listen to Penelope and Matt behind us talking softly to one another, though still loud enough for us not to get suspicious. Glancing over my shoulder at the two, I catch the brown haired man staring at me with his dead grey eyes.

Turning back around, I continue walking next to Tom until we reach the end of the woods and meet the concrete jungle. A fence stands in front us with barbed wire across the top and a sign warning that it's electrically charged, though there's no hum of power running through it. Touching my hand against it, I look back at Penelope who already has her knife out and is cutting into the metal.

"What do you suppose we do now?" Tom questions in a tired tone as he lags behind the two strangers, and myself, who now lead us once we all make it past the fence. The woman grins at him nicely and tells us that there's a hideout for us to meet at just before sunset. "And what if there are drones? We can't take on even one of them. "

"Don't worry. While I was in the handler programme I learned how to use a drone. That's what Matthew is for." Her smile grew as she tied her hair up into a ponytail and scanned the area while walking on. I looked back at Tom who seemed befuddled at what the blonde haired women had said and crossed his arms over his chest in defeat. "Unless you'd like to explain to them how we left, got you two, and are making our way to the resistance."

"Don't get snappy with me, woman. I'm still able to hurt you." Tom gritted out as I laughed lightly at his attempt of threatening the woman who, like she said, is a resourceful soldier. "What are you laughing at, Dom? Didn't you hear her giving me attitude?"

"Quiet." It was Matt who spoke as he looked up to the sky and pointed out to Penelope beside him a high flying object. There was more that appeared as the air craft stopped and continued on it's flight path towards the inner city. "Manual drones. They are only used for surveillance. We'll be safe from them."

The two walked on as Tom and I looked to each other and I shrugged my shoulders with a slight grin. Although my friend was reluctant to follow the soldier's order he followed suit as Penelope whistled a tune softly. After walking for three hours straight, the woman made us stop behind a building for an area check.

"Matthew, do a surveillance scan." She spoke as she pulled a tablet from the backpack around the drones shoulders and tapped on it. The brown haired man stepped out of the shadow of the ruined building as he moved his head back and forth in a scanning motion, turning around and doing the same to the land we left behind us. "Nothing is showing up on the radar until six miles ahead of us."

"I do not detect anyone in our area. The inner city is fifty miles north of us and Compound Twelve is fifteen miles west of us," Matt had recited as he stepped back into the cover of the old office buildings and looked at the map that was pulled up on the tablet. "The hideout is four miles northeast of here. The meeting spot is six miles northeast of our spot."

"Does that mean there are drones flanking the spot where the resistance is located?" I questioned as I looked over Penelope's shoulder at the tablet. She grimly nodded her head in response as I heard Tom grunt in a 'I knew we shouldn't have trusted these people' kind of way. "But you can get us there, right? There's some hidden passage way that you know about, yeah?"

"It'll be hard to judge until we get there. But if I'm certain the resistance is hiding in the abandoned subway system that connects the inner city to the outer providences," the blonde haired women stated as she packed away the tablet and motioned for us to continue walking. "There's no way that they would destroy that. It's a vital means of escape for the psycho if there's a riot of some sort."

Maybe there's some hope for us in this resistance but I also have doubt that all of this is a ruse and she'll kill us before we even reach the inner city. Time will tell, but for now all I can do is trust the only hope we have of ending this holocaustic rein.