Lukas screamed while covering his face. He thought he was about to get shot in his head. But when he peeked through his fingers, he saw the Death Row Infantry-man getting his gun knocked out of his hand by his female partner. Lukas watched as the Death Row Infantry-woman knocked the gun out of her partner’s hand before ramming her knife as hard as she could into the man’s torso. The little boy flinched when the Infantry-man dropped to his knees while coughing up blood.
After the Infantry-woman gutted her partner with the knife, she quickly removed the man’s helmet, pulled out her gun, and blew him away.
A few drops of the Infantry-man’s blood splattered on Lukas’ face. The little boy had never seen someone get shot in the face in real life. He only saw people getting shot in movies.
Lukas still shielded himself from the Death Row Infantry-woman, even though she saved his life. He put his hands up to protect himself when the Infantry-woman kneeled in front of
Amy laughed when her dad made fun of himself after noticing ketchup and mustard decorating his shirt. Amy’s father had a talent for making her and her sister laugh. She thought about how her dad did a spot-on Snoop Dogg impersonation and had his daughters losing their stuff laughing. Growing up, Amy always saw her father as her hero. He had a tough but gentle persona. Most of his nurturing personality traits got passed on to Amy. She thought about how her father would wear his Nike cap backward and would sport his tattoos beneath his muscle shirts. She loved that her father’s favorite movie was Straight Outta Compton, and that she had to keep reminding her dad that the young man portraying Ice Cube was actually Ice Cube's son. Amy always considered her father to be an extremely handsome, but rugged, version of her favorite action movie hero, Jean-Claude Van Damme if Jean-Claude Van Damme was Korean. Amy would tease her father, calling him her Van Damme Papa Bear, which he hated.
Olivia had to make it to the pulse car because it was the only way to escape from the facility. The pulse car was how Olivia, Lukas, and the Death Row Infantry-man she killed arrived at the space station. Walking down a dark space station tunnel that seemed like it would never end had a haunting effect. Olivia felt like she was walking the length of a football field. Lukas looked around the dark tunnel, remembering how scared he would get whenever a power outage would occur at his home. The child remembered experiencing a power outage when a group of Death Row Infantry-men broke into his home and abducted him, his father, and his mother. There was something unnatural about the darkness in the tunnel. It was a darkness that looked like it wanted to reach out and grab you. Olivia felt like the darkness was watching her and Lukas. “F#ck this,” Olivia murmured under her breath while reaching for a foldable flashlight attached to her uniform. Grabbing the flashlig
It took a second for Amy to run around the car toward the driver’s side. Before getting in the car, Amy looked around one last time. It was a mistake. When Amy opened the driver’s side door and looked around, that’s when she spotted the him. She saw him standing on the hood of a parked car, watching her. Her body almost became paralyzed when she saw the hitman standing from a distance on the roof of the car like a statue. She knew Paul could see her from fifty feet away. He was looking dead at her. The killer’s pristine black suit glistened beneath the parking garage’s lights. Amy got into the car, slamming the door and locking it. Her heart pounded against her throat. She knew Paul would make it up to the car in a few minutes, and she knew she would lose Azad if the assassin made it to the car in time. Amy pushed the car’s ignition start button while fidgeting with her necklace. When Amy turned the car on, the voice of a young man rapping emerged from the ca
Olivia stopped and turned to see what was chasing her. It was a big mistake. When Olivia turned around, she almost dropped her flashlight. Lukas screamed when he saw the man running toward him and Olivia. The man was naked, dirty, and covered in blood. But what caught Olivia’s eye was the naked man’s damaged skull and upper body. A large fragment of his skull was missing. Olivia spun back around, taking out running at full speed. She didn’t care if the naked man was human or if he was something else. All Olivia cared about was protecting Lukas and making it to the leveler before the man could catch her. He drew closer while moaning like a wounded ape. Lukas held on tight to Olivia. He never took his eyes off the shadowy distant outline of the naked man. The man chased after them, moving like a toddler learning how to walk. “Please help meeeee!” The man’s distorted voice moaned through his words like a night wind rustling through a forest. “Pleeease!”
Amy could barely raise her voice, and she couldn’t see where Azad was. She gasped and sobbed while listening to Azad cry out to her. Amy wanted to move her body when she could feel the Death Row Infantry-man pressing his knee into her back. Her body shivered from feeling the Infantry-man’s hand grabbing her butt and rubbing up and down the back of her thigh. The Infantry-man enjoyed himself exponentially. He was on top of Amy and he pinned her arms against her back with his knee grinding into her spine. The soldier’s large, sweaty hand tried to creep its way up between her inner thighs. Now was not a good time to have temporary paralysis. Amy couldn’t move her body, so her mind tried to go to another place. She thought about something pleasant, like her husband. She tried to imagine that it was her husband sliding his hand up between her legs toward her vagina and not a Death Row soldier. Amy could see the other Infantry-men standing over her and laughing at
When the creature squawked and clicked at Olivia, she felt the creature knew her plan to escape, and it didn’t like it. Olivia swallowed her tongue while forcing herself to move her hand toward the lever again. Her heart still pounded in her throat. Olivia felt like her heart was going to pop out of her chest. She thought the Boneseeker Man could hear her pounding heart and was probably annoyed by it. Thoughts in her head told her to be perfectly still, while conflicting thoughts told her to make a move or die. Lukas stared straight ahead at the Boneseeker Man. The child remembered his mother telling him about the Devil and how he was a hideous monster that feasted on souls. Lukas thought he was seeing the Devil for the first time. The Boneseeker Man’s eight legs looked like giant spiked tentacles. Olivia’s mind went blank when she watched the Boneseeker Man wrap its massive slimy claws around the steel bars on the leveler’s door. Olivi
Amy immediately laid the machine gun down on the wet pavement. She felt miserable and powerless again while staring into the eyes of the hitman. “You broke my nose,” Paul chuckled while pointing up at his face and walking closer toward Amy. “No one has ever broken my nose. You have my respect.” Paul gave Amy his signature devilish grin. It was the same grin he gave her in the hospital room after she witnessed him cut her father’s throat before she passed out. Amy swallowed a few times while trying not to break eye contact with Paul. “P-please don’t harm my son. Don’t hurt my baby,” Amy stuttered. She had a mental lapse and saw Omar in the hitman’s arms. Amy closed her eyes after the brief hallucination clouded her thinking. “Are you okay, Mommy?” Omar’s sweet voice kissed Amy, but she knew it wasn’t real. “Yes, baby. Mommy’s fine,” Amy answered softly before realizing her son’s voice was a hallucinatory manifestation. A few tear
Carlos Garcia worked for Princess Death Row for four years, and he loved to kill. He didn’t know that he was going to be killed himself. He didn’t follow his boss’s orders, which meant trouble for him. Carlos had been given orders to abduct a woman’s child but was told not to kill or injure the child’s mother. Carlos and his partner were told not to injure a young woman named Amy Cho. He didn’t know that he was in trouble for shooting into Amy’s car. He didn’t know that Princess Death Row wanted him dead for not obeying her demands. Carlos was oblivious to the trouble he was in. At the moment, he was in complete euphoria. He had a good time with a female coworker who was also his girlfriend. The Death Row Infantry-man knew it would jeopardize his job to have sex with his lady friend while in the back of a company vehicle, but Carlos didn’t care. He pumped and humped between his girlfriend’s legs while listening to the voice of rap star Pitbull, whose v