The Triple Threat Killjoys

Real Names. Chapter 2

Entry: Python Colt

It was getting chilly out as i watched the sun set. My black denim jacket didn't really help much during the night, though my body temp does run higher than usual for normal people's standards. But who am I kidding?....No one has been normal since before the War. Hell we were just kids. No one should have had to dealt with that sort of trauma... the destruction... not even a child. Well I guess our pasts are behind us now. We just need to keep moving forward. I must keep focusing on our mission since we left home. The leader as far we know Party, and Dr.Death Defying are our only leads. We have been following clues to where they might be stationed. I'm sick of searching all over this dead nation for them, but i feel that we are getting closer. Every little breadcrumb has led us to the 'Use to be State' of California. My fellow friends... or should I say brothers, and I have been searching for them for far too long, yet I feel we are inches away from reaching our goal.

It was getting late, the sun had almost set and Atomic and Diamond were still talking over where we should start looking for shelter. I decided to stand on the other side of the dusty road until they settled it.

"We shouldn't split up too far away from each other in-case we run into more trouble again."

A-Bomb has been extremely cautious since yesterday. I know he is starting to worry about all this Drac activity, and honestly i don't blame him.

"Okay then, Colt and I will search south of here while you search north."

"Look Doc, I don't need you taking care of me, I'm fine on my own. I can take care of myself and my leg has healed up pretty good so far."

I wasn't trying to sound ticked, but I guessed some venom escaped my voice. I felt like i was being treated like a kid again.

"Colt it seems like lately, that you are basically a bad news magnet. So it couldn't hurt for you to just stick with me, and get over it."

"Alright, I guess it couldn't hurt."

My ankle had a slight pain when i stepped down, but it was nothing that I couldn't pretend wasn't there. Doc and I started walking in the direction he had said earlier. I was getting quite tired from all that I had ran into these past couple days. We all haven't had much sleep lately. I gripped my laser pistol as we walked, staring off in the distance, looking for any sign of shelter. When we started to lose sight of the road we decided to turn back. Great. Our luck was starting to run out as it seemed. As we started back, Doc's voice had broken the silence between us.

" Hey Tyler... Do you think you could take care of yourself a little better?"

I was taken off guard. He actually used my real name! Sure when we were kids he would always call me by my last name but never the first. And the fact that he used it right in the middle of the desert, you should never use your real name now a days with BL/Ind. around. You never know where there might be a hidden S.C.A.R.E.C.R.O.W. sand camera. We really didn't need them to figure out our real names and take out the ones we love. Well... Whoever was left. We needed to have our killjoy names to keep us under the radar. I could tell something was bothering him. He's been acting strange since our little run in at the bar.

"uhm.. Doc I have been, like I said before I can take care of myself."

" Yeah but your being too damn careless! "

The sudden spit of anger in his voice caught me off guard. He rarely gets angry.

" Sorry Diamond I'll Try to be more careful"