The Lowly Gate's Guard

Ch. 12: To Waterloo Station (2)

The three were walking down a street not too far from the area with the M&S store.

"What happened to you?" Mary asked Dean.

The road ahead of them was blocked by a fallen building. Sam signalled them to enter into a narrow alleyway to continue.

"Me?" Dean pointed at himself, his expression blank.

"I was going to ask you about that, and what happened here?!?" Dean shouted as he pointed to the destroyed building they recently left behind.

"Shut up." Sam put his hand out to Dean, a look of annoyance was in his eyes.

"Are you simple? Do you want to alert the Gate monsters?"

Sam wondered why Mary would want to bring this man child along, he was already a hazard at work, and with how things are now, he was going to get them all killed.

"Gate monsters? We're not in a Gate though." Dean looked dumbfounded. The safe zones blocked the monsters from leaving the Gates, he studied about it in class.

"The world's a Gate now." Sam responded. He looked down the alleyway, his eyes looking elsewhere.

"What do you mean?"

Dean's face grew dark. The world a Gate? No wonder why everything was in this state. Mary grabbed Dean's arm, trying to comfort him.

"Dean. Not long after you disappeared windows appeared everywhere. All of them started counting down. No one knew what they meant, but they knew something big was going to happen, and then when the countdown finished..." Mary stopped, fear was in her voice. The events were too much for her to remember.

"What?" Dean asked, his eyes wide. He had an idea of what could have happened, but he wanted to make sure.

Sam continued for her, "The monsters from the gate came flooding out. People were getting slaughtered left and right, there were just too many of them. The Hunters tried their best, but they couldn't keep up with the numbers." His hands were clenched in a fist, they must have gone through a lot.

"Oh god." A part of Dean wouldn't accept what happened to the world, he thought it was a dream. The situation was too outlandish for it to have happened.

"And the Gate missions?"

"After the humans were whittled down by the wave of monsters, it got worse. A video of a man with a TV for a head was broadcast on all the windows. He put up his black inked fingers, and a smile crept onto the screen where his face should have been. He said 'It's time to start, we've prepared you with Gate's. Now Earth, it's your turn, it's time to put on a show.' and then he vanished. It's been three days since then. Gate missions and zones have appeared everywhere, if you don't complete them, you die."

Sam continued, looking into the distance, anger in his eyes. He then turned his head to look back at Dean.

"Now stop being an idiot-." Suddenly, Sam pulled out his broadsword and pointed it to the exit of the alleyway.

A gang of four men stepped from around the corner, each of them had lethal homemade weapons held in their hands. Their clothes were covered in blood, much more than Dean and Sam had on theirs.

"Look boys, it's free points!" One of them hissed with a grin. He held a wooden bat covered in barb wire and sharp nails; blood smeared all over the end. The rest of the men held similarly made weapons, a smile on each of their faces.

"Guys can't we get along?" Dean said, his arms out as if he trying to calm the mood.

"The points want to be friends, too bad. I don't want to be a friend with someone who will soon be dead." The man laughed. All four of them charged the group, holding their weapons up high.