Gen POV
Where am I? Why do I feel like I am lying down? I open my eyes to be on a grass plane. I get up and look around to see it is bright and sunny. Why am I here? I should be back at Beacon in my car not in a grass field.I blink and the grass is on fire. Come on. Where is the nightmare fuel? I look around left and right to see a ring of fire about 250 meters in diameter. I then see Grimm start to show up outside of the ring of fire. Seems like a normal nightmare. I then hear foot steps behind me. I turn to see... the same black veiny women from my nightmare a while ago. "Miss. Miss. What ever your name is. Would you kindly explain to me. WTF is going on?"
"Well. Considering you have managed to survive Cinder's grenade with no helmet and no aura. Lets just say you have... interested me." She said.
"Um....ok then."
"I would simply ask you for you to join me. But, after managing to stop part of my ... assistance's plan. Let's say I just want your power."
"No."
"You kinda have too. After all its either give me your power or die to the Grimm behind you. And to let you know, you die here, you die in the real world."
I start looking around a bit scared. I start to back up and I hear fire? I turn to see the ring of fire closing in and Grimm wave coming closer and closer. OK! Think, give this women my power or die to Grimm. What if... yeah lets do this plan. I look to the women and I said "For the memes." She was confused which instantly turned shocked as she sees me running to the Grimm. I then jump as high as I could and landed on a beowolf and I started jumping on the Grimm, getting past them. I kept jumping and running on Grimm. The Grimm keep trying to get me, but I kept jumping either past them or on them. I kept going till I reach a deep valley. Instead of stopping, I jumped into the hole. I fall and I start to feel myself wake up. I then look to the top of the whole and just stick my middle fingers up then I feel myself wake up.
I wake up and notice I am in my car. I get out and stretch my muscles and got one of the empty backpacks and decided to head to the supermarket. Since its full of food and drinks I can use as my way out of here. I then remember something. My scroll! I pull it out and turned it on. It got to its lock screen before sparking and snapping in half. Well there goes my scroll. No communication to the outside world. This is fine. Alright, back to the main mission.I open the door and stealth my way out of beacon and started my one and only trip to the market. I get to the door and the automated doors open like normal? I thought they would turn off the power. I walk through and I start to raid the soda, cans, chips, and gum. Thank god I learned what won't go bad in under a 2 weeks. I get to the soda section when I start hearing... eating? I look to hear it at the ice cream section. I start to walk to it slowly, and I see on the ground a bunch of vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and Neapolitan ice cream cases. I then hear a bunch of eating and I turn the corner to see ... N-e-a-o? No, what was her name. I look to see her eating ice cream like her life depended on it. I then turned the corner and stood there looking at her. I then tapped my foot. She stopped on a dime and looked at me. I waved my hand and before I know it I am against the wall with a blade connected to a umbrella to my neck and she is glaring into my eyes. She then brought up a scroll that said "Where is he?"
"You talking about Roman right?" I asked. She then typed in her scroll still applying pressure to my neck and showed it to me and it said "Yes. Who else would I be F*&^ talking about!"
"Sorry. Anyways I believe the truth is better than a lie so, believe me when I say this. Roman is dead." I said to her. Her face looks like her entire world was destroyed inside out. She shakes her head before applying more pressure to the blade and typing in her scroll in a much more fury and showed me saying "You lie. Where is he?"
I look directly at her eyes and said "Neo, Roman is dead. I saw it before my eyes. You can ask Ruby too. She saw it. I don't know where she is right now though. But, I am happy to help you with this if you just remove the blade from this equation." The girl look around the place as if to find someone looking at us then turned to me. She stares at me before she sighs and brings the blade down. "Alright. Now, I am going to tell you what happen but, I have two questions." I said. She looks at me and I ask "First, what is your name? and two do you want the story to be blunt or soft?" She looks at me confused before typing on her scroll and showed me saying "My name is Neo and what do you mean by blunt or soft?"
"I mean do you want me to tell you the story as blunt as possible or do I suger coat it?"
"Blunt"
"Alright. When I gave you that parachute I climbed up to see Roman about to hit Ruby with his can like a baseball bat when a nevermore came in and ate Roman in one bite. I am pretty sure he didn't have time to scream. And the nevermore then screech and out came ... this" I then reach into my pocket and pulled out Roman's hat. Neo looks at it and puts her hands to cover her mouth as her eyes begin to water. I give it to her and she takes it and looks at it. She turns it around and looks inside and out. She then looked up and her eyes then went full on water works. She crouched while clutching the hat like her life depended on it. I just went over to the ice cream tube she left behind. Neoplian, odd. I pick it up and I stood in front of her. She looks up and I pass it to her. She looks at it and she puts the hat on her head and started eating the ice cream. The hat is on wrong and I am trying to figure out if I should fix it or leave it be. I decide to leave it be as I sit in front of her. Making sure I don't touch her. She then looks up at me and I turn my head in confusion before she jumps at me, throwing the now empty ice cream tube to the floor. I was worried she might kill me till I notice, she was hugging me, tight. I stay silent as she continues to cry silently on my shoulder as she hugs me tighter. I stay silent as I look around seeing if any Grimm is coming to ruin this moment for her. I then felt her release me and I look at her, also noticing she is shorter then me. She then brought her scroll up and typed in saying "Thank you. For helping me"
"Not a problem."
"What now?"
"Well, I haven't seen any survivors out here so I guess we are the only two in this section of Vale." Neo looked down before typing in her scroll saying "So we are alone here?"
"Yeah. But, I have a solution."
"What do you mean" She showed me this as she wipes the tears from her eyes.
"I have a car, we can get out if you want. What happens after I have no clue. But, I have one question for you."
"What's that?"
"Would you kindly allow me to fix Roman's hat on your head?"
She look confused and she felt her head, feeling the hat off centered. She looks at me before nodding. I raise my hand and carefully adjusted it to be centered. I drop my hand and I stood up and I extended my hand for her. She looks at it before grabbing it and I pull her up. I then tell her to grab what she wants and to meet near the entrance. I wait at the entrance before I see Neo coming back with a back pack and cooler, the back pack has chips, pasta, water, and cereal. And the cooler had soda and ... ice cream? I decided not to fight her, scared that me fighting her for the ice cream would get me killed. I tell her to follow me and we kept going to our destination. Beacon. Neo looks scared that my car is at the center of the grimm activity but, its the truth.
We get to the garage and I close the door and barricade it as best as I could. I then turn to see Neo looking at my car. I stayed silent as I put the supplies we found into the trunk as best as I could. And, I manage to fit the cooler in the passenger foot space, after asking Neo to sit in the chair and I put the cooler in and she can open the cooler at any time and can fit comfortable, as far as I am aware. I then sit down on a tool bench as Neo sits on the hood of my car. I sigh as I adjust my gas mask on my face. I miss my helmet. I sigh then looked up at Neo, who is as silently as possible chewing on some chips. "Say Neo" I said. She looks at me. "Where do we go once we leave Vale?" Neo looked down before typing in the scroll and showing me the words "Vacuco. Since its the only kingdom connected to Vale by land". I nod my head. I then look at her and said "Neo. The moment we turn on my car. All of the Grimm in Vale will be on us. So we need to prepare. I know you have your umbrella or what ever it is called but you need som-me th..ing range". I say this as she aims a rifle at me. Atlas issued. "Never mind. I can trust you can use that rifle so do we go tomorrow or today?" I asked Neo. Neo looked at me before shrugging. I then sat on the floor as I think. That is until I hear banging. I turn to the door to see it being beaten open. Barely on its hinges is it staying together. Neo and I share no words but know what to do. I stand up and press the button for the garage door. Neo jumps in the car and puts the keys into the ignition before turning it. I get in and I turn it all the way and the engine roars as we drive our of there. Neo gets her rifle out and opens the window and starts to shoot at Grimm horde behind us. I concentrate on the road. I look around the landscape still on fire and crashed atlas ships all around the place. But, they don't look as strong flames when I first saw them. Better think about that after we leave. I kept driving west to Vacuco. I press the pedal as far as it can go. Driving by cars and Grimm coming out of dens and streets. I then see a road block, or at least what used to be a road block but has been destroyed by an Atlas ship. Making a ramp out of the ship. "Neo get your head in NOW!" I said. She then leans back in and sees whats in front of us and braces her self. I kept driving till I hear the sound of tire on metal. i kept driving up the ship and I can hear the metal groaning. And I see ship is moving, back to wear the Grimm horde is. I kept focus forward till I felt weightlessness. I stare ahead as I turn to see me falling. I then look to see Neo clenching her eyes shut and gripping onto the door and center console. I kept the pedal down as I hear the engine continue to roar. Then the landing. The landing hurt like heck. I think my car jumped a second time before landing solid. I kept driving as I see in the review mirror falling apart. How it fell apart I am not sure, I guess the crash, flames and grimm living in it weakened it. I didn't care I just kept driving. We are not out of Vale yet. But, knowing that the Grimm manage to get in, I guess the walls has fallen. Meaning a two way street to leave Vale. I kept driving past Grimm and buildings. I then see the one thing I need to see, the wall, and it is completely destroyed and all is left is pellets and chunks of the wall. I manage to drive through and all is left is a road to the west. To Vacuco it is.