Breaking but not broken.

Chapter 13

[The Woman]

The Dag sat in the back whispering and swiftly moving her hands and fingers through the air.
    "What are you doing?" Toast asked her.
    "Praying."
    "To who?"
   "Anyone that's listening."

That made me smile until I looked into the mirror and saw the cars approaching. One car was equipped with a harpoon, which they fired, but thankfully missed, giving a mother the time to shoot and kill him and the driver.
     "Here we go girls." The seed holder smiled.
    The man was immediately intrigued when he saw the next car that approached. He fired at the war boys and growled.  
    "That's mine!"
    "There gonna try and get in front of us." I explained. "They'll blow the tires."
    Nux's knowing the other boys tactics crawled out of the hold and made his way to the hood with a tank of gasoline.
   "Don't blow the engines." I warned.
   "I won't. Just gonna nudge her."
    Nux placed the gasoline hose in his mouth, drew it into his mouth, then spit it into the engine. Our speed immediately started to increase, but I cringed every time he swallowed some.
   "You filth! You traitored him!" Another war boy on top of the man's car yelled at Nux." I'd say I'd seen that boy before but he'll, they all looked the same.
   Their car pulled in front of us and as soon as I saw the war boy crank a handle I swerved. Do to my action we avoided most of the spikes that were meant to puncture our tires. Nux slid around and in doing so choke on some gasoline. The man seeing his distress climbed out of the rig. The man gently pushed the war boys head towards the rig telling him to go inside. When I looked out at the other boys I saw the most disgusting thing being acted out. They were deliberately pouring the gasoline into their mouths and spitting it into the engine as if it was a game. I shook my head. The Valkyrie appeared to my left on her bike and she gunned down the driver of a car. The car drifted away making way for new enemies. The speedometer peg fell once more on the dash and our pace slowed. The man made his way off the hood and to my window.
    "We gotta back off. One engines gone. Another's about to blow." I told him.
     He nodded and went back to Nux.
    "Are you a black thumb?" He yelled over the screams.
    Nux nodded.
    The man barked out orders at Nux and the mothers. As Nux crawled out of the safety of the rig, Capable looked to her new love, but he smiled assuring her he would be alright.
    I spotted a few smaller cars at the back of the rig that were also equipped with harpoons, which they used to launch at the water tank. A large claw shot out from the back of there cars and dug into the ground causing the rig to slow. Even if the drivers were killed, the issued remained with the harpoons. Hopefully someone would grab the bolt cutters and sever the chains. I would do it, but I had to focus on driving, which was excruciating! I wanted to help the gun wielder outside the rig, give everybody else their best chance at being safe, but I had to stayed settled. I had to stay put.
      A harpoon broke through the metal frame of the rig right above Toast's shoulder. She screamed, but remained unharmed. The car that launched the harpoon was starting to tip, and was undoubtedly going to collide with us.
    "Get to the right!" I yelled at them.
     They all scrunched up onto the right side of the seat and the left part of he frame ripped away. As it fell it took a one of the Many Mother's with it.
      I didn't have time to mourn her.
      I glanced at the mirrors again to see the chains being broken by someone, but I saw another approaching issue.
      Pollcats.
The pollcats drove to the front of the rig.
tossing in a smoker, and another started a small chain saw up. Before I could even try to speed up a rope went over my head. Shit! The rope tightened and my air supply was cut off.
    "Hey you!" The Seed holder yelled.
     The Seed holder killed the man with the rope around my throat and I made a mental note to thank her. The sound of a blade cutting through the air caused me to angle my head upwards. The man attempted to swing down into the rig, his entrance of choice being the sunroof, but a watchful mother swung her gun. The man caught it. My eyes sped around looking for something I could use to get this assalent off the rig. I saw a small crossbow in the open glove compartment, grabbed it, and shot the man in the head. He let go of the sunroof and tumbled off the rig. The Seed holder sat down and I undid the rope around my neck and tossed it out of the rig.
      Toast leaned forward and grabbed the Seed holders shoulder. "Are you okay?" She asked.
      Had she been hurt? The old mother was holding her scarf around her throat and her skin was fading into an off white. A color that was not healthy for a person. Toast turned to the other girls, fear riddling her voice, "I think she's hurt."
      I had shot the man with the chainsaw, but not before he had a chance to cut The Seed Holders throat. I couldn't let her remain at the center of my attention for long, though. The enemies were still in pursuit.

[The Man]

     "Confucamus!" I cursed under my breath.       
      The Polecats just kept coming, wave after wave. Kicking, punching, then a break. Kicking, punching, then another break. I was finally at a break when I looked up to see a war boy land near the exposed section of the rig. That area being the sunroof. The Woman was so busy with other distractions trying to kill her she hadn't even noticed this one. I had to help her.
        I turned around and grabbed the mother's gun, who yelled at me in disapproval, though I ignored her and shot the man. He tumbled off and I dropped the gun.
        I needed to stay by the front to help The Woman defend the girls and herself. I moved to step over the gap connecting the front of the rig to the back when another surprise, we'll, surprised me. A large man with a doll face secured to the back of his head crawled out from beneath the rig and crawled like a spider to the front. Suddenly his figure faded away, and my little girl stood before my feet. "You shouldn't be here". Was my only thought. She jerked her hand forward like she always did and I lifted my hand, but something went through my hand this time. It broke the skin on my palm and entered into my head. I gasped and collapsed onto the grate plate on top of the rig.

[The Woman]

I hadn't seen the gun wielder in a while and I hoped he was alright. We were losing people right and let and I would hate to lose him. He was useful if nothing else.
     The girls were all huddled up on the back seat but there screams alerted me. I looked back to see a man crawling through the open part of the rig. I grabbed hold of the closest thing, which happened to be the knife/gear shift, and threw it like a dart into his shoulder. He lost his grip on the metal frame and fell away from the rig.
     After that encounter, things really started to fall apart. A pollcat saw the open part of the rig and made his move, swinging down and wrapping his gloved hand around Toast's arm.
     "Ah!" She screamed alerting everyone.
     "NO!"
      The other girls tried to grab her, but the polecat was too strong and ripped her out of the rig. She kicked and fought even after being placed in Immortan Joe's car.
      "No! Dammit! Son of a bitch!" I yelled.