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Thu 28th Dec 2023 06:15

Now that’s the Spirit

by Adam Bowie aka Switch Blade

Several days after the fire at the train station, I get notice that there is something going on near our safe house.
 
I make my way over there quickly. Weird that there are a bunch of floating sheets. Again both other factions are there, IERA and LFER, fighting these things.
 
Oh, now that’s bad. Getting touched by them and that person becomes bones. Not good. They don’t seem to have much resistance to damage though.
 
I see that chick got her bike out of the waterway. She’s using it to run over some of the floating sheets, well, let’s just call the ‘Halloween ghosts’ as that is what they look like. Old time cheap costume. I remember going as a ‘ghost’ a couple of times as a kid, before my folks died. It was all that we could afford even though Dad worked hard. Damn IERA killed them both. Forced me onto the streets…
 
Well, I guess I have to thank them in a way also. If it wasn’t for that, I would have never found this suit which is allowing me to fight back against their evil ways.
 
Anyway, back to the task at hand. At the end of the street, I see some sort of gateway that these ghosts are coming out of. I solid up and grab a light pole and start playing street hockey with them. Nice thing about using a light pole for a hockey stick, it’s easy to high stick several of these things at once.
 
While I’m making headway with this, Red Biker Chick comes riding down the street, doing donuts to try to take out some of these sheets, and up pops someone else who I don’t remember seeing before.
 
About this time, this guy starts trying to come out of the gateway… Did he say something about The Hallow? I’m not sure, it’s hard to understand him. Well, I know he did say something about trying to take over here. Not gonna happen on my watch dude.
 
I start trying to push him back to the other end of the gateway, and RBC (Red Biker Chick) and this other guy are doing the same thing. I’m not sure I like working with them, but, for the moment, our goals are the same, keep this guy from trying to turn everyone into a sheety ghost.
 
RBC and I stay on this side of the gateway, but the other guy that can seem to move underground also dips back behind BB (Big Bad) and starts trying to pull him back.
 
Once we get BB over to the other side of the gateway, it starts to collapse. I’m not ready to die yet, so I hot foot it back to my side. I watch long enough to be sure that it is closed then head out.
BB, who I think called himself Maru screams that we haven’t seen the last of him yet.
 
I don’t know, but I’ll be around if he does show back up again…