"Document 13" A Dystopian Tale: Part 41
Welcome to Part 41 of "Document 13", a dystopian graphic novel I'm creating with my daughter. This week: "Street Fight."
I missed posting this on the normal Tuesday schedule, so here it is! This is a bit longer than last week's episode, I hope you enjoy it!
If you want to read the rest first, see the links below the post to catch up.
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The year is 2074, the world has been plunged into darkness. One girl, Sarah Doe, will learn the secrets of the dark forces that run the ruined world. With the help of a few friends, her family, and her own powers she will fight to return the world to an order not known since well before her birth. Will she succeed? Read to find out!
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Scene: Outside of the Metro tunnel. Three men and two women are rifling through broken down bots.
Man 1: Find anything?
Woman 1: No, picked clean.
Man 2: Why don’t we just hit the safety corridor?
Man 1: You think the dogs out here are touchy, you ought to see the ones they have in the corridors now. It seems the cloudsfolk got wind of some super-orphans and now they are actually protecting the corridors for once.
Woman 2: You’ve gotta have legit’mate business in the corridors. We can’t exactly pick-pocket without the hounds catching wiff.
A clatter nearby jars the group.
Man 3: whispering Think is a hound?
Man 1 motions them all to take cover. They watch the Metro entrance. Catbot appears at the top of the dilapidated escalator.
Man 3: Weirdest hound I seen.
Man 1 motions for him to be silent. Sam appears, followed by two more men, then the rest. Man 1 motions to the group to step out.
Man 1: Well, what do we have here? Having a a party in the tunnel were we? Why weren’t I invited?
Maia steps to the front of the group.
Maia: We have no quarrel with you, let us through.
Man 2: There a toll. What’re you gonna pay?
Sam: Ha, pay?! What do we look like, Party scum? Just let us pass.
Man 1: You Resistance?
Maia: We are what we are. We are on our way to a Doctor, one of our group is sick.
Man 1: We don’t have doctors here. Unless you are meaning that one crazy running that lab crosstown. Word is he’s Party trash. We can’t let you through to see party trash without a payment. How bout that littlin right there?
Sam: Are you really going to pick a fight with armed travelers?
One of the resistance group lifts a rifle and aims it squarely at Man 1.
Man 1: What kind of ancient weapon is that?
Sam: You don’t want to find out, let us through.
Man 2: Nah, I don’t think we will. Get em!
The gang rushes the Resistance group waving chains and knives.
Maia: Fall back!
Sarah: We can take them!
Maia: No, Sarah, we are falling back, we know the tunnels, we’ll find another route!
Sarah charges one of the gang and tackles him to the ground. They scramble in a pile and Sam tries to pull her off of him.
Sam: Let’s go!
One of the gang tackles the man with the rifle and as they struggle the rifle fires. The gang jumps. They look around.
Man 1: What the hellum was that?
Woman 1: I don’t know, but I want it now!
She goes for the man with the rifle. Maia looks down at her stomach, she is bleeding.
Maia: (in pain) Shnitzle…
Sarah snaps to attention, grabs a metal pipe from the ground and wields it at woman 1, clocking her on the head and knocking her out cold. She grabs a chain from one of the men and takes out the legs of man 2, rips off his mask, then chokes the woman out. The remaining gang members scramble and flee the scene. Sarah starts to pursue them.
Sam: Sarah! No!
She stops, and turns to look at Sam. Her eyes are wild with rage.
Maia: I’m hit….
The group attends to her while Sam tries to reason with Sarah.
Sam: Sarah. It’s over. Come back.
Sarah charges him with the chain. The man with the rifle takes aim and shoots. Sarah falls to the ground.
Sam: Tie her up!
Maia: I don’t know the off switch. We have to get to Bureau, he might let us in…
Sam: You need medical attention, we need to get back to your village.
Maia: No, we can’t leave her in this state. He can help us both.
Sam: If he will….
Maia: We have to take that chance….
Maia passes out and two of the crew members pick her up on a plank of wood they found nearby. Another member ties up Sarah and throws her over his shoulder, her wound is already healing. Sam leads the group in the direction of Bureau’s lab.
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