Chapter Twenty-Two: The Uprising

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Gerard/Party's POV
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We all clambered into our vehicles, ready for what was to come. The Zone Sixers brought gasoline as a peace offering to the Killjoys and we all filled our tanks, to make sure we could get there and back if we needed to retreat far in the worst case scenario.

We, the Fabulous Four, led the horde in our spray painted Trans Am. The white van with the others and the Wild Ones to our right and Show Pony and his friends in another van to our left.

"Hit it!" Yelled Jet.

And with a squealing of tires, the motorcade of rebels made their way to Battery City, blasting Dr. Death Defying's station which was playing songs by a Killjoy named Mad Gear.

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We made it to Zone 1 when I noticed something in the air.

"Is that smoke?" Mikey asked.

"—Poison, —copy!?" A walkie-talkie given to Andy and I by the Sixers sounded from the backseat.

Frank handed it to me.

"Poison to Prophet, what's up?" I asked.

"STOP!"

I hit the brakes.

"What was that about?" I asked.

"Something's wrong, the air is thick with the scent of smoke and ash. The Shadows, I think they've infested the city."

"Or maybe, it's because of that," said Frank, pointing into the dark tunnel.

I peered in and saw something unpleasant.

"Proph, you seeing this?" I questioned, my eyes meeting a dark form that held no resemblance to the Shadows.

"Yeah, we'll have to make the walk to HQ. Everyone has charms, so hopefully we'll be protected."

Everyone left their vehicles on the sides of the road and finished the walk to Battery on foot with us leading the way. Vic, Brendon and Patrick all stayed behind with a couple others along with Prophet's walkie-talkie in case we needed back up or if we all ended up dying. The Wild Ones had split in half, half at the frontlines and the rest holding up the back. We ventured into Battery City which had gone dark.

We made it to HQ without being ambushed.

"Welcome to the end Killjoys! Glad you could join us!" Korse stood at the HQ entrance, the Reaper by his side, "My sources were reliable, you have called for help, and the scum answered."

He snapped and the Reaper tapped his staff to the ground three times.

Shadows appeared, surrounding us but something else was with them.

Citizens overtaken by the ash in the LightMind Pill. Bodies twisted by black veins, ash covered skin and blue barcodes, which turned them into something animalistic.

They began to attack and we all braced ourselves. The Mystic raised a wall of fire around us, which stopped them.

The light hurts them.

The Shadows, however, came forward instead and broke through the wall, Draculoids and 'Crows following them. Killjoys fired their ray guns, hoping to do some damage.

Kobra, Jet, Fun and I fired to clear a path towards the HQ entrance, without luck.

I grabbed at the walkie-talkie at my belt furiously. I managed to unbuckled it and I called to those outside.

"Poison to Mercy, punch it!"

The hand piece was shot out of my grip. Killjoys and Sixers were progressively losing numbers.

"Go, go, go!" I yelled, continuing to push towards the entrance.

The ground trembled due to Destroyer using his powers, but I didn't lose my balance.

Was it a figment of my imagination?

I felt something hit me, and my gun fell from my hand. My heartbeat became a throbbing in my brain as well as the only thing I could hear. Pain in my right shoulder grew stronger. I fell to my knees

I heard something but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Something sped past the fight and I felt the impact of something being ran into.

My senses cleared up a bit and I felt hands on me.

"Party—, okay? —'s Kobra."

"Mi—."

He placed his hand over my mouth.

"Don't speak, c'mon we're not done yet."

He helped me up, and my hearing and sight were back. The pain intensified.

"They rammed the Trans Am into HQ. The Shadows scattered. The citizens didn't though."

We stormed the inside and made our way to the Pill Lab. We would destroy the catalyst of our suffering.

Then, Deviant dropped in pain and started screaming.

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[A/N] Sorry, I'm trying to make these last few chapters take as long as they need to. We're almost to the end.

-PW13

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