Shinedown Strong

We Will Not Fall

*Brent POV
The sweat pours down my back as I lunge at the beast of a man in front of me. I plunge my fist into his jaw, he barely stumbles before he reaches for the gun on his belt. I thought this was the end. Suddenly I hear a blood curdling scream, I look up to see Eric slam into the man in front of me and hit him with a garbage can. The man falls right on top of me. Eric runs over and starts to try to pull the guy off of me. I begin to think I'm going to be crushed, when the weight on me lightens. I just lay on the ground exhausted. "Really Eric! Why a garbage can! Now I have trash all over me!" I yell breathlessly. "Oh I'm sorry! next time I need to save your butt I'll go steal a vase!" He laughs. He reaches out his hand. "I can stand up just fine." I retort. I try to stand up but I end up falling back down. "Never mind, help me up." I grab Eric's hand and stand up. "Are you okay?" He asks. I reply "Yeah I'm fine, can't say the same for him" I gesture toward the man laying unconscious on the ground. "Brent, let's get out of here before big friendly guy wakes up😂." "Definitely big, not too friendly though." Eric smiles, I pick all the trash off of me and we walk off. When we are finally away from my assailant, I say "This is getting bad that is the third DEVIL agent this week and it's not even Tuesday!" Eric replies "I know we need to get a handle on this." "Oh Crap!" I slap my forehead. "We need to check on Barry and Zach!" I yell. Eric nods and we sprint for a burned out building on 5th Street. We run to the building and see Zach and Barry surrounded by at least 3 guys the size of the dude we just knocked out. They are all roughly 6 foot 4 and weigh at least 270 pounds. We aren't more than a few feet away from Zach and Barry when I see the fear in their eyes. Eric grabs a 5 foot ladder and smashes it into two of the thugs, nearly knocking Barry and Zach out at the same time. I jump on the third guys back and put him in a chokehold till he slips to the ground, unconscious. "What the heck man!! Why did you use a ladder, you damn near killed us!!" Zach yells "Didn't you see the sledgehammer on the sidewalk??" Barry says. "Meh. sledgehammers are no fun, ladders and garbage cans are." Barry looks at me with a confused look on his face. "Eric decided to hit my attacker with a full garbage can." I say "You really couldn't find an empty one to use?" "Hey you almost got killed, I wasn't going to be picky about whether I should use a full or empty garbage can to hit the dude with." Eric says as the thugs begin to wake up. "Let's get out of here!" I yell as we take off running, then we turn a corner and run down an alley. Finally we stop to catch our breath. What are we going to do. The DEVIL agency is throwing more soldiers our way than I can count. We need to find someone to help us. "Eric, Zach, Barry. We need to find the Captain." I say. They look at me like I lost my mind. "But Brent, you said we won't try to find her unless it's absolutely freaking necessary!" Zach complains. "I know. But she is our only hope. These soldiers from DEVIL are showing up in larger numbers everyday. We need her now or there will be no tomorrow." I explain.