DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, Issue #3

[Gideon]

Gabe

"Not cops."

It is a statement of fact. At least Gabe is trying to make it that way.

But still. Something ate away at his bravado. He could feel the stress in Eleyna'a hand and offered a warm smile to ease her stress.

"Maybe, we should wear some sun glasses too. Help blend in?"

 

[Nuke261]

The cars seemed to crawl forward. Lorenzo continued to drive and checked to see if Jenn turned her lights back on. Kyle seemed to turn into a madman as the vehicles moved on. He dropped parts and grabbed others from out of his bag and pockets. Then he realized that his mutant-scanner detector-chip had not gone off. At least not yet. If they were approaching trouble, they were not being scanned.

No movement could be seen ahead but the shapes and lights were becoming more focused. It looked like a scrap yard. There were huge chunks of metal and pieces of debris, everywhere. The lights seemed to be shining from out of various parts that lay about both sides of the road. As they got closer, Eleyna recognized a shape in the wreckage ... it was the partial head of a Sentinel!

Gabe continued to concentrate and oddly felt no radio waves at all ... or did he. It was strange, erratic, almost like a partial broadcast. Static, for sure. And there was some sort of transmission, like data not words. But it was incomplete. Corey, Lorenzo and Jenn noticed a few people moving around but trying to stay in the shadows.

 

[Velmont]

"What is that thing? Anyone knows?" asks Andrew, wondering what he was looking at.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Kyle looks around, his eyes wide as he pauses in his work. "I'm going to go out of a long ass limb here and say this is DEFINITELY a spot we don't want to linger on." Continues to take in the destruction and devastation as they go. "Call me Mr. Cynical but I say it's a fair bet we're not far from being elbows deep in Sentinels around here."

 

[kid A]

Eleyna

Eleyna watched as the scrapyard came into view. As they rolled slowly past the yard, she saw so many different pieces of junk and scrap that she almost didn't see one in particular that she recognized. Somehow, though, her eyes fell on what appeared to be...

"A Sentinel head!" Blurting it out, without even thinking. Eleyna blinked once, realizing that she had actually spoken aloud, and turned to Gabe and Jenn. "Guys, there's a... there's... it looks like a Sentinel head sitting over there..." Despite it being only a partial head, Eleyna felt her stomach convulse and her body start to sweat. "I'm pretty sure it's... yeah, I think it's a head."

 

[Kangaxx]

Corey Vinyard

Corey leans forwards and points between the front seats. "Someone's over there. I.. I don't like this. Let's just keep going."

 

[Velmont]

Andrew stare at Eleyna for a moment than looks back at the scrapyard. "I think we should stop... I mean, whatever have destroy that sentinel could be of some help to us... What do you think?"

 

[Keia]

Lorenzo Reynolds HPs: 2/2

Corey leans forwards and points between the front seats. "Someone's over there. I.. I don't like this. Let's just keep going."

"I'm with you on that one, bud," Lorenzo replied. He made certain he was at or just above the speed limit and continued on his way. "I don't know what's over there . . . or who's over there . . . but this is the way Coach wanted us to come."

Lorenzo kept an eye on his rear view mirror, waiting to see what Jenn was doing.

 

[Gideon]

"A Sentinel head!"

Gabe's mind managed to mix totally stunned shock and panic at the same time. Half of his brain just stopped and the other half ran for its life. Three seconds after Eleyna's pronouncment he finally started to breath again.

"Stopping would be a really really really bad idea right now."

Gabe's hand was firmly latched onto Eleyna's for support. It had suddenly become the life line to survival again. Suddenly facing the full brunt of his fears had Gabe on the verge of absolute panic.

Keep it together for Eleyna. You can do it. Dad would want you to.

Sweat was beading up on his head but Gabe was determined to go down fighting.

 

[Nuke261]

Despite the confusion and chaos, Lorenzo continued to move ahead. Although more slowly than before. As they crept forward, they were able to make out more of the structures before them. The wreckage was all metal objects. Some of it was simply scrap, some of it appeared to be tanks and some types of armor. And then of course, there were the sentinels. Scattered and damaged, there were pieces of Sentinels across both sides of the road.

There looked to be around a dozen people in the area. Some of them paid no attention to the approaching vehicles while others hid. The looked to have slightly worn and tattered clothes but otherwise looked healthy. It seemed they had hooked-up lights and other items to the wiring and power cells of the debris. It was an eerie sight of people living in the remains of a massive battle between some sort of army and the Sentinels.