ON THE RUN

Chapter 3

Fun Ghoul, Party Poison and Jet Star were out looking for my motorcycle. I gave them rough directions from the spot they had found me, whicha ctually just was 'Go west', so my hopes aren't that high. Kobra Kid stayed with me in case I needed help with something or Draculoids came or anything.

"So what exactly happened?" Kobra Kid asked.

"Uhm... well. I was near Battery City, like... at the edge to Zone 1 to get a new ray gun because mine was previously shattered. So, I got the gun and everything looked good. I made my way back into the desert on Route Guano. There were literally no Draculoids and I was like 'Well, this is easy.' but suddenly there was a car with four of those bastards chasing me down. It's like they came out of nowhere. I guess they were on their patrol or something. I pushed my baby to the limit even though I was slowly running out of gas, but they were coming closer rapidly. I started the fire and well... one gun against three guns is kinda hard. They shot me four times, I shot the driver and they crashed and turned over a couple of times. In the mean time I lost my gun hence to the freaking hole in my shoulder. I just headed into the desert with no plan where I was or where I was going. Not a mile after, my bike gave in and I had to walk. I wanted to get as far away from Battery City and the Draculoids as possible. So I just kinda crawled for a couple of hours and finally collapsed and well... you know the rest of the story." I gave him the short version.

"Hm..." he nodded "Why were you alone? It's always good to be at least in a pair." he asked.

"Uhm..." I trailed off. "I- yea... that was stupid. It was all just so stupid." I rubbed the bridge of my nose "So stupid..." I whispered "I mean, I was as close to being ghosted as it gets."

"Well, from now on you'll never dare to go alone again, I can tell you that." he chuckled slightly. "Which you also shouldn't. Take your people with you."

"Yea..." I forced out a laugh. I'll be alone until I die. Which will probably not take very long. Not with the masses of Draculoids out there, that's for sure.

I took a sip from the bottle of water, that was standing next to me on the table. It was tab water. Warm and probably been in the pipes for quite a while, but it's the only thing we had. I knew that I probably should not be drinking so much or I'll soon have a problem, but I was still dehydrated and drinking was the only thing to do about it. The urge to pee started to become stronger. I decided to ditch the bottleof water next to me and not drink any more.

"How's your leg?" Kobra Kid asked.

"Perforated." I sighed.

"What? I didn't even notice!" Kobra Kid laughed.

"Yea... 's crazy!" I flailed my hand over my head.

"But in all seriousness. Is it real bad?" he asked with worried expression. I shrugged, regretting it instantly. I clenched my teeth and waited for the pain in my shoulder to wear off.

"We found some hard liquor. We don't have any pain killers, but... that could ease the pain." he shrugged. I considered it. I really did, but being drunk right now is probably not the smartest thing.

"I don't think that being drunk off my ass would be a good idea right now..." I shook my head slightly.

"Well... you've got a point." he nodded.

The urge to pee was REALLY getting uncomfortable now. What's more embarrassing? Asking him to help me to go pee or peeing on the table? Ah dang it.

"Hey Kobra Kid-"

"Just Kobra... or Kid, whatever. Kobra Kid is too long." he smiled.

"Kobra..." I corrected myself. He gave me an approving nod. "Uhm... wow this is very embarrassing... uhm... oh god..." I stammered. I couldn't ask him. I just couldn't. "Never mind." I sighed.