Adventures With The SMG4 Crew

Left 4 Dead 2: Streets (Part 2/4)

I finished the last of my cigarette and flicked it on the cold ground. Yesterday, we escaped the inferno of fire and infected. Now, we were all looking at a map of the city, trying to find the right way to get to the evacuation center at the mall.

Luigi: I don't know which way to go.

Meggy: Me neither.

Mario: Dead rotten.

Luigi: Most of them are interconnected.

Mario: What's that mean?

Me: They're connected.

Mario: Ohh. What now?

Me: Okay.

I pointed at a few interconnected roads on the map, followed by Whittaker's Gun Shop, and then the mall.

Me: We'll take these streets to make our way to Whittaker's, where we can get some REAL guns. Then, I bet he'll ask us for something in exchange for a quick path to the mall, where a safe house will be.

Meggy: Please Tell me it's not gonna be hard.

Me (winking): It'll always be hard when it's around you.

Meggy blushed and looked down at the floor.

Meggy: D-don't. Just... don't.

Me: It's not meant to be dirty. I mean it's always difficult whenever the action's around you. Anyways, so we know what we're doing?

Mario: Somewhat.

Luigi: Yep.

Meggy looked up at me.

Meggy: Promise You'll stop.

Me: Promise. I didn't mean for it to-

Meggy: Yeah. We know.

I grabbed a shotgun from the nearby table.

Luigi: Shotgun?

Me: One shot, one kill. Great for Witches.

Mario: Witches?

Me: Listen out for crying. If you hear crying, lights go off. They'll be wandering.

Meggy: What are they like?

Me: Think of... the bride that was rejected just before the wedding. Devastated. They'll either sit and wait or wander with their head in their hands. It's daylight, so they'll wander. What they are, however, is another story. Bad tempered, long nails, down you in one swipe, even at full health.

Mario: Still, why the shotgun?

Me: If I can get close enough to one, I can put every pellet into the witch before she has the chance to react.

Mario: What about just regular bullets?

Me: Bad idea. Even if you have a powerful weapon, the witch is a glutton for punishment. Sniper shot to the head doesn't kill them, explosives don't kill them, basically any weapon you have that's single shot will just piss the witch off.

I walked over to the exit door of the safe room and lifted the steel bar from blocking the exit.

Me: The guns at Whittaker's are powerful. Take them. Once we get there, of course. Follow the path I pointed out on the map. It'll lead straight to Whittaker's.

Mario: So... we just follow you.

Me: Yep. And, I can't stress this more, but, PLEASE don't shoot each other. The last thing we need is to defibrillate someone because of a dumbass decision.