After The Fallout - Chapter 19 now up 4/10/07
Sweetdey26:
Chapter 7 was great Mule, it gets more and more interesting.
Buffy:
bravo mules, another fine installment, and it keeps getting better and better,..more more more.....
The Mule:
So I set out to find what was holding up the
supplies from the mainland. The Hudson bridge on the north end of
Manhattan was were most supplies came in. I had a contact just a few
blocks from it.
Zargon: Hey Stubby, how's business? Looks like you're running
low on supplies. I hear there's some trouble at the bridge.....
Stubby was never one of those guys for small
talk, no pun intended. With him it was best to get right to the point.
Zargon: Smitty was looking for someone to come down and
check things out. So I volunteered. You know how I am. Always a sucker for
a good cause.
Stubby looked at me a little suspiciously.
We'd know each other for awhile. I'd saved his hide from a few whoopings,
and he always set me up with good supplies. But sometimes he sampled a bit
too much of his lemonade.
Stubby: Times are tough, Zargon. When supplies are low, prices
go up. It's the simple laws of supply and demand.
Uh, oh...he definitely smells as though he's
been into the hard stuff. I hope he's not going to go into one of his
socio-economic rants. That inevitably leads into how he's persecuted because
of his size.
Stubby: But if Smitty doesn't get his supplies, we'll be
in no position to defend ourselves from the mutants demands! He
he...that's a good one, ain't it. You can quote me on that one if you
like.
Zargon: But what's the hassle with getting supplies though? I need
some intel, Stubs. What do you know?
Stubby: Well...fortunately mutants ain't the problem there. Just
a couple of bandits on this side of the bridge. They got this big ole
cannon, and they more or less take what they want. Don't know what they're
doing with the loot, though. It ain't like theys sellin it to us at a
higher price. Either they're stockpiling it somewheres...or...just
maybe...they could be dealin it to the mutants. Either way, we ain't yet
been in short enough supply fer anyone to bother trying to stop
them.
Zargon: Well evidently Smitty is,
that's why I'm here. He doesn't have enough black powder to make
ammo....and like you said...
Stubby: No ammo means no defense....got ya there big guy. Loud
and clear.
Zargon: So...when you say "a
couple bandits"...you mean just two guys? Can you tell me their
location? Details?
Stubby: Yeah....just two guys. One block east of the bridge. They block
the street with the cannon. They got a couple machine guns, too. Nothing
overly impressive really. Ain't ever even heard 'em fire the canon. Thing
might not even work, but ain't no one ever volunteered to test that
theory.
Just then local woman rushes up. She's short of breath, but she doesn't
look sickly. Maybe she'd been running. But she didn't look dangerous in
anyway. Just another poor sap trying to survive in this crazy world.
Street woman: Stubby!! Check this out...them bandits at the
bridge just tried stopping this wagon...and this girlie who was
driving....
Street woman: ...she stands up...and this light comes down from the
sky.
Street woman: ...all galactic like...and she gazes at the
bandits...and she's got this staff...like a magical thing or
something...she waves it at the bandits...
Street woman: and suddenly the
bandits are like spazzing in convulsions, like this.....
Street woman: a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a.....and they drop dead right
there!!!
Stubby: You're kidding me, right? Hey does that navel piercing
hurt?
Street woman: You're such a perv, Stubby!! No I'm not
kidding...then she gets back in the wagon and rides away as if nothing
happened. I had to run all the way here to tell you about it!
Stubby: The bandits with the cannon??? They're dead?
Meanwhile Darlyn and Bobby were slowly making progress into the
city.
They were traveling slow due to the horses needing to be reshod, and
being on high alert. They didn't want to face another ambush.
Darlyn: There's some people over
there that look harmless....
Darlyn: We need to find new shoes for these horses. Poor beasts
are almost down to their hooves. They're horses, good ones at that. It's
not like we can abuse them as if they were mules or something.
Darlyn: You wait here, Bobby. I'm going to go ask them where we
can find a blacksmith. If you see anything scary, you just yell real loud
OK?
Street Woman: Oh yeah...the bandits with the cannon. They're
deader than doornails. Seen it with my own eyes, I did. My man Luther and
his buddies are wheelin that cannon off to Times Square right now. The
underground Times Square that is, not the old one. We can use it for
defense.
Zargon: That's awesome!! Saves me the trouble of killing them
myself!!
Street Woman: Um...don't look now,
but here she is.....
Darlyn: Er...excuse me? I'm wondering if you could give me
directions?
Zargon: Of course I can!
Well...maybe...depends where you're going.
Darlyn: Well, sir...I'm looking for a blacksmith, or some place
I can get shoes for my horses.
Zargon: That's an interesting walking
stick you have there, girl. May I see it?
Darlyn: Er...no no no...this is a special walking stick. Very
fragile...nobody touches it.
Darlyn: So...can you show me the way
to a blacksmith?
Zargon: Indeed I can.
Zargon: Better yet, I can take you
there myself.
Zargon: And on the way, you can tell me ALL about your little
encounter with the bandits....
Buffy:
that was quick...excellent work..as was expected..Zargon looks awfully pleased to see darlyn...
starlucid:
hmm....yeah it seems Zargon like Darlyn lol....nobody touches the stick! LOL!
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