Salute the Dead

S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W

"V! Behind you! " my older sister, Raven, shouted at me. I whipped around to see a Drac seconds away from shooting me. I pointed my electric blue and lime green ray gun at the villainous creature and lit him up. After he fell to the ground, I looked around to see if that was all of them. My younger sister, Hayley, was currently shooting the last Drac. I relaxed a little and started to walk back to our base we set up. Raven and Hayley followed me.

We have been on the run for a while now, ever since Better Living Industries took over Battery City. We lived by the words "keep running". I opened the door to the two story house we had made our home. It was very rare to find a gem like this in the zones, and we guarded it.

I walked into the kitchen and started rummaging through the cabinets. I cursed under my breath, seeing that we had no food left.

"Girls, we have a problem, " I yelled loud enough for them to hear. Raven and Hayley joined me in the kitchen. I pointed at the empty cabinets.

"Shit, we need to make another trip to the gas station, " Raven informed us. I sighed.

"We don't have much food at the gas station. We've eaten all it had, " Hayley thought out loud. I groaned, knowing this meant a trip to the zones closer to Battery City. We lived in Zone 5, which was one of the safest. Zone 6 is the safest one, though. Well as safe as you can get in a desert full of Dracs.

"It's almost dark, though, " I pointed out.

"Okay. We'll get some sleep tonight and get ready. We'll set out in the morning. Don't forget to charge your ray guns, " Raven told us while exiting the room. Hayley and I followed after her and walked up to our rooms. I looked around and found my black leather backpack. I packed some pairs of clothes and my knife collection. I had found it in this house when we first came upon the house a few months ago.

After I had packed the essentials, I zipped up the backpack and threw myself on the bed. Tomorrow was going to be a long day and we probably weren't going to be coming back to this house. We won't be able to travel very far just for food. I sighed and shut my eyes. I need to sleep.

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Sunlight pierced my eyes as it flooded through the window. I groaned and opened my eyes. I climbed out of bed, knowing we were to set out soon. I found a lime green and white striped shirt and ripped black skinny jeans and put them on. I grabbed my belt with my gun holster and my electric blue and plum ray gun and buckled it up. I shrugged on my cropped black leather jacket with an electric blue sun on the back and put on my combat boots. I threw my naturally blonde hair into a high ponytail, tied a plum bandanna around it, grabbed the backpack, and headed downstairs.

I found Hayley and Raven sitting in the couch. Hayley had on her black shorts and white long sleeve shirt with two black stripes. She had her blonde hair in two French braids.

Raven had on her grey Harry Potter shirt that she found in the house, black ripped skinny jeans, and a black and grey flannel wrapped around her waist. She had her long black curls flowing freely. She had on combat boots, contrasting greatly to Hayley's Vans. They each had backpacks and belts with holsters as well.

"You ready, V? " Raven asked me. I took one last look at the place we've called home for the past couple of months and nodded. Raven stood up and walked towards the door.

"Then let's go, " she said, almost in an amused way. She stepped out of the door and Hayley and I followed behind her. Raven was a couple feet ahead of us when we walked out of the house.

"Do you think we'll ever come back? " Hayley asked me, quietly. I frowned at her.

"I don't know, Hank, " I said, using a nickname we'd given her for some random thing she had done. We kept walking, following Raven.

We walked in silence for what seemed like hours until we heard a strange noise. We stopped dead in our tracks. I whipped around and saw the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit coming towards.

"Shit! Girls we're outnumbered! " I yelled over the sound that was getting louder and louder with every second.

"I'm not giving up without a fight! " Hayley yelled and spun her her ray gun out of it's holster. Raven chuckled darkly and did the same.

"We're fucked, but we might as well shoot up some of 'em, " she smirked. I laughed a little and pulled out my ray gun.

Before we knew it, the Dracs were on us and Hayley, Raven, and I had our backs together, shooting as many as we could. We had shot a good many of them but they were still coming closer and closer.

We could have killed them all... if our ray guns hadn't started to die. Our ray guns stopped working simultaneously. We all cursed as we quickly put them in our holsters. We put our fists up and got prepared to fight.

"You know how they say never bring a knife to a gun fight? Well, we've brought fists to a gun fight, " I joked.

"I'd say we're royally fucked then, " Hayley laughed. The Dracs started to approach us, aiming their guns at our head. I spun and kicked the gun out of one of the Drac's hands and grabbed it. Hank and Raven did the same, but we still were badly outnumbered.

The Dracs started to shoot and my sisters and I dodged ray after ray shooting a few as well. Soon we heard the roar of an engine and watched as a car mowed over the Dracs, it's passengers shooting any that moved out of the way.

Once all our enemies were eliminated, our heros stepped out of the car. I gasped in shock at the four men that stood in front of me. They were our idols. Everyone on the run looked up to them, having heard about them on Dr. Death Defying's pirate radio station. They were the Fabulous Four; they were killjoys.

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This story is a work put together by mychemfalloutgirl, mel_trash, and bellaxren. The characters Raven, Vanessa, and Hayley and their killjoy names are original. We own these three characters. We do not own the idea of the killjoys or the Fabulous Four.