Ace, the Queen of the Apocalypse as most know it. She rules the world with an iron fist. The girl said to be independent, nonaligned, sufficient, and self-ruling. But that all changes when she meets a special sniper. She denies every feeling she has...
A worn down shack sits on the side a deserted road that has been covered with dried blood and dust from age. A broken window sits high above the door frame, with the glass window tossed out into the front yard. Surrounding the old house is a broken chain fence that sits over brown, dried, long grass.
In the window sits a body with their leg hanging out in thin air. Their back rests against the window's frame. A tune begins to fill the air coming from a small radio inside the house. The person gently taps their foot to the beat and looks around the field. Their blue eyes and freshly cut hair are hard to miss. Their stunning features easily making them recognizable.
It's Ace.
Her hair was finally cut down to a normal length, resting just above her curvy hips and tucked under a cowgirl hat with a thick red bandanna tied around it.
She wears short cowgirl boots with knee ripped light blue jeans and an ankle gun holster wrapped around the outside of her boot. A knee brace is wrapped around her left knee, supporting it. A black Guns and Roses muscle tee is tucked underneath a leather vest but underneath the vest are two more gun holsters next to her breasts. To top it all off, she has a thick belt with a skull attached to one side and a tomahawk tucked in the other side. Lastly, her hands are secured with dark brown leather gloves that are wrapped around a large hunting rifle. 10k's rifle to be exact.
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Just beyond the fence around the house stumbles a zombie with half its stomach hanging out and dragging its bloodied foot behind it. Ace looks over, a piece of hay hanging between her teeth. She pulls the rifle up to her face and keeps the zombie in sight, keeps her trigger finger steady as it caresses the trigger and squeezes, sending a bullet through the center of its forehead.
Ace pulls the gun away and smirks. She tucks her leg hanging inside the house up to her chest and holds the gun close, silently wishing 10k was with her.
A memory can't help but slip into her mind...
-flashback-
The sky was almost fully black as the black rainbow takes its full course. The sky begins to rain down and the toxic scent knocks them all out immediately.
--
Ace raises her head and looks around at her friends to find them all knocked out. She grips her head as it throbs in pain from it smashing against the ground. She crawls over to 10k who is face down next to Sarge. She knew they had made out just before everything began turning to shit and that angered her. But she doesn't bother about that now.
She flips him onto his back and pulls him into her lap, exposing his neck. She places her fingers near his jaw to feel for a pulse.
She cant fell even the slightest. She keeps moving her fingers around hoping to find the smallest of heartbeats. She puts her head to his chest to hear absolutely nothing. Her eyes begin to water and drip down her face and onto his chest.
She pulls her face down towards his chest and begins to sob loudly, her back rising and falling unevenly with each sob being forced from her mouth. Her tears begin to soak his bloodied shirt after a few minutes of crying. Eventually, she accepts the fact that he's gone and gets up, wiping her eyes. She laughs slightly as she looks at the puddle on his chest but stops when she doesn't see his chest rising or falling.
She turns to 5k who lays motionless as well. She crouches down next to him and places a small kiss on his forehead. She tucks her metal ace card in his pocket and sighs as the stands again.
Suddenly she becomes dizzy again and the room around her begins spinning. She looks over to see the sky black again and fumes filling her lungs. She begins to tip over and then falls.
--
She wakes up to feel her shirt soaked with water and her skin ice cold. She lifts her head to have it bashed against something and forces her to lay back down She tries to move her hands to her head but can't for they are trapped to her sides. Now that she begins to look around, everything is dark and begins to get difficult to breathe.
"HEY!" She shouts
Ace doesn't bother to wait for someone to come rescue her. She doesn't believe in happy endings... not anymore.
She begins to slowly lift her knees, to push whatever is on top of her upwards. When it shifts slightly, she uses her arms to push harder until light peeks through. She begins kicking at the top, hoping it will move or break away. With one swift kick, her knee lets out a sick crack and pain shoots through her joint.
"AH!" She shouts and arms try to grip her leg but can't reach
She pushes even harder and eventually there is a gap big enough for her to get through. She drags herself out and finds herself in a cement grave in the middle of a forest.
Her heart stops when she sees a skeleton inside the tomb as well as 10k's gun.
-end of flashback-
The mailbox of the house sits just behind the chainlink fence. A small picture is hung on the back of it. Immediately a hole is blown through it, covering the face of whoever it was. Behind the gun sits an angry Ace as the stares at the picture.
She turns and jumps from the window, landing on the roof. She grabs hold of the gutter pipe leading down to the ground and slides down it, not caring if it broke underneath her. Thankfully it didn't and she landed safely on the ground.
Her knee lets out a crack as she lands but she walks it off as if it was nothing and adjusts her knee brace. She flips her hair and scans the area before making her way over to the mailbox and pulls the picture off of the mailbox.
She feels the eyes of another burning on her skin but chooses to ignore it. She turns around and lets her hips sway as she makes her way back to the barn house. She walks around the house and into the back. Her eyes scan through the woods and make eye contact with another pair just as she rounds the corner.
