Race in Time S1 Vol. 3

Race in Time: Volume 3 - Showdown

Written by @WarpigTC

## **12:45, Kingdom of Basczucki.**

Dan and Copper made eye contact, but Sam nudged him with his elbow to get a reaction out of him.

Sam: "What's with the staring contest?"

Dan: "That's our target right there, we kill that guy and get out."

Sam: "I figured, so, how hard do you think it'll be to get past his friends?

Dan: "It should be of no issue."

Sam: "Alright then, let's go."

John: "Hey jackass, you coming down here or not?!"

Joey: "John I don't think that's a good ide-"

Nitro pulled Joey away before Sam could land a lethal strike on him, but Sam still sliced Joey's chin.

Joey was bleeding from the chin, but still thanked Nitro for preventing his death.

Nitro then turned to Sam.

Nitro: "That ain't gonna work."

Sam swung to clean the blood off his sword and sheathed his sword, then turned to Dan, gesturing at him to come down.

John: "What do you want from me?"

Sam: "Isn't it obvious? I want you dead."

John: "Alright then asshat, I think you'll blush a pretty pink when I kick your ass."

...

Sam and John: "Prepare to die."

John's group all grabbed their weapons, while Sam waited for Dan to arrive before engaging the group.

Dan arrived at Sam's side, and prepared his gear before the fight.

Sam Unsheathed his Yōtō-Ichimonji High-Frequency blade, and entered his stance as the sword was crackling with electricity.

John pulled out his pistol and shot at Sam, but the man simply swung his blade to deflect the shot before sheathing his sword and dashing at the group.

John: "Carl, Gre, Joey, take the weaker guy, me Kaz and Nitro will take the Shadow the Hedgehog wannabe!"

Sam took his scabbard with the sword still in from the robotic arm holding it and bashed John with it twice before putting it back to it's holder and performing a upwards slash, but just as the cut was about to hit John, Sam redirected the slash to deflect fire from Gre's shotgun.

Sam: "Hey Dan, mind joining in?"

Dan: "Sure."

Dan built a modified sentry gun in a matter of seconds and immediately ordered it to fire at the group.

As the missiles exploded, the group already dodged them, but the clouds of dust they left behind were utilized by Sam as a distraction so he could dash in and try and strike John, but Kaz blocked the Iaido quickdraw with his wooden blade.

Sam: "A Honduran Mahogany wooden sword?"

As Sam broke out of the sword clash by performing a bash-like motion with his sword, Kaz stepped back and replied

"It's the single best weapon in the world, and you can't prove me otherwise."

Sam: "Sure, it might be a high frequency blade but it can't be more dangerous than real steel."

Kaz: "Prove it then!"

Sam smirked before dashing at Kaz with his sword sheathed, but instead of attacking with his sword, he kicked Kaz away, as he didn't expect Sam to not use the blade.

Sam: "Fool!"

Carl noticed Kaz on the ground and redirected his fire from Dan to Sam, but Sam simply cut the 5.56 rounds with his sword before retaliating with a barrage of 9mm rounds, forcing Carl to seek cover.

Carl: "JOHN, WE CAN JUST GET OUT OF HERE, WE'VE GOT WATCHES, WE CAN GET OUT!"

John: "NOT UNTIL THESE ASSHOLES GET WHAT THEY DESERVE!"

Carl: "WE DON'T STAND A CHANCE, MR. SEKIRO HERE CAN DEFLECT BULLETS, WE SHOULD RETREAT."

John ignored him and rushed at Dan while firing, but was hit by Sam who bashed him with his scabbard.

As Sam was about to cut John open and execute him by destroying his organs, Nitro shot at him at breakneck speeds which Sam could barely deflect.

Sam: "Interesting."

Nitro: "That caught your eye?"

Sam: "You're pretty fast, you might actually be worth putting some energy into."

Nitro: "Ah please, save the compliments for later."

Sam smirked as he grabbed Gre who was trying to rush at him by the neck, and threw him away.

Dan: "Sam! Don't let them get away!"

Sam turned his eyes to John's crew in one spot preparing to return to the present, but Nitro used the distraction to his advantage and shot at Sam at high speeds again.

Sam's gear and reflexes kicked in just at the right time to allow him to cut the bullet in two, even though it was a few inches away from his forehead.

Sam: "Then shoot them damnit!"

Dan ordered his sentry to shoot another salvo of missiles at the group, but they moved away behind another building.

As Sam and Nitro were exchanging attacks, Dan pointed his own weapon at Nitro and shot at him, but Nitro dashed away to regroup with his group.

Dan: "After them!"

Copper and the others made their way towards the middle of the city with the two mercernaries on their tail.

Carl pulled the charging handle of his M16 and fired at Sam, who deflected his rounds and counterattacked him with pistol fire.

Carl: "JOHN WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING?"

John: "WE ARE RUNNING CIRCLES AROUND THIS DAMN PLACE UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE!"

As they were talking, the knights of the kingdom appeared in front of the group, blocking their way.

Knight: "Halt!"

John tackles the knight, and keeps running towards the city centre.

John: "Fuck off!"

John and co. Arrive at the main entrance to the castle, and are immediately surrounded by royal guards.

Nitro: "Good one, John."

John: "Oh shut up."

As the knights surround them, Sam is charging towards the group.

Kaz: "Hey Nitro, I'll block him, you shoot him aight?"

Nitro: "Aye."

Sam thrusts towards Kaz, but Kaz blocks the thrust and tilts his head.

Kaz: "Bang."

Nitro empties his revolver's cylinder into Sam.

As Sam tries to deflect the rounds, three of them hit him in the chestplate, blasting him backwards.

Dan, who was catching up to Sam laughs at him lying on the floor, groaning in pain.

Dan: "Idiot, this is going on my twitter."

Sam: "Ah fuck...that hurt."

Dan: "Aigh bitchboy, get up, we've got company."

The legion of knights move in to surround the two groups.

Nitro: "Well, I'm just gonna..."

Nitro draws his revolver and within a split second puts a hole through each knight around him.

Sam: "Hey cowboy, good one!"

Sam spins and unsheathes his sword, using the momentum to cut everything around him.

Nitro starts walking towards Sam.

Nitro: "I take it you're ready for what's comin'?"

Sam: "Bring it."

Nitro starts firing at Sam, but he simply deflects the rounds and swings at Nitro, who dodges the blade and reloads his revolver.

John: "GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER!"

The team starts firing at Sam, who quickly moves behind cover along with Dan.

Sam: "Well, how the turntables."

Dan: "Any plan you got to get out of this one?"

Sam: "Aren't you always the planning guy?"

Dan: "Let's just shoot em'"

Sam: "Smartest thing you've said in a while."

Sam jumps out of cover and starts firing at the group, but right as he shows his head he starts getting shot at.

Sam: "HEY DAN, CONSIDER DOING SOMETHING."

Dan: 'Yeah, yeah I know!"

As the two mercernaries fire at the group, they take the firefight further into the city center.

Carl: "John, we should just wound them and leave!"

John: "Yeah, that's what we're doing, hit them hard!"

Nitro holsters his revolver and cocks his shotgun, then slam-fires 6 shells into Sam, who deflects them and shoots at Nitro, but Nitro tilts his head to avoid the bullet.

Kaz: "More knights!"

Sam turns his head to see another squad of knights going towards him, but he simply scoffs and starts running towards Nitro.

Nitro: "Bet."

Nitro unholsters his revolver and shoots at Sam's head, but he deflects the bullets and thrusts at him, leaving a small cut on Nitro's stomach.

Nitro: "Well, this blood ain't coming off."

Sam slashes at Nitro, but he shoots Sam in the head, hitting his mask and making him recoil back.

Sam: "Huh, didn't think this thing was that strong."

Sam deflects the incoming barrage of bullets from Nitro, then tries to kick him, but Nitro steps back and blasts him with his shotgun.

Sam: "You running dry yet?"

Nitro grits his teeth and runs towards cover as Sam walks towards their group.

Nitro: "Kaz, you're up I gotta reload."

Kaz: "Alright, cover me."

Nitro loads a round into the cylinder of his revolver and peeks from cover to aim at Sam.

Kaz: "Hey!"

Sam glances at Kaz who's running at him with his sword by his side, but doesn't do anything.

Kaz slashes at Sam, but gets blocked, but right at their swords are about to make contact, Nitro fires at Sam.

Sam quickly stares back at Nitro, clearly seeing the incoming round going for his forehead.

Sam: "Ah fuck."

Sam redirects his cut to deflect the bullet, but takes a blow to the head from Kaz, throwing him a few meters away.

As Sam tries to recover from the blow, Nitro is loading in another round, but Sam rolls back into cover.

Dan: "Jesus Christ, how did you fuck up this bad?"

Sam: "Can't....damnit...wooden HF Blades suck.."

Dan looks at the watch on his wrist and sets the time to 2034.

Carl: "One of them got hit, he should be out for a while, we should get out John."

John: "Get the other guy, then we leave."

Carl: "Alright, prep your watches, we're going home."

As the group makes their way to where the two mercs are taking cover, Dan gets up and shoots at John who dodges the bullet, but the bullet hits Joey in the shoulder.

John: "You fucki-"

Dan: "See you later."

Dan uses his watch to return back to 2034 alongside Sam.

John: "Damnit!"

Carl: "Christ, you good?"

Joey: "Augh, that hurts..."

John: "We'll take care of that later, let's get back now."

John uses a watch to return himself and his crew back to 2034.

## **15th June, 20:17 PM, behind Copper's house in Beeville, Texas, present time.**

John: "Everybody okay?"

Nitro: "Yes."

Joey: "What now, fellas?"

Carl: "My apartment isn't far from here, and I parked close by here, we can stay at my place."

Kaz: "I wanna call someone who might be able to help us, no guarantee tho."

## **15th June, 21:02 PM, Beeville, Texas, Carl's apartment, Present time.**

John: "Alright, you got him?"

Kaz: "Yep, he's gonna pick up in one, two, aaaand, there!"

...

John: "It's still ringing."

Kaz: "God damnit, alright NOW!"

A man's voice is heard coming from Kaz's phone.

"Yeah what do you want?"

Kaz: "Hey Jack, I'm kinda in a situation right now, would be really nice if you helped us here."

Jack: "What do you mean "us"?"

Kaz: "I'm with Copper, y'know the inventor guy I told you about."

Jack: "What happened."

Kaz: "We got mixed up with some shady freaks and the cops because Copper here blasted one of their guys in the face with 9mm"

Jack: "Fuckin' idiot, alright I've got nothin' else to do, where you at right now?"

Kaz: "I'll send you the address, bye for now."

Jack: "Bye."

Kaz: "Alright, he should be over here in a while, in the meantime, anything else?"

Carl: "If we're going for a longer trip, we are going to need munitions, no?"

John: "You got a guy for it right?"

Carl: "Yep, I'll call him over."

Carl takes his cell phone out of his pocket and starts calling.

...

Carl: "Hey Seb, was wondering if you could supply us with some munitions?"

Sebastian: "What do you need?"

Carl: "Twenty boxes of 9mm, Fifteen boxes of 45., Ten boxes of 5.56, Five boxes of 44., Ten boxes of 000 Buckshot, and some explosives if you can."

Sebastian: "Alright."

Carl: "And also, could you... Help us with a little task?"

Sebastian: "Who do you mean by "us"?"

Carl: "I'm with some friends right now and... We're planning a bit of a mission."

Sebastian: "Drug deal, drive-by, range day or a raiding?"

Carl: "Corporate raiding."

Sebastian: "Sure, but you're gonna be paying extra for the service."

Carl: "Sure, I think I can afford it, either way I'll tell you the details once you're here, usual address by the way."

Sebastian: "See you."

Carl: "Bye."

...

Carl: Well, that's ammo taken care of!"

Kaz: "Damn, didn't know you had terminator in your contacts."

Carl: "And I didn't know you had Linkin' Park in yours."

## **15th June, 21:49 PM, Somewhere in Canada.**

Sam: "Alright, don't get mad, but we kinda didn't kill Copper."

"It's literally **ONE GUY**, and you **COULDN'T KILL HIM?!**"

Sam: "Well-"

Dan: "Shut up, alright boss, he has a entire group with him, and also the cops got a hold of the watches."

...

"They fucking what?"

A figure comes out of the corner laughing.

"V."

The creature identified as V stops laughing and speaks.

V: "Ohh Willie ol' Willy Will, why so serious, you've got more goons than these don't you?"

The creature laughed again, but Sam puts his Yōtō-Ichimonji against it's neck.

Sam: "Not another word, annoying little prick."

V: "Alright then! You're no fun though, learn to relax!"

Sam sheathes his sword, and unholsters a pistol and aims it at V.

V: "Whoa, no need to get so jumpy now!"

Sam stares at V, and then tries to shoot him in the foot.

As V dodges every single bullet, Dan tries to stop Sam from damaging the building further.

\*Click, click\*

Sam scoffs and puts his pistol back into its holster.

Dan: "The hell is wrong with you?!"

Sam: "I don't like people who have a bigger mouth than mine."

Will: "You're paying for that, The carpet was expensive!"

Sam: "I'll be using your own money to pay it then, either way anything else you need?"

Will: "I'll assign more mercernaries to the hunt, but there have been reports of something in a church or whatever it was, and as you probably know, I'm not too fond of having potential threats near my building."

Dan: "So we are going there and investigate?"

William: "That's right, the other mercernaries will seek out Copper, you go investigate that church."

Sam: "Are we getting paid for it?"

Will: "Of course, but I'll take some off of your paycheck because of my carpet."

Sam looks at the carpet filled with holes and grits his teeth.

Sam: "Fair enough, you want us to do it right now?"

Will: "Preferably."

Sam: "Let's go then."

Sam pats Dan on the back and gestures him to come along, and as they are leaving the room, Sam grabs both of his pistols and drops the magazines on the ground before reloading both of them, then he uses his sword like a spoon to pick the magazines back up.

Sam: "Adios."

...

## **15th June, 22:14 PM, Beeville, Texas, Carl's apartment, Present time.**

\*Bell ringing\*

Kaz: "Ah, he's here."

One door opening later.

Kaz: "Hey man, what's good?"

Jack: "Everything sucks, what did you need me for?"

Kaz: "I'll tell ya once we get inside, come in, and take off your shoes."

One very weird story later...

Kaz: "Aaaand that's how we ended up planning a corporate raiding!"

Jack: "So, what you're saying is that this dumb sonofabitch-"

John: "Hey fuckface what'd you s-"

Jack: "SHUT the fuck up I'm talking, so he blasted a guy in the face because he didn't like him and his offer, then he got in a shootout with them, ran away just to get in a shootout with mercernaries and the cops, then get thrown into a desert, fight a guy with a sword and his nerd sidekick, and then escape to here, so you can plan a raid on the office of the guys who were trying to buy your stuff?"

Kaz: "Yep."

Jack: "How do you even know you're raiding the right place?"

Kaz: "We looked it up."

Jack: "Fuck it, I'm in."

## **16 June, 5:49 AM, Road from Canada to North America.**

Two men, one in a blue suit and the other in a red flannel are driving on a road.

Man 1: "Y'know Nate, I wonder...why the hell...you almost...never talk." The first man says whilst taking breaks to eat his food.

The second man called Nate looks over at the first man slowly.

Nate: "You're too annoying."

Man 1: "I guess boss...was wrong when he thought "Hey let's throw...Nate...and Max into one team because...they both have rifles.".

The first man identified as Max laughs, but Nate remains entirely focused on the road.

Max: "You're no fun."

...

Max: "Well, we just have to...find that guy, kill him...and steal his tech right?"

Nate: "Mhm."

Max: "Glad one of the other guys...got a tracker on him...this would be a nightmare otherwise."

## **16 June, 3:43 AM, Church a few kilometers away from William's building, Canada, Ontario.**

The two mercernaries are observing a dilapidated church from a distance.

Sam: "That's our spot?"

Dan: "Yep, readings are going crazy over there."

Sam: "Time to blow it up then."

Dan: "That's the plan."

Sam, seemingly anxious about something pauses before he replies.

"I've got a gut feeling I'll find something...strange there."

Dan: "Too bad, we're going anyway, enough waiting then, let's go."

After a brief walk, Sam and Dan appear in front of the church doors.

Dan: "I think it might be locked."

Dan approaches the door and tries to open it, but his assumption proved to be correct, as the door was locked.

Sam: "Don't worry about it, I got this."

Sam approaches the door, inspecting it.

Sam: HA!

Sam kicks the door so hard it flies a few meters backwards, and causes a unholy amount of noise.

Sam: "There."

Dan: "I guess that's one way to get it open."

Sam: "Yep, let's look around here and see what the hell is so interesting about this place.

Dan uses a radar tool to locate the source of the energy, and it leads him to the back of the church hall.

Dan: "Hey, come over here."

Sam: "What?"

Dan: "Some kind of engraving...This is japanese, right? Can you translate it?"

Sam: "It just says "Angel".

Sam touches the engraving, but an explosion occurs from it, throwing the two men backwards, Sam rebalances himself by utilizing his sword as a cane, but Dan hits the floor, hitting his back.

"OW, FUCK THAT HURTS!"

Dan shouts, but Sam just laughs at him and gives him a hand.

Sam: "That's why you wear a plate carrier."

As the two men are talking, a figure emerges in front of them.

Dan looks at the figure, and then nudges Sam with his elbow.

Dan: "We've got a problem."

Sam sighs, and then grips his sword.

Sam: "Yeah, I noticed."

Sam unsheathes the Yōtō-Ichimonji High-Frequency blade as Dan runs outside and deploys his machines.

Sam: "I'll handle it, bring me tea after this."

Dan: "Let's see if you last more than a minute against that thing."

"Who art thou, fool who has trespassed upon mine abode."

The unknown being talks.

Sam: "I'm Sam, last name Tachiarai, but people call me Warpig, and you are?"

"Tachiarai Samuel, I am Cerval, the h-"

Sam then whispers to himself:

"You ugly sack of shit."

...

"How."

"Dare."

"You."

"Insult."

"Me."

"Mortal."

The being called Cerval pulls her sword out of thin air.

"Punishment is due, fool."

Sam looks at the sword, inspecting it.

("Is that a...that looks a awful lot like a Ichimonji sword...")

"Let's see about that."

Sam scoffs, then he assumes a Kenjutsu fighting stance, and pulls his mask up.

"Let's dance!"

Both swordmasters stare each other down, inspecting both their opponent and their blades, cackling with electricity, the Yōtō-Ichimonji due to the high frequency enhancement, and Cerval's blade due to her power.

Cerval sends a dozen projectiles of pure light at Sam, but he simply jumps over them and closes the distance on Cerval, attacking her with a jumping overhead strike, but she simply dodges the strike and thrusts towards Sam as a counterattack, but Sam steps on her sword and stops her dead in her tracks, he then tries to stab into her neck but she dodges away.

Cerval: "Hmm...your style is from a derivative of the Yagyu technique, Tachiarai... I may have heard of your kin before.

Sam: "Yeah, the school taught the Tachiarai samurai clan, but I've got a question of my own, what's your sword called?"

Cerval: "The Seinaru Ken-Ichimonji, also known as the Holy Sword-Straight Line, It seems you are familiar with the Ichimonji line of swords."

Sam: "Yeah, this right here is the Yōtō-Ichimonji, just a tad bit modified, ever heard of it?"

Cerval: "The tale of the Ichimonji swords tells of multiple swords crafted for the highest ranking samurai clans, the Tachiarai clan must have been awarded that sword then?"

Sam: "Bingo."

Cerval: "In any case, the Yōtō-Ichimonji in particular is said to be inhabited by a bloodthirsty demon, I will exterminate it then."

Sam: "Woah there, that's just a tale, you some weirdly religious exorcist angel wannabe or something?"

Cerval swings at Sam, but he blocks the attack and steps back.

Sam: "What's the story behind your sword then?"

Sam sheathes his sword and lunges at Cerval, performing a deadly iaido quickdraw by utilizing his scabbard's launching mechanism, Cerval blocks the attack but is pushed back by the sheer force of it.

Cerval: "When the swordsmith who was creating the Seinaru Ken-Ichimonji wanted to improve the sword, I was called to him and blessed the blade, then it was given to it's late holders, a extinct clan of samurai, but then a group of foul bandits stole the sword and used it to kill dozens of innocents, so I took the sword away from them and slaughtered them, and then I wandered, the rest is history."

Cerval launches a beam of energy at Sam from the Seinaru Ken's tip, but Sam dodges it and pulls out one of his pistols and shoots at Cerval, hitting her in the cross shaped face cover she is wearing.

Cerval: "Firearms...back in my age they were not as widespread as now."

Sam: "Welcome to the 21st century, grandma."

Meanwhile, outside of the church, Dan is setting up explosives to blow up the church, when he hears rapid footsteps approaching.

Dan barely blocks the sword cutting at him with his cybernetic arm, but is staggered.

Dan: "Who-"

"Who are you?"

Dan pulls out a pistol and aims it at the girl in front of him.

Dan: "What the hell are you doing here, and why are you swinging a damn longsword at people in a for-"

The girl runs into the church, leaving Dan bamboozled, but he shakes off his confusion and calls Sam over his equipment.

Dan: "Sam, there's some girl coming into the church, be careful, she's armed."

Sam: "Yeah, I see her, keep working, and tell me when to get out."

Dan: "Hold out for a minute longer, I'm almost done."

Sam: "Hold that thought."

A girl hurriedly rushes into the fight between Sam and Cerval.

"Cerval!"

Cerval: "Emma."

Sam: "Alright, why the hell is Loona from Helluva Boss here, and is she planning on interrupting our little quarrel?"

Cerval: "A "disciple" of mine, you could say."

Sam: "Alright, I can play with two at once, let's do this."

Cerval: "Your overconfidence will be your fall."

Dan: "Sam, come in, the explosives are primed, get out of there."

Sam: "Aww...Well, sorry ladies, but I'm out of time, see you in hell."

Sam makes a run for the entrance, Cerval tries to launch a projectile at him but he cuts it in half, and makes his escape.

Outside, Dan is waiting for Sam to come out so he can blow the church up.

Sam: "Kept you waiting huh?"

Dan: "Yeah, nice job not dying by the way, but it's about time we erased this place."

Sam: "I'm just gonna walk away, have fun blowing it up."

Cerval comes out of the church, still going after Sam, but she notices Dan who is about to blow up the church.

Sam: "God damnit."

Sam sprints towards Cerval, knowing Dan stands no chance against her.

Cerval: "What are you trying to perform, fool?"

Dan: "You'll see."

Cerval swings at Dan, but Sam steps in front of him and parries the attack, countering with a kick that launches Cerval back.

Sam: "Blow it up, I don't plan on spending much longer here."

Dan: "Aye."

Dan presses the button on a detonator, blowing up the church.

Sam: "Now that's done we should probably find their bodies."

Dan: "They aren't dead."

Cerval walks out of the debris of what used to be a church.

Sam: "Still kickin' hag?"

Cerval: "This shall be your grave."

Cerval launches more projectiles at Sam who dodges them with ease, Sam then buries his sword in the dirt and swings upwards in a attempt to distract her.

Cerval: "Fool! Simple trickery will not work!"

Sam: "Jackpot."

Dan's sentry fires a rocket at Cerval who is too busy attacking Sam to block the rocket.

Sam: "That went better than I expected it to."

Dan: "There should be one more around here."

Sam turns around and catches Emma's sword.

Sam: "Whoa there."

Sam bonks her with her own sword, staggering her.

Sam: "You shouldn't be swinging that barbaric thing around."

Sam walks over to Cerval who is still on the ground recovering.

Sam: "Hand me your sword."

Cerval doesn't react.

...

Sam scoffs and takes her sword, but the moment he touches it he's blasted back.

Dan: "The fu-"

Sam, now neatly slammed into a tree lets out a slight groan.

Dan: "Seriously dude, stop touching stuff that explodes."

Sam: "Ah...fuck...either way...seems I can't use her sword because I already own a Ichimonji."

Dan: "So, I guess your curiosity is satisfied?"

Sam gets up by using his sword as a walking stick.

Sam: "Yeah, let's get moving."

## **16th June, 10:27 AM, Beeville, Texas, Carl's apartment.**

Nitro: "Hope you lot got enough sleep."

Kaz: "Sure did."

Carl: "Alright, now that we're awake and caffeinated, we should go over how we plan on raiding the damn place."

Gre: "Did some research on the building, I believe we can form a plan off of the info."

After a lot of explaining, John summarizes the plan.

John: "So basically:

-We get in through the front door.

-We catch any people and take them out, in the name of self defense, obviously

-After we start blasting, there's probably gonna be a lockdown, so we take out the lockdown and advance to the next floor

-We make our way up to the main motherfucker's office.

-We kill the guy, then leave by stealing a heli that should be on the top of the building.

And that should be it."

Joey: "So just, get in, do some stuff and leave?"

John: "If you want to simplify it even further then yeah."

Kaz: "By the way John, there's still a bullet inside your watch."

John: "I won't take it out, might mess up the whole thing again."

Kaz: "You could get another wa- oh."

John: "We left most of the watches back at my house."

Kaz: "Couldn't you like, take it off?"

John: "Sure."

John throws the broken watch into a bag, then puts it in his pocket.

Jack: "How are we even gettin' there?"

Sebastian: "With a car."

Kaz: "Isn't that gonna take too long?"

Sebastian: "No, about two days or so."

Kaz: "Alright then, car it is!"

John: "Let's load our stuff into the truck and go."

A hour later, John and co. are driving from Texas to Canada, Ontario.

Joey: "So...how long is this gonna take?"

John: "Like two days, plus-minus."

Joey: "Are we sleeping in the car or...?"

John: "Probably yes."

Joey: "And are we-"

John puts his hand over Joey's mouth.

John: "Shut."

...

Kaz: "Since we're gonna be here a while, why not play some bangers?"

John: "Do whatever you want."

Jack: "In The End by Linkin Park."

Kaz: "...okay."

Kaz connects to his speaker and plays Jack's request.

After a few seconds of listening to the instrumental, Kaz jumps.

Kaz: "IS THAT THE FUCKING HALF LIFE SONG?"

Jack: "DON'T FUCKING CALL IT THAT."

...

After another hour of driving, the group decides to take a rest at a gas station.

Nitro: "Hope we got enough, gas prices are wild today."

Kaz: "Yeah, but we are kinda criminals, so why not just..."

Nitro: "We've got standards, we aren't petty thieves."

As the group is getting back in their car, a truck pulls into a spot and two men get out, one dressed in blue, the other in red.

The man in the red starts filling the truck while the one in the blue approaches John about to board the car.

Man: "Excuse me, can we talk for a moment?"

John: "What do you need?"

Man: "I'm looking for someone, his name is...ah, I forgot. Let me check the name."

The man checks his phone, then puts it back into his pocket.

"John Kenneth Copper."

The man pulls out his pistol and tries to shoot John, but John smacks his hand and retreats to his car."

John: "WE'VE GOT COMPANY!"

Man: "NATE!"

The man in red picks up his rifle and gear from the truck, and starts shooting at the group.

John: "GET IN, WE HAVE TO LOSE THEM!"

The group drives off, with the two mercernaries coming after them

END OF VOLUME 4

Starring:

@CoppeRiot as John K. Copper

@Nitro110 as Nitro

@KazotskyAnimator as Kaz

@Jack8765432111 as Jack

@Tc2Pokal as Carl W. Rogers

@Greief as Gre

Dogeris as Sebastian

@YABOITURTLEBOY as Joey

@WarpigTC as Samuel Tachiarai

@AnkleDan as Daniel Von Schaft

@Williheam as Will

@Enderbro2 as V

@HaloByte as Nate

@HelloPeople22 as Max

@SoggySmoggy as Cerval

@TABLEEEE as Emma

@RealElise as Elise Von Schaft

Trivia:

-GOD this took half a year to write, motivation is a bitch to obtain, thanks to the RIT community for keeping me sane.