The City Is My Hunting Ground

Chapter 30: Rule Made to be Broken

This pain is a gift

Target-aqcuired.

Reloading.

Mode: disable.

Reloading-completed.

Aiming.

Aiming-completed.

Calculations-completed.

Firing-now.

...

"Argh!"

A bullet hit to Teemo's leg.

"Teemo! Are you okay?"

Teemo held his leg and said: "Y-yes. Let's get to cover quickly."

Rumble helped Teemo to walk behind a large metal panel. Teemo checked his wound.

"It seems to have gone through, good. Can you see who shot?"

Rumble carefully peeked behind the panel. He didn't want to get shot.

"It looks like there is a turret of some sort on the ceiling. It has only one gun, so it's propably a sniper", he whispered.

"Didn't know you knew about guns. A surprise to be sure..."

"But a welcome one?"

"Precisely." Teemo laughed. Rumble laughed a little too.

"I may be able to shoot it down with my blowpipe. Can you distract it?"

"I don't want to get shot either."

Teemo handed a piece of thrash to Rumble. "Just throw this behind it. It will most likely turn."

"AI:s are always stupid. Except Tristy."

Rumble threw the piece to the other side of the room. The turrect reacted just like they had expected.

Teemo aimed and blew. The dart hit to the pole connecting the turret to ceiling, causing it to fall.

"Yes! We did it! High five!" Rumble cheered.

...

Switching-to-emergency-power.

Mode: exterminate.

Reloading.

Reloading-failed.

Switching-to-alternate-ammo.

Switching-completed.

Aiming.

Aiming-failed.

Try-aiming-again?

Negative.

Firing-now.

...

The turret rotated back.

Rumble had time to only open his mouth before a blade penetrated Teemo's stomach.

"NOO!"

Teemo stumbled and coughed blood. "Didn't know... it could do that..."

"Stay with me, Teemo! Don't give up" Rumble said crying.

"Too... late. My time... is over." Teemo said with a calming voice.

"Please... don't die. We can't make it without you."

Teemo smiled a little. "Yes... you can. I haven't done... much... anyway."

"No, no, no... stay with us..."

"Do you know... why we... bullied you?" Teemo asked.

Rumble tried to fight the tears and mumbled: "To have fun?"

"No... We... are small. We yordles... are always... treated like children by... humans. So... when we... see some...one... even smaller we... We tried... to prove... ourselves... we were... bigger. But now... I know... it only made... us... smaller."

Teemo coughed more blood. Rumble cried more.

"One more... thing. After this... is... over..."

Teemo closed his eyes. Rumble ran to him and grabbed his hand. "Not yet, Teemo, not yet! Focus!"

"Make sure... you two... become... a couple..."

Those were Teemo's last words.

Rumble took the turret to his hand and threw it away.

And he roared louder than he had ever before.

...

Meanwhile, Ziggs and Tristana had encountered a bunch of chem-enchanted bodyguards. They had almost beaten everyone of them.

"For Runeterra!" Ziggs shouted theatretically and detonated a charge he had sticked to one of them.

"All done", Tristana stated and wiped some dust from her shoulders. "Should we wait the boys here, or go fetch them?"

Ziggs picked an unused charge and defused it. "My thirst to explode something has just grown, but I have to save this."

"And what about the question?"

Ziggs turned around with a surprised face. "Oh, right. I think we should walk to them, they may be in trouble since they are still on their way."

"Let's go then. We can't defeat Urgot without everyone", she said while reloading her gun.

...

Warwick reached and grabbed the jewel from its place. It stopped glowing, but the others didn't.

This is it. I think I have stopped the ritual. Time to go...

After those thoughts, he joined Teemo.