Chapter 17: Cue and the Strangers pt 2

“Are you sure I can’t kill them?” Trigger yelled.

Cue noticed that Gunner wasn’t worried about getting shot. His body was plastered to Triggers and covered every inch of her vital bits with his frame.

“You can try, flamer!” Barrow yelled. “But you’ll die the minute you show yourself!”

“Oh, please, I just saw your cock and it was a shriveled little thing. Your bullet couldn’t penetrate me any better than that flaccid fish bait could!” Trigger said with a cackle of laughter.

Barrow answered her with more gunfire as Cue looked at Trigger in terror. Was she crazy?

“Go get ‘em, stud. I’m tired of their noise,” Trigger told Gunner, a pout on her lips.

Gunner nodded, pulling Trigger’s hands up to cover her ears.

“Stay out of the way, chicka. Gunner is gonna end this fast and in a hurry!” Trigger pointed down to signal Cue to get low, and as one they lowered themselves into the blood-stained dirt and covered their ears.

Cue watched everything happen in a state of shock. On the ground, tucked against the dome, she watched as Gunner took bullet after bullet to the chest and didn’t falter. He strolled right into the dome as if he wasn’t being shot over and over.

“Bulletproof armor!” Trigger yelled over the cacophony.

Cue watched a bullet go right through his helmet, a metallic clang sounding only after the helmet had been penetrated.

“Really good bulletproof armor!” Trigger yelled again as she stared at the opening to the dome with a mix of irritation and excitement.

There was a grunt from inside the dome, the slashing of a sword through the air, and then dead silence. Cue and Trigger crawled forward on their hands and knees from either side of the door and peered inside. Gunner was standing in the center of the dome with Barrow held in the air by his throat. Joker was down, blood dripping from a gash above his eyebrow. Zero and Ninja were tied back-to-back and gagged.

“Who…the fuck…are you?!” Barrow growled, clawing at Gunner’s gloved hands around his throat.

“Karma, bitch boy, we’re mother fucking karma.” Trigger grinned as she walked through the Dome door with Cue behind her. She spun the knife in her hand as she sauntered up to Gunner and slipped between his body and Barrow’s. She leaned against Gunner and looked up at Barrow with disdain. “Just because the world ended doesn’t mean you get to get away with rape!”

“You let your bitch talk for you?” Barrow choked a laugh, but it was cut off abruptly when Gunner’s hand squeezed his neck harder.

Trigger grinned, “I’m in charge here, fuck face, he’s my muscle.” She placed the knife on his still unzipped pants with a look of pure evil on her face. “I should take your balls here and now!”

“No! No…” Cue screamed, darting to Trigger’s side and tugging her arm away from Barrow’s ball sack.

“No? Girl, are you crazy?” Trigger rounded on Cue, pushing her away from the men and towards the far side of the dome. “He raped you, chicka. He has to pay.”

“Make him leave, that’s all I want. I just want them to leave.”

Trigger raised a doubtful eyebrow.

Cue huffed in exasperation. “Look, we’re the only humans left! Well, besides you, I guess. What he did was fucked, but I don’t want him to die for it. I want him to go far far away, back to his SkyScraper, and maybe be disemboweled by zombies at a later date. I just can’t have it happen because of what he did to me. I can’t give him that vindication. I need him to know he means less to me now than he ever did. He’s a ghost. Dead to me.”

“Oh, come on! Kill! Murder! Destroy! Embrace the life we’ve been gifted!” Trigger pouted at Cue, shaking her slightly back and forth. “Where's the anger, where’s the mayhem?”

“I’ll leave that to the Cretins. They have enough anger and mayhem to destroy all of humanity. We have a duty to preserve life, no matter how disgusting it may be.”

“Ugh, fine!” Trigger shook her head with exasperation and turned to Gunner. “Drop the walking scrotum outside!” She turned back to Cue. “What about the rest of them? Anyone get to stay?”

“No. They knew who he was and what he wanted, and they only tried to stop him after he attacked.” Cue glanced at Zero, a pang of doubt in her mind as he turned a pitiful, disbelief look in her direction. “I want them all out. I want my dome back.”

“You heard the little lady! Throw the trash out!” Trigger waved goodbye at an angry-looking Barrow before she skipped over to Joker’s unconscious body and grabbed him by the collar. With both hands, she dragged him out of the dome and left him on the pile ofthe dead.

“Get them back to the tower, Zero. I don’t ever want to see them again…” Cue said as she pulled the gag from his mouth and untied him and Ninja.

“Cue, please!” Zero begged.

Cue turned her back on him. She walked over to Gunner as he came back into the dome and stood slightly behind him. “Please, just go.”

“What about food? What about shelter? The Skyscraper won't stay standing for long. We need this Dome,” Zero Argued.